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#23018331 at 2025-05-10 20:35:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28087: Saturday Afternoon Ebake Edition
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Bill Gates plans to close his foundation, give away nearly all of his fortune over 20 years: I don't want people to say, 'He died rich'
Tom Huddleston Jr.
Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. The billionaire climate tech investor said artificial intelligence will "pay for itself" when it comes to its associated greenhouse gas emissions as the technology will help push forward the energy transition. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via getty Images
Bill Gates plans to give away nearly all of his personal wealth and shutter the Gates Foundation within 20 years, the billionaire announced in a blog post on Thursday.
"People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that 'he died rich' will not be one of them," wrote Gates, 69. "There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people."
The Microsoft co-founder, whose net worth Bloomberg currently estimates at $168 billion, has pledged for years to give away most of his wealth to his philanthropic foundation. His eventual goal is to drop "off of the list of the world's richest people," he wrote in a social media post in July 2022.
Now, Gates has set a specific timeline for disbursing his fortune: The Gates Foundation is set to close its doors on December 31, 2045. Since the Foundation's launch in 2000, it has contributed more than $100 billion to global causes - particularly working to eradicate diseases and poverty, address climate change and expand access to healthcare and education.
Gates estimates the Foundation will be able to double that total, and hand out another $200 billion between now and 2045, depending on factors such as inflation and market performance, he wrote. He plans to increase its annual budget from $6 billion to $9 billion.
Among his goals for the next two decades, he wrote:
-Further reducing the deaths of mothers and young children from preventable causes (lie)
- Helping eradicate diseases like polio, malaria, measles and Guinea-worm disease (Lie he killed more than anyone!)
- Funding advances in education and agriculture in African nations to help "hundreds of millions of people break free from poverty" Lying killer !
While Gates is "hopeful" the Foundation can meet those goals, he's also realistic: "None of this progress is possible without partnership from governments," he wrote. His announcement comes at a time when world governments, particularly the U.S., have been slashing their global aid budgets "by tens of billions of dollars," he noted.
Gates expressed concern that philanthropic organizations like his won't be able to fill the void in global aid left by recent government cuts.
"No philanthropic organization - even one the size of the Gates Foundation - can make up the gulf in funding that's emerging right now," he wrote. "It's unclear whether the world's richest countries will continue to stand up for its poorest people."
'Things will be better in the next 20 years'
Gates described the influences in his life that shaped his commitment to philanthropy, starting with his mother, Mary Gates, who died in 1994. She was a staunch believer in the idea that "to whom much is given much is expected," Gates wrote.
After Microsoft became successful and Gates became, for a time, the wealthiest person in the world, his mother reminded him that he "was just a steward of any wealth" he accumulated, and that he had a moral and societal obligation to give back, he wrote. Gates' father shared the same view and was co-chair of the Gates Foundation until his death in 2020.
Gates' stance on philanthropy was also influenced by longtime friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett, who has already donated tens of billions of dollars to charities and has tasked his children with giving away 99% of his remaining wealth after he dies. Buffett "remains the ultimate model of generosity," Gates wrote. "He was the first one who introduced me to the idea of giving everything away."
Together with Buffett, Gates and now-ex-wife Melinda French Gates co-founded the Giving Pledge in 2010. Since then, more than 240 billionaires have signed it, committing to give away the bulk of their fortunes in their lifetimes.
In his post, Gates also cited the influence of Gilded Age steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, whose 1889 essay "The Gospel of Wealth" is considered a model for modern philanthropy. Reading that essay decades ago, Gates said that he was struck by the line "the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."
"I have spent a lot of time thinking about that quote lately," wrote Gates, adding that it influenced his decision to move more quickly with his donations. "I
(https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/bill-gates-to-close-foundation-give-away-rest-of-wealth-by-2045.html
#23018312 at 2025-05-10 20:24:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28087: Saturday Afternoon Ebake Edition
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THE TRIPLE WHAMMY: LYNN, TISH AND HILLARY
(i posted a getty images pic so hillary can't charge me with propaganda)
#23017762 at 2025-05-10 17:28:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28086: Why Can't We All Just Get Along Edition
>>23017747
getty Tiny Homes and Tunnels Below...now that's a tick tock that won't stop......until the BOOM...Big Badda BOOM!
#23016767 at 2025-05-10 12:41:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28085: Pope Leo Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1921182534815142055
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Breaking: Trump announces 'full and immediate ceasefire' between India and Pakistan
President Donald Trump speaks during a National Day of Prayer event at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, on May 1, 2025. | (Photo by Hu Yousong/Xinhua via getty Images)
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#23016589 at 2025-05-10 11:08:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28085: Pope Leo Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1921153364496118124
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
CA's estimated deficit of $10B matches 'precisely' the cost of illegal immigrant healthcare
Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference where he signs legislation related to oversight of oil and gas wells, and community protections on Sept. 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. | (getty Images)
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#23012287 at 2025-05-09 11:34:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28080: Who Wouldn't Want Peace? Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1920782238729314542
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
After national outrage, California Dems restore bill making child prostitution a felony
Gavin Newsom | getty Images
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#23012248 at 2025-05-09 10:56:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28080: Who Wouldn't Want Peace? Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/07/exclusive-rep-anna-paulina-luna-proposes-to-strip-deep-state-surveillance-tools-by-repealing-patriot-act/
Exclusive - Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Proposes to 'Strip' Deep State Surveillance Tools by Repealing PATRIOT Act
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#23003176 at 2025-05-07 13:09:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28070: Wednesday BOOMS Incoming Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1920102167383282091John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
US may deport illegal immigrants to Libya on military flight soon: report
A U.S. Border Patrol officer body searches an undocumented immigrant after he illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and was caught on December 7, 2015 near Rio Grande City, Texas. | John Moore / getty Images
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9:03 AM ? May 7, 2025
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#22990617 at 2025-05-04 18:50:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28056: A Terrible May Edition
Pentagon 'Covering Up' American Casualties In Yemen War: Intercept Report
US Central Command (CENTCOM), the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the White House have refused to disclose how many US service members have been killed or wounded since the launch of Operation Rough Rider in March 2025.
The Trump administration is fighting an undeclared war in Yemen, and it has not been shy about publicizing the details of its attacks.
But the administration is unwilling to level with the American people about the costs of war. U.S. Central Command, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the White House are keeping the number of U.S. casualties from this ongoing conflict secret. This amounts to a cover-up. Members of Congress are calling for accountability.
"The administration should be transparent about the number of U.S. casualties from the attacks on the Houthis," Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told The Intercept. "I am also working to hold the administration accountable for its unauthorized strikes in Yemen."
After two decades of intermittent war in Yemen, the U.S. officially launched Operation Rough Rider in March of this year, and has carried out strikes on more than 1,000 targets in Yemen.
President Donald Trump has also ramped up conflicts in Iraq, Somalia, and Syria, after running as an anti-war candidate and pitching himself as a "peacemaker."
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A sign posted outside the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Campuses across the US have been grappling with pro-Palestinian protests and counter demonstrations since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. Photographer: Mel Musto/Bloomberg via getty Images
How the New York Times Distorts the Antisemitism Debate on College Campuses
Corey Robin
A farmer stands behind a live mortar he found in the field behind his home in Laos, near a branch of the former Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People, 50 Years Later
Nick Turse
Demonstrators at Embarcadero Plaza to protest Israel's attack on Gaza during International Quds Day in San Francisco, California, United States on March 28, 2025.
Dems Push for "Educational Gag Order" Over Palestine Lessons in California
Shaanth Nanguneri
The strikes in Yemen are targeting the Iran-backed Houthi government, which began launching attacks on vessels - including U.S. Navy warships - in November 2023 over the war in Gaza. Recent U.S. attacks in response have targeted civilian infrastructure and, according to local reports, killed scores of innocent people.
U.S. troops are also in harm's way. Earlier this week, a fighter jet fell off the side of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, the Navy said in a statement on Monday. The Truman reportedly made a sharp turn to evade a Houthi attack, which caused the U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter to plunge overboard. One sailor was injured in the chaos, and the $60 million plane was lost to the deep.
"This was a tragic accident, and let's be clear - neither this service member, nor any of the other service members in Yemen, should have ever been in harm's way," Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., told The Intercept. "Trump's strikes in Yemen are unconstitutional and Congress must assert its congressional war powers before another service member is injured in the line of duty."
How many other military personnel have been killed or wounded in the broader U.S. campaign against the Houthis, which began under the Biden administration, is being withheld from the American public.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/02/trump-yemen-war-us-casualties-death-toll/
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/02/trump-yemen-war-us-casualties-death-toll/
#22986255 at 2025-05-03 13:11:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28052: 7.5 Out of 10 (sic) Are Targeted Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1918652391638884742
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Noem says ICE arrested two Ukrainian nationals for voting illegally in 2024 election
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. | getty Images
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9:02 AM ? May 3, 2025
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#22985780 at 2025-05-03 07:07:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28051: Caturday Breakfast Edition
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audit getty museum
#22983473 at 2025-05-02 19:36:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28048: National Space Day: We Are Going To Mars Edition
https://freebeacon.com/campus/uc-berkeley-received-six-figure-donations-from-ccp-officials-records-show/
Campus
UC Berkeley Received Six-Figure Donations From CCP Officials, Records Show
U.C. Berkeley campus (Justin Sullivan/getty Images)
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#22982332 at 2025-05-02 14:44:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28047: GM TGI Flannel Fryday 47 Bread, Keep It Cerebral Yo's Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1918005946648846357
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Florida legislature approves bill making silver, gold legal tender
gold | (getty Images)
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7:13 AM ? May 1, 2025
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#22981868 at 2025-05-02 12:26:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28047: GM TGI Flannel Fryday 47 Bread, Keep It Cerebral Yo's Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1918087104036213149
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
FBI agent Elvis Chan removed from post after linked to Hunter Biden laptop censorship, sources say
Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Washington, D.C., April 10, 2023 | Drew Angerer/getty Images
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#22962529 at 2025-04-27 23:06:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28025: A House Needs To Be Constantly Cleaned Edition
27 Apr, 2025 18:38
HomeRussia & FSU
Zelensky admits Ukraine can't reclaim Crimea by force
US President Donald Trump has said the peninsula that joined Russia in 2014 will remain under Moscow's control
Zelensky admits Ukraine can't reclaim Crimea by force
Vladimir Zelensky. ? Danylo Antoniuk/Anadolu via getty Images
Ukraine does not possess the military might necessary to retake Crimea by force, Vladimir Zelensky has conceded. The peninsula joined Russia in 2014 following a referendum.
The vote was held in the wake of a Western-backed coup in Kiev earlier that year and amid fears of forced Ukrainization of the predominantly Russian-speaking region. Ukraine has continued to claim sovereignty over Crimea, repeatedly vowing to take it back.
On Friday, Interfax-Ukraine quoted Zelensky as saying that "it's true what President Trump says... that Ukraine does not have enough weapons to regain control of the Crimean Peninsula by force."
The Ukrainian leader expressed hope however that further sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Russia would be conducive to future discussions over "territorial issues," but only after Kiev and Moscow have sealed a ceasefire.
In an interview with Time Magazine published on Friday, US President Donald Trump stated that "Crimea will stay with Russia" under any peace deal, adding that Zelensky also understands this.
Trump went on to claim that the peninsula was "given" to Russia by former US President Barack Obama, and has "been with them for a long time." He also noted that the majority of Crimeans speak Russian.
In a post on his Truth Social platform later that day, Trump claimed that Ukraine and Russia "are very close to a deal, and the two sides should now meet, at very high levels, to 'finish it off'."
According to media reports,the agreement proposed by Washington includes US recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea, a "freezing" of the conflict alongthe current front line,and acknowledgment of Moscow's control over large parts of the four former Ukrainian regions that voted to join Russia.
Zelensky, by contrast, reiterated on Friday that Kiev's "position is unchanged: only the Ukrainian people have the right to decide which territories are Ukrainian."
That same day, the Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reportedthat European leaders were pressing Ukraine to accept the likelihood that it would be forced to cede certain territoriesto Russia as part of a peace accord during a high-level meeting in London on Wednesday.
According to the newspaper, Western negotiators have a sense that Ukraine "may be willing to endure effective Russian control of Crimea," as long as Kiev is not required to legally recognize it as such.
(The four provinces voted to join Russia, they have no choice but to accept that)
https://www.rt.com/russia/616393-zelensky-ukraine-cant-retake-crimea-militarily/
#22954680 at 2025-04-26 03:57:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28016: NS: When In Rome... Edition
"Prince Andrew's Ex Lady Victoria Hervey Gloats at His Sex Accu…
Today - Prince Andrew's former girlfriend, Lady Victoria Hervey, has posted a gloating message after Virginia Roberts, who won a $14 million settlement off the prince over alleged sexual assault and…"
"Prince Andrew's ex shares nasty take on accuser Virginia Giuffr…
Today - Lady Victoria Hervey posted a series of bizarre Instagram stories alleging that Virginia Giuffre is "conveniently dying to evade jail." Dave Benett/getty Images Giuffre was hit by a school bus and…"
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#22946132 at 2025-04-24 01:25:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28007: To Our Military Heroes - Thank You For Your Service o7 Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1915214542201643161
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Gabbard reveals she sent two criminal referrals to the DOJ over leaks of classified information
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testifies in the Senate. | getty Images
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#22938929 at 2025-04-22 10:57:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28000: Another One Thousand Bakes DONE! Edition
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Same same….
Elon Musk's grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was a "radical conspiracy theorist," the Atlantic reports.
Haldeman was convicted in Canada for his involvement in a technocratic political movement.
The movement believed an authoritarian group of tech-savvy overlords could solve the world's problems.
Elon Musk's grandfather, the late Joshua Haldeman, spent his time ranting about minority groups he didn't like, speculating about a global conspiracy led by shadowy figures (read: Jewish people), and joining the cause of technocracy.
According to a deep dive from the Atlantic on the life of Haldeman, the Canadian chiropractor was a "radical conspiracy theorist" who spent the beginning of his career as part of a group known as "Technocracy Incorporated."
Howard Scott, man with his hair slicked back and wearing a suit stands up and addresses a crowd seated at a long wooden table.
Howard Scott, the founder of Technocracy, in Los Angeles, California. Bettmann via getty Images
The movement had a bizarre set of principles: They believed that the world should be run by a totalitarian regime of engineers and scientists based in North America; that these tech overlords would solve all of society's problems; and that people only had to work 20 years before retiring.
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The party, founded in the 1920s, gained popularity during the Great Depression and at one point had more than half a million members in California.
The organization also referred to people as numbers (apparently, Musk's grandfather was 10450-1) and sometimes added Xs to their names. Followers donned identical gray clothing and cars and greeted each other with special salutes, the Atlantic found. A newspaper cited by the magazine said the group gave off "the tone of an incipient Fascist movement."
#22935258 at 2025-04-20 03:18:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27995: EBAKE Edition
Andrew Leyden
@PenguinSix 4h
One protester was arrested after assaulting a counterprotester near the Lincoln Memorial. Great photo by getty photographer Kayla Bartkowski instagram.com/p/DIpTTSJu_ex/...
Apr 19, 2025 ? 11:06 PM UTC
https://twitter.com/PenguinSix/status/1913730909624521090
#22932434 at 2025-04-19 15:00:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27991: Two if by Cyber Edition
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>dig on GLSEN during what I think was all the Target groomer hoopla
Panic at the Disco
Why Fans Are Demanding#BrendonUrieSpeakUp
Distractify Staff - Author
By Distractify Staff
Updated Aug. 13 2020, 10:43 p.m. ET
brendon urie cancelled
Source: getty
In the wake of accusations of sexual misconduct by Panic! At The Disco guard Zack Hall, the band is facing yet another major controversy. Frontman Brendon Urie has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor. With the rise of the new allegations, Urie's history of racist, sexist, and ableist actions, in addition to other times in which he touched someone without their consent, have come back to light.
Brendon Urie's latest controversy revolves around a new sexual assault allegation.
At the end of July, Urie was urged to speak up when band member Dallon Weekes' wife Breezy Weekes came forward to say that she faced sexual harassment by Panic! At The Disco bodyguard Zack Hall. He neglected to do so, and now he is being asked to speak up again, this time as he faces his own allegations. Twitter user @kam02700814 shared the experience he had with Urie in 2009.
Though he informed Urie that he was a minor, Kam says that Urie asked if he'd ever made out with a man before. When he said no, the singer then lamented that he tried to make out with his band member who wouldn't let him. When Urie attempted to touch Kam's thigh, he says that he ran away from the singer.
#BrendonUrieSpeakUp here's the accusations so people can find it. pic.twitter.com/ckf7wgGzU2
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In the wake of Kam's statements, more accusers have come forward. Twitter user @leah62053062 says that she had a similar thing happen in 2011, when she was 15. As her friends left a concert to attend a party, she says that she was invited backstage, where she met Urie. When he called her beautiful, she responded that she was 15, to which he responded, "I didn't mean it like that. Can I not compliment a beautiful girl?"
She says, though, that after sitting on a couch and talking together for a while, he began placing his hands on her inner thighs. He then kissed her neck and attempted to grab her butt. She says that she ran out quickly when she felt him touch her genitals.
These allegations have caused more past controversy to come back up.
https://www.distractify.com/p/brendon-urie-controversy
#22928597 at 2025-04-18 15:57:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27987: TGIF And DS Tanked In The Polls Edition
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No, the thumb is placed over the top of the hand. Look at the getty images link.
#22926850 at 2025-04-18 02:54:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27985: EBOOM BAKE Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1913062581553471622
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denies emergency appeal to halt deportation of Mexican migrants
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in 2023. | getty Images
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10:50 PM ? Apr 17, 2025
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#22922783 at 2025-04-17 02:31:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27981: Three Bake Ebake Edition
Chinese official mocks 'US peasants' in tariff war jibe
Washington's tariff spree will eventually backfire on itself, Xia Baolong has said
Chinese official mocks 'US peasants' in tariff war jibe
Xia Baolong delivers a speech via a video link during the opening ceremony of the National Security Education Day on April 15, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. ? Li Zhihua / China News Service / VCG via getty Images
A senior Chinese official has slammed US President Donald Trump's "extremely arrogant and shameless" tariffs against Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, added that "the US peasants" would "wail before the 5,000-year-old civilization."
Xia's comment is the latest in a war of words between the US and China, following Vice President J.D. Vance's remark earlier this month that the US borrows from "Chinese peasants to buy things those Chinese peasants manufacture." Beijing slammed the comment as "ignorant and disrespectful."
https://www.rt.com/news/615852-china-us-tariff-war-hong-kong/
#22921733 at 2025-04-16 22:22:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27980: REE-BAKE Edition
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notable
it is obama john brenna set up.
come on trump arrest em all.
have one judge pass sentence.
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
It is late afternoon on Inauguration Day 2025. Protesters fill the downtowns of American cities, enraging the newly sworn president. Send in the military, he demands. Invoke the Insurrection Act. Federalize the National Guard in all 50 states. Tell the troops to use all the force they need to clear the streets.
So began one of five tabletop exercises I co-led in May and June, along with former Defense Department official Rosa Brooks and historian Nils Gilman. We based the starting scenarios on the election of former president Donald Trump to a second term, and we asked participants playing the president, all of them Republicans or former Republicans, to base their gameplay on Trump's publicly stated promises.
#22914967 at 2025-04-15 15:58:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27972: There Is No "ME" In Mission ~ But There Is In MELANIA TUESDAY Edition
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https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1912168174193123355#m
Donald Trump Eligible to Run for Third Term, Half of MAGA Republicans Say
Published Apr 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM EDT
Almost half of the Republicans who identify as members of the Make America Great Again movement have said President Donald Trump can run for a third term in office despite being term-limited by the Constitution, according to a new poll.
A SurveyUSA poll of 2,491 registered voters found that 21 percent of all respondents said Trump was eligible for a third term in the White House, while 49 percent of MAGA-identifying Republicans said the same.
Why It Matters
Trump, who began his second term in January, has repeatedly suggested that he could run again in 2028. Though his comments are often made jokingly, he has said in recent weeks that he is not joking about pursuing a third term. If the president decides to run for another term, he may propose legal routes never before tested in U.S. history.
Donald Trump in the White House
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 14. Win McNamee/getty Images
What To Know
The SurveyUSA poll, conducted between April 2 and April 6, found that 71 percent of respondents did not believe Trump was eligible to run for president again-including 91 percent of Democrats and 78 percent of independents.
Among Republicans, 45 percent believed the 78-year-old could not seek a third term in 2028, while 42 percent believed he could.
When broken down further, 49 percent of MAGA Republicans believed the president was eligible for a third term, compared to 36 percent who thought he was not.
Among non-MAGA Republicans, 64 percent said Trump was not eligible to run again, while 28 percent believed he was. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution says, "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."
In March, Trump told NBC's Kristen Welker he was "not joking" about considering a third term, adding that there were "methods which you could do it."
Trump said one such method could involve having Vice President JD Vance lead the Republican ticket in 2028, with Trump as his running mate. Vance could then resign once in office in 2029, allowing Trump to assume the presidency for a third time.
According to the 12th Amendment, anyone who is "constitutionally ineligible" to serve as president also cannot serve as vice president.
Steve Bannon, who hosts the War Room podcast and served as White House chief strategist during Trump's first term, has also suggested the president will win the 2028 election.
In an interview on Real Time With Bill Maher on April 11, Bannon said he had a "team of people" working on circumventing the 22nd Amendment, without specifying further. Bannon previously suggested the Constitution's wording would allow Trump to run again, as his two terms were not consecutive.
Representative Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, introduced a joint resolution in January to amend the part of the Constitution that prevents a president from being elected more than twice.
#22906419 at 2025-04-13 15:49:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27962: Sonday Mornin Easy Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1911445705169699025
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Trump administration says man mistakenly deported to El Salvador 'alive and secure'
Department of State | getty Images
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11:45 AM ? Apr 13, 2025
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#22902710 at 2025-04-12 18:23:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27958: GM Saturday Rollin, Trollin, Top Secret Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1911063112226058662
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Blue states make up most of about $400 million in unemployment fraud from last 4 years: DOGE
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#22901820 at 2025-04-12 13:52:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27957: One Day at a Time Edition
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1911050322664914974
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Servicemen who left over COVID vax can be reinstated, but must say they weren't coerced to leave
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They shouldn't be forced to lie
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#22900124 at 2025-04-12 00:28:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27955: Calling In The Win Edition
>>22900076
Shutterstock has been commie leftist for years. I had a shutterstock account since the 90s and finally dropped them about two years ago. Then there's getty images, owned by an alleged pedo. Unfortunately, they lead the world of stock photography.
#22899877 at 2025-04-11 23:38:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27955: Calling In The Win Edition
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Medical examiners move bodies of the victims after a Helicopter crashed into the Hudson River near lower Manhattan, on April 10, 2025 in New York, United States.
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Helicopter Crash Pilot Sean Johnson Posted Eerie Video
The helicopter crashed in New York City.
Jessica McBrideApr 11, 2025 2:41 PM EDT
The pilot who died with a family of five in a helicopter crash in New York City's Hudson River was a NAVY Seal named Sean Johnson.
On March 27, Johnson posted a video to his Facebook page that shows him piloting a helicopter over lower Manhattan. "When it all comes together," he captioned the Facebook reel, including the captions #tours #charter and #nyc. In the comment thread, he identified the craft as a "Bell 206L4."
Johnson's Facebook profile picture shows him piloting a helicopter, and his cover photo is a picture of Manhattan.
Gothamist identified Johnson as the pilot of the Bell 206 tourist helicopter which crashed and ended up submerged in the Hudson River in New York City on April 10, 2025.
The pilot "radioed about needing to refuel minutes before the helicopter crashed into the chilly waters," Fox News reported, citing the CEO of the company that owned the helicopter, Michael Roth.
Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife, Merc? Camprub? Montal, and their three kids died in the crash, as did the pilot, The Associated Press reported.
On March 6, Johnson posted another photo with a helicopter and wrote, "Windy City boy, in the Big Apple."
According to his Facebook page, he was a helicopter pilot, "veteran, outdoors lover, and lifter of heavy metal."
Johnson's recent Facebook pages included a post about the death of actor Val Kilmer. "Iceman forever," he wrote.
Friends filled up the comment thread under his helicopter video with tributes. "I was telling my buddy about how you became a pilot. Just a couple of weeks back. Rest in peace," one wrote. "Thank you for sharing your journey with us. Fair winds shipmate," another person wrote.
His page identified him as a "struggling co-pilot at Billings Flying Service," and a former UH-60 co-pilot at Heli-1 Corporation" who studied as a commercial pilot at Southern Utah University and Central Texas College, as well as at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Johnson's page says he was from Chicago, Illinois.
According to Gothamist, Johnson, 36, was a Navy SEAL veteran who had recently moved to New York.
"I'm just at loss for words. I don't even know what happened," Johnson's wife Kathryn Johnson told Gothamist."It's just hard right now."
She told the site that Johnson worked in the past as a celebrity bodyguard and for a television show.
Remi Adeleke shared a photo of Johnson in an aircraft to Instagram and wrote,
"This is devastating. I just spoke with Sean's wife. The news publicized the name of the Siemens Exec and his family, but not the pilot. @its_me_kat3 asked me to share who Sean Johnson was so his name doesn't get lost or forgotten," the post says.
#22897339 at 2025-04-11 11:53:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27952: Something Related Edition
Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines
Charles Rollet
2:42 PM PDT ? April 10, 2025
Snot. Snot real AI – DARPA AI
Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a "universal" checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently raising a $38 million Series A in 2021 led by Renegade Partners.
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Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines
Charles Rollet
2:42 PM PDT ? April 10, 2025
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Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a "universal" checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently raising a $38 million Series A in 2021 led by Renegade Partners.
Nate said its app's users could buy from any e-commerce site with a single click, thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call center in the Philippines to manually complete those purchases, the DOJ's Southern District of New York alleges.
Saniger raised millions in venture funding by claiming that Nate was able to transact online "without human intervention," except for edge cases where the AI failed to complete a transaction. But despite Nate acquiring some AI technology and hiring data scientists, its app's actual automation rate was effectively 0%, the DOJ claims.
Nate's heavy usage of human contractors was the subject of an investigation by The Information in 2022.
Saniger didn't respond to a request for comment. He is currently listed as a managing partner at New York VC Buttercore Partners, which didn't respond to a request for comment either.
The DOJ's indictment says that Nate ran out of money and was forced to sell its assets in January 2023, leaving its investors with "near total" losses. Albert Saniger's LinkedIn profile indicates he was no longer CEO as of 2023.
Nate isn't the only startup that has allegedly exaggerated its AI capabilities.
For example, an "AI" drive-through software startup was also powered largely by humans in the Philippines, The Verge reported in 2023.
More recently, Business Insider reported that an AI legal tech unicorn, EvenUp, used humans to do much of its work.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines/
#22885268 at 2025-04-08 21:28:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27939: Bread-E For Action Edition
Anyone have that random post from /pol/
I think it was… may have to go dig again.
Recall that poster that stated someone 'dropped a vial' during the Wuhan military games in 2019?
Check this out.
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1909717582346674527
https://x.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/1909592565357171132
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-administration-concealed-congressionally-mandated-report-on-earliest-suspected-american-covid-cases/
Biden Administration Concealed Congressionally Mandated Report on Earliest Suspected American COVID Cases
Seven U.S. servicemembers contracted COVID-19-like symptoms in Wuhan in October 2019
Biden Administration
Biden Administration Concealed Congressionally Mandated Report on Earliest Suspected American COVID Cases
Seven U.S. servicemembers contracted COVID-19-like symptoms in Wuhan in October 2019
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Andrew Kerr
April 8, 2025
Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.
The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn't, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019-contradicting the Biden administration's public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games. The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab.
The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act required the Biden administration to make its report on the 2019 Wuhan World Military Games "publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format" by the summer of 2022. Though the Biden administration transmitted copies of the two-page report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, it didn't see the light of day until sometime in late March when the Trump administration quietly uploaded it to a Defense Department website.
#22881361 at 2025-04-08 01:43:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27935: An E-Bake, If You Can Keep It Edition
Microsoft terminates jobs of engineers who protested use of AI products by Israel's military
Hayden Field
Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, right, chats with actor Brenda Song during an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Microsoft, in Redmond, Washington, April 4, 2025.
Microsoft terminated the employment of two software engineers who protested at company events Friday over the Israeli military's use of the company's artificial intelligence products, according to documents viewed by CNBC.
Ibtihal Aboussad, a software engineer in the company's AI division who is based in Canada, was fired Monday over "just cause, wilful misconduct, disobedience or wilful neglect of duty," according to one of the documents.
Another Microsoft software engineer, Vaniya Agrawal, had said she would resign from the company on April 11. But Microsoft terminated her role Monday, according to an internal message viewed by CNBC. The company wrote that it "has decided to make your resignation immediately effective today."
Both employees chose Microsoft's 50th anniversary event to publicly voice their criticism.
What Microsoft had hoped would be a celebratory period has turned into a brutal few days for the company, which is being hit, along with the rest of the market, by President Donald Trump's widespread tariffs.
The tariffs are a topic that CEO Satya Nadella and his two predecessors, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, were forced to uncomfortably confront Friday in an interview with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin.
"As a Microsoft shareholder, this kind of thing is not good," Ballmer said about the tariffs.
Meanwhile, the celebration itself captured headlines more for the protesters' shared message than for Microsoft's half-century of accomplishments.
The first interruption Friday came from Aboussad, who stood up during Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's speech.
"Mustafa, shame on you," Aboussad said as she walked toward the stage at the event in Redmond, Washington. "You claim that you care for using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military. Fifty thousand people have died, and Microsoft powers this genocide in our region."
Aboussad also called Suleyman a "war profiteer."
"You have blood on your hands," she said before being swiftly escorted out. "All of Microsoft has blood on its hands."
Shortly after the interruption, Aboussad sent an email, which was viewed by CNBC, to Suleyman and other Microsoft executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, finance chief Amy Hood, operating chief Carolina Dybeck Happe, and Brad Smith, the company's president.
"I spoke up today because after learning that my org was powering the genocide of my people in Palestine, I saw no other moral choice," Aboussad wrote in the email. "This is especially true when I've witnessed how Microsoft has tried to quell and suppress any dissent from my coworkers who tried to raise this issue."
"I did not sign up to write code that violates human rights," Aboussad wrote, adding a link to a "No Azure for Apartheid" petition.
Microsoft wrote in the internal message to Aboussad that her email to executives served as "an admission that you deliberately and willfully engaged in your earlier misconduct." The company also said Aboussad could have raised concerns "confidentially with your manager, or with Global Employee Relations. Instead, you chose to intentionally disrupt the speech of Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman."
Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive officer of Microsoft AI, speaks during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025.
David Ryder | Bloomberg | getty Images
Microsoft "has concluded that your misconduct was designed to gain notoriety and cause maximum disruption to this highly anticipated event," the company wrote.
"Immediate cessation of your employment is the only appropriate response," Microsoft said.
At a separate Microsoft event with executives Friday, Agrawal interrupted a speech by Nadella with a similar protest and also sent an email to executives afterward.
"You may have seen me stand up earlier today to call out Satya during his speech at the Microsoft 50th anniversary," Agrawal wrote in the email, which was viewed by CNBC. "Over the past 1.5 years, I've grown more aware of Microsoft's growing role in the military-industrial complex."
Agrawal wrote that Microsoft is "complicit" as a "digital weapons manufacturer that powers surveillance, apartheid, and genocide" and that "by working for this company, we are all complicit."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/microsoft-fires-engineers-who-protested-during-anniversary-celebration.html
#22875593 at 2025-04-06 18:04:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27929: Happy Caturday
>>22875585
And dont even get me started on the human trafficking, Child protective services, and tunnels under the courthouse itself and all around the federal buildings that lead to San Pedro park and beyond... and the fact that JB PRITZKER paid over a billion dollars for Pioneer flour that sits on top of the largest underground "sewer" hubs in San Antonio underneath the riverwalk and river... and that he funded the migrant center there with his NGO's and brought in Tren De Aruaga among the other gangs that infest our city. Or why a certain getty heir died at the hotel Emma or anything. Or Trump ran his campaign here and went to Alamo Texas to say goodbye. Something big is about to pop off her, i just feel it. Here is praying they upend the demoncraps and rinos control for good.
#22870083 at 2025-04-05 12:27:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27923: Reciprocal Tariffs Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1908496209448259991
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European Union directive will require American companies to adhere to ESG policy goals: report
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the conclusions of the European Council meeting of March 20, 2025. | (getty Images)
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#22865528 at 2025-04-04 13:22:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27919: Shill Ebake Clean Up Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1907934084707340626
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi sues Democratic lawmaker for $10 million for defamation
Twitter Files reporter Matt Taibbi. | getty Images
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#22864977 at 2025-04-04 10:12:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27919: Shill Ebake Clean Up Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/03/nytimes-trump-deportations-will-raise-wages/
NYTimes: Trump Deportations Will Raise Wages
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#22860880 at 2025-04-03 14:41:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27913: GM Thorsday NEWs Mornin Edition
PB
>>22859807 The list of Tariffs is neither in alphabetical nor numerical order. Why is that? Coded?
An uninhabited island, a military base and a 'desolate' former whaling station. Trump's tariffs include unlikely targets
Brad Lendon
By Brad Lendon, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 3:22 AM EDT, Thu April 3, 2025
The meteorological station of the Arctic Sea island of Jan Mayan, in 2009. The small Norwegian island with no permanent residents has 10% tariffs.
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Seoul, South Korea CNN -
The sweeping tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday target not only economic superpowers but also financial minnows. In fact, a White House list notes some territories with no economy, and no people, at all.
That is the exact case of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory in the southern Indian Ocean, which was hit with a 10% tariff.
The CIA World Factbook describes the uninhabited islands, listed as aUNESCO World Heritage Site, as "80% ice-covered" and "bleak" in the case of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands as "small" and "rocky."
Economic activity there essentially ended in 1877, when the trade in elephant seal oil was ended and the human population of sealers left the remote islands, which are located en route from Madagascar to Antarctica.
A drone view shows containers on a ship on the day U.S. President Donald Trump is set to announce new tariffs, at the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Related article China vows to counter Trump's 'bullying' tariffs as global trade war escalates
Another Australian territory targeted by tariffs is the Cocos Islands. With a population of 600 people, the territory sends 32% of its exports - ships - to the US, according to the CIA Factbook. They now face a 10% tariff.
On the opposite side of the planet,the small Norwegian island and former whaling station of Jan Mayen faces 10% tariffs. But no one lives there permanently (a few military personnel rotate in), and it has an economy of zero, according to the CIA Factbook, which calls it a "desolate, mountainous" island.
There are other places on Trump's tariff list that also aren't huge economic powers, to put it mildly.
Tokelau is a self-administered territory of New Zealand consisting of three atolls in the South Pacific Ocean with a population of about 1,600, according to the CIA Factbook. It has an economy of about $8 million and exports of around $100,000, the CIA says. Now, it too faces 10% tariffs.
One enclave hit particularly hard by Trump's tariffs isSaint Pierre and Miquelon, a French territory of eight small islands near the Canadian province of Newfoundland. With a population of about 5,000 people, its "the sole remaining vestige of France's once vast North American possessions," the CIA Factbook says. Its exports - "processed crustaceans, shellfish," according to the CIA - are now subject to a whopping US tariff of 50%, way more than France faces (20%) as part of the European Union.
A workers stacks completed jeans at the Afri-Expo Textile Factory in Maseru, Lesotho on March 19. The clothing industry is the tiny country's largest employer.
A workers stacks completed jeans at the Afri-Expo Textile Factory in Maseru, Lesotho on March 19. The clothing industry is the tiny country's largest employer.
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#22860504 at 2025-04-03 12:58:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27913: GM Thorsday NEWs Mornin Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1907779457219199267
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Democrat House leader Jeffries threatens to sue Texas Gov Abbott over House seat special election
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill, December 2024. | getty Images
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8:57 AM ? Apr 3, 2025
#22848765 at 2025-03-31 23:16:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27899: Hello George MOAB INCOMING Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1906666573932155186
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
USDA paid to study queer farmers, Latinx masculinity, more on taxpayer dime
Agricultural/farm land, farmer, stock photo | Peter Garrard Beck/getty Images
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#22837813 at 2025-03-29 13:00:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27888: Infinity Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1905959572373741751
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
TikTok's highest bidder is also its most Trumpian
TikTok on a mobile phone | (SOPA Images/getty)
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#22835468 at 2025-03-28 21:35:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27886: #WWG1WGA!!! ?? #WINNING ?? #FLAGSOUT Edition
"Prix Jockey Club" Prize In Chantilly
CHANTILLY, FRANCE - JUNE 05: His Highness The Aga Khan (C), Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan (R) and guest attend the parade ring on June 5, 2016 in Chantilly France. (Photo by Thierry Orban/getty Images)
#22829174 at 2025-03-27 14:36:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27879: Thorsday: Who Shall Be Hammered Today Edition
https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1905264027103526961
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GOP demands TSA account for Tulsi Gabbard's inclusion in surveillance program | Just The News
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. | getty Images
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#22826590 at 2025-03-27 00:09:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27876: Sometimes It's Good To Go Back ~ Once You've Gone Forward Edition
>>22826577
Threat of war and disease means Europeans need 3 days' supplies, Commission to warn
"Europe cannot afford to remain reactive," the European Commission will warn in strategy to be unveiled on Wednesday.
BRUSSELS -Every citizen should stockpile enough food to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours in case of crisis,the European Commission is to warn, according to a draft of its Preparedness Union Strategy seen by POLITICO.
"In case of extreme disruptions, the initial period is the most critical," the document says, setting out possible scenarios, from war to cyber attacks and deadly disease to climate-driven floods.
Five years since the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and three since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and with natural disasters and financial shocks an ever-present risk, the plan lands as Europe lurches from one crisis to another. "None of the major crises of the past years were isolated or short-lived," the document says. "Europe cannot afford to remain reactive."
Commission Executive Vice President Roxana M?nzatu is scheduled to present the strategy on Wednesday. Its message is "fix your roof while the sun is shining," M?nzatu told POLITICO ahead of the publication, adding the Commission's aim is "helping individuals ... on a household level."
According to the 17-page draft, the strategy should "create a secure and resilient EU with the capabilities required to anticipate and manage threats and hazards, independently of their nature or origin."
That includes providing guidance to member countries to "cover the storage of essential supplies, crisis planning, shelter availability, measures to ensure availability of critical ground and space," the proposal states.
Just weeks after Europe published its first ever defense strategy, the preparedness plan says it's "a matter of urgency" for the EU and its countries to strengthen preparedness, across all sectors.
Hostile actors
And preparing for war is right up there. While not bringing any new defense initiatives, the strategy proposes a crisis management model drawing from Northern European countries where society as a whole - from citizens to businesses and governments - is involved. The Commission's plan draws on the conclusions of the Niinist? report, which laid out proposals to improve the EU's readiness for war and civil defense.
The geopolitical conflict threat can come virtually as well as in the form of military offensives.
Europe should be more prepared for cyber attacks, the draft states. Since the war in Ukraine began, Russia has been ramping up activity in cyberspace, including targeting critical infrastructure such as energy networks. Europe's eastern flank in particular has experienced a surge of cyber attacks.
China, Iran and North Korea also consistently target western governments, companies and other key institutions. State-sponsored hybrid and cyberattacks have become a "permanent feature of today's reality," the paper argues.
One key proposal is to set up a "European cybersecurity alert system," which the Commission says would improve European threat detection and situational awareness. It also proposes digital training and help for countries hoping to join the EU, and calls for more use of cyber diplomacy and better cooperation with NATO.
Many people do not know what to do in the face of natural disasters, M?nzatu said. | Jose Jordan/AFP via getty Images
Companies also have an active role to play in preparedness, as there's a need to share information but also participate in "strategic foresight and anticipatory initiatives," as well as training.
"The EU needs to promote cooperation between public and private organisations in strategic sectors such as cybersecurity, ensuring the workforce needs and educational offer are aligned," according to the draft.
Natural disasters
Preparedness is "not just about potential man-made conflict," M?nzatu said. "It is about how we react to floods; we have seen what has happened in Spain," which suffered from 'monster' flooding last year, killing hundreds of people.
Many people do not know what to do in the face of natural disasters, M?nzatu said. "All these types of crises require some set of basic skills, some understanding and knowledge about what to do first," she said.
The Commission proposes an EU-wide stockpiling strategy to strengthen access to critical resources including for emergency and disaster response, medical countermeasures, critical raw materials, energy equipment and possibly food and water. The strategy will combine centralized EU reserves with countries' contributions, according to the report.
It will also present a strategy to support medical countermeasures against public health threats - to be complemented by contingency stocks proposed in the Critical Medicines Act.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-crisis-stockpile-supplies-war-disease-natural-disaster-roxana-minzatu/
#22818086 at 2025-03-25 12:58:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27868: Late Night E-bake Edition
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>>22818078
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Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47 - . @SecRollins : We canceled a contract in New York educating transgender and queer farmers on food justice and food equality. I'm not even sure what that means but apparently the last administration wanted to put our taxpayer dollars towards that.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1904208084806905925
The Researcher @listen_2learn - Norm Eisen accidentally told the truth that Judge Juan Merchan was part of his Bragg lawfare team. It didn't take him long to figure out that he messed up.
I previously posted that Norm appeared to say that he was writing documents for the judge.
If true, that means Norm created the Bragg case, he worked with the witness Michael Cohen, and he worked with the judge.
Seems illegal to me.
>>22813473 pb
https://twitter.com/listen_2learn/status/1903877665339412894
Retard Finder @IfindRetards - Found one
https://x.com/IfindRetards/status/1903638715702104480
Ripley's Believe It or Not! - Daily Cartoon
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochfun/ripleys-believe-it-or-not-epoch-comic
Russell Brand @rustyrockets - If 70 people in Palestine were beheaded, quite rightly, you'd have heard about it.
If 70 people at Pride were murdered, quite rightly, you'd have heard about it.
70 Christians were beheaded in Congo recently. Did you hear about it?
https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/1904362999218864495
Scott Turner @SecretaryTurner - Under @POTUS , Americans will no longer take a back seat to illegal aliens.
DHS @Sec_Noem and I want to make it clear: No more taxpayer-funded housing for illegals.
https://x.com/SecretaryTurner/status/1904300037221294080
Scott Turner @SecretaryTurner - Today we ended taxpayer-funded housing for illegal aliens.
Proud to partner with @Sec_Noem to ensure illegal aliens cannot exploit programs meant for Americans.
https://x.com/SecretaryTurner/status/1904275213468004481
Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins - Just finished up another great Cabinet meeting. Takeaways
- @POTUS ' example of energy in office will be the standard by which all future presidents will be judged.
-The President has assembled the most qualified - and unified - Cabinet in history.
-The bureaucracy will never reform itself; @DOGE is right-sizing the government to the size and scope the American people mandated - and the Cabinet fully stands behind @elonmusk . Don't judge DOGE by the standards of the class that lives and dies by the D.C. model. Judge it by the standards of the world-beating entrepreneurs that only America produces.
Photo: getty
https://x.com/SecRollins/status/1904228426388787505
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth @SecDef - Congratulations John Phelan on being Confirmed as the 79th Secretary of the Navy!
Looking forward to supporting our warfighters together.
https://x.com/SecDef/status/1904302487873483179
Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum - Honored to join @POTUS at today's cabinet meeting to share updates on how @Interior is reducing waste, fraud, and abuse, while advancing Energy Dominance!
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Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
.@SecretaryBurgum announces $830 million in savings at @Interior by cutting contracts for useless surveys
https://x.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/1904227717194612797
Secretary Chris Wright @SecretaryWright - I am an Energy nerd-turned-entrepreneur. President Trump is a businessman-turned president. Together, we are prioritizing the American people first - and that means unleashing our energy dominance and lowering energy costs
https://x.com/SecretaryWright/status/1904229227555418289
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#22817880 at 2025-03-25 12:05:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27868: Late Night E-bake Edition
>>22817869
>Signal since Day 1. Did they know?
>but the last time Signal downloads ranked nearly as high was on the day of President Trump's inauguration"
From Citizen to Signal, the most popular apps right now reflect America's protests
What app downloads tell us about how protesters are organizing.
by Rani Molla
Jun 3, 2020, 12:40 PM EDT
A mother who brought her daughter uses her phone as she walks past protesters siting in the street in front of National Guardsmen as they stand guard closing Sunset Blvd at Vine Street in Hollywood on June 2.
Protesters around the US are turning to technology to organize and stay safe from law enforcement. Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via getty Images
Rani Molla
Rani Molla is a senior correspondent at Vox and has been focusing her reporting on the future of work. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade - often in charts - including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
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As protests against police brutality have swept across the United States, Americans' app downloads have shifted. The list of most popular apps right now offers a glimpse into how people are using technology to take action.
After the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last week, people have flocked in record numbers to police scanner apps, where they can listen in on law enforcement's radio communication.They've also rushed to download Signal, a secure messaging app,and Citizen, a community safety app that sends out police alerts. Meanwhile, earlier this week, Twitter was being downloaded more than Facebook and Instagram, which normally isn't the case.
Since May 25, Citizen has been downloaded 234,000 times, and Signal has been downloaded 121,000 times in the US, according to Apptopia. Both are continuing to set daily download records. Earlier this week, Citizen was the fourth most downloaded iOS app of any kind, according to App Annie.
Citizen app became the 4th most downloaded iOS app this week.
App Annie
Signal was the eighth most downloaded social networking app on Tuesday, and ranked around the top 100 for apps overall.
Signal was the 8th most downloaded social app this week, and it ranked around the top 100 for overall app downloads.
App Annie
Apptopia also reports that the top five police scanner app downloads rose by 125 percent this past weekend compared to the weekend prior.
People are likely using these apps in a number of ways, including but not limited to tracking or participating in protests. Police scanners as well as Citizen offer a way for protesters to stay ahead of planned police action and to understand in real time what police are up to. People have long used police scanner hardware to follow crime, but this new generation of apps brings that technology to more lay users. They also more easily pull together law enforcement transmissions from a wider variety of sources and locations. However, police have become wary of scanners in recent years, and some departments are migrating over to encrypted communication technology.
Citizen is not a police scanner app, per se, but it can serve a similar purpose. Usage among protesters would also represent a bit of an evolution for Citizen. The first iteration of the app launched in 2016 with the mission to "open up the 911 system" so that "everyone can do their part." Many, including the New York Police Department, argued at the time that the app encouraged vigilante justice - it was literally called Vigilante - and it relaunched in 2017 as Citizen. Since then, Citizen has been criticized for fear-mongering, among other things, though the app' footprint has continued to grow. It's currently available in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.
The vast majority of updates on Citizen come from employees who monitor various publicly available police and fire department transmissions and then post select incidents on the app and notify nearby users. Citizen also encourages users to comment on and record footage of crime and safety incidents that happen nearby. That video could potentially help protesters, as well as uninvolved residents, find real-time, on-the-ground information about what's happening with protests. Of course, many people are likely using these apps passively to monitor what's going on in their neighborhoods amid protests and police action.
Citizen was temporarily removed from the Google Play store yesterday but has since been restored. Recode contacted both companies, but neither Google nor Citizen would explain why it was removed or restored. Citizen did highlight its "core mission is to foster transparency and accountability between civilians and law enforcement" in a statement to Recode.
#22816514 at 2025-03-25 01:43:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27866: Signal? OPA!! Canary palm tree? Edition
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D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#22812537 at 2025-03-24 04:53:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27862: You want to do nonsense, do nonsense KEK Edition
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>>22812501
Notable - Alex Soros and John Brennen institute alert, justthenews site is john solomon a trusted source
>where two of the four sessions were entitled "Role of Judges in a Democracy" and the "State of Democracy," the report shows.
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
#22802586 at 2025-03-22 03:26:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27851: You Got To Cool Down, Relax, Take It Easy Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1903283169291276598
Just the News
@JustTheNews
Trump revokes security clearances for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton
Kamala Harris | Brandon Bell/getty Images
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#22799008 at 2025-03-21 14:16:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27847: Prince William Suit Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1903016410441244927
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Facing a $1 billion shortfall, LA may eliminate entire departments
Rep. Karen Bass | (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via getty Images)
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#22796257 at 2025-03-20 23:22:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27844: E-BAKED MAN
>>22796240
bringing forward with dig
TRUMP T.S POST EXPOSING JUDGE JAMES BOASBERG DELAYING AND ATTACKING TRUMP AND HIS ADMIN !!!
Note: most of these judges are installed and this is a classic tactic played out by the john brennen institute. links below to the wapo article detailing the table top game played by the highest level players in previous admins.
read the article linked below, highly notable
>>22796019, >>22796033 judge james boasberg - djt call out of corrupt judge.
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Donald J. Trump
Judge James Boasberg is doing everything in his power to usurp the Power of the Presidency. He is a local, unknown Judge, a Grandstander, looking for publicity, and it cannot be for any other reason, because his "Rulings" are so ridiculous, and inept. SAVE AMERICA!
Mar 20, 2025, 6:29 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114197120302143482
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
#22795803 at 2025-03-20 21:48:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27843: Complete SmackDown Of DOE From The Top Ropes BRUTAL TAKEDOWN Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1902838124637458832
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Judge says Trump admin was 'woefully insufficient' in meeting deadline for deportation flight info
Judge James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the Federal District Court in DC, on March 16, 2025. | getty Images
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#22795041 at 2025-03-20 18:43:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27842: Happy Birthday Barron Trump - World Frog Day Edition
>>22794723
>Our old friend, the fat pigJoan Donavan
moar fat pig
mentioned in this article from the early days
they trying to pretend it's an organic grass roots movement
02-15-2025
IMPACT
Tesla showrooms are being hit by a wave of anti-DOGE protests
On TeslaTakedown.com, citizens are planning protests at Tesla locations across the country (and world) in hopes of tying negative sentiment about CEO Elon Musk's DOGE activities to the company's stock price.
Tesla showrooms are being hit by a wave of anti-DOGE protests
[Photo: Drew Angerer/getty Images]
BY Adele Peters
5 minute read
Last Monday,inspired by reading about a small protest of Elon Musk and DOGE that happened at a Tesla charging station in Maine, Joan Donovan decided to make a digital flyer inviting people to join her at a protest this weekend at a Tesla showroom in Boston. Days later, the idea has grown organically into more than three dozen protests at Tesla showrooms across the country.
"It struck me that there are Tesla dealerships and charging stations across the nation, and this is a point of leverage that many people can access, rather than having to go to your state capital," says Donovan, a professor at Boston University who says she is acting in her capacity as a citizen. "This is a place in which we can make a difference."
Through DOGE, or the "Department of Government Efficiency"-which is not an official government agency-Musk gave his team access to private taxpayer data and classified information. He's forced the virtual shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing lifesaving programs that were delivering HIV drugs, oxygen, and other medical aid to various communities around the world. He's actively dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that would have regulated his plans to set up a new payment service at X. He's pushed federal workers out of their jobs. Much or all of the work is likely illegal, and multiple court cases are underway.
A website, TeslaTakedown, lets anyone set up a local DOGE protest, many of which will happen on February 15. (It also calls for anyone who owns Tesla stock or cars to sell.)
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"Often, with these types of initiatives, it takes weeks to plan," says Alex Winter, a documentarian known for making The Panama Papers and other films, who happened to know Donovan and helped amplify the idea. "In this case, we did it in a week. At the end of the day, the central organizer on this is the public-we're giving them a place to organize. These are individuals across the country who are protesting en masse at these showrooms." When we spoke on Friday afternoon, 39 events were planned, and the number was growing.
A handful of other protests have already happened at Tesla locations, from Manhattan to Seattle. The efforts might seem, at first, to be small. But in theory, the pressure on Tesla could succeed. "It is possible to get results this way," says Edward Niedermeyer, author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. "There's a path to putting a considerable amount of pressure on Musk, personally."
Tesla car sales are already struggling. In 2024, Tesla sales were essentially flat, dropping 1.1% from the year before after years of growth, despite the fact that the company slashed prices. In China, with a vast array of newer, arguably more innovative options for electric vehicles, fewer consumers are buying Teslas. Sales have also fallen in Europe, driven in part by Musk's unpopularity.
#22789681 at 2025-03-19 20:26:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27836: Riders Of The Storm Edition
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>>22789648
> https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/radical-anti-elon-musk-group-received-7-6m-from-george-soros/
US News exclusive
Here are the five radical leftist groups protesting Elon Musk - one of which received $7.6M from George Soros
By Isabel Vincent
Published March 12, 2025, 5:41 p.m. ET
George Soros gave $7.6 million to one of five groups accused of targeting Elon Musk's Tesla company, The Post has learned.
Tesla cars, Cybertrucks, dealerships and charging stations have been set on fire, shot at and sprayed with graffiti across the nation in acts of politically charged vandalism since Musk's new Department of Government Efficiency started making government cuts.
While the motives behind individual attacks vary, Musk has identified certain groups who organized protests against him and his company.
A fireman works to put out a fire of a Tesla cybertruck in Washington state. 10
Tesla vehicles have been vandalized across the country as a tight cadre of left-wing groups urged their followers to protest Elon Musk. Jonathan Choe / SWNS
Two men destroy a white Tesla vehicle covered in graffiti. 10
Protestors in Seattle vandalize a Tesla vehicle earlier this month. Jonathan Choe / SWNS
"An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla 'protests': Troublemakers, Disruption Project, Rise & Resist, Indivisible Project and Democratic Socialists of America," he said in a recent X post.
"We do not direct, coordinate, or dictate the strategies or activities of the organizations we support," said a statement from the Open Society Foundations. "The Open Society Foundations support a broad range of nonprofit organizations that work to strengthen democracy and promote nonviolent civic engagement. Our grantees operate independently and are expected to do so in full adherence to U.S. law."
ActBlue is a Democratic Party-affiliated fundraising platform, currently under fire for raising funds for anti-Israel terrorists.
Here's how each of those groups have been involved in protesting against Tesla:
Indivisible Project
Indivisible Project, a Washington-based non-profit, has been almost entirely financed by Soros's Open Society. It is coordinating a cross-country protest against Musk, empowering "grassroots" affiliates to "stop the Trump-Musk coup," according to its website.
The group took in more than $7.6 million from Open Society between 2017 and 2023. It was originally set up in 2016 to protest the election of Donald Trump.
Indivisible Action, a related Political Action Committee, has raised more than $9 million, public records show.
A sign advertising a march against Elon Musk on March 15. 10
Indivisible, a group financed almost entirely by George Soros's Open Society Foundation, offers "toolkits" on its web site with graphics that grassroots groups can use to protest against Elon Musk across the country. Indivisible
Philanthropist George Soros. 10
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has financed numerous progressive groups, including Indivisible, a Washington DC-based non-profit that coordinates protests across the country. AP
Indivisible Action's anti-Musk activities include posting a toolkit on its website for a "Musk or US March Recess" demonstration planned for next week during the government's spring break.
The toolkit includes graphics for signs reading: "GTFO Musk" and "Fire Elon Musk."
In addition to Soros, the group has received $2 million from the Sandler Foundation, which funds groups such as the progressive news platform ProPublica.
Herbert Sandler, a New York-born banker, set up the foundation with his wife Marion in 1991, and has given out more than $1.2 billion in grants to progressive nonprofits, according to its website.
After Sandler's death in 2019, the married Congressional staffers who set up Indivisible Project thanked him for his support.
"For the last two years, we've counted ourselves as deeply fortunate to know Herb, and to benefit from his advice and guidance," said Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg in a 2019 press release.
"He was always thinking about the next stage for Indivisible, asking hard questions that pushed us forward. We will miss him deeply."
Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin in front of a sign that reads "Indivisible." 10
Married couple Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin are the co-founders of Indivisible, which is linked to a PAC that has raised more than $9 million to support progressive candidates. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via getty Images
Democratic Socialists of America
Indivisible Project is also allied with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which backed the campaigns of progressive Democrats such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
DSA claims on its website it is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 92,000 members and chapters in all 50 states.
#22788697 at 2025-03-19 17:29:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27835: JFK Files N Moar Edition
leavitt: there is a clear attempt to stop president trump with judges.
it is john brennan and the clowns.
also soros and obama.
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
#22785669 at 2025-03-19 03:05:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27832: Showtime Edition
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/07/opinions/israel-hamas-gaza-media-press-prusher/
Opinion: I reported on Hamas in Gaza for over a decade. Here are the questions I'm asking myself now
Opinion by Ilene Prusher
Updated 4:25 PM EST, Thu December 7, 2023
Editor's Note: Ilene Prusher is a journalist and author who spent two decades covering the Middle East. She teaches journalism at Florida Atlantic University, where she is the digital director of MediaLab@FAU. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
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We arrive at Erez Checkpoint. Israeli soldiers thumb through our passports, examine every item in our bags, then wave us through. After a long walk through a barricaded no-man's land, Palestinian officers register our names and passport numbers, then press us for a list of people we're planning to meet. Our Palestinian fixer intervenes, reminds the guys with the guns to be nice to us foreigners, and presto: We're in Gaza. On the list of the three or four people we're scheduled to see in the course of the day is at least one senior official in Hamas.
This is a routine I participated in, on and off, for 16 years of my life while reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the American media throughout the 1990s and 2000s, up until my last trip to Gaza in January 2009 at the end of another Israel-Hamas war that shocked the world and caused needless death and destruction. Later, in 2014, I covered a far deadlier 50-day Israel-Hamas war for TIME magazine, this time from southern Israel, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, mainly because by then I had two toddlers at home and no longer believed entering Gaza was worth the risk.
In nearly every trip I made - and there were too many to count - I met with Hamas officials, like seemingly every good journalist did. Like many others, I was curious to hear their viewpoint and, back when peacemaking was a thing and Israel was turning territory over to the Palestinian Authority, I was keen to understand why they wouldn't get on board with the land-for-peace deal known as the Oslo Accords.
The Oslo process for dividing the land with Israel to create a zone of Palestinian autonomy - and possibly statehood - had been embraced, at least tepidly, by the late Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). But Hamas, the PLO's most significant Palestinian rival, was fundamentally opposed to peace with Israel, insisting the only path forward was "armed resistance" aimed at eradicating Israel. Throughout the 1990s, when the peace process was moving forward, Hamas sought to derail it by blowing up Israeli buses and cafes. By the early 2000s, when peacemaking ground to a halt, they had killed hundreds of Israeli civilians in this manner, leading to further separation of Israeli and Palestinian societies.
The Hamas leaders and spokesmen who agreed to our interviews were rarely what you would expect of representatives of a terrorist organization. They were men who were fluent in English, logical-sounding about their grievances and highly educated to boot, usually in engineering or medicine. They portrayed themselves as part of a "political wing" of Hamas, one that was unaware of what was being planned by the more secretive military wing. Often, these spokesman insisted, they had no idea that an attack was imminent.
By and large, we reporters ate it up. Our editors wanted us to have access to this shadowy group and to explain its lure for average Palestinians - and in particular, the strategic challenge it presented to Arafat. By claiming that the organization's left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing, Hamas made it easy for themselves to evade tough questions - like, why target civilians rather than military targets? - and convenient for so many of us to feel like we were putting our fingers on the Palestinian pulse rather than sitting down for tea with terrorists.
So we sipped their bitter brews, and they talked a good game. "Look, we take no joy in seeing Israeli civilians get blown up," one spokesman told me - back in the day when Hamas' worst weapon was a suicide bomber in an urban area - before going on to insist that these attacks were the only rational answer to what they saw as the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. When I asked why Hamas wouldn't take a crack at negotiations instead, they responded that there was no point in talking to Israel - and Israel wasn't exactly jumping to talk to Hamas either. The spokesman insisted I not use his name with that almost-empathetic quote about not taking joy in killing Israelis. In retrospect, I wonder if he said it because he knew it sounded good to the Western ear.
Hamas played other games with language, presenting themselves as reasonable by saying that its leaders would in theory agree to a long-term hudna, or truce, with Israel. Their words sound nice - who wouldn't chose a lasting truce over the horrific killing and destruction we are now witnessing? - but the reality was that Hamas would never ink a permanent deal with Israel because, their leaders told me, Islam forbade it.
And then there were the outright distortions. Ahead of October 7, Hamas duped Israel into thinking that the organization was uninterested in inflaming the situation and wanted Gazans' lives to improve. With that in mind, Israel actually relaxed the Gaza border crossings in late September - a week before the attack - to let more Palestinian laborers into Israel. Sadly, the opening to thousands of additional workers from Gaza turned Israel into an information sieve from which Hamas reportedly gathered intelligence for its attack in October.
People hold placards as they await news of hostages expected to be released by Hamas, amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 25, 2023.
Opinion: The big question about the Israel-Hamas truce
Hamas also played fast and loose with facts they gave us reporters. During the first major Israel-Hamas war in 2008 to 2009, known as Operation Cast Lead, Hamas said that fewer than 50 of the 1,400 dead in Gaza had been combatants. But more than a year later, Hamas' interior minister acknowledged in an interview with the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that between 600 and 700 of its militants were killed in that war. In that and in almost every war since, Hamas or other militant groups in Gaza launched rockets that fell unintentionally on their own citizens, but rarely if ever, owned up to the error, instead blaming Israel for the deaths.
Yet how often did that stop us from reporting what they told us? That dynamic was on display last month when many mainstream media outlets immediately repeated Hamas' claim that an Israeli air strike had devastated a hospital and killed a big round figure of 500 Palestinians. More details later emerged, indicating that it was most likely Islamic Jihad, a Hamas rival organization, that had fired an errant missile that landed on the site, and that the casualty count was much lower.
Hospitals once again took center stage in the war when Israel surrounded the Al-Shifa Hospital after claiming that Hamas had operated out of it. Hamas has long denied using hospitals despite proof that they do, and did the same this time even though there is evidence that weapons were found on site and tunnels have been built to allow the organization to use Al-Shifa as a base.
A Palestinian woman sits on debris in her damaged apartment in the Khezaa district on the outskirts of the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, as a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas entered its second day on November 25. Mahmud Hams/AFP/getty Images
Opinion: A perfectly reasonable, highly unrealistic path to peace
Reporters can feel they have little choice but to rely on Hamas' numbers and denials because there are few reporters left in Gaza and few options to verify anything independently. But many journalists could be more transparent about how they don't have independent verification and provide context on how unreliable Hamas has proved to be in the past.
One thing already clear after October 7 is that members of Hamas didn't sound like they experienced "no joy" in the slaughter of more than 1,200 Israelis and the kidnap of more than 200. Hamas gunmen laughed as they committed the attacks, according to eyewitnesses, and they recorded themselves as they gleefully rampaged through Israeli homes.
Did Hamas change? Or was too much of the media too willing to see them as something other than what they always were?
It's probably a bit of both. Although founded in 1987 as an expressly Palestinian organization, there is evidence that Hamas has been influenced by the style and brutality of global jihadist groups in general, and ISIS in particular. Still, Hamas' focus has remained on "the Zionist entity," not the US, other Western targets or other religions per se. And to the extent there was once a political wing that might have had different aspirations, October 7 left no doubt that the military wing is now the center of Hamas power and strategy.
It's not as if most of us in the media portrayed Hamas as innocent or moderate. But for years, too many of us treated the group more like an opposition party with occasional violent outbursts than a terrorist organization. In fact, while interning at Reuters at the start of my career in the mid-'90s, I learned that we were never to call Hamas or Islamic Jihad terrorists, only militants. Several outlets maintain that policy even amidst the October 7 massacre, which clearly meets the definition of terror as a deadly attack on civilians for ideological ends.
Journalists working in conflict zones too often pull punches in the interest of appearing neutral, or perhaps to ensure that they stay in the good graces of the gunmen in charge. Many of the questions that now reverberate in my head have no easy answers, but I can say that the ultimate goal for too many of us in the media was to ensure continued access to the big story, not to consider whether the people we were dealing with were good actors or reliable sources. Though it's important for readers and viewers to hear Palestinian voices as well as those of Israelis, treating Hamas like a legitimate government was perhaps the worst of bothsidesism.
In 2014, a German journalist was heavily criticized for embedding himself with ISIS for a documentary. Trying to explain such a despicable group of murderers went beyond the pale, critics said. Weren't there some actors whose behavior was so heinous that they didn't deserve a platform or even so much as a quote, which might only afford them a measure of legitimacy?
Is this the approach we should have taken with Hamas, or ought to moving forward? In an ideal world, yes, but in this dystopian one we're watching unfold, that may be too much to expect. In the meantime, if journalists continue to interview members of Hamas, we should report their words more critically and not take their comments at face value. We should provide context that notes how unverifiable their information is and how poor their track record for accuracy has been. And we should not shy away from asking ourselves whether our interviews afford them too much legitimacy and give them more of a platform than they deserve.
#22779766 at 2025-03-18 07:11:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27825: Shills are Boring Edition
Israel resumes airstrikes in Gaza
The ceasefire between the Jewish state and Hamas expired earlier this month
Israel resumes airstrikes in Gaza
FILE PHOTO: An Israeli fighter plane during a drill in the skies over Jerusalem on May 9, 2024. ? Mostafa Alkharouf / Anadolu / getty Images
Israel has resumed airstrikes in Gaza following the collapse of talks with Hamas over the release of the remaining hostages and the implementation of the ceasefire.
In a statement in the early hours of Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were "conducting extensive strikes on terror targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip."
https://www.rt.com/news/614371-idf-resumes-strikes-gaza/
#22777900 at 2025-03-18 01:07:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27823: EBAKE Comfy before Digits Edition
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HHS finds Maine guilty of Title IX violations for letting males play in girls' sports
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#22776220 at 2025-03-17 19:59:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27820: Q Day 17's Czech Em No Coinkidinks Edition
>>22775988
does the kennedy center have a bunch of dungeons under it like the getty?
#22758124 at 2025-03-14 11:55:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27800: Schumer's Bastards: Restoring The Constitutional Republic In Real Time? E
>>22758075
DWP TO GET POWERS TO RAID PROPERTIES AND CONFISCATE TECH EQUIPMENT UNDER POWERS TO STOP BENEFIT FRAUD
Note: as usual it is over reach and used to spy on citizens and shut down descent
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DWP officials to get powers to raid property and seize these devices
New powers will also allow investigators to directly deduct amounts from people's bank accounts
By Nicholas Dawson, Finance Reporter based in London, covering personal finance with a focus on the state pension and retirement planning.
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DWP officials to get powers to raid property and seize these devices
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New powers will allow DWP fraud investigators to raid benefit claimants' properties and seize electronic devices.
MPs and other experts are scrutinising legislation going through Parliament providing new powers to tackle fraud and error with regard to DWP payments, as well as other public authorities.
The new laws will grant DWP investigators new powers of "entry, search and seizure" to tackle cases of criminal gangs exploiting the benefits system.
In announcing the new bill, the DWP said: "DWP's serious organised crime investigators are also expected to be handed powers to apply to a court for search warrants.
"It means that for the first time, they will be able to support Police and search premises and seize items such as computers and smartphones as evidence against fraudsters."
Helena Wood, director of Public Policy and Strategic Engagement at fraud prevention group Cifas, spoke to MPs about why the new powers were needed.
She said: "Police simply do not have the resources to look at fraud against consumers, never mind to support DWP, so I think it is entirely necessary to extend those powers of search and seizure to DWP as well."
However, she said there needs to be more clarity about who will be able to wield the new seizure powers. She explained: "We trust the police to use their coercive and intrusive powers based on their skills, experience and training.
"At the moment, there is a reasonably low bar set in the legislation, which is merely to be a higher executive officer or senior executive officer-a very entry-grade civil service officer."
In announcing the legislation, Labour said that the search and seizure powers would be used in cases where "criminal gangs" are defrauding the benefits system.
Professor Mark Button, director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth, also spoke about the importance of the new powers given the lack of police resources to tackle fraud.
He said: "You are obviously dealing with increasingly highly organised fraudsters that often operate across borders. That poses significant challenges, particularly for many public sector fraud agencies, particularly when the police themselves have very limited resources.
"Fewer than 2,000 officers are dedicated to economic crime. They simply do not have the time to help public sector bodies deal with these things.
"When you look at those particular challenges, having professional capacity within government to investigate fraud with the appropriate powers is a sound basis for dealing with these problems."
Others powers in the bill include measures to directly take funds from a person's bank account where they have wrongly received payments from the DWP or from other public authorities.
In these cases, officials have to request at least three months of bank statements from the individual's bank provider, to confirm they have the funds to pay up. The DWP will not have direct access to people's bank accounts in these cases.
DWP nvestigators will also be able to require banks to hand over details of bank accounts they provider that are linked to benefits, to make sure only those who are eligible for receiving funds.
These checks will initially be used to verify the details of those on Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, and Pension Credit, although the powers could be to target people on other benefits
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#22730726 at 2025-03-09 16:16:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27770: Rollin 7's Sunday News Edition
ALL PB
>>22730502
>>22730525
>Again, there is NO SUCH THING as TRANs.
>Male/Female
>NO "BIOLOGICAL" MALE
>Only Male/Female, BIOLOGICAL is presumed.
>It's a language mindfuck.
>Make insane asylums great again.
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>>22730553
>>22730566
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>>22730646
UCLA student sues California doctors, says she was 'fast-tracked' into transgender surgery
The lawsuit alleges Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, wasmisdiagnosed with gender dysphoria and rushed into "irreversibly damaging" transition-related treatment and surgery.
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Children's Hospital Los Angeles is among the defendants in a lawsuit filed this month by a UCLA student who said she was rushed into a gender transition.Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via getty Images file
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A UCLA student is suing multiple California health care providers and hospitals for medical negligence, alleging she was wrongly diagnosed with gender dysphoria and then "fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging" puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery, according to her lawsuit.
Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, said she experienced sexual abuse as a young child, and by the time she was 11, she "began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy," according to her suit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court. When she expressed this to her then-school counselor, the counselor told her "that she was transgender and called her parents to tell them the same."
Kaya Clementine Breen.
Kaya Clementine Breen.Kaya Clementine Breen
Breen, who was also suffering from anxiety, depression and undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the lawsuit, was then taken by her parents to the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where she said she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria - the distress one can experience when their gender identity and birth sex are in conflict - and began to receive transition-related care at 12 years old
"This case is about a team of purported health care providers who collectively decided that a vulnerable girl struggling with complex mental health struggles and suffering from multiple instances of sexual abuse should be prescribed a series of life-altering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, ultimately, receive a double mastectomy at the age of 14," Breen's lawsuit states.
Breen began receiving puberty-suppressing medication at 12, was prescribed cross-sex hormones from 13 to 19 and underwent a double mastectomy at 14, according to court documents, which stated that her "her mental health progressively declined" following these treatments.
In an interview with NBC News on Thursday, Breen said, "In retrospect, I wish that somebody had suggested real, genuine therapy first, instead of gender-specific therapy, because really the only therapy that I received until much later was specifically focused on gender dysphoria, and didn't connect my gender dysphoria to anything else."
Breen said she began to question her decision to transition after she started dialectical behavior therapy, a type of talk therapy that seeks to help those struggling with intense emotions, earlier this year.
"I sort of started questioning my own gender identity and if I was doing this for the right reasons," she said.
The defendants in Breen's lawsuit include Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy,an adolescent medicine physician specializing in gender-affirming care; Children's Hospital Los Angeles;Dr. Scott Mosser, a plastic surgeon specializing in gender-affirming surgery; the Gender Confirmation Center of San Francisco; UCSF Health Community Hospitals; and psychotherapist Susan P. Landon.
When asked to comment on the lawsuit, a spokesperson said theCenter for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where Olson-Kennedy works,has?"provided high quality, age-appropriate, medically necessary care for more than 30 years."
"Treatment is patient- and family-centered, following guidelines from professional organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, and Endocrine Society. We do not comment on pending litigation; and out of respect for patient privacy and in compliance with state and federal laws, we do not comment on specific patients and/or their treatment," the spokesperson said in an email, adding that"Dr. Olson-Kennedy is unavailable for comment."
#22730502 at 2025-03-09 15:30:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27769 Reform Has Elections to Win Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1898757724202061862
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#22730314 at 2025-03-09 14:54:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27769 Reform Has Elections to Win Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1898743215454327195
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GOP senators call for passage of Sunshine Protection Act to 'lock the clock'
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#22719404 at 2025-03-07 14:05:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27755: God Bless This Site, This Board, This Bread Edition
>>22718841
>DOGE effort to sell off federal properties inadvertently exposes CIA black site in Northern Virginia — Bloomberg TV
>>22718976
>black sit
>>22719043
>inadvertently
https://archive.ph/z5f3H#selection-1659.256-1659.373
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A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale
Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area's worst-kept secret-the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.
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A now-deleted list containing hundreds of US government properties that the General Services Administration (GSA) plans to sell includes most of a sprawling, highly sensitive federal complex in Springfield, Virginia, that also houses a secretive Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) facility, WIRED has learned.
The GSA's effort to sell hundreds of US government properties is part of a blunt reshaping of the federal government and its workforce led by Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Staffed in part by young engineers with no prior experience in government, DOGE's efforts have resulted in mass reductions in force, the effective shuttering of entirely independent agencies, and a flurry of lawsuits that seek to mitigate DOGE's razing of the government over the past six weeks.
The GSA published the list on Tuesday and pulled it down the next day. Before the full list of 443 properties was removed, more than 120 properties had already been quietly scrubbed, including 14 buildings that did not appear to be listed in the Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties, a comprehensive public database of GSA holdings.
Most of these properties, aside from one identified only as "Building A, 6810," were labeled as either "Butler" or "Franconia." According to public records, all of them are part of a large federal facility known as the Parr-Franconia Warehouse Complex, or the GSA Warehouse, which sits, fenced in by chain-link topped with barbed wire, at 6810 Loisdale Road in Springfield.
Most of the buildings in the complex, which dates back to the early 1950s and is dominated by a 1,005,602-square-foot warehouse long used as a government supply depot, are believed to be used by various government agencies for mundane purposes. Right in the middle of the complex, though, next to the warehouse and catty-corner to what's listed as Transportation Security Administration headquarters, is a U-shaped building long notorious for its alleged ties to the CIA.
"Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says Jeff McKay, chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and a longtime advocate of redeveloping the complex, which is near a Metro station and sits in a prosperous area. "Normally a site like this wouldn't be outed, so to speak, but everyone knows it's here except, apparently, the people who put this list together."
The CIA's use of the building located at 6801 Springfield Center Drive, not all of which can necessarily be observed from street level, was first reported in 2012 by the Washington Business Journal, which in an article around the same time called the CIA's presence in the area "perhaps the worst-kept secret in Springfield." The most specific description of its purpose, as the publication noted, can be found in the 2011 spy-agency-focused nonfiction book Fallout: The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking, by Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz, who write, while describing a clandestine operation: "There were two pick-and-lock specialists from the agency's secret facility in Springfield, Virginia. In a warehouse-like building there, the CIA trains a cadre of technical officers to bug offices, break into houses, and penetrate computer systems." (Whether it is currently used for these purposes is unknown.)
#22708939 at 2025-03-05 20:04:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27743: Trump-ets Edition
Liberal Network Giving The Axe To FiveThirtyEight After 17 Years
ABC's News Division To Cut Up To 25 Percent Of Staff
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#22698108 at 2025-03-04 12:24:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27730: Like It Is Edition
>>22697797
>Sean Davis: You Can Draw a Straight Line From Ukraine Today to US Policy in 2014
Ukrayinska Pravda
CIA maintains 12 secret bases in Ukraine, CIA head was in Kyiv last week- NYT
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The US's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) maintains 12 secret bases in Ukraine along the border with Russia, and last Thursday CIA chief William Burns made his 10th secret visit to Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Source: The New York Times, based on more than 200 interviews with current and former officials in Ukraine, the United States and Europe
Details: The NYT reports that before the full-scale war, the Ukrainians proved themselves to the Americans by collecting intercepted data that helped prove Russian involvement in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner in 2014. Ukrainians also helped Americans prosecute the Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.
Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian special forces unit known as Unit 2245, which captured Russian drones and communications equipment so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow's encryption systems. According to the NYT, one of the officers in this unit was the current head of Defence Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov.
The CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who worked in Russia, throughout Europe, and in Cuba and other places where Russians have a significant presence.
According to The New York Times, the details of the partnership between the Ukrainian and American intelligence agencies have been a closely guarded secret for a decade.
Quote: "Now these intelligence networks are more important than ever, as Russia is on the offensive and Ukraine is more dependent on sabotage and long-range missile strikes that require spies far behind enemy lines. And they are increasingly at risk. If Republicans in Congress end military funding to Kyiv, the CIA may have to scale back.
To try to reassure Ukrainian leaders, William J. Burns, the CIA director, made a secret visit to Ukraine last Thursday, his 10th visit since the invasion."
More details: The NYT reports that the partnership between the CIA and Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) began in late February 2014, when former president Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia. This cooperation was proposed by Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, who became the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).
US rules prohibited intelligence agencies from providing Ukraine with any support that could be "reasonably expected" to have lethal consequences. However, the red lines were never precisely clear, creating constant tension in the partnership.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-maintains-12-secret-bases-212250351.html
#22688455 at 2025-03-02 19:29:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27718: SPIRITUAL WAR - Put On The Full Armor Of God Edition
>>22687971
>>HAITI FOCUS=
>>22688149
>>22688159
>>22688414
>my watch
>the world is watching
>red carpet rollout
2025 Academy Awards > Date
Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 7:00?PM - 10:00?PM
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Oscars 2025 date and time: The 97th Academy Awards,hosted for the first time by Conan O'Brien, will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. With a star-studded lineup and intense competition, movie enthusiasts across the globe are eager to tune in.4 hours ago
>>22688420
>Oscar Austin
TQ
#22686754 at 2025-03-02 14:45:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27716 E-Bake Edition
>>22686218
>We don't even need their minerals. He has nothing. He fucked up. Should have worn a suit.
Fake News reeeing about the suit question. Pretending that Zelensky is Churchill
muh backlash
'Why Don't You Wear a Suit?': A Right-Wing News Outlet With Coveted Access Questions Zelensky
After the White House began to handpick pool reporters, Brian Glenn of the conservative Real America's Voice network got to be front and center for the Ukrainian president's visit.
Brian Glenn sits with his legs crossed behind other people in a hearing room.
Brian Glenn at a House subcommittee hearing in Washington in February.Credit…Al Drago/getty Images
Zach Montague
By Zach Montague
Reporting from West Palm Beach, Fla.
Published March 1, 2025Updated March 2, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ET
A voice from the press section joined the chorus of people demanding answers from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Friday, during a meeting with President Trump and his associates.
"Why don't you wear a suit?" a man asked Mr. Zelensky. "You're at the highest level in this country's office, and you refuse to wear a suit. Just want to see if - do you own a suit?" He added, "A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office."
The questions came from Brian Glenn, a correspondent for Real America's Voice, a right-wing cable channel that has spread conspiracy theories about noncitizen voting and helped distribute Stephen K. Bannon's "War Room" podcast after Mr. Bannon was barred from YouTube, Spotify and other mainstream platforms.
Mr. Glenn's outlet was selected to take a "secondary TV" role in the White House press pool alongside CNN on Friday - a position that did not exist before this week. That access was granted as the White House continued to block reporters from The Associated Press from attending, according to a schedule sent out by the White House, and as it began this week to handpick the pool reporters who cover the president in small settings, such as the Oval Office meeting with Mr. Zelensky.
Pool reporters attend the events in a rotation traditionally organized by the White House Correspondents' Association and share their observations with other outlets not present.
Mr. Glenn's comments about Mr. Zelensky's appearance echoed Mr. Trump's on Friday as the Ukrainian leader stepped out of his car at the White House. "He's all dressed up today," Mr. Trump told reporters, indicating Mr. Zelensky's attire.
Since the start of the war, Mr. Zelensky has regularly donned standard-issue field uniforms as a display of solidarity with his country's armed forces. The criticism that he didn't wear a suit drew immediate outcry online.
Mr. Zelensky received an outpouring of support internationally after the meeting, which had become adversarial long before Mr. Glenn's questions.
Lawmakers and media critics were quick to point out that just this week, Elon Musk had appeared at a cabinet meeting wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "tech support" under an overcoat. And when Mr. Musk spoke alongside Mr. Trump in the Oval Office earlier this month, he appeared to be wearing a shirt that read "Occupy Mars."
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Responding to the backlash, Mr. Glenn posted a lengthy personal statement on Saturday morning expressing "extreme empathy for the people of Ukraine" but continuing to berate Mr. Zelensky.
He suggested in the post that the olive-green military fatigues that Mr. Zelensky often wears in meetings with other world leaders signaled respect, but that the black tactical sweater bearing his country's coat of arms did not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/us/politics/brian-glenn-zelensky-suit.html
#22677945 at 2025-03-01 02:28:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27706: EBAKE Bait Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1895662028146028744
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Breaking: FBI's Patel says Trump 'honeypot' story not true, defends female agent
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#22671984 at 2025-02-28 11:05:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27699: New Thread Old One Not Working Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1895421400883544573
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South Carolina schedules a firing squad execution for next week; 1st in U.S. in 15 years
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#22664625 at 2025-02-27 13:42:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27690: Do it Pam FULL DISCLOSURE Edition
>>22664517
>msm completely dumbstruck over Epstein drop
>not one word - cept, SAD - HACKMAN DEAD
not sayin it's related but hell of a coincidence
Updated 10:00 27 Feb 2025 GMT
Published 09:54 27 Feb 2025 GMT
Why Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa went 21 years without being seen in public after leading very private life
Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 63, were found dead in their Santa Fehome on Wednesday (26 February) along with their dog
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Yesterday (27 February), police confirmed that Hollywood legend, Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 63, were found dead in their Santa Fe home along with their pet dog.
A statement from the Santa Fe County Sheriff in New Mexico said there is an 'active investigation' into the death.
"We can confirm that both Gene Hackman and his wife were found deceased Wednesday afternoon at their residence on Sunset Trail," the department said. "This is an active investigation - however, at this time we do not believe that foul play was a factor."
The tragic news came a year after the pair were last spotted in public together, having gone over two decades before that without being seen.
Hackman, who enjoyed a decade-spanning Hollywood career earning earning two Academy Awards and four Golden Globes, and classical pianist Arakawa tied the knot in 1991 and have largely kept their personal life out of the public eye.
In the 1980s, the pair packed up their belongings and left La La Land for the peace and quiet of New Mexico before Hackman eventually announced he was retiring from showbiz.
"I haven't held a press conference to announce retirement, but yes, I'm not going to act any longer," he told Reuters in 2008. "I really don't want to do it any longer."
Since then, the couple kept to themselves with Arakawa in particular being extremely private with no known social media or interviews about herself or her love life - something which Hackman said influenced their decision to live in Santa Fe.
In fact, the couple went from 2003 to 2024 without being spotted in public at all.
Hackman and Arakawa have led a largely private life after moving to Santa Fe (Jeffrey Mayer / Contributor / getty Images)Hackman and Arakawa have led a largely private life after moving to Santa Fe (Jeffrey Mayer / Contributor / getty Images)
Hackman and Arakawa have led a largely private life after moving to Santa Fe (Jeffrey Mayer / Contributor / getty Images)
"Where we live, in Santa Fe, you can lead your own life and not be bothered by the latest gossip," he told the Irish Independent back in 2000.
While Hackman and Arakawa don't have children together, she is the stepmother to the Heartbreakers star's three children from his previous marriage to Faye Maltese.
"It's tough being the son or daughter of a celebrity," Hackman continued. "I couldn't always be home with them when they were growing up and then, living in California, they've had my success always hanging over their heads."
According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said in an interview that there was no immediate indication of foul play in the pair's death.
"All I can say is that we're in the middle of a preliminary death investigation, waiting on approval of a search warrant," Mendoza stated.
He added: "I want to assure the community and neighbourhood that there's no immediate danger to anyone."
Mendoza provided neither a cause of death nor any indication of when the couple might have died.
Tyla has reached out to a representative for Hackman for comment.
https://www.tyla.com/news/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-relationship-862588-20250227
#22664120 at 2025-02-27 10:20:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27689: Something Big Is About To Drop Edition
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/gene-hackman-death-latest-updates-wife-santa-fe-b2705677.html
Gene Hackman death latest: Actor and wife found dead in Santa Fe home
The actor, best known for The French Connection and The Conversation, was found dead alongside his wife
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Gene Hackman has been found dead, aged 95, in his Santa Fe home alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa, 63, and pet dog.
The actor was one of the best-loved stars in Hollywood, starring in classic films ranging from The French Connection and The Conversation to Superman.
He won Oscars for The French Connection and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, and stepped away from the spotlight after The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001.
No foul play is suspected, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza.
Mendoza told the Santa Fe New Mexican that the couple died around midnight on Thursday (27 February). The sheriff did not speculate on their cause of death.
"I want to assure the community and neighbourhood that there's no immediate danger to anyone," Mendoza said.
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Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa found dead
Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa found dead in their home in Santa Fe
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Hackman became a reclusive figure in later life, rarely making public appearances
Hackman announced that he had retired from acting in 2008 while promoting his third novel Escape from Andersonville. His final film was the 2004 comedy Welcome to Mooseport where he starred alongside Ray Romano.
In 2022 he made a rare public appearance to attend a show in Santa Fe's Lensic Center for Performing Arts titled Broadway Confidential which delighted fans in the process.
Read The Independent's report on Hackman's rare outing below.
Rare new photo of retired actor Gene Hackman, 92, delights movie fans
'So nice to see a photo of him after so long!' one fan replied
Greg Evans27 February 2025 09:50
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Hackman was one of the most celebrated actors of his generation
Hackman, 95, was one of the industry's most respected and honoured performers. His dozens of films included Oscar-winning roles in The French Connection and Unforgiven, which both earned him an Oscar.
His breakout performance came in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde. His other notable roles include Superman, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Conversation, Enemy of the State, Reds and The Firm.
The actor's impressive resume includes two Oscars, two Baftas, three Golden Globes and the Cecil B. DeMille Award, bestowed to him at the 2003 Golden Globe Awards.
Gene Hackman with Robin Williams and Michael Caine at the 2003 Golden Globe Awards.
Gene Hackman with Robin Williams and Michael Caine at the 2003 Golden Globe Awards. (getty Images)
Greg Evans27 February 2025 09:40
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TV stars pay tribute to Hollywood icon
Tributes have begun to flood in for Hackman, firstly, via the UK and Ireland.
After the news broke on Thursday (27 February) morning, Lorraine Kelly told Good Morning Britain: "That is a real shocker, I was just reading about what an amazing actor he is, when you think of the movies that he's been in…French Connection, everybody remembers that! Wonderful, wonderful film! I had no idea he was 95! That's really really sad."
She continued: "He's an absolute icon, brilliant. He was so funny in Birdcage… he could do drama, he could do comedy, he could do absolutely anything."
Elsewhere, Irish comedian, Dara O Briain wrote on X/Twitter: "Ah, Gene Hackman. The finest screen actor ever, I think. Not a single duff performance, in a long, long career. And the best delivery ever of a single word: when he says 'Cigars!' In Young Frankenstein."
Greg Evans27 February 2025 09:28
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Gene Hackman, Betsy Arakawa and their dog confirmed as dead
Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Denise Avila said deputies responded to a request to do a welfare check at the home Wednesday around 1:45 pm local time and found Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and a dog dead.
The Associated Press reports that local police do not suspect that foul play was a factor in their deaths but the exact cause of their deaths cannot be determined at this time.
Greg Evans27 February 2025 09:20
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Q Research General #27684: FAFO, No Tax On Island Tipping Edition
Dockworkers Union Accepts New Labor Contract
The contract includes a wage hike and a ban on full automation.
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By Bill Pan
2/26/2025
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/dockworkers-union-accepts-new-labor-contract-5816615?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
#22658806 at 2025-02-26 14:53:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27683: A Day Late Melania Tuesday Edition
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>"Give Us Back Our Fu*#ing Money." How Washington Stole Everything.
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>The Pentagon's $35 Trillion Accounting Black Hole
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DOGE Raises Alarm Over $4.7 Trillion 'Almost Impossible' to Trace
Published Feb 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM EST
Updated Feb 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM EST
The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said the Treasury Department did not enforce a tracking code, making it "almost impossible" to trace around $4.7 trillion in federal payments.
Newsweek has contacted DOGE and the Treasury for comment via email outside regular working hours.
Why It Matters
DOGE, headed by tech billionaire Elon Musk, has been tasked by President Donald Trump with making drastic cuts to federal spending and waste. They have faced criticism and legal challenges over mass layoffs and the dismantling of federal agencies.
Elon Musk in Cannes
Elon Musk attends a session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity on June 19, 2024 in Cannes, France. Marc Piasecki/getty Images
What to Know
The tracking code in question is the Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) identification code. According to the Bureau Fiscal of the Fiscal, these codes-assigned by the Treasury Department, in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)-serve to track financial transactions and data.
All federal government financial transactions are classified by TAS for reporting to the Treasury and OMB.
In a Monday post on X, formerly Twitter, DOGE said that within the federal government, the TAS field was optional for about $4.7 trillion in payments and was "often left blank, making traceability almost impossible."
DOGE said the field would now be required for federal spending following an agreement with the Treasury.
Musk's team has targeted the Treasury as part of its sweeping plans to reduce federal spending.
In a late Sunday post on X, DOGE said that eliminating paper checks issued by federal agencies would save around $750 million per year.
DOGE said the Treasury processed 116 million paper checks in fiscal 2024 and maintains a "physical lockbox" network to collect checks for tax and passport purposes. DOGE claimed it costs $2.40 per check to "maintain this lockbox network."
It is unclear where DOGE obtained these figures, which have not been verified by Newsweek.
On Friday, a federal judge extended a block preventing DOGE staffers from accessing the Treasury Department's payment system, which controls trillions of dollars in federal payments and contains personal details of federal employees.
DOGE said on its website that its work has already resulted in an estimated $55 billion in savings.
What People Are Saying
DOGE, in a Monday post on X: "The Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process). In the federal government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to @USTreasury for the great work."
Elon Musk posted on X: "Major improvement in Treasury payment integrity going live! This was a combined effort of @DOGE, @USTreasury, and @FederalReserve. Nice work by all."
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, chair of the House Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee, wrote on X: "$4.7 TRILLION in untraceable payments!!!!! That's 4.7 trillion reasons that make it hard to believe this was a mistake or incompetence even."
What Happens Next
DOGE is set to continue its efforts to make mass cuts across the federal government. Musk has said he could cut "at least $2 trillion" from government spending by eradicating "waste." That amounts to cutting around 30 percent of total federal government spending.
#22654510 at 2025-02-25 19:50:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27677: Entering the Golden Age Edition
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BOSTON, United States: Actor John Cusack (C-front) and entertainer P. Diddy (R-rear) join US Senator Hillary Clinton (behind Cusack) during the last night of the Democratic National Convention 29 July, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts. Democratic presidential candidate Kerry will close the four-day convention by accepting the nomination for president, setting the stage for a three-month election showdown with US President George W. Bush in the 02 November election. AFP PHOTO/PAUL J. RICHARDS (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/united-states-actor-john-cusack-and-entertainer-p-diddy-news-photo/51127566
#22652011 at 2025-02-25 10:43:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27674: Gulf of America Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/24/feeling-blue-angry-donors-turn-off-money-flow-to-hopeless-democrats/
Feeling Blue: Angry Donors Turn Off Money Flow to 'Hopeless' Democrats
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#22647108 at 2025-02-24 17:09:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27669: Jones'N Freedom Fries Edition
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This shouldn't be surprising, Myers told JTA. The UCLA professor said he sees Betar as an outgrowth of a long culture of "toxicity" and "disinhibition" in American politics. He believes that spirit has, over the last few years, animated not just groups like Betar but also institutional Jewish groups' way of thinking about Israel's critics.
"It rhymes with a lot of the efforts of more mainstream organizations which, in my mind, equate support for Palestinians, Palestinian self-determination, with a pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism stance," he said. "Betar takes rise out of that legitimization of the claim that disagreeing with Israel's actions in Gaza is akin to antisemitism."
For some pro-Israel activists, Betar can be complicated. "I see them post videos, and it's like, why are you filming yourself screaming at people? That doesn't look good," Billie Little, a pro-Israel street artist in New Orleans who has joined forces with Schanzer, told JTA about Betar. "There are times I feel like, 'OK, I don't know if I want to be all-in on this.'"
Still, Little said she accepted Betar's help in raising money for her and Schanzer to acquire paint supplies. And she's helped Betar put up a Zionist mural in her hometown of New York City. At the same time, she notes, "I strongly disagree with them on many stances, particularly concerning their endorsement of President Trump's plans for Gaza."
Little said she was spurred to work with the group despite her disagreements because of its sense of urgency. Some Jewish groups - including federations like the one that commissioned her to design a mural in New Orleans - are "taking the more quiet approach, a more mild-mannered approach, a more, arguably, civil approach. Which I think is important," she said. "But I think sometimes that approach has left many Jewish people, just laymen like us, feeling very helpless. Do I just wait for you, with this organization, to save the day? What can I do to stand up for myself?"
Jewish Federations of North America did not return requests for comment on Betar; neither did the American Jewish Committee, which often asserts itself as an antisemitism first-responder. The ADL, a frequent target of Betar's ire, declined to comment.
On the one-year anniversary of Oct. 7, days after Schanzer's own video, Betar pinned a post to its X profile: a screenshot of the hardline pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime announcing that it had received "several violent threats from Zionists."
Betar appended its own commentary: "#JewsFightBack."
In 1923, as diaspora Jews were fiercely debating what the future of Zionism would look like, Ze'ev Jabotinsky was ready to lead its right flank.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) sits at center with soldiers of the Jewish Legion, Autumn 1918. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via getty Images)
Zionist youth movements were gathering across Europe, and the Ukrainian-born writer and activist, who was intrigued by Italian fascism and sought a militaristic following that could answer to him, brought together insurgent groups in Latvia for his aims. He gave them the name Betar, after the final fortress of the ancient, failed Jewish Bar Kochba revolt against the Roman Empire.
"He organized them and gave them a common identity," the Israeli-American writer Hillel Halkin, author of a 2014 biography of Jabotinsky, said in an interview. Key to the leader's appeal, Halkin said, was his willingness to physically fight back.
"Jabotinsky also always believed that you never take a blow or an insult sitting down, that you have to return blow for blow, in one way or another," Halkin said. "So for him the question would not be, is it permissible to use violence against violence? It would simply be, is it practical? Does this make political sense?"
Halkin, who lives in Israel, was surprised to learn of Betar's resurgence in the United States. He didn't love the idea. On the one hand, he speculated that a renewed sense of "Jewish militancy" could help "fight back against the anti-Israel militancy of the intifada, pro-Hamas people on the campuses or even elsewhere."
Yet, he said, "I don't think that a handful of hotheaded extremists fanning the flames are what young American Jews on campuses need."
He also insisted Jabotinsky would probably have disapproved of Betar's habit of swarming and intimidating pro-Palestinian protests: "I don't think Jabotinsky would have wanted to shut anybody up who was saying the most vile things about Jews or Israel. As long as there was no incitement to physical violence."
Jabotinsky is revered by Torossian, who grew up in what remained of an earlier iteration of the Betar movement and references the founder in Betar communications every chance he can get. The group's website praises Jabotinsky's "vision" and "legacy," and reproduces the Hebrew oath he encouraged all Betar followers to take.
#22647074 at 2025-02-24 17:05:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27669: Jones'N Freedom Fries Edition
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Witnesses at the time said the UCLA pro-Israel counter-protesters chanted "Second Nakba," a reference to the Arabic word for "catastrophe" - how Palestinians refer to their mass displacement at the State of Israel's founding. In the Forward, David Myers, a Jewish professor at UCLA and president of the New Israel Fund, called the pro-Israel contingent "a violent band of thugs intent on inflicting damage" and condemned the school for not being prepared to intervene sooner.
Betar US hadn't yet been officially constituted at the time, and Torossian said the group had no ties to what happened at UCLA in the spring. But when anti-Zionist students set up a sukkah in the fall, the new group issued its own threat: "We demand police remove these thugs now and if not we will be forced to organize groups of Jews to do so."
Recently, revisiting its statement, Betar declared, "We are proud of what we have done at UCLA. Yes if the police don't do their job Betar will."
Davidai still believes his own movement will win over Jews in the end. Betar, he believes, is mainly composed of "frustrated keyboard warriors" with a misguided view of activism. "A lot of people confuse peacefulness and nonviolence with submissiveness. They confuse community organizing as weakness," he said.
"Organizations like Betar are not interested in the free marketplace of ideas," Davidai added. "They're interested in canceling people they disagree with, ad-hominem attacks, shouting, counter-protesting."
Still, he said, "They're not as bad as people who support Hamas."
Ronn Torossian,CEO of 5W Public Relations, peaks during the company's 15th anniversary event at Catch Rooftop on June 14, 2017 in New York City. In 2024Torossian relaunched the Zionist group Betar in the United States. (Eugene Gologursky/getty Images for DuJour)
The group's own internal operations appear as chaotic as its street actions. While JTA was reporting this story, Ross Glick was for months identified as Betar's executive director. Glick outlined many of the group's priorities in an extensive interview with JTA on Jan. 28, noting he had "relationships with a number of people" in the U.S. Senate and executive branch, and said several of Betar's goals have become realized since Trump took office.
Five days later, without explanation, Betar announced Glick was no longer with the organization.
Glick stopped responding to requests for comment after his departure, while Torossian declined to elaborate beyond stating, "Ross is no longer working for Betar." On social media, pro-Palestinian activists were circulating a 2019 New York Post article detailing Glick's arrest on revenge-porn charges as a means of discrediting Betar.
The group has newly onboarded a spokeswoman, Sloan Rachmuth, who is a conservative activist in North Carolina who often takes video of protesters at UNC. She was arrested in November under suspicion of cyberstalking a pro-Palestinian supermarket employee before charges were later dropped.
Rachmuth, who on Tuesday called a pro-Palestinian UNC student who was stripped of a prestigious scholarship a "fat retard" on social media, said she is grateful for Betar for giving her own activism a lot of "moral support." They are much more helpful to her cause than the Jewish federations and other mainstream groups, she said. "A lot of Jewish groups don't do anything but talk."
Like Rachmuth, both Glick and Torossian have faced down law enforcement over some of their Betar-related activity - and, prior to their split, seemed happiest when Betar was causing trouble.
"We are proud to have stopped numerous encampments," Torossian said. "There will not be encampments in the United States that we do not attend."
It's this desire to confront that has endeared Betar to its new recruits, several of whom, like Schanzer, have gone viral for street actions countering pro-Palestinian protests. Those include a non-Jewish military veteran in Massachusetts arrested after shooting a pro-Palestinian protester who jumped him and a rabbi and his son in Milwaukee who were arrested after destroying a real-estate owner's pro-Palestinian mural that depicted a Star of David turning into a swastika. Last week a Betar affiliate counter-protested at a demonstration outside the home of a Jewish regent of UCLA, where a pro-Palestinian group was directing threats like "Divest now, or you will pay."
#22631661 at 2025-02-22 11:18:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27651: Phase + 1 Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1893146440500724088
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
FEMA granted $2.6 million for 'War on Misinformation" by Virginia company
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#22627520 at 2025-02-21 19:29:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27646: Gold In Age Edition
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2025/02/21/apple-warns-uk-iphone-owners-it-will-remove-encryption-protection/
Apple Warns UK iPhone Owners It Will Remove Encryption Protection
Feb 21, 2025, 12:31pm EST
One of Apple's optional features is Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, which offers the company's highest level of cloud data security. Apple has just announced that this is no longer available to new users in the United Kingdom. This is much more than a question of security, not just because it affects so many people but because of what may have caused it, and what it means for your data.
New Features For IPhone IOS 17 Beta
Apple's Advanced Data Protection is no longer available to new users in the U.K.NurPhoto via getty Images
How Do I Know If I Have ADP On?
Setting up the feature used to be straightforward: go to Settings on the iPhone, for instance, choose iCloud and scroll down to iCloud+ features. There you'll see Advanced Data Protection and you can turn it on. Well, you could until now.
In the U.K., if you haven't opted to turn it on already, you will see an explainer of the service when you click, and a banner that reads, "Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users."
Those who have already enabled it will be given a period of time to disable the feature themselves to keep using their iCloud account.
What Has Apple Said?
"Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually need to disable this security feature. ADP protects iCloud data with end-to-end encryption, which means the data can only be decrypted by the user who owns it, and only on their trusted devices. We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy. Enhancing the security of cloud storage with end-to-end encryption is more urgent than ever before. Apple remains committed to offering our users the highest level of security for their personal data and are hopeful that we will be able to do so in the future in the United Kingdom. As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will," the company said in a statement shared with me.
#22626768 at 2025-02-21 17:24:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27646: Gold In Age Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/02/21/exclusive-education-dept-removes-2300-webpages-pushing-woke-propaganda-from-biden-administration/
Exclusive - Education Dept. Removes 2,300+ Webpages Pushing 'Woke Propaganda' from Biden Administration
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#22620231 at 2025-02-20 18:59:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27638: Get Lost Mitch McConnell GTFO ~ K$H UP Edition
DOGE Finds $2 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Earmarked for Stacey Abrams-Linked Group
EPA chief Lee Zeldin says revelation 'extremely concerning'
Stacey Abrams (Joe Raedle/getty Images)
Thomas Catenacci
February 19, 2025
DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams.
The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant's dollar figure-it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.
Power Forward Communities' grant was one of just eight Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants that the EPA doled out in April 2024 and that, altogether, totaled $20 billion. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Feb. 13 that his staff and Department of Government Efficiency officials discovered that the Biden administration parked that same $20 billion at an outside financial institution before leaving office, limiting the federal government's oversight of the program.
The revelation that Power Forward Communities is among the beneficiaries of the funds Zeldin's team located raises ethics questions about how the Biden administration selected recipients of such massive grants and whether it played favorites when doling those grants out. Abrams was a vocal proponent of the Biden administration's green energy agenda and campaigned for former vice president Kamala Harris.
It also appears to validate concerns expressed for years by Republicans that Biden administration allies would prop up organizations that were specifically designed to receive federal funding under programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was created to operate as a "green bank" by Democrats' behemoth Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
"I made a commitment to members of Congress and to the American people to be a good steward of tax dollars and I've wasted no time in keeping my word," Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon. "When we learned about the Biden Administration's scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this."
"As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been," the EPA administrator continued. "It's extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That's 20 million times the organization's reported revenue."
Power Forward Communities and Abrams did not respond to requests for comment.
Power Forward Communities was established in October 2023 as a coalition of groups led by Rewiring America, a left-wing group that advocates for electrification policies and a transition away from fossil fuel dependence. Abrams, who serves as Rewiring America's senior counsel, said at the time that she was "thrilled" to be part of the Power Forward Communities coalition. "This is how we expand access to clean energy-by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience," she wrote in an X post.
According to its website, Power Forward Communities is the first nationwide program to finance home energy efficiency upgrades at scale. The group states that its mission is to assist homeowners, developers, and renters with home upgrades replacing gas-powered appliances like a traditional stovetop with electric appliances like an induction stovetop.
#22606061 at 2025-02-18 15:33:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27622: $how US The KASH On This Melania Tuesday For The WIN$ Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#22599361 at 2025-02-17 13:23:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27614: Rebake Edition
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>I don't remember anyone electing this guy to dictate foreign policy.
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The Logan Act is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1799 that prohibits unauthorized American citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was created to prevent private individuals from undermining the government's official foreign policy.
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Logan Act Lingers For Others In Russia Probe, As All Eyes Look Up The Trump Ladder
February 14, 20177:14 PM ET
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Then-national security adviser Michael Flynn, senior adviser Jared Kushner and President Trump. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Now, the focus moves to what he told investigators.
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Updated Dec. 1 at 5:01 p.m. ET
Michael Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, pleaded guilty Friday to providing false statements to the FBI. Those are less serious charges than he could have faced, because he is cooperating with special prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigators.
Flynn likely has something to trade, as NPR's Carrie Johnson noted on All Things Considered Friday. Flynn was not acting alone, according to charging documents against him. In fact, there were multiple members of the presidential transition team who spoke with Flynn about his communications with the Russian ambassador.
That included a "very senior member," who "directed Flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including Russia …" Several news organizations have identified that individual as Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law.
White House Press Secretary Says Trump Fired Flynn As National Security Adviser
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White House Press Secretary Says Trump Fired Flynn As National Security Adviser
The Logan Act often comes up in relation to the Russia investigation. Back in February, we noted that Flynn himself could have violated it. But now that Mueller is looking up the food chain, we dug out and refreshed our post explaining what it is, why it matters - and why it is seldom used.
What is the Logan Act?
The Logan Act states, in part (emphasis ours):
"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
Let's break that down. This is saying that no private person can try to conduct foreign policy without the permission of the U.S. government.
Specifically, that person isn't allowed to talk with a foreign government or its representative and try to influence foreign policy - "directly or indirectly."
When was it put in place and why?
It's named for Dr. George Logan, a Democratic-Republican Party lawmaker from Pennsylvania, who traveled to France in 1798 and negotiated the lifting of an embargo and the release of American sailors held captive in French prisons.
He did so without the permission of President John Adams, though he was a friend of then-Vice President Thomas Jefferson's.
https://www.npr.org/2017/02/14/515279336/what-is-the-logan-act-and-why-does-it-matter
#22593939 at 2025-02-16 15:14:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27608: For the love of God II Edition
Hussein Library back on the menu!
Obama library, begun with lofty DEI goals, now plagued by $40M racially charged suit, ballooning costs
The Black-owned firm claims it was accused of underperforming in the project because of race
Michael Dorgan By Michael Dorgan Fox News
Published February 16, 2025 6:32am EST
Construction of former President Barack Obama's long-awaited library and museum in Chicago began with ambitious plans for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but is now plagued by huge cost overruns, delays and a $40.75-million, racially charged lawsuit filed by a minority contractor.
From the outset, the endeavor touted DEI as a key part of enshrining Obama's legacy at the 19.3-acre site, where costs have ballooned from an initial $350 million to $830 million in 2021 based on its previous annual reports, with no publicly available figures available for updated projected costs. The project set out "ambitious goals" for certain construction diversity quotas, with its contracts to be allocated to "diverse suppliers," 35% of which were required to be minority-based enterprises (MBEs).
"With these aggressive goals, the foundation is hoping to set a new precedent for diversity and inclusion in major construction projects in Chicago and beyond," the Obama Foundation wrote in a 2017 press release.
Barack Obama and presidential center
Former President Obama and his presidential center. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg, left, and Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via getty Images, right.)
The importance of DEI was cited on several occasions in an explosive lawsuit filed last month by Robert McGee, the Black co-owner of II in One Construction. The firm is a minority-owned business subcontractor that provided concrete and rebar services for the center.
It is not clear what role DEI quotas played in the hiring of II In One as a subcontractor. II In One was one of three firms that made up a joint venture called Concrete Collective. The other firms included another minority firm called Trice Construction Company along with W.E. O'Neil. Together they formed a 51% minority-led joint-venture team.
McGee alleged that he and his firm were racially discriminated against by Thornton Tomasetti, a New York-based company that oversees structural engineering and design services.
In the lawsuit, McGee claims that Thornton Tomasetti changed standards and imposed new rules around rebar spacing and tolerance requirements that differed from the American Concrete Institute standards. The suit claims these changes resulted in his firm running up massive overruns in excess of $40 million, which put it on the verge of bankruptcy.
McGee's lawsuit stems from a memorandum Thornton Tomasetti wrote to the project's leading construction partners about a year ago claiming that II in One - and the contracting firm it teamed up with on the project - were responsible for numerous challenges during the project.
The memorandum contained images of cracked slabs and exposed rebar to support its claims. Thornton Tomasetti said it spent hundreds of hours reviewing, analyzing, re-designing, and responding to corrective work and that subcontractors caused "a multitude of problems in the field."
"The construction issues were all unequivocally driven by the underperformance and inexperience of the concrete subcontractor," the memorandum states.
Thornton Tomasetti said the challenges with the concrete were due solely to the subcontractors and wrote that it "cannot stand by while contractors attempt to blame their own shortcomings on the design team."
The memo goes on to state that Thornton Tomasetti and an architectural firm, "bent over backwards to assist what everyone knows was a questionably qualified subcontractor team in areas where a more qualified subcontractor would not have required it."
The Obama Presidential Center
The Obama Presidential Center pictured this week. (Fox News)
That memorandum served as the basis of McGee's lawsuit last month, as he alleges it contained "baseless criticisms and defamatory and discriminatory accusations."
The lawsuit claims that Thornton Tomasetti undermined the project's diversity and inclusion goals, which were outlined in the project's general contract. The lawsuit also cites a DEI report by the project's construction manager in 2022, which outlines the project as "achieving significant diverse business participation." A report breaking down the demographics of those involved in the project was also released in April.
#22579937 at 2025-02-14 05:14:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27592: What Does Tommorow Bring? Edition
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D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#22578923 at 2025-02-14 02:13:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27591: -o7- Deleting Spam For God And Country -o7- Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1890202686475190327
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Old Glory Bank CEO Mike Ring says J6 probe exposed collusion between Biden admin and the banks
A CitiBank in California | (Justin Sullivan/getty)
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#22572311 at 2025-02-13 01:46:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27584: Full Snow Moon Edition
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What is Corbis Images?
A former stock photo agency founded by Bill Gates, Corbis had a vast image library that's now under Visual China Group and getty Images.
Conclusion
Corbis Images is more than just a stock photo agency; it's a living archive of our shared visual history. This powerhouse, born from the vision of Bill Gates and nurtured by Visual China Group, offers an unparalleled variety in its collection.
You've discovered Corbis' unique journey that mirrors an independent art curator fleeing Nazi Germany with historic treasures. You've also seen how their partnership with getty Images has opened up worldwide access to this trove.
The takeaway? Whether you're part of the media industry or simply have a passion for photography, remember: behind every single image lies an incredible story waiting to be told.
As we wrap up this tour through pixels and time, let Corbis remind us all - images are not just about capturing moments but creatingnarratives that stand the test of time!
https://www.stockphototalk.com/the_stock_photo_industry_/2007/07/corbis-partners.html/#:~:text=collection%20outside%20Asia.-,What%20is%20Corbis%20Images%3F,China%20Group%20and%20getty%20Images.
#22571517 at 2025-02-12 23:17:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27583: Charges Filed Aginst NY and Letitia James Edition
Canada #71
Only 10 Of 195 Countries Meet UN Deadline To Submit Emissions-Reduction Plans
Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025
A Feb. 10 deadline for the 195 signatories of the Paris (climate) Agreement to publish and submit their emissions-reduction plans to the U.N. has come and gone with just 10 nations complying.
The reason so many countries have not published their reports on time remains unclear.
When the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, member countries agreed to work toward the goal of keeping the global temperature from exceeding 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial era levels.
The optimum target is 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the agreement.
To hold the signatories accountable, the deal requires each country to list its efforts, measure its results, report on its progress, and talk about further action every five years.
The reports are called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). They include the pledges each nation has made toward meeting the COP's (Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement) objectives for 2035.
The current NDCs are scheduled to be considered at a COP meeting in November.
A Change of Direction
Consistent with President Donald Trump's campaign promise, his new administration began the process of extricating the U.S. from the Paris Agreement altogether, as it did during his first term.
President Joe Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement in 2021.
The United States was one of the 10 compliant nations because its NDC was submitted by the Biden administration.
The nine other nations were the United Kingdom, Saint Lucia, Ecuador, Andorra, Uruguay, Switzerland, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, and Brazil.
Two major industrialized nations, China and India, did not submit an NDC by the deadline.
China is the biggest CO2 emitter, the United States second, and India third.
How the Big Economic Powers Rate
In September 2024, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), an ongoing, independent analysis of how countries are responding to climate change, gave China and India an overall rating of "Highly Insufficient."
CAT rated the response of the United States to climate change as "Insufficient."
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office on Feb. 10. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via getty Images
The CAT analysis said the United States made progress under the Biden administration but will still be "far from meeting its domestic climate target-let alone aligning its emissions with a 1.5 degrees Celsius trajectory."
International Cooperation
In 2023, under Biden's leadership, the United States formally adopted the COP policy of pursuing net-zero carbon emissions in the energy and transportation sectors by 2050.
The Biden administration declared its intention to decarbonize transportation by relying primarily on electric-powered vehicles-a plan critics call an electric car mandate.
The 2050 American timeline "is not compatible with the Paris Agreement," the CAT analysis said.
According to a September 2024 report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the goal of carbon neutrality, as declared by the COP, necessitates a transitioning away from fossil fuels in a "just, orderly, and equitable manner" with "accelerating action in this critical decade."
Achieving the COP's optimum target by the turn of the century, the IEA states, would "require a holistic package of complementary actions and alignment with a 1.5 degrees Celsius pathway to realize all of them comprehensively."
The IEA report emphasized "the importance of continued multilateral cooperation in driving implementation" of the COP goals.
How the exit of the United States from the Paris Agreement will impact the situation is not yet known.
Experts say leaving the agreement may take as long as a year.
The Trump Approach
Transitioning away from fossil fuels runs contrary to the promises candidate Trump made on the campaign trail to increase American fossil fuel production in order to bring down gasoline prices, which he said would in turn reduce inflation.
The IEA states that another essential leg is the tripling of renewable capacity by accelerating the deployment of low-emissions technologies over the next five years.
That objective also runs contrary to Trump administration policies that have deemphasized renewable energy sources such as windmills and solar farms.
Trump also eliminated the so-called EV mandate.
According to CAT, the United States is the world's largest crude oil producer, achieving record production in 2023. The country is also the world's largest fossil gas producer and exporter of liquified natural gas (LNG).
In early 2024, the Biden administration placed a temporary moratorium on pending LNG export terminals.
Trump lifted the moratorium on Jan. 20, the first day of his second term.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/only-10-195-countries-meet-un-deadline-submit-emissions-reduction-plans
"Experts say leaving the agreement may take as long as a year." WHUT?
#22569624 at 2025-02-12 18:31:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27581: Gabbard In As DNI, RFK Up For Confirmation Vote Edition
karoline; we believe that the judges are co-ordinating to subvert president trumps promises.
note: This was gameplanned by john brennen and soros in this wapo article. see below.
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
It is late afternoon on Inauguration Day 2025. Protesters fill the downtowns of American cities, enraging the newly sworn president. Send in the military, he demands. Invoke the Insurrection Act. Federalize the National Guard in all 50 states. Tell the troops to use all the force they need to clear the streets.
use the source on archive above as links are deleted
#22552455 at 2025-02-10 14:23:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27563: Moab Monday: Hunters Now Hunted Edition
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Taylor gets around
NEWS
06 February 2025
'It is chaos': US funding freezes are endangering global health
Abrupt changes to programmes including USAID inhibit global efforts to stop disease such as HIV, malaria and more, say researchers.
By Ewen Callaway
SAID programmes fund global efforts to tackle diseases such as HIV and malaria.Credit: Kevin Dietsch/getty
Franklin Wanyama's world was thrown into turmoil last month, when US President Donald Trump abruptly announced a freeze on foreign aid. Wanyama, a 29-year-old in Nairobi who was born HIV-positive, is one of millions of people worldwide whose life-saving treatment is funded by a US foreign aid programme.
The HIV clinic Wanyama visits has managed to continue delivering medications to its patients - although many clinics aren't, say researchers. But drug supplies are being rationed.
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Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump's orders
"We patients who are HIV positive, we are really panicked," says Wanyama, whose two children do not carry the virus. He's lost his job mentoring other HIV-positive people at a US-funded facility and is worried about continued access to medication. "The way things are going, I feel like I have worked so much for nothing."
As the Trump administration announces drastic policy changes, nowhere is the shock more palpable than in the field of global health. Scientists, medics and health officials say the outsize US influence on battling disease globally will be difficult to quickly replace.
US actions such as the foreign-aid freeze and its pull-out from the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, will affect billions of dollars in annual funding to battle HIV, malaria and other areas in global health. That will cost lives and threaten global security, say researchers. "It will make the world a less safe place," says Peter Horby, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of Oxford, UK.
Related
'High anxiety moment': Biden's NIH chief talks Trump 2.0 and the future of US science
Funding freeze
After the Trump administration announced a three-month freeze on foreign aid last month, effects have rippled through the global-health community. Programmes supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) - where many employees have been furloughed, according to news reports - fund research, prevention and care for diseases such as HIV and malaria, and work on other global health priorities.
"People haven't had a chance to get alternative funding because of the abrupt nature of this," says Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, in Durban. The centre was due this week to enrol the first patient in a USAID-funded trial of HIV vaccines, which is now on hold. It is using its reserve funds to continue a trial testing whether a vaginal insertion can prevent HIV transmission.
#22552159 at 2025-02-10 12:53:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27562: Taking Back Every Penny Edition
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>Cameron Hamilton
Trump's FEMA chief assailed the agency with untruths
By Thomas Frank | 02/04/2025 06:28 AM EST
Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton amplified false charges that FEMA spent disaster aid on migrants and blocked help to North Carolina.
Cameron Hamilton is President Donald Trump's acting administrator of FEMA.
Cameron Hamilton is President Donald Trump's acting administrator of FEMA. getty, @FEMA_Cam/X
President Donald Trump's selection to run federal disaster operations has spread misinformation about the agency he now leads and attacked California Gov. Gavin Newsom and diversity efforts on social media.
Cameron Hamilton, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, embraced false Republican narratives that FEMA spent disaster aid helping migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and blocked supplies to North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.
Trump echoed those claims to attack President Joe Biden and FEMA, an agency he has threatened to disband.
POLITICO's E&E News examined more than 1,000 posts by Hamilton on X and reviewed hours of interviews with conservative news outlets. Hamilton has assailed diversity, equity and inclusion; called Trump's conviction stemming from hush-money payments to a porn star a "sham"; and posted an unflattering photograph to attack former U.S. health official Rachel Levine, who is transgender.
On Election Day in November, Hamilton highlighted an X posting that proclaimed: "Trump is going to go down in history as the man who stopped the first female president. Twice."
In September, Hamilton was named vice president of Feds for Freedom, a nonprofit that sued the Biden administration over Covid vaccine mandates and said last year it would sue the federal government "over mandated pronouns."
Feds for Freedom recently promoted a Virginia militia, launched a petition to end taxpayer funded DEI programs and featured on its podcast pro-Trump activist Ivan Raiklin, who had urged Republican state legislatures to give Trump their states' 2024 electoral votes.
As acting administrator, Hamilton is exempt from a statutory requirement that the FEMA administrator have "a demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management and homeland security." Former agency officials told E&E News that Hamilton could remain acting administrator for a long time - potentially the next four years.
The former Navy SEAL worked at the Department of Homeland Security from 2020 to 2023 as director of emergency medical services and was a State Department supervisory emergency management specialist from 2015 to 2020. Since Congress imposed the job requirements after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, presidents including Trump in his first term had appointed veteran emergency managers to run FEMA.
"He's completely unqualified to be the head of FEMA right now," said Samantha Montano, disaster researcher and co-founder of the Center for Climate Change Research. "He doesn't even understand how FEMA's budget works."
FEMA's press office did not respond to questions about Hamilton, who has not spoken publicly since Trump put him in charge of the agency shortly after inauguration. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Since taking charge of FEMA, Hamilton has posted messages on his new FEMA account on X telling hurricane survivors "you are not forgotten" and that "real change is coming to FEMA."
"I will prioritize enhancing FEMA's operational focus and ensuring transparency," Hamilton wrote on Jan. 26.
"As a life-long public servant, I have deep admiration and appreciation for @FEMA's mission of helping people before, during, and after disasters," Hamilton wrote in a separate post.
Repeating falsehoods about FEMA
#22544473 at 2025-02-09 12:45:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27553: Good To Go Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1888562555397849549
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Vital helicopter tracking system was turned off at time of plane collision in DC, Cruz says
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, visits The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024, in New York City. | (getty Images)
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#22519603 at 2025-02-06 01:56:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27524: Dismantling the DS Piece by Piece Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1887095357135327561
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
PA Gov. Shapiro seeks to bolster state spending with new 'sin taxes'
PA Josh Shapiro | getty Images
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#22516765 at 2025-02-05 20:12:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27521: Follow The Money (YOUR MONEY) Edition
>>22516599
>Oh, Bill...
'This is the most meaningful work I've ever done in in my life'
Meet the Jewish couple leading the Trump resistance
Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin startedIndivisible almost by accident. A few months later, they've inspired over 5,000 local groups
By Josefin Dolsten 4 March 2017, 2:27 am
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Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg founded the anti-Trump group Indivisible with other former congressional staffers. (Courtesy of Greenberg/via JTA)
Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg founded the anti-Trump group Indivisible with other former congressional staffers. (Courtesy of Greenberg/via JTA)
NEW YORK (JTA) - The group at the forefront of "resisting the Trump agenda" started in the middle of December with a single document circulated among friends. One that was "poorly formatted" and "full of typos," in the words of one of its authors, Leah Greenberg.
As of this week, the Indivisible guide to grassroots advocacy has been downloaded or viewed over 1.7 million times and inspired more than 5,000 local groups (with another 2,000 groups waiting to be verified), which are using it to take action on issues like preserving the Affordable Care Act, supporting public schools or challenging the administration's immigration policies.
At the center of the efforts is one young Jewish couple, Greenberg and her husband, Ezra Levin, both former congressional staffers who founded Indivisible with three friends and former colleagues.
"I think right now we are facing an existential threat, quite literally, from this administration and this Congress," Levin, 31, told JTA on Thursday. "The only thing that I think is going to really work to convince Congress to do something else, is local groups [that] stand up and make their voices heard."
Constituents speak-out and rally supporting the Affordable Care Act, organized by MoveOn.org outside Senator Pat Toomey's office on December 20, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Lisa Lake/getty Images for Moveon.org/ via JTA)
Constituents speak-out and rally supporting the Affordable Care Act, organized by MoveOn.org outside Senator Pat Toomey's office on December 20, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Lisa Lake/getty Images for Moveon.org/ via JTA)
The group's document, now proofread and reworked into a sleeker 26-page version, provides progressives with practical advice, such as the best way to contact a local member of Congress (office visits are preferred over form letters), voice opposition at a town hall (stick to a prepared list of questions and be polite but persistent) and speak with the media (research local reporters and use social media to contact them).
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Last week, Levin became the organization's first paid staffer - it had been run entirely by volunteers - declining a job offer at the Georgetown Law School's Center on Poverty and Inequality to work as Indivisible's executive director.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-jewish-couple-leading-the-trump-resistance/
#22514244 at 2025-02-05 13:37:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27518: Waking Up to Wednesday Morning Edition
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Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin - Proud to announce @EPA's Powering the Great American Comeback initiative! The agency will help:
1) Ensure access to clean air, land, and water
2) Restore energy dominance
3) Reform the permitting process
4) Make America the world leader in AI
5) Bring home American auto jobs.
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Breitbart News @BreitbartNews
EPA Administrator @epaleezeldin is rolling out a massive, 5-pillar initiative for his first 100 days, he tells @mboyle1 in an exclusive interview at EPA HQ
"We need to pursue permitting reform that can allow more investment into the American economy"
Conservation is going to continue to be a highest priority of conservatives and that includes advocacy from hunters, from fisherman, and so many more who care about our environment"
"In the name of climate change, Democrats during the Biden administration wasted tax dollars in a way that was inexcusable, unjustifiable, and illegitimate"
(Rebecca Droke/Pool/AFP via getty Images)
https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1886780059664421177
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok - Senator John Kennedy: "To my friends who are upset, call somebody who cares. You better get used to this. It's USAID today, it's gonna be Department of Education tomorrow."
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1886685821002035557
Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSCI - totally support using Guantanamo Bay as a facility to house illegal immigrants.
It is safe, secure and humane. If you don't want to wind up in Gitmo, don't come to America illegally.
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Fox News @FoxNews
US begins flying migrants to Guantanamo Bay
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-begins-flying-migrants-guantanamo-bay?intcmp=tw_fnc
https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1886892487077196170
Mark Parisi - Sneeze
https://www.offthemark.com/DailyCartoon?prod_id=13088
Michael Ramirez - Tragedy Over the Potomac 2-4-25
https://michaelramirez.substack.com/p/michael-ramirez-tragedy-over-the
Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker @PelosiTracker_ - We did some more digging into these & turns out …
Out of the $350k stock buys, we found 3 buys that could conflict with his committee assignments
1) His ~$50k buy in Westinghouse Air Brake $WAB, manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles
Mullin sits on The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
2) His ~$100k buy in Primo Water Corp $PRMW, which specialize in water filtration appliances
He is the only politician that's bought this stock
And Mullin sits on The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
3) His ~$100k buy into Applied industrial tech $AIT, which manufacture bearings, engineered fluid power components
Again, he sits on the The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
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Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker @PelosiTracker_
New notable Politician trade alerts
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R) just filed $350K of buys in stocks that most haven't heard of
https://x.com/PelosiTracker_/status/1886858061224272054
Nick's Dank Memes @Nicksdankmemes3 - Every Sketchy Thing
https://x.com/Nicksdankmemes3/status/1887065755461493214
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#22506584 at 2025-02-04 18:08:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27510: WINNING Is Off The Charts Edition
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-preparing-executive-order-abolish-department-education-rcna190205
https://archive.is/iu8pe
White House preparing executive order to abolish the Department of Education
The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the department - something he cannot do without Congress' approval.
The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the plans told NBC News.
President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally abolish a federal agency without the approval of Congress.
The planned order follows years of campaign promises from Trump to abolish the federal Education Department.
In September 2023, the then-candidate posted a video to social media saying, "One other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington D.C., and sending all education and education work and needs back to the states."
"In total American society pours more than $1 trillion a year into public education systems but instead of being at the top of the list, we are literally right smack - guess what - at the bottom," Trump said earlier in the video.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order for pardons at the White House on Jan. 20, 2025.
The White House is preparing an executive order on eliminating the Department of Education for President Donald Trump, who is pictured signing an order at the White House on Jan. 20.Jim Watson / AFP - getty Images
Last week, Trump signed another education-related order to expand school choice, directing the Education Department to issue guidance to states within 60 days about how they can use federal funds to boost school choice programs in their states.
School choice has long been a cornerstone of the GOP agenda, with a significant number of Republican-led states freeing up more funding in recent years for low-income families to send their students to private or charter schools.
In recent years, "cleaning out" or fully abolishing the federal Department of Education has also become a leading Republican policy plank.
In the Republican presidential primary, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy called for eliminating the Department of Education while on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania in 2023. And former United Nations Amb. Nikki Haley said she would "clean out the Department of Education" if elected during a 2023 campaign stop in New Hampshire.
In a July 2024 campaign email, Trump laid out his other priorities for American education, which included cutting federal funding for any schools or programs pushing "critical race theory," opening civil rights investigations into schools discriminating against Asian Americans, implementing a new credentialing system to certify teachers who "embrace patriotic values," and "find[ing] and remov[ing] radicals who have infiltrated the federal Department of Education."
#22506376 at 2025-02-04 17:40:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27510: WINNING Is Off The Charts Edition
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https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-begins-migrant-flights-to-guantanamo-bay-9fec8df3
U.S. Begins Migrant Flights to Guantanamo Bay
The Trump administration has said it would expand operations at the American base in Cuba to hold up to 30,000 immigrants
U.S. Marines prepared to board a military aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., on their way to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. PHOTO: ORLANYS DIAZ FIGUEROA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/getty IMAGES
WASHINGTON-The first two flights carrying detained migrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay have headed to the naval base in Cuba, as the Trump administration begins to expand a small migrant-detention center there.
One flight from Fort Bliss to Guantanamo has roughly a dozen migrants on board, people familiar with the matter said. An additional flight left the U.S. on Monday, one of the people said.
Anyone got a fake dollar to unlock this shit?
#22501193 at 2025-02-04 00:45:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27505: News is Busting Out All Over! Edition
ahahahaa
The 'Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly' of the United States Government
Elon Musk's bureaucratic coup is underway.
By Charlie Warzel
Illustration of a "Delete 'U.S. GOV'" button above a photo
Illustration by The Atlantic: Sources: getty.
February 3, 2025, 6:09 PM ET
Elon Musk is not the president, but it does appear that he-a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress-is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States, seizing control of information, payments systems, and personnel management. It is nothing short of an administrative coup.
As the head of an improvised team within the Trump administration with completely ambiguous power (the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, in reference to a meme about a Shiba Inu), Musk has managed quite a lot in the two weeks since Inauguration Day. He has barged into at least one government building and made plans to end leases or sell some of them (three leases have been terminated so far, according to Stephen Ehikian, the General Services Administration's acting administrator). He has called in employees from Tesla and the Boring Company to oversee broad workforce cuts, including at the Office of Personnel Management (one of Musk's appointed advisers, according to Wired, is just 21 years old, while another graduated from high school last year). During this time, OPM staffers, presumably affiliated with DOGE, reportedly set up an "on-premise" email server that may be vulnerable to hacking and able to collect data on government employees-one that a lawsuit brought by two federal workers argues violates the E-Government Act of 2002 (there has not yet been a response to the complaint). Musk's people have also reportedly gained access to the Treasury's payments system-used to disburse more than $5 trillion to Americans each year (a national-security risk, according to Senator Ron Wyden, a democrat from Oregon)-as well as computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of civil servants. (They subsequently locked some senior employees out of those systems, according to Reuters.) Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-bureaucratic-coup/681559/
#22493661 at 2025-02-02 21:46:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27496: Cause Anons Said. Shill Spewing Red. Another Winning Bread. Edition
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez says humanitarian aid is contaminated
(CNN) – Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez says U.S. humanitarian aid awaiting entry into her country "is contaminated and poisoned, it is carcinogenic."
Rodr?guez, vice president of Nicol?s Maduro's government, made the accusation in a speech broadcast live on Venezuelan state television, VTV.
Rodriguez said humanitarian aid could be considered "biological weapons" containing chemicals to poison the Venezuelan population.
Delcy Rodr?guez, vice president of the Government of Nicol?s Maduro in Venezuela.
Delcy Rodr?guez, vice president of the Government of Nicol?s Maduro in Venezuela. AFP/getty Images
During his speech on state television, he showed documents and said: "This is what different scientific studies have shown about supposed edible products discarded by the United States."
His speech on Tuesday came at the same time that Venezuela's declared interim president, Juan Guaid?, announced that humanitarian aid would be delivered on February 23 and that all Venezuelan assemblies would organize to receive it.
Maduro's government issued a press release about the vice president's event, saying the meeting was called "to refine strategic details about the country's new food distribution system." The press release did not mention anything about Rodriguez's allegations that humanitarian aid is tainted.
Deputy Gaby Arellano, from the Voluntad Popular party, responded to the accusation by the Government of Nicol?s Maduro that the humanitarian aid accumulated in C?cuta, Colombia, "is contaminated and poisoned, it is carcinogenic."
"The dictatorship surprises us every day, but they are already falling into delirium," said Arellano in Conclusions.
"To say that the food we bring has been inoculated with cancer or cancer cells is bordering on madness, and has no logical explanation," he said.
Jaide Timm-Garcia and Clara Lopez contributed to this report.
https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2019/02/13/delcy-rodriguez-vicepresidenta-de-venezuela-afirma-que-ayuda-humanitaria-esta-contaminada/
#22485417 at 2025-02-01 17:32:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27487: The Death of DEI Edition
>>22485376
>WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 05: Ed Martin, president of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a conservative political organization based in St. Louis, MO, speaks during a news conference outside the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill, on November 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. With many critical battleground states still not announcing the results of their vote count, the presidential election is still too close to call. (Al Drago/getty Images)
>>22485376
>Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., on Friday dismissed about 30 federal prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases over the past four years, undertaking a housecleaning of the top prosecutor's office in Washington, while preparing to extend the office's scrutiny to top Democratic leaders and former Justice Department officials, people close to Martin said.
Ed Martin
The Hunters Become The Hunted!
#22485376 at 2025-02-01 17:25:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27487: The Death of DEI Edition
>>22485110
sauce
https://archive.is/93qlu#selection-709.289-713.8
Jan. 6 prosecutors fired by Trump D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin
archive.is/93qlu
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Legal Issues
D.C. U.S. attorney fires Jan. 6 prosecutors, launches new probes
Ed Martin has fired Jan. 6 prosecutors, launched investigations of Capitol riot prosecutions and threatened the nation's top elected Democrat with an inquiry.
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January 31, 2025 at 9:39 p.m. ESTtoday at 9:39 p.m. EST
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 05: Ed Martin, president of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a conservative political organization based in St. Louis, MO, speaks during a news conference outside the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill, on November 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. With many critical battleground states still not announcing the results of their vote count, the presidential election is still too close to call. (Al Drago/getty Images)
By Spencer S. Hsu and Tom Jackman
Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., on Friday dismissed about 30 federal prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases over the past four years, undertaking a housecleaning of the top prosecutor's office in Washington, while preparing to extend the office's scrutiny to top Democratic leaders and former Justice Department officials, people close to Martin said.
The prosecutors were on probationary status after being converted to full-time from shorter-term positions after Election Day under circumstances the Trump administration is investigating, according to documents from Martin and acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove that were emailed around 5 p.m. and viewed by The Washington Post.
In his first 11 days in office, Martin, 54, has moved quickly to align the office with President Donald Trump's political views - and drawn significant criticism in the process. Since being appointed on Jan. 20, Martin has ordered top supervisors in the office to investigate their colleagues' handling of the Capitol riot prosecutions in the wake of Trump's mass pardons and threatened subordinates who disclose or criticize his actions.
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#22485351 at 2025-02-01 17:21:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27487: The Death of DEI Edition
Supreme Court: Chuck Schumer's attack on Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, explained
vox.com/2020/3/5/21165479/chuck-schumer-neil-gorsuch-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-whirlwind-threat
March 5, 2020 Politics
by Ian Millhiser
Mar 5, 2020, 11:40 AM EST
''Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer speaking at an abortion rights rally outside of the Supreme Court on March 4, 2020. Sarah Silbiger/getty Images
Wednesday morning, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a major abortion case, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke at an abortion rights rally outside the Court. One line of his remarks swiftly generated outrage among conservatives and received a rare public rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts.
I'm going to quote that line briefly, then I'm going to quote it again in context below, because the full context does suggest that Roberts may have misinterpreted Schumer's remarks somewhat, even if it does not render the statement innocuous. However you interpret Schumer's statement, it is a reflection of a much deeper rot within American democracy.
The Schumer quote that triggered Roberts's reply is this: "I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."
"Gorsuch" and "Kavanaugh," of course, refer to Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh - President Trump's two appointees to the Supreme Court, whose confirmations were opposed by nearly all Senate Democrats.
The conservative blowback against Schumer was swift and intense. The National Review's John Hirschauer labeled Schumer a "thug." Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Schumer's remarks were, at best, "astonishing, reckless and completely irresponsible." President Trump weighed in in his distinctly Trumpy way.
#22482657 at 2025-02-01 06:14:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27484: So Many Distractions Habbening Edition
>>22482644
those getty bastards
#22481175 at 2025-02-01 02:28:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General ##27482: Plane Crash #2 in Philly Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1885515248280445001
Just the News
@JustTheNews
Trump foreign aid freeze pulls over $1 million in funding for LGBT programs in Ireland, Serbia
Rainbow flag | Alexander Spatari/getty Images
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#22455369 at 2025-01-29 00:30:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27452: We Are The News ~ THE CHAIR ~ Have A Seat Edition
3 hours ago -
Business
Scoop: Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers
Marc Caputo
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Emily Peck
Image of donald trump in the oval office
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The White House will issue a memo Tuesday offering to pay federal workers who don't want to return to the office through Sept. 30, as long as they resign by Feb. 6.
Why it matters: It's an acceleration in President Trump's already unprecedented purge of the federal workforce.
Driving the news: The Office of Personnel Management described the offer as administrative leave with pay and benefits.
A spokeswoman confirmed agencies will receive details later Tuesday. They will also be able to carve out exemptions.
Zoom in: "The government-wide email being sent today is to make sure that all federal workers are on board with the new administration's plan to have federal employees in office and adhering to higher standards. We're five years past COVID and just 6 percent of federal employees work full-time in office. That is unacceptable," a senior administration official tells Axios.
The White House expects 5% to 10% of federal employees to accept the offer, which would potentially mean hundreds of thousands of people.
The administration projects the buyouts could ultimately save taxpayers up to $100 billion a year.
The offer applies to all full-time federal employees, except for military personnel, the Postal Service, and those working in immigration enforcement or national security.
The big picture: The memo is just the latest step in the White House's unprecedented move to push career federal workers out of their jobs, and, observers say, replace them with loyalists - a return to a patronage system that federal law sought to banish more than a century ago.
On Monday, the administration offered more details on its plan to reclassify thousands of federal civil servants, stripping them of legal protections from firing, in a memo to agency heads.
The executive order and the guidance is a way to make it easier to fire civil servants and turn what had been career jobs into patronage jobs, said Sharon Parrott, head of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and a former Office of Management and Budget appointee under Obama.
The moves "will almost surely lead many expert, knowledgeable career civil servants to withhold their best advice," Parrott tells Axios.
Between the lines: Many federal workers are already feeling scared about the administration's crackdown on DEI, its return-to-office policy and the reclassification efforts.
That unease could increase take-up on this new offer.
The offer could also spur the most talented federal employees with the best private-sector prospects to leave, according to Terry Clower, an economist who studies the capital region at George Mason University.
"So how does that work if you're trying to accelerate government efficiency if who you drive away are your best workers?" Clower tells Axios.
What they're saying: The largest federal employee union, known as AFGE, denounced the buyouts.
"Between the flurry of anti-worker executive orders and policies, it is clear that the Trump administration's goal is to turn the federal government into a toxic environment where workers cannot stay even if they want to," its president Everett Kelley said in a statement.
Reality check: The White House claim that only 6% of federal workers are in-person is widely disputed, and contradicted by data released by the Biden administration last month.
State of play: Earlier on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the president has the authority to fire federal employees.
More from Axios:
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt vows to hold media accountable for "lies"
Trump's funding freezing temporarily halted by federal judge
Scoop: Pete Buttigieg taking "serious look" at Michigan Senate race in 2026
Editor's note: This story has been updated with confirmation from the Office of Personnel Management.
Cuneyt Dil contributed.
#22452384 at 2025-01-28 15:28:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27448: The Winning Continues Edition
the water gate-keepers
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From Uruk to L.A.: Ancient Mesopotamia at the getty Villa
getty Museum
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Ariane Thomas, director of the Department of Near Eastern Antiquities at the Louvre Museum in Paris, explores Mesopotamian history and culture through a selection of objects from the museum's impressive collection spanning 9,000 years. Following her presentation, Dr. Thomas was joined by Timothy Potts, Maria Humm
#22451307 at 2025-01-28 10:38:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27447: WATCH THE WATER (In California) Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1884085502627778767
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Trump administration freezes federal aid outside of Social Security and Medicare
The White House stock image | getty Images
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#22448851 at 2025-01-28 00:56:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27444: Trips Confirm E-Bake Edition
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Literally, Gavin's house [the getty L.A.]
He don't need no water…
#22448332 at 2025-01-27 23:17:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27443: Confirms Up For This Week - RFK Jr. - Tulsi Gabbard - Kash Patel Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1883851314880209317
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Congressman introduces bill to exclude illegal immigrants from Medicaid
Flags fly at half-staff on Capitol Hill in honor of the late President Jimmy Carter. | getty Images
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#22429041 at 2025-01-25 01:33:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27422: Executive Order to Open up the Pumps, and Valves, in the North Edition
Ex-RFK Jr. Running Mate Nicole Shanahan Exposes California Wildfires "Chemtrail" Connection
infowars.com/posts/ex-rfk-jr-running-mate-nicole-shanahan-exposes-california-wildfires-chemtrail-connection
Image Credit: Manuel Milan / getty
Nicole Shanahan, the former vice president running mate of Donald Trump's Health and Human Services appointee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., issued a viral ? post on Friday explaining how the "chemtrail" phenomenon is dismissed by the scientific establishment despite loads of proof that geoengineering is a real issue.
"'Chemtrails' are tagged as a conspiracy theory, but 'geoengineering, weather modification, atmospheric manipulation, etc' are the terms used in practice. Using the colloquial word 'chemtrails' triggers gaslighting," she wrote.
"Chemtrails" are tagged as a conspiracy theory, but "geoengineering, weather modification, atmospheric manipulation, etc" are the terms used in practice. Using the colloquial word "chemtrails" triggers gaslighting.
Here's a published paper in 2018 called "California Wildfires:...
- Nicole Shanahan (@NicoleShanahan) January 24, 2025
Shanahan added, "Here's a published paper in 2018 called "California Wildfires: Role of Undisclosed Atmospheric Manipulation and Geoengineering." https://journaljgeesi.com/index.php/JGEESI/article/view/16
The paper examines how "jet-spraying particulates in the atmosphere" potentially contribute to increases in "combustibility, intensity, and the extent of wildfires" across the United States.
Kennedy also commented on the aerial spraying in August of 2024, writing on social media, "We are going to stop this crime."
We are going to stop this crime.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 26, 2024
#22416863 at 2025-01-23 09:48:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27408: The Night Rolls On Edition
>>22416812
The getty is fireproof. So fireproof they scoff at fires.
#22412476 at 2025-01-22 21:08:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27402: HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY POTUS & FLOTUS Edition
https://freebeacon.com/energy/energy-secretary-jennifer-granholm-spends-final-days-in-office-sending-billions-to-home-state/
Energy
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Spends Final Days in Office Sending Billions to Home State, Defying Inspector General
Energy Department's inspector general warned that agency officials are not complying with conflict-of-interest rules
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm speaks at COP29 Conference in Azerbaijan (Sean Gallup/getty Images)
Thomas Catenacci
January 20, 2025
#22412101 at 2025-01-22 20:01:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27402: HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY POTUS & FLOTUS Edition
Supreme Court Denies RFK Jr.'s Request to Block California's Doctor Investigations Over COVID-19 Advice
The Ninth Circuit rejected the injunction request in November 2024 after a federal district court did the same seven months before.
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan stands during a group photograph of the justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, on April 23, 2021. Erin Schaff/AFP via getty Images
Matthew Vadum
By Matthew Vadum
1/22/2025
Updated:
1/22/2025
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-denies-rfk-jr-s-request-to-block-californias-doctor-investigations-over-covid-19-advice-5796626?utm_source=gab&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=etgab
#22409315 at 2025-01-22 12:59:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27399: Jan 22, Day 2 Edition
14 hours ago -
Politics & Policy
ICE can raid churches and schools to arrest immigrants under new policy
April Rubin
A cross is reflected in glass panels on a building
A cross is reflected in glass panels at the Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, on Oct. 14. Photo: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via getty Images
Immigration officials can raid churches and schools to arrest undocumented immigrants after the Trump administration scrapped a policy that protected sensitive spaces.
The big picture: President Trump has promised aggressive immigration crackdowns, and the latest directive signals the Department of Homeland Security will consider operations at sites previously deemed off-limits.
"Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America's schools and churches to avoid arrest," DHS announced Tuesday.
The policy, issued by Acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman, removes prior guidance to avoid so-called sensitive areas.
State of play: Trump, hours after being sworn in on Monday, issued executive orders that clear the way for the military to help combat illegal immigration.
He declared a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, called for more barriers at the southern border and designated Mexican cartels as a terrorism threat.
Flashback: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in a 2011 memo directed officers to avoid arrests, interviews, searches and surveillance at sensitive locations if possible.
Those locations included schools, hospitals, churches, synagogues, mosques, funeral sites, weddings, marches, rallies or parades.
Zoom out: Immigration advocacy groups in places like Chicago, which Trump has singled out for potential raids, are encouraging undocumented populations to learn their rights.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/trump-deportation-ice-churches-schools-raids
#22404949 at 2025-01-21 21:51:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27393: You're Fired DS Count On It Edition
>>22404919
posting full article
Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
It is late afternoon on Inauguration Day 2025. Protesters fill the downtowns of American cities, enraging the newly sworn president. Send in the military, he demands. Invoke the Insurrection Act. Federalize the National Guard in all 50 states. Tell the troops to use all the force they need to clear the streets.
So began one of five tabletop exercises I co-led in May and June, along with former Defense Department official Rosa Brooks and historian Nils Gilman. We based the starting scenarios on the election of former president Donald Trump to a second term, and we asked participants playing the president, all of them Republicans or former Republicans, to base their gameplay on Trump's publicly stated promises.
As a nonpartisan think tank, my employer, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, takes no position on how Americans should cast their votes. Nor do we predict who will win in November. Some of my colleagues are doing scenario planning for a Democratic victory, too.
The role-playing exercises were designed to test how well checks and balances, broadly understood, might restrain a president from abusing his power. The results were not encouraging: The games demonstrated repeatedly that an authoritarian in control of the executive branch, with little concern for legal limits, holds a structural advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
But they point to preparations that could be undertaken now to improve the odds for democracy and the rule of law - and some existing guardrails that might not be widely understood.
Participants in our exercises, 175 in all, included Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, independents and centrists. Many had held senior positions under Trump or a previous president. Among them were former Cabinet secretaries, former governors and state attorneys general, former members of the House and Senate, a retired ambassador, retired flag and general officers, a retired federal appellate judge, labor leaders, faith leaders, grass-roots organizers, members of the Brennan Center staff and C-suite executives.
We gathered twice by videoconference and three times in a hotel conference room outside Washington for six-hour sessions around a large U-shaped table. About 35 players per game were assigned to the Red, Blue or Nonaligned teams. (Those colors do not signify political parties - they are the conventional ones used in government tabletop exercises.) The players announced their moves and countermoves, negotiated, interrupted one another and occasionally shouted over our unflappable controller, Ed McGrady, an experienced game architect.
The starting scenarios did not test policy questions within the ordinary bounds of democratic debate: taxes, regulation, climate change. We focused instead on threats to democracy itself and the institutions that uphold it, such as misuse of regulatory or prosecutorial powers to punish political foes.
None of the exercises left us sanguine. Participants were almost uniformly sobered by the paucity of effective constraints on abuse of power. The exercises showed emphatically that Trump's authoritarian promises, with implementing details in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, pose a profound threat to constitutional government. Defenders of democracy, our participants assessed, must do more than they are doing now to prepare. The exercises suggest that it would not be possible to block every abuse, but there are tools available to deflect, delay and diminish the damage.
continued.
#22404919 at 2025-01-21 21:48:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27393: You're Fired DS Count On It Edition
EYES ON, SOROS AND BRENNAN TABLE TOP PLAYING OUT
if they are refusing to follow trumps e.o this is a game plan set out by soros and the brennan institute.
to read use archive link
get this to trump or one of his team.
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
#22402823 at 2025-01-21 16:52:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27391: Erasing That Dash, One EO At A Time Edition
Judge Blocks Release of Volume 2 of Jack Smith's Report
Defendants asked that the report not be made public while their case is ongoing.
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Special counsel Jack Smith prepares to speak about an indictment against then-former President Donald Trump in Washington on Aug. 1, 2023. Drew Angerer/getty Images
T.J. Muscaro
By T.J. Muscaro
1/21/2025
Updated:
1/21/2025
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-blocks-release-of-volume-2-of-jack-smiths-report-5796272?utm_source=gab&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=etgab
#22397809 at 2025-01-21 02:14:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27385: America In Decline No More Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1881518625086943244
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Senate committee votes for Noem to head Department of Homeland Security
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#22373813 at 2025-01-18 15:26:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27358: Two Days from Today Edition
https://nypost.com/2025/01/18/us-news/feds-offered-jeffrey-epstein-a-deal-for-dirt-on-trump-ex-cellmate/
Feds offered Jeffrey Epstein a deal for incriminating dirt on Trump, ex-cellmate says
By Jon Levine
Published Jan. 18, 2025, 8:35 a.m. ET
Jeffrey Epstein was offered a sweetheart plea deal by federal prosecutors in return for incriminating information that would lead to President Trump's impeachment, according to the late pedophile's cellmate.
Ex-Westchester cop and convicted killer Nicholas Tartaglione, Epstein's bunkmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan weeks before his death in August 2019, said the disgraced financier dished on the dirt-digging expedition after a confab with the feds.
"He said, 'When you were a cop, what do you know about proffers and cooperating?' I said, 'Jeff, it's pretty simple, the prosecutors, you know, they caught a fish - you. They're not gonna let that fish off the hook unless you give them a bigger fish,'" recalled Tartaglione in a phone call with Jessica Reed Kraus, a California-based self-described journalist who recorded the conversation and later posted it to her Substack.
"He said, 'Yeah, well, that's what they said,'" the quadruple murderer recalled. "He said, 'They told me they'd let me plead out something small, and I'll do just a couple of years in a camp, if I can give them something on Trump to get him impeached.'
"He says, but the government told me I don't have to prove what I say about Trump, as long as Trump's people can't disprove it," Tartaglione said - adding that Epstein considered "making stuff up" to save his skin. Tartaglione never said what Epstein ultimately planned to do.
Tartaglione, 57, was convicted in 2023 of murdering four people, including a man he tortured and strangled over stolen drug money. The one-time Briarcliff Manor cop was sentenced last year to four consecutive life sentences.
Tartaglione was Epstein's cellmate when the moneyman was discovered with bruises on his neck on July 23, 2019. Epstein told his lawyers that Tartaglione "roughed him up," which the cellmate denied.
Epstein was removed from Tartaglione's cell and put on suicide watch. He killed himself three weeks later on Aug. 10 - though questions over the possibility of foul play remain. While he was supposed to be placed with a new cellmate, Epstein was alone, according to a report from the Department of Justice Inspector General.
Epstein at the time was facing a raft of charges from federal prosecutors, including sex trafficking of minors and sexual exploitation and abuse.
Jeffery Epstein and Donald Trump posing together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, 1997
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Trump and Epstein did know each other, but they weren't friends, Tartaglione said.
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According to Tartaglione, Epstein said he knew Trump only socially and the two were not friendly. In fact, he said Trump once threw him out of a party at Mar-a-Lago for being flirtatious with young women.
"I said, 'Well, do you know Trump?'" Tartaglione claimed in the phone call. "He says, 'Well, you know, I know him. I met him, but we don't like each other.' I laughed. I said, 'Why?' He said, 'Trump threw me out of a party at his place in Florida.'
"I said, 'Why he throw you out? He said, 'Oh he got mad, I was talking to some girl.'
"By now I got wind of what he was in there for," Tartaglione told the interview. "And I said, 'How old was the girl, Jeff?' And he says, 'Oh about 18, 19.'
"So, I was a cop. I said, 'Jeff, that means probably 14, 15.' And he says, 'Well he threw me out. I haven't talked to him since.'"
It is not clear when the party was.
Tartaglione said Epstein admitted, "I don't know anything" about Trump.
Tartaglione added that Epstein was additionally considering turning because he wanted to save his "girlfriend" - a likely reference to Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking in 2022.
Jeffrey Epstein, second from left, alongside his lawyers in Courtroom 11F, West Palm Beach County Courthouse, Florida, for his sentencing hearing
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Before his death, Epstein said that he had so much dirt on Trump and Hillary Clinton that he could have had the 2016 election cancelled, his brother Mark Epstein told The Post last year.
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#22372043 at 2025-01-18 04:44:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27357: 3 Days, Dan! Edition
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/moderna-mrna-bird-flu-vaccine-award/story?id=117813010
Moderna awarded $590M to help accelerate development of mRNA-based bird flu vaccine: HHS
There have been 67 confirmed human bird flu cases in the U.S. since April 2024.
ByYouri Benadjaoud and Meredith Deliso
January 17, 2025, 5:00 PM
3:09
What health experts believe could happen with bird flu in 2025The CDC said the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus could mutate and become more transmissible.
Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an mRNA-based bird flu vaccine, alongside other influenza vaccines, health officials announced Friday.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a press release that the funding will allow the pharmaceutical company to accelerate the development of an H5N1 mRNA influenza vaccine "that is well matched to strains currently circulating in cows and birds and expands the clinical data supporting the use of mRNA vaccines that may be needed if other influenza strains emerge with pandemic potential."
MORE: What 3rd case of bird flu with unknown source of infection could mean in fight against disease
Moderna said the funding will support the expansion of clinical studies "for up to five additional subtypes of pandemic influenza."
The U.S. government previously awarded the vaccine manufacturer $176 million in July 2024 to help expedite the development of an mRNA vaccine that could be used for bird flu.
mRNA technology is the same type that was used in the development of some COVID-19 vaccines. While some vaccines use a weakened or inactive virus to stimulate an immune response, mRNA vaccines teach the body how to make proteins that can trigger an immune response and fight off an infection.
Researchers can often design mRNA vaccines more quickly than they can produce the live or weakened pathogens needed for a live-attenuated or inactivated vaccine.
Avian influenza or bird flu.
Cavallini James/BSIP/Universal Images Group via getty Images
The federal government already has two bird flu vaccine candidates, which use traditional vaccine technology, available in the nation's stockpile. Officials previously noted they'd have 10 million ready-to-use doses within the beginning of 2025. Vaccines were being stockpiled as a precaution.
"Avian flu variants have proven to be particularly unpredictable and dangerous to humans in the past. That is why this response has been a top priority for the Biden-Harris Administration and HHS," HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement on Friday. "Accelerating the development of new vaccines will allow us to stay ahead and ensure that Americans have the tools they need to stay safe."
Bird flu cases in humans have been spreading across the country since April 2024 with 67 confirmed cases as of Friday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The first death of a human bird flu patient was reported in Louisiana earlier this month. The patient was over the age of 65 and had underlying medical conditions, according to health officials.
MORE: As 1st bird flu death reported in US, what could happen with virus in 2025?
Most human cases have occurred after coming into contact with infected cattle, infected poultry farms or other culling operations.
The CDC and other public health officials say there is currently no evidence of human-to-human transmission and the risk to the general public is low.
ABC News' Mary Kekatos contributed to this report.
#22358678 at 2025-01-15 15:59:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27342: Start Your Dayshift Off Right Edition
>>22358658
4 year anniversary
not just another…
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/John-gilbert-getty-hotel-emma-cause-of-death-15902599.php
How a getty oil heir found unresponsive in a San Antonio hotel died
Jan 27, 2021 … John Gilbert getty, 52, was found in his hotel room Nov. 20, according to an earlier report by Mark Dunphy on MySA.com. The Bexar County medical …
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https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020/11/24/billionaire-getty-heir-died-in-san-antonio-hotel-over-the-weekend-sources-say/
Billionaire getty heir died in San Antonio hotel over the weekend …
Nov 24, 2020 … Billionaire heir John Gilbert getty was found unresponsive in a hotel room Friday in San Antonio, according to reports.
#22356997 at 2025-01-15 04:02:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27340: Diet Coke Edition
California officials have denied claims spread by right-wing influencers on social media that Oregon fire trucks were turned away because of emissions regulations. In fact, they say, the trucks were briefly stopped for routine safety checks before they traveled to the site of the Los Angeles fires.
Cal Fire debunked that claim that has widely circulated on social media, stating that "no vehicles from out of state have been turned around or refused service." The agency said any vehicles or resources that come in from out of state are subject to inspections to make sure they're ready for use, but this is not emissions testing.
The office of the Oregon State Fire Marshal also addressed the rumors, saying all Oregon teams deployed to Southern California began working their shifts last Friday as planned. The OSFM said the safety checks helped ensure that their equipment, which "does not regularly travel hundreds of miles at a time," was safe for their firefighters to use.
Powerful Winds Fuel Multiple Fires Across Los Angeles Area
Wildland firefighters in a hotshot crew from near Klamath, Oregon, search the ruins of houses destroyed by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, on Jan. 10, 2025.
David McNew / getty Images
Gov. Gavin Newsom's office also refuted the claims, noting that vehicles undergo a "15 minute safety and equipment inspection" to ensure there are no issues. He added that by the time the false claims started spreading, "the Oregon firefighting teams were already in the Los Angeles area battling the blazes."
Firefighting teams from eight states, Canada and Mexico have joined California crews and National Guard troops in the fight against the deadly fires, which have scorched more than 60 square miles over the past week.
State officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been actively trying to counter false rumors and misinformation about the fires.
Muh false rumors, kek!
#22353777 at 2025-01-14 18:06:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27337: Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense Edition
>>22353702
gavin, the weathervane
>so vain
> N
>W. E
>
> S
>OM shanti OM
The Bohemian Club
Bohemian Grove is named for the Northern California Bohemian Club. It was formed by newspapermen, artists, actors and musicians in San Francisco in 1872. They were a group of guys with a different perspective than most, who liked flaunting it in each other's company. In September 1892, the club held their annual midsummer encampment in this part of the woods, perhaps a spiritual, forest frolic precursor toBurning Man.
https://www.nps.gov/places/000/bohemian-grove.htm
yup
sundial park in the indian basin which is under the mission cross of san francisco with an iron site toward the Mt. Diablo and the Owl of the Bohemian Grovers
how dumb is Gavin?
$9 mill in the valley mill
https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/15/gavin-newsom-buys-marin-mansion/
Gavin Newsom family buys $9M mansion in posh Marin town
Nov 15, 2024 … Walk-in closets, six bedrooms, a guest house, a pool and spa. All these and more live in Newsom's new $9 million home in small
>>22353702
>>22353746
India Basin
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9003181/John-Gilbert-getty-dead-Indian-style-sitting-pose-hotel-bed-laptop.html
John Gilbert getty was found in 'Indian style sitting pose' on bed
>>22353667
>>22353762
#22353762 at 2025-01-14 18:03:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27337: Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense Edition
>>22353702
gavin, the weathervane
>so vain
> N
>W. E
>
> S
>OM shanti OM
The Bohemian Club
Bohemian Grove is named for the Northern California Bohemian Club. It was formed by newspapermen, artists, actors and musicians in San Francisco in 1872. They were a group of guys with a different perspective than most, who liked flaunting it in each other's company. In September 1892, the club held their annual midsummer encampment in this part of the woods, perhaps a spiritual, forest frolic precursor toBurning Man.
https://www.nps.gov/places/000/bohemian-grove.htm
yup
sundial park in the indian basin which is under the mission cross of san francisco with an iron site toward the Mt. Diablo and the Owl of the Bohemian Grovers
how dumb is Gavin?
$9 mill in the valley mill
https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/15/gavin-newsom-buys-marin-mansion/
Gavin Newsom family buys $9M mansion in posh Marin town
Nov 15, 2024 … Walk-in closets, six bedrooms, a guest house, a pool and spa. All these and more live in Newsom's new $9 million home in small
>>22353702
>>22353746
India Basin
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9003181/John-Gilbert-getty-dead-Indian-style-sitting-pose-hotel-bed-laptop.html
John Gilbert getty was found in 'Indian style sitting pose' on bed
>>22353667
#22353667 at 2025-01-14 17:48:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27337: Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense Edition
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9003181/John-Gilbert-getty-dead-Indian-style-sitting-pose-hotel-bed-laptop.html
John Gilbert getty was found in 'Indian style sitting pose' on bed
Dec 1, 2020 … Cops found John Gilbert getty dead with his eyes and mouth open in an 'Indian style sitting pose' in his $500-a-night San Antonio hotel suite.
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https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/oil-tycoon-heir-john-gilbert-getty-found-with-eyes-and-mouth-open-in-indianstyle-sitting-pose-in-hotel-room/news-story/08bbd04ebb0abd695a2ad225b94a5cf7
John Gilbert getty found dead in hotel room in yoga pose
Dec 2, 2020 … John Gilbert getty, the grandson of oil magnate J. Paul getty and heir to his fortune, has died at a hotel… more in San Antonio, Texas.
>>22353580
gavin, the weathervane
so vain
N
W. E
S
OM shanti OM
mr. vain
#22351013 at 2025-01-14 05:50:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27334: # Edition
>>22350843
" Six-times-divorced playboy J. Paul getty employed Newsom's father to run his global getty Oil and Trust empire from Sutton Place, Surrey UK."
And Willie Brown was old man Newsom's fixer for the gettys in Sacramento. Eventually Willie got bored of the statehouse and appointed himself Mayor of San Francisco as a treat for the go go 90's. There he met a sporty gal named Kamala.
#22350843 at 2025-01-14 05:14:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27334: # Edition
>>22350815
Gavin Newsom is a Jesuit-trained empty suit who takes orders from his British handlers; he fails to disclose his commitment to disappear the American Republic into Great Britain
In short, Gavin works treasonously for the British Pilgrims Society, not We the People, the evidence shows
Newsom's mother and father were both interlocked with the British Pilgrims Society, The City of London, British Spying, Propaganda and Media Control
Six-times-divorced playboy J. Paul getty employed Newsom's father to run his global getty Oil and Trust empire from Sutton Place, Surrey UK.
https://americans4innovation.blogspot.com/2023/07/gavin-newsom-is-vacuous-british.html
#22350544 at 2025-01-14 04:26:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27333: Qf3 Edition
>>22350285
how about the getty center
#22349799 at 2025-01-14 01:56:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27333: Qf3 Edition
>>22349757
insane
what would it take for a military ground strike on getty museum?
#22349510 at 2025-01-14 01:02:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27332: Thank You President Trump Again, Again Edition
>>22349398
"sometimes words have two meanings"
follow Huma.."Huma" has two meanings, right?
Does gilt have two meanings
"covered in blood"
"covered in gold"?
gilt / guilt?
I wonder if the Roth fam connects to Newsome / getty?
#22349379 at 2025-01-14 00:37:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27332: Thank You President Trump Again, Again Edition
>>22349316
What else on getty
beside the Enty post about J.P. getty?
And the beach house, in Malibu?
The mistress had a bunch of houses that were closed up and things were found there by scavengers
Anybody remember?
Son drug addict, suicide?
#22348256 at 2025-01-13 20:54:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27331: Just Another Manic Monday Edition
>>22348237
clean up on aisle getty
#22345171 at 2025-01-13 07:46:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27328: Goodbye @Jack Edition
A REMINDER
ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
Note: archive from last post. continued in next comment, very long opine article, continued in comments post linked.
>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
It is late afternoon
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>>20281592, >>20281603, >>20281618, >>20281627, >>20281646, >>20281674, >>20281713 Alex soros twat bullet hole and $47 plus article the atlantic, anons summary and breakdown bun.
>>20286201 The article referenced by Soros has 3 bold font extra large letters. ATN Which is a rifle scope with night vision.
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#22344977 at 2025-01-13 05:57:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27327: Do It Q Edition
>>22344970
so DC & the getty are sovereign military fortresses?
#22343401 at 2025-01-13 01:00:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27326: 8 More Kun Days Away Edition
Though the home Kamala shares with husband Emhoff is in the Brentwood, CA, evacuation area, she apparently has 2 other homes on her name only, and currently resides courtesy of taxpayers at the VP residence on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory.
Vice President's Residence, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington D.C.
D. Myles Cullen
The Vice President's residence at Number One Observatory Circle.
Historically, VPs lived in their own homes, but as it became increasingly difficult and expensive to secure private houses, there came a need to establish an official residence for the vice president. In 1974, the house at Number One Observatory Circle was authorized by Congress to be refurbished and transformed into the official home-three years later, Walter Mondale became the first veep to move in.
The house is located on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, one of America's oldest scientific agencies, and was originally built in the late 19th century for the USNO's superintendent (in 1923, the chief of naval operations took the home for himself because he liked it so much). Designed in the Queen Anne style (characterized by asymmetrical floor plans, round turret rooms, and extensive wraparound verandas), the three-story home is sprawled out over 9,150 square feet on 12 acres of land. There is plenty of space for entertaining dignitaries-during his 8 years as VP, George H.W. Bush hosted 900 parties at the residence-but unlike the White House, Number One Observatory Circle isn't open for public tours.
All former vice presidents have put their own personal touch to the property and Harris will likely do the same. Bush installed a horseshoe pit and jogging track on the grounds, Dan Quayle added a swimming pool, and the Pences put in a beehive. But perhaps the most significant addition came from Dick Cheney, who is widely believed to have built an underground bunker after 9/11.
Los Angeles, California
Kamala Harris and husband Douglas Emhoff's home is in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
In 2012 Harris's lawyer husband Emhoff bought this 3,500-square-foot house in the posh Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, where celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and LeBron James own multimillion-dollar mansions. Two years later, he married Harris and soon aftertransferred the home to a joint trust bearing both their initials. The property has four bedrooms and a pool, and is located ten minutes from the getty Center. It had to be evacuated last fall due to the getty Fire, which burned 745 acres in the area, but Harris's home didn't suffer any damages. According to Zillow, the house is nowworth $5 million.
Washington D.C.
The Westlight Condominium in Washington D.C. [https://www.westlightcondo.com/#residences]
In2017, the year she was elected to the Senate,Harris paid $1.775 million for a two-bedroom, 1,700-square-foot apartment in the nation's capital [likely worth much more now]. The 71-unit LEED-certified Westlight complex has a prime location in Washington's West End, with Georgetown on one side, Dupont Circle on the other, and the White House just a mile away. It's also amenity-rich, with a rooftop pool, fitness center, housekeeping, and a 24-hour concierge.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco
In 2004, when she became San Francisco's first Black attorney general, Harris bought a condo in town for$489,000. Its value has nearly doubled since then, according to a Zillow estimate. The 1,000-square-foot loft is located in the city's SoMa (South of Market) neighborhood, home to SF MoMA and the headquarters of several tech companies, including Uber, Airbnb, and Salesforce.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/a33825054/kamala-harris-homes-real-estate-photos/
#22342446 at 2025-01-12 21:48:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27325: GO FOR IT, MR. PRESIDENT Edition
>>22342379
The explosion's in the clouds are from an event at the LA MEMORIAL COLISEUM.
This explosion can be seen starting around 6 minutes 40 seconds.
LA MEMORIAL COLISEUM
Cai Guo-Qiang: WE ARE
PST ART's official opening event
getty, presented at the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum
September 15, 2024
#22340431 at 2025-01-12 14:36:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27323: Counter-ops Will Fall Down Edition
fire water
fire phoenix
>>22340396
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/mesopotamia/
Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins - getty Museum
The exhibition covers three millennia, from the first cities in about 3200 BC to Alexander the Great's conquest of Babylon in 331 BC.
#22340396 at 2025-01-12 14:25:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27323: Counter-ops Will Fall Down Edition
https://www.voanews.com/a/braced-with-defenses-against-fire-getty-art-center-faces-la-flames-/7933548.html
Braced with defenses against fire, getty art center faces LA flames
16 hours ago … The getty Villa art museum stands undamaged after the passage of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los …
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https://www.getty.edu/news/why-the-getty-center-is-the-safest-place-for-art-during-a-fire
Resources for Visual Art and Cultural Heritage - getty Museum
… Fire. Why the getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire. How the buildings, grounds, and galleries resist flames and protect people, artwork, and …
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/palisades-brentwood-encino-getty.html
Palisades Fire Threatens Brentwood, Including the getty Center
1 day ago … The authorities expanded mandatory evacuation orders to parts of the neighborhood on Friday night as the biggest blaze in the Los
SAN ANTONIO
getty
SAN FRANCISCO
MISSON BUENAVENTURA
MISSION SAN FRANCISCO
ELCAMINOREAL
LosCaminosReal
#22340115 at 2025-01-12 13:06:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27322: Searching for Clues Edition
San Antonio
Newsom
getty
San Antonio Park
Castle Rock
>>22339752
>>22340108
SAN ANTONIO
FIRE
WATER
#22340108 at 2025-01-12 13:04:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27322: Searching for Clues Edition
San Antonio
Newsom
getty
San Antonio Park
Castle Rock
#22339755 at 2025-01-12 11:00:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27322: Searching for Clues Edition
Heiress Ivy getty shares pics of Nancy Pelosi officiating her wedding at San Francisco's City …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10183731/Heiress-Ivy-getty-shares-pics-Nancy-Pelosi-officiating-wedding-San-Franciscos-City-Hall.html
>>22339752
#22339752 at 2025-01-12 10:58:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27322: Searching for Clues Edition
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9003181/John-Gilbert-getty-dead-Indian-style-sitting-pose-hotel-bed-laptop.html
John Gilbert getty was found in 'Indian style sitting pose' on bed
Dec 1, 2020 … Cops found John Gilbert getty dead with his eyes and mouth open in an 'Indian style sitting pose' in his $500-a-night San Antonio hotel suite.
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https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/oil-tycoon-heir-john-gilbert-getty-found-with-eyes-and-mouth-open-in-indianstyle-sitting-pose-in-hotel-room/news-story/08bbd04ebb0abd695a2ad225b94a5cf7
John Gilbert getty found dead in hotel room in yoga pose
Dec 2, 2020 … You are watching … John Gilbert getty, the grandson of oil magnate J. Paul getty and heir to his fortune, has died at a hotel… more in San …
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https://www.telegraphindia.com/world/john-gilbert-getty-found-dead-in-yoga-pose/cid/1799232
John Gilbert getty found dead in yoga pose - Telegraph India
Dec 2, 2020 … John, who was 52, had been staying since November 1 at the Hotel Emma, a 146-room luxury boutique hotel in downtown San Antonio.
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https://www.the-sun.com/news/1888697/john-gilbert-getty-indian-style-sitting-pose-hotel-room/
John Gilbert getty found 'with eyes & mouth open in Indian style …
Dec 1, 2020 … It's known in yoga as the lotus pose. The San Antonio Police Department report, compiled by Officer Rosendo Hoyos, refers to getty as SB1 and …
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#22339127 at 2025-01-12 05:36:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27321: Stirring Up the Rats Edition
>>22339104
All those climate changers are getting a rude awakening.
And they're being hit from all sides.
Those batteries though, they're saving the planet.
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
This video is from today of the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades Fire
LA resident shows you the direction its burning, "If this fire gets any further east right now, it's gonna blow past the 405, it's gonna hit The getty Center, Hollywood, Griffith Park, that's downtown LA right there. And LA will be done"
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1878310349469811159
#22336693 at 2025-01-11 23:00:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27319: Gavin Nero Edition
>>22336680
getty museum is still apt to burn, 1st attempt was spared, 2nd might not fare as well.
Evidence collecting? Who knows…
#22335682 at 2025-01-11 19:14:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27317: NINE DAYS Edition
>>22335654
>>22335664
There are two distinct getty locations operated by the J Paul getty Trust. This map shows the locations of them both, with the location of the first 911 call to report the fire on January 7, 2025.
#22335425 at 2025-01-11 18:03:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27317: NINE DAYS Edition
Palisades Fire has now moved toward Brentwood in a 'SIGNIFICANT' shift, including the getty Center
>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/palisades-brentwood-encino-getty.html
#22334972 at 2025-01-11 16:31:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27317: NINE DAYS Edition
Does anyone think the getty Center burns today? Or tonight?
#22333105 at 2025-01-11 04:45:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27314: Ten Days Edition
A lot of "getty" parks, museums & villas in the burn zones.
Newscum is related to the getty's and Pelosi's.
#22330638 at 2025-01-10 21:03:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27311: Unconditional Discharge? There's A Cure For That! Edition
getty Villa is "safe" and "everything is intact" amid devastating Palisades Fire
#22329061 at 2025-01-10 16:03:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27309: Hush Money Case On Edition
>>22328884
Firm behind ?4m Labour Party donation invested in weapons for Israel
Exclusive: Quadrature Capital held shares in arms companies that make Israeli fighter jets and bombs
20241008_091441
Paul Holden
15 October 2024, 6.29pm
Keir Starmer's Labour Party took ?4m from Quadrature.
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The Labour Party's largest-ever donation came from a hedge fund that stood to profit from Israel's war in Gaza, openDemocracy can reveal.
Quadrature Capital held $121m worth of shares in a range of arms, tech and logistics firms which have all supported the ongoing military campaign.
They include companies that help make Israeli F-35 fighter jets, which have been used in devastating airstrikes on a "humanitarian zone".
The finding comes after David Lammy, the foreign secretary, refused to suspend arms export licences related to F-35s, despite suspending 30 other licences because of risks over Israeli violations of international law.
Last month, openDemocracy revealed how Quadrature Capital donated ?4m to the Labour Party shortly after July's election was announced in May. Labour accepted the gift just days before the campaign rules - that require weekly declarations about donations - came into force, meaning it was not made public until after the election.
Owned via the Cayman Islands tax haven, Quadrature Capital's donation was the sixth-largest donation in British political history, and the largest single donation the Labour Party has ever received.
Now, an investigation by openDemocracy and Shadow World Investigations shows the hedge fund held shares in a range of companies linked to Israel's assault in Gaza. The findings are based on an analysis of financial documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Israel has killed more than 42,000 people in Gaza over the past 12 months, including at least 16,456 children, according to the local health ministry. However, some report that this death toll may be a significant underestimate, as the attacks have led to famine and disease, as well as destroying healthcare reporting systems.
In January, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the right of Palestinian people not to suffer genocide in Gaza was plausibly under threat. Applications were later filed for arrest warrants to be issued against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant, alongside senior Hamas leaders.
Zack Polanski, the deputy leader of the UK Green Party, told openDemocracy there were "serious democratic questions" about Quadrature's donation to Labour.
Declaring it after the election looks "deeply cynical," he said, and "further erodes trust in our politics".
"To now find out that the company donating also has links to the F-35s currently engaged in the genocide in Gaza means that this government has serious questions to answer about the choices they're making in how they funded their campaign."
#22327486 at 2025-01-10 07:11:22 (UTC+1)
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#27307 >>22326666
>>22326676, >>22326697 Baker change
>>22326978 SpaceX NROL 153 launch
>>22326992 @realDonaldTrump - What is going on here?
>>22327203 @elonmusk - Um ... well ... uh ... (@FreckledLiberty - Men, is this true? ; Meme: The most addictive drug known to mankind: Crazy women)
>>22327245 Gov. Gavin Newsom VETOED a recent bill which would have allowed CalFire to retain seasonal firefighters to help with staffing shortages
>>22327483 #27307
#27306 >>22325769
>>22325819 AIR7 got aerial views of the wildfire devastation in Pacific Palisades: "I've never seen such destruction"
>>22325832, >>22325877 Space lasers bun
>>22325848, >>22326188, >>22326420 LA wildfire live coverage links
>>22325959 A firefighting aircraft collided with *a drone* flying in restricted airspace over the Palisades Fire
>>22326023 They "accidentally" told all 10M people in LA County to evacuate
>>22326060 Adam Carolla goes off on California leaders as fires rage
>>22326141 Biden: The federal government will cover 100% of the cost to protect lives and property in SoCal for six months
>>22326224 LAFD Deputy Chief: "He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire"
>>22326246 Moments ago Biden asked Kamala to talk about the LA wildfires situation by telling her "Fire away; no pun intended"
>>22326276 LA Mayor Karen Bass remained silent while asked questions about the wildfire
>>22326288, >>22326490 Climate change isn't responsible for the LA fires, Gavin Newscum and Karen Bass are
>>22326299, >>22325870, >>22326153 Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were dropped by their insurers before the Palisades Fire
>>22326329, >>22326353, >>22326347, >>22326366, >>22326632 Everything is on fire
>>22326335 Joe Rogan discussed the danger of a massive LA wildfire breaking out last year
>>22326422, >>22326220 Largescale looting occurring
>>22326597 The Malibu waterfront, one of the most expensive properties in the United States, looks vaporized
>>22326636, >>22326629 Foreign Based Gangs In LA Starting Additional Fires So People Evacuate Properties To Be Robbed?
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>>22325863 US 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theory gunman killed by police
>>22325873 President Trump says his administration will immediately release a report on the mysterious New Jersey drones
>>22325921 The Supreme Court denied President-elect Trump's request to delay his Friday sentencing in his criminal hush money case
>>22326180 Julie Kelly on War Room re: If President Trump's Sentencing Will Move Forward Tomorrow Morning
>>22326548 DJT: For the sake and sanctity of the Presidency, I will be appealing this case, and am confident that JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL
>>22326007 Man, 32, kills himself inside luxury NYC hotel room
>>22326038 Mel Gibson: My friends cured their cancer with Ivermectin and Fenbendazole
>>22326100 Vice President-elect JD Vance resigns from the Senate
>>22326105, >>22326118, >>22326162, >>22326436 Judge Arthur Engoron is reportedly being replaced in the Trump civil fraud case
>>22326184 Former Tri-Cities Pastor Indicted for Multi-Million Dollar Cryptocurrency Scam
>>22326273 DJT on convo with Obama @ Carter's funeral
>>22326372 Russia paid Taliban $200,000 per killed US, coalition soldier, media investigation says
>>22326447 Senators Introduce "Lock The Clock" Bill To Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent
>>22326481 Rep. Buddy Carter has just introduced a bill to Abolish the IRS and the Federal Income Tax
>>22325817, >>22326314, >>22326340, >>22326348, >>22326359, >>22326362, >>22326423, >>22326498, >>22326510, >>22326592 Memes
>>22326653 #27306
#27305 >>22325020
>>22325548 President-elect Trump Meets With Republican Governors
>>22325037 TMZ caught peddling false climate change narrative
>>22325040, >>22325056, >>22325084, >>22325280, >>22325382, >>22325641 Live LA wildfire coverage links
>>22325053, >>22325057, >>22325065, >>22325139, >>22325147, >>22325589 Pics
>>22325099 Teigen and Legend evac'd their home
>>22325137 FEMA head: I am on the ground in California, meeting with @CAgovernor
>>22325140 Day 2 Fire Weather Outlook
>>22325153 LA Fire Department trying to put out fires with purses
>>22325189 Trump was right about everything
>>22325206 Peter Duke's family lost everything
>>22325237 Newscum in action
>>22325292 DJT: Newscum should immediatly go to Northern California and open up the water main
>>22325326 Biden: Over 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate communities impacted by the Southern California wildfires
>>22325441 Trump says Newscum refused to sign the "Water Restoration Declaration Act"
>>22325546, >>22325621 Some arson happening
>>22325567 Gutfeld to LA Mayor Bass: You can't fight fire with platitudes
>>22325724 LA Mayor Bass just accidentally sent out an alert for all of Los Angeles to evacuate
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>>22325021, >>22325029, >>22325151, >>22325180 I thought the President used Air Force One as a callsign?
>>22325062, >>22325078 Bulk Carrier Carrying 45,000 Tons of Salt Runs Aground in Delaware River
>>22325085 A soldier's condition remains unknown after he collapsed during funeral service for Jimmy Carter Thursday
>>22325104 Arrest rates in the UK by nationality
>>22325112 Gulf of 9CH.NET
>>22325115, >>22325069 Sen. Moran harps on Pete Hegseth's Christian tattoo as she rails against his anti-woke policies
>>22325158, >>22325248, >>22325354 Active investigation at Patrick Space Force Base re: a suspicious vehicle
>>22325168 Judge Merchan is allowing audio tomorrow in the court so the world can hear Merchan sentence Donald Trump
>>22325173 Biden admin prepared the arms and equipment for the package under the presidential drawdown authority
>>22325201 The US Senate just voted 84-9 to advance The Laken Riley Act
>>22325339 NYT Rejects Quakers' Ad Calling Gaza a 'Genocide'
>>22325361 DJT: The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela
>>22325380 Trump, Obama chat at Jimmy Carter's funeral
>>22325386 DJT: Leo Terrell will be Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the US Department of Justice
>>22325433, >>22325455 'Pizzagate' gunman killed by police during traffic stop in North Carolina
>>22325474, >>22325664 Supreme Court denies Trump's request to delay hush money sentencing
>>22325512, >>22325524 Mel Gibson says the Pope and the Vatican are Surrounded by Child Molesters
>>22325060, >>22325068, >>22325080, >>22325290, >>22325313, >>22325357, >>22325400, >>22325521, >>22325688, >>22325703 Memes
>>22325751 #27305
#27304 >>22324213
>>22324235, >>22324340, >>22324328, >>22324442, >>22324632, >>22324798, >>22324984 WATER - Facts YOU Need to Know About Primary Water . . ./Resnicks
>>22324265, >>22324291, >>22324731 #EatonFire closing in on radio & transmission towers that service nearly all local media outlets in SoCal
>>22324266 Based on professional lip-readers' analysis of the video???
>>22324271 there were three explosions heard in the vicinity of the getty Museum. The Palisades fire started soon after???
>>22324307 Joe Rogan Experience #2254 - Mel Gibson
>>22324308 Kash on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
>>22324317, >>22324488, >>22324508, >>22324529, >>22324583, >>22324770 LIVE: Pacific Palisades Eaton Fire Malibu Los Angeles Pasadena Altadena Hollywood
>>22324330 Ohio Guided Missile Submarine Deployed Underwater Drones On Award Winning Secret Missions
>>22324376 I wonder if now Senator Adam Schiff found this person like he did with the "Russia, Russia, Russia" hoax "whistleblowers" in Trump's bogus impeachment...
>>22324576 Watson on The Truth About The Wildfires
>>22324590 Swamp Resident
>>22324627 NEWSOM SAYING "LOCALS WILL FIGURE IT OUT" WILL BACKFIRE
>>22324634, >>22324645 Over the next few weeks you're going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there's nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires
>>22324676 The late president and his family travel by motorcade through downtown Plains.
>>22324689 How Madoff's Ponzi Beneficiaries Are Funding Climate Lawfare
>>22324778 GAVIN NEWSOM IS A BOLD-FACED LIAR!
>>22325485 #27304 posted in #27305
#27303 >>22323308
>>22323391, >>22323548, >>22323844 Footage shows the devastating aftermath of the LA fires
>>22323394 @Papi Trumpo - GOT A HUNDRED OF THESE BABIES READY FOR DAY ONE!!!
>>22323398, >>22323568, >>22323525 Trolling Obama is fun
>>22323418, >>22323434, >>22323443, >>22323450, >>22323509 Biden VP Favorite Karen Bass' Journey From the Radical Fringe
>>22323420, >>22323442, >>22323474 Cardinal Robert McElroy to lead Archdiocese of Washington, as 77yr old Cdl Gregory resigns
>>22323447 Joe Rogan Experience #2254 - Mel Gibson
>>22323481 New York Court Denies Trump's Bid To Halt Friday's 'Hush Money' Case Sentencing
>>22323488 US dockworkers' strike averted, union thanks Donald Trump
>>22323500 RT - Netanyahu cancels trip to Trump's inauguration
>>22323507 US Intelligence Believes Only 20 Israeli Hostages Still Alive In Gaza
>>22323508 Steve Bannon Breaks Down The Strategic Genius Of Acquiring Greenland
>>22323554 @elonmusk - I have a drinking problem
>>22323555 LA Mayor Again, back to the unprecedented wind storm
>>22323592 Julie Kelly Exposes Judge Merchan's Last Minute Effort To Render President Trump A Convicted Felon
>>22323664 'Gross Incompetence': Trump Calls For Newsom To Resign Over Deadly L.A. Fires
>>22323670 Darren Beattie Lays Out Case Of J6 Pipe Bomb
>>22323679 American Water is the largest water utility company in the US, prioritizing DEI and ESG over merit
>>22323718 BREAKING: Massive Title 9 victory
>>22323753 Youtube CEO Makes INSANE Comments & BRAGS About Replacing Creators With AI
>>22323835 Another Walz cannabis 'czar' steps down
>>22323892 Dem Chris Murphy says RFK wants to kill the kids by taking away the vaccines and fluoride out of the water supply
>>22323896, >>22323953, >>22323965 A small plane crashed in S?o Paulo, Brazil Thursday, killing the pilot; 2 adults and 2 children survived
>>22323947 LA Fire: Elon Musk Offers Starlink Terminals to Areas Affected by Blaze
>>22324004 Zuckerberg drops censorship, "fact-checking" and disinformation like a hot potato
>>22324014 When Newsom asked for $25 Million in Funds to Fight Incoming Trump Administration
>>22324020 Portland Andy WATCH multistream live on LA. fires with emergency radio comms
>>22324031 New Mexico Supreme Court strikes down local abortion restrictions
>>22324095 Fani Willis submits appeal to GA Supreme Court over disqualification from Trump election case
>>22324100 Top 10 Lies Of Liz Cheney And The January 6th Committee
>>22324192 #27303
Previously Collected
>>22322313 #27301, >>22323298 #27302
>>22319499 #27298, >>22320282 #27299, >>22321446 #27300
>>22317072 #27295, >>22317898 #27296, >>22318706 #27297
>>22314322 #27292, >>22315102 #27293, >>22316096 #27294
>>22311776 #27289, >>22312597 #27290, >>22313499 #27291
>>22309087 #27286, >>22309939 #27287, >>22310981 #27288
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Q Research Notables #26: High Hopes >>22083727
#22326662 at 2025-01-10 03:37:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27307: Mar-a-Lagoon Edition
#27304 >>22324213
>>22324235, >>22324340, >>22324328, >>22324442, >>22324632, >>22324798, >>22324984 WATER - Facts YOU Need to Know About Primary Water . . ./Resnicks
>>22324265, >>22324291, >>22324731 #EatonFire closing in on radio & transmission towers that service nearly all local media outlets in SoCal
>>22324266 Based on professional lip-readers' analysis of the video???
>>22324271 there were three explosions heard in the vicinity of the getty Museum. The Palisades fire started soon after???
>>22324307 Joe Rogan Experience #2254 - Mel Gibson
>>22324308 Kash on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
>>22324317, >>22324488, >>22324508, >>22324529, >>22324583, >>22324770 LIVE: Pacific Palisades Eaton Fire Malibu Los Angeles Pasadena Altadena Hollywood
>>22324330 Ohio Guided Missile Submarine Deployed Underwater Drones On Award Winning Secret Missions
>>22324376 I wonder if now Senator Adam Schiff found this person like he did with the "Russia, Russia, Russia" hoax "whistleblowers" in Trump's bogus impeachment...
>>22324576 Watson on The Truth About The Wildfires
>>22324590 Swamp Resident
>>22324627 NEWSOM SAYING "LOCALS WILL FIGURE IT OUT" WILL BACKFIRE
>>22324634, >>22324645 Over the next few weeks you're going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there's nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires
>>22324676 The late president and his family travel by motorcade through downtown Plains.
>>22324689 How Madoff's Ponzi Beneficiaries Are Funding Climate Lawfare
>>22324778 GAVIN NEWSOM IS A BOLD-FACED LIAR!
>>22325485 #27304 posted in #27305
#22325772 at 2025-01-10 01:20:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27305: FIRE E-BAKE Edition
>>22325737
"The application for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied for, inter alia, the following reasons. First, the alleged evidentiary violations at President-Elect Trump's state-court trial can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal," the order states.
"Second, the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect's responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court's stated intent to impose a sentence of unconditional discharge' after a brief virtual hearing," the court ruled.
NEW YORK COURT ASSIGNS NEW JUDGE IN TRUMP CIVIL FRAUD CASE STEMMING FROM AG LETITIA JAMES' PROBE
The order also noted that "Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch, and Justice Kavanaugh would grant the application."
Trump needed five votes in order to have his request granted. The note on the order suggests Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett voted with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Katanji Brown Jackson.
Juan Merchan, Donald Trump, Alvin Bragg
From left to right: Judge Juan Merchan, former President Donald Trump, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (getty Images, AP Images)
Trump's sentencing is now expected to move forward, with the president-elect expected to appear virtually for the proceeding, scheduled for 9:30 am Friday.
Merchan set Trump's sentencing in New York v. Trump for Jan. 10 after a jury found the now-president-elect guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree, stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges and has appealed the ruling but was rejected last week by Merchan.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Jan. 20.
Trump has maintained his innocence in the case and repeatedly railed against it as an example of "lawfare" promoted by Democrats in an effort to hurt his election efforts ahead of November.
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
#22325764 at 2025-01-10 01:19:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27306: Fish Fire Edition
#27304 >>22324213
>>22324235, >>22324340, >>22324328, >>22324442, >>22324632, >>22324798, >>22324984 WATER - Facts YOU Need to Know About Primary Water . . ./Resnicks
>>22324265, >>22324291, >>22324731 #EatonFire closing in on radio & transmission towers that service nearly all local media outlets in SoCal
>>22324266 Based on professional lip-readers' analysis of the video???
>>22324271 there were three explosions heard in the vicinity of the getty Museum. The Palisades fire started soon after???
>>22324307 Joe Rogan Experience #2254 - Mel Gibson
>>22324308 Kash on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
>>22324317, >>22324488, >>22324508, >>22324529, >>22324583, >>22324770 LIVE: Pacific Palisades Eaton Fire Malibu Los Angeles Pasadena Altadena Hollywood
>>22324330 Ohio Guided Missile Submarine Deployed Underwater Drones On Award Winning Secret Missions
>>22324376 I wonder if now Senator Adam Schiff found this person like he did with the "Russia, Russia, Russia" hoax "whistleblowers" in Trump's bogus impeachment...
>>22324576 Watson on The Truth About The Wildfires
>>22324590 Swamp Resident
>>22324627 NEWSOM SAYING "LOCALS WILL FIGURE IT OUT" WILL BACKFIRE
>>22324634, >>22324645 Over the next few weeks you're going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there's nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires
>>22324676 The late president and his family travel by motorcade through downtown Plains.
>>22324689 How Madoff's Ponzi Beneficiaries Are Funding Climate Lawfare
>>22324778 GAVIN NEWSOM IS A BOLD-FACED LIAR!
>>22325485 #27304 posted in #27305
#22325485 at 2025-01-10 00:30:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27305: FIRE E-BAKE Edition
>>22325020
>>22325244
Final
#27304 >>22324213
>>22324235, >>22324340, >>22324328, >>22324442, >>22324632, >>22324798, >>22324984 WATER – Facts YOU Need to Know About Primary Water . . ./Resnicks
>>22324265, >>22324291, >>22324731 #EatonFire closing in on radio & transmission towers that service nearly all local media outlets in SoCal
>>22324266 Based on professional lip-readers' analysis of the video???
>>22324271 there were three explosions heard in the vicinity of the getty Museum. The Palisades fire started soon after???
>>22324307 Joe Rogan Experience #2254 - Mel Gibson
>>22324308 Kash on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
>>22324317, >>22324488, >>22324508, >>22324529, >>22324583, >>22324770 LIVE: Pacific Palisades Eaton Fire Malibu Los Angeles Pasadena Altadena Hollywood
>>22324330 Ohio Guided Missile Submarine Deployed Underwater Drones On Award Winning Secret Missions
>>22324376 I wonder if now Senator Adam Schiff found this person like he did with the "Russia, Russia, Russia" hoax "whistleblowers" in Trump's bogus impeachment...
>>22324576 Watson on The Truth About The Wildfires
>>22324590 Swamp Resident
>>22324627 NEWSOM SAYING "LOCALS WILL FIGURE IT OUT" WILL BACKFIRE
>>22324634, >>22324645 Over the next few weeks you're going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there's nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires
>>22324676 The late president and his family travel by motorcade through downtown Plains.
>>22324689 How Madoff's Ponzi Beneficiaries Are Funding Climate Lawfare
>>22324778 GAVIN NEWSOM IS A BOLD-FACED LIAR!
#27304
#22324271 at 2025-01-09 20:28:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27304: Can Not Watch The Water When There Is No Water To Watch Edition
You have nailed it - there were three explosions heard in the vicinity of the getty Museum. The Palisades fire started soon after.
This was all set up.
There is one more thing families in California need to be aware of.
The Evergreen tanker ships are in port now (close to Newport) ready to take their loads. Instead of the normal 2 ships - this time there are 4 ships. Please be watchful of your children. Evergreen is the shipping company Hillary Clinton uses to ship her 'Modern Art' collections.
https://x.com/AnnSpar35412076/status/1877391889852150015
#22323118 at 2025-01-09 17:26:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27302: ENVELOPE WATCH Edition
>>22323102
what about the tunnels under the getty villla, LBC sub base?
#22323037 at 2025-01-09 17:16:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27302: ENVELOPE WATCH Edition
New York Court Denies Trump's Bid to Halt Friday's Sentencing
The court did not provide an explanation for the decision.
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President-elect Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 30, 2024. Michael M. Santiago/getty Images
Jack Phillips
By Jack Phillips
1/9/2025
Updated:
1/9/2025
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/new-york-court-denies-trumps-bid-to-halt-fridays-sentencing-5788980?utm_source=gab&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=etgab
#22322060 at 2025-01-09 14:45:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27301: Arson is a Real Possibility Edition
>>22322025 bank bail outs (halt on paying out annuities funded by insurance companies), union contracts (strike set for Jan 15th), liberal arts grants (getty museum destroyed) homeless funding for cold weather, prison release due to lack of utilities
#22320923 at 2025-01-09 08:19:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27300: Hollywood Burns Edition
>>22320913
Did the getty Villa burn last night?
getty Museum is elsewhere but nearby I thunk.
#22320913 at 2025-01-09 08:17:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27300: Hollywood Burns Edition
The 34 Satanic Sites
No. 25 The getty Museum
#22319496 at 2025-01-09 02:51:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27298: Full Throttle Kuun Edition
>>22319492
Who is making the evil voice on other end of firefighter radio, regarding prioritizing THE getty Museum, they don't like the no, so they spout evil voice?
Can we trace the transmissions to the lgtbq chief?...
>>22319077 listen
#22319492 at 2025-01-09 02:50:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27298: Full Throttle Kuun Edition
>>22319245
Look at
DEI
LGTBQ FIRE CHIEF
OATH
DATE THAT WAS CHOSEN
They love those numbers
SHEESH
March 25, 2022
3 7 6
3x7=21
2+1=3
Then the 6
Kristin M. Crowley is the 19th Fire Chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD). With her wife and children by her side, Chief Crowley took the oath of office on March 25, 2022 - becoming the first female and LGBTQ Fire Chief in the LAFD.
https://lafd.org > organization > fir…
Fire Chief | Los Angeles Fire Department
https://lafd.org/about/organization/fire-chief
Chief Crowley, a 22-year veteran of the department, became the first female and L.G.B.T.Q. chief of the city's fire department when she took the oath of office in March 2022. Chief Marrone has worked with the county fire department for almost 40 years and has worked as a chief officer there for more than two decades.15 mins ago
https://www.nytimes.com > whos-in…
Who's in charge of the firefighting effort? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/us/fire-departments-in-charge.html
Who is making the evil voice on other end of firefighter radio, regarding prioritizing THE getty Museum, they don't like the no, so they spout evil voice?
Can we trace the transmissions to the chief?...
>>22319077 listen
#22319242 at 2025-01-09 02:17:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27298: Full Throttle Kuun Edition
>>22319193
https://www.getty.edu/exhibitions/?location=getty-villa
Current Art Exhibits at getty Villa Museum: Ancient Thrace and the Classical World & Sculpted Portraits from Ancient Egypt
#22319193 at 2025-01-09 02:08:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27298: Full Throttle Kuun Edition
>>22319029
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-did-getty-villa-survive-pacific-palisades-fire-while-neighbors-burned/ar-AA1xbTkB
How Did getty Villa Survive Pacific Palisades Fire While Neighbors Burned?
MSN link
#22319029 at 2025-01-09 01:42:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27298: Full Throttle Kuun Edition
https://x.com/RyanMattaMedia/status/1877045814888989146
https://x.com/roaming_rn/status/1876856873560723661
Creepy audio of firefighters arguing over getty Museum priority vs Home&School priority
What's under the getty Museum????
This person sounds like a literal demon!
#22318840 at 2025-01-09 01:13:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27298: Full Throttle Kuun Edition
>>22318835
Bass nominates former PG&E leader Janisse Qui?ones as DWP general manager
City News Service Apr 20, 2024
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tapped Janisse Qui?ones to serve as the next general manager of the Department of Water and Power. (Photo by Mario Tama/getty Images)
Mayor Karen Bass tapped Janisse Qui?ones, senior leadership at Pacific Gas and Electric, to serve as the next general manager of the Department of Water and Power.
Bass' selection on Friday comes after a nationwide search for a new leader, prompted by the current general manager's, Martin Adams, announcement he would be retiring. Qui?ones is expected to lead the department through the transition toward 100% clean energy by 2035.
The mayor's recommendation will now be referred to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, and later to the City Council's Energy and Environment Committee, followed by a confirmation vote by the full council.
"The Department of Water and Power has made important progress toward embracing clean energy, meeting its decarbonization goals, modernizing its infrastructure to be more resilient, getting to a reliant and resilient water future and ensuring vulnerable communities have access to affordable utilities. I look forward to working with Janisse to deliver for the people of Los Angeles," Bass said in a statement.
"This is a transformational period for the department as we make decisions that will build toward the goal of 100% renewable energy by 2035 and I am confident that Janisse's experience overseeing large scale organizational operations, improving safety outcomes for workers and restoring and reconstructing electrical systems following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico equip her to lead the department."
Bass also thanked Adams for his contributions to these outcomes and his "decades of leadership to the people of Los Angeles." While Adams had previously announced his departure by the end of March, he had agreed to stay on for a limited time to help with the transition of new leadership.
According to the mayor's office, Qui?ones brings more than 25 years of leadership experience as a senior executive in utility and engineering industries where she managed large-scale operations in order to deliver reliable service to customers, prioritized the safety of workers on the job and directed improvements that made electrical infrastructure more resilient.
Qui?ones called it an "honor" to be nominated by the mayor to serve as the next GM.
"Throughout my career, I have worked to make sure that communities have access to reliable, clean, safe and sustainable utilities, and I will continue with that same dedication in this role," Qui?ones said in a statement. "I look forward to working closely with Mayor Bass, the Board of Water and Power Commissioners and the committed employees of the department as we move towards our commitment of 100% clean energy by 2035. Together, we can achieve our transformational goals and shore up our systems to fight climate change and deliver for the people of Los Angeles."
https://www.calonews.com/news/local-government/bass-nominates-former-pg-e-leader-janisse-qui-ones-as-dwp-general-manager/article_d64c3d48-fe72-11ee-bd22-6b7014f71f24.html
#22315763 at 2025-01-08 16:14:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27294: New Maths Comin: Nation States Edition
Pacific Palisades is (was) and extremely wealthy, exclusive neighborhood with exceptional ocean views.
"Wildfire burns through LA enclave known for its beaches and celebrity allure
Updated 6:40 PM PST, January 7, 2025
"LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rimmed to the south by a 3-mile stretch of Pacific beach, and to the north by craggy bluffs and deep, verdant canyons, the seaside enclave of Pacific Palisades has long been a celebrity hideaway and magnet for those drawn to nature's doorstep not far from the skyline of downtown Los Angeles.
"Venerated in song and a backdrop for a long list of films and TV shows, its famous waves were celebrated by The Beach Boys in "Surfin' U.S.A." The comedian Jerry Lewis lived there and was once honorary mayor, and the eponymously named TV series "Pacific Palisades" was produced by Aaron Spelling.
"Bookended by Malibu to the west and Santa Monica to the southeast, the neighborhood of 23,000 within sprawling Los Angeles might not be as well known as its neighbors, but it has a rich, celebrity-studded history that followed its founding in the early 1920s.
"A raging coastal wildfire Tuesday put the community in the headlines, as firefighters sought to hold off the spreading flames amid a strengthening windstorm and thousands of residents fled for safety. Smoke from the fire was visible for miles along the coastline.
"Actor James Woods was among those who posted video of flames burning, on a hill near his home. "Standing in my driveway, getting ready to evacuate," Woods said in the short clip on the social platform X.
"Actor Steve Guttenberg, who lives in Pacific Palisades, urged people who abandoned their cars to leave their keys behind so they could be moved to make way for fire trucks. "This is not a parking lot," Guttenberg told KTLA.
"Envisioned a century ago as a religious commune, today Pacific Palisades' narrow, winding roads are lined with homes clinging to the hillsides overlooking the ocean. The -median listing price is $4.6 million, with one eight-bedroom estate priced at nearly $40 million, according to the website Realtor.com
The community also is known for its walkable, small-town like commercial district, which lures visitors with its farmers' market and trendy restaurants and shops. One of its most popular attractions is the getty Villa, a branch of the famous J. Paul getty Museum focused on Greek and Roman antiquities.
https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-pacific-palisades-celebrity-20fbace2f7cd66441942674ffb5c75da
#22315307 at 2025-01-08 14:47:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27294: New Maths Comin: Nation States Edition
>>22315281
What does the getty Museum know?
#22315261 at 2025-01-08 14:39:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27294: New Maths Comin: Nation States Edition
>>22313861 n getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
then they came for the memes…
#22315106 at 2025-01-08 14:06:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27294: New Maths Comin: Nation States Edition
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>>21435975 Germany #107
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>>21452596 QAJF #2
>>22228099 Scotland #12
>>21699204 Singapore #1
>>20969267 South Africa #13
>>19804572 UK #51
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>>22314974, >>22314984, >>22314988, >>22315064 European Union will "not tolerate" a takeover of Greenland by the United States: France warned Trump against threatening the bloc's "sovereign borders"
>>22315027 HARNWELL: "Trump effect" - Justin Castreau falls in Canada and "far right" takes control in Austria
>>22315044 WEF President and CEO B?rge Brende: "We are between world orders. We don't know what the NEW WORLD ORDER is right now
>>22315052 Trump files an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent sentencing in NY v. Trump on Friday.
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>>22314360 These Democrats are willing to let criminals roam our country, Rep. Mike Collins warns
>>22314371 Biden's executive orders are 'last gasp of dying liberalism,' Sen. Josh Hawley says
>>22314504 View from the sky above LA. Pacific Palisades and Malibu engulfed in flames. Absolutely Horrific.
>>22314725 Sen. Durbin Urges DOJ to Clarify Presidential Military Powers
>>22314775, >>22314802 "A MASSIVE Cover-Up" Jordan Peterson On Tommy Robinson & Grooming Scandal
>>22314820, >>22314809 Live: Starmer faces Badenoch at PMQs as furious row erupts over grooming gangs
>>22314885 'Planetary parade' to be visible in days as six planets align in the sky - exact time you can see dazzling display
>>22314893, >>22314941 Greenland from the air
>>22314906 Trump is considering declaring a national economic emergency to provide legal justification for a series of universal tariffs on allies and adversaries
>>22314948 The Empire???
>>22314955 THE ODDS THE MAYOR IS NOT AROUND DURING THE TORCHING OF HER CITY?
>>22314965 Musk Trollin Trudy
>>22315048 Canada's contribution to the North American Iron Dome. Page one pretty much says it all
>>22315081 47 quotes from self-styled "elites" demonstrating they really do want to reduce the world's population
>>22315092 ICYMI: HARNWELL: I reckon the blood drained from Zelensky's face as he watched Trump's presser today
>>22315095 Ahoy The Ship Show
>>22315102 #27293
#27292 >>22313510
>>22313595 Dough claim
>>22313608 Insightful Meme
>>22313706 Palisades fire: Fast-moving fire prompts evacuations
>>22313728 'Satanic' Calendar of events January 2025
>>22313753 Santa Ana winds delay Biden's national monument plans in California
>>22313763 The sister of Sam Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of sexually abusing her for almost a decade, in a lawsuit filed in federal court
>>22313785 Dangerous winds prompt Southern California Edison to shut off power to thousands of customers. Here's where
>>22313861 getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
>>22313881 A former U.S. Air Force commander accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl will have a military pretrial hearing Thursday, more than two years after he was first arrested.
>>22313885, >>22314185 Lights out LA.
>>22313913 Wildfires rage through Los Angeles
>>22313945 Current CA Wildfires Situation (Eaton & Palisades Fires)
>>22314190 Five fires now. (Palisades, Eaton, Tamarack, Bert, Hurst)
>>22314322 #27292
#27291 >>22312609
>>22312645, >>22312694 Nvidia's CES 2025 Event: Everything Revealed in 12 Minutes
>>22312665 This is a really remarkable historic chart of tariffs as % of total federal revenue
>>22312669 US blacklists Tencent, a Chinese military tech giant company
>>22312674 House GOP holds first presser of 119th Congress amid reconciliation debate
>>22312688 ICE has been 'handcuffed' says Trump's incoming 'border czar'
>>22312698 John Deere's new robot lawnmower is coming for landscapers' jobs
>>22313254 Newsom updates state response to Palisades Fire
>>22312705, >>22313454, >>22313265, >>22312755, >>22312824, >>22313490, >>22313204, >>22312916 LA wildfire
>>22312741 The patch from Space Force base "Pituffik Space Base" Greenland
>>22312750 Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality (doesn't need satellite guidance)
>>22312818, >>22313491 WE WON THANKS TO OUR BIG, BEAUTIFUL KEYBOARD WARRIORS!!!????—I SEE YOU!!!
>>22312846, >>22313255 Not-a-Planefagfag
>>22312978 Jagmeet Singh getting involved in the beef
>>22313036, >>22313024, >>22313103, >>22313145, >>22313433 Jordan Peterson talks about the Pakistani Rape Gang problem in the UK
>>22313339 Up is down, left is right
>>22313166, >>22313182 UK: Sophie, a 12 year old girl repeatedly raped hours after police ignored her pleas for help
>>22313112 New Jersey ends basic reading and writing skills test requirement for teachers
>>22313126 O'Keefe: VA Insider Reveals HHS Memo Detailing "Presidential Inauguration [Medical Personnel] Support Deployment Request"
>>22313371 The sister of Sam Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of sexually abusing her for almost a decade, in a lawsuit filed in federal court
>>22313436 Owner of Brooklyn-Based Credit Counseling Business Sentenced to More Than 11 Years in Prison for Defrauding Clients
>>22313024, >>22313042, >>22313068, >>22313103, >>22313109, >>22313145, >>22313219, >>22313284, >>22313286, >>22313293, >>22313304, >>22313317, >>22313320, >>22313329, >>22313372, >>22313387, >>22313433, >>22313491 Memes
>>22313499 #27291
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>>22311776 #27289, >>22312597 #27290
>>22309087 #27286, >>22309939 #27287, >>22310981 #27288
>>22306612 #27283, >>22307373 #27284, >>22308141 #27285
>>22303983 #27280, >>22304807 #27281, >>22305733 #27282
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#22315050 at 2025-01-08 13:47:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27293: Five Fires in CA Edition
ok, im ok with this part
The getty Villa is officially one of 34 satanic structures across the world, and has just caught fire and is burning down!?
https://x.com/TheFlatEartherr/status/1876844429903790277
#22314327 at 2025-01-08 08:10:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27292: Up Down Left Right Edition
>>22313861 getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
i nominate me czar
#22314324 at 2025-01-08 08:07:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27293: Five Fires in CA Edition
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>>22225133 Australia #39
>>21503242 Brazil #1
>>22267360 Canada #69
>>21284558 France #8
>>21435975 Germany #107
>>21988292 Japan #26
>>16694250 Nederland #10
>>21452596 QAJF #2
>>22228099 Scotland #12
>>21699204 Singapore #1
>>20969267 South Africa #13
>>19804572 UK #51
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#27292 >>22313510
>>22313595 Dough claim
>>22313608 Insightful Meme
>>22313706 Palisades fire: Fast-moving fire prompts evacuations
>>22313728 'Satanic' Calendar of events January 2025
>>22313753 Santa Ana winds delay Biden's national monument plans in California
>>22313763 The sister of Sam Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of sexually abusing her for almost a decade, in a lawsuit filed in federal court
>>22313785 Dangerous winds prompt Southern California Edison to shut off power to thousands of customers. Here's where
>>22313861 getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
>>22313881 A former U.S. Air Force commander accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl will have a military pretrial hearing Thursday, more than two years after he was first arrested.
>>22313885, >>22314185 Lights out LA.
>>22313913 Wildfires rage through Los Angeles
>>22313945 Current CA Wildfires Situation (Eaton & Palisades Fires)
>>22314190 Five fires now. (Palisades, Eaton, Tamarack, Bert, Hurst)
>>22314322 #27292
#27291 >>22312609
>>22312645, >>22312694 Nvidia's CES 2025 Event: Everything Revealed in 12 Minutes
>>22312665 This is a really remarkable historic chart of tariffs as % of total federal revenue
>>22312669 US blacklists Tencent, a Chinese military tech giant company
>>22312674 House GOP holds first presser of 119th Congress amid reconciliation debate
>>22312688 ICE has been 'handcuffed' says Trump's incoming 'border czar'
>>22312698 John Deere's new robot lawnmower is coming for landscapers' jobs
>>22313254 Newsom updates state response to Palisades Fire
>>22312705, >>22313454, >>22313265, >>22312755, >>22312824, >>22313490, >>22313204, >>22312916 LA wildfire
>>22312741 The patch from Space Force base "Pituffik Space Base" Greenland
>>22312750 Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality (doesn't need satellite guidance)
>>22312818, >>22313491 WE WON THANKS TO OUR BIG, BEAUTIFUL KEYBOARD WARRIORS!!!????—I SEE YOU!!!
>>22312846, >>22313255 Not-a-Planefagfag
>>22312978 Jagmeet Singh getting involved in the beef
>>22313036, >>22313024, >>22313103, >>22313145, >>22313433 Jordan Peterson talks about the Pakistani Rape Gang problem in the UK
>>22313339 Up is down, left is right
>>22313166, >>22313182 UK: Sophie, a 12 year old girl repeatedly raped hours after police ignored her pleas for help
>>22313112 New Jersey ends basic reading and writing skills test requirement for teachers
>>22313126 O'Keefe: VA Insider Reveals HHS Memo Detailing "Presidential Inauguration [Medical Personnel] Support Deployment Request"
>>22313371 The sister of Sam Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of sexually abusing her for almost a decade, in a lawsuit filed in federal court
>>22313436 Owner of Brooklyn-Based Credit Counseling Business Sentenced to More Than 11 Years in Prison for Defrauding Clients
>>22313024, >>22313042, >>22313068, >>22313103, >>22313109, >>22313145, >>22313219, >>22313284, >>22313286, >>22313293, >>22313304, >>22313317, >>22313320, >>22313329, >>22313372, >>22313387, >>22313433, >>22313491 Memes
>>22313499 #27291
#27290 >>22311785
>>22311803 NC Supreme Court Blocks State From Certifying Democrat Justice Riggs as Winner of Election as GOP Challenges Shady Ballots
>>22311818 Nigel Farage breaks cover after falling out with Elon Musk
>>22312103, >>22312193 Nigel Farage Accuses Tommy Robinson Of 'Violence Against Women'; Tommy's Ex Defends Him
>>22311874, >>22312031, >>22312460, >>22312227, >>22311890, >>22312220, >>22312284, >>22312396 Windstorm triggers wildfires across LA
>>22311929 Meghan Markle dog comms?
>>22312128 Venezuelan President Maduro says two "very high-level" US citizens have been arrested in Venezuela alongside a group of 7 mercenaries
>>22312167 Researchers on quest to prove autistic people have telepathic abilities... and even Joe Rogan is convinced
>>22312176 AOC Flashback: "I was almost raped and killed on January 6th in the Capitol building" (she wasn't even there)
>>22312182 Axios interview: Susie Wiles vows to block West Wing troublemakers
>>22312196 Trump full transcript on Hugh Hewitt
>>22312231 Who are the best congressional stock traders?
>>22312264 This dude thinks the real threat is @ElonMusk, not the mass coverup of the UK grooming gang story
>>22312277 Trump: 'We're going to try to have a policy where no windmills are being built'
>>22312296 Trudeau: There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States
>>22312301 DJT: We're changing the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America
>>22312478 DJT: It's called rain, it comes down from heaven, and they want to do no water comes out of the shower; it goes drip, drip, drip
>>22312501 Biden FDA moves forward with rule to lower nicotine in cigarettes, a 'gift' to cartels, critic says
>>22312507 Trump says using U.S. Military to take Greenland and Panama Canal is not off the table
>>22312522 Court Awards Judicial Watch $21,578 'Fees and Costs' in Open Records Lawsuit against Fani Willis
>>22312556, >>22312588 Mark Zuckerberg wears rare $900K Swiss watch to reveal major shift on Meta's free speech
>>22311828, >>22311895, >>22311935, >>22311937, >>22312062 Memes
>>22312597 #27290
#27289 >>22310992
>>22311011 @RealSKeshel: Gulf of America - Counties in Red won by Trump
>>22311048 Trump White House seeks to limit staff who have direct access to the president | NBC
>>22311049 VIDEO: Rep. Pete Aguilar claims there were "AR-15s" and "guns and weapons" inside the Capitol on Jan. 6
>>22311058 Kamala Delivers a Eulogy at the Lying in State Ceremony for Former President Carter
>>22311059 @disclosetv: New York appeals court denies Trump's bid to delay Friday's sentencing in hush money case.
>>22311059 Trump Truth @ 3:50pm EST – Jeffrey Sachs interview video re Middle East: the finger is pointed at Obama, CIA, Netanyahu.
>>22311068, >>22311388, >>22311396, >>22311412, >>22311512, >>22311710 LA Wildfire, Biden was scheduled to speak in the city this fire started.
>>22311070 @disclosetv: Vaccine stocks jump on U.S. bird flu death — WSJ
>>22311125 PF: GTMO844 update
>>22311166 First Photo of Site Hit By Russian "Oreshnik" Missile - Complete devastation!
>>22311172. >>22311180 Court Awards Judicial Watch $21,578 'Fees and Costs' in Open Records Lawsuit against Fani Willis
>>22311196 U.S. attorney from Massachusetts District Joshua Levy resigns
>>22311233 @MarioNawfal: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban exposed how Soros told the EU it had to accept millions of migrants
>>22311263 FBI has uncovered 'additional criminal conduct' by NYC Mayor Eric Adams | ABC
>>22311282 John Fetterman Is First Senate Democrat To Step Up, Sponsor Laken Riley Act
>>22311225, >>22311265, >>22311283, >>22311334 Hey Canada, if Trump takes Canada he will deport all the illegals. The world will be a better place.
>>22311339 Four people rescued, three remain missing after seaplane crashes into ocean near Rottnest Island in Western Australia
>>22311346 VIDEO: jess philips says Elon Musk is causing her life to be threatened
>>22311352 Australia's secret war in Yemen ... just don't call it a war | MICHAEL WEST
>>22311373 Cannibalism horror in Australia jungle fighters wield machetes and pose with a severed human foot: 'This is our meat' | DAILYMAIL
>>22311381, >>22311404, >>22311417, >>22311465, >>22311494, >>22311518, >>22311547, >>22311460, >>22311483 Jimmy Carter History Bun
>>22311462 @BRICSinfo: Iranian state media reports that "in the coming hours, the world will witness unusual scenes and extraordinary events."
>>22311476 @thejimwatkins: re 9chan: "It's the sunrise of a new era."
>>22311505 @WesternLensman: Tom Homan announces that he will be doing a weekly briefing from the White House
>>22311531 Preemptive Strikes On Iran Will Be A 'Real Possibility' Under Trump: Officials | ZERO HEDGE
>>22311560 VIDEO: Steve Forbes on Trump's Press Conference Today: "Trump did more in one hour than Biden did in four years ... The contrast was vivid."
>>22311578 @CollinRugg: Irvine, California middle school teacher arrested for allegedly trying to meet up with a minor.
>>22311595 How Jill Biden Meghan-Markled A President | THE FEDERALIST
>>22311603 'America First' meets Greenland, Taiwan, and the Panama Canal | RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT
>>22311604 @EricLDaugh: Ron DeSantis says his appointment to the U.S. Senate in Marco Rubio's opening seat will be someone who is tough on the H-1B visa program - POLITICO
>>22311708 Amazon pays $40 million to license new Melania Trump documentary film | POST MILLENNIAL
>>22311726 It Begins: China Cuts Undersea Internet Cables to Taiwan | GATEWAY PUNDIT
>>22311776 #27289
#27288 >>22309958
>>22310273, >>22310278 ARCHIVING President Trump Mar-A-Lago Press Conference
>>22309974 Biden Releases Gitmo Terrorists To Oman
>>22310021, >>22310328 @Papi DADDY IS NOT MESSING AROUND!!! MAGA!!!
>>22310045 Trump's Middle East envoy is heading to Doha today to help secure a ceasefire deal to release the hostages
>>22310049 Carol Rosenberg GITMO UPDATE
>>22310053 The Glaring Hypocrisy And Embedded Deceptions Of The Global Food Giants
>>22310067 D.C. Cardinal: Mass Deportation of Illegals 'Incompatible with Catholic Doctrine'
>>22310099 The House just passed the Laken Riley Act and 159 Democrats voted against it.
>>22310114, >>22310159, >>22310225, >>22310324 Space Related
>>22310143 Louisiana mayor arrested after drug trafficking investigation
>>22310187 Pentagon reaches settlement with more than 35,000 gay and lesbian ex-service members
>>22310204 Breakthrough in sodium-ion battery technology could end U.S. dependence on Chinese batteries
>>22310227 @ADL is deeply concerned about META's commitment to addressing antisemitism and hate
>>22310254, >>22310268 TOP QUOTES from WORLD "LEADERS" infatuated with POPULATION CONTROL
>>22310282, >>22310734 This dad's rant perfectly captures the mood of the country
>>22310438 Major Earthquake and Storm, BIG Science News
>>22310455 @Schiff - Allowing Jack Smith's report to be buried would be indefensible.
>>22310466 Drug Cartels are now Mexico's 5TH LARGEST EMPLOYER in the country
>>22310532 Boebert Introduces Legislation To Abolish The ATF
>>22310519, >>22310543, >>22310633, >>22310666, >>22310703, >>22310741, >>22310778 DRONES
>>22310538, >>22310647, >>22310678, >>22310678, >>22310685, >>22310897 Late President Jimmy Carter Arrives Joint Base Andrews STATE FUNERAL
>>22310624 new Dan Scavino twat video
>>22310645 Keir Starmer May Cut Britain's Security Ties With U.S. Unless Trump Distances Himself From Musk
>>22310655, >>22310892, >>22310899, >>22310903 #PalisadesFire - The Hollywood Hills above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles are on fire.
>>22310743 Illegal migrant was arrested with an AR-15 rifle and hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs found in his taxpayer-funded hotel room
>>22310788 Two death row inmates reject Biden's clemency
>>22310820 Connecticut's top federal prosecutor will resign hours before Donald Trump takes office
>>22310830 Drip , Drip , Drip
>>22310858 Legacy Media Die-Off In Full Swing As WaPo Set To Lay Off Dozens More.
>>22310874 CNN on Trial for Defamation as Network Execs Forced to Take the Stand
>>22310932, >>22310933 Trump just re-posted Marc Andreesen's tariff history chart.
>>22310934 - 159 Democrats Voted Against The Laken Riley Act!
>>22310951 @thejimwatkins - Mark didn't take into account the resilience of the Anons.
>>22310981 #27288
Previously Collected
>>22309087 #27286, >>22309939 #27287
>>22306612 #27283, >>22307373 #27284, >>22308141 #27285
>>22303983 #27280, >>22304807 #27281, >>22305733 #27282
>>22301374 #27277, >>22302173 #27278, >>22303142 #27279
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#22314322 at 2025-01-08 08:07:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27292: Up Down Left Right Edition
Final
…Bakering the thing now
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#27292 >>22313510
>>22313595 Dough claim
>>22313608 Insightful Meme
>>22313706 Palisades fire: Fast-moving fire prompts evacuations
>>22313728 'Satanic' Calendar of events January 2025
>>22313753 Santa Ana winds delay Biden's national monument plans in California
>>22313763 The sister of Sam Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of sexually abusing her for almost a decade, in a lawsuit filed in federal court
>>22313785 Dangerous winds prompt Southern California Edison to shut off power to thousands of customers. Here's where
>>22313861 getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
>>22313881 A former U.S. Air Force commander accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl will have a military pretrial hearing Thursday, more than two years after he was first arrested.
>>22313885, >>22314185 Lights out LA.
>>22313913 Wildfires rage through Los Angeles
>>22313945 Current CA Wildfires Situation (Eaton & Palisades Fires)
>>22314190 Five fires now. (Palisades, Eaton, Tamarack, Bert, Hurst)
#27292
#22314302 at 2025-01-08 07:56:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27292: Up Down Left Right Edition
Last call
…Bakering the thing ~@720
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#27292 >>22313510
>>22313595 Dough claim
>>22313608 Insightful Meme
>>22313706 Palisades fire: Fast-moving fire prompts evacuations
>>22313728 'Satanic' Calendar of events January 2025
>>22313753 Santa Ana winds delay Biden's national monument plans in California
>>22313763 The sister of Sam Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of sexually abusing her for almost a decade, in a lawsuit filed in federal court
>>22313785 Dangerous winds prompt Southern California Edison to shut off power to thousands of customers. Here's where
>>22313861 getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
>>22313881 A former U.S. Air Force commander accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl will have a military pretrial hearing Thursday, more than two years after he was first arrested.
>>22313885, >>22314185 Lights out LA.
>>22313913 Wildfires rage through Los Angeles
>>22313945 Current CA Wildfires Situation (Eaton & Palisades Fires)
>>22314190 Five fires now. (Palisades, Eaton, Tamarack, Bert, Hurst)
#27292
#22314198 at 2025-01-08 07:23:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27292: Up Down Left Right Edition
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#27292 >>22313510
>>22313595 Dough claim
>>22313608 Insightful Meme
>>22313706 Palisades fire: Fast-moving fire prompts evacuations
>>22313728 'Satanic' Calendar of events January 2025
>>22313753 Santa Ana winds delay Biden's national monument plans in California
>>22313763 The sister of Sam Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of sexually abusing her for almost a decade, in a lawsuit filed in federal court
>>22313785 Dangerous winds prompt Southern California Edison to shut off power to thousands of customers. Here's where
>>22313861 getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
>>22313881 A former U.S. Air Force commander accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl will have a military pretrial hearing Thursday, more than two years after he was first arrested.
>>22313885, >>22314185 Lights out LA.
>>22313913 Wildfires rage through Los Angeles
>>22313945 Current CA Wildfires Situation (Eaton & Palisades Fires)
>>22314190 Five fires now. (Palisades, Eaton, Tamarack, Bert, Hurst)
#27292
#22314039 at 2025-01-08 06:43:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27292: Up Down Left Right Edition
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#27292 >>22313510
>>22313595 Dough claim
>>22313706 Palisades fire: Fast-moving fire prompts evacuations
>>22313728 'Satanic' Calendar of events January 2025
>>22313753 Santa Ana winds delay Biden's national monument plans in California
>>22313763 The sister of Sam Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of sexually abusing her for almost a decade, in a lawsuit filed in federal court
>>22313785 Dangerous winds prompt Southern California Edison to shut off power to thousands of customers. Here's where
>>22313861 getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
>>22313881 A former U.S. Air Force commander accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl will have a military pretrial hearing Thursday, more than two years after he was first arrested.
>>22313885 Lights out LA.
>>22313913 Wildfires rage through Los Angeles
>>22313945 Current CA Wildfires Situation (Eaton & Palisades Fires)
#27292
#22313861 at 2025-01-08 06:01:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27292: Up Down Left Right Edition
8 News Now
@8NewsNow 20m
getty Images and Shutterstock to merge to become $3.7 billion visual content company
trib.al/ZIqwhnZ
Jan 8, 2025 ? 5:40 AM UTC
https://twitter.com/8NewsNow/status/1876866446686310805
>>22313530
#22313704 at 2025-01-08 05:19:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27292: Up Down Left Right Edition
>>22313627
In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, Anz? is a divine storm-bird and the personification of the southern wind and the thunder clouds.[4] This demon-half man and half bird-stole the "Tablet of Destinies" from Enlil and hid them on a mountaintop. Anu ordered the other gods to retrieve the tablet, even though they all feared the demon. According to one text, Marduk killed the bird; in another, it died through the arrows of the god Ninurta.[5]
Anzu also appears in the story of "Inanna and the Huluppu Tree",[6] which is recorded in the preamble to the Sumerian epic poem Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld.[7]
Anzu appears in the Sumerian Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird (also called: The Return of Lugalbanda).
>>22313413 PB
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/california/2025/01/07/brush-fire-fueled-by-santa-ana-winds-threatens-homes-in-los-angeles/77515781007/
Brush fire fueled by Santa Ana winds threatens homes in Los Angeles
5 hours ago … A brush fire pushed by dangerously high-speed Santa Ana winds threatened homes in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles on >>22313660
>>22313675
https://www.getty.edu/publications/resources/virtuallibrary/0892360119.pdf
The J. Paul getty Museum Journal Volume 5 1977
wegen seiner Gleichsetzung mit Herakles sicher anzu- nehmen, die Binde k?me ihm dann wegen seiner. Verschmelzung mit dem kultisch verehrten
water
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Classical element
Earth, water, air, fire, and (later) aether
Classical element
Overview
The classical elements typically refer to earth, water, air, fire, and (later) aether which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances. Ancient cultures in Greece, Angola, Tibet, India, and Mali had similar lists which sometimes referred, in local languages, to "air" as "wind", and to "aether" as "space".
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#22313530 at 2025-01-08 04:47:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27292: Up Down Left Right Edition
>>22313510
tyb
getty museum and villa
Santa Monica Peer close and Marina Del Rey..
trafficking hotspot
https://q-resear.ch/?q=getty+%2Btunnels
sauce ^^^ anons
#22313121 at 2025-01-08 03:29:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27291: Fani the Flames Edition
Newsome is part of the getty Family
getty museum burns as Newsome stands by watching.
This movie is getting good.
#22312945 at 2025-01-08 03:00:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27291: Fani the Flames Edition
>>22312865
>its connected by tunnels to harbor in long beach and also to the getty museum in hollywood hills
Can you sauce that pls?
#22312865 at 2025-01-08 02:48:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27291: Fani the Flames Edition
>>22312824
its connected by tunnels to harbor in long beach and also to the getty museum in hollywood hills
#22312824 at 2025-01-08 02:43:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27291: Fani the Flames Edition
getty Villa Art Museum Ablaze in LA
https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/1876806525370405201
Guys iirc creepy shit went on here, right?
#22312657 at 2025-01-08 02:12:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27291: Fani the Flames Edition
Watching a guy named Evan Fryberger weather reporter who has live feed up on You Tube and he just said getty Museum is on fire.
#22312545 at 2025-01-08 01:50:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27290: LA Fires Edition
>>22312396
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/mesopotamia/
Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins - getty Museum
The exhibition covers three millennia, from the first cities in about 3200 BC to Alexander the Great's conquest of Babylon in 331 BC.
>Is the fire in the vicinity of the Bohemian Grove?
>>22312336
>>22312332
Russian River Corridor flash flooding
The Press Democrat
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Read the story: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article… ...
#22312525 at 2025-01-08 01:46:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27290: LA Fires Edition
>>22312396
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/mesopotamia/
Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins - getty Museum
The exhibition covers three millennia, from the first cities in about 3200 BC to Alexander the Great's conquest of Babylon in 331 BC.
#22312396 at 2025-01-08 01:29:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27290: LA Fires Edition
>>22312284
getty Villa Museum
Greek and Roman antiquities housed in a re-created Roman country home
https://www.getty.edu/visit/villa/
Address
17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, USA
#22312333 at 2025-01-08 01:21:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27290: LA Fires Edition
>>22312284
there was another small fire near the getty Museum as well.
#22306652 at 2025-01-07 02:46:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27284: Getting Closer to Freedom Day Edition
>>22306636
is it played by Estelle getty?
#22301446 at 2025-01-06 11:19:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27278: Two Weeks Away Edition
https://www.dailywire.com/news/thune-republicans-need-to-be-realistic-about-how-many-deportations-there-will-be
Thune: Republicans Need To Be 'Realistic' About How Many Deportations There Will Be
Thune said the top priority needed to be deporting all the criminal illegal aliens first.
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Thune said the top priority needed to be deporting all the criminal illegal aliens first.
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Sen. John Thune (R-SD) speaks during a news conference following a closed-door lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol March 22, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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Sen. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) suggested during an interview over the weekend that Republicans needed to have "realistic" expectations about how many deportations will happen during the next four years under President-elect Donald Trump.
Thune made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News' "Meet The Press" when asked about Trump's top agenda item after taking office - the removal of millions of illegal aliens who have invaded the country under President Joe Biden.
"Certainly there are categories of people who've committed crimes," he said when talking about who should be targeted first for deportation. "There are over a million people that the current administration had targeted for deportation. And so I think that we have to take seriously the fact that there are a lot of people in this country today, over 10 million, who've come in just in the last four years under this administration's policies, many of whom are not here for good reasons."
"I mean, we know we've apprehended almost 300 people at the southern border that are on the terrorist watch list. And you've got criminals, and cartel members, and gang members, and all of the above," he continued. "So I think that as we think about what those next steps are, the first thing is securing that border, and making sure that we change the incentive structure so people aren't incentivized to come here illegally, which they have been for the past four years, and that we do everything to ensure that the border personnel, the ICE agents and border agents, have the resources that they need to do their job."
He said that in addition to the resources needed to remove the illegal aliens, more physical barriers were needed to secure the southern border in addition to advanced technology that can assist Border Patrol agents.
"It's going to take resources, obviously, to get people to leave the country," he said. "We're going to have to make sure the administration has the resources they need to enable them to do that. Is it realistic to deport everybody? I mean, there's a lot of people in this country who are here illegally."
"But I think they have identified already and, like I said, anybody who has committed a crime in this country clearly out to be on that list," he said. "And there are a bunch of folks, over a million, 1.4 million I think, on the current administration's list of people that need to be deported. So start with that, and then we'll go from there and figure it out. But I think that the administration when they take office, these are decisions, obviously, they're going to have to make."
Video at link
#22291355 at 2025-01-04 17:28:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27267: Saturday Mornin NCSWIC /Thule??? Edition
>>22291326
>ty. not so much nuke issues then.
yw..Think you were thinking Designated Survivor.
>>22291192
>wasn't something like that rumored around inauguration 2017
supposedly there was no designated survivior for Potato fake Inauguration
Who Was the Designated Survivor for the Inauguration? Outgoing Administration Doesn't Say
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Guests attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.
Guests attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
Published January 20, 2021
The Trump administration did not reveal the "designated survivor" for Wednesday's inauguration ceremony, and it remains unclear whether the White House named one.
During major events, such as the State of the Union address or inauguration, the nation's top leaders in the presidential line of succession are gathered in one place, putting them and the nation at risk. One person, usually a Cabinet member or senator, is placed in an undisclosed location with one of the country's nuclear "footballs" – the briefcase carrying the technology to launch the nation's nuclear arsenal, according to John Hudak, deputy director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
In the case of an inauguration, the person is normally designated by the outgoing administration, he said.
Read Next: Capitol Police Officer and Army Vet Eugene Goodman Promoted, Escorts VP to Inauguration
Given that President Joe Biden, as a former vice president, is familiar with the potential threat that faces the nation's leadership, the U.S. probably doesn't have to "worry that there is not [a designated survivor]," he added.
"Not announcing the designated survivor well in advance is acceptable behavior to me. Announcing it at the last minute is fine. … It doesn't raise any alarms for me … because the one thing you don't want to do is have the protocols in place, announce it early and then have something happen to that person," Hudak said.
For Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration, there were two designated survivors: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, President Barack Obama's pick, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican serving as president pro tem of the Senate who was in the line of succession.
A spokesman for the Trump administration's National Security Council did not respond to a query regarding the survivor-designate Tuesday.
According to Hudak, security in D.C. was so high around the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday that the risk of a catastrophe had been narrowed "pretty dramatically."
But Hudak, who expressed in a column that Vice President Kamala Harris should have been sworn in at a separate location from Biden, said the threat of attack remained viable.
"When you look at the counterintelligence and other investigations, you're hearing the same things about 'online chatter.' You are hearing about radicalization, extremist ideologies. We are talking about Americans in this sense, the way we said the same things about al-Qaida 20 years ago and the same thing about ISIS," Hudak said.
As VIPs were introduced during the inauguration ceremony Wednesday, one of the most obvious absences in the line of succession was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Several others took their seats on the scaffolding, including Senate President Pro Tempore Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and incoming President Pro Tempore Sen. Patrick Leahy.
Hudak cautioned against determining who might be the designated survivor from those present and absent at the event, especially in a year where the outgoing president chose not to attend.
"The challenge is, if you get down into the cabinet, to see who is or who's not there, like if Mike Pompeo is not there, it might just be because he doesn't want to go," Hudak said.
Regardless, at noon Wednesday, Biden's codes for the nuclear arsenal were activated and he gained possession of the briefcase containing the technology to launch the nation's weapons. At the same time, Trump's were deactivated.
#22289732 at 2025-01-04 08:02:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27265: Karmageddon Edition
>>22289561
>>22289699
Bible
Bush/Cheney
Obama/Biden
Behind The Scenes Of President Barack Obama's Inauguration
WASHINGTON D.C. - JANUARY 20: Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn welcome Barack H. Obama and his wife Michelle and Joe and Jill Biden to a coffee morning with congressional leaders in the Blue room of the White House before he is sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected to the office of President in the history of the United States. (Photo by Charles Ommanney/getty Images)
Jenna Bush, if looks could kill.
Cheney wheelchair makes think GITMO wheelchair ramp additions in blueprints.
#22277576 at 2025-01-02 13:13:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27251: Freedom Day Can't Come Soon Enough Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/01/hundreds-march-for-intifada-in-nyc-hours-after-terror-attacks-in-new-orleans-las-vegas/
Hundreds March for 'Intifada' in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas
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NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 21: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather to march throu
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#22272694 at 2025-01-01 21:46:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27245: Attacks Will Intensify Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1874572525947998215
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Over 150 explosives seized from Virginia home by FBI, largest supply ever taken by agency
FBI agent, computer, file image | getty Images
From justthenews.com
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#22272358 at 2025-01-01 20:59:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27245: Attacks Will Intensify Edition
>>22272351
Gavin Newsom/getty/Willie Brown/Kamala Harris/Joe Biden/Kimberly Guilfoyle/Balthazar getty/: Jennifer Newsom/Harvey Weinstein
#22272263 at 2025-01-01 20:47:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27245: Attacks Will Intensify Edition
>>22272225
pelosi newsom have distant tie thru marriage
https://heightline.com/is-gavin-newsom-related-to-nancy-pelosi-heres-what-we-know/
Adara Press
https://adarapress.com > 2021 > 08 > 25 > california-governor-gavin-newsoms-father-traveled-europe-with-otto-albrecht-von-bolschwing-a-gestapo-ss-officer-over-a-period-of-two-years
Gavin Newsom's father worked for NAZI Gestapo - SS Officer: Otto …
Gavin Newsom's father, William Newsom, served as a close advisor to the wealthy getty family-a family whose patriarch supported Adolf Hitler (according to British intelligence). Despite this (or could it be, because of this) Governor Newsom's father, William Newsom became a Justice at the 1st District Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
#22272225 at 2025-01-01 20:42:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27245: Attacks Will Intensify Edition
>>22272185
Paul Hewson
Paul Pelosi
J. Paul getty
#22271076 at 2025-01-01 18:04:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27243: BIDEN CHINA TOGETHER AGAIN #2013 Edition
Were the threesomes the reason Don Jr. and Kimberley went their separate ways?
Wednesday, January 01, 2025
Blind Items Revealed #1
July 1, 2024
In anticipation of the call coming, the state A++ lister (#1) has involved the wealthy family (#2) to help finance what needs to be done. He also has called in someone who once was the right hand person to this former city A++ lister (#3) who has a lot of experience hiding things and keeping people bought and paid for and quiet like the next in line (#4) to the current A++ lister (#5). At issue are a couple of things. There are of courser the threesomes with the former news anchor (#6) but she will keep quiet out of self interest. The tapes that have long been sought are still held by the former A- list actor (#7) as his permanent get out of jail free card from both parties. The current significant other (#8) of #1 has their own sordid past, but everyone thinks that is on lockdown. They would be wrong. There are men and women waiting in the wings to share all kinds of stories, including some associates of the imprisoned producer (#9) who wants to trade the information for whatever kind of pardon he can get in the state of #1. With what happened in the other state, it could see him a free man. He is desperate. Then, we can't forget about what happened when #1 was a city A++ lister and the multiple women who have been paid for years. There is the one couple (#10) though who have not gone quietly and will have plenty to say. There is also the waitress (#11) who works at a very high end restaurant who has so far stayed quiet about the parent of her baby.
Gavin Newsom/getty/Willie Brown/Kamala Harris/Joe Biden/Kimberly Guilfoyle/Balthazar getty/: Jennifer Newsom/Harvey Weinstein
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2025/01/blind-items-revealed-1.html
#22259044 at 2024-12-30 23:51:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27230: Hackz Crackz & Automobiles Edition
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-bush-funeral-front-rows-20181205-story.html
Former presidents, vice presidents, first ladies and President Trump attend Wednesday's state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush at Washington National Cathedral. (Chip Somodevilla / getty Images)
Every living president and their spouses attended the funeral of George H.W. Bush on Wednesday. Here are some of the names and faces in the first two rows:
1. President Trump
2. First Lady Melania Trump
3. Former President Barack Obama
4. Former First Lady Michelle Obama
5. Former President Bill Clinton
6. Former First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
7. Former President Jimmy Carter
8. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
9. Vice President Mike Pence
10. Second Lady Karen Pence
11. Former Vice President Dan Quayle
12. Former Second Lady Marilyn Quayle
13. Former Vice President Dick Cheney
14. Former Second Lady Lynne Cheney
15. Former Vice President Joe Biden
16. Former Second Lady Jill Biden
17. Former Vice President Al Gore
Jeb Bush, Laura Bush and George W. Bush at the state funeral for President George H.W. Bush on Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral.
(Alex Brandon / EPA-Shutterstock)
18. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
19. Former First Lady Laura Bush
20. Former President George W. Bush
#22258905 at 2024-12-30 23:27:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27230: Hackz Crackz & Automobiles Edition
>>22258862
>>22258862
I think he is
the Rush rocker getty Lee or a getty Lee look-a-like
#22234155 at 2024-12-27 02:14:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27202: Keep Working As A Team Edition
https://x.com/atensnut/status/1872465268338786422
Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut
Holy Shit !! Joe goofed on dates of Hunter's pardon. ????Pardon only goes back to 2014. Oops!!
Bombshell photos show Joe and Hunter Biden met with Chinese President in 2013, John Solomon reports | Just The News
BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 04: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden waves as he walks out of Air Force Two with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden and son Hunter Biden (R) on December 4, 2013 in Beijing, China. | Photo by Ng Han Guan-Pool/getty Images
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#22227490 at 2024-12-25 21:56:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27195: Fa La La La La, La La La TRUMP Edition
Gaetz Campaign's Reports of Vast Spending on Fees Are Scrutinized
The former Florida lawmaker disclosed millions in payments to financial middleman Stripe, drawing an FEC complaint by an advocacy group.
By David Ingold and Ted Mann
November 21, 2024 at 3:00 PM PST
Matt Gaetz speaks during the Florida Freedom Summit in Kissimmee, Florida, in 2023.
Photographer: Joe Raedle/getty Images
Former Congressman Matt Gaetz's campaign committee has reported spending millions of dollars on Stripe Inc.'s payment-processing services in recent years, though it now says that those funds ultimately went somewhere else - and campaign-finance watchers say that's a problem.
During the 2024 election cycle, Gaetz's principal campaign committee, Friends of Matt Gaetz, said in Federal Election Commission filings that it had paid a total of $1.2 million in "e-merchant fees" to Stripe, a San Francisco-based financial-services company. The sum is equivalent to about 19% of all contributions the campaign took in during the period, the filings show.
https://campaignlegal.org/press-releases/new-campaign-legal-center-files-fec-complaint-against-matt-gaetzs-campaign-over
#22221909 at 2024-12-24 18:24:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27190: Let it Rain #Christmas Edition
>>22221876
REPOST AS LINKS OR BREADS WERE DELETED
ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
Note: archive from last post. continued in next comment, very long opine article, continued in comments post linked.
>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
It is late afternoon on Inauguration Day 2025. Protesters fill the downtowns of American cities, enraging the newly sworn president. Send in the military, he demands. Invoke the Insurrection Act. Federalize the National Guard in all 50 states. Tell the troops to use all the force they need to clear the streets.
So began one of five tabletop exercises I co-led in May and June, along with former Defense Department official Rosa Brooks and historian Nils Gilman. We based the starting scenarios on the election of former president Donald Trump to a second term, and we asked participants playing the president, all of them Republicans or former Republicans, to base their gameplay on Trump's publicly stated promises.
As a nonpartisan think tank, my employer, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, takes no position on how Americans should cast their votes. Nor do we predict who will win in November. Some of my colleagues are doing scenario planning for a Democratic victory, too.
The role-playing exercises were designed to test how well checks and balances, broadly understood, might restrain a president from abusing his power. The results were not encouraging: The games demonstrated repeatedly that an authoritarian in control of the executive branch, with little concern for legal limits, holds a structural advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
But they point to preparations that could be undertaken now to improve the odds for democracy and the rule of law - and some existing guardrails that might not be widely understood.
Participants in our exercises, 175 in all, included Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, independents and centrists. Many had held senior positions under Trump or a previous president. Among them were former Cabinet secretaries, former governors and state attorneys general, former members of the House and Senate, a retired ambassador, retired flag and general officers, a retired federal appellate judge, labor leaders, faith leaders, grass-roots organizers, members of the Brennan Center staff and C-suite executives.
We gathered twice by videoconference and three times in a hotel conference room outside Washington for six-hour sessions around a large U-shaped table. About 35 players per game were assigned to the Red, Blue or Nonaligned teams. (Those colors do not signify political parties - they are the conventional ones used in government tabletop exercises.) The players announced their moves and countermoves, negotiated, interrupted one another and occasionally shouted over our unflappable controller, Ed McGrady, an experienced game architect.
The starting scenarios did not test policy questions within the ordinary bounds of democratic debate: taxes, regulation, climate change. We focused instead on threats to democracy itself and the institutions that uphold it, such as misuse of regulatory or prosecutorial powers to punish political foes.
None of the exercises left us sanguine. Participants were almost uniformly sobered by the paucity of effective constraints on abuse of power. The exercises showed emphatically that Trump's authoritarian promises, with implementing details in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, pose a profound threat to constitutional government. Defenders of democracy, our participants assessed, must do more than they are doing now to prepare. The exercises suggest that it would not be possible to block every abuse, but there are tools available to deflect, delay and diminish the damage.
continued.
#22221876 at 2024-12-24 18:16:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27190: Let it Rain #Christmas Edition
>>22221856
yep did a massive dig on that and archived the john brennon table top excerise roll played by major ngos and big names.
see below
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USA, BLINKIN TURNS AGAINST MURDURO AND STATES URRUTIA WON ELECTION!!
Note: A strange situation in Venezuela, Muduro wins by cheating, the people revolt, many countries back Edmundo Gonz?lez Urrutia against Murduro, Murduro brings in the army, some of the army side with Urrutia and now the USA blinkin backs Urrutia.
Why is this weird, because hugo chavis helped set up smartmatic the election counting machines which have corrupted all elections with its partners and something Murduro has benefited from. now Alex Soros chimes in with his tweet and article. Will post full articule, but there is clown fuckery here ..
>>21336509, >>21336543, >>21336540, Venezuela election result, benny johnson and alex soros, blinkin backs loser against Murduro - A bun worthy of anons attention.
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Benny Johnson
The United States Department of State issues a statement recognizing Edmundo Gonz?lez Urrutia as the new President Elect of Venezuelaand says "overwhelming evidence" shows he defeated Nicol?s Maduro
8:47 PM ? Aug 1, 2024?76.5K Views
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1819173138724221156
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August 1, 2024
Assessing the Results of Venezuela's Presidential Election
Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
Note: archive from last post. continued in next comment, very long opine article, continued in comments post linked.
>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
#22221856 at 2024-12-24 18:09:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27190: Let it Rain #Christmas Edition
>>22221750
The article's image, which was shown in Alex Soros' post, was an illustration with two getty stock photos: one of glass shattered around a bullet hole and one of a hand holding $47 in cash. On X, article previews currently include the article's image, the source, and the headline of the article. [The Atlantic, 1/18/24; 9to5Google, 1/4/24]
https://www.mediamatters.org/george-soros/far-right-figures-baselessly-claim-alex-soros-posted-article-atlantic-direct-threat
Alex Soros
@AlexanderSoros
Last year, the crime and inflation crises largely evaporated. So did the leading theories about what had caused them.
From theatlantic.com
4:55 PM ? Jan 21, 2024
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https://x.com/AlexanderSoros/status/1749234395192414308
#22216365 at 2024-12-23 18:39:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27184: Welcome to the United States Canal!
>>22216227
>Rep. Michael Patrick Guest trip to Bellagio, Italy on Apr. 1, 2024
>>22216276
>financial disclosure form
>>22216299
>financial disclosure form
Rep. Michael Guest's son, 20, arrested at Jason Aldean's Nashville bar for dousing cop with ice
By Olivia Land
Published Feb. 27, 2024, 4:00 p.m. ET
The 20-year-old son of a Republican House member was arrested over the weekend after allegedly tossing a cup of ice at a police officer while drinking at a Nashville bar.
Michael "Patton" Guest - the son of Mississippi Rep. Michael Guest, who serves as the chairman of the House Ethics Committee - was nabbed late Friday at Jason Aldean's bar in downtown Nashville, WKRN reported.
A Metro Nashville police officer was supposedly on a patrol in front of the popular watering hole when a plastic cup full of ice fell from above and hit him on the foot shortly after 11 p.m., the outlet said, citing the arrest report.
Michael "Patton" Guest mugshot. 3
Michael "Patton" Guest, 20, was arrested in Nashville over the weekend. Metro Nashville Police Department
When the officer looked up, he saw people at the rooftop bar pointing in the opposite direction.
Patton Guest, 20, was subsequently spotted on the surveillance cameras, which apparently captured him "intentionally" throwing the plastic cup, WKRN explained.
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He was arrested at the bar with two alcoholic beverages in his hands, the outlet added.
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Rep. Michael Guest is the House Ethics Commitee chairman. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via getty Images
The Mississippi State University student eventually admitted to throwing the drink while police were completing their paperwork, authorities said.
He also copped to drinking that night, despite being underage.
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Patton (right) is a student at Mississippi State.. Facebook / Haley Kennedy Guest
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The young man - whose father also serves on Congress' Law Enforcement Caucus - was charged with disorderly conduct, underage drinking and assaulting an officer, online jail records showed.
Patton's bond was set at $2,500, and he was granted pretrial release ahead of his March 15 court appearance, the Washington Examiner said.
Congressman Guest's office declined to comment on the incident.
#22215941 at 2024-12-23 16:38:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27183: Countdown to Freedom Edition
>>22215807
>Guest had violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012,
>>22215885
GOP Rep. Michael Guest Violates Stock Trading Rules, Submitting Disclosures 8 Months Late
Published Nov 05, 2021 at 5:42 PM EDT
By Alex J. Rouhandeh
Special Correspondent
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Mississippi Representative Michael Guest turned in his mandatory stock trading transaction report eight months late, putting him in violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 (STOCK Act), Business Insider reported.
According to Guest's disclosure report, the Republican congressman purchased between $1,001 to $15,000 worth of Exxon stock and sold between $1,001 to $15,000 worth of BP stock on January 22-yet the House Clerk was not notified until October 22.
"On October 22nd, 2021, I became aware of a stock transaction made by a family trust," Guest wrote in a comment on his disclosure report. "I do not have a decision-making role in the trust; but my wife and sons are beneficiaries, so I am bound to report certain details. I reported the transaction to the Clerk of the House on November 3, 2021, and paid the statutory remedy of a $200 late fee."
As the second most senior Republican on the House Committee on Ethics, Guest serves on the panel responsible for overseeing the enforcement of the STOCK Act. Under the rule, members of Congress must report a stock transaction 30 days from when they are made aware of a trade imitated by them or their spouse.
US-politics-CONGRESS-HEARING-security
Representative Michael Guest's late disclosures involved trading in big oil stocks. Here, Guest attends a House Homeland Security Committee hearing about "Worldwide threats to the Homeland" on September 17, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via getty Images
The STOCK Act aims to provide greater transparency over where members of Congress earn revenue. It also intends to show where they may have potential conflicts of interest. Forty-four members of Congress failed to properly report their trades this year alone, according to Business Insider.
Newsweek uncovered a number of trades made earlier in the year by members of Congress that appeared to contradict their stated beliefs.
Congresswoman Lois Frankel traded $4,004 to $60,000 worth of stock in two of the nation's top greenhouse gas emitters, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy, over the past year. Congressman Ro Khanna's disclosures featured purchases of $30,000 to $100,000 worth of stock in ExxonMobil and Chevron, as well as $3,003 to $45,000 worth of shares in the natural gas companies Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, and ConocoPhillips.
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-rep-michael-guest-violates-stock-trading-rules-submitting-disclosures-8-months-late-1646600
As members of the Progressive Caucus, these two align themselves with a group that seeks to "eliminate our reliance on fossil fuels" and "recognizes environmental justice and economic prosperity must go hand-in-hand."
Read more
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When Newsweek contacted the two lawmakers, Khanna said the purchases were made by his wife's money manager by mistake and were sold shortly after. Frankel said she does not manage her account and pointed to her "high ratings from multiple national environmental groups" but did not promise to divest.
The issue of stock trading among Washington's top decision-makers remains a developing issue. In late October, the Federal Reserve announced its intent to implement new rules that would ban its top policymakers and senior staff from trading individual stocks. It remains to be seen as to whether Congress may institute similar rules.
#22210841 at 2024-12-22 16:49:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27178: Grab a Covfefe III Edition
f u c k w h o
Report: Trump Transition Team Looks to Pull U.S. out of W.H.O. 'On Day One'
breitbart.com/europe/2024/12/22/report-trump-transition-team-looks-to-pull-u-s-out-of-w-h-o-on-day-one
December 22, 2024
Chip Somodevilla/getty
Simon Kent
22 Dec 20241,444
2:46
A report Sunday predicts that the U.S. will exit the globalist World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on day one of President-elect Donald Trump's new administration taking power.
The U.S. is the W.H.O.'s largest single donor. It provides the home to over 8,000 career bureaucrats with about 16 percent of its budget, which in 2024 stood at U.S.$6.83 billion.
Conservative voices have previously criticised it for its extraordinary drain on U.S. taxpayer funds while Trump has called it a slave to China's global ambitions.
According to the Financial Times, members of Trump's team told the experts of their intention to announce a withdrawal from the Geneva-based health body on January 20 - inauguration day.
The departure would remove the W.H.O.'s biggest source of funds in one fell swoop. The FT report notes the withdrawal will complete a process Trump started last time he was in office:
In 2020, Trump initiated the process to leave the WHO as Covid-19 spread, accusing the agency of being under China's control. But the process was never finished and his successor Joe Biden restarted relations with the agency on his first day of office in 2021.
Experts have been told that some in Trump's team want to move much faster this time around after initiating the process immediately.
Ashish Jha, Biden's former White House coronavirus response co-ordinator and dean of Brown University's school of public health, told the outlet the transition team wanted Trump to withdraw on the first day because of the "symbolism" of reversing Biden's own inauguration-day move.
"There are lots of people who are going to be part of the administration's inner circle who do not trust the W.H.O. and want to symbolically show on day one that they are out," he said.
The Trump transition team did not comment directly on the potential withdrawal. One person familiar with the plans told the FT: "The same W.H.O. that we left in the first administration? It seems like we wouldn't much care what they have to say."
Trump previously criticized the W.H.O. for siding with China despite heavy criticism for their lack of transparency about the coronavirus and its spread and origins, as Breitbart News reported.
"They seem to be very China-centric," he said in April, 2020. "That's a nice way of saying it, but they seem to be very China-centric, and they seem to err always on the side of China."
#22206818 at 2024-12-21 22:31:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27173: The Future Gets Brighter Every Day Edition
>>22206802
[TERM_3720x380-293476669283001]
Media assets will be removed.
This part of 2527 tells you that something powerful is going to knock out Mossad Media Satellites. This will blackout the media worldwide, Switch us over to the Quantum Systems. This is PROJECT ODIN. All in All give the reason to Activate the Military EBS.
If you look up the TURKSAT Rocket that launched from the USA in January you will see it was specifically for MILITARY COMMS to peoples TV's & RADIO's in AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA.
THE EVENT has many facets too it.
The WorldWide Blackout to change over to TESLA Energy. Knocking out Media Satellites, QFS, Rods of God on Dams & 34 Buildings & much much more.
34 Buildings will be in the EVENT.
They are very significant.
Ie Whitehouse, Royal Castles, Buckingham Palace, Vatican, getty Museum, Playboy Mansion and the like.
This will surely make the Stock Market collapse as will Precision Cyber linked to Executive Orders 13818 & 13848. It is all a show.
Swapping from Rothschild's Central Bank Notes to Rainbow Treasury Notes now backed by Precious Metals (Not Oil/Wars)
Are we still comfy?
Or are we scared?
A little bit of both is normal.
Trump keeps his promises.
Have faith in the Lord Our God.
He will comfort you through the storm.
https://starshipearththebigpicture.com/2024/10/31/october-31-2024-the-last-halloween-as-we-know-it-video/
#22205505 at 2024-12-21 17:18:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27171: Operation Donkey Removal Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#22202064 at 2024-12-21 01:16:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27168: AmericaFest 2024 Held by Turning Point USA Edition
>>22201933
Castraux
in disguise. funny.
>>22201914
found the name "Patrick McMullin" but qresear.ch claims that's the photog, which is correct.
The man standing with raychan is
"Waris Ahluwalia"
He's in a mess of photos, getty etc. with a lot of different people.
Remember we were pointed toward looking at the parties and who attends? Who are the friends?
Waris is a Sikh, a Jewelry designer, an actor, an elephant conservationist. bill de Blasio named October 19, 2016, as "Waris Ahluwalia Day" for Waris' promotion of inclusivity.
He was said to have been barred from a commercial aircraft because of the turban.
He's said to promote Sikh culture.
#22201800 at 2024-12-21 00:11:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27168: AmericaFest 2024 Held by Turning Point USA Edition
Sneaky Feds ban liability for vax makers through Trump's full term as FDA exposes RSV trial harm
Greg Piper
Just the News
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:11 UTC
Xavier Becerra
? Josh Edelson/AFP/getty Images
Xavier Becerra, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since 2021
"We must reverse this nonsense," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, says. HHS offers no rationale for five-year expansion followed by 12 months to "arrange for disposition." RSV vaccine for infants found harm because of placebo group.
https://www.sott.net/article/496778-Sneaky-Feds-ban-liability-for-vax-makers-through-Trumps-full-term-as-FDA-exposes-RSV-trial-harm
#22193154 at 2024-12-19 16:10:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27158: GM GM GM Edition
>>22192810
> Moar Eye-patch McCain shit from Catturd
>>22192846
>>22192874
>>22193007
>you might want to think again. watch this vidrel. this is EXACTLY how McCain treated other Vets.
>>22192488, >>22192489, >>22192501, >>22192688 CatAnons Eye Patch McCain Bun
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Tara Blake is a social activist, political personality, and an active fundraiser for the families of fallen service members. Blake though is better known asthe wife of Texas Republican representative Dan Crenshaw.
Tara's husband, Dan Crenshaw is currently serving as the United States representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district since 2019. Crenshaw is also a former United States Navy SEAL who served on SEAL Team 3 in the War in Afghanistan, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.
Blake and her husband, Crenshaw, who people often recognize as a politician with an eye patch wearer, have been together since the early 2010s. Tara has been a strong aide personally and professionally to her war hero politician husband for years.
Scroll down to know more about how advantageous Blake has been to her spouse, Dan Crenshaw whilst browsing through all about her origins, her line of work, and extras.
Tara Blake Hails From A Military Family
Tara, who was born, Tara M. Blake in April 1983,comes from a Navy family; both her father and brother served in the Navy. Her father is Vice Admiral John Terence Blake who retired in 2013 after 37 years in the United States Navy.
Ex United States Navy SEAL officer, Dan Crenshaw's wife, Tara Blake.
University of Maryland graduate and social activist, Tara Blake. Crenshaw For Congress
Tara's father, John is a former student of Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School, was born and raised in New York City.
Mrs. Crenshaw's mother, Nan Connelly Blake, on the other hand, a native of Crofton Maryland, is a University of Maryland graduate. Blake has two younger siblings, Erin, Pennsylvania State University, and John Terence JT, Arundel High School. Tara being from a military family grew up cruising around the world.
Tara Blake's Education And Profession
Much like her mother, Tara is also a graduate of the University of Maryland. Before meeting her husband, Dan, Tara was a dental hygienist in California. Blake now mostly engages herself in helping raise funds to help families of fallen service members as well as suicide prevention.
Tara Met Her Husband, Dan Crenshaw In Coronado, California At A Friend's House
Tara met her future husband, Dan in Coronado, CA. At the time, Crenshaw had just reported himself to SEAL training in Coronado following his graduation. Blake, on the other hand, was a dental hygienist in California.
member of the US House Of Representatives from Texas's 2nd district, Dan Crenshaw with his wife and a former dental hygienist, Tara Blake.
former dental hygienist, Tara Blake with her husband and a republican US representative Dan Crenshaw. getty
It was at one of Tara's friends' homes where she met Dan while he was serving as a Navy SEAL.
Blake's friend introduced her to the future congressman. After that, they were friends for quite a while.
In the beginning, Dan would come to Blake's residence in California and he would hang out with her parents; in fact, Crenshaw had become good friends with Tara's father. Remembering the first time she met Dan, Tara said,
"He was very witty and had a dry sense of humor. It took me a while to say yes to a date."
Blake says halfway through their first date, she knew Dan was her guy. The wife describes her war hero husband as a very thoughtful guy one who apparently never misses making his partner's birthdays special.
Dan and Tara married each other on April 1, 2013, in Coronado, California. The wedding took place just over a year after Dan's life-changing injury.
Three years after the marriage, Dan and Tara moved to Massachusetts in 2016 where Dan attended Harvard. The Blake-Crenshaw couple is yet to have children. The now 39 years old Tara, though, has two godchildren whose pictures she often shares on her Instagram.
#22192501 at 2024-12-19 14:29:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27158: GM GM GM Edition
>>22192488
>Rep. Dan Crenshaw Decided Pandemic Was Perfect Time to Buy and Not Disclose Stocks
>>22192489
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw Blasts Jesse Watters and 'Political Entertainment Industry' for Reporting His Stock Profitsto 'Get Clicks'
"Watters is a tool, making millions to push conspiracies," the lawmaker says of the notion he or his colleagues engage in insider trading
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Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw fired back at Fox News anchor Jesse Watters for reporting his stock profits and claiming some lawmakers in Washington had "insider information."
Watters pointed out that Crenshaw beat the stock market by 13 points, which was low on the list compared to other lawmakers and politicians in the chart. Crenshaw took to Instagram to fight back.
"Hey you fuing hack, if you're gonna accuse me of literal corruption, get your facts straight and man up and accuse me to my face. You're a fuing clown, desperate for clickbait," Crenshaw wrote on his since-expired Instagram story. "I literally have $10,000 invested in stocks, and I haven't made trades in over a year. I never have more than ~ $20k invested while in Congress."
Fox News apparently canceled an interview with Rep. Dan Crenshaw after he wrote on Instagram that "Jesse Watters seems like the type of dude who pees sitting down." pic.twitter.com/IbjcDSLySh
- nikki mccann ram?rez (@NikkiMcR) January 3, 2024
"Fox knows this but they're desperate for fake controversy to get clicks. Watters is a tool, making millions to push conspiracies on tv, and bash veterans like me who are barely a fraction of his net worth," Crenshaw continued. "Wake up America. The political entertainment industry is almost always lying to you."
Watters' report cited a report from the Unusual Whales Twitter account, which posted a chart titled Congress vs SPY in 2023, listing returns on current stocks held in each member's portfolios and calculating YTD returns in a horizontal bar graph. Crenshaw falls in the lower third of the chart compared to Brian Higgins, Nancy Pelosi, Pete Sessions and more.
"A lot of them investing in companies they had inside information on," Watters said. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is what corruption looks like. And that is why Congress still hasn't passed a ban on insider stock trade.
Crenshaw also went straight for Watters, calling him "such a 'conservative' he cheated on his wife and then left her with twins while he went off with another Fox producer."
The congressman and former Navy SEAL later called attention to an interview he had scheduled with Fox, connecting it to his words about the network and Watters.
"Guess I hurt their feelings by calling out their bullshit," he wrote. "Oh well."
A Fox News source told The Daily Beast that Crenshaw had not been booked to appear on the network but that he was previously scheduled to appear on a Fox Business show. The cancellation was not related to Crenshaw's tirade, the source told the outlet.
#22173080 at 2024-12-16 04:16:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27138: Hits Different Edition
Luigi Mangione Pictures Met With Cheers at Boston Concert
Attendees at a dance party in Boston cheered when pictures of Luigi Mangione, the man accused in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, appeared on screen, according to videos posted on social media.
Bop to the Top Tours' Jingle Bop was being held at Big Night Live, a venue in Boston, on Friday night.
During the show, a DJ played Miley Cyrus' "He Could Be The One" as several pictures of Mangione appeared on a big screen.
The crowd can be heard cheering as photos of Mangione taken from his social media accounts appear on screen.
The cheers appear to get louder as Mangione's booking photos are shown on screen, according to a clip shared by a user on TikTok that racked up more than 1.2 million likes.
"Give the people what they want," the user wrote alongside the video.
Bop to the Top Tour shared the user's clip on its Instagram page with the caption: "Too unserious."
Newsweek has contacted Bop to the Top Tour for comment via a contact form on its website.
Mangione, 26, has become an online sex symbol since he was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 9. A fundraiser has since raised more than $100,000 to go toward his legal fees and his lawyer said he has received offers from people wanting to pay Mangione's legal bills.
He remains incarcerated without bail at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, where he has been charged with gun and forgery offenses.
Prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking to extradite Mangione to New York to face second-degree murder and other charges in connection with Thompson's killing.
Thompson, 50, was gunned down early on December 4 as he walked alone to his company's annual investor conference at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Mangione's lawyer Thomas Dickey has said his client will plead not guilty to the charges in Pennsylvania and will contest his extradition to New York.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday said that there were signs that Mangione may now given up on that fight.
"We [are] going to continue to press forward on parallel paths, and we'll be ready whether he is going to waive extradition or whether he is going to contest extradition," Bragg said at a press conference about public safety in Times Square.
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Attendees at a dance party in Boston cheered when pictures of Luigi Mangione, the man accused in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, appeared on screen, according to videos posted on social media.
Bop to the Top Tours' Jingle Bop was being held at Big Night Live, a venue in Boston, on Friday night.
During the show, a DJ played Miley Cyrus' "He Could Be The One" as several pictures of Mangione appeared on a big screen.
The crowd can be heard cheering as photos of Mangione taken from his social media accounts appear on screen.
The cheers appear to get louder as Mangione's booking photos are shown on screen, according to a clip shared by a user on TikTok that racked up more than 1.2 million likes.
"Give the people what they want," the user wrote alongside the video.
Bop to the Top Tour shared the user's clip on its Instagram page with the caption: "Too unserious."
Newsweek has contacted Bop to the Top Tour for comment via a contact form on its website.
Mangione, 26, has become an online sex symbol since he was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 9. A fundraiser has since raised more than $100,000 to go toward his legal fees and his lawyer said he has received offers from people wanting to pay Mangione's legal bills.
He remains incarcerated without bail at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, where he has been charged with gun and forgery offenses.
Luigi Mangione is led from the courthouse
Luigi Mangione is led from the Blair County Courthouse after an extradition hearing on December 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Pictures of Mangione were shown on the big screen during a concert in Boston. Jeff Swensen/getty Images
Prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking to extradite Mangione to New York to face second-degree murder and other charges in connection with Thompson's killing.
Thompson, 50, was gunned down early on December 4 as he walked alone to his company's annual investor conference at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Mangione's lawyer Thomas Dickey has said his client will plead not guilty to the charges in Pennsylvania and will contest his extradition to New York.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday said that there were signs that Mangione may now given up on that fight.
"We [are] going to continue to press forward on parallel paths, and we'll be ready whether he is going to waive extradition or whether he is going to contest extradition," Bragg said at a press conference about public safety in Times Square.
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Police said the gun found on Mangione when he was arrested matched shell casings found at the site of the shooting. His fingerprints have also been matched to a water bottle and a wrapper that police found near the scene, police said.
A handwritten note that was also found on him referred to "parasites" that "had it coming."
The U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world and the profits of large corporations continue to rise while "our life expectancy" does not, the note said.
It also condemned corporations that "continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it."
It added: "It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty."
https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-pictures-met-cheers-boston-concert-2001010
#22163041 at 2024-12-14 12:34:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27127: UFOs & UAPs & Drones, Oh My! Edition
>>22163033
Everyone Don Jr fucks is sus as fuck.
>Kim
Early into her work as a prosecutor in San Francisco, Guilfoyle briefly dated William getty, a scion of the getty family.
>Vanessa
From 1998 to 2001, Vanessa dated Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud.[20] The relationship ended following the September 11 attacks, when Khalid bin Bandar left the U.S. after his Saudi ambassador father, Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, was suspected of having indirect ties to the Al Qaeda hijackers.[21]
#22147687 at 2024-12-11 18:33:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27109: JUSTICE COMETH Edition
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>BREAKING REPORT - DRONES OVER NEW JERSEY ARE FROM IRAN: Congressman Jeff Van Drew claims Iran has stationed a "mothership" off the U.S. East Coast, reportedly launching drones now flying over New Jersey.
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA
UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE
IRAN, IRAN, IRAN
Map Shows Half of Russia, Iran in Range of Ukraine's New Battle Drones
Published Sep 10, 2024 at 7:26 AM EDT
Updated Sep 10, 2024 at 2:46 PM EDT
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Ukraine's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can hit targets at distances deep inside European Russia, the head of the country's military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, has said, as a map shows the range of Ukrainian drone capabilities.
Kyiv continues to call for the West to lift restrictions on long-range weapons such as Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and U.K.-provided Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
But Budanov has touted its capabilities using much smaller and cheaper combat and reconnaissance drones as well as naval UAVs which have been used to attack Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
Russian authorities accused Kyiv of conducting a widespread drone attack on nine Russian regions overnight Monday which set residential buildings alight and caused disruption to flights at Moscow's Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo airports.
Drone strike in Moscow
This illustrative image shows a damaged residential building following a suspected Ukrainian drone attack in Ramenskoye in the Moscow region on September 10, 2024. Ukraine has said it can strike targets 1,200 miles away. TATYANA MAKEYEVA/getty Images
After Tuesday's drone attack in Russia, Ukraine's defense ministry told Newsweek, "We do not comment on what is happening on the territory of Russia."
Three days earlier, Budanov had said in a Facebook post that personnel from Ukrainian intelligence were working with specialists to develop drones which can hit targets up to 1,800 km away (1,200 miles) away and suggested that Kyiv's cyber experts had located Russia's weak spots would be later targeted.
A map produced by Newsweek shows the radius of this drone range that Ukraine says it possesses which from Kyiv, reaches the Ural Mountains the delineate the European and Asian parts of Russia.
The range takes in Russian cities far from Moscow, such as Chelyabinsk, Kazan and Yekaterinburg. On July 18, a fire broke out near a military factory in Yekaterinburg and while in January, Ukrainian intelligence reported that a Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft had been destroyed at the "Shagol" airfield in Chelyabinsk.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-drones-budanov-map-1951317
#22137226 at 2024-12-09 22:03:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27097: EBAKE Hammer time
Luigi's mom in getty Photo:
The Italian Trade Commission Celebrates the Opening Night of L'Eleganza Del Cibo
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 23: (L-R) Susan Sidor, Vincent De Paul,Kathy Zannino Mangioneand Kim Giulio attend The Italian Trade Commission Celebrates the Opening Night of L'Eleganza Del Cibo at Chelsea Market on June 23, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/susan-sidor-vincent-de-paul-kathy-zannino-mangione-and-kim-news-photo/542868004
#22131599 at 2024-12-08 22:25:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27091: THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED Edition
Flashback - London Mayor Kahn - who called Trump a "racist and divisive" (again, after Trump's 2024 victory)* - was under fire last year for suggesting white families 'don't represent real Londoners'
*https://www.politico.eu/article/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blasts-racism-hatred-donald-trump-election-victory/
In 2024, the Labour London mayor was criticised over the message, which appeared as part of a guide to his brand
Monday 21 August 2023 01:40 EDT
The guide opened with the words: "A City for All Londoners", and promised to appeal to all ages, genders, sexual orientations and family make-ups.
But a picture of a [white] couple and their two children walking along the Thames, with parliament in the background, was highlighted as anexample of pictures not to use. A label on the picture read:"Doesn't represent real Londoners".
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/sadiq-khan-white-family-official-website-b2396431.html
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Also, in a dramatic display of his infantile pettiness, in 2018, Mayor Kahn gave special permission for an unflattering balloon of "Baby Trump" to fly in a parade:
The inflatable balloon called Baby Trump flies above the statue of wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Westminster Abbey in Parliament Square, Westminster, the seat of the U.K. Parliament,during Trump's visit to the U.K. on July 13, 2018.Baby Trump is a 20-foot high orange blimp depicting Trump as an enraged, smartphone-clutching infant - andLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan gave special permission for it to appear above the capitalbecause, he said, of its protest rather than artistic nature. It was the brainchild of Graphic designer Matt Bonner. Richard Baker / In Pictures via getty Images.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-trump-attacks-ethnicity-religion/
#22128876 at 2024-12-08 11:50:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27088: The World is Waiting Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1865570810867438062
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Two GOP candidates win recounts in Colorado House
Voters go to the polls in Colorado | (Michael Ciaglo/getty Images)
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#22126011 at 2024-12-07 23:01:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27084: Saturday Afternoon E-bake Edition
>>22125967
easy target him and his whole getty family and bring back stolen $ to californians
gavin newsom is definitely an enemy domestic
#22123355 at 2024-12-07 12:49:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27081: Comfylation of Recent Events Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1865052450735951892
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: National Police Association 'strongly endorses' Kash Patel for FBI director
Kash Patel, Minden, Nev., Oct. 8, 2022 | Justin Sullivan/getty Images
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#22118666 at 2024-12-06 15:11:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27076: A Long Train of Abuses Is a Crown of Thorns Edition
3 US Soldiers Charged in Alleged Cross-Border Human Smuggling Attempt
Authorities brought charges after stopping a vehicle that fled U.S. Border Patrol agents in Presidio, Texas.
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The Department of Justice seal is seen on a lectern ahead of a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 28, 2018. Mandel Ngan/AFP via getty Images
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By Ryan Morgan
12/5/2024
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12/5/2024
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/3-us-soldiers-charged-in-alleged-cross-border-human-smuggling-attempt-5771555?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=gab
#22114277 at 2024-12-05 20:58:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27070: Patriots are SELFLESS. Edition
>>22114261
>>22114252
getty Museum + Sinai Hospital Tunnels
#22100512 at 2024-12-03 17:48:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27054: Tuesday Morning Melania - Countdown Edition
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>>>22099626 American Airlines flight returns to Chicago airport after 'possible maintenance issue' mid-flight
American Airlines flight returns to Chicago airport after 'possible maintenance issue' mid-flight
American Airlines flight 1047 landed safely at O'Hare International Airport, airline spokesperson says
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An American Airlines flight was forced to turn around midair and return to an airport in Chicago after a "possible maintenance issue," the airline told Fox News Digital on Sunday.
American Airlines flight 1047 was heading from Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Las Vegas when the incident happened, an American Airlines spokesperson said.
"Flight 1047 returned to ORD for a possible maintenance issue," the spokesperson said. "The flight landed safely and taxied to the gate."
The airline did not immediately offer details on the possible maintenance issue.
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American Airlines flight 1047 was heading from Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to Las Vegas when the incident happened, an American Airlines spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Sunday. (Joe Raedle/getty Images, File / getty Images)
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The airline told Fox News Digital that customers have since departed Chicago for Las Vegas on a replacement aircraft.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/american-airlines-flight-returns-chicago-airport-after-possible-maintenance-issue-mid-flight
>, hmmmmm.jpe
a "false alarm"
#22095084 at 2024-12-02 19:40:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27048: Moab Monday: We Only Take Kash Edition
Azeez Al-Shaair Apologizes To Trevor Lawrence, Calls Fans 'Racist' And 'Islamophobic'Armando Salguero
December 2, 2024 10:51 AM EST
Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, who was ejected from Sunday's game for a controversial hit on Trevor Lawrence that ignited a firestorm, has apologized to the Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback but is attacking some fans and media.
Al-Shaair posted his thoughts about the incident on X Monday morning. Azeez Al-Shaair Addresses Incident: The note from the NFL veteran starts off in a contrite tone.And then it kind of goes off the rails in defiance and victimhood.
"I've always played the game as hard as I could," Al-Shaair begins. "Never with the intent to harm anyone and anybody that knows me knows that. My goal is to hit you as hard as I can then I pray you're still able to get up and play the next play.
"And when the game is over go home to your family unharmed because it's not personal it's just competition! We both are trying to do the same thing which is provide for our families!"
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 01: Azeez Al-Shaair #0 of the Houston Texans takes off his helmet before a fight during the second quarter of a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at EverBank Stadium on December 01, 2024 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Mike Carlson/getty Images)
'I genuinely apologize': Al-Shaair Well, that's a start. And then comes the apology to Lawrence. "I genuinely didn't see him sliding until it was too late," Al-Shaair writes. " And it all happens in the blink of an eye.
"To Trevor I genuinely apologize to you for what ended up happening. Before the game we spoke and I told you how it was great to see you back out on the field and wished you well. I would never want to see any player hurt because of a hit I put on them especially one that's deemed 'late' or 'unnecessary.'"
After his questionable hit that included him leading with his elbow and forearm, Al-Shaair was immediately pushed down from behind by Jaguars tight end Evan Engram and a melee broke out.Players from both teams faced off, pushing and shoving, because of the hit.
Al-Shaair and Jaguars guard Brandon Scherff even squared off at one point.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 01: Azeez Al-Shaair #0 of the Houston Texans points to the Jacksonville Jaguars bench after a fight and being ejected during the second quarter of a game at EverBank Stadium on December 01, 2024 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Mike Carlson/getty Images)
Al-Shaair Calls Fans 'Islamophobic' So Al-Shaair addresses those Jaguars players. "To the rest of his teammates I can definitely understand you having his back and defending him in a situation like that," Al-Shaair writes.
And now this gets a little angry and accusatory and, frankly, it's Al-Shaair in his feelings, painting himself as attacked by the public."To the rest of the people who I've been called every single name in the book from reporters with their hands ready for a story to find their villian, to racist and islamophobic fans and people, you don't know my heart nor my character which I don't need to prove to any of you," Al-Shaair writes.
"God knows my intentions and anyone who has ever been a teammate or friend of mine knows my heart."The entire note is under the heading "All Prasie To Allah."
Dec 1, 2024; Jacksonville, Florida, USA; Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) slides down in front of Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair (0) in the second quarter in the second quarter at EverBank Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images
Al-Shaair Subject Of Online Wrath
To be fair, Al-Shaair has been subjected to some serious online wrath. Some of the revulsion toward him has included charges he supports the terrorist organization Hamas, of which there is no proof so far.
That came after Al-Shaair was wearing so-called "Free Palestine" cleats that signal his involvement in the NFL's My Cause My Cleats campaign. Al-Shaair's cleats are meant to raise funds for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, but the wording on them clearly signal his allegiance to people opposing Israel and quotes statistics of them killed in the Israel-Hamas war.
Al-Shaair obviously got no guidance in writing this statement on Monday because it is both an apology followed by an attack of his own.He shows contrition to Lawrence, understands Jacksonville teammates defending him, and then attacks the media and fans. Playing the "rascist" and 'islamaphobic" card probably isn't going to earn Al-Shaair much sympathy in many circles.
Al-Shaair faces an NFL suspension for his actions on the field and his history of similar questionable play tactics, OutKick first reported on Sunday.
https://www.outkick.com/sports/azeez-al-shaair-apologizes-trevor-lawrence-calls-fans-racist-islamophobic
#22081139 at 2024-11-30 12:50:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27033: Bill Gates Paralysed the Most People Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1862832891366981798
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@JustTheNews
Lawmakers press Google, Meta, others on addressing deep fake pornography
Meta headquarters in California, Dec. 2022 | (Anadolu Agency/getty)
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#22073449 at 2024-11-29 03:16:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27025: A beautiful Thanksgiving day buffet coma edition
Federal Judge Finds New York Corrections Department in Contempt for Unconstitutional Jail Conditions
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A view of the entrance to the Rikers Island prison complex in New York City on May 17, 2011. Spencer Platt/getty Images
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11/27/2024
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-finds-new-york-corrections-department-in-contempt-for-unconstitutional-jail-conditions-5767482?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=gab
#22067276 at 2024-11-27 20:41:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27017: TRUMP Statue Fight Violent Threats Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1861145884198592713
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: Trump lawyer sought lucrative contracts from candidates, Cabinet seeker while advising president-elect
Boris Epshteyn, Nov. 19, 2020, Washington, D.C. | MANDEL NGAN/AFP via getty Images
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#22064987 at 2024-11-27 11:46:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27015: THEYRE USELESS WARMONGERS Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1861573349073166686
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Joe diGenova: Obama should receive the first grand jury subpoena for violating Trump's civil rights
Former President Barack Obama in Pittsburgh Oct. 10, 2024. | getty Images
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#22054800 at 2024-11-25 18:03:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27003: Moab Monday Before The Turkeys Are Pardoned Peach and Blossom Edition
>>22054735
>Is GITMO considered US soil?
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>it's Cuba
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>When I traveled to military bases, on the base was considered US soil
Why the United States Controls Guantanamo Bay
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Guantanamo Bay
US Marines raising the American Flag over Guantanamo Bay in 1898US Marine Corps-The LIFE Images Collection/getty
By Lily Rothman
January 22, 2015 9:00 AM EST
It was six years ago, on Jan. 22, 2009, two days after he became President, that Barack Obama issued an executive order designed to "promptly close detention facilities at Guantanamo." The closing of that prison at the U.S. naval base at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay would, he said, take place no less than a year from that date.
Five years after the 2010 deadline passed - and even as relations between the U.S. and Cuba begin to thaw - the detention facilities remain in use. More than 100 prisoners remain there, even though that number is declining and officials have said that Obama would still like to achieve the closure before he leaves office.
But how did the U.S. end up with such a facility in Cuba in the first place?
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The story of Guantanamo goes back more than a century, to the time of the Spanish-American War. And, during that time, it's been, as it is now, a source of controversy.
Until 1898, Cuba had belonged to Spain; as the Spanish empire diminished, Cubans fought for their independence. The U.S. joined in to help its neighbor and, though the Spanish-American War ended up focused mainly on the Spanish presence in the Philippines, Cuba was the site of the sinking of the USS Maine, the event that precipitated American military involvement. (Remember "Remember the Maine"? That's this.) When the war ended, Spain gave the U.S. control of Cuba - among other territories, like Puerto Rico - and, about three years later, Cuba became an independent nation.
However, that independence was not without a catch: as part of the Platt Amendment, the document that governed the end of the occupation, the new Cuban government was required to lease or sell certain territory to the United States. Here's how TIME later summarized (with numbers accurate for 1960) what happened next:
The U.S. rights in Guantanamo are clear and indisputable.By a treaty signed in 1903 and reaffirmed in 1934, the U.S. recognized Cuba's "ultimate sovereignty" over the 45-sq.-mi. enclave in Oriente province near the island's southeast end. In return, Cuba yielded the U.S. "complete jurisdiction and control" through a perpetual lease that can be voided only by mutual agreement.
For a low rental ($3,386.25 annually), the U.S. Navy gets its best natural harbor south of Charleston, S.C., plus 19,621 acres of land, enough for a complex of 1,400 buildings and two airfields, one of them capable of handling entire squadrons of the Navy's hottest jets, e.g., 1,000-m.p.h. F8U Crusaders, 700-m.p.h. A4D Skyhawks. In terms of global strategy, Guantanamo has only marginal value. It served as an antisubmarine center in World War II, and could be one again. But its greatest worth is as an isolated, warm-water training base for the fleet. With an anchorage capable of handling 50 warships at once, it is the Navy's top base for shakedown cruises and refresher training for both sailors and airmen. What Cuba gets out of the deal is 3,700 jobs for the technicians and laborers who help maintain the base, a payroll of $7,000,000 annually for hard-pressed Oriente.
https://time.com/3672066/guantanamo-bay-history/
#22049514 at 2024-11-24 17:31:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26997: This is Not an Airport Edition
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Politico - 'It has been eight years and Trump's still standing and everyone else is exhausted.'
Politico editors clutch pearls, and it's hilarious.
'He's Still Standing and Everyone Else Is Exhausted': Our Insiders on How Trump Has Changed
To the journalists who have studied Donald Trump longest, the second transition looks a whole lot different from eight years ago.
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Illustration by Jade Cuevas/POLITICO (source images via AP and getty Images)
By Michael Kruse
11/22/2024 05:00 AM EST
Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine.
Donald Trump - unbridled and emboldened, his control of the Republican Party all but complete, canny about the mechanics of government in a way he was not eight years back when his first election was such a shock - is headed again to the White House. But how exactly might this tour differ from the last tumultuous term?
To get a better sense of what is to come - in the Senate confirmation hearings for his controversial Cabinet picks, his first 100 days and beyond - I convened a quartet of POLITICO colleagues who've watched and covered Trump from the get-go: Anita Kumar, Eli Stokols, Kyle Cheney and Meridith McGraw. Their composite take: Trump is Trump, always has been, always will be - fractious, breakneck, unscripted - but after Jan. 6, two failed assassination attempts and an array of prosecutions (and convictions) didn't stop him from getting reelected by a larger margin than the first time he won, he has, they say, a different sort of confidence and nerve. The GOP establishment is no longer so much trying to control him as he is testing the absolute limits of its willingness and ability to stand up to him.
It's a moment that's in some sense reminiscent of points in his past that ultimately led to trouble for Trump - Icarus-like inclinations that have made for scrapes he's had to work hard to survive. At least for now, though, barreling toward what promises to be a contentious four or more years, the 45th and now 47th president is proceeding with an air of untouchability.
We had this conversation before the especially controversial Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as Trump's desired attorney general. But plenty of boundary-stretching Cabinet candidates remain. "He's daring Senate Republicans to go against him - but he's also daring the entire government apparatus to defy him," McGraw said. "There's an audacity to all of it."
If there is a vestige of a guardrail left, in Cheney's view, it's that the protection afforded him by the position only lasts as long as his occupation of the office. "All the forces that were coming for him have been kind of defanged and obliterated," he said, "but that doesn't mean that he's impervious to them forever."
https://archive.is/yZ9UV
#22047989 at 2024-11-24 11:43:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26995: Late Night Comfefe Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/11/21/w-h-o-chief-tedros-hospitalized-rio-de-janeiro/
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#22044586 at 2024-11-23 20:25:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26991: It's Happening Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1860322539060294078
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@jsolomonReports
California still counting ballots, raising concerns about election process
Ballots in Los Angeles, Calif., November 2022 | (Robert Gauthier/getty)
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#22044558 at 2024-11-23 20:21:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26991: It's Happening Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1860296262274212339
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@jsolomonReports
Los Angeles becomes sanctuary city but relies on federal funds for migrants
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#22041309 at 2024-11-23 04:15:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26987: Bigly Winning Edition
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 05: (L-R) UN diplomat Palitha Kohona, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Angela Chen attend a reception at Ghislaine Maxwell's residence after "StarTalk Live! Water World" Panel Discussion on June 5, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Toth/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/diplomat-palitha-kohona-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-angela-chen-news-photo/1163403708
#22032202 at 2024-11-21 18:15:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26976: 'gm frens' Edition
Space camera films footage of giant Starship rocket launching to space
November 21, 2024
You know you live in the space age when solar storms knock out farmers' GPS-reliant tractors and a camera in Earth's lofty orbit films a rocket launching through the atmosphere.
This camera attached to the International Space Station - the SpaceTV-1 instrument operated by the Earth-monitoring company Sen - captured the launch of SpaceX's colossal Starship rocket on Nov. 19, the nearly 400-foot-tall vehicle's sixth test flight. Such footage, showing the rocket's plume from 250 miles up, is rare, if not unprecedented.
"This is believed to be the first time ever a rocket launch has been filmed in real time from space," getty Images posted online.
In the video below (which plays after a short ad), you can see the white plume appearing on the top of the screen at center-right at eight seconds into the video.
The plume becomes more apparent as the footage progresses closer. (The plume is also pointed out in the post from Sen, below.)
Starship launched from SpaceX's Starbase, located in Boca Chica, Texas, and the body of water below the plume is the Gulf of Mexico.
Some 65 minutes after liftoff, the Starship traveled around much of the world before intentionally splashing down in the Indian Ocean.
The company's ultimate goal, however, is to catch the rocket in giant mechanical arms at its Starbase, allowing for a rapid reuse and launch of the rockets.
Each of these test flights, of which there will be many more in 2025, are part of the company's "rapid iterative development" of Starship, which, once it successfully launches cargo (and later crew), will become the largest and most powerful operational rocket on Earth, surpassing NASA's Space Launch System.
Already, Starship will play a significant role in the space agency's Artemis mission, its endeavor to establish a permanent presence on the moon.
The large spacecraft, for example, will provide a human landing system, or HLS, for when NASA astronauts return to the moon later this decade during the Artemis III mission.
https://mashable.com/article/spacex-starship-launch-footage-from-space-station
https://x.com/sen/status/1859252625587200232
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP06FiJogt8
#22030570 at 2024-11-21 13:14:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26974: Big Bright Burning Comfefe Edition Edition
>>22030201
>Non-nuclear.....
>>22030446
>>Fire & Fury
>>22030460
>Hi I'm Q
>We are Q
>>22030526
>"keep an eye onScavino when he's inside, he's been spikingthe footballt
>>22030479
Trump won't hand Biden the nuclear football. Here's how the handoff will happen.
For the first time, the outgoing president will not hand off the black leather case to the incoming president.
Image: President Trump Speaks At CIA Headquarters
President Donald Trump leaves CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., on Jan. 21, 2017. Near the president is a military aide who is carrying the "football," with launch codes for nuclear weapons.Olivier Doulier / Pool via getty Images file
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By Carol E. Lee and Dan De Luce
#22027973 at 2024-11-21 02:32:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26971: Dog Won't Hunt Edition
Ann getty was fellow of the Leakey Foundation
#22011275 at 2024-11-18 20:06:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26951: Fake News Fails In Faking It Edition
>>22011106
Why did PDJT reference Markwayne Mullen of
Oklahoma just reinstated Bibles in the Classrooms?
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Matt Gaetz Bragged About Taking E.D. Meds 'So He Could Go All Night,' Says GOP Senator
Charisma MadarangOctober 5, 2023
Matt Gaetz Bragged About Taking E.D. Meds 'So He Could Go All Night,' Says GOP Senator
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) departs the U.S. Capitol Building on Sept. 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/getty Images)
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-O.K.) claimed on national television Wednesday night that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-F.L.) bragged about chasing down erectile dysfunction medication with an energy drink to prolong his sexual endeavors.
Gaetz brought a motion to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives on Monday, and a day later, he and a posse of like-minded Republicans voted to axe the California congressman a day later.
The ousting of McCarthy has left the GOP party in chaos and plenty of ire was directed at Gaetz, as even fellow MAGA loyalists were furious over the ensuing infighting after the GOP left itself with no leader and no clear path forward.
Frustrated with Gaetz's actions on Wednesday, Mullin unleashed wild allegations against the congressman when speaking to CNN's Manu Raju outside the Capitol.
Mullin began by saying that after Gaetz was accused of sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl, "the media didn't give [him] the time of day." Gaetz has consistently denied any wrongdoing, arguing that bad actors in the Justice Department were trying to ruin his life. That allegation prompted an investigation by the Department of Justice, which decided not to file charges in February.
"And there's a reason why no one in the Congress came and defended him: Because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor, that all of us had walked away, of the girls that he had slept with," Mullin added. "He would brag about how he would crush E.D. medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night. This was obviously before he got married."
He continued, "And so, when that accusation came out, no one defended him. And then no one in the media would give him the time of the day. All of a sudden he found fame because he opposed the speaker of the House back in November. And he's always stayed there. And he was never gonna leave until he got this last moment of fame by going after a motion to vacate."
In a statement to CNN read by anchor Anderson Cooper on air, Gaetz denied his colleague's claim.
"I don't think Markwayne Mullin and I have said 20 words to each other on the House floor. This is a lie from someone who doesn't know me and who is coping with the death of the political career of his friend Kevin," Gaetz's statement read. "Thoughts and prayers."
On Tuesday, Gaetz was also criticized for fundraising off his ploy to remove McCarthy. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-T.X.) lambasted the members of his party who'd voted with Gaetz. He wrote, "If you're voting with every single Democrat in the House to oust a Republican Speaker, it's not about winning for your constituents. It's not about winning for conservatives. Based on all the fundraising emails we are seeing, it's only about personal attention."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-gaetz-bragged-erectile-dysfunction-meds-gop-1234840914/
#22005228 at 2024-11-17 22:34:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26944: SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY Edition
Joe Rogan has a second set of lips on the back of his headHow did that happen?
Donald Trump shakes hands with Joe Rogan at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night (getty Images)
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/ufc/donald-trump-ufc-309-msg-b2648586.html
#21996264 at 2024-11-16 11:13:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26934: Fight Night Edition
>>21996262
dr patrick soon-shiong 3
LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said he will revamp the paper so that it becomes more "balanced." Bloomberg via getty Images
#21991804 at 2024-11-15 19:11:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26929: Big Mad Lib Friday Freakout Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/14/exclusive-pentagon-scrambling-wiping-evidence-dei-trump-readies-fire-woke-generals/
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#21989766 at 2024-11-15 11:10:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26926: Keystone Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/11/14/actor-michael-rapaport-rips-msnbcs-joy-reid-for-pete-hegseth-fake-news-con-artist-race-hustler-bullsht-artist/
Actor Michael Rapaport Rips MSNBC's Joy Reid for Pete Hegseth Fake News: 'Con Artist, Race Hustler, Bullsh*t Artist'
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#21953965 at 2024-11-10 02:34:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26885: Going's Good Edition
>>21953899
tyb
Watching Gen Flynn on timcast.
he stated that the ceo of the clinton foundation stepped down yesterday.
his brother retired today.
The battle is won but the war continues.
We are at D Day plus 1, they will take shots at to distruptp the administration.
Anons already know this from soros and wapo article which was put out and the brennan institute.
you paytriots are all cashing in on the i toldyaso's after calling the anons who did the work Qanon and Qtards and stuck around for so long,
it is not over, the most dangerous time is when a wild animal is cornered.
Eyes on Swivel.
corp o7
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
#21951228 at 2024-11-09 18:15:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26881: The Steal is on! #Arizona #OrangeCounty Edition
>>21951060
>>21951094
>>21951123
>>21951127
Looks like some strange habbenings in Houlton
A Bodyguard for Some Huge Celebrities Lives in Houlton, Maine
Lori Voornas
Lori Voornas
Updated: October 18, 2024
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Jeffrey Maguire has protected the likes of Jay-Z, and picked Houlton, Maine, to be his home.
It's a pretty interesting story about how Jeffrey Maguire came to live in Houlton by choice. He's got a pretty cool job being a bodyguard for super-powerful and influential people. In the past, he's projected Jay-Z, Linkin Park, and even the Saudi Royal Family.
Can the Maine bodyguard spill on who he is protecting?
He can't tell you who is currently protecting, or he'd have to kill you. Wait, I mean, it wouldn't be professional.
The Bangor Daily News did a great story about his background and how he got into the business of protecting famous people.
He has a military background, spurred by the events of September 11, 2001. Jeffery is a Jack of all trades. He is a certified emergency medical technician and a National Rifle Association-licensed firearms instructor. Throw in a black belt in Hapkido, and he knows his way around surveillance detection and evasive driving. All are very useful to protecting his big clients.
But how did the Rhode Island and New York resident pick Houlton, Maine, to live? He told the Bangor Daily News that,
I always had a fascination with Maine. My grandfather was an avid hunter, and he used to talk about Maine when I was growing up. I wanted to move us up a little more remote. Grand Isle, that was a little too remote for my wife, so we agreed on Houlton.
He had bought a tree farm in Grand Isle back in 2012, but that was too remote for his wife, Kimberly. They have a population under 500. Pretty remote.
He's not just living in Houlton, he is also bringing jobs to Aroostook County. He runs a business called Mundbora, which makes bulletproof backpacks that can also be held like a personal shield. The bags are made in northern Aroostook County, and he's hoping to bring more jobs to the area.
Read More: A Bodyguard for Some Huge Celebrities Lives in Houlton, Maine | https://wjbq.com/body-guard-celebrities-houlton-maine
#21944112 at 2024-11-08 19:01:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26873: The Truth Will Fly High While Lies Need To Be Pushed Edition
While America Voted, Israel Set the Stage for Annexing Northern Gaza
Israel cut ties with UNWRA, attacked the West Bank and Lebanon, and announced a pending "complete evacuation" of northern Gaza earlier this week.
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While America Voted, Israel Set the Stage for Annexing Northern Gaza
Israel cut ties with UNWRA, attacked the West Bank and Lebanon, and announced a pending "complete evacuation" of northern Gaza earlier this week.
Sanya Mansoor
November 7 2024, 3:33 p.m.
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A congratulatory billboard showing elected U.S. President Donald Trump on November 7, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on "history's greatest comeback."
A billboard congratulates President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 7, 2024 in Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on "history's greatest comeback." Photo: Amir Levy/getty Images
One day before the U.S. election, Israel told the United Nations that it would be cutting ties with UNRWA, its aid agency for Palestinian refugees. On Election Day itself, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant - who had challenged him on his approach to a ceasefire and the return of hostages. Later that night in Tel Aviv time, as Americans went to the polls, the Israeli military told national media that it is getting closer to the "complete evacuation" of northern Gaza, and residents would not be allowed to return.
The victory of Donald Trump wouldn't become clear until the next morning in Israel, but Netanyahu acted as if his preferred candidate was already in the White House. The green light from the U.S. government to carry out his war is, apparently, glowing even brighter. That same night, Israeli Brig. Gen. Itzik Cohen said that humanitarian aid would no longer arrive in northern Gaza, since there are "no more civilians left."
"That really is a frightening statement, because the intention is to leave nothing and no one living behind," said Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute think tank. The U.N. warned last week that "the entire Palestinian population in North Gaza, especially children, is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine, and the ongoing bombardments."
Israel "understood they were going to have an entirely free hand to do what they wanted."
The Harris campaign and Biden administration did not want to be seen as critical of Israel ahead of the election, according to Yousef Munayyer, head of the Palestine/Israel program at Arab Center Washington D.C. As a result, the Israeli government "understood they were going to have an entirely free hand to do what they wanted," said Munayyer. "Netanyahu understood that he had an opportunity to do things in the last three months that he probably would have got a lot more pushback on if there wasn't an election on the horizon." That includes the pager attacks on Beirut and the assassination of Hezbollah leaders, he said.
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/07/america-election-israel-netanyahu-gaza/
#21943416 at 2024-11-08 16:50:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26872: TGIF We Are The News Edition
>>21943029
Fuck that getty noise
#21941967 at 2024-11-08 13:29:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26870: Road to Innaguration Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/11/06/kamala-harris-surrogate-cardi-b-melts-down-over-trump-victory-this-is-why-some-of-yall-states-be-getting-hurricanes/
Kamala Harris Surrogate Cardi B Melts Down over Trump Victory: 'This Is Why Some of Y'all States Be Getting Hurricanes'
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#21941393 at 2024-11-08 11:45:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26870: Road to Innaguration Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1854687183581376979
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Prominent doctor calls on Trump to remove the COVID-19 vaccine from the marketplace
AstraZeneca COVID vaccine | BARBARA GINDLAPA/AFP via getty Images
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#21941270 at 2024-11-08 11:17:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26869: Taking Control Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1854707760056730058
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Mississippi mayor and other officials indicted on federal corruption charges
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba of Jackson, Mississippi, in 2021. | getty Images
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3:09 PM ? Nov 7, 2024
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#21915347 at 2024-11-06 01:21:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26837: Judgment Day Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1853965822835720672
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Officials investigating potential voter fraud, ballot fraud in Denver, Colorado
Mail-in ballots | (JASON REDMOND/getty)
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#21895454 at 2024-11-04 03:28:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26812: Elon Musk of Squirrels Edition
>>21895411
>but what's with the phone number lower left corner?
It's a file-ID number from getty Images:
An image formerly available at getty Images, displaying a watermark with "getty Images", the author's name, and a file-ID number. This watermark exists on all images on getty Images when previewing the images, to prevent copyright infringement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/getty_Images#:~:text=An%20image%20formerly%20available%20at,and%20a%20file%2DID%20number.
#21886765 at 2024-11-03 01:53:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26801: Deez Nuts Edition
Strip Club Floats Seedy Offer to Dodgers After Winning the World Series
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A California strip club has floated a seamy offer after the L.A. Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in a grudge match World Series this week.
4Play The Gentlemen's Club and Plan B in West L.A. has offered the Dodgers free VIP access for life to the clubs, after Wednesday's big win.
Frankie, the owner of the clubs, told TMZ that every member of the Dodgers organization will get a Black VIP card that will allow them free access any time they like.
The owner added that "any athlete, staff member, or fan showing their Dodger pride by wearing team colors or presenting proof of working with the Dodgers" will enjoy the benefits.
"[They'll get] their admission covered, their first drink on us, and dinner on the house!" he continued.
"This is our way of saying thank you to everyone who's passionate about supporting L.A. and bringing that championship energy!" Frankie said.
So far, no one from the Dodgers has responded to the offer.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/11/02/strip-club-floats-seedy-offer-to-dodgers-after-winning-the-world-series/
#21883615 at 2024-11-02 18:43:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26798: NCSWIC Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1852772226195505623
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
RNC sues Georgia counties for accepting ballots over the weekend, not allowing GOP poll watchers
Mail-in ballots | (JASON REDMOND/getty)
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#21881501 at 2024-11-02 12:04:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26795: Ebake for Victory Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1852679740089340124
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Voter registration fraud investigations point to Arizona group with ties to left-leaning orgs
Voter ID signs in Ruckersville, Va., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via getty Images
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#21881046 at 2024-11-02 08:57:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26795: Ebake for Victory Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1852524933407969599
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Judge orders Pennsylvania county to reissue thousands of missing ballots ahead of election
Judge's gavel | (Joe Raedle/getty Images)
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#21873492 at 2024-11-01 02:10:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26786: MAGA-ween Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1851757571243119035
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: Retribution? IRS agent who blew whistle on Biden family given ultimatum: accept demotion or leave
Flanked by their counsel, Supervisory IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley and IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler testify during a House Oversight Committee hearing related to the Justice Department's investigation of Hunter Biden. | Photo by Drew Angerer/getty Images
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#21873406 at 2024-11-01 01:51:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26785: 10 Billion challenge: CBS 'editing Kamala' GONE IN 60 Minutes? Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1851757571243119035
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: Retribution? IRS agent who blew whistle on Biden family given ultimatum: accept demotion or leave
Flanked by their counsel, Supervisory IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley and IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler testify during a House Oversight Committee hearing related to the Justice Department's investigation of Hunter Biden. | Photo by Drew Angerer/getty Images
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#21867416 at 2024-10-31 06:16:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26778: Unbreakable Edition
panda, youve got to be fucking kidding me
jill youre a demon
WHOA! Joe Biden Goes on Baby Biting Spree at White House Halloween Party - Bites at Least THREE BABIES in One Night
Joe Biden bit at least three babies on Wednesday night during the White House Halloween celebration.
Joe and Jill Biden on Wednesday night hosted local students and military families for a night of trick-or-treating at the White House.
Dr. Jill showed up to the Halloween party in a giant panda costume.
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Joe Biden and Jill Biden in panda costume at White House Halloween celebration
Biden couldn't help himself and went on a baby biting spree!
Joe Biden got so excited when he saw a baby in a chicken costume that he bit its leg.
Biden just bit a baby at the White House pic.twitter.com/i66Lai3lhu
- End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 30, 2024
Close up photo of Biden biting the baby:
Joe Biden bites a baby during a Halloween celebration at the White House tonight pic.twitter.com/pHYlabE0jF
- Link Lauren (@itslinklauren) October 30, 2024
Joe Biden also put a baby's entire foot in his mouth after biting another infant during the White House trick-or-treating event on Wednesday.
Biden put the baby's foot in his mouth three times.
This is not normal.
Joe Biden has bitten yet ANOTHER BABY'S FOOT tonight
Who is letting this happen and why??! https://t.co/hBs18F7pBB pic.twitter.com/SgzWFZhqJa
- Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 31, 2024
Biden also bit a third baby in a ghost onesie according to a getty Image from the Halloween party posted on X.
WTF Biden is apparently going around biting babies pic.twitter.com/I6ra7tGLHB
- Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 31, 2024
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/whoa-joe-biden-goes-baby-biting-spree-white
#21858565 at 2024-10-30 00:49:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26767: Allentown, PA Edition
Trillium Capital Manager Sentenced to Federal Prison for Securities Fraud Scheme Involving getty Images
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/trillium-capital-manager-sentenced-federal-prison-securities-fraud-scheme-involving
#21852912 at 2024-10-29 05:42:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26761: Drill Baby Drill Edition
Denmark Pays for Prosthetic Leg of Nigerian Pirate Who Attacked its Navy
01:05
Denmark's Queen Margrethe Hospitalized After Fall
By Jesus Mesa
Politics Reporter
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ANigerian pirate injured in a 2021 gunfight with Danish sailors is now receiving a taxpayer-funded prosthetic leg after being granted asylum in Denmark, a decision that has brought significant public debate.
Lucky Frances was involved in a firefight with the Danish frigate Esbern Snare in the Gulf of Guinea, a region once notorious for piracy. A Danish Navy Seahawk helicopter took off from the frigate in response to information that a vessel with pirates was approaching several commercial ships.
The clash resulted in the deaths of four of his companions, while Frances suffered severe injuries that required the amputation of his leg. The Danes took care of the injured man, who was first admitted to a Ghana hospital, and his leg was amputated. He was later brought to Denmark for medical treatment.
During his stay in Denmark, Frances applied for asylum, citing his health condition as a reason to remain in the country. After a lengthy legal battle, he was eventually granted a prosthetic leg, according to B.T., a Danish news outlet.
His case quickly became a focus of Danish media, drawing widespread attention and criticism. Many politicians see it as a source of embarrassment for the Danish government, which has traditionally taken a tough stance on migration and asylum.
"I cannot defend this decision," said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has faced mounting pressure over the matter. Her administration has consistently maintained a hard line against asylum seekers, making this case particularly controversial.
Despite being found guilty of endangering the lives of Danish soldiers, Frances did not serve a prison sentence. After his asylum request was approved, he was granted an education plan, job counseling and an "integration contract" to help him become a contributing member of Danish society.
As part of the integration process, Frances must sign an "integration contract" that outlines specific goals he must achieve to remain eligible for self-support and repatriation benefits. This plan also includes language lessons to help him become fluent in Danish and assistance in finding a job suitable for an amputee. Additionally, he will receive a stipend to help cover the costs of his prosthetic leg.
The Danish People's Party (DF), a right-wing opposition party, has been particularly vocal in its criticism. Mikkel Bj?rn, the DF's integration spokesman, said, "This is absolutely absurd. That man should never have been in Denmark, and to imagine that he can now be meaningfully integrated into Danish society is completely beyond the pale."
Initially, Frances expressed a desire to return to Nigeria after recovering from his injuries. However, he later decided to apply for asylum in Denmark, saying in a 2023 interview, "Going back to Africa will not be good for me."
01:05
Denmark's Queen Margrethe Hospitalized After Fall
By Jesus Mesa
Politics Reporter
FOLLOW
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ANigerian pirate injured in a 2021 gunfight with Danish sailors is now receiving a taxpayer-funded prosthetic leg after being granted asylum in Denmark, a decision that has brought significant public debate.
Lucky Frances was involved in a firefight with the Danish frigate Esbern Snare in the Gulf of Guinea, a region once notorious for piracy. A Danish Navy Seahawk helicopter took off from the frigate in response to information that a vessel with pirates was approaching several commercial ships.
The clash resulted in the deaths of four of his companions, while Frances suffered severe injuries that required the amputation of his leg. The Danes took care of the injured man, who was first admitted to a Ghana hospital, and his leg was amputated. He was later brought to Denmark for medical treatment.
During his stay in Denmark, Frances applied for asylum, citing his health condition as a reason to remain in the country. After a lengthy legal battle, he was eventually granted a prosthetic leg, according to B.T., a Danish news outlet.
His case quickly became a focus of Danish media, drawing widespread attention and criticism. Many politicians see it as a source of embarrassment for the Danish government, which has traditionally taken a tough stance on migration and asylum.
Danish warship Esbern Snare
The Danish warship Esbern Snare leaves a naval base in Denmark on January 9, 2018, before heading to Estonia. A pirate involved in a 2021 firefight with the Esbern Snare was later granted asylum in… More CLAUS BECH/AFP via getty Images
"I cannot defend this decision," said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has faced mounting pressure over the matter. Her administration has consistently maintained a hard line against asylum seekers, making this case particularly controversial.
Despite being found guilty of endangering the lives of Danish soldiers, Frances did not serve a prison sentence. After his asylum request was approved, he was granted an education plan, job counseling and an "integration contract" to help him become a contributing member of Danish society.
As part of the integration process, Frances must sign an "integration contract" that outlines specific goals he must achieve to remain eligible for self-support and repatriation benefits. This plan also includes language lessons to help him become fluent in Danish and assistance in finding a job suitable for an amputee. Additionally, he will receive a stipend to help cover the costs of his prosthetic leg.
The Danish People's Party (DF), a right-wing opposition party, has been particularly vocal in its criticism. Mikkel Bj?rn, the DF's integration spokesman, said, "This is absolutely absurd. That man should never have been in Denmark, and to imagine that he can now be meaningfully integrated into Danish society is completely beyond the pale."
Initially, Frances expressed a desire to return to Nigeria after recovering from his injuries. However, he later decided to apply for asylum in Denmark, saying in a 2023 interview, "Going back to Africa will not be good for me."
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His lawyer, Emma Ring Damgaard of the Danish firm Storm Thygesen, defended the decision, emphasizing the complexity of his situation. "This makes good sense," she said. "There is a long and painful rehabilitation program ahead. You can't just send him back to Nigeria."
The Gulf of Guinea is one of the world's most dangerous waterways, with regular kidnappings. In 2019, the region accounted for more than 90 percent of global crew member abductions.
So far, Frances' case has cost Danish taxpayers an estimated 4.2 million Danish kroner (approximately $615,000), including medical expenses, according to DR, a Danish broadcaster.
https://www.newsweek.com/denmark-pays-prosthetic-leg-nigerian-pirate-who-attacked-its-navy-1967139#:~:text=A%20Nigerian%20pirate%20injured%20in%20a%202021%20gunfight,a%20decision%20that%20has%20brought%20significant%20public%20debate.
#21841060 at 2024-10-27 16:59:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26746: Dan The Man Edition
>>21841018
Pelosi Brown getty Newsom
#21837822 at 2024-10-27 02:04:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26742: All Your Base Edition
Exclusive - Donald Trump Says He Can 'Win New York' in Tele-Rally with Elise Stefanik
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#21835664 at 2024-10-26 19:46:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26739: President Trump Rallies STATE COLLEGE PA Edition
Donald Trump National Security Adviser Mike Flynn Has Called Islam 'a Cancer'
"I've been at war with Islam, or a component of Islam, for the last decade."
ABC News
— – The man whom President-elect Donald Trump picked as his national security adviser has said he doesn't believe that all cultures are "morally equivalent" and once described Islam as "a cancer," comments that have many in the Muslim community worried about what his new job might mean for them.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn served as an adviser to Trump on national security and foreign policy throughout the presidential campaign. Flynn has said he agreed with Trump's initial proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States, but told Al Jazeera earlier this year it likely "wouldn't work," and that he supports the vetting of Muslims coming from Syria and places where terrorism is a major threat.
He also accompanied Trump to his first top-secret national security briefing in August this year, and he was vetted as a potential running mate before Vice President-elect Mike Pence was eventually announced, two senior level sources with direct knowledge told ABC News earlier this year.
"I am pleased that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn will be by my side as we work to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, navigate geopolitical challenges and keep Americans safe at home and abroad," Trump said in a statement today. "General Flynn is one of the country's foremost experts on military and intelligence matters and he will be an invaluable asset to me and my administration."
The position of National Security Adviser does not require U.S. Senate approval.
Here are some of his controversial comments:
Flynn on 'Radical Islam'
Flynn, a registered Democrat who had a decades-long military career, served under the Obama administration until reportedly being forced to retire early as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014. The early retirement resulted from "the stand I took on radical Islam," he wrote in an op-ed for the New York Post.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby reportedly said at the time that the retirement had "been planned for some time" and that then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel "appreciates [his] service."
For Flynn's part, he told Fox News in April 2015, "I've been at war with Islam, or a component of Islam, for the last decade."
Flynn earlier this year released a book "The Field of Fight: How We Can Win The Global War Against Radical Islam And Its Allies" that he co-wrote sharing his views on what he called the "global war against radical Islam," calling for the United States to develop a deeper understanding of radical ideology.
Flynn wrote, "we're in a world war against a messianic mass movement of evil people, most of them inspired by a totalitarian ideology: Radical Islam."
He also said in the book, "I don't believe all cultures are morally equivalent, and I think the West, and especially America, is far more civilized, far more ethical and moral, than the system our main enemies want to impose on us."
"And we've got to stop feeling the slightest bit guilty about calling them by name and identifying them as fanatical killers acting on behalf of a failed civilization."
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican Na…
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Flynn, who's chairman and CEO of Flynn Intel Group, is also a board member of ACT for America, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls "far and away the largest grassroots anti-Muslim group in America."
The organization bills itself as "the nation's largest non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots national security organization" that's "committed to recruiting, training, and mobilizing citizens community by community to help protect and preserve American culture and to keep this nation safe," according to its website.
ACT for America did not respond to ABC News' request for comment
"Mr. Flynn's past Islamophobic statements, and his association with the nation's most venomous anti-Muslim hate group, should disqualify him from serving in any public office," Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told ABC News before Flynn's official selection.
In this tweet from February, Flynn said the fear of Muslims is a rational one:
Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL: please forward this to others: the truth fears no questions … " he tweeted, referring to an anti-Muslim video from a third party.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-mike-flynn-called/story?id=43575658
#21829108 at 2024-10-25 19:31:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26730: Back From The Future Again Edition
>>21829027
>>21829058
They have to go back
>>21829077
>Trump is promising deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. What is it?
When has the act been used before?
This 1918 photograph shows
This 1918 photograph shows "enemy aliens" being corralled by Secret Service operatives at Gloucester, N.J., on their way to internment in the South.
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The Alien Enemies Act has been used three times in American history, all in connection with major military conflicts.
During the War of 1812, all British nationalsliving in the U.S. were required to report information including their age, length of time in the country, place of residence, family description and whether they had applied for naturalization.
A century later,during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson invoked it against nationals of the Central Powers: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.
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According to the National Archives, U.S. authorities used the law to place over 6,000 "enemy aliens" - many of them Germans - in internment camps, with some remaining in detention up to two years after fighting had ended.
The U.S. Marshals Service says it registered 480,000 German "enemy aliens" and arrested 6,300 between the declaration of war in April 1917 and the armistice in November 1918.
Most recently,President Franklin Roosevelt invoked the act after the attack on Pearl Harbor, designating Japanese, German and Italian nationals as "alien enemies" during World War II.
Roosevelt's proclamation required residents from all three countries to register with the U.S. government and authorized the internment of any alien enemy "deemed potentially dangerous to the peace and security of the US."
By the end of WWII, over 31,000 suspected enemy aliens and their families - including Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany - had been interned at camps and military facilities across the U.S., according to the National Archives. Several thousand of them were ultimately repatriated to their country of origin, either by choice or by force.
Vladeck says the Alien Enemies Act was used to detain mostly Italian and German nationals. The bulk of the more than 100,000 Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps during the war were U.S. citizens, detained under different legal grounds.
How strong is Trump's case?
The act hasn't been invoked since WWII, which Vladeck says is largely because the nature of war has changed over the last eight decades.
The fine print of the act says the president can only take on this authority once Congress has declared war, and - while the U.S. has been involved in plenty of conflicts over the decades - it hasn't done so formally since 1942.
"It hasn't been a source of contemporary controversy because we haven't had a declared war," he explains. "And no one has tried to argue that that invasion or predatory incursion language could be used in any context other than a conventional war."
Until Trump, that is. The former president - who has a long history of using dehumanizing language against minority groups and political opponents - has repeatedly referred to the influx of migrants to the U.S. as an "invasion" and vowed mass deportations.
But he hasn't blamed a specific country or conflict that would fall within the scope of the 1798 act, Vladeck says, which is one of the reasons he doesn't think Trump's argument will succeed.
Even some anti-immigration advocates in favor of deploying the act acknowledge those key legal challenges.
Defining illegal immigration as an invasion and migrant gangs as foreign nations would be an "uphill climb in federal court," George Fishman, former deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Trump, wrote last year.
#21817873 at 2024-10-24 00:26:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26716: TRUMP RALLY - DELUTH, GEORGIA Edition
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#21809892 at 2024-10-22 14:01:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26706: Tuesday Morning Melania - Countdown Edition
>>21809842
>Tryin to read between the lines, but he might be saying it came from Defense Department.
High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington
The trail that leads from Tehran to D.C. passes directly through the offices ofRobert Malleyand the International Crisis Group
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Lee Smith
October 01, 2023
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The Biden administration's now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based ?migr? opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government-first at the State Department andnow the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier.
On Thursday, Maier told a congressional committee that the Defense Department is "actively looking into whether all law and policy was properly followed in granting my chief of staff top secret special compartmented information."
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#21807615 at 2024-10-21 23:50:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26702: 5th Column Ending :Mirror: November 5th Beginning Edition
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John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Updated: Fani Willis laid groundwork in Trump prosecution before she took office, special prosecutor says
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#21806188 at 2024-10-21 19:36:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26701: TRUMP Shows Leadership In North Carolina Edition
>>21806180
>Jennifer Lopez and P. Diddy-A Timeline of Their Relationship
A timeline of J.Lo and Diddy's relationship
1999
The pair met in 1999 when Diddy, then known as Puff Daddy, worked on Lopez's "If You Had My Love" music video. Their relationship quickly blossomed.
In December 1999, the couple were arrested after they fled a New York nightclub where a shooting had taken place. Lopez's charges were immediately dropped, but Diddy was charged with bribery and gun possession. He was acquitted at trial.
2000
After the shooting incident, the pair appeared to date on and off again. They captured the world's attention in February 2000, when they walked the Grammys red carpet with Lopez wearing her famous green Versace dress.
They provided another iconic couples moment in September, wearing matching all-white ensembles at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Jennifer Lopez and P. Diddy
Jennifer Lopez and Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs backstage at the Grammys on February 23, 2000. getty Images/Bob Riha, Jr.
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2001
The couple announced their split on Valentine's Day 2001.
According to ABC News, Diddy's publicist Nathalie Moar said: "Mr. Combs confirmed that he and his love, Jennifer Lopez, have, in fact, broken up.
"Mr. Combs is confirming this today, as he wanted to put all the rumors surrounding their relationship to rest. At this difficult time, we ask that you respect his privacy," she continued
Per Cheat Sheet, Lopez later told Oprah Winfrey that she had ended the relationship because she knew she'd never have the family life she wanted with the rapper.
She also hinted at infidelity on his part, amid speculation that he still had feelings for his ex, Kim Porter, who died in 2018.
This is the year that Lopez found love with Affleck.
2013
Lopez discussed her time with Diddy and his rumored infidelity in an interview with Vibe magazine in 2013.
"I was in this relationship with Puff where I was totally crying, crazy and going nuts. It really took my whole life in a tailspin," she said, according to Pop Sugar.
She added: "I can't remember right now, but I won't say it didn't happen.
"I never caught him but I just knew. He'd say he was going to a club for a couple of hours and then never come back that night."
2019
In 2019, Lopez reflected on what she called the "Puffy era" in an interview with The Breakfast Club radio show.
"The Puffy era was just kind of a crazy, heightened time in my life. You know, Puffy and I both grew up in the Bronx," she said.
On their initial attraction, Lopez said: "He had been in the music business and had all this success; I was just starting and making my first album when I met him. He became kind of a mentor to me in that moment. We had this kind of crazy, tumultuous relationship that ended in a bang."
She added: "It was definitely a moment but I felt like it was necessary. He was meant to be in my life at that moment to teach me what I needed to know about the music business, about what kind of artist I wanted to be in the music industry."
#21806180 at 2024-10-21 19:35:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26701: TRUMP Shows Leadership In North Carolina Edition
>>21805990
>Alleged Victim Says Celebrity Couple Participated While Diddy Raped Her
>>21806162
>Jennifer Lopez and Puff Daddy Arriving to the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards Red Carpet
Jennifer Lopez and P. Diddy-A Timeline of Their Relationship
Published May 28, 2021 at 7:08 AM EDT
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Jennifer Lopez has been making headlines in recent weeks after reportedly rekindling her romance with former fianc? Ben Affleck.
Now another of the singer's famous exes has poked fun at the media frenzy surrounding the return of Bennifer, with Sean Combs, better known as Diddy, sharing an old photo of him and J. Lo on Instagram.
The 51-year-old rapper and music mogul posted the 2000 picture of him and Lopez holding hands, adding with the caption "#tbt"-Throwback Thursday.
The post has caused something of a frenzy, with many commenters joking about Diddy being "petty," "messy" and "stirring the pot."
Lopez, 51, and Alex Rodriguez, 45, confirmed in April that they had ended their engagement after a four-year relationship.
Since then, Lopez and Affleck, 48, have been spotted together in Los Angeles, before vacationing in Montana and Miami-and the media interest is almost as big as it was during their whirlwind romance in the early 2000s.
Before Affleck came on the scene, however, Lopez and Combs were an "it couple," dating from September 1999 to February 2001.
Puff Daddy and Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez and Puff Daddy at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards Kevin Mazur Archive/getty/WireImage
A timeline of J.Lo and Diddy's relationship
1999
The pair met in 1999 when Diddy, then known as Puff Daddy, worked on Lopez's "If You Had My Love" music video. Their relationship quickly blossomed.
In December 1999, the couple were arrested after they fled a New York nightclub where a shooting had taken place. Lopez's charges were immediately dropped, but Diddy was charged with bribery and gun possession. He was acquitted at trial.
2000
After the shooting incident, the pair appeared to date on and off again. They captured the world's attention in February 2000, when they walked the Grammys red carpet with Lopez wearing her famous green Versace dress.
They provided another iconic couples moment in September, wearing matching all-white ensembles at the MTV Video Music Awards.
https://www.newsweek.com/jennifer-lopez-p-diddy-timeline-relationship-1595764
#21795143 at 2024-10-19 18:11:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26686: We Are Happy Warriors Edition
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John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Shifty? Adam Schiff's conflicting 'principal' residences in mortgage, election papers raise fraud concerns
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#21793599 at 2024-10-19 12:27:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26684: Problem Solved Edition
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John Solomon
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Trump outpaces Harris in rallies and interviews, but media still tries to suggest he's 'exhausted'
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#21786146 at 2024-10-18 02:04:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26675: Roasting Season Edition
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John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Education Department gave millions of dollars to anti-Israel professors: report
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#21782008 at 2024-10-17 14:30:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26670: Too Big To Rig - Countdown Edition
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>>21781140 pb Salon Says Trump Supporters 'Infected' with 'Dangerous and Lethal...Disease'
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>"Brain flaws": Understanding MAGA as an epidemic disease
>Epidemiologist Dr. Gary Slutkin: MAGA is a "dangerous and lethal syndrome" of "Authoritarian Violence Disorder"
I'm a veteran expert in stopping epidemics. Here's why Jewish institutions should cancel everything.
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CHICAGO (JTA) - I am an infectious disease epidemiologistwho worked at the World Health Organization on epidemics in over 25 countries around the world.
As a physician and member of the Jewish community,I prize the Jewish teaching that places the saving of a life above all other laws and practices. It is my expert opinion that as a result of the emergence of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the Jewish community (along with all religious and community groups) must change what we are doing immediately: We need to suspend our usual religious services and social gatherings.
Many communities have recognized the emergency and already made this change, and more and more are doing so in the hours before Shabbat begins. But others are still making small-scale changes or contemplating what to do next.
Each community and individual will have to work within their own traditions and norms. But as an epidemiologist, I know that these recommendations will save lives.
I have worked to help stop epidemics of many sizes and infectious patterns - from AIDS in Africa and Asia, to tuberculosis in San Francisco, to cholera in Somalia. I also ran the Intervention Unit for WHO, which guided countries in epidemic control and the behavioral changes needed.
All serious epidemics disrupt populations, and all require important changes to what the population does. These changes are necessary and urgent to avoid preventable deaths and the spread of infections that cause more preventable deaths. That's why I recommend that we as Jews temporarily but immediately refrain from attending synagogues and other in-person meetings, no matter whether we live in an area where there is a known case of COVID-19 or not.
This virus is easily transmitted through droplets in the air, through hand to hand (to face) contact and on surfaces, and is much more dangerous than the seasonal flu. The seriousness and lethality of this virus to older people is exceptionally high, and other adults also have higher risks of serious illness as well as high likelihoods of causing transmission to older people.
First and foremost, we must take these steps because we value human life: our own lives, our families, and the greater community and the world around us. Stopping group contact is an essential method right now for preventing ourselves from getting this easily transmitted and highly lethal virus, and also to stop any spread to our families and the community.
Mistakes and delays and less than perfect compliance with new behaviors and practices can be deadly. We have seen this happen already in other countries, like Italy and elsewhere in Europe, and we are witnessing the active spread in Seattle and New York state. Other cities and parts of cities will see lethal outbreaks if they are late or noncompliant.
Complacency, denial and overconfidence are common among us, but there is no place for this now.
#21774993 at 2024-10-16 14:40:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26662: NCSWIC - Countdown Edition
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Helene: In frigid temperatures, thousands in North Carolina remain without power
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#21774886 at 2024-10-16 14:25:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26662: NCSWIC - Countdown Edition
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Texas troopers arrest large numbers of special interest aliens, including men from Iran
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#21774489 at 2024-10-16 13:08:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26661: Look Here, Not There Edition
Georgia Judge Halts Ballot Hand Count Rule for 2024 Election
The judge ruled the hand count rule was 'too much, too late' given the proximity to the election, but could be used in the future.
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#21769411 at 2024-10-15 15:03:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26655: Tongue Out Tuesday To DS Edition
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Vance Avoids Saying Trump Lost 2020 Race-Again-In Latest Interview
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Ohio Sen. JD Vance again refused to say whether his presidential running mate, former President Donald Trump, lost the 2020 election on ABC News Sunday morning-continuing Vance's avoidance of the question, despite no evidence of widespread fraud in Trump's 2020 loss.
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ABC News' Martha Raddatz asked Vance on "This Week" whether he would acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 electionif she "asked (him) 50 times," to which Vance said he and Trump "believe there were problems in 2020," then pivoted, saying: "You haven't asked about inflation."
Vance said he wanted instead "to focus on the fact that we had big technology firms censoring our fellow citizens in a way that violated our fundamental rights," likely referring to accusations that Trump's 2020 performance was impacted by some social media platforms' content moderation decisions.
Vance has regularly avoided the question of whether the 2020 election was stolen-which Trump continues to say it was, despite no evidence-since early October, when Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz asked him to address it on the debate stage and called Vance's refusal "a damning non-answer."
Vance also refused to say Trump lost the election at a Saturday night campaign event in Pennsylvania, where he said, "I think the election of 2020 had serious problems ... You want to call it rigged. Call it whatever you want to, it wasn't OK."
Vance's refusal to answer was also highlighted earlier Saturday when The New York Times published an interview in which he was asked directly five times whether Trump lost the 2020 election and he refused to answer each time, instead saying they are "focused on the future" and asking questions about "big technology."
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MAGA Invents Its Most Outrageous Tim Walz Conspiracy Yet
Donald Trump's biggest fans have come up with an outlandish new conspiracy theory about Tim Walz. But the screenshots undermine the whole thing.
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A MAGA influencer is trying to spreada nasty rumorabout Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz. The issue is it reads more like fan fiction than facts.
"DocNetyoutube," whom Washington Post media reporter Will Sommer describes as "an up-and-coming new player in the 'making things up' corner of online Trumpworld," claims he has proof that Walz sexually assaulted a student during his time as a high school teacher.
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In a series of "drops," a term popular in the QAnon community, DocNetyoutube on Sunday posted several alleged screenshots of communications between himself and Walz's anonymous victim. But the posts have several red flags about their authenticity.
The email dates are formatted in an inconsistent way, with misplaced commas and strange text alignment. Another clue is what appears to be a typing cursor that still appears on the screenshots, indicating that the internet personality most likely wrote them himself.
Twitter screenshot Will Sommer @willsommer: MAGA-land had been eagerly awaiting sordid allegations against Tim Walz today, reported by internet personality "DocNetYoutube." But the release has already been undermined by the appearance of a cursor in a witness's key emails- suggesting DocNetYoutube wrote it himself.
Much of DocNetyoutube's conspiracy hinges on him breaking the news ofa student who went to a concert with Walz and his wife while the couple were teachers at the same Nebraska school. The story isn't new. The New York Times published this story in August, noting that after the anonymous gay student confided in them, the couple took them to anIndigo Girls concert, a rare queer-friendly event in the area.
But on Sunday, the MAGA conspiratorial account tried to claim that the media was "trying to get out in front of this story," instead of acknowledging that he was publishing old news. The internet personality claimed to have a "statement from the victim" to prove the legitimacy of the posts. The anonymous statement noted that Walz has a Chinese symbol tattooed on his upper thigh. "I remember he explained to me what it meant, but I do not recall at this time," the supposed student wrote in the statement. In the comments on X, MAGA users quickly spun out about whether Walz could have gotten that tattoo laser removed or could have done a skin graft procedure. Very normal stuff.
Baselessly calling Walz a groomer is nothing new. Laura Loomer has previously spread similarly vague allegations against Walz. "There's a reason why he shakes his wife's hand and panders to the gay community, and it's not because he's awkward.... It will all come out," she wrote on X in August, citing no evidence.
Several X-verified QAnon accounts have also spread the claims far and wide, boosted by Elon Musk's algorithm. Earlier this month, the pro-QAnon podcast "RedPill78" interviewed an anonymous man who alleged he was a former foreign exchange student at Walz's high school who was inappropriately touched by the Democrat.
Previously, terminally online Republicans also tried to push the narrative that Walz was grooming children by being the faculty adviser of the newly formed Gay-Straight Alliance at his Minnesota school. In reality, queer students appreciated his support. "It was important to have a person who was so well-liked on campus, a football coach who had served in the military," one former student at the school told The New York Times. "Having Tim Walz as the adviser of the Gay-Straight Alliance made me feel safe coming to school."
Since that talking point didn't stick, it appears they had to escalate. Of course credible assault allegations should always be taken seriously. But if Republicans don't want to vote for someone who has touched someone inappropriately, perhapsthey shouldn't vote for the convicted rapist.
https://newrepublic.com/post/187127/maga-tim-walz-conspiracy-one-big-problem
#21752778 at 2024-10-12 19:50:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26637: LIVE: President Trump Holds a Rally in Coachella, CA Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1845187865342337163
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
At least 17 dead after Hurricane Milton, 1.5 million customers in Florida still without power
Hurricane Milton in Florida on Oct. 9, 2024. | getty Images
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#21744986 at 2024-10-11 09:07:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26628: Rats Trapped Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1844532351490998712
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Chuck Grassley says investigation into FBI revealed the 'Fox is guarding the hen house'
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#21742725 at 2024-10-10 22:40:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26625: CONFLICT PAY$ THEIR BILL$ Edition
Kamala's America
Court Released Illegal Immigrant Accused of Raping Child
Published Oct 10, 2024 at 8:08 AM EDT
Updated Oct 10, 2024 at 8:38 AM EDT
Trump Doubles Down On Migrant Attacks During Pennsylvania Rally
By Billal Rahman
Live News Reporter
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An illegal immigrant accused of forcibly raping a minor in Massachusetts was released back into the community by court officials, despite an active immigration detainer against him, according to Enforcement and Removal Operations agents.
Maynor Francisco Hernandez-Rodas, a 38-year-old Guatemalan national, entered the U.S. illegally as a "gotaway"-someone observed crossing the border but who is not apprehended and returned-and was charged in June with aggravated forcible rape of a child in Massachusetts.
Immigration officers arrested Hernandez-Rodas in Lowell, Massachusetts, on September 20, according to a statement from Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston. He is currently being held in federal custody.
"Maynor Francisco Hernandez-Rodas stands accused of horrific crimes against a Massachusetts child," ERO Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia Hyde said in a statement on Tuesday. "He represents a significant danger to the children of our community that we will not tolerate."
ICE
An ICE agent monitors hundreds of asylum-seekers being processed upon entering the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023, in New York City. An illegal immigrant accused of forcibly raping a minor in…
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It remains unknown when, where, or how he entered the country.
Hernandez-Rodas was arrested by Lowell police on June 20, 2024, for aggravated rape of a child and rape of a child with force, officials said.
Authorities lodged an immigration detainer against Hernandez-Rodas on June 28.
He was arraigned in Middlesex County Superior Court on charges of aggravated rape of a child by force and rape of a child by force on September 4.
According to Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston, officials at Middlesex County Superior Court "ignored ERO Boston's immigration detainer and released Hernandez-Rodas from custody on an unknown date."
#21741560 at 2024-10-10 18:39:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26623: Pain & Justice #1010 Edition
PB
>>21739764, >>21739791, >>21739796, >>21739802, >>21740248 POTUS! Fake News CBS and 60 Minutes
CBS News and Stations
Parent CBS Entertainment Group
List of assetsowned by Paramount Global
CBS Entertainment
Paramount Global
OwnerNational Amusements(9.7% equity, 79.9% voting power)[1]
(Merger withSkydance Mediapending)
Skydance Media, LLC
Owners
David Ellison (controlling)
RedBird Capital Partners (minor)
CJ ENM (minor)
Tencent (minor)[1]
KKR
(Merger with Paramount Global imminent pending)
Sep 5, 2024 12:36pm PT
Tech Tycoon Larry Ellison Will Control Paramount Global After Skydance Deal Closes: Filing
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 24: Larry Ellison attends the Rebels With A Cause Gala 2019 at Lawrence J Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC on October 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/getty Images)
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Larry Ellison, the megabillionaire founder of Oracle, will be the majority shareholder of National Amusements Inc., the company that controls Paramount Global, after the expected closing of the deal with Skydance Media - led by his son, David Ellison - next year, according to a regulatory filing.
It was understood that Larry Ellison would obtain a majority stake in NAI but now there's official confirmation: He will own 77.5% of National Amusements through Pinnacle Media, a group of three ventures formed "as special-purpose vehicles to hold the Ellison family's interest in NAI and Paramount," according to an FCC filing, available at this link. The remaining 22.5% of NAI will be owned by Gerry Cardinale, head of private-equity firm RedBird Capital Partners, which teamed with Skydance and the Ellisons on the NAI/Paramount deal.
#21732515 at 2024-10-09 01:00:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26612: Florida Strong Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1843644361629663569
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
It is essential for Americans to know that Democrats created the legislative authority to put FEMA into the illegal migrant business. And then many Republicans voted to fill FEMA's wallet with hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.
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#21713670 at 2024-10-05 17:39:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26589: Sloped Roofs Not A Problem, Would You Look At That Edition
>>21708641 PB
>Donald Trump seen posing with Diddy and wife Melania at a 2005 gala at Mar-a-Lago
>People Mag
>https://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2005/startracks/050328/scomb.jpg
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHNNY NUNEZ / getty
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-is-a-rapper
#21698655 at 2024-10-03 00:24:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26571: Oodles and Oodles Of Truths Edition
>>21698651
where's the anon digs on his getty mafia connections?
#21697352 at 2024-10-02 19:45:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26569: Vance Our Next VP Edition
>>21697093
>Where was Tim circa 2005?
John Enger
March 18, 2015 4:59 AM
The shooting at Red Lake: What happened
Police and investigators' vehicles
Police and investigators' vehicles gather in front of Red Lake Senior High School on March 22, 2005, the day after the shootings.
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Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather first.
He shot his grandfather, Daryl "Dash" Lussier, then Lussier's companion, Michelle Sigana, in the house they all shared on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
Weise took the guns Lussier used as a tribal police officer, a Glock pistol and a shotgun. He strapped on Lussier's police-issued Kevlar vest and set off for Red Lake High School in his grandfather's squad car. That is how Weise began his shooting spree on March 21, 2005.
The shooting at Red Lake:The victims
Weise walked in the front doors of the high school and started shooting. The first two rounds hit Derrick Brun, an unarmed security guard, in a hallway as he stepped forward to confront Weise.
Weise moved on to math teacher Missy Dodds' classroom, where he shot another teacher, Neva Rogers, and five students. In the midst of the killing, student Jeff May rushed Weise with a pencil, embedding the thing in Kevlar.
Today:Feeling scars at Red Lake 10 years later
Within minutes of Weise's first shots, a team of four tribal police and conservation officers rushed into the school and came down the hall in a tactical diamond formation and confronted Weise. Weise retreated back into Dodds' classroom, where he shot himself.
Including Weise, 10 people died. At the time it was the deadliest school shooting since the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. It remains the largest mass homicide in Minnesota history.
The investigation
Within a few hours of the shooting, agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and FBI were poring over security tapes and Weise's belongings for evidence of co-conspirators.
Weise's computer revealed a stream of instant messages to other kids in Red Lake, kids he hoped to enlist in his school shooting.
"Most of these boys would go along with these chat messages for awhile," said now-retired FBI agent John Egelhof, "then you'd see them drop off."
Those boys were tracked down and brought in for questioning, their parents left to fear the worst. The move didn't go over well on the reservation. Anton Treuer, Bemidji State University American Indian Resource Center executive director, called the investigation a witch hunt.
"When there was a shooting at Sandy Hook or Columbine," he said, "they weren't shaking down everybody's third cousin."
Many boys knew of Weise's interest in school shootings and had seen the violent illustrations that filled his notebooks, but only one was charged.
Louis Jourdain, the son of then-tribal chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain, and one of Weise's few close friends was taken to court on conspiracy charges, a fact that Floyd Jourdain still resents.
"He was running for his life [that day] just like all the rest of the kids," he said.
Years later, Egelhof has no regrets about how the investigation was handled.
Louis Jourdain's records are sealed because he was a minor at the time of the shooting. It's not clear what came of the case against him. Floyd Jourdain said his son was cleared - that Weise was acting without help or warning, and died alongside his victims.
School shootings
Shortly after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., President Obama asked the FBI to use its national crime statistics to determine whether the number of such crimes was on the rise.
In September 2014, the FBI report chronicled shootings over a 13-year period in which people set out to kill others in populated areas. It was the first documentation of such cases.
From December 2000 to 2013, there were 160 "active shooter" incidents in the U.S., in which 1,043 people were wounded or killed. The average number of such cases per year went from six incidents in the first seven years to 16 cases, on average, in the last seven years.
The FBI incident list includes three Minnesota shootings: The Accent Signage shooting in 2012 that killed six and wounded two, the Rocori High School shooting in Cold Spring in September 2003 that killed two, and the Red Lake High School shooting in March 2005, when a total of 10 people were killed including a security guard, a teacher and five students. Two people were killed at a private home.
Red Lake: 10 years later
Ten years ago, on March 21, 2005, 16-year-old Jeff Wiese shot his grandfather, his grandfather's partner and seven of his classmates at Red Lake High School before shooting himself.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/18/red-lake-shooting-explained
#21697281 at 2024-10-02 19:28:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26569: Vance Our Next VP Edition
>>21696720
huh….weird
kool-aidelib friends, eh?
2 breads ago and in the
NOTABLES
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>>21695530, >>21695797 Kamala's ENTIRE FAMILY is NOT REAL??
>>21695797
>Located in the Kamala/Willie Brown section are a bunch of links regarding Willie's connection to Jim Jones and the The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project,better known by its informal name "Jonestown"
>>21695817
>>21695851
Why Did Hundreds of Americans 'Drink the Kool-Aid' at Jonestown?
By: Patrick J. Kiger
Jonestown
A portrait of Jim Jones taken in the early days of the Jonestown community in Guyana, South America. Michelle VIGNES/Gamma-Rapho/getty Images
Back in November 1978, Americans were shocked by newspaper headlines about the deaths of more than 900 people in the South American nation of Guyana, in what appeared to be a combination of mass murder and suicide by poison. The carnage took place at a jungle camp known as Jonestown. Its founder was a charismatic American religious leader, the Rev. Jim Jones, who had led many of the cult followers of his former San Francisco-based Peoples Temple sect there.
The trigger apparently was a visit by a member of Congress, Rep. Leo Ryan of California, who had flown to Guyana to investigate whether Jones' followers were being forced to remain there against their will. Ryan and NBC journalist Don Harris confronted Jones on camera about a Peoples Temple member who had pleaded for help in getting away. Later Both Ryan and Harris were ambushed and shot to death on an airport tarmac as they attempted to return to the U.S., along with two other journalists and a defector from Jones' group, according to this retrospective Rolling Stone account published around the 40th anniversary of the event.
#21690011 at 2024-10-01 19:22:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26560: SEND INTERCESSORS !!!! Edition
Israel's Ideology of Genocide Must be Confronted and Stopped
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the United General Assembly and shows maps of the Middle East on September 27, 2023. (Photo: Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via getty Images)
Israel's violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people.
When Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium at the U.N. General Assembly last week, dozens of governments walked out of the chamber. The global opprobrium of Netanyahu and his government is due to Israel's depraved violence against its Arab neighbors. Netanyahu purveys a fundamentalist ideology that has turned Israel into the most violent nation in the world.
Israel's fundamentalist credo holds that Palestinians have no right whatsoever to their own nation. The Israeli Knesset recently passed a declaration rejecting a Palestinian State in what the Knesset calls The Land of Israel, meaning the land west of the Jordan River.
The Knesset of Israel firmly opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state west of Jordan. The establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of the Land of Israel will pose an existential danger to the State of Israel and its citizens, perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and destabilize the region.
To call the land west of the Jordan the "heart of the Land of Israel" is breathtaking. Israel is one part of the land west of the Jordan, not the entire land. The International Court of Justice has recently ruled that Israel's occupation of the Palestinian lands (those outside of Israel's borders as of June 4, 1967, before the June 1967 war) is plainly illegal. The U.N. General Assembly has recently voted overwhelmingly to back the ICJ ruling and called on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories within one year.
There are many sources of this Israeli brazenness, the most important being the backing of Israel by U.S. military power.
https://www.unz.com/article/israels-ideology-of-genocide-must-be-confronted-and-stopped/
#21688115 at 2024-10-01 11:41:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26558: julian assange and the aftermath of storm helene edition
>>21688068
>Signatories include former Central Intelligence Agency director and partisan propagandist John Brennan, one of the infamous 50-plus intelligence officials
toldyaso
The red castle soros and john brennan institute wargaming trump winning the election==
ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
#21685203 at 2024-09-30 21:14:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26554: When You Got It, You Got It Edition
WATCH: Flooding From Hurricane Helene Sends Tesla Up in Flames
FIRE HAZARD
Will Neal
Freelance Reporter
Updated Sep. 30, 2024 1:00PM EDT /
Published Sep. 30, 2024 12:04PM EDT
Amid Hurricane Helene's fallout, public safety officials are warning that saltwater damage can cause the inner workings of electric vehicles to catch fire.
Newsday LLC/getty
Counterintuitive, maybe, but the flooding caused by Hurricane Helene may actually pose a fire hazard for electric cars. That news comes after officials in coastal Pinellas County, Florida, released footage of a Tesla that burst into flames while parked inside a home's garage, TMZ reports. The clip shows the white vehicle sitting in about half a foot of saltwater before its underside appears to spontaneously set alight, submerging the entire space in smoke within a matter of seconds. The blaze was almost certainly caused by the car's inner workings reacting to the saltwater, public safety experts have said, advising people returning home in the storm's aftermath to avoid driving electric vehicles unless they've been carefully towed to a dealership for inspection first. It's yet another thing to worry about after Hurricane Helene, with the recorded death toll surpassing 110 and millions of homes still without power Monday after the storm carved a 500-mile long path of destruction across the Southeast.
WATCH: Hurricane Helene Flooding Sends Tesla Up in Flames https://www.thedailybeast.com/watch-flooding-from-hurricane-helene-sends-tesla-up-in-flames?source=twitter&via=desktop via @thedailybeast
#21681493 at 2024-09-30 01:33:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26550: Outsider Edition
>>21681454
Already gameplanned by john brennan and soros.
see below.
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
It is late afternoon
#21680584 at 2024-09-29 22:29:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26549: Full Throttle ? Edition
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1840517650335904051
Breaking911
@Breaking911
BREAKING: Singer, songwriter & actor Kris Kristofferson dead at 88
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#21670936 at 2024-09-28 02:24:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26537: Warren Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1839848133607543088
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
DOJ sues Alabama over attempt to remove noncitizens from voter rolls
Alabama State Capitol | (Penny Rogers Photography/getty)
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#21670715 at 2024-09-28 01:34:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26537: Warren Edition
Biden-Harris Admin On Track To Oversee Massive $1 Trillion In Improper Payments, Watchdog Group Finds
Robert Schmad
September 26, 2024 6:11 AM ET
President Biden Joins Vice President Harris On The Campaign Trail In Pittsburgh
(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/getty Images)
If current trends persist, the Biden-Harris administration will have made over $1 trillion in improper payments by the time President Joe Biden leaves office, according to a report released by the watchdog organization Open The Books on Thursday.
An improper payment is a disbursement "made by the government to the wrong person, in the wrong amount or for the wrong reason," per federal guidelines. The Biden-Harris administration, between 2021 and 2023, oversaw $801.4 billion in such payments after adjusting for inflation, according to the report.
The amount of improper payments made by the administration in 2024 won't be disclosed until after November's election. Biden's administration, however, has made well over $200 billion in erroneous payments each year since it has been in power, according to Open The Books. (RELATED: Biden White House Staff Is Largest Since Nixon, Costs Taxpayers $225 Million)
The Biden-Harris administration will cross the $1 trillion threshold "barring something unprecedented," according to the watchdog.
"President Biden and his successors must take more action to address the proliferation of improper payments, beyond mere rhetoric," Open The Books director of communications Christopher Neefus told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "The sheer magnitude of misspent taxpayer dollars is tough to comprehend. Put into perspective, the most recent Pentagon funding bill cost $883 billion; that means the Biden administration will have misspent more than it takes to fund our national defense for a whole year."
High levels of waste are nothing new for the federal government, however, the Biden-Harris administration has taken it to the next level. Former President Donald Trump's administration, for instance, disclosed $814 billion in inflation-adjusted improper payments during his four years in office, slightly over what the Biden-Harris administration erroneously disbursed in just three years.
The Biden-Harris administration's improper spending works out to roughly $7,500 incorrectly spent each second, according to Open The Book's calculations. In 2021, 7.16% of federal disbursements were made improperly, a figure that fell to 5.4% in 2023.
Improper payment reports provided by the federal government are likely underestimates as the Government Accountability Office points out that Congress hasn't given all federal programs the authority to estimate erroneous payments and because there are probably fraud schemes that go undetected by federal authorities.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/26/biden-harris-admin-trillion-improper-payments-watchdog/
#21662515 at 2024-09-26 20:28:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26528: THE HOUR OF OUR TIME Edition
>>21662454
2/2
Forced Organ Harvesting: Human rights and medical experts have an alternative explanation for the sources of organs:forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience in China. Among them, practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice with meditative exercises and a moral philosophy centered on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, constitute a large portion. Falun Gong practitioners during a re-enactment of the Chinese Communist Party's practice of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, during a rally in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 23, 2006. Patrick Lin/AFP via getty Images
The CCP launched a national campaign to eradicate the faith in 1999, which had an estimated 70-100 million practitioners at the time. The China Tribunal concluded in March 2020 that forced organ harvesting "has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale and thatFalun Gong practitioners have been one-and probably the main-source of organ supply." Chen, the surgeon who performed a lung transplant on Liu, was accused of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners as early as 2016 by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), a non-profit focused on holding human rights perpetrators accountable.
Two months ago, the U.S. House of Representatives of the United States Congress passed the Falun Gong Protection Act, the first U.S. legislative bill to address the CCP's persecution of the faith.If enacted, the bill will ban any U.S. cooperation with China on organ transplantsand target sanctions and visa restrictions on individuals complicit in forced organ harvesting. The bill still needs to advance in the upper legislative chamber and be signed by the president before becoming law.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/chinese-hospital-finds-matching-lung-for-transplant-in-10-days-raising-questions-about-organ-sourcing-5704361
(Comment, no wonder Christianity and Catholicism is growing by leaps and bounds in China, much faster than western countries. The CCP never learns, they more the religious are tortured, they more they multiply.)
Questions on Organs and patients, do they know what they are getting into trusting the hospitals there. If they are capable of what was in that article,what else are they capable of:
- The Voluntary donation program China is pushing: Who would believe they wouldn't just come and take the person as an enemy of the state for their organs? I wouldn't want to be on that list.
- How do the patients know if the person that's organ were harvested, didn't die of some serious disease, or genetics markers for major problems in the future for the patient? But if the patient dies during surgery, I doubt the person is not charged anything. And then they probably harvest the person's organs, what stops them. Remember CCP collecting dead bodies and throwing them in furnaces, maybe some of them weren't dead.
- Does anyone believe that doctors, hospitals and the CCP wouldn't make money off their citizens, and wouldn't care if they died early? So if they fuck up the surgery, is their family still on the hook for payment? Yes, they have basic care and employee medical insurance and resident medical insurance.
- What happens to a transplant patient that doesn't make it through the surgery, do they have a clause the hospital gets to take their organs?
- What if the hospital invites severely sick people intentionally, that needs an organ, but the doctors know that they cannot be helped and promise them a transplant when they know they will die. When the hospital tests if they can receive an organ, it's guaranteed they will die, and the doctors don't implant it, so they save the useful organ, plus the bonus of harvesting the dead patient's organs?
- Considering how evil the CCP are there's so many more things they will do to their people. They don't care, they have billions to spare.
Pray for the Freedom of the real Chinese people.
#21659618 at 2024-09-26 09:58:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26525: When does a bird sing? When it's set free! Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/09/25/julian-assange-to-give-first-public-address-since-being-freed-from-prison/
Julian Assange to Give First Public Address Since Gaining Freedom
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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 26: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he arrives at
Roni Bintang/getty
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#21657660 at 2024-09-26 00:11:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26523: LOSBR Edition
Day in Photos:
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump greets attendees during a campaign rally at the Mosack Group warehouse in Mint Hill, N. C., on Sept. 25, 2024.
Brandon Bell/getty Images
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/day-in-photos-vote-of-no-confidence-campaign-rallies-and-a-visiting-king-5729807
#21651805 at 2024-09-25 00:07:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26516: Anons Disrupt Their Control Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1838555743890370596
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Bombshell transcripts: Trump urged use of troops to protect Capitol on Jan. 6 , but was rebuffed
Capitol riot, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, 2021 | Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via getty Images
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#21651723 at 2024-09-24 23:55:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26516: Anons Disrupt Their Control Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1838572933930758619
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Blinken no-shows House hearing with him a sole witness on Afghanistan withdraw, sends letter instead
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives at the ParisLe Bourget Airport in Le Bourget, near Paris, on September 19, 2024. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP) | (Photo by EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via getty Images)
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#21646693 at 2024-09-24 00:44:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26510: Popcorn Inbound Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1838192913034985543
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Agent investigating Trump assassination attempt at center of FBI retaliation, whistleblowers say
FBI agent, computer, file image | getty Images
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#21644234 at 2024-09-23 16:38:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26507: Monday Moabs: tap tap Is This Thing On? Edition
>>21644142
Another getty Images Public event photo cropped to look sleazy.
Sean "Diddy" Combs And Donald Trump
Sean "Diddy" Combs and Donald Trump attend the 1998 Mercedes Benz Polo Challenge at the Bridgehampton Polo Club in Bridgehampton, New York on August 16, 1998. (Photo by Sonia Moskowitz/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/sean-diddy-combs-and-donald-trump-attend-the-1998-mercedes-news-photo/2156264941?adppopup=true
#21640969 at 2024-09-22 23:11:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26503: Be The Shelter In The Storm Edition
>>21640953
The Burger King, I tell ya'.
https://news.meaww.com > watch-donald-trump-hands-out-crypto-currencyburgers-amid-campaign-stop-at-nyc-bar
WATCH: Donald Trump hands out 'crypto burgers' to fans during campaign …
Donald Trump visited a cryptocurrency-themed bar called PubKey in the West Village on September 18, 2024, in New York City (getty Images) Recently, he rolled out a new cryptocurrency business, World Liberty Financial, which has ties to the Trump family, according to USA Today. Internet mocks Donald Trump's NYC crypto bar visit
https://www.msn.com > en-us > money > markets > trump-s-crypto-burger-stunt-draws-increased-attention-to-bitcoin > ar-AA1qVsQe
Trump's crypto burger stunt draws increased attention to bitcoin - MSN
This past July, Trump also invited up to 150 crypto high-rollers to spend $844,600 a seat on a roundtable
Benzinga
If You Invested $1,000 In Trump NFTs, Here's How Much You Made In A Year (And Did You Beat The S&P 500?)
Story by Chris Katje - 9mo
Trump Won
Investing $1,000 in Trump NFTs: With a price point of $99, a person could have purchased 10 Trump Digital Trading Cards at the time of mint with $1,000.
Based on a current price of 0.159 ETH, or around $351.79, the investment would be worth $3,517.90 today. This represents a return of 251.8% in 12 months.
While the NFTs have fallen from a peak of around 0.84 ETH, the investment is still up. Investors who cashed out early saw gains of around 1,000%.
For comparison, the same $1,000 invested in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE:SPY), which tracks the S&P 500 Index, would be worth $1,199.47 today. This represents a hypothetical return of 19.9% over the same time period, significantly trailing the return from the Trump NFTs.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/if-you-invested-1000-in-trump-nfts-heres-how-much-you-made-in-a-year-and-did-you-beat-the-s-p-500/ar-AA1lsy4r
#21636751 at 2024-09-22 00:55:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26498: Musical Chairs Edition
US Gun Sales Booming With Soaring Numbers Of Democratic Buyers
After dropping during the 1990s, gun ownership among Democrats is on the rise
Bruce GoldingPublished 09/21/24 AT 2:48 PM EDT
Gun store
Handguns for sale are displayed in a gun store in Houston on Sept. 9, 2022. Brandon Bell/getty Images
Fears of violent crime and armed right-wing extremists have caused gun sales to shoot up among Democrats across the United States, according to a new report.
After dropping during the 1990s, gun ownership among Democrats is on the rise, and gun groups composed of liberals and progressives are surging, the Wall Street Journal noted Thursday.
A 2023 survey by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions in Baltimore found that more than half of the Democrats who bought guns since 2020 were first-time buyers, compared with less than one quarter of Republicans.
And a 2022 survey by NORC at the University of Chicago found that 29% of people who were registered Democrats or leaned Democratic said they had a gun at home, up from 22% in 2020.
"It's a group of people who five years ago would never have considered buying a gun," Jennifer Hubbert, an anthropology professor at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, told the Journal.
Hubbert, who last year received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research liberal gun owners, said she found gay and transgender gun owners were worried about hate crimes, while Jewish people feared potential attacks by pro-Palestinian groups or individuals.
Black gun owners said they were concerned about crime and mistrust of police in some areas.
Gun sales in the U.S. totaled 15.9 million last year, the fourth-highest on record, and are expected to exceed that this year, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry group.
Lifelong Democrat and gun-control advocate Michael Ciemnoczolowski of Iowa City, Iowa, said he purchased a firearm for the first time this past summer, paying $600 for a Springfield 1911 handgun.
Ciemnoczolowski, a 43-year-old liquor store clerk, told the Journal he acted to ensure his "personal safety," citing concerns about street crime and domestic politics that have "grown increasingly acrimonious."
Randy Miyan told the Journal that he founded Liberal Gun Owners, which has 5,000 members, for people who don't feel comfortable joining the conservative National Rifle Association or using message boards like AR15.com.
"We have to have harbors and havens," Miyan said.
Tom Nguyen, 54, of Los Angeles, said he founded L.A. Progressive Shooters as a Facebook group in 2020 in response to social unrest, the COVID-19 pandemic and the election that year.
"People were hungering for a space that was not this hyper-aggressive, male-dominated, toxic gun world," he said.
A certified firearms instructor, Nguyen offers beginner group classes that are booked through next year, according to the Journal.
One student, Alejandra Mendez, 32, who's married to a woman, said she took lessons from Nguyen after moving to a new neighborhood in 2019 because she was worried about antigay violence and crime in general.
The healthcare worker now owns three handguns and an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, and called it hypocritical for progressives to support the constitutional right to free speech but not the right to own firearms.
"I don't understand that rhetoric of 'protect my right' and not protect the rights of other people," Mendez said.
During the Sept. 10 presidential debate, Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris surprised many viewers by saying that both she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, were gun owners.
Harris, a former prosecutor, doubled down on that remark during a Thursday campaign event with Oprah Winfrey, laughingly saying, "If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot."
"I probably should not have said that. My staff will deal with that later," Harris added.
(https://www.ibtimes.com/us-gun-sales-booming-soaring-numbers-democratic-buyers-3744130
#21636238 at 2024-09-21 23:26:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26498: Musical Chairs Edition
>>21636177
Yawn, all these pictures of Trump with Diddy are from public charity events or award shows.
You'll find them all on getty Images.
#21630268 at 2024-09-20 20:47:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26491: Hey Democrats, Your Words Matter Edition
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#26490 >>21629363
>>21629380, >>21630102, >>21630115 First WH Cabinet meeting and JILL Biden sat at the head of the table
>>21629407 Here are the Republicans who voted NO on the SAVE Act
>>21629424, >>21629486, >>21629499, >>21630021 ECW - Diddy is currently on suicide watch
>>21629429 DeSantis Says FBI Won't Cooperate with State's Investigation into Attempt on Trump
>>21629430, >>21629444 House Report Shows California's Covid Fraud Was So Much Worse Than You Think
>>21629436 Ukraine bans official use of Telegram app over fears of Russian spying
>>21629445 Ohio Gov Mike DeWine's History Raises Concerns About Potential Conflict Of Interest With Haitian Migrants
>>21629451 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH - NEWS BLAST
>>21629452, >>21629890 Batteries in walkie-talkie bombs had been laced with highly explosive compound
>>21629468, >>21629563, >>21629660, >>21629791, >>21629793 NASA Space Stuffs
>>21629514 Chechen Warlord Infuriated After Cybertruck Remotely Disabled
>>21629535, >>21629566, >>21629573, >>21630041 Diddy a.k.a "Ciroc Obama" Meets Barack Obama for the First Time Obama praising Diddy
>>21629549 FITTON: Secret Service Failing Trump is a Political Issue!
>>21629550 Three Mile Island Planned Restart To Power Microsoft Data Centers
>>21629552, >>21629809, >>21629891 Trump rally in Arizona may have been hit by a covert UV LIGHT DIRECTED ENERGY ATTACK
>>21629568, >>21629678 Resignations
>>21629578, >>21629696, >>21629722, >>21629730, >>21629963 Hey Democrats, Words Matter. "He is a threat. Period. Point Blank."
>>21629598 Charleroi, PA is a town of 4,000 people. 2,000 Haitian immigrants just arrived on their doorstep.
>>21629607 'THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST 2' will begin filming in early 2025. Jim Caviezel returns
>>21629642, >>21629729 'Owl' helicopter crash in Gaza caused by low visibility, not enemy fire
>>21629645 Rumble Scores Discovery Win In Defamation Suit
>>21629657 Security video near Trump golf course seized
>>21629666 diddy's confirm - Take a look at Chrissy Teigen's Tweet history
>>21629695 EU Boss brings Ukraine cash to reconnect its war-damaged electricity grid and boost its heating capacity
>>21629710 FBI Informant Played Key Role In 9/11 Attacks, Newly Unsealed Evidence Shows
>>21629749, >>21629954 Dan Bongino - A Shocking Revelation About Trump's Threat Level
>>21629768, >>21629799 Husband of Russia's richest woman arrested after deadly shooting
>>21629805, >>21629985, >>21630034 Shooter DIGG -This WAS NOT part of the original article; meaning, this information was added recently.
>>21629810 Australia Prioritizing the Creation of a Wholesale CBDC
>>21629864 CDC Revelation - COVID Vaccine Linked to 24-Year Lifespan Reduction
>>21629877, >>21629892, >>21629899 'UOCAVA' overseas votes need no ID to vote on line
>>21629929 VP Kamala Harris Live Remarks from Atlanta, Georgia
>>21629935, >>21629943, >>21629950, >>21629957, >>21629980 Justice Department doing it's job
>>21630163 Trump should give these as comparisons: MEME IT UP Side By Sides
>>21630180, >>21630205 main course served - An Alleged Migrant Trafficking Network In Springfield, Ohio
>>21630214 SEC Filing against Disney ABC - influencing the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election.
>>21630207 Prayer for the battle against the forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world.
>>21630263 #26490
#26489 >>21628411
>>21628432 @realDonaldTrump IF YOU VOTE ILLEGALLY, YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL
>>21628463, >>21628472 @realDonaldTrump This is now the Number One song, across all charts, about me. Such an unexpected honor!
>>21628563 Trump: If I Lose, 'Jewish People Would Really Have A Lot to Do With That'
>>21628567, >>21628618, >>21628690, >>21628694, >>21628855, >>21628879, >>21629102, >>21629159, >>21629226, >>21629232, >>21629268 NASA/Space/Science
>>21628579 Police say 1 person has been killed and another seriously wounded in a stabbing in Rotterdam, a man attacked people at random with two knives while shouting Allahu Akbar
>>21628596 H. Res. 1470 Expanding the jurisdiction of the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump.
>>21628640 ICYMI: New Batch Of Patriot Front Records Reveals More Evidence Of FBI Infiltration
>>21628643 Black voters in critical swing state reveal their biggest fears about a President Harris - and why life was BETTER under Trump
>>21628655, >>21628752 Senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil said killed in Beirut strike
>>21628687 Trinity Bible Church Dallas removes lead pastor amid 'inappropriate relationship
>>21628688 Ukraine operating 'concentration camps' – Kiev is transporting Russian civilians from Kursk Region at gunpoint
>>21628708 Le Pen Demands National Audit Amid Warnings French Budget Crisis Could 'Blow Up' Government
>>21628713 Today is National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
>>21628716 Tax-Funded Org Sends Pro-Trans Board Books To 300 Daycares
>>21628762 GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell says he's a no on winner-take-all 'as of today'/electoral college
>>21628863 Meet Diddy's Own Ghislaine Maxwell - Kristina Khorram
>>21628822, >>21628919, >>21629034 REFORM U.K CONFERENCE - RUNTIME 2HR 10 MINUTES - 20TH SEPT 2024
>>21628885, >>21629208 Swampenins
>>21628887 @thejimwatkins The thought of the presence of God renders us familiar with the practice of doing all things His holy will. - St Vincent De Paul
>>21628892 LIVE: President Trump in Washington, D.C. (israeli american council) 2nd speech.
>>21628914 Records through a FOIA provided by the CDC - A Thread
>>21628941, >>21628970 How Olivia Nuzzi Covered RFK Jr. After Their 'Personal Relationship' Began/gossip and a hit job
>>21628959, >>21629067 Today in Q Post History we had 25 Deltas
>>21629035 WOW @ScottLoBaido another amazing painting.
>>21629042 The Black Swan I've increasingly come to appreciate the importance of its ideas to prolonging the human story/ Nassim Taleb
>>21629090 ICYMI: The Court EXTENDED the restraining order blocking @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris' illegal student loan scheme after they ADMITTED that they were going to secretly saddle working Americans with Ivy League debt over a WEEKEND.
>>21629096, >>21629097, >>21629203 Secret Service to Release Findings in First Trump Assassination Attempt
>>21629121 Houthi Drone Boat Destroyed by Armed Guards
>>21629133 DeSantis Says FBI Won't Cooperate with State's Investigation into Second Assassination Attempt on President Trump
>>21629184 Reminder: Nessun Dorma is the song played at the end of Sum of All Fears when the traitors are executed. First time was at the RNC after he was shot in Butler.
>>21629194 X22 DS prepares Iranian narrative
>>21629225 @C__Herridge @Jim_Jordan demand immediate @fbi briefing on Iranian Hack of Trump campaign
>>21629298 Del Bigtree: "This COVID vaccine is dangerous for children. Far more dangerous than the virus itself. Yet the CDC is now recommending 2 or 3 shots before child's even 6 months old
>>21629313 Chairman Comer , Rep. Langworthy and several Oversight Committee Republican members today are launching an investigation into potential fraud and illicit financial activity linked to ActBlue campaign contributions.
>>21629329 CERN to expel hundreds of Russian scientists
>>21629341 #26489
#26488 >>21627731
>>21627741 Rep. Matt Gaetz Claims There Are 5 Known Assassination Teams in U.S.
>>21627746 New Docs Shed Light On Air Force's 'Goal' To Reduce 'White Male Population' Joining Officer Ranks
>>21627840, >>21628066, >>21628079, >>21628112, >>21628306, >>21628322 Swampenins
>>21627844 45 Days to 45-47 WINNING
>>21627846 ICYMI: Rep. Good and Rep. Norman Press Conference Denouncing World Health Organization
>>21627854 Ahoy! The Ship Show & Extra Gravy
>>21627855 Knowledge to have
>>21627910 ICYMI: ECW: Interdiction
>>21627955 Former Assistant District Attorney Indicted on Bribery, Money Laundering Conspiracy, and Other Felony Charges, Gary Haynes,
>>21627971 A Target on His Back – Trump as the New John Wick
>>21628002 A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026 (if kneepads wins)
>>21628003 FOUR FAMILIES: Brown, Newsom, Pelosi & getty have ruled over Cali w/ IRON FIST for 80 years
>>21628006 ICYMI: Suspected Trump assassin flagged by U.S. during return from Ukraine, but Homeland refused probe
>>21628019 ICYMI: The Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination.
>>21628028 HAITI Demographics
>>21628071 War Room Morning Edition
>>21628075 ICYMI: A federal judge in South Carolina issued a precedent-setting ruling, voter rolls are public record under fed law and are subject to inspection by election integrity activists
>>21628121 ICYMI: Oklahoma announces it has complied with state law and cleaned up its voter rolls by removing some 453,000 voter registrations, including ineligible voters such as convicted felons and deceased voters, since 2021.
>>21628123 Small Town Kentucky Sheriff Accused of Shooting Judge Dead in His Chambers
>>21628137, >>21628083 A rape offense is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC.
>>21628143 Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is refusing to identify the foreign actors who called in the majority of hoax bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio
>>21628161, >>21628181 @realDonaldTrump 'KAMALA SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDED SEX CHANGES FOR PRISONERS"
>>21628163 ICYMI: Walz appointee with apparent CCP ties could expose potential veep's national security weakness
>>21628166 Friday Morning Minute
>>21628173 ICYMI: BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids
>>21628185 Jesse Watters: This whole thing is strange/Trump
>>21628199, >>21628283, >>21628310, >>21628363 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day A Hazy Harvest Moon/Space/Science
>>21628200, >>21628222 Doocy and KJP exchange following KJP again calling President Trump a "threat"
>>21628203, >>21628214 Fear Pron: @SenWarren We're in a world where doctors have to tell women in the middle of a miscarriage they can't get the medical care they need because they're not near enough to death/cut fed rates
>>21628205 ECW: Collusion?
>>21628207 Not one person voted for Kamala Harris to be the 2024 nominee
>>21628212 CIA 'predator' who sexually abused unconscious women across multiple countries - keeping 500 pics, videos of horrid acts - sentenced to 30 years in jail
>>21628219 Gutfeld: A classic Kamala video has resurfaced
>>21628240 Moar Dr. Jay Varma Receives Grant to Study COVID-19 Disease Surveillance
>>21628268, >>21628259 @realDonaldTrump You are an amazing guy. My father would be proud of you. Thanks for the memories! Donald J. Trump
>>21628270 What's weird is how the legacy media all has the same talking points simultaneously, even the same phrases like "sharp as a tack" about Biden before the debate, Then they all stabbed him in the back right after the debate ended
>>21628277, >>21628279 LIVE: Harris County judge to give update after remains found in SUV near Deer Park pipeline fire
>>21628285, >>21628292 Hearing over open records lawsuit against Fani Willis | Court livestream
>>21628286 @MELANIATRUMP WH vid
>>21628297 Former Dem fundraiser slams 'hypocrisy' on the left: 'I'm tired of it'
>>21628309 ICYMI: NARA confirmed that VP-Biden had communications related to CEFC (CCP influence op) and/or Burisman, refusing to release them
>>21628379 urkey joins western critical minerals club amid EU-China rivalry
>>21628384 Haitian Caucus News Conference
>>21628402 #26488
Previously Collected
>>21627714 #26487
>>21624767 #26484, >>21625751 #26485, >>21626647 #26486
>>21621981 #26481, >>21623170 #26482, >>21623888 #26483
>>21619158 #26478-A, >>21620288 #26479, >>21621172 #26480
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#21630056 at 2024-09-20 19:55:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26490: USSS DOAR Director of Absolute Retard Edition
getty Images
Lots of images of Ashton Kutcher and Sean Combs together.
#21629354 at 2024-09-20 17:40:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26490: USSS DOAR Director of Absolute Retard Edition
#26489 >>21628411
>>21628432 @realDonaldTrump IF YOU VOTE ILLEGALLY, YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL
>>21628463, >>21628472 @realDonaldTrump This is now the Number One song, across all charts, about me. Such an unexpected honor!
>>21628563 Trump: If I Lose, 'Jewish People Would Really Have A Lot to Do With That'
>>21628567, >>21628618, >>21628690, >>21628694, >>21628855, >>21628879, >>21629102, >>21629159, >>21629226, >>21629232, >>21629268 NASA/Space/Science
>>21628579 Police say 1 person has been killed and another seriously wounded in a stabbing in Rotterdam, a man attacked people at random with two knives while shouting Allahu Akbar
>>21628596 H. Res. 1470 Expanding the jurisdiction of the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump.
>>21628640 ICYMI: New Batch Of Patriot Front Records Reveals More Evidence Of FBI Infiltration
>>21628643 Black voters in critical swing state reveal their biggest fears about a President Harris - and why life was BETTER under Trump
>>21628655, >>21628752 Senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil said killed in Beirut strike
>>21628687 Trinity Bible Church Dallas removes lead pastor amid 'inappropriate relationship
>>21628688 Ukraine operating 'concentration camps' – Kiev is transporting Russian civilians from Kursk Region at gunpoint
>>21628708 Le Pen Demands National Audit Amid Warnings French Budget Crisis Could 'Blow Up' Government
>>21628713 Today is National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
>>21628716 Tax-Funded Org Sends Pro-Trans Board Books To 300 Daycares
>>21628762 GOP Sen. Mike McDonnell says he's a no on winner-take-all 'as of today'/electoral college
>>21628863 Meet Diddy's Own Ghislaine Maxwell - Kristina Khorram
>>21628822, >>21628919, >>21629034 REFORM U.K CONFERENCE - RUNTIME 2HR 10 MINUTES - 20TH SEPT 2024
>>21628885, >>21629208 Swampenins
>>21628887 @thejimwatkins The thought of the presence of God renders us familiar with the practice of doing all things His holy will. - St Vincent De Paul
>>21628892 LIVE: President Trump in Washington, D.C. (israeli american council) 2nd speech.
>>21628914 Records through a FOIA provided by the CDC - A Thread
>>21628941, >>21628970 How Olivia Nuzzi Covered RFK Jr. After Their 'Personal Relationship' Began/gossip and a hit job
>>21628959, >>21629067 Today in Q Post History we had 25 Deltas
>>21629035 WOW @ScottLoBaido another amazing painting.
>>21629042 The Black Swan I've increasingly come to appreciate the importance of its ideas to prolonging the human story/ Nassim Taleb
>>21629090 ICYMI: The Court EXTENDED the restraining order blocking @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris' illegal student loan scheme after they ADMITTED that they were going to secretly saddle working Americans with Ivy League debt over a WEEKEND.
>>21629096, >>21629097, >>21629203 Secret Service to Release Findings in First Trump Assassination Attempt
>>21629121 Houthi Drone Boat Destroyed by Armed Guards
>>21629133 DeSantis Says FBI Won't Cooperate with State's Investigation into Second Assassination Attempt on President Trump
>>21629184 Reminder: Nessun Dorma is the song played at the end of Sum of All Fears when the traitors are executed. First time was at the RNC after he was shot in Butler.
>>21629194 X22 DS prepares Iranian narrative
>>21629225 @C__Herridge @Jim_Jordan demand immediate @fbi briefing on Iranian Hack of Trump campaign
>>21629298 Del Bigtree: "This COVID vaccine is dangerous for children. Far more dangerous than the virus itself. Yet the CDC is now recommending 2 or 3 shots before child's even 6 months old
>>21629313 Chairman Comer , Rep. Langworthy and several Oversight Committee Republican members today are launching an investigation into potential fraud and illicit financial activity linked to ActBlue campaign contributions.
>>21629329 CERN to expel hundreds of Russian scientists
>>21629341 #26489
#26488 >>21627731
>>21627741 Rep. Matt Gaetz Claims There Are 5 Known Assassination Teams in U.S.
>>21627746 New Docs Shed Light On Air Force's 'Goal' To Reduce 'White Male Population' Joining Officer Ranks
>>21627840, >>21628066, >>21628079, >>21628112, >>21628306, >>21628322 Swampenins
>>21627844 45 Days to 45-47 WINNING
>>21627846 ICYMI: Rep. Good and Rep. Norman Press Conference Denouncing World Health Organization
>>21627854 Ahoy! The Ship Show & Extra Gravy
>>21627855 Knowledge to have
>>21627910 ICYMI: ECW: Interdiction
>>21627955 Former Assistant District Attorney Indicted on Bribery, Money Laundering Conspiracy, and Other Felony Charges, Gary Haynes,
>>21627971 A Target on His Back – Trump as the New John Wick
>>21628002 A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026 (if kneepads wins)
>>21628003 FOUR FAMILIES: Brown, Newsom, Pelosi & getty have ruled over Cali w/ IRON FIST for 80 years
>>21628006 ICYMI: Suspected Trump assassin flagged by U.S. during return from Ukraine, but Homeland refused probe
>>21628019 ICYMI: The Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination.
>>21628028 HAITI Demographics
>>21628071 War Room Morning Edition
>>21628075 ICYMI: A federal judge in South Carolina issued a precedent-setting ruling, voter rolls are public record under fed law and are subject to inspection by election integrity activists
>>21628121 ICYMI: Oklahoma announces it has complied with state law and cleaned up its voter rolls by removing some 453,000 voter registrations, including ineligible voters such as convicted felons and deceased voters, since 2021.
>>21628123 Small Town Kentucky Sheriff Accused of Shooting Judge Dead in His Chambers
>>21628137, >>21628083 A rape offense is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC.
>>21628143 Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is refusing to identify the foreign actors who called in the majority of hoax bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio
>>21628161, >>21628181 @realDonaldTrump 'KAMALA SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDED SEX CHANGES FOR PRISONERS"
>>21628163 ICYMI: Walz appointee with apparent CCP ties could expose potential veep's national security weakness
>>21628166 Friday Morning Minute
>>21628173 ICYMI: BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids
>>21628185 Jesse Watters: This whole thing is strange/Trump
>>21628199, >>21628283, >>21628310, >>21628363 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day A Hazy Harvest Moon/Space/Science
>>21628200, >>21628222 Doocy and KJP exchange following KJP again calling President Trump a "threat"
>>21628203, >>21628214 Fear Pron: @SenWarren We're in a world where doctors have to tell women in the middle of a miscarriage they can't get the medical care they need because they're not near enough to death/cut fed rates
>>21628205 ECW: Collusion?
>>21628207 Not one person voted for Kamala Harris to be the 2024 nominee
>>21628212 CIA 'predator' who sexually abused unconscious women across multiple countries - keeping 500 pics, videos of horrid acts - sentenced to 30 years in jail
>>21628219 Gutfeld: A classic Kamala video has resurfaced
>>21628240 Moar Dr. Jay Varma Receives Grant to Study COVID-19 Disease Surveillance
>>21628268, >>21628259 @realDonaldTrump You are an amazing guy. My father would be proud of you. Thanks for the memories! Donald J. Trump
>>21628270 What's weird is how the legacy media all has the same talking points simultaneously, even the same phrases like "sharp as a tack" about Biden before the debate, Then they all stabbed him in the back right after the debate ended
>>21628277, >>21628279 LIVE: Harris County judge to give update after remains found in SUV near Deer Park pipeline fire
>>21628285, >>21628292 Hearing over open records lawsuit against Fani Willis | Court livestream
>>21628286 @MELANIATRUMP WH vid
>>21628297 Former Dem fundraiser slams 'hypocrisy' on the left: 'I'm tired of it'
>>21628309 ICYMI: NARA confirmed that VP-Biden had communications related to CEFC (CCP influence op) and/or Burisman, refusing to release them
>>21628379 urkey joins western critical minerals club amid EU-China rivalry
>>21628384 Haitian Caucus News Conference
>>21628402 #26488
#26487 >>21626659
Collector
>>21626673, >>21627055, >>21627045 CROWDER CONFRONTS: [New York] Covid Czar Dr. Jay Varma
>>21626682 Rumble To Get Discovery In Suit Against 'Check My Ads' Founders
>>21626687, >>21627024 Trump retruth: Fred Trump Story from the 70's
>>21626707 Oprah said she was stopped at the airport by a black man to let her know he's voting for Trump.
>>21626731 @WarClandestine: Trump speaks about the FBI confirming Iran spied on his campaign and shared the info with the Dems.
>>21626737, >>21627009, >>21626812, >>21626897, >>21627050 Kamala/Oprah event having difficult time getting over 10,000 viewers. The Joy is gone.
>>21626747 for the keks: Texas declared sanctuary state for memers.(bun)
>>21626784 America tested 100,000 forgotten rape kits, resulted in 1,500 convictions
>>21626805, >>21626923, >>21627100 Queen Margrethe of Denmark rushed to hospital following fall at Fredensborg Castle
>>21626869 Vid: Guy who wrote the book on the Franklin Coverup in 2009 and published Epstein's little black book.
>>21626930 BREAKING - Gold strikes fresh record high above $2,609
>>21627014 Two of Newsome's deefake election laws already being challenged
>>21627020 Trump Supporter Puts CNN 'Reporter' in Her Place With Awesome Responses
>>21627023, >>21627028, >>21627093, >>21627031, >>21627143, >>21627152 P Diddy Panic
>>21627037 MAGA rally @ Penn State - 1,500 hats and they didn't have enough
>>21627042 @VigilantFox asking the good questions about Routh
>>21627081 @NobleNegroe: I was honored to participate in @FrankLuntz Black male focus group recently.
>>21627106 @GenFlynn: And we're NOT at war!? A Palestinian flag has been raised over the ROTC building at UNC
>>21627114 Fungal Infection in the Brain Produces Effects Similar to Alzheimer's
Ghost grab
>>21627161 musk w/CAP: leadership spends their resources attacking @SpaceX for petty matters that have nothing to do with safety, while neglecting real safety issues at Boeing…
>>21627166 Walz's former colleague believes Walz stole the nuclear SOP manual. one of the only people with access to where the manual was stored.
>>21627175, >>21627179, >>21627189 [They're] all on the take. Springfield corrupt money ops from Gunvna to Mayor.
>>21627233 The de-wokifying of Catperpillar?
>>21627316 Three teenagers, aged 18, 17 and 16, are arrested for killing and EATING New York village's beloved mother swan, Fay…
>>21627482 Chicago elementary teachers have come forward alleging that administrators instructed them they have to give migrant students a passing grade of 70% in every subject.
>>21627513 Wall Street Apes w/CAP: Democrat Corruption in California is UNRIVALED
>>21627665 Google Directs Americans Searching For Voter Registration Info To A Dark Money, Left-Wing Elections Group Called Democracy Works.
>>21627676 Habbenins habbening for 9/20/2024
>>21627714 #26487
Previously Collected
>>21624767 #26484, >>21625751 #26485, >>21626647 #26486
>>21621981 #26481, >>21623170 #26482, >>21623888 #26483
>>21619158 #26478-A, >>21620288 #26479, >>21621172 #26480
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Q Research Notables #24: Soldiers >>21225723
#21629241 at 2024-09-20 17:21:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26489: Lining Up For Weekend BOOMS Edition
https://nehls.house.gov > media > press-releases > rep-troy-e-nehls-introduces-drone-research-and-innovation-law-enforcement-act
Rep. Troy E. Nehls Introduces the Drone Research and Innovation for Law …
Sep 29, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22) introduced the bipartisan Drone Research and Innovation for Law Enforcement Act of 2023, which would establish a pilot research program within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the use of non-lethal de-escalation unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for law enforcement officers, leading to safer outcomes for officers and the …
https://www.policechiefmagazine.org > strengthening-public-safety-with-drones-skydio
Strengthening Public Safety with Drones - Police Chief Magazine
These innovations will allow drones to respond automatically to 911 calls, further enhancing their ability to protect both officers and the community . "Drones have become a force multiplier for our department, allowing us to respond more effectively while reducing risk," explains Commander Dopp. Leading the Future of Public Safety
https://www.technologyreview.com > 2024 > 08 > 16 > 1096517 > whats-next-for-drones
What's next for drones - MIT Technology Review
Aug 16, 2024Police drone fleets. Today more than 1,500 US police departments have drone programs, according to tracking conducted by the Atlas of Surveillance. Trained police pilots use drones for search and …
https://www.npr.org > 2020 > 06 > 08 > 872470076 > the-fraternal-order-of-police-a-union-that-stands-in-the-way-of-police-reforms
The Fraternal Order Of Police: A Union That Stands In The Way Of Police …
Jun 8, 2020BUTLER: Police unions often stand in the way of reform. They do so with their rhetoric and with protections they win for cops. So in Philadelphia, the president of the FOP called Black Lives …
https://www.police1.com > police-products > police-drones > key-considerations-for-a-law-enforcement-drone-policy
Key considerations for a law enforcement drone policy
Mar 11, 2024The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) in public safety continues to grow. According
Bipartisan House bill seeks to reauthorize federal counter-drone authority
A sign announcing a ban on drone flights near the Glen Canyon Dam Bridge in Page, Arizona.
A sign announcing a ban on drone flights near the Glen Canyon Dam Bridge in Page, Arizona. Gabe Ginsberg/getty Images
By Edward GrahamJune 5, 2024
A proposal to extend the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice's authority to mitigate threats from unmanned aircraft systems would also grant new counter-drone abilities to the FAA.
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2024/06/bipartisan-house-bill-seeks-reauthorize-federal-counter-drone-authority/397143/
THEY want drone really really badly.
https://www.theverge.com > 2022 > 11 > 30 > 23486090 > robots-deadly-force-kill-san-francisco-police-approve
San Francisco approves use of remote-controlled robots to kill suspects …
Nov 30, 2022Nov 30, 2022, 9:19 AM PST. Remote-controlled robots like this are often used by police departments to examine, disarm, or detonate bombs. Image: DENIS CHARLET/AFP via getty Images. San Francisco …
https://www.nbcnews.com > news > us-news > san-francisco-will-allow-police-deploy-robots-kill-rcna59322
San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill - NBC News
Nov 30, 2022The San Francisco Public Defender's office sent a letter Monday to the board saying that granting police "the ability to kill
First, drones were only gonna be used for emergency first response, rescue, stuff like that…
https://www.cisa.gov > sites > default > files > 2023-01 > necp_spotlight_-_implementing_uas_programs_to_support_emergency_operations_03.02.22_v4_508.pdf
NECP Spotlight: Implementing UAS Programs to Support Emergency … - CISA
Learn how the Virginia Beach Police Department developed and implemented a citywide drone program to support emergency response and information sharing. The program aligns with the National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) goals and recommendations for training, coordination, and data interoperability.
https://www.scaleflyt.com > news > six-ways-drones-are-helping-in-emergency-response
#21628406 at 2024-09-20 15:12:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26489: Lining Up For Weekend BOOMS Edition
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#26488 >>21627731
>>21627741 Rep. Matt Gaetz Claims There Are 5 Known Assassination Teams in U.S.
>>21627746 New Docs Shed Light On Air Force's 'Goal' To Reduce 'White Male Population' Joining Officer Ranks
>>21627840, >>21628066, >>21628079, >>21628112, >>21628306, >>21628322 Swampenins
>>21627844 45 Days to 45-47 WINNING
>>21627846 ICYMI: Rep. Good and Rep. Norman Press Conference Denouncing World Health Organization
>>21627854 Ahoy! The Ship Show & Extra Gravy
>>21627855 Knowledge to have
>>21627910 ICYMI: ECW: Interdiction
>>21627955 Former Assistant District Attorney Indicted on Bribery, Money Laundering Conspiracy, and Other Felony Charges, Gary Haynes,
>>21627971 A Target on His Back – Trump as the New John Wick
>>21628002 A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026 (if kneepads wins)
>>21628003 FOUR FAMILIES: Brown, Newsom, Pelosi & getty have ruled over Cali w/ IRON FIST for 80 years
>>21628006 ICYMI: Suspected Trump assassin flagged by U.S. during return from Ukraine, but Homeland refused probe
>>21628019 ICYMI: The Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination.
>>21628028 HAITI Demographics
>>21628071 War Room Morning Edition
>>21628075 ICYMI: A federal judge in South Carolina issued a precedent-setting ruling, voter rolls are public record under fed law and are subject to inspection by election integrity activists
>>21628121 ICYMI: Oklahoma announces it has complied with state law and cleaned up its voter rolls by removing some 453,000 voter registrations, including ineligible voters such as convicted felons and deceased voters, since 2021.
>>21628123 Small Town Kentucky Sheriff Accused of Shooting Judge Dead in His Chambers
>>21628137, >>21628083 A rape offense is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC.
>>21628143 Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is refusing to identify the foreign actors who called in the majority of hoax bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio
>>21628161, >>21628181 @realDonaldTrump 'KAMALA SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDED SEX CHANGES FOR PRISONERS"
>>21628163 ICYMI: Walz appointee with apparent CCP ties could expose potential veep's national security weakness
>>21628166 Friday Morning Minute
>>21628173 ICYMI: BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids
>>21628185 Jesse Watters: This whole thing is strange/Trump
>>21628199, >>21628283, >>21628310, >>21628363 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day A Hazy Harvest Moon/Space/Science
>>21628200, >>21628222 Doocy and KJP exchange following KJP again calling President Trump a "threat"
>>21628203, >>21628214 Fear Pron: @SenWarren We're in a world where doctors have to tell women in the middle of a miscarriage they can't get the medical care they need because they're not near enough to death/cut fed rates
>>21628205 ECW: Collusion?
>>21628207 Not one person voted for Kamala Harris to be the 2024 nominee
>>21628212 CIA 'predator' who sexually abused unconscious women across multiple countries - keeping 500 pics, videos of horrid acts - sentenced to 30 years in jail
>>21628219 Gutfeld: A classic Kamala video has resurfaced
>>21628240 Moar Dr. Jay Varma Receives Grant to Study COVID-19 Disease Surveillance
>>21628268, >>21628259 @realDonaldTrump You are an amazing guy. My father would be proud of you. Thanks for the memories! Donald J. Trump
>>21628270 What's weird is how the legacy media all has the same talking points simultaneously, even the same phrases like "sharp as a tack" about Biden before the debate, Then they all stabbed him in the back right after the debate ended
>>21628277, >>21628279 LIVE: Harris County judge to give update after remains found in SUV near Deer Park pipeline fire
>>21628285, >>21628292 Hearing over open records lawsuit against Fani Willis | Court livestream
>>21628286 @MELANIATRUMP WH vid
>>21628297 Former Dem fundraiser slams 'hypocrisy' on the left: 'I'm tired of it'
>>21628309 ICYMI: NARA confirmed that VP-Biden had communications related to CEFC (CCP influence op) and/or Burisman, refusing to release them
>>21628379 urkey joins western critical minerals club amid EU-China rivalry
>>21628384 Haitian Caucus News Conference
>>21628402 #26488
#26487 >>21626659
Collector
>>21626673, >>21627055, >>21627045 CROWDER CONFRONTS: [New York] Covid Czar Dr. Jay Varma
>>21626682 Rumble To Get Discovery In Suit Against 'Check My Ads' Founders
>>21626687, >>21627024 Trump retruth: Fred Trump Story from the 70's
>>21626707 Oprah said she was stopped at the airport by a black man to let her know he's voting for Trump.
>>21626731 @WarClandestine: Trump speaks about the FBI confirming Iran spied on his campaign and shared the info with the Dems.
>>21626737, >>21627009, >>21626812, >>21626897, >>21627050 Kamala/Oprah event having difficult time getting over 10,000 viewers. The Joy is gone.
>>21626747 for the keks: Texas declared sanctuary state for memers.(bun)
>>21626784 America tested 100,000 forgotten rape kits, resulted in 1,500 convictions
>>21626805, >>21626923, >>21627100 Queen Margrethe of Denmark rushed to hospital following fall at Fredensborg Castle
>>21626869 Vid: Guy who wrote the book on the Franklin Coverup in 2009 and published Epstein's little black book.
>>21626930 BREAKING - Gold strikes fresh record high above $2,609
>>21627014 Two of Newsome's deefake election laws already being challenged
>>21627020 Trump Supporter Puts CNN 'Reporter' in Her Place With Awesome Responses
>>21627023, >>21627028, >>21627093, >>21627031, >>21627143, >>21627152 P Diddy Panic
>>21627037 MAGA rally @ Penn State - 1,500 hats and they didn't have enough
>>21627042 @VigilantFox asking the good questions about Routh
>>21627081 @NobleNegroe: I was honored to participate in @FrankLuntz Black male focus group recently.
>>21627106 @GenFlynn: And we're NOT at war!? A Palestinian flag has been raised over the ROTC building at UNC
>>21627114 Fungal Infection in the Brain Produces Effects Similar to Alzheimer's
Ghost grab
>>21627161 musk w/CAP: leadership spends their resources attacking @SpaceX for petty matters that have nothing to do with safety, while neglecting real safety issues at Boeing…
>>21627166 Walz's former colleague believes Walz stole the nuclear SOP manual. one of the only people with access to where the manual was stored.
>>21627175, >>21627179, >>21627189 [They're] all on the take. Springfield corrupt money ops from Gunvna to Mayor.
>>21627233 The de-wokifying of Catperpillar?
>>21627316 Three teenagers, aged 18, 17 and 16, are arrested for killing and EATING New York village's beloved mother swan, Fay…
>>21627482 Chicago elementary teachers have come forward alleging that administrators instructed them they have to give migrant students a passing grade of 70% in every subject.
>>21627513 Wall Street Apes w/CAP: Democrat Corruption in California is UNRIVALED
>>21627665 Google Directs Americans Searching For Voter Registration Info To A Dark Money, Left-Wing Elections Group Called Democracy Works.
>>21627676 Habbenins habbening for 9/20/2024
>>21627714 #26487
#26486 >>21625766
>>21625785, >>21626549, >>21625843, >>21625812, >>21625818 Dig: Ryan Routh's wife
>>21625795 Springfield mother tells Vivek that an immigrant with a machete chased her daughter, police didn't respond to her call
>>21625817, >>21626217 Kamala: "If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot - sorry, probably shouldn't have said that!"
>>21625828 Sheriff who shot and killed a Kentucky judge allegedly did so because he was raping the Sheriff's underage daughter
>>21626253, >>21626154 Judge killed, sheriff arrested in courthouse shooting
>>21625839 ABLECHILD: Adderall ADHD Drug Causes Psychosis and Mania
>>21625845 'Pizza, Ravioli, Spaghetti, Mamma Mia!' Says Kamala Harris In Mario Hat And Mustache While Addressing Crowd Of Italians
>>21625929, >>21625941, >>21626212 Refresher on doxxing
>>21626007 (Mar 2, 2018) Diddy & Justin Bieber Cashed In On Spotify's IPO
>>21626029 Prepping to be Epstein'd: Diddy placed on suicide watch
>>21626033, >>21626044 Mohamed Al Fayed tried to rape me but I kicked and kicked
>>21626078, >>21626088, >>21626115 #1: Kahn's Trump Tribute 'Fighter' Tops iTunes Charts Across All Genres
>>21626095 Report: Mark Robinson's Email Linked to Ashley Madison Account
>>21626145 Proof update: We are talking to you
>>21626233 How to say nothing while speaking words
>>21626261 DeSantis Says FBI Blocked State Investigators From Trump Assassination Crime Scene
>>21626268 Marijuana was developed and came out of China some 12,000 years ago
>>21626301 Biden admits economic recovery still needs 'work,' forgets meeting Fed chair in error-laden speech
>>21626313 Here are two questions Trump was asked that didn't make the Gutfeld show last night
>>21626340 Beattie: The Truth Of Latest Bomb Trump Assassination Scare Could Be Darker Than You Imagine
>>21626350, >>21626423, >>21626496 12 firefighters, emergency personnel involved in a mass casualty crash in Orange County
>>21626352 Federal Court sides with Trudeau censorship ruling against Rebel News
>>21626418 Scavino: Are you better of than you were four years ago?
>>21626422, >>21626437 Natalie Winters Blasts Rep. Chip Roy For Pushing The CR On The WarRoom
>>21626445 New Batch Of Patriot Front Records Reveals More Evidence Of FBI Infiltration
>>21626451 Chinese Spies Lurked for Months Inside U.S.-Based Engineering Firm's Network
>>21626467 Rep. Good Warns Of U.S. Losing Its Sovereignty To The WHO And UN, Subjecting Americans To Globalism
>>21626506 Kamala Harris arrested and perp walked this mother who did nothing wrong-and then lied about it
>>21626554 Walz's former National Guard colleague alleges classified nuclear manual went missing in Nebraska during his tenure
>>21626609 Husband of Russia's richest woman arrested after deadly shooting
>>21626632 Rent these days…
>>21625796, >>21625811, >>21625862, >>21625951, >>21625966, >>21626196, >>21626217, >>21626446 Memes
>>21626647 #26486
#26485 >>21624786
>>21625179, >>21625511, >>21625518 DJT speaks @ Israeli American Council (IAC) in DC Round 2
>>21625570 Transcript: Trump @ IAC in DC Round 2
>>21624933, >>21624975 Archive: Trump Headlines a Fighting Anti-Semitism Event and Speaks at the IAC in D.C. Round 1 - 9/19/24
>>21625652 Scavino: View from above, departing NYC for Washington, D.C. earlier today...
>>21624866, >>21625562 Kamala and Oprah event
>>21625747 Transcript: Biden @ Hispanic Caucus
>>21624837, >>21625030 Ex-Border Chief Aaron Heitke was Ordered to Cover up the Border Disaster
>>21624851 Nancy Mace Enters Flirty Texts Into Record She Says Were Sent To Her By CNN Panelist After They Publicly Feuded
>>21624939 Wisconsin abortionist running for House seat vacated by Republican Mike Gallagher
>>21625007 Vivek Ramaswamy's town hall event in Springfield, Ohio
>>21625082 Oofprah
>>21625103 Walz's former National Guard colleague alleges classified nuclear manual went missing in Nebraska during his tenure
>>21625404 We are talking to you
>>21625434 Links on the Lawn and Kamala Harris?
>>21625510 The Shanwei zoo admits they painted dogs white and black to make them look like pandas
>>21625525 Suit alleges Kentucky deputy forced woman to have sex in judge's chamber in lieu of fees
>>21625568 Elon: SpaceX letter to Congress
>>21625606 Dave Chappelle's Cambodian breast milk P Diddy sketch
>>21625613 Jaguar Wright Amazed Diddy will stay in jail but cries for Bryshere Gray
>>21625653, >>21625680 Newscum says he can't rule out taking legal action against Elon Musk and a conservative memer for posting memes
>>21625662 Chicago: Teachers saying admins instructed them to give migrant students passing grade in every subject no matter what
>>21625686 Interesting Detail - U.S. Secret Service Agent Was Less Than 10 feet Away When He Shot at Ryan Routh
>>21625042, >>21625124, >>21625377, >>21625524 Memes
>>21625751 #26485
Previously Collected
>>21624767 #26484, >>21625751 #26485
>>21621981 #26481, >>21623170 #26482, >>21623888 #26483
>>21619158 #26478-A, >>21620288 #26479, >>21621172 #26480
>>21619473 #26478-D, >>21619173 #26478-C, >>21619163 #26478-B
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Q Research Notables #24: Soldiers >>21225723
#21628402 at 2024-09-20 15:11:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26488: Shills Never Stood A Chance - Countdown Edition
Final
#26488 >>21627731
>>21627741 Rep. Matt Gaetz Claims There Are 5 Known Assassination Teams in U.S.
>>21627746 New Docs Shed Light On Air Force's 'Goal' To Reduce 'White Male Population' Joining Officer Ranks
>>21627840, >>21628066, >>21628079, >>21628112, >>21628306, >>21628322 Swampenins
>>21627844 45 Days to 45-47 WINNING
>>21627846 ICYMI: Rep. Good and Rep. Norman Press Conference Denouncing World Health Organization
>>21627854 Ahoy! The Ship Show & Extra Gravy
>>21627855 Knowledge to have
>>21627910 ICYMI: ECW: Interdiction
>>21627955 Former Assistant District Attorney Indicted on Bribery, Money Laundering Conspiracy, and Other Felony Charges, Gary Haynes,
>>21627971 A Target on His Back – Trump as the New John Wick
>>21628002 A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026 (if kneepads wins)
>>21628003 FOUR FAMILIES: Brown, Newsom, Pelosi & getty have ruled over Cali w/ IRON FIST for 80 years
>>21628006 ICYMI: Suspected Trump assassin flagged by U.S. during return from Ukraine, but Homeland refused probe
>>21628019 ICYMI: The Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination.
>>21628028 HAITI Demographics
>>21628071 War Room Morning Edition
>>21628075 ICYMI: A federal judge in South Carolina issued a precedent-setting ruling, voter rolls are public record under fed law and are subject to inspection by election integrity activists
>>21628121 ICYMI: Oklahoma announces it has complied with state law and cleaned up its voter rolls by removing some 453,000 voter registrations, including ineligible voters such as convicted felons and deceased voters, since 2021.
>>21628123 Small Town Kentucky Sheriff Accused of Shooting Judge Dead in His Chambers
>>21628137, >>21628083 A rape offense is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC.
>>21628143 Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is refusing to identify the foreign actors who called in the majority of hoax bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio
>>21628161, >>21628181 @realDonaldTrump 'KAMALA SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDED SEX CHANGES FOR PRISONERS"
>>21628163 ICYMI: Walz appointee with apparent CCP ties could expose potential veep's national security weakness
>>21628166 Friday Morning Minute
>>21628173 ICYMI: BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids
>>21628185 Jesse Watters: This whole thing is strange/Trump
>>21628199, >>21628283, >>21628310, >>21628363 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day A Hazy Harvest Moon/Space/Science
>>21628200, >>21628222 Doocy and KJP exchange following KJP again calling President Trump a "threat"
>>21628203, >>21628214 Fear Pron: @SenWarren We're in a world where doctors have to tell women in the middle of a miscarriage they can't get the medical care they need because they're not near enough to death/cut fed rates
>>21628205 ECW: Collusion?
>>21628207 Not one person voted for Kamala Harris to be the 2024 nominee
>>21628212 CIA 'predator' who sexually abused unconscious women across multiple countries - keeping 500 pics, videos of horrid acts - sentenced to 30 years in jail
>>21628219 Gutfeld: A classic Kamala video has resurfaced
>>21628240 Moar Dr. Jay Varma Receives Grant to Study COVID-19 Disease Surveillance
>>21628268, >>21628259 @realDonaldTrump You are an amazing guy. My father would be proud of you. Thanks for the memories! Donald J. Trump
>>21628270 What's weird is how the legacy media all has the same talking points simultaneously, even the same phrases like "sharp as a tack" about Biden before the debate, Then they all stabbed him in the back right after the debate ended
>>21628277, >>21628279 LIVE: Harris County judge to give update after remains found in SUV near Deer Park pipeline fire
>>21628285, >>21628292 Hearing over open records lawsuit against Fani Willis | Court livestream
>>21628286 @MELANIATRUMP WH vid
>>21628297 Former Dem fundraiser slams 'hypocrisy' on the left: 'I'm tired of it'
>>21628309 ICYMI: NARA confirmed that VP-Biden had communications related to CEFC (CCP influence op) and/or Burisman, refusing to release them
>>21628379 urkey joins western critical minerals club amid EU-China rivalry
>>21628384 Haitian Caucus News Conference
#26488
#26487 >>21626659
Collector
>>21626673, >>21627055, >>21627045 CROWDER CONFRONTS: [New York] Covid Czar Dr. Jay Varma
>>21626682 Rumble To Get Discovery In Suit Against 'Check My Ads' Founders
>>21626687, >>21627024 Trump retruth: Fred Trump Story from the 70's
>>21626707 Oprah said she was stopped at the airport by a black man to let her know he's voting for Trump.
>>21626731 @WarClandestine: Trump speaks about the FBI confirming Iran spied on his campaign and shared the info with the Dems.
>>21626737, >>21627009, >>21626812, >>21626897, >>21627050 Kamala/Oprah event having difficult time getting over 10,000 viewers. The Joy is gone.
>>21626747 for the keks: Texas declared sanctuary state for memers.(bun)
>>21626784 America tested 100,000 forgotten rape kits, resulted in 1,500 convictions
>>21626805, >>21626923, >>21627100 Queen Margrethe of Denmark rushed to hospital following fall at Fredensborg Castle
>>21626869 Vid: Guy who wrote the book on the Franklin Coverup in 2009 and published Epstein's little black book.
>>21626930 BREAKING - Gold strikes fresh record high above $2,609
>>21627014 Two of Newsome's deefake election laws already being challenged
>>21627020 Trump Supporter Puts CNN 'Reporter' in Her Place With Awesome Responses
>>21627023, >>21627028, >>21627093, >>21627031, >>21627143, >>21627152 P Diddy Panic
>>21627037 MAGA rally @ Penn State - 1,500 hats and they didn't have enough
>>21627042 @VigilantFox asking the good questions about Routh
>>21627081 @NobleNegroe: I was honored to participate in @FrankLuntz Black male focus group recently.
>>21627106 @GenFlynn: And we're NOT at war!? A Palestinian flag has been raised over the ROTC building at UNC
>>21627114 Fungal Infection in the Brain Produces Effects Similar to Alzheimer's
Ghost grab
>>21627161 musk w/CAP: leadership spends their resources attacking @SpaceX for petty matters that have nothing to do with safety, while neglecting real safety issues at Boeing…
>>21627166 Walz's former colleague believes Walz stole the nuclear SOP manual. one of the only people with access to where the manual was stored.
>>21627175, >>21627179, >>21627189 [They're] all on the take. Springfield corrupt money ops from Gunvna to Mayor.
>>21627233 The de-wokifying of Catperpillar?
>>21627316 Three teenagers, aged 18, 17 and 16, are arrested for killing and EATING New York village's beloved mother swan, Fay…
>>21627482 Chicago elementary teachers have come forward alleging that administrators instructed them they have to give migrant students a passing grade of 70% in every subject.
>>21627513 Wall Street Apes w/CAP: Democrat Corruption in California is UNRIVALED
>>21627665 Google Directs Americans Searching For Voter Registration Info To A Dark Money, Left-Wing Elections Group Called Democracy Works.
>>21627676 Habbenins habbening for 9/20/2024
>>21627714 #26487
#21628359 at 2024-09-20 15:01:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26488: Shills Never Stood A Chance - Countdown Edition
>>21628322
Last CallFull bun will baker in 10
#26488 >>21627731
>>21627741 Rep. Matt Gaetz Claims There Are 5 Known Assassination Teams in U.S.
>>21627746 New Docs Shed Light On Air Force's 'Goal' To Reduce 'White Male Population' Joining Officer Ranks
>>21627840, >>21628066, >>21628079, >>21628112, >>21628306, >>21628322 Swampenins
>>21627844 45 Days to 45-47 WINNING
>>21627846 ICYMI: Rep. Good and Rep. Norman Press Conference Denouncing World Health Organization
>>21627854 Ahoy! The Ship Show & Extra Gravy
>>21627855 Knowledge to have
>>21627910 ICYMI: ECW: Interdiction
>>21627955 Former Assistant District Attorney Indicted on Bribery, Money Laundering Conspiracy, and Other Felony Charges, Gary Haynes,
>>21627971 A Target on His Back – Trump as the New John Wick
>>21628002 A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026 (if kneepads wins)
>>21628003 FOUR FAMILIES: Brown, Newsom, Pelosi & getty have ruled over Cali w/ IRON FIST for 80 years
>>21628006 ICYMI: Suspected Trump assassin flagged by U.S. during return from Ukraine, but Homeland refused probe
>>21628019 ICYMI: The Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination.
>>21628028 HAITI Demographics
>>21628071 War Room Morning Edition
>>21628075 ICYMI: A federal judge in South Carolina issued a precedent-setting ruling, voter rolls are public record under fed law and are subject to inspection by election integrity activists
>>21628121 ICYMI: Oklahoma announces it has complied with state law and cleaned up its voter rolls by removing some 453,000 voter registrations, including ineligible voters such as convicted felons and deceased voters, since 2021.
>>21628123 Small Town Kentucky Sheriff Accused of Shooting Judge Dead in His Chambers
>>21628137, >>21628083 A rape offense is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC.
>>21628143 Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is refusing to identify the foreign actors who called in the majority of hoax bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio
>>21628161, >>21628181 @realDonaldTrump 'KAMALA SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDED SEX CHANGES FOR PRISONERS"
>>21628163 ICYMI: Walz appointee with apparent CCP ties could expose potential veep's national security weakness
>>21628166 Friday Morning Minute
>>21628173 ICYMI: BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids
>>21628185 Jesse Watters: This whole thing is strange/Trump
>>21628199, >>21628283, >>21628310 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day A Hazy Harvest Moon/Space/Science
>>21628200, >>21628222 Doocy and KJP exchange following KJP again calling President Trump a "threat"
>>21628203, >>21628214 Fear Pron: @SenWarren We're in a world where doctors have to tell women in the middle of a miscarriage they can't get the medical care they need because they're not near enough to death/cut fed rates
>>21628205 ECW: Collusion?
>>21628207 Not one person voted for Kamala Harris to be the 2024 nominee
>>21628212 CIA 'predator' who sexually abused unconscious women across multiple countries - keeping 500 pics, videos of horrid acts - sentenced to 30 years in jail
>>21628219 Gutfeld: A classic Kamala video has resurfaced
>>21628240 Moar Dr. Jay Varma Receives Grant to Study COVID-19 Disease Surveillance
>>21628268, >>21628259 @realDonaldTrump You are an amazing guy. My father would be proud of you. Thanks for the memories! Donald J. Trump
>>21628270 What's weird is how the legacy media all has the same talking points simultaneously, even the same phrases like "sharp as a tack" about Biden before the debate, Then they all stabbed him in the back right after the debate ended
>>21628277, >>21628279 LIVE: Harris County judge to give update after remains found in SUV near Deer Park pipeline fire
>>21628285, >>21628292 Hearing over open records lawsuit against Fani Willis | Court livestream
>>21628286 @MELANIATRUMP WH vid
>>21628297 Former Dem fundraiser slams 'hypocrisy' on the left: 'I'm tired of it'
>>21628309 ICYMI: NARA confirmed that VP-Biden had communications related to CEFC (CCP influence op) and/or Burisman, refusing to release them
,
#21628227 at 2024-09-20 14:18:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26488: Shills Never Stood A Chance - Countdown Edition
@325
#26488 >>21627731
>>21627741 Rep. Matt Gaetz Claims There Are 5 Known Assassination Teams in U.S.
>>21627746 New Docs Shed Light On Air Force's 'Goal' To Reduce 'White Male Population' Joining Officer Ranks
>>21627840, >>21628066, >>21628079, >>21628112 Swampenins
>>21627844 45 Days to 45-47 WINNING
>>21627846 ICYMI: Rep. Good and Rep. Norman Press Conference Denouncing World Health Organization
>>21627854 Ahoy! The Ship Show & Extra Gravy
>>21627855 Knowledge to have
>>21627910 ICYMI: ECW: Interdiction
>>21627955 Former Assistant District Attorney Indicted on Bribery, Money Laundering Conspiracy, and Other Felony Charges, Gary Haynes,
>>21627971 A Target on His Back – Trump as the New John Wick
>>21628002 A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026 (if kneepads wins)
>>21628003 FOUR FAMILIES: Brown, Newsom, Pelosi & getty have ruled over Cali w/ IRON FIST for 80 years
>>21628006 ICYMI: Suspected Trump assassin flagged by U.S. during return from Ukraine, but Homeland refused probe
>>21628019 ICYMI: The Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination.
>>21628028 HAITI Demographics
>>21628071 War Room Morning Edition
>>21628075 ICYMI: A federal judge in South Carolina just issued a precedent-setting ruling that voter rolls are public record under federal law and are subject to inspection by election integrity activists
>>21628121 ICYMI: Oklahoma announces it has complied with state law and cleaned up its voter rolls by removing some 453,000 voter registrations, including ineligible voters such as convicted felons and deceased voters, since 2021.
>>21628123 Small Town Kentucky Sheriff Accused of Shooting Judge Dead in His Chambers
>>21628137, >>21628083 A rape offense is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC.
>>21628143 Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is refusing to identify the foreign actors who called in the majority of hoax bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio
>>21628161, >>21628181 @realDonaldTrump 'KAMALA SUPPORTS TAXPAYER FUNDED SEX CHANGES FOR PRISONERS"
>>21628163 ICYMI: Walz appointee with apparent CCP ties could expose potential veep's national security weakness
>>21628166 Friday Morning Minute
>>21628173 ICYMI: BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids
>>21628185 Jesse Watters: This whole thing is strange/Trump
>>21628199 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day A Hazy Harvest Moon
>>21628200, >>21628222 Doocy and KJP exchange following KJP again calling President Trump a "threat"
>>21628203, >>21628214 Fear Pron: @SenWarren We're in a world where doctors have to tell women in the middle of a miscarriage they can't get the medical care they need because they're not near enough to death/cut fed rates
>>21628205 ECW: Collusion?
>>21628207 Not one person voted for Kamala Harris to be the 2024 nominee
>>21628212 CIA 'predator' who sexually abused unconscious women across multiple countries - keeping 500 pics, videos of horrid acts - sentenced to 30 years in jail
>>21628219 Gutfeld: A classic Kamala video has resurfaced
#21628096 at 2024-09-20 13:44:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26488: Shills Never Stood A Chance - Countdown Edition
>>21627961
>>21628045
Bad Boy
Ex-Bad Boy President Harve Pierre Sued For Sexual Assault
President of Bad Boy Records Harve Pierre attends the premiere party for MTV's "Making the Band 4" at Guest House on August 19, 2008 in New York City. Stawiarz/getty Images
Warning: The following article contains triggering language related to sexual assault, abuse, and rape.
Former Bad Boy president Harve Pierre has been sued for sexual assault and grooming.
According to Rolling Stone, a Jane Doe has accused Pierre of predatory behavior and abusing his position for his sexual gain. "[Pierre preyed] on multiple occasions in New York City and other locations throughout the country," the suit alleges. "Pierre used his position of authority as plaintiff's boss to groom, exploit, and sexually assault her. Pierre engaged in a year-long pattern of grooming plaintiff, leading to sexual harassment of plaintiff, and sexual assault."
The lawsuit points to 2016 and 2017 as key years that the ex-Bad Boy boss allegedly sexually assaulted her. Harve's actions allegedly left her with physical injuries, and emotional and mental trauma. Doe is seeking undisclosed damages that she believes will "fully and fairly compensate" her.
Additionally, Bad Boy Entertainment has been named in the suit for their role in neglecting Pierre's alleged behavior. The suit states that the company failed to "properly supervise" and reprimand the former president. "Defendants knew or should have known that Pierre was unfit to be in a position of authority before Pierre sexually assaulted plaintiff," the suit added.
A Bad Boy spokesperson asserted that they had no idea that such behavior had taken place "many years ago." However, the company did state they were taking the suit seriously and handling it with "top priority."
Cassie at Allure Store.; Diddy at the 2020 Pre-Grammy gala.
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"We have recently become aware of a lawsuit filed in New York by a former employee. The allegations are from many years ago that were never brought to the attention of the company. Neither the plaintiff nor the executive are current employees of the company. We are now investigating the allegations, and our top priority is the safety and well-being of our employees."
Harve Pierre met Sean "Diddy" Combs when they were both students at Howard. Pierre began working at Bad Boy in 1992. After leaving the company in '95, he returned to a role as president and served in the role until December 2017.
The lawsuit arrives a week after Cassie Ventura filed her groundbreaking suit against Diddy. Ventura accused the music legend of repeated physical abuse for over a decade, sex trafficking, sexual battery, sexual assault, and violations of New York City's gender-motivated violence law. Days later, Cassie and Diddy reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount of money. The full terms of the settlement also remain confidential.
https://www.vibe.com/news/entertainment/bad-boy-harve-pierre-sexual-assault-1234816434/?ref=mc.news
#21628045 at 2024-09-20 13:35:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26488: Shills Never Stood A Chance - Countdown Edition
>>21627961
getty Images
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#21628039 at 2024-09-20 13:34:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26488: Shills Never Stood A Chance - Countdown Edition
Earlies
#26488 >>21627731
>>21627741 Rep. Matt Gaetz Claims There Are 5 Known Assassination Teams in U.S.
>>21627746 New Docs Shed Light On Air Force's 'Goal' To Reduce 'White Male Population' Joining Officer Ranks
>>21627840 Swampenins
>>21627844 45 Days to 45-47 WINNING
>>21627846 ICYMI: Rep. Good and Rep. Norman Press Conference Denouncing World Health Organization
>>21627854 Ahoy! The Ship Show & Extra Gravy
>>21627855 Knowledge to have
>>21627910 ICYMI: ECW: Interdiction
>>21627955 Former Assistant District Attorney Indicted on Bribery, Money Laundering Conspiracy, and Other Felony Charges, Gary Haynes,
>>21627971 A Target on His Back – Trump as the New John Wick
>>21628002 A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026 (if kneepads wins)
>>21628003 FOUR FAMILIES: Brown, Newsom, Pelosi & getty have ruled over Cali w/ IRON FIST for 80 years
>>21628006 ICYMI: Suspected Trump assassin flagged by U.S. during return from Ukraine, but Homeland refused probe
>>21628019 ICYMI: The Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination.
>>21628028 HAITI Demographics
#21628003 at 2024-09-20 13:24:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26488: Shills Never Stood A Chance - Countdown Edition
>>21627974
FOUR FAMILIES: Brown, Newsom, Pelosi & getty have ruled over Cali w/ IRON FIST for 80 years
2:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D4WdNlx52g
#21627974 at 2024-09-20 13:19:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26488: Shills Never Stood A Chance - Countdown Edition
>>21627836
I know it's a wiki…
but it mentions getty (California mafia family) and Willie Brown….
Newsom graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989. Afterward, he founded the boutique winery PlumpJack Group with billionaire heir and family friend Gordon getty as an investor. The company grew to manage 23 businesses, including wineries, restaurants, and hotels. Newsom began his political career in 1996, when San Francisco mayor Willie Brown appointed him to the city's Parking and Traffic Commission.[1] Brown then appointed Newsom to fill a vacancy on the Board of Supervisors the next year and Newsom was first elected to the board in 1998.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Newsom
#21627224 at 2024-09-20 10:45:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26487: Fighter Edition
getty Images
#21626991 at 2024-09-20 09:17:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26487: Fighter Edition
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/16/exclusive-shoplifting-and-vehicle-thefts-soared-as-haitian-migrants-poured-into-ohio-town-police-data-shows/
EXCLUSIVE: Shoplifting And Vehicle Thefts Soared As Haitian Migrants Poured Into Ohio Town, Police Data Shows
Migrants Gather At U.S.-Mexico Border
(Photo by Michael Nigro/getty Images)
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#21615752 at 2024-09-18 15:25:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26474: Moar BOOMS Incomin Edition
>>21615380
Secret Service Detains Mar-a-Lago Driver for Firearm While Trump Prepared to Golf
Pic caption reads: U.S. President Donald Trump's motorcade departs Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 15, 2017. On Monday, February 19, a driver was detained when a gun was found in his baggage. JIM WATSON/AFP/getty Images
#21614098 at 2024-09-18 10:08:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26473: Fight the Good Fight
>>21614072
In 1997, he opened his own restaurant, and had Donald Trump in attendance.
getty Images
#21597845 at 2024-09-15 23:12:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26454: MOAB Edition
Kyiv, Ukraine Nov. 9, 2022 Flowers rest at a memorial to the soldiers who have lost their lives in the war against Russia near Independence Square. The note is from the "Fight for Ukriane," military recruiting office, calling for more volunteers to sign up for the effort. We need thousands of fighters, it says.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/kyiv-ukrainenov-9-2022flowers-rest-at-a-memorial-to-the-news-photo/1244865393
Hoooooly shit, look at the phone number >>21597758
#21595884 at 2024-09-15 19:06:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26452: Shots fired again in Trumps vicinity again... Edition
as anon
trump saying he hates taylor swift
is not just a dull sunday troll
trump previously said taylor is beautiful
he also said hillary is beautiful
if you go back and really think about what he said
it may not bode well for ms.swift
what may be coming down the pike for ol' single cat lady?
the line " i hear she is very talented", can hold a lot of meanings
i shudder to even begin to think that years ago hillary got to taylors cat kek and "talented"
"I think she's beautiful, very beautiful! I find her very beautiful. I think she's liberal. She probably doesn't like Trump. I hear she's very talented."
time this with "they are eating the dogs, they are eating the cats" might NOT be what it seems? may be about WHO is eating the "dogs and cats", comms for "Haitian boys and girls" ?
HAITIAN boys and girls?
WHO world health orginization, perhaps
DID TAYLOR DO SOMETHING VERY BAD???
something else is going down
in this anon opinion
and it is really creepy
that if you search hillary clinton cat
you get getty images
only one page of images https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image-film?phrase=hillary+clinton+cat
hillary while in white house as first lady
with her pet cat SOCKS
and images with the white house CHEF
images with little black and asian children while bill strokes the cat in between his legs, hillary has triangle earrings on
hillary reading to a little black boy
a WHITE RABBIT DOCTOR book behind her
a LOLLIPOP LOGIC book also
hillary wearing a white stone ring i have never noticed before
and it moves to different fingers? different images
bill holding a document towards the camera while rubbing cat on lawn with hillary
guise
these images were back then comms
and still are today
beautiful taylor and hillary
both cat ladies
and
sheesh the date/numbers
on image description:
a gingerbread house in the Senate Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC,
6th December 1993.
Dubbed the 'House of Socks',
in honour of the Clintons' cat,
the gingerbread house includes 21 marzipan figures of the cat.
also, super creepy
chef is spoken of in all getty image descriptions as a PASTY chef not a pastry chef
yes could just be a typo
BUT
PASTY is a MEAT pie that is hand held
where a pastry chef is sweets and doughs
dood is now dead
(Roland Mesnier was a French-born American pastry chef and culinary writer. His creations during his twenty-five years as Executive Pastry Chef at the White House earned him the reputation of a creative genius.) died august 2022
all these images should looked at for comms
what is the blue painting next to socks christmas stocking
who is on tv with the dog
what is the wrist band on brown child petting cat
black and white cat
brown dog
#21582675 at 2024-09-13 13:11:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26437: Guard The Pounds! - Countdown Edition
>>21582669
https://www.bbc.com > news > world-us-canada-46154857
Michelle Obama reveals daughters were conceived by IVF - BBC
Michelle Obama reveals daughters were conceived by IVF. 9 November 2018. getty Images. Former First
#21582492 at 2024-09-13 12:08:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26436: Dominoes Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/09/12/everything-you-need-to-know-about-kamala-in-her-own-words-in-one-place/
Everything You Need to Know About Kamala in Her Own Words in One Place
5,801
(Photos: Joseph Prezioso, Emily Elconin, Scott Olson, Jim Watson, Jacquelyn Martin, Mandel
Joseph Prezioso, Emily Elconin, Scott Olson, Jim Watson, Jacquelyn Martin, Mandel Ngan/getty Images; Adam Schultz, Oliver Contreras, Lawrence Jackson, Polly Irungu/White House
Rebecca Mansour and Alana Mastrangelo12 Sep 2024
SECTIONS:
ON THE ECONOMY
ON THE BORDER AND IMMIGRATION
ON ENERGY, FRACKING, AND CLIMATE CHANGE
ON ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND TRANSPORTATION
ON HEALTH CARE
ON ABORTION
ON CRIME AND POLICING
ON GUN CONTROL
ON REPARATIONS
ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
ON CENSORSHIP
ON FOREIGN POLICY
ON THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND COURT PACKING
ON SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY
ON YOUTH
CHANGING ACCENTS
ON CULTURE
WORD SALADS
#21571851 at 2024-09-11 18:18:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26425: NEVER FORGET Edition
>>21571826
>>21571826
https://www.forbes.com > sites > timworstall > 2017 > 08 > 17 > venezuelas-starving-people-are-now-eating-the-zoo-animals-the-parisians-had-the-german-excuse
Venezuela's Starving People Are Now Eating The Zoo Animals - The …
Aug 17, 2017Zoo animals are being stolen from parks in western Venezuela and police believe they
https://www.cbsnews.com > news > two-men-killed-planned-to-eat-bald-eagle-nebraska-officials-say
2 men killed and planned to eat a bald eagle in Nebraska … - CBS News
Mar 3, 2023March 2, 2023 / 11:03 PM EST / CBS News. Two men are facing criminal charges, accused of shooting and killing a bald eagle near Stanton, Nebraska, on Tuesday, that authorities said they had …
https://www.foxnews.com > media > illegal-migrants-accused-shooting-bald-eagle-nebraska-sheriff-says-community-uproar
Illegal migrants accused of shooting bald eagle: Nebraska sheriff says …
Mar 6, 2023Stanton County Sheriff Mike Unger reacts after two migrants allegedly shot and killed an American bald eagle in the state with the intention to eat it.
https://www.cnn.com > 2023 > 03 > 05 > us > bald-eagle-hunt-nebraska-trnd > index.html
2 men hunted and killed a bald eagle in Nebraska, officials say
Mar 5, 2023Liu Guanguan/China News Service/getty Images. CNN -. Two men in Nebraska have been
#21571040 at 2024-09-11 15:34:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26424: 911 Commemorated Edition
>>21570923
https://www.bbc.com > news > world-us-canada-46154857
Michelle Obama reveals daughters were conceived by IVF - BBC
Michelle Obama reveals daughters were conceived by IVF. 9 November 2018. getty Images. Former First
The injuns are now DOT (dept. Of Trans.)
Feathered engines have gone smokeless.
#21560611 at 2024-09-10 01:10:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26412: Cats for Trump Edition
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/08/donald-trump-25th-amendment-reform-removal-vice-presidents-kamala-harris-biden-wisconsin-mosinee/
Donald Trump Calls For 25th Amendment Reform To Allow Removal Of Vice Presidents
Former President Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Reno, Nevada
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/getty Images)
Julianna Frieman
Contributor
September 08, 2024 10:50 AM ET
#21547479 at 2024-09-07 16:00:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26396: 58 Days To WINNINGI Edition
>>21547468
muh purview
>INDEPENDENCE DAY? The NFL last week appointed Robert Mueller III to run an independent investigation into what the league knew about the Rice tape,
Ex-FBI director to investigate Ray Rice case
Ed Payne and Steve Almasy, CNN
6 minute read
Updated 7:14 AM EDT, Tue September 16, 2014
Former FBI director to investigate NFL
02:27 - Source: CNN
CNN -
Nothing less than the NFL's reputation is on the line, and possibly the job of the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell.
A bombshell video shows Ray Rice knocking out his now-wife on a casino elevator. Another shows him dragging her off.
What we don't know for certain is what the NFL knew about the incident and when the league knew it.
There are conflicting stories. Critics want answers. Some want Goodell's head.
ARLINGTON, TX - AUGUST 16: Ray Rice #27 of the Baltimore Ravens sits on the bench against the Dallas Cowboys in the first half of their preseason game at AT&T Stadium on August 16, 2014 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/getty Images)
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The NFL announced late Wednesday that former FBI Director Robert Mueller will lead an independent inquiry into the league's investigation and how it gathered evidence in the case.
Mueller will have access to all NFL records, according to league spokesman Greg Aiello. Two NFL owners who are attorneys - John Mara of the New York Giants and Art Rooney II of the Pittsburgh Steelers - will oversee the independent investigation.
Mueller was director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013.
Appointment not enough
If the league was looking to stem the tide of criticism, it didn't work.
The National Organization for Women called Mueller's appointment "just window dressing," saying it doesn't go far enough.
"NOW continues to ask for Roger Goodell to resign, and for his successor to appoint an independent investigator with full authority to gather factual data about domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking within the entire NFL community - not just regarding the Ray Rice incident - and to recommend real and lasting reforms," said Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women.
Rice, who was released Monday by the Baltimore Ravens, and his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, got into an altercation on an elevator in the casino in Atlantic City on February 15. Rice knocked her out with a punch to the head then dragged her - face down - out of the elevator.
TMZ Sports obtained two videos from the footage taken from surveillance cameras that night. It posted the first one, which showed Rice dragging his then-fiancee out of the elevator, in February. The in-elevator video showing the violent punch was put online Monday.
Goodell told CBS that what he saw on the second video was "inconsistent" with what Rice told him when he and his wife met with the commissioner in June to explain what happened. Several other people attended the meeting, including representatives from the players' union, executives from the Ravens and lawyers for the NFL.
But on Thursday, ESPN reported that four sources - none of whom were named - said that Rice told Goodell he had punched Palmer. A fifth source said Rice described the hit as a slap. ESPN reported the five sources had knowledge of the meeting.
One said: "He told the truth. This is a public lynching of Ray."
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A friend of Rice told CNN's "OutFront With Erin Burnett" that Rice hasn't hidden from the ugly truth.
"He told everyone that asked, that was in a position of authority - from the NFL to his bosses with the Ravens - what he did," said Craig Carton, who is a radio co-host with former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason. "He took ownership of the despicable act and has tried to make it right."
Goodell: NFL couldn't legally get Ray Rice videos
Ravens owner looks back
It was that second video that changed Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti's perception of the incident.
#21539404 at 2024-09-05 23:18:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26387: Stand Up NOW or Live On Your Knees Later Edition
>>21539348
>>21539348
Big Mic and a Whopper, Big Mike's pregnancy.
https://www.bbc.com > news > world-us-canada-46154857
Michelle Obama reveals daughters were conceived by IVF - BBC
Michelle Obama reveals daughters were conceived by IVF. 9 November 2018. getty Images. Former First Lady Michelle Obama has released a memoir in which she reveals difficulties about her marriage …
https://www.cbsnews.com > news > michelle-obama-reveals-miscarriage-daughters-malia-and-sasha-conceived-through-ivf
Michelle Obama reveals Malia and Sasha were conceived through IVF after …
Then President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia, with dog Bo, on the South Lawn of the White House, April 14, 2009. … We had to do IVF."
News for michelle obama ivf
#21534219 at 2024-09-05 00:11:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26381: Trump Tells His Supporters What They Already Know MAGA Edition
https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/03/lieutenant-governor-adam-gregg-announces-stepping-down-iowa/
Republican Iowa Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg Announces He's Stepping Down
gettyimages-1910655720-612x612
Photographer: Rachel Mummey/Bloomberg via getty Images
Joe Miller
Contributor
September 03, 2024 6:25 PM ET
#21531563 at 2024-09-04 15:08:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26378: WRWY Pres Trump Edition
Carbon Nanotubes and the Search for Life on Other Planets
Sep 03, 2024
A NASA-developed material made of carbon nanotubes will enable our search for exoplanets-some of which might be capable of supporting life.
Originally developed in 2007 by a team of researchers led by Innovators of the Year John Hagopian and Stephanie getty at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, this carbon nanotube technology is being refined for potential use on NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)-the first telescope designed specifically to search for signs of life on planets orbiting other stars.
As shown in the figure below, carbon nanotubes look like graphene (a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice) that is rolled into a tube.
The super-dark material consists of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (i.e., nested nanotubes) that grow vertically into a "forest."
The carbon nanotubes are 99% empty space so the light entering the material doesn't get reflected.
Instead, the light enters the nanotube forest and jiggles electrons in the hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms, converting the light to heat.
The ability of the carbon nanotubes to eliminate almost all light is enabling for NASA's scientific instruments because stray light limits how sensitive the observations can be.
When applied to instrument structures, this material can eliminate much of the stray light and enable new and better observations.
Viewing exoplanets is incredibly difficult; the exoplanets revolve around stars that are 10 billion times brighter than they are.
It's like looking at the Sun and trying to see a dim star next to it in the daytime.
Specialized instruments called coronagraphs must be used to block the light from the star to enable these exoplanets to be viewed.
The carbon nanotube material is employed in the coronagraph to block as much stray light as possible from entering the instrument's detector.
The image below depicts a notional telescope and coronagraph imaging an exoplanet. The telescope collects the light from the distant star and exoplanet.
The light is then directed to a coronagraph that collimates the beam, making the light rays parallel, and then the beam is reflected off the apodizer mirror, which is used to precisely control the diffraction of light.
Carbon nanotubes on the apodizer mirror absorb the stray light that is diffracted off edges of the telescope structures, so it does not contaminate the observations.
The light is then focused on the focal plane mask, which blocks the light from the star but allows light from the exoplanet to pass.
The light gets collimated again and is then reflected off a deformable mirror to correct distortion in the image.
Finally, the light passes through the Lyot Stop, which is also coated with carbon nanotubes to remove the remaining stray light.
The beam is then focused onto the detector array, which forms the image.
Even with all these measures some stray light still reaches the detector, but the coronagraph creates a dark zone where only the light coming from the exoplanet can be seen.
The final image on the right in the figure below shows the remaining light from the star in yellow and the light from the exoplanet in red in the dark zone.
HWO will use a similar scheme to search for habitable exoplanets. Scientists will analyze the spectrum of light captured by HWO to determine the gases in the atmosphere of the exoplanet.
The presence of water vapor, oxygen, and perhaps other gases can indicate if an exoplanet could potentially support life.
But how do you make a carbon-nanotube-coated apodizer mirror that could be used on the HWO?
Hagopian's company Advanced Nanophotonics, LLC received Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding to address this challenge.
Carbon nanotubes are grown by depositing catalyst seeds onto a substrate and then placing the substrate into a tube-shaped furnace and heating it to 1382 degrees F, which is red hot!
Gases containing carbon are then flowed into the heated tube, and at these temperatures the gases are absorbed by the metal catalyst and transform into a solution, similar to how carbon dioxide in soda water fizzes.
The carbon nanotubes literally grow out of the substrate into vertically aligned tubes to form a "forest" wherever the catalyst is located.
cont.
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/science-enabling-technology/carbon-nanotubes-and-the-search-for-life-on-other-planets/
#21525968 at 2024-09-03 10:41:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research Generl #26372: Putin's in Mongolia, Joe's at the Beach Edition
>>21525811
>Ukrainian anthem found in US voter database code – Politico
nothing to see here
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Ukrainian anthem found in US voter database code - Politico
A review of the software responsible for compiling voter lists in New Hampshire reportedly revealed that it was connected to servers outside the US
Ukrainian anthem found in US voter database code - Politico
FILE PHOTO. Voting machine in the US. ? getty Images / Yasin Ozturk; Anadolu
The Ukrainian anthem has been found embedded in the source code of the voter database in the state of New Hampshire, the development of which had apparently been outsourced to offshore programmers, according to Politico.
Election officials had previously decided to replace the state's voter registration database before the upcoming 2024 presidential election and reportedly turned toa small Connecticut-based IT firm called WSD Digitalto develop the software.
However, upon reviewing the completed project, it was revealed that the firm had offshored some of the work. Given that this posed a risk of unknown coders outside the US having access to the software and potentially being able to manipulate voter lists, New Hampshire officials hired a forensic firm to scour the code for signs of hidden malware.
The probe reportedly revealed a number of "unwelcome surprises," Politico claimed, citing a person familiar with the investigation. These included the use of open-source code, software which had been misconfigured to connect to servers outside the country, and the lyrics to the Ukrainian national anthem.
"A programmer had hard-coded the Ukrainian national anthem into the database, in an apparent gesture of solidarity with Kiev," Politico wrote.
State officials, however, have stated that none of these findings have amounted to evidence of wrongdoing and that all the issues had been resolved by the company in charge of the database's development before it came into use.
"This was a disaster averted," Politico's source said, noting that hackers could have potentially exploited the vulnerabilities to edit the state's voter rolls or use them to stoke election conspiracies.
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While the potential catastrophe in New Hampshire has apparently been averted, Politico stated that its own six-month-long investigation into the matter suggests that similar issues could pop up in other states due to a lack of oversight of the development of vote-processing software.
"The technology vendors who build software used on Election Day face razor-thin profit margins" the outlet wrote, noting that this provides little room for crucial investments in security and results in many states lacking a rigorous system to verify what actually goes into election software.
Meanwhile, the FBI reported last month that it was "confident" that Iran has been trying to interfere in the upcoming election in November and had allegedly sought to gain access to the presidential campaigns of both political parties.
Tehran, however, has denied the accusations, calling them "unsubstantiated and devoid of any standing" and insisting that it has no intention in meddling in US elections.
#21521141 at 2024-09-02 12:00:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26366: Stollen Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1830574148931690940
John Solomon
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Free speech on 2024 ballot because entrenched disinformation policing infrastructure, analyst says
Protest against censorship by Facebook in Warsaw, Poland. | (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/getty Images)
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#21511648 at 2024-08-31 10:15:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26355: Moms For Liberty Edition
>>21508581 @RealCandaceO went there - Brigitte Macron was born a man.
Brigitte Macron to sue over false claims she was born male
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A lawyer for Mrs Macron confirmed she will take action over the fake claim
Brigitte Macron is set to take legal action over an internet conspiracy theory that she is a transgender woman and was born male.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59753535
#21507886 at 2024-08-30 17:24:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26351: CCP Ballz To The Walz Edition
Telegram channel of DDoSecrets shut down shortly after publication of Israeli ministry of justice 'leak' (the big hack last week)
The Telegram channel of DDoSecrets, seen by many as WikiLeaks successor, was shut down with a request from Israel's 'cyber unit' viewed as the likely cause.
Telegram shut down a channel of whistleblower website after it published leaked data from Israel's Ministry of Justice [getty]
The Telegram channel of Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a journalist collective specialised in the publication of hacked material online, was shut down after sharing more than 1 million leaked documents from the Israeli ministry of justice.
The leaked documents, reportedly released in April 2024, contain "personal details of senior officials in the ministry along with sensitive correspondence [and] internal and classified ministry documents", according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Last July, some of the leaked files published by DDoSecrets were used to show that Israel seized and suppressed state secrets contained in a lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO group.
Last week, The Guardian revealed, thanks to more documents from the leak, that Israeli officials tried to circumvent a foreign agent law in the US as part of their pro-Israel advocacy efforts there.
The Internet Referral Unit within the Israeli State Attorney's Office, which is part of the Israeli Ministry of Justice, has been accused of being behind the shutdown request.
The unit, sometimes referred to as the 'cyber unit', is headed by Dr. Haim Wismonsky and responsible for monitoring the Internet for leaks and reporting them to the platforms where they are hosted.
According to a recent Haaretz article, one of the victims of the cyber unit's efforts is the Telegram channel of a "WikiLeaks-style website [whose goal is to] provide a safe online haven for leaks of different types".
However, this can also prevent journalists from reporting on the details contained in the leaked documents, especially as the Israeli government has instituted a court order preventing Israeli media from reporting on the leak.
The New Arab contacted Dr. Wismonsky, as well as the Embassy of Israel in London, for comment. No reply was received at the time of publication.
DDoSecrets has one of the largest databases of leaked material online, and in June released one of its first databases in relation to the ongoing war on Gaza, dubbed "Op Cyber Toufan".
The database contained some 20,000 documents from Israeli governmental organisations and companies, including personal information of Israeli citizens obtained from the ministries of health and of welfare and social security.
This was followed with more releases in July, this time with documents related to the Israeli army and ministries of defence and justice.
Links to the datasets would then be shared on Telegram on a channel called 'Library of Leaks".
Screengrab from one of DDoSecrets' Telegram channel, announcing 'Library of Leaks', where they publish links to leaked material they host [DDoSecrets]
However, a few days after DDoSecrets posted links to the leaked material on its Telegram channel, it was shut down.
Lorax Horne, editor at DDoSecrets, told TNA that Telegram provided no explanation for the removal of their channel from the platform but alleged it was a form of "censorship".
"Taking down the DDoSecrets channel is an escalation, and it is dangerous for Israel to conflate DDoSecrets with the hackers' channels," Horne added.
Shortly after the leaked documents surfaced, the Israeli National Cyber Directorate opened an investigation into the leak and instituted a gag order over all the leaked material, which prevents Israeli media from reporting on it.
Such court orders issued in Israel have been used in the past to prevent access to material published online.
In 2016, +972 Magazine reported that Israeli authorities were enforcing gag orders on posts by journalist and TNA contributor Richard Silverstein he had published in the US.
https://www.newarab.com/news/whistleblower-telegram-channel-shut-down-after-israel-govt-leak
So … Telegram shut down the account posting the hacked Israel docs.
#21496403 at 2024-08-28 18:30:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26338: This Is Not About Another 4 Year Election NCSWIC Edition
West Bank Explodes Overnight With Largest IDF Raid In Decades, 'Evacuations' Could Be Next
The situation in the already restive and tense West Bank has exploded overnight, following major Israeli military raids into the Palestinian territory involving hundreds of IDF troops.
Three areas were targeted simultaneously in what is the largest security raid on the occupied West Bank in two decades. Even fighter jets provided support on the assault on Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas - and drones and bulldozers were seen operating as well. The ongoing operation impacts an area of some 80,000 Palestinians total.
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The situation in the already restive and tense West Bank has exploded overnight, following major Israeli military raids into the Palestinian territory involving hundreds of IDF troops.
Three areas were targeted simultaneously in what is the largest security raid on the occupied West Bank in two decades. Even fighter jets provided support on the assault on Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas - and drones and bulldozers were seen operating as well. The ongoing operation impacts an area of some 80,000 Palestinians total.
Street views of the Israeli wall that divides the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem from Israel, getty Images
At least ten Palestinians have been killed, including three after a targeted drone strike on their vehicle.
Israel's military has said that the nine deceased were "armed terrorists who posed a threat to security forces." The IDF further said "wanted suspects" have been rounded up in in Jenin and Tulkarem, and that IEDs have been uncovered and dismantled.
While much of the Gaza Strip has seen frequent evacuation orders due to the over 10-month long IDF anti-Hamas operation there, Israeli leadership is controversy mulling potential evacuations for parts of the West Bank.
Large-scale evacuations would be an unprecedented move in the territory which is administered by the Palestinian Authority (PA).
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/west-bank-explodes-overnight-largest-idf-raid-decades-evacuations-could-be-next
Lies and death = Israel
#21496321 at 2024-08-28 18:07:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26338: This Is Not About Another 4 Year Election NCSWIC Edition
>>21495605
>>21495252 (me / pb noties) QClock August 25, 2024 - Telegram, Snowden Censorship, X
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/08/27/pinkerton-the-empire-strikes-back-alexander-vindman-threatens-elon-musk-after-arrest-of-telegram-ceo/
Pinkerton: The Empire Strikes Back - Alexander Vindman Threatens Elon Musk After Arrest of Telegram CEO
James P. Pinkerton27 Aug 2024
"Musk should be nervous." These menacing words are from an August 25 tweet from Alexander Vindman. Vindman, of course, is one of the twin Ukrainian-American brothers who, while working at the White House in 2019, opposed President Donald Trump (the other twin, Eugene, is now running for Congress as a Democrat in Virginia).
Reacting to Vindman's words, Darren Beattie, also a former Trump White House official, tweeted, "And there it is... mask off."
So, what, exactly, is Elon Musk supposed to be nervous about? Vindman's full tweet concerned Pavel Durov, CEO of the messaging app Telegram, who was arrested in France on August 25:
While Durov holds French citizenship, is arrested for violating French law, this has broader implications for other social media, including Twitter. There's a growing intolerance for platforming disinfo & malign influence & a growing appetite for accountability. Musk should be nervous.
Vindman's meaning seems clear: If Durov can be arrested for his management of Telegram, perhaps Musk can be arrested or severely sanctioned for his management of X.
Vindman did, indeed, take the mask off, celebrating "growing intolerance for platforming disinfo." As every Breitbart News reader knows, the left has aggressively attacked "disinformation" - even if its capacious definition of the "d"-word includes so much of what the right thinks.
Who can forget when Hunter Biden's all-too-real laptop was declared "disinformation?" And when those who reported on it - including Emma-Jo Morris, now at Breitbart News - were de-platformed? The Anti-Disinformation Industrial Complex is a multi-billion dollar enterprise funded by foundations and worldwide deep states.
Vindman, regularly attacking Trump, thrives within this progressive-left domain. Having set up his own group, he is also a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School. So, when he speaks, he gives voice to the Democrat Party-friendly Establishment. (Which many prefer to call the Regime.)
By any name, this Establishment, this Regime, this Empire is global. The left-leaning, opinion-leading Guardian has suggested, more than once, that Musk be cuffed. Indeed, given the United Kingdom's crackdown on free speech, it might be wise for Musk to stay out of the U.K. (Which could mean, of course, that the famously contrarian and gutsy Musk simply shows up over there.)
In fact, Musk is under legal fire all over the world, having received threatening transmissions from several top officials of the European Union; he is also in a struggle with Brazil.
Moreover, Musk has jousted with the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which claims to represent 90 percent of all the advertising on the planet, some $900 billion a year. On August 6, Musk's X filed a lawsuit against a unit of the WFA, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), claiming restraint of trade, a legal term from antitrust law.
Then, something interesting happened: The WFA immediately erased GARM. That is at least something of an admission of wrongdoing, eh?
Elon Musk at the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 on June 19, 2024, in Cannes, France. (Marc Piasecki/getty Images)
Yet, now, the Empire has a new trouper in the person of Vice President Kamala Harris's running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. In 2022, Walz said on MSNBC, "There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech." Whereupon legal pundit Eugene Volokh corrected him:
Walz was quite wrong in saying that . . . The Supreme Court has made clear that there is no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment . . . The First Amendment generally protects the views that the government would label "hateful" as much as it protects other views.
Further perspective comes from Brendan Carr, a sitting commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, appointed to that post in 2017 by President Trump. "Free speech is the counterweight," Carr says, "It is democracy's check on government control. That's why censorship is the authoritarian's dream. After all, there's a straight line from the soap box to the ballot box. You retain freedom at both or neither."
Musk himself had a wry-geek take: "Being a free speech advocate these days is increasingly feeling like a Kobayashi Maru problem." Star Trek fans get the reference to a difficult puzzle solved by the young James T. Kirk when he was a cadet at Starfleet Academy in the twenty-third century.
Yet, in the present day, all social media platforms are tangled up in regulatory and legal issues - even if they are dealing with them in very different ways.
For instance, there is Meta, the former Facebook, which boasts a market capitalization of $1.3 trillion. That stupendous total puts it just behind the GDP of Indonesia and just ahead of Holland. Indeed, to hold that much wealth, Meta operates within 150 countries; no wonder it hired a former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom as its head of "global affairs."
Without a doubt, the company has many affairs. On August 24, German influencer Naomi Seibt cited a CBS News report of sexual abuse on Meta platforms (not just Facebook, but Threads, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram), and asked her 191,000 followers, "Why don't they arrest Mark Zuckerberg for enabling child predators?"
To which Musk answered, "Because he already caved into censorship pressure. Instagram has a massive child exploitation problem, but no arrest for Zuck, as he censors free speech and gives governments backdoor access to user data."
So, there is one answer for Big Tech: Make a deal with Big Government. (Some might even call it collusion.)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/getty Images)
It seems that Durov - born in Russia, now holding joint citizenship in France and the United Arab Emirates - chose a different path; maybe that is why he is now accused in a French jail.
Durov's company says it has "nothing to hide." Yet, inevitably, a case spanning the continents will be complicated, even murky. Some say Durov is a free speech hero, others say he is a Russian asset (and there is even a minority report that holds he wanted to be arrested in France to be safe from Russian hitmen).
We can hope that French authorities allow for a transparent legal proceeding so that all the issues - is Telegram a hub of free speech, a conduit for criminals? - can be cleared up.
Because, obviously, these questions have importance for the U.S., including American citizen Musk and his X. Happily, here we have the First Amendment. Yet, even if we reject Walz-type censorship, we must be mindful of the metes and bounds of civilization itself. To cite a cliche, we can not yell, "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
We might also recall the enduring wisdom of the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in the 1942 case of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire:
There are certain well defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words - those which, by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.
So, yes, good citizens respect each other's rights. At the same time, the citizenry must be alert to those who trample those rights: Darth Walz and the Disinformation Police are at the gate. So, as we stand guard on the ramparts of freedom, we can hold dear words from Thomas Jefferson: "We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."
Freedom. That is always the keyword. To protect freedom, if need be, legal political combat must be employed to defend the Constitution and our Republic because we know: The Empire is readying its next strike.
#21494190 at 2024-08-28 06:21:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26336: ??? Edition
>>21494181
Gavin,Brown,pelosi,getty, et.al. are going to stimulus the bankrupt romish diocese with taxpayer funds
#21485621 at 2024-08-26 18:24:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26326: President Donald J. Trump Addresses the National Guard Assoc. Edition
>>21485611
right now
invert everything Q said about that day.
and look at both ways.
brennan has already gameplanned out what the clowns are going to do.
already posted the wapo post and the soros red king twat
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
Note: archive from last post. continued in next comment, very long opine article, continued in comments post linked.
>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
#21467390 at 2024-08-23 17:15:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26304: DS TGIFyrday Edition
>>21467353
White Squall event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Squall_(film)
White Squall is a 1996 American disaster survival film directed by Ridley Scott. It is a coming of age film in which a group of high school and college-aged teenagers sign up for several months of training aboard a sailing ship, a brigantine, and travel around half the globe when suddenly they are challenged by a severe storm. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto and Balthazar getty.
#21458839 at 2024-08-22 04:54:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26295: Democrats Are All Talk No Action Edition
L.A. to Pay $20.8 Million for Discharging 12 Million Gallons of Sewage into Santa Monica Bay
In deal with federal prosecutors, city officials agree to clean up sewage plants connected to 2021 spill, even as waste water continues to flow into the ocean
Aug 20, 2024
Venice Beach Lifeguard tower
In a plea deal with federal prosecutors, L.A. officials will pay millions to address repeated problems at the city's sewage treatment center, which has sent untold millions of gallons of untreated waste into waters around popular public beaches
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The City of Los Angeles has agreed to pay a total of $20.8 million to fix issues at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant after a 2021 spill spiraled millions of gallons of wastewater into Santa Monica Bay.
The agreement hammered out between the city and the federal government does not address recent spills that have shuttered popular L.A. beaches multiple times this summer. Los Angeles reported in May that there were 71 reported incidents of untreated waste water spills that have contaminated the Pacific Ocean.
"We in Southern California love our beaches and people in our community deserve clean waters free of contamination when they visit the beach," said United States Attorney Martin Estrada. "This agreement requires the City to take concrete steps and commit substantial funds to improving the Hyperion facility and thereby prevent a disaster like this from reoccurring. Our office is committed to protecting our environment and we will continue to use our federal authority to ensure the safe use of our natural resources for future generations."
In July 2021, the city's treatment center "became inundated with debris, causing wastewater to flood that area," prosecutors say. As a result, "Hyperion's relief system was triggered and approximately 12.5 million gallons of untreated wastewater was discharged through the Facility's 1-Mile Outfall into the Santa Monica Bay."
The result was catastrophic for the environment after "quality testing and monitoring subsequently conducted around the 5-Mile Outfall showed exceedances of applicable water quality standards for total coliform bacteria, E. coli, and Enterococcus," prosecutors say. The incident led to a criminal investigation by Estrada's office.
In the plea deal, the City has agreed to spend no less than $20 million to perform and complete various projects at Hyperion, which the City agreed to perform under an Administrative Order On Consent previously issued by the EPA, but was seemingly ignored.
That work includes improvements on Hyperion's Distributed Control System, such as integrating bar screens, level sensors and other ancillary equipment, integrating the alarm or status screens software to remove the antiquated alarms, training Hyperion operators responsible for control room operations on the updates, and constructing high-level channel overflow manage improvements.
In addition, the City has agreed to continue and expand upon its water quality testing program in compliance with its permits and will add two additional water quality testing sites between Dockweiler Beach and King Harbor and to commit to increasing numbers of bacteria testing at other beaches.
https://lamag.com/news/l-a-to-pay-20-8-million-for-discharging-12-million-gallons-of-sewage-into-santa-monica-bay
#21457502 at 2024-08-22 00:55:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26293: DNC Chicago Circus Day 3 Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1826243000785104940
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
City of Detroit hired 2,000+ more Dem poll workers than GOP in 2024 primary, violating state law
Workers at Detroit, Michigan polling station. | (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via getty Images)
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#21451194 at 2024-08-21 01:15:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26286: Rent-free In Your Head Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1825836604360954040
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Wisconsin DOA sued for withholding info on 'donor-funded government activism'
The Wisconsin State Capitol | (timhughes/getty)
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#21451088 at 2024-08-21 01:03:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26286: Rent-free In Your Head Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1825845277334343739
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
California advances 0 down, no payment home 'loans' for undocumented immigrants
A home for sale | (DreamPictures/getty)
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#21450298 at 2024-08-20 22:50:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26285: Shitshow Circus Day 2 Edition
>>21449887
it has already been gameplanned by the brennan institute by wapo. see below.
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>>21394346, >>21394353, >>21394359, >>21394374 CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
Note: archive from last post. continued in next comment, very long opine article, continued in comments post linked.
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
#21436598 at 2024-08-18 21:28:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26269: ASPS (Surgeons) Challenges "Gender-Affirming" Care for Minors! Edition
In Florida, a fake voter guide spurs accusations of dirty tricks
The bogus voter guide appeared just before the GOP primary in St. John's County.
August 18, 2024, 6:01 AM ET
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Does America trust our election process after 2020?According to a poll, 38% of Americans don't believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected president. What does that mean in 2024?Gianfranco Vivi/getty Images
There's a political storm brewing on Florida's Atlantic Coast, just outside of Jacksonville.
A voter guide falsely purporting to show a slate of endorsements by the local Republican party hit mailboxes in St. John's County, sowing confusion just as the primary was about to kick off this month.
The latest salvo in what many say is already an overheated election cycle, the incident has brought attention to an intra-party slugfest being waged inside the local GOP, amid a fight for the future of how and how fast development should proceed in the area around historic St. Augustine.
"I saw the card, and I'm like, this is a real issue," St. John's County GOP Chair Denver Cook told ABC News. "I was in shock. I'm dealing with one of probably the most flagrant frauds on voters – the day before early voting. It became an instant train wreck."
On the eve of the first ballots being cast last Friday, as the mysterious mailers began spreading, Cook said his phone began blowing up with perplexed messages.
According to Cook, the glossy handout had a thickness, color scheme and font like the official voter guides put out by the local Republican party in June. And though it purported to be the "official 2024 membership-approved endorsements" of the county Republican party, it had a very different list of candidates from the ones the party had announced support for.
The new mailers also lacked any legal disclaimers explaining who paid for them, Cook said. And in pictures of the envelope that one of the fake mailers came in, which were reviewed by ABC News, the postmark was dated Aug. 7 – timed to arrive just in time for Aug. 10th's early voting.
St. Augustine, Florida. Gianfranco Vivi/getty Images
Cook, who is also running for St. John's clerk of courts and comptroller, didn't know how widely the phony cards were sent, but one thing was clear: In this predominantly Republican area, whoever won the primary would likely be the victor in November.
"That's why there's such a fight," Diane Scherff, president of local political action committee "Trump Club of St. John's County" said.
"It is the battle for the soul of St John's County," said Scherff, whose PAC endorsed a list of candidates in the spring that bucks the local GOP's.
So, the urgent question: Where did this pamphlet come from?
'I wish I knew'
"I never thought anyone would go that far in the dirty trick universe," Cook told ABC News. "When we're talking about tight races, any illegal mailer like this claiming to be from the county party could alter elections."
Cook says he has asked law enforcement to investigate the fraudulent pamphlets – and that he would pursue legal action against those responsible.
"Whoever did this knows the rules," Cook said. "There's a level of sophistication to this that isn't cheap."
Florida's Republican party chairman, Evan Power, said in a statement that they "are taking this matter very seriously and are investigating."
"No Florida voter should be misled by anonymous, phony groups pretending to speak for the GOP," Power said.
Long before the mailers appeared, the St. John's primary had already stirred up bad blood over the question of who truly champions Republican policies and principles. At issue: the speed of local land development in one of the nation's fastest-growing and most influential areas, awash in campaign cash and high-dollar real estate deals….
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/story?id=112894420
#21436550 at 2024-08-18 21:21:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26269: ASPS (Surgeons) Challenges "Gender-Affirming" Care for Minors! Edition
Trump Media stock is plummeting.
These shareholders don't care
Shares have fallen more than 40% over the past month.
ByPeter Charalambous andMax Zahn
August 17, 2024, 12:17 PM ET
Trump's line of attack for the 2024 election | 538 Politics Podcast538's Galen Druke and Nathaniel Rakich talk with New York Times polling editor Ruth Igielnik about former President Donald Trump's latest strategy to win votes.Joe Raedle/getty Images
Trump Media & Technology Group's stock dropped more than 11% this week, suffering from sour sentiment after a weak earnings report and the return of former President Donald Trump to rival social media platform X.
The company's woes stretch back to the middle of last month. Since then, the stock for the Truth Social parent company has plummeted by about 43%. Yet as the stock continues to slide, some of its investors remain unfazed, telling ABC News they are optimistic about the company's financial outlook, or intend to stand by it as an expression of their support for Trump.
Todd Schlanger, an interior designer from West Palm Beach, told ABC News that he purchased shares in Trump Media because he supports Trump's politics and believes in his businesses.
"I'm a Republican, so I supported him. When I found out about the stock, I got involved because I support the company and believe in free speech," said Schlanger, who said he owns approximately a thousand shares of the company.
A frequent user of the social media platform, Schlanger boasted about the user interface - "It's like a combination of X and Facebook" - and said he looked forward to the expansion of the company's streaming services.
"I think it's going to be as strong as Facebook or Twitter," said Schlanger.
Other investors said they primarily saw Truth Social as a way to support the former president.
"I did it more as a statement to President Trump and to show support at the time. I wasn't really looking to make a lot of money," said Teri Lynn Roberson, who bought five shares of the company as the company neared its peak stock price after going public in March.
Roberson said she was unconcerned about the stock's poor performance or the impact of Trump's potential return to rival X, the latter of which she said could benefit Trump's presidential campaign by expanding his audience of supporters beyond the "echo chamber" of Truth Social.
"I'm way at a loss, but I am OK with that. I am just watching it for fun," Roberson said.
Truth Social's stock performance holds significant financial implications for the former president, who owns a 65% stake in the company. Truth Social shares make up a large portion of Trump's overall net worth, according to Fortune.
Truth Social did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.
Truth Social's recent losses
An earnings report released last Friday showed, Truth Social had lost more than $16 million over a three-month period ending in June. The company brought in revenue of about $836,000, down 30% from $1.2 million a year earlier, the earnings report showed.
In a statement released following the earnings report, Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes applauded the company's balance sheet, including $344 million in cash and no debt.
"From the beginning, it was our intention to make Truth Social an impenetrable beachhead of free speech, and by taking extraordinary steps to minimize our reliance on Big Tech, that is exactly what we are doing," Nunes said…
(I don't care either!)
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/trump-media-stock-plummeting-shareholders-care/story?id=112892975
#21433847 at 2024-08-18 12:27:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26266: Visit The Vasectomy Booth Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1825147026532598045
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Authorities, businesses brace for up to 100,000 pro-Palestine protestors at Democratic convention
Democratic, DNC, American flag | Marie Hickman/getty Images
From justthenews.com
1:25 AM ? Aug 18, 2024
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#21431484 at 2024-08-18 00:25:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26263: Saturday RALLY In Battleground State Pa. Edition
Lebanon completely loses power - energy company
All "essential facilities" are down after a fuel shortage shut down the country's last power plant A view of the Zouk Power Station during a blackout in Beirut, Lebanon, August 17, 2024 ? getty Images / Houssam Shbaro
Lebanon's last operational power plant has run out of fuel, plunging the country into a total blackout. EDL, the Lebanese state energy company, said that the power cut will affect airports, water supplies, and prisons.
The oil-fired Zahrani power plant exhausted its fuel supplies and shut down on Saturday afternoon, "resulting in a total power outage across all Lebanese territories," Electricite du Liban (EDL) said in a statement.
The outage will affect "essential facilities such as the airport, port, water pumps, sewage systems, and prisons," the company continued, adding that power will gradually be restored "once fuel oil is secured."
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/lebanon-completely-loses-power-energy-company/
https://en.royanews.tv/news/53598
#21429501 at 2024-08-17 19:01:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26261: TRUMP RALLIES SUPPORTERS In Pennsylvania Edition
>>21429436
https://www.npr.org > 2024 > 06 > 28 > nx-s1-4992010 > supreme-court-homeless-punish-sleeping-encampments
Supreme Court allows punishment for homeless sleeping : NPR
Jun 28, 2024In its biggest decision on homelessness in decades, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places. The justices, in a 6-3 decision along …
https://apnews.com > article > supreme-court-homeless-camping-bans-506ac68dc069e3bf456c10fcedfa6bee
Supreme Court allows cities to ban homeless people sleeping outside …
Jun 28, 2024Divided Supreme Court rules in major homelessness case that outdoor sleeping bans are
The conflation, the baitconflating,
https://www.npr.org > 2024 > 05 > 01 > 1248433624 > protests-campus-ucla-universities-israel-gaza-palestinians
Protests at UCLA turn violent as schools tear down encampments, arrest …
May 1, 2024Colleges are tearing down protest encampments . Pro-Palestinian tent camps have been popping up on college campuses around the country - and now, so are reports that universities are taking …
https://time.com > 6970137 > pro-palestinian-encampments-universities
Photos From Pro-Palestinian Encampments Across Universities - TIME
Apr 23, 2024Justin Sullivan-getty Images Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protests continue outside the gates of Columbia University, and inside the campus, in New York City, on April 22, 2024.
https://www.pbs.org > newshour > world > over-40-arrests-made-as-police-clear-pro-palestinian-protests-camps-at-penn-mit
Over 40 arrests made as police clear pro-Palestinian protests camps at …
May 10, 2024World May 10, 2024 11:40 AM EDT. Police made more than 40 arrests as pro-Palestinian protest encampments were dismantled Friday at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of …
https://www.nbcnews.com > news > us-news > hundreds-palestinian-protesters-arrested-campuses-universities-crack-e-rcna149705
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at campuses as colleges …
Apr 28, 2024Pro-Palestinian protesters camp out in tents at Columbia University in New York on Saturday. AP "Thank you, the students of Columbia University," a student said. "We respect you," another said.
https://www.latimes.com > world-nation > story > 2024-05-08 > police-clear-pro-palestinian-protest-camp-and-arrest-33-at-dc-campus-as-mayors-hearing-is-canceled
Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp at George Washington …
May 8, 2024Police arrest over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia, including congresswoman's daughter New York police remove a pro-Palestinian protest camp at Columbia University, arresting dozens …
https://en.wikipedia.org > wiki > 2024_pro-Palestinian_protests_on_university_campuses
2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
A series of occupation protests by pro-Palestinian students occurred at Columbia University in New York City from April to June 2024, in the
The payoff
announced the release of up to $3.3 billion in competitive grant funding from Proposition 1 to expand the behavioral health continuum and provide appropriate care to individuals experiencing mental health conditions and substance use disorders - with a particular focus on people who are most seriously ill, vulnerable, or homeless …
California moves faster to transform mental … - California GovernorGovernor Newsom awards local governments $130 million to create housing …
https://ktla.com > news > california > 3-3b-in-prop-1-funding-allotted-for-seriously-ill-homeless-californians
$3.3B in Prop. 1 funding allotted for seriously ill, homeless …
Jul 17, 2024Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that up to $3.3 billion in competitive grant funding is now available to develop behavioral health treatment centers for Californians who need it most.
https://www.msn.com > en-us > money > markets > gov-newsom-announces-first-33-billion-from-prop-1-mental-health-bond > ar-BB1moLCu
Gov. Newsom announces first $3.3 billion from Prop. 1 mental … - MSN
May 14, 2024Fresh off proposing big cuts to housing and homelessness programs in the face of California's massive budget deficit,
So, like gun false flag attacks, ducks in a row and, voila, $3.3 billion slush fund!
The "workers" of the world are now gonna build back, and even better!
Enjoy the show
#21424428 at 2024-08-16 21:55:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26255: ? Edition
The crowd is AI generated isn't it?
some people in the sunlight and on the left, looks like in the dark or night? The clear definition of that supposed tunnel, doesn't match the background at all.
Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Holds Rally With Running Mate Tim Walz In Arizona
GLENDALE, ARIZONA - AUGUST 09: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena on August 9, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. Kamala Harris and her newly selected running mate Tim Walz are campaigning across the country this week. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/getty Images)
#21417837 at 2024-08-15 21:02:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26247: Trump Holds a Press Conference in Bedminster Edition
>>21417813
2/5
Kamala Harris and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Agenda
CNN - A look at Alpha Kappa Alpha, the legendary sorority repped by Kamala Harris (July 25, 2024)
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/25/us/aka-alpha-kappa-alpha-kamala-harris-cec/index.html
- salmon pink and apple green of Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Howard University,Harris' alma mater
- - "Divine Nine," a group of Black Pan-Hellenic organizations
- Danette Anthony Reed - international president and CEO of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Incorporated
- January 15,1908- Alpha Kappa Alpha founded at Howard University
- - Ethel Hedgemon
- - Anna Easter Brown
- - Beulah Burke
- - Lillie Burke
- - Marjorie Hill
- - Margaret Flagg Holmes
- - Lavinia Norman
- - Lucy Diggs Slowe
- - Marie Woolfolk
- Evelyn Sample-Oates
- Alpha Kappa Alpha incorprated in 1913
- - Nellie Quander
- - Norma Boyd
- - Minnie Smith
"Then in 1921, Alpha Kappa Alpha sent a telegram to President Warren G. Harding, urging the administration to back a bill that would have made
lynching a federal crime, according to AKA's website."
- Mississippi Health Project - 1935-1942
- - aka President Ida Jackson
- - Dr. Dorothy Ferebee
- - "Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority."
- 1938 Norma Boyd - founded a congressional lobbying group
- 1939 -Alpha Kappa Alpha joined the NAACP as a lifetime member
- 1965 - Cleveland Job Corps. (Afro American Newspapers/Gado/getty Images)
- Today (2024) - awarding millions of dollars in scholarships and grants
- luminaries - in politics, law, literature, science
- - Constance Baker Motley - first female attorney for the Legal Defense Fund - wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Ed
- - Sheila Jackson Lee - leading champion of Black American issues in Congress
- - Toni Morrison - Nobel Laureate
- - three Black mathematicians who worked for NASA in the 1950s and were at the center of the film "Hidden Figures"
- - - Katherine Johnson
- - Dorothy Vaughan
- - Mary Jackson
- - - NASA astronaut
- - - Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space
- - Rosa Parks
- - Ella Fitzgerald
- - director Ava DuVernay
- - Ashley Gantt - Florida Rep.
- - CNN's Fredreka Schouten
"…Harris' campaign saw more than 1,500 contributions of exactly $19.08 between Sunday afternoon - when Biden exited the presidential race - and Monday evening, nodding toAKA's founding in 1908."
#21416947 at 2024-08-15 18:16:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26246: "I AM BATMAN" No Soviet Style In US EVER Edition
>>21416784
Hopefully Disney Land and the getty Center
#21413941 at 2024-08-15 02:09:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26242: Multiverse Edition
>>21413885
>>21413922
>>21413931
can see smaler version without the getty watermark here:
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?phrase=andrew%20harnik%20michigan%20kamala&sort=mostpopular&license=rf%2Crm
the watermark comes on when you enlarge it:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/democratic-u-s-presidential-candidate-vice-president-kamala-news-photo/2165786094?adppopup=true
#21413931 at 2024-08-15 02:07:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26242: Multiverse Edition
>>21413922
from getty website
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/democratic-u-s-presidential-candidate-vice-president-kamala-news-photo/2165786094?adppopup=true
>Andrew Harnick the getty photog says he stands by his by his photos
seriously, blow this up to at least 500%, I think you can substantiate the photopshop??
>>21413885
#21413922 at 2024-08-15 02:06:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26242: Multiverse Edition
>>21413885
>>21413885
also, blow up image to like 500%
look at hands and fingers
but really look at bottom right of your scree
where you see the getty image watermark
wgat is all of this
Andrew Harnick the getty photog says he stands by his by his photos
seriously, blow this up to at least 500%, I think you can substantiate the photopshop??
#21411592 at 2024-08-14 18:49:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26239: Jihad Squad Reinstalled? Nov 5 Is Comin MAGAEdition
>>21411519
>>21411500
1) theY wanted to kill trump
2) The want to arrest and jail trump.
3) They want the senators to confirm the election results. taking it away from the state legislators
4) John Brennan and the clowns have already put into a place a plan to cause chaos if he wins by activating the goons, antifa, terrorists and lawfare ..
they are running out of time and panicking.
THIS WILL NOT GO PEACEFUL
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
#21408189 at 2024-08-14 00:43:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26235: Morning Kun Brings The Heat Edition
>>21408113
nope.
read below if you have 10 minutes via link, steel manned with hyperlinks.
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ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
this is serious and they may deploy before election
#21404900 at 2024-08-13 13:01:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26232: Tuesday Morning Melania - Countdown Edition
Democrats Announce Push To Add Overseas Votes In Effort To Pad Swing-State Support
Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Holds Rally With Running Mate Tim Walz In Arizona
(Photo by Andrew Harnik/getty Images)
Daily Caller News Foundation logo
ROBERT SCHMAD
CONTRIBUTOR
August 12, 2024
2:54 PM ET
Democrats will invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in registering and turning out voters living abroad to help the party win crucial swing state elections in November, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Monday.
The $300,000 investment is earmarked for an organization called Democrats Abroad, which works to mobilize members of the Democratic Party living in foreign countries to vote and engage in liberal activism, according to the DNC. Democrats say this is the first time in a presidential election that they have funded voter outreach to the millions of Americans living abroad, only 8% of whom the DNC claims are registered to vote.
https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/12/democrats-overseas-votes-swing-swing-state-support/
#21401291 at 2024-08-13 01:18:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26227: Trump Returns to X! Elon Interview Edition
>>21401225
Musk is promising to spend $160 million just on getting new voters out to vote for Trump
https://archive.is/CecRQ
Inside Elon Musk's Hands-On Push to Win 800,000 Voters for Trump
Billionaire's super PAC has had early stumbles as he tackles national politics in his trademark chaos-be-damned style
EMIL LENDOF/WSJ, getty IMAGES
By Dana Mattioli, Joe Palazzolo and Emily Glazer
Aug. 12, 2024 7:55 am ET
Beginning in the spring, Elon Musk quietly blocked out an hour on Fridays for a new pursuit: national politics.
In weekly meetings, consultants and vendors for a super political-action committee updated him on their progress toward the discussed goal of turning out 800,000 people to vote for Donald Trump in battleground states. They proposed a budget of about $160 million they would need for the task, most of it to come from Musk himself, and talked about raising an army of more than 6,000 canvassers and other workers, according to people familiar with the matter.
#21397667 at 2024-08-12 17:21:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26223: FREE SPEECH HEROES UNITED Edition
>>21397616
>>>>Check out this list of Treasonous Cunts:
Left-wing think tank responsible for thousands of fake Russia stories: new Twitter Files
By Jon Levine
Published Jan. 28, 2023
Updated Jan. 28, 2023, 6:27 p.m. ET
A left-wing think tank erroneously claiming to track Russian online activity was responsible for thousands of bogus stories asserting the nation's influence in US politics, according to the latest batch of Twitter Files.
The Hamilton 68 "dashboard" was the brainchild of former FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor Clint Watts and operated under the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a think tank founded in 2017 - shortly after former President Trump took office.
The ASD Advisory Council included such figures as top Clinton ally John Podesta, Obama-era acting CIA Director Michael Morell, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, and former conservative activist Bill Kristol.
The latest Twitter Files disclosure, the 15th so far, revealed how Hamilton 68's Russian bot dashboard repeatedly insisted there was widespread and deep Russian penetration of social media and unveiled that Twitter executives frequently challenged those claims internally.
I think we need to just call this out on the bulls-t is," Twitter's then-head of trust and safety Yoel Roth wrote in an October 2017 email. "Hamilton dashboard falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots," he added in January 2018.
Emails in the disclosure show that Twitter's own internal audits repeatedly showed that accounts flagged by Hamilton 68 were not Russian bots.
Morell was also on the ASD Advisory Council.Patrick McMullan via getty Imagestty Image
John Podesta
John Podesta was on the ASD Advisory Council.getty Images
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Yoel Roth
Yoel Roth Roth wanted to publicly push back against Hamilton 68.Twitter
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"It was a scam. ... Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts, and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming," wrote Matt Taibbi, who released the latest tranche of files Friday.
Hamilton 68's pronouncements were used to allege a hidden Russian hand in US politics from hundreds, and possibly thousands, of news stories during the Trump years.
While Roth wanted to publicly push back against Hamilton 68, he was warned against taking on the politically connected group by Twitter's then-head of global policy communication, Emily Horne.
"We have to be careful in how much we push back on ASD publicly," she wrote.
The private sector Russia-baiting followed a similar approach from the United States government, which repeatedly demanded the company find Russian influence which its internal audits consistently revealed to be nonexistent, other Twitter Files tranches showed.
In the run-up to The Post's reporting on Hunter Biden, Twitter executives worked in close concert with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other intelligence agencies, where the company was warned to be on guard against foreign hacking operations - specifically surrounding President Biden's son.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/left-wing-think-tank-responsible-for-fake-russia-stories/
#21394346 at 2024-08-12 01:41:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26219: Iron Edition
REPOST - A REMINDER, JOHN BRENNAN AND THE CLOWNS HAVE GAMEPLANNED WHAT TO DO IF DJT WINS THE 2024 ELECTION
ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
It is late afternoon on Inauguration Day 2025. Protesters fill the downtowns of American cities, enraging the newly sworn president. Send in the military, he demands. Invoke the Insurrection Act. Federalize the National Guard in all 50 states. Tell the troops to use all the force they need to clear the streets.
So began one of five tabletop exercises I co-led in May and June, along with former Defense Department official Rosa Brooks and historian Nils Gilman. We based the starting scenarios on the election of former president Donald Trump to a second term, and we asked participants playing the president, all of them Republicans or former Republicans, to base their gameplay on Trump's publicly stated promises.
As a nonpartisan think tank, my employer, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, takes no position on how Americans should cast their votes. Nor do we predict who will win in November. Some of my colleagues are doing scenario planning for a Democratic victory, too.
The role-playing exercises were designed to test how well checks and balances, broadly understood, might restrain a president from abusing his power. The results were not encouraging: The games demonstrated repeatedly that an authoritarian in control of the executive branch, with little concern for legal limits, holds a structural advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
But they point to preparations that could be undertaken now to improve the odds for democracy and the rule of law - and some existing guardrails that might not be widely understood.
Participants in our exercises, 175 in all, included Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, independents and centrists. Many had held senior positions under Trump or a previous president. Among them were former Cabinet secretaries, former governors and state attorneys general, former members of the House and Senate, a retired ambassador, retired flag and general officers, a retired federal appellate judge, labor leaders, faith leaders, grass-roots organizers, members of the Brennan Center staff and C-suite executives.
We gathered twice by videoconference and three times in a hotel conference room outside Washington for six-hour sessions around a large U-shaped table. About 35 players per game were assigned to the Red, Blue or Nonaligned teams. (Those colors do not signify political parties - they are the conventional ones used in government tabletop exercises.) The players announced their moves and countermoves, negotiated, interrupted one another and occasionally shouted over our unflappable controller, Ed McGrady, an experienced game architect.
The starting scenarios did not test policy questions within the ordinary bounds of democratic debate: taxes, regulation, climate change. We focused instead on threats to democracy itself and the institutions that uphold it, such as misuse of regulatory or prosecutorial powers to punish political foes.
None of the exercises left us sanguine. Participants were almost uniformly sobered by the paucity of effective constraints on abuse of power. The exercises showed emphatically that Trump's authoritarian promises, with implementing details in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, pose a profound threat to constitutional government. Defenders of democracy, our participants assessed, must do more than they are doing now to prepare. The exercises suggest that it would not be possible to block every abuse, but there are tools available to deflect, delay and diminish the damage.
continued.
#21394338 at 2024-08-12 01:41:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26219: Iron Edition
>>21394333
getty images
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?family=editorial&page=3&phrase=andrew%20harnik%20kamala%20harris&sort=newest
#21394333 at 2024-08-12 01:39:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26219: Iron Edition
this is a funny picture, it is like they are showing you a future proves past
ahead of time
Kamala and Walz be erased
all other Dem presidents photos on wall
but getty includes this one with Kamala all blurred kek kind of like comms
actual getty images
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?family=editorial&page=3&phrase=andrew%20harnik%20kamala%20harris&sort=newest
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/photographs-of-democratic-u-s-presidents-are-visible-behind-news-photo/2165424660?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/united-automobile-workers-president-shawn-fain-accompanied-news-photo/2165424766?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/democratic-presidential-candidate-u-s-vice-president-kamala-news-photo/2165933269?adppopup=true
#21394293 at 2024-08-12 01:31:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26219: Iron Edition
>>21394062
are these images legit, or altered?
Look at cameras.
getty Images photographer
Andrew Harnick
has also defended his photograph.
'It was a large crowd, and the pictures that I took that are on the
getty website
speak to that,'
he told the Daily Beast.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13733583/Trump-claims-Kamala-Harris-rally-crowd-FAKE-AI-doctored-photo.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/democratic-presidential-candidate-u-s-vice-president-kamala-news-photo/2165587842?adppopup=true
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/an-aide-holds-curtains-closed-just-before-democratic-news-photo/2165585763?adppopup=true
#21393386 at 2024-08-11 23:30:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26218: Apocalympics Finale Edition
CNN covered the Trump posts about Kamala's fake rally pic.
They talked about a Detroit rally. And how they were there with other news. Then they played a short vid showing a small crowd. Then they showed pics from getty. They didn't even show their own pics, even though they were there.
They didn't address the A I issue
#21392303 at 2024-08-11 19:41:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26216: News News News Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/08/harris-campaign-unable-to-address-stolen-valor-accusations-plaguing-tim-walz/
Harris Campaign Unable to Address Stolen Valor Accusations Plaguing Tim Walz
4,184
Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and Democratic vice-presidential nominee, during a campaig
Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via getty
Kristina Wong8 Aug 2024
#21388757 at 2024-08-11 01:55:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26212: Deep Fakes Are Pretty Shallow Edition
Kamala Harris
Harris to attend major San Francisco fundraiser Sunday with Nancy Pelosi
According to a campaign official, the event has sold out with nearly 700 RSVPs, raising more than $12 million for the campaign.
Vice President Kamala Harris at rally in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris at rally in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.Christian Monterrosa / Bloomberg via getty Images
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-attend-major-san-francisco-fundraiser-nancy-pelosi-rcna166114
Motherfu kin" DOIT!
#21351024 at 2024-08-04 22:18:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26166: Time Is Up Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1820222238659948950
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Reversing course, court blocks Arizona proof-of-citizenship voting law
Virginia voting 2024. | getty Images
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#21340439 at 2024-08-02 20:53:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26153: Big Edition
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/kamalas-natsec-adviser-probed-over-ties-to-iranian-influence-network/
National Security
Kamala's NatSec Adviser Probed Over Ties to Iranian Influence Network
'The Biden-Harris Administration is no stranger to Iran accommodators, appeasers, and accomplices,' Cotton and Stefanik write
Philip H. Gordon (Michael Loccisano/getty Images for HBO)
Adam Kredo
July 31, 2024
#21338105 at 2024-08-02 10:53:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26150: Make America Great Again - the SONG! Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/07/29/russia-docks-three-warships-havana-continuing-parade-naval-ships-cuba/
Russia Docks 3 Warships in Havana, Continuing Parade of Naval Ships to Cuba
178
Class frigate Admiral Gorshkov, part of the Russian naval detachment visiting Cuba, leaves
YAMIL LAGE/AFP via getty Images
Christian K. Caruzo29 Jul 2024
#21337682 at 2024-08-02 06:33:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26150: Make America Great Again - the SONG! Edition
>>21337678
>>21337674
ARCHIVING - ALEX SOROS TWEETS THIS OPINE IN THE WASHINGTON POST WITH A CHESS GAME IMAGE OF THE RED KING PIECE !!!
Note: archive from last post. continued in next comment, very long opine article, continued in comments post linked.
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Opinion How to harden our defenses against an authoritarian president
A commander in chief with little concern for legal limits holds a big advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
https://archive.ph/Y2dEn#selection-1239.0-1380.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/30/trump-authoritarian-president-government-defend/
(The Washington Post illustration; photo by Rapeepong Puttakumwong/getty)
By Barton Gellman
July 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, is senior adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice.
It is late afternoon on Inauguration Day 2025. Protesters fill the downtowns of American cities, enraging the newly sworn president. Send in the military, he demands. Invoke the Insurrection Act. Federalize the National Guard in all 50 states. Tell the troops to use all the force they need to clear the streets.
So began one of five tabletop exercises I co-led in May and June, along with former Defense Department official Rosa Brooks and historian Nils Gilman. We based the starting scenarios on the election of former president Donald Trump to a second term, and we asked participants playing the president, all of them Republicans or former Republicans, to base their gameplay on Trump's publicly stated promises.
As a nonpartisan think tank, my employer, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, takes no position on how Americans should cast their votes. Nor do we predict who will win in November. Some of my colleagues are doing scenario planning for a Democratic victory, too.
The role-playing exercises were designed to test how well checks and balances, broadly understood, might restrain a president from abusing his power. The results were not encouraging: The games demonstrated repeatedly that an authoritarian in control of the executive branch, with little concern for legal limits, holds a structural advantage over any lawful effort to restrain him.
But they point to preparations that could be undertaken now to improve the odds for democracy and the rule of law - and some existing guardrails that might not be widely understood.
Participants in our exercises, 175 in all, included Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, independents and centrists. Many had held senior positions under Trump or a previous president. Among them were former Cabinet secretaries, former governors and state attorneys general, former members of the House and Senate, a retired ambassador, retired flag and general officers, a retired federal appellate judge, labor leaders, faith leaders, grass-roots organizers, members of the Brennan Center staff and C-suite executives.
We gathered twice by videoconference and three times in a hotel conference room outside Washington for six-hour sessions around a large U-shaped table. About 35 players per game were assigned to the Red, Blue or Nonaligned teams. (Those colors do not signify political parties - they are the conventional ones used in government tabletop exercises.) The players announced their moves and countermoves, negotiated, interrupted one another and occasionally shouted over our unflappable controller, Ed McGrady, an experienced game architect.
The starting scenarios did not test policy questions within the ordinary bounds of democratic debate: taxes, regulation, climate change. We focused instead on threats to democracy itself and the institutions that uphold it, such as misuse of regulatory or prosecutorial powers to punish political foes.
None of the exercises left us sanguine. Participants were almost uniformly sobered by the paucity of effective constraints on abuse of power. The exercises showed emphatically that Trump's authoritarian promises, with implementing details in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, pose a profound threat to constitutional government. Defenders of democracy, our participants assessed, must do more than they are doing now to prepare. The exercises suggest that it would not be possible to block every abuse, but there are tools available to deflect, delay and diminish the damage.
continued.
#21322536 at 2024-07-30 19:46:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26131: Senate Judiciary on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump Edition
>>21322504
You no getty no coke
#21322324 at 2024-07-30 19:02:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26131: Senate Judiciary on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump Edition
>>21322318
Daily Beast:
I don't care what you think of his politics-former President Donald Trump just struck one of the most iconic poses in U.S. history.
His fist-raised salute of defiance is surely enough to win him re-election to the White House. Especially if the American people have to choose between a doddering incumbent and the man who got to his feet seconds after an assassination attempt and punched the air with blood trickling down his face.
It's impossible to be sure what he was shouting at this stage but it looked like "Fight! Fight! Fight!" At a time when the Democratic Party barely has any fight left, the contrast is astounding.
Make no mistake, the image of a bloodstained Trump standing with one arm aloft instantly takes its place alongside the greatest photos in American history.
As a matter of fact, photo editors from major news organizations are losing sleep over that photo, claiming it's "free PR" for Team Trump and could be used as propaganda. So, they're trying to bury it. It's ironic, isn't it? The media is actively burying actual news because they think it'll help Trump, who nearly died at the hands of a left-wing assassin. In case you hadn't realized it, our media is pure garbage.
Yahoo News:
A photo editor at major news outlet said media outlets should scale back on running the iconic image of former President Donald Trump pumping his fist after surviving an assassination attempt, calling it "free PR" for his reelection bid, according to a report
The unnamed journalist believes the historic photo - showing a bloodied Trump back on his feet moments after a bullet pierced his ear during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday - could be a form of "photoganda" that could "further their agenda, despite the photographers' intent of capturing a news event," Axios reported.
Several photos snapped by Evan Vucci of the Associated Press, Anna Moneymaker of getty and Doug Mills of the New York Times have gone viral.
This likely explains why Google is also burying the "assassination story." It's part of a larger media effort to downplay the incident involving President Trump and sideline that mega-iconic image. Once again, left-wing Big Tech and mainstream media are leveraging their power, influence, and resources to sway the outcome of a national election.
Ted Cruz is now labeling Google as the worst "bad actor" of the bunch and an enemy of democracy and truth. And he's right. These are the real villains.
We simply can't let this happen again. If we don't rein in Big Tech, we're headed for a repeat of 2020.
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#21321935 at 2024-07-30 17:29:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26131: Senate Judiciary on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump Edition
Biden's Political Assault on the Supreme Court
His destructive plan would make the Justices servants of the politics of the day.
The Editorial BoardJuly 29, 2024 at 6:01 pm
Journal Editorial Report: Schumer screams "MAGA!" AOC threatens impeachments. (07/07/24) DREW ANGERER/AFP via getty Images
President Biden on Monday announced his plan to "reform" the Supreme Court, and it's important to understand how radical this political moment is. The President is putting the full weight of the Democratic Party behind an assault on judicial independence and the constitutional order. You might call it an attack on democracy.
"I have overseen more Supreme Court nominations as senator, vice president and president than anyone living today. I have great respect for our institutions and the separation of powers," Mr. Biden said in an essay in the Washington Post justifying his assault. "What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public's confidence in the court's decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach."
***
Never mind the spectacle of a man in public life for 50 years demanding term limits. The "breach" is his. As a Senator in 1987, he helped to defeat the superbly qualified Robert Bork for the Court because Bork endorsed judicial originalism. But the originalists have prevailed in the long run and now have great influence on the Court. This is what infuriates him and his fellow Democrats. So they are now willing to destroy the Court to supposedly save it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-supreme-court-term-limits-code-of-conduct-kamala-harris-donald-trump-53a970a2
#21316842 at 2024-07-29 20:56:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26124: Locked N Loading Edition
What we know about Southport mass stabbing as two children killed
Two children have been killed and nine more injured, six critically, in a "ferocious" knife attack that also injured two adults who were trying to protect them.
Ellen Manning
Mon 29 July 2024 at 2:09 PM GMT-4
Police officers stand guard on Hart Street in Southport, northwest England, on July 29, 2024, following a knife attack. A suspected knife attack in northern England left at least eight people injured, believed to include children, emergency services said.
Police officers stand guard on Hart Street in Southport after a knife attack left two children dead and nine injured, six critically. (getty)
Two children were killed and nine injured - including six who are in a critical condition - after a "ferocious" mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift event at a dance school in Southport.
Two adults are also in a critical condition after the stabbings on Hart Street, north of Liverpool, on Monday morning. Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said on Monday evening: "We believe that the adults who were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who were being attacked."
A 17-year-old, from Banks in Lancashire, who was born in Cardiff, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, police confirmed, but Chief Constable Kennedy said his motivation remains unclear.
What we know
Merseyside Police said officers were called to a property on Hart Street in Southport to reports of a stabbing at around 11.50am on Monday.
One witness told the PA news agency that he called the police to an address behind The Hart Space studios, where a Taylor Swift-themed yoga class for children in school years two to six, aged between six and 11, was taking place.
Police in Southport, Merseyside, where a man has been detained and a knife has been seized after a number of people were injured in a reported stabbing. Eight patients with stab injuries have been treated at the scene and taken to hospitals including Alder Hey Children's Hospital. Picture date: Monday July 29, 2024.
At least eight patients with stab injuries were treated at the scene and taken to hospitals including Alder Hey Children's Hospital. (PA)
Armed police detained a man and seized a knife. The force later said a 17-year-old boy from Banks had been arrested in connection with the stabbings in Southport and the incident was not being treated as terror-related.
North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) treated 11 casualties at what was described as a "devastating scene", with patients taken to hospitals including Alder Hey Children's Hospital, which declared a major incident.
Prime minister Keir Starmer offered his condolences to the victims and their families and friends, saying "the whole country is deeply shocked".
Home secretary Yvette Cooper said she was "deeply concerned at the very serious incident" and had spoken to the Merseyside police and crime commissioner.
At a press conference on Monday evening, Chief Constable Kennedy said: "As a mum and a nana, I can't begin to imagine the pain and suffering that the families of the victims are going through at this moment in time. I wish to send my heartfelt condolences to them."
A Facebook post from PaintPals, which runs group painting experiences, said: 'There will be no classes at The Hart Space until further notice'.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/southport-stabbing-update-attack-police-what-we-know-131827331.html?guccounter=1
#21316805 at 2024-07-29 20:44:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26124: Locked N Loading Edition
>>21316611
Celebrities And The 2004 Olympic Torch Relay
NEW YORK - JUNE 19:
Donald Trump carries the Olympic flame during Day 15 of the Athens 2004 Olympic Torch Relay on June 19, 2004 in New York, New York.
The Olympic flame travels to 34 cities in 27 countries en route to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/donald-trump-carries-the-olympic-flame-during-day-15-of-the-news-photo/50978091
#21308791 at 2024-07-28 10:23:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26115: Mind the Gap Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1817501823038566765
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Renewed calls to end Chicago's sanctuary status ahead of expected migrant surge
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker | Scott Olson /getty Images
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#21296812 at 2024-07-26 15:31:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26100: French Citizens Have Had Enough, Vive La France! Edition
The Lectern Guy??
@lecternleader
Hi, my name is Via getty, and I'm 39 years old. I had 7 goldfish when I was a kid, I put one sock and one shoe on at a time, I drive a Dodge Stratus, pinapple does not belong on pizza, and I'm voting for Trump in 2024.
#21296312 at 2024-07-26 13:33:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26100: French Citizens Have Had Enough, Vive La France! Edition
>>21296146
>https://trevorloudon.com/2020/10/why-is-no-one-except-the-president-calling-out-kamala-harris-communist-ties/
Why Is No One (Except the President) Calling Out Kamala Harris' Communist Ties?
October 14, 2020 12 Comments
Democratic vice presidential nominee and senator from California, Kamala Harris, gestures during the vice-presidential debate in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 7, 2020. (Robyn Beck/AFP via getty Images)
By: Trevor Loudon | The Epoch Times
On Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria" on Oct. 8, President Donald Trump described Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) as a "communist; she's left of Bernie!" The president went on to cite Sen. Harris' views, which are indeed even more extreme than Senators Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) or Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA).
But there's much more compelling evidence to indicate that, yes, Kamala Harris may indeed be communist.
Communist Parents
Harris' parents, her mother Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian cancer researcher, and Donald Harris, a Jamaican economist, were both hard-core leftists.
In the early 1960s, the couple was active in the Berkeley-based Afro-American Association.
According to one former member, Aubrey LaBrie,"Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the heroes of some of us.... We would talk about Black Muslims, the liberation movements going on in Africa, everything."
The group's leader Donald Warden mentored two young Afro-American Association members Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who would go on to found the Black Panther Party in 1966. The Panthers followed a Maoist philosophy and supported communist China. They serve as a model for today's Black Lives Matter movement.
Years later, Warden (by then known as Khalid al-Mansour) would play a role in helping Barack Obama get into Harvard Law School.
In 1975, Donald Harris was recruited to the Stanford University economics department as an open Marxist.
Pro-Communist Boyfriend
After playing at student radical at Howard University, Kamala Harris returned to the Bay Area to launch her legal career. Thirty-year-old Harris formed an eyebrow-raising romantic relationship with then 60-year-oldWillie Brown,a leading California Democrat, soon to become mayor of San Francisco.
Brown helped Harris' career and steered her into a couple of board positions that paid her about $400,000 over 5 years, according to the San Francisco Weekly.
Brown was a long-time communist sympathizer. He was first elected to public officewith the help of the Communist Party USA youth wing. He was funded by Dr. Carlton Goodlett, a communist newspaper owner once awarded the Lenin Prize by the government of the former Soviet Union.
Several years after his affair with Harris, Brown was still openly sponsoring Communist Party fundraisers in the Bay Area while serving as San Francisco mayor.
Today, Brown is widely regarded as one of the Chinese Communist Party's best friends in the Bay Area.
Communist-Affiliated Prot?g?
While serving as the San Francisco district attorney, Harris mentored a young San Francisco activist named Lateefah Simon. After hiring her and helping Simon get through college, Harris introduced her young friend to many influential San Franciscans. Today, Simon serves as president of the leftist Akonadi Foundation and chairs the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) board.
When Harris first met Simon, the younger woman was serving on the board of directors of the Oakland-based Youth Empowerment Center. Every single other board member-Harmony Goldberg, Adam Gold, Cindy Wiesner, and future Obama Green Jobs Czar Van Jones-were members of the Maoist communist group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM).
Gold is today a member of LeftRoots, an affiliate group of America's main pro-China communist party Liberation Road.
Simon is best friends with another LeftRoots member, Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza.
Harris openly supports Black Lives Matter and is still close to Simon and Garza. In turn, Garza is a long-time friend and associate of LeftRoots comrade Alex Tom-a man with close ties to the radical Chinese Progressive Association and the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.
#21292166 at 2024-07-25 20:12:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26094: Painfully Obvious or Willfully Ignorant? Edition
Tsar Nicholas II
Tsar Nicholas II. Image: Laski Diffusion/getty.
Tsar Nicholas II, the last of the Russian Czars, had a frightening experience with globular lightning as a child. He attended an all-night church vigil with his grandfather during a severe thunderstorm. The non-stop lightning and thunder shook the foundation of the church. A strong gust of wind blew out the candles in front of the icons at the altar. Then a brilliant light that looked like fire flew in through the window. The ball of light passed through the church and out a door into a nearby park.
Nicholas was terrified, but his grandfather showed no emotion. The demeanor of his grandfather calmed him, and he felt he shouldn't have been so frightened. When he glanced at his grandfather and saw the smile on his face, he relaxed and never again had a fear of storms.
https://www.historicmysteries.com/science/ball-lightning/738/
#21291353 at 2024-07-25 18:02:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26093: The Dukes of MAGA Edition
>>21291332
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9003181/John-Gilbert-getty-dead-Indian-style-sitting-pose-hotel-bed-laptop.html
John Gilbert getty was found dead in 'Indian style sitting pose' on …
Dec 1, 2020 … … San Antonio, Texas on November 20. He was found in an 'Indian style … This position is known in yoga as the lotus pose (Padmasana).
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John Gilbert getty found dead in hotel room in yoga pose
Dec 2, 2020 … It's known in yoga as the lotus pose. The San Antonio Police Department report, compiled by Officer Rosendo Hoyos, refers to Mr getty as SB1 and …
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#21289698 at 2024-07-25 13:23:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26091: The Night Of The Living Comfefe Edition
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/NEWSMAKER-PROFILE-Kimberly-Guilfoyle-and-James-2924603.php
Kimberly Guilfoyle and James Hammer
He's a gay former Jesuit with a hearty laugh, a by-the-book prosecutor who is fascinated by the Kennedy family.
She's a bespectacled former underwear model who loves animals and prides herself on hard work and her track record in the courtroom.
Together, James Thomas O'Donnell Hammer and Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle will be back in court Wednesday, teaming up to prosecute two San Francisco attorneys in the dog mauling death of Diane Whipple.
The Jan. 26 attack on the 33-year-old lacrosse coach drew nationwide attention, and the case against Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel continues to take bizarre plot twists.
Although just who will defend the couple is up in the air, the task of prosecuting them falls to the unlikely duo of Guilfoyle and Hammer.
Guilfoyle, 32, who favors librarian glasses, wants people to know that she is not some "cupcake."
True, she has been a fashion and lingerie model and hobnobs with the city's elite, being seen with Bill getty and now Supervisor Gavin Newsom. She even has her own smoothie at Juice It! called the Krazy Kimba, a concoction of strawberries, blueberries, apples and frozen yogurt.
#21278147 at 2024-07-23 21:36:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26078: Be Ready Edition
Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos
Files linked to a breach of Diligent Corp. disclosed in 2023
Leidos' clients include Pentagon, Homeland Security and NASA
The documents were believed to have been stolen as part of two breaches of Diligent in 2022.Photographer: Alex Wong/getty Images
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By Charles Gorrivan
July 24, 2024 at 8:41 AM GMT+12
Hackers have leaked internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings Inc., one of the largest IT services providers to the US government, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Leidos recently learned of the issue and believes the documents were stolen in a previously disclosed breach of a Diligent Corp. system it used, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public. Leidos is investigating the issue, the person added.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-23/hackers-leak-documents-from-pentagon-it-services-provider-leidos
#21277099 at 2024-07-23 19:27:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26076: FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT Edition
Donald Trump to visit North Carolina in his first rally since Biden's exit from race
Galen Bacharier
Tue, July 23, 2024 at 4:30 PM GMT+1?3 min read
Former President Donald Trump seen her with Sen. J.D. Vance will rally supporters in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday. It is his first rally since President Joe Biden announced he was dropping his bid for re-election. (Photo by Scott Olson/getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally Wednesday evening in Charlotte, his first major event on the trail since President Joe Biden announced he was dropping his bid for re-election.
Trump, who was previously preparing for a rematch of the 2020 race that he lost, is now almost certain to face Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
His remarks in North Carolina will offer a preview of how he will campaign against the new presumptive Democratic nominee in the months ahead.
The former president's running mate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, has held two rallies in recent days in which he called Harris "a million times worse" than Biden. Trump has echoed that sentiment on his social media website.
"Joe Biden will go down as the Worst President in the history of the United States," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday afternoon. "KAMALA, OUR HORRIBLE & INCOMPETENT BORDER CZAR, WILL BE WORSE!"
https://news.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-visit-north-carolina-153028395.html
#21271145 at 2024-07-22 23:59:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26069: Qomfefe Before The Storm Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1815467515276824594
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: Supreme Court orders New York to respond to Missouri lawsuit over Trump 'lawfare' this week
The Supreme Court Building during a sunny blue sky day on May 2023, in Washington, D.C. | (getty Images)
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#21270493 at 2024-07-22 22:49:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26068: Dorito Guard - Countdown Edition
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House subcommittee releases thousands of hours of new J6 footage
Barry Loudermilk, Washington, D.C., June 24, 2021 | Anna Moneymaker/getty Images
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#21268211 at 2024-07-22 18:02:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26065: 11.3 on the HOT HOT HOT seat 2-Day! Edition
merican industrialist J. Paul getty (1892 - 1976) at Sutton Place, his Tudor manor house in Surrey, 1967. (Photo by David Farrell/getty Images) (David Farrell, 2010 David Farrell)
>>21268185
#21268185 at 2024-07-22 17:58:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26065: 11.3 on the HOT HOT HOT seat 2-Day! Edition
>>21268136
Billionaire getty heir died at Hotel Emma of accidental fentanyl overdose, officials say
Heart conditions also factored into the death of John Gilbert getty in November
American industrialist J. Paul getty (1892 - 1976) at Sutton Place, his Tudor manor house in Surrey, 1967. (Photo by David Farrell/getty Images)
American industrialist J. Paul getty (1892 - 1976) at Sutton Place, his Tudor manor house in Surrey, 1967. (Photo by David Farrell/getty Images) (David Farrell, 2010 David Farrell)
SAN ANTONIO - A billionaire heir was found unresponsive at Hotel Emma on November 20 and officials with the Bexar County Medical Examiners office have officially determined the cause of his death.
John Gilbert getty died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, combined with cardiomyopathy which was complicated by fentanyl toxicity, officials confirmed to KSAT Wednesday. No foul play is suspected in his death.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9003181/John-Gilbert-getty-dead-Indian-style-sitting-pose-hotel-bed-laptop.html
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#21254843 at 2024-07-20 21:46:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26049: Trumpamania Edition
5:10 a.m. EDT, July 15, 2024
Audio forensics suggest as many as three weapons fired at Trump rally
From CNN's Gianluca Mezzofiore and Avery Schmitz
FBI investigators work at the scene of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the day after shots were fired during a campaign rally.
FBI investigators work at the scene of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the day after shots were fired during a campaign rally. Jeff Swensen/getty Images
Forensic analysis suggests that as many as three weapons were fired at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The FBI said Sunday that the shooter acted alone.
The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final "acoustic impulse" was emitted by a possible weapon C, per audio analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate at the same institution.
Audio analysis has also confirmed that the gunman was about 360 to 393 feet from the podium, according to forensics expert Robert Maher.
This conclusion aligns with CNN's analysis that the gunman was on a rooftop 393 to 492 feet from the podium when shots rang out.
The shots exemplify a "crack-pop" sequence, typical when a supersonic bullet passes a microphone, before the "arrival of the corresponding muzzle blast sound," Maher, who teaches audio forensics at Montana State University, told CNN.
The time between these markers places the shooter 110 to 120 meters from the microphone, Maher said, assuming the bullet is moving at an average speed of 800 to 1,000 meters per second, the equivalent of 2,600 to 3,280 feet per second.
CNN's Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez,
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-rally-shooting-07-14-24#h_e3b77ce122987eb5d2059a2dff21a270
#21250565 at 2024-07-20 08:35:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26044: We Are Blessed Edition
The Department of Health has confirmed it has sequenced cases of the new LB.1 coronavirus variant. Source: AAP / Joe Castro
KEY POINTS
A new COVID-19 variant, which experts say could be more transmissible, is circulating in Australia.
They say the new variant doesn't appear to cause more severe symptoms than previous, similar variants.
And Australia could be nearing a winter peak in COVID-19 cases, an expert says.
A new coronavirus variant, LB.1, is circulating in Australia - and experts warn it could spread faster than previous variants.
A Department of Health spokesperson said there had been confirmed cases of LB.1 in Australia. However, the JN.1 variant (and related KP.2 and KP.3 variants) remained responsible for the majority of new infections over the period 7 May to 11 June.
FLiRT and FLUQE variants, also known as KP.2 and KP.3, attracted attention earlier this year. LB.1 is similar, but different. Epidemiologists are referring to it as D-FLiRT because of changes to spike proteins (the part of the virus that allows it to invade human cells)
"Although LB.1 is almost certainly more transmissible than KP.2, it doesn't appear to be outperforming KP.3 and its descendants," Professor Adrian Esterman, chair of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of South Australia, told SBS News.
"All of these descendants of JN.1 appear to have similar severity. Oral antivirals will still work against LB.1, and our current vaccines will still give some (but reduced) cross-immunity."
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Experts say the new variant doesn't appear to cause more severe symptoms than previous, similar variants. Source: getty / Westend61/getty Images/Westend61
In the United States, KP.2 and KP.3 variants made up the majority of new cases at 37 per cent and 24 per cent respectively over the two weeks to 6 July, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Nowcast estimates. LB.1 was responsible for an estimated 15 per cent of infections, with other variants making up the remainder.
Why is LB.1 being referred to as D-FLiRT?
The acronym D-FLiRT comes from the technical names of the different variants' mutations, one of which includes the letters F and L and another of which includes the letters R and T.
The D refers to a "missing piece," said Paul Griffin, an infectious disease physician and clinical microbiologist at the University of Queensland.
"It's got an extra deletion on the spike protein and that additional change means that our recognition by our immune system is a bit less, and therefore gives the variant an opportunity to spread a bit more easily," he said.
"Whenever the spike protein changes, it means that our protection from past infection or vaccination is reduced and therefore they become a bit more transmissible," he said.
Has Australia reached a peak in COVID-19 cases?
Griffin said Australia appeared to be nearing a peak in coronavirus cases this winter. But he added that it's hard to tell how future cases will track and whether the new variant will cause a new wave of infections.
"We had a large wave of COVID activity and that does seem to be stalling, but there is still quite a lot (of COVID) at the moment," he said.
"It's problematic because it's overlapping significantly with our flu season. And we've also still got other things like mycoplasma and whooping cough going around, so it does mean there's lots of people with respiratory infections at the moment."
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D-FLiRT was first detected in the US in March, and the CDC says there are no signs so far that the new LB.1 variant is causing more severe disease in COVID-19 patients.
FLiRT, FLUQE and D-FLiRT have descended from JN.1, a variant that rose to prominence in late 2023 and became the dominant form of COVID-19 in Australia.
The most recent COVID-19 surveillance reports of Australia's two most populous states - NSW and Victoria - published over the past week found COVID-19 cases appeared to be declining.
COVID-19 cases admitted to hospitals also appear to be declining, according to Australia's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). The seven-day average on 9 July was 53 cases, down from 107 a week earlier.
However, there can be delays in reporting to the NNDSS, and it does not include data from NSW hospitals.
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#21246067 at 2024-07-19 18:39:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26038: Digital Warriors:Fam Is Fam Bye Bye ByeDen, RIP Dobbs Edition
>>21245988
https://www.the-express.com/tech/tech-news/143657/crowdstrike-glitch-microsoft-it-outage-latest
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Crowdstrike glitch 'could take weeks to fix' after system failure 'double whammy'
EXCLUSIVE: A widespread Microsoft outage disrupted flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world on Friday.
By AURORA BOSOTTI
07:36 ET, Fri, Jul 19, 2024 | UPDATED: 09:23 ET, Fri, Jul 19, 2024
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Global IT Outage Affects Airlines, Banks And Retailers
The mass IT outage has left thousands stranded across the globe as airlines struggle to operate (Image: getty)
The ongoing IT outage that has struck dozens of companies around the world in recent hours could actually take weeks to fix, according to an expert.
Millions of people on multiple continents have had their plans thrown into chaos today followin update to a product from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike that has been impacting Windows PC.
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Computer Care's director of technology Simon Pardo told The Express: "An IT failure double whammy has brought the world to its knees this morning, and the ongoing chaos will be costing businesses billions of pounds every hour.
"Two separate problems have struck at the same time, with issues hitting Microsoft's 365 services, and an update from anti-malware product Crowdstrike that is pushing computers into a blue screen of death.
"Updates should always be thoroughly tested before they are pushed out to users, and it's hard to know whether this is human error or a failure of process."
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The outage has affected businesses operating with Microsoft services (Image: getty)
He noted that while Microsoft services have been slowly returning online, the wider problem could leave businesses facing weeks of disruption.
Mr Pardo continued: "Unfortunately, there is not a huge amount you can do if your computer has the blue screen of death.
"Computer users will need to wait for their IT team to resolve the issue, and many people may need to work from their phone or use a pen and paper in the meantime.
"This is a wake-up call for all the companies that have been floored by this attack. Organizations need to urgently review their disaster recovery plans to make sure they can deal with such problems."
Cybersecurity experts have warned the ongoing outage highlights a "critical" weakness.
On Friday morning, major delays reported at airports grew, with most attributing the problems in booking systems of individual airlines.
In the U.S., the FAA said the airlines United, American, Delta and Allegiant had all been grounded.
Airlines and railways in the U.K. were also affected, with longer than usual waiting times.
With athletes and spectators arriving from around the world for the Paris Olympics, the city's airport authority said its computer systems were not affected by the outage, but that disruptions to airline operations was causing delays at two major Paris airports. The Paris Olympics organizers said the outage affected their computer systems and the arrival of some delegations and their uniforms and accreditations had been delayed.
#21240928 at 2024-07-19 03:52:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26032: Final Countdown RNC Day 4 Edition
Archaeologists with a reconstruction of the Jamestown cannibalism victim. (The Washington Post/getty Images)
Many people might think of cannibalism in distant history and undeveloped countries. But cannibalism was a feature of early American history too.
In 2013, archaeologists revealed they'd found evidence of cannibalism in Colonial Jamestown - an indication of just how desperate early Colonial life had been. Specifically, they discovered markings on the skull of a 14-year-old girl that strongly indicated she'd been eaten by settlers during the particularly difficult winter of 1609.
It was more concrete evidence for something historians had read stories about for years. As Howard Zinn excerpted in A People's History of the United States, one government report painted a grim picture of that winter:
Driven thru insufferable hunger to eat those things which nature most abhorred, the flesh and excrements of man as well of our own nation as of an Indian.
There are many horrifying examples of cannibalism in Europe throughout history. But one of the most bizarre is that cannibalism was occasionally seen as a remedy. To pick one example, in Germany from the 1600s to 1800s,executioners often had a bizarre side job that supplemented their income: selling leftover body parts as medicine.
Apothecaries regularly stocked fat, flesh, and bone
As described in Kathy Stuart's Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts, human fat was sold as a remedy for broken bones, sprains, and arthritis. Usually, this human fat was rubbed as a balm, not eaten. However, apothecaries regularly stocked fat, flesh, and bone, and there are also examples of a human skull being ground into a fine powder and mixed with liquid to treat epilepsy.
That treatment may sound strange, but remember that eating placenta has become a modern-day health fad. Most of the time, the popular verdict on cannibalism is clear - don't do it. But occasionally, what's cannibalism and what isn't has been surprisingly hard to define.
https://www.vox.com/2015/2/17/8052239/cannibalism-surprising-facts
#21208252 at 2024-07-15 06:29:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25992: Never let the bastards get you down Edition
>>21208232
Thot u were kiddin. kek
'Trump Wins Big' Meme Stock Surges in China
Software firm Wisesoft limit up as name implies Trump victory
Move latest example of speculation in retail-dominated market
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pic: News of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump shown on a screen in Beijing on July 14.Photographer: Greg Baker/AFP/getty Images
#21203752 at 2024-07-14 19:32:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25986: THE TIMELINE IS YOURS TO PRAY INTO Edition
>>21203548
Canada #60 >>21200341
John Solomon
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Mississippi congressman's field director says 'don't miss next time'
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#21200699 at 2024-07-14 13:12:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25982: We WILL Fight Sir EBAKE Edition
>>21200691 cont.
There is going to be a BIG biblical scenario where they make out it's WW3 but really they are activating Militaries then bombing all of these Satanic Luceriferian landmarks. Enacting GESARA funds and We The People rebuild.
THE EVENT. IT IS BIBLICAL.
What are some of the Very BIG Satanic Illuminati landmarks in the world? Q showed us them. Vatican, Buckingham Palace, Whitehouse x 2 (USA, Germany), 3GD in China. Cern on the Swiss/French Border possible.?
Big Pharma in Wuhan = Israel
Israel/Khazarians controls CCP.
The Media etc
34 Satanic Buildings and Dams will Fall. Rods of God/DEW
WORLDWIDE?
Planes & Trains grounded
Lights/Power switched off
Changing over to Tesla Free energy
Bitcoin Servers/Data Center hit and turned off for good.
99.5% of Crypto gone China Coins. Enter ISO20022 Coins backed by Precious Metals.
WW3 Scare Event. Nuke Sirens
Water Event
Stock Market Crash
Global Martial Law
CASTLE ROCK -Scenario Julian Assange.
Quantum Systems. Project Odin Switched on.
Nesara/Gesara/RV
Election Flipping via Military Courts - FISA
Military Tribunals/confessions/10 day movie - 3 ? 8 hr sessions.
10 countries will be running EBS to cover the whole World.
Reveals.
Inauguration
The ISRAELI MOSSAD control the WORLD's MEDIA out of the US.
Attached is Q1871 outlining this.
Project Odin as mentioned by Ron CodeMonkeyz is a POWERFUL Anti-Deplatforming Tool.
Project Odin is part of Quantum Starlink. Our new Quantum Systems are to be protected by Secret Space Programs out of the Cabal's reach.
Q2337 tells you Mossad Media Assets will be removed. Think people like Alex Jones, Anderson Cooper etc and also Mossad Satellites.
Israeli intelligence - stand down.
[TERM_3720x380-293476669283001]
Media assets will be removed.
This part of 2527 tells you that something powerful is going to knock out Mossad Media Satellites. This will blackout the media worldwide, Switch us over to the Quantum Systems. This is PROJECT ODIN. All in All give the reason to Activate the Military EBS.
If you look up the TURKSAT Rocket that launched from the USA in January you will see it was specifically for MILITARY COMMS to peoples TV's & RADIO's in AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA.
THE EVENT has many facets too it.
The WorldWide Blackout to change over to TESLA Energy. Knocking out Media Satellites, QFS, Rods of God on Dams & 34 Buildings & much much more.
34 Buildings will be in the EVENT.
They are very significant.
Ie Whitehouse, Royal Castles, Buckingham Palace, Vatican, getty Museum, Playboy Mansion and the like.
This will surely make the Stock Market collapse as will Precision Cyber linked to Executive Orders 13818 & 13848. It is all a show.
Swapping from Rothschild's Central Bank Notes to Rainbow Treasury Notes now backed by Precious Metals (Not Oil/Wars)
Are we still comfy?
Or are we scared?
A little bit of both is normal.
Trump keeps his promises.
Have faith in the Lord Our God.
He will comfort you through the storm.
Who saw in January up to 10 countries at once have their power all turned off by the Space Force?
Just before that Israel had that happen for 30 mins too.
If they can turn 10 at once off all together. They can do the whole lot. Welcome to Tesla.
BLACKOUT NECESSARY.
Have a look at all the Global Military "Exercises" now being put in place.
Its all happening in front of you.
It's the largest GLOBAL MILITARY Operation in Planet Earths History.
Transition to Gesara/Greatness.
Now they just have to play out a fake WW3 scenario to ring sirens in every National Military Command Center.
This is to justify to the Whole Entire Planet many things that have been taking place already. The fact that Gesara Military Law has been in place. The Secret Military Tribunals, Confessions etc. The executions the lot. And like all
militaries normally do they will help build new things.
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#21200256 at 2024-07-14 12:07:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25982: We WILL Fight Sir EBAKE Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1812428288041615516
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Mississippi congressman's field director says 'don't miss next time'
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#21190632 at 2024-07-13 16:41:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25969: Orban in Charge of NATO; Ditches Mtg to See Trump Instead! Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/10/exclusive-ron-johnson-u-s-airports-risk-being-exploited-avenue-for-illegal-immigration-terrorism-under-biden/
Exclusive-Ron Johnson: U.S. Airports Risk Being 'Exploited Avenue for Illegal Immigration, Terrorism' Under Biden
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#21187361 at 2024-07-12 23:05:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25965: Scarlett Johansson Edition
>>21187298
Snow White
Mike Pence and the art of staying clean
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 22: US Vice President Mike Pence laughs during a press conference at Kirribilli House on April 22, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. Mr Pence will meet with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, and members of the US and Australian militaries during his two-day visit. It is the first time a US Vice President has come to Australia before a President in nearly 30 years. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/getty Images)
"All the contact by the Trump campaign and associates were with the American people," he told Fox News Sunday that same day.
Recognizing the legal stakes ahead, Pence has hired a prominent lawyer, Richard Cullen, a former Virginia attorney general and U.S. attorney under President George H.W. Bush. But still unclear is how the vice president will pay for the help.
Pence is hardly wealthy. As vice president, he's making $230,700 a year, which comes on top of his May 2017 financial disclosure that show he was making $109,749 a year as Indiana governor, along with three state pensions for retirement. His wife had no income and his own bank account had between $1,001 and $15,000. Pence also had at least $105,000 in student loan debt for his children's education.
Jarrod Agen, who recently got a promotion from communications director to deputy chief of staff, said Pence had ruled out using taxpayer funds or money raised through his political action committee to pay for his lawyer.
Legal experts say they don't think Pence's legal bills have gotten too big at this early stage of the process. To start, Pence likely has provided documents to his lawyer but hasn't spent much time preparing to give testimony or answer questions under oath. "You can get to $10,000 real quick and even $50,000. But I don't see Pence as incurring some huge legal bill," Jeffress said.
Pence has made one significant move that could signal an awareness of the perilous political path ahead. He recently replaced his longtime aide and chief of staff Josh Pitcock with Ayers, a 34-year-old Republican operative from Georgia who was a top Pence aide during the 2016 campaign.
The move seemed to show that, in Trump's Washington, there's more of a premium on the skills of a political knife-fighter than a policy wonk. Trump's White House, after all, does remain under a state of siege over the Russia probe, and the talk that the president could fire Mueller prompted Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to recently warn that such a move could be the "beginning of the end" of the Trump administration.
Pence is not, however, in an entirely unprecedented position.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/12/trump-russia-pence-staying-clean-241545
#21178464 at 2024-07-11 13:39:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25955: RUST Never Sleeps Edition
getty
Geddy
>>21178318
#21169325 at 2024-07-09 22:42:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25944: MEME ME UP SCOTTY Edition
Morning frens
FILE PHOTO: Palestinians hold out their empty containers to be filled with food, distributed by charity organizations, behind bars since they are unable to obtain basic food supplies due to the embargo imposed by Israeli forces in Rafah, Gaza. ? Abed Zagout / Anadolu via getty Images
#21165688 at 2024-07-09 09:10:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25940: Keeping The Lights On Edition
>>21165686
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/
How eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom's …
Sep 7, 2018 … The gettys. One of the richest families in the United States. You've heard of them. … Billionaire founder of the getty Oil Company and the J.
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#21156398 at 2024-07-07 22:29:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25929: BIDEN CRIME FAMILY Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/07/07/rob-reiner-turns-on-biden-its-time-for-him-to-step-down-stop-fking-around/
Rob Reiner Turns on Biden: It's Time for Him to Step Down - 'Stop F**king Around'
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#21148127 at 2024-07-06 12:41:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25920: Long Stick Goes Boom Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1809529216322416832
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Outmigration cost California $24B in departed incomes as poorer people move in
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#21144058 at 2024-07-05 19:21:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25915: It Never Gets Easier, You Just Get Better Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#21138727 at 2024-07-04 19:06:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25909: REPUBLIC vs DEMOCRACY anons know Edition
>>21138693
Godfather III?
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#21136391 at 2024-07-04 09:52:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25907: Happy Fourth Anons! Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1808678813959688344
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Updated: Federal judge cites SCOTUS Chevron ruling when halting HHS rule on gender identity discrimination
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#21131157 at 2024-07-03 10:46:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25900: Pendulum Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1808199869791687066
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: Whistleblower Bombshell: FBI supervisor alleges bureau improperly pulling conservative agents' security clearances
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#21128638 at 2024-07-02 21:39:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25898: Common Denominator Edition
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#21128469 at 2024-07-02 21:01:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25898: Common Denominator Edition
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Project Bluebird
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MK-Ultra
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Operation Chaos
Operation Gladio
Operation Mockingbird
Operation Paperclip
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Operation Ranch Hand
Operation Popeye
(Doomsday Project)
Cointelpro
Operation Project Seal
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Project Woodpecker
Project Stagate - Grill Flame, Sun Streak
Operation Cloverleaf
Operation Fishbowl
Project Bluebook
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Musical Control ( Rockefeller )
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Jekyll Island
The creation of the Federal Reserve
Fiat currency
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd
Agartha
Flouridation effects
Agenda 21
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Monsanto
Aspartame
The getty Research Institute
B G H (Bovine growth hormone)
Rothschild's family history
Albert Pike
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Council of Foreign Relations (CFR)
Committee of 300
13 families
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The Bush family's business dealings
General Wesley Clark
Bill Cooper
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Nibiru (Planet X)
Ninth Circle Cult
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Council of 13
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Library of Alexandria
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Emperor Constantine
Bloodlines of the Illuminati
Freemasonry
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Jesuits
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D.U.M.B.S
Phil Schneider
Protocols of the learned Elders of Zion
Tavistock Institute
Frankfurt subversion techniques
Fabian society
Satanic ritual abuse
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788 - 790 Finchley Road, Hampstead
Christchurch Primary School, Hampstead
The Samson Option
#21128110 at 2024-07-02 19:55:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25897: No Trump On Epstein List, Weathering The Storm... Edition
Democrats hope Gavin Newsom can replace Biden
- but do they know about the sleazy California Governor's infidelities, addiction, TEENAGE lover… and why allies say he 'doesn't have real friends'?
Sprawled languidly on an ornate silk rug in the palatial home of oil-heiress Ann getty for a 2004 magazine shoot, San Francisco's new Mayor and his glamorous wife looked entirely deserving of the Harper's Bazaar headline: 'The New Kennedys'.
Clearly, the couple thought the glossy fashion mag's Camelot comparison fitting, too.
'Do I think he could be President?' San Francisco's First Lady wondered aloud. 'Absolutely, I'd gladly vote for him.'
Whether she still might two decades later seems distinctly unlikely even if the question is, ironically, suddenly more relevant than ever.
For she is Kimberly Guilfoyle, now fianc?e of Donald Trump Jr and a MAGA campaign stalwart. And he is Gavin Newsom, now the uber-progressive Governor of California and looking all the more likely to be the man who may yet run against Trump in this year's presidential election.
For while Newsom publicly insists he is nothing more than an articulate surrogate for Joe Biden - readily telling reporters in Atlanta after the president's disastrous debate performance on Thursday night that, 'I will never turn my back on [him]' - his private ambitions are no secret. …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13589623/Gavin-Newsom-replace-Biden-California-Governor-infidelities-addiction-teenage-lover.html
#21127419 at 2024-07-02 17:19:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25896: Tuesday Morning Melania - Countdown Edition
>>21127328
Newsome / getty / Child trafficking
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#21126693 at 2024-07-02 13:35:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25895: Two Steps From Hell, We are Winning Edition -
>>21126656
>Heidi Fleiss
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/florida-prosecutors-knew-epstein-raped-teenage-girls-2-years-before-cutting-deal-transcript-shows/
Jeffrey Epstein document dump: Prosecutors told financier raped girls as young as 14, cut deal anyway
Florida prosecutors heard testimony that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein raped teenage girls, but cut a plea deal with him in 2008 anyway, according to newly released court transcripts.
The 150-page transcript of the 2006 grand jury investigation reveals that the court heard testimony about Epstein sexually assaulting girls as young as 14 inside his Palm Beach mansion.
The victims also testified and told detectives that they were paid to find Epstein more girls to assault in a harrowing case that ended with the pedophile sentenced to less than two years in prison after taking a plea deal.
Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about how the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal. AP
Florida Circuit Judge Luis Delgado, who released the pages on Monday, warned that the transcript would likely outrage anyone who read them.
"The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people," Delgado wrote in his order.
"The testimony taken by the Grand Jury concerns activity ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape - all of the conduct at issue is sexually deviant, disgusting and criminal."
"The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people," Judge Luis Delgado wrote in his order.
The transcripts show that Palm Beach Police Detective Joe Recarey began the investigation against Epstein in March 2005, when a woman reported that her stepdaughter had received $300 in exchange for "sexual activity with a man in Palm Beach."
Another teenager then told detectives that when she was 17 years old, a friend told her she could make $200 by providing a massage at Esptein's home.
When the teen got to Epstein's home, she told investigators that Esptein demanded she remove her clothes and massage him, according to Recarey's testimony.
Detective Joe Recarey testified in July 2006 that the initial investigation began when a woman reported in March 2005 that her stepdaughter said she received $300 in exchange for "sexual activity with a man in Palm Beach."
When he tried touching her, the teenager told him she was uncomfortable.
Epstein then told the girl he would pay her if she brought other "girls" to his home, stressing that they be young.
"And he told her, 'The younger, the better,'" Recarey said.
Epstein told her that the friend was too old. Over time, the teen brought six friends from her high school over to Epstein's home, including a 14-year-old girl, Recarey said. Tribune News Service via getty Images
Over time, the teenager told detectives she brought six friends from her high school to Epstein's home, including a 14-year-old girl.
She added that when she brought over a 23-year-old friend, Epstein refused and told her that the woman was too old.
The teen allegedly received $200 every time she brought a friend over, as well as a rental car paid by Epstein.
"The more you did, the more money you made," Recarey testified. "She explained that there was going to be a massage or some possible touching, and you would have to provide the massage either topless or naked."
Recarey noted that the 17-year-old who recruited girls for Esptein likened herself to "Hollywood Madame" Heidi Fleiss, who ran a notorious prostitution ring in Los Angeles in the 1990s.
The disturbing testimony has put a renewed spotlight on the 2008 deal federal prosecutors cut with Epstein that has been widely slammed as being too lenient.
Epstein in 2018 was charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in New York - where he also had a mansion that was a scene of abuse - after the Miami Herald published a series of articles that renewed public attention on the case. Tribune News Service via getty Images
The deal allowed Esptein to escape severe federal charges by pleading guilty to state charges of procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution.
For a decade afterwards, Epstein would go on to create more victims before he was charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in New York in 2018.
Epstein, 66, was found dead inside a New York City jail cell in August 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.
Delgado, who had previously set up a hearing to discuss how and when to release the transcripts next week, decided to release the papers on Monday, the earliest date allowed following Gov. Ron DeSantis' order in February.
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#21123946 at 2024-07-02 00:42:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25892: #GoodbyeDemocrats Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1807743746223542345
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
New evidence shows Hunter Biden leveraged father's policy position for business with wealthy Greeks
BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 04: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden waves as he walks out of Air Force Two with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden and son Hunter Biden (R) on December 4, 2013 in Beijing, China. | Photo by Ng Han Guan-Pool/getty Images
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#21114281 at 2024-06-30 09:54:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25881: Is Jill Biden the new Edith Wilson? Watch The Wive$ Edition
https://www.nxsttv.com/nmw/news/38-dogs-close-to-drowning-saved-by-fishermen-from-mississippi-lake/
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38 dogs, close to drowning, saved by fishermen from lake
A trio of fishermen in Mississippi had quite the catch - 38 dogs. (getty)
by: The Associated Press
Posted: Jun 29, 2024 / 10:00 PM PDT
Updated: Jun 29, 2024 / 10:00 PM PDT
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By the time fishermen spotted the first head bobbing above the water, the 38 dogs were exhausted and struggling to stay alive.
The hound dogs had plunged into a large Mississippi lake while chasing a deer, a diversion during a fox hunt. Bob Gist, who was fishing on the lake, knew they had no chance.
"A deer can swim the Mississippi River, and those dogs are not going to catch a deer in the water," he recalled Friday.
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They weren't going to survive, either, Gist and the others realized - unless someone acted right away. The insurance agent from Jonesboro, Arkansas, along with friend Brad Carlisle and guide Jordan Chrestman, headed over in their small boat.
"There were dogs everywhere," Gist said. "They were kind of swimming in circles and didn't know which direction to go."
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As the dogs' frantic owners watched from the shore, the three men started grabbing whatever dogs they could. There were too many to all fit on the bass boat, so three trips to shore were needed.
A photo Gist took during the rescue shows Carlisle standing and grinning in mirrored sunglasses, with more than a half-dozen of the hound dogs perched on the bow. Numbers from the fox hunt are painted on their sides.
Other dogs are standing behind the seats - two of them calmly looking ahead as Chrestman, beside them, steers.
"The hero here is Jordan," Gist said, as the guide had recognized the danger and sped the boat over. "If it wasn't for Jordan, there would have been 38 dead dogs."
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The dogs had probably been in the water for about 15 or 20 minutes by then, Gist said. Some of them were so worn out that the men had to reach into the water and lift their heads out. Each dog was then heaved aboard.
By the time the last were rescued, they had been in the water for 45 minutes to an hour, Gist said.
Dogs, especially when hunting, can "follow game relentlessly, as in this case," said Chris Gurner, a natural resource specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which patrols Grenada Lake - but he called it rare for them to go that far from shore. Even though they were on a fox hunt, it's not unusual for the dogs to go after any animal that startled them, he said.
"Opportunities to help somebody are in front of us all the time," Gist said. "Sometimes if you see something, do something."
#21111316 at 2024-06-29 20:02:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25877: Locus Illis Qui Fodere Desinunt Edition
https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/covid-19-pandemic-public/2024/06/28/id/1170523/
The coronavirus pandemic that swept across the globe in 2020 and 2021 may have claimed its most significant victim yet - public faith in established health authorities' ability to provide reliable information and guidance.
Post-Fauci: Rampant Mistrust of Pandemic Health Edicts
Dr. Anthony Fauci has become a central figure in COVID-19 response amid growing public skepticism over the credibility of health authorities. (getty Images)
By Andrew Shirley | Friday, 28 June 2024 08:27 AM EDT
#21111281 at 2024-06-29 19:56:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25877: Locus Illis Qui Fodere Desinunt Edition
>>21111231
the tooth, tooth, tooth……
>>21111260
https://people.com/human-interest/john-gilbert-getty-cause-of-death/
John Gilbert getty Died from Complications of Accidental Fentanyl …
Jan 27, 2021 … The office said the manner of death is accidental, and the news was first reported by TMZ. getty's death in San Antonio on Nov. 20 was confirmed …
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#21108995 at 2024-06-29 08:17:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25874: Comfy Weekend Shift Engaged Edition
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/28/how-trump-did-debate-new-rules-00165694
Column | Fourth Estate
How Trump Shockingly Thrived With the New Debate Rules
Without the freewheeling atmosphere of previous debates, Trump looked controlled, and Biden looked weak.
Donald Trump speaks at a lectern.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections on Thursday. | Christian Monterrosa/AFP via getty Images
By Jack Shafer
06/28/2024 01:05 AM EDT
#21103434 at 2024-06-28 13:16:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25867: Lights - Camera - Action - Rolling Thunder: John Kennedy Lives Edition
Donald Trump is just a jew dick sucker. He is the Hack too girl for jewish dick. He won't achieve anything towards solving the real problems
Biden is like a 'Palestinian' - Trump
The former US president accused his successor of failing to help Israel "finish the job" against Hamas
Biden is like a 'Palestinian' - Trump
US President Joe Biden ? getty Images / Anadolu; Kyle Mazza
US President Joe Biden has acted "like a Palestinian" in his approach to the Israeli-Hamas conflict by failing to help the Jewish state eliminate the Gaza-based militant group, Donald Trump claimed during Thursday's first US presidential debate.
During a foreign policy segment of the CNN-moderated face-off between the two top contenders for the US presidency that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, Trump criticized Biden for failing on multiple fronts, including in his handling of the conflict in Gaza.
Biden stated that he had secured an across-the-board agreement for a three-stage plan to end the war in Gaza, which he claimed has been endorsed by "everyone from the United Nations Security Council, straight through the G7 to the Israelis and [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu."
"The only one who wants the war to continue is Hamas," Biden said.
Trump, however, claimed that his opponent was wrong to think that Hamas is "the only one who wants to keep going" and suggested that Israel is "the one that wants to go." The former president insisted that Washington should have long allowed the Jewish State to "finish the job" against the Palestinian militants.
"He doesn't want to do it. He's become like a Palestinian," Trump said of Biden. "But they don't like him because he's a very bad Palestinian. He's a weak one."
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Biden admitted that his administration has withheld one shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel but argued that these munitions "don't work very well in populated areas" and "kill a lot of innocent people."
However, he claimed that his government had provided Israel with all other kinds of weapons and had "saved Israel," proving the US to be the "biggest producer of support for Israel than anyone in the world."
"We'll continue to send our experts and our intelligence people so that they get Hamas like we did Bin Laden," the president proclaimed, suggesting that Hamas has already been "greatly weakened" and "should be eliminated."
Israel declared war on Hamas after the Palestinian militant group launched a surprise attack on the south of the country, taking over 200 hostages and leaving more than 1,200 dead. The military campaign has inflicted widespread destruction in Gaza; more than 37,000 have been killed during the months of fighting, according to the enclave's health ministry.
#21091669 at 2024-06-26 22:12:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25854: Buy Done and/or New Scum Edition
Avlon wins competitive Democratic primary on Long Island
The former CNN anchor will face a tight general election that could help decide the makeup of the House.
John Avlon stands at a podium.
Former CNN anchor John Avlon won the Democratic primary in a battleground Long Island district on Tuesday. | Noam Galai/getty Images for FairVote
By EMILY NGO and JOE ANUTA
06/25/2024 10:25 PM EDT
Updated: 06/25/2024 10:47 PM EDT
NEW YORK - Former CNN host John Avlon triumphed over chemist and professor Nancy Goroff on Long Island Tuesday, clinching the Democratic nomination to face off this fall against GOP Rep. Nick LaLota in a battleground district.
The primary in the suburbs east of New York City had devolved in recent weeks into a bitter battle between a newcomer in Avlon, who dominated local Democratic endorsements, and a second-time candidate in Goroff with connections in the district. Voters can expect another nasty race to come as Avlon targets LaLota for his support for and from former President Donald Trump.
"I'm not going to let Nick LaLota play the same old game we've seen here on Long Island, Suffolk County of pretending to be moderate at home and then voting MAGA in Washington," Avlon said in his victory speech Tuesday.
Avlon, who had campaigned on a pledge to protect democracy and work across party lines, has insisted that his November race against LaLota will be more competitive than handicappers have acknowledged thus far. The seat in an economically diverse swath of eastern Long Island that former President Donald Trump would have narrowly carried. And LaLota, while still a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee target, is viewed as the least vulnerable of New York's battleground Republicans.
Every seat is crucial, however, with the Empire State as a key to Democrats' quest to win back the House majority. And the name recognition Avlon has from CNN and the skills he has honed as a commentator could be an asset to Democrats come fall.
LaLota, like Goroff, has already taken to portraying Avlon as a part-time resident of the Hamptons with too few ties to the community he seeks to represent. The Republican freshman especially delights in ridiculing Avlon for the times he said "in Long Island," rather than the more colloquial "on Long Island."
Goroff, who ran for the 1st Congressional District in 2020, had been eager for another shot to flip the seat. She loaned her campaign $1.2 million in the final month of the primary and went increasingly negative in her attacks on Avlon.
The organic chemist and community advocate insisted that the work she has done over the course of her career throughout Suffolk County made her better known to voters there.
While Goroff had key endorsements from EMILYs List, J Street, 314 Action Fund and others, it was Avlon who was the pick of local Democratic officials.
The author and former journalist had support from Reps. Tom Suozzi, Greg Meeks and Dan Goldman, and Long Island Democratic mainstays Jay Jacobs, the state party chair, and former Rep. Steve Israel.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/25/avlon-wins-competitive-dem-primary-on-long-island-00165002
Now we don't only have ex CIA in Congress, we have fake news representatives. We have some of the stupidest people in this country
#21088262 at 2024-06-26 04:30:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25850: Snek By The Tail Edition
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D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#21086287 at 2024-06-25 22:46:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25848: Spotlight Edition
>>21085673
IYKYK
Steve Bannon prepped Jeffrey Epstein for CBS interview, Michael Wolff claims
Martin Pengelly
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend an event in New York in 2005.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend an event in New York in 2005. Photograph: Patrick McMullan/getty Images
Jeffrey Epstein gave a series of interviews on film in 2019 in which his interviewer said the financier and convicted sex trafficker was "engaging, not threatening ... [not] at all creepy ... a sympathetic figure".
The interviewer was the former Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
The episode, as reported by the New York Times, is described in a book of profiles, Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned, due out in October. The author is Michael Wolff, who wrote Fire and Fury and two other expos?s of Donald Trump's presidency.
The Times also reported that Bannon told Epstein to "look directly into the camera now and then", so as not to come across as stupid, and advised his subject "not to share his racist theories on how Black people learn".
"Mainly, Mr Bannon tells Mr Epstein, he should stick to his message, which is that he is not a paedophile. By the end, Mr Bannon seems impressed."
Wolff reports that the interviews were preparation for an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes which never occurred.
Bannon confirmed to the Times that he taped more than 15 hours of interviews with Epstein but said he was not media-training him, but rather making "a previously unannounced eight- to 10-hour documentary" about Epstein's "perversions and depravity toward young women" and links to the "global establishment".
Earlier this year, Ira Rosen, a veteran 60 Minutes producer, discussed how he set up "one of the all-time great" 60 Minutes interviews with Bannon himself. Bannon, he said, told him he believed Trump had early stage dementia and might be removed from office. That claim did not make the final tape.
Asked by Yahoo News how seriously people should take Bannon's claims, Rosen said "the trick in trying to deal with Steve" was to work out how much was meant simply to draw attention to himself.
Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting sex from underage girls. He killed himself in custody in August 2019, awaiting trial on new sex-trafficking charges.
His former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, awaits trial in New York on sex trafficking charges. She has pleaded not guilty. Last week, Prince Andrew was served with an affidavit in a lawsuit brought by an alleged Epstein victim, Virginia Giuffre, who says she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17, an allegation the prince "absolutely and categorically" denies.
Bannon, a hard-right political gadfly who chaired the Trump campaign in 2016, was a major source for Fire and Fury, Wolff's huge bestseller about the first year of the Trump presidency.
Bannon left the White House in August 2017, amid uproar over a neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia. But he remained a key figure in Trumpworld and an influence on Wolff's next two books, Siege and Landslide. Trump pardoned Bannon on charges of fraud.
The Times reported that Wolff also recounts an offer from the film producer Harvey Weinstein, made during his rape trial in which he was convicted last year, to co-write an autobiography.
Wolff also told the paper Epstein "wanted me to write something about him - a kind of a book - though it wasn't clear why".
#21084809 at 2024-06-25 17:41:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25846: Tuesday Morning Melania Edition
Hunter Biden's law license suspended in D.C.
axios.com/2024/06/25/hunter-biden-law-license-suspended
June 25, 2024
Hunter Biden departs a House Oversight Committee meeting at Capitol Hill on Jan. 10 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Kent Nishimura/getty Images
The D.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday suspended Hunter Biden's law license after he was convicted earlier this month of three federal gun charges.
Why it matters: It's the latest fallout from the president's son's conviction and trial, which aired some of the Biden family's darkest moments.
Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison, although as a first-time offender it's unlikely he will receive the maximum sentence.
Driving the news: The court order stated that Hunter Biden is "suspended immediately from the practice of law" in D.C., after considering the indictment and jury verdict in his federal gun trial.
The appeals court also directed D.C.'s Board on Professional Responsibility to "institute a formal proceeding to determine the nature of the offense and whether it involves moral turpitude."
State of play: The D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel wrote in an order earlier this month that Hunter Biden's offenses in his federal gun case amount to a "serious crime," which constitutes automatic suspension under the counsel's rules.
Hunter Biden has been licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C., since 2007, per the Washington Post.
#21079747 at 2024-06-24 22:33:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25841: Following A Dream Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1805317923201774076
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: Maricopa County temp worker arrested for theft at election center
Maricopa County election ballot counting | getty Images
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#21075966 at 2024-06-24 04:06:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25837: Are We There Yet? Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#21071671 at 2024-06-23 16:52:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25834: .A bake if you can keep it Ebake Edition
>>21071515
The Guidos: Mohen Gruesome getty getty
https://greeknewsondemand.com/2020/05/26/who-runs-cali-the-family-with-wealth-power-influence/
#21070658 at 2024-06-23 10:21:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25833: ... a Republic, if you can keep it Edition
Exclusive-Sean Spicer on 'Trump's Front Row Joes' Docuseries: These People Are 'Backbone of the MAGA Movement'
Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary, speaks during the Conservative PoliticalAl Drago/Bloomberg via getty Images
NICK GILBERTSON22 Jun 202411
4:49
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who served under former President Donald Trump, joined Sirius XM's Breitbart News Saturday to discuss his newly released docuseries, Trump's Front Row Joes. The series chronicles some of Trump's most ardent supporters who are front and center of the crowd at every, or nearly every, Trump rally.
Spicer spoke with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle about his motivation behind the two-part docuseries, now available for rent or purchase on Salemnow.com. Spicer said he realized that someone needed to record this for history.
He emphasized that "the media has ignored" and "mocked" Trump's supporters, who attend every rally or nearly every rally and arrive days in advance to stake out a place in line to be in the front row. The former White House press secretary added these people "have been the backbone of the MAGA movement."
"The media has ignored them. They've mocked them. You know, Hillary's called them deplorable, so I set out with a bunch of the guys from the campaign, after a conversation I had with them, to make a documentary to be able to document this for history," Spicer said.
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/06/22/exclusive-sean-spicer-on-trumps-front-row-joes-docuseries-these-people-are-backbone
#21066241 at 2024-06-22 17:06:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25828: The Road Less Traveled Edition
>>21066200
https://www.saintcolumban.eu/sito/b-il_santo/b_08-iconografia/slide-basso/stbrendan%5B1%5D.jpg
Dreamy ... an illustration from the 1460 manuscript of the ancient Voyage of St Brendan the Navigator.
Photograph: De Agostini via getty Images
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/22/top-10-books-about-adventures-philip-marsden-the-summer-isles
#21065781 at 2024-06-22 15:16:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25828: The Road Less Traveled Edition
(Whiny Fat Man Baby) Manhattan DA (LIES) points to chilling bomb threats as he asks to extend Trump gag order
Alex Woodward Fri 21 June 2024 1/2==
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicated on Friday that he's willing to partially lift Donald Trump's gag order in his hush money trial, but slammed the former president for his "patent disrespect" for the rule of law and warned the trial judge of credible bomb threats made against people involved in the case.
Trump - who is blocked from publicly attacking witnesses, jurors and other parties in the case, excluding Bragg and Justice Juan Merchan - has asked the judge to lift the gag order entirely, now that the criminal trial has come to an end with guilty verdicts on all 34 counts against him.
In a filing on Friday, Bragg said his office agrees that the gag order can be amended to lift the restrictions against trial witnesses - but that's as far as he will go.
There is "no basis whatsoever" to let Trump attack attorneys and court staff and their families who are protected under the gag order, according to prosecutors with Bragg's office.
Trump has repeatedly used his Truth Social account to rage against the case, witnesses Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels, the judge and prosecutors, which have fueled harassing and threatening messages aimed at attorneys, court staff and their families, according to law enforcement.
Investigators with the New York City Police Department have logged dozens of "actionable threats" against the district attorney, his family and staff since Trump was indicted, including 56 that were made in April, May and June of this year.
The office has also received "nearly 500 threatening emails and phone calls" since April, the month that the trial started, according to the DA's office. That includes bomb threats to two people involved in the case on April 15, the first day of the trial. (These are lies, where are all the arrests? Plus nothing Bragg says is credible)
One post disclosed the home address of a Manhattan prosecutor, and another depicted "sniper sights" on "people involved in this case or a family member of such a person."
Threats warned prosecutors "we will kill you all" and that they should "be in witness protection" and "your life is done," according to Bragg's office.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announces a 34-count guilty verdict against Donald Trump on May 30. On June 21, he agreed that a gag order in the case can be partially lifted. (getty Images)
But prosecutors agree that restrictions against Trump's statements about trial witnesses "no longer [need] to be enforced."
"This change of circumstance does not mean that [the] defendant has carte blanche to resume his reprehensible practice of publicly attacking individuals involved in litigation against him," prosecutors wrote.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/manhattan-da-points-chilling-bomb-173804378.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANYKsJW8VIl6tgGWvlJPQ0r9C7mX7ikoSS1ekCs_g7O1gZCmO-jR04VB4sFpLkYnnBv4gqDIIX-HljVWiMYMcU9DlCJ-SGH5haO0nnPL-XHVZwkWh2HgQFViUvBgfgulEeT0n8_vE7xgGcfxGYkR-BSuTGK8pRkQYaDVaB9vGO0N
#21065605 at 2024-06-22 14:31:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25827: Just One More Rodeo Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/06/21/xi-jinping-rushes-to-tibet-after-nancy-pelosi-meets-with-dalai-lama/
Xi Jinping Rushes to Tibet After Nancy Pelosi Meets with Dalai Lama
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GONZALO FUENTES/POOL/AFP via getty Images
John Hayward21 Jun 2024
#21059748 at 2024-06-21 11:14:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25821: TGIF Morning Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/06/19/report-biden-campaign-creates-special-task-force-to-mitigate-cheap-fake-videos/
Report: Biden Campaign Creates Special Task Force to Mitigate 'Cheap Fake' Videos
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via getty Images
Wendell Huseb?19 Jun 2024
#21046252 at 2024-06-18 23:05:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25805: He's Just In Their Way Edition
>>21045986
Good Samaritans beat, tied up Ecuadorean migrant busted in rape of 13-year-old girl at Kissena Park
Desheania Andrews andJorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published June 18, 2024, 10:45 a.m. ET
A group of good Samaritans helped nab the 25-year-old Ecuadorean migrant wanted for the brutal sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl at a Queens park - smacking him around and tying him up with a belt.
Dramatic video and photos obtained by The Post shows the shirtless creep - later identified by police as Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi - cowering on the sidewalk early Tuesday as the angry mob pounds him and calls him out as "a rapist."
"Where are you going? Where are you going?" a woman is heard screaming in Spanish while clutching his hair. "He's a rapist. He don't care."
Inga-Landi faces charges, including rape, kidnapping and sex abuse.Paul Martinka
Inga-Landi faces a slew of charges, including rape, kidnapping and sex abuse, after cops arrested him thanks to a flood of help from the public, including the good Samaritans who lassoed him on the street, NYPD brass said later Tuesday.
Footage shows the suspected abuser crawling under a parked car to get away from the angry vigilante mob, as bystanders keep screaming."He's under the car. He's hiding under the car because we beat the s-t out of him," the woman yells as cops show up. "Beat his ass," she adds.
Inga-Landi could be seen cowering on the sidewalk as the bystanders beat him. He tried to fight back," Flores said. "He tried to run for his life but he couldn't."CitizenApp "I saw what he was trying to do, he looked back at me. I waited for him to come out the store and dragged him to the floor. A couple people helped me," Jeffrey Flores told The Post.Obtained by NY Post
One man is heard asking in the background,"Where my 10,000 at?" - a reference to the reward offered by cops for the sicko's arrest. grant busted in rape of 13-year-old girl at Kisse P
One of the civilian heroes said he waited for Inga-Landi to come out of a deli on 108th Street - a few blocks from the park - after recognizing him from police wanted posters and surveillance video released by the NYPD.
"I seen him a few times - he comes to this store to buy stuff," Jeffrey Flores, who pounced on the creep. "I waited for him. I waited the whole day to see if he would come up. He came at night.
Footage shows the suspected abuser crawling under a parked car to get away from the angry vigilante mob, as bystanders keep screaming. CitizenApp. A 25-year-old Ecuadorean migrant was arrested for the brutal sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl at a Queens park.Obtained by the NY Post
"He came in, we went to buy something," Flores, 24, told The Post. "I saw what he was trying to do, he looked back at me. I waited for him to come out the store and dragged him to the floor. A couple people helped me."
Jeers greeted Inga-Landi as he was walked handcuffed from a Queens police precinct Tuesday afternoon on his way to be arraigned on a slew of felonies, including rape and kidnapping. "Piece of s-t," one onlooker shouted.
The accused molester has been the subject of a massive NYPD manhunt since he used a "machete-style knife" to force the young victim and her friend into a secluded area in Kissena Park on Thursday, then tied them up with shoelaces and sexually assaulted the girl.
The cowardly crime mobilized New Yorkers, with police releasing images of the suspect and posting wanted posters throughout Flushing.
The accused molester has been the subject of a massive NYPD manhunt since he used a "machete-style knife" to force the young victim and her friend into a secluded area in Kissena Park.Los Angeles Times via getty Images
"He tried to fight back," Flores said of the good Samaritans' encounter with the suspect. "He tried to run for his life but he couldn't. Yeah, he admitted to it. He was saying, 'Alright, alright, alright. Don't hit me, don't hit me.'
Police sources said the suspect, who has not yet been officially charged or identified by cops, has been living at a shelter at Waldron and 108th Street.Stephen Yang
"I got two little sisters and I'm about to have a daughter on the way," Flores said of the park assault. "I don't like that. That's abusive. That's not right." A 22-year-old pal had shown Flores a photo of the accused attacker from Instagram and was there to help take the creep down.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/18/us-news/good-samaritans-beat-tied-up-ecuadorean-migrant-busted-in-rape-of-13-year-old-girl-at-kissena-park/
#21044557 at 2024-06-18 19:25:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25803: Racine Wisconsin TRUMP RALLY DAY Edition
>>21044551
>>21044552
>>21044555
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#21039390 at 2024-06-18 00:15:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25798: Notables are Back, WE ARE THE NEWS! Edition
>>21039372
They are not going to miss getting a getty into WH.
Came close to Rockefeller in the 70s and they tried twice in a few weeks (Ford attempts)
#21035632 at 2024-06-17 06:10:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25793: The Jab is not a Vaccine Edition
>>21035605
Here's Nat Rothschild unlisted in a getty photo from Ghislaine Maxwell's Wacky Water World party in 2014. RFK Jr. also in attendance.
>https://www.gettyimages.com/editorial-images/entertainment/event/startalk-live-water-world-panel-discussion-and-reception/495644107
>https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/host-dr-neil-degrasse-tyson-and-his-holiness-the-gyalwang-news-photo/1163403661
#21033183 at 2024-06-16 20:09:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25791: Also It's Golden Escalator Day Edition
Clues of bloody Biblical battle between angel of God and 185K invading soldiers uncovered in Jerusalem: new research
A newly discovered archaeological site may provide evidence of Biblical truth.
Researchers in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient military base that may provide clues of a battle ground for God's army against Assyrian soldiers who came to conquer the Holy Land around 2,700 years ago, per a Sunday report in the Daily Mail.
As the Bible story goes, an angel of the Lord is said to have descended on the invading troops and killed 185,000 soldiers in a night.
The Assyrian Empire reigned from 1,365 to 609 BC, led by King Sennacherib's campaign to control all routes across the Syrian Desert that led to the Mediterranean sea.
A previously known carving on the stone walls of Sennacherib's palace depicts the conquest of Lachish, a city 42 miles south of Jerusalem, including an illustration of a military base floor plan.
With this ancient engraving, archaeologist Stephen Compton was able to cross-reference aerial photos of the alleged area - part of a hisotric taken site in Israel called Ammunition Hill - in 1910 to discover the maps matched up.
The Bible tells the story of an angel sent by God to smite Assyrian soldiers as they slept to prevent a siege on Jerusalem. getty Images
? Provided by New York Post
"This appears to be the site of Sennacherib's camp from the siege of Jerusalem, which was featured in the three books of the Bible," Comtpon wrote in a June 4 press release.
The drawings pointed to ruins of a perimeter wall and buried pottery shards revealed to be at least roughly 2,600 years old, according to Copton's analysis. The site is now believed to have been abandoned after Sennacherib's invasion.
Researchers hope to use similar methods to uncover similar military bases and other ancient cities destroyed by the Assyrian Empire.
The memorial site now known as Ammunition Hill was left undisturbed after the Assyrian army's retreat until 1930. Corbis via getty Images
? Provided by New York Post
An aerial view of Jerusalem circa 1910. Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via getty Images
? Provided by New York Post
"In some cases, it has also been possible to use the newly discovered camps to locate the sites of ancient cities that were known to have been besieged by the Assyrians but whose locations were unknown or uncertain," Compton said.
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And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses
2 Kings, 19:35
Three Bliblical scriptures tell the story of God's victory over the Assyrians in Jerusalem: Isaiah, 37:36-38; 2 Kings, 19:35; and 2 Chronicles, 32:21.
The ancient Assyrian military base was discovered on Ammunition Hill, a memorial war site in Jerusalem. NurPhoto via getty Images
? Provided by New York Post
The story tells that Jerusalem's ruler Hezekiah prayed to the Israelite deity Yahweh - understood as God among Christians - for protection and was sent an angel to ambush soldiers as they slept.
Other retellings of the attack cite a plague for the massacre of the Assyrian camp, while a version from Greek scripture describes an invasion of mice that chewed through the soldiers' weaponry.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/clues-of-bloody-biblical-battle-between-angel-of-god-and-185k-invading-soldiers-uncovered-in-jerusalem-new-research/ar-BB1okjlP
#21019161 at 2024-06-14 00:12:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25775: POTUS Birthday Eve Edition
Fani Willis can get Trump's election racketeering case back on track: Ex-prosecutor
rawstory.com/trump-georgia-case-2668521322
Sarah K. Burris June 13, 2024
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - FEBRUARY 15: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testifies during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on February 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Judge Scott McAfee is hearing testimony as to whether Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade should be disqualified from the case for allegedly lying about a personal relationship. (Photo by Alyssa Pointer-Pool/getty Images)
Former federal and state prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said Thursday he believes the challenge to Fani Willis' prosecution of former President Donald Trump could very well fail after the Fulton County District Attorney filed a motion to dismiss.
Kirschner argued on his "Justice Matters" YouTube channel that a motion demanding Willis be removed from the Georgia election racketeering case is "not supported by the actual evidence they provided."
At issue is the claim that Willis' admitted relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, now recused from the case, created a conflict of interest in Trump's case.
Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee found in March that no such conflict of interest existed and Willis could move forward with the trial. Trump's team sought an appeal, and McAfee granted the request.
/Willis filed on Wednesday her own motion to dismiss the appeal.
#21018578 at 2024-06-13 22:37:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25774: Shill Break Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#21004288 at 2024-06-11 10:19:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25759: Within Striking Distance of Biden in Blue Minnesota: CHECKMATE? Edition
Dmitry Trenin: Here's how Russia can prevent WW3
For 80 years, the Atom bomb has prevented a repeat of the horrors of the 1940s -?Russia needs to leverage it again to stop American aggression
Dmitry Trenin
By?Dmitry Trenin,?a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
RIAC
Dmitry Trenin: Here's how Russia can prevent WW3
? Galerie Bilderwelt/getty Images
Nuclear deterrence is not a myth. It kept the world safe during the Cold War. Deterrence is a psychological concept. You have to convince a nuclear-armed adversary that it will not achieve its objectives by attacking you, and that if it goes to war its own annihilation is assured. The mutual nuclear deterrence between the USSR and the US during their confrontation was reinforced by the reality of mutually assured destruction in the event of a massive exchange of nuclear strikes. Incidentally, the abbreviation for Mutually Assured Destruction is MAD. And that's very apt.
https://www.rt.com/russia/599097-nuclear-weapons-can-save-world/
#21002458 at 2024-06-11 01:40:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25757: Literally Red October Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/06/10/bottomless-pockets-win-again-google-avoids-jury-trial-in-advertising-antitrust-case/
Bottomless Pockets Win Again: Google Avoids Jury Trial in Advertising Antitrust Case
Sundar Pichai CEO of Google ( Carsten Koall /getty)
Carsten Koall /getty
Lucas Nolan10 Jun 2024
#20997690 at 2024-06-10 03:54:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25751: Europe vote for anti- e.u parties edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20993308 at 2024-06-09 11:30:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25746: Semper Supra Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1799762269582008655
Just the News
@JustTheNews
Opponents raise integrity concerns about Illinois legalizing permanent nursing home mail-in voting
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker | Joshua Lott/getty Images
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#20982162 at 2024-06-07 10:23:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25733: Head on a Swivel Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20980721 at 2024-06-07 01:27:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25731: Queen of Whales Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1798684183713440095
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Updated: Fauci's cabal likely to destroy evidence crucial to social media censorship case, doctors warn
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic | Chip Somodevilla/getty Images
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#20974348 at 2024-06-06 01:26:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25724: WE WILL NOT COMPLY EDITION
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1798336915357278614
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Breaking: Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. wins House Democratic primary
Robert 'Bob' Menendez (D-NJ) walks to his car with his son Robert Jr., as he departs federal court, November 15, 2017 in Newark, New Jersey. The jury continues to deliberate in his corruption trial. | (Photo by Spencer Platt/getty Images)
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#20969467 at 2024-06-05 07:49:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25718: Raising FF's N Losin Edition
Biden Appears To Pick A Fight With Reporter Who Questions Him About Age
https://dailycaller.com/2024/06/04/biden-time-reporter-questions-age/#:~:text=President%2520Joe%2520Biden%2520appeared%2520to,according%2520to%2520the%2520interview%2520transcript.&text=%E2%80%9CThe%2520last%2520two%2520years%2520of,usually%2520focused%2520on%2520foreign%2520affairs.
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/getty Images)
REAGAN REESE
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
June 04, 2024
11:01 AM ET
#20968558 at 2024-06-05 02:06:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25717: Stage Is Set Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/03/rnc-trump-campaign-nevada-gop-sue-state-mailin-ballot-practices/
RNC, Trump Campaign, Nevada GOP Sue State over Mail-in Ballot Practices
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Elizabeth Weibel3 Jun 2024
#20968071 at 2024-06-05 00:20:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25717: Stage Is Set Edition
@MrAndyNgo
In 2019, Antifa beat me on the head and face, causing a traumatic brain injury as I suffered bleeding on my brain. As I struggled to get away, they threw drinks in my eyes to blind me so I couldn't get help. I remember their laughter as I was bleeding from my ear and eyes. I was lucky to survive and recover.
Many leftists on social media are celebrating that someone hurled a drink in the face of @Nigel_Farage today as he was campaigning in Clacton, Essex. They're reveling in the fear that a victim feels when being hit in the eyes with an unknown liquid-in a country that suffers acid attacks. The celebrations are emblematic of a level of political violence that the left tolerates and desires on their political opponents.
Photo by Ben Stansall/getty Images.
#20963227 at 2024-06-04 01:25:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25711: THE DEEP STATE TARGET LIST EDITION
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/03/joe-biden-addresses-transgender-children-in-lgbtqi-pride-proclamation/
Joe Biden Addresses 'Transgender Children' in LGBTQI+ Pride Proclamation
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US President Joe Biden speaks during a Pride Month celebration event at the White House in
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Hannah Knudsen3 Jun 2024
#20962967 at 2024-06-04 00:50:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25711: THE DEEP STATE TARGET LIST EDITION
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/02/another-elderly-pro-life-activist-sentenced-2020-dc-abortion-clinic-protest/
Another Elderly Pro-Life Activist Sentenced for 2020 D.C. Abortion Clinic Protest
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Anti-abortion activists protest outside of a Planned Parentho
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Katherine Hamilton2 Jun 2024
#20958989 at 2024-06-03 06:27:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25706: PriDEMONth is CANCELLED Edition
Reuters
@Reuters
2h
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr in Manila on Monday and thanked him for his support and 'clear position' on Russia's invasion of its territories
reut.rs/3Va2PQu
Jun 3, 2024 ? 3:50 AM UTC
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1797475809688449505
I once read a dark story by Marcos with JP getty Jr.
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/07/blind-items-revealed-14_5.html
#20957547 at 2024-06-02 23:20:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25704: All Systems Go Edition
>>20957536
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/01/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-presidential-election-00161081
Claudia Sheinbaum Will Be Mexico's Next President. But Which Version of Her Will Govern?
politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/01/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-presidential-election-00161081
By ANKUSH KHARDORI
Letter From Mexico
She's a pragmatist, and an ideologue. Which one will dominate?
The United States should have a keen interest in figuring out which side of Claudia Sheinbaum's personality will govern her interactions with Washington. | Alfredo Estrella/AFP via getty Images
Jos? Luis Sabau is a writer and researcher based in Mexico City. He studied political science at Stanford and currently writes for El Sol de M?xico, Exc?lsior, and Nexos.
MEXICO CITY - On virtually every corner of Mexico's capital city, drivers encounter political activists holding signs for one or another of the country's political parties. Colorful banners enliven the otherwise gray and white walls of the city's office buildings. The nation is visibly preparing for its presidential election on Sunday.
One word dominates, on fences and bumper stickers, even in radio commercials: Morena. It is the acronym of Mexico's current ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement, which is set to win in the upcoming election.
And one person dominates, as well. Next to the party's dark red logo, Mexicans have grown accustomed to reading the phrase "Es Claudia" - "It's Claudia" - or "Claudia Presidenta" - "President Claudia." Those slogans refer to 61-year-old Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City and the clear favorite to occupy the nation's highest office.
#20950378 at 2024-06-01 12:32:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25695: £52.8 raised and Qdrop 528 safe comms edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/31/adam-schiff-client-of-judge-merchans-daughter-begins-raising-money-off-trump-verdict/
Adam Schiff - Client of Judge Merchan's Daughter - Begins Raising Money off Trump Verdict
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Kristina Wong31 May 2024
#20938291 at 2024-05-30 14:52:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25680: Rare Bakes Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20926140 at 2024-05-28 02:20:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25665: Solemn Remembrance Edition
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1795060101742494053
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
California wrongly claimed millions in Medicaid services for illegal migrants: HHS watchdog reports
Guatemalan migrants, Sept. 9, 2021 | Luis Vargas/Anadolu Agency via getty Images
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#20926111 at 2024-05-28 02:11:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25665: Solemn Remembrance Edition
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1795060101742494053
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
California wrongly claimed millions in Medicaid services for illegal migrants: HHS watchdog reports
Guatemalan migrants, Sept. 9, 2021 | Luis Vargas/Anadolu Agency via getty Images
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#20923752 at 2024-05-27 18:10:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25662: John 15:13 Edition
Bill Walton died on Monday at the age of 71.
David Dow/NBAE via getty Images
CNN -
Bill Walton, the basketball Hall of Fame center who won a record 88 straight games at UCLA, won two NBA championships and later put the "color" in color commentator, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the National Basketball Association announced.
Walton was 71. He was surrounded by his family, according to the NBA.
"Bill Walton was truly one of a kind," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. "As a Hall of Fame player, he redefined the center position. His unique all-around skills made him a dominant force at UCLA and led to an NBA regular-season and Finals MVP, two NBA championships and a spot on the NBA's 50th and 75th Anniversary Teams.
"Bill then translated his infectious enthusiasm and love for the game to broadcasting, where he delivered insightful and colorful commentary which entertained generations of basketball fans.
"But what I will remember most about him was his zest for life. He was a regular presence at league events - always upbeat, smiling ear to ear and looking to share his wisdom and warmth. I treasured our close friendship, envied his boundless energy and admired the time he took with every person he encountered."
Walton's journey began at UCLA, where the 6-foot-11, red-headed center starred under legendary coach John Wooden and led the Bruins to national championships in 1972 and 1973, both in perfect 30-0 seasons. The team at one point won 88 straight games, a men's record that still stands. Walton was also a three-time national college player of the year and three-time All American at UCLA.
The big man with the nifty hook shot was the #1 pick in the 1974 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers and led the team to its first and only NBA championship in 1977. He was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player in that playoffs, and the next season he was named the NBA's regular season MVP.
However, his career was derailed due to a series of injuries. He left Portland to play for the San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers from 1979 to 1985 but never reached the heights of those earlier seasons and struggled through foot and knee injuries.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/27/us/bill-walton-death/index.html
#20922817 at 2024-05-27 14:44:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25661: US Military = savior of mankind. Edition
Trump says he 'would have absolutely gotten' Libertarian Party nomination if he could have run, slams RFK Jr.
May 26, 2024
The race for the White House continuesFormer President Donald Trump received a rowdy reception at the Libertarian National Convention in Washinton, D.C. AP/getty Images
Former President Donald Trump claimed he would have "absolutely" gotten the Libertarian Party convention nomination for president, if not for already being the presumptive GOP nominee.
In a statement on Sunday, following an appearance at the party's convention on Saturday, Trump noted the "enthusiasm" of the crowd, where he received a mixed response that included audible booing.
"The reason I didn't file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), was the fact that, as the Republican Nominee, I am not allowed to have the Nomination of another Party," Trump wrote on his social media platform on Sunday,
"Regardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes,"Trump continued.
In his message on Sunday, Trump also slammed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who received a nomination to be a candidate at the Libertarian Party convention, though ultimately was not chosen as its candidate.
"Junior' Kennedy is a Radical Left Democrat, who's destroyed everything he's touched, especially in New York and New England, and in particular, as it relates to the Cost and Practicality of Energy," Trump wrote on TruthSocial. "He's not a Libertarian. Only a FOOL would vote for him!"
Kennedy, who received an 11th-hour nomination to be a presidential candidate, butdidn't manage enough votes to continue, reacted on social media on Sunday, calling the party's move "an unexpected honor."
"What an unexpected honor to wake up this morning to a groundswell in the Libertarian Party seeking to nominate me. I would have accepted the nomination if offered because independents and third parties need to unite right now to reclaim our country from the corrupt two-party system," Kennedy wrote on X, saying that his speech at the convention was a "high point" of his campaign.
"While we may not agree on every downstream issue, our core values of peace, free speech, and civil liberties make us natural allies... Let's take our country back," he concluded.
In a post on X, he wrote that he "would have accepted the nomination if offered because independents and third parties need to unite right now."
Kennedy has not responded to Trump's latest attack on social media.
Both candidates had agreed to speak at the convention upon invitation from the party's chair. Kennedy spoke on Friday, which garnered a lukewarm response from members - most of whom signaled to ABC News in interviews over the weekend that they didn't consider Kennedy a "real Libertarian."
Chase Oliver, a millennial political activist who has been embraced by a more left-leaning wing of the Libertarian party, picked up the party's presidential nomination after seven rounds of voting at their convention on Sunday.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-absolutely-libertarian-party-nomination-run-slams-rfk/story?id=110576502
#20921653 at 2024-05-27 08:19:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25659: Knowingly Late Night Memorial Day Bread Edition
>>20921640
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/waco-american-apocalypse-netflix-david-koresh-cult-rape-branch-davidians-fbi-guns-1234700003/
Netflix Exposes the Pedophile Cult Leader Who Went to War With …
22 Mar 2023 … Netflix Exposes the Pedophile Cult Leader Who Went to War With the FBI. Docuseries Waco: American Apocalypse reexamines the deadly Waco siege …
https://abcnews.go.com/US/david-koresh-followers-describe-life-inside-apocalyptic-religious/story?id=52033937
Who was David Koresh: Ex-followers describe life inside apocalyptic …
2 Jan 2018 … … Koresh that probably bothers me the most," Bunds said. "My position now is that David Koresh was a pedophile... [and] I wish I would have done …
https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/1749399/Waco-cult-David-Koresh-paedophile-dxus
Waco cult leader David Koresh was not a pedophile … - Daily Express
22 Mar 2023 … A woman defended cult leader and alleged paedophile David Koresh … Koresh was not a pedophile (Image: getty / MCLENNAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE).
https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/1638655108924731393
Marlow Stern on X: "netflix digs into david koresh, the pedophile cult …
22 Mar 2023 … netflix digs into david koresh, the pedophile cult leader who went to war with the fbi in the waco siege https://t.co/rHaOzeqK6F.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61605678-koresh
The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco - Goodreads
11 Apr 2023 … Long before he became a cult leader, "Koresh" paints a vivid portrait of this man as an increasingly emboldened sex offender whose religious …
https://www.kxxv.com/news/remembering-okc-bombing-branch-davidian-siege/branch-davidian-childrens-drawings-foretold-deadly-waco-fire-psychiatrist-says
Branch Davidian children's drawings foretold deadly Waco fire …
19 Apr 2022 … … Koresh. The standoff began on Feb. 28, 1993, when 76 agents from the … "My position now is that David Koresh was a pedophile. I wish I …
https://laddeveritt.medium.com/waco-is-the-most-sympathetic-portrait-of-a-serial-pedophile-in-film-history-2628e2ad8dea
Waco Gun Nut "Martyr" David Koresh was a Serial Pedophile and …
19 May 2020 … The NRA & GOP celebrate Waco cult leader David Koresh as a patriot & freedom fighter. The truth is he was a murderous, serial pedophile.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/11yr00g/waco_american_apocalypse_2023_anyone_want_to/
Waco: American Apocalypse (2023) - anyone want to discuss this?
22 Mar 2023 … Sadly it was never going to work when a sick, pedophilic, cult leader had all the cards… Also does really seem like a mass suicide… poor …
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21793192/survived-waco-cult-siege-david-koresh-not-paedophile-messiah/
I survived Waco cult siege 30 years ago but here's why I … - The Sun
21 Mar 2023 … I survived Waco cult siege 30 years ago but here's why I believe David Koresh was NOT a paedophile and WAS the Messiah ? Read More on Cults ? Most …
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1b0y5tm/til_kathy_schroeder_a_survivor_of_the_waco/
TIL Kathy Schroeder, a survivor of the Waco tragedy, still … - Reddit
27 Feb 2024 … … Koresh was "a prophet, the son of God, a … Koresh can be a villain and a victim. … "Yeah, he was a pedophile, BUT AT LEAST HE HAD STANDARDS!
#20920089 at 2024-05-27 00:57:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25658: The Forgotten Bread Name Edition
MODERN MARKETING MOGUL: JARED RAVIZZA OF RAVIZZA SOCIAL
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Many people find a sense of fulfillment and purpose in working to make positive changes in the world. They derive a deep sense of satisfaction in knowing that their efforts positively impact others, contributing to a better world. One such beautiful soul is Jared Ravizza. He is a man with an innate desire to bring out the best in other humans in the most beautiful way.
From business, to social media, to philanthropy, Jared Ravizza is contributing his gifts to the world. In this exclusive interview, we learn more about the CEO and founder of Ravizza Group.
Additionally, he is a jack of all trades and a master of all. Jared Ravizza, a serial entrepreneur and media mogul, is the founder and CEO of Ravizza Companies and Ravizza Social. Presently, he manages marketing deals for the firm in the US and internationally, notably in Paris, London, Mumbai, and Milan.
As a whole, the Ravizza Group provides a hands-on approach to leadership and team work. They have company training initiatives in today's digital environment, offering above-market returns. Plus, the company works directly with business owners, sales teams, and executives as brand developers, mentors, sales coaches, and management.
Additionally, Ravizza Group provides highly valued operational experience to start-ups and established businesses.
That said, Jared Ravizza is more than just a media mogul and a serial entrepreneur. He is an American professional model and skier. Most importantly, he is a family-oriented man who spends quality time kiteboarding, surfing, and playing the game of tennis with his family in his leisure time.
Most importantly, his visionary and philanthropic nature has prompted him to launch a global charitable initiative via Ravizza Group.
#20918198 at 2024-05-26 17:00:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25655: eBake For Jake
https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/25/exclusive-trump-campaign-launches-veterans-coalition-ahead-of-memorial-day/
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Campaign Launches Veterans Coalition Ahead Of Memorial Day
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#20918031 at 2024-05-26 16:00:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25655: eBake For Jake
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/26/no-deal-w-h-o-fails-to-secure-global-pandemic-treaty/
No Deal: W.H.O. Fails to Secure Global Pandemic Treaty
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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus briefs the pre
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#20908524 at 2024-05-24 12:04:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25644: TOO BIG TO RIG—MAGA2024!!! Edition
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/05/23/the-house-bans-the-fed-from-building-a-cbdc-like-the-digital-yuan/
The House Bans The Fed From Building A CBDC Like The Digital Yuan
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The House of Representatives has made a significant move by banning the Federal Reserve from creating the "digital dollar," a central bank digital currency. This decision, proposed by the House Majority Whip, Rep. Tom Emmer, as the "CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act," is a crucial amendment to the Federal Reserve Act, which governs the US central banking system. The amendment states, "The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee may not use any central bank digital currency to implement monetary policy."
The vote on the ban was almost a party-line vote, with three Democrats joining all Republicans in voting yes. However, the Bill still has a long way to go before becoming law - it needs to pass a vote in the Senate and potentially stand a presidential veto. The fact that Ex-President Trump has repeatedly mentioned that he would not allow a "digital dollar" to be built and the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, had also said that the Federal Reserve would not start implementing a digital dollar without congressional approval, adds to the potential implications of this ban passing the House. The Senate likely has allies on a CBDC ban, though whether there is a majority and/or a veto-proof majority would be an open question.
Still, as one of the chief opponents of the Bill, Rep. Maxine Waters, put it, "In fact, if this bill becomes law, we would be the only country in the world to ban a CBDC." Prohibiting "innovation" on the central bank digital currency front seems like a policy miss at first sight. However, as I detail in my book on Bitcoin + China, the Chinese party-state hasn't gotten that far with its CBDC, the e-CNY, or "digital Yuan." Adoption is lagging, and people prefer private options like WeChat Pay and Alipay - though the state has put a lot of muscle into it with pilot programs that offer essentially free money and ample state media support. Even though it's banned, people still use and sell Tether and Bitcoin, and people go to jail for selling Tether. China wants to expand the central bank digital currency model and has already piloted it in the M-Bridge with other central banks and in Hong Kong, but adoption has been lagging for now.
Part of this is that central bank digital currencies do two things that put central banks off-guard: they put central banks, which are used to be banking regulators, in the hot seat when it comes to technology choices and, by definition, only provide closed-source vendors chosen by the central bank - and not open source builds or game-theory proven approaches to mitigate attacks. The Chinese party-state has been the victim of cyberattacks before and is taking an approach potentially vulnerable to more.
Central banks are used to governing by edict, not by product metrics. In China, this has led to Alipay and WeChat Pay maintaining their advantages through sheer user engagement/retention - their app ecosystems and services providing more than enough staying power. And if there were transaction throughput (the e-CNY has done a fraction of what Bitcoin does, though it's hard to verify/audit figures as there are few public ones), the central bank would have to deal with ledgers with millions of transactions rather than the engineering and data teams that usually do.
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#20906267 at 2024-05-23 23:20:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25641: BRONX Rally LFG! Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/20/sebastian-gorka-the-new-maga-manifesto/
Sebastian Gorka: The New MAGA Manifesto
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 05: A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump holds a Make America
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#20901902 at 2024-05-22 23:09:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25636: Booms Bombshells and Boomerangs Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1793265734849577329
John Solomon
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Maricopa County, and Arizona Sec. of State censored 2020 election audit hearing, elected officials
Maricopa County ballot drop box | getty Images
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#20900162 at 2024-05-22 15:09:23 (UTC+1)
#25634: Welcome To The Great Awakening Edition
>>20900160
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20897485 at 2024-05-21 22:37:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25630: Trump Was Right About Everything Edition
>>20897447
Killing as many innocent sandniggers as possible is based!
- Netan Ya Hoooo
>Food distribution in Rafah suspended - UN
Israel's offensive in Gaza's southern city has been disrupting the movement of humanitarian aid, according to a statement
Food distribution in Rafah suspended - UN
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are seen waiting for entry to Gaza from the Egypt's Rafah border crossing ? getty Images / Anadolu / Contributor
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday that food distribution in Gaza's southern city of Rafah was currently suspended due to lack of supplies and to insecurity amid Israel's offensive there.
Deliveries of international aid have dropped off significantly since Israel stepped up military operations in and around Rafah earlier this month, closing the border crossing to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
On Monday, Israeli forces renewed attacks in central Gaza, bombarding towns in the north of the enclave and saying it would broaden its operations in Rafah, despite international warnings of a risk of mass casualties in the densely populated city. On Tuesday, IDF forces raided the West Bank city of Jenin, reportedly killing seven Palestinians, including a doctor.
According to an UNRWA post on X (formerly Twitter), only seven out of its 24 health centers are currently operational. The UN agency said it had not received any medical supplies in the past ten days due to "closures/disruptions" at the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings into Gaza.
"We desperately need a safe passage - not just for humanitarian supplies but also for humanitarian personnel," UNRWA Communications Officer Louise Wateridge said.
UN officials have been sounding alarm over aid-distribution issues, saying there is still not enough to avoid mass hunger in Gaza and pointing to multiple difficulties in getting aid to where it is needed.
The Israeli agency coordinating the movement of humanitarian aid (COGAT) said on Tuesday that just 14 trucks had been transferred through a temporary US-built floating pier since it started operating last week. Aid offloaded at the pier reportedly comes by ship from Cyprus, but is first inspected by Israel.
According to COGAT, a total of 403 aid trucks were inspected and transferred to the Gaza on Monday, including 40 through the northern crossing of Erez West.
UN aid workers were cited by Reuters as saying that, although the floating pier was meant to help ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, only deliveries through land borders could ensure relief on the scale that is needed. Some 1.1 million of the Palestinian enclave's 2.3 million residents are reportedly facing serious food shortages.
West Jerusalem launched its massive military campaign in Gaza after Hamas' deadly incursion into Israeli territory last October. On that day, Hamas killed an estimated 1,200 people and took over 200 hostages, half of whom were later released as part of prisoner exchanges.
Israel's military operation has since claimed the lives of more than 35,000 Palestinians, with nearly 80,000 sustaining injuries, according to health authorities in the enclave.
#20892645 at 2024-05-20 20:13:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25624: Past, Present and Future Edition
UK Government to give police new powers to shut down pro-Palestine protests
Londoners have been marching almost every week in solidarity with the people of Palestine and to hold the UK Government to account [getty]
The Metropolitan Police will be given new powers to shut down pro-Palestine protests after receiving criticism from a pro-Israel charity over how they have been handling marches in London, specifically their lack of tackling alleged antisemitism within these marches.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said on X that they have held a series of meetings with the Home Office and officials at Downing Street over the past few weeks to discuss the alleged issue of how the police handle the protests.
The CAA is a charity "dedicated to exposing and countering antisemitism through education and zero-tolerance law enforcement" and has been branding pro-Palestine marches as antisemitic.
The Telegraph revealed that the Home Office is preparing to amend sections of the Public Order Act, allowing marches to be banned and public assemblies to be restricted.
These changes come after the head of the Met Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has been facing calls to quit after defending the police officer who called Gideon Falter, the chief executive of the CAA, "openly Jewish" at a pro-Palestinian rally in London.
Falter accused the police of doing "practically nothing" to restrict the protests.
The CAA said they turned to the government to call for clarifications on the Public Order Act to give the police "both the power and the duty to act" on the protests and to end the weekly marches.
https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-shut-down-gaza-protests-over-antisemitism-allegations
#20892492 at 2024-05-20 19:14:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25624: Past, Present and Future Edition
>>20892387
An International Criminal Court prosecutor announced Monday that he has filed applications for arrest warrants against Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders for allegedly committing "war crimes" during the conflict in Gaza.
Prosecutor Karim Khan said in a statement that based on evidence collected and examined by his office, he has "reasonable grounds" to believe Netanyahu and Gallant "bear criminal responsibility for… war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine."
He said those alleged crimes include "starvation of civilians as a method of warfare" and "intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population."
Khan also said he is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, its top political leader Ismail Haniyeh and its military commander Mohammed Dief.
NETANYAHU RIVAL THREATENS TO QUIT WAR CABINET OVER GAZA STRATEGY
Israeli PM Netanyahu and Gallant
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visit the site of the shooting where a settler was killed and another seriously injured in Hebron in the West Bank in August 2023. (Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)/Handout/Anadolu Agency via getty Images)
He alleged that since the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, the three are criminally responsible for "extermination" and "murder as a crime against humanity," taking hostages as a war crime and rape and other acts of sexual violence.
"During my own visit to Kibbutz Be'eri and Kibbutz Kfar Aza, as well as to the site of Supernova Music Festival in Re'im, I saw the devastating scenes of these attacks and the profound impact of the unconscionable crimes charged in the applications filed today," Khan said.
"Speaking with survivors, I heard how the love within a family, the deepest bonds between a parent and a child, were contorted to inflict unfathomable pain through calculated cruelty and extreme callousness," he added. "These acts demand accountability."
https://www.foxnews.com/world/icc-requests-arrest-warrants-netanyahu-hamas-leaders-war-crimes
> I heard how the love within a family, the deepest bonds between a parent and a child, were contorted to inflict unfathomable pain through calculated cruelty and extreme callousness.
Reading between the lines, the above statement seems to be infering children being tortured/murdered in front of parents or vice versa
#20889339 at 2024-05-20 01:38:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25620: GM Edition
https://x.com/JustTheNews/status/1792365670392311978
Just the News
@JustTheNews
Georgia Sen. Ossoff blasts Postmaster General's refusal to comply with oversight: 'disturbing'
Ga. Sen. Jon Ossoff | NurPhoto /getty Images
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#20886774 at 2024-05-19 13:25:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25617: Qomfy Style Edition
>>20886763
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/iran-helicopter-crash-raisi-live-32844134
Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi on board 'crashed' helicopter - huge rescue operation on way
Rescuers in Iran have launched an urgent rescue mission after an incident involving a helicopter which President Ebrahim Raisi was aboard, although further details are yet to be clarified.
Rescuers in Iran are trying to reach a helicopter involved in "an incident" while traveling with an entourage including President Ebrahim Raisi, state television reported Sunday.
Iranian state television says helicopter carrying President Ebrahim Raisi had a 'hard landing'. There was no immediate elaboration on what happened to the helicopter, nor who was on board. Semiofficial news agencies offered varying explanations for what was happening.
Raisi had been in Azerbaijan early Sunday to inaugurate a dam with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev. The dam is the third one that the two nations built on the Aras River.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (2nd R) and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (3rd R) inaugurate the Qiz Qalasi Dam, constructed on the Aras River
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (2nd right) and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (3rd right) inaugurate the Qiz Qalasi Dam, constructed on the Aras River
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Iranian state media has reported the incident occurred near Jolfa, a border city around 375 miles north west of capital, Tehran.
Iran flies a variety of helicopters in the country, but international sanctions make it difficult to obtain parts for them. Its military air fleet also largely dates back to before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Raisi, 63, is a hard-liner who formerly led the country's judiciary. He is viewed as a protege of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and some analysts have suggested he could replace the 85-year-old leader after his death or resignation from the role.
He has been in power since 2021 when he won the country's last presidential election, which saw the lowest voter turnout in the Islamic Republic's history. He currently is subject to US sanctions over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
Under Raisi, Iran now enriches uranium at nearly weapons-grade levels and hampers international inspections. Lat month, Raisi threatened his hands were "on the trigger" if Israel were to target any of its nuclear sites amidst rising tensions.
Iran launched a massive drone-and-missile attack on Israel amid its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It also has supplied arms to Russia for the Ukraine war and continued arming proxy groups in the Mideast, like Yemen's Houthi rebels and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
* This is a breaking news story.
#20882763 at 2024-05-18 13:04:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25612: Drug Test Joe Biden Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1791816238911373655
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Sen. Johnson: Recent proposals could give World Health Org. more power, threaten US sovereignty
World Health Organization misses pandemic deadline | getty Images
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#20882208 at 2024-05-18 10:29:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25612: Drug Test Joe Biden Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20882155 at 2024-05-18 10:16:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25611: POTUS is on Fire, Tonight Edition
>>20882151
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20871572 at 2024-05-15 23:32:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25599: Autists & Patriots Edition
>>20871550
>Question - Is Maggie Haberman actually on Trump's side?
Good question. Is David Pecker actually on Trumps side?
When JFK Jr. and David Pecker Made a Magazine, and Went to Mar-a-Lago
Over email, the disgraced publisher recounts the years the scion was Pecker's ticket to the big time - and his calling card to Donald Trump
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS George's February/March 2000 cover, published after JFK Jr.'s death, heralded Trump's political arrival. JFK Jr. and Trump in 1996 at Mar-a-Lago. (Davidoff Studios/getty Images)
https://theankler.com/p/jfk-jr-david-pecker-donald-trump-george-magazine
#20864497 at 2024-05-14 08:41:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25590: Heavy Shilling Throughout the Night Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20861919 at 2024-05-13 20:25:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25587: Objects In Mirror Closer Than YOU Think Edition
https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/vatican-preparing-guidelines-apparitions-supernatural-phenomena
Vatican preparing 'guidelines' for 'apparitions', 'other supernatural phenomena'
Apparitions are appearances or communication with divine beings such as saints, angels or Christ himself
The Vatican is preparing to release a document giving guidance on how to discern supernatural phenomena.
The Holy See Press Office announced the upcoming document will be published May 17 with a live-streamed press conference featuring Prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal V?ctor Manuel Fern?ndez.
Fern?ndez has previously said the dicastery is "in the process of finalizing a new text with clear guidelines and norms for the discernment of apparitions and other phenomena," according to the National Catholic Register.
VATICAN PREPARING DOCUMENT ON 'IMMORAL TENDENCIES': GENDER THEORY, SURROGACY, AND MORE
statue of St. Paul
A statue of St. Paul the Apostle sits outside St Peter's Basilica in the Piazza San Pietro in Vatican City. (iStock)
An "apparition" refers to an instance in which a divine entity - such as a saint, the Virgin Mary, or Christ himself - makes itself known to a person on Earth. The concept is a recurring theme in the Bible and most Christian denominations affirm the belief that such brushes with the supernatural can still occur today in various capacities.
The Catholic Church urges "extreme prudence" before ascribing phenomena to a supernatural force, warning that being too quick to attribute divine origin to explainable occurrences can damage the faith and warp belief.
Alleged apparitions are usually documented and scrutinized by the diocesan bishop's office and then forwarded to Rome for further investigation.
VATICAN SAYS GENDER THEORY, SURROGACY VIOLATE HUMAN DIGNITY IN ETHICS DOCUMENT
V?ctor Manuel Fern?ndez
Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, V?ctor Manuel Fern?ndez poses at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. ((Photo by Franco Origlia/getty Images))
The last time the Vatican doctrinal office released guidance on apparitions was in 1978 under Pope Paul VI. That document, "Norms Regarding the Manner of Proceedings in the Discernment of Presumed Apparitions or Revelations," was released due to the increased influence of mass media.
The Miracle of F?tima in 1917 is perhaps the most well-documented apparition in the modern day. After an alleged series of appearances by the Virgin Mary to several peasant children that promised a public miracle, tens of thousands of people in F?tima, Portugal claimed to witness the sun move erratically across the sky and produce radiant colors for several minutes.
The Catholic Church recognized the "supernatural" aspect of the event in 1930. Pope Pius XII formally approved the F?tima apparitions a decade later.
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Fatima
In this 1952 photo, pilgrims make their way to Fatima in Portugal, to see the site where The Virgin Mary was said to have appeared in 1917. (Bert Hardy/Picture Post/getty Images)
Last month, the Vatican released a document providing guidance on the place of "human dignity" in the modern age.
The document denounced gender theory, gender transitions, and surrogate pregnancies as violating basic moral precepts.
Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com
#20860853 at 2024-05-13 14:52:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25586: DS 86'N Edition
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/intel-rises-in-premarket-on-report-of-11-billion-apollo-investment-in-new-chip-plant-046da5d6?mod=home-page
Intel rises in premarket on report of $11 billion Apollo investment in new chip plant
Last Updated: May 13, 2024 at 9:08 a.m. ET
First Published: May 13, 2024 at 8:45 a.m. ET
By Steve GelsiFollow
Apollo is front-runner on deal after it outshines KKR and Stonepeak, the WSJ report says
Intel stock was up on a report it is in talks to line up $11 billion for a new chip plant. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/getty I
Intel Corp's stock rose 1.1% in premarket trading on Monday after The Wall Street Journal reported it was in talks with Apollo Global Management Inc. to line up $11 billion to construct a new chip plant in Ireland.
The deal with Intel INTC, 3.76% could be finalized within weeks after Apollo outpaced rival firms such as Stonepeak and KKR & Co Inc. KKR, -0.57% for the deal, the report said.
Apollo's High Grade Capital Solutions unit is leading the deal for Apollo.
The new plant is part of Intel's plan to meet increased chip demand.
The potential deal with Apollo comes after Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. BAM, 0.63% inked a $30 billion deal with Intel in 2022 for a chip-making plant in Chandler, Ariz. Intel was to have a controlling stake in the Arizona plant.
Prior to Monday's trades, Intel's stock was down 40.6% in 2024, compared to an 8.9% gain by the Nasdaq NDAQ, 0.86%.
This is important b/c it is part of MEGA (Make Europe Great Again), a subset of MAGA. For reference, Amazon Web & Microsoft announced investments in France of $1B & 4B respectively this past week. Intel has already been awarded $8.5B for domestic production efforts
#20854768 at 2024-05-12 02:00:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25578: He Fights For You Edition
>>20854749
Kek
The double can't handle it or they would have put it in back in 2016
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They will not miss an opportunity to place a getty in the WH by hook or crook. Remember we were two incidents (attempted assassinations and the second one the chick didn't load it properly) away from a Rockefeller as POTUS. The Ford attempts and he was only around for 18 months
#20851542 at 2024-05-11 12:10:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25574: Space is critical to our NAT SEC Edition
>>20851421
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/06/bird-flu-dairy-farms-cdc-00156119
Agriculture
'They need to back off': Farm states push back on Biden's bird flu response
The CDC is locked in a power struggle with key states and agriculture players as it tries to better track the virus and prevent another potential pandemic.
The exterior of the Center for Disease Control headquarters is seen.
The CDC is at the center of the Biden administration's response to the bird flu outbreak in dairy cows. | Jessica McGowan/getty Images
By Meredith Lee Hill, David Lim and Marcia Brown
05/06/2024 05:00 AM EDT
#20847821 at 2024-05-10 18:17:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25569: The Whole World is Watching Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20845168 at 2024-05-10 03:08:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25566: Qwizards Edition
The Telegraph
Milei is already proving the Left-wing economic establishment wrong
Javier Milei was dismissed as a madman on his election - Anna Moneymaker/getty Images North America
Argentina has historically been a country of failed governments, economic collapses, and debt defaults. Yet incredibly there are signs that - against all the odds - the bold, free market reforms of its libertarian President Javier Milei are beginning to work.
With inflation falling, interest rates coming down, and the peso on fire in one market, Milei is already proving the global Left-wing economic establishment - addicted to bigger government and endless deficits - wrong. Indeed, it may provide a template for other countries to escape from zero growth.
First, what's changed in the country: inflation has fallen to 11pc and Milei predicts it will fall further. While a monthly figure (this is Argentina after all), price rises may be coming back under control after soaring above 300pc annually.
Last week, Milei announced that the country had recorded its first quarterly budget surplus since 2008, a modest 0.2pc of GDP, but still an astonishing achievement in such a short space of time, especially for a country that has run deficits for 113 of the last 123 years.
Then, earlier this week, the central bank, which Milei has not yet gotten around to abolishing as he pledged, cut interest rates for the third time in three weeks. While they are still at an eye-watering 50pc, that will start to feed through into the economy very soon. Investors have started to notice.
According to Bloomberg data, in the blue-chip swap market the peso was the best-performing currency in the world in the first quarter of this year, and the bond markets are rallying as well.
It may also get better over the months ahead. With stabilising prices, and a rising currency, investment should start flowing again into a country rich in natural resources and hyper-competitive on wages costs.
If Milei can make good on his promise to unlock the country's vast reserves of shale oil and gas - using technologies that have proved safe and successful in the US - then the economy could even start to boom.
If so, Argentina would be defying a global economic establishment addicted to bigger government, more regulation, and rising deficits.
We keep being lectured, not least by the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, and by President Biden and his acolytes in the United States, on the need for an active state, an industrial strategy, and more borrowing to pay for investment, and that regulation is the key to industrial and economic leadership, not its enemy.
The IMF, meanwhile, was too often a huge cheerleader for the failed Argentinian administrations of the past, extending the biggest loans in its history to the country.
On Milei's election, he was dismissed as a madman who would be removed from office within a matter of months, if not weeks. In proving that narrative wrong, he would show that even after the short-lived catastrophe of the Liz Truss government, free market reforms are far from impossible.
So how is he en route to deliver such a massive shock to the stale economic orthodoxy? Fundamentally, he got three big calls right.
First, even without a majority in parliament, he has been ruthless. Whole government departments have been closed down overnight, regardless of the immediate consequences. The Ministry of Culture was axed, so was the anti-discrimination agency, and the state-owned news service. Only last month, he unveiled plans to fire another 70,000 state employees.
Milei hasn't attempted to cut gradually, to control budgets, or to ease people out with early retirement, or hiring freezes. Instead, he has, as promised, taken a 'chainsaw' to the machinery of the state, yielding huge savings in the process.
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#20841542 at 2024-05-09 12:19:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25562: Some Kind Of Comfy Bake Edition
The 'Micro-Intifada': American Protesters Are Being Trained in 'Militancy'
Guides created by radical groups are teaching pro-Palestinian students to use violence on campus.
Francesca BlockThurs, May 9, 2024
A demonstrator breaks the windows of the front door of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Photo by Alex Kent via getty Images)
Students participating in the Gaza Solidarity Encampments at universities across the countryare being taught to become militants, according to nine manualsobtained by The Free Press.
Many of the manuals, which are being shared via phone group chats with students across the country,encourage "militancy" and instruct protesters to break laws, seize buildings, vandalize them, and then use tactics to evade police detection and arrest.
One guide, called "De-arrest Primer," teaches protesters to physically resist arrest or, in some cases, assault police officersor throw projectiles at them to protect fellow "comrades" from arrest. "Each de-arrest," the guide states, "is a micro-intifada which can spread and inspire others until we may finally shake off this noxious ruling order all together."
Another manual, called the "The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide," contains detailed diagrams on how to break into buildings using tools like crowbars, clamps,metal cables, chains, bolt cutters, and a miniature saw known as an angle grinder.
Instructions from "The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide," which was shared 24 hours after Columbia protesters broke into Hamilton Hall.
Instructions show how to barricade doors with "heavy furniture," create a "shield" against police using trash cans, ropes, sheets of cardboard, or a "corrugated metal banner," and to pick locks using a "technique" developed by "firemen and criminals." "If these less-destructive methods don't work," the guide states, "more aggressive options are abundant," such as using a crowbar to "open a window."
Teachings from "The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide," which was written by organizers of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but updated in 2024 "in light of a nationwide resurgence of student occupations."
Many of these techniques were employed by Columbia students on Tuesday night when they stormed Hamilton Hall, an administrative building at the heart of the university. Protesters smashed through the windows of the hall's main door with hammers and used metal chains to lock them shut. After cops arrested 119 people on the Ivy League campus, they discoveredmultiple glass doors had been broken and barricaded using chairs, refrigerators, and vending machines, according to NYPD's Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard.
Three of the guides encourage college protesters to erase the distinction "between students and non-students." Of the 282 people arrested on Tuesday night between Columbia and the City College of New York, 48 percent were not affiliated with either university, according to the NYPD.
"There is a movement to radicalize young people," NYC mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference Wednesday. "This is a global problem. And young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children, and I'm not going to allow that to happen as the mayor of the city of New York."
https://www.thefp.com/p/student-protest-guides-violence-micro-intafada
#20836624 at 2024-05-08 07:55:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25556: Night Vision Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20836138 at 2024-05-08 04:57:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25555: Quad 5s of Freedom Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20833927 at 2024-05-07 20:03:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25553: ANONS are selfless, nameless, faceless, fameless, and FEARLESS Edition
>>20833921
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20827751 at 2024-05-06 15:22:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25545: Got Your GM Bread Right Here Edition
Expect to see this bird flu photo everywhere.
Farm worker 'bleeding in eyeballs' after catching bird flu in first case of transmission
New images show a Texan dairy farmer after he was the first case to catch bird flu from a mammal - in this case a cow - as scientists warn that this is a "milestone" of "enormous concern"
The first image of a Texas dairy farmer who caughtbird flu from a cow - with his eyeballs seen bleeding.
Thankfully, the man had "very mild" symptoms after contracting HSN1 virus, but the stark image shows how the virus caused bleeding on the surface of his eyeballs. This is because the blood vessels in his eyes popped.
Experts at the CDC say that they think he caught the virus from an infected cow in March. In an official case report, published on Friday, the CDC said that they found "strong evidence" through genetic data that pointed them to this conclusion.
His eyes were bleeding on the surface due to the virus
New England Journal of Medicine)
This revelation shows the first sign of HSN1 virus spreading from mammals to humans. The World Health Organisation said that this is a "milestone" that is of "enormous concern." The images of the patient, plus further details about his case, were published in a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
According to the medical experts, the patient had a subconjunctival haemorrhage, or bleeding just beneath the conjunctiva, or clear surface covering the white part of the eye. He also had a watery liquid discharged from his right eye. The dairy farmer is now the second person to be diagnosed with bird flu in the USA, and perhaps the first to have caught it from a mammal - in this case, a cow.
Experts at the CDC say that they think he caught the virus from an infected cow in March.
Experts at the CDC say that they think he caught the virus from an infected cow in March. (
Image:
getty Images/iStockphoto)
So far, nearly 900 people in 23 countries have been infected with the H5N1 strain of avian flu over the last 20 years. However, they were all linked to wild or kept birds.
The dairy farmer's case comes as experts warn that they are hearing of other farmers falling ill, but not getting tested for HSN1 virus. The Texas patient came to doctors with the infection in late March, with scientists saying his vital signs - such as breathing - were normal. He also had no signs of fever, changes in breathing or vision during the infection.
After being treated with anti-virals, the patient reported no symptoms except for some "discomfort in both eyes." The report added: "Over the subsequent days, the worker reported resolution of conjunctivitis without respiratory symptoms and household contacts remained well."
CDC Director Dr Mandy Cohen said that the patient's condition was "very mild." She told NPR : "The person had very mild symptoms. They're recovering well. But we want to make sure, again, that we are testing folks who may have been in contact."..
(ok I'm going to order and eat more beef. Stock up guys)
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/farm-worker-bleeding-eyeballs-after-32734369
#20827722 at 2024-05-06 15:13:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25545: Got Your GM Bread Right Here Edition
>>20827716
>>20827718
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley 4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20822956 at 2024-05-05 13:43:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25539: Sunday Morning Frog Brigade Edition
D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Testify Over J6 Delay
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
Members of the National Guard assist police officers line up as they assist police in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/getty Images)
OAN's Taylor Tinsley
4:55 PM - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Committee on House Administrations Oversight panel met to hear testimonies from whistleblowers on why it took so long for the National Guard to respond to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Lawmakers met for witness testimony in a hearing called "Three Years Later: D.C. National Guard Whistleblowers Speak Out on January 6 Delay" on Wednesday.
Chairman Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) kicked off the hearing by shedding light on a November 2021 report from the Department of Defense's Acting Inspector General. The report detailed the DOD's response to January 6th, claiming that the National Guard was deployed as soon as possible.
However, the Georgia Republican said it took three hours and 19 minutes to deploy troops on January 6th after receiving orders.
Those testifying Wednesday included:
Colonel Earl Matthews - Chief Legal Advisor, D.C. Army National Guard
Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks - Senior Enlisted Officer, D.C. Army National Guard
Captain Timothy Nick - Aide-de-camp, D.C. Army National Guard
Brigadier General Aaron Dean - Adjutant General, D.C. Army National Guard
In regards to the Inspector General's 2021 report, Loudermilk said the report concludes that the leader of the National Guard response, Maj. Gen. William Walker, received two orders from then U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to deploy troops to the Capitol, once at 4:45 pm and again at 5:00 pm.
"Walker denies that either of these calls took place," Loudermilk said. "Despite the many inconsistencies and contradictions of the DOD's responsibility that day, the select committee on January 6th ignored these discrepancies despite them being shared privately by their own staff and barreled forward with the DOD's side of the story."
The hearing comes after the oversight panel published a never-before released transcribed interview from Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, which showed that the former president offered 10,000 National troops to secure the Capitol. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D-Washington D.C.), however, rejected the call.
Loudermilk said the now-defunct January select committee withheld Ornato's "critical witness testimony from the American people because it contradicted their predetermined narrative."
Colonel Earl Matthews accused two senior officers of the army, Gen. Charles Flynn and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt of lying to Congress and federal investigators about why it took so long to deploy the National Guard.
"That DOD IG report is replete with incorrect, false information," Matthews asserted.
The inspector general blamed the delay on lack of coordination but all witnesses said the National Guard was ready, had the DOD told them to go when they were supposed to.
Matthews sent a memo to the House J6 committee as well as a Senate committee accusing the Army officers of misleading Congress after the 2021 report.
Since coming forward, Matthews hasn't been promoted. This comes after a promotion board in November 2022 recommended he was one of the "best qualified" group of Army Reserve colonels to be promoted to brigadier general.
He later filed a complaint alleging retaliation for testifying to Congress and asked for those responsible to be reprimanded.
"If public confidence in the integrity of government operations is to be restored," the complaint said, "he must be made whole and the responsible officials appropriately disciplined."
Also during Wednesday's testimony, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Brooks, said the delay was due to Secretary McCarthy and other officials being more concerned about "optics."
"I have no idea why we never received that order," Brooks said. "All I do know is that they were more concerned with what it would look like with soldiers with the Capitol in the background than protecting the Capitol of the united states."
Loudermilk said the hearing left them with more questions that need to be answered.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/d-c-national-guard-whistleblowers-testify-over-j6-delay/
#20801349 at 2024-04-30 23:06:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25512: Meat Eater's Edition
Trump heading back into court today, via getty
https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1785357228171551168
#20800024 at 2024-04-30 16:53:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25511: Bullet Bread For Dem Nutz Edition
>>20800012
Pelosi officiated at a getty wedding?
#20800012 at 2024-04-30 16:49:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25511: Bullet Bread For Dem Nutz Edition
>>20799954
what a dweeb.
dedicated to J. Paul getty
just like "Hollywood Babylon2" the book.
Enty already outed these people
#20799465 at 2024-04-30 14:31:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25510: Tuesday Morning Melania Edition
>>20799445
But the question was, how much was the acual Gas bill for the getty into WH that Biden maliciously and deceptively added to the Tax payers?
#20799445 at 2024-04-30 14:26:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25510: Tuesday Morning Melania Edition
>>20799422
Just wait
Really don't wanna see what happened here for everyone but they aren't gonna let slip away getting a getty into WH
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#198104 at 2024-08-07 19:13:19 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1128: Normally men want nothing to do with Tampons.... TIM... EDITION
How Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt helped write A.I. laws in Washington without publicly disclosing investments in A.I. startups(SeeDNC.com)
PUBLISHED MON, OCT 24 2022 10:46 AM EDT
UPDATED MON, OCT 24 2022 1:14 PM EDT
Eamon Javers
@EAMONJAVERS
WATCH LIVE
KEY POINTS
Five months after Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, he made a little-noticed private investment in an initial seed round of financing for a start-up company called Beacon.
It was the first of a handful of direct investments he would make in AI start-up companies during his tenure as chairman of the AI commission.
While there is no indication that Schmidt broke any ethics rules or did anything unlawful, government ethics advisors say his investments presented a huge conflict of interest.
About four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
It was a powerful perch. Congress tasked the new group with a broad mandate: to advise the U.S. government on how to advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other technologies to enhance the national security of the United States.
The mandate was simple: Congress directed the new body to advise on how to enhance American competitiveness on AI against its adversaries, build the AI workforce of the future, and develop data and ethical procedures.
In short, the commission, which Schmidt soon took charge of as chairman, was tasked with coming up with recommendations for almost every aspect of a vital and emerging industry. The panel did far more under his leadership. It wrote proposed legislation that later became law and steered billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to industry he helped build - and that he was actively investing in while running the group.
If you're going to be leading a commission that is steering the direction of government AI and making recommendations for how we should promote this sector and scientific exploration in this area, you really shouldn't also be dipping your hand in the pot and helping yourself to AI investments.
Walter Shaub
SENIOR ETHICS FELLOW, PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT
His credentials, however, were impeccable given his deep experience in Silicon Valley, his experience advising the Defense Department, and a vast personal fortune estimated at about $20 billion.
Five months after his appointment, Schmidt made a little-noticed private investment in an initial seed round of financing for a startup company called Beacon, which uses AI in the company's supply chain products for shippers who manage freight logistics, according to CNBC's review of investment information in database Crunchbase.
There is no indication that Schmidt broke any ethics rules or did anything unlawful while chairing the commission. The commission was, by design, an outside advisory group of industry participants, and its other members included well-known tech executives including Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy and Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Eric Horvitz, among others.
'Conflict of interest'
Schmidt's investment was just the first of a handful of direct investments he would make in AI startup companies during his tenure as chairman of the AI commission.
"It's absolutely a conflict of interest," said Walter Shaub, a senior ethics fellow at the Project on Government Oversight, and a former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
"That's technically legal for a variety of reasons, but it's not the right thing to do," Shaub said.
Venture capital firms financed, in part, by Schmidt and his private family foundation also made dozens of additional investments in AI companies during Schmidt's tenure, giving Schmidt an economic stake in the industry even as he developed new regulations and encouraged taxpayer financing for it. Altogether, Schmidt and entities connected to him made more than 50 investments in AI companies while he was chairman of the federal commission on AI. Information on his investments isn't publicly available.
All that activity meant that, at the same time Schmidt was wielding enormous influence over the future of federal AI policy, he was also potentially positioning himself to profit personally from the most promising young AI companies.
Institutional issues
Schmidt's conflict of interest is not unusual. The investments are an example of a broader issue identified by ethics reformers in Washington, D.C.: outside advisory committees that are given significant sway over industries without enough public disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. "The ethics enforcement process in the executive branch is broken, it does not work," said Craig Holman, a lobbyist on ethics, lobbying and campaign finance for Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy organization. "And so the process itself is partly to blame here."
The federal government counts a total of 57 active federal advisory commissions, with members offering input on everything from nuclear reactor safeguards to environmental rules and global commodities markets.
For years, reformers have tried to impose tougher ethics rules on Washington's sprawling network of outside advisory commissions. In 2010, then-President Barack Obama used an executive order to block federally registered lobbyists from serving on federal boards and commissions. But a group of Washington lobbyists fought back with a lawsuit arguing the new rule was unfair to them, and the ban was scaled back.
'Fifth arm of government'
The nonprofit Project on Government Oversight has called federal advisory committees the "fifth arm of government" and has pushed for changes including additional requirements for posting conflict-of-interest waivers and recusal statements, as well as giving the public more input in nominating committee members. Also in 2010, the House passed a bill that would prohibit the appointment of commission members with conflicts of interest, but the bill died in the Senate.
"It's always been this way," Holman said. "When Congress created the Office of Government Ethics to oversee the executive branch, you know, they didn't really want a strong ethics cop, they just wanted an advisory commission." Holman said each federal agency selects its own ethics officer, creating a vast system of more than 4,000 officials. But those officers aren't under the control of the Office of Government Ethics - there's "no one person in charge," he said.
Eric Schmidt during a news conference at the main office of Google Korea in Seoul on November 8, 2011.
Eric Schmidt during a news conference at the main office of Google Korea in Seoul on November 8, 2011.
Jung Yeon-je | Afp | getty Images
People close to Schmidt say his investments were disclosed in a private filing to the U.S. government at the time. But the public and the news media had no access to that document, which was considered confidential. The investments were not revealed to the public by Schmidt or the commission. His biography on the commission's website detailed his experiences at Google, his efforts on climate change and his philanthropy, among other details. But it did not mention his active investments in artificial intelligence.
A spokesperson for Schmidt told CNBC that he followed all rules and procedures in his tenure on the commission, "Eric has given full compliance on everything," the spokesperson said.
But ethics experts say Schmidt simply should not have made private investments while leading a public policy effort on artificial intelligence.
"If you're going to be leading a commission that is steering the direction of government AI and making recommendations for how we should promote this sector and scientific exploration in this area, you really shouldn't also be dipping your hand in the pot and helping yourself to AI investments," said Shaub of the Project on Government Oversight.
Shaub said there were several ways Schmidt could have minimized this conflict of interest: He could have made the public aware of his AI investments, he could have released his entire financial disclosure report, or he could have made the decision not to invest in AI while he was chair of the AI commission.
Public interest
"It's extremely important to have experts in the government," Shaub said. "But it's, I think, even more important to make sure that you have experts who are putting the public's interests first."
The AI commission, which Schmidt chaired until it expired in the fall of 2021, was far from a stereotypical Washington blue-ribbon commission issuing white papers that few people actually read.
Instead, the commission delivered reports which contained actual legislative language for Congress to pass into law to finance and develop the artificial intelligence industry. And much of that recommended language was written into vast defense authorization bills. Sections of legislative language passed, word for word, from the commission into federal law.
The commission's efforts also sent millions of taxpayer dollars to priorities it identified. In just one case, the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act included $75 million "for implementing the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence recommendations."
At a commission event in September 2021, Schmidt touted the success of his team's approach. He said the commission staff "had this interesting idea that not only should we write down what we thought, which we did, but we would have a hundred pages of legislation that they could just pass." That, Schmidt said, was "an idea that had never occurred to me before but is actually working."
$200 billion modification
Schmidt said one piece of legislation moving on Capitol Hill was "modified by $200 billion." That, he said, was "essentially enabled by the work of the staff" of the commission.
At that same event, Schmidt suggested that his staff had wielded similar influence over the classified annexes to national security-related bills emanating from Congress. Those documents provide financing and direction to America's most sensitive intelligence agencies. To protect national security, the details of such annexes are not available to the American public.
"We don't talk much about our secret work," Schmidt said at the event. "But there's an analogous team that worked on the secret stuff that went through the secret process that has had similar impact."
Asked whether classified language in the annex proposed by the commission was adopted in legislation that passed into law, a person close to Schmidt responded, "due to the classified nature of the NSCAI annex, it is not possible to answer this question publicly. NSCAI provided its analysis and recommendations to Congress, to which members of Congress and their staff reviewed and determined what, if anything, could/should be included in a particular piece of legislation."
Beyond influencing classified language on Capitol Hill, Schmidt suggested that the key to success in Washington was being able to push the White House to take certain actions. "We said we need leadership from the White House," Schmidt said at the 2021 event. "If I've learned anything from my years of dealing with the government, is the government is not run like a tech company. It's run top down. So, whether you like it or not, you have to start at the top, you have to get the right words, either they say it, or you write it for them, and you make it happen. Right? And that's how it really, really works."
Industry friendly
The commission produced a final report with top-line conclusions and recommendations that were friendly to the industry, calling for vastly increased federal spending on AI research and a close working relationship between government and industry.
The final report waived away concerns about too much government intervention in the private sector or too much federal spending.
"This is not a time for abstract criticism of industrial policy or fears of deficit spending to stand in the way of progress," the commission concluded in its 2021 report. "In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower, a fiscally conservative Republican, worked with a Democratic Congress to commit $10 billion to build the Interstate Highway System. That is $96 billion in today's world."
The commission didn't go quite that big, though. In the end, it recommended $40 billion in federal spending on AI, and suggested it should be done hand in hand with tech companies.
"The federal government must partner with U.S. companies to preserve American leadership and to support development of diverse AI applications that advance the national interest in the broadest sense," the commission wrote. "If anything, this report underplays the investments America will need to make."
The urgency driving all of this, the commission said, is Chinese development of AI technology that rivals the software coming out of American labs: "China's plans, resources, and progress should concern all Americans."
China, the commission said, is an AI peer in many areas and a leader in others. "We take seriously China's ambition to surpass the United States as the world's AI leader within a decade," it wrote.
But Schmidt's critics see another ambition behind the commission's findings: steering more federal dollars toward research that can benefit the AI industry.
"If you put a tech billionaire in charge, any framing that you present them, the solution will be, 'give my investments more money,' and that's indeed what we see," said Jack Poulson, executive director of the nonprofit group Tech Inquiry. Poulson formerly worked as a research scientist at Google, but he resigned in 2018 in protest of what he said was Google bending to the censorship demands of the Chinese government.
Too much power?
To Poulson, Schmidt was simply given too much power over federal AI policy. "I think he had too much influence," Poulson said. "If we believe in a democracy, we should not have a couple of tech billionaires, or, in his case, one tech billionaire, that is essentially determining US government allocation of hundreds of billions of dollars."
The federal commission wound down its work on Oct. 1, 2021.
Four days later, on Oct. 5, Schmidt announced a new initiative called the Special Competitive Studies Project. The new entity would continue the work of the congressionally created federal commission, with many of the same goals and much of the same staff. But this would be an independent nonprofit and operate under the financing and control of Schmidt himself, not Congress or the taxpayer. The new project, he said, will "make recommendations to strengthen America's long-term global competitiveness for a future where artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies reshape our national security, economy, and society."
The CEO of Schmidt's latest initiative would be the same person who had served as the executive director of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. More than a dozen staffers from the federal commission followed Schmidt to the new private sector project. Other people from the federal commission came over to Schmidt's private effort, too: Vice Chair Robert Work, a former deputy secretary of defense, would serve on Schmidt's board of advisors. Mac Thornberry, the congressman who appointed Schmidt to the federal commission in the first place, was now out of office and would also join Schmidt's board of advisors.
They set up new office space just down the road from the federal commission's headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia, and began to build on their work at the federal commission.
The new Special Competitive Studies Project issued its first report on Sept. 12. The authors wrote, "Our new project is privately funded, but it remains publicly minded and staunchly nonpartisan in believing technology, rivalry, competition and organization remain enduring themes for national focus."
The report calls for the creation of a new government entity that would be responsible for organizing the government-private sector nexus. That new organization, the report says, could be based on the roles played by the National Economic Council or the National Security Council inside the White House.
It is not clear if the project will disclose Schmidt's personal holdings in AI companies. So far, it has not.
Asked if Schmidt's AI investments will be disclosed by the project in the future, a person close to Schmidt said, "SCSP is organized as a charitable entity, and has no relationship to any personal investment activities of Dr. Schmidt." The person also said the project is a not-for-profit research entity that will provide public reports and recommendations. "It openly discloses that it is solely funded by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation."
In a way, Schmidt's approach to Washington is the culmination of a decade or more as a power player in Washington. Early on, he professed shock at the degree to which industry influenced policy and legislation in Washington. But since then, his work on AI suggests he has embraced that fact of life in the capital.
Obama donor
Schmidt first came to prominence on the Potomac as an early advisor and donor to the first presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Following the 2008 election, he served on Obama's presidential transition and as a presidential advisor on science and technology issues. Schmidt had risen to the heights of power and wealth in Silicon Valley, but what he saw in the nation's capital surprised him.
In a 2010 conversation with The Atlantic's then Editor-in Chief James Bennet, Schmidt told a conference audience what he had learned in his first years in the nation's capital. "The average American doesn't realize how much the laws are written by lobbyists," Schmidt said. "It's shocking now, having spent a fair amount of time inside the system, how the system actually works. It is obvious that if the system is organized around incumbencies writing the laws, the incumbencies will benefit from the laws that are written."
Bennet, pushing back, suggested that Google was already one of the greatest incumbent corporations in America.
"Well, perhaps," Schmidt replied in 2010. "But we don't write the laws."
- CNBC's Paige Tortorelli, Bria Cousins, Scott Zamost and Margaret Fleming contributed to this report.
#197787 at 2024-08-05 10:48:28 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1126: Midnight Riders are the TIP of the Digital Spear EDITION
(#07.)
>>197766
(8/04/2024)
https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1820206697723642177
PapiTrumpo (TwiX) EPIC WEEKEND!!!??????
17:14 EST
1714
>>2298388
i suspected this from the beginning.
shops dont mean the post itself isnt real.
>>2298410
How do you hide a message in clear sight?
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https://truthsocial.com/@ilpresidento/posts/112905823502713849
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>>2298410
How do you hide a message in clear sight?
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>>2298430
You'd be amazed how much is shared on /pol/.
Data exchange.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/thank-you-jeff-sessions-1522708237
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https://web.archive.org/web/20180913184734/https://www.wsj.com/articles/thank-you-jeff-sessions-1522708237
Thank You, Jeff Sessions(
A capable U.S. attorney is a far better choice than a second special counsel.
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By William McGurn
April 2, 2018 6:30 p.m. ET
Attorney General Jeff Sessions applauds as President Donald Trump speaks in Manchester, N.H., March 19.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions applauds as President Donald Trump speaks in Manchester, N.H., March 19. PHOTO: MANDEL NGAN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/getty IMAGES
What does Jeff Sessions have to do to get a nice tweet from his boss?
On Thursday the attorney general released a letter informing Congress that he'd asked Utah-based U.S. Attorney John Huber to investigate lawmakers' complaints about the Justice Department and the FBI. Turns out Mr. Huber has been working on this investigation, in concert with the Justice Department's inspector general, since November. The news of Mr. Huber's appointment came two days after a statement from FBI Director Christopher Wray confirming a similar push by Mr. Sessions to get agents responding to congressional subpoenas off their tuchuses.
Notwithstanding the thin news coverage, these are big steps. Yet few on the GOP side seemed pleased. Though Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) specifically said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he was delighted Mr. Sessions had not opted for a second special counsel to look into allegations of FBI misconduct in its probe into Hillary Clinton's emails and its application for a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate, other Republicans groused.
Then there's the president. While Donald Trump remains silent (for now at least) about the appointment of Mr. Huber, on Monday morning he tweeted another dig at his attorney general's leadership:
"So sad that the Department of 'Justice' and the FBI are slow walking, or even not giving, the unredacted documents requested by Congress. An embarrassment to our country!"
Mr. Trump is right about the slow-walking of files in defiance of congressional subpoenas. He's also right that critical info has been redacted from documents sent to Capitol Hill. This includes the lively little text chat between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page about how they might arrange to meet with a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge while making it appear accidental.
Still, the president is behind the curve. To begin with, the only reason Mr. Wray has promised the FBI will do better is because Mr. Sessions leaned on him. More to the point, this is a problem the president could easily resolve himself, by using his authority to declassify material as well as assigning someone not only to get Congress the information it seeks but to review all redacted material to see what the bureaucrats are hiding.
As for Mr. Huber, though his appointment elicited barely a yawn in the news cycles, this is not a mistake the FBI's recently sacked deputy director, Andrew McCabe, is making. Could it be that Mr. McCabe established a GoFundMe legal defense fund-which now has more than half a million dollars in it-because he knows what is in that soon-to-be-released inspector general's report?
Those disappointed with Mr. Sessions's decision don't seem to recognize that Mr. Huber has pretty much the same powers that Robert Mueller enjoys: to get search warrants, to subpoena witnesses and documents, and to ask a grand jury to indict. The only advantages of a special counsel are ones that should be discouraged: an Inspector Javert-like focus on a single target or set of targets that goes on much longer than it should and strays far from the original mandate.
Like so many other bad ideas that plague American political life, the special counsel as we conceive of it today is the bastard son of the Nixon era. After the initial Watergate prosecutors were thought to lack sufficient independence in going after the president, Congress during the Jimmy Carter era passed the Ethics in Government Act, which provided for the appointment of a truly independent special prosecutor.
The only good thing to come out of this terrible law was Justice Antonin Scalia's brilliant and solitary dissent savaging it in Morrison v. Olson (1988)-arguably his finest opinion. In 1999, after unhappy bipartisan experience with independent counsels, Congress let the provision lapse. Now special counsels such as Mr. Mueller are more limited legal beasts.
But it remains a dreadful idea. As former assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy notes, if a special counsel is truly "special"-i.e., not accountable to the president like every other executive employee-then he is constitutionally suspect. If he's not special, it is unclear why he is an improvement over any capable U.S. attorney.
For Congress, the even bigger problem is the conflict between the goals of a special counsel (indictments) and the exercise of legislative oversight (political accountability). In his "Meet the Press" interview Sunday, Sen. Johnson noted that the primary casualty of this clash is public disclosure. Note to GOP members: If you think the FBI and Justice Department are arrogant about sharing information, see what happens when a special counsel moves in.
By reading the riot act to his reluctant FBI director and shunning the appointment of another special counsel, Mr. Sessions has rendered a service to the Constitution, to good government and even to Mr. Trump, though he may not realize it. Perhaps even worthy of a celebratory presidential tweet.
Write to mcgurn@wsj. com.
#197624 at 2024-08-04 12:00:09 (UTC+1)
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>>197623
RE:They broke in during the fire:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190223031946/https://www.wsj.com/articles/timeline-of-the-donald-trump-stormy-daniels-saga-1525373930
Timeline of the Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels Saga (WSJ/ Wayback link)
Key moments in the unraveling of what happened, from when The Wall Street Journal first broke the news to today
May 3, 2018 2:58 p.m. ET
On Wednesday evening, Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, said Mr. Trump repaid Michael Cohen for the $130,000 payment Mr. Cohen made to Stephanie Clifford, a former porn actress known as Stormy Daniels, before the 2016 election. The remarks by Mr. Giuliani came about a month after Mr. Trump, speaking with reporters on Air Force One, said he hadn't known about the payment.
Below, a timeline of the significant developments in the Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels saga since The Wall Street Journal in January broke the news of the payment.
President Donald Trump said his lawyer Michael Cohen was reimbursed for a payment Mr. Cohen made to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump. Here are some of Mr. Trump's and the White House's responses to the allegations over the past few months. Photo: getty
Jan. 12
The Journal publishes an article saying Mr. Cohen, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, arranged a $130,000 payment to Ms. Clifford to preclude her from publicly disclosing an alleged 2006 sexual encounter. Mr. Cohen doesn't address the $130,000 but says Mr. Trump vehemently denies any such occurrence. Mr. Cohen releases a statement, signed by "Stormy Daniels," denying a sexual and/or romantic affair with Mr. Trump or receiving hush money from Mr. Trump.
Jan. 18
The Journal reports that Mr. Cohen used a private Delaware company to pay Ms. Clifford in exchange from her signing a nondisclosure agreement. To mask the identities of the people in the agreement, Ms. Clifford is identified as "Peggy Peterson" and Mr. Trump is called "David Dennison." White House spokesman Raj Shah, when asked by members of the press about Ms. Clifford, says this allegation was "asked and answered during the campaign."
Timeline of the Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels Saga
Feb. 13
Mr. Cohen says he "facilitated" the payment to Ms. Clifford out of his personal funds. "Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly," Mr. Cohen says in a statement. Mr. Cohen doesn't address whether Mr. Trump reimbursed him directly.
March 5
The Journal reports that Mr. Cohen wired the payment to Ms. Clifford on Oct. 27, 2016, and that Mr. Cohen missed two deadlines that month to make the payment because he couldn't reach Mr. Trump in the final days of the campaign, citing a person familiar with the matter. After the election, Mr. Cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to Ms. Clifford, people familiar with the matter told the Journal. Mr. Cohen's comment to the Journal: "Fake News."
March 6
Ms. Clifford sues Mr. Trump and Essential Consultants, the Delaware company Mr. Cohen used to make the payment, but not Mr. Cohen himself. Ms. Clifford says Mr. Cohen used "intimidation and coercive tactics" to force her to sign the earlier statement denying a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump in 2006. Mr. Cohen tells Vanity Fair that he didn't threaten Ms. Clifford.
March 26
Ms. Clifford sues Mr. Cohen, saying he portrayed her as having lied about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, which she discussed the previous night in an interview with CBS. "The president doesn't believe any of the claims [Stormy] Daniels made in the interview last night were accurate," says Mr. Shah, the White House spokesman. "There's nothing to corroborate her claim." A lawyer for Mr. Cohen calls the claim "frivolous and ridiculous."
April 5
Mr. Trump, with reporters on Air Force One, denies knowing about the payment made to Ms. Clifford. Asked whether he had known about $130,000, Mr. Trump responds: "No." Asked why his attorney, Mr. Cohen, had made the payment, the president responds: "You'll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You'll have to ask Michael." Mr. Trump also says he didn't know where the money from the payment had come from. "No, I don't know."
Timeline of the Donald Trump-Stormy Daniels Saga
April 9
FBI agents seize records during a search of Mr. Cohen's office, hotel room and home. Separately, the Journal reports that federal authorities demand bank records related to the $130,000 payment pursuant to a subpoena.
April 15
The Journal reports that the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan is examining whether Mr. Cohen committed bank fraud by taking out a home-equity credit line for the payment to Ms. Clifford, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Cohen denies any wrongdoing.
Michael Cohen in New York City on April 15.
April 26
Mr. Trump, in an interview with Fox News, says Mr. Cohen has done "a tiny, tiny little fraction" of his legal work, including "this crazy Stormy Daniels deal he represented me on."
May 2
Rudy Giuliani, newly hired as a lawyer for Mr. Trump, says on Fox News in an interview with Sean Hannity that the president reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Ms. Clifford. Mr. Giuliani said the agreement was made to "stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair." Mr. Giuliani says the president had reimbursed Mr. Cohen in monthly installments of $35,000 throughout 2017, and that the payments were perfectly legal. "It's not campaign money. No campaign finance violation." Mr. Hannity asks: "Because they funneled it through the law firm?" Mr. Giuliani replies: "Funneled it through the law firm, and the president repaid him."
May 3
Mr. Trump tweets: "Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties, known as a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA." He continues: "These agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth." The president continues, "The agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. Prior to its violation by Ms. Clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll [sic] in this transaction." Mr. Giuliani, in an interview with Fox, says the payment to Ms. Clifford was meant to prevent damaging information from coming out in the last days of the campaign. "Imagine if that came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton, " Mr. Giuliani says. "Cohen didn't even ask. He made it go away. He did his job."
-Jennifer S. Forsyth
#194227 at 2024-07-04 13:37:49 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1099: Hebby Freaking Independence Day AMERICA!! July 4th Edition
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/20-people-rescued-from-disneyland-calif-incredicoaster/
>>194204
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
20 riders trapped atop Disney California Adventure Park roller coaster for over an hour(NYPost.com)
Allie Griffin
A group of thrill-seekers got more than they paid for at Disney California Adventure Park on Sunday.
Twenty people at the amusement park got trapped atop a roller coaster for more than an hour when the ride stopped on the tracks around 1:30 p.m. as sweltering heat hit the state.
Disneyland employees, wearing safety harnesses, eventually got the Incredicoaster riders down to the ground level, according to the independent news agency OC Hawk.
The trapped riders were given umbrellas to get some relief from the sun beating down on them before they were rescued from the 120-foot-tall coaster.
Temperatures climbed to the high 80s in Anaheim on Sunday.
Disneyland Incredicoaster
Twenty people got trapped atop the Incredicoaster in Disney California Adventure Park Sunday when the roller coaster stalled. MediaNews Group via getty Images
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It's unclear why the ride malfunctioned, but it was the second day in a row that it stopped mid-ride with passengers on its tracks.
A Disneyland guest who was staying at a nearby hotel overlooking the park told KNBC-TV that he watched the "Incredibles"-themed ride stall on Saturday from his hotel room balcony.
"I thought maybe the ride was closed," VinceCrandon told the outlet. "I was really concerned for the heat and obviously for the people... it was not moving and was on top of the apex."
Disneyland sign
The coaster also stalled mid-ride on Saturday, according to a witness. Gado via getty Images
The Incredicoaster, which goes 55 mph at top speed, remained closed for the rest of Sunday.
A representative for Disney didn't immediately respond to a Post inquiry.
#194225 at 2024-07-04 13:35:01 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1099: Hebby Freaking Independence Day AMERICA!! July 4th Edition
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/20-people-rescued-from-disneyland-calif-incredicoaster/
>>194204
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
20 riders trapped atop Disney California Adventure Park roller coaster for over an hour(NYPost.com)
Allie Griffin
A group of thrill-seekers got more than they paid for at Disney California Adventure Park on Sunday.
Twenty people at the amusement park got trapped atop a roller coaster for more than an hour when the ride stopped on the tracks around 1:30 p.m. as sweltering heat hit the state.
Disneyland employees, wearing safety harnesses, eventually got the Incredicoaster riders down to the ground level, according to the independent news agency OC Hawk.
The trapped riders were given umbrellas to get some relief from the sun beating down on them before they were rescued from the 120-foot-tall coaster.
Temperatures climbed to the high 80s in Anaheim on Sunday.
Disneyland Incredicoaster
Twenty people got trapped atop the Incredicoaster in Disney California Adventure Park Sunday when the roller coaster stalled. MediaNews Group via getty Images
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It's unclear why the ride malfunctioned, but it was the second day in a row that it stopped mid-ride with passengers on its tracks.
A Disneyland guest who was staying at a nearby hotel overlooking the park told KNBC-TV that he watched the "Incredibles"-themed ride stall on Saturday from his hotel room balcony.
"I thought maybe the ride was closed," VinceCrandon told the outlet. "I was really concerned for the heat and obviously for the people... it was not moving and was on top of the apex."
Disneyland sign
The coaster also stalled mid-ride on Saturday, according to a witness. Gado via getty Images
The Incredicoaster, which goes 55 mph at top speed, remained closed for the rest of Sunday.
A representative for Disney didn't immediately respond to a Post inquiry.
#194223 at 2024-07-04 13:32:05 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/us-marshals-find-41-missing-kids-and-bust-3-including-sex-offender-in-five-week-nyc-operation/
>>194204
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
US Marshals find 41 missing kids and bust 3 -including sex offender - in five-week NYC operation(NYPost.com)
Joe Marino and
Dozens of missing kids were found and three people busted - including a sex offender - in a five-week-long citywide joint operation conducted by the US Marshals Service, NYPD and Homeland Security Investigations.
Officials tracked down 41 "critically missing children" - including those coerced by adults into criminal activity or sex trafficking, or frequent runaways - during "Operation We Will Find You 2," which spanned more than a month and wrapped up on Monday, the marshals said.
A sex offender with local warrants was arrested, in addition to two other people, who were wanted on charges including robbery and parental kidnapping, according to the marshals.
U.S. Marshals in military vests standing outside Brooklyn Federal Court during the arraignment of individuals on terrorism charges 3
Dozens of missing kids were found and three people busted - including a sex offender - in a five-week-long citywide operation under the helm of US Marshals. getty Images
United States Marshals standing guard outside the Old Federal Courthouse in Lower Manhattan 3
Four cases were referred to law enforcement agencies for further investigation, marshals said. AFP via getty Images
Four cases - involving alleged assault, rape, sex trafficking and failure to register as a sex offender - were referred to law enforcement agencies for further investigation, marshals said.
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"We are committed to leaving no stone unturned in our efforts to bring missing children home safely," Ralph Sozio, the US Marshal for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. "Through the collaboration of our law enforcement partners and community involvement, we aim to make a meaningful impact in safeguarding our children and bringing anyone who harms them to justice."
The kids - some who suffered from mental illnesses - were found inside random apartments, others camping out in stairwells and still others living on the city streets, officials said.
While some previously lived in the city's homeless shelters or foster care, others were from out-of-state and ended up in the Big Apple.
One of the suspects was placed in cuffs after coming off an international flight.
"There is an epidemic of missing children in the United States," Vincent DeMarco, the US Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement. "Missing children must be reported and found quickly because they are vulnerable to sex trafficking, exploitation and can suffer unimaginable harm. I am very proud of the results of this operation and the impact it will have on the children's lives."
Marshals from the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York were involved in the operation, along with members of the New York / New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, Special Agents from HSI New York Human Trafficking Task Force, as well as NYPD Detectives from the Human Trafficking and Missing Persons Unit.
U.S. Marshal instructing Department of Homeland Security officers outside Moakley Federal Court in Boston after announcement of a verdict in Boston Marathon Bombing case, 2015 3
One of the suspects was placed in cuffs after coming off an international flight. AP
Experts from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children also lended a hand.
The US Marshals Service says it has recovered more than 2,000 missing children since 2005.
#194222 at 2024-07-04 13:29:08 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/opinion/jill-bidens-vogue-cover-proves-how-out-of-touch-the-family-is/
>>194204
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
Jill Biden's Vogue cover proves how painfully out of touch the president's family is(NYPost.com)
Kirsten Fleming
After Biden's horrific debate performance on Thursday, much of the media world reluctantly conceded that our 46th president looks like a lost toddler.
And then there's Vogue - which literally couldn't stop the presses. The fashion-bible-turned-Dem-PR-machine was already rolling out its July issue, with cover model Jill Biden in a silk cream Ralph Lauren dress that retails for $4,990.
The magazine landed on the internet Monday morning with a resounding, wincing thud.
It was tone deaf. It was tacky - but this shoot and interview, conducted months ago, would have been messy even if the debate disaster had never happened.
Jill Biden on the cover of Vogue. 8
Jill Biden covers Vogue in an ill-timed and fawning profile that landed right after her husband's debate debacle. Norman Jean Roy/Vogue
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Jill has the gall to tell the writer, "We don't need more chaos." This from one of the country's top chaos agents, a woman who is reportedly encouraging her visibly frail husband by telling him, and us, that he should keep running the country.
The sycophantic piece paints her as a tireless everywoman out in the world: the president's eyes and ears. (Hey, someone's gotta be at this point.)
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"Look, I know that food prices are up," she said, adding that she shops for her own groceries in Wilmington, Delaware. She still teaches at a community college in Virginia. She's a "down-to-earth Dr. B.," who assigns her students articles instead of books, "because books are expensive."
She gathers and feeds Joe intel.
Joe Biden looking confused at the debate. 8
The Vogue profile dropped after Joe Biden had a dismal debate performance which sparked many in the media to admit that he's not sharp enough to be president. getty Images
"I tell him what I'm seeing, what I'm hearing - and he gets it. And this is where the magic happens," she says.
But there's nothing enchanting about Jill shepherding her husband through menial tasks to appear capable.
"Joe, you did such a great job," Jill told him after the debate, as if speaking to a child embarking on his potty training. "You answered every question."
No 2024 Biden campaign piece would be complete without a healthy infusion of the old fear-mongering Dem mantra "Democracy is on the line" - which Jill literally tells Vogue, before rolling out variations:
"Each campaign is unique. But this one, the urgency is different. We know what's at stake," she says. "Joe is asking the American people to come together to draw a line in the sand against all this vitriol."
Jill Biden tells Joe Biden that he did "such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts." 8
After the debate Jill Biden treated her husband like a toddler, telling him he did "such a great job."
Too bad the Vogue writer never addressed Biden's advanced age. Or how an abundance of trips around the sun have clearly taken a physical and mental toll on the incumbent, who is prone to fall, freeze and mumble.
At the 11th hour, the magazine added an online editor's note addressing last Thursday's debate disaster.
"[The Biden family] will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he's been president. We will continue to fight," Jill said with the deluded confidence of Apollo Creed going into round two against Ivan Drago.
But we're not talking about the last four years. That's history. We're talking about the next four. At a frail 81, Joe's sharpest days are in the rearview mirror. We know it. The Bidens know it.
Jill Biden's first Vogue cover. 8
In August 2021, Jill Biden had her first Vogue cover.
Yet the president's family - reportedly led by his wife and his addict son Hunter - is operating under the assumption that they're entitled to a second term. That we're living in the United States of Biden, not America.
Jill added that her husband would "will always do what's best for the country." Except step down, of course.
When most families see their loved ones careening down the express lane to dementiaville, they take the keys. The Bidens, however, summon a world class photographer and the exacting hand of Anna Wintour. Not to mention George Clooney to front a fundraiser.
The Biden family celebrates Fourth of July at the White House. 8
Joe Biden's family is reportedly rallying around the president, encouraging him to continue in the race. Chris Kleponis - Pool via CNP / MEGA
They are arrogantly operating in a bygone era, when glamour moved voters. Relying on showbiz and fashion to make their desired illusion reality.
Ultimately, it's about keeping a grip on the lever of power, and shamelessly exploiting an old man to do so.
In the Vogue profile's opening paragraph, the writer inadvertently tells on the Bidens' intoxication by influence.
Jill Biden and her granddaughter Naomi cover Vogue. 8
Jill Biden and granddaughter Naomi shared an online Vogue cover in a spread on Naomi's wedding. Vogue
"If you want to know what power feels like, try to get yourself driven around in a motorcade," the story says describing how they "run red lights and whip round curves so fast I can barely take in the commonplace American view. Tract housing, big box stores, churches, office parks, semi-industrial no-man's-land."
Vogue gushes that, "It's as if the world is holding its breath. For you. Also, rules don't apply."
Maybe for a time, they don't. But Father Time is, indeed, undefeated. Biden didn't break his leg, or get a knee replacement. His brain power is withering in front of our very eyes.
Jill Biden poses for Vogue. 8
Jill Biden poses for Vogue in Michael Kors. In a caption for this photo, the magazine dubs her "the listener." Norman Jean Roy/Vogue
Sadly, Biden will be remembered not as a spry, verbal sparrer with the gift of gab, but as the picture of aging and senility.
Confused, doddering and in decline.
But the Bidens have their priorities. And Dr. Jill can now add another Vogue cover to her wall. It's her third. Hopefully they give her comfort when she's watching Trump's acceptance speech.
#194221 at 2024-07-04 13:27:45 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1099: Hebby Freaking Independence Day AMERICA!! July 4th Edition
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/opinion/after-the-supreme-courts-ruling-on-presidential-immunity-end-lawfare-for-good/
>>194204
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
With the Supremes' ruling on presidential immunity, it's time to end lawfare once and for all(NYPost.com)
By Post Editorial Board
Former President Donald Trump and his attorney Todd Blanche exiting Manhattan Criminal Court and speaking to the media on May 30, 2024
Monday's Supreme Court ruling guarantees that special counsel Jack Smith's effort to put Trump on trial for Jan. 6 can at best only rattle for years through the courts, writes The Post Editorial Board. getty Images
President Donald Trump's behavior in the runup to, and on, Jan. 6 was outrageous: That much is beyond doubt. Yet Monday's Supreme Court ruling guarantees that special counsel Jack Smith's effort to put Trump on trial for that can at best only rattle for years through the courts.
The high court declared (6-3) that presidents enjoy "absolute" immunity from prosecution for "official acts"; it'd take months at least to get final rulings that some of Trump's actions back then weren't official acts, and the decision clearly puts the kibosh on some of Smith's key arguments in his larger case claiming that Trump conspired to overturn the 2020 election.
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In short, this is going nowhere before Election Day, and then the voters will have their say - after which the Justice Department will likely have to drop the charges.
Plus, Congress already has had its say, in the 2021 impeachment and Senate trial over Jan. 6 charges.
The best course now would be for Smith to drop the case altogether and for prosecutors, and their Democratic patrons, to swear off the use of further lawfare to take down political foes once and for all.
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All that continuing this prosecution does is continue to sow division and weaken the nation's already shaky political institutions. In the long run, the real victim here is the American public and its trust in the rule of law from a barrage of political salvos badly disguised as prosecutions.
Democrats can and certainly will keep pressing their political case, following up on Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 committee.
We're not forgiving Trump for refusing to accept the 2020 election's results despite having exhausted all court challenges, nor for standing silent and essentially encouraging rioters to block Congress' certification of the electoral votes on Jan 6.
Yet treating any of that as criminal actions has always been fraught, and the Constitution names impeachment as the way to correct presidential misconduct.
And the lawfare approach has failed; continuing it can only score a few pyrrhic partisan points at the expense of national unity.
Doesn't America have enough real problems - the border, inflation, foreign threats - without having to endure more political division spawned by a judicial system many already distrust?
For the good of the country, the court's ruling Monday should be an impetus to call an amnesty on any further use of all lawfare as a political weapon.
By the same token, Trump should vow that if he wins in November, he won't prosecute President Biden in revenge.
It's time for both sides to quit the games. Far too much is at stake.
Short-sighted escalatory tit-for-tat legal battles risk collapsing the very pillars of America's political foundation.
#194219 at 2024-07-04 13:25:06 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/disgraced-crash-director-paul-haggis-owes-stiffed-trial-vendor-in-ny-rape-suit-115k-judge/
>>194204
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
Disgraced 'Crash' director Paul Haggis owes stiffed trial vendor in NY rape suit $115K: judge(NYPost.com)
Peter Senzamici
Paul Haggis Ordered To Pay Rape Accuser $7.5 Million
Add it to his tab, judge.
Disgraced "Crash" director Paul Haggis was ordered to pay $115,000 by a Manhattan judge on Monday - on top of the $10 million he owes his rape accuser.
The former Hollywood bigshot failed to respond to a legal action brought by a trial prep services company claiming that he stiffed them of tens of thousands of dollars and has been dodging their emails and letters ever since.
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Movie director Paul Haggis was ordered to pay $115,000 by a Manhattan judge on Monday. Steven Hirsch
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In an email from April 2023, Haggis told the company, called TransPerfect, that he couldn't find "any agreement he signed for these services," according to court records.
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Breest accused the filmmaker of raping her at his Soho apartment in 2013. Steven Hirsch
The company provided the "Million Dollar Baby" screenwriter with trial prep services, including printed visuals, database preparation and consultancy, priced at over $73,000.
Haggis was ordered to pay that amount plus interest and attorney fees by a Manhattan judge on Monday, for a total of $115,486.
The amount pales in comparison to the $10 million judgment he owes to rape accuser, former film publicist Haleigh Breest, as he hides out in Italy and offers pricey acting classes.
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Haggis, 71, testified at his civil trial that he couldn't afford to pay Breest what she was owed. AFP via getty Images
Haggis, 71, testified at his civil trial that he couldn't afford to pay Breest what she was owed.
Breest accused the filmmaker of raping her at his Soho apartment in 2013.
Attorneys for Haggis and Breest did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
#194218 at 2024-07-04 13:23:30 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/trump-bounces-ahead-of-biden-in-nh-marking-12-point-swing-from-december-poll/
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Trump bounces ahead of Biden in New Hampshire in 12-point swing from December: poll(NYPost.com)
Ryan King
Eye-popping 72% don't think Biden has the mental and physical strength to be president: poll
Former President Donald Trump bounced ahead of President Biden in New Hampshire, marking a 12-point shift from December, a new survey found.
Trump narrowly edged out Biden 44% to 42%, while 4% said they would vote for Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. according to a St. Anselm College Survey Center poll.
That's a sizable swing from last December when the same survey pegged Biden ahead with 49% to Trump's 39% and Kennedy's 8%.
Unlike that December poll, the most recent one does factor in the new crew of third-party contenders, including Libertarian Chase Oliver (0%), Green Party contender Jill Stein (1%), and Independent Cornel West (1%).
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President Biden was kept off the New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot due to a flap between the party and the state. AFP via getty Images
"Biden leads among voters who dislike both candidates. However, more Democratic voters are drifting toward independent candidates than their Republican counterparts," New Hampshire Institute of Politics executive director Neil Levesque explained.
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"While 89% of Republicans are solidly backing Trump, Biden secures the support of only 82% of Democrats."
Still, Biden retains the advantage in the most recent RealClearPolitics aggregate of New Hampshire polling, with a 3 percentage point lead in a head-to-head matchup.
Trump, 78, has the advantage in the national RCP aggregate and in most of the key battleground states as well.
Despite having a Republican governor and legislature the GOP hasn't won a presidential race in the Granite State since 2000. New Hampshire has a paltry four votes in the Electoral College.
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Donald Trump has been keen on expanding the presidential map for Republicans. getty Images
However, the poll indicates that Trump is running more competitively than usual for Republicans in the presidential arena.
Problematic for Biden is his ability to corral liberal votes. Progressives have splintered this election cycle over the Israel-Hamas war and hundreds of thousands wrote in some iteration of "uncommitted" in protest of Biden's support for the US ally.
"For Biden to succeed, he must solidify his support among very liberal voters. Currently, only 67% of this group supports him, with 15% still undecided," Levesque continued.
"Trump, on the other hand, is faring better among moderates (44% to 38%), undeclared voters (40% to 38%), and swing voters (39% to 21%)."
Some analysts have observed that Democrats in competitive down-ballot races across the country are faring better than Biden.
In terms of favorability, Biden scored 39% favorable to 59% unfavorable, while Trump clocked in at 42% to 57%, per the poll.
Among the so-called double-haters, Biden scored 30% support, while Trump nabbed 13%, per the poll.
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Democrats have consistently won New Hampshire in the presidential race over the last two decades. getty Images
A key source of reluctance for voters when it comes to Biden is age with 45% saying it made them "less" or "much less" likely to back him, compared to 45% who said no difference and 9% who said "more" or "somewhat more" likely.
Meanwhile, when it comes to Trump's conviction, 43% indicated it made them "less" or "much less" likely to vote for him, while 35% said "no difference," and 22% suggested it made them "more" or "somewhat more" likely to back him.
The poll was taken between June 28-29, just after the Thursday debate between Trump and Biden that pushed consternation of the incumbent's age to a fever pitch.
It sampled 1,700 votes and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.
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>>194204
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/trump-inches-ahead-of-biden-nationally-after-cnn-debate/
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
Trump inches ahead of Biden nationally after prez's disastrous debate: new poll(NYPost.com)
Victor Nava
Former President Donald Trump has inched ahead of President Biden in the first national poll since the incumbent's disastrous CNN debate.
The presumptive Republican nominee for president leads Biden by 1 percentage point, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday, which also showed fewer voters than ever see the 81-year-old commander in chief as mentally fit.
The survey of more than 10,000 registered voters, conducted between June 28 and June 30, found Trump with 44% support compared to Biden's 43% backing.
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Trump has overtaken Biden in Morning Consult's national poll released Monday. REUTERS
The same poll had Biden leading the 78-year-old former president as recently as June 16 - by 1 percentage point - and showed both candidates tied last week, prior to the debate, on June 23.
"The relative stasis in the race suggests Biden's alarming debate performance might not have surprised voters as much as it surprised Democrats in Washington," the pollster said.
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However, concern over Biden's mental and physical fitness in the aftermath of his showdown with Trump has sharply increased.
Overall, only 37% of voters said the president is mentally fit for office - down 6 points from Morning Consult's last pre-debate survey.
The drop was driven by Democratic voters, of whom 68% believe Biden is fit enough to serve - a stunning 9 point drop from before the debate.
"Both numbers are the lowest on record," according to the outlet, which has been posing the question to voters since 2020.
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More voters feel Biden isn't fit for office in the wake of his debate performance, the poll found. AFP via getty Images
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The poll also found independent voters favoring Trump over Biden (37% to 33%), and the former president retaining more support from his 2020 voters than his opponent is (89% to 82%).
Overall, only 5% of voters remain undecided and 8% indicated that they were planning to vote for a candidate other than Trump or Biden.
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Biden would be 86 years old by the end of a second term in the White House.
Last week, Biden appeared infirmed and was at times incoherent - alarming Democratic donors and strategists - during his first of two scheduled debates against Trump.
The president has faced mounting calls to end his re-election bid following his dismal performance.
A separate Morning Consult post-debate poll of 2,086 voters found that 59% of independents and 47% of Democrats agreed that Biden should be replaced as the party's presidential candidate.
#194216 at 2024-07-04 13:19:11 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/opinion/post-debate-biden-freak-out-paints-lefty-media-in-a-corner/
>>194204
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Dems' post-debate freak-out paints lefty media in a corner as Biden hangs on(NYPost.com)
Joe Concha
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President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential debate with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. AFP via getty Images/ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS
Let's be blunt: This is shaping up to be arguably the worst seven days for the Democratic Party and its media allies of our lifetimes.
It's a DefCon 1 level of panic throughout the party as Democrats process that, if the presidential election were held today, Donald Trump would win in a landslide.
We all witnessed what happened Thursday night in Atlanta: A slack-jawed, oftentimes confused and incoherent President Biden hijacking the biggest night of this campaign season in the worst way possible.
Concern about the president's age and mental acuity - or lack thereof - was already the No. 1 challenge facing his candidacy.
After Thursday night, there is no doubt in the minds of even the most hardcore Dems that this man should not be president for another four minutes, let alone another four years.
On Friday morning, all of The New York Times' top columnists went on record with calls for Biden to step aside, as did its editorial board.
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That's significant, considering that this same publication hasn't endorsed a Republican presidential candidate since Dwight D. Eisenhower back in 1956 - meaning it endorsed the likes of epic electoral losers Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis and John Kerry.
Dread was also palpable on CNN and MSNBC.
Moments after the debate ended, Van Jones on CNN openly called on Biden to exit the campaign, while MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who reportedly speaks to the president on a regular basis, asked on air if any Fortune 500 company would ever consider hiring Biden as its CEO.
Remember, just weeks ago Scarborough declared Biden was sharper than any GOP House member he's spoken to in the past 30 years.
One would think the avalanche of anguish would be so overwhelming that the Bidens would crumble and simply raise the white flag, but that ain't happening.
"The last time Joe Biden lost The New York Times editorial board's endorsement it turned out pretty well for him," sniffed Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, still rankled by the Times' endorsement of Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar - not Biden - in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
"The vociferousness and overlapping arguments from pundits and editorial pages were striking," echoed Politico's global editor-in-chief, John Harris - but "the notion of prominent commentators having wide sway over the national agenda is itself an artifact of an earlier era."
The palpable lack of media sway highlighted how most of the press has lost any shred of credibility it may have had left in how it has covered for Biden's declining abilities.
Remember how they denounced videos of Biden's clear cognitive decline and called them "cheap fakes" designed to manipulate voters? How's that narrative look now?
At Camp David over the weekend, the Biden family was reportedly furious.
Not angry with the commander-in-chief, of course, but with his debate prep team (which somehow consisted of 16 people) - as if poor preparation was the problem, rather than Biden's mental meltdown in front of more than 50 million people in real time.
So what happens from here?
Will the Times and other publications who have called for Biden to drop out continue this drumbeat as the campaign grinds on?
Will they advocate for a candidate who wasn't even on the primary ballot - think Gavin Newson or Gretchen Whitmer or Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton - to advance the narrative?
If so, how will Kamala Harris, who believes the nomination should be hers if her boss goes away, react to being snubbed? What will black Democratic voters think?
Will they endorse someone even farther to the left, like a Cornell West?
Or will they just pretend their days-long freak-out never happened, as Biden remains atop the ticket?
To top off this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Team Blue, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that Donald Trump had "absolute immunity" as president when conducting official acts.
From a macro perspective, that means most legal experts now believe there's no way for Jack Smith's election-interference case against Trump - the most serious and highest-profile prosecution he faces - to be tried before Election Day.
If so, the 2024 election will come down to the contrast between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, in terms of both issues and health.
For Biden and the Democrats, that isn't a good thing.
With Election Day only 125 days away, the left is facing an absolute train wreck of its own making.
Trump leads in every swing state, and is tied or even leading in blue states like New Jersey, Minnesota, Virginia, New Hampshire, even New Mexico - none of which has gone red in two decades or more.
After everything that happened to his opponent and the party this week, Trump not only wins in November, but wins bigly.
Because ask yourself this: Does this version of Joe Biden really have a comeback in him, especially with his horrific record?
Rhetorical question.
Joe Concha is a Fox News contributor and bestselling author.
#194211 at 2024-07-04 13:05:27 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/clarence-thomas-swipes-at-special-counsel-jack-smiths-appointment/
>>194204
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggests Trump special counsel was illegally appointed(NYPost.com)
Victor Nava
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday questioned the legality of the Biden administration appointing special counsel Jack Smith to investigate and now prosecute former President Donald Trump.
The conservative jurist raised the issue of Smith's appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland in a concurring opinion filed after the high court's 6-3 ruling that Trump, 78, enjoys absolute immunity from prosecution for "official acts" during his presidency.
Thomas noted that his points about Smith "highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure."
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Justice Clarence Thomas looked to "highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure." AP
"[T]here are serious questions whether the Attorney General has violated that structure by creating an office of the Special Counsel that has not been established by law," Thomas wrote, arguing that "[t]hose questions must be answered before this prosecution can proceed."
The justice explained Garland "purported to appoint a private citizen as Special Counsel to prosecute a former President on behalf of the United States" but "If there is no law establishing the office that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution."
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"[I] am not sure that any office for the Special Counsel has been 'established by Law,' as the Constitution requires," Thomas continued. "By requiring that Congress create federal offices 'by Law,' the Constitution imposes an important check against the President - he cannot create offices at his pleasure."
Thomas argued that "a private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former President."
Smith, who was serving as a top prosecutor for International Criminal Court in The Hague prior to being tapped by Garland in November 2022, has brought two criminal cases against Trump: One over the presumptive Republican nominee for president's alleged mishandling of classified White House documents and another over Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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"If there is no law establishing the office that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution," Thomas said. AP
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Thomas added that "a private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former President." REUTERS
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Thomas explained that in this case, the attorney general "purported to appoint a private citizen as Special Counsel to prosecute a former President on behalf of the United States." Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK
Trump filed a motion to dismiss the classified documents case on the grounds that Smith was illegally appointed, but he did not do so in the election interference case.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the classified documents case out of Florida, has not ruled on Trump's motion to dismiss.
Former Attorney General Ed Meese, who served under former President Ronald Reagan, argued prior to the Supreme Court's Monday ruling that the high court should reject Smith's request to not grant Trump absolute immunity because he was unconstitutionally appointed to begin with.
Special Counsel Jack Smith speaking about the indictment of former U.S. President Donald Trump for his alleged involvement in the January 6 Capitol riot, August 1, 2023, Washington, DC. 7
Those charges were the result of Smith's months-long investigation into whether Trump was involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. getty Images
"Not clothed in the authority of the federal government, Smith is a modern example of the naked emperor," Meese wrote in an amicus brief.
"Improperly appointed, he has no more authority to represent the United States in this Court than Bryce Harper, Taylor Swift, or Jeff Bezos," he added.
Thomas stated that courts need to rule on whether Smith "is a principal or inferior officer" in order to determine whether he was constitutionally appointed.
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaking at a news conference at the Department of Justice headquarters about a lawsuit filed by House Republicans 7
Merrick Garland cited statutory authority for Smith's appointment. AP
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas, wearing glasses and a suit, waiting to administer the oath of office. 7
Thomas, on Friday, argued similarly. ZUMAPRESS.com
"If the former, his appointment is invalid because the Special Counsel was not nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, as principal officers must be," he said.
"Those questions must be answered before this prosecution can proceed."
#194209 at 2024-07-04 12:59:26 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/us-news/florida-prosecutors-knew-epstein-raped-teenage-girls-2-years-before-cutting-deal-transcript-shows/
>>194204
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
Jeffrey Epstein document dump: Prosecutors told financier raped girls as young as 14, cut deal anyway(NYPost.com)
Ronny Reyes
Florida prosecutors heard testimony that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein raped teenage girls, but cut a plea deal with him in 2008 anyway, according to newly released court transcripts.
The 150-page transcript of the 2006 grand jury investigation reveals that the court heard testimony about Epstein sexually assaulting girls as young as 14 inside his Palm Beach mansion.
The victims also testified and told detectives that they were paid to find Epstein more girls to assault in a harrowing case that ended with the pedophile sentenced to less than two years in prison after taking a plea deal.
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Florida prosecutors heard graphic testimony about how the late millionaire and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years before they cut a plea deal. AP
Florida Circuit Judge Luis Delgado, who released the pages on Monday, warned that the transcript would likely outrage anyone who read them.
"The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people," Delgado wrote in his order.
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"The testimony taken by the Grand Jury concerns activity ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape - all of the conduct at issue is sexually deviant, disgusting and criminal."
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"The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people," Judge Luis Delgado wrote in his order. Andres Leiva / USA TODAY NETWORK
The transcripts show that Palm Beach Police Detective Joe Recarey began the investigation against Epstein in March 2005, when a woman reported that her stepdaughter had received $300 in exchange for "sexual activity with a man in Palm Beach."
Another teenager then told detectives that when she was 17 years old, a friend told her she could make $200 by providing a massage at Esptein's home.
When the teen got to Epstein's home, she told investigators that Esptein demanded she remove her clothes and massage him, according to Recarey's testimony.
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Detective Joe Recarey testified in July 2006 that the initial investigation began when a woman reported in March 2005 that her stepdaughter said she received $300 in exchange for "sexual activity with a man in Palm Beach." Palm Beach Daily News-USA TODAY NETWORK
When he tried touching her, the teenager told him she was uncomfortable.
Epstein then told the girl he would pay her if she brought other "girls" to his home, stressing that they be young.
"And he told her, 'The younger, the better,'" Recarey said.
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Epstein told her that the friend was too old. Over time, the teen brought six friends from her high school over to Epstein's home, including a 14-year-old girl, Recarey said. Tribune News Service via getty Images
Over time, the teenager told detectives she brought six friends from her high school to Epstein's home, including a 14-year-old girl.
She added that when she brought over a 23-year-old friend, Epstein refused and told her that the woman was too old.
The teen allegedly received $200 every time she brought a friend over, as well as a rental car paid by Epstein.
"The more you did, the more money you made," Recarey testified. "She explained that there was going to be a massage or some possible touching, and you would have to provide the massage either topless or naked."
Recarey noted that the 17-year-old who recruited girls for Esptein likened herself to "Hollywood Madame" Heidi Fleiss, who ran a notorious prostitution ring in Los Angeles in the 1990s.
The disturbing testimony has put a renewed spotlight on the 2008 deal federal prosecutors cut with Epstein that has been widely slammed as being too lenient.
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Epstein in 2018 was charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in New York - where he also had a mansion that was a scene of abuse - after the Miami Herald published a series of articles that renewed public attention on the case. Tribune News Service via getty Images
The deal allowed Esptein to escape severe federal charges by pleading guilty to state charges of procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution.
For a decade afterwards, Epstein would go on to create more victims before he was charged with federal sex trafficking crimes in New York in 2018.
Epstein, 66, was found dead inside a New York City jail cell in August 2019. His death was ruled a suicide.
Delgado, who had previously set up a hearing to discuss how and when to release the transcripts next week, decided to release the papers on Monday, the earliest date allowed following Gov. Ron DeSantis' order in February.
He described Esptein as "the most infamous pedophile in American history."
"For almost 20 years, the story of how Jeffrey Epstein victimized some of Palm Beach County's most vulnerable has been the subject of much anger and has at times diminished the public's perception of the criminal justice system," Delgado wrote.
"Epstein is indeed notorious and infamous and is widely reported to have flaunted his wealth while cavorting with politicians, billionaires, and even British Royalty," the judge added.
"It is understandable that given those reports the public has a great curiosity about what was widely reported by news (agencies) as 'special treatment' regarding his prosecution."
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#194204 at 2024-07-04 11:56:59 (UTC+1)
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Democratic donors give Biden a two-week grace period for polls to fall after debate(NYPost.com)
Victor Nava and
Biden campaign donors are giving the president a two-week grace period in the wake of his disastrous debate performance against former President Donald Trump, The Post has learned.
Any decline in the 81-year-old president's polling numbers after those two weeks are up will become problematic and difficult for donors to stomach, a source privy to a call with top campaign contributors on Monday told The Post.
The Democratic National Finance Committee tamped down speculation that Biden could end his re-election bid during an hour-plus long Zoom call intended to put top donors at ease.
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The Democratic National Finance Committee's call with top Biden donors Monday centered on the "path forward" for the president. Kyle Mazza/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
"The call was very reassuring," the source said. "He's all in, moving forward. He will do better at the next debate. The campaign is going about business as usual."
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"They got rid of any speculation he will drop out - the whole call is about the path forward."
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The committee told donors the internal surveys are very strong and claimed that it hasn't detected any post-debate dip in Biden's polling numbers.
Someone on the call apparently shared that the president will do more to address the nation in the hopes of getting donors, media and voters to focus on the issues rather than the debate - but they don't want Biden going off script.
"They want to get him out there ... but make sure it's scripted," the source said.
"They are going to have teleprompter at every possible event they can," the person added.
The Biden campaign disputed this was the case.
"Their takeaway on teleprompters was incorrect," a Biden campaign spokesperson told The Post. "No one on the Biden campaign said that."
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Donors are giving Biden a two-week grace period after his disastrous debate against Trump. AFP via getty Images
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Biden addressed the nation Monday in a White House remarks slamming the Supreme Court's decision to grant Trump, 78, absolute immunity related to official acts he committed while serving as president.
Biden, reading closely from a pair of teleprompters, refused to answer shouted questions from reporters about his disastrous showing at Thursday's CNN debate or the future of his re-election campaign.
"He's calm and focused on the future," the source said of what Democratic officials relayed about Biden's current state of mind.
"Donors are not asking for their money back," the person insisted.
A Morning Consult poll released Monday found that 44% of registered voters are backing Trump compared to 43% for Biden.
The survey was conducted between June 28 and June 30 - in the days after last week's debate - and showed Biden's numbers falling from a June 16 poll, in which the president was ahead of Trump by 1 point.
#192688 at 2024-06-16 07:50:16 (UTC+1)
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(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/us-news/biden-says-i-will-not-pardon-son-hunter-in-first-remarks-since-gun-conviction/
Joe Biden calls Hunter 'one of the brightest, most decent men' - repeats he won't pardon him in first remarks since conviction
Steven Nelson and
President Biden said Thursday that Hunter Biden is "one of the brightest, most decent men I know" in his first on-camera remarks about his son's conviction on federal gun charges - while doubling down on his insistence he won't pardon him.
"I'm extremely proud of my son, Hunter. He has overcome an addiction," Biden said during a joint press conference in Italy with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Masseria San Domenico on the sidelines of the G7 Summit. 6
US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Masseria San Domenico on the sidelines of the G7 Summit. AFP via getty Images
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Joe Biden was seen hugging Hunter at a Delaware airport hours after he was found guilty. AFP via getty Images
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A federal jury found him guilty of three counts related to lying about his drug use in order to buy a gun.
"He's one of the greatest, most decent men I know, and I am satisfied that I'm not going to do anything I said," the president went on. "I said I'd abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him."
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The 81-year-old president first said last week in an interview with ABC News that he would not pardon his 54-year-old son, whose conviction centered around his addiction to crack cocaine when he purchased a .38 caliber Colt Cobra revolver in 2018, which federal law forbids.
Biden did not specifically comment Thursday on whether he would commute his son's sentence if he's ordered to serve time in prison.
Hallie Biden, the widow of the president's elder son Beau and then-girlfriend of Hunter, disposed of the gun in a public grocery store dumpster, setting in motion the criminal case. She testified at the trial that Hunter introduced her to using crack herself during their stormy relationship.
President Biden did not attend his son's trial, but a large contingent of relatives did attend, including first lady Jill Biden, Hunter's stepmother, whom he indecently disparaged in messages recovered from his abandoned laptop.
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Hunter became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime Tuesday. Saquan Stimpson - CNP for NY Post / MEGA
Hunter could face up to 25 years behind bars on the gun charges, but it's possible he will receive as little as probation at his sentencing, which has not yet been scheduled.
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The first son faces a second federal trial on Sept. 5 in Los Angeles over allegations he failed to pay $1.4 million in federal taxes on overseas income between 2016 and 2019.
Joe Biden is attending the annual G7 summit with all three of Hunter's adult daughters after the extended family gathered Tuesday night in Wilmington, Del.
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Biden pledged not to pardon his son ahead of the verdict after attacking his general-election rival Donald Trump for criticizing the fairness of the legal system after a Manhattan jury convicted him May 30 on state charges of falsifying business records to conceal evidence of 2016 "hush money" payments.
Republicans including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reacted to the first son's conviction by calling for a more robust federal investigation of other actions of the Biden family, including alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Joe Biden has consistently claimed he "never" discussed business with his son or brother and said in December and again in March that he "did not" interact with their partners.
US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) shake hands after signing a bilateral security agreement during a press conference at the Masseria San Domenico on the sidelines of the G7 Summit hosted by Italy. 6
Biden made the remarks during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the G7 Summit in Italy. AFP via getty Images
However, evidence - including photos, emails and witness statements - indicate that Joe Biden did interact with his son and brother's associates from two Chinese government-linked business ventures and their patrons from Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine.
IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler last year alleged a sweeping Justice Department coverup to shield the Biden family and prevent the pursuit of evidence pointing to Joe Biden's role in those ventures, including messages that directly referenced the elder Biden.
It's possible Biden will change his mind about pardoning his son before leaving office and follow in the footsteps of former President Bill Clinton, who pardoned his brother Roger Clinton, and Trump, who pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The most controversial pardons generally are reserved for a president's final weeks - or even hours - in office.
#192683 at 2024-06-16 07:43:23 (UTC+1)
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>>192587
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/us-news/biden-repeatedly-watched-his-dog-attack-secret-service-as-staff-wished-each-other-safe-shift-docs/
Biden repeatedly watched his dog attack Secret Service as staff wished each other 'safe shift': docs
Steven Nelson
WASHINGTON - President Biden repeatedly watched his German shepherd Commander attack Secret Service members, who wished each other a "safe shift" as the number of incidents mounted - with one exasperated workplace safety professional urging the use of a muzzle, agency records show.
The number of dog attacks involving Commander, who the White House said in February was given away after more than two years of terrorizing professionals assigned to protect Biden, and former first dog Major, who was rehomed in 2021 after also attacking personnel; could top three dozen, the newly surfaced records suggest.
The 81-year-old president reportedly accused a Secret Service member of lying about being attacked by Major during his first year in office, but was present for at least three separate attacks involving Commander, files released to Judicial Watch under Freedom of Information Act litigation show.
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Commander was removed from the White House after more than two years of terrorizing Secret Service personnel. getty Images
A previously unreported incident on Sept. 12, 2023, featured a pair of bites in which Commander tore holes in a Secret Service member's suit as Biden took him for a walk in the Kennedy Garden along the South Lawn of the White House.
The president "took Commander (on a leash) to the Kennedy Garden this evening for a walk," the special agent assigned to the Presidential Protective Division wrote in a report.
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"While [Biden] and Commander were in the Kennedy Garden I was standing half way from the Book-Sellers [lobby] and the Family Theater," the agent wrote, referring to the area where the main White House connects to the East Wing.
Joe Biden and Commander 8
Newly released records show that Commander attacked Secret Service members at least three times in the president's presence. Twitter/POTUS
"[Biden] opened the Book-Seller door and said [redacted]. As I started to walk toward him to see if he needed help, Commander ran through his legs and bit my left arm through the front of my jacket. I pulled my arm away and yelled no," the victim wrote.
"[President Biden] also yelled [redacted] to Commander. [Biden] then [redacted]. I obliged and Commander let me pet him."
"When turning to close the door," the special agent went on, "Commander jumped again and bit my left arm for the second time. [Biden] again yelled at Commander and attached the leash to him. My suit coat has 3 holes, 1 being all the way through. No skin was broken."
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A Secret Service agent's suit was torn by Commander on Sept. 12, 2023, when President Biden took the dog for a walk.
Photos included in the report show damage to the agent's suit and dress shirt, for which they sought reimbursement.
The latest batch of internal agency records show mounting frustration over the handling of the animals.
On Sept. 25, 2023, following yet another attack involving Commander, a sergeant in the Secret Service's uniformed division wrote a colleague: "FYI- there was a dog bite and the Officer may need to go to the hospital ... Have a safe shift!" It's unclear if Biden was present for that incident.
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Another example of Commander biting an agent.
Two days later, an official in the agency's Safety, Health & Environmental Division wrote: "Can we please find a way to get this dog muzzled."
Biden's personal presence during attacks was known in two prior instances.
On Oct. 2, 2022, Biden was there when Commander attacked an agent who was holding the door for the president as he approached the entryway near the Rose Garden that connects the West Wing to the rest of the White House.
"I was bit/grabbed on the left forearm," the agent wrote in records made public in February.
Biden with his German Shepherd, Commander 8
Bites involving Commander and ex-first dog Major have strained relations between President Biden and the Secret Service.
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The Post's cover on July 26, 2023. NY Post
"Commander came in first circled back and grabbed my left arm. He then stood up and back down. He is literally my height standing. [President Biden] entered shortly after since he was trailin [sic] behind him. [Biden] entered the Palm Room and said, '[redacted quote]'."
Biden also was present on Dec. 11, 2022, when the president "requested to take Commander (on the leash) to the Kennedy Garden," records show.
"Once at the KG, [Biden] took Commander off the leash to run free. I was present to observe [redacted] departing from the Kennedy Garden to move behind [redacted] toward the south ground drive via the internal garden gate when [the attack] occurred," the victim wrote, describing a 1.5cm (half-inch) cut and bruising on his arm and a 1cm (0.4-inch) cut from a second bite on his hand and thumb.
Documents do not place President Biden on scene for the most severe attacks, including a Nov. 3, 2022, incident that sent a uniformed Secret Service officer to a DC hospital for treatment after Commander clamped down on their arm and thigh at the base of a stairwell at the White House.
Commander, a German Shepherd, on a leash being walked outside the White House with two people in the background. 8
Commander ultimately was given away by President Biden, the White House said in February. AP
Joe and Jill Biden with Commander 8
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden meet virtually with US military service members on Christmas Day 2021. EPA
At least one other Secret Service member was seen at a hospital, according to previously reported documents, when on July 29, 2023, Commander tore into a female agent's arm at the president's Rehoboth Beach, Del., vacation home, causing a "severe deep open wound" with loss of "a significant amount of blood," requiring at least six stitches.
In yet another bloody attack, on June 15, 2023, Commander took an agent "to the ground" outside the East Wing, leaving a "deep bite" on their arm, requiring an unspecified number of stitches.
In that case, "East Wing Tours were stopped for approximately 20 minutes due to blood from the incident being on the floors in the area of the [lobby connecting the East Wing to the White House]."
Commander's biting spree was first reported by The Post last July, but was initially downplayed by the White House.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest documents, nor did a spokesman for the Secret Service.
#192681 at 2024-06-16 07:06:17 (UTC+1)
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>>192587
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/us-news/trump-floats-20-corporate-tax-rate-in-dc-meeting-with-ceos-report/
Trump floats 20% corporate tax rate in DC meeting with CEOs: report
Josh Christenson
Former President Donald Trump said Thursday during a meeting with top CEOs in Washington, DC, that he wanted to slash the corporate tax rate to 20% - hours after discussing trade and other policies with Republicans on Capitol Hill.
The presumptive 2024 Republican nominee held a private meeting with 80 executives to pitch the rate reduction, CNBC reported.
Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump is flanked by Senate Republicans as he gives remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee building on June 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. 4
Former President Donald Trump floated lowering the corporate tax rate to 20% in a Washington, D.C., meeting with top CEOs on Thursday. getty Images
A source familiar with the discussion told the outlet that Trump, 77, pledged to trim the corporate tax from 21% - and return to economic policies that were popular in his first term if he is elected to a second, including tax cuts.
"We're going to give you more of the same for the next four years," one of the sources said of the 45th president's proposed agenda.
At one point, Trump reportedly took a direct shot at his opponent, President Biden, saying: "We need a president who is at the top of his game and let's face it, this president is not at the top of his game."
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Other sources told CNBC that Trump said he was looking to eliminate all taxes on worker tips, a proposal that he said thrilled employees in the service and hospitality sectors.
Chair and CEO of Bank of America Brian Moynihan attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2024. 4
A source familiar with the discussion told CNBC that Trump pledged to CEOs like Bank of America's Brian Moynihan that he was also looking to cut all taxes for tip workers. REUTERS
The CEOs - including Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, Jane Fraser of Citigroup, and Tim Cook of Apple - reportedly burst out laughing when Trump relayed the purported enthusiasm for his plan.
Staten Island GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told The Post earlier Thursday the former president had also mentioned eliminating tip taxes during his meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Trump spoke to the CEOs for about an hour after current White House chief of staff Jeff Zients had talked with the group during another private session, a source told CNBC.
CEO of Chase Jamie Dimon looks on as he attends the seventh "Choose France Summit", aiming to attract foreign investors to the country, at the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris, on May 13, 2024. 4
The 80 or so corporate leaders included JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. via REUTERS
President Joe Biden speaks on April 12, 2024, in Washington. Top Biden administration officials have stepped up their outreach to CEOs and other corporate leaders to ask about what they need. The effort encroaches on the business community terrain that former President Donald Trump considers to be his home turf. 4
"We need a president who is at the top of his game and let's face it, this president is not at the top of his game," Trump told the CEOs in a dig at Biden. AP
Biden, 81, called for a 28% corporate tax rate during his State of the Union address in March - and has ragged on Trump's signature Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which will expire at the end of next year.
"Look, I'm a capitalist," the president told Congress. "If you want to make a million bucks - great! Just pay your fair share in taxes."
Thursday's meeting underscores the extent to which Trump has mended broken relationships with titans of the business world - as well as Silicon Valley - after many denounced him in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
#192680 at 2024-06-16 07:05:13 (UTC+1)
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>>192587
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/us-news/arizona-man-plotted-mass-shooting-targeting-black-people-at-bad-bunny-concert-to-start-race-war-feds-say/
Arizona man wanted to gun down black people at Bad Bunny concert to start 'race war': feds
Alex Oliveira
An Arizona man allegedly plotted to gun down black people at an Atlanta Bad Bunny concert in an attempt to spark a race war ahead of the presidential election, according to federal prosecutors.
Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was indicted Tuesday nearly a month after he was arrested over the alleged plot, in which he planned to murder as many black people as he could with semi-automatic rifles he'd bought through cash deals or trades to avoid detection from gun regulators.
He was outed after a source he'd recruited to participate in the massacre notified FBI agents, leading to a months-long investigation tat ended after he attempted to recruit an undercover agent to join the mass shooting, according to an affidavit obtained by NBC News.
"Prieto believes that martial law will be implemented shortly after the 2024 election and that a mass shooting should occur prior," the source told the FBI Phoenix, according to the affidavit, adding that he was "ready to kill a bunch of people."
Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was arrested in May over the alleged plot to shoot up a rap concert to start a race war 3
Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was arrested in May over the alleged plot to shoot up a rap concert to start a race war Department of Justice
He allegedly decided to target Atlanta because he believed black people had gathered there and turned it into a hotbed of crime.
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"The reason I say Atlanta. Why, why is Georgia such a f-ked-up state now? When I was a kid that was one of the most conservative states in the country. Why is it not now?," Prieto allegedly told the source.
"Because as the crime got worse in L.A., St. Louis, and all these other cities, all the [racial slur] moved out of those [places] and moved to Atlanta. That's why it isn't so great anymore. And they've been there for a couple, several years," he said, according to the affidavit.
Prieto allegedly bought guns with cash or traded to avoid regulators 3
Prieto allegedly bought guns with cash or traded to avoid regulators Department of Justice
Prieto recruited the source over the course of three gun shows where they spoke extensively and bought and traded guns to use in the shooting, eventually bringing the undercover FBI agent into the plot.
He allegedly decided to target a rap concert because he believed it would draw a concentrated gathering of black people, and advised his supposed conspirators to wear hoodies when they infiltrated the crowd because he said the outfits would not draw attention in such a setting.
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"We're going to fight back now, and every whitey will be the enemy across the whole country," Prieto allegedly said, explaining how he wanted to leave Confederate flags at the scene and shout ""KKK all the way," and "no mercy, no quarter."
Prieto allegedly went so far as to plan to stash guns near the concert before travelling across the country to carry out the shooting, and targeted concerts scheduled for either mid-May, June, or July, including one where Bad Bunny was expected to perform.
Prieto allegedly plotted to target an Atlanta concert where Bad Bunny was expected to perform 3
Prieto allegedly plotted to target an Atlanta concert where Bad Bunny was expected to perform. getty Images
By March Prieto was still planning to carry out the shooting, but come April he told the undercover agent he wanted to delay it.
A month later he was arrested on May 14, and admitted to investigators that he had talked about carrying out a mass shooting.
"However, he told agents that he did not intend to go forward with the attack," the affidavit read.
He was charged with Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Firearms Trafficking, and Transfer of a Firearm for Use in a Hate Crime.
If convicted Prieto could face up to 40 years in prison.
#192677 at 2024-06-16 07:00:12 (UTC+1)
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>>192587
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/lifestyle/ancient-stone-from-lost-civilization-discovered-from-600-b-c/
Ancient stone from 'lost' civilization discovered - dating back to 600 B.C.
Alex Mitchell
Can you dig it?
Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years.
The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to be associated with the ancient, Paleo-Hispanic civilization of Tartessos and is only the third piece of evidence of an alphabet among the people, according to Fox News.
An ancient writing stone was recently found in Spain. 3
An ancient writing stone was recently found in Spain. Europa Press via getty Images
It is considered a "lost" society due to a lack of remnants throughout the centuries.
Discovered at an archeological site in Casas del Turu?uelo of the Badajoz province, the eight-inch rock is believed to have been chiseled as early as 600 B.C. That is hundreds of years ahead of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt from 196 B.C.
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The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) identified "what appears to be a sequence of 21 signs drawn within the framework of the tablet on which figures were also found of warriors."
University of Barcelona researcher Joan Ferrer i Jan? said that "other strokes compatible with signs of a known sequence [were also seen]."
The stone was found at an ancient archeological site where a "lost" civilization in Spain once lived centuries ago. 3
The stone was found at an ancient archeological site where a "lost" civilization in Spain once lived centuries ago. Europa Press via getty Images
"This alphabet has 27 signs and is the only complete one we know to date," he added, saying this "would provide a lot of information."
However, the artifact, missing a triangular shard on one of its sides, appears to be incomplete.
"At least 6 signs would have been lost in the split area of the piece," said Jan?.
The stone is still missing an important piece that could reveal more about the society's written language. 3
The stone is still missing an important piece that could reveal more about the society's written language. CSIC
Adding to the mystery, there could even be potential to uncover more parts of the ancient language within the missing piece.
"If it were completely symmetrical and the signs completely occupied three of the four sides of the plate it could reach 32 signs."
#192601 at 2024-06-16 00:13:38 (UTC+1)
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>>192587
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/sports/ex-illinois-star-terrence-shannon-jr-acquitted-in-rape-case/
Ex-Illinois star Terrence Shannon Jr. acquitted in rape case
Christian Arnold
Former Illini star Terrence Shannon Jr. was found not guilty of rape and sexual assault on Thursday in a case involving allegations over an incident that happened near the University of Kansas campus in September.
Shannon, who was arrested in December, was accused by an 18-year-old woman of grabbing her and sexually touching her without her consent at a bar in the early hours of Sept. 9 following a football game in Lawrence, Kansas between Illinois and the University of Kansas.
A Douglas County jury took 90 minutes to deliberate Thursday before unanimously reaching a not guilty verdict on rape or an alternative count of aggravated sexual battery.
University of Illinois basketball standout Terrence Shannon Jr. demonstrates his wingspan while testifying during his rape trial Thursday June 13, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. 4
Illinois star Terrence Shannon Jr. demonstrates his wingspan while testifying during his rape trial Thursday June 13, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. AP
Shannon did not address reporters after the verdict, according to the Chicago Tribune, but his attorney Tricia Beth said it was a "travesty" that justice took so long to be "achieved" while praising the jury for ultimately coming to the "correct" verdict.
Attorney Mark Sutter said the public owed Shannon an apology.
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University of Illinois basketball standout Terrence Shannon Jr., center, gets a hug after being found not guilty after his sexual assault trial Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. 4
Illinois star Terrence Shannon Jr., center, gets a hug after being found not guilty after his sexual assault trial. AP
"I think he took a lot of weight, took a lot of ridicule from the court of public opinion. But now that the jury of his peers have spoken, I think everyone owes him an apology," he said.
Shannon, a high-level NBA prospect, was suspended by the Illini over the charges and December arrest, but that was overturned by a federal judge who ruled that the basketball player's civil rights had been violated.
The basketball player had been in Kansas to attend the football game with several Kansas basketball players and they ended up at the bar - the Martini Room - on the night of Sept. 8.
Head coach Brad Underwood of the Illinois Fighting Illini hugging Terrence Shannon Jr. during a game against the Connecticut Huskies in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament 4
Illinois coach Brad Underwood hugs Terrence Shannon Jr. as he is removed from the game late in the second half of their Elite Eight loss to UConn in this year's NCAA Tournament. getty Images
In testimony, Shannon said he had only had a few drinks that night and remembered everything had occurred while also saying he only learned of the allegations weeks later.
The woman had told police that a man she later identified as Shannon had grabbed her buttocks and reached under her skirt.
"I was definitely uncomfortable," the alleged victim testified during the trial. "I don't know why I didn't [walk away]. But I wish I did."
University of Illinois basketball standout Terrence Shannon Jr. refers to a photo of the Martini Room, a bar in the Jayhawk Cafe, while testifying during his trial Thursday June 13, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. 4
University of Illinois basketball standout Terrence Shannon Jr. refers to a photo of the Martini Room, a bar in the Jayhawk Cafe, while testifying during his trial Thursday June 13, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. AP
Shannon took the stand Thursday and denied the allegations that had been made against him.
"I never touched, grabbed, pulled over. ... That did not happen," Shannon said on the stand.
Shannon is a potential first-round pick in the NBA draft, which takes place on June 26-27.
He averaged 23 points for Illinois this past season as the team reached the Elite Eight before falling to national champion Connecticut.
#192597 at 2024-06-15 23:48:02 (UTC+1)
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>>192587
(6/13/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/us-news/hunter-biden-drops-laptop-lawsuit-against-rudy-giuliani/
Hunter Biden drops laptop lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani
Victor Nava
Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani and the former New York City mayor's ex-lawyer of manipulating data found on his infamous laptop.
Biden's lawyer Abbe Lowell filed the stipulation for dismissal Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The attorney asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit against Giuliani and Robert Costello "without prejudice, with each party bearing its own attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses."
Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani and the former New York City mayor's ex-lawyer of manipulating data found on his infamous laptop. 3
Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani and the former New York City mayor's ex-lawyer of manipulating data found on his infamous laptop. AP
Attorneys for all three parties have agreed to the stipulation, court documents show.
The lawsuit claimed that Giuliani, 80, and Costello violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when they allegedly hacked and manipulated data on the abandoned laptop in a "total annihilation" of the disgraced first son's "digital privacy."
Filed last September, the lawsuit sought more than $75,000 in damages, plus attorneys' fees and other penalties.
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"This dismissal - along with Hunter Biden's conviction based on evidence taken from the laptop - is a vindication for Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Costello as well as all of the media outlets who broke the laptop story in 2020 and suffered orchestrated censorship by social media, the leftist mainstream media, and others who engaged in election interference," Giuliani's attorney Joe Sibley said in a statement to The Post.
Sibley argued that Biden's legal team agreed to dismiss the lawsuit because "they know they have problems on the merits."
Lowell and Costello's lawyer did not respond to The Post's requests for comment.
The motion to dismiss the suit must be approved by US District Judge Jessica Clarke before it is finalized.
The attorney asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit against Giuliani and Robert Costello "without prejudice, with each party bearing its own attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses." 3
The attorney asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit against Giuliani and Robert Costello "without prejudice, with each party bearing its own attorneys' fees, costs, and expenses." getty Images
Biden, 54, was convicted of three felony counts Tuesday related to lying about his drug use when he purchased a Colt Cobra revolver from a Delaware gun shop in October 2018.
The government used data taken from his infamous laptop - which he never picked up from a Wilmington, De., computer repair store in April 2019 - to prove its case that the first son was addicted to crack cocaine when he bought the firearm.
The computer repair shop owner - John Paul Mac Isaac - gave Biden's hard drive to the FBI after unearthing evidence of illegal financial activity, drug use and patronization of prostitutes.
Mac Isaac made a copy of the hard drive before turning it over to the feds, which he gave to Costello in August 2020.
The lawsuit, filed last September, sought more than $75,000 in damages, plus attorneys' fees and other penalties. 3
The lawsuit, filed last September, sought more than $75,000 in damages, plus attorneys' fees and other penalties.
Giuliani, then a client of Costello's, provided The Post with a copy of the hard drive in October 2020, leading to a series of exclusive, bombshell stories detailing the Biden family's overseas business interests and the role President Biden may have played in making money for his relatives.
"Mayor Rudy Giuliani has again proven himself to be telling the truth, while those going after him and President Donald Trump have been proven to be liars. All of the false charges that Hunter Biden made against Mayor Rudy Giuliani, his lawyer Bob Costello and others, have been withdrawn and proven to be entirely false," Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, told The Post.
"This should serve as a reminder to people that - despite the unrelenting attacks by partisan Democrats and their allies in the permanent Washington political class - Mayor Rudy Giuliani's integrity and commitment to the truth is unwavering.
"Mayor Giuliani was right about the Russian collusion hoax, he was right about the Ukrainian quid-pro-quo hoax, and he's right about Hunter Biden's laptop. It's yet another reason why Joe Biden's FBI - after raiding the mayor's house and law office, and after conducting a multi-year investigation - reported that they found no evidence of any criminal activity whatsoever."
#192427 at 2024-06-14 00:36:31 (UTC+1)
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>>192410
(6/12/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/12/opinion/trump-has-the-stage-set-to-nail-joe-biden-for-his-lies-about-hunters-laptop/
Trump has the stage set to nail Joe Biden for his lies about Hunter's laptop
Miranda Devine
The last time Joe Biden met Donald Trump on a debate stage, he lied that his son Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation, "a Russian plant" and "a bunch of garbage."
This was two days after Biden's senior campaign adviser Antony Blinken induced Mike Morell, a former acting CIA director, to write the dishonest "Dirty 51" letter claiming the laptop "has all the classic earmarks of a Russian intelligence operation" and that "the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue."
The Biden campaign was desperately scrambling for a way to respond to The Post's laptop scoops about Joe meeting Hunter's foreign clients when he was VP.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the first presidential debate against former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
The last time Joe Biden met Donald Trump on a debate stage, he lied that his son Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation, "a Russian plant" and "a bunch of garbage." getty Images
So Morell got 50 other former senior intelligence officials, mostly from the CIA, to sign the letter.
"Campaign will be thrilled," he wrote in emails obtained by congressional investigators.
"We think Trump will attack Biden on the issue at this week's debate and we want to give the VP a talking point to use in response."
'You know my character'
More From Miranda Devine
On that debate stage back in October 2020, after he was done lying about the laptop, Biden looked into the camera and told the American people: "You know his character. You know my character. You know my reputation is for honor and telling the truth."
We sure do.
At their debate later this month, Trump will get his first opportunity to confront Biden about his lies.
Now that the laptop has been entered into the official record as government Exhibit 16 in the Delaware District Court, verified by the FBI as belonging to his son, and used for key evidence that convicted Hunter of three felony gun charges this week, Biden should be forced to come clean about his corrupt involvement in his family's global influence-peddling scheme.
To this day, the liberal media, with egg on their face for naively toeing the party line, still can't bring themselves to confirm the laptop.
Even after the ruling, the New York Times doubted the laptop's veracity by declaring its contents are "unproven."
It falsely claims that the FBI's only authentication effort to confirm that the laptop was Hunter's was by matching the serial number with his iCloud account.
Hunter and his lawyers are still pretending that computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac or Rudy Giuliani or somebody "tampered" with the contents of the laptop.
But as IRS whistleblower Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley told Congress, in the weeks after the FBI took possession of the laptop on Dec. 9, 2019, the bureau's computer forensics experts performed a specific technical review of all the files on the computer.
Extensive forensics
Using metadata analysis, they found that the laptop "was not manipulated in any way" and therefore was eligible to be used as evidence in court, according to Shapley.
The experts were able to determine precisely when each file on the laptop was created, and whether anything had been added to or subtracted from the data.
They verified that it had not been modified or "tampered with" in the six months since Hunter had abandoned it.
But that's not all.
FBI agent Erika Jensen told the court last week that IRS and FBI investigators obtained a covert search warrant for Hunter's Apple iCloud account on April 16, 2019, coincidentally just four days after Hunter had abandoned his laptop at Mac Isaac's Wilmington repair store.
Apple provided them with iCloud backup files for Hunter's iPad and three iPhones.
When "investigators also later came into possession of the defendant's Apple MacBook Pro, which he had left at a computer store, [it] was information investigators had already obtained from Apple," said prosecutor Derek Hines.
In other words, we have established that the laptop wasn't tampered with and that most of its content was corroborated by a mirror image in the iCloud files.
Only items that were excluded from backups like, say, text messages from an Android phone were not duplicated in the iCloud.
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But there were also other electronic search warrants that further corroborate the contents of the laptop that haven't yet been mentioned in court.
Apple is not the only company that stores user data.
Then there is another layer of verification in which investigators focused on individual messages and emails which were corroborated by witnesses such as Hunter's stripper girlfriend Zoe Kestan, for instance, or his widowed sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie Biden.
The Post performed similar verification of individual items on the laptop with sources who had duplicates on their own devices.
For instance, we were able to corroborate large portions of data involving Chinese deals, including WhatsApp messages, through troves of data provided by Hunter's former business partner Tony Bobulinski.
Other former associates of Hunter's have corroborated and augmented laptop material from the earlier Burisma years and provided context.
'Fox guarding henhouse'
The due diligence we performed on the contents of Hunter's laptop is far superior to whatever rudimentary scrutiny was applied to the bogus Steele dossier by the New York Times or any of the august media organs that won Pulitzers for their sloppy work.
The laptop is not a complete record of Joe's corruption, but it contains evidence that he lied when he said he knew nothing about his son's lucrative overseas business dealings, that he met with more than a dozen of Hunter's foreign business partners, that Hunter paid some of his father's bills and complained about having to be the bagman supporting the family for 30 years and giving half his salary to Joe.
It provides leads to witnesses and myriad other avenues of investigation if any journalist cares to look.
The House impeachment committees have filled in some of the gaps with subpoenaed bank records and witness interviews.
They will be presenting a damning interim report next month.
If IRS investigators had not been blocked by the DOJ and CIA from following the investigative trail to Joe, we would know much more.
"Don't ask questions about the Big Guy," they were told.
But thanks to Shapley and his fellow IRS whistleblower Joe Ziegler, Hunter is not getting off scot-free, as then-Delaware US Attorney David Weiss had planned before he was named special counsel by AG Merrick Garland in a damage-control tactic known as "the fox guarding the henhouse."
The Delaware gun case that Weiss chose to run first, and could have run back in 2021, had no connection to Joe.
But Hunter's upcoming tax trial in California, if it goes ahead, holds uncomfortable surprises for his father.
#192421 at 2024-06-14 00:24:16 (UTC+1)
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>>192410
(6/12/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/12/us-news/biden-administration-hit-with-first-lawsuit-over-border-crackdown/
Biden administration hit with first lawsuit over border 'crackdown'
Victor Nava
The first lawsuit challenging President Biden's recent executive order on immigration was filed in federal court on Wednesday as Democratic lawmakers pressure the administration to back off from asylum restrictions.
The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two pro-immigration groups, claims the Biden administration failed to provide "advance notice" before implementing "illegal changes" to the US immigration laws.
"We were left with no alternative but to sue," Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said in a statement.
Joe Biden 3
Biden's order has been panned by both Republicans and Democrats. getty Images
"The administration lacks unilateral authority to override Congress and bar asylum based on how one enters the country, a point the courts made crystal clear when the Trump administration unsuccessfully tried a near-identical ban," he added.
The complaint alleges that the Biden administration "harmed" immigrant advocacy groups by moving forward with an "Interim Final Rule without first providing notice and an opportunity to comment," in "violation" of federal law.
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The order, issued last week, prevents individuals from applying for asylum when encounters with migrants between ports of entry average 2,500 per day over the course of a week.
The restrictions can be lifted two weeks after crossings average 1,500 per day for seven straight days.
The proclamation went into effect immediately as migrant encounters were at about 4,000 per day when it was signed by the 81-year-old president.
The lawsuit does not ask the US District Court in Washington, DC, for an emergency injunction to stop Biden's order.
Border Patrol and migrants 3
The ACLU charges that Biden's order is "illegal." REUTERS
"The Biden administration's actions effectively shut the door on countless individuals fleeing violence and persecution," Arthur Spitzer, senior counsel of the ACLU of the District of Columbia, charged in a statement.
"Anti-asylum policies are cruel, ineffective, and unlawfully undermine the fundamental right to seek asylum in the United States," he added.
The lawsuit comes one day after a group of more than a dozen House Democrats demanded that the Biden administration reconsider the new rules.
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The order halts the processing of some asylum claims when migrant encounters between ports of entry reach 2,500 per day. REUTERS
"Allowing the consideration of mandatory bars to asylum during initial asylum screening interviews will force asylum seekers to present legally and factually complex arguments explaining the life-threatening harms they are fleeing shortly after enduring a long, traumatic journey and while being held in immigration detention and essentially cut off from legal help," the 18 lawmakers, led by Reps. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill) and Jes?s "Chuy" Garc?a (D-Ill), wrote in a Tuesday letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ur Jaddou.
"The Biden Administration just two years ago concluded that the inclusion of mandatory bars in credible fear screenings would make the screenings less efficient, undermining Congress's intent that the expedited removal process be swift, and would undermine procedural fairness, leading to substantial due process concerns," they added in the missive obtained by the Hill.
Critics of Biden's order note that the "crackdown" would still allow 1.8 million asylum seekers into the county if fully enforced due to several exemptions.
#192417 at 2024-06-14 00:12:05 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1081: NO MOAR PETRODOLLAR.. but what does it mean? EDITION
>>192410
(6/12/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/12/us-news/el-tren-de-aragua-gang-linked-to-100-us-criminal-cases-report/
Violent El Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang linked to over 100 criminal cases in US: report
Jennie Taer
Federal authorities have opened more than 100 investigations into crimes allegedly committed by members of the violent Venezuelan El Tren de Aragua gang, according to a report by NBC News.
The transnational criminal organization - whose name means "The Aragua Train" in English, a nod to its roots as a railway worker's union from that region - have been flooding the US with their members, many of whom have been illegally slipping over the Southern Border posing as asylum seekers.
Those members have infiltarated major cities across the country including New York, Chicago, Miami and Denver, where they engage in money laundering, theft and human trafficking, according to reports.
Suspected El Tren De Aragua member Bernardo Castro Mata, appearing from his hospital bedside 8
Suspected El Tren De Aragua member Bernardo Castro Mata, 19, arraigned from his hospital bedside after allegedly shooting two NYPD officers on on June 5, 2024. for New York Daily News
The shadowy group are hard for authorities to pin down or identify, a fact not helped by Venezuelan authorities refusing to share police data with the US.
Even if members are IDed, their home country also refuses to accept them back.
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One of the main identifiers police use are gang tattoos particular to members, including five-pointed crows, AK-47 rifles, trains, stars, gas masks and grenades.
However, many of these tattoos are popular designs throughout South America.
Incidents which have recently been attributed to the gang include an investigation focusing on a 19-year-old migrant charged with shooting two NYPD cops on June 3.
Bernardo Raul Castro Mata allegedly told police he was recruited by the Venezuelan gang's Big Apple "coordinator" to join a crew of "snatch and grab" moped thieves, law-enforcement sources said Wednesday.
Mata illegally entered the US last July in Texas and allegedly said he was encouraged to get gang tattoos to show his allegiance, sources previously told The Post.
Sources have also told The Post that there's suspicion that a gang tied to the assault of two cops in Times Square in January could be linked to Tren de Aragua.
Diego Ibarra posing with a gun 8
Diego Ibarra - who was arrested for presenting police with a fake ID card - had gang tattoos associated with El Tren de Aragua and posed with guns online. Still he was admitted into the US.
Photo showing Diego Ibarra's tattoo of a five-pointed crown 8
Diego Ibarra sports a tattoo of a five-pointed crown with three stars under it, associated with the gang. U.S. District Court
Tocoron prison in Aragua State, Venezuela, 8
Tocoron prison in Aragua State, Venezuela, which was the HQ of the Tren de Aragua gang, but was stormed by more than 11,000 soldiers and police in September 2023. AFP via getty Images
Tren de Aragua are also believed to be connected to the brutal murder of a retired Venezuelan police officer, who was lured to his death in Miami by a group of prostitutes in April.
The feds have also been tracking the gang in Chicago, according to the local NBC5 station.
Border Patrol agents apprehended 41 Tren de Aragua members crossing the border between October 2022 and September 2023, according to federal data.
Another case the feds have zeroed in on is an alleged sex trafficking ring based in Louisiana involving members of the gang forcing Venezuelan migrant women into sex work to pay their smuggling debts, according to NBC.
NYPD intelligence bulletin shares common Tren de Aragua tattoos, including crowns and guns. 8
NYPD intelligence bulletin shares common Tren de Aragua tattoos, including crowns and guns. NYPD
NYPD intelligence bulletin shares common Tren de Aragua tattoos. 8
NYPD intelligence bulletin shares common Tren de Aragua tattoos. NYPD
Two of the women said they had been tracked down by three alleged members of the gang after enting the US.
The women were then flown from Texas to Louisiana, where they were taken to an apartment and forced to have sex with four men each day.
The men told the women that if they were to report the situation to authorities, their families back home in Venezuela would be killed.
Other prominent cases involving suspected ties to the gang include Jose Ibarra, alleged murderer of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, and his brother Diego.
Both had previously been let go by federal authorities at the southern border.
A tattoo of a crown linked to Tren de Aragua appears on an intelligence bulletin. 8
A tattoo of a crown linked to Tren de Aragua appears on an intelligence bulletin. NYPD
The number of Venezuelans crossing the southern border has skyrocketed under the Biden administration - and so have the number of criminals.
There were roughly 2,000 encounters of Venezuelans crossing the southern border illegally in the entire financial year 2019 compared to more than 200,000 in the financial year 2023, according to federal data.
A major concern with the rise in crossings is there is inadequate vetting being done. It's also difficult to gang members if they don't have the common tattoos.
Robert Almonte, a security consultant and former US marshal in El Paso, recently warned The Post the gang has started telling new members not to get them in order to evade police.
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Chilean Consulate in Caracas, where concerns have been shared about the presence of Tren de Aragua. AFP via getty Images
"We lack information-sharing with other countries. Most countries are decades behind us with technology and policing practices, so when we detain these guys, mostly there's nothing on them except [if they have] terrorism or previous US charges," a Border Patrol source previously told The Post.
The Biden administration has still been able to remove some Venezuelans to Mexico as part of a deal where the US can expel 30,000 migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba each month.
Still, more migrants with existing criminal records have attempted to cross the southern border during the Biden administration than under Trump, according to NBC.
Tren de Aragua remain a problem in their home country too and last year, the Venezuelan government sent 11,000 soldiers to take control of a prison the gang had seized in Tocor?n, in the country's interior.
#192415 at 2024-06-13 23:51:37 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1081: NO MOAR PETRODOLLAR.. but what does it mean? EDITION
>>192410
(6/12/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/12/us-news/four-russian-warships-including-a-nuclear-sub-now-sitting-200-miles-off-the-coast-of-florida/
Four Russian warships, including a nuclear sub, are sitting 200 miles off the coast of Florida
Ronny Reyes
Four Russian warships including a nuclear submarine have reached Cuba, just 200 miles off the coast of Florida, ahead of a planned military exercise in the Atlantic.
The fleet - made up of a frigate, a nuclear-powered submarine, an oil tanker and a rescue tug - arrived in Havana Bay on Wednesday, welcomed by a 21-cannon salute from Cuba.
Dramatic images from the arrival show the ominous and massive vessels entering the bay as Cubans lined up on the streets to take pictures of the Kremlin's nautical forces.
The Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan arrived in Havana Bay on Wednesday. 8
The Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan arrived in Havana Bay on Wednesday. AFP via getty Images
Four warships arrive in Cuba as locals line up to see the Russian fleet. 8
It was one of four warships arriving in Cuba as locals lined up to see the Russian fleet. Yander Zamora/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Some civilians could be seen wrapped up in Russian flags, with the frigate in turn flying the Kremlin and Cuba's colors as its sailors stood in formation while approaching the island nation.
The sub in Cuba was identified as the Kazan, a Yasen-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine.
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While the submarine is typically equipped with Zircon hypersonic missiles, according to Russian government news agency Tass, it is unclear whether the Kazan is currently armed with such weaponry.
US and Cuban officials have also said that while the submarine is nuclear powered, it is not carrying nuclear weapons.
Some people came out to welcome the ships while draped in Russian flags. 8
Some people came out to welcome the ships while draped in Russian flags. REUTERS
Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov enters the Cuban shore. 8
Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov enters Cuban waters. REUTERS
The Russian fleet also included a massive oil tanker. 8
The Russian fleet also included a massive oil tanker. AFP via getty Images
A fisherman observes the arrival of a ship belonging to the Russian Navy flotilla in Havana, Cuba. 8
A fisherman observes the arrival of a ship belonging to the Russian navy flotilla in Havana, Cuba. Yander Zamora/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
National security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Wednesday that the US is closely monitoring the Russian military drills in the Atlantic, adding that there is no evidence that Russia is transferring any missiles to Cuba.
Experts believe the exercise is a show of force by the Kremlin after the US allowed Ukraine to fire American-made weapons into Russia in order to defend Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city.
"The warships are a reminder to Washington that it is unpleasant when an adversary meddles in your near abroad," said Benjamin Gedan, director of the Latin America Program at the Washington-based Wilson Center think tank.
A Cuban child waves a Russian flag as the fleet enters Havana Bay. 8
US and Cuban officials have also said that while the submarine is nuclear powered, it is not carrying nuclear weapons. Yander Zamora/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and his Cuban counterpart Bruno Eduardo Rodr?guez Parrilla shake hands in Moscow on Wednesday. 8
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) and his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Eduardo Rodr?guez Parrilla, shake hands in Moscow on Wednesday. AP
"It also reminds Russia's friends in the region, including US antagonists Cuba and Venezuela, that Moscow is on their side," he added.
Russian ships and submarines have been docked in Havana since 2008 as part of Russian military exercises. US officials said they expect the latest round of vessels to remain in the region through the summer, with a possible stop scheduled in Venezuela.
With Post wires
#192414 at 2024-06-13 23:50:10 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1081: NO MOAR PETRODOLLAR.. but what does it mean? EDITION
>>192410
(6/12/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/12/us-news/terror-suspect-from-tajikistan-entered-us-at-san-diego-sources/
Terror suspect from Tajikistan illegally crossed border into San Diego, was let in by officers: sources
Jennie Taer
At least one of eight suspected terrorists from Tajikistan arrested in a multi-agency sting over the last week had illegally crossed into the US at San Diego and been in the country at least six months, The Post has learned.
One of the ISIS-linked group - recently busted in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia after FBI surveillance indicated they may be a national security threat - had crossed the border, was vetted by agents, then allowed into the country with a court date last year, according to sources.
The man, whose identity has not been revealed, also complied with instructions to meet with local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Los Angeles.
Sources also told The Post ICE agents are also being warned they will likely have more terror-related migrant arrests to make - and possibly more involving the same group from Tajikistan.
Dozens of migrants wait for Border Patrol to take them in for processing after crossing into Jacumba Hot Springs, California illegally. 7
Dozens of migrants wait for Border Patrol to take them in for processing after crossing into Jacumba Hot Springs, California illegally. James Breeden for New York Post
San Diego is currently the busiest sector for illegal crossings on the border - and subject to special instructions which allow citizens of over 100 countries to be processed into the US, including individuals coming from countries tied to national security threats such as China and Turkey.
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However, there are six countries from which adult migrants are to be sent for immediate removal from the US: Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, per Border Patrol.
In the last week, there have been 8,000 migrants apprehended by border officers after crossing illegally, sources told The Post Wednesday.
Border Patrol agent searches migrants who crossed into Lukeville, Arizona, illegally before transporting them for further processing. 7
Border Patrol agent searches migrants who crossed into Lukeville, Arizona, illegally before transporting them for further processing. getty Images
The arrest of the eight Tajikistan nationals - first reported by The Post yesterday - took place after the FBI co-ordinated with ICE to take them. It was later confirmed all are now in proceedings to be removed from the US.
The eight Tajiks were already being surveilled by federal authorities, who discovered there was discussion of bombs among the group.
All eight of them crossed the southern border and at least one had used the CBP One app to enter, according to NBC News.
All of them were released by federal authorities who found no terror-related records associated with their names.
That is likely because "sometimes there is just no information on individuals," acting ICE director Patrick Lechleitner told NewsNation Wednesday.
An ICE agent waits for backup support while searching for smugglers at the Arizona border. 7
An ICE agent waits for backup support while searching for smugglers at the Arizona border. getty Images
A Sikh migrant from India is patted down by a Border Patrol agent after he crossed the southern border into San Diego, California. 7
A Sikh migrant from India is patted down by a Border Patrol agent after he crossed the southern border into San Diego, California. REUTERS
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) didn't immediately respond to The Post's request for comment, but released a joint statement with the FBI Tuesday confirming that ICE had made "several arrests" in recent days "in close coordination with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces."
"The FBI and DHS will continue working around the clock with our partners to identify, investigate, and disrupt potential threats to national security. "
The operation follows FBI Director Chris Wray's warnings to Congress about the possibility of ISIS terror plots taking place on US soil and the group possibly exploiting the southern border.
Wray warned lawmakers in April of the possibility of a "coordinated attack" on US soil following an ISIS-K attack on a concert hall in Moscow - carried out by citizens of Tajikistan - that killed 145 people and wounded hundreds more.
An old border wall fence sits parallel to the newly constructed 30 foot wall near San Diego, California. 7
An old border wall fence sits parallel to the newly constructed 30 foot wall near San Diego, California. REUTERS
Border Patrol agents line up dozens of migrants near the border wall in San Diego, California. 7
Border Patrol agents line up dozens of migrants near the border wall in San Diego, California, as they take them in for processing. REUTERS
Migrants walk in small groups along the border wall to turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents in Lukeville, Arizona. 7
Migrants walk in small groups along the border wall to turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents in Lukeville, Arizona. James Keivom
"Our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home," Wray told a House Appropriations subcommittee.
"But now, increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia concert hall a couple weeks ago," he said.
Last August, CNN reported the FBI had been investigating a Turkish smuggler tied to ISIS who had been helping dozens of migrants from Uzbekistan cross the US-Mexico border.
Border Patrol has recorded an uptick in migrants crossing the southern border illegally whose names appear on the terror watchlist, with such encounters increasing from 11 in the financial years 2017 through 2020 to 362 between financial years 2021 and April 2024, according to federal data.
#192413 at 2024-06-13 23:48:39 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1081: NO MOAR PETRODOLLAR.. but what does it mean? EDITION
>>192410
(6/12/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/12/us-news/andrew-cuomo-repeats-infamous-who-cares-line-on-nursing-home-covid-deaths-in-congressional-interview/
Andrew Cuomo repeats infamous 'who cares?' on nursing home COVID deaths in congressional interview
Josh Christenson
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeated his infamous "who cares?" line during a grilling by a House committee Tuesday about his administration's decision to send infected COVID-19 patients into nursing homes - resulting in thousands of deaths during the pandemic, according to a readout of his testimony released Wednesday by Republicans.
Republican majority staff from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said Cuomo "deflected responsibility" throughout the seven-hour interview about his administration's devastating March 25, 2020, "must admit" order that shuttled sick patients into senior care facilities statewide.
A transcript of the testimony has yet to be released, and reps for Cuomo who were present for the interview have disputed some of the readout's claims.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) speaks to reporters following a closed-door interview with the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic on Capitol Hill, on June 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. 7
Ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo repeated his infamous "who cares?" line before a House committee over his administration's decision to send infected COVID-19 patients into nursing homes. getty Images
During the closed-door session, the 66-year-old Cuomo blamed an unidentified staff member at the New York Health Department for drafting the directive, claimed it mirrored federal guidance, was not mandatory - and dismissed the premise of the House probe as part of an ongoing political attack.
But Republicans on the panel pushed back and forced Cuomo to acknowledge the language of the state order differed from DC's guidance, House GOP conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and other members told reporters.
"They [Cuomo and his then-staff] want to assert that that order is exactly the same as the federal [Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidelines], which it is not," upstate Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY) said on Tuesday during a break in the proceedings.
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"The state order says, 'You shall take back individuals and you cannot deny them solely on the basis of COVID,' which left [nursing homes] no option but to accept individuals that we knew would cause risk to the other patients," he explained.
Molinaro also accused Cuomo's administration of having "cooked the books" on the nursing home death count, which was later confirmed by two state investigations, once they "knew that the order was causing great loss"
"When pressed to explain the discrepancy between the reported death count and the true mortality rate, Mr. Cuomo was shockingly callous - testifying '6,500 versus 9,000...who cares, what difference did it make?'" the readout of the interview on Capitol Hill shows.
Several dozen people who lost loved ones in nursing homes during the early months of the COVID - 19 pandemic gathered in front of the Cobble Hill Health Center to demand an apology from Governor Cuomo. 7
GOP majority staff for the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said Cuomo "deflected responsibility" throughout the seven-hour interview about his administration's March 25, 2020, "must admit" order. Gregory P. Mango
"He seemed to feel very little remorse," select subcommittee chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) told The Post and other reporters after his interview with the ex-governor. "Often [he] would be talking about a certain number of deaths in a certain place, and to him they were just numbers. They were just numbers."
"It is mind-blowing to me that the governor, who was later to rescind or amend the directive that went out about putting COVID patients or untested patients back into nursing homes," Wenstrup added. "He was the one who put the executive order out to amend it, but when it came to the directive itself, he had no idea where it came from and still does not. No responsibility."
"I don't know where the buck stops," added Wenstrup, one of several doctors on the panel and a retired US Army colonel who received a Bronze Star for his work as a combat surgeon during the Iraq War.
A spokeswoman for the House subcommittee majority also told The Post that Cuomo used the phrases "who cares" and "what is the difference" numerous times.
"Any dismissal of the heartbreak that families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 continue to experience is unacceptable and inconsistent with the values of compassion and empathy that Americans deserve from their public officials," subcommittee ranking member Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) told The Post in a statement.
In this April 17, 2020, file photo, a patient is wheeled out of Cobble Hill Health Center by emergency medical workers in the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing blistering criticism over an internal report that found no strong link between a controversial state directive that sent thousands of recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes and some of the nation?s deadliest nursing home outbreaks. Scientists, health care professionals and elected officials assailed the report released last week for failing to address the actual impact of the March 25 order, which by the state?s own count ushered more than 6,300 recovering virus patients into nursing homes at the height of the pandemic. 7
Auditors in 2022 confirmed the in 2023 that NY's Department of Health had "misled the public" by leaving out at least 4,1000 nursing home deaths due to COVID-19. AP
Governor Andrew Cuomo in a noon briefing confirmed additional cases of novel coronavirus including 2 cases upstate in Saratoga County, bringing the statewide total to 76 confirmed cases in New York State. 7
A spokeswoman for the House subcommittee majority also told The Post that Cuomo used the phrases "who cares" and "what is the difference" numerous times. Darren McGee- Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
"The point was, there was no discrepancy, as all categories were contained in the overall death number that was never in dispute," Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in a statement.
"What the Republicans couldn't explain was why 1.2 million Americans died during this pandemic - more than any other country and any other war - under the lack of leadership from Trump and the Republicans that continues to this day as they put a podiatrist in charge of the COVID committee," he added in a direct attack against Wenstrup.
In a May 2023 hearing before the select subcommittee, Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.), a doctor and former chief medical officer for Sacramento County, called the New York directive "medical malpractice."
Cuomo's response was identical to the former governor's reaction to a January 2021 report from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who revealed his administration had low-balled the number of nursing home deaths by more than 50% by excluding residents who later died in hospitals.
In this file photo, Theresa Sari, left, and her daughter Leila Ali look at a protest-memorial wall for nursing home residents who died from COVID-19, including Sari's mother Maria Sachse, March 21, 2021, in New York. 7
Voices for Seniors, a nonprofit for families who lost loves ones to COVID-19 in nursing homes, also blasted Cuomo - saying, "WE CARE!" AP
Health Commissioner Howard Zucker responded by releasing the full data, which shifted the COVID death count from 8,711 to 12,743 as of that month.
"Who cares [if they] died in the hospital, died in a nursing home?" Cuomo erupted in a Jan. 29 press conference the day after the report was released. "They died."
Auditors confirmed the following year that Albany's Department of Health had "misled the public" by leaving out at least 4,100 nursing home deaths due to COVID-19 - and had "conformed its presentation to the Executive's narrative," meaning Cuomo.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo delivers an update on the COVID-19 Coronavirus numbers in New York State during a press briefing in New York City Saturday October 17, 2020. 7
Cuomo's "callous" response was identical to his reaction to a January 2021 report from AG James, revealing his administration had low-balled the number of nursing home deaths by more than 50%. Kevin P. Coughlin/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
"If I knew then what I know now, I would have told my Department of Health, 'Don't listen to the federal government; they don't know what they're talking about,'" the former governor told The Post and others at the end of his transcribed interview, declining to accept full responsibility while expressing some remorse for the outcome.
He also admitted that nursing homes were "confused" by the directive, according to the readout.
Voices for Seniors, a nonprofit for families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 in nursing homes, also blasted Cuomo in a statement.
"WE CARE!" the group said. "Every time we stare at the empty chairs at our tables, we care. We care every time we want to hug our lost loved one and they aren't by our side. We care every single day when our loved ones can't share in our joys or comfort us in our lows. We care because Cuomo failed to protect our senior citizens that trusted him."
"There is no confusion that ordering a deadly virus into nursing homes caused the demise of thousands," they added. "We look forward to Andrew Cuomo being brought to justice for the 15,000 innocent victims and us grieving families."
Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo arrives on Capitol Hill to testify about COVID response 7
"If I knew then what I know now, I would have told my Department of Health, 'Don't listen to the federal government; they don't know what they're talking about,'" the embattled ex-governor told The Post. Josh Christenson
Wenstrup indicated it was "very likely" the former New York governor - who may challenge Eric Adams for New York City mayor in 2025 - will be back in Congress again this year for a public hearing.
"It's not only just the people in New York that deserve this, because they do," he said, "but I think the whole country does."
#192412 at 2024-06-13 23:46:47 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1081: NO MOAR PETRODOLLAR.. but what does it mean? EDITION
>>192410
(6/12/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/12/business/californias-20-minimum-wage-sees-fewer-customers-study/
California's $20 minimum wage led to fast food price hikes, lower foot traffic, study shows
California's new $20-an-hour minimum wage law for fast food workers plunged visits to popular chains as restaurants like McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King hiked prices to offset higher costs, according to a study.
California's new $20-an-hour minimum wage law for fast food workers led to price hikes and decreased foot traffic at popular chains including McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King, according to a study.
Since the new law went effect in April 1, foot traffic at Burger King fell 3.86%, while Wendy's was down 3.24% and McDonald's slipped 2.5%, according to a report by analytics firm Placer.ai.
Fast food restaurants in California have seen a dip in foot traffic since a newly enacted minimum wage law went into effect, according to a report. 5
Fast food restaurants in California have seen a dip in foot traffic since a newly enacted minimum wage law went into effect, according to a report. getty Images
In-N-Out Burger, the popular fast food chain which also recently raised its menu prices on key items to cope with the increased labor costs, saw 2.59% fewer customers, while Jack in the Box visits were down 0.8%.
"It's early, but we're starting to see the ripple effect of the minimum wage increase across the broader restaurant industry," R.J. Hottovy, the head of analytical research at Placer.ai, wrote in the report.
The law - which raised the minimum wage for fast food workers from $16 an hour to $20 - was also blamed for forcing companies like Rubio's Coastal Grill to shutter dozens of locations across the state.
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Rubio's, which last week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, cited "significant increases to the minimum wage in California" as a reason for the closings.
Another fast food restaurant, Fosters Freeze, recently closed a location near Fresno, saying the franchise owner could no longer afford to pay workers the upgraded salaries.
In the six-month period leading up to the new law being enacted, fast food prices in California rose on average by 7% - forcing franchisees in the state to slash work hours, postpone capital improvements and expedite the deployment of automation features such as self-serve kiosks.
Since April 1, McDonald's has seen its foot traffic reduced by 2.5% in California. 5
Since April 1, McDonald's has seen its foot traffic reduced by 2.5% in California. getty Images
The Placer.ai report found that casual dining chains may be benefiting from the erosion of traffic at fast food restaurants.
Olive Garden and Chili's locations in California have seen an uptick in visits that outperformed the national average since the minimum wage law went into effect, according to the report.
Between February and March of this year, Olive Garden saw a 1% increase in customer visits throughout California.
In-N-Out Burger, the popular fast food chain which has recently raised its menu prices on key items to cope with the increased labor costs, saw 2.59% fewer customers. 5
In-N-Out Burger has saw 2.59% fewer customers. getty Images
Since the increased minimum wage law went into effect, the figure jumped to 1.88%, according to Placer.ai.
Chili's saw a 3.6% decrease in visits throughout California in February and March.
But in the eight weeks spanning April and May, it saw an increase of 0.19% in visits, the report found.
Casual chains such as Chili's and Buffalo Wild Wings have sought to entice customers through value meals, such as the latter's "all you can eat" wings promotion on Monday and Wednesday that has so far proven successful.
Visits to Jack in the Box restaurants in California visits were down 0.8% in the period between April 1 and the end of May. 5
Visits to Jack in the Box restaurants in California visits were down 0.8% in the period between April 1 and the end of May. Christopher Sadowski
Fast food companies warned that the increased labor costs would be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher menu prices.
In Los Angeles County, a double-double burger combo at In-N-Out now goes for $11.44 - a $0.76 increase from last year, KTLA reported.
In San Francisco's tourist-heavy Fisherman's Wharf location, a double-double burger coupled with french fries and drink costs $13.63 after taxes.
Wendy's has also seen depressed foot traffic since the new minimum wage kicked in. The chain's visitations are down 3.24%. 5
Wendy's has also seen depressed foot traffic since the new minimum wage kicked in. The chain's visitations are down 3.24%. Christopher Sadowski
Less hungry customers would still have to shell out $7.50 for the double patty without the sides or beverage, KRON4 reported.
A report published earlier this year by Kalinowski Equity Research found that fast food chains such as Wendy's, Chipotle, Starbucks and Taco Bell raised their menu prices by as much as 8% in preparation for the new minimum wage law coming into effect.
Wendy's raised its menu prices by around 8% while Chipotle Mexican Grill hiked its prices by approximately 7.5%, according to the report.
Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee chain, raised the prices of its menu items at its California locations by around 7%, while Taco Bell hiked its prices 3%.
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https://nypost.com/2024/06/01/us-news/wendy-savino-reveals-how-she-survived-son-of-sam/
First victim of 'Son of Sam' killer who lost eye after getting shot five times recalls how she narrowly survived: 'My chest exploded'
Tina Moore and
The face of evil had a smile.
Wendy Savino recalled the fateful April 9, 1976, night a smiling David Berkowitz waltzed up to her car in a Bronx parking lot, and started laughing as he shot her five times.
Three months later, Berkowitz's bloody reign of terror would grip New York City and America.
Savino lost her right eye in the shooting. She said she's relieved to finally be recognized as one of Berkowitz's victims.
NYPD officers confirmed this week that she was the first official victim of the "Son of Sam" serial killer.
Wendy Savino carried her sketch of David Berkowitz around for years. 8
Wendy Savino carried her sketch of David Berkowitz around for years. J.C. Rice
A map of a city with black and white text 8
Son of Sam was found guilty of eight shootings.
"From the day I was shot, I had my sketches the NYPD made for me, and I carried that around in my handbag every day. I did not know his name, but I certainly knew what he looked like. I said 'this is the man that shot me.' And of course, once he was arrested, I knew my sketch was David Berkowitz."
Savino worked with an NYPD sketch artist while recovering from the shooting in Jacobi Hospital, and gave the descriptive details about her attacker on a pad of paper, because she had a tracheotomy.
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"I said he had a heart-shaped face, widow's peak, sideburns, a little hook on the end of his nose. I called his lips rose-bud lips like what you see on Cupid.
"At the time, I saw him walking toward me smiling. I had locked my doors and thought I was safe. He was smiling, blue eyes, didn't look at all scary. As I ducked to my left to get my seatbelt, he's right at my window. And I see, I thought it was two fingers, and he was going to ask me for directions. Instead, my chest exploded and I said, 'Oh my God. I've been shot.'"
She put up her left arm, to shield herself.
David Berkowitz claimed a demon dog drove his deadly deeds. 8
David Berkowitz claimed a demon dog drove him to kill. getty Images
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Wendy Savino lost her eye in the attack. J.C. Rice
"He stood at my window, to the left of the driver's door. The second bullet went through my arm, bounced on the dashboard and went through my right eye. The third bullet came in through my shoulder, traveled, and put a hole in my windpipe and settled in my spine. At that point, my head is in the passenger side. It was bucket seats in a 1976 silver Jaguar.
"I'm lying there. I've got eight pieces of glass in my left eye. I have a bullet in my right eye and my chest is like a balloon, running out of air. I said, 'I can't let him get to me before I can get out.' So I laid there with my head in the bucket, pretending I was dead, and with my eyes closed, but peeking through the one eye I could still see from."
Two more shots were fired, and hit Savino in the back.
"I now have five bullets in my back. And I'm saying, 'He's going to take my jewelry,' but he didn't try, and so I said to myself, 'Of course, he wants you dead.' Just lay here and hope he goes away before you pass out."
Wendy Savino, holding some of The Post's coverage of the 'Son of Sam' case. 8
Wendy Savino, holding some of The Post's coverage of the 'Son of Sam' case. J.C. Rice
When she heard his footsteps "receding from my car" she sat up, "opened the car door, and rolled out onto the parking lot. It was gravel. I crawled across the parking lot until I found a wall. I put my hands on the wall and followed it. When I got to where one would exit the parking lot, I was going to look and see if I could see him, and I decided that if I did, I would freeze in fear. 'Go for it.' So I continued around the door. I could not look back."
She entered the restaurant's kitchen. "All the waiters and everyone just threw their hands in the air and all their pots and pans, screaming. So I said 'You're not getting anywhere here, are you?' And I walked directly into the dining room. There was quite a reaction when I walked in the dining room and they threw a white tablecloth over my head. I pulled it off and I said 'Please don't do that, I can't breathe.'"
A wooden chair was pushed across the floor to her, "and I grabbed the back of it, thinking that I know I can't walk. If I walked I was going to fall down. So I tried to sit myself on the seat of the chair sideways. It didn't work. I grabbed the back of the chair and I fell over to my right and I now I'm laying on the floor. I was laying there, taking off my jewelry, asking the waitress or bartender to please take my jewelry and give it to my husband, give it to Joe. She said, 'I can't believe you're still saying please.'"
Savino with her late husband, Joseph, in 1974. 8
Savino with her late husband, Joseph, in 1974. J.C. Rice
Through the front door came an NYPD officer. "He knelt down at my head and put his finger in my face. I said, 'Can I go to sleep? Please? I'm so tired.' And he put his finger in my face and just kept saying 'You stay with me. The longer you stay with me, the longer you'll be alive ... do not fall asleep.' And I give him great credit, because all I wanted to do was go to sleep."
She was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where she eventually worked with police on the composite sketch. Once she was released from the hospital, her husband sent her to stay with family in England, out of fear for her safety, she said.
"I was absolutely terrified. I wouldn't go out in the dark. My children would play on the cricket green during the day and I would say, 'If you don't come in by dark, I'm not coming out to get you.' I wouldn't answer the phone. I wouldn't answer the front door. When I went shopping, if I got afraid, I'd leave my shopping basket in the parking lot after paying for it. I'd go through a red light if I hit one. I was terrified."
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Wendy Savino was shot five times by Berkowitz. J.C. Rice
She was living with her sister and brother-in-law, who was a British policeman. Her two sons were sent to live in hiding in Florida.
"I realized when he was arrested that that face [I'd seen] was 'Son of Sam' and he was my assailant."
In time, a local inspector visited her, carrying a photo array from the NYPD.
Berkowitz arriving for court in Brooklyn in 1977. 8
Berkowitz arriving for court in Brooklyn in 1977. ASSOCIATED PRESS
"He laid the photos out on my table and #7 was David Berkowitz. 'That's the man that shot me.'"
Savino said she's thankful the NYPD could validate what she's been saying for years.
"Nobody believed me - even though I showed them the sketch of his face that I had," she said.
Given the opportunity to address Berkowitz now, "I would say, 'You're a rotten bastard.'"
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(6/01/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/01/opinion/trump-remains-composed-as-ever-he-tells-the-post-a-guilty-verdict-wont-impact-his-sleep-or-campaign-some-people-say-im-a-warrior/
Trump remains resolute as ever - he tells The Post a guilty verdict won't impact his sleep or campaign: 'Some people say I'm a warrior'
The front page of Friday's New York Times had a huge, all-caps, single-word headline: "GUILTY." True enough, but the story that followed was so full of hot-air that I feared the paper in my hands would spontaneously combust.
After recounting the verdict of the Manhattan trial, the story suddenly veered into crazy land. It declared that Donald Trump's "insurgent behavior delights his supporters as he bulldozes the country's norms," and went on to claim: "Now, the man who refused to accept his 2020 election loss is already seeking to delegitimize his conviction, attempting to assert the primacy of his raw political power over the nation's rule of law."
Former US President Donald Trump speaking at a press conference in Trump Tower, New York, after a guilty verdict announcement 6
Donald Trump was found guilty of faulsifying business records. PETER FOLEY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The sweeping condemnation surely delighted the Trump haters who dominate the paper's staff and readership, and likely will appear in a future Pulitzer application. Yet the same facts could have been conveyed more clearly and fairly simply by saying that Trump is appealing the verdict, is still running for president and has a very good chance of winning.
But straight-forward facts don't have a chance in hell when the Gray Lady's got a narrative to spin and a political agenda to push.
The agenda is to re-elect Joe Biden and that means spinning the narrative that Trump is a wrecking ball who "bull-dozes the country's norms."
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It's dressed-up fear mongering.
That's not to deny that the former president is a tough and mercurial customer who sometimes goes too far, but he's an amateur when it comes to breaking norms.
MAGA hats for sale on a table near Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 6
Trump's conviction has increased his support in many demographics. getty Images
Six legal attacks
Democrats are the world champions. Party prosecutors and lawyers have brought six-yes, six!-criminal and civil cases against Trump since he left office.
All this after impeaching him twice when he was president, an unprecedented pattern of political and legal assault that has no rival in American history.
It's the ultimate destruction of norms when a president uses government power to bankrupt and imprison his opponent, but that's what Biden and Dems have done and are doing.
New York has been especially shameful, with two earlier cases-one a civil fraud and one a defamation case-setting the pattern of trying to destroy Trump. Like the criminal case, both were warped by partisan judges.
As for the Times, its failure to see this overriding truth is intentional. It broke its own norms-and standards-when it became the propaganda arm of a political party.
Meanwhile, the alleged bull-dozer-in-chief was in a relatively pleasant and calm mood when I spoke to him Friday morning for about 25 minutes. I say relatively because anybody who isn't upset after 34 jury recitations of "guilty" would have to be dead.
"I'm good, I'm good," Trump answered when I asked how he was and whether he had been able to sleep.
"I slept fine, it is what it is," he said matter-of-factly. "I did nothing wrong."
We spoke by phone about two hours before he appeared in Trump Tower to make a statement about the case.
New York Times newspapers rolling off the press following the verdict announcement on Donald Trump's criminal trial 6
The New York Times' front page was emblazoned with "GUILTY." REUTERS
He laughed a couple of times and previewed some things he would say later, including that the bookkeeping entry of a legal expense at the heart of the case was in fact just that-a legal expense paid to Michael Cohen, though he never used Cohen's name with me or in public because of the ridiculous gag order still in place.
"It wasn't filed as anything having to do with construction, like cinderblock or dry-wall," he said.
Even when he railed against the obvious tilt toward prosecutors by Judge Juan Marchan, it seemed more rote than anger: "His conflicts are so big, he wouldn't even let us bring in an election law expert," Trump complained.
Former President Donald Trump in a suit and tie, appearing at Manhattan criminal court in New York on April 19, 2024. 6
Trump's conviction has been accused of being politically-motivated. AP
'Get indicted, rise in polls'
"If the trial had been on Staten Island, this would have been a very different situation," he said after noting his lawyers requested a change of venue.
Many legal analysts believe Marchan made numerous reversible errors and Trump insisted that if his planned appeals are denied, "then we don't have a system of laws anymore."
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When I asked about the impact on the campaign, he first mentioned the incredible haul of nearly $35 million his team raised in seven hours after the verdict. It's by far the most he's raised in a single day and, coincidentally, comes to about $1 million for each felony count.
"It's actually unique," Trump said with a laugh. "You get indicted, you go up in the polls. You get convicted, it goes up again."
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and attorney Todd Blanche at Manhattan Criminal Court, during the hush money trial, May 2024 6
"If the trial had been on Staten Island, this would have been a very different situation," Trump said. getty Images
He has a point, with a broad sense that the outcome was, to use his favorite word, "rigged," providing an instant boost for his campaign.
But we'll see where the polls finally settle. Before he became a convicted felon, he was leading in most swing states, but often the difference was within the margin of error.
Although an overnight survey had him gaining an instant six points on Biden, he agreed it takes time for big news to get digested by voters.
As the savvy GOP consultant Ed Rollins points out, the slow brewing of a significant change in public opinion persists even in the digital era.
When I asked Trump what he saw as the most important political arrow in his quiver going forward, he didn't hesitate, saying:
"The biggest thing we have is Biden, the worst president in the history of our country."
He listed the major failings of the White House, finding them extraordinary, and expressed astonishment that they haven't been fixed.
Supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump, smiling in a MAGA hat at Ted Hendricks Stadium ahead of a campaign event in Hialeah, Florida. 6
Legal experts are fighting over Trump's conviction's impact on swing states. REUTERS
"Open borders, high taxes, they want men to be able to play in women's sports," he said. "Why would anyone fight for that?"
"The whole thing is a mystery," he added. "They want to destroy our country. Why?"
"I think they want inflation, even though it's bad for most people. They could stop the open border immediately, but why don't they? Why would anyone want those things?"
"They're fighting MAGA-it stands for Make America Great Again. It's crazy, why fight that?"
He raised the two scheduled debates with Biden, then lowered expectations of the outcome. "They'll juice him up," he said of the president's handlers. "He'll be fine. Whatever they gave him for the State of the Union, they'll do it again. Then he'll get through it, and they'll say he was great."
Several weeks ago, I was part of small group that had an off-the-record meeting with Trump, during which he mixed humorous stories about himself and others with thoughtful answers to our questions.
The event had come after a tough day in court, and I found his ability to relax and remain upbeat under such circumstances remarkable.
Although he wasn't quite as relaxed Friday morning, his tone and composure again struck me as remarkable, given that the verdict had come less than 24 hours earlier.
When I told him so, he was briefly quiet, then responded: "What's happened to me has never happened to anybody before, but I march on. Some people say I'm a warrior, so I guess I am."
Indeed he is. A warrior for our times.
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(6/01/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/01/us-news/donald-trump-attends-ufc-302-just-days-after-guilty-verdict-in-hush-money-trial/
Donald Trump attends UFC 302, receives 'staggering' ovation just days after guilty verdict in hush money trial
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Former President Donald Trump arrived at UFC 302 to an uproarious standing ovation on Saturday - just days after he was found guilty in his Manhattan trial.
Trump, flanked by UFC President and long-time pal Dana White, was met with massive cheers as he entered the The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Former President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is seen in attendance during the UFC 302 event. 4
Former President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is seen in attendance during the UFC 302 event. Zuffa LLC via getty Images
Former President Donald Trump, right, talks to Dana White while attending the UFC 302 mixed martial arts event. 4
Trump entered Prudential Center flanked by longtime friend and UFC president Dana White. AP
The former commander-in-chief shook dozens of hands and waved a fist to the crowd as he made his way to his ringside seat, stopping briefly to say hello to UFC commentator and comedian Joe Rogan.
"The round of applause he's getting right now is pretty staggering," Rogan said on the broadcast.
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Trump's appearance comes just two days after a Manhattan jury convicted him of 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Former President Donald Trump gestures while attending the UFC 302 mixed martial arts event. 4
Trump is a massive mixed martial arts fan and frequently attends UFC events where he's largely beloved by the sport's raucous audience who seem unbothered by his legal woes. AP
He was found guilty of making a $130,000 "hush money" payment to his former "fixer" lawyer Michael Cohen to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged one-night stand with Trump.
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Trump has vowed to appeal, saying that "we're fighting for our Constitution."
Former President Donald Trump, center right, talks to Dana White. 4
White told Deadline this week that his and Trump's friendship goes back 20 years. AP
Trump is a massive mixed martial arts fan and frequently attends UFC events where he's largely beloved by the sport's raucous audience who seem unbothered by his legal woes.
White told Deadline this week that his and Trump's friendship goes back 20 years.
Saturday night's card features 12 fights, headlined by top-ranked lightweight champion Islam Makhachev pitted against fourth-ranked Dustin "The Diamond" Poirier.
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(6/01/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/01/us-news/ex-hawaii-rep-tulsi-gabbards-aunt-caroline-sinaviana-gabbard-allegedly-murdered-by-famed-author-papalii-sia-figiel/
Tulsi Gabbard's aunt stabbed multiple times, beaten to death with hammer by prominent author: report
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The aunt of ex-Democratic Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was stabbed multiple times and beaten with a hammer during a fight with her protege in Samoa last month, according to a report.
Dr. Caroline Sinaviana-Gabbard, 78, was found dead on May 25 inside award-winning Samoan playwright Papalii Sia Figiel's home in Vaivase-Uta, according to Spectrum News.
The two women reportedly were alone inside Figiel's home which doubles as the community's local theater named GaluMoana Theater, when the deadly confrontation took place.
Sinaviana-Gabbard is believed to have been Figiel's mentor.
A smiling woman, possibly Papalii Sia Figiel or Tulsi Gabbard, related to headline about alleged murder charges 5
Caroline Sinaviana-Gabbard was stabbed multiple times and clobbered with a hammer. FOX News
Figiel reportedly fled to a friend's house following the brutal attack and turned herself over to the police.
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Figiel, 57, was initially arrested for manslaughter last Sunday, but her charges were upgraded to murder following an investigation.
"A hammer is alleged to have been used as well as a small knife that inflicted multiple stab wounds on the deceased," Smoa Police Commissioner Auapaau Logoitino Filipo said, according to Somoanews.com.
Papalii Sia Figiel was initially arrested for manslaughter last Sunday, but her charges were upgraded to murder following an investigation. 5
Papalii Sia Figiel was initially arrested for manslaughter last Sunday, but her charges were upgraded to murder following an investigation. Facebook
"We do not know what the motive is of the offending but from reports the incident occurred on Saturday and the suspect left the deceased at her home while she went out to Lotofaga and spent time with a friend," Filipo added.
Sinavaiana-Gabbard, a former professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, was the older sister of Hawaii State Senator Mike Gabbard, Tulsi's father.
Mike Gabbard said he was very close to his sister growing up and proud of her accomplishments in life.
Sinaviana-Gabbard was Tulsi Gabbard's aunt and sister of Hawaii state Sen. Mike Gabbard. 5
Sinaviana-Gabbard was Tulsi Gabbard's aunt and sister of Hawaii state Sen. Mike Gabbard. getty Images
"Caroline was my best friend as a teenager," Mike Gabbard said in a statement to Spectrum News.
"She helped me considerably during my rebellious stage of adolescence. She got me hooked on reading, so much so that I followed in her footsteps and majored in English at Sonoma State University in California, then returned to our birthplace, American Samoa, where I taught English in high schools and was a faculty member, guidance counselor and dean at the community college for many years.
"I love her deeply and wish her well as she continues her journey."
Mike Gabbard went on to say that he forgives the person responsible for her death, but hopes justice will be served and that the person "will be punished to the full extent of the law."
Hawaii state Senator Mike Gabbard says he was very close with his sister growing up and proud of her accomplishments. 5
Hawaii state Senator Mike Gabbard says he was very close with his sister growing up and proud of her accomplishments. Senator Mike Gabbard/Facebook
Sinavaiana-Gabbard taught creative writing and Pacific literature during her nearly two-decade tenure at the school.
Her family says she was the first Samoan to become a full professor in the US, and was an accomplished writer, teacher and environmental activist.
Tulsi Gabbard served four terms in Congress serving Hawaii's second district, and was the first Samoa-American to become a voting member of Congress.
The deadly incident took place on May 25 at Figiel's home in the village of Vaivase-Uta. 5
The deadly incident took place on May 25 at Figiel's home in the village of Vaivase-Uta, about three miles from the capital city of Apia, pictured. virsuziglis
In April, Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, revealed she turned down an offer to serve as independent presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy's running mate.
Figiel's work is published in New Zealand and has won the Best First Book award in the South East Asia/ South Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1997.
Following her arrest, Figiel was transferred from Tanumalala Prison to the National Hospital in Motootua where she was placed on 24-hour suicide watch, a close friend told KHJ News.
Figiel is expected to appear in front of the Supreme Court of Samoa on June 10.
With Post wires
#192337 at 2024-06-13 08:29:23 (UTC+1)
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(6/01/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
Hunter Biden owes ex-wife Kathleen Buhle $2.9M in alimony and other debts as she is set to testify in gun, tax evasion trials
Hunter Biden owes his ex-wife $2.9 million after a protracted legal battle - and now his one time spouse is expected to be a key witness in his looming trials.
Kathleen Buhle, who was married to the first son for 24 years before they split in 2017, claims Hunter has blown off agreed-upon alimony payments, legal fees, interest and other debts to her over the years.
Buhle sued Hunter in 2019, shortly after he married current wife Melissa Cohen.
The dispute with Buhle has been simmering in Washington, D.C. courts for years, and in 2021 Hunter was found to be in violation of his divorce settlement.
Hunter Biden and Kathleen Biden arriving at the World Food Program USA's Annual McGovern-Dole Leadership Award Ceremony in Washington, DC 3
Hunter Biden spent 24 years married to Kathleen Buhle before their divorce in 2017. Paul Morigi
Now Buhle, mother to three of Hunter's five kids, is set to take the stage as Hunter faces federal trial next week for illegal gun possession, and again in September when Hunter goes on trial for alleged tax crimes.
The dispute makes a is mentioned in special counsel David Weiss' tax evasion indictment of the younger Biden.
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Their separation agreement stipulated Hunter would pay Buhle $37,000 a month and 50% of any earnings over $875,000 annually, according to court documents obtained by Axios.
Team Buhle, however has maintained that Hunter didn't pony up what he owned in 2017 and 2018, a period in which they allege he made more than $2 million per year. The alimony stopped altogether after she filed sued, her attorneys contended to Axios.
Hunter Biden in a suit and tie arriving for a court appearance in Wilmington, Delaware on May 24, 2024 3
Hunter Biden blamed his struggle with drug addiction for his failure to pay alimony. AP
The situation was the result of Hunter's well-documented spiral into drug addiction, his attorneys said. The cash, however, has still been slow-walked even after his recovery, Buhle's attorneys' said in an April 2023 court filing, according to the outlet.
"Ms. Buhle previously told this court that the expense and emotional toll this has had on her is enormous and appears to be never-ending. Those feelings have not changed," her attorney Wendy Schwartz wrote in the filing, per Axios.
Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden arriving at Dover Air Force Base to board Air Force One with US President Joe Biden 3
Hunter Biden married his current wife Melissa Cohen in 2019. AFP via getty Images
It's far from the first time Hunter Biden has trying to penny-pinch the women in his life.
Hunter Biden shares a child with former stripper Lunden Roberts which he spent years denying until a paternity test confirmed he was the father.
Throughout 2023 he famously sparred in court with his baby mama after attempting to reduce his child support payments to her. They eventually settled in June 2023.
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(6/01/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/01/business/donald-trumps-conviction-isnt-scaring-off-voters-its-spurring-high-roller-donors-to-flock-to-his-cause/
Donald Trump's conviction isn't scaring off voters - it's spurring high-roller donors to flock to his cause
I can't tell you if Donald Trump will spend a day in jail after a Manhattan jury's guilty verdict in that absurd hush-money case. What I can report with a great degree of certainty is that Trump isn't a guy acting particularly worried about the outcome; in fact, he thinks it's going to propel him back into the White House.
That's the read I'm getting from members of the billionaire and multimillionaire GOP donor class who were hanging with the former and possibly future president, now a convicted felon, at an Upper East Side residence just hours after the perversion of the justice system Thursday.
Former President Donald Trump exiting Trump Tower to speak at a press conference, following his felony conviction, in Manhattan, New York
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Former President Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records on Thursday.
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Among the deep-pocketed group of about two dozen - some who were initially reluctant to support Trump for many reasons, including the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill fiasco - were private equity honcho Steve Schwarzman; real estate titan Steve Witkoff; Jeff Sprecher, the CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange that controls the NYSE; his wife, the former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler; NFL New York Jets owner Woody Johnson; Jacob Helberg of Palantir; John Catsimatidis, the supermarket and media entrepreneur; and hedge fund billionaire John Paulson.
They met at the behest of Pepe Fanjul, the South Florida real estate and sugar magnate who owns the swanky venue.
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I am told that Trump, with his son Eric, arrived a little late (for obvious reasons) - not with a scowl but a smile. He began by cracking jokes to his guests about what just went down in that lower Manhattan courtroom and then got down to business about how he plans to reverse the corrosive elements of Bidenism when he gets re-elected.
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All of this was discussed over a dinner of a ravioli appetizer and a choice of steak and fish. (Trump, a legendary meat eater, got the steak; I couldn't determine if he doused it with his preferred condiment, ketchup.)
Biden's open-borders fiasco took center stage. So did Trump's potential VP pick, with a lot of people plugging former nemesis Nikki Haley. Then came the administration's weak response to China's military and economic threat; wokeism, where we have an administration that supports "transitioning" children; Biden's seeming obliviousness to continued inflation that's decimating the working class; and the rise of antisemitism on campuses and in public discourse thanks to the left wing of the Democratic Party that Sleepy Joe actively has supported for four years despite his reputation as a moderate.
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Addressing the issues
Trump took it all in. People were said to be outraged how a lefty Manhattan district attorney can insert himself into a national election. Trump's other legal issues were addressed and how some might end up before the Supreme Court.
He provided some Trumpian details on how he planned to address it all, which no one argued with given his prior record of peace and prosperity despite his crazy Truth Social feed.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a campaign event at Girard College in Philadelphia, Pa on Wednesday May 29, 2024.
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"We spoke for two hours," said one attendee. "Everyone explained the need for Trump to win given the dangerous direction of the country under Biden and they said they were willing to do whatever to support him."
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The donors came (and pledged an estimated $30 million to Team Trump) because they not only see the case brought by leftist DA Alvin Bragg - 34 counts of practically nothing bootstrapped into a felony - as a politically motivated hatchet job, they view the other cases against Trump through the same political witch-hunt prism. They're increasingly willing to fight back with their bank accounts.
Most of all, they fear the alternative: The hapless administration of Sleepy Joe Biden that is an existential threat to the nation.
Again, the people attending weren't always on the Trump train. Schwarzman, a longtime GOP donor, was until recently a Trump skeptic following Jan. 6. As this column first predicted, antisemitism on campus, stoked by elements of the Democratic Party and Biden's mere half-hearted support of Israel eradicating the Hamas maniacs after Oct. 7, has made Schwarzman a born-again Trumper.
He said as much at the dinner. So did the others who attended - to a person. They believe the DA's case was a farce and the trial a sham: A noncrime over a porn-star hush-money payment brought by a defund-the-police, Soros-funded hack DA before a lefty judge - all to bring down the Democrats' most hated target.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks after the guilty verdict in former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016
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They also really think that Biden has sold out to sinister and leftist elements of the party. He needs to go, along with his half-witted VP, Kamala Harris, who will likely finish out our barely sentient president's term if he's re-elected, given his fragile mental acuity.
Meanwhile, the former president is acting like he's going to be the next president. The Bragg verdict has galvanized popular support and money is rolling in from donors large and small; an estimated $150 million will be raised in the coming days, the Trump campaign believes.
Even before the verdict, Trump was talking to his kitchen cabinet - a group of about a dozen people from the business and political worlds with whom he's close that goes beyond his casual chats with Elon Musk - not about what the food is like in jail, but who will help him run the government after he wins back the White House.
It was once thought that experienced people would run from Trump if he ran again because of the volatile nature of his presidency and his erratic behavior. And yes, Jan. 6.
Just the opposite is happening now. Four years of Sleepy Joe will do that.
Charles Gasparino is the author of the forthcoming book "Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story on the Radicalization of Corporate America."
#192335 at 2024-06-13 08:28:51 (UTC+1)
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>>192333
(6/01/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
media/bill-maher-struggles-over-whether-trump-should-go-to-jail-following-guilty-verdict/
Bill Maher struggles over whether Trump should go to jail following guilty verdict in 'hush money' case
"Real Time" host Bill Maher struggled over whether former President Trump should go to jail following this week's guilty verdict.
"Here's the key question: is he going to jail? Will this judge dare do that? And should he?" Maher asked during a panel discussion Friday night.
"I mean, I've heard some people say if his name wasn't Donald Trump, he would definitely get jail time. But sending a former American president to jail, I don't know if that's something- I'm asking," Maher continued.
Former Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., responded by predicting Trump won't go to jail based on Manhattan's sentencing history of similar crimes.
Former Obama adviser David Axelrod expressed reluctance about sending the presumptive Republican nominee to prison.
"Listen, a lot of people in my tribe don't like it when I say this, but yeah, I think there is something about jailing a former president, especially on something like this," Axelrod told Maher. "That is, to me, worrisome for our country. And I would really be shocked if this judge gave him a prison sentence for this."
"Real Time" host Bill Maher. 3
"Real Time" host Bill Maher struggled over whether former President Trump should go to jail following this week's guilty verdict. Real Time with Bill Maher
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Trump was found guilty on 34 counts against him in the New York trial surrounding falsifying business records. getty Images
'I mean, MAGA nation will go nuts," Maher said. "I don't know if that's a reason to or not to do something, but they will."
The HBO star later fretted that a "civil war" could erupt if Trump was sent to jail, specifically a "race war," accusing his supporters of being outraged by a Black district attorney and a Hispanic judge who made it happen.
"A civil war in this country, I'm sorry to say, becomes a race war," Maher said. "That's the sad truth about this country. And if they put him in jail, I mean, the first thing his supporters are gonna say is, 'Oh, that's what it is.' A Black district attorney. You know, all these people who are the district attorneys, they're black. The judge was not White. This is what it is."
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"I mean, I've heard some people say if his name wasn't Donald Trump, he would definitely get jail time. But sending a former American president to jail, I don't know if that's something- I'm asking," Maher said. Real Time with Bill Maher/YouTube
On Thursday, Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts against him in the New York trial surrounding falsifying business records.
His legal team vows to challenge the verdict.
Trump's defenders have blasted the guilty verdict, accusing Democrats of using lawfare to try to defeat him in the upcoming November presidential election.
#192250 at 2024-06-12 03:57:59 (UTC+1)
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>>192239
(6/11/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/opinion/cuomo-gives-congress-his-covid-lies-but-ny-knows-the-truth/
Cuomo displays his COVID lies and bromides before Congress - but NY knows the truth
Janice Dean
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) following a closed-door interview with the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic on Capitol Hill, on June 11, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo finally arrived in Washington, DC, on Tuesday to answer for his pandemic actions before the subcommittee tasked with investigating the COVID-19 response. getty Images
In compliance with a congressional subpoena, the disgraced former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, finally arrived in Washington, DC, on Tuesday to answer for his pandemic actions before the subcommittee tasked with investigating the COVID-19 response.
In typical fashion, he opened the hearing with the familiar lies and hackneyed talking points we have been hearing for four years.
But unlike his Albany fireside chats in which he pretended to know what he was doing, Tuesday's statements are now part of the congressional record and made under oath.
Cuomo's comment on the March 25, 2020, directive that sent more than 9,000 COVID-positive patients into nursing homes for six weeks: It wasn't his fault!
He was just following orders by the federal government, folks!
But where is this federal guidance compelling state governments to pack care facilities with COVID patients?
How does Cuomo explain that the majority of other states in the union did not carry out this practice?
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Let's be clear on this one.
Other than Cuomo's former health commissioner, Howard Zucker, no doctor or health professional has ever come out in support of this direct order.
Here is a little refresher course for those who are new to Cuomo's blame game: Back in 2020, Cuomo pointed fingers at Trump and the federal government for his deadly order.
In response, Seema Verma, the former director of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, said she "disagree[d] with" his command.
"Under no circumstances should a hospital discharge a patient to a nursing home that is not prepared to take care of those patients' needs," Verma stated at the time.
In fact, the CDC warned nursing homes to keep COVID-19 patients out of their facilities.
The only time a home could allow a sick person into the residence is if the facility could "properly care" for the patient - and at the time, anyone with a disease this contagious and lethal would be confined to an isolation wing in a strict hospital setting.
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Nursing-home operators felt they had no choice but to accept these patients, it was widely reported at the time - and said that Andrew Cuomo threatened to take away their licenses if they didn't play by his rules.
If Cuomo was following federal CDC guidelines, why did his administration do everything it could to cover up the state's total number of elderly deaths?
His top aide, Melissa DeRosa, famously "froze" out of fear that the true number would be held against her by federal prosecutors.
In his long-winded opening statement on Tuesday, Cuomo also blew off several important state investigations that found his executive chamber lied and falsified reports.
The New York state comptroller came out with a 41-page audit that found Cuomo's health department underreported the full death tally by as much as 50% during April 2020 and February 2021.
We lost both my husband's parents in separate elder-care facilities during the pandemic, so just hearing Andrew Cuomo's voice again brings PTSD.
I'm not surprised that he used the same old platitudes and lies he has been feeding the press for years, but this time he was under oath - and there is plenty of evidence to counter his banal bromides.
I would like the subcommittee to subpoena documents and drafts about the origins of Cuomo's March 25 order.
If the former governor is so sure that the CDC or some other entity of the federal government was behind it, by all means, he should prove it.
If there's one thing we know for sure after four years of trying to get justice and accountability for the deaths of our loved ones, Andrew Cuomo has never taken responsibility for his actions, issued apologies or admitted mistakes.
Judging by his performance today, that day will never come.
But we have the angels on our side - and Tuesday's sworn testimony is the beginning of Cuomo's Judgment Day.
Janice Dean is senior meteorologist at the Fox News Channel.
#192248 at 2024-06-12 03:54:04 (UTC+1)
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>>192239
(6/11/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/ny-squad-rep-jamaal-bowman-exposed-for-lies-about-israel-support-as-he-pushes-for-democratic-socialists-backing/
NY 'Squad' Rep. Jamaal Bowman exposed for 'lies' about Israel support as he pushes for Democratic Socialists' backing
Carl Campanile
New York "Squad" Rep. Jamaal Bowman is being accused of lying about his positions on Israel - publicly suggesting one thing and then allegedly flopping while privately groveling to a radical socialist group.
Bowman - who is in the fight of his political life against Democratic Party challenger George Latimer - previously publicly condemned a heinous anti-Israel protest supported by the Democratic Socialists of America "in the strongest possible terms.''
He seized on the moment to crow that he had let his DSA membership lapse after a previous falling out with the group for visiting Israel and voting for defense funding to the country
Rep. Jamaal Bowman is being accused of lying about his positions on Israel. 3
Rep. Jamaal Bowman is being accused of lying about his positions on Israel. getty Images
Then Bowman told DSA members during a May 26 endorsement interview, "I'm still a member. ... I didn't let my dues lapse," the New York Times reported Tuesday.
The two-term incumbent also has never publicly stated that he supports the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which pro-Israel activists claim is antisemitic by trying to economically harm the Jewish state to advance the interests of Palestinians.
Yet during the DSA endorsement interview, Bowman said he "personally" backs the BDS movement but just has not gone public with his support because of the "large Jewish population, large Zionist population, large pro-Israel population, large AIPAC population" in his 16th Congressional district.
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The pol, whose district covers most of Westchester County and the north Bronx, indicated he wants to go public "at some point" to stimulate discussion to further "peace and justice and safety and humanity for all people."
"BDS. is a nonviolent protest opportunity to hold Israel accountable," Bowman said during the interview, the Times reported.
"And I think Israel needs to be held accountable. And so I'm ready, willing and able to collaborate with you all to figure out what's the best way to do that."
Bowman said he hasn't been public about his opinion because of the "large Jewish population, large Zionist population, large pro-Israel population, large AIPAC population." 3
Bowman said he hasn't been public about his opinion because of the "large Jewish population, large Zionist population, large pro-Israel population, large AIPAC population." AFP via getty Images
The DSA backs the BDS campaign against Israel.
Bowman also said he now opposes Iron Dome defense funding for Israel, which he previously voted for.
He said he initially voted for Iron Dome funding to show his constituents he wasn't against the Jewish people.
"I didn't want my 'no' vote to be misinterpreted as 'I want Jews to be killed,'" he told DSA members.
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But he now blames Israel for committing "genocide" in Gaza in its response to Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on the Jewish State.
"There's no way I could support any of that, because there's a genocide happening in Gaza," he told the socialists.
The congressman faces a formidable Democratic primary challenge from Westchester County Executive Latimer, who has the backing of pro-Israel advocates.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman speaks alongside, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Jonathan Jackson, and Rep. Cori Bush, during a vigil with state legislators and faith leaders currently on hunger strike outside the White House to demand that President Joe Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza 3
Rep. Jamaal Bowman speaks during a vigil with state legislators and faith leaders on hunger strike outside the White House to demand that President Joe Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. AP
Latimer opposes BDS and backs Iron Dome funding.
A Emerson College/Pix 11/The Hill survey released Tuesday shows Latimer with a 17 point lead over Bowman - 48% to 31% with the remaining 21% undecided.
Latimer backers called Bowman a craven liar in a desperate bid to get re-elected.
"That Congressman Bowman admits to having lied to get re-elected is a sad commentary on his character. His hostility to the truth is only matched by his hostility toward his own constituents - all of them - and President Biden," said Democratic Majority for Israel Chairman Mark Mellman.
#192244 at 2024-06-12 03:20:07 (UTC+1)
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>>192239
(6/11/2014) Headlines Recap NYPost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/us-news/arizona-republicans-ask-maricopa-county-attorney-to-take-hobbs-pay-to-play-investigation/
Arizona Republicans ask Maricopa County Attorney to take Hobbs 'pay to play' investigation
Cameron Arcand
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs speaks before signing a bill repealing the state's near total abortion ban that dates to 1864 during a news conference on May 2, 2024
More Republican state officials are calling on Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell to investigate the "pay to play" allegations involving the Hobbs administration and Sunshine Residential Homes. Rob Schumacher/The Republic / US
More Republican state officials are calling on Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell to investigate the "pay to play" allegations involving the Hobbs administration and Sunshine Residential Homes.
Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, has already opened an investigation triggered by a letter from Senate President Pro Tempore T.J. Shope after the Arizona Republic story broke with the allegations that the group home company got better daily pay rates per child after donating around $400,000 to Hobbs' campaign, inaugural fund, and the state Democratic Party.
Mitchell, a Republican, also said she may open an investigation after the Auditor General's office reached out to her.
"As the Treasurer of Arizona, I am responsible for overseeing, safekeeping, and managing the State of Arizona's securities and investments, which are duties I take seriously. Arizona taxpayers need financial accountability and deserve to know how their money is being spent," Treasurer Kimberly Yee, a Republican, stated.
"Providing state dollars to political donors is a grave misuse of public funds. 'Pay to play' and special favors have no place in state government."
Yee said Mayes wrongfully asserted that she has singular control over any investigation.
"I have requested a separate investigation to be conducted by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office," Yee said.
Rachel Mitchell, a prosecutor from Arizona, is seen prior to Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the US Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC
Mitchell, a Republican, also said she may open an investigation after the Auditor General's office reached out to her. getty Images
"The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has separate jurisdiction in this matter and the current investigation by the Attorney General's Office raises concerns of potential ethical conflicts of interest in representing state agencies and officials involved in the alleged scheme."
In response, the Attorney General said that it's the role of the state to look into the allegations.
"As with any other investigation our office conducts, we will follow the facts wherever they lead us. As with everything else we do, we are also fully cognizant of our ethical obligations and have taken appropriate measures to protect the interests of all concerned, including directing the Department of Child Services to obtain outside counsel in this matter," Mayes wrote.
"Finally, I will note that while you are certainly always welcome to express your personal concerns to me, nothing about the matters Sen. Shope has asked us to investigate are remotely related to any of your statutory duties as set out by [state law]."
Gov. Katie Hobbs bows her head during a moment in silence as people gather for a Memorial Day ceremony
The Center Square reported on Monday that Attorney General Kris Mayes is asking Mitchell to not conduct her own process to avoid "parallel investigations." Joe Rondone/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK
Rep. David Livingston, R-Peoria, took it a step further saying that Mayes should recuse herself from the case, saying that she has clearly benefited from Arizona Democratic Party funding before and said she did not handle a previous complaint from him regarding Hobbs' use of "public resources" prior to taking office.
"Your conflict of interest and mishandling of my complaint warrants your recusal from investigating the pay-to-play scandal because it likewise stems from Governor Hobbs' unprecedented inaugural fundraising and political donations to the ADP. You have already proven that you will shield both the Democrat Governor and your own party from any liability," Livingston wrote.
The Center Square reported on Monday that Mayes is asking Mitchell to not conduct her own process to avoid "parallel investigations."
Hobbs refused to answer questions about the allegations during a media availability on Tuesday morning, including when The Center Square asked if she would comply with both Mayes and Mitchell in the event they both investigate.
In an email to reporters on Monday, the Attorney General's office said they would not be responding to Livingston's letter.
#192135 at 2024-06-10 18:47:43 (UTC+1)
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>>192134
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-replaces-three-top-military-leaders-yonhap-news-agency-reports/2018/06/03/086da640-6798-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html
(June 4th, 2018)
North Korea replaces three top military leaders, Yonhap news agency reports
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Korean Central News Agency/AFP/getty Images)
SEOUL - Three of North Korea's top military officials have been replaced, a South Korean news agency reported Monday, marking an apparent shake-up in leader Kim Jong Un's inner circle before next week's planned summit with President Trump.
The report by the Yonhap news agency, citing an intelligence source, could not be independently verified.
But, if confirmed, the moves suggest another step in Kim's ongoing reorganization in military leadership - this time bringing in younger military overseers to replace older ranks possibly at odds with his outreach to the United States and its ally South Korea, experts said.
The officials who reportedly were dropped are from some of the highest echelons of the North's military structure, including Ri Myong Su, the chief of general staff for the Korean People's Army. Ri was thought to be a confidant of Kim's father, the late leader Kim Jong Il.
The others dismissed, according to Yonhap, were defense chief Pak Yong Sik and Kim Jong Gak, director of the political bureau of the North Korean army.
It was unclear when the changes were carried out, but plans to replace Kim Jong Gak were reported in the North Korean media last month, Yonhap said.
North Korea made no immediate reference to any military changes, and it remains difficult to assess whether the shake-up could signal a significant change in North Korean policies.
It appeared, however, that it represented some level of generational shift. All the officials who were reportedly promoted were younger than those dismissed, according to Yonhap, including the new general staff chief, Ri Yong Gil, who at 63 is 21 years younger than the outgoing Ri Myong Su.
To underscore the challenges in following North Korean affairs, the Yonhap agency reported erroneously in February 2016 that Ri Yong Gil had been executed as part of high-level purges. But he and the two other generals who reportedly were promoted to top positions - No Kwang Chol and Kim Su Gil - have been seen at major party and military events with the North's leader over the past two years, according to 38 North, a website that closely follows North Korean affairs.
Kim Yong Hyun, a professor of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul, said the reported new military leadership brings expertise in military-run economic affairs rather than combat strategies.
This could be a sign that the North Korean leader is "pursuing a new policy to become a developing country without nuclear weapons, rather than a poor country with nuclear weapons," he said.
"He has chosen the route of pursuing denuclearization and a peace treaty through dialogue, and is appointing a new generation of military leaders to set the tone for his vision," Kim Yong Hyun said.
He described Kim's reported move as sidelining "leaders of the past, of Kim Jong Il's generation."
"Kim Jong Un has chosen a new leadership who reflects his new approach and can more naturally propagate his new policies to bring stability within the military," the professor said.
The military moves also may be viewed as another step by Kim to underscore his willingness to make bold internal changes ahead of the scheduled June 12 summit with Trump in Singapore. But the North has given no clear hints about how far it could go toward meeting U.S. demands to dismantle its nuclear program.
Michael Madden, who runs the North Korea Leadership Watch website, said the military changes, if confirmed, are part of a gradual remake to put the armed forces in the hands of Kim loyalists.
"These are guys that are Kim Jong Un guys - Kim Jong Un loyalists and people who he trusts," Madden said, noting that Kim also may have wanted to make sure his handpicked military chiefs are in charge when he leaves for the Singapore summit.
"If he doesn't bring them to Singapore with him, it might help to have them in watch while he goes away, like a designated survivor," Madden said.
Appointing his loyalists to the top military ranks would ensure there is no communication gap or corruption that could jeopardize improving inter-Korea relationships, Madden said. The military oversees distribution of resources from the South, which likely will pick up as the two Koreas try to forge more cultural and diplomatic contacts.
"It's a good choice of support for his diplomacy efforts. It's good to have these people in high office to provide him follow-through," Madden said. "So if there are policies he needs to implement, these are people who are not going to be resistant to that and they will make sure his policies are implemented in a timely fashion."
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>>191382
https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-finds-fundamental-concerns-about-red-cross-finances
Report: Red Cross Spent 25 Percent Of Haiti Donations On Internal Expenses
Laura Sullivan4-Minute Listen
Haitians outside a Red Cross field hospital in Carrefour, Haiti, on Dec. 14, 2010, 11 months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the country's capital, Port-au-Prince.
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The American Red Cross spent a quarter of the money people donated after the 2010 Haiti earthquake - or almost $125 million - on its own internal expenses, far more than the charity previously had disclosed, according to a report released Thursday by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
The report also says the charity's top officials stonewalled congressional investigators and released incomplete information about its Haiti program to the public. It concludes "there are substantial and fundamental concerns about [the Red Cross] as an organization."
The report follows a nearly yearlong investigation by the Iowa Republican and his staff, launched after coverage by NPR and ProPublica of the Red Cross' Haiti response. The venerated charity raised nearly $500 million after the disaster, more than any other nonprofit, but an ambitious plan to build housing resulted in just six permanent homes, NPR and ProPublica found.
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Other findings in Sen. Grassley's report:
The charity insisted to congressional investigators that $70 million spent on "program expenses" included funds to oversee and evaluate its Haiti programs. But Grassley's office found that the charity "is unable to provide any financial evidence that oversight activities in fact occurred."
Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern told Grassley's office the charity "gave [the Government Accountability Office] everything that they asked for" during an earlier review. The report, however, says the organization did not provide everything requested, "contrary to Ms. McGovern's multiple claims that it did."
The Red Cross has kept the charity's own internal investigations and ethics unit "severely undermanned and underfunded," the report says, and the charity "appears to be reluctant to support the very unit that is designed to police wrongdoing within the organization."
Red Cross officials defended the charity's work in a statement responding to the Grassley report, calling the organization's spending "entirely justifiable given the size and complexity of the Haiti program." They also noted that the Red Cross receives favorable ratings for accountability from charity watchdog groups.
Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in an interview that even after a year of back-and-forth with the Red Cross, "we did not get satisfactory answers - like pulling teeth, it was very difficult."
The Red Cross, including McGovern, repeatedly has told the public that all but 9 percent of donations spent go to humanitarian programs. But Grassley's office found that 25 percent of donations sent to Haiti - or nearly $125 million - were spent on fundraising and management, a contingency fund and the catchall category the Red Cross calls "program expenses."
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The Red Cross sent the bulk of the remaining donated money to other nonprofits to do the work on the ground. Those other nonprofits then took their own cuts - as high as 11 percent - for their own expenses.
"The most important thing [from the report] is an unwillingness to level with the people exactly where the money went," Grassley says. "There's too many questions in regard to how the money was spent in Haiti … it gives me cause to wonder about other money being donated for other national disasters."
"One of the reasons that they don't want to answer questions is it's very embarrassing," Grassley adds.
In its statement, the American Red Cross notes that it has not yet seen Grassley's report, but that the organization and McGovern have been transparent, and that donors' money was properly spent. The statement also notes "the scale of the destruction and the challenging and sometimes dangerous conditions of working in Haiti."
The Red Cross, created by a congressional charter more than a century ago, receives a range of special benefits from the U.S. government.
Here are more details from the report:
The Red Cross Didn't Explain How Money Was Spent
In general, the Red Cross itself doesn't know how much money it spent on each project in Haiti because of a "complex, yet inaccurate" accounting system, the report found.
The report echoes the confidential findings of consultants hired by the Red Cross, which previously were reported by NPR and ProPublica. One internal evaluation of one of the group's water and sanitation projects found there was "no correct process for monitoring project spending." Another assessment found that the group's figures on how many people were helped by a hygiene project were "fairly meaningless."
Documents provided by the Red Cross suggest that the charity sometimes spent large sums of money on management costs even when it enlisted other organizations to run relief operations.
In 2010, the American Red Cross wrote a check for $4.3 million to its sister organization the International Federation of the Red Cross for disaster preparedness work. On top of the $4.3 million, according to budget figures the charity provided to Grassley, the American Red Cross spent another $2 million on its own to manage the grant. That's after it already took out hundreds of thousands of dollars in administrative fees.
Partners like the IFRC typically take out their own overhead and administrative costs before using the money to help Haitians.
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When asked what the $2 million was used for, the Red Cross said it covered the costs "incurred to ensure accountability, monitoring and evaluation of work performed and ensure our partners meet their contractual requirements."
"It's sort of a shocking amount of money," said Jake Johnston, a research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who has spent years digging into the Red Cross' finances. "Maybe a little bit more than half that ends up going to a project."
Investigators' Questions Go Unanswered
The report lists eight examples of things the Red Cross declined to provide to government investigators working for the GAO as part of an inquiry that began in 2014. Those include descriptions of the charity's internal oversight processes, as well as interviews with chapter officials involved in the response to Superstorm Sandy.
In its statement, the Red Cross says that "at no point did the Red Cross refuse to provide requested information." But Grassley's report calls that claim "contrary to the documentary evidence."
McGovern has portrayed the Red Cross as a beacon of openness. "We made a commitment that we want to lead the effort in transparency," she said at the National Press Club in 2011.
Grassley also says that, as NPR reported last year, McGovern tried to kill the GAO investigation - and that while the Red Cross couldn't kill the investigation, its "lack of cooperation led GAO to modify its scope."
In meetings and email correspondence over several months, Red Cross General Counsel David Meltzer questioned GAO's legal authority to look at the Red Cross.
The Red Cross argued that investigators' "requests for internal decision-making, internal oversight, and internal funding allocation are outside of GAO's authority," according to the GAO's account.
The Red Cross Undercut Its Own Ethics Unit
The Red Cross has about 20,000 employees, but its ethics office - which investigates waste, fraud and abuse - is composed of three people, according to the Grassley report. That is down from roughly 65 staffers after Hurricane Katrina a decade ago, the report says.
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The Office of Investigations, Compliance and Ethics was left so "understaffed and underfunded" that it is "unable to perform its primary function; namely, to perform investigations, ensure compliance, and maintain ethical standards," the report found.
The report doesn't explain why the size of the office was slashed, but it does note that the Red Cross sometimes relies on outside law firms to conduct internal investigations.
One of the three remaining employees, the "compliance coordinator," performs only intakes and triages and does not actually do investigations. Another, the chief investigator, is based in New York, away from Red Cross headquarters in Washington.
Requests by the head of the unit, Teala Brewer, for more staff have gone unfulfilled, the report says.
#190637 at 2024-05-25 05:44:27 (UTC+1)
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>>190636
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/03/31/turley-sessions-using-utah-federal-prosecutor-much-better-trump-2nd-special-counsel/
Turley: Sessions' Appointing Utah Federal Prosecutor Much Better for Trump than 2nd Special Counsel(Breitbart.com)
Ken Klukowski31 Mar 2018
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WASHINGTON, DC - Professor Jonathan Turley, a top national legal expert on government investigations, commented on Thursday about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to bring in U.S. Attorney John Huber. Turley called it "brilliant"to combine all the powers of the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general with a prosecutor who can bring charges, seek indictments, and get results for President Trump far more quickly than a second special counsel.
Turley is a law professor at George Washington University, who attained national fame during the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton as a top legal authority on special counsels and congressional investigations of government wrongdoing, including criminal wrongdoing. His reputation has only grown during the intervening 20 years, as he has weighed in on scandals and investigations of public officials from both political parties.
Sessions sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), informing them that Huber is conducting a full-fledged criminal investigation into all the matters Republicans are calling for a special counsel to investigate. Huber has been investigating these possible crimes for five months, since November 13, 2017.
During an interview on Lou Dobbs's Fox Business Network show, Turley explained to guest host Stuart Varney that the media are wrongly reporting that Sessions will not appoint a second special counsel. "He did not foreclose the possibility of a special counsel," he insisted.
Instead, Turley explained that Sessions has ordered Huber to "team up with the inspector general (IG) within the Justice Department to investigate these matters."
Sessions informed Congress in his letter that all the matters recommended for investigation by Goodlatte, Gowdy, and Grassley are "fully within the scope of [Huber's] existing mandate." He also informed the chairmen that Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who is working with Huber, has a staff of 470 investigators, giving Huber access to enormous investigative firepower that far exceeds the staff of any special counsel.
That point is critical because as Sessions' March 29 letter explains, the inspector general's jurisdiction to conduct civil and criminal investigations includes "actions taken by former employees after they have left government service." Then Huber can act on any of those matters.
As a U.S. attorney, Huber has full authority to empanel a grand jury and to file criminal charges. A grand jury can be empaneled anywhere, which means that it could be a group of citizens from deep-red Utah - in the heart of Trump country - instead of the D.C. Swamp that decides whether to hand down indictments for felony prosecution.
"The Inspector General's jurisdiction extends not only to allegations of legal violations, but also to allegations that Department employees violated established practices as well," Sessions added in his letter, which means that the IG's report can hold people accountable even for actions that do not violate a specific statute.
"I think [Sessions] did the right thing here," said Turley. "I think the president should listen to General Sessions on this one."
Sessions "can always appoint a special counsel," Turley explained, but that should not even be necessary because Huber "has the ability to prosecute cases."
"Do these prosecutors have the same power to investigate and get to the bottom of things that a special counsel would have?" Varney asked.
"Actually, yes," Turley answered. "I think people are missing what could be a brilliant move here by Sessions. What he did is he essentially combined the powers of the inspector general with the powers of a line prosecutor."
"This prosecutor does have not just the experience and training to look for a criminal case; he has the ability to move a case of that kind" in court, Turley emphasized.
Not only that, but if Sessions believes crimes were committed, but Huber for some reason does not bring charges, "Sessions has reserved the right to go ahead and appoint a special counsel," said Turley.
"That's a powerful combination," he observed.
When Varney asked if Huber and Horowitz's status as "Obama holdovers" creates a possible problem for Sessions and President Trump, Turley said no, observing that each man has a great reputation as a "dogged investigator."
Breitbart News has separately confirmed that Utah Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, both of whom are Republicans who support aggressive investigations of these scandals, enthusiastically supported Huber to be reappointed by President Trump as his U.S. attorney in Utah. The Senate confirmed Huber in 2017 for a second term.
Huber is a Utah lawyer, not a D.C lawyer. "That distance between him and Washington is very important," Turley explained, because Huber is not part of the Deep State, that is, not cozy buddies with the cocktail party scene that is suspected of perpetrating all of these actions against President Trump and his administration.
Turley said President Trump should be very happy that Sessions chose this route of appointing Huber, who has the power to seek indictments and prosecute cases, and teamed him up with Horowitz, who has 470 investigators at his disposal, if the president wants to see swift and decisive action.
"If a special counsel were appointed, there would be a great deal of delay," Turley stated, versus the team of Huber and Horowitz, who are already five months into this investigation.
Ken Klukowski is senior legal editor for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17031772/mueller-indictments-grand-jury
All of Robert Mueller's indictments and plea deals in the Russia investigation(Vox.com)
The investigation is now complete.
Andrew ProkopDec 17, 2019, 12:10pm EST
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Special counsel Robert Mueller's team indicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies during their lengthy investigation.
That group is composed of six former Trump advisers, 26 Russian nationals, three Russian companies, one California man, and one London-based lawyer. Seven of these people (including five of the six former Trump advisers) have pleaded guilty.
If you also count investigations that Mueller originated but then referred elsewhere in the Justice Department, you can add a plea deal from one more person to the list.
It's a sprawling set of allegations, encompassing both election interference charges against overseas Russians, and various other crimes by American Trump advisers.
However, Mueller did not allege any crimes directly connecting the two - that is, that Trump advisers criminally conspired with Russian officials to impact the election.
Other reported focuses of Mueller's investigation - such as potential obstruction of justice by the Trump administration - also did not result in any charges.
Justice Department officials told reporters that this is the final list, and that no more indictments are coming from the special counsel's probe.
The full list of Mueller indictments and plea deals
(PLANT) 1)George Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, was arrested in July 2017 and pleaded guilty in October 2017 to making false statements to the FBI. He got a 14-day sentence.
(PLANT) 2)Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chair, was indicted on a total of 25 different counts by Mueller's team, related mainly to his past work for Ukrainian politicians and his finances. He had two trials scheduled, and the first ended in a conviction on eight counts of financial crimes. To avert the second trial, Manafort struck a plea deal with Mueller in September 2018 (though Mueller's team said in November that he breached that agreement by lying to them). He was sentenced to a combined seven and a half years in prison.
(His own Ukraine/shit got him indicted) 3)Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide and Manafort's longtime junior business partner, was indicted on similar charges to Manafort. But in February 2018 he agreed to a plea deal with Mueller's team, pleading guilty to just one false statements charge and one conspiracy charge. He was sentenced to 45 days in prison and 3 years of probation.
(Willingly lied to help direct investigation knowing where bodies were buried/patriot/rubber bullets) 4)Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, pleaded guilty in December 2017 to making false statements to the FBI.
(Those supposedly who sewed disinfo against US/CIA plot backing the CIA Ukraine Coup in 2013-2014) 5-20)13 Russian nationals and three Russian companieswere indicted on conspiracy charges, with some also being accused of identity theft. The charges related to a Russian propaganda effort designed to interfere with the 2016 campaign. The companies involved are the Internet Research Agency, often described as a "Russian troll farm," and two other companies that helped finance it. The Russian nationals indicted include 12 of the agency's employees and its alleged financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
21)Richard Pinedo: This California man pleaded guilty to an identity theft charge in connection with the Russian indictments, and has agreed to cooperate with Mueller. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison and 6 months of home detention in October 2018.
(His own Ukraine/shit got him indicted) 22)Alex van der Zwaan: This London lawyer pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Rick Gates and another unnamed person based in Ukraine. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and has completed his sentence.
(His own Ukraine/shit got him indicted) 23)Konstantin Kilimnik: This longtime business associate of Manafort and Gates, who's currently based in Russia, was charged alongside Manafort with attempting to obstruct justice by tampering with witnesses in Manafort's pending case last year.
(Those who Mueller tried to give Muh Russia haxxors credibility, OR acknowledge that DNC was Seth Rich/Assange/Wikileaks and make his investigation illegitimate which would never habben) 24-35)12 Russian GRU officers: These officers of Russia's military intelligence service were charged with crimes related to the hacking and leaking of leading Democrats' emails in 2016.
(being a shady bastard) 36)Michael Cohen: In August 2018, Trump's former lawyer pleaded guilty to 8 counts - tax and bank charges, related to his finances and taxi business, and campaign finance violations - related to hush money payments to women who alleged affairs with Donald Trump, as part of a separate investigation in New York (that Mueller had handed off). But in November, he made a plea deal with Mueller too, for lying to Congress about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
(Fag Mueller shit) 37)Roger Stone: In January 2019, Mueller indicted longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone on 7 counts. He accused Stone of lying to the House Intelligence Committee about his efforts to get in touch with WikiLeaks during the campaign, and tampering with a witness who could have debunked his story. He was convicted on all counts after a November 2019 trial.
(His own Ukraine/shit got him indicted) Finally, there is one other person Mueller initially investigated, but handed over to others in the Justice Department to charge:Sam Patten. This Republican operative and lobbyist pleaded guilty to not registering as a foreign agent with his work for Ukrainian political bigwigs, and agreed to cooperate with the government.
That's the full list, but we'll delve into the charges in a bit more detail below.
The five ex-Trump aides who struck plea deals with MuellerNOTHING TO DO WITH TRUMP other than knowing him, or stuck into his campaign to further/justify [INSURANCE POLICY]
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So far, no Trump associates have been specifically charged with any crimes relating to helping Russia interfere with the 2016 election.
Yet five have pleaded guilty to other crimes. Manafort and Gates were charged with a series of offenses related to their past work for Ukrainian politicians and their finances. Papadopoulos and Flynn both admitted making false statements to investigators to hide their contacts with Russians, and Cohen admitted making false statements to Congress.
Papadopoulos: Back in April 2016, Papadopoulos got a tip from a foreign professor he understood to have Russian government connections that the Russians had "dirt" on Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails." He then proceeded to have extensive contacts with the professor and two Russian nationals, during which he tried to plan a Trump campaign trip to Russia.
But when the FBI interviewed Papadopoulos about all this in January 2017, he repeatedly lied about what happened, he now admits. So he was arrested in July 2017, and later agreed to plead guilty to a false statements charge, which was dramatically unsealed in October 2017.
Initially, it seemed as if Papadopoulos was cooperating with Mueller's probe. But we later learned that the special counsel cut off contact with him in late 2017, after he talked to the press. In the end, he didn't provide much information of note, Mueller's team said in court filing. His involvement with the investigation now appears to be over, and in September 2018, he was sentenced to 14 days incarceration.
Flynn: In December 2016, during the transition, Flynn spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions that President Barack Obama had just placed on Russia, and about a planned United Nations Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements.
But when FBI agents interviewed him about all this in January 2017, Flynn lied to them about what his talks with Kislyak entailed, he now admits. In December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to a false statements charge and began cooperating with Mueller's investigation. We haven't seen the fruits of his cooperation yet, and he has not yet been sentenced.
Manafort and Gates: This pair worked for Ukrainian politicians (and, eventually, the Ukrainian government) for several years prior to the Trump campaign, and made an enormous amount of money for it. Mueller charged them with hiding their lobbying work and the money they made from it from the government, as well as other financial crimes and attempts to interfere with the investigation.
Gates was the first to strike a plea deal. In February, Mueller dropped most of the charges he had brought against him. In exchange, Gates pleaded guilty to two counts - one conspiracy to defraud the United States charge encompassing the overall Ukrainian lobbying and money allegations, and a false statements charge. (With the latter, Gates admitted lying to Mueller's team during a meeting this February. A Dutch lawyer, Alex van der Zwaan, also pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI related to his Ukrainian work with Gates.)
Manafort, meanwhile, fought the charges in two venues, Washington, DC, and Virginia. His first trial was in Virginia, and in August, it ended with his conviction on eight counts - five counts of subscribing to false income tax returns, one count of failing to report his foreign bank accounts, and two counts of bank fraud. The jury deadlocked on another 10 counts, so for those, the judge declared a mistrial.
The conviction finally brought Manafort to the table, and on September 14, he and Mueller's team struck a plea deal requiring his cooperation. Manafort pleaded guilty to just two more counts - conspiracy to defraud the United States, and an attempted obstruction of justice charge. But he admitted that the other allegations Mueller previously made against him were true as well. The cooperation element of his plea deal fell apart in November, though, as Mueller's team accused Manafort of lying to them. Manafort ended up being sentenced to a combined seven and a half years in prison. Gates got 45 days in prison and 3 years of probation.
Cohen: Mueller's team was investigating Trump's former attorney in 2017, but at some point, they referred the Cohen probe to the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). It was SDNY that authorized the FBI raid of Cohen's residence and office in April.
In August, Cohen cut a deal with SDNY. He agreed to plead guilty to 8 counts. Six of them involved his own finances - 5 tax counts involving hiding various income related to his taxi medallion business and other financial transactions from the US government, and a bank fraud count. Cohen also admitted participating in a scheme to violate campaign finance laws in connection with hush money payments to women alleging affairs with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Then, in November, Cohen made his deal with Mueller. Here, he agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to Congress, to try and cover up his work on behalf of a Trump Tower Moscow project during the campaign.
Cohen had told Congress that the Trump Tower Moscow project ended early in the campaign, that he hadn't discussed it much with others at Trump's company, and that he hadn't successfully gotten in touch with the Russian government about it.
In fact, he now admits, the project was still active months later, he'd talked about it with Trump more than he'd admitted (and with unnamed Trump family members), and he'd talked about it with an assistant for Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary.
Roger Stone was the final Trump associate indicted in the investigation
Then, on January 25, another political operative with a decades-long history with Trump - Roger Stone - was indicted.
Various statements by Stone, including many public ones, raised questions about whether he had some sort of inside knowledge about WikiLeaks's posting of Democrats' hacked emails during the 2016 campaign.
Stone has long denied having any such knowledge - and claimed that anything he knew about WikiLeaks came through an intermediary, radio host Randy Credico. Mueller's indictment alleges that this story was false - and that Stone's telling it to the House Intelligence Committee was criminal.
Mueller's indictment of Stone alleges that the GOP operative gave a false story to explain his knowledge about WikiLeaks.
Stone was accused of lying about this to the House Intelligence Committee in 2017, and trying to tamper with a witness - Credico - so that he would stick to that false story. And, after a November 2019 trial, Stone was found guilty on all counts.
About two dozen overseas Russians have been charged with election interference
Mueller has also filed two major indictments of Russian nationals and a few Russian companies for crimes related to alleged interference with the 2016 election: the troll farm indictment, and the email hacking indictment.
The troll farm indictment: In February, Mueller brought charges related to the propaganda efforts of one Russian group in particular: the Internet Research Agency. That group's operations - which included social media posts, online ads, and organization of rallies in the US - were, the indictment alleges, often (but not exclusively) aimed at denigrating Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy and supporting Donald Trump's.
Mueller indicted the Internet Research Agency, two other shell companies involved in financing the agency, its alleged financier (Yevgeny Prigozhin), and 12 other Russian nationals who allegedly worked for it.
The specific charges in the case include one broad "conspiracy to defraud the United States" count, but the rest are far narrower - one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and six counts of identity theft. It is highly unlikely that the indicted Russian individuals will ever come to the US to face trial, but one company involved, Concord Catering, is fighting back in court.
No Americans have been charged with being witting participants in this Russian election interference effort. However, one American, Richard Pinedo of California, pleaded guilty to an identity fraud charge, seemingly because he sold bank account numbers created with stolen identities to the Russians. Pinedo agreed to cooperate with the probe as part of his plea deal. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison and 6 months home detention in October.
The email hacking indictment: Brought in July, here Mueller charged 12 officers of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, with crimes committed to the high-profile hacking and leaking of leading Democrats' emails during the 2016 campaign.
Specifically indicted were nine officers of the GRU's "Unit 26165," which Mueller alleges "had primary responsibility for hacking the DCCC and DNC, as well as the email accounts of individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign" like John Podesta. Three other GRU officers, Mueller alleges, "assisted in the release of stolen documents," "the promotion of those releases," "and the publication of anti-Clinton content on social media accounts operated by the GRU."
A trial here is unlikely, since all of the people indicted live in Russia.
Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime Manafort associate, has been charged with obstruction of justice
Then, Konstantin Kilimnik - who worked with Manafort in Ukraine and is now based in Russia - was charged alongside Manafort with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice, in June.
Mueller argued that, earlier in 2018, Manafort and Kilimnik worked together to contact potential witnesses against Manafort and encourage them to give false testimony. He argues that this is attempted witness tampering, and qualifies as obstruction of justice.
The alleged tampering relates to the "Hapsburg group"- a group of former senior European politicians Manafort paid to advocate for Ukraine's interests.
Both Manafort and Kilimnik tried to contact witnesses to get them to claim the Hapsburg group only operated in Europe (where US foreign lobbying laws don't apply). But Mueller says there's ample evidence that the group did work in the US too, and the witnesses thought Manafort and Kilimnik were trying to get them to commit perjury.
In Manafort's September plea deal, he admitted to this. Kilimnik, however, is in Russia, and will likely remain there rather than face charges.
Sam Patten struck a plea deal after Mueller referred his investigation elsewhere
There're another instance in which where Mueller surfaced incriminating information about someone, but handed off the investigation to elsewhere in the Justice Department.
Sam Patten: A GOP lobbyist who had worked in some of the same Ukrainian circles as Manafort and alongside Konstantin Kilimnik, Mueller's team began investigating Patten, but at some point handed him off to the DC US attorney's office. However, the plea deal Patten eventually struck obligated him to cooperate with Mueller.
According to a criminal information document filed by the DC US attorney's office, Patten and Kilimnik (who is not named but referred to as "Foreigner A") founded a lobbying and consulting company together. They did campaign work in Ukraine and lobbying work in the US, and were paid over $1 million between 2015 and 2017.
Specifically, the document claims that Patten contacted members of Congress and their staffers, State Department officials, and members of the press on behalf of his Ukrainian clients - all without registering under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, as required by law.
Patten also admits to helping his Ukrainian oligarch client get around the prohibition on foreign donations to Donald Trump's inauguration committee. The oligarch sent $50,000 to Patten's company, and then he gave that money to a US citizen, who bought the four tickets. The tickets were given to the oligarch, Kilimnik, another Ukrainian, and Patten himself.
Finally, Patten also admits to misleading the Senate Intelligence Committee and withholding documents from them during testimony this January. He pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
For more on the Mueller probe, follow Andrew Prokop on Twitter and check out Vox's guide to the Trump-Russia investigation.
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#189241 at 2024-05-06 06:17:26 (UTC+1)
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(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/business/embattled-abc-news-president-kim-godwin-steps-down-sources/
Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin steps down: sources(NYPost.com)
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Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin announced she was calling it quits Sunday night as she faced heightened scrutiny from corporate superiors over her job performance - and months after she was stripped of much of her power, sources confirmed to The Post.
"I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism," Godwin said in a staff memo obtained by The Post.
"Anyone who's passionate about what we do knows there's no other business like it, so this was not an easy or quick decision," she wrote.
President of ABC News, Kim Godwin, smiling at the camera during the 2022 ABC Disney Upfront in New York City
Kim Godwin announced her retirement in a memo Sunday evening. getty Images
"But after considerable reflection, I'm certain it's the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what's most important for me and my family."
Godwin started her career in journalism four decades ago and reached her professional pinnacle when she was selected to run ABC News a little more than three years ago, becoming the first black woman to lead a national broadcast news operation.
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But her tenure was tumultuous and she appeared to lose most of her sway when she was effectively demoted in February after Disney, which owns ABC News, underwent a restructuring, insiders previously told The Post.
She insisted at the time she was still in charge following the reshuffling, sources said.
Godwin's departure comes as Disney corporate overlords have been conducting a thorough review of her leadership, CNN reported last week.
An ABC corporate logo hangs on the side of their building on 66th Street on September 20, 2023.
Godwin mentioned many of ABC News's accomplishments during her tenure. getty Images
Debra OConnell, who was promoted to a leadership position that puts ABC News under her purview, was said to be shocked by Godwin's mismanagement of the money-making division that includes "Good Morning America" and "World News Tonight, the outlet reported.
In her memo to staff Sunday, Godwin lauded ABC News' top spot in the ratings among broadcast news and other accomplishments achieved during her tenure.
"Over the years, hundreds of you have sent emails, texts, and made phone calls that have lifted my heart. In this consequential election year, as we look to the months ahead, the importance of what we do cannot be overstated. Remember, there is joy in journalism," she stated.
"I leave with my head held high and wish the entire team continued success."
The Wall Street Journal first reported Godwin's retirement.
For now, OConnell will run the show, she told staff Sunday, according to a CNN report.
"Since assuming this role in February, my goal has been - and will continue to be - to provide this team with the means necessary to build on our success and carry on the proud tradition of ABC News into a future full of opportunity and innovation," OConnell reportedly said to staff.
#189236 at 2024-05-06 05:46:13 (UTC+1)
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(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/left-leaning-outlet-mocked-for-being-surprised-on-who-is-funding-anti-israel-protests/
Left-leaning outlet mocked for being surprised on who is funding anti-Israel protests: 'Surprising to who?'(NYPost.com)
By Hanna Panreck , Yael Halon, Fox News
Anti-Israel protesters who have descended on college campuses are reportedly getting funding from several big-name Democratic donors, according to a report, that have backed President Biden's re-election efforts.
Democratic donors such as George Soros, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Susan and Nick Pritzker, who own the Hyatt Hotel corporation, have funded pro-Palestinian efforts to protest the Israel-Hamas war, Politico reported.
Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow are the main organizations behind the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, as well as other campuses, according to the outlet.
They are backed by the Tides Foundation, which receives a substantial amount of funding from Soros, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, and distributes money to left-wing causes.
The Rockefeller Fund donated $300,000 to the Tides Foundation in 2022, according to Politico.
The Tides Foundation has given $500,000 to Jewish Voice for Peace, a far-left, anti-Zionist organization, who blamed the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the US, rather than Hamas.
The Politico report, headlined, "Pro-Palestianian protesters are backed by a surprising source: Biden's biggest donors," was panned online Sunday for finally acknowledging what others had reported months ago.
According to a report, many of the organizations funding anti-Israel protests at college campuses are also donating to President Biden's re-election campaign. 3
According to a report, many of the organizations funding anti-Israel protests at college campuses are also donating to President Biden's re-election campaign. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/getty Images
The anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University's campus on April 29, 2024. 3
The anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University's campus on April 29, 2024. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press via ZUMA Press Wire
"This is actually the least "surprising" thing I have heard all year," Chaya Raichik, Libs of TikTok creator, wrote on X.
"Glad you guys could make it," Washington Free Beacon reporter Joe Gabriel Simonso quipped.
Republican Alabama Sen. Katie Britt commented, "*A completely unsurprising source."
"Surprising to who?" Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., responded.
"The journalists at Politico apparently the only people on the planet "surprised" by this," Spectator contributing editor Stephen L. Miller wrote.
"This is only "surprising" if you're brand new to following Democrat money in politics," GOP communicator Matt Whitlock replied.
Gabe Kaminsky, investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner, posted several previous reports indicating that Soros and other liberal dark money groups were funding anti-Israel causes.
"Just so much surprisingness!" Washington Examiner columnist Ian Haworth mocked.
In addition to the anti-Israel protests happening across college campuses, protesters have also repeatedly interrupted President Biden's and other prominent Democratic leaders' speeches and events.
They call Biden "Genocide Joe," and continue to protest the US involvement in Israel's war with Hamas.
The Pritzkers also backed groups that are involved in the pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
They have also resoundingly supported the president and donated $300,000 to his 2020 campaign.
"Why [is the Rockefeller Fund] giving significant grants to Jewish Voice for Peace, [which] blamed the horrific Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the United States rather than Hamas?" Elisha Wiesel, a Democratic donor who chairs the Elie Wiesel Foundation, told Politico.
The president spoke out against antisemitism and violent protests on Thursday in a quick speech, but reaffirmed his support for the right to peacefully protest.
"We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent. The American people are heard. In fact, peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues. But neither are we a lawless country. We're a civil society and order must prevail," Biden said at the White House.
"So let me be clear... Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest is. It's against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It's against the law. Vandalism. Trespassing. Breaking windows. Shutting down campuses. Forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest," Biden continued. "Threatening people. Intimidating people. Instilling fear in people is not peaceful protest. It's against the law," he said.
Anti-Israel protesters gathered outside of NYU buildings on May 3, 2024. 3
Anti-Israel protesters gathered outside of NYU buildings on May 3, 2024. Photo by Spencer Platt/getty Images
Fox News Digital reported in April that a left-wing dark money group funded by Soros would provide bail and legal support for anti-Israel activists who were arrested after blocking major roads and highways nationwide.
The demonstrations were largely organized by A15 Action, a recently created group that said it would "coordinate a multi-city economic blockade on April 15 in solidarity with Palestine."
Under the group's "resources" section on its website, users are pointed to a "bail and legal defense fund" hosted by ActBlue, the leading fundraising platform for Democratic campaigns and groups nationwide.
#189233 at 2024-05-06 05:41:40 (UTC+1)
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(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/world-news/latest-israel-hamas-peace-talks-near-collapse-as-netanyahu-threatens-attack-on-rafah-report/
Latest Israel-Hamas peace talks 'near collapse' as Netanyahu…(NYPost.com)
By Alex Oliveira
Talks of a Gaza ceasefire appeared to collapse Sunday as Hamas envoys left negotiations - and Israeli leaders pledged to renew its military operations soon.
"The latest round of mediation in Cairo is near to collapse," an official close to the talks told Reuters as Hamas leaders left Cairo and returned to Qatar Sunday evening.
Though Hamas and Israel had "in-depth and serious discussions" on a deal that would see a number of hostages released in return for a 40 day ceasefire, according to the Guardian, the terror group has indicated it will not take any deal that doesn't involve a permanent end to hostilities.
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Hamas' delegation is expected to return to negotiations on Tuesday, but Isreali leaders are losing optimism that the terror group has any real intent to make a deal.
"We are observing worrying signs that Hamas does not intend to reach an agreement with us," said Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
"This means strong military action in Rafah will begin in the very near future, and in the rest of the Strip."
Smoke from an Israeli bombardment rises. The latest peace talks between Israel and Hamas is expected to collapse 3
Smoke from an Israeli bombardment rises. The latest peace talks between Israel and Hamas is expected to collapse AFP via getty Images
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu echoed Gallant's rhetoric while discussing the weekend talks.
"While Israel has shown willingness, Hamas remains entrenched in its extreme positions, first among them the demand to remove all our forces from the Gaza Strip, end the war, and leave Hamas in power," the prime minister said.
"Israel cannot accept that."
An Israeli tank, as officials in the country have said it is likely hostilities will soon open in the southern Gaza city of Rafah 3
An Israeli tank, as officials in the country have said it is likely hostilities will soon open in the southern Gaza city of Rafah REUTERS
While delivering a speech for Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day Sunday, Netanyahu doubled down and said Israel was willing to carry on its war against Hamas even if the rest of the world abandons the cause.
"If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone," Netanyahu declared.
"I say to the leaders of the world - no amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself," he said. "Never again is now."
Palestinians mourning the dead from an Israeli air strike. Rafah is currently home to more than 1 million refugees 3
Palestinians mourning the dead from an Israeli air strike. Rafah is currently home to more than 1 million refugees REUTERS
Netanyahu's stark words coupled with Gallant's warning suggest a new phase may be about to begin in the war sparked when Hamas attacked Israel on Oc. 7.
Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city on the border of Egypt, has been an enclave for over a million Palestinian refugees as war has consumed the northern reaches of the strip.
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But despite being a haven for humanitarian aid, Israel believes thousands of Hamas troops are also hiding out and operating within the city.
Fearing high casualties that might result from a Rafah operation, the US has been "exerting maximum pressure" on Qatar - which has close ties to Hamas - to push the group and Israel into remaining in negotiations, a source told Reuters.
Hamas still holds over 100 Israeli hostages.
With Post wires.
#189230 at 2024-05-06 05:35:09 (UTC+1)
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(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/top-house-intel-dem-defends-very-strong-vetting-process-as-biden-admin-considers-admitting-gazan-refugees-to-us/
Top House Intel Dem defends 'very strong vetting process' as Biden admin considers admitting Gazan refugees to US(NYPost.com)
Ryan King
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee ripped GOP uproar over reports the Biden administration is considering admitting Gazan refugees into the US.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) dinged Republicans in Congress making a fuss about the possibility and underscored the rigorous vetting processes in place for refugees.
"What I can tell you is that this is not a thing," Himes told "Fox News Sunday" when asked if he was confident that people coming from Gaza will be appropriately vetted. "The only way that people can apply for refugee status is if they ... begin a very lengthy process of vetting," the rep said, flatly dismissing concerns expressed by some lawmakers on the other side of the aisle.
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Rep. Jim Himes took aim at Sen. Marco Rubio, with whom he works extensively on intelligence matters. getty Images
"A number of Republican senators and over-caffeinated Florida senators may want to be selling an awful lot of fear right now, I would challenge you to come up with examples where refugees who have been vetted have come to this country and committed acts of terrorism."
The "over-caffeinated Florida senators" jab was likely directed at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who appeared on "Fox News Sunday" ahead of Himes.
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Last week, CBS News reported that top administration officials have been looking into different pathways to accept a small number of Gazans with family in the US - including some who fled the Palestinian enclave into Egypt to escape the fighting.
Asked about the report at a press briefing last week, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, "We just don't have anything to announce at this time."
Another spokesperson for the White House declined to confirm or deny the report when asked by The Post.
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President Biden's administration is reportedly exploring the possibility of admitting Gazan refugees into the US. getty Images
The State Department's Refugee Admissions Program has accepted just 16 Palestinians into the US since Oct. 1, 2023, according to data as of March 31.
"While we will continue to admit refugees from around the world, as is our international legal obligation, it is a very strong vetting process," Himes reiterated.
Vetting typically screens for factors such as security red flags, medial history, eligibility, and more.
Aspiring refugees would also likely have to provide evidence that they are fleeing some form of persecution, political persecution in particular.
It may be tricky for Gazans to claim they are trying to escape persecution from Israel, given that the Jewish state is a key US ally in the region.
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Negotiators have been looking to hash out a deal for a ceasefire and hostage release in the Israel-Hamas war. REUTERS
Last week, Rubio and over 30 other Republican senators penned a letter to President Biden demanding answers about possible plans to admit Palestinian refugees.
"Unfortunately, the risk of terrorists entering our homeland is no hypothetical matter," they wrote. "We are also concerned that any U.S. refugee plan may exacerbate the tense situation at the Gaza-Egypt border."
Both Himes and Rubio, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, are members of the so-called "Gang of Eight" in Congress who receive high-level classified briefings.
Himes slammed Rubio for painting leading Democrats as "radical extremists" over their lack of clarity on where they would draw the line on abortion, especially during the later stages of pregnancy.
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Anti-Israel protest encampments have sprung up on college campuses across the country since mid-April. getty Images
"I'm not quite sure if Marco just had too much coffee this morning. But, you know, the notion that we're extremists on this topic is just madness," Himes responded.
"Democrats are generally where the American people are, which is where the world was before the Dobbs decision that until the point of viability, this is a decision to be made between a woman and her doctor."
Medical viability for a fetus is generally pegged somewhere around 24 weeks of gestation.
#189228 at 2024-05-06 05:31:58 (UTC+1)
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(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/fetterman-says-anti-israel-campus-protests-working-against-peace-in-middle-east-not-putting-hostages-first/
Fetterman says anti-Israel campus protests 'working against peace' in Middle East, not putting hostages first(NYPost.com)
By Stephen Sorace , Fox News
Fetterman says anti-Israel campus protests 'working against peace' in Middle East
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., on Sunday slammed the anti-Israel protests that have taken over college campuses nationwide as working against peace in the Middle East, adding that he's frustrated that those taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel have not been put first.
Fetterman, who has been outspoken against the protesters, wondered why they are demonstrating against Israel and not Hamas, which he says has refused a recent cease-fire deal during his appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation."
"These kinds of protests haven't been helpful, and ironically, they are actually working against peace in the Middle East as well," Fetterman said. "And it's also very strange to me that they're not actually protesting for a cease-fire now. There's been a very valid cease-fire that's been on the table now and Hamas has refused to take that on."
"And I don't know why if we're going to protest, why aren't we protesting that, demanding Hamas to take that kind of a cease-fire," the senator continued. "And that would end all of the trauma and chaos going on there in Gaza."
Fetterman went on to say that he does not support any kind of conditions being placed on Israel, and instead he put responsibility for the current situation entirely on Hamas.
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., on Sunday slammed the anti-Israel protests that have taken over college campuses nationwide as working against peace in the Middle East. AP
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"These kinds of protests haven't been helpful, and ironically, they are actually working against peace in the Middle East as well," Fetterman said. New York Post
Corrine Unger [RIGHT], cousin of hamas hostage Omer Shem-Tov (Omer Shem Tov Leat Corinne) 4
Fetterman wondered why they are demonstrating against Israel and not Hamas. AFP via getty Images
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Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, held captive in Gaza since Oct. 7. via StopAntisemitism/X
"The situation could end right now if Hamas just surrendered and they just sent all of those hostages home again," the senator said. "That's also a thing that I've been frustrated, too, is that those hostages should really be in front of the conversations about the situation in Gaza. Sending them home would really, again, end all of this immediately."
The war in Gaza began after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel in which the terrorist organization killed 1,200 people and took about 250 people hostage.
#189223 at 2024-05-06 05:23:25 (UTC+1)
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(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/radical-anti-israel-nonprofit-urged-rampaging-columbia-occupiers-to-recreate-blm-summer-of-2020-riots/
Radical anti-Israel nonprofit urged rampaging Columbia occupiers to recreate BLM 'summer of 2020' riots(NYPost.com)
Chris Nesi
The anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia University's Hamilton Hall were urged by a radical activist group to rekindle the bloody Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020, a new report says.
Furiously pumping the bellows is New York City nonprofit The People's Forum (TPF), an anti-Israel organization with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party and backed by American businessman Neville Roy Singham, a self-described socialist known for financially supporting left-wing causes through Goldman Sachs' charity arm.
At a Monday night meeting in Manhattan hosted by TPF - hours before the infamous building takeover - around 100 mask-wearing activists were worked into a lather by the organization's executive director, Manolo De Los Santos, who called for a "final blow to destroy Israel" in a viral video earlier this year.
Addressing the group, De Los Santos spewed invective about Columbia's "Zionist" administration, whom he skewered for wanting "to be more like their masters in Israel," the Washington Free Beacon wrote.
A man in sunglasses and handcuffs in the streets of Manhattan being led by a uniformed NYPD officer. 5
The People's Forum Executive Director Manolo De Los Santos, who reportedly encouraged a group of Columbia University protesters to bring back the "summer of 2020" before they broke into Hamilton Hall last week, is arrested during a rally in the Big Apple in January. Instagram/@peoplesforumnyc
He urged the crowd, many of them shrouded in keffiyehs, to "give Joe Biden a hot summer" and to "make it untenable for the politics of usual to take place in this country."
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He also referenced bringing back "the summer of 2020," invoking the widespread violence that besieged major US cities from coast to coast in the weeks and months after the police-involved killing of George Floyd on May 25 of that year.
The riots - infamously couched by CNN as "fiery but mostly peaceful" - caused more than $400 million in damage nationwide, including to more than 450 Big Apple businesses that were looted or damaged.
A few hours after Monday's meeting convened, dozens of the criminal protesters illegally raided the Manhattan campus building, gaining access through a glass-paneled door one activist smashed with a hammer.
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A cowardly masked criminal with a hammer smashed a window at historic Hamilton Hall to gain entry. getty Images
The mob vandalized the historic structure - breaking doors and windows - and blockaded entrances, a university spokesman said at the time. They also hung at least one sign from a Hamilton Hall window emblazoned with the word "intifada," photos and videos showed.
Cops descended on the Morningside Heights campus late Tuesday after being called in by Columbia President Minouche Shafik, with officers clad in riot gear using a ramp-like setup to gain access to the building through a window facing Amsterdam Avenue.
In all, 44 people were arrested, including two university staff members and 13 "outsiders" who were not affiliated with the school, Columbia said in a press release Thursday.
NY Post front page showing a cop leading a masked, arrested protester away. The headline reads "FAIL COLUMBIA." 5
How The Post helped cover the travesty. rfaraino
The presence of these outside agitators was echoed by the NYPD as well as Mayor Eric Adams.
"As the anti-Israel protests began to escalate, it became abundantly clear that individuals unaffiliated with these schools had entered these different campuses and, in some cases, were even training students in unlawful protest tactics, many which we witnessed escalating into violent conduct," Adams said in a statement after the mass arrests.
One such outside group that has played a hand in numerous anti-Israel protests around the city since Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel is The People's Forum, an organization primarily funded by Singham.
Members of the NYPD arresting protesters blocking the entrance to Columbia University during a pro-Palestinian protest 5
Members of the NYPD arrest protesters blocking the entrance to Columbia University. getty Images
Billing itself as "a movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities," TPF is bankrolled by Singham and his wife Jodie Evans - founder of activist group Code Pink - who donated more than $20 million to the organization between 2017 and 2022, according to The Free Press.
Much of it was funneled through the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, according to fund's Form 990, which revealed TPF received $12 million in 2019, $4.4 million in 2018 and $2.5 million in 2017.
A spokesman for the investment banking giant has disavowed any connection to the activist group, emphatically clarifying that contributions made through its charitable wing come from clients' funds, not the bank itself.
"Goldman Sachs has no relationship with The People's Forum and does not share its values," the spokesman told The Post.
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Widespread violence besieged major US cities in the weeks and months after the police-involved killing of George Floyd in 2020. Christopher Sadowski
In January, South Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) urged Goldman Sachs to "cut ties" with TPF after a viral video surfaced showing De Los Santos at what appeared to be an event in New York City spewing "Nazi rhetoric" and calling for "that final blow to destroy Israel."
As a tax-exempt non-profit, TPF could lose its charity status under IRS regulations governing 501(c)(3) organizations if it is found to have engaged in "planned activities that violate laws" or "induce the commission of a crime."
The People's Forum did not respond to a request for comment by The Post on Sunday.
#189221 at 2024-05-06 05:20:18 (UTC+1)
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>>189217
(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/mayor-adams-tells-nyc-colleges-to-hold-graduations-dont-cave-to-provocateurs/
Mayor Adams defiantly tells NYC colleges to hold graduation ceremonies, don't cave to provocateurs(NYPost.com)
Carl Campanile
Mayor Eric Adams defiantly told New York City colleges Sunday that they should move forward with their graduation ceremonies and not cave to anti-Israel provocateurs looking to disrupt the proceedings.
"It's a wonderful experience to graduate from an institution, and I don't think we should allow anything to get in the way of our normal way of life," Adams said on ABC's "This Week."
"We'll do our job, and if the institutions decide to graduate their students and celebrate a beautiful experience with their families, we will make sure it's done in a peaceful manner," he said.
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A Columbia University student taking graduation pictures amid the anti-Israel protests on campus on April 21, 2024. James Keivom
The mayor defended the police crackdown on campus protests at Columbia University and CUNY's City College in Manhattan, two of a slew of anti-Israel disturbances across the country.
Adams said the Manhattan school protests escalated into criminal activity and violence when protesters - including many "agitators" who were not students - occupied a building and vandalized property.
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"When those protests reach the point of violence, we have to ensure that we use a minimum amount of force to terminate what is perceived to be a threat," Adams told co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
Hizzoner said the police raid and arrests occurred after days of communication between the NYPD and Columbia's administrators.
NY Post front cover from April 18, 2024: 'SEA' NO EVIL 6
Adams said the crackdown on protests became necessary when they escalated to a "point of violence." NY Post
He said the information gathered by the Police Department's intelligence division about outsider "agitators" fomenting unrest at Columbia and other campuses was "concerning.
"We knew we had to get permission unless there's imminent threat to life or severe threat to property," he said of the riot cops who moved in. "We were not going to overstep our legal authority."
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Karl asked Adams about criticism from Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-Westchester/Bronx), who said the campus raids and arrests of students by the the NYPD and other cops across country goes against "the role of education as the cornerstone of our democracy."
"One has the right to have his or her opinion, and I respect that," the mayor said. "And I have an obligation and responsibility to ensure the city is safe."
He went on to say that outside agitators are making "a real attempt to radicalize our young people.
Students in graduation gowns pose for photos, as anti-Israel demonstrators protest inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, as students activists continue to negotiate with the administration, on Sunday, April 28, 2024. 6
Mayor Adams told New York City colleges to hold graduation ceremonies despite the possibility of anti-Israel protesters looking to disrupt them. Michael Nagle
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Adams defended the NYPD crackdown on protests at Columbia and City College last week. REUTERS
NYPD officers arresting a protester who refused to leave an encampment at City College on April 30, 2024. 6
NYPD officers arresting a protester who refused to leave an encampment at City College on April 30, 2024. James Keivom
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NYPD officers preparing to enter Columbia's Hamilton Hall on April 30, 2024. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/getty Images
"We can't take this lightly," he said.
The mayor showed a flier from one of the protests that read, "Death to America."
"This has left the point of advocating for a particular item," he said.
"When you're on college grounds and you do not attend that college, you're an outsider. And then when you train people to do destructive things, you are an agitator. So, I'm not trying to be politically correct. I'm trying to be correct for the City of New York as we make sure the city continues to be safe."
#189220 at 2024-05-06 05:18:15 (UTC+1)
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(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/over-380k-more-nyc-students-had-info-leaked-bringing-total-to-over-1m/
More than 380,000 additional NYC students had personal info hacked, bringing total to over 1M(NYPosat.com)
Carl Campanile
More than 380,000 additional city public-school students had their personal data hacked in a massive cyber attack - bringing the total number of kids affected to well over 1 million, The Post has learned.
The New York City Department of Education last week began sending letters notifying the hundreds of thousands of additional current and former students that they were victims of the cyber attack involving one of the DOE's former software vendors, according to a letter sent to one graduate and reviewed by The Post.
The DOE initially reported that about 800,000 current and former students were affected but was notified by the vendor in October that scores of additional kids also were victims, the department said.
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New York City Department of Education Chancellor David Banks is pictured at Department of Education headquarters in Manhattan. TNS
The hacked personal information includes a student's name, date of birth, ethnicity, academic records and school enrollment, the DOE letter said.
No social security or financial information was breached, education officials said.
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The DOE said it is offering the impacted students - some of whom even graduated from the system several years before the security breach occurred - two years of free credit and identity-monitoring services through vendor IDX to help protect against identity theft.
The security breach occurred in late December 2021 to early January 2022 with the DOE's-then software company Illuminate, which offers grading, attending and messaging platforms.
The city public-school system has since severed ties with Illuminate.
The recent letter to affected former and current students provides a link to an updated security notice on the DOE website that says, "Approximately 387,000 current and former NYCPS students were newly identified as being affected by Illuminate's data security incident in 2022." A DOE rep said that figure is more like 381,000.
Another 94,000 current and former public-school students also are receiving a second notice because Illuminate identified "additional information of theirs that was affected by the 2022 data security incident," the DOE said.
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The hacked personal information includes a student's name, date of birth, ethnicity, academic records and school enrollment, the DOE letter said. Aerial Film Studio - stock.adobe.com
"New York Public Schools is writing you with an update on a data security incident that occurred two years ago involving the company Illuminate Education," said the letter sent from DOE Chief Information Officer Intekhab Shakil and Chief Privacy Officer Dennis Doye to the affected students last week. "NYCPS is handling this situation with the utmost seriousness."
In May 2022, city education officials notified the previously identified 800,000 students impacted by the breach.
In the recent letter, the DOE cybersecurity officials said Illuminate notified the city school system in October of last year that it became aware that "additional individuals were affected by the 2022 data security incident.
"You are one of the individuals who Illuminate recently identified as being affected by the 2022 data security incident," Shakil and Doyle said in the letter to one of the affected students.
The DOE officials insisted they have beefed up cybersecurity protocols and emphasized that they are holding contractors accountable to protect students' privacy.
"NYCPS is committed to protecting the privacy of our students' personal information. We have a comprehensive security compliance process in place to help make sure that companies who access student information agree to comply with federal, state, and local laws and help protect your data," the officials said in the letter.
"Following the 2022 Illuminate incident, NYCPS also took steps to further ensure that schools do not use software products that involve vendors receiving or accessing student information unless and until the vendors fully complete our compliance process."
As for the two years of free credit and identity-monitoring services being offered to those affected, "There is no cost to you, but you must enroll and activate the services yoursel," the DOE said.
The deadline to enroll is July 30, 2024.
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The cybersecurity breach was not the only one that has impacted city public-school students and employees.
Last summer, 45,000 students, school workers and service providers were affected by a separate hack attack that included Social Security numbers, dates of birth, employee IDs and OSIS numbers - the nine-digit numbers issued to all students who attend a city public school.
Overall, 19,000 documents were accessed from the file transfer system MOVEIt, and 9,000 Social Security numbers were stolen, the DOE said in a letter sent to staff at the time.
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The security breach occurred in late December 2021 to early January 2022 with the DOE's-then software company Illuminate, which offers grading, attending and messaging platforms. Pacific Press/LightRocket via getty Images
As the security breaches came to light, the DOE's former chief technology officer, Anuraag Sharma, resigned last summer.
Schools are not the only juicy targets of hackers.
Medical facilities that keep sensitive records of patients have been subjected to cyber attacks, notably the One Brooklyn Health network that oversees Brookdale, Interfaith and Kingsbrook Jewish hospitals.
DOE spokeswoman Jenna Lyle told The Post in an emailed statement Sunday, "As we have said from the start, the safety and wellbeing of all our students and staff, including the safety of their data, is our absolute top priority.
"This recent information, more than two years after the fact, is concerning and further validates our decision in Spring of 2022 to bar Illuminate from working with NYCPS or any of our schools. Our students and school communities deserve better."
#189219 at 2024-05-06 05:16:43 (UTC+1)
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(May 05, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/lifestyle/bernard-hill-actor-in-lord-of-the-rings-and-titanic-dies-at-79/
Bernard Hill, actor in Lord of the Rings and Titanic, dies at 79(NYPost.com)
Hannah Sparks
Bernard Hill, an actor best known for roles in "Titanic" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, has died at the age of 79.
Hill infamously played Captain Edward Smith, who went down with his sinking ship in James Cameron's history-making hit "Titanic," and later took on JRR Tolkien's literary classic when he starred as Theoden, King of Rohan in the book's cinematic adaptation.
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Bernard Hill played Theoden, King of Rohan in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy's second and final films.
Hill's agent Lou Coulson confirmed the news to the BBC on Sunday. The actor reportedly passed away in the early hours of May 5. His family is expected to release a statement imminently.
Hill was due to appear at Comic-Con in Liverpool, UK this week. Event producers put out a statement regarding his passing: "We're heartbroken to hear the news of Bernard Hill's passing. A great loss. Thinking of his family at this very sad time, and wishing them a lot of strength."
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Actor Bernard Hill died at the age of 79 on May 5, 2024.
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Born December 17, 1944, the Manchester, UK-born actor was raised in a family of miners, yet found his way to drama school and the stage.
His breakout role came in 1979 as a desperate blue-collar worker in the BBC film "The Black Stuff" and again three years later in "Boys from the Black Stuff." His character, Yosser Hughes, coined the catchphrase "gizza job" which became an ode to the disenfranchised working-class community under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Great Britain.
Alan Bleasdale, who wrote the Bafta-award winning "Black Stuff" sequel, told the BBC his family was "heartbroken" to hear of Hill's passing. "He was a big soft kid in many ways - very easy and very gentle with children," said the screenwriter, whose children acted alongside Hill in the 80s drama.
Bernard Hill in "Titanic"
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Bernard Hill starred as captain of a doomed ship in James Cameron's 1997 classic "Titanic." CBS via getty Images
"He was like their second dad - they loved him, they adored him," Bleasdale added. "He lived around the corner and, when he wasn't working, he was always at ours."
Hill's notoriety had stretched across the pond by the 1980s and 90s with roles in the biopic "Gandhi," starring Sir Ben Kingsley, and action-thriller "The Ghost and the Darkness," opposite Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.
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Bernard Hill as King Theoden with Ian McKellen as Gandalf in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers" in 2002. New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection
And few actors can claim to have worked on such lauded films as "Titanic" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" each earned 13 and 11 Academy Awards respectively.
Reflecting on his work in the second and third of the fantasy trilogy, Hill said, "I loved every minute of every day that I was on Lord of the Rings.
#189183 at 2024-05-06 01:10:02 (UTC+1)
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>>189144
(May 04, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/us-news/three-suspects-arrested-in-disappearance-of-three-surfers-in-mexico/
Fourth body discovered in well where US, Australian surfers were reportedly found dead in Mexico(NYPost.com)
Dana Kennedy
A fourth body has been discovered in a 50-foot deep well in Baja California, Mexico where an American and two Australian surfers were found dead, authorities revealed.
Meanwhile, one of the three suspects taken into custody by Mexican authorities reportedly had one of the tourists' phones on her when she was arrested - and all three allegedly had drugs on them.
Mexican officials have not officially confirmed that the three bodies found in a well hole last week are Georgia resident Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, and Australian brothers Callum, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30.
But two news outlets, Border Report and FOX 5 San Diego, citing a source in the Baja California Attorney General's office, say the dead bodies are those of the three missing surfers.
Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson are believed to be two of the three dead bodies discovered in Mexico on Friday. 6
Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson are believed to be two of the three dead bodies discovered in Mexico on Friday. Callum Robinson/Instagram
In this image made from video, Mexican security forces frisk men at a checkpoint in Ensenada, Mexico 6
The Robinson brothers from Australia, Callum and Jake, are missing and presumed dead in northern Mexico. AP
They were believed to have been camping out at a popular surf spot known as La Bocana in the beautiful Mexican countryside - about 130 miles south of San Diego, when they were reported missing last Saturday.
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Police later arrested Jes?s Gerardo Garcia Cota, alias El Kekas, his partner Ari Gisel Garc?a Cota, and Jesus' brother Cristian Alejandro Garcia.
All had methamphetamine and other illegal narcotics on them at the time of their arrest, according to local news blogs Talk Baja and Zeta Tijuana.
A woman, who was found with drugs and a phone belonging to one of the Australian surfers, and two men were taken into custody. 6
One of the three suspects taken into custody by Mexican authorities reportedly had one of the tourists' phones on her when she was arrested - and all three allegedly had drugs on them. KTLA5
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Ari Gisel Garc?a Cota, 23, is one of three suspects arrested in Baja California in connection with the disappearance of three surfers - two Australian brothers and one American man. KTLA5
Ari Gisel Garcia Cota, 23, was allegedly nabbed with one of the surfer's phones as well as the drugs.
The fourth body was identified as a ranch owner who was reported missing two weeks ago, officials said.
He owned the property where the bodies were found, the attorney general said.
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Rescue workers at a well hole near La Bocana Beach in the Ensenada area of Baja California where four bodies were recovered. They are believed to be the remains of the missing surfers and another man. AFP via getty Images
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Stevenson University in Baltimore issued a statement mourning the death of Callum Robinson, who graduated in 2015 and was a star lacrosse player at the school and then played for the Premier Lacrosse League. Callum Robinson/Instagram
The trio were on a surfing vacation in the port city of Ensenada, just 80 miles south of San Diego, a trip they were documenting on social media until last Saturday, when the posts mysteriously stopped and they failed to arrive at an Airbnb.
Stevenson University in Baltimore issued a statement mourning the death of Callum Robinson, who graduated in 2015 and was a star lacrosse player at the school and then played for the Premier Lacrosse League.
#189172 at 2024-05-05 23:51:59 (UTC+1)
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>>189144
(May 04, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/world-news/north-korea-propaganda-song-praising-kim-jong-un-going-viral-on-tiktok/
North Korea propaganda song praising Kim Jong Un going viral on TikTok: 'Warm-hearted like your mother'(NYPost.com)
Matthew Sedacca
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves
A North Korean propaganda song praising dictator Kim Jong Un has gone viral – and has been dubbed a pop banger by Gen Z TikTok users, according to a report. via REUTERS
A North Korean propaganda song celebrating dictator Kim Jong Un has gone viral - and has been dubbed a pop banger by Gen Z TikTok users, according to a report.
The synth-laden earworm, titled "Friendly Father," lavishes praise on the Hermit Kingdom's dictator, with lyrics describing Kim as "warm-hearted like your mother" and "benevolent like your father."
An accompanying music video for the two-minute hit released last month drives home the message conveying the power-hungry tyrant as a benevolent leader.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un waving in front of military troops
Lyrics for synth-laden earworm, titled "Friendly Father," describe the dictator as "warm-hearted" and "benevolent." KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via getty Images
In one scene, Kim hugs a child before kissing her on the cheek, while in another, he is mobbed by a group of giddy women. Other moments in the video capture smiling military troops and bus riders of all ages singing along to the lyrics.
On the Chinese-owned app, the song has racked up millions of views, including from many Gen-Z users who are oblivious to the song's lyrics that shower adoration on the same man who this earlier year promised to "thoroughly annihilate" the United States and rival South Korea if provoked, the BBC reported.
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Some unexpected fans described the hit's infectious melodies as "ABBA-coded," according to the outlet, which has helped the track reach levels of virality typically expected from a hit by the current reigning pop queen - not a Communist state's propaganda machine.
"Taylor Swift was not expecting to get blown out of the water right after dropping her new album," one online user said, while another joked the song "needs a Grammy."
Agitprop like "Friendly Father" - the latest in a 50 year tradition of North Korea propaganda pop songs - are intended to be catchy and accessible in order to burrow into the minds of listeners, experts said.
Alexandra Leonzini, a Cambridge University scholar focusing on North Korean music, explained to the BBC such tracks also rarely feature any actual emotions.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gestures and looks at a screen as he guides a training of the fire division.
Some unexpected fans described the song infectious melodies praising Kim as "ABBA-coded." via REUTERS
"The idea is they want to motivate, to strive towards a common goal for the benefit of the nation... they don't tend to produce songs like ballads," she told the outlet.
Analysts also warned that the song could point to a direction the country is shifting, particularly with lyrics referring to Kim as "father" and "the Great."
The terms previously had been used solely for North Korea's first leader, his grandfather Kim Il Sung, and may be a sign that he is looking to bolster his position as his nation's "Supreme Leader."
"Songs are used to telegraph the direction the state is going in... to signpost important moments and important developments in politics," Leonzini told the BBC.
"A song is almost like the newspaper in North Korea."
#189160 at 2024-05-05 22:56:41 (UTC+1)
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>>189144
(May 04, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
Mystik Dan wins 150th Kentucky Derby in insane photo finish(NYPost.com)
By Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The 150th Kentucky Derby produced one of the most dramatic finishes in its storied history - three noses at the wire.
Mystik Dan desperately fought to hang on with two challengers coming to him in the closing strides. He did, too, after a delay of several minutes while the closest three-horse photo finish since 1947 was sorted out.
That year, Jet Pilot won by a head over Phalanx, who was another head in front of Faultless.
Brian Hernandez Jr. rides Mystik Dan, right, rides to the finish line to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Kentucky. 9
Brian Hernandez Jr. rides Mystik Dan, right, rides to the finish line to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Kentucky. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST
This one was much tighter.
Mystik Dan, an 18-1 shot, edged Sierra Leone by a nose, with Forever Young another nose back in third on Saturday. Sierra Leone was the most expensive horse in the race at $2.3 million.
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Long shots Track Phantom and Just Steel led the field through the early going, with 3-1 favorite Fierceness racing three-wide just off the leaders.
At the top of the stretch, everything changed.
Track Phantom drifted off the rail, opening a hole that Hernandez squeezed Mystik Dan through, and the bay colt suddenly found another gear. He quickly opened up a daylight advantage on the field.
"When he shot through that spot, he was able to cut the corner and I asked him to go for it," Hernandez said. "He shot off and I'm like, 'Oh man, I've got a big chance to win the Kentucky Derby.'"
Brian Hernandez Jr. (Up) and Mystik Dan (C) celebrate winning the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs 9
Brian Hernandez Jr. (Up) and Mystik Dan (C) celebrate winning the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST
To Mystik Dan's outside, Sierra Leone and Forever Young took up the chase in the middle of the track.
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As Mystik Dan sped along the rail, Sierra Leone lugged in and bumped Forever Young three times in the stretch, but jockey Ryusei Sakai didn't claim foul.
Mystik Dan got so close to the rail that Hernandez's boot struck it.
"But I think we can buy another pair of boots," he said.
The winner's share of the record $5 million purse was $3.1 million, with the jockey and trainer typically earning 10% each.
"Just a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant jockey and ride," McPeek said. "Brian is one of the most underrated jockeys, but not anymore, right?"
Brian Hernandez Jr. (Up) and Mystik Dan (C) celebrate winning the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs 9
Brian Hernandez Jr. celebrates after Mystik Dan's Kentucky Derby win. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST
Brian Hernandez Jr. rides Mystik Dan, right, runs to the finish line to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024 9
Brian Hernandez Jr. rides Mystik Dan (right) to the finish line to win the 150th Kentucky Derby. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST
Sierra Leone, the second choice at 9-2 odds, and Forever Young from Japan came up just short at the wire in front of 156,710 at Churchill Downs, the largest crowd since 2018.
"You get beat a nose in the Kentucky Derby, it's a tough one," said Chad Brown, trainer of Sierra Leone. "But I'm so proud of the horse."
It was just the 10th Kentucky Derby decided by a nose - the closest margin in horse racing - and the first since Grindstone edged Cavonnier to wear the garland of red roses in 1996.
Sierra Leone, with jockey Tyler Gaffalione, (2), Forever Young, with jockey Ryusei Sakai, and Mystik, with jockey Dan Brian Hernandez Jr., cross finish line at Churchill Downs during the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Ky. 9
Sierra Leone, with jockey Tyler Gaffalione, (2), Forever Young, with jockey Ryusei Sakai (middle), and Kentucky Derby winner Mystik (rail), with jockey Dan Brian Hernandez Jr., cross the finish line. AP
The crowd waited several minutes in the heat and humidity as the result was reviewed by the stewards and declared official.
"The longest few minutes of my life," Hernandez said, after he and Mystik Dan walked in circles while the stunning result was settled. "To see your number flash up to win the Derby, I don't think it will sink in for a while."
Fierceness finished 15th in the field of 20 3-year-olds. Owner Mike Repole is 0 for 8 in the derby. He had the favorite in 2011 with Uncle Mo, who was scratched the day before the race with an illness. Last year, Forte was scratched the morning of the race as the favorite with a bruised foot.
Mystik Dan #3, ridden by jockey Brian J. Hernandez Jr. crosses the finish line to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 04, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky. 9
Mystik Dan #3, jockey Brian J. Hernandez Jr. up, crosses the finish line to win the 150th Kentucky Derby getty Images
Mystik Dan #3, ridden by jockey Brian J. Hernandez Jr. crosses the finish line ahead of Sierra Leone #2, ridden by jockey Tyler Gaffalione and Forever Young, ridden by jockey Ryusei Sakai to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby during the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 04, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky. 9
Mystik Dan (3), ridden by jockey Brian J. Hernandez Jr. crosses the finish line ahead of Sierra Leone (2), ridden by jockey Tyler Gaffalione and Forever Young, ridden by jockey Ryusei Sakai to win the 150th Kentucky Derby. getty Images
Mystik Dan ran 1 1/4 miles over a fast track in 2:03.34 and paid $39.22, $16.32 and $10.
Hernandez and trainer Kenny McPeek had teamed for a wire-to-wire win in the Kentucky Oaks for fillies on Friday with Thorpedo Anna. McPeek is the first trainer to sweep both races since Ben Jones in 1952.
McPeek's only other victory in a Triple Crown race was also a shocker: 70-1 Sarava won the 2002 Belmont Stakes - the biggest upset in that race's history. The colt spoiled the Triple Crown bid of War Emblem.
Dan Brian Hernandez Jr., celebrates after riding Mystik Dan too win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Ky. 9
Dan Brian Hernandez Jr., celebrates after riding Mystik Dan to win the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Louisville, Ky. AP
The winning owners are cousins Lance and Brent Gasaway and Daniel Hamby III, all from Arkansas. They bred Mystik Dan.
"We've done it with what I call working-class horse," McPeek said, explaining the colt's sire and dam weren't big names.
Sharilyn Gasaway, Brent's wife, said, "It is surreal for sure. We feel like we're just ordinary people and we've got an amazing horse."
Sierra Leone returned $6.54 and $4.64. Forever Young was another nose back in third and paid $5.58 to show.
Catching Freedom was fourth, followed by T O Password of Japan, Resilience, Stronghold, Honor Marie and Endlessly. Dornoch was 10th and then came Track Phantom, West Saratoga, Domestic Product, Epic Ride, Fierceness, Society Man, Just Steel, Grand Mo the First, Catalytic and Just a Touch.
#189151 at 2024-05-05 22:44:37 (UTC+1)
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>>189144
(May 04, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/us-news/biden-posts-cringey-star-wars-day-clip-with-mark-hamill/
Biden teams up with 'Star Wars' actor Mark Hamill for cringey 'May the 4th be with you' video, gets ripped online(NYPost.com)
Katherine Donlevy
He's from a galaxy far, far away.
President Biden shared a Star Wars Day clip to X Saturday, featuring a celestial White House visitor - which was quickly ripped by social media users as lame.
"May the 4th be with you," the Commander-in-Chief bellowed as he solemnly stared into the camera.
That's when Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill swooped into the frame to deliver a pointed: "Always."
Biden and Hamill in the post. 3
President Biden and Mark Hamill teamed up to share a Star Wars Day post on X. X/@POTUS
The serious pair stood chest to chest, leaving just enough room between them for the portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt hanging on the Oval Office wall to stare down at their tomfoolery.
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The five-second clip garnered 4.8 million views within hours of being posted - and racked up plenty of replies ridiculing the duo.
"A dementia patient and a homeless drunk," comedian Tim Young taunted.
"The most hilarious thing is that Joe is in Delaware right now and has already forgotten he said this," wrote conservative account Black Suit.
Another user wrote: "The national embarrassment continues."
Actor Mark Hamill joins White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the daily press briefing at the White House on May 03, 2024 in Washington, DC. 3
Hamill made a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing. getty Images
The video was shared just one day after Hamill, 72, made a surprise visit to the White House press room wearing a pair of aviator shades he said the president had gifted him.
He claimed he just ended a visit with Biden - presumably when they pair shot the awkward clip.
Actor Mark Hamill takes off sunglasses given to him by President Joe Biden. 3
Hamill has been a strong supporter of Biden despite the president's poor polling numbers. AP
"He said, 'You can call me Joe,'" the actor recounted.
"And I said, 'Can I call you Joe-bi-Won Kenobi?' And he liked that."
The actor has been an outspoken backer of both Biden and Israel amid widespread protests and riots on college campuses opposed to the president's support for the Jewish state's ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip targeting the Hamas terror organization.
Hamill used his time at the White House presser to gush about Biden's performance - as polls show the president with a dismal average approval rating of 40.1% as he seeks re-election in November, dragged down by what polls show is broad frustration over high inflation and illegal immigration.
#189147 at 2024-05-05 22:38:31 (UTC+1)
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>>189144
(May 04, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/us-news/jack-schlossberg-affects-different-accents-in-bizarre-videos-mocking-rfk-jr/
Jack Schlossberg uses different accents to mock RFK Jr.'s presidential run(NYPost.com)
Dana Kennedy
Paging Jack Schlossberg: Meryl Streep called and wants her accents back.
Caroline Kennedy's son let loose on Instagram with a series of bizarre videos of himself affecting various accents while slamming his mother's cousin - independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - at one point calling the elder Kennedy "a prick."
In contrast, the 31-year-old graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School and the late President John F. Kennedy's only grandson, repeatedly lavished praise on President Joe Biden.
"A lotta people talking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr." he says in character as "Jimmy," who sounds like a working class man from the Boston area.
"I'm a fan of his father and his uncle may he rest in peace. I remember the day he was killed. The whole country wept. It was a tragic day."
Jack Schlossberg
Comments about RFK Jr.
JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg called RFK Jr.'s 2024 presidential run a "vanity project embarrassment" that's "trading in on Camelot, celebrity conspiracy theories and conflict." instagram/jackuno
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"But listen that guy, the new guy, is a prick," Schlossberg continues, referring to RFK Jr.
"He's a friggin' prick, he's lying to you... He's got Trump's donors, he's got Trump's advisors, he and Trump go way freakin' back. Don't be fooled by that. Don't throw away your vote. Vote for Biden! It'll feel good. It'll be fun. We're gonna keep growing."
Schlossberg tries on a Russian accent as well, accusing RFK Jr. of being good for Russia. In one of his vignettes he alludes to RFK Jr. being "pumped full of testosterone."
The most bizarre in the sequence of seven videos is when Schlossberg plays a Long Island Jew with a nasal accent named "Joshua" and talks about how "everyone loves the Kennedys" and that "Caroline Kennedy actually married a Jewish man."
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a Cesar Chavez Day event at Union Station on March 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the high road in reaction to his family's putdowns of him and their praise of Biden. getty Images
Schlossberg's father, 78-year-old artist and designer Ed Schlossberg, is Jewish.
Schlossberg ends his "Joshua" clip by complaining about RFK Jr.'s love of Bitcoin and turning abruptly to the camera and yelling, "who's going to protect my MONEY?"
A number of RFK Jr.'s siblings have denounced his candidacy repeatedly.
Six of them appeared en masse at a Philadelphia rally for Biden in April, urging people to vote for the incumbent.
Not everyone was impressed with Schlossberg's mimicry.
"How is your Boston accent somehow a mix of New Jersey Jewish grandmother and eccentric Rhode Island cat lady?" wrote one commenter.
Said another, referring to Schlossberg's mother's eccentric and reclusive cousin:
"Edie Beale has returned!"
#189046 at 2024-05-05 03:47:24 (UTC+1)
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>>189007
(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/us-news/columbia-prez-minouche-shafik-finally-breaks-silence-days-after-nypd-raid-on-pro-terror-protesters-who-took-over-hamilton-hall/
Columbia prez Minouche Shafik says pro-terror protesters ousted from Hamilton Hall during NYPD raid 'crossed a new line'(NYPost.com)
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Columbia University president Minouche Shafik said the pro-terror mob that illegally occupied historic Hamilton Hall - and were ousted after NYPD cops stormed the building - "crossed a new line."
Shafik said the chaotic events of the past two weeks - which saw an anti-Israel encampment overtake the Ivy League school's stately Morningside Heights campus - as "among the most difficult in Columbia's history," following the dramatic removal of the occupiers and the tent city.
"The turmoil and tension, division and disruption have impacted the entire community," she said in a video address posted on Friday evening. "You are students who paid an exceptionally high price.
Columbia president Minouche Shafik made her first public remarks since the NYPD raided encampments at the Ivy League school. 3
Columbia president Minouche Shafik made her first public remarks since the NYPD raided encampments at the Ivy League school. Columbia University
"You lost your final days in the classroom and residence halls. For those of you who are seniors, you're finishing the way you started: online," she told Columbia students.
The president said that the school administration tried "very hard to solve the issue of encampment through dialogue," but the protesters, whom she noted were largely peaceful, declined the school's offer.
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The students had demanded that Columbia divest its finances from companies associated with Israel in response to Israel's ongoing war in Gaza.
New York City police officers use a ramp on an armored vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. 3
New York City police officers use a ramp on an armored vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. STEPHANI SPINDEL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
"Academic leaders talked with students for eight days and nights," she said. "The university made a sincere and good offer but it was not accepted."
The protesters "crossed a new line" when they broke into and occupied the university's iconic Hamilton Hall, Shafik said.
"It was a violent act that put our students at risk as well as putting the protesters at risk," she said, adding that she had a firsthand look at the "distressing" damages to the building.
Shafik touched a positive note, however, saying she believes that civil discourse can return and they can "rebuild community" on campus with ample work and understanding from both sides.
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"The issues that are challenging us - the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias - have existed for a long time," she said.
"And Columbia, despite being a remarkable institution, cannot solve them singlehandedly. What we can do is be an exemplar of a better world, where people who disagree do so civilly, recognize each other's humanity and show empathy and compassion for one another," Shafik concluded.
Her address came the day after a Columbia faculty association called for a vote of no confidence for Shafik and other top administrators following the Tuesday raid on Hamilton Hall - while angered students took the traditional "primal scream" to the embattled prez's doorstep.
The school's chapter of the American Association of University Professors called for the damning vote on Shafik, the co-chairs of Board of Trustees and Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway in a scathing statement released Thursday.
NYPD officers in riot gear enter Columbia University's encampment as they evict a building that had been barricaded. 3
NYPD officers in riot gear enter Columbia University's encampment as they evict a building that had been barricaded by anti-Israel protesters. AFP via getty Images
The faculty group condemned the NYPD's arrival at Hamilton Hall on Tuesday as a "horrific police attack" and slammed the ongoing "militarized lockdown" of the Morningside Heights campus.
The association attributed Tuesday's chaos to "shocking failures of decision-making and judgment" over the controversy created by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and subsequent war in the Gaza Strip.
The Shafik administration had now violated student and faculty trust to such a degree that a vote of no confidence would be the "only way" to rebuild the university, the letter insisted.
Shortly before midnight on Thursday, a large group of Columbia students gathered outside Shafik's official residence for the "primal scream."
The biannual campus tradition - during which students all yell loudly together to express their end-of-semester stresses - normally takes place in front of Butler Library, which is still inaccessible to students while the campus remains closed off, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported.
After screaming for about a minute and a half, the group of about 100 students issued calls of "resign" and "disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest," the campus paper reported.
Over two dozen NYPD officers watched over the demonstration, which earned additional taunt of "Oink oink piggy piggy, we will make your lives s-tty," the Spectator added.
After the NYPD swept Hamilton Hall, finals for Columbia students were postponed and moved online.
About 200 protesters have been arrested on the campus since mid-April, when the tent encampment demonstration first emerged on one of the main lawns.
In a letter on Tuesday, Shafik requested NYPD presence on the campus through at least May 17, the Spectator reported.
#189045 at 2024-05-05 03:44:18 (UTC+1)
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>>189007
(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
Swimming icon Katie Ledecky receives Presidential Medal of Freedom(NYPost.com)
Michael Blinn
Swimming icon Katie Ledecky is increasing her medal count.
The decorated Olympian, who is a seven-time gold medalist, is now the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden on Friday, the White House announced.
The 27-year-old Ledecky will be looking to continue adding to her sterling credentials - her six individual gold medals are the most for a female swimmer - when the Paris Olympics kick off on July 26.
Deemed an "athletic prodigy" by the White House, Ledecky will arrive at the Olympics with 21 world championship gold medals and world records in the 800- and 1,500-meter freestyles.
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is dubbed the "Nation's highest civilian honor" and is given to individuals who "have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors."
"Obviously, growing up in this area I know what a huge honor this is," the Washington, D.C. native said. "I feel very connected to this area. I know this is a national kind of award, but to me it feels almost local. I get to come home for this for a couple of days. This is my community."
She was joined by 18 others receiving the honor, with the late track and field and football star Jim Thorpe receiving the award posthumously.
Thorpe, the first Native American to win gold for the U.S. at the 1912 Games in decathlon and pentathlon, is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame.
Former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg and politicians Al Gore, Jim Clyburn, John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi were also among the 2024 recipients.
ormer US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and US swimmer Katie Ledecky attend the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony 7
Former US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and US swimmer Katie Ledecky attend the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. AFP via getty Images
Katie Ledecky of Team USA poses with her two Gold and two Silver medals after a giving a press conference to the media during the Tokyo Olympic Games on July 31, 2021 in Tokyo 7
Katie Ledecky of Team USA poses with her two Gold and two Silver medals after a giving a press conference to the media during the Tokyo Olympic Games on July 31, 2021 in Tokyo. getty Images
Among previous sports winners are gymnast Simone Biles and USWNT star Megan Rapinoe, awarded by Biden in 2022, and golfer Tiger Woods, NBA star and executive Jerry West and, posthumously, Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth, by Donald Trump.
#189043 at 2024-05-05 03:39:16 (UTC+1)
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>>189007
(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/us-news/face-of-75000-year-old-neanderthal-woman-revealed/
Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed by scientists who glued together 200 parts of her skull(NYPost.com)
Natalie O'Neill
Secrets Of The Neanderthals Official Trailer Netflix
The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman was reconstructed by a team of scientists in England - revealing that the extinct race likely looked more like humans than researchers previously thought.
Archaeologists at the University of Cambridge in England painstakingly pieced together 200 parts of the cave woman's smashed skull to recreate her facial features, the university said in a report published on its website Thursday.
They found that the prehistoric lady, known as Shanidar Z, had a less prominent eyebrow line, a stronger chin and a smaller nose than previously associated with Neanderthals, the university said.
neanderthal woman
The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman was reconstructed by a team of scientists in England. AFP via getty Images
Her re-imagined mug - which features a soft grin and well-defined cheekbones - makes it easier to see how humans once procreated with the smaller, stalkier race, said palaeo-anthropolgist Emma Pomeroy.
"Neanderthal skulls have huge brow ridges and lack chins, with a projecting midface that results in more prominent noses. But the recreated face suggests those differences were not so stark in life," she said in a report.
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Palaeo-anthropolgist Emma Pomeroy pieced together 200 bits of the cavewoman's skull. AFP via getty Images
"It's perhaps easier to see how interbreeding occurred between our species, to the extent that almost everyone alive today still has Neanderthal DNA."
Shanidar Z - who is among the best preserved Neanderthals found this century - was discovered with her face likely crushed by a rockslide in a cave in Iraq in 2018.
To rebuild her face, archeologist Luc?a L?pez-Pol?n pieced together more than 200 bits of her skull freehand including upper and lower jaws, according to the report.
"It's like a high-stakes 3D jigsaw puzzle. A single block can take over a fortnight to process," said Pomeroy. "Each skull fragment is gently cleaned while glue and consolidant are re-added to stabilize the bone, which can be very soft, similar in consistency to a biscuit dunked in tea."
Neanderthals were shorter and stockier than humans with large noses for warming and humidifying cold air in regions where they lived.
Neandertals and "anatomically modern" humans lived in the same geographic area for roughly 30,000 years following human migration out of Africa, according to the National Institutes of Health.
During that time, Neanderthals and humans interbred.
#189040 at 2024-05-05 03:31:36 (UTC+1)
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>>189007
(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/business/google-blasted-as-negligent-over-evidence-destruction-as-landmark-doj-antitrust-case-wraps-up/
Google blasted as 'negligent' over evidence destruction as landmark DOJ antitrust case wraps up(NYPost.com)
Thomas Barrabi
A federal judge blasted Google for its "negligent" policy that resulted in the deletion of employee chat records as closing arguments wrapped up Friday in a landmark antitrust case that could result in unprecedented changes to the tech giant's core business.
Justice Department attorneys asked Judge Amit Mehta to sanction Google for failing to preserve evidence despite a court order and to rule that its conduct was intended to conceal anticompetitive behavior. Google has denied wrongdoing.
Mehta said it was "negligent" of Google to implement the policy, which automatically destroyed employee messages after 24 hours.
"Google's document retention policy leaves a lot to be desired," Mehta said. "It's shocking to me that a company would leave it to its employees to decide when to preserve documents."
Mehta did not indicate whether he would sanction Google over the policy. An attorney for the tech giant said the auto-erase policy was explicitly disclosed to plaintiffs years earlier, undercutting the feds' claims that it showed intent to destroy evidence.
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Judge Amit Mehta blasted Google of its handling of employee chat records. REUTERS
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Google was already sanctioned over the same evidence destruction claims in a separate federal case filed by "Fortnite" maker Epic Games. Late last year, US District Judge James Donato said Google's "willful and intentional suppression of relevant evidence in this case is deeply troubling."
"This conduct is a frontal assault on the fair administration of justice. It undercuts due process. It calls into question just resolution of legal disputes. It is antithetical to our system," Donato said in December.
Earlier in the DOJ's antitrust case, Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified that the automatic chat deletion policy was already in place when he took the job in 2015 and said he had since taken action to end it.
Much of the second and final day of closing arguments was focused on Google's conduct toward advertisers in the online search market.
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A federal judge called Google's handling of employee chat records "negligent." AP
The DOJ said Google's market dominance allows it to jack up prices on advertisers - and cited internal documents to argue that the company has at times tweaked search results in a way that hurt quality in order to boost its profits.
"Only a monopolist can make a product worse and still make more money," DOJ attorney David Dahlquist said.
A day earlier, Google faced tough questions over claims by its lawyers that the company faces stiff competition for user eyeballs. The company's defense team pointed to other tech platforms such as Microsoft and Amazon as well as travel sites like Expedia, smaller search engines like DuckDuckGo and media outlets like ESPN as rivals for search traffic.
Mehta appeared skeptical of the argument that Google, which has a 90% share of the online search market, faced meaningful competition from those firms.
"You really think that DuckDuckGo is a competitor on Google?" the judge asked Google's lawyers at one point on Thursday.
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Google attorney John Schmidtlein is pictured. AFP via getty Images
The judge also scrutinized the DOJ's arguments, warning that the feds faced a "hard road" to prove that Google had failed to innovate in online search over the last decade.
He cited Microsoft's admission during the trial that it hadn't spent enough resources to build out its own mobile search business to challenge Google.
Mehta is expected to issue a decision on whether Google has maintained an illegal monopoly over online search later this year. When initial court testimony concluded last fall, Mehta admitted he had "no idea" how he would rule on the case.
If Mehta rules against Google, a separate trial will be held to determine what remedies should be implemented. The DOJ has not specified what remedies it is seeking.
Options could include mandated "choice screens" allowing users to pick their own default search engine or even a breakup of Google's business empire.
The Justice Department argued that Google has relied for years on billions of dollars in payments to partners such as Apple and AT&T - including $26.3 billion in 2021 alone - to ensure that its search engine is enabled by default on most smartphones. The feds say the deals stifle competition and hurt consumers by limiting choice and search quality.
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Department of Justice lawyer David Dahlquist is pictured. AP
Ahead of closing arguments, an unredacted document revealed that Google had made a whopping $20 billion to Apple in 2022 to be the default search engine on iPhones and other devices. The DOJ has pointed to the size of the deals as evidence of their importance to Google.
Google has denied operating a monopoly and asserted that it faces intense competition in the online search market. The company has described the default deals as fair competition and claims the public gravitates toward its search tool because of its quality.
Closing arguments came months after witness testimony that began in mid-September and lasted for 10 weeks. Key witnesses included Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella - who testified that Google's default deals made the concept of user choice in online search "completely bogus."
Google CEO Sundar Pichai also took the witness stand last October, as did Apple executive Eddy Cue and a cadre of economists, professors and business executives who gave detail on how the company's search empire functions.
With Post wires
#189035 at 2024-05-05 03:22:36 (UTC+1)
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(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/us-news/several-jewish-orgs-skip-meeting-with-biden-officials-over-inclusion-of-far-left-groups/
Several Jewish orgs skip scheduled meeting with top Biden admin officials over 'last minute' inclusion of far-left groups(NYPost.com)
Victor Nava
A number of prominent Jewish organizations on Friday pulled out of a scheduled meeting with two top Biden administration officials over the "last minute" inclusion of far-left groups.
At least six mainstream groups signed off or skipped the 10 a.m. Zoom meeting with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden, during which the issue of anti-Israel protests on college campuses was slated to be discussed, The Post has learned.
The groups were the Jewish Federations of North America, the Anti-Defamation League, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Orthodox Union, the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Hillel International.
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Biden administration officials held a separate meeting with groups that dropped off the first call over the last minute inclusion of left-wing organizations. REUTERS
At issue was the 11th-hour inclusion of groups opposed to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which, in part, deems it antisemitic to criticize Jewish people for the actions of Israel and claim that the existence of Israel is a racist endeavor.
"Sort of at the last minute, they told us they were adding some other participants to the meeting," one participant who dropped off the call told The Post.
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"When we found out who they were, we said, 'You know, we had requested this meeting and this is really last minute and we're not aligned on some key issues with some of these groups," the person added.
The invites to T'ruah, the Nexus Leadership Project, Bend the Arc and Diaspora Alliance, all left-wing groups, surprised the mainstream Jewish organizations.
Diaspora Alliance was described by the representative of one boycotting group as "pretty anti-Israel."
The meeting was hosted by the Department of Education, and Cardona's department did not share its guest list with the White House, a source familiar told The Post.
Some in the Biden administration were troubled that the Department of Education extended an invitation to Diaspora Alliance, a group which the White House does not meet with, the source said.
The White House and Department of Education did not respond to The Post's requests for comment.
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The groups and administration officials discussed the anti-Israel protests sweeping college campuses. getty Images
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Some of the groups included in the meeting oppose the mainstream definition of antisemitism. ZUMAPRESS.com
The Biden administration officials agreed to hold a separate 1 p.m. meeting with the boycotting groups, representatives from two organizations told The Post.
The ADL, Orthodox Union, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Jewish Federations of North America, Hillel International, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and National Council of Jewish Women released a joint statement on Friday that did not delve into the controversy.
"It was a positive and productive meeting. We appreciate the Secretary rapidly making himself available to us at this critical moment," the groups said.
"As organizations who have been dedicated to defending and supporting Jewish students experiencing harassment and violence on college campuses around the country, we thank the Secretary of Education for the opportunity this afternoon to share our urgent concerns," the statement continued.
"We directly raised our urgent concerns surrounding the current climate of antisemitism on campus and the lack thus far of effective response. In this moment of crisis, we asked the Department to be specific in their follow up and implementation of this week's clear statement made by President Biden and to provide universities with a clear path to effective enforcement of that statement.
"By sharing specific recommendations, we urged the Administration to do more to protect Jewish students and the broader student community from intimidation, harassment, and violence."
The head of Bend the Arc told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she was "surprised" that so many groups opted to protest the earlier meeting.
"I was really surprised not to see them there," Jamie Beran said of the boycotting organizations, noting that there were conservative groups that stayed on the call.
"I was grateful to be with groups that are taking the safety of students seriously and putting politics aside," she added.
Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of the progressive T'ruah organization, called it a "good thing" that the Biden administration was willing to meet with a "broad swath of the Jewish community," in order to "get the fullest possible picture of what's happening."
"If there are centrist groups that refuse to be in a Zoom with an organization that represents more than 2,300 rabbis, including campus rabbis and rabbis who are in touch with college students from their communities regularly, they might want to reconsider that," Jacobs told Jewish Insider.
The White House faced criticism from Jewish groups last year for indicating that it "welcomes and appreciates" definitions of antisemitism not favored by the majority of mainstream Jewish organizations.
#189033 at 2024-05-05 03:20:39 (UTC+1)
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(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/us-news/fani-willis-spending-comes-under-scrutiny-by-georgia-senate/
Fani Willis grilled during hearing over amount of money spent on prosecuting Trump case - instead of county's backlog of criminal cases(NYPost.com)
Megan Palin
Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' use of funds came under the microscope at a Georgia state Senate Special Committee hearing Friday.
Republican Sen. Bill Cowsert asked financial officers about numerous "enhancement requests" for extra money Willis has made, including one for roughly a million dollars in 2023 for general trial expenses.
Fulton County Chief Financial Officer Sharon Whittmore said the amount was made as a "lump sum, not specific with line item details," to explain what it would be used for, according to the Washington Examiner.
Cowsert said he was trying to "get a feeling for exactly how much oversight," there was in the office, adding it "sounds like it's very loose as far as employment practices and expenditures for independent contractors."
He was likely referring to Nathan Wade, who Willis brought on as prosecutor in the county's election fraud prosecution against Donald Trump and 18 others in 2021.
It later emerged Wade and Willis had been in a romantic relationship, and a judge ruled one had to step down from the case, resulting in Wade quitting.
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Elsewhere during the meeting, Cowsert criticized Willis for the amount of money spent on prosecuting the Trump case rather than tackling the county's backlog of criminal cases, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts was asked whether the county signed off on Willis' hiring of Wade.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is running for reelection, participates in the parade for the 52nd Inman Park Festival 3
Embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' use of funds came under the microscope at a Georgia state Senate Special Committee hearing Friday. ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
"That's solely the prerogative of the District Attorney," Pitts told members of the committee.
"We don't get into that sort of detail."
Whitmore testified that the county commission reviews and votes on the district attorney's annual general fund budget request, the Rome-News Tribune reports.
Willis received $36.6 million from the general fund for the current fiscal year, she said.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis listens during the final arguments in her disqualification hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024 3
Republican Sen. Bill Cowsert asked financial officers about numerous "enhancement requests" for extra money Willis has made, including one for roughly a million dollars in 2023 for general trial expenses. POOL/AFP via getty Images
According to Whitmore, additional funds came from the federal government in the form of pandemic relief.
Willis did not seek prior approval from the commission before using those funds to hire Wade and two other special prosecutors to take on the election interference case.
"The board of commissioners has no oversight over the district attorney," Whitmore added.
Willis did not attend the hearing, but responded at a press conference, saying: "They can look all they want. The DA's office has done everything according to the books."
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks at a press conference next to prosecutor Nathan Wade after a Grand Jury brought back indictments against former president Donald Trump and his allies in their attempt to overturn the state's 2020 election results 3
Fulton County Chief Financial Officer Sharon Whittmore said the amount was made as a "lump sum, not specific with line item details," to explain what it would be used for, according to the Washington Examiner. REUTERS
The committee was expected Friday to address the timing of Willis and Wade's relationship and the use of campaign funds.
The findings of the investigation will inform legislative actions, including possibly enacting laws to ensure more accountability and oversight of the DA's offce, a statement from the Georgia Senate read.
Both Willis and Wade have admitted to a love affair but both insisted under oath the relationship only became official in 2022 after they had already brought the case against the former president and his co-defendants.
#189032 at 2024-05-05 03:19:14 (UTC+1)
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(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/us-news/details-emerge-about-nypd-cop-who-accidentally-fired-during-columbia-anti-israel-raid/
New details emerge about NYPD cop's 'purely unintentional' gun discharge during Columbia raid on anti-Israel protesters inside Hamilton Hall(NYPost.com)
Amanda Woods
The NYPD sergeant who accidentally fired his gun during Tuesday night's operation to oust anti-Israel protesters from Columbia University mistakenly let the slug fly as he shifted the weapon from one hand to another so he could unlock an office door, officials said.
The "experienced" cop - who had served as a sergeant for eight years in the department's Emergency Service Unit - was holding a 9mm handgun with an attached flashlight as he helped other officers access a locked office on the first floor of the Ivy League university's Hamilton Hall, ESU Commanding Officer Chief Carlos Valdez told reporters Friday.
His team had already broken a window - allowing the sergeant to reach through the hole in the glass to unlock an office door from the inside, Valdez said.
He realized he needed his dominant right hand to do that, so he switched the gun over to his left, the police official said.
"[That's] when the unintentional discharge occurred," Valdez said.
"The bullet traveled to the office glass and into the office they were attempting to gain access to."
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"After the firearm discharged, the sergeant immediately assessed his team and ensured that nobody was injured," the chief added.
"The team gained access to the office and found that there was nobody inside. In this case, the bullet landed on the floor of the office and didn't travel anywhere else. So it was apparent that it had struck no one."
The sergeant continued his assignment - making sure the building was cleared - and sounded the alarm to his own supervisor "at the first opportunity," Valdez said.
"At no time were any police officers, members of the public or any protesters in danger," Valdez said.
"This was purely unintentional."
Wild footage reveals layers of barricades NYPD breached to confront Columbia protesters
The NYPD sergeant who mistakenly fired his gun during the raid to oust anti-Israel protesters from Columbia's Hamilton Hall let the slug fly as he shifted the weapon so he could unlock an office door. New York City Police Department
The sergeant involved will be counseled and sent to retraining, he added.
Columbia students and other protesters had already been moved to a different part of the building - the lobby and main entrance area - by the time the sergeant had let off the stray round, according to Carlos Nieves, the NYPD's assistant commissioner for public information.
A total of 109 people were arrested during Tuesday night's operation, which also included the final clearing of the encampment on the campus' lawn - which started a nationwide trend at other elite universities since its mid-April erection.
The morning after the operation - and a similar takedown at CUNY's City College - Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD officials briefed the media, but made no mention of the accidental discharge.
"I think we could have talked about it, but I don't recall it coming up organically at that press conference," Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Tarik Sheppard said Friday.
Members of the NYPD prepare to enter Columbia University campus to clear the pro-Palestinian protest encampment and Hamilton Hall where demonstrators barricaded themselves inside on April 30, 2024 in New York City
His team had already broken a window - allowing the sergeant to reach through the hole in the glass to unlock an office door from the inside, ESU Commanding Officer Chief Carlos Valdez said. getty Images
"And first off, we normally don't do any kind of release on an accidental discharge."
"I knew it would come up eventually, because it always does," he added.
Douglas Cohen, a spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, said Thursday night that his office's Police Accountability Unit is investigating the shooting, as "it is our policy to review such incidents."
#189030 at 2024-05-05 03:13:14 (UTC+1)
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>>189007
(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/opinion/bidens-pathetic-nods-to-pelosi-gore-and-kerry/
Biden's pathetic nods to Pelosi, Gore and Kerry(NYPost.com)
By Post Editorial Board
President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on May 3, 2024 in Washington, DC.
President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on May 3, 2024 in Washington, DC. getty Images
Past presidents have made some pretty dubious picks for the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Jim Jordan?), but Joe Biden just outdid them all by tapping Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore and John Kerry all in one fell swoop.
Most recipients of the nation's highest civilian honor are distinguished philanthropists, artists, athletes, entertainers, activists and pioneers, not politicians known for being partisan pals of the sitting prez.
You can make a case for honoring Pelosi as the first woman to become House speaker, but surely it could've waited 'til she retired?
(Then again, she's now running for re-election at 83; is that why Joe picked her?)
But Gore and Kerry are just failed Democratic presidential candidates who went on to push climate-change hysteria.
And the citation for Gore is laughably partisan-political: He's getting the honor because "after winning the popular vote, he accepted the outcome of a disputed presidential election for the sake of our unity."
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Hah!
He only accepted the outcome after the Supreme Court denied his claim that the vote in Florida was stolen; his lawyers had gone so far as to try to exclude military votes from the recount.
The honor would've made as much sense if it cited his infamous "I invented the Internet" delusion.
Kerry spent his entire career as a self-important seat-warmer, which probably explains why Biden thought he deserved the award, albeit the cite calls it "his public service career that has spanned seven decades."
By law, Biden gets to choose whoever he wants, so if the state of the economy, the border and, heck, the world hadn't already convinced you, these picks should be the final proof that his judgment is just plain rotten.
#189027 at 2024-05-05 03:08:53 (UTC+1)
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(May 03, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/us-news/sen-tom-cotton-introduces-bill-to-block-anti-israel-protesters-from-getting-biden-student-loan-bailouts/
Sen. Tom Cotton introduces bill to block anti-Israel protesters from getting Biden student loan bailouts(NYPost.com)
Victor Nava
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced legislation on Friday that would prevent anti-Israel protesters from receiving student loan forgiveness if they are convicted of a crime stemming from campus demonstrations.
The Arkansas Republican's No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act, which is co-sponsored by 18 other GOP senators, would make any individual convicted of a state or federal offense in connection with a campus protest ineligible for any federal student loan relief.
"Americans who never went to college or responsibly paid off their debts shouldn't have to pay off other people's student loans," Cotton said in a statement.
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Cotton has previously called for foreign students supporting Hamas to have their visas revoked. getty Images
"They especially shouldn't have to pay off the loans of Hamas sympathizers shutting down and defacing campuses," he added.
The legislation was introduced in response to a wave of anti-Israel, antisemitic, and pro-terror protests that have swept college campuses across the country.
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Some 200 anti-Israel protesters have been arrested since mid-April at Columbia University's Manhattan campus.
The activists first set up a tent encampment on one of the main lawns at the Ivy League school before storming and occupying one the university's historic buildings, forcing final exams to be postponed and students to take classes online.
"Hamas sympathizers engaging in criminal behavior on college campuses should be ineligible for student loan bailouts," Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), one the bill's co-sponsors, said in a statement.
"We must hold these criminals accountable and ensure taxpayer dollars do not go toward paying off their debt," she added.
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Anti-israel protests have led to hundreds of arrests at college campuses across the country. getty Images
Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) is leading companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
"Violent campus protestors laughably demand respect, amnesty, and even takeout food. Our bicameral bill ensures that not one student protestor convicted of criminal offenses is bailed out by student loan forgiveness. Not one dime of taxpayer money will fund these criminals," Williams said in a statement.
President Biden has approved about $160 billion in student debt forgiveness for nearly 4.6 million borrowers through various executive actions in his first term.
The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that the 81-year-old president's student loan cancellations plans will cost taxpayers a whopping $559 billion over 10 years.
#188994 at 2024-05-05 01:48:43 (UTC+1)
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(May 02, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/lifestyle/us-issues-travel-warning-for-germany-terrorist-groups-keep-planning-attacks/
US issues travel warning for Germany: 'Terrorist groups keep planning attacks'(NYPost.com)
Alex Mitchell
Germany is facing a frightening threat of terrorism, officials warn.
Germany is facing a frightening threat of terrorism, officials warn. ullstein bild via getty Images
The United States has issued a travel advisory to Germany over fears of terrorism.
On Wednesday, the Department of State upgraded Germany to Level 2 out of four - an edict to "exercise increased caution" - with the stark warning that "terrorist groups keep planning attacks in Germany."
The US government added that tourist locations and transportation hubs are frequently targeted, along with hotels, restaurants, clubs, places of worship, parks, and both sporting and cultural events.
"Terrorists may attack with little or no warning," the State Department noted.
In late March, Canada also advised travelers to "exercise a high degree of caution in Germany due to the threat of terrorism."
The United Kingdom's foreign travel advice additionally cited incidents of terror in Germany in recent years.
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Germany is under a heightened threat of terrorism, the U.S. State Department warns.
Germany is under a heightened threat of terrorism, the US State Department has warned. AFP via getty Images
These include a killing and severe injury from a knife attack in Dresden in 2020, as well as two mass shootings at bars in Hanau that killed eight in the same year.
In 2019, two people were fatally shot near a synagogue in the city of Halle.
The State Department advises travelers to "identify safe areas" to turn toward in the event of an attack.
Public places frequented by foreigners are high targets.
Public places frequented by foreigners are high targets. DDP/AFP via getty Images
"Formulate a plan of action. Know where you will go if a terrorist attack or security incident takes place."
Germany is the only European nation to have an elevated travel warning from the US in 2024, except for Ukraine bordering Moldova, which is on the same level two status due to Ukraine's war with Russia.
#188993 at 2024-05-05 01:47:01 (UTC+1)
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Brooklyn's PS 331 renamed after slain NYPD Detective Wenjian Liu, becoming first NYC school honoring Asian American(NYPost.com)
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A public school in Brooklyn was renamed in honor of a slain NYPD detective Thursday, a decade after he was shot and killed in the line of duty by a cop-hating maniac.
Dozens of grieving family members and NYPD officers celebrated as PS 331 in Dyker Heights was officially named the Detective Wenjian Liu School of Civics and Entrepreneurship.
"The students in this beautiful school will learn the story of my husband," Liu's widow, Sanny Liu, told The Post ahead of the unveiling ceremony.
Celebrants cut the ribbon outside Detective Wenjian Liu School of Civics and Entrepreneurship. 4
PS 311 in Dyker Heights was renamed Detective Wenjian Liu School of Civics and Entrepreneurship Thursday. Gabriella Bass
"And my daughter, she will always know that her father was a police officer. And they will have a greater respect for the community."
Liu and his partner Rafael Ramos were killed in a brazen street execution Dec. 20, 2014 - shot point-blank in the head by an "emotionally troubled" cop-hating lone gunman as the pair sat in their squad car in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
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Sanny and Wenjian Liu had only been married three months when he was killed, but she was able to give birth to their daughter Angelina thanks to artificial insemination two and half years after his senseless murder.
The girl, now 6, attends another school in the Dyker Heights neighborhood but will attend the elementary school named after her heroic father next year.
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Wenjian Liu and partner Rafael Ramos were shot and killed by a cop-hating maniac in 2014. getty Images
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Sanny gave birth to their daughter Angelina thanks to artificial insemination two and half years after his senseless murder. Gabriella Bass
"There's nothing better than that!" Sanny Liu said.
The school renaming also marked another milestone by becoming the first Big Apple public school to be named after an Asian American.
The dedication is fitting for the Dyker Heights community, which officials noted is nearly 60% Asian American. The school's principal, who is of Tawainese descent, speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese.
"Not only for my daughter, but it's meant so much for the Chinese, Asian community," Sanny Liu noted.
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The Wenjian Liu School of Civics and Entrepreneurship is the first Big Apple school named after an Asian American. Gabriella Bass
The ceremony was joyous despite the circumstances, with both Liu and Ramos' widow emphasizing that the wounds are still fresh.
Both have seen their families grow since the vicious slayings.
Little Angelina - who Ramos' widow Maritza said looks "just like her father" - has grown up learning about her father's bravery despite never meeting him.
"It doesn't feel like 10 years. It was like yesterday, time continues on and obviously, it has been 10 years, but to me, it still feels like yesterday," Maritza Ramos told The Post.
#188989 at 2024-05-05 01:43:40 (UTC+1)
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(May 02, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/photos/photos-kate-middleton-has-taken-of-prince-george-princess-charlotte-and-prince-louis-through-the-years/
Photos Kate Middleton has taken of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis through the years(NYPost.com)
Kensington Palace released a photo of Prince George on his first day at the Westacre Montessori nursery school near Sandringham in Norfolk on January 6, 2016.
Prince William is photographed with his children by his wife, Kate Middleton.
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Queen Elizabeth II poses with some of her grandchildren.
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Prince William poses with his children in June of 2020.
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Britain's Prince Philip sits with his great-grandson Prince George in a photo taken by Kate Middleton.
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#188983 at 2024-05-05 01:37:07 (UTC+1)
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(May 02, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/media/peer-of-fired-abc-news-weatherman-rob-marciano-calls-fall-out-over-alleged-anger-issues-a-hit-job-report/
Peer of fired ABC News weatherman Rob Marciano calls fall-out over alleged anger issues a 'hit job': report(NYPost.com)
Allie Griffin
The complaints and comments swirling around ex-ABC News weatherman Rob Marciano's alleged anger issues seem like a "hit job," according to a person who regularly worked with the meteorologist.
Marciano was fired from the network, where he worked for nearly a decade, on Tuesday over "alleged "anger management issues," sources previously told The Post.
But sources who worked with the meteorologist told People Thursday that his ousting was "unexpected" and had nothing bad to say about their former colleague.
"Rob is always positive, hands-on and never anything but professional," one source told the outlet. "People enjoy working with him and he's not difficult to work with."
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Meteorologist Rob Marciano was fired from ABC News Tuesday after nearly 10 years at the network. Disney General Entertainment Content via getty Images
He added that many people at ABC feel it was "unbelievable he was let go," contrary to earlier reports where sources described his chronic temper issues and complaints from female coworkers who reportedly said he made them uncomfortable.
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"The Rob Marciano being portrayed is not the Rob Marciano we know," the same source told People.
"Rob has always been nothing but professional. He is truly invested in his segments, cares a tremendous amount about his final work product."
Three other sources, all women, had similar things to say to the publication.
"Rob was always such a nice guy and I loved when he stopped by my edit room to check on his weather packages," an unnamed editor said.
A former CNN colleague said her "heart hurts" seeing the negative coverage of the weatherman.
"Rob is great. No one championed my career in that building more than he did and no one took care of the crew in the field better than he did in my 10 years of working there," she said. "I had plenty of really bad encounters at CNN and people who treated me terribly."
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Marciano was reportedly fired over chronic anger issues.
The third source, another former coworker said Marciano was the "nicest, most professional and respectful person I've ever worked with."
"He was hard-working and kind to everyone. So many people in news can be cut-throat, or creepy, or generally unpleasant, but Rob is not one of them," she says. "He's the definition of a standup guy."
Others told of a very different experience working alongside the meteorologist.
Marciano reportedly had a long-running feud with chief "Good Morning America" meteorologist Ginger Zee and was banned from the GMA set before his ousting.
But the "last straw" that led to his ultimate dismissal was a tirade that he unleashed on one of the show's producers and which was witnessed by several staffers, according to the Daily Beast.
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Marciano reportedly had a long-running feud with chief "Good Morning America" meteorologist Ginger Zee. ABC News
Sources said the weatherman let personal issues going on in his life - mainly his divorce - impact his behavior at work, showing up in a "cranky" mood or making female staffers uncomfortable by "oversharing" details about the divorce from ex-wife Eryn Marciano.
His behavior led his bosses to bar him from "GMA" studios in Times Square last year after colleagues complained to management, Page Six reported.
He was then swapped to "World News Tonight," while occasionally filing field reports for the morning show.
An ABC News spokesperson declined to comment. The Post has reached out to Marciano and Ginger Zee.
#188974 at 2024-05-05 01:10:30 (UTC+1)
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(May 01, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/floridas-six-week-abortion-ban-takes-effect-as-democrats-pounce/
Florida's six-week abortion ban takes effect ahead of November ballot measure(NYPost.com)
Ryan King
Florida's six-week ban on most abortions took effect Wednesday, restricting the procedure after the point when proponents claim an unborn child's heartbeat is detectible.
Vice President Kamala Harris marked the occasion with an appearance in Jacksonville, where she attacked former President Donald Trump for laying the groundwork for the law to take effect.
"Across our nation, we witnessed a full-on assault, state by state, on reproductive freedom, and understand who is to blame: former president Donald Trump did this," Harris, 59, declared.
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President Biden's campaign has pummeled Donald Trump on abortion. REUTERS
"Donald Trump hand-picked three members of the United States Supreme Court because he intended for them to overturn Roe[v Wade], and as he intended, they did."
With Florida's new ban in effect, some 50,000 babies could be saved annually, according to a projection by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
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"This historic day marks an enormous victory in the human rights battle or our time. We celebrate the boys and girls who will live because of Florida's #heartbeat law and the ways they will bless their families, friends, and communities," the group posted on X.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, 45, signed the ban - which allows exceptions to save the mother's life - into law in April of last year, weeks before launching his unsuccessful 2024 presidential bid.
Ironically, Trump, 77, called DeSantis' decision to sign that bill into law a "terrible mistake."
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Ron DeSantis has touted his record as a pro-life governor. SOPA Images/LightRocket via getty Images
Trump has also distanced himself from the anti-abortion movement, announcing last month that he would not back a national ban on the procedure, which some in his party had called for.
Florida's Supreme Court allowed the six-week ban to take effect last month, but also greenlit a ballot measure to overturn the restrictions - which will require a 60% threshold to succeed.
The referendum has attracted attention from outside the Sunshine State, with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's Think Big America group funneling $500,000 to the pro-abortion side's efforts
Pro-life activists 4
Enactment of the six-week ban marks a key victory for anti-abortion activists. EPA
Democrats have attempted to use voter unease with abortion restrictions to try and regain a foothold in Florida, which has shifted toward the GOP over the past decade.
DeSantis has scoffed at the idea.
"I welcome Biden, Harris to spend a lot of money in Florida. Light up the airwaves. Light it on fire. We are fine with you doing that here. But I can confidently predict that you will see Republican victories," he said at a presser Tuesday.
Abortion clinic 4
Florida is now expected to see a sharp dip in abortions. REUTERS
Prior to the enactment of Florida's six-week ban, the Sunshine State had been the least restrictive of any of its neighbors, according to an analysis from Axios.
"Up until this point, Florida was perhaps the only state in the southeastern part of the country where a woman could seek reproductive health care," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) lamented Wednesday.
Critics of the law, such as Planned Parenthood, contend that it will ban abortion before many women even know that they are pregnant.
Florida has 30 of the 270 votes needed at the Electoral College to win the presidency. Its voters have backed a Democrat for president just three times since 1980 - Bill Clinton in 1996 and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
#188972 at 2024-05-05 01:02:11 (UTC+1)
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>>188961
(May 01, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/400k-migrants-under-parole-program-likely-staying-forever-experts/
400,000 migrants flown to US under Biden parole program 'likely staying here forever': experts(NYPost.com)
Jennie Taer
The roughly 400,000 migrants allowed into the US under the Biden administration's Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan [CHVN] parole program will most likely stay in the US indefinitely, several experts told The Post
The program first began in October 2022 for Venezuelans and was expanded in November 2023 to allow 30,000 migrants per month to enter the US for up to two years "for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit."
Department of Homeland Security data revealed 400,000 migrants have taken advantage of the program by the end of February.
Joe Biden waves while donning sunglasses outside the White House 3
The program first began in October 2022 for Venezuelans and was expanded in November 2023 to allow 30,000 migrants per month to enter the US for up to two years. Ron Sachs / Pool via CNP / SplashNews.com
Immigration experts say the huge influx - equivalent to 1,000 people per day - are unlikely to simply go home at the end of the two year parole period.
"They're overwhelming the system [which] more than likely will result in these people staying here forever," Donald Trump's former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan told The Post.
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Parolees have three options - the DHS can extend their parole period, they can hire a lawyer to establish legal residency or illegally overstay in the US.
The Biden administration is not likely to hunt down parolees who merely overstay their two years in the US, Homan said.
"ICE is not looking for noncriminal fugitives, they're not," Homan said.
However, under a second Trump administration, migrants overstaying in the US would be much more likely to become "a target for removal," according to Homan.
Former ICE field office director John Fabbricatore confirmed to The Post that if parolees on the program are not removed by the Biden administration, many are likely to overstay and "be added to the non-detained ICE docket," meaning they will be listed, but not actively pursued.
Fabbricatore wanred that docket currently has around "seven million cases ICE is already monitoring."
The parole process is supposed to be utilized for "those with "urgent humanitarian reasons," but Fabbricatore claims it's being improperly used as "an immigration status".
Haitian-American citizens arrive to Miami airport 3
Immigration experts say the huge influx - equivalent to 1,000 people per day - are unlikely to simply go home at the end of the two year parole period. AFP via getty Images
Retired Deputy Patrol Agent in Charge of the El Paso Station Clay Thomas added he expects parole periods to be automatically extended because that's the easiest option.
"They're not gonna have people tracking them down so they're just gonna do a blanket extension on that two years because that's just the click of a button," Thomas told The Post, adding it will be "nearly impossible" to find tens of thousands of people given "the volume [of people] and the lack of tracking on" migrants.
Migrants on parole do have a range of legal options open to them for extending their stays legally.
Cubans, for example, are able to apply for permanent residency - commonly known as a green card - after one year in the US thanks to the Cuban Adjustment Act, according to Miami-based immigration attorney Maria Herrera Mellado.
All parolees who arrived through the program can apply for visas, asylum, and some can try for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which temporarily shields them from removal based on issues in their home countries.
Haitian-American citizens arrive in Miami 3
Former ICE field office director John Fabbricatore confirmed to The Post that if parolees on the program are not removed by the Biden administration, many are likely to overstay. AFP via getty Images
Most commonly, Venezuelan, Haitian, and Nicaraguan parolees often arrive through the parole program and then apply for asylum while in the US, Mellado said.
A subpoena from the House Homeland Security Committee recently made the DHS disclose data on the CHVN program, showing most migrants paroled into the US are landing in Florida.
Roughly 80% of the parolees who arrived between January and August 2023 went to Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa Bay, according to the data.
Mellado said her Cuban and Venezuelan clients flying into Miami through the parole program are staying in the area to reunite with their families.
"This is their final destination," Mellado said.
Meanwhile, there is a long line of migrants hoping to be accepted into the program, with 1.6 million applications awaiting approval, DHS said.
#188966 at 2024-05-05 00:47:08 (UTC+1)
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>>188961
(May 01, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/anti-israel-ucla-protesters-request-donations-after-violent-clash/
Anti-Israel UCLA protesters request shields, helmets, vegan and gluten-free donations after violent campus clash(NYPost.com)
Katherine Donlevy
The anti-Israel protesters hunkered down on the grounds of the University of California, Los Angeles put out a bizarre list of requested donations Wednesday - with some "urgent" items that seemingly indicate the mob is preparing for battle.
Skater helmets, shields, wood for barriers and elbow and knee pads were among the much-needed tools requested by the school's Students for Justice in Palestine to sustain its so-called UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment.
The mini-tent city - which erupted in chaos Tuesday night when agitators tried to infiltrate the grounds - also asked for a medical stockpile, food and sleeping bags in a Google Doc shared on social media.
People walking through a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at UCLA campus with police cars in the background 5
Protesters camped out at UCLA put out a requested list of donations that included shields, gas masks and strobe flashlights. AFP via getty Images
"We will not leave. We will remain here until our demands are met," SJP at UCLA said in a statement.
The defensive materials listed as "urgent" items, as well as headlamps, airsoft goggles, gas masks and flashlights with strobe.
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The group also asked for utility gloves "without reinforced knuckles" of various sizes, hilariously adding that they need pairs made "especially for small hands."
The requests went on to list rope, zip-ties, electric and solar-powered generators, as well as Epi-Pens, inhalers, lotion and Aquaphor.
A separate spreadsheet made specifically for donors interested in feeding the rabble-rousers was linked in the document - and came with a clear warning that several items were not permitted in the encampment.
"NO packaged food, NO coffee, NO bagels, NO bananas, NO nuts" the document reads, with each prohibited item bolded and underlined.
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The campers were also banned from using sunscreen, according to the sheet.
The only foods SJP at UCLA would seemingly accept are vegan and gluten-free items, with a specific request for "hot food for lunch!!! (IMPORTANT!!)"
Person in riot gear amid a scene of unrest at a pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA, with fights and firecrackers being thrown 5
Chaos erupted at the encampment Tuesday night when counter-protesters tried to clear the tent city. FOX 11
The donation list was published on the group's Instagram page, where it also ignorantly compared its members to Palestinians in the Gaza war following the violent clash on campus.
SJP at UCLA claimed they experienced a "life-threatening assault" after counter-protesters tried to clear the camp overnight in what turned into a chaotic brawl that required intervention from LAPD officers.
The protesters alleged that their aggressors were armed with pepper spray, gas canisters and bricks - which may explain the group's request for shields and gas masks.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrator being attacked by counter-protesters at an encampment on UCLA campus during a clash 5
The protesters also asked for vegan and gluten-free meals in their lengthy list of requested items. AFP via getty Images
UCLA canceled classes on Wednesday following the violence and shut down Royce Hall, the area near the encampment, for the rest of the week.
"We have law enforcement presence stationed throughout campus to help promote safety," the university said in a statement.
"Student Affairs will have essential staff on campus to support our students who have been impacted by this tragedy."
#188965 at 2024-05-05 00:45:44 (UTC+1)
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>>188961
(May 01, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/trump-to-address-libertarian-party-concerns-at-groups-national-convention/
Trump to address 'Libertarian Party concerns' at group's national convention(NYPost.com)
Victor Nava
Former President Donald Trump will address "Libertarian Party concerns" later this month at the group's national convention in Washington, DC, the party announced Wednesday.
"Libertarians are some of the most independent and thoughtful thinkers in our Country, and I am honored to join them," Trump, 77, said in a statement.
The Libertarian Party's unprecedented decision to give the presumptive Republican nominee for president a platform at the third-party group's 2024 nominating convention will allow Trump to court voters beyond his GOP base.
Donald Trump
Trump will speak at the Libertarian Party's May 25 convention in Washington, DC. getty Images
"We all have to remember that our goal is to defeat the Worst President in the History of the United States, BY FAR, Crooked Joe Biden," Trump said.
"If Libertarians join me and the Republican Party, where we have many Libertarian views, the election won't even be close," he added.
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"We cannot have another four years of death, destruction, and incompetence. WE WILL WORK TOGETHER AND WIN!"
In 2020, Trump blamed Libertarian Party candidates for siphoning votes away from his past presidential campaigns, and he accused libertarian voters of "wasting their vote."
The party had ballot access in all 50 states in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, with its nominees receiving 3.3% and 1.2% of the vote in each campaign, respectively.
Angela McCardle, the chair of the Libertarian National Committee, argued that having Trump appear at the convention serves the Libertarian Party's needs as well.
"For 50 years, we've been trying to get our candidates on the main stage with major party POTUS candidates and we've finally succeeded in bringing one to our stage," she said in a statement.
"We will do everything in our power to use this incredible opportunity to advance the message of liberty."
The group plans to provide Trump with a list of the party's top 10 issues ahead of the May 25 event, in hopes that it will influence his policy positions.
The party has invited President Biden, 81, to appear at the event as well.
Donald Trump
Libertarians are divided on hosting Trump at their convention. getty Images
Trump's slated appearance at the convention has divided the party, with the two leading candidates vying to head the 2024 Libertarian presidential ticket holding differing views on hosting the Republican.
"The Republican Party wasn't smart enough to reject Trump. Libertarians absolutely should reject him and his grift," Chase Oliver, who has won five Libertarian primary contests, wrote on X.
"If he isn't willing to actually debate the Libertarian candidate, he shouldn't be on a stage that was paid for by party members," he added, arguing that party members should give Trump "the one finger salute" at the convention.
Michael Rectenwald, who has won two primary contests, called Trump's upcoming appearance an "opportunity" to share the stage with a major party candidate and "educate Trump on the principles of the freedom philosophy."
"[Trump derangement syndrome] is for the faint of heart," he added.
The former president said he is looking forward to speaking at the convention, which will be "attended by many of my great friends."
#188964 at 2024-05-05 00:43:39 (UTC+1)
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>>188961
(May 01, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/unruly-united-passenger-must-pay-20k-for-diverting-flight/
Unruly United passenger must pay $20K for diverting Newark-bound flight, threatening to 'mess up plane'(NYPost.com)
Allie Griffin
An unruly and "physically aggressive" passenger aboard a United Airlines flight has been ordered to pay the company more than $20,000 after his behavior forced the pilot to divert the Newark-bound plane to Maine.
Alexander Michael Dominic MacDonald, of England, must fork over $20,638 in restitution to United for the March 1 incident in which he threatened to "mess up the plane," a federal judge ruled last Thursday.
The 30-year-old, who has been in custody since his in-air outburst, was also sentenced to time served and will be sent back to the UK by US Immigration officers, according to the sentencing filed in the US District Court of Maine.
MacDonald being carried off plane steps 3
The Brit was ordered to pay $20,638 in restitution to United Airlines for the March 1 flight diversion. credit: Twitter X/KolHaolam
MacDonald, who pleaded guilty to one count of interference with flight crew members, was arguing loudly with his girlfriend on the United Flight 883 from London's Heathrow Airport and was asked to quiet down by the head flight attendant, according to an FBI affidavit.
He initially complied but a few minutes later, he was back at it - this time yelling at another flight attendant, the document states.
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The head flight attendant stood between the "verbally and physically aggressive" passenger and the other attendant who walked away.
The crew member attempted to calm down the crazed Englishman - but he only got worse.
MacDonald asked the head attendant if he would like to "have a problem" and threatened to "mess up the plane" while putting his hands on the attendant's shoulders and backing him into a corner, according to the affidavit.
Passengers film as MacDonald is removed from plane. 3
MacDonald was described as "verbally and physically aggressive" and threatened the flight crew. @KolHaolam / X
Crew members and a passenger were then able to put MacDonald in flex cuffs but were unable to restrain him in a seat as he continued on his tirade.
The head flight attendant and the pilot decided that the plane should be landed as soon as possible to remove him from the aircraft for the safety of the crew and flight.
The plane, with 160 passengers and 10 crew members on board, then touched down in Bangor, Maine - where the hothead and his girlfriend were removed and met by law enforcement at the airport - before it took off again to head to its original destination in New Jersey.
United Airlines plane in flight 3
The United pilot and head flight attendant determined that the plane needed to land to remove MacDonald before reaching its destination for the safety of the crew and flight. NurPhoto via getty Images
Videos posted to social media showed MacDonald being escorted off the plane and carried down the steps with his ankles and hands zip-tied to a waiting police car on the tarmac as other passengers cheered.
Reports of unruly passengers hit a staggering peak in 2021 after pandemic-era travel restrictions were lifted with nearly 6,000 reported, according to FAA statistics.
The numbers have dipped significantly since, but are still above pre-pandemic levels. There were 2,075 reporters last year and 649 so far in 2024.
#188963 at 2024-05-05 00:42:14 (UTC+1)
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>>188961
(May 01, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/lifestyle/chilis-and-applebees-woo-inflation-weary-diners-as-fast-food-prices-continue-to-climb/
Chili's and Applebee's woo inflation-weary diners as fast food prices continue to climb(NYPost.com)
David Landsel
Exterior view of a Chili's restaurant with its logo sign at dusk in Little Falls, NJ on November 12, 2023.
A new value deal at casual dining chain Chili's appears to be aimed squarely at fast food restaurants, where prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Christopher Sadowski
It's a soar point.
Fast food lovers have been watching helplessly as the price of a burger and fries climbs ever higher - combo quaffers in NYC are now paying as much as $13.89 plus tax for a Big Mac pack, not to mention a whopping $13.99 for a Whopper meal at some local Burger King locations.
Are they looking for their fix at the wrong restaurant chains?
Customers placing orders at a McDonald's restaurant in a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3
As prices rise at McDonald's, restaurants that might not have been seen as their direct competitors see opportunity. AP
Chili's seems to think so.
The Dallas-based home of the baby back (baby back, baby back, baby back) rib may traditionally have been considered a pricier sit-down upgrade over the usual quick and easy franchise food.
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But inflation's a funny thing - Chili's current "3 for Me" combo, which includes a burger, fries, an app and a bottomless drink, beats the offer at a Big Apple Golden Arches, going for as low as $10.99, Business Insider reported.
And these burgers appear to be able to hold their own against the tried-and-true drive-thru faves - Chili's new half-pound of smashed meat, topped with lettuce, pickles and Thousand Island dressing, christened the Big Smasher, bests McDonald's on heft and value, while also evoking the beloved Big Mac, executives for the chain say. (One Big Mac patty is 3.2 ounces, pre-cooked.)
"We've always had incredible burgers on our menu, but for about a year now, we've been hearing more and more frustration from fast-food fans over rising costs," Chili's director of culinary, Brian Paquette, told the outlet.
Man walking past the frontage of Applebees Restaurant on West 50th Street in New York City 3
Chili's isn't the only chain that's looking like a better deal nowadays - Applebee's 2 for $25 combo dinner is now cheaper than a Big Mac Meal for two in places like New York City. getty Images
Paquette said that the Big Smasher reflects a desire to offer "some of the favorite drive-thru flavors" on Chili's menu. While it costs $12.99 a la carte, it's available as part of the $10.99 "3 For Me" deal.
Chili's isn't the only casual dining brand happy to lure away cash-strapped customers hungry for more, as chains like McDonald's have raised prices by approximately 10% in the last two years, according to the company - and 100% in just a decade, according to an appetite-killing report.
Applebee's, for example, has their "2 for $25" meal deal, which includes an appetizer to share or two side salads, plus two entrees.
Red Lobster's "Shrimp Your Way" may cost a little more, but still represents good value, with three shrimp dishes for $25 and two for $21.
Dusk view of Chili's restaurant in Little Falls, NJ with sign visible, promoting the new Big Smasher burger 3
A new burger at Chili's, the Big Smasher, recalls the Big Mac but offers more meat and better value, some say. Christopher Sadowski
Outback Steakhouse thrilled thrifty types recently with a limited Steak & Lobster deal, from just $19.99, including a 6 oz. sirloin steak, lobster tail and two side dishes.
Chili's and Co. certainly have their work cut out for them - McDonald's may now be wildly expensive in some states and cities, but the company still reported a year-over-year sales increase of 8.7% in 2023, BI reported.
But the new low-cost come-ons appear to be moving the needle, if only slightly - trade publications like Restaurant Business News and Nation's Restaurant News have recently reported a slight uptick in takers for the shameless and tasty grabs at market share.
Chili's honchos say they're aware of the dangers of using discounts to build a customer base, and that the "3 For Me" promotion wasn't created with fast food restaurants in mind - not that there's anything wrong with people seeing it that way.
"Fast food and drive-thru prices have gone up," an exec told a reporter. "I think that's just the start of the conversation, and the sticker shock is real."
In a statement given to BI, a McDonald's spokesperson said that the chain "always strives to strike the right balance of value for money."
#188957 at 2024-05-05 00:05:18 (UTC+1)
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>>188940
(April 30, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/opinion/disgraceful-nj-sen-bob-menendez-must-be-booted-from-us-senate/
Why is Bob 'Gold Bars' Menendez still sitting in the US Senate?(NYPost.com)
By Post Editorial Board
It's a disgrace: Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is still a member in good standing of the US Senate, and privy to national-security briefings, despite federal indictments and a huge pile of evidence, including a big stack of gold bars, exposing his corruption - including collusion with foreign governments.
Heck, these charges come from the Biden Justice Department, and he's under federal indictment for corruption and influence-peddling for a second time - a historic first.
(Plus, his escape the the first time 'round was an outrage in itself: The feds dropped the remaining charges after one jury hung and the courts redefined what could count as "bribery.")
NJ Sen. Bob Menendez is a disgrace and a national security risk who should be booted from the US Senate.
NJ Sen. Bob Menendez is a disgrace and a national security risk who should be booted from the US Senate. Photo by Andrew Harnik/getty Images
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer should be telling Bob to resign or face expulsion.
And, if Schumer's just worried about losing a Democratic vote, he should look to the other side of the Capitol, where then-new House Speaker Mike Johnson oversaw the booting of Rep. George Santos (also charged but not yet convicted) - despite the risk to his slim margin.
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Schumer still would be better off than Johnson is, with a solid 51-48 majority plus Vice President Kamala Harris on speed-dial if there are any tie votes.
But Chuck hasn't even blocked Gold Bars Bob from any confidential briefings, though he stands charged with providing "sensitive" secret US information to Egyptian officials.
For the record, the only federal lawmaker from New Jersey who hasn't said Menendez should go is his own son, Rep. Robert Menendez Jr. (D-NJ).
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And Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat from next-door Pennsylvania, regularly calls out Menendez as a disgrace who doesn't belong in the Senate. (He also returned a $5,000 donation from Menendez's PAC.)
Menendez should have no more opportunity to trade his vote for favors of any kind, nor to learn any more secrets to sell.
Nor to draw more salary from the taxpayers or marginally pad a pension he doesn't deserve.
He'll be spending much of the coming months in court anyway - unless his trial, now set to start May 15, gets pushed back again.
Yet, for all Democrats' thunder about "threats to our democracy," Schumer sits on his hands when it comes to Menendez.
Come on, Chuck: Tell Gold Bars to go - and if he refuses, get the march to an expulsion vote started.
#188951 at 2024-05-04 23:01:26 (UTC+1)
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>>188940
(April 30, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/us-colleges-where-students-have-been-arrested-over-anti-israel-protests/
US colleges where students have been arrested over anti-Israel protests(NYPost.com)
Ronny Reyes
More than 1,000 college students across the nation have been arrested during anti-Israel protests that have sprung up "tent cities" at some of America's most prestigious universities.
The chaotic protests were spurred by the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" born at Columbia University, which saw more than 100 demonstrators arrested on April 18.
Since then, police have arrested demonstrators at more than 25 campuses nationwide, with several universities seeing more than 100 arrests.
Columbia University
Columbia's Manhattan campus lawn has been occupied by protesters for about two weeks and saw NYPD officers called in to arrest 108 people during the initial attempt to clear out the encampment on April 18.
Student anti-Israel protesters continuing to camp out on Columbia University's campus on April 30, 2024. 21
Student anti-Israel protesters continuing to camp out on Columbia University's campus on April 30, 2024. Photo by Mary Altaffer-Pool/getty Images
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A protester breaking a window at Columbia's Hamilton Hall on April 30, 2024. 21
A protester breaking a window at Columbia's Hamilton Hall on April 30, 2024. Photo by Alex Kent/getty Images
A map of colleges across the country where anti-Israel protesters have been arrested. 21
A map of colleges across the country where anti-Israel protesters have been arrested. New York Post
Finally, late on Tuesday, hundreds of pro-terror protesters were cuffed and hauled away from Columbia University - as one of the groups behind the violent anti-Israel demonstrations called for supporters to rally outside 1 Police Plaza where the perps were being processed.
Two-hundred thirty people were nabbed at the Ivy League campus after the NYPD stormed in to oust a destructive mob that had illegally taken over the Hamilton Hall academic building, police said.
New York University
A total of 120 people were nabbed at NYU on April 22, with 116 protesters receiving summonses for trespassing and four given desk appearance tickets for charges that included resisting arrest.
Protesters at the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" at NYU on April 26, 2024. 21
Protesters at the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" at NYU on April 26, 2024. James Keivom
Cal Poly Humboldt
Three people were initially arrested at Cal Poly Humboldt last week before the university sent out its final warning for students to clear out the encampment by April 30.
By 2 a.m. on Tuesday, police were authorized to raid the encampment, making at least 25 more arrests, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Anti-Israel protesters dancing in a circle at Cal Poly Humboldt on April 23, 2024. 21
Anti-Israel protesters dancing in a circle at Cal Poly Humboldt on April 23, 2024. ZUMAPRESS.com
University of Southern California
Police arrested 93 protesters at the University of Southern California on April 24 after they were ordered to clear out the demonstrators.
While many chose to leave, those who remained sat in defiance and were arrested one by one without incident.
University of Southern California protesters carrying a tent near an encampment on campus on April 24, 2024. 21
University of Southern California protesters carrying a tent near an encampment on campus on April 24, 2024. AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File
Yale University
About 47 anti-Israeli protesters were arrested at Yale on April 21 after police stormed the campus with full riot gear.
Yale protesters sitting on a lawn after being forced to leave their encampment by officials on April 30, 2024. 21
Yale protesters sitting on a lawn after being forced to leave their encampment by officials on April 30, 2024. Photo/Douglas Healey for New York Post
University of Texas at Austin
A total of 57 protesters were arrested at the UT at Austin campus last week after students attempted to occupy the campus lawn and join the demonstrations against Israel' war in Gaza.
On Monday, an additional 79 protesters were taken into custody, according to the Travis County Sheriff's Office.
A state trooper pepper-spraying anti-Israel protesters at the University of Texas in Austin on April 29, 2024. 21
A state trooper pepper-spraying anti-Israel protesters at the University of Texas in Austin on April 29, 2024. Jay Janner/American-Statesman/USA Today Network via REUTERS
A protester getting arrested at University of Texas in Austin on April 29, 2024. 21
A protester getting arrested at University of Texas in Austin on April 29, 2024. Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via getty Images
University of North Carolina
About 30 people were arrested at UNC-Chapel Hill on Tuesday morning after they refused to leave the encampment as ordered by police, the university said in a statement.
Amid the crackdown at UNC, students were seen in a viral video taking down the American flag at a campus flagpole and raising the Palestinian flag.
University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina confirmed that two students were arrested on April 23 during a small protest outside a dining area near student dorms.
The protesters had been disturbing a "Midnight Breakfast" event at the same venue.
Virginia Tech
A total of 82 protesters were booked at Virginia Tech on Sunday, including 53 active students on campus, Fox News reported.
A Virginia Tech student getting arrested at an anti-Israel rally on April 28, 2024. 21
A Virginia Tech student getting arrested at an anti-Israel rally on April 28, 2024. Payton Williams/The Roanoke Times via AP
Police raided the encampment on Sunday night and arrested resisting students with zip-tie restraints as they carried them away.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Police arrested 13 people at the Virginia Commonwealth University on Monday night, with the school confirming that six students were among the people detained.
Protesters clashing with police at Virginia Commonwealth University on April 29, 2024. 21
Protesters clashing with police at Virginia Commonwealth University on April 29, 2024. Mike Kropf/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP
Princeton University
Thirteen people were arrested on Monday night after a brief takeover at the school's administrative offices where they held a sit-in, according to NorthJersey.com.
The students were booked for trespassing and have been barred from the campus, according to the university.
Students occupying the area outside Dickson Hall at Princeton University on April 25, 2024. 21
Students occupying the area outside Dickson Hall at Princeton University on April 25, 2024. Aristide Economopoulos
Indiana University
At Indiana University, 33 protesters were arrested Thursday and another 23 booked on Saturday in clashes with police at the campus encampment.
Police arresting protesters at Indiana University on April 25, 2024. 21
Police arresting protesters at Indiana University on April 25, 2024. SOPA Images/LightRocket via getty Images
Emerson College
A total of 118 protesters were arrested at the Emerson College encampment on April 25, with Boston Police reporting that four officers suffered minor injuries in the clash with the demonstrators.
Students sitting in tents at Emerson College in Boston on April 24, 2024. 21
Students sitting in tents at Emerson College in Boston on April 24, 2024. Boston Globe via getty Images
Northeastern University
Northeastern University saw 98 arrests over the weekend, including 29 people who were identified as students and another six who were staff members, NBC 10 reports.
Anti-Israel protesters standing in front of a police barricade at Northeastern University in Boston on April 27, 2024. 21
Anti-Israel protesters standing in front of a police barricade at Northeastern University in Boston on April 27, 2024. Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via getty Images
Washington University
One hundred protesters were arrested on Saturday at Washington University, including 23 students and at least four employees, according to Chancellor Andrew Martin, who slammed the protests as a "dark, sad day for WashU."
University of Washington students sitting in an anti-Israel encampment. 21
University of Washington students sitting in an anti-Israel encampment. AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson
Arizona State
Arizona State Police arrested 69 people at the unauthorized encampment that was set up at the Temple campus on Saturday.
Students holding signs at an anti-Israel rally at Arizona State on April 26, 2024. 21
Students holding signs at an anti-Israel rally at Arizona State on April 26, 2024. REUTERS/Liliana Salgado
University of Colorado Denver
A total of 44 people were arrested at the University of Colorado Denver on Friday after the school said that the encampment at the Auraria Campus violated the college's policy.
University of Illinois
Two men, neither students at the University of Illinois, were arrested and charged with mob action last Friday during the encampment protest on campus, WCIA reports.
The Champaign County State's Attorney identified the men as George Vassilatos, 25, and Christopher Zelle, 37.
University of Minnesota
Eight students and a staff member were arrested at the University of Minnesota last week at the school's encampment protest, according to the university.
Students protesting at the "UMN Divest Solidarity Encampment" at the University of Minnesota on April 30, 2024. 21
Students protesting at the "UMN Divest Solidarity Encampment" at the University of Minnesota on April 30, 2024. AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)
Emory University
Emory University officials said 28 people, including 20 students, were arrested last week during a protest targeting the school and the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
A protester getting tasered by law enforcement officers at Emory University on April 25, 2024. 21
A protester getting tasered by law enforcement officers at Emory University on April 25, 2024. via REUTERS
University of Georgia
About 17 people were arrested at a joint protest held by students and members of the Athens community at the University of Georgia Campus on Monday, WSBTV reports.
Students holding signs at a protest on the University of Georgia campus on April 29, 2024. 21
Students holding signs at a protest on the University of Georgia campus on April 29, 2024. Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
University of Florida
Nine people were arrested on Monday at the University of Florida during an anti-Israel demonstration at the Gainesville campus.
The protesters were charged with resisting arrest and trespassing, with one demonstrator charged with batter after spitting on an officer, the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Ohio State University
A total of 36 people were arrested at an anti-Israel protest at Ohio State University last Thursday.
At least 16 of those arrested were OSU students, with the others not affiliated with the university in any way, according to the school.
Police at an anti-Israel protest at Ohio State University on April 25, 2024. 21
Police at an anti-Israel protest at Ohio State University on April 25, 2024. Cole Behrens / USA TODAY NETWORK
University of Mary Washington
At the University of Mary Washington, in Virginia, 12 people were arrested, including nine students, on Saturday after demonstrators invited outsiders to the encampment, against school policy, University President Troy Paino said in a statement.
University of Connecticut
About 23 students were arrested at an encampment protest at UConn on Tuesday morning, according to the Hartford Courant.
Police said it had given protesters four warnings to remove the tent before moving in on the encampment.
#188949 at 2024-05-04 22:55:47 (UTC+1)
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(April 30, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/nypd-storms-into-columbia-university-to-clear-out-anti-israel-mob/
Over 100 arrested as NYPD cops dramatically storm Columbia campus to clear out anti-Israel mob(NYPost.com)
NYPD cops stormed onto Columbia University's campus on Tuesday night after finally being given the green light to oust a pro-terror mob that illegally took over an academic building - and to clear out an anti-Israel encampment that brought campus life to a halt.
Hundreds of officers swooped inside the gates of the Morningside Heights campus shortly after 9 p.m. - as other officers also descended on an "intifada' encampment at the nearby City College of New York.
Police use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall Tuesday night. 23
Police use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall Tuesday night. REUTERS
NYPD detaining protestors at Columbia University's pro-Palestinian encampment 23
Protesters taken away on an NYPD bus Tuesday. James Keivom
At Columbia, cops set their sights on historic Hamilton Hall, the building that was taken over by rogue rioters in a drastic escalation of the protests that have plagued the campus for weeks.
But when dozens of Emergency Service Unit officers approached the building, they were blocked from entering the front doors which had been barricaded by the unruly mob.
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Several protesters appeared unbothered as they stood in the doorway with only a glass pane between them and the officers - as their comrades on the streets shouted "Pigs!"
The NYPD then brought in its Mobile Adjustable Ramp System vehicle and scores of riot-gear clad cops carrying zip-tie handcuffs entered Hamilton Hall through the second-floor window in a dramatic scene.
According to officials, cops used four distraction devices - described by Assistant Commissioner Carlos Nieves as a "very loud bang to distract people" - to infiltrate the academic building.
In total, about 100 protesters were cuffed and hauled away in the mass sweep, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Columbia's Hamilton Hall secure, anti-Israel encampment fully cleared out: NYPD official
The protesters - many of whom covered their faces with surgical masks or keffiyehs - were then marched out of Hamilton Hall and loaded onto three NYPD buses.
The arrests continued hours after both the building and the encampment were eventually cleared - as multiple protestors continued screaming anti-Israel sentiments and at least one was seen crying.
Cops also stationed themselves in front of off-campus housing and were greeted with hostile shouts of "NYPD, KKK, IOF! They're all the same!"
Columbia University issued a statement just 15 minutes after cops entered the campus, saying it "regretted" having to rely on police to clear the mess.
NYPD officers in riot gear break into a building at Columbia University. 23
NYPD officers in riot gear enter a building at Columbia University. AFP via getty Images
Police use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall 23
Police use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall. REUTERS
"After the University learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalized and blockaded, we were left with no choice. Columbia public safety personnel were forced out of the building, and a member of our facilities team was threatened. We will not risk the safety of our community or the potential for further escalation," the administration said.
The NYPD then swiftly moved onto the campus' South Lawn to clear out student protesters at the mini tent city, which remained in place despite the vacate deadline the university set the day prior.
"The people that were in the encampment are now gone," said Nieves.
Police use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall which protesters occupied 23
Police use a special vehicle to enter Hamilton Hall. REUTERS
The camping tents and protesters' belongings were all that remained on the lawn Tuesday night and would be cleared by the university, he added.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry told The Post that the hectic operation "went very well."
It took about an hour to clear out Hamilton Hall and cuff the dozens of occupiers, sources said.
Members of the New York Police Department detain protestors who did not leave the encampment. 23
Members of the New York Police Department detain protesters who did not leave the encampment. James Keivom
Approximately 50 NYPD officers in riot gear mobilizing at an intersection near Columbia protests 23
Shortly before entering the Morningside Heights campus at 9:13 p.m., about 100 cops from the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit packed into buses and headed to Columbia in preparation for the university's call for help. Peter Gerber
NYPD Buses full of Columbia University protesters depart
The dramatic operation unfolded as anti-Israel protesters were violently clashing with cops over at the City College of New York in Harlem.
The chaos broke out at the public university at about 8 p.m. when the NYPD moved in to clear out an "intifada" encampment erected last week.
It wasn't immediately clear how many were nabbed during the City College ordeal.
NYPD officers arrive in riot gear Tuesday night. 23
NYPD officers arrive in riot gear Tuesday night. AFP via getty Images
Student protestors are arrested by police and removed from the campus of Columbia University. 23
Student protesters are arrested by police and removed from the campus of Columbia University. getty Images
NYPD officers arrest students as they evict a building that had been barricaded by pro-Palestinian student protesters. 23
NYPD officers arrest students as they empty a building that had been barricaded by pro-Palestinian student protesters. AFP via getty Images
NYPD officers transport arrested students in a bus. 23
NYPD officers transport arrested students in a bus. AFP via getty Images
Meanwhile, NYPD brass had announced earlier Tuesday that the Hamilton Hall occupiers at Columbia would be charged with third-degree burglary, criminal mischief and trespassing, while those camped out on the lawn would be hit with trespassing and disorderly conduct charges.
Despite the crowds being dispersed on Tuesday, the NYPD will remain on Columbia's campus until the university's May 15 commencement, sources told The Post.
The Ivy League school said it decided the NYPD would intervene early Tuesday, hours before Police Commissioner Edward Caban indicated his officers would be ready to mobilize as soon as he received the call.
Members of the New York Police Department detain protesters Tuesday night. 23
Members of the New York Police Department detain protesters Tuesday night. James Keivom
Protestors link arms as other police officers enter the campus of Columbia University 23
Protestors link arms as other police officers enter the campus of Columbia University on Tuesday night. REUTERS
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It's unclear how many people have been arrested. James Keivom
Student protestors being arrested by police and removed from the Columbia University campus 23
A NYPD officer arrests a protester Tuesday evening. getty Images
"The decision to reach out to the NYPD was in response to the actions of the protesters, not the cause they are championing," officials continued.
"We have made it clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules and the law."
The NYPD had mobilized to storm the campus hours earlier, with about 100 cops from the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit packed into buses and headed to Columbia in preparation for the university's call for help, sources told The Post.
NYPD arrests protesters at Columbia University
Student protestors being arrested by police and removed from Columbia University campus on April 30, 2024 23
Cops loading the protesters onto a bus on Tuesday night. getty Images
Approximately 50 NYPD officers in riot gear mobilizing at an intersection near Columbia protests 23
As of 8 p.m., the police were only maintaining the perimeter.
Dozens of others wearing riot gear and holding zip-tie handcuffs huddled on the street corner, apparently waiting for the go-ahead.
The NYPD blocked pedestrian and vehicular traffic on 114th Street and Broadway, while spectators chastised them: "Shame, shame, shame!"
Follow The Post's live blog for the latest on anti-Israel protests on campuses across the US
About 45 minutes before the NYPD stormed the grounds, Columbia University issued a shelter-in-place for students over "heightened activity" at the Morningside campus - and warned that those who did not obey would face "disciplinary action."
The university's chapter of the American Association of University Professors issued a scathing statement once the officers began mobilizing, accusing Columbia's administration of ignoring the faculty's offers to "defuse the situation."
Video shows NYPD mobilizing near Columbia protests
"We hold University leadership responsible for the disastrous lapses of judgment that have gotten us to this point. The University President, her senior staff, and the Board of Trustees will bear responsibility for any injuries that may occur during any police action on our campus," the group said.
Follow The Post's coverage of the pro-terror protests at colleges across the US:
Tear gas sprayed at UCLA encampment as cops face off with anti-Israel protesters wielding fire extinguishers
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MAP: US colleges where students have been arrested over anti-Israel protests
Caban confirmed earlier Tuesday that the NYPD would swoop in if needed, as it had done two weeks earlier when student protesters first set up their mini tent city.
"Once the university asks for our help, the NYPD will be there ready to assist them," the commissioner emphasized.
Meanwhile, NYPD officials revealed Tuesday that the mob of masked rabble-rousers who smashed their way into Hamilton Hall in the middle of the night included "professional outside agitators" not affiliated with Columbia or the pro-Palestinian cause.
Approximately 50 NYPD officers in riot gear mobilizing at an intersection near Columbia protests 23
Twenty minutes later, Columbia University issued a shelter-in-place for students over "heightened activity" at the Morningside campus.
Approximately 50 NYPD officers in riot gear mobilizing at an intersection near Columbia protests 23
The university's chapter of the American Association of University Professors issued a scathing statement once the officers began mobilizing, accusing Columbia's administration of ignoring the faculty's offers to "defuse the situation."
Student protestors are arrested by police and removed from the campus of Columbia University on April 30, 2024 in New York City. 23
Student protesters are arrested by police and removed from the campus of Columbia University on April 30, 2024, in New York City. getty Images
The group employed escalation tactics seen in the previous rallies, including dragging metal barricades inside the building, using furniture to block the doors and destroying the property.
"We were well aware, based on a series of observations that what should have been a peaceful protest as part of the constitutional rights of Americans, has clearly been co-opted the right which this administration supports and defends to voice your concern," Mayor Eric Adams said.
The group took over the building - which they dubbed "Hind's Hall" in honor of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in the Middle Eastern conflict - after Columbia University threatened to suspend students who didn't vacate the encampment they had hunkered down in almost two weeks earlier.
New York Police Department members detaining protestors at a pro-Palestinian encampment on the lawn of Columbia University 23
Onlookers watch the NYPD clear out the Columbia protesters. James Keivom
Pro-Palestinian student protestors pulling a crate with pizza boxes from a balcony at Columbia University, with a 'Free Palestine' banner hanging in the background 23
Pro-Palestinian student protesters pull up a crate with pizza boxes to a balcony at Columbia University. AFP via getty Images
A person holding a hammer during a break-in at the Hamilton Hall building at Columbia University 23
The protesters stormed into Hamilton Hall in the middle of the night. NYPD
Anti-Israel protesters planted dozens of tents on April 17 in solidarity with the Palestinian people, quickly igniting what has become a trend at elite universities across the Big Apple and the nation.
Hundreds of students - including "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter - were arrested and charged with trespassing the following day when the Ivy League school called on the NYPD to clear the protesters from the grounds.
Columbia University even doled out suspensions - which would make senior students ineligible for graduation next month - but the crowds returned within just 24 hours.
The administration tried yet again to force the rowdy students off the property but failed to rein in the disruptive demonstration for several hours.
Busloads of police were on standby in case the revolt took a turn, but were ultimately not asked to intervene.
#188947 at 2024-05-04 22:50:45 (UTC+1)
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(April 30, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/professional-outside-agitators-behind-illegal-takeover-of-columbia-university-academic-building-nypd/
'Professional outside agitators' behind illegal takeover of Columbia University academic building: NYPD(NYPost.com)
NYPD brass and Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday blamed outside agitators for the illegal takeover of an academic building at Columbia University as officials urged the Ivy League student protesters to call it quits.
"This is to serve their own agenda," Adams said of the outside group at a Tuesday press conference. "They're not here to promote peace, unity, allow a peaceful display in one voice, but they are here to create discord and divisiveness."
"We cannot and will not allow what should be a peaceful gathering to turn into a violent spectacle that serves no purpose. We cannot wait until this situation becomes even more serious," the mayor said.
Pro-Palestine student protestors peering out from Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, barricaded inside in protest of the war in Gaza, holding a sign, 2024. 5
The group that took over Hamilton Hall are not students, but professional agitators, the NYPD said. Mary Altaffer/UPI/Shutterstock
The NYPD's Intelligence and Counterterrorism unit first realized they were dealing with the antagonistic mob when dozens of agitators stormed into Hamilton Hall in the middle of the night Tuesday - a significant escalation of the anti-Israel student encampment protest.
"We are seeing the tactics changing in a way that is endangering public safety," said NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban. "These once-peaceful protests are being exploited by professional outside agitators. The safety of all students, faculty, and staff are now a concern."
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The group early Tuesday violently broke into the building - which they dubbed "Hind's Hall" in honor of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in the Middle Eastern conflict - and used metal barricades, tables, chairs and other materials to seal themselves inside.
One shocking video captured a hammer-wielding demonstrator smashing through a glass-paneled door and placing what appeared to be a bike lock around its handles, and another image showed a man brawling with a campus security guard.
A person holding a hammer during a break-in at the Hamilton Hall building at Columbia University, as released by NYPD. 5
Officials said the group is using escalation tactics seen at previous, unrelated protests across the nation. NYPD
The group also broke cameras, scaled walls and were seen tossing the school's property out the window.
One of the agitators was identified as Lisa Fithian - a professional protester who has been raising hell across the country across a myriad of movements since the 1970s.
"These protests have been and are being influenced by external actors who are unaffiliated with the university - some who have been known to our department and others for many years for their dangerous, destructive and at times criminal activity associated with protests," said Rebecca Ulam Weiner, the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism.
New York Police Department officers preparing to clear a pro-Palestinian encampment on the lawn of Columbia University, 2024 5
The NYPD worries that the dozens of agitators are instructing peaceful student protesters to follow their lead. James Keivom
Several of the rioters were also reported to the NYPD by Columbia, which recognized they were not affiliated with the prestigious school.
The NYPD worries that the dozens of agitators are instructing peaceful student protesters to follow their lead.
"We think these tactics are a result of guidance that's being given to students from some of these external actors," Ulam Weiner said.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators barricading themselves inside Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in 2024 5
Mayor Eric Adams warned students to discipline themselves from the aggressive group. getty Images
"This is an escalation that violence began last night at Columbia. We do expect it to continue - not in one building on one campus but to other protests to other universities, and to other cities. We are in constant dialogue with Columbia University officials as well as other partners, and we are as always fully prepared to respond."
Caban emphasized that the NYPD would step in to clear out the agitators if the university asks for help, similar to when it helped clear out the tent city when it was first erected.
If the NYPD moves in, the Hamilton Hall occupiers would be charged with third-degree burglary, criminal mischief and trespassing, officials said.
Pro-Palestine student protestors carrying supplies into Hamilton Hall at Columbia University during a protest against the war in Gaza, New York City, April 30, 2024. 5
The group apparently has no interest in the pro-Palestine movement, but only in escalating unrest, officials said. Michael M Santiago/UPI/Shutterstock
Those still on the campus lawn - despite Columbia's warnings to vacate by 2 p.m. Monday - will be hit with trespassing and disorderly conduct charges.
In the meantime, Adams urged students to distance themselves from the violent group before it was too late.
"If you are a parent or guardian of a student, please call your child and urge them to leave the area before the situation escalates in any way. This is for their own safety and for the safety of others. These external actors are obviously not students, and their presence on campus is a violation of Columbia's clearly stated policy," Adams said.
Caban added: "To the parents, and I say this as a father of a college student myself. Be aware of where your children are. Be aware of what they're involved in. If you don't know, reach out to them, The University and the NYPD or are taking the situation seriously. You should be taking the situation seriously too."
#188942 at 2024-05-04 21:51:58 (UTC+1)
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(April 30, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/sports/shohei-ohtanis-ex-interpreter-allegedly-put-500k-plus-in-casinos/
Shohei Ohtani's ex-interpreter allegedly put multiple $500,000 payments in stolen funds into casinos(NYPost.com)
New details are emerging over the millions allegedly stolen by former Dodgers interpreter Ippei Mizuhara from superstar Shohei Ohtani and where the money went after it was wired to an alleged California bookmaker.
A new ESPN report indicated that a series of $500,000 payments that were allegedly stolen from Ohtani's bank account were then sent to gambling accounts associated with casinos in California and Las Vegas, where they were converted to chips and eventually cashed out in order to pay Mathew Bowyer, the alleged bookmaker.
Bowyer associates are said to have frequented Resorts World Casino in Las Vegas and Pechanga Resort Casino in Southern California as part of the operation, and Bowyer reportedly lost $7.9 million over the course of a year while betting at Resorts World.
After Bowyer's home was raided by federal authorities in October, he was labeled as a known bookmaker and banned from casinos across the United States, according to the ESPN report.
Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers sits in the dugout during a delay to the MLB game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on April 30, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers sits in the dugout during a delay to the MLB game against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on April 30, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. getty Images
Mizuhara's gambling and alleged theft came to light at the start of the MLB season in South Korea in March after reporters started looking into why Ohtani's name had come up during a federal probe into Bowyer's operation.
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Authorities alleged Mizuhara stole $16 million from Ohtani and that Mizuhara gambling's debt was more than $40 million after placing approximately 19,000 wagers.
Mizuhara turned himself into authorities in April and was released on a $25,000 bond.
He is facing up to 30 years in prison on federal bank fraud charges.
Authorities have labeled Ohtani as a victim in the whole situation.
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, right, and his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, attend at a news conference ahead of a baseball workout at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 16, 2024.
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, right, and his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, attend a news conference ahead of a baseball workout at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 16, 2024. AP
"The investigation is currently still going on, so I can't really say much about that," Ohtani told reporters last week in Washington, D.C, according to The Athletic. "But it made me really realize how supportive the teammates, the organization, the staff have been towards me. It's just allowed me to really reflect on how grateful I am to be surrounded by them."
Ohtani has appeared in 31 games for the Dodgers, with whom he signed a massive 10-year, $700 million contract in December.
Ohtani was hitting .341/.406/.635 while adding seven home runs, 19 RBIs and five stolen bases heading into Tuesday night's play.
#188937 at 2024-05-04 21:22:05 (UTC+1)
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(April 29, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-news/hunter-biden-lawyers-threaten-fox-news-with-lawsuit-over-intimate-photos/
Hunter Biden lawyers threaten Fox News with lawsuit over 'intimate' photos(NYPost.com)
Hunter Biden is pursing a different kind of cover-up.
Lawyers for the first son have demanded Fox News take down "intimate" photos of the disgraced middle-aged presidential offspring or face a lawsuit.
In a letter dated April 23 and made public Monday, attorneys for the scandal-scarred Hunter, 54, accused Fox of making "reprehensible" use of "salacious" and "hacked" photos.
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Hunter Biden is demanding that Fox News take down "intimate" photos of him, claiming copyright infringement. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The younger Biden's legal team took particular issue with "The Trial of Hunter Biden," a six-part series on the premium Fox Nation streaming service.
The series, which is formatted as a mock trial of the president's son for charges including violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and bribery, features images taken from Hunter's now-infamous laptop that show him nude and in compromising positions with an array of women, as well as doing drugs.
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The latest letter, penned by attorney Tina Glandian of the prominent firm Geragos & Geragos, said the series "intentionally manipulates the facts" so that a viewer "cannot decipher" what's true.
Since "The Trial of Hunter Biden" was "intended solely as entertainment and not as news" the use of the X-rated images and other photos was for the purpose of trade and advertising, and merely exploits Mr. Biden's name, image, and likeness for Fox's commercial benefit," the lawyer alleges.
"Mr. Biden is the exclusive rights holder of the copyrighted material ... including but not limited to ... the intimate images ... that have been published without authorization on Fox Nation's 'The Trial of Hunter Biden,'" Glandian wrote. "We hereby demand that FOX expeditiously remove and disable access to any and all intimate images of Mr. Biden from 'The Trial of Hunter Biden'".
The letter also accused the top-rated cable news outlet of improperly doubling down on claims by an indicted former FBI informant that Hunter Biden and his dad each accepted $5 million in bribes from Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, in exchange for helping to remove Kyiv's then-Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin from office and quashing his probe of Burisma in 2016.
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The first son claims that Fox featuring the x-rated photos of him on a miniseries mock trial were for entertainment and not for legitimate news purposes. Anadolu via getty Images
The informant, Alexander Smirnov, was indicted in February by special counsel David Weiss on charges of lying to his FBI handler about meetings he had with a Burisma official that formed the basis of the allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden.
There is no record or evidence of either of the Bidens receiving any transfers in that amount from Zlochevsky.
Glandian's letter says that "Fox initially remained silent" about the charges brought against Smirnov and then stood by the bribe claim, with on-air hosts Maria Bartiromo and Jesse Watters calling the indictment "an intimidation tactic" and "a smear job," respectively.
"[G]iven that the bribery allegations have been confirmed to be false," it reads, "we hereby demand that FOX take immediate steps to update its readers and viewers that the source of these allegations has been federally indicted for fabricating the allegations."
A spokesperson for Fox News Media said its coverage of Hunter Biden is protected by the Constitutional right to free speech.
"Hunter Biden's lawyers have belatedly chosen to publicly attack Fox News' constitutionally protected coverage regarding their client," the rep said. "Mr. Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of investigations by both the Department of Justice and Congress, has been indicted by two different US Attorney's Offices in California and Delaware, and has admitted to multiple incidents of wrongdoing."
"Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered these highly publicized events as well as the subsequent indictment of an FBI informant who was the source of certain claims made about Mr. Biden," the statement concluded.
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Hunter Biden says if Fox doesn't take the photos down he'll sue. REUTERS
Hunter Biden currently faces a criminal gun case in Delaware on charges of lying about his drug addiction when he submitted paperwork to purchase a firearm in 2018 and he faces a criminal tax case out of Los Angeles for allegedly evading $1.4 million in federal levies between 2016 and 2019.
The first son has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Fox News is a subsidiary of Fox Corporation. The executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp., Lachlan Murdoch, is also the chair of News Corporation, the parent company of The Post.
#188934 at 2024-05-04 20:59:56 (UTC+1)
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(April 29, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-news/republican-lawmakers-tell-biden-to-get-off-tiktok/
Republican lawmakers tell Biden to get off TikTok after signing bill that could see app banned(NYPost.com)
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) urged President Biden on Monday to lead by example and suspend his campaign's use of TikTok over the threat to national security posed by the Chinese-owned app.
The Biden campaign continues to use the popular social media platform despite the president having signed a bill into law last week that compels the Chinese government-linked company ByteDance to divest from TikTok within nine months or face a US ban.
"Your presidential campaign defiantly continues to use TikTok, ignoring the serious concerns your own administration's officials have raised," the two Republican lawmakers wrote in a letter to the 81-year-old president.
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Biden signed a bill last week that would allow TikTok to continue operating in the US only if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divests itself from TikTok. AFP via getty Images
"We call on you to suspend the use of your TikTok account until ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese owner, sells the application to a responsible US buyer," Ernst and Nehls demanded.
Hours after Biden signed the TikTok bill - HR 815 - his campaign posted a video on the app of the incumbent mocking former President Donald Trump for thinking "windmills cause cancer."
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The "bidenhq" TikTok account, which frequently takes aim at the presumptive GOP nominee for president, has more than 300,000 followers and has posted more than 100 videos since it launched in February.
"A fragmented media environment requires us to show up and meet voters where they are - and that includes online," a Biden campaign official said last week, defending its use of the app.
"TikTok is one of many places we're making sure our content is being seen by voters," the rep added, arguing that the stakes are too high in 2024 to not use "every tool we have to reach young voters where they are."
The person noted that the campaign has "enhanced security measures" in place.
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The Biden campaign launched its TikTok account in February. Tiktok / bidenhq
Ernst and Nehls slammed the president for prioritizing "politics over protecting national security."
"The national security threats TikTok poses are grave," they said. "Until TikTok is out of [ Chinese Communist Party] hands, we call on you to suspend your TikTok account."
"Leadership starts at the very top, and we hope you can set a good example to the many Americans using TikTok by suspending the use of this application until we know for sure that it is safe for use."
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Ernst called on President Biden to tell his campaign to stop using TikTok. Bonnie Cash/UPI/Shutterstock
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Nehls and Ernst suggested that it is hypocritical for the Biden campaign to continue to use the Chinese-owned app. Nathan Posner/Shutterstock
Biden administration officials have warned that Americans' data, while in the hands of ByteDance, could be at risk.
"We are concerned, as every American ought to be concerned, about data security and what ByteDance and what the Chinese Communist Party can do with the information they can glean off of Americans' use of the application," White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said last month.
"Do we want the data from TikTok - children's data, adults' data - to be going - to be staying here in America or going to China?" National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in March, when discussing the TikTok bill.
"That is the fundamental question at issue here," he added. "And the President is clear where he stands on that fundamental issue."
#188933 at 2024-05-04 20:50:43 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1048: Weekend Bacon tastes so good EDITION
>>188927
(April 29, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-news/us-to-test-ground-beef-in-states-with-bird-flu-outbreaks-in-dairy-cows/
US to test ground beef in states with bird-flu outbreaks in dairy cows(NYPost.com)
The U.S. government said on Monday it is collecting samples of ground beef at retail stores in states with outbreaks of bird flu in dairy cows for testing, but remains confident the meat supply is safe.
Federal officials are seeking to verify the safety of milk and meat after confirming the H5N1 virus in 34 dairy cattle herds in nine states since late March, and in one person in Texas.
Both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have said the overall public health risk is low, but is higher for those with exposure to infected animals.
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The U.S. government is collecting samples of ground beef at retail stores in states with outbreaks of bird flu in dairy cows. REUTERS
Scientists believe outbreaks are more widespread in cows than officially reported based on findings of H5N1 particles in about 20% of milk samples.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that preliminary results of gold-standard PCR tests showed pasteurization killed the bird flu virus in milk, though.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture will analyze retail ground beef samples with PCR tests that indicate "whether any viral particles are present," and conduct two other safety studies, according to a statement. Some dairy cows are processed into ground beef when they grow old.
"USDA's additional testing is appropriate to ensure public health is protected and to stop the spread of animal disease," said Sarah Little, spokesperson for the Meat Institute, an industry group representing meat processors
USDA on Monday began requiring lactating dairy cows to test negative for bird flu before being moved across state lines as officials seek to contain the virus.
The department said this weekend that testing is not required for cows that are shipped over state lines directly to slaughter facilities from barns where they are sold. Those cattle only need documentation showing they were inspected by a veterinarian.
USDA said it inspects each animal before slaughter, and all cattle carcasses must pass inspection after slaughter to enter the human food supply.
USDA is now also collecting beef muscle samples at slaughter facilities of dairy cattle that have been condemned to determine the presence of viral particles, according to the statement. Any positive PCR tests for retail or slaughter samples will be evaluated for live virus, the USDA said.
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Federal officials are seeking to verify the safety of milk and meat after confirming the H5N1 virus in 34 dairy cattle herds in nine states since late March, and in one person in Texas. Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via getty Images
Last week, USDA said it had found bird flu in a lung tissue sample from an asymptomatic dairy cow that was sent to slaughter from an infected herd. The animal did not enter the food supply, according to the department.
In another safety study, USDA will cook ground beef containing a "virus surrogate" at different temperatures to assess how it inactivates the virus, according to the statement. It said cooking meat to a safe internal temperature kills bacteria and viruses.
Colombia restricted the import of beef and beef products coming from U.S. states where dairy cows have tested positive for avian influenza as of April 15, according to the USDA.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that preliminary results of gold-standard PCR tests showed pasteurization killed the bird flu virus in milk. REUTERS
There are no known cases of bird flu in beef cattle so far.
The human case in the current outbreak was in a Texas farm worker who suffered conjunctivitis following exposure to dairy cows.
#188929 at 2024-05-04 20:28:48 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1048: Weekend Bacon tastes so good EDITION
>>188927
(April 29, 2024) [Habbenings Recap]
https://nypost.com/2024/04/29/us-news/trump-hails-full-and-enthusiastic-support-from-ron-desantis-after-meeting/
Trump hails 'full and enthusiastic support' from Ron DeSantis after 'great meeting' with the Florida governor(NYPost.com)
Former President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated a "great meeting" with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the weekend, who he said has expressed "full and enthusiastic support" of his White House bid.
"I am very happy to have the full and enthusiastic support of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida," Trump, 77, wrote on Truth Social.
"We had a great meeting yesterday," the presumptive GOP nominee for president added.
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DeSantis endorsed Trump for president on Jan. 21, the day he ended his GOP presidential primary campaign. Maya Washburn / USA TODAY NETWORK
The Sunday meeting was set up by Florida real estate investor and developer Steve Witkoff, a mutual friend of the two, according to Trump, and held at the ultra-exclusive Shell Bay Club golf course and yacht club in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Witkoff, a GOP megadonor, has donated more than $300,000 to the Make America Great Again Inc. super-PAC backing Trump for president, Federal Election Commission records show.
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"The conversation mostly concerned how we would work closely together to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN," Trump said. "Also discussed was the future of Florida, which is FANTASTIC!"
"I greatly appreciate Ron's support in taking back our Country from the Worst President in the History of the United States," he added. "November 5th is a BIG DAY!!!"
The meeting between the pair on Sunday was first reported by the Washington Post.
Trump and DeSantis hadn't spoken since the end of the primary season, according to the outlet, which noted that their meeting lasted several hours.
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Trump ruthlessly mocked DeSantis on the GOP presidential primary campaign trail. getty Images
DeSantis, 44, dropped out of the 2024 presidential race shortly after his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
He announced his endorsement of Trump that same day.
Trump revealed earlier this year that DeSantis was among several names on his "short list" for the presumptive 2024 Republican ticket.
The Florida governor has signaled, however, that he has no interest in potentially being Trump's vice president.
"People were mentioning me [as a potential vice president]. I am not doing that," DeSantis told Republican allies in February, in a thank-you call after he suspended his campaign.
#188252 at 2024-04-29 09:05:46 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1042: Rock & Roll EDITION
https://nypost.com/2024/04/28/us-news/guerrilla-journalist-says-he-was-beaten-by-anti-israel-protesters-at-cuny-for-waving-american-flag-on-campus-video/
'Guerrilla journalist' says he was beaten by anti-Israel protesters at CUNY for waving American flag on campus: video(NYPost.com)
Doree Lewak
One New Yorker learned the hard way that waving an American flag on a college campus is the fastest way to make enemies these days.
Ami Horowitz, a self-described "guerrilla journalist," said he was beaten, headbutted and punched by an angry mob of anti-Israel protesters on the uptown campus of CUNY's City College of New York on Friday.
The aggressive reception came after Horowitz claimed to have shown up to the pro-Palestinian encampment armed only with an American flag.
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A New York filmmaker claims to have been beaten by an aggressive pro-Palestinian mob at CUNY's City College on Friday after bearing the US flag saying it was obvious they 'hate America.' Ami Horowitz
His cameraman caught the wild four-minute melee on video, but the footage does not show what led up to the brawl.
"I was violently attacked by more than a dozen people for carrying a flag," he exclusively told The Post.
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"There was no commentary, no questions. I didn't say a word and they just descended on me."
The filmmaker's videos exposing "indoctrination" in higher education often go viral, including his shocking December video from San Francisco State University reportedly revealing college kids pledging money to kill Jews.
Horowitz said his goal at CUNY was to expose the level of hate festering within the encampments but he got more than he bargained for after he was allegedly assaulted by competing sets of "mobs."
"I had no idea it would get so violent so quickly," he said.
Though he never said a word about Israel or identified himself as Jewish, Horowitz, who was repeatedly told to "Get the f-k out of here," admitted he was "scared," adding that the "adrenaline was super kicked in."
He's heard on video saying, "I'm an American, I want to go to campus," as he's told, "You can go to hell."
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Ami Horowitz said his goal at CUNY was to expose the level of hate festering within the encampments, but got more than he bargained for after he was assaulted by competing sets of "mobs." Ami Horowitz
Ami Horowitz with CUNY protesters 5
Many who surrounded him were fresh-faced students although Horowitz noted older participants, including an apparent imam draped in white. Ami Horowitz
Chalking up the protests to anti-Israel ideology alone is naive, he said, noting that the connection between anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment has never been clearer.
"If you Venn diagram those who hate America and Israel, it's the same exact circle. It's the same side of the same coin - that's how clear the connection is," he said.
While many who surrounded him were fresh-faced students, Horowitz noted older participants, including an apparent imam draped in white who's shown in the video punching him in the throat.
Others included Arab nationals who didn't speak English, he said.
While the video showed Horowitz being aggressively removed from the scene by campus police and NYPD in a "tight armlock," he decried that they were simply following orders from higher officials.
"These violent people are being protected by the city officials. The bigger problem is that they're being tolerated," he said.
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Concern about antisemitism at protests sweeping campuses around the nation has grown - with many demanding for university officials to act more decisively to dismantle demonstrations. AFP via getty Images
Blasting the recent Michigan rally that invoked chants "Death to Israel, death to America" and President Biden's recent "sick moral equivalence" remarks that seemingly excused the aggressive campus agitators, Horowitz said an immediate crackdown is needed to restore order.
"These guys are anti-Israel, anti-American, and they're being tolerated and coddled by this administration and president," he said.
"They not only support violence and Hamas in word, they are perpetrating violence in deed, as we saw with me in real time. They all need to be removed now."
After seeking immediate medical care, Horowitz said he was dealing with a bruised torso.
"These guys knew exactly where to punch," he said, noting that he took punches to his spleen and kidney, "the two most dangerous places you can punch someone."
The danger in the protestors "mirroring Karl Marx to a tee" and relitigating capitalism from the last century, is the canary in the coal mine, he added.
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Protests at Columbia University and New York University have led to the arrests of more than 200 - and tents littered the CUNY campus lawns. REUTERS
"These people are looking for the destruction of our way of life - not Israel, which is just the MacGuffin," said Horowitz, invoking the Hitchkockian device that uses something as a pretext for the real motivation.
"America and the West is the real issue," he added.
After leaving the police station without incident, Horowitz ended the video by taking his own swing at the "system" that allows this hate to fester.
"I went to this protest with an American flag on a city college that I and all American taxpayers pay for. And I got my ass kicked - I was punched, I was choked, I was thrown down a flight of stairs," he said on camera, calling the mob "thugs, animals, outside agitators... who will attack somebody who just walks up with an American flag. Nothing about Israel, nothing about Jews.
"They hate America. They hate this country. That's what we're dealing with in this country."
The Post reached out to the protest organizers and CUNY for comment.
#188250 at 2024-04-29 09:03:15 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/04/28/us-news/desantis-to-campaign-for-trump-after-pair-meet-in-florida-sources/
DeSantis expected to campaign for Trump after pair meet in Miami: sources(NYPost.com)
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis agreed to campaign on behalf of Donald Trump after the former rivals met Sunday morning as the ex-president looks to retake the White House, sources told The Post.
The two prominent Republicans met in Miami in an attempt to patch up a strained relationship, according to sources.
Insiders also told The Post that DeSantis is expected to raise money for the presumptive GOP nominee, on top of campaigning for him, after his own Oval Office ambitions came up short.
DeSantis, 45, suspended his campaign in January 2024 and quickly endorsed Trump over former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley when she was still in the race.
Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference at the FGCU Kapnick Education and Research Center in Naples on Tuesday, April 23, 2024
DeSantis will now campaign for Trump following a Sunday morning meeting. Jonah Hinebaugh/Naples Daily News/USA Today Network-Florida / USA TODAY NETWORK
But in a February phone call to supporters, DeSantis said that some Trump campaign staffers had an ax to grind against him while claiming the criminal indictments against the former president helped him curry sympathy from primary voters.
He also asserted Trump, 77, would focus on "identity politics" when picking a running mate.
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Trump's campaign in response accused DeSantis of throwing cheap shots from afar. One campaign staffer even called DeSantis a "sad little man."
The two GOP heavyweights were once allies following Trump's endorsement of DeSantis when he first ran for Florida governor in 2018.
But as DeSantis prepped for a White House run, the warm relations chilled and transformed into a feud.
Trump labeled his political opponent "Ron DeSanctimonious" as DeSantis criticized aspects of Trump's first term in office.
US President Donald Trump (R) and Florida's governor Ron DeSantis hold a COVID-19 and storm preparedness roundtable in Belleair, Florida, July 31, 2020.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Trump in 2020 when the pair had a better relationship. AFP via getty Images
DeSantis has previously said he was not interested in serving as vice president to Trump.
The meeting between the pair on Sunday was first reported by the Washington Post.
The men spoke for several hours and were friendly after a mutual friend of theirs, Florida real estate investor and developer Steve Witkoff, set up the meeting, the newspaper reported.
The pair hadn't spoken since the end of primary season, according to the Washington Post.
The meeting comes as Trump is on trial in Manhattan over an alleged hush money arrangement dating back to the 2016 presidential campaign.
#188242 at 2024-04-29 08:48:56 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1042: Rock & Roll EDITION
https://nypost.com/2024/04/28/us-news/columbia-students-celebrate-as-school-officials-promise-no-lockdown-or-evictions-over-anti-israeli-protests/
Columbia students celebrate as school officials promise no lockdown or evictions over anti-Israeli protests(NYPost.com)
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Anti-Israel protesters are singing and celebrating as Columbia University squashed rumors of looming campus lockdowns and mass evictions over the ongoing "tent city" demonstration.
The school administration, which has been slammed for repeatedly bowing to protesters, said that negotiations with the students are moving forward despite the Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine group claiming that the university was threatening to lay down the hammer.
"We want to be clear: There is no truth to claims of an impending lockdown or evictions on campus," the administration said in a statement Saturday night.
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Columbia University denied rumors of lockdowns and mass evictions over its "tent city" protest. Michael Nagle
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The protesters are demanding their school divest from Israel and grant amnesty to the student demonstrators. Michael Nagle
Thee SJP accused the university of changing its tune under pressure after having planned the lockdown and evictions. The group claimed Columbia scheduled a briefing that was meant to allegedly announce the warning on Saturday night.
"We will not be deterred by an administration that continues to threaten students & engage in bad faith," the SJP said.
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Following the administration's latest promise not to crack down on the demonstrations, protesters could be seen celebrating and carrying on with songs and chants at the encampment in the Manhattan campus on Sunday.
"Say it clear, say it loud, Palestine will make us proud," the students rejoiced.
The protest has also spread outside the Manhattan campus. 8
The protest has also spread outside the Manhattan campus. Christopher Sadowski
A counter protester put up images of the Hamas hostages over a sign that read, "Free Palestine." 8
A counter protester put up images of the Hamas hostages over a sign that read, "Free Palestine." DANIEL WILLIAM MCKNIGHT
The protesters appeared to be in it for the long-haul after already more than a week of demonstrations, with students seen handing out bags of chips, fresh pasta, fried chicken, and even offering vegan and Kosher options.
One Jewish student at the protest, who identified himself as Jared, 26, said he stands alongside the demonstrators because he believes "Jewish safety requires Palestinian liberation."
"We don't feel safer if there is a government full of violent people that claim to do things on our behalf that commit atrocities," Jared said of the war in Gaza.
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Students were digging in for the long haul on Sunday. Michael Nagle
Jared, who said he had to explain to his grandparents that he didn't not support Hamas nor did they fund the protest. He also noted there are many Jewish students who were suspended for taking part in the protest.
Although the protesters received backlash last week following antisemitic chants heard resonating in the camp, Jared suggested the university was also guilty of antisemitism.
"For a university that is suppressing and trying to silence dissent, claiming to do it out of the interest of Jewish students, they're certainly suspending a lot of Jewish students for participating," Jared added.
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Protesters made speeches and yelled out chants this weekend. Michael Nagle
The length of the protest is also seeing students share the showers and laundry facilities at their dorms with suspended students who lost access to the buildings.
"Everyone is pretty gross," one student told The Post of the protesters' hygiene.
Some of the protesters also appeared to tout the fact that they were arrested during the initial police raid on the campus that unsuccessfully sought to clear out the tents.
"Bold - Beautiful - Arrested," one sign over a tent read.
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One student had a tent with a sign that read, "Intifada." James Keivom
The students appeared more organized than in the first days of the chaotic protest, with security made up of students and some faculty stationed around the gate to keep out non-demonstrators, as well as "Zionists."
Reporters and photographers were also being kept away from the protesters because they might not feel "comfortable."
The students have repeatedly stated that they will not leave the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" until the university meets their demands to divest from Israel and grant amnesty to the students who have been arrested, suspended or put on probation over the protests.
Columbia President Minouche Shafik has been repeatedly slammed for failing to quell the protest, with Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan becoming the latest figure to demand action from the college.
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Minouche Shafik has taken heat from both sides of the aisle since anti-Israel protests started breaking out on campus more than a week ago. getty Images
"When thousands of Columbia faculty, staff and students call for the elimination of the State of Israel and the abolition of Zionism, you must take a stand," Dayan wrote in a letter published on X.
Dayan likened the protesters to the Ku Klux Klan and urged Shafik to put an end to the demonstration, saying the ongoing protest serves no purpose at the Ivy League college.
"A great moral conflict was delivered to your doorstep," Dayan added. "Rise to the occasion. Lead with moral principles, not only administrative regulations. Speak up."
#188237 at 2024-04-29 08:40:31 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/04/28/us-news/eric-trump-warns-biden-could-bump-into-charges-for-white-house-cocaine-if-scotus-rules-against-immunity/
Eric Trump warns Biden could be hit with charges for White House cocaine if SCOTUS rules against immunity(NYPost.com)
Ryan King
Eric Trump warned that if the Supreme Court brushes aside presidential immunity, prosecutors could line up a case against President Biden over last summer's White House cocaine debacle.
The Trump scion further cautioned that if his father fails to win his bid for absolute immunity then the floodgates could be open to a flurry of prosecutions against other presidents.
"They'll probably go after Joe Biden for having cocaine in the White House. They'll go after Biden for raiding his opponent's home," Eric Trump, 40, predicted on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures."
"They will probably go after him ... for literally, two weeks before the 2022 primaries, literally depleting the petroleum national - the reserves so he could lower gas prices," he railed.
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Eric Trump dredged up the White House cocaine debacle while discussing his father's presidential immunity push. getty Images
Last July, Secret Service agents discovered a small baggie in a vestibule near the Situation Room and a floor below the Oval Office that they later concluded contained under a gram of cocaine.
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After 11 days, the Secret Service wrapped up its investigation without naming a suspect and claimed that surveillance footage did not reveal the identity of the culprit.
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court heard a landmark case in which former President Donald Trump, 77, claimed that presidents enjoy absolute immunity for their official actions, and therefore the courts should toss out his four-count 2020 election indictment.
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A photo of the cocaine found in the White House last summer. Dept of Homeland Security
Justices on the conservative-led high court appeared deeply skeptical about the claim of absolute presidential immunity, while simultaneously sounding leery about presidents having no immunity.
By mounting the presidential immunity challenge, the elder Trump managed to delay the 2020 election subversion trial, which was supposed to commence on March 4.
Echoing the former president's legal team, Eric Trump cautioned that without immunity protecting former commanders-in-chief, overzealous prosecutors could have a field day.
"The only people who are going to benefit are big law firms in Washington, DC, because they are going to go after every single president. They will start with Obama, Fast and Furious, right, where he gives 2,000 weapons to cartel members," Eric Trump mused.
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Eric Trump pictured next to his father. AP
"Where do you want to stop? Are they going to go after George Bush for lying about weapons of mass destruction," he later added.
Donald Trump is the first sitting or current US president to be criminally charged and is facing 88 counts spanning four indictments. He has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to all charges.
"The floodgates are going to open, and I guarantee you, Joe Biden will not have one foot outside of the White House doors before they start going after him legally, ruthlessly," Eric Trump added.
Although the younger Trump was vague about who might target Biden, 81, his father has previously vowed to name a special prosecutor to look into the first family.
Donald Trump had also made a similar pledge about Hillary Clinton but ultimately declined to follow up during his administration.
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President Biden has carefully navigated questions about his predecessor's legal affairs. AP
Meanwhile, Biden has strenuously refrained from any action or comment that could be perceived as him meddling in his predecessor's legal woes.
The Supreme Court is expected to decide on the immunity question by July. That decision could mean relegating the matter back to the lower courts to iron out certain aspects of the case, such as the distinction between private and official actions.
#188228 at 2024-04-29 08:18:25 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/04/28/opinion/new-cold-war-with-a-new-axis-of-evil-isolationists-in-the-us-gop-must-join-the-fight-as-dark-forces-gather/
New Cold War with a new axis of evil: Isolationists in the US, GOP must join the fight as dark forces gather(NYPost.com)
Niall Ferguson
A collage of men in suits including celebrities Xi Jinping and Ali Khamenei
Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping and Iran's Ali Khamenei make up a new axis of evil, writes columnist Niall Ferguson. getty Images;ZUMA Press Wire
In J.R.R. Tolkien's great epic, "The Lord of the Rings," it becomes apparent only gradually that the forces of darkness have united.
Sauron, with his baleful all-seeing eye, emerges as the leader of a vast axis of evil: the Black Riders, the corrupted wizard Saruman, the subhuman orcs, the malignant courtier Wormtongue, the giant venomous spider Shelob - they are all in it together, and Mordor is their headquarters.
Tolkien knew whereof he wrote. A veteran of World War I, he watched with dismay the approach of a second great conflagration.
Sipping pints of bitter and puffing his pipe in "The Shire" - his idealized Middle England - he could only shudder as Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and imperialist Japan came together to form their Axis in 1936-37, and mutter, "I told you so," when Hitler and Stalin joined forces in 1939.
We, too, are witnessing the formation of an Axis.
I was reminded of Tolkien by a post from the conservative broadcaster Mark R. Levin: "Appeasement is escalation. Our enemies are on the move. Our allies are being encircled and attacked or soon attacked.?.?.?. Conservatism and MAGA are not about isolationism or pacifism. . . . It is up to us, patriotic Americans, to step into the breach and get this done now."
'In a far-away country'
The significance of Levin's intervention is that it puts him on a collision course with the isolationist elements within the Republican Party, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who threatened to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson if he pressed ahead with a bill to restore aid to Ukraine.
"We are going to stand for freedom and make sure that Vladimir Putin doesn't march through Europe," Johnson declared. "We have to project to Putin, Xi, and Iran, and North Korea, and anybody else that we will defend freedom."
To the likes of Greene and Levin's former Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson, the war in Ukraine is "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing," as UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain infamously said of then-Czechoslovakia in 1938.
They appear quite unembarrassed to serve as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "useful idiots," in direct lineal succession to Hitler and Stalin's apologists.
And not only Putin's. For, as State Department spokesman Matthew Miller pointed out, behind the Russian war effort stands the vast economic resources of the People's Republic of China.
"What we have seen over the past months is that there have been materials moving from China to Russia .?.?. showing up on the battlefield in Ukraine," Miller told reporters. "And we are incredibly concerned about that."
In Beijing earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned her Chinese counterpart that there would be "significant consequences" if China continued to support Russia's war effort.
China's leaders gave the invasion of Ukraine their blessing on its eve - what else did the mutual pledge of a "no-limits" partnership mean? - and President Xi Jinping's support has been crucial to Putin's survival ever since his invasion force was repelled from outside Kyiv two years ago.
By the same token, one cannot treat Iran's war against Israel in isolation. Tehran supports Russia's war against Ukraine, supplying thousands of drones and missiles similar to the ones unleashed against Israel last weekend.
Russia, in turn, is likely helping to strengthen Iran's air defenses. China is not only one of the main buyers of Iran's oil; Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Tehran after the attack on Israel to praise his counterparts. Chinese propaganda has been consistently anti-Israel since Hamas' murderous attacks of Oct. 7.
China, Russia & Iran
The emergence of this new Axis was foreseen by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser. In his 1997 book, "The Grand Chessboard," Brzezinski wrote:
"Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an 'antihegemonic' coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances."
Brzezinski was prophetic.
However, it is hard not to conclude that his successors in the Biden administration have done a great deal to make this coalition a reality, by abandoning Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021, then failing to deter Russia from invading Ukraine in 2022, and finally failing to deter Iran from unleashing its proxies against Israel.
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Yes, Biden stepped up to aid Ukraine and Israel when they came under attack, but an earlier show of strength might have avoided both emergencies.
Levin and Johnson have realized that some far-away quarrels must ultimately concern us.
They are parts of a single war being waged by a new Axis against the fundamental values we hold dear: democracy, the rule of law, individual freedom. I predict that the isolationists' counter arguments will not age well.
For now, fortunately, we are in Cold War II, not World War III. However, Cold War II is proceeding rather faster than Cold War I.
If the Russian invasion of Ukraine was our equivalent of the Korean War of 1950-53, we have skated past a second Cuban Missile Crisis - over Taiwan - and entered a d?tente, a sequence that took two decades last time.
Since November's presidential summit in Woodside, Calif., the Chinese have seemed genuinely keen to avoid a showdown and want to engage in serious, if frosty, dialogue with the US, reminiscent of 1969-72.
But the surprise attack on Israel by Hamas propelled us all the way to 1973. And it is worth recalling that d?tente did not long survive Henry Kissinger's successful assertion of US primacy in the Middle East in the wake of that year's Yom Kippur War.
In short, we seem to be getting the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s compressed together in a somewhat bewildering mashup.
Then, as now, cold war has an ideological dimension: At least some Republicans are back to talking about defending freedom.
Then, as now, cold war is a technological race, though today the frontiers of innovation are artificial intelligence and quantum computing, as well as nuclear weapons and missile defense.
Then, as now, cold war is inflationary and domestically divisive.
Then, as now, it matters a lot if China and Russia are united or at each other's throats. Their current unity is a real headache for the US and its allies.
Then as now, there are not just two groupings, but three, because a significant number of countries would prefer to be nonaligned.
Key differences
So what are the biggest differences between Cold War I and II?
First, China is a much bigger economic contender than the Soviet Union ever was. Second, the West is economically entangled with China, through a vast web of supply chains, in a way we never were with the USSR. Third, we are much weaker in terms of manufacturing capacity.
With China flooding the world with cheap "green" stuff, the West has no option but to revive protectionism and industrial policy, turning the economic strategy clock back to the 1970s, too.
Yellen complained last month that Chinese "excess capacity . . . in 'new' industries like solar, EVs, and lithium-ion batteries" was "hurt[ing] American firms and workers, as well as firms and workers around the world."
Fourth, US fiscal policy is on a completely unsustainable path. To run a 7% deficit at a time of full employment is, to put it mildly, not what the macroeconomics textbooks recommend.
More importantly, as the Congressional Budget Office has just pointed out, the relentless growth of the federal debt in public hands relative to gross domestic product - from 99% this year to a projected 166% by 2054 - will inevitably constrain future administrations.
My sole contribution to the statute book of historiography - what I call Ferguson's Law - states that any great power that spends more on interest payments than on defense will not stay great for very long.
True of Hapsburg Spain, true of ancien r?gime France, true of the Ottoman Empire, true of the British Empire, this law is about to be put to the test by the US this year, when (according to the CBO) net interest outlays will be 3.1% of GDP, defense spending 3.0%.
Extrapolating defense spending on the assumption that it remains consistently 48% of discretionary spending (the average of 2014-23), the gap between debt service and defense is going to widen rapidly.
By 2041, the CBO projections suggest, interest payments (4.6% of GDP) will be double the defense budget (2.3%). Between 1962 and 1989, by way of comparison, interest payments averaged 1.8% of GDP; defense 6.4%.
As Michael Boskin and Kiran Sridhar recently argued, the Biden administration's proposed defense budget for 2025 is already "vastly inadequate." The Pentagon needs to be spending more if our adversaries are to be deterred.
Fifth, our alliances may prove to be weaker than they were in Cold War I. In Europe, Germany is more ambivalent about US leadership of the Atlantic alliance than it was in the days of Ostpolitik.
In Asia, the US may think the "Quad" has turned India into an Asian ally, but I doubt Prime Minister Narendra Modi would pick up the phone if Washington called for assistance in Taiwan.
Agree but disagree
For all these reasons, we should not be overconfident about the outcome of Cold War II. In particular, as Elbridge Colby has consistently warned, a Taiwan crisis - were China to blockade or invade this year - would find the US ill-prepared. And Beijing may not conform to US intelligence assessments that it will wait until 2027 to make its move.
Yet there is one final similarity with Cold War I. Now, as then, there is a bipartisan consensus in Washington that the communist superpower poses a serious threat. The political question that remains is who is best able to counter that threat.
In a way, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris personify the post-Vietnam Democratic Party's approach, which ran from Jimmy Carter through Bill Clinton to Barack Obama.
This approach nearly always prioritizes "de-escalation" over deterrence (even in Ukraine that has been true), and tends to cut the defense budget.
By contrast, Donald Trump has veered between belligerence and isolationism, clearly preferring trade wars to the "fire and fury" of real wars. But he is temperamentally good at deterrence - if only because our adversaries find him so unpredictable. Under Trump, defense spending went up.
Hobbit of advice
By launching their drone and missile swarm at Israel, Iran has unwittingly given many Republicans permission to follow former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo down a path of hawkishness that is anything but isolationist.
Will Trump himself heed the hawks' advice? If he sticks with isolationism, I suspect it may hurt his chances of reelection.
It may be that the ultimate historical significance of the Iranian attack on Israel will be its effect not on the Middle East but on Republican sentiment in the US.
Tolkien's hobbits are also isolationists, in their way. However, Frodo and Sam come to realize that they must fight to destroy Sauron's Ring of Power.
When they return to the Shire, they find that it, too, has been overrun by the Enemy. But it is not too late to salvage the situation. Symbolically, the wizard Saruman perishes on the very threshold of Frodo's home:
"And that's the end of that," said Sam. "A nasty end, and I wish I needn't have seen it; but it's a good riddance."
"And the very last end of the War, I hope," said Merry.
"I hope so," said Frodo and sighed. "The very last stroke. But to think that it should fall here, at the very door of Bag End! Among all my hopes and fears at least I never expected that."
"I shan't call it the end, till we've cleared up the mess," said Sam gloomily. "And that'll take a lot of time and work."
Words for isolationists to ponder in 2024.
Used with permission of Bloomberg L.P. Copyright?2024. All rights reserved.
#187686 at 2024-04-24 05:23:19 (UTC+1)
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>>187668
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246655366/ftc-bans-noncompete-agreements-lina-khan
U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs(NPR.org)
Andrea HsuUpdated April 23, 20246:00 PM ET
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan has said noncompete agreements stop workers from switching jobs, even when they could earn more money or have better working conditions.
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The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted Tuesday to ban nearly all noncompetes, employment agreements that typically prevent workers from joining competing businesses or launching ones of their own.
The FTC received more than 26,000 public comments in the months leading up to the vote. Chair Lina Khan referenced on Tuesday some of the stories she had heard from workers.
"We heard from employees who, because of noncompetes, were stuck in abusive workplaces," she said. "One person noted when an employer merged with an organization whose religious principles conflicted with their own, a noncompete kept the worker locked in place and unable to freely switch to a job that didn't conflict with their religious practices."
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These accounts, she said, "pointed to the basic reality of how robbing people of their economic liberty also robs them of all sorts of other freedoms."
The FTC estimates about 30 million people, or one in five American workers, from minimum wage earners to CEOs, are bound by noncompetes. It says the policy change could lead to increased wages totaling nearly $300 billion per year by encouraging people to swap jobs freely.
The ban, which will take effect later this year, carves out an exception for existing noncompetes that companies have given their senior executives, on the grounds that these agreements are more likely to have been negotiated. The FTC says employers should not enforce other existing noncompete agreements.
The vote was 3 to 2 along party lines. The dissenting commissioners, Melissa Holyoke and Andrew Ferguson, argued that the FTC was overstepping the boundaries of its power. Holyoke predicted the ban would be challenged in court and eventually struck down.
Shortly after the vote, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said it would sue the FTC to block the rule, calling it unnecessary, unlawful and a blatant power grab.
For more than a year, the group has vigorously opposed the ban, saying that noncompetes are vital to companies, by allowing them to better guard trade secrets, and employees, by giving employers greater incentive to invest in workforce training and development.
"This decision sets a dangerous precedent for government micromanagement of business and can harm employers, workers, and our economy," wrote Suzanne P. Clark, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber, in a statement.
#187670 at 2024-04-24 04:34:40 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1036: Thundah & Lightning EDITION
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fbi-director-issues-warning-on-increasingly-concerning-terrorist-threat-5625992?utm_source=copyreflink&utm_campaign=t911&src_src=copyreflink&src_cmp=t911
FBI Director Issues Warning on 'Increasingly Concerning' Terrorist Threat(EpochTimes.com)
FBI chief Christopher Wray delivered the remarks on Tuesday.
FBI Director Issues Warning on 'Increasingly Concerning' Terrorist Threat
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the "Annual Worldwide Threats Assessment" in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 11, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via getty Images)
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday warned that foreign terrorist groups are again looking to attack the United States in an "increasingly concerning" way.
In a speech at the American Bar Association luncheon in Washington, the FBI director said the agency is attempting to prevent an attack on U.S. soil via terrorist groups such as ISIS-K, or Islamic State Khorasan.
"Foreign terrorists, including ISIS, al-Qaeda, and their adherents, have renewed calls for attacks against Jewish communities here in the United States and across the West in statements and propaganda," Mr. Wray said at the event Tuesday. He then made reference to a terrorist attack claimed by ISIS in Moscow, Russia, that left more than 140 people dead.
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"The foreign terrorist threat and the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, like the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia Concert Hall a couple weeks ago, is now increasingly concerning. Oct. 7 and the conflict that's followed will feed a pipeline of radicalization and mobilization for years to come," he stated.
It comes as the FBI announced that it had arrested an 18-year-old Idaho man for allegedly plotting to carry out a terrorist attack on local churches. The man, identified in court documents as Alexander Mercurio, is accused of telling an FBI informant about his alleged plans and that he wanted to launch an attack last Sunday, April 7, but was thwarted by officials.
"The defendant allegedly pledged loyalty to ISIS and sought to attack people attending churches in Idaho, a truly horrific plan which was detected and thwarted by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force," the FBI director said in a statement earlier this week.
Several months ago, another 18-year-old, Humzah Mashkoor from Colorado, was charged with providing support to ISIS after he allegedly plotted to travel to the Middle East and join the terrorist group.
ISIS rose to prominence during the Syrian civil war that started in the early 2010s following the "Arab Spring" uprisings across the Middle East. The group-which promoted gruesome execution videos on social media-was able to capture significant territory in Syria and Iraq before U.S. forces as well as Russian and Syrian forces drove the group out of the area.
Chinese Cyberattacks
The FBI director also made reference to cyberattacks carried out by China, Russia, and North Korea in recent days.
The Chinese regime "plays the long game," he said. "To put it simply, [the Chinese Communist Party] is throwing its whole government at undermining the security and economy of the rule-of-law world," added the director, noting that the CCP's hacking program is significantly larger than the U.S.'s and any other country's cybersecurity efforts.
Meanwhile, the CCP's "mafia-like" tactics and nature make it particularly significant, he added. He used the potential threat posed by China to call for more funding and for the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the United States to collect information from non-citizens who live overseas and who use American-based platforms without using a warrant.
"The Russian government continues to invest heavily in their cyber operations, in part because they see cyber as an asymmetric weapon to keep up with us," Mr. Wray said at the event, adding that it will continue to "target critical infrastructure" such as underwater cables and industrial systems.
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"We've seen Russia conducting reconnaissance on the U.S. energy sector" since the Ukraine war started, Mr. Wray said.
Drinking Water
Several weeks ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and national security adviser Jake Sullivan sent a letter to states warning about possible cyberattacks targeting drinking water and sewage systems across the U.S. They made note of recent efforts carried out by Chinese and Iranian hackers.
"These attacks have the potential to disrupt the critical lifeline of clean and safe drinking water, as well as impose significant costs on affected communities," their letter stated.
In one recent incident, alleged Iranian government-backed hackers disabled a controller at a Pennsylvania water facility, while a Chinese state-backed group called "Volt Typhoon" was able to compromise technology at "multiple critical infrastructure systems, including drinking water, in the United States and its territories," they warned.
The letter, dated March 19, called on governors to back efforts to ensure that all water systems in their states can discover and deal with any significant vulnerabilities and make plans to respond and recover from cybersecurity incidents.
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Chinese hacking warnings were issued in February after AT&T and Cricket wireless services went down for about 12 hours across the U.S., leaving potentially millions with the inability to make phone calls, send text messages, or use their phones without WiFi Internet available.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote that if China targets U.S. infrastructure amid an attack targeting Taiwan, "it will be 100 times worse."
"And it won't be just cell service they hit; it will be your power, your water, and your bank," he wrote at the time.
#187666 at 2024-04-24 04:04:54 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1036: Thundah & Lightning EDITION
>>187609
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/breaking-senate-passes-ukraine-funding-bill/
BREAKING: Senate Passes $95.3 Billion Aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan - 31 (TheTheGateWayPundit.com)
Republicans Voted with Democrats
by Jim H?ft Apr. 23, 2024 9:13 pm302 Comments
Photo: Anna Moneymaker/getty Images
The Senate has approved a massive $95 billion emergency foreign aid package with no U.S. border security.
A group of RINOs joined Democrats to support the bill. The measure passed by a vote of 79 to 18.
The passing of the bill saw 48 Democrats joined by 31 Republicans in favor of the foreign aid efforts. However, 15 Republicans broke ranks to vote against the package, with three Democrats joining in opposition.
The finalized bill encompasses extensive provisions:
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$47.7 billion through the Defense Department to support Ukraine's military with training, equipment, weapons, and logistical aid.
$13.4 billion to restock U.S. military equipment sent to Ukraine.
$20.5 billion for U.S. Armed Forces support in Europe.
$9.5 billion in economic aid to Ukraine as a forgivable loan.
Added to this is 15 billion in military aid designated for Israel and 9 billion in humanitarian assistance for Gaza and other conflict zones, a point of contention for conservative Republicans concerned about the funds being intercepted by Hamas.
The bill also allots $8 billion to counter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific and introduces legislation that would force the divestment or ban of TikTok in the United States.
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"Today the Senate sends a unified message to the entire world. America will always defend democracy in its hour of need. We tell our allies we will stand with you. We tell our adversaries don't mess with us," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer declared on the Senate floor per NBC.
"If we want the world to remain a safe place for freedom, for democratic principles, and for our future prosperity, then America must lead the way. And with this bill, the Senate declares that American leadership will not waver, not falter, not fail."
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said U.S. "adversaries want America to decide that reinforcing allies and partners is not in our interest and that investing in strategic competition is not worth it. They want us to take hard-earned credibility and light it on fire."
"But today, the Senate responded by reaffirming a commitment to rebuild and modernize our military, restore our credibility, and give the current commander in chief, as well as the next, more tools to secure our interests," he continued.
Below are the 15 Senators who stood with the American people:
1. John Barrasso, R-WY
2. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN
3. Mike Braun, R-IN
4. Ted Budd, R-NC
5. Ted Cruz, R-TX
6. Bill Hagerty, R-TN
7. Josh Hawley, R-MO
8. Ron Johnson, R-WI
9. Mike Lee, R-UT
10. Cynthia Lummis, R-WY
11. Roger Marshall, R-KS
12. Marco Rubio, R-FL
13. Eric Schmitt, R-MO
14. Rick Scott, R-FL
15. J.D. Vance, R-OH
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Below are the Senate Republicans voted to pass the $95 billion foreign aid bill:
1. John Boozman, R-AR
2. Katie Britt, R-AL
3. Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV
4. Bill Cassidy, R-LA
5. Susan Collins, R-ME
6. John Cornyn, R-TX
7. Tom Cotton, R-AR
8. Kevin Cramer, R-ND
9. Mike Crapo, R-ID
10. Steve Daines, R-MT
11. Joni Ernst, R-IA
12. Deb Fischer, R-NE
13. Lindsey Graham, R-SC
14. Chuck Grassley, R-IA
15. John Hoeven, R-ND
16. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-MS
17. John Kennedy, R-LA
18. James Lankford, R-OK
19. Mitch McConnell, R-KY
20. Jerry Moran, R-KS
21. Markwayne Mullin, R-OK
22. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK
23. Pete Ricketts, R-NE
24. James Risch, R-ID
25. Mitt Romney, R-UT
26. Mike Rounds, R-SD
27. Tim Scott, R-SC
28. Dan Sullivan, R-AK
29. John Thune, R-SD
30. Thom Tillis, R-NC
31. Roger Wicker, R-MS
32. Todd Young, R-IN
This vote comes after the globalist sycophants, led by globalist Speaker Mike Johnson, passed three separate foreign-aid bills in a 311-112 uniparty vote that will provide funding to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, transferring a total of $95 billion from the U.S. Treasury directly to foreign governments. The massive foreign-aid package now heads to Joe Biden, where he is expected to rubber-stamped and sign it on Wednesday.
"Tonight, a bipartisan majority in the Senate joined the House to answer history's call at this critical inflection point. Congress has passed my legislation to strengthen our national security and send a message to the world about the power of American leadership: we stand resolutely for democracy and freedom, and against tyranny and oppression," Biden said in a statement.
"I will sign this bill into law and address the American people as soon as it reaches my desk tomorrow so we can begin sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week."
The package Mike Johnson announced Wednesday includes terms that will allow the President to cancel 50% of Ukraine's debt after November 15, 2024 and the remaining 50% after January 1, 2024. It's no wonder why Joe Biden came out "strongly" in support of the package, urging the House and Senate to pass it.
After President Trump wins the 2024 election, as expected, Joe Biden can cancel 50% of Ukraine's debt before his term is over in January. If Biden and the Democrats pull off another stolen election, they can forgive 100% of Ukraine's debt a little over one year later.
They allocate zero funds for veterans, the homeless, Lahaina, the border, and America itself, yet they are so eager to spend on foreign wars. When it concerns Americans, it seems money is suddenly limited.
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#186491 at 2024-04-09 03:15:03 (UTC+1)
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00973-1
Total solar eclipse 2024: how it will help scientists to study the Sun(Nature.com)
The Sun's mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona, will become easier to view from Earth on 8 April.
03 April 2024
Viewers along the eclipse's path in North America will watch the Moon cross the Sun's face and block the solar disk, offering the chance to see its outer atmosphere by eye. Credit: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via getty
Researchers in North America are gearing up for their chance to observe the Sun's corona - its wispy outer atmosphere - like never before. Normally hidden to the naked eye by the Sun's glare, the corona will be visible to millions from Sinaloa, Mexico, to Newfoundland, Canada, when the Moon blocks the solar disk during the total eclipse on 8 April. Importantly, the event coincides with the solar maximum - a period of extreme activity that occurs every 11 years. During this time, the Sun's magnetic fields intensify, creating sunspots, fiery loops of plasma and exciting structures in the corona.
The Sun's outer atmosphere, named for its crown-like appearance, is one of astronomy's biggest unsolved mysteries, says James Klimchuk, a solar physicist at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. For decades, scientists have been scratching their heads about why the corona, a hot plasma that extends millions of kilometres from the core, is so much hotter than the solar surface. "It's like if you walk away from a campfire," Klimchuk says, but instead of cooling down, you get warmer. "Why would that be?" They also have puzzled over what gives the corona its intricate structure (see 'Crown jewels').
'CROWN' JEWELS. Graphic labelling features of the Sun's corona.
Source: Nature adaptation from image provided by Nicolas Lefaudeux
Earth experiences total eclipses roughly once every 18 months. But their paths often cross remote areas, where few people can view them. The last time a total eclipse passed over North America was in 2017. Viewers along that eclipse's 'path of totality' - in which the Moon completely blocks the solar disk - "wouldn't have seen the same Sun as we're seeing" during this one, says Marcel Corchado-Albelo, a solar physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder, who will participate in a public-outreach programme on 8 April aimed at marginalized communities in Texas. During the previous eclipse, the Sun was closer to its solar minimum.
The corona will "look much more complex" this time, Klimchuk says.
Simulating the Sun
A preview of how it might appear during the eclipse was released last month by Predictive Science, a research and product-development firm in San Diego, California. Staff members, including astrophysicist Cooper Downs, used real-time satellite data of the Sun's surface magnetic fields and intensive supercomputer simulations to make the prediction. "The Sun is quite chaotic," Downs says. So forecasting the corona's appearance is as difficult as predicting cloud movement - the mention of which is a source of anxiety for eclipse chasers. Clouds could obscure the eclipse from the view of many on 8 April.
The firm's prediction shows a corona composed of several spiky, spade-like structures called streamers, in which coronal plasma is tightly confined by magnetic field lines that leave the Sun's surface but loop back into it. Streamers glow brighter than other parts of the corona because electrons in the denser plasma scatter sunlight. The prediction also shows coronal holes, darker regions between the streamers where magnetic field lines don't loop back into the Sun but extend into interplanetary space. The holes can create strong gusts of solar wind - charged particles accelerated by magnetic fields - that cause geomagnetic storms threatening Earth-orbiting satellites.
By comparing the locations of streamers and holes in the actual eclipse and the simulation, the firm's scientists will be able to validate and improve their model for future applications, including space-weather forecasting, Downs says.
Photo op
Because the Moon perfectly blocks the solar disk during an eclipse - owing to the cosmic coincidence that the Sun and Moon have similar sizes when viewed from Earth - solar physicists on the ground, including Shadia Habbal at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, will be able to study the Sun's chromosphere next week. This thin layer of plasma just above the solar surface is home to prominences, worm-like filaments of plasma protruding into the corona. "You see them very clearly during an eclipse," Habbal says.
Sometimes, these prominences can snap explosively to form a coronal mass ejection. During one of these events, billions of tonnes of relatively cool (about 10,000 ?C) solar plasma are expelled from the solar surface and are enveloped by the corona, whose temperature can exceed 1,000,000 ?C. Habbal says that because of the solar maximum, viewers have a good chance of seeing a coronal mass ejection. Eclipses provide "the best opportunity to figure out how these plasmas co-exist and interact", she adds.
To do this, Habbal is leading a team of 40 researchers armed with high-speed cameras and high-resolution sensors to capture tiny changes in the corona during the eclipse's minutes of darkness. The scientists will be spread across three sites in Texas and Arkansas, to maximize the chance of a cloudless observation.
Flying high
One group that is not worried about clouds is the Airborne Coronal Emission Surveyor (ACES) team. These scientists will fly in a Gulfstream V jet above the clouds, at an altitude exceeding 13 kilometres. This will put them over a layer of water vapour in Earth's atmosphere that absorbs infrared light and would interfere with their measurements of the corona. Chad Madsen, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an ACES participant, says the team is interested in studying one particularly long streamer in the Predictive Science forecast.
The team will measure infrared light emitted by the streamer to determine the strength of the magnetic fields in the part of the corona where it appears and the makeup of ions along various segments of the streamer, Madsen says. (Magnetic fields in the corona directly affect the infrared light emitted by plasma.)
Their flight will chase the Moon's shadow along the path of totality through Texas, adding 90 more seconds of observation time to the maximum of 4 minutes and 30 seconds that viewers on the ground will get.
For many corona scientists, this eclipse isn't their first, and probably won't be their last. But each one offers a few minutes of magic. "There's always an anticipation - you don't know what it's going to look like," says Habbal, who will count this as her twentieth total eclipse. "Every time, it's different."
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00973-1
#184261 at 2024-03-09 08:12:36 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1001: The REASON for TGA was to TAKE DOWN the [DS] & RedPill the world EDITION
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-court-greenlights-flurry-jan-6-lawsuits-against-trump
DC Court Greenlights Flurry Of Jan. 6 Lawsuits Against Trump(ZeroHedge.com)
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia has issued an order allowing three Jan. 6 lawsuits to proceed against former President Donald Trump after a court rejected his assertion of presidential immunity.
Former President Donald Trump sits in New York State Supreme Court during the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization, in New York City on Jan. 11, 2024. (Peter Foley/AFP via getty Images)
A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order on March 8, allowing the three consolidated appeals to be "removed from abeyance" and approving motions for summary affirmance, meaning removing a temporary hold on the cases and allowing them to proceed.
The lawsuits that are now allowed to proceed are Moore v. Trump, Kirkland v. Trump, and Tabron v. Trump.
In all three civil suits, law enforcement officers are seeking damages based on the premise that President Trump incited a mob to storm the Capitol, leading to a violent incident in which they sustained various injuries and suffered harm, including emotional distress.
President Trump has denied calling for violence on Jan. 6, pointing to remarks he made encouraging his supporters to demonstrate "peacefully and patriotically."
'Matters of Public Concern'
The judges noted in their March 8 order that the merits of the three parties' positions "are so clear as to warrant summary action," and that the cases can proceed based on a Dec. 1 appeals court decision in Blassingame v. Trump that President Trump is not immune to lawsuits over the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
In Blassingame v. Trump, the former president's attorneys had argued that he should be granted immunity because his alleged actions around Jan. 6 amounted to official speech on "matters of public concern."
The judges' reasoning in that case was that the former president's actions leading up to and on Jan. 6 were part of his campaign for a second term in the White House and not an official presidential act.
"In arguing that he is entitled to official-act immunity in the cases before us, President Trump does not dispute that he engaged in his alleged actions up to and on January 6 in his capacity as a candidate. But he thinks that does not matter," U.S. Circuit Judge Sri Srinivasan, appointed under President Barack Obama, wrote in the Dec. 1 ruling.
"Rather, in his view, a president's speech on matters of public concern is invariably an official function, and he was engaged in that function when he spoke at the January 6 rally and in the leadup to that day. We cannot accept that rationale."
Later, a similar order denying presidential immunity in Jan. 6 cases was issued on Dec. 29, in a lawsuit filed in 2021 by Capitol Police veteran Conrad Smith and seven of his colleagues.
"On appeal, the only question is whether President Trump has demonstrated his entitlement to official-act immunity," reads the Dec. 29 order, which was signed by a three-judge panel consisting of Judge Srinivasan and Judges Judith Rogers and Gregory Katsas.
The judges in that case laid out a similar rationale for denying President Trump's argument that he should be protected from liability because his statements and actions on Jan. 6 amounted to making statements that are of concern to the public.
"That argument fails" because President Trump's commentary and actions around Jan. 6 bear "no inherent connection to the essential distinction between official and unofficial acts" because they were not part of his official duties to share "matters of public concern," the judges wrote, concluding he's ineligible for presidential immunity.
In the Dec. 29 ruling, the judges also cited the Blassingame v. Trump judgment and said the case brought by Mr. Smith and his colleagues is "indistinguishable" in all relevant aspects, so they issued what amounts to an identical determination that President Trump is not immune from civil lawsuits related to Jan. 6.
A request for comment on the Dec. 29 judgment sent to the Trump campaign was not returned before press time.
The former president is entitled to request a rehearing before a full panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals in the immunity case. He could also appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
However, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear President Trump's appeal in a separate federal criminal case alleging election interference, which was brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
President Trump's appeal in this case also claims immunity, with the Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments during the week of April 22.
A determination on presidential immunity by the Supreme Court could have implications for the lawsuits that the District of Columbia appeals court just allowed to proceed.
'Peacefully and Patriotically'
Even though President Trump said in his Jan. 6 speech that protesters should "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard," his critics have seized on a portion of his remarks where he said "we fight like hell" and "if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore." Critics claim this was a call for violence.
The former president has, on numerous occasions, denied calling for violent protests while insisting he meant his remarks about fighting like hell metaphorically.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at a hotel after attending a hearing before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse in Washington on Jan. 9, 2024. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
In one of the Jan. 6 cases against the former president, Smith v. Trump, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights filed the lawsuit on behalf of Mr. Smith and seven of his colleagues, arguing that President Trump deliberately incited violence against members of Congress and law enforcement officers whose duty was to protect them.
President Trump has rejected the claim that he in any way incited violence on Jan. 6, 2021, pointing to remarks he made that called for demonstrators to protest peacefully. In a bid to dismiss the lawsuit, his attorneys argued that the complaint should be tossed because he, as president, was eligible for immunity.
The court rejected President Trump's bid to have the case dismissed, however, leading eventually to the Dec. 29 judgment that his remarks on Jan. 6 were not official acts as president, so the immunity shield doesn't apply.
#184260 at 2024-03-09 08:04:24 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1001: The REASON for TGA was to TAKE DOWN the [DS] & RedPill the world EDITION
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/house-democrats-press-musks-spacex-claims-russian-forces-have-starlink-systems
House Democrats Press Musk's SpaceX On Claims Russian Forces Have Starlink Systems (ZeroHedge.com)
Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
House Democrats are pressing SpaceX and its CEO, Elon Musk, for answers on allegations coming from Ukrainian intelligence officials that Russian forces are using SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service in their ongoing war with Ukraine.
The antenna of the Starlink satellite-based broadband system is seen in the snow in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Feb. 16, 2023. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via getty Images)
On Wednesday, March 6, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter to SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell, calling for her to address how Russian forces may have obtained SpaceX terminals.
Starlink terminals connect to SpaceX's constellation of thousands of satellites operating in low Earth orbit. SpaceX began supplying thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine after Russian invasion forces entered the country in February 2022, helping keep Ukraine online even as Russian attacks degraded their existing telecommunications and internet infrastructure.
Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) first raised concerns about Russian forces using the Starlink service on Feb. 11. GUR spokesman Andriy Yusov stated at the time that Ukrainian intelligence officials had intercepted radio transmissions in which Russian soldiers described widespread use of the satellite internet service around the contested Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
"This is starting to become systemic," Mr. Yusov said of Russia's alleged use of the Starlink service.
Mr. Musk has denied the allegations, stating, "To the best of our knowledge, no Starlinks have been sold directly or indirectly to Russia."
But Mr. Raskin and Mr. Garcia are continuing to press the question. The two lawmakers noted a report last month by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which said "Russia routinely relies on evasive or deceptive tactics such as the use of third-party intermediaries or transshipment points" to evade U.S. export controls against the country.
The two lawmakers noted Mr. Musk's denial, but reiterated Mr. Yusov's characterization of Russia's Starlink usage as "systemic."
"We are concerned that you may not have appropriate guardrails and policies in place to ensure your technology is neither acquired directly or indirectly, nor used illegally by Russia," their letter to Ms. Shotwell reads.
The Democrats called on SpaceX to reveal how many reports or complaints it has received alleging Russian use of the Starlink service, as well as how many of those complaints the company investigated. The lawmakers also pressed SpaceX to explain its review process for such complaints, detail its safeguards against illicit acquisitions of Starlink terminals, what measures SpaceX advises to take when it determines an actor has illicitly acquired a Starlink terminal, and what work SpaceX has taken on its own and with the U.S. federal government to prevent such illicit acquisition and use of Starlink services. The lawmakers called on Ms. Shotwell to provide SpaceX's response by March 20.
How Russia May Have Obtained Starlink Terminals
Not cited in the Democrats' March 6 letter is a Feb. 13 blog post in which Ukraine's GUR service posits intermediaries in Arab countries may be facilitating the transfers of Starlink terminals to Russian forces. That blog post describes an audio recording in which a Russian "occupier" is quoted as saying "the Arabs bring everything: wires, Wi-Fi, router… ." According to the GUR blog post, this same Russian individual reportedly went on to say the cost to obtain a Starlink device is 200,000 Russian Rubles (about $2,200).
While the GUR shared an audio recording in their Feb. 11 blog post, they did not provide the audio recording described in the Feb. 13 blog post, which might provide further clarity about how Starlink terminals may be ending up in Russian hands.
NTD News reached out to Mr. Raskin and Mr. Garcia's offices, seeking more details about what evidence is guiding their SpaceX probe. Neither lawmaker's office responded by press time.
More than two years on, the war between Russia and Ukraine has seen territory repeatedly change hands. Defense materials, from combat vehicles to weapons systems and items like Starlink terminals, may also see changes in ownership throughout the course of the fighting.
Among NTD News' list of questions for Mr. Garcia was whether he and Mr. Raskin had ruled out the possibility that Russian forces had acquired Starlink terminals from defeated Ukrainian troops.
NTD News also reached out to SpaceX for comment about the possibility of Starlink terminals being captured on the battlefield, as well as evidence it may have of illicit transfers of these terminals through intermediaries. Likewise, SpaceX did not respond by press time.
#184252 at 2024-03-09 07:42:21 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/lifestyle/single-dose-of-lsd-can-cut-anxiety-in-half-within-weeks-breakthrough-study/
Single dose of LSD can cut anxiety in half within weeks: 'Breakthrough' study(NYPost.com)
Adriana Diaz
A single dose of LSD can cut anxiety in half within weeks, according to the results of a new study conducted by a biopharmaceutical company.
MindMed, a clinical-stage company that develops novel products to treat brain health disorders, revealed the breakthrough findings on Friday.
MindMed declared that just 100 micrograms of MM120 - the salt form of lysergide d-tartrate, a hallucinogen commonly known as LSD - provided lasting relief to patients suffering from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
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MindMed, a biopharmaceutical company, claims that a single dose of MM120 (lysergide d-tartrate) dose has been found to provide lasting relief to patients suffering from generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). getty Images/iStockphoto
GAD is characterized by excessive, persistent, and unrealistic worry about everyday things resulting in fear, persistent anxiety and a constant feeling of being overwhelmed.
Approximately 10% of US adults - about 20 million people - currently suffer from the disorder.
"I've conducted clinical research studies in psychiatry for over two decades and have seen studies of many drugs under development for the treatment of anxiety," Dr. David Feifel, an investigator in the study, said in a statement.
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"That MM120 exhibited rapid and robust efficacy, solidly sustained for 12 weeks after a single dose, is truly remarkable."
100 micrograms of MM120 is classified as a single dose of the drug.
Just that amount led to a 48% rate of remission from generalized anxiety disorder after 12 weeks, MindMed reported.
About 65% of patients saw improvements within three months, the company said.
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A single dose of MM120 led to a 48% rate of remission from generalized anxiety disorder after 12 weeks, MindMed reported. Shutterstock
"The clinical improvement for many patients was more than double what we see with today's standard of care," Dr. Daniel Karlin, assistant professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and chief medical officer for MindMed, according to CNN. "This occurred at all levels of anxiety, from moderate all the way up to severe."
The trial tested doses of 25, 50, 100 and 200 micrograms compared with a placebo without the use of psychotherapy during the session - which most research with MDMA and psilocybin has relied on.
"We're very confident based on the results that 100 micrograms is the right dose to bring into our phase three studies, as we didn't see any more improvement with 200 micrograms but did see additional adverse effects," Karlin said.
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About 65% of patients saw improvements within three months, the company said. Fergus Coyle - stock.adobe.com
Some participants did report mild to moderate symptoms of euphoric feelings, illusions and hallucinations, anxiety, abnormal thinking, headaches, dizziness, nausea, excessive sweating, vomiting, numbness or tingling of the skin, and pupil dilation on the day of the dosage.
The drug will still need to go through the standard FDA approval process and will soon enter phase III trials.
The study also found that MM120 showed "rapid and robust improvement on depression symptoms in people" as "depression and anxiety have overlapping disease definitions," according to Karlin.
#184250 at 2024-03-09 07:34:21 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/colorados-star-forensic-scientists-mistake-threatens-thousands-of-criminal-cases/
The DNA scandal that could threaten thousands of criminal cases
By Fox Business
For nearly three decades, Yvonne "Missy" Woods was Colorado's star forensic scientist, relied on by police and prosecutors to test DNA evidence in the state's most baffling crimes.
Her work was considered the gold standard by colleagues and helped put away infamous murderers, including the "Colorado Hammer Killer."
Then, in November, Woods abruptly resigned. The same day, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said it had discovered anomalies in her work during an internal review and was launching a criminal probe.
The unfolding scandal-potentially one of the largest in the history of forensic DNA testing, according to experts-is throwing Colorado's criminal justice system into chaos. The state said it would need to review and retest approximately 3,000 DNA samples that Woods handled. Public defenders estimate thousands of cases could be affected.
Prosecutors are bracing for numerous legal challenges from people charged or convicted based on Woods's findings. State lawmakers recently allocated nearly $7.5 million for possible retrials and case reviews, along with the retesting.
Yvonne Woods, a former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, in 2009. 4
Yvonne Woods, a former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, in 2009. MediaNews Group via getty Images
At the center of the storm is a mystery: Was Woods just sloppy, or has she been purposefully cutting corners for decades to put people behind bars?
"This is a huge, unprecedented mess," said George Brauchler, a former district attorney in the Denver suburbs whose office oversaw numerous cases in which Woods testified. "I want to know, what in the world did she do?"
Ryan Brackley, an attorney for Woods, said she is cooperating with the investigation.
"She continues to stand by the reliability and integrity of her work on matters that were filed in court, and particularly in cases in which she testified in court under oath," he said.
Investigators have released few details and haven't said what prompted the review that uncovered anomalies in Woods's work. They also haven't said when their probe will be complete and whether criminal charges will be filed.
Yvonne Woods, a former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, in 2003. 4
Yvonne Woods, a former forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, in 2003. Denver Post via getty Images
But in a Dec. 5 email to district attorneys across the state, the lab director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said Woods had in some cases altered data and in others, analyzed samples several times but reported only one result.
As of that date, investigators hadn't found that any DNA evidence provided by Woods was inaccurate, according to the email.
"CBI Forensic Services continues to review all cases worked by Ms. Woods during her 29-year career," lab director Shawn West wrote. "The CBI is utilizing all available resources to expedite this process."
Questioning murder cases
As Colorado prosecutors pore over hundreds of cases that Woods worked on and await results of the investigation, they must consider two nightmare scenarios: Whether any of Woods's cases ended in a wrongful conviction and whether some people correctly put behind bars must now be retried because of shoddy DNA testing.
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Boulder County, Colorado, District Attorney Michael Dougherty. Denver Post via getty Images
"The impact to the confidence and integrity of the justice system-and the work that is going to be required on these cases-is really significant," said Michael Dougherty, Boulder County's district attorney. "We will undoubtedly see defendants who've been convicted rightfully and justly trying to use this issue to their advantage."
His office has identified 56 closed cases and 13 open cases in which Woods was a witness or potential witness.
One current case he must contend with is that of Garrett Coughlin, whose trial for allegedly killing three people is set for April.
In November, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation alerted prosecutors that DNA testing conducted by Woods in the case was missing data.
Coughlin's attorney Mary Claire Mulligan said she wants to know why the problems with Woods's DNA analysis weren't caught earlier, a question other defense lawyers have asked as well. Standard criminal-lab protocol requires a forensic scientist's work on each case to be reviewed by a colleague.
"The fact that this could go on for 20-some years, and not once did it get caught by peer review, this says there is something very wrong with forensic testing in Colorado," Mulligan said.
State law-enforcement officials have said the problems are limited to Woods and aren't laboratorywide.
But issues are popping up elsewhere in the state. On March 1, the Sheriff's Office in Weld County, Colo., said it fired a veteran DNA analyst and will pursue criminal charges against her after anomalies in her work were discovered during the Woods investigation.
A sheriff's spokeswoman said that while the two inquiries were separate, the state crime lab where Woods worked and the one where this DNA analyst worked have teamed up on cases.
The 'Hammer Killer'
It was through solving cold murder cases that Woods, 60 years old, earned a reputation as a skilled criminal scientist. She was adept at finding the faintest DNA samples on old crime-scene evidence collected years before the advent of advanced forensics, including clothing and lip balm, according to court documents.
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Alex Ewing was convicted of four killings and given four life sentences. Denver Post via getty Images
One of her most notable cases dates back to 1984, when Bruce and Debra Bennett and their 7-year-old daughter Melissa were found beaten to death with a hammer inside their Aurora, Colo., home. Another woman, Patricia Smith, was raped and fatally beaten with a hammer in her Denver suburban home around the same time.
The identity of the Hammer Killer was unknown until 2018, when Woods helped identify a suspect based on evidence extracted from the crime scenes. The DNA profile matched a man named Alex Ewing, who was already serving a decadeslong prison sentence in Nevada for attempted murder in a pair of bludgeoning attacks.
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With the help of Woods's testimony, Ewing, who pleaded not guilty, was convicted of the four killings and given four life sentences. He is appealing one of the convictions, and his attorney said the investigation into Woods bolsters their case.
"It really raises significant questions as to the reliability of the DNA evidence, which was the primary evidence that convicted my client," said lawyer Suzan Trinh Almony. The district attorney's office in Jefferson County, which prosecuted Ewing in the murder case that he is appealing, said it couldn't comment because it has also been assigned to prosecute Woods if criminal charges are filed.
Brackley, Woods's attorney, declined to comment on any specific cases, but said Woods's work was "beyond reproach."
'It all made sense'
Woods has already been named in at least one lawsuit related to her work.
Days after she resigned, attorney Mark Burton filed a federal suit alleging that Woods's faulty analysis helped put his client James Hunter behind bars.
Hunter was arrested in 2002 after a woman and her 5-year-old daughter living in a Lakewood, Colo., trailer park were sexually assaulted by a man with a sock over his face. The woman said the man's voice sounded like Hunter.
Woods conducted a microscopic hair comparison that she said placed Hunter at the scene of the crime, according to the suit. But at the request of defense attorneys, the hairs were then tested by an outside lab, which determined they belonged to the victim.
When the error was revealed, Woods told the judge that it was a "blow to her ego," according to the suit. The case was dismissed.
Then, 10 months later, detectives said they had located another hair. Woods tested it and found it contained DNA from Hunter. He was arrested again and eventually convicted of sexual assault and burglary. He is still in prison today.
"Once we heard about Missy Woods, it all made sense," Burton, Hunter's attorney, said.
#184248 at 2024-03-09 06:41:14 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/world-news/former-president-of-honduras-convicted-in-us-of-aiding-drug-traffickers/
Ex-Honduran president convicted of aiding drug traffickers, using military to enable cocaine to enter US(NYPost.com)
By Associated Press
Juan Orlando Hernandez presenting his statement on COP26 in Glasgow.
Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hern?ndez was convicted of charges of conspiring with drug traffickers and using a police force to enable tons of cocaine making it unhindered in the United States. REUTERS
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hern?ndez was convicted Friday in New York of charges that he conspired with drug traffickers and used his military and national police force to enable tons of cocaine to make it unhindered into the United States.
The jury returned its verdict at a federal court after a two week trial, which has been closely followed in his home country.
Hern?ndez, 55, served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation of roughly 10 million people.
He was arrested at his home in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, three months after leaving office in 2022 and was extradited to the U.S. in April of that year.
U.S. prosecutors accused Hern?ndez of working with drug traffickers as long ago as 2004, saying he took millions of dollars in bribes as he rose from rural congressman to president of the National Congress and then to the country's highest office.
Hern?ndez acknowledged in trial testimony that drug money was paid to virtually all political parties in Honduras, but he denied accepting bribes himself.
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He noted that he had visited the White House and met U.S. presidents as he cast himself as a champion in the war on drugs who worked with the U.S. to curb the flow of drugs to the U.S.
In one instance, he said, he was warned by the FBI that a drug cartel wanted to assassinate him.
He said his accusers fabricated their claims about him in bids for leniency for their crimes.
A memorial for the victims of drug trafficking is set up outside the Manhattan federal court, with flowers and pictures of the victims.
The jury returned its verdict at a federal court after a two week trial, which has been closely followed in his home country. AFP via getty Images
"They all have motivation to lie, and they are professional liars," Hern?ndez said.
But the prosecution mocked Hern?ndez for seemingly claiming to be the only honest politician in Honduras.
During closing arguments Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Gutwillig told the jury that a corrupt Hern?ndez "paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States."
Memorial for victims of drug trafficking outside Manhattan federal court, during trial for former President of Honduras.
Prosecutors accused Hern?ndez of working with drug traffickers as long ago as 2004, saying he took millions of dollars in bribes as he rose from rural congressman to president of the National Congress and then to the country's highest office. AFP via getty Images
Defense attorney Renato Stabile said his client "has been wrongfully charged" as he urged an acquittal.
Trial witnesses included traffickers who admitted responsibility for dozens of murders and said Hern?ndez was an enthusiastic protector of some of the world's most powerful cocaine dealers, including notorious Mexican drug lord Joaqu?n "El Chapo" Guzm?n, who is serving a life prison term in the U.S.
Hern?ndez, wearing a suit throughout the trial, was mostly dispassionate as he testified through an interpreter, repeatedly saying "no sir" as he was asked if he ever paid bribes or promised to protect traffickers from extradition to the U.S.
His brother Juan Antonio "Tony" Hern?ndez, a former Honduran congressman, was sentenced to life in 2021 in Manhattan federal court for his own conviction on drug charges.
#184244 at 2024-03-09 06:24:27 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/entertainment/stormy-daniels-out-of-f-ks-in-trump-scandal-peacock-doc/
Stormy Daniels is 'out of f-ks' in new Trump scandal doc: 'I'm telling the truth'(NYPost.com)
Lauren Sarner
Get the umbrellas, a storm is here.
Stormy Daniels, 44, the porn star whose alleged affair with Donald Trump could earn him criminal charges, is back in the spotlight.
Daniels (n?e Stephanie Gregory Clifford), who is also an adult film director and a former stripper, is the subject of a new documentary called "Stormy," from director/producer Sarah Gibson and Erin Lee Carr ("Britney vs Spears").
"People think they know the facts of the case, but it's really shocking," Carr told the Hollywood Reporter.
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Stormy Daniels is the subject of a new documentary, called "Stormy." Peacock
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The filmmakers of "Stormy" also made a Britney Spears documentary. Peacock
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Daniels became a household name in 2018 when it was reported she had an affair with Trump in 2006 and was paid $130,000 in "hush money" in 2016 to stay quiet. Trump, who is running for a second presidential term, denied the affair happened.
"All I had to do was sign this piece of paper to keep it quiet," she said in the doc's trailer. "I won't give up. Because I'm telling the truth."
She added: "I'm out of f-ks."
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Stormy Daniels alleged that she had an affair with Donald Trump. Stormy Daniels
Gibson told the outlet she thinks people will find Daniels relatable, despite her "unorthodox" career choices.
"Her day-to-day life, marriage, being a mom, being the breadwinner, is something a lot of people can relate to. But then, when a bomb goes off in your life, as it did with the Trump story, she was trying to just fight her way through it and keep her career.
"She had a 20-year career before the story broke and was directing between 10 and 12 films a year. She's a very skilled filmmaker, and people just didn't know that. They just saw this seductress or a woman who was just out for fame and money."
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Stormy Daniels is also a former stripper. Peacock
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Stormy Daniels will open up about her life in the documentary, "Stormy." Peacock
The filmmaker explained that she and Daniels met in 2019.
"Then, when the Michael Avenatti trial was happening, and he was representing himself in court and asking her really awful questions on the stand, it really hurt my heart. I remembered him promoting her book, and it was shocking that he was treating her this way in court after he had obviously tried to capitalize on her," she said, referring to Daniels' disgraced former lawyer, who was found guilty in 2022 of stealing nearly $300,000 in book advance cash from the porn star.
"He showed absolutely no remorse, lying about me right until the end," Daniels told The Post at the time.
"I'll leave the sentencing to the judge but the maximum would be nice, but then again so would an apology. I am not really holding my breath for either."
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Stormy Daniels' disgraced former lawyer Michael Avenatti ended up incarcerated. Tara Ziemba
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Stormy Daniels' fallout with Michael Avenatti will also be in the documentary. AP
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Stormy Daniels gets daily death threats, the filmmakers said. getty Images
Gibson said the filmmakers' previous work on their Britney Spears documentary won Daniels over.
"She was like, 'I just saw your Britney documentary, let's do it,'" she recalled Daniels saying.
The filmmakers also praised Daniels' "courage."
"We'll be talking about really intense stuff, and she'll come up with the funniest joke. And how she's able to survive through the news cycle - the attacks, the death threats. She's just so resilient and doesn't have a victim mentality. She has this incredible courage and strength to stand up for herself. Also, she's really a tender-hearted person and has really close relationships with her daughter and her animals and her community."
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The documentary will also cover Stormy Daniels' life as a wife and mother. Peacock
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The documentary will include Stormy Daniels' various legal battles. Peacock
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Stormy Daniels married her fourth husband in 2022. Peacock
Daniels, who has been married four times, had her daughter with her ex-husband, porn star Brendan Miller, whom she divorced in 2018. Since 2022, she's been married to porn star and cinematographer Barrett Blade.
"When you marry your best friend, life is always going to be good....even on the days it's hard. Thank you @barrettblade777 for giving me my dream home, life and family," Daniels wrote in a late 2022 Instagram post.
"(The diamonds and amazing sex are awesome, too!)"
Daniels ditched her Texas home for a Florida horse farm with Blade, the Daily Mail reported.
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Stormy Daniels in the trailer for "Stormy." Peacock
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Stormy Daniels' "Day-to-day life, marriage, being a mom, being the breadwinner, is something a lot of people can relate to," the filmmakers said. Peacock
Gibson said Daniels was jaded about a potential documentary, but she talked her around.
"She said, 'Sarah, so many people have tried to make a documentary about me. No one will touch it because I'm a porn star and because of Trump. No mainstream outlet will give me a chance.' And I said, 'Well, had women ever tried? Well, give us a shot at this.'"
Carr added that this is "life and death for Stormy," because the former adult film actress "gets daily death threats. And one of the best disinfectants is sunlight."
"Stormy" will make its world premiere at South by Southwest on Friday. It debuts on Peacock on March 18.
#184241 at 2024-03-09 06:15:20 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/world-news/5-crushed-to-death-after-airdropped-gaza-aid-packages-parachute-fails-to-deploy/
2 kids, 3 adults crushed to death after airdropped Gaza aid package's parachute fails to deploy(NYPost.com)
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Five people, including two boys, died Friday when they were crushed by an airdropped aid package that didn't properly deploy over northern Gaza, Hamas officials and a witness said according to a report.
The package fell on three adults and two children inside the Al-Shati refugee camp around 11:30 a.m. when its parachute failed to deploy, officials from the Hamas-run Health Ministry and an eyewitness told CBS News.
Eleven others between the ages of 30 and 50 were also injured by the botched drop, the outlet reported.
Video shows several aid packages dropping through the sky from parachutes one descends faster than the others when its chute doesn't fully open.
Multiple countries - including the US, Jordan, Egypt, France, Belgium and the Netherlands - dropped aid packages over Gaza Friday to help residents within the embattled region.
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Five people, including two boys, died Friday when they were crushed by an airdropped aid package that didn't properly deploy over northern Gaza, Hamas officials and a witness said according to a report. AFP via getty Images
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The US aid packages were not involved in the fatalities and the incident is still under investigation, an official told The Post Friday evening.
The US packages contained non-pork and halal military rations, they added.
Airdropped aid packages have been criticized by international aid agencies for not being sufficient and should only be used as a "last resort" as the United Nations warns that more than half a million Gazans are "on the brink of famine," tweeted Martin Griffiths, head of its Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Another UN official previously calling them a "temporary Band-Aid."
"Humanitarian workers always complain that airdrops are good photo opportunities but a lousy way to deliver aid," Richard Gowan, director of the its International Crisis Group, remarked last week.
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Eleven others between the ages of 30 and 50 were also injured in the botched aid drop. AFP via getty Images
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Multiple countries - including the US, Jordan, Egypt, France, Belgium and the Netherlands - dropped aid packages over Gaza Friday to help residents within the embattled region. U.S. Central Command
A US official told CBS News that they are aware the aid packages are not enough to lessen the humanitarian crisis, but that they affirm the world aims to help Gazans.
The aid package drop comes a day after President Biden announced the US military will build a temporary port along Gaza's coast to distribute humanitarian aid.
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The US aid packages - which reportedly dropped military meals - were not involved in Friday's fatalities, a defense official told CBS News after an initial review. U.S. Central Command
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Airdropped aid packages have been criticized by international aid agencies for not being sufficient and should only be used as a "last resort" as the United Nations warns that more than half a million Gazans are "on the brink of famine." APAImages/Shutterstock
The US Army's Virginia-based 7th Transportation Brigade will install the pier, officials told CBS News, adding that it's unclear when construction will begin, but expect it to be within weeks.
The Israeli military agreed to the humanitarian pier, with Foreign Minister Lior Haiat saying it would "allow the increase of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, after security checks are carried out in accordance with Israeli standards."
#184240 at 2024-03-09 06:09:25 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/05/us-news/donald-trump-meets-with-elon-musk-in-florida-report/
Trump meets with Elon Musk, GOP donors in Florida: report(NYPost.com)
Ryan King
Former President Donald Trump reportedly met with fellow billionaire Elon Musk in Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday.
Trump crossed paths with Musk and a handful of Republican donors but is hoping to have a lengthier one-on-one meeting with the electric car and space tycoon in the future, sources told the New York Times.
Specifics of the encounter were sparse.
Trump and Musk famously butt heads in 2017, when the tech guru exited two business-related councils in protest of the then-president's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords.
Musk vocally criticized some of Trump's policies in the past. He publicly stated that he backed President Biden in 2020 over Trump and voiced support for alternatives to Trump in the 2024 Republican primary.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk also met back in 2017. AP
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"I didn't vote for Donald Trump. I actually voted for Biden. Not saying I'm a huge fan of Biden because I would think that probably would be inaccurate," Musk told Fox News last year.
However, biographer Walter Isaacson disputed that in his book on Musk, reporting that the mogul declined to vote after "he decided that going to the polls in California, where he was then registered, was a waste of time."
Despite clashing with Trump in the past, Musk has seemingly lurched to the right over recent years, if his frequent social media posts are any evidence.
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Musk has also railed against progressive policies and has taken a particular interest in immigration.
"Ushering in vast numbers of illegals is why Secretary Mayorkas was impeached by the House. They are importing voters. This is why groups on the far left fight so hard to stop voter ID requirements, under the absurd guise of protecting the right to vote," Musk posted on X earlier in the day Tuesday.
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Donald Trump has reportedly privately expressed interest in Elon Musk. getty Images
Musk, himself an immigrant originally from South Africa, has taken issue with the surge of illegal entries into the US.
In 2022, he shelled out a massive $44 billion to purchase Twitter, which he rebranded into X. Musk claimed the purchase was motivated by a desire to rework the microblogging platform into a bastion of free speech.
His Twitter takeover and perennial conservative-tinged social media postings have made him a darling on the political right.
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Having been born in South Africa, Elon Musk is technically ineligible to run for the presidency. getty Images
Musk has also knocked some of Biden's policies. Despite that he visited the White House in September, according to its visitor logs.
Meanwhile, Trump has been looking to court donors and bolster his war chest ahead of the expected rematch with Biden in exactly eight months.
It remains unclear whether Musk will open his coffers to Trump or back him.
The Post contacted the Trump campaign for comment.
#184239 at 2024-03-09 06:07:31 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1001: The REASON for TGA was to TAKE DOWN the [DS] & RedPill the world EDITION
https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/hunter-biden-helped-hire-aides-who-mishandled-joes-classified-documents/
Hunter Biden helped hire aides who mishandled Joe's classified documents(NYPost.com)
Paul Sperry
Within hours of the release of a special prosecutor's report finding he "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials" as a private citizen, President Biden rushed to the White House podium to blame his former "staff."
"I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff was doing," the president maintained.
Like Biden, these staffers have avoided any criminal charges. Who are they?
Without identifying them by name, special counsel Robert Hur narrowed the suspects to two former aides: "Executive Assistant" and "Staff Assistant 3."
He said they gathered up more than 180 classified records totaling more than 600 pages and packed them into 15 boxes as Biden left the White House in January 2017.
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Gatekeepers
Documents confirm that the staffers in question are Kathy S. Chung, who worked with Hunter Biden at the Commerce Department, and Anne Marie Muldoon, nee Person, who worked for him at Rosemont Seneca Partners, a key pass-through for foreign wire payments to Hunter Biden.
Kathy S. Chung (far right) was one of then-Vice President Joe Biden's staffers who packed classified documents for Biden before he left office in 2017.
Kathy S. Chung (far right) was one of then-Vice President Joe Biden's staffers who packed classified documents for Biden before he left office in 2017. Carla Hayden / Twitter
Chung and Muldoon were the two most important people in Joe Biden's office suite. They were the gatekeepers who controlled the front office that adjoined his West Wing office, and they stored his classified papers in file cabinets and in his safe.
Biden trusted them implicitly since they came to him on the recommendation of his son Hunter.
In effect, it was Hunter who placed them in their sensitive posts inside the White House, where they had unfettered access to "the most highly classified, sensitive, and compartmented materials recovered during our investigation," Hur noted in his report.
And they continued to communicate with Hunter throughout their tenure in his father's office, assisting his foreign business schemes, according to emails obtained from his abandoned laptop and from the National Archives.
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Hunter got his old Commerce colleague Chung her White House job in 2012, the year before Hunter traveled with the vice president on Air Force Two to Beijing to seal a lucrative investment deal with the Chinese. Chung booked the trip, records show.
The executive assistant post opened up in his father's office in May 2012, and Hunter proposed his old chum take it.
He described the job as replacing the "primary gatekeeper for the VP [and the] conduit everyone goes through to get to [Joe Biden]." In addition, she'd handle "all personal stuff" for the vice president, according to Hunter's email to Chung.
That meant, as it turned out, acting as the custodian of all of Biden's White House records, including classified material. Chung was thrilled to be considered for the position, which required Top Secret security clearance - "Thanks for calling and thinking of me," she emailed Hunter - and agreed to an interview.
"I just met with your Dad again and he officially offered me the job," she gushed in a June 13, 2012, email to Hunter. "I cannot thank you enough for thinking about me and walking me thru this."
Then in mid-2014, Hunter recommended Muldoon for the job of Chung's assistant. At the time, she was working as Hunter's aide at Rosemont Seneca. Her husband, Mike Muldoon, had also worked for Hunter at Rosemont Seneca years earlier.
Hunter Biden and attorney Abbe Lowell arrive for a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight and Judiciary committees last week.
Hunter Biden and attorney Abbe Lowell arrive for a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight and Judiciary committees last week. AFP via getty Images
Family business
Records show Chung and Muldoon still arranged overseas trips for Hunter Biden and his Rosemont partners while working in VP Biden's office. They sent and received hundreds of emails with Hunter and Rosemont.
Between July 2012 (when Chung came aboard) and April 2015, the latest data available, Rosemont Seneca shows up in a whopping 921 emails generated from the vice president's office, according to a recent partial release of Vice President Biden's records by the National Archives concerning "Hunter Biden, James Biden and their foreign business dealings."
The records reveal that, among other things, Chung and Muldoon fielded requests from Hunter for signed photos of Joe Biden, letters from the vice president for his associates and tickets to White House events, including several state dinners and luncheons with foreign leaders.
In September 2015, for example, Chung emailed Hunter to invite him to a lunch with Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted by Biden.
In August 2016, according to Secret Service visitor logs, Muldoon escorted into the West Wing James Bulger - nephew of the notorious Irish mobster Whitey Bulger - after Bulger and Hunter formed BHR Partners, an investment fund controlled by the state-owned Bank of China.
A month after Chung oversaw the removal of the secret vice presidential papers in 2017, Hunter Biden attempted to poach her to work for him directly.
"Come work with me," he wrote, "so that I can make everybody money."
At the time, Hunter was courting Chinese businessmen who ended up paying him and other Biden family members $6 million for unspecified services.
Though Chung said she was interested in Hunter's offer, she ultimately stayed on as Joe Biden's assistant at his new digs at the Penn Biden Center in DC, where Hunter had VIP access.
It was there that Biden's classified docs were first "discovered" by his lawyers, who were concerned about his own liability after the Justice Department raided former President Donald Trump's home in Florida and seized boxes of classified papers.
Cozy relationship
Chung told Hur she never noticed any classified papers among the records she packed and unpacked, before filing them in unlocked cabinets and closets in Biden's unlocked office, according to Hur.
Just weeks before she and Muldoon boxed up Biden's records, however, they received a Jan. 3, 2017, email from the National Security Council warning them not to pack anything classified and that "only unclassified personal records" could be removed from the White House at the end of the administration, noted Hur, who ultimately punted on indicting either of them, even for gross negligence.
A lawyer for Chung - who now serves as a top aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin - did not respond to requests for comment. Attempts to reach Muldoon were unsuccessful.
The issue of Hunter Biden's cozy relationship with these aides could break into the open during Hur's March 12 testimony on the Hill. Sources say lawmakers will press him on whether he investigated Hunter or his uncle Jim to see if either of them gained access to the stolen White House docs.
Last week, the House Oversight Committee, as part of its joint impeachment inquiry, subpoenaed the attorney general for Hur's investigative files, including recovered classified documents about Ukraine and China.
In a statement, the panel said it is "concerned that President Biden may have retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family's foreign business dealings."
Sperry is a senior investigative reporter for RealClearInvestigations. Follow him on X: @paulsperry_
#184233 at 2024-03-09 05:17:26 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1001: The REASON for TGA was to TAKE DOWN the [DS] & RedPill the world EDITION
https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/posts-bombshell-report-about-alien-life-on-earth-being-false-confirmed-after-us-gov-spent-millions-funding-search-pentagon/
Post's bombshell report about alien life on Earth being false confirmed after US gov spent millions funding search: Pentagon(NYPost.com)
Chris Nesi
The truth is not out there.
After spending tens of millions of dollars funding dodgy efforts to determine if little green men have visited Earth, the US government has formally acknowledged its multi-decade mission to boldly go where no man has gone before has been a bust.
A bombshell Pentagon review released Friday confirms The Post's exclusive reporting from last year that the Pentagon had developed a distracting and ultimately pointless fixation on chasing UFOs.
The Pentagon report examined all US government investigatory activity of "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" (formerly known as UFOs) since 1945, concluding that neither aliens nor their technology, have ever visited Earth.
The report, which the Defense Department's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) conducted on the orders of Congress, reviewed both classified and unclassified government archives.
Among its conclusions was the revelation that "no evidence that any [US government] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology."
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As for documented sightings of unexplained airborne objects making strange, otherworldly maneuvers in the sky - which have increased in frequency in the social media age - the report chalked them up to "ordinary objects and phenomena" and the result of "misidentification."
These assertions were echoed by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder in a statement following the release of the report.
"AARO has found no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology," he wrote.
This aerial photograph taken on March 8, 2023 shows the Pentagon 4
A bombshell Pentagon review released Friday confirms The Post's exclusive reporting from last year that the Pentagon had developed a distracting and ultimately pointless fixation on chasing UFOs. AFP via getty Images
The Pentagon noted that Americans' obsession with flying saucers and government conspiracies to cover them up began in the 1950s, driven in part by public knowledge of classified government programs like the Manhattan Project.
But as The Post reported exclusively last year, the Pentagon's own fixation with finding moon men started in 2008.
That's when, at the behest of former Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency created a $22 million program called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Application Program or AAWSAP.
US government emblem on black background with text 'failed mission to find aliens after spending tens of millions of dollars' 4
The report, which the Defense Department's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) conducted on the orders of Congress, reviewed both classified and unclassified government archives. twitter/LueElizondo
The multimillion-dollar contract was awarded to longtime Reid friend Robert Bigelow and his company Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS).
The stated purpose of the AAWSAP was to research and predict future aerospace technology trends.
But BAASS, made up of ghost hunters and psychics, soon went off the rails - using taxpayer funds to chase UFOs - and even ghosts and werewolves - at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah.
Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder speaks during a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 4
These assertions were echoed by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder in a statement following the release of the report. AP
After finding out about the program's unsanctioned paranormal activities, the Pentagon pulled the program's funding and shut it down in 2012.
In December 2017, The New York Times published a now-infamous story about this program, but without any mention of AAWSAP and its paranormal adventures. Instead, it detailed the claims of Pentagon official Lue Elizondo, who said UFOs were real and the Pentagon wasn't taking them seriously.
Two days after the article was published, Elizondo went on CNN and said the program had studied "anomalous" crafts that were "defying the laws of aerodynamics."
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid 4
Former Sen. Harry Reid the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency created a $22 million program called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Application Program or AAWSAP. getty Images
He ended the interview with the ominous announcement, "We may not be alone."
Today's Pentagon report vindicates The Post's previous reporting that despite Elizondo's statement, there were no spacemen on Earth.
The Pentagon report examined all US government investigatory activity of "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" (formerly known as UFOs) since 1945, concluding that neither aliens, nor their technology, have ever visited Earth.
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The report also throws cold water on long-held conspiracy theories alleging a cloak-and-dagger government plot to reverse-engineer alien technology recovered on Earth.
"AARO determined ... that claims involving specific people, known locations, technological tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate," the report states plainly.
Elizondo could not immediately be reached for comment.
In a statement posted on X, Elizondo hit out at the report, calling it "intentionally dishonest, inaccurate, and dangerously misleading."
"I hold the Pentagon leadership and former AARO leadership accountable for this obvious attempt to diminish and embarrass whistle-blowers, to undermine the truth, and ignore the evidence," the statement read in part.
Additional reporting by Steven Greenstreet.
#184229 at 2024-03-09 05:02:36 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #1001: The REASON for TGA was to TAKE DOWN the [DS] & RedPill the world EDITION
https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/lifestyle/alaska-airlines-flight-carrying-pets-arrives-with-cargo-door-open/
Alaska Airlines flight carrying pets arrives with cargo door open as carrier and Boeing face $1B lawsuit(NYPost.com)
Here we go again.
Embattled Alaska Airlines is at the center of a second aviation drama after a plane arrived at an airport gate in Portland, Ore. last Friday with its cargo door open.
The cargo hold was stowing passenger's pets, according to local TV station KOIN, although none of the animals were injured. The plane had flown in from Los Cabos, Mexico.
Alaska Airlines told KOIN in a statement that "there was no indication to the crew that the door was unsealed during [last Friday's] flight and all indications point to the door partially opening after landing."
"Our maintenance teams inspected the aircraft, replaced a spring in the door, tested the door and reentered it into service," the Alaska Airlines statement concluded.
The Post reached out to Alaska Airlines for comment.
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Alaska Airlines hit headlines in January after a door plug blew off mid-air during a flight from Portland to Ontario, Calif.
Embattled Alaska Airlines is at the center of a second aviation drama after a plane arrived at an airport gate in Portland, Ore. with its cargo door open. 3
Embattled Alaska Airlines is at the center of a second aviation drama after a plane arrived at an airport gate in Portland, Ore. with its cargo door open. KOIN6
An Alaska Airlines cargo door was unsealed upon landing in Portland, Oregon. Pets were reportedly in the cargo. 3
An Alaska Airlines cargo door was unsealed upon landing in Portland, Oregon. Pets were reportedly in the cargo. KOIN6
While the company appeared to downplay any issues, aviation expert Joe Schwieterman told KOIN that a cargo door opening up on its own as "a pretty major defect."
"It affects a lot of the electrical equipment in that cargo hold. So, it is troublesome that you may have a plane where some things like this went undetected," he said.
Both Boeing and Alaska Airlines are already amid a $1B lawsuit over plane safety. The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board also warned that the January incident could be repeated.
Alaska Airlines has come under a litany of criticism over safety issues this winter. 3
Alaska Airlines has come under a litany of criticism over safety issues this winter. AFP via getty Images
That aircraft was a Boeing 737 MAX 8.
Meanwhile on Friday, a Boeing 737 MAX 9 rolled off a runway at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, forcing all passengers to evacuate.
The United Airlines flight had been scheduled to fly to Memphis, Tenn.
#183563 at 2024-02-27 16:03:52 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #995: DEATH finally scores a Rothschild EDITION
THE DATES DON'T LINE UP.. but.. this wasn't well known, I didn't see it till now.. but it is what /team/ was talking about.. fucking 'ell… decodes said there was a launch, then early this weekend/late last week were talking about it also.. SHIT! ANONS SEE ALL!!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/26070479/trident-nuke-sub-missile-launch-fails/
British nuclear sub missile launch FAILS as Trident dramatically misfires and 'plops' into ocean just yards away
Details of the misfire are not being made public on the grounds of 'national security'
Jerome StarkeyPublished: Invalid Date,
A TRIDENT missile dramatically misfired and crashed into the ocean yards from the British nuclear submarine that launched it, The Sun can reveal.
The second failed launch in a row - after a misfire in 2016 - happened while Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was on board HMS Vanguard to witness the test.
HMS Vanguard was under the surface but was not hit by the 44ft missile as it plunged back into the Atlantic
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HMS Vanguard was under the surface but was not hit by the 44ft missile as it plunged back into the AtlanticCredit: Military Picture Libary
It is the second failed test since 2016, when a Trident fired from HMS Vengeance veered off course and self-destructed
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It is the second failed test since 2016, when a Trident fired from HMS Vengeance veered off course and self-destructed
The Ministry of Defence confirmed an "anomaly occurred" during the January 30 exercise off Florida, but the nuclear deterrent remains "effective".
The crew on the nuclear sub perfectly completed their doomsday drill, and the Trident 2 missile was propelled into the air by compressed gas in the launch tube.
But its first stage boosters did not ignite and the 58-ton missile - fitted with dummy warheads - splashed into the ocean and sank.
A source said: "It left the submarine but it just went plop, right next to them."
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HMS Vanguard was under the surface, hovering at launch depth, but was not hit by the 44ft missile as it plunged back into the Atlantic.
Immediately, a frantic probe began to find out what went wrong and a search ordered to recover the top-secret missile technology from the seabed at Port Canaveral, Florida.
It is the second failed test since 2016, when a Trident fired from HMS Vengeance veered off course and self-destructed.
But, despite the setback, officials insist they are confident that the misfire was "event specific".
'ANOMALY OCCURED'
Crucially, it is understood that had the firing taken place on a real patrol mission rather than under test conditions it would have been successful.
No further details are being made public about what went wrong on the grounds of "national security".
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In a statement issued to The Sun, the Ministry of Defence said: "HMS Vanguard and her crew have been proven fully capable of operating the UK's Continuous At-Sea Deterrent, passing all tests during a recent demonstration and shakedown operation (DASO) - a routine test to confirm that the submarine can return to service following deep maintenance work.
"The test has reaffirmed the effectiveness of the UK's nuclear deterrent, in which we have absolute confidence. During the test an anomaly occurred.
"As a matter of national security, we cannot provide further information on this, however we are confident that the anomaly was event specific, and therefore there are no implications for the reliability of the wider Trident missile systems and stockpile.
"The UK's nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective."
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was on board HMS Vanguard to witness the test
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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was on board HMS Vanguard to witness the testCredit: Alamy
No further details are being made public about what went wrong on the grounds of 'national security'
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No further details are being made public about what went wrong on the grounds of 'national security'Credit: Handout - getty
Ministers are expected to update MPs today in the Commons on the January 30 incident at the US's secure Navy Port site. First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key was also onboard the sub at the time.
Labour called the test fail "concerning" but stressed its support for the nuclear deterrent.
Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey said: "Labour's support for the UK's nuclear deterrent is total.
"We recognise the special service of those who've maintained our continuous at sea deterrence for over 50 years.
"Reports of a test failure are concerning. We expect a statement in Parliament from the Defence Secretary."
Officials stress Trident remains one of the most reliable weapons systems in the world, having successfully completed more than 190 tests involving the UK and US.
The UK has fired 12 Trident 2 missiles since the weapons entered service with the Royal Navy in 1994. But the two most recent ones failed.
In June 2016 a Trident 2 blasted out of HMS Vengeance and its rocket boosters successfully ignited. But moments later it veered off course, reportedly towards the US, and automatically self-destructed.
Later, Theresa May's government was accused of covering up the failed launch as parliament was due to vote on renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent.
AGEING FLEET
MPs backed a plan overwhelmingly to spend ?40billion on "upgrading the nuclear deterrent".
It means the ageing fleet of ?Vanguard subs are due to be replaced with Dreadnought-class successors in the 2030s.
The Trident fired from HMS Vanguard was due to fly 3,700 miles from off the coast of Florida to an impact point in the mid-Atlantic between Brazil and West Africa.
Its intended route was revealed in warning to ships and aircraft from National Geo Spatial Intelligence Agency.
The target was 1,000 miles closer than that of the failed 2016 launch and less than half the ?Trident 2 missile's reported range of 7,500 miles.
Trident 2 missiles are designed to blast to the edge of space, reaching speeds of 13,600mph, before re-entering the earth's atmosphere with a devastating payload of up to 12 nuclear warheads.
They first entered service with the US navy 34 years ago and four years later with the Royal Navy.
?17MILLION COST
Yet the missile's makers Lockheed Martin insist Trident 2s remain "the most advanced ballistic missiles in the world".
It said they have been successfully test-fired a "record" 191 times since 1989, most recently in September when the USS Louisiana, an Ohio-class nuclear-powered sub, conducted a demonstration and shakedown operation in the Pacific.
British launches are rarer because each missile costs upwards of ?17million.
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The last successful UK launch came in October 2012, when HMS Vigilant fired the missile after a refit and sea trials.
It comes amid a drumbeat of warnings that the world is careering towards World War Three, with increased nuclear sabre-rattling which underlines the crucial role played by Trident.
HIDDEN NUKE STRIKE-BACK
BRITAIN'S nuclear deterrent is the last line of defence to blast our enemies to oblivion in the event they launch first.
The secrecy around the sub's position means the crew rarely - if ever - are able to broadcast messages, which would give away their position.
The crews of the Vanguard-class subs can only receive brief text messages, known as family-grams, and they cannot send anything home.
They will not even be told if a loved one dies because there is nothing they can do about it.
One of the only times the sub will break its radio silence is if a crew member's life is in danger.
In the event of a nuclear conflict, each of the Navy's four Vanguard subs can fire 16 Trident 2 missiles.
Each of the rockets is armed with multiple nuclear warheads.
A Navy source said each of the subs carry more explosive power than was dropped during the entirety of World War Two.
A Royal Navy nuclear armed sub?marine has been constantly on patrol since April 1969.
If the crews lose contact with the UK government they have orders to scan the airwaves for BBC Radio 4 as proof the UK still exists.
It went on the say: "The test has reaffirmed the effectiveness of the UK's nuclear deterrent, in which we have absolute confidence."
#183370 at 2024-02-25 07:27:40 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #993: USPS SUCKS!! & Moar Balloons EDITION
https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/biden-told-yuri-luzhkov-to-be-good-to-my-boy-during-call-while-vp-hunter-associate/
Biden told Russian oligarch, ex-Moscow mayor to 'be good to my boy' during phone call while VP: Hunter associate (NYPost.com)
WASHINGTON - Then-Vice President Joe Biden allegedly told Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, ex-Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, to "be good to my boy" during a 2014 speaker phone conversation, according to a former Hunter Biden business associate who was interviewed Friday in the House impeachment inquiry.
Jason Galanis, a federal inmate who defrauded an American Indian tribe, said from his Alabama prison that on May 4, 2014, the sitting vice president called into a party in southern Brooklyn featuring his son, business partner Devon Archer and the Russian power couple.
"I was present when Hunter Biden called his father on a cell phone and put the call on speaker. Present for the call were Yelena Baturina, an investor in Rosemont projects, her husband Yuri Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, and Devon Archer," Galanis told congressional staff in testimony obtained by The Post.
"During the May 4th party, we were told to go to an area of the restaurant to gather because Hunter was going to call his father. Hunter called his father, said hello and 'hold on, Pops,' then put the call on speakerphone and said, 'I am here with our friends I told you were coming to town, and we wanted to say hello.'
"The vice president said 'hello' and some pleasantries of 'Hope you had safe travels,' and then seemed like he wanted to bring the call to an end by saying, 'OK then, you be good to my boy.'
"Hunter responded by saying, 'Everything is good, and we are moving ahead.' The vice president said something about 'being helpful,' and Hunter ended the call by saying that he was going to call his father later."
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The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Galanis' prison interview in Montgomery, Alabama - in which he also laid out new claims about Joe Biden's alleged role in Chinese and Ukrainian business relationships.
The Post was able to find some corroboration of the convicted fraudster's account.
An email from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop indicates he was due to attend a "Birthday Party @ Romanoff Restaurant" at 4 p.m. on May 4, 2014.
A source told The Post that it was a birthday party for the daughter of Alex Kotlarsky, who is believed to have recruited Archer and Hunter Biden to join the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, which infamously paid the then-second son a salary of up to $1 million per year beginning in April 2014, the month before the gathering.
The Post has not been able to confirm with other witnesses the precise quotes attributed to Joe Biden at the Brooklyn party or confirm that he called.
President Joe Biden waves goodbye while boarding Air Force One with son Hunter Biden at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland in 2022. 4
Then-Vice President Joe Biden allegedly told Yelena Baturina and her husband, former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, to "be good to my boy" during a 2014 call. AP
Baturina, who was spared yet again Friday in a more than 500-name Russia sanctions list from the Biden administration, allegedly attended two dinners with then-Vice President Biden at Washington's Cafe Milano restaurant.
Baturina was present for a 2014 dinner alongside Hunter's Kazakhstani partners and the vice president, Archer told Congress in July testimony.
The precise date of that alleged gathering is unclear.
An eyewitness told The Post that Baturina and her husband, who has since died, also attended an April 16, 2015, dinner at Cafe Milano, which also included a Kazakhstani group and Burisma board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi of the Ukrainian energy company, who wrote a thank-you email to Hunter the next day for the opportunity to meet his father.
For reasons that remain unclear, Baturina transferred $3.5 million in February 2014 to a firm controlled by Hunter and his associate Devon Archer.
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden arrive at Fort McNair, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Washington. 4
Jason Galanis, a federal inmate who defrauded an American Indian tribe, said that on May 4, 2014, Biden called into a party in southern Brooklyn featuring his son, business partner Devon Archer and the Russian power couple. AP
Archer told Congress in July that he wasn't sure of the reason for the transfer, but bank records show that more than $2.75 million of it was transferred to another corporate entity, which Archer said that he and Hunter Biden jointly owned.
Archer testified that Baturina separately invested nearly $120 million with his company Rosemont Realty, with which Hunter Biden also was briefly associated.
'I recall being stunned'
Galanis told House investigators that "I recall being stunned by this call - to actually hear the vice president of the United States speaking on the phone. It was clear to me this was a pre-arranged call with his father meant to impress the Russian investors that Hunter had access to his father and all the power and prestige of his position."
"Before this call, Hunter sat next to Yelena Baturina at a table at this party, and I heard them speaking on business matters generally," he recalled.
"A few days after this May 4th party, an email my lawyer provided to this committee shows that Devon had confirmed Ms. Baturina was committed to a 'hard order' of $10-20 million in a Burnham investment banking client," he said, referring to a company led by Archer and Hunter Biden.
Former Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and his wife Elena Baturina attending a ceremony. 4
Galanis said, "The vice president said 'hello' and some pleasantries of 'Hope you had safe travels,' and then seemed like he wanted to bring the call to an end by saying, 'OK then, you be good to my boy.'" getty Images
Hunter, now 54, was vice chairman of the Burnham Financial Group, according to trial testimony and abandoned laptop emails.
Court documents indicate the firm controlled Burnham Securities, which was the placement agent for the $60 million bond sale ripoff that defrauded a South Dakota tribe and landed Galanis, 53, with a 14-year prison sentence.
Hunter Biden was not charged in the case, but Archer was indicted in 2016 by the Obama-Biden Justice Department, convicted in 2018 and sentenced to one year in prison.
"Hunter and Devon will change your access forever," Galanis wrote in October 2014 to associate Michelle Morton, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in the case in 2018, according to evidence produced in court proceedings.
New allegations about China, Ukraine
Galanis additionally presented new allegations to investigators about the Biden family's relationships in China and Ukraine.
Burnham, the financial group led by Archer and Hunter Biden, "reached an agreement with a Ukrainian oligarch - [Burisma owner] Mykola Zlochevsky - for a $120 million investment into a new Burnham
entity," Galanis said.
"The financial arrangement documented by the US and Ukrainian lawyers laid out a 25% profit participation for the Burnham partners. The Burnham partners were not required to put up 25% of the capital. Instead, Burnham was putting up relationship capital of the Biden name in foreign markets like Kazakhstan and Mexico and elsewhere where oil concessions were sought from the government."
Hunter Biden exits federal court after a plea hearing on charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes in Wilmington. 4
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Galanis' prison interview in which he also laid out new claims about Joe Biden's alleged role in Chinese and Ukrainian business relationships. REUTERS
Galanis also indicated that Joe Biden as vice president may have been more involved than known in his son's role with an investment fund called BHR Partners, the first of two major Chinese-state-linked ventures involving the family.
Business executive Henry Zhao "was interested in this partnership because of the game-changing value add of the Biden family, including Joe Biden, who was to be a member of the Burnham-Harvest team
post-vice presidency, providing political access in the United States and around the world," Galanis said.
"I recall being with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer at the Peninsula Bar in New York, where Hunter took a call from his father. He told his father things were going well with Henry and Harvest and that he might need a little help getting it across the finish line."
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"Hunter did not put the call on speaker as we were at this bar, but I am certain that Hunter was discussing our business efforts on the Burnham-Harvest partnership and that the Vice President was aware of these efforts."
Archer previously told Congress in July that then-VP Biden had coffee during a 2013 trip to Beijing with Jonathan Li, the incoming CEO of BHR Partners.
Joe Biden subsequently greeted Li over speakerphone, Archer said, and wrote college recommendation letters for his children.
Another Biden family business partner, Rob Walker testified on Jan. 26 that an initial tranche of $3 million in funds from another Chinese business, CEFC China Energy, flowed to him in March 2017 - with about a third going to the Bidens - shortly after Joe Biden met CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming at DC's Four Seasons hotel.
Walker said the money was a "thank you" for past services in a relationship that began in 2015 while Joe Biden was still vice president.
#183367 at 2024-02-25 07:03:17 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/business/meta-allowed-parents-to-exploit-kids-by-having-pedophiles-pay-to-see-bikinis-on-instagram-report/?dicbo=v2-xwJkour
'Meta allowed parents to exploit their kids by having pedophiles pay to see them in bikinis on Instagram: report (NYPost.com)
Meta's new paid subscription service allowed parents to exploit their children by charging pedophiles to gawk at their bikini-clad kids on Instagram, where girls as young as nine years old were attracting comments from men such as "perfect bikini body," "those thighs are perfection" and "you're so hot."
Staffers at Facebook and Instagram parent Meta said that they flagged hundreds of so-called "parent-managed minor accounts" that were using the subscription feature on those platforms to sell exclusive content that included photos of young girls in bikinis and leotards to mostly men, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire for his platforms' effect on children.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire for his platforms' effect on children. Rod Lamkey / CNP / SplashNews.com
To make matters worse, Meta's algorithm-run recommendation systems were reportedly promoting child-modeling accounts to adults who posted pedophilic comments.
When Meta staffers tried to get the company to ban these accounts or at least force them to register with content moderators so that they could be monitored, their bosses declined - instead choosing to rely on a less-reliable automated system that allowed pedophiles to evade guardrails, sources told Journal.
The report comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who personally apologized to parents who confronted him about their children being exploited through his platforms last month, is seeking to avoid personal liability in two dozen lawsuits accusing his company of getting kids hooked on his social media sites.
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Last year, Meta introduced a paid-subscription service to entice influencers to produce more content on their flagship social media platforms.
Subscribers to these accounts who agreed to pay $19.99 a month were offered perks such as "in-person events" as well as "early access or releases," according to The Journal report.
The Journal found several instances in which banned accounts engaged in child exploitation were resurfacing - generating as many as hundreds of thousands of followers.
One Facebook page with more than 200,000 followers featured pinup-style photos of children.
The Meta staffers realized that the parents were well aware of highly explicit comments from adults toward their children - even going so far as to engage in sexual banter about their kids with subscribers.
Meta tools allow parents to exploit their children by selling explicit photos to pedophiles on Facebook and Instagram, according to a report.
Meta tools allow parents to exploit their children by selling explicit photos to pedophiles on Facebook and Instagram, according to a report. AFP via getty Images
The company's policy required that adults be the only ones eligible to sell content or solicit donations, though it did create a carve-out for kids to have their names on an account so long as it was co-managed by an adult.
This led to the creation of child-model accounts which attracted the interest of strange men - prompting one Canadian activist, Sarah Adams, to warn of Instagram pages that included photos of prepubescent girls in bikinis that were being purchased by pedophiles.
"We launched creator monetization tools with a robust set of safety measures and multiple checks on both creators and their content," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told The Journal.
He said Meta's efforts to bar pedophiles from viewing child-model accounts "part of our ongoing safety work."
The Post has sought comment from Meta.
Rival social media platforms TikTok, Patreon and OnlyFans ban subscriptions that feature child models.
#183366 at 2024-02-25 06:48:19 (UTC+1)
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This stinks to high heaven
https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/business/tesla-cancels-16k-pie-order-at-last-minute-leaving-california-bakery-owner-high-and-dry/?dicbo=v2-8J05hmk
'Tesla cancels $16K pie order at last minute - leaving California bakery owner 'high and dry' (NYPost.com)
A California bakery owner was left "high and dry" after electric car maker Tesla placed an order for $16,000 worth of pies - only to cancel just before the delivery went out the door.
Voahangy Rasetarinera, owner of The Giving Pies in San Jose, received the order on Valentine's Day for 4,000 pies from a rep at the Elon Musk-owned company, she told NBC Bay Area.
The Tesla worker reportedly told the black business owner - beloved by other Silicon Valley heavyweights - that the company wanted the pies delivered the following week for an event to commemorate Black History Month.
Voahangy Rasetarinera, owner of The Giving Pies, is angry over Tesla cancelling a $2,000 order of pies.
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Voahangy Rasetarinera, owner of The Giving Pies, is angry over Tesla cancelling a $16,000 order of pies.
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She's the owner of The Giving Pies, a San Jose-based small business.
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The Giving Pies, a San Jose-based small business, is beloved by other Silicon Valley heavyweights.
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A Tesla rep put in an order of $2,000 worth of pies on Valentine's Day – only to cancel abruptly before delivery.
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A Tesla rep put in an order of 2,000 of pies on Valentine's Day - only to cancel abruptly before delivery.
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Rasetarinera sent Tesla a quote, which the company rep approved, she said.
But Tesla's vendor did not send payment.
The next day, Rasetarinera said she inquired with Tesla about the lack of payment.
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"She said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry that vendor hadn't paid you yet, I think they're kind of new'," Rasetarinera said.
"'And I have a question for you, can we double the order?'"
Rasetarinera agreed, though her staff had to work around the clock to complete the job.
Rasetarinera said the cancellation left her "high and dry."
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Rasetarinera said the cancellation left her "high and dry."
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The bakery owner said that to accommodate Tesla, she had to cancel other orders as well as buy more ingredients.
After taking on the heavier workload, Rasetarinera then said she received a text message from the Tesla rep, which read: "It unfortunately sounds like we will be changing plans and will not be needing this order. Thank you so much for your support I appreciate it."
Rasetarinera said that her business suffered a loss in excess of $16,000 as a result of the last-minute cancellation.
Tesla maintains a presence in the Bay Area despite relocating its headquarters to Austin, Texas.
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Tesla maintains a presence in the Bay Area despite relocating its headquarters to Austin, Texas.
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"This abrupt reversal left me reeling, realizing the extent of the impact on my small business," Rasetarinera wrote on her Facebook page.
"I had invested time, resources, and effort based on assurances from Tesla, only to be left high and dry."
When she inquired with Tesla about the cancellation, she was told the decision came from upper management.
The "attempt to shift blame to upper management only compounded the betrayal I felt," she said
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#183365 at 2024-02-25 06:43:33 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/business/house-judiciary-committee-launches-probe-into-cbs-firing-seizing-files-of-reporter-covering-hunter-biden/
House Judiciary Committee launches probe into CBS firing, seizing files of veteran reporter covering Hunter Biden's laptop scandal (NYPost.com)
The House Judiciary Committee is calling CBS on the carpet over the firing of veteran reporter Catherine Herridge, who was probing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and the subsequent seizure of her personal records, The Post has learned.
In a scathing letter sent to CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews on Friday - obtained exclusively by The Post - Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the committee, demanded the network reveal who at CBS or parent-company Paramount Global "made the decision to terminate" Herridge.
The committee said it also wants to know why her confidential files were "seized" as part of the termination.
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Herridge's files were seized by CBS News after she was let go, and now the House Judiciary Committee is launching a probe. Catherine Herridge/X
"The unprecedented actions of CBS News threaten to chill good journalism and ultimately weaken our nation's commitment to a free press," the letter stated.
Herridge - who is the middle of a First Amendment case being closely watched by journalists nationwide - was among just 20 CBS News staffers let go as part of a larger purge of 800 employees at parent company Paramount Global.
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A source with knowledge told The Post on Thursday that the network boxed up all Herridge's personal belongings except for her notes and files and informed her that it would decide what - if anything - would be returned to her.
Jordan (R-Ohio) also requested a list of individuals who went through Herridge's files, as well as any documents and communications relating to her documents.
The committee also seeks information on any individual from Paramount Global, CBS or CBS News accessed the confidential materials, "reviewed any of her confidential materials, copied or retained any of her confidential materials, or conducted any forensic examination of her confidential materials."
The committee sent a letter to CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, demanding she turn over information on who handled Herridge's files at the network. 5
The committee sent a letter to CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, demanding she turn over information on who handled Herridge's files at the network. getty Images
The committee gave Ciprian-Matthews a March 1 deadline "no later than 5 pm" to send in the information.
Herridge did not return requests for comment.
A CBS News spokesperson again refuted the characterization that the network confiscated Herridge's private records.
"CBS News strongly denies any items were seized," the rep said.
On Thursday, the CBS spokesperson insisted the network "respected [Herridge's] request to not go through the files, and out of our concern for confidential sources, the office she occupied has remained secure since her departure."
"We are prepared to pack up the rest of her files immediately on her behalf - with her representative present as she requested," the network added.
The House probe comes amid uproar from employees who were first shocked the network would oust the journalist and equally stunned it retained her confidential files after she was let go.
"It's so extraordinary," a source familiar with the situation said, noting that the files - which are presumptively now the property of CBS News - most likely contain confidential material from Herridge's stints at both Fox and CBS.
Herridge had encountered roadblocks in her coverage of the Hunter Biden's laptop story, The Post recently reported. 5
Herridge had encountered roadblocks in her coverage of the Hunter Biden's laptop story, The Post recently reported. AP
Herridge had encountered roadblocks from higher-ups over her Hunter Biden coverage and had also clashed with Ciprian Matthews, a sharp-elbowed executive who was investigated - and cleared - in 2021 over favoritism and discriminatory hiring and management practices, as The Post previously reported.
"They never seize documents [when you're let go]," a second source close to the network said. "They want to see what damaging documents she has."
Rep. Jim Jordan sent a letter to CBS News on Friday that the House Judiciary Committee is launching a probe into CBS's seizure of Herridge's documents. 5
Rep. Jim Jordan sent a letter to CBS News on Friday that the House Judiciary Committee is launching a probe into CBS's seizure of Herridge's documents. getty Images
Sources feared CBS's actions could have an impact on Herridge's First Amendment case because her documents may contain privileged conversations she had with her lawyers or the identities of sources.
Herridge is under fire for not complying with US District Judge Christopher Cooper's order to reveal how she learned about a federal probe into a Chinese American scientist who operated a graduate program in Virginia.
The journalist may soon be held in contempt of court for not divulging her source for an investigative piece she penned in 2017 when she worked for Fox News.
As a result, Herridge could be ordered to personally pay fines that could total as much as $5,000 a day.
Herridge is at the center of a First Amendment case, which could impact press freedom principles. 5
Herridge is at the center of a First Amendment case, which could impact press freedom principles. Nathan Posner/Shutterstock
Insiders said that there are concerns that CBS could be subpoenaed to reveal her source's identity, which would threaten free-press principles.
SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents CBS staffers, condemned the network for seizing Herridge's notes and research from her office late Thursday.
"This action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First Amendment," the union said in a statement to The Post.
The union added it has been in touch with CBS News and is hopeful the matter "will be resolved shortly."
#183361 at 2024-02-25 06:17:56 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/business/hampr-block-used-deceptive-ads-deleted-tax-data-ftc/
H&R Block used deceptive ads, pressured users into overpaying, deleted tax data: FTC (NYPost.com)
The Federal Trade Commission said Friday it filed a complaint accusing H&R Block of deceptively marketing its online tax-filing software as free when that is not true for many consumers.
The FTC also alleged the company deleted consumers' tax data and required them to contact customer service when downgrading to more affordable products.
The FTC said H&R Block's TV ads and promotions indicated consumers could file their tax returns for free while including language - sometimes in fine print - that the free offer only applied to simple returns.
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The FTC has accused H&R Block of deceptive marketing by advertising online tax-filing software as free when that was not true for many consumers. getty Images
The ads did not explain what a simple return was, and the company has changed the definition of the term "multiple times in recent years," the commission said, saying H&R Block was aware of consumers' frustration and confusion with the ads.
"H&R Block designed its online products to present an obstacle course of tedious challenges to consumers, pressuring them into overpaying for its products," said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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On H&R Block's website, it advertises alternatives to the free version that cost from $35 to $85 for a federal return.
The FTC is not seeking any civil penalties.
H&R Block said in a statement it believes "we provide our clients with a great deal of value, unmatched tax expertise, and fair and transparent pricing."
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"H&R Block designed its online products to present an obstacle course of tedious challenges to consumers, pressuring them into overpaying for its products," the FTC said. AP
The company added it has offered a free, do-it-yourself "filing option for more than 20 years to help millions of Americans file their taxes."
Last month, the FTC barred TurboTax software maker Intuit from advertising or marketing services as free when many consumers were in fact ineligible, saying the company had engaged in deceptive practices.
Intuit said it would appeal.
In 2022 it paid $141 million in restitution over similar charges.
#183359 at 2024-02-25 06:09:21 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/lax-canadian-visa-requirements-fuel-migrant-surge-up-north/
Lax Canadian visa requirements fuel migrant surge into US from up north: 'There's a big opportunity for them' (NYPost.com)
Migrants desperate to get into the US from Mexico often pay human smuggler "coyotes" thousands of dollars to help sneak across the border in high-risk operations with no guarantees of safety or success.
But for travelers from a growing number of countries, gaining legal entry into Canada is simple, which has made The Great White North - with a much larger US border and less officers patrolling it - a more attractive option for illegally entering the US.
"It's really easy for Mexican citizens to come into Canada as visitors, and then they have the opportunity to cross illegally into the United States," Canadian immigration consultant Fernando Torres told The Post.
"It's very easy. People from Mexico and Chile can come to Canada without a visa requirement," said Torres, who emphasized his clients - refugees from countries including Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba - remain in Canada, and he doesn't condone border jumpers.
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Looser visa requirements have made Canada a popular stopover destination for migrants on their way to cross the US border illegally. AFP via getty Images
The lenient visa requirements offered to Mexican and Chilean nationals through Canada's electronic travel authorization (eTA) program were granted to 13 more countries last year including Morocco, Uruguay, Panama and Thailand.
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Under the program, travelers from these countries who have held a Canadian visa anytime in the last 10 years are eligible to visit Canada and stay for up to six months with no visa required.
Getting permission to enter Canada by air through the eTA program "takes about five minutes to process and [costs] seven dollars," Torres said.
However, the Canadian government comes down hard on anyone who overstays their welcome or breaks the strict terms of their visa, unlike in the US, according to Torres.
"In the United States, even though you are out of status, you can still get a license and get an education for you and your kids," he claimed.
"If you decide to overstay in Canada, you are immediately removed from the system," Torres said, which effectively renders the lollygagger a persona non grata in the country.
"You can't drive, you can't pay rent, you can't get an education, you can't get healthcare. Nobody can hire you in a serious company, so what is the point of that?"
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The US border with Canada is more than 5,500 miles long, and border patrol resources are stretched thin as Customs and Border Protection battle the migrant surge in the south. LP Media
As for why more migrants don't just fly to the US and claim asylum, Torres says "it's not that easy".
In order to be granted refugee status in the US, a migrant must meet what is known as the nexus requirement - having a demonstrable fear of persecution in their home country specifically based on their race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion.
"Not everyone has that justification," he says, adding that getting a tourst visa for the US is also not so easy for many in South and Central American countries.
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More opportunities to work without documentation and a more forgiving climate are two reasons illegal migrants continue their journey to the US from Canada, according to Canadian immigration consultant Fernando Torres. Provided by Chris Feeley
"The only opportunity a lot of people have to get to the United States is by walking because if they don't have a visa, the airline company won't allow them on the plane," Torres said.
"Which is why so many people decide to go to Mexico and cross the border or now go to Canada and cross."
Torres also said Canada's unfamiliar frigid climate plays a role in migrants making their way south to the US.
"Even though Canada has more immigration opportunities to legalize their situation, Latin people don't want to stay in Canada because of the weather," he said.
Illegal crossings at the US' southern border reached 2.3 million in 2023, capping off the year with a record 276,000 migrant encounters in December alone, according to Customs and Border Protection data.
A comparatively small 12,200 migrants illegally entered the US from the north last year, but that figure represents a 240% spike from 2022.
#183356 at 2024-02-25 05:53:06 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/rust-armorer-emotionless-as-halyna-hutchins-bloody-shirt-shown-at-trial/
'Rust' armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed emotionless as Halyna Hutchins' bloody shirt and fatal bullet shown at trial(NYPost.com)
"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was emotionless on Friday as jurors at her involuntary manslaughter trial were shown photos of the blood-soaked T-shirt cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was wearing when she was fatally shot on set and the fatal bullet that passed through her body.
Gutierrez-Reed, 26, stared blankly ahead in the Santa Fe, New Mexico courtroom as prosecutors laid bare the bloodied evidence on day two of her trial.
Jurors were also shown grim images of the blood-stained shirt director Joel Souza had been wearing, as well as the fatal bullet that was recovered from his shoulder, where it had lodged after the incident during rehearsals for the movie on Oct. 21, 2021.
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"Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was emotionless on Friday as jurors were shown photos of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' blood-stained shirt. Court TV
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The jury was shown this image of the shirt cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was wearing when she was fatally shot on set in 2021. Court TV
The string of images were flashed on screen as prosecutors grilled crime scene investigator Marissa Poppell about the slew of evidence - including ammunition - she helped collect and package up from the fatal shooting site.
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Dressed in a black-pinstriped blazer, Gutierrez-Reed - who prosecutors have already painted as "unprofessional and sloppy" - remained expressionless as the prosecutor established a chain of custody for the physical evidence.
It comes a day after jurors were shown harrowing police body camera footage of the chaotic scene in the wake of the shooting as medics rushed to treat wounded and semiconscious Hutchins and load her into an ambulance.
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Jurors were also shown an image of the bullet found lodged in director Joel Souza's shoulder after it ripped through Hutchins' body. Court TV
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An image of the blood-stained shirt director Joel Souza had been wearing when he was shot was also shown to the jury. Court TV
Gutierrez-Reed has pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence in Hutchins' death.
Her defense attorney, Jason Bowles, has argued the young armorer isn't to blame and, instead, is being smeared and unfairly scapegoated.
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He had earlier told jurors Gutierrez-Reed had to perform two jobs on "Rust" while being rushed - and requests for help went unanswered by her manager.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, have said they plan to present evidence the weapons supervisor brought prohibited live ammunition onto the set, which ultimately landed in "several of the actors' costumes."
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Dressed in a black-pinstriped blazer, Gutierrez-Reed remained expressionless as the prosecutor established a chain of custody for the physical evidence. POOL/AFP via getty Images
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Halyna Hutchins died after being shot during the movie rehearsals on Oct. 21, 2021.
The trial is slated to run through March 6 with more than 40 potential witnesses.
Baldwin, the lead actor and a co-producer on "Rust," doesn't appear on pretrial witness lists.
The Hollywood A-lister has maintained he never pulled the trigger on the gun, causing it to fire. However, FBI testing has claimed that was not possibe.
Baldwin is separately fighting a charge of involuntary manslaughter, though no trial date for him has been set.
#182868 at 2024-02-19 04:56:37 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/osama-bin-ladens-niece-says-only-trump-can-prevent-another-9-11/
Osama bin Laden's niece says only Trump can prevent another 9/11(NewYorkPost.com)
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Osama bin Laden and his niece Noor Bin Ladin
Osama bin Laden and his niece Noor bin Ladin AFP/getty Images
Another 9/11-style attack may be just around the corner if Joe Biden is elected president, warns Noor bin Ladin, the niece of Sept. 11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.
"ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe. Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign threats by obliterating terrorists at the root and before they get a chance to strike," bin Ladin, 33, told The Post in her first-ever interview.
Bin Ladin (whose branch of the family has always spelled their name differently than her infamous uncle) lives in Switzerland but said she considers herself "an American at heart." A full-size US flag hung in her childhood room at age 12 and her dream vacation is an RV trip across America.
The stunning, Swiss-born bin Ladin says she is all in for Trump in 2020, calling the election the most important in a generation.
"I have been a supporter of President Trump since he announced he was running in the early days in 2015. I have watched from afar and I admire this man's resolve," she said. "He must be re-elected ... It's vital for the future of not only America, but Western civilization as a whole."
"You look at all the terrorist attacks that have happened in Europe over the past 19 years. They have completely shaken us to the core ... [Radical Islam] has completely infiltrated our society," bin Ladin continued. "In the US it's very worrying that the left has aligned itself completely with the people who share that ideology."
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While Trump has long been a polarizing figure in the United States, he is even more toxic in Europe, where views of US leadership have plummeted since he took office. A 2018 Gallup poll found just 18% of Swiss citizens approved of his job performance.
Noor, who said she regularly wears a "Make America Great Again" hat (and occasionally a Trump bedtime onesie), has had to confront many Trump-haters on her side of the Atlantic. During a recent trip to the grocery store while wearing the iconic red cap, Noor was accosted.
"I am minding my own business and this woman in her late 50s charges toward me and starts speaking very loudly and aggressively to me," she recalled. "She's yelling at me and saying how can I be wearing this and Trump is the worst president ever and she's basically dumping on my beloved president ... She told me three times, 'You're stupid.' I kept my cool, and needless to say I kept my hat!"
And it's not just Trump. From her perch in Western Europe, Noor bin Ladin has been a keen and meticulous consumer of conservative media and advocate of their most hot-button causes. Though soft-spoken with aristocratic graces, she can offer lengthy monologues railing against Spygate, tech censorship of conservative voices, mandatory mask-wearing, the New York Times' discredited 1619 Project, and even Gov. Andrew Cuomo's controversial executive order requiring nursing homes to accept seniors with COVID-19.
Her favorite television show is Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" and she's chummy with Laura Loomer. The rising GOP star running for Congress in Florida is a ferocious opponent of radical Islam, but has also been accused by critics of Islamophobic remarks.
"Laura has been very vocal about this and I commend her for being brave enough and speaking out," said bin Ladin, who was not raised with any religion.
Bin Ladin didn't mince words about The Squad either, and offered high praise to The Post's front page calling out Rep. Ilhan Omar's "some people did something" remarks about 9/11.
"You do have a situation now in America where you have people like Ilhan Omar who actively hate your country," bin Ladin said, noting how Omar had urged "compassionate" sentences for 13 ISIS recruits busted in her home state of Minnesota.
"It's an honor to be able to go and live in the United States and make the most out of all the opportunities," bin Ladin said, choking up. "If she hates it so much, why doesn't she leave."
Bin Ladin is the daughter of Carmen Dufour, a Swiss author, and Yeslam bin Ladin - an older half-brother of Osama. Dufour and Yeslam split in 1988 and Noor, along with her two sisters, Wafah and Najia, were raised in Switzerland.
Yeslam Bin Ladin
Yeslam bin LadinAP
For most of her adult life, Noor helped her mother with a nasty and years-long divorce from Yeslam, who has played no role in her life. After the 9/11 attacks, Carmen became a brief international sensation with her 2004 tell-all account of her life in the bin Laden family: "Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia."
Unlike her older sister Wafah, an international pop singer and socialite, Noor bin Ladin has kept a low profile. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Geneva, a master's in commercial law from the University of London, and a computer coding bootcamp under her belt. She's worked in startups and is currently writing a book analyzing the first 20 years of the 21st century.
"My life would have been very different had I been raised in Saudi Arabia," she said. "I really grew up with this deep appreciation for freedom and basic individual rights."
Bin Ladin recalled how she played soccer in school for 13 years. "My mom would come to all the games and she would say, 'When I see you play, I know that all the hardship was worth it because you get to do what you choose and what you love.'"
Noor was just 14 when her uncle perpetrated the deadliest attack on US soil in history. From the moment the second plane hit, she knew her life would never be the same.
"I was so devastated," she recalled. "I had been going to the States with my mom several times a year from the age of 3 onwards. I considered the US my second home."
Bin Ladin said part of the reason she rejected liberal assertions that America was a "racist country" was based on her own lived experience.
"I have not had a single bad experience with Americans despite the name that I carry. On the contrary, I was overwhelmed by their kindness and understanding," bin Ladin said, adding she's been back to the US a few times since the attacks. She hasn't visited the memorial yet, but is planning on it the next time she is in New York.
"I really want to go and pay my respects."
#182666 at 2024-02-16 03:49:37 (UTC+1)
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/climate-agenda-set-push-food-prices-even-higher-analysts-say
Climate Agenda Set To Push Food Prices Even Higher, Analysts Say(ZeroHedge.com)
Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
As inflation remains stubbornly high, farmers throughout the Western world are warning that cost increases from the net zero movement will drive food prices still higher, while simultaneously putting many smaller farmers out of business.
A customer shops for meat at a Safeway store in San Francisco, Calif., on Oct. 4, 2021. (Justin Sullivan/getty Images)
January inflation numbers showed that prices increased by 3.1 percent over what they were a year ago, indicating that the fight against inflation, while progressing, has not been won.
Overall, prices have surged by nearly 18 percent since January 2021 when President Joe Biden took office.
Americans are struggling in an economy in which, by official statistics, nearly one-fifth of the value of their dollars has evaporated in three years-though many will say the cost of food and other essentials has become more expensive than what the official numbers state.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which tracks food prices, offers an optimistic assessment of the coming year. After having gone up 9.9 percent in 2022, the USDA states, "[food] prices grew more slowly in 2023," increasing by only 5.8 percent.
"Food prices are expected to continue to decelerate in 2024," the USDA projects.
While some predict that the worst is behind us, analysts of the U.S. farming industry say there is another round of price inflation in the works, which will come from the Biden administration's "whole of government" effort to reduce global temperatures.
A recent report by the Buckeye Institute attempts to quantify the cost of Bidenomics to farmers.
The report, titled "Net-Zero Climate-Control Policies Will Fail the Farm," projects that farmers will see costs rise by at least 34 percent, which will increase the household grocery bill for an American family of four by more than $1,300 per year.
"Complying with net-zero emissions policies and corporate ESG reporting requirements will increase prices of farm inputs, the costs of which will ultimately be passed onto consumers at grocery stores and restaurants," the report states.
"This is where the left is going, trying to get to net zero," Rea Hederman, executive director of the Buckeye Institute's economic research center, told The Epoch Times. And the costs imposed on farmers are in addition to price hikes from inflation, weather, or other factors that typically impact food prices.
"The fact that the federal government printed too much money, this is on top of that," Mr. Hederman said, "and it's a sustained increase, not a temporary fluctuation in food prices, because you're building higher baseline operating costs that are going to be permanent for farmers going forward."
The report analyzed an average U.S. farm, which is about 700 acres in size, producing corn. It then summed the costs of complying with net zero mandates, as well as price increases on fuel, fertilizer, and other supplies from the various net zero initiatives that are either in place or expected to take effect.
The report projects that the cost base of this farm will escalate from $192,000 to $257,000 as a result. As costs trickle down to consumers, the grocery bill for a family of four would increase from $8,320 to $9,650-a 15 percent increase.
"It's important for people to understand that when you're raising costs to farmers, that is being passed on to consumers of food, and some types of food are going to be impacted more," Mr. Hederman said. "So for example, beef is going to go up more than oranges because if you're raising the cost of corn, that's an input to beef, so beef suffers a double whammy."
The average price of ground beef increased from $3.97 per pound in January 2021 to $5.03 per pound in January 2024, according to Federal Reserve statistics.
Cattle ranchers are struggling not only with higher feed and fuel costs but also drought in many parts of the United States, which has reduced herd size.
According to EPA estimates, agriculture accounted for 10.6 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, with the bulk of those emissions coming from livestock and fertilizer.
Projected food price increases from net zero policies (Source: The Buckeye Institute)
Beef a Luxury
Climate activists often oppose animal farming for this reason, and within that category, beef is the number one target. Of all livestock, beef produces the most greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for about 60 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions from farming, studies suggest.
Jais Valeur, CEO of Danish Crown, Europe's top meat processor, told Denmark's Berlingske newspaper in 2021 that beef will soon become a luxury because of the emissions from producing it.
"It will be a bit like champagne, namely a luxury product," Mr. Valeur said. "The beef cattle will be a luxury product that we eat when we need to pamper ourselves."
Olive oil, salt, and pepper are all you need to make your steak delicious. (Yuriy Golub/Shutterstock)
Many farmers have argued that, while larger corporate farms may be able to weather the additional pricing pressure, net zero policies will be particularly harmful to smaller farms, which will concentrate food production among an ever smaller number of producers.
"Everybody needs food to survive, so farms can pass on a great deal of that cost," Mr. Hederman said. "But our belief is that family farms, smaller farms, a lot of them will sell out or go out of business because they do not have as much access to capital."
Farming, with its use of heavy equipment for planting, harvesting, and transportation, is a capital intensive business. It also requires large amounts of working capital to finance the period between planting crops or raising animals, and when produce or livestock can be sold to market.
This has raised concerns that because of the environmental, social, and governance movement (ESG), which has taken hold among many Wall Street financial institutions, banks will start to penalize farms that fail to comply with ESG criteria, including to reduce emissions.
On Jan. 29, agriculture officials from 12 U.S. states sent letters to banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, urging them not to impose net zero criteria on farmers.
The banks are all members of the U.N. Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which commits members to achieve U.N. net zero goals throughout their loan portfolios.
While these commitments are confirmed on bank websites, a JPMorgan spokesperson told The Epoch Times that "JPMorgan Chase does not have an agriculture emissions intensity reduction target" and that "we make our own banking, lending, and underwriting decisions and don't relinquish decision-making to third parties."
UN Paris Accords Set the Terms
In 2016, the Obama administration signed the United States up to the United Nations Paris Climate Accords.
The agreement commits America to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 percent by 2030 and to reach economy-wide net zero emissions by 2050.
In 2017, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement.
On President Joe Biden's first day in office, he recommitted the United States to the Paris Accords.
According to the Buckeye report, the biggest drivers of the current price hikes are the increased cost of fertilizers, many of which are derivatives of natural gas, and the increased cost of diesel and propane.
"After recommitting the United States to the net-zero climate-control agenda, the president and Congress revived significant misguided features of the once-failed 'Green New Deal' through the Inflation Reduction Act," the report states.
This includes using executive orders to restrict oil and natural gas supply, blocking drilling leases on federal lands, canceling pipelines, blocking exports of liquid natural gas, and enacting a Securities Exchange Commission mandate to require audited reports of greenhouse gas emissions, which would apply to farmers.
"These federal initiatives and requirements will prove expensive and economically destructive here-just as they have been in Europe," the report states.
'Canary in the Coal Mine'
Europe leads the United States in enacting net zero provisions, and farmers there have been squeezed by rising costs as a result. Farmer protests have erupted throughout Europe over the past year, most recently breaking out in the UK and France, in response to government efforts to cut the use of synthetic fertilizers and clamp down on agricultural CO2 emissions, with the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
In the face of popular dissent, government officials in Europe have begun to backpedal on their commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, and by 90 percent by 2040.
The European Commission, which is the executive of the European Union, indicated that it would now consider exempting farmers from many of its climate mandates.
"You can look at Europe as the canary in the coal mine," Mr. Hederman said. "We're seeing what happens when you drive up fertilizer costs, playing out all over Europe right now.
"European governments are starting to have second thoughts about the draconian nature of the rules they are implementing, because they're realizing this is not going to be sustainable and because farmers are furious," he stated.
A slogan which reads "Hunger will be our fate" is displayed on a tractor as farmers block the entrance of a Leclerc supermarket in Le Mans, northwestern France, on Jan. 26, 2024, as part of a nationwide day of protests called by several farmers unions on pay, tax and regulations. Farmers have fumed at what they say is a squeeze on purchase prices for produce by supermarket and industrial buyers, as well as complex environmental regulations. (GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP)
As farmers struggle, some climate activists see a solution in food alternatives, such as insect-based and fungi-based foods.
In a 2021 interview with the MIT Technology Review, Microsoft founder Bill Gates discussed developments in laboratory production and scientific modifications to livestock farming. Mr. Gates is an investor in synthetic food manufacturing companies, including Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, and Upside Foods.
"I don't think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic meat [but] I do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef," he said. "You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they're going to make it taste even better over time."
#182288 at 2024-02-11 10:17:48 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #984: Deep State: WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE Edition
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/08/alabama-200ft-radio-tower-stolen
'What do you mean, the tower is gone?': thieves steal 200ft structure from Alabama radio station(TheGuardian.com)
Small radio station forced to go silent after 'unbelievable' theft of giant tower, which would cost over $100,000 to replace
Gloria Oladipo
a red and white tall metal structure with blue skies dotted with clouds behind it
A different radio tower, which has presumably not been stolen. Photograph: Ryan McGinnis/getty Images
An Alabama radio station has been forced to temporarily shut down after thieves stole a 200ft radio tower.
WJLX, a station in Jasper, Alabama, was ordered to go off air by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after thieves took the station's AM tower last week, the Guardian first learned.
"In all my years of being in the business, around the business, everything like that, I have never seen anything like this," WJLX's general manager, Brett Elmore, told the Guardian.
"You don't hear of a 200ft tower being stolen," he added.
Elmore said the theft was first discovered last week by a landscaping crew that regularly manages the area nearby the tower, WBRC reported.
"They called me and said the tower was gone. And I said, 'What do you mean, the tower is gone?'" Elmore said.
The radio tower was previously located in a wooded area, behind a local poultry plant. Elmore said that thieves had cut the tower's wires and somehow removed it. Thieves also stole the station's AM transmitter from a nearby building.
Elmore quickly reported the theft, but said that local police were equally surprised at the brazen robbery.
"They were just as stunned as I was. It's unbelievable," he said.
For the small radio station, the theft has had a significant impact. Elmore said the station's property was not insured. Replacing the tower could cost the station anywhere between $100,000 to $150,000, which is "more money than we have", Elmore said.
The FCC also notified WJLX on Thursday morning that the station would have to go off the air because of the theft. While WJLX still has its FM transmitter and tower, it is not allowed to operate its FM transmitter while the AM station is off the air.
"This is a huge loss," Elmore said. "People have reached out and asked how they can help, but I don't know how you can help unless you have a 200ft tower and an AM transmitter."
As news of the tower theft has gone viral, Elmore says that many people have reached out to him and local police with their own theories on the tower's disappearance.
"I had a guy from Virginia call yesterday and say, 'You know, I think a helicopter grabbed [the tower],'" Elmore said.
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Elmore added that WJLX wasn't the only station to be hit by thieves. About six months ago, a nearby radio station had their air conditioning unit, copper pipes and other materials stolen.
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Elmore isn't sure if the robberies are connected, but believes thieves may have targeted WJLX's tower and transmitter to make a quick buck from selling the metal.
Despite the bad news, Elmore remains hopeful that surveillance video from the nearby poultry plant or witnesses employed at the plant can help piece together who stole the station's tower.
"Surely, someone saw something or heard something," Elmore said.
Elmore added that the station is working to get the AM tower up to get back on the air, but will resume their broadcasts online in the meantime.
"The sad part is that Jasper has always been a radio town. They have always supported their local radio station," Elmore said.
"Now we're silent, but we won't be silent for long. I'm gonna work tirelessly to get this thing back up and running, one way or the other."
#179906 at 2024-01-13 07:00:56 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #963: Trump bout to go hard on Fanni (kek) EDITION
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heres-much-passengers-were-paid-150700226.html
Here's How Much Passengers Were Paid After Alaska Airlines Plane Lost Its Door Plug Mid-Flight (Yahoo"news".com)
Fri, January 12, 2024 at 9:07 AM CST
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Alaska Airlines passengers traveling from Portland, OR to Ontario, CA on Jan. 5 endured a terrifying ordeal when their aircraft was rapidly depressurized mid-flight after a door plug blew out from the side of the plane. Thankfully, nobody was injured and the plane was able to land safely. Now we have an idea of exactly what kind of compensation passengers are looking at in the aftermath.
According to The Washington Post, the airline announced that it would be fully refunding everyone's flights and providing $1,500 in cash compensation to each passenger.
"Alaska Airlines provided a full refund to each guest on Flight 1282. As an immediate gesture of care, within the first 24 hours, we also provided a $1,500 cash payment to cover any incidental expenses to ensure their immediate needs were taken care of," the statement said, adding that the airline was offering "24/7 access to mental health resources and counseling sessions."
"I haven't fully processed if that payment is enough or not," said Nicholas Hoch, to The Washington Post. "I don't know how this is going to affect me in the coming weeks and months, you know?"
Related: Top 25 Safest Airlines of 2024 List Omits Several Major U.S. Carriers
Investigators found the door plug in a backyard in suburban Portland, and also recovered two passengers' phones, one of which was still working after falling from the plane. The incident has caused all airlines to scrutinize their Boeing 737-9 Max jets, with United announcing that it had found loose bolts on several of its own aircrafts.
"I am personally committed to doing everything we can to conduct this review in a timely and transparent way," Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said in a statement.
"My heart goes out to those who were on this flight - I am so sorry for what you experienced. I am so grateful for the response of our pilots and flight attendants. We have teams on the ground in Portland assisting passengers and are working to support guests who are traveling in the days ahead."
Although $1,500 doesn't seem like much, passengers could stand to get much more through potential lawsuits.
#179090 at 2024-01-04 08:21:53 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #956: ALIENS, SKY EVENT, ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, NET PAUSE, SCARE EVENT next? EDITION
ONE of THE BIGGEST takeaways from all of this is that: women and girls procured the underaged girls into the pedophile ring It wasn't MEN preying upon the girls solely.. WOMEN and OTHER GIRLS were being paid to get other girls.. (Ray Chandler) etc.. WOMEN were involved as much, if not more than men were in procuring new girls into all of this.
That was personally the hardest for me to wrap my brain around, why a woman would do that to another woman.. like Chrissy Teagan in her Twitter posts.. what would a grown woman want with a little girl?!?! Fucked up.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/david-copperfield-allegedly-dinner-epstein-victims-magic-tricks-court-docs
Magician David Copperfield allegedly had dinner with Epstein and victims, did 'magic tricks': Court docs(Foxnews.com)
Copperfield allegedly asked Epstein accuser if she knew that girls were being paid to recruit others
January 3, 2024 9:31pm EST
Bill Clinton to be identified in Epstein documents: Report
Fox News' Alexandria Hoff reports the latest on what's expected.
Famed American magician David Copperfield allegedly had dinner with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and a few of his victims, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
Attorney Sigrid McCawley asked an accuser of Epstein - Johanna Sjoberg - and his former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell if she ever met Copperfield.
"Yes," she said. The document is part of a May 2016 deposition.
"Someone called me from the house and said that he would be there, and if I wanted to come have dinner, then I could meet him," Sjoberg said. "So when I arrived at the house, he wasn't there yet ... and there was another girl there which I had never met and never seen. She seemed young."
Sjoberg then said Copperfield "did some magic tricks" at dinner and said he was a friend of Epstein's. Sjoberg said Copperfield, who was previously accused of sexually assaulting a teen model in 1988,questioned her whether she "was aware that girls were getting paid to find other girls," the court document read.
"Did he tell you any of the specifics of that?" McCawley asked.
"No," Sjoberg said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Copperfield for comment.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN LIST: DEADLINE FOR ASSOCIATES TO APPEAL UNSEALING HAS PASSED, NAME DROPS COULD BEGIN TODAY
Mug shot of Jeffrey Epstein
Mug shot of Jeffrey Epstein, 2019. (Kypros/getty Images)
Dozens of names that had previously been redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein's former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell have been made public on orders of a federal judge in New York.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered their release in December but gave the Jane and John Does two weeks in case they wanted to appeal.
The names were unveiled in a series of 40 documents that have been posted to the docket without previous redactions that hid big names, including former President Bill Clinton, his estranged longtime aide Doug Band, Prince Andrew, and the French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who like Epstein died while awaiting trial.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN LIST: COURT UNSEALS NAMES IN GHISLAINE MAXWELL LAWSUIT
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Photo composite showing a courtroom sketch of Ghislaine Maxwell, left, sits at the defense table with defense attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca while listening to testimony in her sex abuse trial, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Epstein had many high-profile connections, including former U.S. presidents, foreign prime ministers and Britain's Prince Andrew, as well as Hollywood stars, leading academics, people in the modeling and fashion industries and other public figures. Some of the names were previously known through other means despite having been withheld from the public's eye in the lawsuit.
Many of the names belong to people who have not been accused of wrongdoing, including Clinton, who also declined to ask the court to have his name remain sealed.
Fox News' Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
#179089 at 2024-01-04 08:15:49 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #956: ALIENS, SKY EVENT, ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, NET PAUSE, SCARE EVENT next? EDITION
RollingStone and "muh Qanon.. "
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jeffrey-epstein-documents-maga-conspiracists-1234939571/
MAGA Conspiracy World Is Flooding the Zone With Epstein Garbage(RollingStone.com)
By Miles KleeJanuary 3, 2024
MAGA Conspiracy World Is Flooding the Zone With Epstein Garbage
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump Davidoff Studios/getty Imagesnone
Four years after sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in jail, far-right conspiracy theorists remain enamored with the notion that he remains the key to proving that prominent Democrats comprise a secret pedophile cabal. And, with court documents related to a civil case against his human trafficking co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell starting to be unsealed Wednesday, many believe their political enemies are about to feel the sting of justice.
The material comes from a settled 2015 defamation suit brought against Maxwell by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, with some mentioning public figures Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, and others. But quite a few names in the papers have until now remained redacted (The individuals are anonymously referred to as numbered John and Jane Does.) Conservative misinformation peddlers have predicted that the release of those names will vindicate their most outlandish claims of a nefarious global plot that can only be put to an end by the increasingly melded MAGA and QAnon conspiracist movements.
Though the true extent of what we may learn from the documents is not yet known - and more may be released in the coming days - right-wing truthers seem to have already overhyped their importance, keeping followers engaged with breathless nonsense during the wait for what they promised were earth-shattering revelations. Each hour that passed without an actual update was another opportunity to sow false leads and general distrust. For one thing, while Giuffre settled a separate sexual abuse suit against Prince Andrew, the appearance of one's name in the Maxwell case evidence is not in itself an indication of criminal wrongdoing; some of the individuals whose identities have been protected so far are instead alleged victims of sexual abuse.
In the lead-up to the court filings, bogus Epstein content cluttered X/Twitter, now a cesspool of right-wing fake news thanks to Elon Musk. Quite a few posts purported to share images of "Epstein's Client List," a term that has trended intermittently on the platform in recent days even though it's a grossly inaccurate description of what the documents are. These unsourced, spurious, and typo-ridden lists named well-known Democrats and liberal critics of Trump in the entertainment world as visitors to Epstein's private island in the Caribbean. At the same time, notorious QAnon promoters such as Liz Crokin and popular Trump fan accounts pushed the line that Trump had actually been a crucial player in Epstein's exposure and 2019 arrest, trying to downplay the heavily documented long-term friendship between the two men, which reportedly ended in 2004. (Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was among those who retweeted Crokin's dubious defense of Trump.)
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After Tuesday came and went without anything to slake their thirst for the genuine records - though self-styled independent "journalists" continued to share misleading links to what they apparently believed were the unsealed documents - conspiracists on Wednesday wildly speculated as to the cause of the delay. Donald Trump Jr., for his part, incorrectly predicted that the names would never come out. Some misinterpreted a court order noting that Doe 107's name would be kept under seal until at least Jan. 22 as proof that one person was holding up the process for fear of being named as an associate of Epstein's; in fact, as a previous court filing shows, Doe 107 is an alleged victim and fearful for her safety in her culturally conservative country of residence if her identity is revealed.
That didn't stop certain right-wingers from smearing her as, to take one example, a "super-powerful FEMALE PEDOPHILE," or baselessly suggest that she might be anyone from Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie. Meanwhile, in a bizarre livestream Wednesday afternoon, Dershowitz tried to change the subject to Israel and Hamas.
Once some actual files dropped on Wednesday evening, far-right commentators looked to spin them in ways favorable to Republicans and Trump in particular. YouTuber and serial plagiarist Benny Johnson extracted two snippets of witness testimony to declare that the trove of documents "clear [Donald Trump] of any wrongdoing." Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec made a similar claim, as did the MAGA shitposting king known as @Catturd2. Of course, two witnesses saying they never saw Trump on Epstein's properties proves nothing conclusive about their relationship, which reportedly endured from the 1980s until the mid-2000s, when the pair became rival bidders on a Palm Beach estate. Trump was indeed a notable guest at Epstein's homes until then.
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Even after people began combing through the documents, high-profile conspiracists were looking to bigger, better, and far less verifiable stories. Alex Jones, reinstated on X by Musk in December after a formerly permanent suspension, warned that the supposed Epstein client list and flight logs for his private jet had "distracted" the American public from what he described as a cache of video data showing Epstein's abuse of children - suppressed by President Joe Biden's Department of Justice and the FBI, presumably to protect powerful individuals. But with former presidents already implicated, that ship would seem to have sailed, and there's no reason to believe that InfoWars has special insight into the evidence the feds collected on Epstein's trafficking ring.
Another strain of malicious fake news piggybacked on a feud between late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers. On Tuesday, Kimmel threatened to sue Rodgers for casually implying on ESPN that he would be among those names revealed in the unredacted papers. On Wednesday, right-wing trolls circulated bogus images of a made-up deposition from the Giuffre case in which a fake witness claims to have had sex with Kimmel at Epstein's Palm Beach mansion. (Likewise on the Hollywood celebrity side, a tweet falsely claiming director Steven Spielberg's intention to "leave the United States if the Epstein Client List is released" made the rounds on pro-Trump sites.)
The most salacious concrete detail that the right seized upon in the unredacted documents was testimony in which accuser Johanna Sjoberg recalled Epstein telling her that "[Bill] Clinton likes them young, referring to girls." Which, though disturbing, neatly conforms to accusations that conservatives have leveled at the former president for years, if not decades. A few conservative figures, foreseeing no real bombshells or hope for revenge against elites, sought to prepare their audience for disappointment before the files came out. Right-wing comedian and commentator Tim Young tweeted on Tuesday, "Not to ruin it for you... but even if big names are named on Jeffrey Epstein's list... NOTHING will happen to them." Amid all this bullshit, it was a rare bit of truth-telling.
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#179087 at 2024-01-04 07:08:41 (UTC+1)
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/how-trump-kept-tabs-on-jeffrey-epstein
"He Said Not to Tell Anyone": How Trump Kept Tabs on Jeffrey Epstein (VanityFair.com)
By Emily Jane FoxJuly 9, 2019
In the months before he ran for president, Donald Trump was in conversation with National Enquirer owner David Pecker about his old acquaintance, Jeffrey Epstein, and how his sexual abuse scandal might affect the Clintons. "Trump said that Pecker had told him that the pictures of Clinton that Epstein had from his island were worse," recalls a former Trump Organization employee.
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at MaraLago in 1997.
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 1997.
By Davidoff Studios/getty Images.
Perhaps the most revealing commentary Donald Trump has offered on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who pleaded not guilty this week to sex trafficking and conspiracy, occurred in late February 2015, onstage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump, then flirting with a presidential run, was fielding softballs from Fox News host Sean Hannity when a lightning round of questions turned to a favorite topic: Bill Clinton. "Nice guy, Trump said. "Got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein," he added, seemingly veering off topic. "Lot of problems."
In fact, Epstein was then very much top of mind for Trump, who had his own history with the registered sex offender. Over the previous several weeks, the National Enquirer had published a string of stories about Epstein, including a "world exclusive" interview with one of his accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who said in court documents that Epstein forced her to have sex with him at his Upper East Side home. She told the tabloid that Epstein paid her to have sex with Britain's Prince Andrew, one of an expansive retinue of high-flying elites who enjoyed Epstein's company and took advantage of his private jet. (Buckingham Palace has denied the allegations.) Another was Clinton, who the Enquirer reported had traveled with Epstein's assistant on his plane, and was at Epstein's private island in the Caribbean. (Clinton denies ever traveling to Little St. James Island, but has confirmed that he traveled with Epstein several times in 2002 and 2003, including trips to Africa in connection with the Clinton Foundation. In her interview with the Enquirer, Giuffre said she had seen Clinton around, but that she never saw him involved with women.)
Trump had been following the story closely. In the week or so leading up to his CPAC speech, David Pecker, who owned the Enquirer until it was sold in ruin earlier this year, visited Trump on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, bringing along an issue with a Prince Andrew and Epstein-related cover, according to people familiar with the meeting. Pecker, of course, was in the business of protecting Trump. An early supporter of his presidential campaign, Pecker has helped "catch and kill" at least two stories involving the real estate mogul and women who claimed to have had affairs with him. (Trump has denied the affairs.)
Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, who would later go to prison in part for his role in these hush money schemes, was in the room when Pecker sat down. Pecker, he later told me, used to send him articles and issues before they were published so that he and Trump could read them. After the meeting Trump called in Sam Nunberg, then a Trump Organization employee, who saw Pecker leaving Trump's office. "Michael was sitting in there when I came in, and the issue of the National Enquirer with the pictures of Prince Andrew was on his desk," Nunberg recalled. "He said not to tell anyone, but that Pecker had just been there and had brought the issue with him. Trump said that Pecker had told him that the pictures of Clinton that Epstein had from his island were worse." (Cohen, speaking by phone from the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, corroborated Nunberg's version of the events, though he declined to add any additional information about the meeting.)
During the meeting with Pecker, Trump went on about how Epstein was known for this behavior, according to a person familiar with the conversation. Trump, after all, used to be friendly with Epstein, and had at least an inkling about his sexual predilections. In a 2002 interview with New York magazine, Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who was "a lot of fun to be with." He added: "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." (The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
Trump isn't known to have gone on any trips with Epstein, which would have been out of character. "I don't think Trump would go to someone else's property or someone else's island or villa," Nunberg said. "He doesn't even play golf at anyone else's clubs." But Trump did host Epstein as a guest at Mar-a-Lago, where he appears in photos in 1997 and 2000. Epstein's personal little black book, which was leaked by an employee in 2009, contained 14 phone numbers for Trump, his wife, Melania, and several people who worked for him.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, President Trump dismissed his past appearances with Epstein, describing him as a "fixture in Palm Beach" in those years. "I had a falling out with him a long time ago," he added, though he declined to elaborate. "I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years."
Other individuals who had found themselves in Epstein's orbit over the years, from Clinton to Prince Andrew, have been similarly eager to distance themselves from the scandal. ("President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York," a spokesperson said in a statement.) In the meantime, journalists following the Epstein case are eagerly awaiting other documents that could shed light on Epstein's powerful friends, including Trump and famed attorney Alan Dershowitz. (Giuffre, who is suing Dershowitz for defamation, claims she had sex with him as part of Epstein's sex trafficking operation-a claim Dershowitz vehemently denies.) A federal prosecutor said in court that officials did not expect any "imminent" additional charges, but added that more are "possible down the road."
Democrats may soon have an opportunity to question Pecker about his relationship with Trump. Later this week, the House Judiciary Committee will vote to authorize a subpoena for Pecker, among people involved in the Mueller report, as they investigate possible obstruction of justice.
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#178232 at 2023-12-23 04:30:10 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #946: Twitter Down.. but [Y]?? EDITION
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-blocks-californias-concealed-carry-restrictions-banning-firearms-most
==Federal Judge Blocks California's Concealed Carry Restrictions Banning Firearms In Most Public Places
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),== ( ZeroHedge.com)
A controversial California law that would ban licensed gun holders from carrying their firearms in multiple locations across the state was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Dec. 20, meaning the legislation will not go into full effect as planned next year.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference in Sacramento on Feb. 1, 2023, announcing a new law to establish stricter standards for concealed carry weapon permit holders to carry a firearm in public. (Justin Sullivan/getty Images)
Senate Bill 2 was part of a string of new gun restrictions introduced in California this year after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen in June of 2022 that found a New York law requiring a license to carry a concealed weapon in public was unconstitutional and that carrying a pistol in public was a constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
Under California's legislation, private citizens who hold concealed carry weapons permits would be prohibited from carrying concealed guns in 26 locations, including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks, medical facilities, and any other privately owned commercial establishments that are open to the public.
The ban would apply regardless of whether the person has a permit to carry a concealed weapon or not, although the measure includes exceptions for privately owned businesses that "clearly and conspicuously" put up signs at the entrance of the building or on the premises indicating that license holders are permitted to carry firearms on the property.
Senate Bill 2 was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September and was set to take effect on Jan. 1, despite opposition from gun rights advocates and groups, including the California Rifle and Pistol Association, who filed a lawsuit against California state, county, and local law enforcement agencies and officials earlier this month.
In their lawsuit, the groups argued the measure violates both the U.S. Constitution and state law.
'Repugnant to the 2nd Amendment'
In his decision to block the law Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney sided with the plaintiffs, writing that the law went too far and would "unconstitutionally deprive" concealed carry permit holders "of their constitutional right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense."
Gun instructor Mike Stilwell demonstrates a revolver as he teaches a packed class to obtain the Utah concealed gun carry permit, at Range Master of Utah, on Jan. 9, 2016 in Springville, Utah. (George Frey/getty Images)
Furthermore, the California law "is sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court," Judge Carney, an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote.
"For many years, the right to bear arms, and so necessarily the right to self-defense, was relegated to second-class status," the judge wrote. "But the United States Supreme Court made clear in its landmark decisions District of Columbia v. Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Incorporated v. Bruen that relegation could no longer be permitted-individuals must be able to effectuate their right to self-defense by, if they so choose, responsibly bearing arms."
"SB2 turns nearly every public place in California into a 'sensitive place,' effectively abolishing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding and exceptionally qualified citizens to be armed and to defend themselves in public," he added.
The judge further stated the preliminary injunction was warranted because plaintiffs suing the state would suffer "irreparable harm" without it.
He also noted the measure did not make complete sense, given that it focused predominantly on law-abiding gun owners.
"Although the government may have some valid safety concerns, legislation regulating [concealed carry] permitholders-the most responsible of law-abiding citizens seeking to exercise their Second Amendment rights-seems an odd and misguided place to focus to address those safety concerns," Judge Carney wrote.
Gun owners with concealed carry weapons permits "have been through a vigorous vetting and training process following their application to carry a concealed handgun," he wrote. "The challenged SB2 provisions unconstitutionally deprive this group of their constitutional right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense."
Newsom Condemns Ruling
In a statement to multiple media outlets on Wednesday, Mr. Newsom said Judge Carney's ruling "outrageously calls California's data-backed gun safety efforts 'repugnant.'"
"What is repugnant is this ruling, which greenlights the proliferation of guns in our hospitals, libraries, and children's playgrounds - spaces, which should be safe for all," he said.
The Democrat added that he "will keep fighting" for gun restrictions because "the lives of our kids depend on it."
Elsewhere, Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, praised Judge Carney's ruling on Wednesday.
"California progressive politicians refuse to accept the Supreme Court's mandate from the Bruen case and are trying every creative ploy they can imagine to get around it," he said. "The Court saw through the State's gambit."
Mr. Michel added that Senate Bill 2 would have meant gun permit holders "wouldn't be able to drive across town without passing through a prohibited area and breaking the law" and that the latest decision makes Californians safer.
#176181 at 2023-11-20 07:40:58 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #927: Turgey Day Week, LETS STUFF DEM [DS] TURGEYS! Edition
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https://www.newsweek.com/donna-brazile-book-seth-rich-dnc-murder-conspiracy-702838
DNC's Donna Brazile Dedicated Her Book to 'Patriot' Seth Rich, Whose Death Made Her Fear for Her Own Life(Newsweek.com)
Max KutnerNov 06, 2017 at 11:38 AM EST
Updated | A new book by Donna Brazile, the former interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has been making headlines for its controversial claims about the 2016 presidential election and the Hillary Clinton campaign. But the provocative points start even before the first chapter, as Brazile reportedly dedicated the book in part to Seth Rich, the DNC staffer whose murder launched a conspiracy theory.
Axios reported on Sunday that the book's dedication reads, "In loving memory of my father, Lionel Brazile Sr.; my beloved sister, Sheila Brazile; my fearless uncles Nat, Floyd, and Douglas; Harlem's finest, my aunt Lucille; my friend and mentor, David Kaufmann; my DNC colleague and patriot, Seth Rich; and my beloved Pomeranian, Chip Joshua Marvin Brazile (Booty Wipes). I miss y'all."
Related: TV Ad With Russian Subtitles Questions Seth Rich's Murder
Rich, 27, was fatally shot in July 2016 while walking home late at night in Washington, D.C. The police believe the shooting was a robbery gone wrong. But Rich worked for the DNC, and WikiLeaks published thousands of emails from the committee two weeks after his death. That timeline provoked theories that Rich had given the materials to WikiLeaks and that his death was an attempt to stop him from doing so, or to punish him for it.
Media reports had characterized Rich as a low-level staffer, and his parents wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Post in May, "Those who have suggested that Seth's role as a data analyst at the DNC gave him access to a wide trove of emails are simply incorrect."
Your daily briefing of everything you need to know
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Donna Brazile, then the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, at the Democratic National Convention in July 2016. SAUL LOEB/AFP/getty
Rich appears elsewhere in Brazile's book, as the Post reported earlier in the weekend. She wrote that Rich's murder haunted her and that she'd installed surveillance cameras at her home and would keep the blinds in her office window closed so she could not be seen by snipers, according to the Post.
Brazile talked about Rich on ABC News's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. She told the host about her critics: "They don't know what it was like to be over the DNC during this hacking. They don't know what it's like to bury a child. I did: Seth Rich."
Brazile had spoken publicly about Rich's death before. In March, she said she was going to an Omaha, Nebraska, synagogue to speak about him. In May, she tweeted, "Seth Rich was a hard worker and proud to be an American. This desire to scar Seth's legacy to his country and party is shameful." About two months later, after Fox News published a since debunked story about the case, she tweeted, "Seth was a good soul and look at this shameful act."
Through spokesman Brad Bauman, the Rich family said in a statement, "Since Seth was murdered, Donna Brazile has been a great friend to the Rich family and has been extremely supportive of the family's efforts to find Seth's killers."
In the book, out Tuesday, Brazile also writes that she weighed the possibility of replacing Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee with former Vice President Joe Biden, according to the Post. She also reportedly wrote that Clinton's campaign headquarters seemed "antiseptic, like a hospital," and that she felt as though the Clinton campaign was treating her like a "slave." In an excerpt that Politico published on November 2, she wrote about how the Clinton campaign worked out a fundraising agreement with the DNC and exercised control over the party long before Clinton became the nominee.
Former aides to the Clinton campaign have challenged Brazile's claims. In a November 4 open letter, more than 100 former top aides wrote, "It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and our opponent, about our candidate's health."
Brazile was not available for comment through her publisher, Hachette Book Group, or through Georgetown University, where she is a faculty member. The publisher was unavailable to verify the reported wording of the book dedication.
This article has been updated to alter the spelling of the last name of Sheila Brazile, which was misspelled as Brazioutlanle by another media outlet.
#175051 at 2023-11-09 15:16:47 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #916: Papi Kilt' it EDITION
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blm-branch-co-founders-election-bombshell-trump-best-candidate-president
BLM Branch Co-Founder's Election Bombshell: Trump "Best Candidate" For President (ZeroHedge.com)
Mark Fisher, co-founder of a Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapter in Rhode Island, is advocating for former President Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office in 2024-and insists he's far from being the only one in the BLM movement to feel this way.
In a recent interview with podcast host Kim Iversen, Mr. Fisher was asked to defend remarks he made earlier that President Trump is "the best candidate we have."
"Because everybody else sucks," Mr. Fisher replied, later praising President Trump for his straightforward approach and contrasting it with what perceives as the Democratic Party's hypocrisy.
Ms. Iversen sought to clarify Mr. Fisher's response, asking if he thought President Trump was simply the best of a bad lot and frankly "not that great either."
Mr. Fisher replied by highlighting his personal regard for President Trump-before adding that it's hard not to appreciate what the 45th president brings to the table given the shortcomings of the incumbent.
"I like Trump," he said, before adding: "I think right now, who we have sitting in the Oval Office is just a deep disappointment."
He expressed "disdain" for President Joe Biden, adding that he "really dislikes" Vice President Kamala Harris as well.
'The Tide Is Starting To Turn'
Reacting to Mr. Fisher's critical remarks about the incumbent and words of praise for the former president, Ms. Iversen suggested that her interviewee was probably a lone figure in the BLM movement who thinks this way.
"No," Mr. Fisher insisted. "I feel like the tide is starting to turn," he said, adding that he thinks "a lot of black people are starting to pivot off that Democratic plantation."
"For so long, we've been slaves to that," he added.
The concept of the Democrat "plantation" was discussed deeply in a New York Times bestseller written by political activist and social media personality Candace Owens, titled "Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation."
Candace Owens speaks at the CPAC convention in National Harbor, Md., on March 1, 2019. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
In her book, Ms. Owens argues that Democrat policies hurt, rather than help, the black community in America by pushing policies that perpetuate government dependency, a culture of victimhood, and miseducation.
"Their policies are basically racist policies," Mr. Fisher said of the Democrat Party's policies, which he argued "strike at the heart of the black family and the nuclear family, in general, and I believe Donald Trump is the opposite."
"He's going to tell you how it is, he's going to give it to you straight, he's not going to be a hypocrite and stab you in the back like the Democratic Party loves to do," he added.
Mr. Fisher resigned from his leadership position at BLM Rhode Island and is now the founder and executive director of Maryland's BLM Inc., a pro-entrepreneurship education and financial empowerment non-profit for African Americans and their communities.
'Lambs Led to Slaughter'
In a recent interview with The Epoch Times, Mr. Fisher expressed support for people who took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach and received harsh sentences while accusing U.S. legacy media of pushing narratives that sow division.
"They're lambs led to slaughter, to be sacrificed as an example for all who might want to dissent in the future," Mr. Fisher told The Epoch Times. "This is what the government does to those who express independent thought and want to stand up for what they believe."
In regards to the legacy media, he said they have an agenda to "stop us from uniting."
"It's the same media that caused the division between all of these marginalized groups in the first place to keep us at each other's throats," he said.
Much like during his interview with Ms. Iversen, he also insisted that he's not the only one in the black community to support President Trump, although he added that many are afraid of being ridiculed so they keep their political views secret.
"They won't say it in public in fear of backlash from the community because they have reputations, businesses, and relationships they don't want to put in jeopardy," he said. "But they'll speak with their vote."
Former President Donald Trump gestures after delivering remarks at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, N.J., on June 13, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP via getty Images)
Mr. Fisher's latest remarks come as President Trump has widened his lead over President Biden in a new CNN poll, which puts support for the former president at 49 percent compared to the incumbent's 45 percent.
When the same poll was carried out at the end of August, President Trump led President Biden by 47 percent to 46 percent.
Besides polls, there have been other signs that the former president enjoys strong support among voters despite the fact that he faces numerous legal challenges that he says are political attacks.
Nevada real estate tycoon Robert Bigelow, the biggest donor to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign, said recently that he's now backing President Trump because he's the "strongest commander" and that's what America now needs in an increasingly chaotic world.
#174686 at 2023-11-05 20:19:14 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #912: The only good Kennedys were killed by Deep State EDITION
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Who Is Dave Chappelle's Wife? All About Elaine Chappelle(People.com)
Dave and Elaine Chappelle have been married since 2001 and share three children
Elaine Chappelle, Dave Chappelle walk the red carpet at the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, NY on February 15, 2015
Photo: Mike Coppola/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal
Dave Chappelle and his wife, Elaine Chappelle, have been together since the '90s, though little is known about the early days of their romance.
The two have kept their relationship and their family life extremely private. Elaine rarely appears at public events with Dave, and they keep a fairly low profile living at their home in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
The comedian - who stirred up controversy and received backlash from the LGBTQ community after making transphobic jokes in his 2021 Netflix standup special The Closer - has said his family prefers the quiet of their Ohio life. "We don't live in Hollywood, there's no paparazzi trying to get their picture," he said during a 2020 appearance on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.
Here's everything to know about Dave Chappelle's wife, Elaine Chappelle.
She's an extremely private person
Dave Chappelle and his wife Elaine Chappelle attend the Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2022/2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 21, 2022 in Paris, France
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Elaine keeps a very low profile. She's rarely seen out in public with Dave, and he doesn't speak about her often in interviews or in his comedy.
She does have a private Instagram profile and counts Chrissy Teigen as one of her nearly 700 followers. Her bio reads, "'What other people think of me is none of my business.' - Eleanor Roosevelt."
She and Dave met in Brooklyn
Elaine Chappelle (L) and Dave Chappelle pose ringside at "Mayweather VS Pacquiao" at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 2, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Ethan Miller/getty
Dave met Elaine in Brooklyn, New York, before becoming a household name.
"She was with me when I was poor," the comedian previously joked to Howard Stern. The couple got married in 2001, though they haven't revealed any details about their nuptials.
She is a mom of three
Dave Chappelle, Elaine Chappelle (R) and their daughter attend the 18th Annual Mark Twain Prize for Humor at The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts on October 18, 2015 in Washington, DC
Paul Morigi/WireImage
Elaine and Dave have three kids together: two sons, Sulayman and Ibrahim, and a daughter, Sanaa.
In an interview with The A.V. Club, Dave said having his first son was "the best thing that ever happened" to him.
She and Dave live in Ohio
Elaine Chappelle (L) and comedian Dave Chappelle attend the 2014 GQ Men Of The Year party at Chateau Marmont on December 4, 2014 in Los Angeles, California
Jason Merritt/getty
Dave might be one of the biggest comedians out there, but he prefers to keep a low profile in his everyday life.
Dave and Elaine live on a 65-acre farm in Yellow Springs, Ohio. At an Ohio music festival in 2006, he said, "Turns out you don't need $50 million to live around these parts, just a nice smile and a kind way about you. You guys are the best neighbors ever ... that's why I came back and that's why I'm staying."
She didn't know Dave was going to South Africa
Dave Chappelle and wife Elaine attend the NBA All-Star Game 2018 at Staples Center on February 18, 2018 in Los Angeles, California
Kevork Djansezian/getty
In 2005, Dave famously abruptly walked away from the third season of his hit sketch comedy series, Chappelle's Show, and fled to South Africa, turning down a $50 million deal in the process.
During a 2006 appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Dave joked about his wife's reaction to him turning down the contract.
"My wife's still a little salty at me," he said. "She's not mad at me, but don't think you're going to walk away from $50 million and your wife's just going to be cool with that."
He later talked to Oprah Winfrey about his decision to walk away. "One, I needed a break," he recalled. "Two, we have family and friends down there. I felt like it was a place where I could really reflect ... and here's the other thing: I was only gone for two weeks! They made it sound like it was so mysterious."
He also shared that he didn't call Elaine before he left. "It wasn't that I didn't tell my wife," he said. "It was [more] like, 'I'm not telling her until after I'm gone.' Which was a mistake, but it wasn't a crazy mistake."
She helps keep Dave in the loop on what people are saying about him
Elaine might stay behind the scenes when it comes to Dave's career, but she's also his support system. During a 2017 interview on New York radio station Hot 97, Dave once said he doesn't seek out what people are saying about him online.
"My wife, if it gets real bad, she'll let me know, like, 'Oh, you should look into this,' " he said. "But for the most part, I try not to pay attention to it ... I try to keep my business small enough so it can still be authentic enough."
She's made a few public appearances to support Dave
Dave Chappell and his wife Elaine arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Mark Twain Award for American Humour on October 27, 2019 in Washington, DC
ALEX EDELMAN/AFP
Elaine has stepped out to support her husband on a few rare occasions.
In 2019, she accompanied Dave to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where the comedian was given the Mark Twain Award for American Humor. In a video from the ceremony, Elaine can be seen proudly recording her husband's acceptance speech on her phone. She was also by her husband's side when he was named one of GQ's Men of the Year in 2014.
Most recently, Elaine was photographed alongside Dave and supermodel Naomi Campbell at the Dior Homme fashion show in Paris in January 2022.
#173867 at 2023-10-26 04:52:04 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #905: Dems [PANIC] as House in Full Control EDITION
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2023/10/25/explained-the-weird-blood-moon-eclipse-happening-this-halloween-weekend/?sh=2e41acbe60b7
Explained: The Weird 'Blood Moon' Eclipse Happening This Halloween Weekend(Forbes.com)
Jamie CarterOct 25, 2023,
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When is the lunar eclipse? When a solar eclipse occurs on one side of the planet-as it did so on October 14 in the Americas-you can bet that a lunar eclipse will follow two weeks before or after.
That's exactly what will arise on Saturday, October 28 when a slight partial lunar eclipse will be visible from the night-side of Earth. North America won't see much, if any, of this event, which will primarily be viewed from Europe, Africa and Asia.
Is this a true "Blood Moon?" Not, it is not-but since October's full moon, the "Hunter's Moon," is also often known as a "Blood Moon," there is some confusion.
Here's everything you need to know about this weekend's lunar eclipse:
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Partial Lunar Eclipse Explained
Just as a solar eclipse can only occur during new moon, a lunar eclipse can only occur at full moon. That's what happens on Saturday when the full "Hunter's Moon" is 100% lit by the sun, so its disk appears fully visible.
It's what happens next that's special. While the moon is full, the fuzzy outer shadow of shadow of Earth-it's penumbra-will fall upon it. It will therefore lose a lot of its brightness.
When a full moon drifts into Earth's darker, central shadow-it's umbra-a dark total lunar eclipse occurs. That's colloquially called a "Blood Moon."
However, that's not really what's happening here. In fact, the next total lunar eclipse isn't until March 14, 2025. So why the confusion?
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"The 'Hunter's Moon,' sometimes known spookily as the 'Blood Moon,' is the full moon which tends to appear in October in the Northern Hemisphere," said Dr Minjae Kim, Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Warwick in the U.K. where the entire eclipse will be observed, in an email. "Its name arises from many years ago, in North America, when deer had been fattened over the summer, ready for hunting in Autumnal moonlight, to provide sustenance over the colder months."
Confusing nicknames aside, there's some actual cosmic alignments at work that will help you visualize exactly what's about to occur.
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What The Partial Lunar Eclipse Will Look Like
Although a tiny fraction of the full moon will be covered by the umbra, it won't completely enter it, so there will be no "Blood Moon" moment.
The result will be a partial lunar eclipse during which the whole of the moon will dim slightly and a portion of the its disk will noticeably darken. It's going to look weird, but far from spectacular.
"The pinnacle magnitude of the eclipse, indicating the portion of the moon's diameter covered by the deepest region of Earth's shadow, will be 12.2%," said Kim. "At the same time, only a scant 6% of the moon's surface will undergo obscuration at the height of the eclipse."
Kim said that, as a visual spectacle, this partial lunar eclipse will be relatively understated, adding: "meticulous timing is paramount for those keen on capturing the event."
Who Will See This Partial Lunar Eclipse
Since Earth's shadow is much larger than the moon, every lunar eclipse can be seen by a whole hemisphere-the night-side of Earth when the eclipse occurs.
The best placed regions for this eclipse will be Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
From North America the full moon will be exiting Earth's outer penumbra as it rises, which will be barely visible, if at all.
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Lunar Eclipse Exact Times
This partial lunar eclipse is a global event occurring at exactly the same time. It will occur between 18:01 through 22:26 Universal Time (14:01 through 18:26 EDT), according to Timeanddate.com (put your location into this page and you will see a localized schedule of the eclipse).
However, the only phase of any real interest is 19:35 through 20:52 Universal Time (15:35 through 16:52 EDT), when the full moon will cross into Earth's umbra. If you want to be really precise, the moment of maximum eclipse-which is, after all, only 12%-will be 20:14 Universal Time (16:14 EDT).
Where To Livestream The Lunar Eclipse
The Virtual Telescope Project, which broadcasts from Rome, Italy-ideally placed for observing this partial lunar eclipse-will livestream the event from 18:00 Universal Time (14:00 EDT).
I'm an expert on eclipses-the editor of WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com and author of The Complete Guide To The Great North American Eclipse of April 8, 2024. For the very latest on April 8, 2024's total solar eclipse-including travel and lodging options-check my main feed for new articles.
Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.
#173693 at 2023-10-25 01:36:54 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #903: Presence is future, ether is present, conscience is past EDITION
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-wants-anti-isis-coalition-fight-hamas-presses-bibi-clarity-about-endgame
Pentagon Belatedly Reveals Two Dozen US Personnel Were Wounded In Spate Of Drone Attacks In Iraq, Syria(ZeroHedge.com)
Update(1910ET): The Pentagon revealed in a late Tuesday statement that in just the past week, US and coalition forces have been attacked at least ten times in Iraq, as well as three times in Syria "via a mix of one way attack drones and rockets," according to Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, speaking to NBC.
But the real bombshell development, which Biden's defense officials have apparently sat on for several days, is that some 24 US personnel were wounded in the attacks. According to the NBC statement:
Two dozen American military personnel were wounded last week in a series of drone attacks at American bases in Iraq and Syria, U.S. Central Command told NBC News on Tuesday.
The Pentagon confirmed the attacks last week, but the number of U.S. casualties has not been previously disclosed.
"Twenty American personnel sustained minor injuries on Oct. 18 when at least two one-way attack drones targeted al-Tanf military base in southern Syria, CENTCOM said," the report continues.
It appears all the injuries were deemed minor, given Gen. Ryder described that all personnel returned to duty after being evaluated and threated, and there was no significant damage to base installations. However, in Iraq, "The U.S. shot down the one-way attack drones, but the debris from one destroyed a hanger that contained small aircraft, CENTCOM said."
Illustrative: Iranian Army drone training exercise, via Reuters
The defense official said that amid the attacks there was a contractor that suffered cardiac arrest and died while sheltering in place, but the Pentagon isn't necessarily considering the casualty to be the direct result of the assault.
The Pentagon may have concealed the information until now not only to properly account for all the instances and wounded personnel, but possibly to avoid escalating tensions by releasing the news. The Biden administration has vowed to respond 'decisively' if Americans in the region come under attack by Iran.
The militias operating in Iraq and Syria, believed to be behind the uptick in attacks, are widely viewed by Washington as being supported from Tehran.
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Update(1550ET): It's never a good sign when the United States says it "doesn't want war" - at a moment a long known geopolitical flashpoint region stands on the brink. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday delivered a stern warning to Iran before a UN Security council meeting, saying the US is prepared to respond "decisively" if Tehran or its proxies launch attacks on Americans in the Middle East.
Not only does the Pentagon still have thousands of troops and assets in Iraq, long under the domination of Shia paramilitary influence, but it has up to a thousand or so troops occupying broad oil and gas regions of eastern Syria. Missile and drone attacks on Pentagon outposts in Syria and Iraq have been rising in the last days. But the real concern is on Israel's northern border, where Hezbollah has launched multiple guided missile and anti-tank attacks on Israel border posts, including on Tuesday.
"The United States does not seek conflict with Iran," Blinken told the UNSC "We do not want this war to widen. But if Iran or its proxies attack US personnel anywhere, make no mistake: We will defend our people, we will defend our security, swiftly and decisively." Russia's President Putin, who since 2015 has stationed major assets in neighboring Syria, just the day prior blamed Washington for stoking "escalation" in the Middle East by moving two US carrier strike groups into the region.
There are building fears that Iran-backed Hezbollah would launch an all-out war on Israel if the IDF moves in full force into Gaza. The only thing which apparently has stalled these plans is the slow release (so far up to four hostages) of Israeli and American captives by Hamas. Domestic political pressure is also building against the Netanyahu government, led by families who see in Qatari mediated efforts hope that loved ones will be released. Hamas has demanded that fuel be transferred into Gaza via the Rafah border, but Israel has countered that all hostages must be freed first.
"We call on all member states to send a firm, united message to any state or non-state actor that is considering opening another front in this conflict against Israel or who may target Israel's partners, including the United States: don't. Don't throw fuel on the fire," Blinken said. But the historical pattern has been that when the US moves such huge naval power into the Mediterranean and Mideast waters, it plans to do something with it.
Jordan (and others), have at the same time warned the UN assembly that there's "real danger" of a bigger war which draws in superpowers like Russia, or even potentially China, which also has interests and military assets in the region.
"We're all doing everything we can to stop it. There's the threat of this expanding into the West Bank, into Lebanon, into other fronts. None of us want that, we're all working against that," Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told the UNSC.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to Israel Tuesday, the latest Western leader to do so, where he's meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials in what's scheduled as a two-day trip. He's met with families of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack as well.
He arrived in Tel Aviv just after Gaza's health ministry announced that deaths from Israeli airstrikes have soared past 5,000 killed. Just in the last 24 hours, officials said that 704 Palestinians have been killed. Additionally the ministry has warned that hospitals and medical centers are shutting down at rapid pace, with lack of resources including fuel and electricity.
Macron, while meeting Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday, conveyed that the release of the over 220 hostages held in Gaza should be the "first objective" of Israel and its allies. Macron appears to be backing Biden's appeal for Israel to stall the ground invasion in order to provide more time for negotiations. So far, four women have been released from Hamas captivity, including two Americans from Chicago.
The Tuesday meeting, AFP via getty Images
But Macron has also made headlines in proposing that France help provide a military solution. He has offered that France's counter-ISIS forces be utilized for anti-Hamas action. He said his country stands ready "to beef up what we are doing in the coalition against ISIS. We are available to include Hamas in the coalition against ISIS depending on what Israel will ask us to deliver."
Macron said at a press conference alongside Netanyahu that terrorism is "our common enemy". Referencing the Islamic State, he explained, "France is ready for the international coalition against Daesh in which we are taking part for operations in Iraq and Syria to also fight against Hamas."
Shortly after Macron's proposal grabbed international headlines, an Elysee Palace official clarified that "Not every country is fighting on the ground" and that "Much will depend on conversations we have with our allies." The official stressed that Paris will still seek a "more crucial, more decisive peace process," and added:
"If you want to fight effectively and if you want to have everyone with you, you have to offer a political perspective," the official continues. "We need to know altogether why we are fighting."
"The cause that Israel is fighting for is our cause as well."
…France wants to "consolidate the perspective of a ceasefire. I know it is very delicate to discuss. But we need again to know where we are going to have the instruments available that can bring back peace and stability."
Importantly he stressed that in Jerusalem, Macron asked PM Netanyahu for "clarity about the endgame, the modalities with which you operate, the conditions which you create, your political motivation."
France had previously confirmed losing 30 of its nationals during the Oct.7 terror assault, nine of which are still missing - presumably in captivity in Gaza.
The question of "clarity" regarding Israel's goals and strategy is also high on the US administration's agenda. A Times of Israel report this week, commenting on what US officials told The NY Times, issued the following blunt words: "The Biden administration is reportedly concerned that Israel lacks achievable military goals for its operations in Gaza, leading US officials to believe that the IDF is not yet ready for a ground incursion."
Macron's visit, during which time he's seeking "clarity" on objectives, will only heighten this pressure on Netanyahu to convey a clear plan and exit strategy. The fear also is that Israel's military could get bogged down in a costly Gaza fight, leading to escalation and quagmire, including in the north with Hezbollah.
#173427 at 2023-10-22 05:53:26 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #901: The swamp keeps swampin EDITION
>>173423
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Who did POTUS meet with yesterday?
Was AG Sessions there?
How many MI generals were on the WH list to attend a separate meeting?
Could those meetings have been combined?
Why were certain rooms in the WH renovated?
Where was the meeting on Monday?
Why aren't phones allowed in this room (one of many).
What firm was contracted to conduct the renovations?
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https://www.propublica.org/article/haitians-under-u.s.-treatment-are-often-separated-from-families
Haitians Under U.S. Treatment Are Often Separated From Families(ProPublica.org)
The U.S. government has brought needed medical services to thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors. But a bureaucratic tangle has left some people struggling to find out what happened to family members who were taken away for treatment.
by Sheri FinkFeb. 2, 2010, 12:50 p.m. EST
A helicopter lands on the USNS Comfort hospital ship off of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 23, 2010. (Thony Belizaire/AFP/getty Images) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - In turning tents into sophisticated operating theaters and deploying a gleaming hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, to the coast of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. government has brought needed medical services to thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors.
But after top U.S. doctors operate on severe injuries and treat infections, it is up to Haitian family members to see their loved ones through the long process of healing.
The ability of the U.S. system to connect with these family members nearly three weeks after the Jan. 12 disaster remains uncertain at best.
Navy helicopters often whisk the ill and injured from one medical site to another without documentation, leaving family members behind. As of last week there was no phone number for relatives to call to check on hundreds of patients being treated aboard the Comfort.
"Patients actually die from that, when they're left alone with no family," said Nick Goldsberry, a registered nurse working at a tent hospital in Port-au-Prince with San Diego-based International Relief Teams.
Kevin Tweedy, a public information officer for a different field hospital in Port-au-Prince run by the U.S. National Disaster Medical System, struggled to find information for concerned relatives last week. On Tuesday he gripped a small cell phone to his ear. "People are getting upset," he told Keziah Furth, an American nurse volunteering as a liaison officer for the Comfort. "They're beating on the gates. They want to know where their family member is."
The family of one of those patients spent last week in anguish. Gerd Belizaire, a 35-year-old engineer, was buried under rubble after the earthquake. Days after being rescued, he developed difficulty breathing, and the oxygen level in his blood dipped dangerously low. Doctors at the U.S. government field hospital put a tube in his throat to help him breathe, and one of Belizaire's brothers, Ketler, scoured the city for a tank of oxygen.
Family of Gerd Belizaire, Ketler Belizaire (left) and Giovanni Belizaire at the American field hospital (Photo by Sheri Fink) Belizaire remained in critical condition, and a week ago Saturday the American doctors arranged urgent transport to the Comfort for intensive care. His wife, mother and brother bid him emotional goodbyes.
All week the family was unable to find out what happened to him. On Wednesday, a relative in the United States said he had reached someone by phone who informed him that Belizaire had died.
But Belizaire's brothers and wife in Haiti were unable to confirm that information, even when I tried to help them navigate the bureaucratic labyrinth. They made daily visits back to the field hospital, and we placed phone calls to at least a half-dozen phone numbers on the Comfort. "It's killing me," Belizaire's wife, Giovanni, said on Wednesday.
On Sunday a relative, Dashley Beaubrun, said in an e-mail that the family had been told Thursday that Belizaire was alive, but had received no information since that time. A brother, Vladimir Gousse, said by phone that he was still awaiting news.
But a final call to a military public affairs officer on Sunday night revealed the worst. A patient matching Belizaire's age, last name and with a similar first name, "Gend," had been recorded as deceased.
He had been dead on arrival to the Comfort, a day after he was picked up for urgent transport. Where he spent the intervening hours was unknown. According to the ship's public information office, Belizaire's body was released to the Haitian Ministry of Health more than a week ago. But the family has been unable to locate him.
"We looked at all the bodies, all the files, we can't find his name," Belizaire's wife said Monday. "I don't know what to do. If he's dead, where's the body?"
U.S. soldiers carry an injured woman to a Navy helicopter bound for the USNS Comfort on Jan. 23, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Joe Raedle/getty Images) The reasons for the bureaucratic tangle are unclear. Patients who arrive on the Comfort are immediately entered into an electronic record-keeping system. Tracking them should be a matter of a few mouse clicks. The hospital ship has supported numerous international relief efforts for years, so the need to provide answers to families should not have been a surprise. The Comfort had been deployed to Haiti before, as recently as last spring.
To be sure, the massive scale of the disaster, the deaths of Haitian officials and destruction of infrastructure have posed numerous challenges to coordination and communication. Last week, public affairs officers with the U.S. Joint Information Center for Haiti could not provide an explanation for the delay in making patient information available to families, except to say that the Comfort was working with non-governmental organizations to come up with a solution. "It's very, very important to us," said one officer. "As soon as we can get that information out, we'll let everybody know."
Lt. David Shark, a Navy assistant public affairs officer working on the Comfort, said on Sunday that a patient hot line for the ship was established on Saturday. However, he did not have the number and did not provide it after several requests. He also said that family members are allowed to travel to the ship with patients, and some have done so. But many field hospital personnel had been unaware of that.
A soldier is lifted back into a Navy helicopter after transporting a baby to the American field hospital in Port-au-Prince, Jan. 25, 2010
(Photo by Sheri Fink) Medical transports with unaccompanied children have been another disturbing problem. Last week, a U.S. Navy helicopter hovered over the American field hospital. A soldier descended a zip line carrying a baby whose head was grossly enlarged. The only information the hospital was given was that the baby had "water on the brain." The helicopter's propeller wash sprayed debris into the eyes of two medical workers and wreaked havoc in an adjacent "tent city" where thousands huddled under sheets propped up by tree branches.
Roughly a dozen other children were delivered to the American field hospital in recent days without family members, documents or even minimal information on where the children were being transported from.
Vanessa Rouzier, a pediatrician at a Haitian medical clinic, Gheskio, that is hosting the American field hospital, was outraged by the practice. "To me it's shocking and unethical," she said. "It has to stop. You end up with orphans who may not be orphans."
Rouzier said rumors were flying among Haitians that foreigners were abducting children or stealing patients' organs. (On Sunday, 10 members of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Idaho were arrested in Haiti amid accusations that they tried to spirit children out of the country to the Dominican Republic.)
"Many people are getting offended," Rouzier said. "'How can you take my sister for five days now and not even tell me if she's alive or dead?' That would be a scandal in the U.S. Then they take minors without parents for amputations."
Staff at the American field hospital began making arrangements for a nearby orphanage to accept the unaccompanied children after they were treated. In the meantime, the Americans turned the hospital's post-operative tent into a nursery and assigned staff to provide comfort and care. Some bonded with the children and began asking whether adoption might be possible.
Ultimately Rouzier and her colleagues located close relatives of nearly all of the children.
She and other Haitians said they were impressed and overwhelmed by America's generosity, even as they were concerned by the missteps.
Doing good, Rouzier said, needs to be done the right way.
"When they leave, who's going to stay behind to pay the price for it?" she asked. "Us."
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Mueller FBI Director September 4, 2001 (just in time to cover up 9/11) till September 4, 2013
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US sent plane with $400 million in cash to Iran
Elise Labott Nicole Gaouette Kevin Liptak
By Elise Labott, Nicole Gaouette and Kevin Liptak, CNN
7 minute read
Updated 11:53 AM EDT, Thu August 4, 2016
Iran receives $400 million same day Americans released
02:27 - Source: CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Obama approved the $400 million transfer, which he announced in January
It was the first payment of a $1.7 billion settlement
The funds had been contested since the 1979 Iranian revolution
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The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.
President Barack Obama approved the $400 million transfer, which he had announced in January as part of the Iran nuclear deal. The money was flown into Iran on wooden pallets stacked with Swiss francs, euros and other currencies as the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement resolving claims at an international tribunal at The Hague over a failed arms deal under the time of the Shah.
A fifth American man was released by Iran separately.
Details of the cash delivery drew fresh condemnation of the Iran deal from Republicans. They charged that the administration had empowered a major sponsor of terrorism because the nuclear agreement enables Tehran to re-enter the international economy and gives it access long-frozen funds.
In addition, they said the cash delivery amounted to a ransom payment that violates long-standing US practice not to pay for hostages. As such, they argued, it encourages Iran to hold onto its remaining Americans prisoners until they can get more money for them.
"Paying ransom to kidnappers puts Americans even more at risk," said Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. "While Americans were relieved by Iran's overdue release of illegally imprisoned American hostages, the White House's policy of appeasement has led Iran to illegally seize more American hostages, including Siamak Namazi, his father Baquer Namazi and Reza Shahini."
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump jumped on the issue, seeking to change the subject after a punishing week of gaffes and reproaches from members of the GOP.
"Iran was in big trouble, they had sanctions, they were dying, we took off the sanctions and made this horrible deal and now they're a power," Trump said Wednesday in Daytona, Florida.
"We paid $400 million for the hostages," Trump said. "Such a bad precedent was set by Obama. We have two more hostages there right? What's are we going to pay for them? What we're doing is insane."
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, when asked about the payment by a local Denver, Colorado, television station, said it was "old news."
"It was first reported about seven or eight months ago, as I recall," she told Denver's 9News. "And, so far as I know, it had nothing to do with any kind of hostage swap or any other tit-for-tat. It was something that was intended to, as I am told, pay back Iran for contracts that were canceled when the Shah fell."
US officials said cash had to be flown in because existing US sanctions ban American dollars from being used in a transaction with Iran and because Iran could not access the global financial system due to international sanctions it was under at the time. The details of the how the transaction occurred were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. CNN reported in January that the transfer of funds had been arrangement.
The money was procured from central banks in Switzerland and the Netherlands, official said, and an unmarked cargo plane loaded with Swiss francs, euros and other currencies were flown to Iran.
"They were totally cut off from global banks and there was no other way to get them the money," one senior official with knowledge of the transaction said.
While the cash transaction took place the same day as the release of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and the other Americans, administration officials insist the payment did not constitute ransom and that there were was no quid pro quo for the payment. They said the agreement on the release of the prisoners dovetailed with the resolution of parallel negotiations over the dispute of the failed arms deal.
"It's against the policy of the United States to pay ransom for hostages," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday.
He described the payment as a "conscious strategic decision that was made on the part of the Obama administration as we were implementing the deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon to resolve other longstanding concerns we had with Iran."
"That included securing the release of five American citizens who had been unjustly detained in Iran, and closing out a longstanding financial dispute in a way that saved the American people potentially billions of dollars," he said.
In return for the US citizens' release, the US dropped extradition requests for 14 Iranian citizens and freed seven. Former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007, remains missing.
Earnest cast those using the new details about the palettes of cash as people "flailing to justify their continued opposition to the deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon."
The $400 million was Iran's to start with, placed into a US-based trust fund to support American military equipment purchases in the 1970s. When the Shah was ousted by a 1979 popular uprising that led to the creation of the Islamic Republic, the US froze the trust fund. Iran has been fighting for a return of the funds through international courts since 1981.
In announcing the agreement, Obama said that paying the $400 million - plus $1.3 billion in interest - was saving American taxpayers billions of dollars. The Iranians had been seeking more than $10 billion at arbitration.
"For the United States, this settlement saved us billions of dollars that could have been pursued by Iran," Obama said in January. "There was no benefit to the United States in dragging this out."
As it was making the January cash delivery, the US also imposed new sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile testing. At the same time, the White House unfroze a larger pool of Iranian assets, estimated at $100 to $150 billion, as part of the nuclear deal, though administration officials cautioned that Iran would only pocket about $50 billion after legal claims.
Legal claims are one of the reasons the payment to Iran was controversial when Obama first announced it. The Clinton administration had agreed in 2000 to pay that $400 million to Americans who had won lawsuits against Iran in US courts.
These families and individuals had sued the Islamic Republic for damages after the deaths of loved ones or for being the victims themselves of Iran-backed kidnappings or terrorist attacks. At the time, US officials told those families the money would come from Iran.
With Obama's announcement, it became apparent that the payments had come from US taxpayers and not from Iran at all.
Stuart Eizenstat, the Clinton administration's deputy Treasury secretary, told Newsweek that Iran had filed a claim with The Hague, limiting the administration's ability to lay claim to the fund.
Critics on Wednesday were further incensed by Iranian claims that the cash amounted to a ransom payment for the four prisoners.
"That sort of ransom payment as part of the Iran deal is an outrage," said Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida.
US officials conceded that the Iranian negotiators involved in the prisoner exchange said they wanted the cash to coincide with the release of the Americans to prove a deliverable for the exchange even as they argued against the characterization of it as a ransom payment.
"As we've made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim at The Hague Tribunal were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home," State Department Spokesman John Kirby said, referring to the $1.7 billion payout that the $400 cast installment was part of.
"Not only were (the) two negotiations separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side, including, in the case of the Hague claims, by technical experts involved in these negotiations for many years," he said. "The funds that were transferred to Iran were related solely to the settlement of a long-standing claim at the US-Iran Claims Tribunal at The Hague."
"It's not surprising that Iran would want to call this a ransom for domestic political reasons," another senior US official said. "But that is not the case. The confidence built during the Iran nuclear negotiations helped the negotiations in other areas, so it is true all these things came together at the same time as implementation day of the Iran deal. But this was not a ransom."
#172469 at 2023-10-10 23:31:05 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #894: Watch & Pay Attention EDITION
https://people.com/man-jumps-into-9-11-memorial-reflecting-pool-8349388
Man, 33, Jumps Into 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool(People.com)
The "apparently emotionally disturbed person" injured his leg after the 30-foot fall, according to multiple reports
Memorial Pool at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City
View of the Memorial Pool at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City, United States on October 23, 2022. . Photo:
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via getty Images
Published on October 10, 2023 09:47AM EDT
A 33-year-old man jumped into the 9/11 memorial reflecting pool in New York City on Monday, according to multiple reports.
At about 1:30 p.m. ET, police responded to the north pool at the 9/11 Memorial and discovered that the man - who has not been publicly identified - had jumped in, police said, NBC News reported.
Port Authority Police went through a maintenance access door to reach him, sources told CBS News.
South Tower Memorial Pool at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City
'Reflecting Absence' by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, known as the South Tower Memorial Pool at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City, United States on October 23, 2022.
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According to the outlet, the fall was about 30 feet.
Authorities reported that an emergency medical services team attended to the man, who had sustained injuries to his left leg and back, per NBC News. He was arrested and transported by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital, the outlet reported.
The injuries were non-life-threatening and charges are pending, per NBC News.
South Tower Memorial Pool at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City
'Reflecting Absence', by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, known as the South Tower Memorial Pool at the National 9/11 Memorial in New York City, United States on October 23, 2022.
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via getty Images
The man will receive a mental evaluation and a criminal charge could include trespassing, according to CBS News.
The man was described as an "apparently emotionally disturbed person," a Port Authority spokesperson told NBC News.
Video of the man laying down in the water was shared on social media.
Security guards later set up chains around the pool, per NBC News.
"We saw the firefighters and emergency personnel come down the escalator as we were into the memorial," tourist Lisa Bellow told CBS News. "They said everything's fine, but they were coming in and going to a, like, back room, and we figured that down there was where they could access."
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CBS News reported that he "did this for his father," noting that it was unclear if he lost anyone during the terrorist attacks.
"I just pray that they're still okay," tourist Weldon Stites told the outlet. "Me, I'm curious to know why, but not everything is going to be answered."
The memorial features two pools - each located where the Twin Towers once stood before they collapsed on 9/11. As per the information on the 9/11 Memorial & Museum website, each pool sinks 30 feet into a basin and descends another 20 feet into a "central void."
The pools are encircled by the inscribed names of 2,983 people who lost their lives in the tragedy and those who died in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
The NYPD did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
#169874 at 2023-08-30 16:32:38 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #874: Booms as we speed past the sound barrier EDITION
https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/30/house-oversight-letter-records-hunter-biden-flights-nara/
House Oversight Requests Records From Hunter Biden's Flights With Joe Biden On Air Force Two(DailyCaller.com)
James LynchAugust 30, 2023 9:00 AM ET
House Oversight Chair Comer Speaks To The Media On Investigation Into The Biden Family
Chip Somodevilla/getty Images
The House Oversight Committee and Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds are demanding records related to then-Vice President Joe Biden's apparent flights with Hunter Biden on Air Force Two.
Donalds and House Oversight wrote a letter Wednesday to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requesting documents and communications from Joe Biden's alleged flights with his son to at least 15 different countries.
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"The Committee is concerned about then-Vice President Biden's role in his family's foreign business ventures and that he may have used his office to enrich his family. For example, recent reporting indicates Hunter Biden traveled to at least 15 countries with then-Vice President Biden," the letter reads. (RELATED: House Committees Demand DOJ Turn Over Documents Related To David Weiss' Special Counsel Appointment)
"The Committee has also learned that then-Vice President Biden met with at least one of Hunter Biden's associates in Beijing while visiting on official business," the letter adds. "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the custodian agency of Vice-Presidential records, and the Committee seeks information regarding the use of Air Force Two by then-Vice President Biden's family during the Obama-Biden Administration."
Donalds and House Oversight are seeking unrestricted access to the NARA records under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) no later than Sept. 13, 2023. The PRA allows congressional lawmakers to access records that are not otherwise available to the public.
Hunter Biden traveled with his father to at least 15 different countries while he was leading investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, according to an analysis of Secret Service records and messages from Hunter Biden's laptop conducted by Fox News. The younger Biden accompanied his father on official trips to Europe, Africa, Asia, Canada and Mexico, the outlet reported.
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business associate with Rosemont Seneca and Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, testified to House Oversight in July that Joe Biden met with Chinese business partner Jonathan Li during a trip to Beijing, China. Joe Biden later wrote a letter of recommendation for Li's daughter's college applications, Archer testified.
Archer further testified to House Oversight that Joe Biden attended a spring 2014 dinner with Russian oligarch Elena Baturina and a spring 2015 dinner with Burisma executive Vadim Pozharskyi while the firm was paying Hunter more than $80,000 a month to serve on its board.
Archer said Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden's business associates via speakerphone on more than 20 occasions. He also testified to House Oversight that the Biden family "brand" protected Burisma and kept the firm in business. (RELATED: Devon Archer Appeared To Meet With Then-Secretary Of State Kerry Leading Up To Ukrainian Prosecutor's Ouster)
Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson interviewed Archer after his testimony. Archer said it was "categorically false" to claim Joe Biden had no knowledge of his son's business dealings.
"Then-Vice President Joe Biden abused Air Force Two by allowing his son to jet set around the world to sell 'The Brand' to enrich the Biden family," Republican Kentucky Rep and House Oversight Chairman James Comer alleged. "This is yet another example of then-Vice President Biden abusing his public office for his family's financial gain. There must be accountability for this abuse of taxpayer-funded resources. We fully expect the National Archives to provide this information to the Oversight Committee so that we can provide the transparency that Americans demand and deserve."
House Oversight has released bank records showing the Biden family and its associates received more than $20 million in payments from Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese, Romanian and Kazakh business associates.
"The walls are closing in on the Biden Family due to consistent and diligent efforts by House Republicans who've followed the money, conducted meticulous interviews and hearings, and uncovered undeniable corruption," Donalds said. "I am proud to partner with Chairman Comer on this latest undertaking to expose then Vice President Biden's gross misuse of Air Force Two and Marine Two to benefit his family's enterprise."
"The American people deserve to know how much their former Vice President and current President abused his power to shake down foreign governments and enrich his family to the tune of millions of dollars."
NARA did not respond to the Daily Caller's request for comment by the time of publication.
Henry Rodgers contributed to this report.
#169621 at 2023-08-25 08:54:02 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #873: Welcome to the Storm EDITION
>>169620
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/12/hillary-clinton-acknowledges-saudi-terror-financing-in-hacked-email-hinting-at-tougher-approach/
Hillary Clinton Acknowledges Saudi Terror Financing in Hacked Email, Hinting at Tougher Approach(TheIntercept.com)
Mattathias SchwartzOctober 12 2016, 6:39 p.m.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to US Embassy personnel at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Saudi capital Riyadh on March 31, 2012. Secretary Clinton geared up for talks in Saudi Arabia about plans for a Gulf missile shield against Iran and ways to press Tehran's ally Syria to stop killing Syrians. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/POOL (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/getty Images)
Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have maintained their alliance for seven decades despite disagreements over oil prices, Israel, and, more recently, the Obama administration's rapprochement with Iran.
Judging by a 2014 email purportedly written by Hillary Clinton to John Podesta, her current campaign chairman, and published by WikiLeaks, there have been serious tensions over Saudi Arabia's role in the Syria conflict as well. In the midst of a nine-point overview of U.S. strategy in the Middle East, Clinton wrote:
"... we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region."
Clinton's private comments differ from the public line taken by members of the Obama administration. Speaking at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York, John Brennan, the director of the CIA, recently called the Saudis "among our very best counterterrorism partners globally." Last month, Obama, who long ago referred to Saudi Arabia as a "so-called" ally, acted to protect the Saudi government from litigation by vetoing the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which would allow 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government for damages in U.S. federal court. Congress overturned Obama's veto, leaving the door open for Saudi Arabia to be named as a defendant in future lawsuits.
The U.S. has its reasons for maintaining the Saudi alliance. The country produces 13 percent of the world's oil and holds $117 billion of U.S. debt. During Obama's two terms, Saudi Arabia has spent more than $50 billion on U.S.-made weaponry, far more than during George W. Bush's two terms, and the U.S. has approved deals worth another $65 billion.
The kingdom still has its staunch backers in Washington, due in no small part to its lavish spending on lobbyists and public relations. Among them is John Podesta's brother, Tony, a lobbyist. Filings made under the Foreign Agents Registration Act show that Saudi government is paying Tony Podesta's firm, the Podesta Group, a $140,000 monthly fee through the end of 2016, and that Tony himself consults on the Saudi account. Earlier this year, Politico reported on a 104-page white paper circulating on Capitol Hill, said to detail the Saudi government's efforts to fight terrorism.
Public opinion about Saudi Arabia now appears to be approaching a crossroads. According to Gallup, the country's favorability ratings are at 37 percent, between China and Russia. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both condemned ties between the country's religious leadership and extremist ideology. Over the past year, a series of investigative articles in the New York Times has chronicled the Saudi government's invasive legal controls over women, its complicated relationship with ISIS, and the brutal proxy war it is carrying out against its longstanding enemy, Iran, in Yemen.
Clinton was not the first to assert links between the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the Islamic State. Six months before the 2014 email, Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister of Iraq, accused both governments of "inciting and encouraging terrorist movements." Saudi Arabia vigorously denied al-Maliki's allegations at the time. Earlier in 2014, the Obama administration hosted a two-day strategy meeting with intelligence chiefs from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Jordan, and other Middle Eastern countries reportedly intended to refocus military aid away from the Nusra Front and ISIS and toward more "moderate" groups of rebels.
The wording of Clinton's 2014 email, attributing Saudi Arabia's support for radical Sunni militants to the Saudi government itself, as opposed to a few radical outliers, may also emerge as a factor in the ongoing debate about the degree of Saudi Arabia's support for al Qaeda in the years leading up to 9/11. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens. The question of whether the country's connection to the plot reached official levels was opened up again this summer by the release of 28 classified pages from a 2002 congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks. The document offers new information about the FBI's investigation into Omar al-Bayoumi, a wealthy Saudi business student who had worked with the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority.
The 9/11 Commission Report found al-Bayoumi to be "an unlikely candidate for clandestine involvement with Islamist extremists." Yet the 28 pages paint a different picture, relaying FBI reports of al-Bayoumi's "extensive contact with Saudi government establishments in the United States" and "numerous reports from individuals in the Muslim community, dating back to 1999, alleging that al-Bayoumi may be a Saudi intelligence officer."
More damning, however, are differences between the accounts given by the 9/11 Commission Report and the 28 pages regarding the initial meeting between al-Bayoumi, Nawaf al-Hazmi, and Khalid al-Mihdhar at a restaurant in Culver City, California. Soon after, al-Bayoumi found an apartment for the two men - both of them future 9/11 hijackers - and lent them money for rent. The 9/11 Commission Report suggests that their initial meeting was a coincidence. Again, the FBI account quoted in the 28 pages differs: "There are indications in the files that his [al-Bayoumi's] encounter with the hijackers may not have been accidental."
Over the summer, in the days after the killing of 49 people in an ISIS-related shooting at a club in Orlando, Clinton openly criticized the Saudi, Qatari, and Kuwaiti governments for failing "to stop their citizens from funding extremist organizations." Her newly released 2014 email goes a step further, directly attributing support for ISIS to the Saudi government. It seems that part of the Obama administration's approach to Saudi Arabia has been to hold its nose and keep its mouth shut, at least in public. Should Clinton prevail in the November election, it will be her turn to try and manage an increasingly awkward alliance.
Top photo: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to U.S. Embassy personnel at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh on March 31, 2012.
#166844 at 2023-07-21 20:21:12 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #856: Every Day Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/21/watch-transgender-rachel-levine-claims-children-face-wrong-puberty/
Watch: Transgender Rachel Levine Claims Children Face 'Wrong Puberty'(Breitbart.com)
Watch: Transgender Rachel Levine Claims Children Face 'Wrong Puberty'
Alana Mastrangelo21 Jul 2023
Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health, Admiral Rachel Levine speaks after having attended a roundtable on gender-affirming care and transgender health, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Some American children are "going through the wrong puberty," says Rachel Levine, the self-described "transgender" assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services.
"Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you're going through the wrong puberty? What if you inside feel that you are female, but now you're going through a male puberty?" Levine said during a recent appearance in the first installment of the ABC Nightline series, Identity Denied: Trans in America.
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Levine, the highest-ranking openly transgender federal official in the United States, made these remarks after being asked to respond to people who say children should wait until they are at least 18 years of age before dabbling in sex-related interventions.
After being told by Nightline co-anchor Juju Chang that the argument is children are "too young to know," Levine said, "I want to be clear that for prepubertal children, there are no medical procedures done. The standard of care allows them to explore that with therapy."
UNITED STATES - February 25: Rachel Levine appears during her confirmation hearing to be Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Health and Human Services before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.(Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via getty Images)
File/Rachel Levine appears during her confirmation hearing to be Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Health and Human Services before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.(Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via getty)
Levine, however, does not appear to be speaking from experience, as he began meddling with his sex well into adulthood, at the age of 54, and was considered transgender in 2011.
The Biden administration official went on to assert in the interview that "gender-affirming care is medical care. Gender-affirming care is mental health care. Gender-affirming care is literally suicide prevention care."
Parents Defending Education President Nicki Neily shared the clip on Twitter, asking, "This is the 'expert' parents are supposed to trust?"
"It is impossible to go through the wrong puberty and he knows it," one Twitter user commented.
"Telling your children that they were 'born in the wrong body' destroys their mental health for life," another said. "It's abuse and the parents should be put in prison. Crimes against humanity."
"This cross dresser makes our country a laughingstock," a Twitter user third stated.
"He's an embarrassment to our nation," another echoed.
Another Twitter user simply wrote, "Insane."
You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.
#164336 at 2023-06-18 03:48:58 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #841: This weekend was made for DAD Edition
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/20-armed-irs-agents-raid-gun-store-seize-purchase-records/
20 Armed IRS Agents Raid Gun Store, Seize Purchase Records (OAN.com)
(Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via getty Images)
OAN's Roy Francis
10:05 AM - Saturday, June 17, 2023
Armed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) agents raided a gun store in Great Falls, Montana seizing all forms that hold buyer's information during firearm transactions.
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According to the Gateway Pundit, the owner of the Highwood Creek Outfitters, Tom Van Hoose, alleged that he has been under surveillance by federal agents for over two years. On Wednesday, 20 heavily armed IRS agents raided his store seizing all Form 4473s in the store.
The agents had arrived early Wednesday morning as Hoose was opening for the day.
"We have now confirmed that both the IRS and the ATF were at Highwood Creek Outfitters in Great Falls around 7 am this morning. Both the IRS and ATF would not say why they were there," KMON Radio reported. "A spokeswoman for the IRS would only say they were there on official IRS business. The ATF says it was providing assistance to the IRS. We attempted to enter the store today and were stopped by agents at the door who would only say that the gun store is closed and will reopen tomorrow."
The owner claims that he was told that his business had been "reported," however no further details were provided to him. He said that he believed the incident was "politically motivated."
"I can only assume that it's because of the style of weapons that we have and the press that's so against them," he said. "The current administration seems to be hell bent on getting those guns out of the hands of average Americans."
The shop's operations were halted for the majority of the day as agents conducted their searches and seized the documents.
"I had about 30 minutes to operate, making just a single $16 sale," Hoose said.
The Montana Department of Justice claimed that it had no involvement in the incident, however, an IRS spokesperson said that they had been present at the gun store.
Congressman Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) expressed his concern over the actions of the federal agencies, saying that this is another example of the Biden regime's "weaponization of federal agencies against hardworking Americans."
"I'm incredibly disturbed by initial reports that the IRS and ATF closed Highwood Creek Outfitters without any warning today," Rosendale said in a statement. "This is yet another example of the Biden Administration weaponizing federal agencies to target and harass hardworking Americans. We cannot allow Biden to continue expanding these agencies to infringe on our liberties."
On Friday, the Congressman said that he had sent a letter to ATF director Steven Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel demanding answers.
"The weaponization of our government must be STOPPED, which is why I sent a letter to ATF Director Dettelbach and IRS Commissioner Werfel demanding answers about this outrageous attack and have used every tool available to me to remove funding for the 87,000 additional IRS agents!" Rosendale said.
According to its website, Highwood Creek Outfitters is "America's largest online firearms and accessories mall."
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#158376 at 2023-03-01 20:29:21 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #797: Q Clearance Patriot EDITION
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-wants-companies-tell-consumers-about-cameras-microphones-devices
House Wants Companies To Tell Consumers About Cameras, Microphones In Devices(ZeroHedge.com)
The House of Representatives on Feb. 27 overwhelmingly voted to make manufacturers tell consumers if an Internet-connected device comes with a camera or microphone, with enforcement left to the Federal Trade Commission.
Smart home service devices is displayed at CES 2017 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev., on Jan. 5, 2017. (Ethan Miller/getty Images)
That requirement does not cover certain devices, such as "a telephone (including a mobile phone), a laptop, tablet, or any device that a consumer would reasonably expect to have a microphone or camera."
A motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 538 flew through the chamber with 406 yeas and 12 nays: 201 Democrats and 205 Republicans voted for it, while 12 Republicans voted against it. 15 representatives didn't vote.
The motion's opponents include a number of well-known conservative and libertarian lawmakers.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) all voted against it.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in Washington on March 8, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/getty Images)
The Epoch Times has reached out to those lawmakers to learn why they opposed the motion.
"This is a relatively straightforward bill," said Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), a supporter of H.R. 538.
"Internet-connected devices are becoming increasingly present in our lives, and it's important for people to understand what they're buying."
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), another supporter of the measure, told his colleagues about the rapid speed and massive scale of the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution in consumer products.
"Today, the average American home has 11 Internet of Things, or IoT, devices," Pallone said.
Yet, Pallone's numbers appear to be out of date.
#158305 at 2023-02-27 23:35:07 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #796: [THEY] will attempt WW3 when economy stalls EDITION
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-02-27/us-department-of-energy-finds-covid-19-pandemic-most-likely-began-with-a-lab-leak-reports-say
Q coming out telling muffukkas that it was a lab leak.. kekekekekek
U.S. Department of Energy finds COVID-19 pandemic most likely began with a lab leak, reports say(LATimes.com)
By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu Bloomberg Feb. 27, 2023 2:40 PM PT
Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology as members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic visit on Feb. 3, 2021.
(Hector Retamal / AFP via getty Images)
A laboratory leak was the most likely origin of the COVID-19 virus, according to findings by the U.S. Energy Department, the Wall Street Journal reported.
A classified intelligence report provided to the White House and key members of Congress said the virus likely spread due to a mishap at a Chinese laboratory, the Journal reported on Sunday.
The Energy Department had previously been undecided on the source of the virus. The conclusion is due to new intelligence, but the department made its judgment with "low confidence," according to people who have read the classified report, the Journal said.
The findings of the report were confirmed by the New York Times. Neither news outlet described the new intelligence that led the Energy Department to change its mind about the pandemic's origin.
U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday that there's "a variety of views" in the U.S. intelligence community about whether the virus originated naturally or in a lab and he "can't confirm or deny" the Wall Street Journal report.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in 2021 that the global health outbreak was mostly likely caused by a lab leak. That conclusion was reached with "moderate confidence" and is still held today, the Journal said.
President Biden has asked the National Laboratories, which are part of the Energy Department, to be part of the assessment, Sullivan said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"And if we gain any further insight or information, we will share it with Congress and we will share it with the American people," he said. "But, right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question."
China has long hit back at any suggestion that the COVID-19 virus originated in a lab. The Chinese Embassy in Washington didn't immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular working hours.
#153797 at 2022-10-16 19:17:19 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #758: Authenticating is what we do EDITION
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nightmare-xbb-covid-variant-that-beats-our-immunity-is-finally-here
The Nightmare COVID Variant That Beats Our Immunity Is Finally Here (DailyBeast.com)
A new subvariant of the novel-coronavirus called XBB dramatically announced itself earlier this week, in Singapore. New COVID-19 cases more than doubled in a day, from 4,700 on Monday to 11,700 on Tuesday-and XBB is almost certainly why. The same subvariant just appeared in Hong Kong, too.
A highly mutated descendant of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that drove a record wave of infections starting around a year ago, XBB is in many ways the worst form of the virus so far. It's more contagious than any previous variant or subvariant. It also evades the antibodies from monoclonal therapies, potentially rendering a whole category of drugs ineffective as COVID treatments.
"It is likely the most immune-evasive and poses problems for current monoclonal antibody-based treatments and prevention strategy," Amesh Adalja, a public-health expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told The Daily Beast.
That's the bad news. The good news is that the new "bivalent" vaccine boosters from Pfizer and Moderna seem to work just fine against XBB, even though the original vaccines are less effective against XBB. They won't prevent all infections and reinfections, but they should significantly reduce the chance of severe infection potentially leading to hospitalization or death. "Even with immune-evasive variants, vaccine protection against what matters most-severe disease-remains intact," Adalja said.
As the novel-coronavirus evolves to become more contagious and more resistant to certain types of drugs, keeping current on your boosters is "the most impactful thing you can do in preparation for what might come," Peter Hotez, an expert in vaccine development at Baylor College, told The Daily Beast.
Scientists first identified XBB in August. It's one of several major subvariants that have evolved from the basic Omicron variant, piling on more and more mutations on key parts of the virus-especially the spike protein, the part of the virus that helps it grab onto and infect our cells.
XBB has at least seven new mutations along the spike. Mutations that, taken together, make the subvariant harder for our immune systems to recognize-and thus more likely to evade our antibodies and enter our cells to cause infection.
This accumulation of mutations isn't surprising. Changes along the spike protein have characterized most of the major new variants and subvariants of SARS-CoV-2 as the pandemic grinds toward its fourth year.
What is surprising is how much competition XBB has as it fights to become the next dominant form of the novel-coronavirus. Several other Omicron subvariants are also in circulation. All of them are highly evolved. Many of them actually share a subset of key mutations, especially on the spike.
So while XBB appears to be gaining traction in Asia, a close cousin of XBB called BQ.1.1 is spreading fast in Europe and some U.S. states. There are others in contention, too, including BA.2.75.2. Hotez calls these viral cousins the "Scrabble" subvariants, a nod to the classic word game and the jumble of scientific designations of closely related viruses.
The Scrabble variants are indicative of what scientists call "convergent evolution." That is, separate viral sublineages that are picking up more and more of the same mutations. It's as though Omicron's children are all separately learning how to be a better virus than their parent, and becoming more like each other in the process.
Immune-escape is the common quality. At least two of the Scrabble subvariants-XBB and BQ.1.1-are pretty much unrecognizable to existing antibody therapies and somewhat less recognizable to the antibodies produced by the prime doses of the leading messenger-RNA vaccines.
In evading some of our therapies and, to a lesser extent, our original vaccines, XBB and its cousins are showing us where the novel-coronavirus is heading, genetically speaking. The current surge in infections in places like Singapore is a preview of a potential global surge, this coming winter or spring, as XBB or one of its relatives becomes dominant everywhere.
It's possible to mitigate the worst outcomes. Natural antibodies from past infection are still the best and most durable antibodies. They don't last forever. But while they do last-a few months or potentially a whole year-the chance of catching a bad case of COVID is pretty low.
So if you had an earlier form of Omicron-say, during the wave of infections that started last Thanksgiving and peaked around February-you might still have good antibodies for a few months. More than enough time to reinforce those fading natural antibodies with a dose of the latest mRNA boosters.
Pfizer and Moderna formulated these new boosters to include some genetic instructions specifically for attacking the BA.5 subvariant of Omicron, which is still the dominant form of SARS-CoV-2 but is disappearing fast as XBB and the other Scrabble subvariants outcompete it.
A pharmacist gives a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on Sept. 9, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. The recently authorized booster vaccine protects against the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and the more recent omicron variants, BA.4 and BA.5.
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The bivalent boosters should work pretty well against forms of the virus that are closely related to BA.5, including the Scrabbles. "That is because one of the two components [in the boosters] induces an immune response to BA.5, and most of the new Scrabble variants look more BA.5 like than [the] original China lineage," Hotez told The Daily Beast.
The implication, of course, is that we're eventually going to need another new booster in order to keep pace with the fast-evolving virus. Sure, the bivalent boosters work against BA.5 and BA.5's immediate descendants. But what about the next generation of Omicron subvariants, the one after XBB and its cousins?
More and more health officials are coming around to the idea of an annual COVID booster. U.S. president Joe Biden even endorsed the idea in a statement last month. "As the virus continues to change, we will now be able to update our vaccines annually to target the dominant variant," Biden said. "Just like your annual flu shot, you should get it sometime between Labor Day and Halloween."
But one booster a year might not be enough if, as some epidemiologists fear, natural antibodies fade faster and the novel-coronavirus mutates at an accelerating rate. One concern, if it turns out we need twice-a-year new boosters, is whether industry can develop fresh jabs fast enough and health agencies can swiftly approve them.
There's an even bigger question, however. "The more important factor is just having folks get a more recent booster," James Lawler, an infectious disease expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, told The Daily Beast.
Even if a new booster is available every six months or so, will enough people get it to make a difference in the overall rates of severe illness and death? Booster uptake is declining globally, but especially in the United States, where just 10 percent of people have gotten the bivalent booster since federal regulators approved them in August.
XBB is a nasty little subvariant. But it's not the final word on COVID. The novel-coronavirus will keep mutating, and finding new ways to evade our antibodies, whether or not many people are paying attention.
The virus isn't done with us. Which means we can't be done with it. Get boosted. And be prepared to get boosted again in 2023.
#152665 at 2022-09-17 01:22:09 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #748: Martha's Migrant Island Edition
https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-fbi-charles-mcgonigal-trump-russia-grand-jury-oleg-deripaska-2022-9
==Exclusive: Former top FBI official involved in Trump-Russia investigation under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his own ties to Russia
Retired FBI agent, Charlie McGonigal==
former high-level FBI agent who was involved in the investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia during the 2016 election has himself come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors for his ties with Russia and other foreign governments.
Late last year, according to internal court documents obtained by Insider, US attorneys secretly convened a grand jury that examined the conduct of Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence at the FBI field office in New York City. The Justice Department declined to comment on what the grand jury was investigating or whether it remained ongoing. But a witness subpoena obtained by Insider seems to indicate that the government, in part, was looking into McGonigal's business dealings with a top aide to Oleg Deripaska, the billionaire Russian oligarch who was at the center of allegations that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign to interfere in the 2016 election.
The subpoena, issued in November, requests records relating to McGonigal and a shadowy consulting firm called Spectrum Risk Solutions. A week after the subpoena was issued, a Soviet-born immigrant named Sergey Shestakov said in a separate filing that McGonigal had helped him "facilitate" an introduction between Spectrum and Deripaska's aide. The filing also states that McGonigal helped introduce the aide to Kobre & Kim, a New York law firm that specializes in representing clients who are being investigated on suspicion of "fraud and misconduct." Shestakov, who has been identified on TV panels as a former Soviet foreign ministry official and former chief of staff to the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, reported receiving $33,000 for the referrals.
While it wouldn't necessarily have been illegal for McGonigal to work on behalf of Deripaska, failing to disclose activities covered by the Foreign Agents Registration Act, such as lobbying and public relations, is punishable by a $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison. Deripaska was sanctioned by the Treasury Department in 2018 for acting as an agent for the Kremlin, and has been accused of ordering the murder of a businessman. "If McGonigal is mixed up in any way shape or form with Deripaska, that strikes me as unseemly, to put it politely," says Tim Weiner, the author of "Enemies: A History of the FBI."
An attachment to a grand jury subpoena.
A witness subpoena obtained by Insider indicates information that federal prosecutors were seeking about former FBI official Charles McGonigal. Insider
Neither McGonigal nor those he is cited as dealing with responded to requests for comment from Insider. "This is not an area where we can provide a statement at this time," a representative for Kobre & Kim said.
It is not clear whether McGonigal is a target of the grand-jury investigation, or simply a subject whose activities are somehow related to it. And there is nothing in the court documents or elsewhere to suggest that McGonigal behaved inappropriately during the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign. But the materials requested in the witness subpoena raise questions about whether a top FBI agent may have been tapping the connections he made during his years of public service for private gain - an all-too-common practice among Washington insiders. And whatever McGonigal's actions, the fact that he has been swept up in a grand-jury investigation is highly unusual. According to a former senior official at the Justice Department who asked not to be identified, prosecutors almost never consider charges against someone so high up in the FBI. "It's very rare that former FBI people at all, and certainly former senior FBI people, wind up as grand-jury targets," the official said.
The federal scrutiny of McGonigal is especially striking given his work at the FBI. Before his retirement in 2018, McGonigal led the WikiLeaks investigation into Chelsea Manning, busted Bill Clinton's national security advisor Sandy Berger for removing classified material from a National Archives reading room, and led the search for a Chinese mole inside the CIA. In 2016, when reports surfaced that Russia had hacked the email system of the Democratic National Committee, McGonigal was serving as chief of the cybercrimes section at FBI headquarters in Washington. In that capacity, he was one of the first officials to learn that a Trump campaign official had bragged that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, sparking the investigation known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane. Later that year, FBI Director James Comey promoted McGonigal to oversee counterintelligence operations in New York.
According to the witness subpoena, prosecutors are also looking into whether McGonigal has ties to the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as any "payments or gifts" he was provided by the governments of Kosovo, Montenegro, and Albania.
Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, in Brussels earlier this year.
McGonigal used his official FBI letterhead to try and arrange a business meeting with Edi Rama, the prime minister of Albania. Thierry Monasse/getty Images
Two sources told Insider that McGonigal was close to Edi Rama, who has served as the prime minister of Albania since 2013. According to an email reviewed by Insider, McGonigal used his official FBI email account to try to arrange a meeting between Rama and an American firm the prime minister was thinking about hiring for an anti-corruption initiative. In the end, the FBI didn't give McGonigal approval for the meeting, and it never took place.
A representative for Rama said the prime minister's relationship with McGonigal was "a totally private friendly relationship of no public interest. We have no idea about any grand jury and no US authority has ever contacted us about it. There have never been meetings with firms, gifts, payments, travel reimbursements before or after Mr. McGonigal left his job."
Since he left the FBI, McGonigal has continued to trade on his expertise in counterintelligence. In 2020, months after his reported assistance to Deripaska's aide, he appeared on a panel at the Atlantic Council, where he condemned the corruption of Russia's security services. "You are seeing an erosion in any rule of law as it relates to the FSB," he said. "It would be akin to having in the United States the FBI as a rogue element, operating at the behest of the highest bidder."
McGonigal's profile on LinkedIn says he is the senior vice president of "global security and life safety" at Brookfield Properties, a multibillion-dollar real-estate company in New York. But that information, apparently, is inaccurate. "Charlie McGonigal is no longer with Brookfield," Andrew Brent, Brookfield's head of communications, told Insider. McGonigal left the company, he added, in early January - just as witnesses were scheduled to appear before the grand jury.
#152404 at 2022-09-04 19:19:41 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #746: The Dog Days of Summer Edition
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
The super-rich 'preppers' planning to save themselves from the apocalypse(TheGuardian)
Douglas Rushkoff
A circular, sci-fi-looking bunker tunnel
Time to bunker down... if you've got the cash. Photograph: Terravivos/Observer Design
As a humanist who writes about the impact of digital technology on our lives, I am often mistaken for a futurist. The people most interested in hiring me for my opinions about technology are usually less concerned with building tools that help people live better lives in the present than they are in identifying the Next Big Thing through which to dominate them in the future. I don't usually respond to their inquiries. Why help these guys ruin what's left of the internet, much less civilisation?
Still, sometimes a combination of morbid curiosity and cold hard cash is enough to get me on a stage in front of the tech elite, where I try to talk some sense into them about how their businesses are affecting our lives out here in the real world. That's how I found myself accepting an invitation to address a group mysteriously described as "ultra-wealthy stakeholders", out in the middle of the desert.
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A limo was waiting for me at the airport. As the sun began to dip over the horizon, I realised I had been in the car for three hours. What sort of wealthy hedge-fund types would drive this far from the airport for a conference? Then I saw it. On a parallel path next to the highway, as if racing against us, a small jet was coming in for a landing on a private airfield. Of course.
The next morning, two men in matching Patagonia fleeces came for me in a golf cart and conveyed me through rocks and underbrush to a meeting hall. They left me to drink coffee and prepare in what I figured was serving as my green room. But instead of me being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, my audience was brought in to me. They sat around the table and introduced themselves: five super-wealthy guys - yes, all men - from the upper echelon of the tech investing and hedge-fund world. At least two of them were billionaires. After a bit of small talk, I realised they had no interest in the speech I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come to ask questions.
A shelter under construction at the Rising S Company in Murchison, Texas.
A shelter under construction at the Rising S Company in Murchison, Texas. Photograph: Bloomberg/getty Images
They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Who will get quantum computing first, China or Google? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: "How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?" The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?
The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers - if that technology could be developed "in time".
It's as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust
I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don't just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.
This was probably the wealthiest, most powerful group I had ever encountered. Yet here they were, asking a Marxist media theorist for advice on where and how to configure their doomsday bunkers. That's when it hit me: at least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology.
Taking their cue from Tesla founder Elon Musk colonising Mars, Palantir's Peter Thiel reversing the ageing process, or artificial intelligence developers Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether. Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us.
These people once showered the world with madly optimistic business plans for how technology might benefit human society. Now they've reduced technological progress to a video game that one of them wins by finding the escape hatch. Will it be Jeff Bezos migrating to space, Thiel to his New Zealand compound, or Mark Zuckerberg to his virtual metaverse? And these catastrophising billionaires are the presumptive winners of the digital economy - the supposed champions of the survival-of-the-fittest business landscape that's fuelling most of this speculation to begin with.
A proposal for a Mars colony by Elon Musk's company, SpaceX.
A proposal for a Mars colony by Elon Musk's company, SpaceX. Photograph: SpaceX
What I came to realise was that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where "winning" means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It's as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.
Yet this Silicon Valley escapism - let's call it The Mindset - encourages its adherents to believe that the winners can somehow leave the rest of us behind.
Never before have our society's most powerful players assumed that the primary impact of their own conquests would be to render the world itself unliveable for everyone else. Nor have they ever before had the technologies through which to programme their sensibilities into the very fabric of our society. The landscape is alive with algorithms and intelligences actively encouraging these selfish and isolationist outlooks. Those sociopathic enough to embrace them are rewarded with cash and control over the rest of us. It's a self-reinforcing feedback loop. This is new.
Amplified by digital technologies and the unprecedented wealth disparity they afford, The Mindset allows for the easy externalisation of harm to others, and inspires a corresponding longing for transcendence and separation from the people and places that have been abused.
Instead of just lording over us for ever, however, the billionaires at the top of these virtual pyramids actively seek the endgame. In fact, like the plot of a Marvel blockbuster, the very structure of The Mindset requires an endgame. Everything must resolve to a one or a zero, a winner or loser, the saved or the damned. Actual, imminent catastrophes from the climate emergency to mass migrations support the mythology, offering these would-be superheroes the opportunity to play out the finale in their own lifetimes. For The Mindset also includes a faith-based Silicon Valley certainty that they can develop a technology that will somehow break the laws of physics, economics and morality to offer them something even better than a way of saving the world: a means of escape from the apocalypse of their own making.
By the time I boarded my return flight to New York, my mind was reeling with the implications of The Mindset. What were its main tenets? Who were its true believers? What, if anything, could we do to resist it? Before I had even landed, I posted an article about my strange encounter - to surprising effect.
Almost immediately, I began receiving inquiries from businesses catering to the billionaire prepper, all hoping I would make some introductions on their behalf to the five men I had written about. I heard from a real estate agent who specialises in disaster-proof listings, a company taking reservations for its third underground dwellings project, and a security firm offering various forms of "risk management".
But the message that got my attention came from a former president of the American chamber of commerce in Latvia. JC Cole had witnessed the fall of the Soviet empire, as well as what it took to rebuild a working society almost from scratch. He had also served as landlord for the American and European Union embassies, and learned a whole lot about security systems and evacuation plans. "You certainly stirred up a bees' nest," he began his first email to me. "It's quite accurate - the wealthy hiding in their bunkers will have a problem with their security teams... I believe you are correct with your advice to 'treat those people really well, right now', but also the concept may be expanded and I believe there is a better system that would give much better results."
He felt certain that the "event" - a grey swan, or predictable catastrophe triggered by our enemies, Mother Nature, or just by accident -was inevitable. He had done a Swot analysis - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats - and concluded that preparing for calamity required us to take the very same measures as trying to prevent one. "By coincidence," he explained, "I am setting up a series of safe haven farms in the NYC area. These are designed to best handle an 'event' and also benefit society as semi-organic farms. Both within three hours' drive from the city - close enough to get there when it happens."
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has been among the tech barons leading the privatised race into space.
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has been among the tech barons leading the privatised race into space. Photograph: Joe Skipper/Reuters
Here was a prepper with security clearance, field experience and food sustainability expertise. He believed the best way to cope with the impending disaster was to change the way we treat one another, the economy, and the planet right now - while also developing a network of secret, totally self-sufficient residential farm communities for millionaires, guarded by Navy Seals armed to the teeth.
JC is currently developing two farms as part of his safe haven project. Farm one, outside Princeton, is his show model and "works well as long as the thin blue line is working". The second one, somewhere in the Poconos, has to remain a secret. "The fewer people who know the locations, the better," he explained, along with a link to the Twilight Zone episode in which panicked neighbours break into a family's bomb shelter during a nuclear scare. "The primary value of safe haven is operational security, nicknamed OpSec by the military. If/when the supply chain breaks, the people will have no food delivered. Covid-19 gave us the wake-up call as people started fighting over toilet paper. When it comes to a shortage of food it will be vicious. That is why those intelligent enough to invest have to be stealthy."
JC invited me down to New Jersey to see the real thing. "Wear boots," he said. "The ground is still wet." Then he asked: "Do you shoot?"
The farm itself was serving as an equestrian centre and tactical training facility in addition to raising goats and chickens. JC showed me how to hold and shoot a Glock at a series of outdoor targets shaped like bad guys, while he grumbled about the way Senator Dianne Feinstein had limited the number of rounds one could legally fit in a magazine for the handgun. JC knew his stuff. I asked him about various combat scenarios. "The only way to protect your family is with a group," he said. That was really the whole point of his project - to gather a team capable of sheltering in place for a year or more, while also defending itself from those who hadn't prepared. JC was also hoping to train young farmers in sustainable agriculture, and to secure at least one doctor and dentist for each location.
On the way back to the main building, JC showed me the "layered security" protocols he had learned designing embassy properties: a fence, "no trespassing" signs, guard dogs, surveillance cameras ... all meant to discourage violent confrontation. He paused for a minute as he stared down the drive. "Honestly, I am less concerned about gangs with guns than the woman at the end of the driveway holding a baby and asking for food." He paused, and sighed, "I don't want to be in that moral dilemma."
That's why JC's real passion wasn't just to build a few isolated, militarised retreat facilities for millionaires, but to prototype locally owned sustainable farms that can be modelled by others and ultimately help restore regional food security in America. The "just-in-time" delivery system preferred by agricultural conglomerates renders most of the nation vulnerable to a crisis as minor as a power outage or transportation shutdown. Meanwhile, the centralisation of the agricultural industry has left most farms utterly dependent on the same long supply chains as urban consumers. "Most egg farmers can't even raise chickens," JC explained as he showed me his henhouses. "They buy chicks. I've got roosters."
JC is no hippy environmentalist but his business model is based in the same communitarian spirit I tried to convey to the billionaires: the way to keep the hungry hordes from storming the gates is by getting them food security now. So for $3m, investors not only get a maximum security compound in which to ride out the coming plague, solar storm, or electric grid collapse. They also get a stake in a potentially profitable network of local farm franchises that could reduce the probability of a catastrophic event in the first place. His business would do its best to ensure there are as few hungry children at the gate as possible when the time comes to lock down.
So far, JC Cole has been unable to convince anyone to invest in American Heritage Farms. That doesn't mean no one is investing in such schemes. It's just that the ones that attract more attention and cash don't generally have these cooperative components. They're more for people who want to go it alone. Most billionaire preppers don't want to have to learn to get along with a community of farmers or, worse, spend their winnings funding a national food resilience programme. The mindset that requires safe havens is less concerned with preventing moral dilemmas than simply keeping them out of sight.
Vivos bunker pool
Vivos hopes to fit its bunkers with features such as swimming pools and gyms. Photograph: Terravivos
Many of those seriously seeking a safe haven simply hire one of several prepper construction companies to bury a prefab steel-lined bunker somewhere on one of their existing properties. Rising S Company in Texas builds and installs bunkers and tornado shelters for as little as $40,000 for an 8ft by 12ft emergency hideout all the way up to the $8.3m luxury series "Aristocrat", complete with pool and bowling lane. The enterprise originally catered to families seeking temporary storm shelters, before it went into the long-term apocalypse business. The company logo, complete with three crucifixes, suggests their services are geared more toward Christian evangelist preppers in red-state America than billionaire tech bros playing out sci-fi scenarios.
There's something much more whimsical about the facilities in which most of the billionaires - or, more accurately, aspiring billionaires - actually invest. A company called Vivos is selling luxury underground apartments in converted cold war munitions storage facilities, missile silos, and other fortified locations around the world. Like miniature Club Med resorts, they offer private suites for individuals or families, and larger common areas with pools, games, movies and dining. Ultra-elite shelters such as the Oppidum in the Czech Republic claim to cater to the billionaire class, and pay more attention to the long-term psychological health of residents. They provide imitation of natural light, such as a pool with a simulated sunlit garden area, a wine vault, and other amenities to make the wealthy feel at home.
On closer analysis, however, the probability of a fortified bunker actually protecting its occupants from the reality of, well, reality, is very slim. For one, the closed ecosystems of underground facilities are preposterously brittle. For example, an indoor, sealed hydroponic garden is vulnerable to contamination. Vertical farms with moisture sensors and computer-controlled irrigation systems look great in business plans and on the rooftops of Bay Area startups; when a palette of topsoil or a row of crops goes wrong, it can simply be pulled and replaced. The hermetically sealed apocalypse "grow room" doesn't allow for such do-overs.
Just the known unknowns are enough to dash any reasonable hope of survival. But this doesn't seem to stop wealthy preppers from trying. The New York Times reported that real estate agents specialising in private islands were overwhelmed with inquiries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Prospective clients were even asking about whether there was enough land to do some agriculture in addition to installing a helicopter landing pad. But while a private island may be a good place to wait out a temporary plague, turning it into a self-sufficient, defensible ocean fortress is harder than it sounds. Small islands are utterly dependent on air and sea deliveries for basic staples. Solar panels and water filtration equipment need to be replaced and serviced at regular intervals. The billionaires who reside in such locales are more, not less, dependent on complex supply chains than those of us embedded in industrial civilisation.
Surely the billionaires who brought me out for advice on their exit strategies were aware of these limitations. Could it have all been some sort of game? Five men sitting around a poker table, each wagering his escape plan was best?
But if they were in it just for fun, they wouldn't have called for me. They would have flown out the author of a zombie apocalypse comic book. If they wanted to test their bunker plans, they'd have hired a security expert from Blackwater or the Pentagon. They seemed to want something more. Their language went far beyond questions of disaster preparedness and verged on politics and philosophy: words such as individuality, sovereignty, governance and autonomy.
That's because it wasn't their actual bunker strategies I had been brought out to evaluate so much as the philosophy and mathematics they were using to justify their commitment to escape. They were working out what I've come to call the insulation equation: could they earn enough money to insulate themselves from the reality they were creating by earning money in this way? Was there any valid justification for striving to be so successful that they could simply leave the rest of us behind -apocalypse or not?
Or was this really their intention all along? Maybe the apocalypse is less something they're trying to escape than an excuse to realise The Mindset's true goal: to rise above mere mortals and execute the ultimate exit strategy.
This is an edited extract from Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff, published by Scribe (?20). To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply
#148751 at 2022-08-07 17:22:24 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #733: Zoltar Says: "We are the frigging storm" EDITION
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/08/07/multiple-bodies-and-heads-dumped-along-mexican-highway-near-acapulco/
Multiple Bodies, Heads Dumped Along Mexican Highway near Acapulco(Breitbart.com)
7 Aug 2022
ACAPULCO, MEXICO - MARCH 03: A Mexican army soldier stands guard at a suspected drug-related murder site March 3, 2012 in Acapulco, Mexico. A forensics team excavated five corpses from the floor of an abandoned house. Officials said the five victims were apparently buried alive in concrete. Drug violence has ...
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A clash between cartel gunmen led to the discovery of at least six bodies and two severed heads along a highway north of the tourist hotspot of Acapulco.
The gruesome case took place in the early morning hours of Friday when authorities in the state of Guerrero responded to a rural community in Quechultenango. The crime scene area is a little over sixty miles north of Acapulco.
When authorities arrived at that location, they found a truck that had been shot up numerous times and set on fire. Near the vehicle, authorities found six bodies and two severed heads.
The Guerrero Attorney General's Office confirmed the discovery of the bodies in a prepared statement claiming that they would be investigating the case.
The gory crime scene comes at a time when multiple cells from rival drug cartels continue to fight for control of beach corridors to move drugs into Mexico from Central and South America, control of vast drug farming areas in remote rural areas, and the large-scale distribution of drugs in and around Acapulco.
Despite several years of intense violence, Acapulco Mayor Abelina L?pez has tried to minimize the violence in her city and has even been mocked publicly for claiming that hunger and high heat are to blame for most of the crimes.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Jose Luis Lara and "J.C. Sanchez" from the Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles project contributed to this report.
#148750 at 2022-08-07 17:21:02 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #733: Zoltar Says: "We are the frigging storm" EDITION
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/07/how-dare-you-billionaires-hollywood-stars-join-call-for-end-to-public-plane-tracking/
Billionaires, Hollywood Celebrities Join Call to End Public Plane Tracking(Breitbart.com)
Simon Kent7 Aug 2022
Billionaires and Hollywood stars alongside climate activists all share fame, fortune, and a profile they work hard to keep under their own control, which is why so many are calling on a public company not to track their flights and expose their travels.
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Billionaires, Hollywood celebrities, and climate activists share fame, fortune, and a profile they work hard to control. All of which is why so many are calling on a public company not to track their flights and expose their carbon footprints.
AFP reports flight-following websites and Twitter accounts that offer real-time views of air traffic are on the end of regular pushback ranging from complaints to gear seizures by those who would rather their movements are not in the public domain.
One U.S.-based group alone gets dozens of "requests" each year to stop posting aircraft flight movements, according to its organiser, Dan Streufert.
"We have not removed anything so far. This is all public information. And I don't want to be the arbiter of who's right and who's wrong," added Streufert, founder of flight tracking site ADS-B Exchange which can track any flight from a private individual to a politician, star, activist or member of Royalty.
The AFP report sets out limits do apply in some cases, but groups that piece together the flight paths note the core information source is legally available and open to anyone with the right gear to take it fully into the public domain.
Under U.S. rules, planes in designated areas are required to be equipped with ADS-B technology that broadcasts aircraft positions using signals that relatively simple equipment can pick up. It outlines what happens next:
A service like Sweden-based Flightradar24 has 34,000, mostly volunteer-operated receivers around the world to pick up the signals, a key source of information that's routed back to a central network and combined with data on flight schedules and aircraft information.
Figuring out or confirming to whom a plane actually belongs can require some sleuthing, said jet tracker Jack Sweeney, who filed a public records request with the US government that yielded a form bearing the signature of a particular plane's owner: Tesla boss Elon Musk.
Sweeney has drawn attention with his Twitter account that tracks the movements of the billionaire's plane and even rejected Musk's offer of $5,000 to shut down @ElonJet, which has over 480,000 followers.
In this illustration photo, the Flightradar24 app is seen on a smartphone in front of a screen showing the live position of planes tracked by the app in the area of Los Angeles, California, on August 5, 2022. - How to upset Russian freight companies, Elon Musk, Chinese authorities and Kylie Jenner in one go? Track their jets. Flight following websites and Twitter accounts offer real-time views of air traffic - and sometimes major news like Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan trip - but that exposure draws pushback ranging from complaints to gear seizures. (Photo by Chris Delmas / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via getty Images)
Flightradar24 app on a smartphone in front of a screen showing the live position of planes tracked in the area of Los Angeles, California, on August 5, 2022. How to upset Russian freight companies, Elon Musk, Chinese authorities and Kylie Jenner in one go? Track their jets ... although exposure draws pushback ranging from complaints to gear seizures. (CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via getty)
"There's so much traction, I'm doing something right. The celebrity thing -- people like seeing what celebrities are doing, that and the whole emissions thing," he told AFP, referring to concerns over the planes' greenhouse gas impact.
"Putting it on Twitter makes it easier for people to access and understand," Sweeney added.
Another of Sweeney's Twitter accounts, powered by data from ADS-B Exchange, showed in July that U.S. model and celebrity Kylie Jenner's plane took a flight in California that lasted just 17 minutes, as Breitbart News reported.
The internet was not pleased.
The star quickly faced a torrent of criticism on social media over concerns about the message it sent regarding climate change while others pointed to the sheer hypocrisy involved.
Jenner was labeled a "climate criminal" for the rather quick private jet flights with her boyfriend Travis Scott, in a response that followed one drawn by Taylor Swift for her frequent hops by private jet.
"They tell us working class people to feel bad about our once a year flight to a much needed vacation while these celebs take private jets every other day as if it's an Uber," tweeted @juliphoria, in another example of the outrage.
"We will track anything because honestly, if somebody really was a bad actor, and they wanted to know where this stuff is, you can build the electronics for $100 and just deploy receivers to pick up the same signals yourself," said Streufert from ADS-B Exchange, acknowledging the data is already out there. It just needs to be distributed.
Climate activists have also been called out after being tracked taking multiple flight in their private jets they once through were entirely private matters, as Bill Gates has been forced to acknowledge:
In some parts of the world, governments have made clear the technology and resulting information is not welcome and is ready to move against it - by force if necessary.
Chinese state media reported in 2021 the authoritarian Communist government had confiscated hundreds of receivers used in crowd-sourced flight tracking, citing the risk of "espionage."
"In many cases, it's authoritarian regimes that don't like this exposure," Streufert said.
Follow Simon Kent on Twitter: or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com
#131672 at 2022-07-24 20:19:23 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #726: Future Proves Past -OR- Plandemic 2.0 EDITION
>>131671
This would have been who Brin would have left Wojcicki (23andMe co-founder) for.. I would not imagine Sergey was still alive, and not "free" if alive, no way.
https://people.com/human-interest/google-cofounder-sergey-brin-files-divorce-nicole-shanahan/
==Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin, World's 6th Richest Person, Files for Divorce from Nicole Shanahan
Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google and is worth $94 billion, has hired a private "temporary judge" to preside over his divorce from wife of three years Nicole Shanahan== (People.com)
By Glenn Garner
June 17, 2022 08:19 PM
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 03: (L-R) Nicole Shanahan and Sergey Brin attend the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center on November 03, 2019 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Ian Tuttle/getty Images for Breakthrough Prize )
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Sergey Brin is divorcing his wife of three years.
The Google co-founder, 48, who is the sixth richest person in the world and worth $94 billion according to Bloomberg, filed for a dissolution of marriage from wife Nicole Shanahan back in early January, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
He cited "irreconcilable differences," Business Insider first reported, noting that the pair owns joint assets to be divided in the proceedings, which "are to be determined."
"All issues as to the property rights or obligations of the parties will be determined by confidential binding arbitration in accordance with a written agreement between the parties," the filing reads.
Additionally, Brin is asking for joint custody of their 2-year-old daughter. He is not seeking spousal support from Shanahan and requesting she not be awarded it either.
Attorneys for Brin and Shanahan did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
Brin and Shanahan have enlisted a private "temporary judge" to preside over the case, according to Business Insider.
Having a temporary judge preside over your case is possible in California -- Brin filed in Santa Clara Superior Court -- as the state is attempting to help deal with its backlogged courts. This means it will allow the couple to expedite their divorce through backlogged courts.
It also ensures a higher level of privacy and the filing emphasizes the former couple's desire for privacy around the proceedings.
"Petitioner is a co-founder of Google and one of the wealthiest and most famous technology entrepreneurs in the world. Because of the high-profile nature of their relationship, there is likely to be significant public interest in their dissolution and child custody issues," Brin's attorney wrote in a filing, adding: "Of great concern is that such publicity puts their minor child at risk of danger, harassment, and even kidnapping, if the specifics of their day-to-day whereabouts are exposed to the public."
Brin was previously married to 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki from 2007 to 2015, and they share son Benji, 13, and daughter Chloe, 11.
The Russian-American internet entrepreneur co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998, and although they both stepped down from their executive positions with the search engine's holding company Alphabet in 2019, Brin still retains a controlling stake, according to Forbes.
#131326 at 2022-07-22 21:54:05 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #725: Sheep say BAAA.. GOATS go RAWR!! Edition
https://www.newsweek.com/full-halo-solar-storm-hitting-earth-aurora-1727057
'Full-Halo' Solar Storm from Tsunami on Sun Surface Headed for Earth(NewsWeek.com)
By Jess Thomson On 7/22/22 at 6:30 AM EDT
A massive, "full-halo" solar storm is headed towards Earth, and is due to hit our atmosphere on July 23.
According to SpaceWeather.com, a solar tsunami eruption on July 21 flung a cloud of solar plasma and other solar particles in our direction, and when they hit the Earth, they will cause geomagnetic storms.
This type of solar storm is known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), and usually occurs in the most active areas of the sun where the magnetic fields are especially strong.
When twisted magnetic field lines on the Sun suddenly reconfigure themselves, the Sun spits out huge plumes of plasma.
solar flare
Stock image of a solar flare. A "full-halo" solar ejection is due to hit the Earth on July 23. iStock / getty Images Plus
The matter ejected from the sun in a CME can contain billions of tons of particles from the sun's atmosphere and also carry an embedded magnetic field: large and fast CMEs can travel at speeds of up to 4.5 million miles per hour.
CMEs are normally harmless to humans, as the majority of the time they aren't pointed at Earth.
The "full-halo" CME that occurred on July 21 is, however, expected to hit the Earth's magnetic field. Halo events are so-called because of the way they appear in coronagraph imagery, seemingly flaring out around the sun like a halo.
"Full-halo" CMEs are aimed at the Earth, with the entirety of the Sun's circumference appearing to glow.
According to NOAA data, the resulting geomagnetic storm in our magnetosphere is likely to be G1- to G2-class (minor to moderate), although there is a slight chance of the storm escalating to become category G3 (strong).
Solar storms range between G1 and G5 in strength, with G5 being the most powerful. While G1 storms are very common, more powerful storms are much more rare.
"[G1 storms] don't have any serious effects. G5 storms can have serious effects. But we haven't had a G5 since October 2003," Mike Hapgood, a Principal Consultant on Space Weather at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, told Newsweek.
According to NOAA, the densest part of the CME storm cloud is due to reach Earth around 4 a.m. UTC (12 p.m. ET) on July 23.
As the CME hits the Earth's atmosphere, it disturbs the magnetic field, and may result in power grid fluctuations, interruptions to satellite operations, and changes to the behavior of migratory animals.
It also results in the beautiful night-time displays known as the aurora, or the Northern/Southern lights, which are a result of electrons from solar winds being accelerated along the magnetic field lines towards the Earth's poles.
Here, they collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms and molecules in Earth's upper atmosphere, exciting them to a higher energy state, which causes them to release their excess energy as a blue-green glow.
The stronger the geomagnetic storm, the further inwards from the poles this occurs.
According to SpaceWeather.com, if the incoming storm reaches G3 levels, "auroras could descend as far south as Illinois and Oregon."
#131287 at 2022-07-22 13:16:49 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #725: Sheep say BAAA.. GOATS go RAWR!! Edition
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/20/trucker-protests-over-gig-worker-law-shut-port-of-oakland-terminals.html
Large trucker protests over California's gig worker law AB5 shut down Port of Oakland terminals(CNBC.COM)
Large trucker protests over California's gig worker law AB5 shut down Port of Oakland terminals
Lori Ann LaRocco
Trucks at the entrance to the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California, US, on Thursday, July 14, 2022. Truckers servicing some of the US's busiest ports are staging protests as state-level labor rules that change their employment status begin to go into effect, creating another choke point in stressed US supply chains. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via getty Images
Trucks at the entrance to the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California, US, on Thursday, July 14, 2022. Truckers servicing some of the US's busiest ports are staging protests as state-level labor rules that change their employment status begin to go into effect, creating another choke point in stressed US supply chains. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via getty Images
David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | getty Images
The Oakland International Container Terminal (OICT) management closed operations on Wednesday at the Port of Oakland due to the independent trucker protests over California's gig worker law, known as AB5.
The Port's other three marine terminals are effectively shut down for trucks as well, the Port of Oakland told CNBC, while there are some vessel labor operations underway.
This is the third-day truckers have protested California's gig worker labor law, which was sparked by the rise of gig economy platforms like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash. A two-year legal stay was recently lifted when the Supreme Court decided not to hear a case which would have protected truckers from the impact of the law.
AB5 requires companies that hire independent contractors to reclassify them as employees, but there are some exceptions in the law across industries. The majority of truck drivers in California are owner-operator and many in this job category are concerned about their future. An estimated 70,000 truckers who own and drive their own trucks would fall under this law and they do not want to become an employee or part of a union in order to work.
The Port of Oakland in Oakland, California, US, on Thursday, July 14, 2022. Truckers servicing some of the US's busiest ports are staging protests as state-level labor rules that change their employment status begin to go into effect, creating another choke point in stressed US supply chains. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via getty Images
David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | getty Images
These are the largest trucker protests to date over the law.
One of those protesting is Bill Aboudi, owner of AB Trucking. "So far there has been no contact with the governor's office. It seems the governor is not concerned about taking American workers' rights away," Aboudi said. "These are independent, small businesses that choose to operate their own trucks, and now that right is taken away from them. They do pay taxes, they do have insurance. It's their choice to do that."
CNBC reached out to Governor Gavin Newsom's office asking when the enforcement of the law would begin, as well as if truckers have a way within the law to remain independent. In an email to CNBC, the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) Director Dee Dee Myers stated that with the federal courts rejecting the trucking industry's appeals, "it's time to move forward, comply with the law and work together to create a fairer and more sustainable industry for all."
Governor Newsom's office wrote in a separate email to CNBC, "We also suspect the landscape may change (independent drivers becoming their own authority and/or then existing firms becoming an employee/driver model)."
West Coast trucking and the supply chain
At the Port of Oakland, over 2,100 trucks go through the terminals each day. It is the eighth-largest port in the country, importing a wide range of items, from Australian wine and meat to aluminum from South Korea, furniture from China, clothing and electronics.
The protests, which blocked the terminal gates, forced some longshoremen not to navigate through the crowds for fear of their safety. Dockworkers can refuse to enter a marine terminal if they feel "unsafe" or endangered in any way."
"The workers stood by on health and safety, as is permitted in our contract when conditions at the terminals present a risk," said Farless Dailey III, ILWU Local 10 President.
Port of Oakland officials tell CNBC that as a result of the lack of longshoremen to work at the terminals, there were closures. ILWU labor came to work this morning at SSA terminal, they said, however, once they arrived, some ILWU members chose not to enter the terminal. Without a full complement of labor, SSA decided to close its operations today.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association continue to negotiate over a new contract to replace one that expired July 1, and both have pledged to not to strike or have a labor lockout.
There are three other marine terminals at the Port of Oakland, with waterside operations underway. However, truck gate activity is either minimal or shut down depending on the terminal.
As a result of the protest, productivity has diminished and there are rising wait times for containers, according to CNBC Supply Chain Heat Map data provider Project44.
CNBC has been told by multiple sources the protests at the Port of Oakland will continue through Friday.
Last week one-hundred truckers protested at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach but because of the size of the ports, the impact was not as severe as Oakland. An estimated 15,000 trucks move through these ports daily, more than seven times the trucking capacity of Oakland. But even with their immense size, the ports of LA and Long Beach have been severely congested and any trucker disruption would only add to the massive container congestion.
The problem at these West Coast ports has been rail wait times are around 11 days. Trucking containers represented less than 40% of all long-dwelling containers at the ports. Because of the railroad container pile-up, land capacity at the Port of LA is currently 90%. Any delays in trucks picking up containers would only add to the congestion.
Container congestion takes boxes out of the supply chain for re-use and that drives up container prices because you have fewer containers available.
Correction: An estimated 70,000 truckers who own and drive their own trucks would fall under the gig worker law. An earlier version of this article misstated that figure.
The CNBC Supply Chain Heat Map data providers are global freight booking platform Freightos, creator of the Freightos Baltic Dry Index; logistics provider OL USA; supply-chain intelligence platform FreightWaves; supply chain platform Blume Global; third-party logistics provider Orient Star Group; marine analytics firm MarineTraffic; maritime visibility data company Project44; maritime transport data company MDS Transmodal UK; ocean and air freight benchmarking and analytics firm Xeneta; leading provider of Research & Analysis firm Sea-Intelligence ApS; Crane Worldwide Logistics, and air and freight logistics provider SEKO Logistics and Everstream Analytics.
#130795 at 2022-07-16 21:14:25 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #722: Weekend of mystery Edition
https://nypost.com/2022/07/16/nascar-star-bobby-east-fatally-stabbed-at-california-gas-station/
NASCAR star Bobby East killed in stabbing at California gas station(NewYorkPost.com)
By Rich Calder
July 16, 2022 1:20pm Updated
Bobby East, driver of the #21 Ford during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series media day at Daytona International Speedway on February 9, 2006 in Daytona, Florida.
NASCAR driver Bobby East was stabbed to death at a gasoline station in Westminster, California.
Rusty Jarrett/getty Images
Star NASCAR driver Bobby East was stabbed to death this week by a homeless man at a California gas station, and his killer is still on the loose Saturday, authorities said.
The 37-year-old, three-time US Auto Club champion, was stabbed in the chest Wednesday while fueling up at a station in Westminster, Calif, The Sun reported. Emergency responders tried to keep him alive, but East died at a local trauma center.
Local cops are searching for Trent William Millsap, 27, who authorities consider a suspect in the stock car racing driver's stabbing, the outlet reported.
Trent William Millsap is accused of fatally stabbing NASCAR driver Bobby East in the chest.
Suspect Trent William Millsap is apparently homeless.
Westminster Police Department
A statement from Westminster Police Department described 6-foot five-inch Millsap as a "transient and known to frequent Westminster, Garden Grove, and Anaheim motels." Pictures released by the department show Millsap covered with tattoos on his head, face, neck, chest, arms, and hands.
He is considered armed and dangerous and the motive for the attack is unknown.
East, a native of Torrance, Calif., who lived in Brownsburg, Ind., won 56 career USAC-sanctioned victories, 48 of them in national divisions.
The fatal stabbing occured at a 76 gas station in 6322 Westminster Blvd in Westminster, California.
The US Auto Club called East "one of the most prolific drivers of his era."
East won three USAC national driving titles: the USAC National Midgets title in 2014 and back-to-back USAC Silver Crown championships in 2012 and 2013.
#129576 at 2022-07-01 07:56:49 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #712: Truth To Power Edition
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1310923/time-travel-news-us-military-time-machine-white-noise-of-space-white-oaks-dr-steven-greer
The secret US military device for seeing the past within a specific location {PROJECT LOOKING GLASS} (EXPRESS.CO.UK)
A TOP secret US military device created in the 1970s was able to observe what happened at any time in the past within a specific location, claims a major American ufologist who has briefed US presidents on the ET phenomenon.
By Brian McGleenon 06:01, Sat, Jul 18, 2020 | UPDATED: 14:26, Sat, Jul 18, 2020
USS Nimitz UFO 'time travelled' claims Dr Jack Sarfatti
Founder of the Centre for the Study of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Doctor Steven Greer described a strange mechanism that was developed at the US secret weapons laboratory at White Oaks in Maryland. During his research he described how a military advisor for the US Navy informed him of a device that could extract information in a specific location from "a century ago, or even a thousand years ago".
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Speaking to Express.co.uk Doctor Greer said: "One of my military advisors was with naval intelligence.
"In the old days there was a naval facility at White Oaks outside Washington DC.
"The facility had an electronic device that could extract from any point in space something that had happened in the past in that location.
"They called it the white noise of space-time."
The UFO researcher explained this time travelling project was developed in the 1970s.
A US time travel device developed in the 1970s
A US time travel device developed in the 1970s (Image: getty)
Doctor Greer described it as an electronic system "that allows you to see what happened an hour ago in the space that you are sitting in at that time".
He added: "You can also extract the information about what happened a century ago, or a thousand years ago, or a million years ago."
Doctor Greer, who is one of the world's leading authorities on extraterrestrials said that he had interviewed many "whistle blowers" about advanced technologies that seemed to work via quantum entanglement.
Quantum entanglement describes how two particles that are separated by vast distances in space, or time, can be linked and how their movements mysteriously correlate.
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He said: "I briefed former ministers of defence on these projects.
"There are highly compartmentalised projects that have not been revealed to even members of the UK Government.
The UFO researcher suggested that the machines tapped into "what mystics used to call the Akashic record".
The Akashic record is described as the storage place for all human events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent that have ever occurred in the past, present, or future.
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As yet there is no scientific evidence for the existence of the Akashic record.
Doctor Greer describes that the Akashtic record stores everything that ever happened in a specific space.
He said: "This record is stored in interdimensional space and there are interfaces such as the one deveoped at White Oaks in Maryland that can interface with this realm.
"It now turns out that there are actually electronic systems that can access the Akashic record, this means everthing that has ever happened in a precise location.
Time travel through quantum entanglement
Time travel through quantum entanglement (Image: getty)
"A member of my team was in the Maryland base in he 1970s and wittnessed this electronic device that would extract information from any volume of space."
Doctor Greer is an explorer of the science of what he deems "conciousness technologies".
A new research and development frontier that combines meta physics with quantum mechanics.
He describes it as the development of how "electronic systems are inferfacing with the quanta of thought".
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He references Elon Musk's Neuralink project as an example of this.
The neurotechnology that the Neuralink company are progressing will ultimately allow a low latency broadband link where thoughts are able to control electrical devices.
But, with the development of artificial intelligence there is the risk of the reverse, where machines begin to control human thoughts.
The American ufologist believes that advanced civilisations from beyond our solar system are using conciousness technologies that use the properties of quantum mechanics to travel to, and appear on, the Earth.
Time travel through quantum entanglement
Time travel through quantum entanglement (Image: getty)
He cites these technologies as explanations for UFO sightings and other paranormal events such as apparitions and alien contact.
This can be seen in the recent documentary about his work called, "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact has Begun".
The documentary is now available on Amazon.
According to John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton University the quantum mechanic laws state that atomic particles exist in state of constant possibility.
For instance, they can be anywhere, everywhere or nowhere at all in both the dimensions of time and space.
What anchors them into position is the active thought of the observer, such as a scientist in a laboratory.
Time travel through quantum entanglement
Time travel through quantum entanglement (Image: getty)
Doctor Greer, who has briefed presidents and heads of state on the ET phenomenon, suggests the mysterious properties associated with the quantum world can be used to allow beings to travel through time and space.
Doctor Greer said: "The mind itself is not limited to our cerebral core, or bodies or space and time."
"The CIA developed remote viewing in the 1970s were the officiers were able to see into the Soviet Union remotely.
"They used conciousness as a spy craft and the results were quite successful.
"The intelligence community took this very, very seriously.
#128382 at 2022-06-12 03:35:45 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight RIders #700: J6 hearing was fake and gay Edition
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/3-us-companies-allegedly-sent-defense-blueprints-china-receive-export-denial-order
3 US Companies That Allegedly Sent Defense Blueprints To China Receive Export Denial Order(ZeroHedge.com)
The Commerce of Business has issued a temporary denial order (TDO) for 180 days to three U.S. companies for the illegal export of data relating to satellite, rocket, and defense technology to China.
This picture released on Jan. 11, 2019 by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) via CNS shows the Yutu-2 moon rover, taken by the Chang'e-4 lunar probe on the far side of the moon. - China will seek to establish an international lunar base one day, possibly using 3D printing technology to build facilities, the Chinese space agency said on Janu. 14, weeks after landing the rover on the moon's far side. (China National Space Administration/AFP via getty Images)
On June 7, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) accused three U.S.-based companies of unauthorized export of technical drawings and blueprints used to 3-D print satellite, rocket, and defense-related prototypes to China.
The three entities are Quicksilver Manufacturing Inc., Rapid Cut LLC, and U.S. Prototype Inc., all located in Wilmington, North Carolina.
"Outsourcing 3-D printing of space and defense prototypes to China harms U.S. national security," said Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement Matthew Axelrod in a statement on June 8.
"By sending their customers' technical drawings and blueprints to China, these companies may have saved a few bucks-but they did so at the collective expense of protecting U.S. military technology."
According to the statement, TDOs are some of the most significant civil sanctions the BIS can issue.
The statement indicated, "Without their customers' advance consent or knowledge, these drawings were provided to manufacturers in China to 3-D-print the items without the required U.S. Government authorizations."
As stated in the TDO, these three entities use "the same rental mailbox."
"The information illegally sent to China included sensitive prototype space and defense technologies," said the BIS.
A 3D printer makes a plastic extender for surgical masks in Las Vegas, Nev., on April 14, 2020. (Ethan Miller/getty Images)
The statement also encouraged customers of the three entities to "review their records to determine whether intellectual-property or export-controlled technology was provided and/or potentially compromised."
The BIS did not disclose the customers that have contracts with the three entities.
According to the TDO, the customers include an aerospace and global defense technology company; a manufacturer of specially designed parts intended for a rocket platform's ground support and test equipment; and an advanced science and engineering company with multiple U.S. government contracts, including with the Department of Defense.
#128119 at 2022-06-06 04:38:56 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #698: The UPWARD Lightning Show Edition
#696
>>127950 ILPresidento BUENOS DIAS TO MY BEAUTIFUL ULTRA-MAGA KINGS AND QUEENS!!! ENJOY AN AMAZING FREEDOM FIESTA WEEKEND WITH YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR BIG, BEAUTIFUL GUNS!!!
>>127951 VIDEO: Laura Ingraham: They took Latino voters for granted (YouTube)
>>127952 ILPresidento ReTruth: (TruSoc) How good is TRUTH? Far better than Fake Account Twitter!
>>127953 ILPresidento (TruSoc) BOOOM!!! MI LAUREN B IS ON FUEGO!!!🔥🔥🔥
>>127954 ILPresidento (TruSoc) I formally request the unselect committee to start using 2-ply toilet paper for their subpoenas.
>>127955 Disclose.tv (Twatt) NEW - Corporations studiously avoid any mention of Pride in countries where they might lose customers or get on the wrong side of the government.
>>127956 USEmbassyKuwait (Twatt) "All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love." @POTUS is a champion for the human rights of #LGBTQI persons. #Pride2022 #YouAreIncluded
>>127958 PaulJosephWatson (Twatt) The CEO of Pfizer, the head of the CIA, the Director of the NSC, the VP of Facebook, the King of Holland and the Secretary General of NATO are all secretly meeting right now behind closed doors in DC. It's called Bilderberg, & not a single major media outlet has reported on it.
>>127961 ElonMusk (Twatt) Los Angeles is fortunate to have someone like Rick Caruso running for mayor. He's awesome.
>>127962 Forbes (Twatt) #BREAKING: President Biden responds to Elon Musk's "super bad feeling about" the US economy and wants to cut 10% of workforce: "Lots of luck on his trip to the moon." Elon Responds.
>>127963 TomFitton (Twatt) NEW: Biden @CDCgov (and allied @WashingtonPost) pushes sex talk for kindergartners.
>>127964 NewYorkPost (Twatt) Biden says Ukraine might have to give Russia land in 'negotiated settlement
>>127965 NYPost (Twatt) Oral sex sends Florida man crashing into FedEx truck
>>127966 NYPost (Twatt) Washington Post's Felicia Sonmez blasts colleague David Weigel for retweeting sexist joke
>>127969, >>127970, >>127971, >>127985, >>127986, CatTurd (Twatt) Just so you know ... Joe Biden's crooked, corrupt DOJ is arresting political opponents now.
>>127972 Reuters (TWATS) Four killed, 30 injured after train derails in southern Germany
>>127973 USArmy (Twatt) Whenever the nation has needed us, the #Army247 has answered the call to defend America.
>>127975 USArmy (Twatt) What's your legacy?
>>127976 GOD BLESS MI PETER NAVARRO!!! WE WILL NEVER GIVE IN TO THIS TYRANNY!!! EVER!!!
>>127977 USArmy (Twatt) Ever wonder how many #Soldiers operate a #Stryker?
>>127978 VIDEO: 'The Five' rips 'The View' host Sunny Hostin over comments about GOP, guns (Youtube)
>>127979 VIDEO: 'The Five' weigh in on why the media might be 'turning' on Biden (YouTube)
>>127980 VIDEO: Weapons for the World, but Disarm US? (YouTube)
>>127981 USArmy (Twatt) America's smokejumpers literally dive into danger.
>>127984 DineshD'Souza (Twatt) 1. Most secure election in history 2. Yes there was coordinated fraud but only in Arizona 3. Well, your film only covers five states so you can't prove fraud in the other ones 4. Okay so Biden lost the election but it's too late to get him out now #StagesofDenial #2000Mules
>>127987 (Twatt) KEKS: The high gas prices...are making us do..just...
>>127988, >>127989 Benny (Twatt) BREAKING: A Tennessee court has ordered @robbystarbuck to be restored to the ballot as a candidate for TN-5 Congressional race (CHECK DELTAS FOR June 4th NEXT BREAD)
>>127990 LibsofTikTok (Twatt) Homeschool your kids
>>127991 FoxNews (Twatt) Cheese company issues voluntary recall after potential listeria contamination
>>127992 GoldTelegraph (Twatt) BREAKING NEWS: FEDERAL ENERGY OFFICIALS ARE WARNING THAT THE POWER GRID IN THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES COULD BE FORCED TO IMPOSE ROTATING BLACKOUTS ON SOME OF THE HOTTEST DAYS OF THE SUMMER DUE TO RISING DEMAND AND PLANT RETIREMENTS
>>127993 TheHill (Twatt) New York passes bill raising age to buy, own semi-automatic rifles
>>127994 NewsMax (Twatt) 'Let's make it very clear': Trump advisor says Navarro is being 'railroaded'
>>127995 NBC"news" (TWATS) Differences in the genetic sequences of U.S. monkeypox cases complicate the picture of the outbreak's origin.
>>127996 NewsMax (Twatt) RITTENHOUSE: "You can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should!"
>>127997 FoxNews (Twatt) Pizza Hut features 'drag kids' book for children as young as kindergarten
>>127998 BloomBerg (Twatt) Americans are cutting back, and Walmart is finding itself in unfamiliar territory.
>>128000 SenatorTedCruz (Twatt) What price will it take for Joe Biden to end his war on American energy?
>>128001 NBC"news" (TWATS) San Antonio police fatally shot a 13-year-old boy who allegedly intentionally crashed a stolen car into a patrol vehicle early Friday, authorities say.
>>128002 (Twatt) Scientists challenge claims that the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by a comet (((Sodom & Gomorrah talk.. )))
>>128003 (Twatt) Gov DeSantis is withholding funding from the Tampa Bay Rays due to their stance on gun control...
>>128004 VIDEO: Gutfeld: We hope Stormy Daniels finds peace (YouTube)
>>128005 ElonMusk (Twatt) getty watermark is the coup de gr?ce
>>128006 VIDEO: Laura Ingraham: Biden is leaving Americans behind (YouTube)
>>128007 ElonMusk (Twatt) Diabolical! RE: Disney ChemTrails over palace meme
>>128008 ElonMusk (Twatt) Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols on 'Right becming the cool ones, while left become sniveling self-righteous twatty ones"
>>128009 VIDEO: Americans are sick of Biden's lies: Compagno (YouTube)
>>128010 TheHill (Twatt) EU officially adopts Russian oil embargo
>>128011 VIDEO: Mom who "RAN IN THE SCHOOL" SPEAKS OUT (YouTube)
>>128012 USMC (Twatt) A ceremony at @MCB_Quantico marked the official opening of "Billeb Hall", the Senior Enlisted Academy, in honor of Sgt. Maj. Bertha Peters Billeb USMC (Ret.).
>>128013 TheHill (Twatt) JUST IN: DOJ will not charge Meadows, Scavino for refusal in Jan. 6 committee probe: report
>>128014 ZeroHedge (Twatt) Americans Will Never Forget The Historic Economic Collapse During Joe Biden's Presidency
>>128015 FoxNews (Twatt) Washington Post issues correction after stealth-edit scrubbed false claim from Taylor Lorenz report
>>128016 IntelPointAlert (Twatt) ??🇺🇸#DEVELOPING: Several people stabbed at Encino Medical Center in California
>>128017 FoxNews (Twatt) Charlotte airport electric wheelchair used to conceal $378K worth of cocaine: Feds
>>128023 VIDEO: Ingraham: His people just keep missing the obvious (YouTube)
>>128024 CatTurd (Twatt) If you can sue a gun manufacturer for gun crimes - does that mean you can sue Louisville Slugger if someone kills somebody with a baseball bat?
>>128027 FoxNews (Twatt) Lawrence Jones on Seattle PD being unable to investigate new rape cases: Consequences of defunding police
>>128028 ZeroHedge (Twatt) Janet Yellen, worried by the specter of inflation, urged Biden to scale back the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan by a third, according to yellen's upcoming biography: BBG
>>128029 VIDEO: America's pot shops face wave of violent robberies (YouTube)
>>128030 TheHill (Twatt) Gaetz says he supports voters arming themselves at polls
>>128031 USMC (Twatt) #Recruits conduct the obstacle course on @MCRDPI, June 1.
>>128032 USAirForce ReTwTT: UnderSecretaryoftheAirForceGinaOrtizJones (Twatt) It takes courage to ask "Why?" SrA Gabrielle DeQuire raised concerns about biased language in a required training. She advocated for change & the course was updated-and we're a stronger force because of it. #ServiceBeforeSelf
>>128036 #696
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https://8kun.top/midnightriders/res/61239.html
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#128036 at 2022-06-04 08:39:05 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #696: IMAGINE the frustration if we weren't here communicating w/ you Edition
Notables are NOT endorsements
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#696
>>127950 ILPresidento BUENOS DIAS TO MY BEAUTIFUL ULTRA-MAGA KINGS AND QUEENS!!! ENJOY AN AMAZING FREEDOM FIESTA WEEKEND WITH YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR BIG, BEAUTIFUL GUNS!!!
>>127951 VIDEO: Laura Ingraham: They took Latino voters for granted (YouTube)
>>127952 ILPresidento ReTruth: (TruSoc) How good is TRUTH? Far better than Fake Account Twitter!
>>127953 ILPresidento (TruSoc) BOOOM!!! MI LAUREN B IS ON FUEGO!!!🔥🔥🔥
>>127954 ILPresidento (TruSoc) I formally request the unselect committee to start using 2-ply toilet paper for their subpoenas.
>>127955 Disclose.tv (Twatt) NEW - Corporations studiously avoid any mention of Pride in countries where they might lose customers or get on the wrong side of the government.
>>127956 USEmbassyKuwait (Twatt) "All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love." @POTUS is a champion for the human rights of #LGBTQI persons. #Pride2022 #YouAreIncluded
>>127958 PaulJosephWatson (Twatt) The CEO of Pfizer, the head of the CIA, the Director of the NSC, the VP of Facebook, the King of Holland and the Secretary General of NATO are all secretly meeting right now behind closed doors in DC. It's called Bilderberg, & not a single major media outlet has reported on it.
>>127961 ElonMusk (Twatt) Los Angeles is fortunate to have someone like Rick Caruso running for mayor. He's awesome.
>>127962 Forbes (Twatt) #BREAKING: President Biden responds to Elon Musk's "super bad feeling about" the US economy and wants to cut 10% of workforce: "Lots of luck on his trip to the moon." Elon Responds.
>>127963 TomFitton (Twatt) NEW: Biden @CDCgov (and allied @WashingtonPost) pushes sex talk for kindergartners.
>>127964 NewYorkPost (Twatt) Biden says Ukraine might have to give Russia land in 'negotiated settlement
>>127965 NYPost (Twatt) Oral sex sends Florida man crashing into FedEx truck
>>127966 NYPost (Twatt) Washington Post's Felicia Sonmez blasts colleague David Weigel for retweeting sexist joke
>>127969, >>127970, >>127971, >>127985, >>127986, CatTurd (Twatt) Just so you know ... Joe Biden's crooked, corrupt DOJ is arresting political opponents now.
>>127972 Reuters (TWATS) Four killed, 30 injured after train derails in southern Germany
>>127973 USArmy (Twatt) Whenever the nation has needed us, the #Army247 has answered the call to defend America.
>>127975 USArmy (Twatt) What's your legacy?
>>127976 GOD BLESS MI PETER NAVARRO!!! WE WILL NEVER GIVE IN TO THIS TYRANNY!!! EVER!!!
>>127977 USArmy (Twatt) Ever wonder how many #Soldiers operate a #Stryker?
>>127978 VIDEO: 'The Five' rips 'The View' host Sunny Hostin over comments about GOP, guns (Youtube)
>>127979 VIDEO: 'The Five' weigh in on why the media might be 'turning' on Biden (YouTube)
>>127980 VIDEO: Weapons for the World, but Disarm US? (YouTube)
>>127981 USArmy (Twatt) America's smokejumpers literally dive into danger.
>>127984 DineshD'Souza (Twatt) 1. Most secure election in history 2. Yes there was coordinated fraud but only in Arizona 3. Well, your film only covers five states so you can't prove fraud in the other ones 4. Okay so Biden lost the election but it's too late to get him out now #StagesofDenial #2000Mules
>>127987 (Twatt) KEKS: The high gas prices...are making us do..just...
>>127988, >>127989 Benny (Twatt) BREAKING: A Tennessee court has ordered @robbystarbuck to be restored to the ballot as a candidate for TN-5 Congressional race (CHECK DELTAS FOR June 4th NEXT BREAD)
>>127990 LibsofTikTok (Twatt) Homeschool your kids
>>127991 FoxNews (Twatt) Cheese company issues voluntary recall after potential listeria contamination
>>127992 GoldTelegraph (Twatt) BREAKING NEWS: FEDERAL ENERGY OFFICIALS ARE WARNING THAT THE POWER GRID IN THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES COULD BE FORCED TO IMPOSE ROTATING BLACKOUTS ON SOME OF THE HOTTEST DAYS OF THE SUMMER DUE TO RISING DEMAND AND PLANT RETIREMENTS
>>127993 TheHill (Twatt) New York passes bill raising age to buy, own semi-automatic rifles
>>127994 NewsMax (Twatt) 'Let's make it very clear': Trump advisor says Navarro is being 'railroaded'
>>127995 NBC"news" (TWATS) Differences in the genetic sequences of U.S. monkeypox cases complicate the picture of the outbreak's origin.
>>127996 NewsMax (Twatt) RITTENHOUSE: "You can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should!"
>>127997 FoxNews (Twatt) Pizza Hut features 'drag kids' book for children as young as kindergarten
>>127998 BloomBerg (Twatt) Americans are cutting back, and Walmart is finding itself in unfamiliar territory.
>>128000 SenatorTedCruz (Twatt) What price will it take for Joe Biden to end his war on American energy?
>>128001 NBC"news" (TWATS) San Antonio police fatally shot a 13-year-old boy who allegedly intentionally crashed a stolen car into a patrol vehicle early Friday, authorities say.
>>128002 (Twatt) Scientists challenge claims that the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by a comet (((Sodom & Gomorrah talk.. )))
>>128003 (Twatt) Gov DeSantis is withholding funding from the Tampa Bay Rays due to their stance on gun control...
>>128004 VIDEO: Gutfeld: We hope Stormy Daniels finds peace (YouTube)
>>128005 ElonMusk (Twatt) getty watermark is the coup de gr?ce
>>128006 VIDEO: Laura Ingraham: Biden is leaving Americans behind (YouTube)
>>128007 ElonMusk (Twatt) Diabolical! RE: Disney ChemTrails over palace meme
>>128008 ElonMusk (Twatt) Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols on 'Right becming the cool ones, while left become sniveling self-righteous twatty ones"
>>128009 VIDEO: Americans are sick of Biden's lies: Compagno (YouTube)
>>128010 TheHill (Twatt) EU officially adopts Russian oil embargo
>>128011 VIDEO: Mom who "RAN IN THE SCHOOL" SPEAKS OUT (YouTube)
>>128012 USMC (Twatt) A ceremony at @MCB_Quantico marked the official opening of "Billeb Hall", the Senior Enlisted Academy, in honor of Sgt. Maj. Bertha Peters Billeb USMC (Ret.).
>>128013 TheHill (Twatt) JUST IN: DOJ will not charge Meadows, Scavino for refusal in Jan. 6 committee probe: report
>>128014 ZeroHedge (Twatt) Americans Will Never Forget The Historic Economic Collapse During Joe Biden's Presidency
>>128015 FoxNews (Twatt) Washington Post issues correction after stealth-edit scrubbed false claim from Taylor Lorenz report
>>128016 IntelPointAlert (Twatt) ??🇺🇸#DEVELOPING: Several people stabbed at Encino Medical Center in California
>>128017 FoxNews (Twatt) Charlotte airport electric wheelchair used to conceal $378K worth of cocaine: Feds
>>128023 VIDEO: Ingraham: His people just keep missing the obvious (YouTube)
>>128024 CatTurd (Twatt) If you can sue a gun manufacturer for gun crimes - does that mean you can sue Louisville Slugger if someone kills somebody with a baseball bat?
>>128027 FoxNews (Twatt) Lawrence Jones on Seattle PD being unable to investigate new rape cases: Consequences of defunding police
>>128028 ZeroHedge (Twatt) Janet Yellen, worried by the specter of inflation, urged Biden to scale back the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan by a third, according to yellen's upcoming biography: BBG
>>128029 VIDEO: America's pot shops face wave of violent robberies (YouTube)
>>128030 TheHill (Twatt) Gaetz says he supports voters arming themselves at polls
>>128031 USMC (Twatt) #Recruits conduct the obstacle course on @MCRDPI, June 1.
>>128032 USAirForce ReTwTT: UnderSecretaryoftheAirForceGinaOrtizJones (Twatt) It takes courage to ask "Why?" SrA Gabrielle DeQuire raised concerns about biased language in a required training. She advocated for change & the course was updated-and we're a stronger force because of it. #ServiceBeforeSelf
#128019 at 2022-06-04 07:30:49 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #697: PizzaWoke 'Drag Kids' Book marks the end of their pizza reign Edition
Notables are NOT endorsements
Globals
>>104563, >>104917 (2016 & 2017)Timelines made in (2019) are up.
>>108502 RED CROSS = Serpant (Lucifer Worship) = controlling, waring bloodlines throughout history = Holy Grail = Evergreen = Blood Sacrifice = Eternal Life (BigBunz) (((MULTIPLE BREADS))) Poast for
>>117588 ANON: Countries that are organizing truck convoys:
>>122098, >>122101, >>122103, >>122104, >>122105, >>122112, >>122113, >>122115, >>122116, >>122121, >>122126, >>122128, >>122129, >>122136, >>122143, >>122144, >>122147, >>122148, >>122159, >>122161, >>122163, >>122168, >>122169, >>122170, >>122171, >>122172, >>122173, >>122174, >>122175, >>122182, >>122184, >>122185, >>122187, >>122188, >>123892, >>123945, >>123946, >>124210, >>124541, >>125781, >>125817, >>125819, >>125820, >>125822, >>125824, >>125825, >>125827, >>125828, >>125830, >>125831, >>125833, >>125834, >>125836, >>125837, >>125838, >>125839, >>125840, >>125841, >>125843, >>125844, >>125845, >>125872, >>125882, >>125884 ANON: Podesta 14 Fish, Osiris, NIMROD, Gilgamesh, Bible history, Covfefe, Antediluvians + current context) Mega Buns (spans breads)
Notables are NOT endorsements
#696
>>127950 ILPresidento BUENOS DIAS TO MY BEAUTIFUL ULTRA-MAGA KINGS AND QUEENS!!! ENJOY AN AMAZING FREEDOM FIESTA WEEKEND WITH YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR BIG, BEAUTIFUL GUNS!!!
>>127951 VIDEO: Laura Ingraham: They took Latino voters for granted (YouTube)
>>127952 ILPresidento ReTruth: (TruSoc) How good is TRUTH? Far better than Fake Account Twitter!
>>127953 ILPresidento (TruSoc) BOOOM!!! MI LAUREN B IS ON FUEGO!!!????????????
>>127954 ILPresidento (TruSoc) I formally request the unselect committee to start using 2-ply toilet paper for their subpoenas.
>>127955 Disclose.tv (Twatt) NEW - Corporations studiously avoid any mention of Pride in countries where they might lose customers or get on the wrong side of the government.
>>127956 USEmbassyKuwait (Twatt) "All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love." @POTUS is a champion for the human rights of #LGBTQI persons. #Pride2022 #YouAreIncluded
>>127958 PaulJosephWatson (Twatt) The CEO of Pfizer, the head of the CIA, the Director of the NSC, the VP of Facebook, the King of Holland and the Secretary General of NATO are all secretly meeting right now behind closed doors in DC. It's called Bilderberg, & not a single major media outlet has reported on it.
>>127961 ElonMusk (Twatt) Los Angeles is fortunate to have someone like Rick Caruso running for mayor. He's awesome.
>>127962 Forbes (Twatt) #BREAKING: President Biden responds to Elon Musk's "super bad feeling about" the US economy and wants to cut 10% of workforce: "Lots of luck on his trip to the moon." Elon Responds.
>>127963 TomFitton (Twatt) NEW: Biden @CDCgov (and allied @WashingtonPost) pushes sex talk for kindergartners.
>>127964 NewYorkPost (Twatt) Biden says Ukraine might have to give Russia land in 'negotiated settlement
>>127965 NYPost (Twatt) Oral sex sends Florida man crashing into FedEx truck
>>127966 NYPost (Twatt) Washington Post's Felicia Sonmez blasts colleague David Weigel for retweeting sexist joke
>>127969, >>127970, >>127971, >>127985, >>127986, CatTurd (Twatt) Just so you know ... Joe Biden's crooked, corrupt DOJ is arresting political opponents now.
>>127972 Reuters (TWATS) Four killed, 30 injured after train derails in southern Germany
>>127973 USArmy (Twatt) Whenever the nation has needed us, the #Army247 has answered the call to defend America.
>>127975 USArmy (Twatt) What's your legacy?
>>127976 GOD BLESS MI PETER NAVARRO!!! WE WILL NEVER GIVE IN TO THIS TYRANNY!!! EVER!!!
>>127977 USArmy (Twatt) Ever wonder how many #Soldiers operate a #Stryker?
>>127978 VIDEO: 'The Five' rips 'The View' host Sunny Hostin over comments about GOP, guns (Youtube)
>>127979 VIDEO: 'The Five' weigh in on why the media might be 'turning' on Biden (YouTube)
>>127980 VIDEO: Weapons for the World, but Disarm US? (YouTube)
>>127981 USArmy (Twatt) America's smokejumpers literally dive into danger.
>>127984 DineshD'Souza (Twatt) 1. Most secure election in history 2. Yes there was coordinated fraud but only in Arizona 3. Well, your film only covers five states so you can't prove fraud in the other ones 4. Okay so Biden lost the election but it's too late to get him out now #StagesofDenial #2000Mules
>>127987 (Twatt) KEKS: The high gas prices...are making us do..just...
>>127988, >>127989 Benny (Twatt) BREAKING: A Tennessee court has ordered @robbystarbuck to be restored to the ballot as a candidate for TN-5 Congressional race (CHECK DELTAS FOR June 4th NEXT BREAD)
>>127990 LibsofTikTok (Twatt) Homeschool your kids
>>127991 FoxNews (Twatt) Cheese company issues voluntary recall after potential listeria contamination
>>127992 GoldTelegraph (Twatt) BREAKING NEWS: FEDERAL ENERGY OFFICIALS ARE WARNING THAT THE POWER GRID IN THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES COULD BE FORCED TO IMPOSE ROTATING BLACKOUTS ON SOME OF THE HOTTEST DAYS OF THE SUMMER DUE TO RISING DEMAND AND PLANT RETIREMENTS
>>127993 TheHill (Twatt) New York passes bill raising age to buy, own semi-automatic rifles
>>127994 NewsMax (Twatt) 'Let's make it very clear': Trump advisor says Navarro is being 'railroaded'
>>127995 NBC"news" (TWATS) Differences in the genetic sequences of U.S. monkeypox cases complicate the picture of the outbreak's origin.
>>127996 NewsMax (Twatt) RITTENHOUSE: "You can fight back against the lies in the media, and you should!"
>>127997 FoxNews (Twatt) Pizza Hut features 'drag kids' book for children as young as kindergarten
>>127998 BloomBerg (Twatt) Americans are cutting back, and Walmart is finding itself in unfamiliar territory.
>>128000 SenatorTedCruz (Twatt) What price will it take for Joe Biden to end his war on American energy?
>>128001 NBC"news" (TWATS) San Antonio police fatally shot a 13-year-old boy who allegedly intentionally crashed a stolen car into a patrol vehicle early Friday, authorities say.
>>128002 (Twatt) Scientists challenge claims that the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by a comet (((Sodom & Gomorrah talk.. )))
>>128003 (Twatt) Gov DeSantis is withholding funding from the Tampa Bay Rays due to their stance on gun control...
>>128004 VIDEO: Gutfeld: We hope Stormy Daniels finds peace (YouTube)
>>128005 ElonMusk (Twatt) getty watermark is the coup de gr?ce
>>128006 VIDEO: Laura Ingraham: Biden is leaving Americans behind (YouTube)
>>128007 ElonMusk (Twatt) Diabolical! RE: Disney ChemTrails over palace meme
>>128008 ElonMusk (Twatt) Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols on 'Right becming the cool ones, while left become sniveling self-righteous twatty ones"
>>128009 VIDEO: Americans are sick of Biden's lies: Compagno (YouTube)
>>128010 TheHill (Twatt) EU officially adopts Russian oil embargo
>>128011 VIDEO: Mom who "RAN IN THE SCHOOL" SPEAKS OUT (YouTube)
>>128012 USMC (Twatt) A ceremony at @MCB_Quantico marked the official opening of "Billeb Hall", the Senior Enlisted Academy, in honor of Sgt. Maj. Bertha Peters Billeb USMC (Ret.).
>>128013 TheHill (Twatt) JUST IN: DOJ will not charge Meadows, Scavino for refusal in Jan. 6 committee probe: report
>>128014 ZeroHedge (Twatt) Americans Will Never Forget The Historic Economic Collapse During Joe Biden's Presidency
>>128015 FoxNews (Twatt) Washington Post issues correction after stealth-edit scrubbed false claim from Taylor Lorenz report
>>128016 IntelPointAlert (Twatt) ??????????#DEVELOPING: Several people stabbed at Encino Medical Center in California
>>128017 FoxNews (Twatt) Charlotte airport electric wheelchair used to conceal $378K worth of cocaine: Feds
>>128023 VIDEO: Ingraham: His people just keep missing the obvious (YouTube)
>>128024 CatTurd (Twatt) If you can sue a gun manufacturer for gun crimes - does that mean you can sue Louisville Slugger if someone kills somebody with a baseball bat?
>>128027 FoxNews (Twatt) Lawrence Jones on Seattle PD being unable to investigate new rape cases: Consequences of defunding police
>>128028 ZeroHedge (Twatt) Janet Yellen, worried by the specter of inflation, urged Biden to scale back the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan by a third, according to yellen's upcoming biography: BBG
>>128029 VIDEO: America's pot shops face wave of violent robberies (YouTube)
>>128030 TheHill (Twatt) Gaetz says he supports voters arming themselves at polls
>>128031 USMC (Twatt) #Recruits conduct the obstacle course on @MCRDPI, June 1.
>>128032 USAirForce ReTwTT: UnderSecretaryoftheAirForceGinaOrtizJones (Twatt) It takes courage to ask "Why?" SrA Gabrielle DeQuire raised concerns about biased language in a required training. She advocated for change & the course was updated-and we're a stronger force because of it. #ServiceBeforeSelf
>>128036 #696
#128005 at 2022-06-04 06:16:47 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #696: IMAGINE the frustration if we weren't here communicating w/ you Edition
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1532936274050486272
ElonMusk (Twatt) getty watermark is the coup de gr?ce
#124618 at 2022-04-14 16:31:40 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #667: Our Goal is World Peace Edition
>>124617
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-waleed-bin-talal.html
Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes, Including Billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal
Nov. 4, 2017
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest men, was reportedly arrested in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world's richest men, was reportedly arrested in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.Ishara S.Kodikara/Agence France-Presse - getty Images
LONDON - Saudi Arabia announced the arrest on Saturday night of the prominent billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, plus at least 10 other princes, four ministers and tens of former ministers.
The announcement of the arrests was made over Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned satellite network whose broadcasts are officially approved. Prince Alwaleed's arrest is sure to send shock waves both through the kingdom and the world's major financial centers.
He controls the investment firm Kingdom Holding and is one of the world's richest men, owning or having owned major stakes in 21st Century Fox, Citigroup, Apple, Twitter and many other well-known companies. The prince also controls satellite television networks watched across the Arab world.
The sweeping campaign of arrests appears to be the latest move to consolidate the power of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son and top adviser of King Salman.
At 32, the crown prince is already the dominant voice in Saudi military, foreign, economic and social policies, stirring murmurs of discontent in the royal family that he has amassed too much personal power, and at a remarkably young age.
The king had decreed the creation of a powerful new anti-corruption committee, headed by the crown prince, only hours before the committee ordered the arrests.
Al Arabiya said that the anticorruption committee has the right to investigate, arrest, ban from travel, or freeze the assets of anyone it deems corrupt.
The Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh, the de facto royal hotel, was evacuated on Saturday, stirring rumors that it would be used to house detained royals. The airport for private planes was closed, arousing speculation that the crown prince was seeking to block rich businessmen from fleeing before more arrests.
Prince Alwaleed was giving interviews to the Western news media as recently as late last month about subjects like so-called crypto currencies and Saudi Arabia's plans for a public offering of shares in its state oil company, Aramco.
He has also recently sparred publicly with President Donald J. Trump. The prince was part of a group of investors who bought control of the Plaza Hotel in New York from Mr. Trump, and he also bought an expensive yacht from him as well. But in a twitter message in 2015 the prince called Mr. Trump "a disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America."
Mr. Trump fired back, also on Twitter, that "Dopey Prince @Alwaleed_Talal wants to control our U.S. politicians with daddy's money."
At 32, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is already the dominant voice in Saudi military, foreign, economic and social policies.
At 32, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is already the dominant voice in Saudi military, foreign, economic and social policies.Fayez Nureldine/Agence France-Presse - getty Images
As president, Mr. Trump has developed a warm, mutually supportive relationship with the ascendant crown prince, who has rocketed from near obscurity in recent years to taking control of the country's most important functions.
But his swift rise has also divided Saudis. Many applaud his vision, crediting him with addressing the economic problems facing the kingdom and laying out a plan to move beyond its dependence on oil.
Others see him as brash, power-hungry and inexperienced, and they resent him for bypassing his elder relatives and concentrating so much power in one branch of the family.
At least three senior White House officials, including the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were reportedly in Saudi Arabia last month for meetings that were undisclosed at the time.
Before sparring with Mr. Trump, Prince Alwaleed was publicly rebuffed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who rejected his $10 million donation for the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York because the prince had also criticized American foreign policy.
As powerful as the billionaire is, he is something of an outsider within the royal family - not a dissident, but an unusually outspoken figure on a variety of issues. He openly supported women driving long before the kingdom said it would grant them the right to do so, and he has long employed women in his orbit.
In 2015 he pledged to donate his fortune of $32 billion to charity after his death. It was unclear Saturday whether Saudi Arabia's corruption committee might seek to confiscate any of his assets.
Saudi Arabia is an executive monarchy without a written Constitution or independent government institutions like a Parliament or courts, so accusations of corruption are difficult to evaluate. The boundaries between the public funds and the wealth of the royal family are murky at best, and corruption, as other countries would describe it, is believed to be widespread.
The arrests came a few hours after the king replaced the minister in charge of the Saudi national guard, Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, who controlled the last of the three Saudi armed forces not yet considered to be under control of the crown prince.
The king named Crown Prince Mohammed the minister of defense in 2015. Earlier this year, the king removed Prince Mohammed bin Nayef as head of the interior ministry, placing him under house arrest and extending the crown prince's influence over the interior ministry's troops, which act as a second armed force.
Rumors have swirled since then that King Salman and his favorite son would soon move against Prince Mutaib, commander of the third armed force and himself a former contender for the crown.
#119059 at 2022-02-10 18:21:43 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #616: Shakey Ass Comms???? Edition
>>119056
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jan-investigators-find-gaps-trump-white-house-call/story?id=82802726
Jan. 6 investigators find gaps in Trump White House call logs, sources say
One source said the logs do not reflect all the calls they know Trump made.
Jan. 6 investigators find gaps in Trump White House call logs, sources say
One source said the logs do not reflect all the calls they know Trump made.
ByRachel Scott andJohn Santucci
2:39
National Archives asks DOJ to investigate Trump's handling of records
The former president may have violated the Presidential Records Act, which requires all…Read More
Saul Loeb/AFP via getty Images, FILE
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has found sparse call records and gaps in the White House telephone logs from Jan. 6, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
One source indicated to ABC News that the logs do not reflect all the calls they understand former President Donald Trump was making that day.
Investigators have not uncovered any evidence that records were deleted or changed.
It's public knowledge that Trump used not only his personal cell phone to make calls but also the phones of his aides.
PHOTO: President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2020.
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2020.
MORE: National Archives asks DOJ to investigate Trump's handling of White House records
The apparent gaps in the calls records is the latest challenge for the committee as they try to paint a complete picture of what Trump was doing and who he was talking to that day.
The call logs obtained by the committee detail incoming and outgoing calls through the White House switchboard.
MORE: Former White House press aide appears before Jan. 6 committee
A spokesperson for the select committee declined to comment.
The phone log hunt was first reported by the New York Times.
#118897 at 2022-02-09 13:21:56 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #615: Mesa Heating Up The Game Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2022/02/08/meet-genocide-barbie-woke-american-born-eileen-gu-ditched-team-usa-to-win-gold-for-china/
Meet Genocide Barbie: Woke American-Born Eileen Gu Ditched Team USA to Win Gold for China (Breitbart.com)
Eighteen-year-old freeski champion Eileen Gu gave China its first women's gold medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Tuesday, becoming the breakout star of the least-watched Games in TV history. Chinese state media is eager to use Gu for propaganda while protecting her image as a globalist megastar, while American media is reluctant to ask tough questions about why a California teen would put her incredible talent at the service of a genocidal slave-taking dictatorship.
Why did a top American athlete who claims to be socially conscious, who benefited tremendously from growing up in the United States, choose to play for a brutal totalitarian government with one of the worst human rights records on the planet? Why does a young woman who claims to be devoted to female empowerment support a regime that forcibly sterilizes Uyghur Muslim women?
Why are so many American media outlets unwilling to put those questions to Gu, or even push for a firm answer on whether she renounced her American citizenship to play for China? U.S. mainstream media has largely embraced the narrative of Gu as a brave iconoclast walking a tightrope between feuding superpowers, fending off unreasonable criticism from a few cloddish and possibly racist American nationalists - as though she had left California to play for Canada, rather than for a hostile authoritarian superpower with a penchant for ethnic cleansing.
Eileen Gu of Team China holds up her gold medal for Women's Freestyle Skiing Freeski Big Air on February 8, 2022, in Beijing. (Richard Heathcote/getty Images)
Gu could easily have taken a spot on the U.S. Olympic team - she was racking up one trophy after another as an American competitor before she began entering events under the Chinese flag in 2019. On the other hand, as retired Winter X Games gold medalist Jen Hudak pointed out to the New York Post in early February, it's unlikely Gu could have enjoyed the same sporting career if she grew up under the misogynist tyranny she now represents.
"It is not my place to judge, but Eileen is from California, not from China, and her decision seems opportunistic," Hudak said. "She became the athlete she is because she grew up in the United States, where she had access to premier training grounds and coaching that, as a female, she might not have had in China."
Gu was born in San Francisco, California, in 2003. Her mother is a Chinese immigrant named Gu Yan, the daughter of a Chinese government official who moved to the United States about 30 years ago, worked as a ski instructor in the Lake Tahoe area, and raised Eileen as a single mom.
Eileen reportedly still lives with her mother and grandmother in San Francisco, but there is little on the record about her American father, aside from occasional mentions in Chinese state media that describe him as a graduate of Harvard.
Her mother studied at Peking University before moving to America, where she earned a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Auburn, but became more interested in business, becoming a venture capitalist who advertises her expertise as an "expert in China investment."
For her part, Eileen plans to attend Stanford University later this year. She generally refuses to answer questions from the media about her father. Her mother is a constant presence at her skiing competitions, while her grandmother joins her for social media posts, including videos made for Chinese audiences.
In addition to displaying phenomenal skiing talent at a young age, Eileen Gu has been highly successful as a fashion model, with a portfolio that includes ads for Gucci and Louis Vuitton. She has become one of the biggest celebrities in China, with tremendous exposure through both her modeling career and fawning state media coverage.
#116828 at 2022-01-24 23:30:26 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #599: WW Protests, Narrative Collapse Go for FFs Edition
https://nypost.com/2022/01/24/playboy-bunnies-blast-predator-hugh-hefner-in-new-doc/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
Playboy bunnies blast 'predator' Hugh Hefner's bestiality, 'cult' sex and worse (NewYorkPost.com)
Playboy bunnies blast 'predator' Hugh Hefner's bestiality, 'cult' sex and worse
Asia Grace
When bedding buxom bunnies became too boring for Playboy baron Hugh Hefner, he allegedly moved on to dogs.
Hef's purported penchant for bestiality is just one of the explosive claims made in the forthcoming A&E documentary "Secrets of Playboy," out Monday.
The damning 10-part series unmasks the once-heralded late mogul - who, until now, has been revered as a god-like stud, slinking around his estate in silk pajamas and a smoking jacket - to reveal the ugly truth about the man who built his sex empire on the backs of vulnerable women.
"He was a predator," Hefner's ex-girlfriend Sondra Theodore, 65, told The Post. "I watched him, I watched his game. And I watched a lot of girls go through [the Playboy Mansion] gates looking farm-fresh, and leaving looking tired and haggard."
Theodore claims Hef subjected her and hundreds of women in the Playboy world to decades of abuse and sexual assault.
Theodore claims Hef subjected her and hundreds of women in the Playboy world to decades of abuse and sexual assault.
Ron Galella Collection via getty
'I was underage'
The former Sunday school teacher-turned-1977 Playboy magazine centerfold model began dating Hefner after meeting him at one of his many lascivious mansion parties. The women of the docuseries describe the weekly gatherings as a debauched scene, where high rollers like Bill Cosby, Tony Curtis, Wilt Chamberlain and Arnold Schwarzenegger were VIP regulars. In the doc, Schwarzenegger is seen wrapping his arms around the waists of two Playmates and giving each a kiss on the lips in vintage footage.
Secrets of Playboy - Trailer
Theodore was just 19 when Hef first set his sights on her. He was 50.
"He groomed me and twisted my mind into thinking his way was normal," she said of Hef, who died of sepsis in 2017. "He introduced me to drugs. I'd never had a drink or a drug before going up to the Playboy Mansion. And my first night there I was handed champagne and the drugs came later, and I was underage."
#116739 at 2022-01-24 18:57:31 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #599: WW Protests, Narrative Collapse Go for FFs Edition
>>116737
https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-finds-fundamental-concerns-about-red-cross-finances
Report: Red Cross Spent 25 Percent Of Haiti Donations On Internal Expenses
Laura Sullivan4-Minute Listen
Haitians outside a Red Cross field hospital in Carrefour, Haiti, on Dec. 14, 2010, 11 months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the country's capital, Port-au-Prince.
Thony Belizaire/AFP/getty Images
The American Red Cross spent a quarter of the money people donated after the 2010 Haiti earthquake - or almost $125 million - on its own internal expenses, far more than the charity previously had disclosed, according to a report released Thursday by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
This story was reported in partnership between NPR News Investigations and ProPublica, an investigative journalism organization.
The report also says the charity's top officials stonewalled congressional investigators and released incomplete information about its Haiti program to the public. It concludes "there are substantial and fundamental concerns about [the Red Cross] as an organization."
The report follows a nearly yearlong investigation by the Iowa Republican and his staff, launched after coverage by NPR and ProPublica of the Red Cross' Haiti response. The venerated charity raised nearly $500 million after the disaster, more than any other nonprofit, but an ambitious plan to build housing resulted in just six permanent homes, NPR and ProPublica found.
Other findings in Sen. Grassley's report:
The charity insisted to congressional investigators that $70 million spent on "program expenses" included funds to oversee and evaluate its Haiti programs. But Grassley's office found that the charity "is unable to provide any financial evidence that oversight activities in fact occurred."
Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern told Grassley's office the charity "gave [the Government Accountability Office] everything that they asked for" during an earlier review. The report, however, says the organization did not provide everything requested, "contrary to Ms. McGovern's multiple claims that it did."
The Red Cross has kept the charity's own internal investigations and ethics unit "severely undermanned and underfunded," the report says, and the charity "appears to be reluctant to support the very unit that is designed to police wrongdoing within the organization."
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Red Cross officials defended the charity's work in a statement responding to the Grassley report, calling the organization's spending "entirely justifiable given the size and complexity of the Haiti program." They also noted that the Red Cross receives favorable ratings for accountability from charity watchdog groups.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, arrives for a committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 23.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in an interview that even after a year of back-and-forth with the Red Cross, "we did not get satisfactory answers - like pulling teeth, it was very difficult."
The Red Cross, including McGovern, repeatedly has told the public that all but 9 percent of donations spent go to humanitarian programs. But Grassley's office found that 25 percent of donations sent to Haiti - or nearly $125 million - were spent on fundraising and management, a contingency fund and the catchall category the Red Cross calls "program expenses."
The Red Cross sent the bulk of the remaining donated money to other nonprofits to do the work on the ground. Those other nonprofits then took their own cuts - as high as 11 percent - for their own expenses.
"The most important thing [from the report] is an unwillingness to level with the people exactly where the money went," Grassley says. "There's too many questions in regard to how the money was spent in Haiti … it gives me cause to wonder about other money being donated for other national disasters."
"One of the reasons that they don't want to answer questions is it's very embarrassing," Grassley adds.
In its statement, the American Red Cross notes that it has not yet seen Grassley's report, but that the organization and McGovern have been transparent, and that donors' money was properly spent. The statement also notes "the scale of the destruction and the challenging and sometimes dangerous conditions of working in Haiti."
The Red Cross, created by a congressional charter more than a century ago, receives a range of special benefits from the U.S. government.
Here are more details from the report:
The Red Cross Didn't Explain How Money Was Spent
In general, the Red Cross itself doesn't know how much money it spent on each project in Haiti because of a "complex, yet inaccurate" accounting system, the report found.
The report echoes the confidential findings of consultants hired by the Red Cross, which previously were reported by NPR and ProPublica. One internal evaluation of one of the group's water and sanitation projects found there was "no correct process for monitoring project spending." Another assessment found that the group's figures on how many people were helped by a hygiene project were "fairly meaningless."
Documents provided by the Red Cross suggest that the charity sometimes spent large sums of money on management costs even when it enlisted other organizations to run relief operations.
In 2010, the American Red Cross wrote a check for $4.3 million to its sister organization the International Federation of the Red Cross for disaster preparedness work. On top of the $4.3 million, according to budget figures the charity provided to Grassley, the American Red Cross spent another $2 million on its own to manage the grant. That's after it already took out hundreds of thousands of dollars in administrative fees.
Partners like the IFRC typically take out their own overhead and administrative costs before using the money to help Haitians.
When asked what the $2 million was used for, the Red Cross said it covered the costs "incurred to ensure accountability, monitoring and evaluation of work performed and ensure our partners meet their contractual requirements."
"It's sort of a shocking amount of money," said Jake Johnston, a research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who has spent years digging into the Red Cross' finances. "Maybe a little bit more than half that ends up going to a project."
Investigators' Questions Go Unanswered
The report lists eight examples of things the Red Cross declined to provide to government investigators working for the GAO as part of an inquiry that began in 2014. Those include descriptions of the charity's internal oversight processes, as well as interviews with chapter officials involved in the response to Superstorm Sandy.
In its statement, the Red Cross says that "at no point did the Red Cross refuse to provide requested information." But Grassley's report calls that claim "contrary to the documentary evidence."
McGovern has portrayed the Red Cross as a beacon of openness. "We made a commitment that we want to lead the effort in transparency," she said at the National Press Club in 2011.
American Red Cross President and CEO Gail McGovern attends a roundtable with President Obama regarding the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Aug. 27, 2015.
Andrew Harnik/AP
Grassley also says that, as NPR reported last year, McGovern tried to kill the GAO investigation - and that while the Red Cross couldn't kill the investigation, its "lack of cooperation led GAO to modify its scope."
In meetings and email correspondence over several months, Red Cross General Counsel David Meltzer questioned GAO's legal authority to look at the Red Cross.
The Red Cross argued that investigators' "requests for internal decision-making, internal oversight, and internal funding allocation are outside of GAO's authority," according to the GAO's account.
The Red Cross Undercut Its Own Ethics Unit
The Red Cross has about 20,000 employees, but its ethics office - which investigates waste, fraud and abuse - is composed of three people, according to the Grassley report. That is down from roughly 65 staffers after Hurricane Katrina a decade ago, the report says.
The Office of Investigations, Compliance and Ethics was left so "understaffed and underfunded" that it is "unable to perform its primary function; namely, to perform investigations, ensure compliance, and maintain ethical standards," the report found.
The report doesn't explain why the size of the office was slashed, but it does note that the Red Cross sometimes relies on outside law firms to conduct internal investigations.
One of the three remaining employees, the "compliance coordinator," performs only intakes and triages and does not actually do investigations. Another, the chief investigator, is based in New York, away from Red Cross headquarters in Washington.
Requests by the head of the unit, Teala Brewer, for more staff have gone unfulfilled, the report says.
#110653 at 2021-12-11 10:32:48 (UTC+1)
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>>110650
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/politics/obama-era-uranium-deal/index.html
Obama-era uranium deal yields new questions, new accusations and new investigation
Jessica Schneider
By Jessica Schneider and Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN
Updated 1:46 PM EDT, Wed October 25, 2017
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House Republicans announced a probe into the circumstances surrounding the sale of a uranium mining company to Russia's Atomic Energy Agency, Rosatom, that was approved by the Obama administration in 2010.
The deal had to be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a committee that is composed of representatives from several US government agencies, including the State Department, which at the time was led by Secretary Hillary Clinton.
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 27: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) talks to reporters outside the committee's secure meeting room in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center February 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. Nunes talked about his committee's Russia investigation. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/getty Images)
House Republicans investigating Obama-era uranium deal
New questions have been raised by Republican lawmakers in light of reporting by The Hill that while the uranium deal was being reviewed and approved, the FBI was in the beginning stages of a racketeering and extortion investigation into a US subsidiary of Rosatom.
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President Donald Trump seized on the new reporting, telling reporters on Wednesday that he feels the newly announced investigations into the sale are "Watergate, modern age."
"I think the uranium sale to Russia, in the way it was done, so underhanded with tremendous amounts of money being passed, I actually think that is Watergate, modern age," he said.
The Hill reporting raises questions about whether decision-makers on the uranium deal, including members of Congress, were informed of the racketeering investigation that was ongoing. Further, the Hill cites sources indicating that Russian nuclear officials routed millions of dollars to the US that were designed to benefit the Clinton Foundation at the same time the deal was approved. The Hill does not indicate there's any evidence to show that Clinton was influenced by this.
The FBI criminal probe resulted in the sentencing of Vadim Mikerin, an executive at Tenex (a subsidiary of Rosatom), to a 48-month prison sentence for conspiracy to commit money laundering. Mikerin pleaded guilty for his role in a bribery scheme where Russian interests had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks.
Court documents connected with the case reviewed do not reference donations to the Clinton Foundation, nor attempts by US or Russian interests to influence the Uranium One deal decision.
Since these allegations have resurfaced in the wake of recent reporting, Clinton and members of her staff have disputed accusations that anything improper occurred surrounding the approval of the Uranium One deal.
Clinton said in an interview with C-SPAN this week that any accusations that she was bribed to approve the deal were "baloney" and that they had been "debunked repeatedly."
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Jake Sullivan, former director of Clinton's State Department Policy Planning Office, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview last week that "there was really nothing to" the allegations of Clinton influencing the decision based on donations made to the Clinton Foundation. Sullivan said that Clinton did not participate in the CFIUS decision, since the approval went through a "nine-agency committee ... there was nothing here other than a normal process."
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 14: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) answers questions during his weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol September 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Ryan answered questions on reports of Democratic congressional leaders reaching an agreement on the DREAM Act and a potential path to citizenship with U.S. President Donald Trump during the press conference.
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Former Justice Department national security attorney Joshua Geltzer said "it's not unusual for a CFIUS review to be handled by career civil servants" as opposed to the agency head, like Clinton, on the committee. Geltzer served during the Obama administration and advised the Justice Department's leadership on CFIUS matters, but did not join the administration until 2013 after this deal was made.
"While ultimate approval for a particular department or agency's position on a CFIUS matter may come from its political leadership, the bulk of the analysis that informs a recommendation for that position tends to be produced by the subject-matter experts," Geltzer said.
The timing of the FBI probe is also a key question, as is when officials who approved the uranium deal knew about it. According to court records, the scheme first became known to federal investigators in 2009 when an American businessman was recruited to assist, and then alerted the FBI. That businessman became an informant for the FBI and participated in the bribery plan, with the FBI's approval. But the FBI did not announce the indictment until it was unsealed in October 2014, four years after the Obama administration approved the uranium deal.
The timing is the key part of the investigation announced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes Tuesday.
"One of the things that you know we're concerned about is whether or not there was an FBI investigation," Nunes said. "Was there a DOJ investigation? If so, why was Congress not informed of this matter?"
The FBI referred CNN to the court documents, and any additional inquiries to the Justice Department, which has not yet commented.
FBI investigations are typically not disclosed at the time they are ongoing, so it is possible that the government officials involved in approving the Uranium One deal were not aware of the criminal investigation at the time of the approval. CNN spoke with Ronald Hosko, assistant FBI director in charge of criminal cases at the time of the investigation, who said that he wasn't aware of the ongoing probe, saying it was handled on the counterintelligence side of the bureau. Counterintelligence investigations are some of the most closely held in the FBI. Former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, who chaired the House Intelligence Committee at the time of the probe, also told The Hill that he was never informed about the FBI probe either.
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The informant who played a crucial role in the FBI investigation is now trying to speak out, but his attorney says he is barred by a non-disclosure agreement the FBI made him sign. A law enforcement source familiar with the process said it is common for cooperating witnesses to sign non-disclosure agreements when the investigation involves national security concerns, as it did in this case. However, these agreements are typically narrowly written, and do not typically prevent individuals from speaking to Congress about what they learned in the ordinary course of business while simultaneously working as an informant, the source said. However, the source says the agreement would prevent any disclosure of information that was gleaned while working closely with federal investigators as it pertained to the investigation itself.
The informant's attorney tells CNN the informant has a lot of information about corruption that has not come out yet. In particular, the attorney maintains that while the FBI investigation was going on, FBI agents told the informant that President Barack Obama was being briefed on the probe, and that's why the informant was so stunned when the Uranium One deal was approved in 2010. Obama's representative declined to comment.
In addition to the probe announced by the House intelligence committee and the House oversight committee Tuesday afternoon, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has also written a letter calling on the Justice Department to lift the non-disclosure agreement preventing that informant from speaking to Congress. Grassley sent the letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on October 18. Grassley also sent a letter to the informant's attorney requesting an interview with the informant.
This article has been revised to correct the spelling of the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom.
#109166 at 2021-12-02 18:42:35 (UTC+1)
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>>109165
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/28/james-biden-lobbyist-virgin-islands-099318
Lobbyist bought tropical land from Biden's brother
Scott Green, a lobbyist with close ties to Joe Biden, purchased Virgin Islands property from James Biden and then extended him a private mortgage.
Joe Biden, his brother James Biden and lobbyist Scott Green.
Joe Biden, his brother James Biden and lobbyist Scott Green. | POLITICO Illustration/getty Images; AP; Alain Brin
By BEN SCHRECKINGER
01/28/2020 05:01 AM EST
Updated: 01/28/2020 10:19 AM EST
In 2005, Joe Biden's brother bought an acre of land with excellent ocean views on a remote island in the Caribbean for $150,000. He divided it into three parcels, and the next year a lobbyist close to the Delaware senator bought one of the parcels for what had been the cost of the entire property. Later, the lobbyist gave Biden's brother a mortgage loan on the remaining parcels.
The Virgin Islands land deal, reported here for the first time, furthers a pattern in which members of the Biden family have engaged in financial dealings with people with an interest in influencing the former vice president.
In this case, a Biden staffer left the Senate in the early '90s to become a lobbyist. Both before and after the land transaction, his clients benefited from Biden's support and appropriations requests. A firm the lobbyist co-founded - which features a testimonial from Biden praising his "emotional investment" in his work on its website - specializes in federal contracts for niche law enforcement and national security programs for which Biden long advocated.
After the land deal, Joe Biden vacationed elsewhere on the tiny island, which once protected a nearby submarine base before it became a tropical getaway, on at least three occasions.
Honeymoon Beach
Water Island. | Alain Brin/POLITICO
The property itself has remained vacant and undeveloped. It is not clear why the lobbyist, Scott Green, purchased the parcel from Biden's brother James, or why James Biden later went to the lobbyist for a loan, rather than to a bank. An easement James Biden obtained granting road access to the land before selling it to Green may have made the land more valuable, but it is unclear whether the dramatically higher price Green paid for his parcel reflected its true value. The terms of the loan were not disclosed in property records.
It is also not clear whether Joe Biden was aware of the transactions. Following the land purchase, Green continued to lobby on issues over which Biden wielded influence and to meet with Biden's staff. Green's firm also continued to land government contracts related to federal programs for which Biden advocated.
Representatives of the Biden campaign declined repeated requests over weeks to comment. Shortly before publication, spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement: "Joe Biden was wrong. Politico does have a sense of humor. Because this story is an absolute joke."
Green did not respond to several requests for comment. A lawyer for James Biden, George Mesires, acknowledged receiving questions, but did not respond to them.
James Biden, six years Joe's junior, served as finance chairman on his older brother's first Senate campaign in 1972. He went on to pursue an entrepreneurial career that regularly intersected with Joe's public duties. He once sought to launch a Washington lobbying firm, but the venture was cut short when his would-be partners were convicted of attempting to bribe a judge in an unrelated matter. He has previously been accused by former business contacts of seeking to exploit the former vice president's clout for financial gain in court proceedings in New York, Kentucky, and Florida, though he has denied such claims.
Water Island is a 500-acre spit of land in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Department of Defense purchased the island from a Danish company during World War II, using it to protect a submarine base on nearby St. Thomas. Since then, it has become an under-the-radar tropical getaway dotted with several-dozen homes, where the largest beachfront estates can fetch north of a million dollars.
Island scenes
Scenes of tropical Water Bay. Honeymoon Bay (top) and the Water Island Ferry. | Alain Brin/POLITICO
In May 2005, James Biden and his wife, Sara, purchased a one-acre plot of land in the middle of the island, according to property records. Tax records describe the view from the property as "excellent." The price: $150,000.
Then, the couple got an easement to access the land and divided it into three parcels. The easement, granted by the Virgin Islands territorial government, gave them the right to use an existing driveway to the property that cut across government land. A year later, in May 2006, the Bidens sold the northernmost parcel, just over a third of an acre, to Green and his wife, Julie, according to property records.
The price, again, was $150,000. In effect, James and Sara Biden had gotten their money back while keeping most of the land - recouping their investment in just 12 months.
Land value can fluctuate, making it difficult to assess whether such a dramatic increase in land price was reasonable. An easement can make land more valuable, depending on how costly the easement was and how difficult it was to obtain.
The paperwork costs for this type of easement would be minimal, according to Raf Muilenburg, managing partner at Morrisette & Muilenburg, a law firm based in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Muilenburg estimated that the cost of planning and surveying a driveway easement would be under $1,000. Filing fees would be in the hundreds of dollars, and that the easement could also entail a small amount of legal work, he said.
Typically, the recipient of an easement also pays the party granting the easement for the rights they are getting on that party's land. If James and Sara Biden paid the Virgin Islands territorial government for the driveway rights, it was not reflected in property records.
A tax bill from 2006 lists the assessed value of Green's parcel at $87,000, but tax records indicate the bill was rescinded. Subsequent tax bills list the assessed value of Green's plot at just $38,000 - a quarter of the $150,000 purchase price - until 2013, when it jumped to $83,700. Typically, land sells for more than its assessed value.
A person answering the phone at John Foster Real Estate, a local realtor, identified Chuck Gidley as the agent listed on the original 2005 transaction.
Gidley declined to comment.
Scott Green's career has been tied to Joe Biden's, from his days as a member of Biden's Senate staff to his work as a lobbyist on projects of special interest to Biden.
As a young man, Green played linebacker for the University of Delaware football team, overlapping at the school with James Biden for a few semesters, and graduated in 1973. He is best known for his work as an NFL referee, having led the officiating crew at Super Bowl XLIV in 2010. He is currently listed as the executive director of the NFL Referees Association, which acts as a bargaining representative in labor negotiations.
NFL Scott Green
Referee Scott Green makes a call in the second half of the Seattle Seahawks and Baltimore Ravens NFL football game on Nov. 13, 2011, in Seattle. | Elaine Thompson/AP Photo
At the same time, Green has led a parallel career in Washington. After working as a probation officer after college, Green accepted an offer from Biden in the early 1980s for a job on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he worked for a decade in roles that included staff assistant and senior advisor.
From the Senate, Green pivoted to the private sector.
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In 1994, he co-founded Lafayette Group, a lobbying and consulting firm focused on law enforcement and national security that is now headed by his son.
The firm's website features a photo of Green with Biden. It also quotes Biden praising his former staffer's commitment to law enforcement, saying, "Scott Green was emotionally invested. It wasn't just a job for him; it was an emotional investment."
Government contracts for niche support services for law enforcement and national security agencies have been central to the firm's business over the years, according to a firm history posted on its website.
In the Senate, Biden over the years proposed appropriations for many of the niche areas in which the firm specialized, including "interoperable communications" for first responders and "fusion centers" for processing threat-related intelligence.
Lafayette Group's government contracting business extended into the Obama years, as did Green's ties to Joe Biden. Government data shows tens of million of dollars in contract awards to the firm from federal agencies over the course of the Obama administration.
If Joe Biden knew of his brother's dealings, he should have stopped allowing Green to lobby him or his staff, according to Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, who recently became a Democrat.
"It's really time to send a message to the lobbyist that 'If you're doing deals with my brother, I really can't see you,'" Painter said. It is not clear whether such measures were ever taken in response to the property deals.
In both January and September of 2010, Green met with a Biden aide in the Old Executive Office Building, according to White House visitor logs, which do not record the purpose of those meetings. In May of that year, he attended a reception in honor of firefighters and law enforcement officials at the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory, according to the logs.
Among Lafayette Group's biggest single days for government business during the Obama years was April 11, 2010, when records show it received two awards from the Federal Emergency Management Agency worth a total of $5.8 million as a subcontractor to Booz Allen Hamilton. Lafayette Group was charged with providing "Support for [the Office of Emergency Communications] contract developing communications strategies," according to a description of the award. There is no indication that Biden played a role in the awarding of the contract.
On April 14 of that year, Green and his wife gave James and Sara Biden a $133,300 mortgage on their remaining Water Island real estate, according to property records.
Images of lots on Water Island
Top Left: Photo of land owned by Jim Biden. Top Right: Photo of land owned by Scott Green. Bottom: Satellite image identifying lots owned by Jim Biden and Scott Green. | Alain Brin/POLITICO; Google Earth
This was not the first time a Biden-tied lobbyist had figured into James Biden's personal finances. In an unrelated episode, he and Joe's son, Hunter, took out loans worth seven figures from WashingtonFirst Bank to repay a business debt around 2006. The bank was co-founded by a lobbyist and Biden adviser who was also a lobbying partner of Hunter Biden's for several years. A former executive at the bank previously told POLITICO that James and Hunter repaid that loan.
In September 2013, the Greens released the Water Island mortgage, saying they had "received full payment and full satisfaction," according to property records.
#108122 at 2021-11-26 20:54:02 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #541: Family & Fren Recharge, WATCH OUT DEEP STATE Edition
General Research #19082 >>>/qresearch/15084083
Inside the Wuhan lab: French engineering, deadly viruses and a big mystery
Eva Dou, Pei Lin Wu, Quentin Ari?s, Rebecca Tan 9/7/2021
One chilly morning in February 2017, a tall Chinese scientist in his 50s named Yuan Zhiming showed Bernard Cazeneuve, then the French prime minister, around Wuhan's new high-security pathogen lab.
Bernard Cazeneuve et al. standing in front of a door: Bernard Cazeneuve, front right, then the prime minister of France, visits the P4 lab in Wuhan on Feb. 23, 2017.? JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/getty Images Bernard Cazeneuve, front right, then the prime minister of France, visits the P4 lab in Wuhan on Feb. 23, 2017.
Built with French engineering, it was China's first P4 lab, one of several dozen in the world with that highest security designation. Yuan, the director of the lab, had worked more than a decade to make it a reality.
Yuan and his colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) hoped they could help prevent another catastrophe like the SARS outbreak in 2003, which embarrassed Beijing and resulted in the dismissal of the health minister.
But just a couple of years after the P4 lab's ribbon-cutting, China was engulfed in a far deadlier outbreak. Yuan's team had not prevented it. And worse, some suspected that lab personnel might have been involved in its genesis.
Yuan has vociferously denied that the WIV had any part in the coronavirus pandemic's origins. "The Wuhan P4 lab has never seen any laboratory leaks or human infections since it began operating in 2018," Yuan said at a news conference in July.
Amid the scrutiny, the WIV has turned inward. Yuan said at the news conference that his team took a virus database offline because of "the large number of malicious attacks," and he complained that he and his colleagues are under great pressure from rumors.
[Biden receives inconclusive intelligence report on covid origins]
U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report last month that the virus was not a biological weapon and that it's unclear whether it originated naturally or from a laboratory-associated incident. The report said confirmation is unlikely without China's cooperation, which Beijing withdrew in July.
For Yuan and his team, it means the cloud of suspicion lingers. After their high hopes, it's a disappointment.
"Scientific collaboration in virology - it's gone," said a foreign researcher who has worked for years with the WIV and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the hostile political climate. "Now, the Chinese will not welcome foreigners because their view is you're coming in to dig dirt."
This account of the WIV's 65-year history, its coronavirus research and its P4 lab is based on interviews with visiting scientists, lab audit reports, satellite images, archival records and other documentation. The WIV did not respond to requests for comment.
'Best of the best'
The P4 lab, left, on the campus of the WIV on May 27, 2020. The lab was based on one in Lyon, France.? HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/getty Images The P4 lab, left, on the campus of the WIV on May 27, 2020. The lab was based on one in Lyon, France.
The P4 lab is located off an eight-lane road on Wuhan's southern industrial outskirts, where factories give way to low mountains and farmland. The lab facilities cover roughly two football fields, on a tract of land 12 times as large, according to a June 2018 environmental safety audit report.
The building's austere gray lines are softened by trees: From 2005 to 2015, when the lab was under construction, scientists would drive out on Arbor Day to add a few more saplings to the perimeter.
Based on the French P4 lab in Lyon, the building has four floors: waste management at the bottom; experimental labs and animal rooms on the main floor; and on the top two, apparatuses to ensure safe airflow, the report says.
Visitors called it state-of-the-art, in contrast to other, aging WIV buildings, where scientists wore coats indoors in winter because of scant heating.
The lab had "the newest technology, a huge complex," recalled Boris Klempa, a Slovak Academy of Sciences researcher who visited in 2017.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-the-wuhan-lab-french-engineering-deadly-viruses-and-a-big-mystery/ar-AAOaUW6
#107766 at 2021-11-24 21:31:07 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #539: Enjoying the Show Edition
New York Times Admits More Coronavirus Deaths Under Joe Biden 'Despite Vaccines'
by Hanna Bleau 24 November 2021
The New York Times delivered a dire statistic the day before Thanksgiving, admitting more people in the United States have died of the Chinese coronavirus this year, under President Joe Biden's leadership, than last year, despite the widespread availability of vaccines.
The Times cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Tuesday figures, which reported 386,233 coronavirus related fatalities in the U.S. for 2021. In all of 2020, the U.S. recorded 385,343 fatalities. The former figure is only expected to rise, as there is still over one month left of the year.
Citing "experts," the Times attributed the increased fatalities this year on a "confluence of factors," focusing primarily on what it described as "crucially lower-than-needed vaccination rates, but also the relaxation of everyday precautions, like masks and social distancing, and the rise of the highly contagious Delta variant."
Per the Times:
Essentially, public health experts said, many Americans are behaving as though Covid-19 is now a manageable, endemic disease rather than a crisis - a transition that will happen eventually but has not happened yet.
Yet many are also refusing to get vaccinated in the numbers required to make that transition to what scientists call "endemicity," which would mean the virus would still circulate at a lower level with periodic increases and decreases, but not spike in the devastating cycles that have characterized the pandemic. Just 59 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated, the lowest rate of any Group of 7 nation.
However, placing the blame on "lower-than-needed vaccination rates" appears to defy logic, as the vaccine has been widely available for the bulk of the year.
The same cannot be said for 2020, when the world was just beginning to discover what the virus was and where it came from. While the Trump administration moved to get vaccine production going via Operation Warp Speed, vaccines were not widely available to the entirety of the eligible population until this year. Even so, rollout has demonstrated that vaccinated individuals can still spread and contract the virus.
AUSTIN, TEXAS - AUGUST 07: EMS medics transport a man with possible Covid-19 symptoms to the hospital on August 07, 2020 in Austin, Texas. Nationwide the African American community continues to be disproportionally affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Austin-Travis County EMS has seen the number of new hospitalizations decrease, even as Covid-19 deaths continue. (Photo by John Moore/getty Images)
EMS medics transport a man with possible Covid-19 symptoms to the hospital in Austin, Texas. (John Moore/getty Images)
The Times also attributed the increased fatalities to the "relaxation of everyday precautions" - one of the key incentives officials touted to Americans during vaccine rollout, many of whom promised that vaccines would pave a way for Americans to return to a state of pre-pandemic normalcy. However, that proved to be false, as many localities, and blue states, reintroduced restrictions, including mask mandates, regardless of vaccination status.
That aside, Florida alone challenges the assertion that lax mitigation measures are attributing the spread and increased fatalities. The Sunshine State, whose Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) came under a flurry of constant scrutiny throughout the pandemic for prioritizing personal freedom and refusing to keep the state locked down, continues to have the lowest coronavirus case rate per capita in the nation.
It never had a statewide mask mandate in place, even at the height of the pandemic.
The Times' own coronavirus tracker, last updated Wednesday, shows Florida reporting a daily average of 1,397 cases, or seven per 100,000 - the lowest per capita rate in the nation. Florida's most recent figures reflect a five percent drop in cases over the last 14 days.
The state of Pennsylvania reported nearly 500 deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus in September - its third consecutive month of decline, according to PA Department of Health data. https://t.co/nCCQiHfTtx
- Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 5, 2020
States that reinstituted mandates, such as Illinois, are not faring as well, reporting a daily average of 4,599 cases, or 36 per capita. That represents an increase of 73 percent over the same time period.
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#106993 at 2021-11-19 18:55:32 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #534: We Iz Kangs Edition
Here's the spin from Yahoo!News
Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted in Bombshell End to Vigilante Murder Trial
Pilar Melendez, Dan Simmons
Fri, November 19, 2021, 1:15 PM?7 min read
KENOSHA-Kyle Rittenhouse, the notorious, gun-toting white teenager accused of murdering two people and trying to kill a third during a police-violence protest last August, has been found not guilty of all the charges against him in a Wisconsin courtroom.
Pilar Melendez, Dan Simmons
Fri, November 19, 2021, 1:15 PM?7 min read
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/getty
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/getty
KENOSHA-Kyle Rittenhouse, the notorious, gun-toting white teenager accused of murdering two people and trying to kill a third during a police-violence protest last August, has been found not guilty of all the charges against him in a Wisconsin courtroom.
Rittenhouse, 18, faced a slew of charges, including first-degree reckless homicide, over his conduct on Aug. 25, 2020, amid unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a local Black father. During two incidents caught on camera, Rittenhouse fired an AR-15 and killed 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum and 26-year-old Anthony Huber. He also severely wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, now 27.
As the verdict was being read, a trembling Rittenhouse wept and collapsed. His mom, Wendy Rittenhouse, and other family were seen crying in the courtroom gallery. After Kenosha Judge Bruce Schroeder insisted he "couldn't have asked for a better jury" and said they were free to leave the Kenosha courthouse, a sheriff's deputy escorted Rittenhouse through a back door.
"The jury has represented our community in this trial and has spoken," Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger told reporters after the verdict.
The verdict, which was reached in 24 hours, marks the end of one chapter of a highly-divisive case that prompted conservatives to rally behind the teen-and the latest episode in a saga that's served as a testament to the ever-more-bitter divides over gun rights and race in America.
https://news.yahoo.com/kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-bombshell-end-181508214.html
#105179 at 2021-11-09 05:25:27 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #520: Please Stand By Edition
>>105178
(Twatt)
He was at a wedding on the weekend in San Francisco . The Ivy getty wedding. So maybe all the gossip about what's happened to him is off the mark? Where is Gov. Gavin Newsom? Here's what we know about his continued absence
https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith/status/1457911324743196676
#105169 at 2021-11-09 05:15:51 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #520: Please Stand By Edition
>>105161
>>105162
(Twatt) Where's Newsome? At a VERY fancy wedding. A getty Wedding
"with Nancy Pelosi officiating and Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed in attendance"
https://twitter.com/AQUAB23/status/1457920644172111877
#100228 at 2021-10-04 23:27:23 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #485: MSM is in DEATH SPIRAL Edition
Twitter Labels Obituary of 37-Year-Old Seattle Mother Who Died From COVID Vaccine Blood Clots 'Misleading'
https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/10/04/twitter-seattle-mother-vaccine-death-obituary-misleading.html?utm_medium=visiontimes&utm_source=telegram
The Twitter logo is seen on a sign at headquarters in San Francisco on November 4, 2016. Twitter labelled the obituary of 37-year-old Seattle mother Jessica Berg Wilson, whose family says died from "COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT)" after being required to vaccinate to volunteer at her childrens' school as "misleading." (Image: JOSH EDELSON/AFP via getty Images)
Big Tech cartel member Twitter censored the obituary of a 37-year-old Seattle mother whose family says she died from vaccine-induced blood clotting after being pressured to accept the injection by applying a "misleading" label, which prevents the post from being shared.
The obituary of Jessica Berg Wilson, published on the website of The Oregonian newspaper, says the women, described as "an exceptionally healthy and vibrant 37-year-old young mother with no underlying health conditions," died "unexpectedly" on Sept. 7 from "COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT)."
Jessica, who worked in human resources, left behind her husband and two daughters aged 5 and 3. The tribute said, "Jessica's greatest passion was to be the best mother possible for Bridget and Clara. Nothing would stand in her way to be present in their lives."
As the obituary continues, the family reveals Jessica was coerced into accepting vaccination in order to continue to volunteer at her daughters' school, "During the last weeks of her life, however, the world turned dark with heavy-handed vaccine mandates. Local and state governments were determined to strip away her right to consult her wisdom and enjoy her freedom."
"She had been vehemently opposed to taking the vaccine, knowing she was in good health and of a young age and thus not at risk for serious illness. In her mind, the known and unknown risks of the unproven vaccine were more of a threat."
"But, slowly, day by day, her freedom to choose was stripped away. Her passion to be actively involved in her children's education-which included being a Room Mom-was, once again, blocked by government mandate."
"Ultimately, those who closed doors and separated mothers from their children prevailed. It cost Jessica her life. It cost her children the loving embrace of their caring mother. And it cost her husband the sacred love of his devoted wife."
The tribute says Jessica and her husband Tom are devout Catholics. Multiple Seattle Catholic schools show search results for "Room Parent" on their websites, describing the role as something of a volunteer support worker for their childrens' teacher.
In the 2021 Reopening Plan for St. John Cathloic School, another Cathloic school that utilizes the Room Parent program, under the Proof of Vaccination section the Plan states that, "Vaccination is the most effective prevention strategy available for allowing schools to remain in the full-time, in-person instruction model."
It notes that an Aug. 18 order by Governor Jay Inslee required vaccine passports for "all employees in public, private, and charter K-12 schools, as well as childcare and early learning providers," and specifically notes, "This order applies to our parent volunteer and coaches."
After the Obituary was posted on Twitter by an anonymous user, Twitter applied the "Misleading" warning card to the post, preventing it from being replied to, shared, or
#99371 at 2021-09-29 04:20:54 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #479: SA The Bloody Wonderland Where ANYTHING GOES for the Right PRICE Edition
>>99369
And yet more trash, but at least this one may have some hidden stuffs to it..
'The bully has met his match': Trump loses NDA case against former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman
Tue, September 28, 2021, 9:10 AM
Omarosa Maginault.
Omarosa Maginault. Drew Angerer/getty Images
Former President Donald Trump has lost in an effort to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against former White House aide and The Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault Newman, The New York Times reports. Manigault Newman is also the author of Unhinged, an unfavorable tell-all about her time in the Trump administration.
"Donald has used this type of vexatious litigation to intimidate, harass and bully for years," said Manigault Newman in a statement. "Finally the bully has met his match!"
The decision, handed down on Monday, calls for the former aide to collect legal fees from the Trump campaign, which filed the case soon after Unhinged was published. The campaign claimed Manigault Newman had violated a nondisclosure agreement signed during the 2016 campaign "stipulating that she would not reveal private or confidential information about [Trump's] family, business or personal life," per the Times.
However, the arbitrator in the case claimed "the definition of the type of comment protected by the nondisclosure agreement was so vague that it had been rendered meaningless," writes the Times. He went on to argue that the information Manigault Newman had shared was barely privileged, and said the agreement "effectively imposes on Respondent an obligation to never say anything remotely critical of Mr. Trump, his family or his or his family members' businesses for the rest of her life."
Trump cannot appeal the decision "other than on the basis of fraud" against the case arbitrator, leaving him with little additional recourse. Read more at The New York Times.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/bully-met-match-trump-loses-141034285.html
#95709 at 2021-09-05 05:49:02 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #455: Good Wins/God Wins, the SLOW GRIND Forward Edition
JUST IN - Federal prosecutors must disclose "identities of any unnamed co-conspirators" to Ghislaine Maxwell, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
https://mobile.twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1433915325817446400
Federal prosecutors must disclose the "identities of any unnamed co-conspirators" whose names they plan to refer to at trial to Ghislaine Maxwell, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
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In a three-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan also ordered the government to "disclose all co-conspirator statements it intends to offer at trial no later than" Oct. 11.
"The government argues that there is no risk of surprise because 'it currently intends' to introduce the alleged co-conspirator statements of only two individuals," the order states. "At the same time, however, the Government proffers that it 'may change its view as it prepares for trial.' [...] The Court thus finds the Government's reassurance hollow and insufficient to ensure that the Defendant may adequately prepare her defenses."
Equally significant to Judge Nathan as the government's stated justification was what prosecutors did not argue.
"Moreover, the Government has not alleged that disclosure here would create 'potential danger to co-conspirators' or risk 'compromising continuing investigations,'" the judge wrote. "It merely argues that disclosing the identities risks 'harm to the Government from restricting its proof at trial.'"
Judge Nathan was skeptical about this claim.
"The Government provides no explanation for this purported harm and none is apparent to the Court," she wrote. "Thus, the Court finds that this concern alone does not outweigh the risk of surprise to the Defendant in this case or the need for the parties to litigate co-conspirator issues in advance of trial to ensure the absence of delay."
Maxwell asked to learn their identities earlier, as one of the categories of information her defense team requested to avoid a trial-by-ambush.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe asked Judge Nathan in mid-August to shield those names.
"This Court has twice concluded that no bill of particulars is warranted because the defendant has adequate information to prepare for trial and avoid unfair surprise," the prosecutor wrote at the time.
With Friday's ruling, that trend has changed.
"The conspiracies charged are long-running, increasing the risk of surprise to the defendant," Judge Nathan noted.
Charged with sex trafficking and other offenses, Maxwell faces a superseding indictment with alleged conspiracies that date back decades. The scheme charged in one of the counts spans between 1994 to 2004, and the other runs between 2001 and 2004.
As a result of a prior ruling, Maxwell's trial has been split in two, with the first trial in November. Prosecutors have characterized her case as the "prequel" to the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
After that trial's conclusion, Maxwell will face another accusing her of lying in a deposition in a civil case filed by her alleged victim Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein survivor.
In early August, Giuffre sued Prince Andrew in a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing her when she was 17 years old in three locations: Epstein's New York mansion, Maxwell's London home, and Epstein's so-called "Pedophile Island" in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York repeatedly called the prince uncooperative in their investigation. That office has handled the prosecutions of Epstein and Maxwell.
Giuffre filed her civil lawsuits against Maxwell and Andrew in the same jurisdiction: Manhattan Federal Court.
Read the three-page order below:
[image via JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via getty Images]
#95016 at 2021-08-29 07:08:18 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #449: Fuckery of the Past is RECYCLED 4 PEOPLE 2 LEARN Edition
>>95015
1996
ANTITERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY ACT
Jeremy Scahill
April 27 2021, 1:34 p.m.
President Bill Clinton signs the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act at the White House on April 24, 1996.Photo: Mark Reinstein/Corbis via getty Images
THIS 1996 PRECURSOR to the Patriot Act was one of Joe Biden's most consequential pieces of legislation on issues of civil liberties, domestic surveillance, and "counterterrorism" authorities. Biden has repeatedly boasted of his role in the legislation and how it set the stage for the Patriot Act. The American Civil Liberties Union and other rights groups repeatedly denounced the legislation for its gutting of habeas corpus; stripping of the rights of death row prisoners; harsh federal sentencing rules; impact on civil liberties; and grave implications for immigrant rights. The act "is surely one of the worst statutes ever passed by Congress and signed into law by a President," wrote Yale Law School scholar Lincoln Caplan. "This law gutted the federal writ of habeas corpus, which a federal court can use to order the release of someone wrongly imprisoned." The ACLU said it "granted the government new powers while at the same time insulating certain enforcement actions - notably death sentences - from meaningful oversight by federal judges." The ACLU called for the repeal of its habeas corpus provisions, saying they did not provide sufficient rights for prisoners to challenge what they asserted were violations of constitutional rights. The ACLU also said the act set the stage for "major violations of immigrants' rights" by stripping federal courts of the ability to review individual deportation orders. Biden's current White House chief of staff, Ron Klain, then a Justice Department lawyer, was a major force in drafting and passing the legislation into law. It was signed by President Bill Clinton in the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and enjoyed widespread bipartisan support.
1996
HELMS-BURTON ACT AGAINST CUBA
Jeremy Scahill
April 27 2021, 1:38 p.m.
Emelia Fernandez, a Cuban American, holds a Cuban flag as she protests against the Helms-Burton Act in Miami on March 16, 1996. Photo: Rhona Wise/AFP via getty Images
IN 1996, Joe Biden supported tightening the already devastating U.S. embargo on Cuba through the Helms-Burton Act, which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, though he missed the vote. In addition to tightening economic sanctions against Cuba, it increased support for Cuban exile groups and made it official U.S. policy to support regime change in Cuba. In 2008, Biden stated that he was against "lifting the embargo until there is a response to political prisoners - all the things that are wrong with this Castro administration." Later, as vice president, Biden backed away from his long-standing support for aggressive U.S.-Cuba policy and supported President Barack Obama's efforts to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba. When he ran for president in 2020, Biden said he supported ending trade and travel sanctions against Cuba and vowed to reverse President Donald Trump's reversal of Obama-era efforts to normalize relations.
https://theintercept.com/empire-politician/biden-antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act/
#95015 at 2021-08-29 07:07:18 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #449: Fuckery of the Past is RECYCLED 4 PEOPLE 2 LEARN Edition
>>95014
2001
SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE PATRIOT ACT
Jeremy Scahill
April 27 2021, 1:56 p.m.
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, addresses reporters on Oct., 3 2001, in Washington, D.C.Photo: Manny Ceneta/AFP via getty Images
JOE BIDEN WAS on an Amtrak train, making his daily commute from Delaware to Washington, D.C., when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001. His wife Jill called him as news began to spread of the attacks, and mid-sentence, she interrupted herself. "Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God," she said. "Another plane - the other tower." Biden made it to Washington and fielded a stream of calls from his family telling him to get away from the Capitol after hearing reports that another plane was heading for Congress. Biden, standing in a nearby park, assured his concerned loved ones that he was safe and that he needed to get to work.
In the hours after the September 11 attacks began, Biden played a key role in organizing fellow lawmakers to convene in emergency sessions. He also spoke to President George W. Bush, advising him to reject advice from his security detail and return to Washington. Biden had spent the first months of the Bush administration strategizing on how he was going to deal with people like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, whom he considered dangerous extremists. Once the attacks happened, Biden told Bush he was at his service. "I'd never seen a single day change the stakes for the country as drastically as 9/11 had," Biden later recalled. "The way I saw it, this wasn't just about meeting the challenge of terrorism; it was about taking advantage of an incredible opportunity to improve our internal security and solidify our relations around the world." Biden said, "I really thought this was the moment we could drive a stake through the heart of the Cheney-Rumsfeld unilateralism." He was spectacularly wrong. More than that, Biden would aid the very agenda that he claimed to oppose.
Biden was a passionate promoter of the Patriot Act and repeatedly claimed that it was based on his proposals from the 1990s, including the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. He has bragged that he passed earlier surveillance legislation even though "civil libertarians were opposed to it." And Biden chided his colleagues for not supporting even further-reaching measures that he wanted at the time. "There were those who decided that the threat to Americans was apparently not serious enough to give the president all the changes in law he requested," Biden said.
In his Senate floor speech on October 25, 2001, Biden said, "The anti-terrorism bill we consider today is measured and prudent." He boasted that the Patriot Act "contains several provisions which are identical or nearly identical to those I previously proposed." Biden predicted that the Patriot Act "will not upset the balance between strong law enforcement and protection of our valued civil liberties." He also said the criticisms of the law from the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil liberties groups were "ill-informed and overblown." From 2001 to 2002, the ACLU gave Biden a lukewarm 60 percent approval rating on civil rights and civil liberties.
2001
U.S. INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN
Murtaza Hussain
April 27 2021, 1:57 p.m.
Sen. Joe Biden, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, meets with Afghan students at a school in Kabul on Jan. 12, 2002. Photo: Paula Bronstein/getty Images
JOE BIDEN JOINED in the unanimous Senate vote authorizing the invasion of Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks. During the early period of the occupation, he was aggressive about the role of the United States in reshaping Afghan society and clear about using military force as a tool for statecraft. On a 2002 fact-finding mission to Kabul, Biden called for a long-term international security force to be deployed to the country in order to prevent a return to civil war. "I'm not talking about international peacekeepers. I'm not talking about U.N. blue helmets. I'm talking about people who shoot and kill people," Biden said. "I'm talking about people who are a bunch of badasses who will come in here with guns and understand that they don't have to check with anybody before they return fire."
https://theintercept.com/empire-politician/biden-september-11-patriot-act/
#87418 at 2021-07-20 17:32:34 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #411: You are the warriors of mankind Edition
George Soros And Bill Gates' Backed Consortium To Buy U.K. Maker Of Covid Tests For $41 Million
Billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates are part of a consortium set to buy Mologic, a U.K.-based maker of Covid tests, in an effort to increase access to "affordable state-of-the-art medical technology" around the world, according to a statement released Monday.
The Soros Economic Development Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the launch of a new initiative, Global Access Health (GAH), aiming to strengthen the global rollout saving medical technology and the subsequent acquisition of Mologic Ltd, best known today for the deep-nostril technology used to deliver rapid Covid-19 tests. The technology can also be used to test for dengue, bilharzia and river blindness.
Bill Gates And Ben Affleck Speak At The ?Diplomacy, Development, And National Security? Hearing
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation getty Images
The rapid so-called lateral flow tests offer an early-warning screening for Covid-19 and have been used around the world as an aid to help reopen shops, bars, sporting events and workplaces by giving an early warning result for people who may have no symptoms but are still infectious and can give the virus to others. In the U.K., lateral flow Covid tests need to be confirmed by a second test before Covid-19 is officially diagnosed.
The GAH consortium, which includes Soros' and Gates' philanthropic arms, will invest "at least" $41 million in this deal, according to the statement.
'Unique Transaction'
Soros and Gates are part of the billionaire community looking to direct their philanthropic efforts to the so-called global south, referring broadly to the regions of Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania that many fear will be left behind as the more affluent West accelerates its program of vaccinations, testing and biosecure bubbles in the years ahead. Sean Hinton, the CEO of the Soros fund, said in a statement that the pandemic has "painfully demonstrated the fundamental inequities" in global public health, adding that this "unique transaction" has brought philanthropic funds and investors together to address the issue.
George Soros Speaks At Carnegie Endowment
Investor George Soros speaks during a program hosted by the New America Foundation. getty Images
Roxana Bonnell, a public health expert from Soros' Open Society Foundations, which claims to be the world's largest private funder of human rights and social justice advocacy groups, said, "As we have seen during the Covid-19 pandemic, access to testing is absolutely essential when it comes to containing the spread of contagious disease-an issue that ultimately affects us all."
Mologic Flow
Mologic was founded in 2003 as a for-profit medical research and innovation laboratory by CEO Mark Davis and his father, Paul Davis, who is Mologic's chief scientific officer. Paul Davis is also known as the inventor of another world-famous medical technology: the Clearblue pregnancy test, which first launched in 1988. The pregnancy test was the world's first commercial application of lateral flow technology, the company claims.
Mologic has worked with Gates' philanthropic arm in the past. In 2016, Mologic established the Center for Advanced Rapid Diagnostics (CARD) with the backing of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focusing on lowering the cost of rapid-delivery healthcare.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2021/07/19/george-soros-and-bill-gates-backed-consortium-to-buy-uk-maker-of-covid-lateral-flow-tests-for-41-million/?sh=5c8ea2b72687
#84023 at 2021-06-26 19:42:27 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #394: John McAfee's a Legend Edition
Originally Canada #21 >>13988090
Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children "Or Else Leave EU"
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hungary-told-repeal-law-banning-lgbt-promotion-children-or-else-leave-eu
EU leadership is now fanatically dictating that Hungary and its 'defiant' prime minister Vickor Orban must bow the knee to the Pride Flag or else "must leave" the European Union.
Quoting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, The Telegraph describes massive pushback against a new Hungarian law which seeks to prevent the public promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism in front of children and minors:
Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, said Hungary either "must leave" the EU or repeal the law, which bans TV shows and other content seen as championing LGBT lifestyles for the under-18s.
However, some eastern European governments refused to join 17 of the bloc's 27 countries in a rare joint statement condemning a fellow member state.
Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán, AFP via getty Images
Other EU leaders, like European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, have been claiming that the law actively discriminates against LGBT people.
However, defenders of the Hungarian law have pointed out it puts decision-making on presenting these issues to children in the hands of parents and family members. Orban himself, for example, said the law and policy is fundamentally about "defending the rights of the kids and the parents" and is not about discrimination.
Orban said this week at the summit: "Homosexuality was punished, and I fought for their freedom and their rights," concluding that "I am defending the rights of the homosexual guys. But this law is not about that."
But the EU summit which met this is acting as if it's a declaration of war on human rights, and is vowing to respond accordingly:
Western leaders have said they will bring Hungary "to its knees" over a law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools at a bitter EU summit on Thursday.Continue...
#80152 at 2021-05-21 20:33:51 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #371: Patriots Hit Like THOR's Hammer Edition
>>80151
Fat-fingered the keyboard or somethin, this should be better:
'''Yahoo News
Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat'''
Jana Winter
Contributor
August 1, 2019
The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News. (Read the document below.)
The FBI intelligence bulletin from the bureau's Phoenix field office, dated May 30, 2019, describes "conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists," as a growing threat, and notes that it is the first such report to do so. It lists a number of arrests, including some that haven't been publicized, related to violent incidents motivated by fringe beliefs.
The document specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in a deep state conspiracy against President Trump, and Pizzagate, the theory that a pedophile ring including Clinton associates was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant (which didn't actually have a basement).
"The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts," the document states. It also goes on to say the FBI believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.
FBI designates Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy-based theories as domestic threats. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Michael E. Miller/The Washington Post via getty Images, Matt Rourke/AP, AP)
The FBI said another factor driving the intensity of this threat is "the uncovering of real conspiracies or cover-ups involving illegal, harmful, or unconstitutional activities by government officials or leading political figures." The FBI does not specify which political leaders or which cover-ups it was referring to.
President Trump is mentioned by name briefly in the latest FBI document, which notes that the origins of QAnon is the conspiratorial belief that "Q," allegedly a government official, "posts classified information online to reveal a covert effort, led by President Trump, to dismantle a conspiracy involving 'deep state' actors and global elites allegedly engaged in an international child sex trafficking ring."
More:
https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html
#80147 at 2021-05-21 20:28:34 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #371: Patriots Hit Like THOR's Hammer Edition
>>80138
I have a strong feeling said agent is in the same Field Office that tried to label all 8channers as domestic terrorists. PHOENIX
==Yahoo News
Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat==
Jana Winter
Contributor
August 1, 2019
Yahoo News
Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat
Jana Winter
Jana Winter·Contributor
August 1, 2019
The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News. (Read the document below.)
The FBI intelligence bulletin from the bureau's Phoenix field office, dated May 30, 2019, describes "conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists," as a growing threat, and notes that it is the first such report to do so. It lists a number of arrests, including some that haven't been publicized, related to violent incidents motivated by fringe beliefs.
The document specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in a deep state conspiracy against President Trump, and Pizzagate, the theory that a pedophile ring including Clinton associates was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant (which didn't actually have a basement).
"The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts," the document states. It also goes on to say the FBI believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.
Yahoo News
Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat
Jana Winter
Jana Winter·Contributor
August 1, 2019
The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News. (Read the document below.)
The FBI intelligence bulletin from the bureau's Phoenix field office, dated May 30, 2019, describes "conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists," as a growing threat, and notes that it is the first such report to do so. It lists a number of arrests, including some that haven't been publicized, related to violent incidents motivated by fringe beliefs.
The document specifically mentions QAnon, a shadowy network that believes in a deep state conspiracy against President Trump, and Pizzagate, the theory that a pedophile ring including Clinton associates was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant (which didn't actually have a basement).
"The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts," the document states. It also goes on to say the FBI believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists are likely to increase during the 2020 presidential election cycle.
FBI designates Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy-based theories as domestic threats. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Michael E. Miller/The Washington Post via getty Images, Matt Rourke/AP, AP)
FBI designates Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy-based theories as domestic threats. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Michael E. Miller/The Washington Post via getty Images, Matt Rourke/AP, AP)
The FBI said another factor driving the intensity of this threat is "the uncovering of real conspiracies or cover-ups involving illegal, harmful, or unconstitutional activities by government officials or leading political figures." The FBI does not specify which political leaders or which cover-ups it was referring to.
President Trump is mentioned by name briefly in the latest FBI document, which notes that the origins of QAnon is the conspiratorial belief that "Q," allegedly a government official, "posts classified information online to reveal a covert effort, led by President Trump, to dismantle a conspiracy involving 'deep state' actors and global elites allegedly engaged in an international child sex trafficking ring."
More:
https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html
#80011 at 2021-05-21 00:46:44 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #371: Patriots Hit Like THOR's Hammer Edition
'''#368'''
>>79614 Breitbart (Twatt) Leftist Democrat icon Chrissy Teigen loses another deal after her cyber bullying scandal was exposed.
>>79615 Breitbart (Twatt) WSJ: Microsoft Began Investigating Alleged Bill Gates Affair with Staffer Before He Left Company's Board
>>79616 CFR (Twatt) Many of the causes of China-India tensions remain unaddressed. And if China were to make a move at the border during India's health crisis, it could increase the potential for armed escalation, writes Daniel Markey.
>>79618 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Why did Truman let the CCP take over China?
>>79619 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) To those who had believed Him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32-33
>>79620 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Geritol Joe hits golf ball BEHIND him.. "This can't be real"
>>79622 (Twatt) Children as young as 2 rescued - Philippines
>>79623 (Twatt) BREAKING: 2020 ELECTION AUDIT SECRETLY BEING PREPARED in Fulton County, Georgia. GA Judge Brian Amero has ordered the production of all 'scanned absentee ballots' and all respective metadata for the Nov. 3rd 2020 election, must be delivered by May 21st, 2021 for a final hearing.
>>79624 (Twatt) Tomato products test positive for Covid! Local kids have found a way to get 10 days off school!
>>79627 According to a new report, President Joe Biden's administration will soon be teaming up with private companies to surveil service members.
>>79628 Spanish Politician Banned From Twitter For "Hate Speech" After Saying "A Man Cannot Get Pregnant"
>>79633 NnameTrump (Twatt) The brave sons of this great country stand together to defend the free world. Our values and liberty-loving nature made the USA the most progressive and dominant superpower on the planet. That's why this country must become truly GREAT AGAIN!
>>79634 IlDonaldoTrump (Twatt) Rand Paul was right about doctor flip-flop...
>>79635 John Solomon (Twatt) Pelosi: House to vote soon on 9/11-style commission to probe Jan. 6 'terrorist mob attack' | Just The News
>>79636 (Twatt) Dr. Fauci admitted he was wearing a mask for political theater-just like Rand Paul said.
>>79637 Candace Owens (Twatt) Weird to think there are a bunch of people celebrating because the government has given them permission to do what the rest of us never stopped doing for the last year and a half.
>>79638 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) Dear Mr. Biden, the American People don't respond well to threats. Just ask Harry how well that worked out for his ancestors.
>>79640 (Twatt) REAL GOOD VIDEO: This 10 year-old boy just obliterated his school board's mask mandate and calls out its unfairness and hypocrisy.
>>79641 Rep. Jim Jordan: Mask Guidance 'Was Always About Power' (Breitbart.com)
>>79642 (Twatt) Example of the US population from 70's to today (snap of boardwalk in 70's) A beach in the 70's. Not one fat body. How the food industry destroyed us.
>>79645 Dr. Fauci then: Me wearing a mask after vaccination is not "theater." Dr. Fauci now: Yeah, it was theater.
>>79646 Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Specifically on the Qanon Shaman; Did he physically assault anyone?
>>79647 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Are there any videos of the QAnon Shaman doing anything violent?
>>79648 Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Young Americans used to lie about their age to serve their country.
>>79649 Arizona Rep Party (Twatt) SPECIAL REPORT: AMERICA'S AUDIT Maricopa County elected officials demand end to audit, launch broad attack on authority, motivation of AZ Senate, AZ Courts, voters in staged political circus. AZGOP Chairwoman
>>79651 Jen Psucki (TWATT) Jen Psucki (TWATT) Longtime car fan (@POTUS that is), touring @Ford facility in Dearborn, MI and getting a sneak peak at the F-150 lightning
>>79653 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) Democrats only pretend to care about jobs. Our Administration protected the environment, but we didn't do it on the backs of the American worker. There were more job openings than people looking for work for much of these past four years.
>>79656 Breaking911 (Twatt) BREAKING: COLONIAL PIPELINE HACKERS RECEIVED $90 MILLION IN BITCOIN - ELLIPTIC
>>79657 (Twatt) Taking care of yourself, to give up the basic principles of "self" would lead to, you have 2 kidneys, I need one, give me one you have 2.
>>79658 Daily Mail Online (TWATT) Panic in China as 980ft skyscraper mysteriously begins to shake sending pedestrians fleeing
>>79660 Andrew Guilliani (Twatt) NYForGiuliani.com TOGETHER, WE WILL BRING BACK NEW YORK! Giuliani For Governor 2022 #NYForGiuliani2022
>>79663 Jen Psucki: Illegal Aliens Are Part of 'What the American Dream Represents' (Breitbart)
>>79665 Breaking911 (Twatt) IT HAD TO BE THIS WAY, OTHERWISE THE LEFT WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN HOAXVille
>>79668 Ted Cruz (Twatt) CRUZ to VISIT ISRAEL: The Senator Will Travel to Israel in the 'Coming Days' to Assess Security Situation
>>79669 TheHill Christie says he won't defer to Trump in 2024
>>79671 Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour (TheGuardian.com)
>>79699 Biden Golf Shot Gaffe
>>79683 Juan O Savin & Rachel Hamm (Full Interview)
>>79684 Space Force (Twatt) Historic changes this week! Space Launch Delta 45 replaced the @45thSpaceWing at Patrick Space Force Base, FL. Today, our West Coast launch base was renamed Vandenberg Space Force Base with Space Launch Delta 30 replacing the @30thSpaceWing.
>>79688 1st cavalry (Twatt) May 12, 2021. The visit was to interact with the operators and maintainers of vehicles to gain a better understanding of their perceived strengths and weaknesses.
>>79703, >>79704, >>79712, >>79722, >>79723, >>79726, >>79727, >>79733, >>79735, >>79753 Anon: 'QAnon' Shaman/Baked Alaska, Clown In Action: connected to all major known shills and clown ops
>>79719 VIDEO: Earth Weather News (May 18, 2021) (YouTube)
>>79731 VIDEO: Florida Man Gets Tased After Leading Deputies on Pursuit (YouTube)
>>79732 Texas governor bans local governments, schools from requiring face masks (TheHill.com)
>>79734 Resident Houseplant lying about his Family history again… (YouTube)
>>79737 VIDEO: Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and mortars. During the recent conflict, it has been used to destroy more than 200 rockets bound for Israeli cities. Here's how it works. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/getty Images (YouTube)
>>79754 VIDEO: Space Force Commander speaks out after being 'relieved of duty' (YouTube)
>>79755 (Gab) EpochTimes (Gab) Andrew Giuliani Announces Bid for New York Governor in 2022
>>79757 Breitbart (Twatt) Construction of new homes in the U.S. slowed by much more than expected in April as homebuilders held back on projects because prices of materials and labor have been rising rapidly.
>>79761 (Gab) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: TGP Reporter Confronts Soros-Backed Maricopa County Sheriff After His Meltdown Over Router Request (VIDEO)
>>79762 (Gab) Delta will require that new employees be vaccinated.
>>79765 ILDonaldoTrumpo Video: Hillary/Catturd video 4 Keks
>>79770 The same is true for COVID-19 which is an aerosolized, airborne disease. You'd have to be in a hazmat suit for COVID-19 Protection!
>>79776 (Gab) Dumbest mother fuckers ever (Jen Psucki/Bidon "WH")
>>79780 #368
Previously Collected Notables (cut out old notes from list, go back to last bred for earlier notables)
>>79604 #367,
>>79063 #363, >>79187 #364, >>79349 #365, >>79465 #366
>>78399 #359, >>78545 #360, >>78731 #361, >>78866 #362
>>77869 #355, >>77987 #356, >>78138 #357, >>78282 #358
>>77249 #351, >>77378 #352, >>77572 #353, >>77777 #354
>>76682 #347, >>76814 #348, >>76966 #349, >>77080 #350
>>76038 #343, >>76178 #344, >>76296 #345, >>76447 #346
>>75534 #339, >>75639 #340, >>75816 #341, >>75922 #342
>>74806 #335, >>74992 #336, >>75206 #337, >>75397 #338
>>73986 #331, >>74184 #332, >>74389 #333,
#79883 at 2021-05-19 23:08:53 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #370: Patriots/PDJT Targeted, DS ALREADY LOST Edition
'''#368'''
>>79614 Breitbart (Twatt) Leftist Democrat icon Chrissy Teigen loses another deal after her cyber bullying scandal was exposed.
>>79615 Breitbart (Twatt) WSJ: Microsoft Began Investigating Alleged Bill Gates Affair with Staffer Before He Left Company's Board
>>79616 CFR (Twatt) Many of the causes of China-India tensions remain unaddressed. And if China were to make a move at the border during India's health crisis, it could increase the potential for armed escalation, writes Daniel Markey.
>>79618 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Why did Truman let the CCP take over China?
>>79619 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) To those who had believed Him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32-33
>>79620 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Geritol Joe hits golf ball BEHIND him.. "This can't be real"
>>79622 (Twatt) Children as young as 2 rescued - Philippines
>>79623 (Twatt) BREAKING: 2020 ELECTION AUDIT SECRETLY BEING PREPARED in Fulton County, Georgia. GA Judge Brian Amero has ordered the production of all 'scanned absentee ballots' and all respective metadata for the Nov. 3rd 2020 election, must be delivered by May 21st, 2021 for a final hearing.
>>79624 (Twatt) Tomato products test positive for Covid! Local kids have found a way to get 10 days off school!
>>79627 According to a new report, President Joe Biden's administration will soon be teaming up with private companies to surveil service members.
>>79628 Spanish Politician Banned From Twitter For "Hate Speech" After Saying "A Man Cannot Get Pregnant"
>>79633 NnameTrump (Twatt) The brave sons of this great country stand together to defend the free world. Our values and liberty-loving nature made the USA the most progressive and dominant superpower on the planet. That's why this country must become truly GREAT AGAIN!
>>79634 IlDonaldoTrump (Twatt) Rand Paul was right about doctor flip-flop...
>>79635 John Solomon (Twatt) Pelosi: House to vote soon on 9/11-style commission to probe Jan. 6 'terrorist mob attack' | Just The News
>>79636 (Twatt) Dr. Fauci admitted he was wearing a mask for political theater-just like Rand Paul said.
>>79637 Candace Owens (Twatt) Weird to think there are a bunch of people celebrating because the government has given them permission to do what the rest of us never stopped doing for the last year and a half.
>>79638 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) Dear Mr. Biden, the American People don't respond well to threats. Just ask Harry how well that worked out for his ancestors.
>>79640 (Twatt) REAL GOOD VIDEO: This 10 year-old boy just obliterated his school board's mask mandate and calls out its unfairness and hypocrisy.
>>79641 Rep. Jim Jordan: Mask Guidance 'Was Always About Power' (Breitbart.com)
>>79642 (Twatt) Example of the US population from 70's to today (snap of boardwalk in 70's) A beach in the 70's. Not one fat body. How the food industry destroyed us.
>>79645 Dr. Fauci then: Me wearing a mask after vaccination is not "theater." Dr. Fauci now: Yeah, it was theater.
>>79646 Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Specifically on the Qanon Shaman; Did he physically assault anyone?
>>79647 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Are there any videos of the QAnon Shaman doing anything violent?
>>79648 Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Young Americans used to lie about their age to serve their country.
>>79649 Arizona Rep Party (Twatt) SPECIAL REPORT: AMERICA'S AUDIT Maricopa County elected officials demand end to audit, launch broad attack on authority, motivation of AZ Senate, AZ Courts, voters in staged political circus. AZGOP Chairwoman
>>79651 Jen Psucki (TWATT) Jen Psucki (TWATT) Longtime car fan (@POTUS that is), touring @Ford facility in Dearborn, MI and getting a sneak peak at the F-150 lightning
>>79653 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) Democrats only pretend to care about jobs. Our Administration protected the environment, but we didn't do it on the backs of the American worker. There were more job openings than people looking for work for much of these past four years.
>>79656 Breaking911 (Twatt) BREAKING: COLONIAL PIPELINE HACKERS RECEIVED $90 MILLION IN BITCOIN - ELLIPTIC
>>79657 (Twatt) Taking care of yourself, to give up the basic principles of "self" would lead to, you have 2 kidneys, I need one, give me one you have 2.
>>79658 Daily Mail Online (TWATT) Panic in China as 980ft skyscraper mysteriously begins to shake sending pedestrians fleeing
>>79660 Andrew Guilliani (Twatt) NYForGiuliani.com TOGETHER, WE WILL BRING BACK NEW YORK! Giuliani For Governor 2022 #NYForGiuliani2022
>>79663 Jen Psucki: Illegal Aliens Are Part of 'What the American Dream Represents' (Breitbart)
>>79665 Breaking911 (Twatt) IT HAD TO BE THIS WAY, OTHERWISE THE LEFT WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN HOAXVille
>>79668 Ted Cruz (Twatt) CRUZ to VISIT ISRAEL: The Senator Will Travel to Israel in the 'Coming Days' to Assess Security Situation
>>79669 TheHill Christie says he won't defer to Trump in 2024
>>79671 Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour (TheGuardian.com)
>>79699 Biden Golf Shot Gaffe
>>79683 Juan O Savin & Rachel Hamm (Full Interview)
>>79684 Space Force (Twatt) Historic changes this week! Space Launch Delta 45 replaced the @45thSpaceWing at Patrick Space Force Base, FL. Today, our West Coast launch base was renamed Vandenberg Space Force Base with Space Launch Delta 30 replacing the @30thSpaceWing.
>>79688 1st cavalry (Twatt) May 12, 2021. The visit was to interact with the operators and maintainers of vehicles to gain a better understanding of their perceived strengths and weaknesses.
>>79703, >>79704, >>79712, >>79722, >>79723, >>79726, >>79727, >>79733, >>79735, >>79753 Anon: 'QAnon' Shaman/Baked Alaska, Clown In Action: connected to all major known shills and clown ops
>>79719 VIDEO: Earth Weather News (May 18, 2021) (YouTube)
>>79731 VIDEO: Florida Man Gets Tased After Leading Deputies on Pursuit (YouTube)
>>79732 Texas governor bans local governments, schools from requiring face masks (TheHill.com)
>>79734 Resident Houseplant lying about his Family history again… (YouTube)
>>79737 VIDEO: Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and mortars. During the recent conflict, it has been used to destroy more than 200 rockets bound for Israeli cities. Here's how it works. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/getty Images (YouTube)
>>79754 VIDEO: Space Force Commander speaks out after being 'relieved of duty' (YouTube)
>>79755 (Gab) EpochTimes (Gab) Andrew Giuliani Announces Bid for New York Governor in 2022
>>79757 Breitbart (Twatt) Construction of new homes in the U.S. slowed by much more than expected in April as homebuilders held back on projects because prices of materials and labor have been rising rapidly.
>>79761 (Gab) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: TGP Reporter Confronts Soros-Backed Maricopa County Sheriff After His Meltdown Over Router Request (VIDEO)
>>79762 (Gab) Delta will require that new employees be vaccinated.
>>79765 ILDonaldoTrumpo Video: Hillary/Catturd video 4 Keks
>>79770 The same is true for COVID-19 which is an aerosolized, airborne disease. You'd have to be in a hazmat suit for COVID-19 Protection!
>>79776 (Gab) Dumbest mother fuckers ever (Jen Psucki/Bidon "WH")
>>79780 #368
#79781 at 2021-05-19 04:32:49 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #369: The Devine Key to the Universe Edition
Globals
Notables are not endorsements
#368
>>79614 Breitbart (Twatt) Leftist Democrat icon Chrissy Teigen loses another deal after her cyber bullying scandal was exposed.
>>79615 Breitbart (Twatt) WSJ: Microsoft Began Investigating Alleged Bill Gates Affair with Staffer Before He Left Company's Board
>>79616 CFR (Twatt) Many of the causes of China-India tensions remain unaddressed. And if China were to make a move at the border during India's health crisis, it could increase the potential for armed escalation, writes Daniel Markey.
>>79618 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Why did Truman let the CCP take over China?
>>79619 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) To those who had believed Him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32-33
>>79620 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Geritol Joe hits golf ball BEHIND him.. "This can't be real"
>>79622 (Twatt) Children as young as 2 rescued - Philippines
>>79623 (Twatt) BREAKING: 2020 ELECTION AUDIT SECRETLY BEING PREPARED in Fulton County, Georgia. GA Judge Brian Amero has ordered the production of all 'scanned absentee ballots' and all respective metadata for the Nov. 3rd 2020 election, must be delivered by May 21st, 2021 for a final hearing.
>>79624 (Twatt) Tomato products test positive for Covid! Local kids have found a way to get 10 days off school!
>>79627 According to a new report, President Joe Biden's administration will soon be teaming up with private companies to surveil service members.
>>79628 Spanish Politician Banned From Twitter For "Hate Speech" After Saying "A Man Cannot Get Pregnant"
>>79633 NnameTrump (Twatt) The brave sons of this great country stand together to defend the free world. Our values and liberty-loving nature made the USA the most progressive and dominant superpower on the planet. That's why this country must become truly GREAT AGAIN!
>>79634 IlDonaldoTrump (Twatt) Rand Paul was right about doctor flip-flop...
>>79635 John Solomon (Twatt) Pelosi: House to vote soon on 9/11-style commission to probe Jan. 6 'terrorist mob attack' | Just The News
>>79636 (Twatt) Dr. Fauci admitted he was wearing a mask for political theater-just like Rand Paul said.
>>79637 Candace Owens (Twatt) Weird to think there are a bunch of people celebrating because the government has given them permission to do what the rest of us never stopped doing for the last year and a half.
>>79638 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) Dear Mr. Biden, the American People don't respond well to threats. Just ask Harry how well that worked out for his ancestors.
>>79640 (Twatt) REAL GOOD VIDEO: This 10 year-old boy just obliterated his school board's mask mandate and calls out its unfairness and hypocrisy.
>>79641 Rep. Jim Jordan: Mask Guidance 'Was Always About Power' (Breitbart.com)
>>79642 (Twatt) Example of the US population from 70's to today (snap of boardwalk in 70's) A beach in the 70's. Not one fat body. How the food industry destroyed us.
>>79645 Dr. Fauci then: Me wearing a mask after vaccination is not "theater." Dr. Fauci now: Yeah, it was theater.
>>79646 Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Specifically on the Qanon Shaman; Did he physically assault anyone?
>>79647 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Are there any videos of the QAnon Shaman doing anything violent?
>>79648 Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Young Americans used to lie about their age to serve their country.
>>79649 Arizona Rep Party (Twatt) SPECIAL REPORT: AMERICA'S AUDIT Maricopa County elected officials demand end to audit, launch broad attack on authority, motivation of AZ Senate, AZ Courts, voters in staged political circus. AZGOP Chairwoman
>>79651 Jen Psucki (TWATT) Jen Psucki (TWATT) Longtime car fan (@POTUS that is), touring @Ford facility in Dearborn, MI and getting a sneak peak at the F-150 lightning
>>79653 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) Democrats only pretend to care about jobs. Our Administration protected the environment, but we didn't do it on the backs of the American worker. There were more job openings than people looking for work for much of these past four years.
>>79656 Breaking911 (Twatt) BREAKING: COLONIAL PIPELINE HACKERS RECEIVED $90 MILLION IN BITCOIN - ELLIPTIC
>>79657 (Twatt) Taking care of yourself, to give up the basic principles of "self" would lead to, you have 2 kidneys, I need one, give me one you have 2.
>>79658 Daily Mail Online (TWATT) Panic in China as 980ft skyscraper mysteriously begins to shake sending pedestrians fleeing
>>79660 Andrew Guilliani (Twatt) NYForGiuliani.com TOGETHER, WE WILL BRING BACK NEW YORK! Giuliani For Governor 2022 #NYForGiuliani2022
>>79663 Jen Psucki: Illegal Aliens Are Part of 'What the American Dream Represents' (Breitbart)
>>79665 Breaking911 (Twatt) IT HAD TO BE THIS WAY, OTHERWISE THE LEFT WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN HOAXVille
>>79668 Ted Cruz (Twatt) CRUZ to VISIT ISRAEL: The Senator Will Travel to Israel in the 'Coming Days' to Assess Security Situation
>>79669 TheHill Christie says he won't defer to Trump in 2024
>>79671 Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour (TheGuardian.com)
>>79699 Biden Golf Shot Gaffe
>>79683 Juan O Savin & Rachel Hamm (Full Interview)
>>79684 Space Force (Twatt) Historic changes this week! Space Launch Delta 45 replaced the @45thSpaceWing at Patrick Space Force Base, FL. Today, our West Coast launch base was renamed Vandenberg Space Force Base with Space Launch Delta 30 replacing the @30thSpaceWing.
>>79688 1st cavalry (Twatt) May 12, 2021. The visit was to interact with the operators and maintainers of vehicles to gain a better understanding of their perceived strengths and weaknesses.
>>79703, >>79704, >>79712, >>79722, >>79723, >>79726, >>79727, >>79733, >>79735, >>79753 Anon: 'QAnon' Shaman/Baked Alaska, Clown In Action: connected to all major known shills and clown ops
>>79719 VIDEO: Earth Weather News (May 18, 2021) (YouTube)
>>79731 VIDEO: Florida Man Gets Tased After Leading Deputies on Pursuit (YouTube)
>>79732 Texas governor bans local governments, schools from requiring face masks (TheHill.com)
>>79734 Resident Houseplant lying about his Family history again… (YouTube)
>>79737 VIDEO: Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and mortars. During the recent conflict, it has been used to destroy more than 200 rockets bound for Israeli cities. Here's how it works. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/getty Images (YouTube)
>>79754 VIDEO: Space Force Commander speaks out after being 'relieved of duty' (YouTube)
>>79755 (Gab) EpochTimes (Gab) Andrew Giuliani Announces Bid for New York Governor in 2022
>>79757 Breitbart (Twatt) Construction of new homes in the U.S. slowed by much more than expected in April as homebuilders held back on projects because prices of materials and labor have been rising rapidly.
>>79761 (Gab) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: TGP Reporter Confronts Soros-Backed Maricopa County Sheriff After His Meltdown Over Router Request (VIDEO)
>>79762 (Gab) Delta will require that new employees be vaccinated.
>>79765 ILDonaldoTrumpo Video: Hillary/Catturd video 4 Keks
>>79770 The same is true for COVID-19 which is an aerosolized, airborne disease. You'd have to be in a hazmat suit for COVID-19 Protection!
>>79776 (Gab) Dumbest mother fuckers ever (Jen Psucki/Bidon "WH")
>>79780 #368
#79780 at 2021-05-19 04:30:59 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #368: Baby It Ain't Over Till It's Over Edition
Notables are NOT endorsements
@ Bacon
'''#368'''
>>79614 Breitbart (Twatt) Leftist Democrat icon Chrissy Teigen loses another deal after her cyber bullying scandal was exposed.
>>79615 Breitbart (Twatt) WSJ: Microsoft Began Investigating Alleged Bill Gates Affair with Staffer Before He Left Company's Board
>>79616 CFR (Twatt) Many of the causes of China-India tensions remain unaddressed. And if China were to make a move at the border during India's health crisis, it could increase the potential for armed escalation, writes Daniel Markey.
>>79618 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Why did Truman let the CCP take over China?
>>79619 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) To those who had believed Him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32-33
>>79620 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Geritol Joe hits golf ball BEHIND him.. "This can't be real"
>>79622 (Twatt) Children as young as 2 rescued - Philippines
>>79623 (Twatt) BREAKING: 2020 ELECTION AUDIT SECRETLY BEING PREPARED in Fulton County, Georgia. GA Judge Brian Amero has ordered the production of all 'scanned absentee ballots' and all respective metadata for the Nov. 3rd 2020 election, must be delivered by May 21st, 2021 for a final hearing.
>>79624 (Twatt) Tomato products test positive for Covid! Local kids have found a way to get 10 days off school!
>>79627 According to a new report, President Joe Biden's administration will soon be teaming up with private companies to surveil service members.
>>79628 Spanish Politician Banned From Twitter For "Hate Speech" After Saying "A Man Cannot Get Pregnant"
>>79633 NnameTrump (Twatt) The brave sons of this great country stand together to defend the free world. Our values and liberty-loving nature made the USA the most progressive and dominant superpower on the planet. That's why this country must become truly GREAT AGAIN!
>>79634 IlDonaldoTrump (Twatt) Rand Paul was right about doctor flip-flop...
>>79635 John Solomon (Twatt) Pelosi: House to vote soon on 9/11-style commission to probe Jan. 6 'terrorist mob attack' | Just The News
>>79636 (Twatt) Dr. Fauci admitted he was wearing a mask for political theater-just like Rand Paul said.
>>79637 Candace Owens (Twatt) Weird to think there are a bunch of people celebrating because the government has given them permission to do what the rest of us never stopped doing for the last year and a half.
>>79638 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) Dear Mr. Biden, the American People don't respond well to threats. Just ask Harry how well that worked out for his ancestors.
>>79640 (Twatt) REAL GOOD VIDEO: This 10 year-old boy just obliterated his school board's mask mandate and calls out its unfairness and hypocrisy.
>>79641 Rep. Jim Jordan: Mask Guidance 'Was Always About Power' (Breitbart.com)
>>79642 (Twatt) Example of the US population from 70's to today (snap of boardwalk in 70's) A beach in the 70's. Not one fat body. How the food industry destroyed us.
>>79645 Dr. Fauci then: Me wearing a mask after vaccination is not "theater." Dr. Fauci now: Yeah, it was theater.
>>79646 Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Specifically on the Qanon Shaman; Did he physically assault anyone?
>>79647 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Are there any videos of the QAnon Shaman doing anything violent?
>>79648 Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Young Americans used to lie about their age to serve their country.
>>79649 Arizona Rep Party (Twatt) SPECIAL REPORT: AMERICA'S AUDIT Maricopa County elected officials demand end to audit, launch broad attack on authority, motivation of AZ Senate, AZ Courts, voters in staged political circus. AZGOP Chairwoman
>>79651 Jen Psucki (TWATT) Jen Psucki (TWATT) Longtime car fan (@POTUS that is), touring @Ford facility in Dearborn, MI and getting a sneak peak at the F-150 lightning
>>79653 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) Democrats only pretend to care about jobs. Our Administration protected the environment, but we didn't do it on the backs of the American worker. There were more job openings than people looking for work for much of these past four years.
>>79656 Breaking911 (Twatt) BREAKING: COLONIAL PIPELINE HACKERS RECEIVED $90 MILLION IN BITCOIN - ELLIPTIC
>>79657 (Twatt) Taking care of yourself, to give up the basic principles of "self" would lead to, you have 2 kidneys, I need one, give me one you have 2.
>>79658 Daily Mail Online (TWATT) Panic in China as 980ft skyscraper mysteriously begins to shake sending pedestrians fleeing
>>79660 Andrew Guilliani (Twatt) NYForGiuliani.com TOGETHER, WE WILL BRING BACK NEW YORK! Giuliani For Governor 2022 #NYForGiuliani2022
>>79663 Jen Psucki: Illegal Aliens Are Part of 'What the American Dream Represents' (Breitbart)
>>79665 Breaking911 (Twatt) IT HAD TO BE THIS WAY, OTHERWISE THE LEFT WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN HOAXVille
>>79668 Ted Cruz (Twatt) CRUZ to VISIT ISRAEL: The Senator Will Travel to Israel in the 'Coming Days' to Assess Security Situation
>>79669 TheHill Christie says he won't defer to Trump in 2024
>>79671 Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour (TheGuardian.com)
>>79699 Biden Golf Shot Gaffe
>>79683 Juan O Savin & Rachel Hamm (Full Interview)
>>79684 Space Force (Twatt) Historic changes this week! Space Launch Delta 45 replaced the @45thSpaceWing at Patrick Space Force Base, FL. Today, our West Coast launch base was renamed Vandenberg Space Force Base with Space Launch Delta 30 replacing the @30thSpaceWing.
>>79688 1st cavalry (Twatt) May 12, 2021. The visit was to interact with the operators and maintainers of vehicles to gain a better understanding of their perceived strengths and weaknesses.
>>79703, >>79704, >>79712, >>79722, >>79723, >>79726, >>79727, >>79733, >>79735, >>79753 Anon: 'QAnon' Shaman/Baked Alaska, Clown In Action: connected to all major known shills and clown ops
>>79719 VIDEO: Earth Weather News (May 18, 2021) (YouTube)
>>79731 VIDEO: Florida Man Gets Tased After Leading Deputies on Pursuit (YouTube)
>>79732 Texas governor bans local governments, schools from requiring face masks (TheHill.com)
>>79734 Resident Houseplant lying about his Family history again… (YouTube)
>>79737 VIDEO: Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and mortars. During the recent conflict, it has been used to destroy more than 200 rockets bound for Israeli cities. Here's how it works. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/getty Images (YouTube)
>>79754 VIDEO: Space Force Commander speaks out after being 'relieved of duty' (YouTube)
>>79755 (Gab) EpochTimes (Gab) Andrew Giuliani Announces Bid for New York Governor in 2022
>>79757 Breitbart (Twatt) Construction of new homes in the U.S. slowed by much more than expected in April as homebuilders held back on projects because prices of materials and labor have been rising rapidly.
>>79761 (Gab) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: TGP Reporter Confronts Soros-Backed Maricopa County Sheriff After His Meltdown Over Router Request (VIDEO)
>>79762 (Gab) Delta will require that new employees be vaccinated.
>>79765 ILDonaldoTrumpo Video: Hillary/Catturd video 4 Keks
>>79770 The same is true for COVID-19 which is an aerosolized, airborne disease. You'd have to be in a hazmat suit for COVID-19 Protection!
>>79776 (Gab) Dumbest mother fuckers ever (Jen Psucki/Bidon "WH")
#79745 at 2021-05-19 01:30:09 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #368: Baby It Ain't Over Till It's Over Edition
Notables are NOT endorsements
@ 5xs
'''#368'''
>>79614 Breitbart (Twatt) Leftist Democrat icon Chrissy Teigen loses another deal after her cyber bullying scandal was exposed.
>>79615 Breitbart (Twatt) WSJ: Microsoft Began Investigating Alleged Bill Gates Affair with Staffer Before He Left Company's Board
>>79616 CFR (Twatt) Many of the causes of China-India tensions remain unaddressed. And if China were to make a move at the border during India's health crisis, it could increase the potential for armed escalation, writes Daniel Markey.
>>79618 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Why did Truman let the CCP take over China?
>>79619 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) To those who had believed Him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32-33
>>79620 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Geritol Joe hits golf ball BEHIND him.. "This can't be real"
>>79622 (Twatt) Children as young as 2 rescued - Philippines
>>79623 (Twatt) BREAKING: 2020 ELECTION AUDIT SECRETLY BEING PREPARED in Fulton County, Georgia. GA Judge Brian Amero has ordered the production of all 'scanned absentee ballots' and all respective metadata for the Nov. 3rd 2020 election, must be delivered by May 21st, 2021 for a final hearing.
>>79624 (Twatt) Tomato products test positive for Covid! Local kids have found a way to get 10 days off school!
>>79627 According to a new report, President Joe Biden's administration will soon be teaming up with private companies to surveil service members.
>>79628 Spanish Politician Banned From Twitter For "Hate Speech" After Saying "A Man Cannot Get Pregnant"
>>79633 NnameTrump (Twatt) The brave sons of this great country stand together to defend the free world. Our values and liberty-loving nature made the USA the most progressive and dominant superpower on the planet. That's why this country must become truly GREAT AGAIN!
>>79634 IlDonaldoTrump (Twatt) Rand Paul was right about doctor flip-flop...
>>79635 John Solomon (Twatt) Pelosi: House to vote soon on 9/11-style commission to probe Jan. 6 'terrorist mob attack' | Just The News
>>79636 (Twatt) Dr. Fauci admitted he was wearing a mask for political theater-just like Rand Paul said.
>>79637 Candace Owens (Twatt) Weird to think there are a bunch of people celebrating because the government has given them permission to do what the rest of us never stopped doing for the last year and a half.
>>79638 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) Dear Mr. Biden, the American People don't respond well to threats. Just ask Harry how well that worked out for his ancestors.
>>79640 (Twatt) REAL GOOD VIDEO: This 10 year-old boy just obliterated his school board's mask mandate and calls out its unfairness and hypocrisy.
>>79641 Rep. Jim Jordan: Mask Guidance 'Was Always About Power' (Breitbart.com)
>>79642 (Twatt) Example of the US population from 70's to today (snap of boardwalk in 70's) A beach in the 70's. Not one fat body. How the food industry destroyed us.
>>79645 Dr. Fauci then: Me wearing a mask after vaccination is not "theater." Dr. Fauci now: Yeah, it was theater.
>>79646 Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Marjorie Greene (Twatter) Specifically on the Qanon Shaman; Did he physically assault anyone?
>>79647 Jack Posobiec (Twatt) Are there any videos of the QAnon Shaman doing anything violent?
>>79648 Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Lauren Boebert (Twatter) Young Americans used to lie about their age to serve their country.
>>79649 Arizona Rep Party (Twatt) SPECIAL REPORT: AMERICA'S AUDIT Maricopa County elected officials demand end to audit, launch broad attack on authority, motivation of AZ Senate, AZ Courts, voters in staged political circus. AZGOP Chairwoman
>>79651 Jen Psucki (TWATT) Jen Psucki (TWATT) Longtime car fan (@POTUS that is), touring @Ford facility in Dearborn, MI and getting a sneak peak at the F-150 lightning
>>79653 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) Democrats only pretend to care about jobs. Our Administration protected the environment, but we didn't do it on the backs of the American worker. There were more job openings than people looking for work for much of these past four years.
>>79656 Breaking911 (Twatt) BREAKING: COLONIAL PIPELINE HACKERS RECEIVED $90 MILLION IN BITCOIN - ELLIPTIC
>>79657 (Twatt) Taking care of yourself, to give up the basic principles of "self" would lead to, you have 2 kidneys, I need one, give me one you have 2.
>>79658 Daily Mail Online (TWATT) Panic in China as 980ft skyscraper mysteriously begins to shake sending pedestrians fleeing
>>79660 Andrew Guilliani (Twatt) NYForGiuliani.com TOGETHER, WE WILL BRING BACK NEW YORK! Giuliani For Governor 2022 #NYForGiuliani2022
>>79663 Jen Psucki: Illegal Aliens Are Part of 'What the American Dream Represents' (Breitbart)
>>79665 Breaking911 (Twatt) IT HAD TO BE THIS WAY, OTHERWISE THE LEFT WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE IN HOAXVille
>>79668 Ted Cruz (Twatt) CRUZ to VISIT ISRAEL: The Senator Will Travel to Israel in the 'Coming Days' to Assess Security Situation
>>79669 TheHill (Twatt) Christie says he won't defer to Trump in 2024
>>79671 Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour (TheGuardian.com)
>>79699 Biden Golf Shot Gaffe
>>79683 Juan O Savin & Rachel Hamm (Full Interview)
>>79684 Space Force (Twatt) Historic changes this week! Space Launch Delta 45 replaced the @45thSpaceWing at Patrick Space Force Base, FL. Today, our West Coast launch base was renamed Vandenberg Space Force Base with Space Launch Delta 30 replacing the @30thSpaceWing.
>>79688 1st cavalry (Twatt) May 12, 2021. The visit was to interact with the operators and maintainers of vehicles to gain a better understanding of their perceived strengths and weaknesses.
>>79703, >>79704, >>79712, >>79722, >>79723, >>79726, >>79727, >>79733, >>79735, >>79741, >>79742, >>79743, >>79744, >>79746 Anon: 'QAnon' Shaman/Baked Alaska, Clown In Action: connected to all major known shills and clown ops
>>79719 VIDEO: Earth Weather News (May 18, 2021) (YouTube)
>>79731 VIDEO: Florida Man Gets Tased After Leading Deputies on Pursuit (YouTube)
>>79732 Texas governor bans local governments, schools from requiring face masks (TheHill.com)
>>79734 Resident Houseplant lying about his Family history again… (YouTube)
>>79737 VIDEO: Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and mortars. During the recent conflict, it has been used to destroy more than 200 rockets bound for Israeli cities. Here's how it works. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/getty Images (YouTube)
>>79745 VIDEO: St. Louis Attorney targeted by BLM mob announces Senate run (YouTube)
#79737 at 2021-05-19 01:01:52 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #368: Baby It Ain't Over Till It's Over Edition
VIDEO: Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and mortars. During the recent conflict, it has been used to destroy more than 200 rockets bound for Israeli cities. Here's how it works. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/getty Images (YouTube)
#79671 at 2021-05-18 18:12:53 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #368: Baby It Ain't Over Till It's Over Edition
Genetically engineered 'Magneto' protein remotely controls brain and behaviour
The toroidal magnetic chamber (Tokamak) of the Joint European Torus (JET) at the Culham Science Centre. Photograph: AFP/getty Images
The toroidal magnetic chamber (Tokamak) of the Joint European Torus (JET) at the Culham Science Centre. Photograph: AFP/getty Images
"Badass" new method uses a magnetised protein to activate brain cells rapidly, reversibly, and non-invasively
https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2016/mar/24/magneto-remotely-controls-brain-and-behaviour
#77111 at 2021-04-23 03:50:00 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #351: Make Mars Great Again Edition
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2021-04-22/engaging-an-iranian-regime-in-survival-mode-the-us-must-stay-firm
The U.S. Must Stay Firm in Iran Negotiations
The Biden administration must understand it is dealing with a government in Tehran deep in survival mode.
TEHRAN, IRAN - APRIL 10: (–EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - "PRESIDENCY OF IRAN / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS–) President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani (L) and head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi (2nd R) visit Nuclear Technology exhibition on the 11th anniversary of National Nuclear Technology Day in Tehran, Iran on April 10, 2021. (Photo by Iranian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu Agency via getty Images)
For the past two weeks, delegations from the United States and Iran have continued indirect meetings in Vienna to work on a road map for a simultaneous return to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The original deal had been struck in 2015 between President Barack Obama's administration and Tehran, hoping to curb Iran's nuclear weapons program it had kept secret for years until the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) first revealed its existence in 2002.
Six years on, the JCPOA's flaws have become universally acknowledged. The parties are having to return to the negotiating table because Iran has not only refused to abandon its nuclear program but has instead accelerated it in recent months to blackmail the international community.
The previous administration called the nuclear agreement a "horrible one-sided deal" and withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018. It also imposed sanctions on the regime that contributed to the severe weakening of an economy already in shambles thanks to the mullahs' ruinous policies and endemic corruption. The sanctions also led to significant funding shortages for the mullahs' terrorist proxies in the Middle East. Even before the U.S. withdrew from the deal, Tehran was taking steps to breach the agreement. To pressure the new administration to dole out concessions to it, the regime began enriching uranium above the JCPOA thresholds and started to build uranium metal, a material used in nuclear warheads.
#73461 at 2021-03-26 16:24:12 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #329: Ever Given? Children Cargo Edition
Bill Gates predicts world will be 'back to normal' by end of 2022
© getty Images
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates predicted this week that the world will be "back to normal" by the end of 2022 thanks to COVID-19 vaccinations.
Gates told Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24 that the coronavirus pandemic has been "an incredible tragedy," but he expressed hope for the future, Reuters reported on Thursday.
"By the end of 2022 we should be basically completely back to normal," Gates said.
Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates, through their foundation have designated at least $1.75 billion to respond to the pandemic globally, including through vaccines.
The former Microsoft chairman's forecast comes as many countries, are prioritizing vaccinations, including the U.S., which has administered more than 130 million doses, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/544900-bill-gates-predicts-world-will-be-back-to-normal-by-end-of-2022
#51488 at 2021-02-01 12:31:13 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #238: Darnkess Before The Light! Edition
>>51487
Narrative Reframes discussion on the US Economy, con't.
Narrative Reframes, [31.01.21 15:10]
The Federal Reserve, The Corrupt US Corporation, and Blackrock
What did Trump do?
Understand, bankruptcy must have an orderly transition of resolution - and provisions were put in place to protect We The People during that process.
The Treasury deal with Blackrock allows them to print commercial paper instead, which acts as a backstop against commercial failure instead of liquidity injection. What this means is that the UK is now cut off from QE (they're pissed) and the Federal Reserve now has a private American contender who supports a new Industrial vision, which moves America and it's citizens forward.
It was the only way to reign them in, and keep the Corrupt Geopolitical Conglomerate from collapsing the Stock Market.
Read that again.
They were going to force the collapse of the stock market and further bind us to the scheme that benefited America the least.
Trump not only stopped them, but set in motion a domino effect that will completely destabilize their corrupt, Petrodollar leverage scheme.
Imagine that McDonalds represents the Federal Reserve, they hold a patent on burgers and nobody else can produce or sell them. What happened was that Trump backed Burger King, and now there's 2 players. Setting a precedent, it's conceivable that a Wendy's crops up too. And more and more and more as the realization of the opportunity strikes. Competition occurring in the credit spreads, per each State, like it was 200 years ago before they decided to generationally leverage and control the government and citizens of this Nation through corrupt, geopolitical economic and population conditioning schemes, which solely benefitted their wealth cycles.
Now, each State has the opportunity to be responsible for their own. Think State banking and credit spreads - it opens the door for more economic transparency in each State - not one entity setting the rate on each State - because when there's a monopoly at this scale, you can cover up A LOT of corruption. The Federal Reserve was covering up MASSIVE amounts of geopolitical corruption, and hiding losses in each State.
This was a brilliant part of the overall Trump Card that was played, along with some significant additional provisions - think Militarily, and in terms of National Security for We The People. Now couple that with eradicating the corrupt "Protection" scheme for the Elite with AI Warfare, systematically destabilizing the Blackmail Market, which protected Elite involvement and powered heinous backchannel economic industries, like child exploitation and human trafficking.
Now you have an 87 year old leveraged Billionaire jumping off a high-rise Penthouse, Rothschild and getty heirs suddenly passing, and a whole slew of untimely power node deaths across the world in less than 13 days, followed by massive resignations of key leaders and entire foreign governments.
An American Titan put his foot down against the enormous pressure of the World's Elite, for you.
To facilitate a better future for America, for We The People.
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#51473 at 2021-02-01 09:26:24 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #238: Darnkess Before The Light! Edition
The Federal Reserve, The Corrupt US Corporation, and Blackrock
What did Trump do?
Understand, bankruptcy must have an orderly transition of resolution - and provisions were put in place to protect We The People during that process.
The Treasury deal with Blackrock allows them to print commercial paper instead, which acts as a backstop against commercial failure instead of liquidity injection. What this means is that the UK is now cut off from QE (they're pissed) and the Federal Reserve now has a private American contender who supports a new Industrial vision, which moves America and it's citizens forward.
It was the only way to reign them in, and keep the Corrupt Geopolitical Conglomerate from collapsing the Stock Market.
Read that again.
They were going to force the collapse of the stock market and further bind us to the scheme that benefited America the least.
Trump not only stopped them, but set in motion a domino effect that will completely destabilize their corrupt, Petrodollar leverage scheme.
Imagine that McDonalds represents the Federal Reserve, they hold a patent on burgers and nobody else can produce or sell them. What happened was that Trump backed Burger King, and now there's 2 players. Setting a precedent, it's conceivable that a Wendy's crops up too. And more and more and more as the realization of the opportunity strikes. Competition occurring in the credit spreads, per each State, like it was 200 years ago before they decided to generationally leverage and control the government and citizens of this Nation through corrupt, geopolitical economic and population conditioning schemes, which solely benefitted their wealth cycles.
Now, each State has the opportunity to be responsible for their own. Think State banking and credit spreads - it opens the door for more economic transparency in each State - not one entity setting the rate on each State - because when there's a monopoly at this scale, you can cover up A LOT of corruption. The Federal Reserve was covering up MASSIVE amounts of geopolitical corruption, and hiding losses in each State.
This was a brilliant part of the overall Trump Card that was played, along with some significant additional provisions - think Militarily, and in terms of National Security for We The People. Now couple that with eradicating the corrupt "Protection" scheme for the Elite with AI Warfare, systematically destabilizing the Blackmail Market, which protected Elite involvement and powered heinous backchannel economic industries, like child exploitation and human trafficking.
Now you have an 87 year old leveraged Billionaire jumping off a high-rise Penthouse, Rothschild and getty heirs suddenly passing, and a whole slew of untimely power node deaths across the world in less than 13 days, followed by massive resignations of key leaders and entire foreign governments.
An American Titan put his foot down against the enormous pressure of the World's Elite, for you.
To facilitate a better future for America, for We The People.
#49792 at 2021-01-28 07:51:15 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #230: In Reality [they're] not after me [they're] after you Edition
GOP group invests $700,000 into backing Sen. Josh Hawley after he was scrutinized for inciting Capitol riot
January 28th 2021
…Sarah Al-Arshani
Wed, January 27, 2021, 10:02 PM
Josh Hawley
Sen. Josh Hawley addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Capitol on June 27, 2019. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/getty Images
A political action committee has put $700,000 behind Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley after he was criticized for his role in inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection, Axios reported.
Hawley continued with his effort to dispute the electoral votes even after Trump supporters breached the Capitol.
Critics have called on him to resign, and several Democrats have asked for an ethics probe into his and Sen. Ted Cruz's actions.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
The Senate Conservatives Fund has put $700,000 in total behind Senator Josh Hawley after he was scrutinized for helping incite the mob that attacked the Capitol earlier this month, Axios reported.
Since January 12, the political action committee paid $397,782.53 to send more than 2 million texts and emails in support of Hawley. They also raised around $310,000 for his campaign committee, the outlet reported.
In one email that was sent out, executive director Mary Vought said: "The junior senator from Missouri's decision to object to the election results showed tremendous courage. It brought him instant scorn from the media and even a public rebuke from his own Senate leader."
Supporters of President Donald Trump breached the US Capitol and clashed with law enforcement on January 6, halting a joint session of Congress as lawmakers were set to certify President Joe Biden's election victory. The attack left five people dead.
While many Republicans abandoned their plans to dispute the election results following the violence, Hawley and Senator Ted Cruz pushed forward in an effort that would have been futile but gained them points with Trump's base.
Read more: SCOOP: Sen. Dianne Feinstein fails to disclose husband's stock purchase, says she's willing to pay a fine
Critics, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have called on Hawley and Cruz to resign and Sen. Joe Manchin said the Senate should consider using the 14th Amendment to remove Cruz and Hawley.
Last week, seven Democratic senators called for an ethics probe into Hawley and Cruz over their objections to the Electoral College vote to determine whether or not their actions contributed to the Capitol siege.
In a statement, Hawley called the complaint "a flagrant abuse of the Senate ethics process and a flagrant attempt to exact partisan revenge."
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-group-invests-700-000-060214834.html
#27296 at 2020-12-21 10:11:17 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #124: Merry Christmas, Sunday Edition
Trump Said He Spoke With Sen.-Elect Tuberville, Who Has Weighed a Challenge to Electoral Votes
BY ZACHARY STIEBER December 21, 2020 Updated: December 21, 2020 biggersmaller Print
President Donald Trump has spoken to Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), after Tuberville said he was mulling whether to join representatives next month in filing a challenge to electoral votes.
"I spoke to a great gentlemen Tommy Tuberville last night, and he was so excited. He said, 'You made me the most popular politician in the United States.' He said, 'I can't believe it.' He's great. Great senator," Trump said on WABC radio.
Tuberville, who unseated Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), suggested earlier this month that he would challenge electoral votes when a joint session of Congress meets on Jan. 6, 2021, to count them.
A challenge must have the backing of at least one member of the House and one senator to trigger a debate and votes by each chamber.
Tuberville told told an Alabama outlet on Thursday after the video emerged that he's "doing my due diligence" through the Christmas holiday.
"I want to do what's best for President Trump and the people of Alabama and the people of this country. They asked me, 'Are you going to support President Trump?' And, of course, I'm always going to support President Trump. He's the best president of my lifetime and has done more for the people of this country and the state of Alabama than anybody. But we want to make sure we do the right thing," he said.
Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville
Sen.-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) in Washington on Nov. 9, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool/AFP via getty Images)
Tuberville said he will probably meet with Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), the first person who will be in the House next month that committed to challenging votes.
Brooks said on C-Span's "Washington Journal" that he plans on challenging votes from state's like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Wisconsin, where the count is in question because of irregularities and possible fraud.
"Their election systems are so flawed so as to render results on trustworthy," he said.
The group of members and members-elect who plan to challenge has gotten bigger. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a staunch Trump ally, joined it on Friday.
"I'm joining with the fighters in the Congress, and we are going to object to electors from states that didn't run clean elections," Gaetz told a crowd in Florida.
On the senate side, Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have said they aren't ruling it out. That number is smaller then the senators who have ruled it out, including Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has declared victory in the election, while Trump is contesting results in key states. The Epoch Times is not calling the race at this time.
Trump recently urged more Republican senators to follow Tuberville's lead.
"We had a landslide victory, and then it was swindled away from the Republican Party-but we caught them. Do something!" Trump said. "We won the Presidential Election, by a lot. FIGHT FOR IT. Don't let them take it away!"
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-said-he-spoke-with-sen-elect-tuberville-who-has-weighed-a-challenge-to-electoral-votes_3627062.html
#27286 at 2020-12-21 09:42:12 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #124: Merry Christmas, Sunday Edition
Jupiter, Saturn merging in night sky, closest in centuries
The two largest planets will be one-tenth of a degree apart in what is being dubbed the 'Great Conjunction'.
Saturn and Jupiter seen behind a church ahead of their conjunction that is being called The Christmas Star, on December 18, 2020 in Jersey City, US [Gary Hershorn/getty Images]
21 Dec 2020
Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky on Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo was alive in the 17th century.
Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the two largest planets in our solar system are not particularly rare - Jupiter passes its neighbour Saturn in their respective laps around the Sun every 20 years.
They should be easily visible around the world a little after sunset, weather permitting.
Toss in the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest night of the year - and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere - and the spectacle promises to be one of the greatest of Great Conjunctions.
To see it, be ready shortly after sunset on Monday, looking to the southwest fairly low on the horizon.
Saturn will be the smaller, fainter blob at Jupiter's upper right. Binoculars will be needed to separate the two planets.
Despite appearances, Jupiter and Saturn will actually be more than 730 million kilometres (450 million miles) apart.
Earth, meanwhile, will be 890 million kilometres (550 million miles) from Jupiter.
The two planets are drawing closer to each other as they head for a 'Great Conjunction' [Charlie Riedel/AP Photo]
"What is most rare is a close conjunction that occurs in our nighttime sky," said Vanderbilt University's David Weintraub, an astronomy professor.
"I think it's fair to say that such an event typically may occur just once in any one person's lifetime, and I think 'once in my lifetime' is a pretty good test of whether something merits being labelled as rare or special."
It will be the closest Jupiter-Saturn pairing since July 1623, when the two planets appeared a little nearer. This conjunction was almost impossible to see, however, because of its closeness to the sun.
Considerably closer and in plain view was the March 1226 conjunction of the two planets when Genghis Khan was conquering Asia.
Monday's conjunction will be the closest pairing that is visible since way back then.
Saturn and Jupiter have been drawing closer in the south-southwest sky for weeks. Jupiter - bigger and closer to Earth - is brighter.
Their next super-close pairing: March 15, 2080.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/21/jupiter-saturn-merging-in-night-sky-closest-in-centuries
#27019 at 2020-12-20 23:16:24 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #123: Easy Sunday Morn MNR Edition
>>27016
In an update on Friday, the agency stressed that anyone who has ever had a severe allergic reaction to any ingredient in a COVID-19 vaccine should not get that vaccine. People with severe allergic reactions to other vaccines should consult their doctor about getting the new vaccine while those with a history of anaphylaxis not related to vaccines "may still get vaccinated."
"CDC recommends that people with a history of severe allergic reactions not related to vaccines or injectable medications - such as allergies to food, pet, venom, environmental, or latex - may still get vaccinated," the CDC said.
"People with a history of allergies to oral medications or a family history of severe allergic reactions, or who might have a milder allergy to vaccines (no anaphylaxis) - may also still get vaccinated."
Anyone who experiences anaphylaxis after getting the first vaccine should not get the second shot, the CDC said. COVID-19 vaccines are meant to be given across two doses, spaced about three weeks apart.
At least five healthcare workers in Alaska experienced adverse reactions after getting the Pfizer vaccine, the Anchorage Daily News reported. One of two experiencing adverse reactions at the Bartlett Regional Hospital required treatment at the hospital for at least two nights.
An Illinois hospital halted vaccinations after four workers suffered adverse reactions.
Dr. Peter Marks, the director of Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, told reporters in a call on Thursday night that the agency is working with the CDC, and colleagues in the United Kingdom, on probing the allergic reactions.
"We'll be looking at all of the data we can from each of these reactions to sort out exactly what happened. And we'll also be looking to try to understand which components of the vaccine might be helping to produce them," he said.
A container of 5 doses of COVID-19 vaccine sits on a table at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago, Ill., on Dec. 18, 2020. (Scott Olson/getty Images)
Noting that he was speculating, Marks said it's known that polyethylene glycol - a component present in both the Pfizer vaccine and one from Moderna that regulators approved earlier in the day - can be associated, uncommonly, with allergic reactions.
"So that could be a culprit here. And that's why we'll be watching very closely," he said. "But we just don't know at this point."
Both vaccines have "systemic side effects," which are "generally mild," Marks said.
They go away after a day. According to the FDA website, the most commonly reported side effects include tiredness, headache, muscle pain, and chills. The agency said they go away after several days.
One volunteer in Pfizer's late-stage clinical trial experienced an allergic reaction. Two people in Moderna's phase 3 clinical trial experienced anaphylactic reactions, the company said during a meeting on Thursday. But the data showed the benefits outweigh the risk, FDA officials said, as they granted emergency use authorization to the vaccines about seven days apart.
People who get a COVID-19 vaccine should be monitored for at least 15 minutes after getting vaccinated, according to the CDC.
If someone experiences a severe allergic reaction against getting a COVID-19 vaccine, vaccination providers are supposed to provide rapid care and call for emergency medical services. The person should continue to be monitored in a medical facility for at least several hours.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-issues-new-guidelines-launches-probe-after-1000s-negatively-affected-following-covid
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#25941 at 2020-12-18 08:20:37 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #118: The Sleepers Are Waking from a One Jab Faint Edition
>>25936
Chinese President Xi Jinping Meets With Lawmakers On Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 25: China's President Xi Jinping (6-L) meets with leaders Congress (L - R) Sen. Ben Cardin, (D-MD), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY) September 25, 2015 in Washington, DC. President Jinping met with the leadership of the US Senate and US House as part of his official state visit. (Photo by Astrid Riecken/getty Images)
Sept 25, 2015 [I betcha that fits in the timeline nicely.]
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/chinas-president-xi-jinping-meets-with-leaders-congress-sen-news-photo/490030050
#23738 at 2020-12-14 19:17:48 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #107: Red Seas Under Red Skies Edition
Stacey Abrams Brags She Has 1.2 Million Absentee Ballots for Ga. Runoff
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (Ethan Miller/getty Images)
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Monday, 14 December 2020 08:56 AM
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, now the founder of the voting rights organization Fair Fight, said that Democrats are prepared to win the Senate runoff race in January, and that 1.2 million absentee ballots have already been requested.
"We know from the numbers that we're in a good place; 1.2 million absentee ballots have been requested thus far," Abrams told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "Just to put that into context, 1.3 million were requested for all of the general election."
Further, Abrams said, "85,000 of those applications are from voters who did not vote in the general election, and they are disproportionately between the ages of 18 and 29 and disproportionately people of color."
Abrams' claim speaks directly to Republican fears about the Georgia vote. President Donald Trump warned at a large rally in Valdosta, Georgia, earlier this month that Democrats are "going to try to rig this election too."
He urged Republicans must "go vote and vote early starting Dec. 14 - you have to do it - they cheated and they rigged this presidential election, but we will still win.
Georgia's House Majority Leader Jon Burns earlier this month submitted a letter signed by more than 100 current and newly elected House Republicansto Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the State Election Board to review the state's absentee ballot verification process.
In the letter, Burns said that many Georgians, including his colleagues, have "serious concerns" about the state's elections and must have confidence in the progress for the Senate runoffs and future elections.
The House members want Raffensperger to implement a more "robust verification process" for reviewing signatures on absentee ballot applications and mail-in ballot envelopes that will include independent observers. ?
The runoff, set for Jan. 5, pits incumbent GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, against Democrat challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, respectively.
Democrats are prepared to win the races, Abrams added, because "this is the first run-off where we have the level of investment and engagement that it takes to win."
Meanwhile, Abrams said she refuses to give Gov. Brian Kemp, who has come under fire from Trump for refusing to overturn the November presidential election results, any credit for standing up to the president.
"You shouldn't have to get credit for doing your job," said Abrams, who ran and lost against Kemp in 2018. "The reality is that (Secretary of State) Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp are doing the jobs they were elected to do, and they're following the laws of the land."
Abrams also claimed that Georgia's Republican senators have said that they intend to restrain and to repeal "so many of the pieces of voter suppression mitigation that we have been able to achieve."
"They want to make it harder to vote by absentee ballot," she said. "They want to make it harder for people to access the right to vote. And so I'm going to judge Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger by what they do in January. Do they stand up not only for the rule of law, but for the five million voters who made their voices heard in the general election?"
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/stacey%C2%A0abrams-absentee-ballots-georgia-runoff/2020/12/14/id/1001364/
#22053 at 2020-12-11 23:54:12 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #100: Potus ]NOW[ Binary Edition
>>21995
Weather
Two earthquakes rattle eastern Maine Wednesday morning
The last time eastern Maine felt an earthquake this strong was February 2, 2016, when there was a magnitude 3.6 centered just east of Eastport.
Credit: getty Images
Author: Chelsea Bard (NEWS CENTER Maine)
Published: 12:03 PM EST December 9, 2020
Updated: 12:04 PM EST December 9, 2020
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ROBBINSTON, Maine - Several Mainers in eastern Maine reported feeling a couple of earthquakes Wednesday morning.
The first happened at 5:44 a.m. near Robbinston at a magnitude of 2.4.
The second and stronger one happened at 7:31 a.m. at a magnitude of 3.0 near Robbinston. This one, however, was felt further throughout Washington County and as far away as Jonesport.
Meteorologist Todd Gutner tweeted this morning seismographs for each and several viewers responded saying they felt it.
According to Meteorologist Ryan Breton, it's fairly common to see earthquakes of magnitude 1.5 to 3.0 in the northeast.
Occur to anyone to drive up to Robbinston and talk with some people?
#20865 at 2020-12-10 06:30:03 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #95: Fuck Giant Tech Folly Edition
Texas GOP Chairman Expects More States To Join SCOTUS Election Suit
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 5:55 PM PT - Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Red states are joining Texas in a Supreme Court lawsuit aimed at delaying presidential electors in multiple states.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the charge against multiple states that allegedly violated the Constitution during the 2020 election.
Ken Paxton, ??Attorney General State of Texas. (Photo by Gabriel Aponte/getty Images for Concordia Summit)
On Wednesday, Paxton filed a lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The lawsuit argues the 'Equal Protection Clause' was violated. All four states account for 62 electoral votes, which is enough to question the outcome of the presidential election.
Additionally, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt led a group of 17 states in support of the Texas lawsuit on Wednesday.
The group filed a brief with the Supreme Court. The brief claims state officials exploited the coronavirus pandemic to make changes to the elections that would purposely make them prone to potential fraud.
The Texas GOP chairman said that potential for fraud not only affected the states involved, but millions of other Americans. In an interview with Steve Bannon Tuesday, Chairman Colonel Allen West said Texas had the legal right to pursue the case.
"We're not asking for ballots to be thrown out," West said. "We're asking for this to go back to the legislature and the state legislators...will decide those electors, which again is constitutional by Article 2 Section 1 of the United States Constitution."
He added that America has the gold standard of an electoral system and protecting it isn't a political issue.
"I think you're going to see about 10 [states] sign onto this petition," West noted. "I know...Louisiana has come on board, you just talked about South Carolina and I believe Missouri and several others will stand beside this as well."
UPDATE: THREE other states are expected to join the Texas lawsuit headed to SCOTUS, according to Colonel Allen West (Chairman of Texas Republic Party).
*A total of 10 states may be apart of the Texas lawsuit by end of week.
- Cardinal Conservative (@CardinalConserv) December 9, 2020
He reiterated that this is an American issue rather than a Republican or Democrat issue. West also mentioned if we do not pursue truth in this election, it will undermine our constitutional republic.
In the meantime, the Supreme Court has given the states until Thursday afternoon to respond to the lawsuit.
https://www.oann.com/texas-gop-expects-more-states-to-join-scotus-election-suit/
#14625 at 2020-11-24 20:51:45 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #66: Corn over Cob Edition
#64
>>14310 American Partisan: What progressives have in store for conservatives (genocide)
>>14292 Lou Dobbs in 2006 on Smartmatic voting machines & corruption
>>14288 7 Things That Used To Be "Crazy Conspiracy Theories" Until 2020 Happened
>>14278 Straka: Cop manhandles guy just standing there for curfew violation
>>14274 CM: Q's about ballot images RT to Dr Shiva motion to stop certification of MASS ballots
>>14282, >>14258, >>14270, >>14286, >>14296, >>14304 Mark Levin on Trump Team legal strategy; goes with >>14056 pb
>>14257 Abe's office suspected of illegal spending on parties
>>14251 John Gilbert getty heir to getty oil fortune dead at 52
>>14241 planes a flyin', KEKistani AF Recon Squadron
>>14225 New MNR archive
>>14200 New GEORGE magazine - started 11-23-2020
>>14346, >>14365, >>14367, >>14369, >>14370, >>14372 The Founder of Hollywood's Most Elite Sex Club Is Unhappy Esquire article 2016
>>14319 Rudy on Lou Dobbs
>>14322, >>14378 MNR archives so far: breads #1 - 50
>>14351 POTUS & Sidney Rock The Tabla'
>>14368 Biden's Transition website upgraded to .Gov
>>14379 DOD GSA Administrator is making certain post-election resources and services available to the Biden-Harris Transition Team.
>>14323 , >>14324, Snctm Bill Maher's Liberal Sex Club Is Selling 1 More Membership At An Unspeakable Price Tag
>>14325 Snctm Founder of New York's most exclusive sex club to tell all in book
>>14326 Snctm (club)
>>14327 , >>14328, Snctm Satanic Hollywood Sex Cult Lists Bill Maher And Others As Members
>>14329 , >>14330, >>14331, Snctm - Civil war at Hollywood's most elite sex club: Infamous $75K-a-year member 'Bunnyman' is booted out for 'disgusting' behavior towards the founder's 12-year-old daughter
>>14333 Snctm Video
>>14340 Snctm Celebs' Kinky Sex Secrets For Sale Hollywood quaking as swingers' club put up for sale
>>14341 Snctm 'New York Post' video
>>14346 Snctm is a Private Members-Only Club APPLICATION FORM AND WEBSITE
>>14361 , >>14362, >>14365, >>14366, >>14367, >>14369, >>14370, >>14372, >>14373, >>14374, >>14375, Snctm: The Last Hour Inside the Masquerade Party at Snctm Sex Club (NSFW)
>>14391 SNCTM DIG Bun
>>14402 #64
#63
>>14046, >>14042, >>14058, >>14034, >>14060, >>14099 PlaneFag reports
>>14037 Dollar bounces from three-month low, index trades above key support
>>14028, >>13996, >>13987 FinanceFag reports
>>14025 Gen Flynn Reports
>>14004 Elizabeth Holmes Argues Her Wealth Had Nothing To Do Why She Committed Fraud
>>14001 White House Planning Unprecedented Trade Alliance To Retaliate Against China
>>13983 "You Are Such A Dick" - New Jersey Governor Heckled While Enjoying Mask-Free Meal With Family
>>14068, >>14079 International Q Research Threads updated
>>14118 FEC Chairman: Trump campaign bringing 'legitimate accusations' of election fraud to court
>>14116 Air Force Tweets
>>14107 This Colorado congresswoman-elect wants to carry her Glock at the Capitol
>>14105 "Sidney Powell is registered as a MILITARY LAWYER and is the only one who can prosecute TREASON at a TRIBUNAL!"
>>14102 @CodeMonkeyZ Watch Coomer explain with his own words how to change votes using the Dominion system
>>14096 Tab Key for perfect Alignment
>>14092, >>14093 NASS: National Association of Secretaries of State
Previously Collected Notables
>>13358 #59, >>13564 #60, >>13775 #61, >>13964 #62
>>12523 #55, >>12721 #56, >>12931 #57, >>13146 #58
>>11694 #51, >>11920 #52, >>12107 #53, >>12319 #54
#14404 at 2020-11-24 12:16:17 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #65: The Scarlet Mermaid Sails On and On Edition
Global Announcements
>>5834 CM: I am resigning as admin of 8kun effective immediately…
>>5836 Jim's response: Thank you for your valiant service and sacrafice, Ron. Best of luck in your future endeavors. 8Kun in good hands.
Notable Posts
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#64
>>14310 American Partisan: What progressives have in store for conservatives (genocide)
>>14292 Lou Dobbs in 2006 on Smartmatic voting machines & corruption
>>14288 7 Things That Used To Be "Crazy Conspiracy Theories" Until 2020 Happened
>>14278 Straka: Cop manhandles guy just standing there for curfew violation
>>14274 CM: Q's about ballot images RT to Dr Shiva motion to stop certification of MASS ballots
>>14282, >>14258, >>14270, >>14286, >>14296, >>14304 Mark Levin on Trump Team legal strategy; goes with >>14056 pb
>>14257 Abe's office suspected of illegal spending on parties
>>14251 John Gilbert getty heir to getty oil fortune dead at 52
>>14241 planes a flyin', KEKistani AF Recon Squadron
>>14225 New MNR archive
>>14200 New GEORGE magazine - started 11-23-2020
>>14346, >>14365, >>14367, >>14369, >>14370, >>14372 The Founder of Hollywood's Most Elite Sex Club Is Unhappy Esquire article 2016
>>14319 Rudy on Lou Dobbs
>>14322, >>14378 MNR archives so far: breads #1 - 50
>>14351 POTUS & Sidney Rock The Tabla'
>>14368 Biden's Transition website upgraded to .Gov
>>14379 DOD GSA Administrator is making certain post-election resources and services available to the Biden-Harris Transition Team.
>>14323 , >>14324, Snctm Bill Maher's Liberal Sex Club Is Selling 1 More Membership At An Unspeakable Price Tag
>>14325 Snctm Founder of New York's most exclusive sex club to tell all in book
>>14326 Snctm (club)
>>14327 , >>14328, Snctm Satanic Hollywood Sex Cult Lists Bill Maher And Others As Members
>>14329 , >>14330, >>14331, Snctm - Civil war at Hollywood's most elite sex club: Infamous $75K-a-year member 'Bunnyman' is booted out for 'disgusting' behavior towards the founder's 12-year-old daughter
>>14333 Snctm Video
>>14340 Snctm Celebs' Kinky Sex Secrets For Sale Hollywood quaking as swingers' club put up for sale
>>14341 Snctm 'New York Post' video
>>14346 Snctm is a Private Members-Only Club APPLICATION FORM AND WEBSITE
>>14361 , >>14362, >>14365, >>14366, >>14367, >>14369, >>14370, >>14372, >>14373, >>14374, >>14375, Snctm: The Last Hour Inside the Masquerade Party at Snctm Sex Club (NSFW)
>>14391 SNCTM DIG Bun
>>14402 #64
#14402 at 2020-11-24 12:14:46 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
#64
>>14310 American Partisan: What progressives have in store for conservatives (genocide)
>>14292 Lou Dobbs in 2006 on Smartmatic voting machines & corruption
>>14288 7 Things That Used To Be "Crazy Conspiracy Theories" Until 2020 Happened
>>14278 Straka: Cop manhandles guy just standing there for curfew violation
>>14274 CM: Q's about ballot images RT to Dr Shiva motion to stop certification of MASS ballots
>>14282, >>14258, >>14270, >>14286, >>14296, >>14304 Mark Levin on Trump Team legal strategy; goes with >>14056 pb
>>14257 Abe's office suspected of illegal spending on parties
>>14251 John Gilbert getty heir to getty oil fortune dead at 52
>>14241 planes a flyin', KEKistani AF Recon Squadron
>>14225 New MNR archive
>>14200 New GEORGE magazine - started 11-23-2020
>>14346, >>14365, >>14367, >>14369, >>14370, >>14372 The Founder of Hollywood's Most Elite Sex Club Is Unhappy Esquire article 2016
>>14319 Rudy on Lou Dobbs
>>14322, >>14378 MNR archives so far: breads #1 - 50
>>14351 POTUS & Sidney Rock The Tabla'
>>14368 Biden's Transition website upgraded to .Gov
>>14379 DOD GSA Administrator is making certain post-election resources and services available to the Biden-Harris Transition Team.
>>14323 , >>14324, Snctm Bill Maher's Liberal Sex Club Is Selling 1 More Membership At An Unspeakable Price Tag
>>14325 Snctm Founder of New York's most exclusive sex club to tell all in book
>>14326 Snctm (club)
>>14327 , >>14328, Snctm Satanic Hollywood Sex Cult Lists Bill Maher And Others As Members
>>14329 , >>14330, >>14331, Snctm - Civil war at Hollywood's most elite sex club: Infamous $75K-a-year member 'Bunnyman' is booted out for 'disgusting' behavior towards the founder's 12-year-old daughter
>>14333 Snctm Video
>>14340 Snctm Celebs' Kinky Sex Secrets For Sale Hollywood quaking as swingers' club put up for sale
>>14341 Snctm 'New York Post' video
>>14346 Snctm is a Private Members-Only Club APPLICATION FORM AND WEBSITE
>>14361 , >>14362, >>14365, >>14366, >>14367, >>14369, >>14370, >>14372, >>14373, >>14374, >>14375, Snctm: The Last Hour Inside the Masquerade Party at Snctm Sex Club (NSFW)
>>14391 SNCTM DIG Bun
#14376 at 2020-11-24 11:13:38 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
>>14371
how bout dis?
#64
>>14310 American Partisan: What progressives have in store for conservatives (genocide)
>>14292 Lou Dobbs in 2006 on Smartmatic voting machines & corruption
>>14288 7 Things That Used To Be "Crazy Conspiracy Theories" Until 2020 Happened
>>14278 Straka: Cop manhandles guy just standing there for curfew violation
>>14274 CM: Q's about ballot images RT to Dr Shiva motion to stop certification of MASS ballots
>>14282, >>14258, >>14270, >>14286, >>14296, >>14304 Mark Levin on Trump Team legal strategy; goes with >>14056 pb
>>14257 Abe's office suspected of illegal spending on parties
>>14251 John Gilbert getty heir to getty oil fortune dead at 52
>>14241 planes a flyin', KEKistani AF Recon Squadron
>>14225 New MNR archive
>>14200 New GEORGE magazine - started 11-23-2020
>>14346, >>14365, >>14367, >>14369, >>14370, >>14372 The Founder of Hollywood's Most Elite Sex Club Is Unhappy Esquire article 2016
>>14319 Rudy on Lou Dobbs
>>14322 MNR archives so far: breads #1 - 50
>>14351 Funny Anon made POTUS /Sidney Powell Mucic Meme Mp4
>>14368 Biden's Transition website upgraded to .Gov
#14374 at 2020-11-24 11:09:01 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
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"I don't really blame Snctm for our relationship ending, but it was a catalyst," Melissa says. "I had a certain vision of what our future looked like, and it was more domesticated and normal, kind of how I was raised, and he was raised very differently. But in a way I'm grateful for it, too. What I experienced in the Masquerade parties was positive for me, it opened me up to being more passionate, more exploratory-maybe not with pain or being tied up-but with other things.
"Damon's grown a lot from this, too," she adds. "He's gotten sober. But he still has those young girls over there and he's still a kind of playboy, tooling around in his new sports car, driving way too fast in residential areas. And you know what? That's how he is, that's just Damon. He's living his truth."
Meanwhile, in the attic, Lawner spots Caroline behind one of the diaphanous swaths, making out with a wealthy businessman.
Caroline is wearing a fishnet cover-up over a bra-and-panty set, and a pair of five-inch Manolo heels. Her mask is gone; she appears to be unsteady on her feet. At Lawner's insistence, she has agreed to an open relationship, but it doesn't take a genius to see what's happening. Throughout the night she has consumed a large quantity of alcohol and has flirted with multiple men. Lawner has kept an eye on her. You can tell he's torn. He's said as much: "I have feelings for her, sure. But I've come too far to tie myself down."
The businessman is a handsome guy known among club members as an experienced swinger. Like Harrison, George, and Fernando, he paid Lawner a minimum of forty grand to join Snctm. He reaches down and begins to touch Caroline vigorously between her legs. In obvious distress, she does a half pivot and manages to slither free from his grasp.
She lurches across the attic and out the door, her face smudged with mascara and humiliation.
Lawner follows.Late Sunday afternoon, post-Masquerade, the sun shines down on the Snctm mansion, exposing some of the cracks and flaws in the midcentury house. Lawner is in the living room, shirtless in the same gauzy cotton pants, strumming a rare 1963 Gibson Hummingbird guitar that Keith Richards, he was told, once played, a gift from a music producer as a thank-you for arranging to make one of his secret fantasies come true.
In the afterglow of last night's shindig, Lawner has grown reflective. From the tone of the text messages he's received, the Masquerade was a resounding success. The future looks bright. Masquerades have been planned for every month through the rest of the year. In September, in New York, during Fashion Week, he held a Masquerade on a hundred-foot yacht. Next month, in Miami, during Art Basel, Lawner is planning to hold a Masquerade at a private house. Falchuk's show is in development, and Lawner has been pitching a reality show, too. He's hired a camera crew to follow him around. Everything is going his way.
And yet he's feeling melancholy.
#14370 at 2020-11-24 11:05:41 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
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Bankrupt, with no car and no assets, Lawner began looking for a job. "I was applying all over the place. Waiter, cashier, valet parking. Anything. Whatever I applied for, there were twenty people in front of me who had more experience. They'd ask me, 'What have you done?' and I was like, 'Um, I owned the hottest restaurant in L.A.?' And they were like, 'Yeah, whatever.'"
Lawner has tried to create "a spiritual and erotic utopia" where people of like minds and desires can have as much sex and romance as humanly possible, in as many different ways as the imagination can invent.
Eventually, Lawner became a realtor. He went to work at Sotheby's in Beverly Hills and moved the family into a small apartment nearby to take advantage of the school district. He rotated two suits, rode a bicycle to work, told prospective clients his vehicle was in the shop. While he had some success, selling a few properties (and splitting the commissions with the agent who was training him), he was miserable. "The whole thing was ridiculous. I fucking hated it, I did not want to do it, it was not me on any level. I was at the point where I wasn't sure anymore what the fuck I was living for."
Around this time, Lawner rented Eyes Wide Shut. In the film, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play a long-established couple facing middle age and disillusionment; both are secretly questioning their commitment to monogamy. When Cruise finds himself in a mysterious mansion, at a gathering of a members-only sex society, his life and the couple's relationship are inalterably changed.
The movie struck a chord. Lawner was forty-two. He'd been with Melissa for more than fifteen years-a third of his life. He still loved her deeply, still wanted her every single day, but things hadn't been good in their relationship for some time. The moves and the financial upheaval had worn on them. And even though he fell asleep every night beside a gorgeous wife, he and Melissa had all but stopped having sex. Every time he saw a happy couple in the street, he wondered how long it had been since they'd last slept together; he'd lost count himself. That he lived and worked in Beverly Hills-frequented by some of the planet's most beautiful women-only made him feel worse.
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In time, an idea took hold. Wouldn't it be amazing if there were an answer for guys like him-for couples like them? Some kind of club, like in Kubrick's movie, that was secret and exclusive, where a couple like DamonandMelissa could go? A place where the fire could be rekindled.
As the days and weeks wore on, Lawner kept revisiting the notion-in fact, he could think of little else. Finally, one afternoon he went to a Paper Source store and bought an expensive notebook bound with silver cloth, and a fancy black pen. That night, after Melissa and the kids went to bed, he sat down at a makeshift office in the corner of his living room. The first thing he did was sketch the Oculus Dei. Then he wrote this: "The grand object of Snctm is the eroticism of the human race."
Lawner got the club rolling with a Facebook page and forty dollars' worth of promotional boosts. To his surprise, dozens of people started friending him. A ticket to the first Masquerade-held in a rented nightclub in Beverly Hills in March 2013-cost fifty dollars. Lifetime membership, which included admission to every Snctm event and discounts on dinners and table service, was $1,500.
#14369 at 2020-11-24 11:05:12 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
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"We'd stay up all night and party and have people over, or we'd walk down to the Chateau and meet people; they would always end up back at our house," Lawner says. "There was a lot of drugs and alcohol. A lot of fun, really. We were like this beautiful charismatic couple. It was always an adventure."
"Anyone who saw us together knew we are soul mates," Melissa Lawner says. "We were very, very connected and energetic with each other. We were inseparable. We were that couple; you called us DamonandMelissa."
When Lawner was thirty-five, Melissa announced she was pregnant. At first, he says, he felt "incredible joy."
Then the band he'd been playing with, called Fader, won a contest at the historic Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip. A tour was discussed. Melissa made her feelings clear. "She was like, 'I'm going to be a mom now. All this crazy shit is over,'" Lawner says.
Lawner quit the band, sold the house in the hills, and moved his family to the flats of Hancock Park. With the profits from the sale, he concentrated on business, determined to feather his nest. He started a company that sold a high-end energy drink called Marquis Platinum and invested in another restaurant called Bridge. In short order, he and Melissa had a second daughter.
When the economy tanked in 2008, the Lawners lost everything. "By the time I saw what was coming," he says, "I was fucked. It was like I knew the cars were going to be repossessed, I knew the house was being foreclosed on. We were $900,000 in debt."
Penniless and humiliated, Lawner packed up his family and flew to join his father in Bali, where he was living with his Balinese wife and two young sons.
In Bali, Lawner reinvented himself as a party impresario, using his nightlife experience to bring a little sizzle to the tourists visiting the Island of the Gods. With Melissa by his side, he put on functions four nights a week at high-end hotels and nightspots. By 2011 Prestige Indonesia magazine was calling the Lawners the "It couple behind Bali's most exclusive parties."
Though the Lawners were living comfortably-with an income of about $30,000 a year, they could afford a big house and servants-their lifestyle started to take a toll. There was a lot of drinking and partying, along with predictable marital discord. Lawner was the man on Bali; everything was available. "I was out every night. Things began to spiral a little bit. My breakfast of choice was a beer and a cigarette by the pool," he recalls.
After he was briefly kidnapped by local nightlife competitors and forced to pay ransom, Lawner says, Melissa put her foot down. "Our girls were growing up on an island in the middle of nowhere, without knowing any of my family," she says. In 2012 the Lawners returned to L. A. They moved into a room off the kitchen in Melissa's mom's house, near UCLA. "We needed to go home," Melissa says. "I kind of forced him. He did not want to leave."
#14367 at 2020-11-24 11:04:46 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
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"We went back and forth between these two crazy households," Lawner recalls. "My sister and I were kind of ignored. We were like ghosts floating around. When we wanted breakfast, we'd go across to the neighbors'. They always had cereal and toast."
Every summer, Lawner says, he and his sister were packed off to the grandparents back east. "I'd go from food stamps and drug addicts and, like, dirty fucking clothes, wearing the same T-shirt every day to school, to this big house with a pool and ten bedrooms. It was paradise. Bagels and lox and French toast in the morning, bowling and movies and everything you could want. I don't know how that affected me. But I always knew that if I did what my grandpa did, I could have anything I wanted. And I knew if I lived like my parents lived, that's the life I'd have. Over the course of my lifetime, I guess, I've always gone back and forth."
As many men do when they reach his age, he began to ask himself, "Is this all there is?"
When Lawner was nineteen, he says, he was skateboarding with some friends when he was approached by a scout for the photographer Bruce Weber. Soon he was signed by the Look Model Agency in San Francisco. He was featured in a Versace campaign, and in a Calvin Klein jeans-and-coats campaign with supermodel Christy Turlington and the actor and heir Balthazar getty.
After a brief stint at a junior college, Lawner supported himself through a combination of modeling jobs, photography, family money, and real estate investing. At twenty-five, he met and fell in love with Melissa Bernheim, an eighteen-year-old model and the daughter of a Stanford economics professor. In 2001, when Melissa was twenty-one, she was featured dancing with abandon in a popular commercial for the Gap. The ad drew the attention of David Letterman, who invited the lithe brown-haired beauty to re-create her happy dance on his show. Following her appearance-during which she proudly mentioned her engagement to a guy named Damon-Melissa signed with the powerful United Talent Agency and began going out for small acting jobs.
That year, after a half decade of dating, the couple eloped to Las Vegas. To benefit Melissa's career, they moved to Los Angeles, to a fixer-upper house just above the ritzy Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood. Cameron Diaz, David LaChapelle, Sandra Bullock, and Lionsgate honcho Michael Burns, with whom the couple frequently partied, all lived nearby in the same neighborhood. Lawner says he became particularly friendly with Jared Leto, the actor/rocker/tech investor, who was dating Diaz at the time.
Through some of his connected friends, Lawner was offered a chance to invest in a Japanese restaurant called Koi. The place took off, became a chain. Meanwhile, Melissa modeled and found small acting parts on television shows like CSI: Miami. She was featured in a number of national commercials, including a Coors Light spot directed by Michael Bay that featured Kid Rock. The couple were flush.
#14340 at 2020-11-24 10:13:33 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
==Celebs' Kinky Sex Secrets For Sale!
Hollywood quaking as swingers' club put up for sale.==
By National ENQUIRER Staff
Jun 13, 2019 @ 17:00PM
Scene From Snctm Sex Club Women And Men Partially Clothed In Background With Inset Headshots Of Gwyneth Paltrow And Bill Maher
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Tinseltown's most notorious sex club is up for sale - and Hollywood stars are terrified their darkest secrets will be exposed!
A bidding war has begun for Snctm, an X-rated private sex palace where members pony up $75,000 a year to attend undercover orgies in town and at locations around the globe. But when the scandalous business changes hands, the most intimate details of its well-heeled members will go with it!
"That's got everybody freaking out," an insider exclusively snitched to The National ENQUIRER. "Every member is required to provide personal and professional profiles, along with revealing photos when they register - plus details of their most intimate fantasies.
"If that stuff got released to the public or is even filtered out through the dark web - or the 100,000 people on [Snctm's] mailing list - careers and families will certainly be destroyed!"
Since February 2013, the high-class hotspot has been operated by Damon Lawner, whose risqué business has entertained marquee names including talk show host Bill Maher, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her producer hubby Brad Falchuk!
Gwyneth has even promoted the elite club on her Goop lifestyle blog - and is among the names of potential buyers!
Snctm's home base is a high-security Tudor mansion in Los Angeles, but 48-year-old Lawner sets up erotic masquerade balls and steamy pool parties in New York during Fashion Week, in Miami for the Art Basel festival and throughout the month of August in New York's Hamptons for sinful summer getaways.
The website also promotes masquerade soirees in Moscow and London! But Lawner - who launched the lusty club after being inspired by the steamy Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman movie Eyes Wide Shut - admitted his association with Snctm led to his own divorce from actress wife Melissa!
He recently confessed he could have lived a "deeply fulfilling" life had he stayed on the "picket fence" path, explaining: "Instead I chose to absolutely follow my dreams. I gave up the only thing I love and care about in this world."
In an email to Snctm's members - which was exclusively reviewed by The ENQUIRER - Lawner said, "I'm going to hand over the keys to the kingdom to the first person or group that comes up with a $1,000,000 all-cash offer."
Now his rush-to-the-door exit strategy is exactly what has his closeted membership holding its breath!
"If he's going to grab the first offer he gets, it could go to anybody," an insider snitched. "And if it's somebody who isn't as security conscious, lives may be ruined!"
#14317 at 2020-11-24 09:21:10 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
>>14189
#64 @105
>>14310 American Partisan: What progressives have in store for conservatives (genocide)
>>14292 Lou Dobbs in 2006 on Smartmatic
voting machines & corruption
>>14288 7 Things That Used To Be "Crazy Conspiracy Theories" Until 2020 Happened
>>14278 Straka: Cop manhandles guy just standing there for curfew violation
>>14274 CM: Q's about ballot images RT to Dr Shiva motion to stop certification of MASS ballots
>>14282, >>14258, >>14270, >>14286, >>14296, >>14304 Mark Levin on Trump Team legal strategy; goes with >>14056 pb
>>14257 Abe's office suspected of illegal spending on parties
>>14251 John Gilbert getty heir to getty oil fortune dead at 52
>>14241 planes a flyin', KEKistani AF Recon Squadron
>>14225 New MNR archive
>>14200 New GEORGE magazine - started 11-23-2020
baker gonna sign off now
Tanks everyone,
Please watch over the bread.
Blessings to all and harm towards none.
o7
>>14316
tyvm, o7.
#14279 at 2020-11-24 06:10:51 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
>>14189
#64 @72
>>14278 Straka: Cop manhandles guy just standing there for curfew violation
>>14274 CM: Q's about ballot images RT to Dr Shiva motion to stop certification of MASS ballots
>>14258, >>14270 Mark Levin on Trump Team legal strategy; goes with >>14056 pb
>>14257 Abe's office suspected of illegal spending on parties
>>14251 John Gilbert getty heir to getty oil fortune dead at 52
>>14241 planes a flyin', KEKistani AF Recon Squadron
>>14225 New MNR archive
>>14200 New GEORGE magazine - started 11-23-2020
#14274 at 2020-11-24 05:58:10 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
Ron
@CodeMonkeyZ
Who can access the ballot images?
What format are they saved in?
Can they be deleted?
Can they be seen and tampered with before any official adjudication process starts?
https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1331048958785851392
>>>14225 New MNR archive
>>>14251 John Gilbert getty heir to getty oil fortune dead at 52
#14251 at 2020-11-24 03:52:30 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #64: Truth is Potentially Harmful Edition
John Gilbert getty, heir to the getty oil fortune, dead at 52
John Gilbert getty - an heir to the getty oil fortune - reportedly died in Texas on Friday. He was 52.
getty had been found unresponsive in a San Antonio hotel room and foul play is not suspected, law enforcement sources told TMZ.
"With a heavy heart, Gordon getty announces the death of his son, John Gilbert getty," a family spokesperson told the outlet.
"John was a talented musician who loved rock and roll. He will be deeply missed," the rep said.
getty was the grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul getty. He has had several homes in Los Angeles and in 2018 purchased a $3.9 million property in Hollywood Hills West, the Los Angeles Times reported.
In 2015, getty's brother, Andrew getty, died from an ulcer-related hemorrhage at his Los Angeles home.
Andrew was also found to have a toxic level of methamphetamine in his body.
The same year, Forbes estimated the getty family fortune to be valued at $5 billion.
https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/john-gilbert-getty-heir-to-the-getty-oil-fortune-dead-at-52/
Not sure why they used his dad's picture and not a picture of the actual person….Weird.
#12993 at 2020-11-20 06:23:45 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #58: ]ECW[ 1000 Lights Splintered To The Winds Edition
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/romney-sasse-rip-trump-s-effort-to-overturn-election-results/ar-BB1bbGPm?ocid=msedgntp
MarketWatch
Romney, Sasse rip Trump's effort to overturn election results
Associated Press 1 hr ago
MarketWatch logoRomney, Sasse rip Trump's effort to overturn election results
Mitt Romney wearing a suit and tie© Chip Somodevilla/getty Images
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two Republican senators are criticizing President Donald Trump and his team for their efforts to pressure state and local election officials to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victories in several closely contested states.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, one of Trump's most vocal GOP critics, tweeted Thursday, "It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President."
Romney accused Trump on resorting to "overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election."
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., went after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who held a press conference Thursday presenting a list of far-fetched, thoroughly debunked claims on the 2020 election.
In a statement, Sasse said: "Rudy and his buddies should not pressure electors to ignore their certification obligations under the statute. We are a nation of laws, not tweets."'
#11167 at 2020-11-15 18:05:25 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #49: Buy N Large Edition
Judge hits Gavin Newsom with massive legal loss, rules he overstepped authority on mail-in ballots
But the judge's ruling had broader implications
Rich Pedroncelli/AP/Bloomberg via getty Images
Chris Enloe
A California judge ruled late Friday that Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, overstepped his legal authority when he mandated that every legal California voter receive a mail-in ballot for the general election.
The ruling does not impact the 2020 election.
What's the background?
Newsom issued an executive order in June declaring that "all Californians who are registered (and otherwise eligible) to vote in the November 3, 2020 General Election shall receive vote-by-mail ballots."
More from KCRA-TV:
The executive action was taken as part of the California Emergency Services Act, or CESA, which gives Newsom special powers during a public emergency - in this case the novel coronavirus pandemic. Newsom signed an executive order that mandated all registered voters receive vote-by-mail ballots and allowed counties to reduce precincts on Election Day if they provide in-person voting centers for at least three days prior as a way to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
What did the judge say?
According to Sutter County Judge Sarah Heckman, the executive order overstepped Newsom's legal authority because he does not have the power to amend existing law.
"Executive Order N-67-20 issued by the Governor on June 3, 2020 is void as an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power and shall be of no further force or effect," Heckman's ruling said. "The California Emergency Services Act (CA Government Code §8550 et seq.) does not authorize or empower the Governor of the State of California to amend statutory law or make new statutory law, which is exclusively a legislative function not delegated to the Governor under the CESA."
The ruling came after two California Assembly members - James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley, both Republicans - sued, arguing Newsom's order went beyond the governor's legal authority because he amended existing state law, which falls under the authority of the California State Assembly.
But Heckman did not stop there.
According to KCRA, Newsom's lawyers argued the entire issue was moot because the California Assembly later passed a similar law. But Heckman disagreed, saying the issue was not just about Newsom's actions on mail-in ballots but whether he has the power "to exercise legislative powers by unilaterally amending, altering, or changing existing statutory law or making new statutory law."
In fact, Heckman ruled definitively that the California Emergency Services Act "does not give the Governor the power or authority to amend statutory law or create new statutory law even during a state of emergency."
Finally, Heckman said Newsom's order violated the legal doctrine of separation of powers.
"The doctrine of separation of powers prohibits any of the three branches of government exercising the complete power constitutionally vested in another or exercising power in a way which undermines the authority and independence of another," Heckman wrote.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/judge-rules-gavin-newsom-overstepped-authority-mail-in-ballot-mandate
#10829 at 2020-11-14 19:36:48 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #47: Sail On Edition
McConnell rips Cuomo for 'performatively opposing' Trump on COVID-19 vaccine
By Steven Nelson
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday scolded Gov. Andrew Cuomo for "undermining public confidence" in COVID-19 vaccines and "performatively opposing" President Trump.
McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed Cuomo's Monday remark that Pfizer's breakthrough on a vaccine was "bad news" because it occurred under Trump's administration. The Post reported Wednesday that Cuomo skipped 17 governor calls with the White House coronavirus task force designed to brief state leaders on the vaccine development and rejected an offer to meet last month with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
"The Democratic governor of New York opined a few days ago that it was 'bad news' that a vaccine breakthrough may have reached because President Trump is still in office," McConnell said on the Senate floor.
"I understand Gov. Cuomo has found the time during this pandemic to write and publish a self-congratulatory book on leadership - this notwithstanding that his own state has absolutely been pummeled by the disease, and his own administration intentionally sent thousands of COVID-19-positive patients into vulnerable nursing homes."
McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, noted that the Trump administration in September asked state governments to develop plans for distribution of a vaccine. The first wave of vaccinations, potentially this year, would go to vulnerable people including nursing home residents under a federal deal reached last month with CVS and Walgreen.
"The governor has the temerity to say this vaccine breakthrough is partially bad news - partially bad news? - because it occurred under the Trump administration. He gestured vaguely toward unspecified concerns about distribution. I guess you would have preferred the lifesaving breakthroughs have been delayed longer - be delayed longer with more American deaths in the meantime?" McConnell said.
"The irony ... is that the plans that are in place put states in the driver's seat for arranging distribution and making sure the most vulnerable citizens receive access. The federal government is there to provide guidance and support ... the governor of New York might want to devote more time and attention to developing this crucial plan, rather than undermining public confidence for the sake of politics."
Enlarge ImageMitch McConnell
Mitch McConnellCQ-Roll Call, Inc via getty Images
McConnell also rebuked Cuomo for suggesting redundant state review of any vaccine for the respiratory bug.
"Just a few weeks ago, the Democratic governors of both New York and California both began openly second-guessing the Food and Drug Administration and doubting its ability to assess the safety of a vaccine," McConnell said.
"There was suggestions that blue states may set up their own state review boards, and then withhold life-saving vaccines from their own people for who knows how long until this extra obstacle had been hurdled. This is where they are: Vaccines aren't vaccines if a Republican is president until New York and California reinvent their own miniature FDAs."
The FDA is a "trusted authority," McConnell said. "Nobody's crying out for liberal governors to add their own Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, let alone potentially delay the end of COVID-19 to do so. If this vaccine proves to be the one, citizens in New York and California should not have it withheld from them because their governors care more about performatively opposing President Trump than about hard science."
McConnell linked Cuomo's vaccine remarks to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' campaign-trail suggestion that she might not take an inoculation approved under Trump.
"This reminds me of when the junior senator from California declared back in September during her vice presidential campaign that she might hesitate - hesitate - to trust the vaccine," he said.
https://nypost.com/2020/11/12/mcconnell-rips-cuomo-for-opposing-trump-on-covid-19-vaccine/
#10819 at 2020-11-14 19:02:36 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #47: Sail On Edition
Meme Makers Mock Twitter as Site Ramps Up Fact-Checking
Lucas Nolan14 Nov 2020
CANNES, FRANCE - JUNE 21: Co-chair / founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey attends the ' #SheInspiresMe: Twitter celebrates female voices & visionaries ' Event at Cannes Lions on June 21, 2017 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Francois Durand/getty Images for Twitter)
Francois Durand/getty Images for Twitter; Edit: BNN
2:01
As Twitter increases it's fact-checking and labeling of posts across its platform, some users have begun mocking the site via parody posts examples. The fake tweets are part of a growing backlash against Twitter censorship that impacts not only President Donald Trump, but the broader conservative movement.
Breitbart News recently reported that Twitter stated this week that it put labels on 300,000 user posts from October 27 to November 11 for violating rules related to election misinformation. Twitter also implemented a retweet feature that required users to add their own comments before retweeting a post on the platform.
Between election day and Friday of this week, Twitter labeled around 34 percent of President Trump's tweets and retweets as "disputed." Breitbart News has reported extensively on this, noting recently that 25 of President Trump's posts across Twitter and Facebook were labeled or disputed within 24 hours.
Users were quick to ridicule Twitter by creating fake screenshots of fake fact-checks, implying that Twitter was being overly harsh in its labeling and questioning things that were clearly true.
In one popular example, the platform fact checks Jesus Christ:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/11/14/meme-makers-mock-twitter-as-site-ramps-up-fact-checking/
#9738 at 2020-11-12 02:09:11 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #42: Set Election Controls For the Heart of "We The People" Edition
YouTube Experiences Widespread Outage
Published 5 mins ago - Updated 3 mins ago
getty Images
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YouTube said late Wednesday it was working to resolve an issue that prevented many users from playing videos.
Downdetector.com, a site that monitors internet outages and outages that affect specific sites, tweeted that user reports indicated YouTube was having problems since 7:13 p.m. ET
YouTube TV also was affected by the outage, users said.
Users on Downdetector reported getting "something went wrong" and other messages. The site said more than 250,000 users reported outages.
If you're having trouble watching videos on YouTube right now, you're not alone - our team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. We'll follow up here with any updates.
- TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/youtube-experiences-widespread-outage/2718159/
#1374 at 2020-10-26 04:31:54 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #4: One If by Land, Two If By Sea! Edition
Cher Hosts Early Voting Mobilization Events In Nevada
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - OCTOBER 24: Socially-distanced attendees wait for an appearance by singer/actress Cher as she campaigns for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at an early vote rally at a residential shopping center on October 24, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In-person early voting for the general election in the battleground state began on October 17 and continues through October 30. (Photo by Ethan Miller/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/joseph-biden?events=775581026&family=editorial&phrase=joseph%20biden&sort=oldest#license
8chan/8kun QRB Posts (65)
#148523 at 2022-09-17 22:00:54 (UTC+1)
QRB General #1002: Back In Black Edition
>>148517
knew it was gonna be him-they have no one else so not that hard-career politician, getty, and by that time he will have had plenty of contrived "success"-still haz the CA stimmy checks to hand out and just in time for the election-cap#2 from 2019 after he was selected the amounts have gone up but the peeps the same
from today
Stimulus update: Direct one-time inflation relief checks worth $1,050 to be sent out in just weeks
Eligible Californians will receive a one time direct payment of up to $1,050 as a form of inflation relief in a matter of weeks, as prices continue to rise for consumers.
The payments, titled the Middle Class Tax Refund,will be shipped out beginning in Octobereither via direct deposit or debit cards from the state. The refunds are part of a larger $12 billion relief effort approved by lawmakers in Sacramento this summer, with roughly 23 million residents eligible for the refund.
The dollar amount on the direct payments will depend on the income of recipients and if they have any dependents. Married filers making $150,000 or less and having a dependent will receive a payment of $1,050, and single filers making between $125,001 and $250,000 with no dependents will receive a payment of $200.
To qualify for the payments, applicants must have been residents for six months of the 2020 tax year, filed 2020 taxes by Oct. 15, 2021, and earned less than $250,000 a year for individual filers or less than $500,000 a year for couples. The state also said that if someone was eligible to be claimed as a dependent for taxes in 2020, he or she is ineligible.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/stimulus-update-one-time-inflation-relief-check-sent-out-weeks-california
#146586 at 2022-08-21 12:35:04 (UTC+1)
QRB General #991: In The Year Two Oh 24 Edition
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1561319765704048642
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Researcher claims Tik Tok able to track users' keystrokes | Just The News
TikTok on a mobile phone | (SOPA Images/getty)
justthenews.com
Researcher claims Tik Tok able to track users' keystrokes
Revelation comes as Congress explores what actions to potentially take against TikTok when it comes to privacy.
7:50 AM ? Aug 21, 2022?Hootsuite Inc.
#143999 at 2022-07-27 13:25:33 (UTC+1)
QRB General #975: 46 A Quart+ Low Edition
Hello QRB fam. We've been taking a look at changes in surroundings of the London pics as Q said to do and we keep getting moar and moar confirmations of the Christmas time period, even Christmas week.
In this latest dig, we focused on construction that occurred over time on the South bank of the Thames in the frames our Q drop pics within the camera frames.
Our sauces are getty pics, SV images and some Ytube vids, one vid in particular.
In the Q pic ROT1, were two red lights in the lower left of London Eye that turned out to be red safety lights atop 2 construction cranes. In a September 2013 sauce pic, there are no cranes there. By 23NOV2013, in a Ytube vid, there was one crane. And by 14DEC2013 in an open sauce pic there appear two cranes as seen in the Q pics as well as open sauce pics taken on 25DEC2013.
This has been a fun dig and is ongoing. The heavy lifting credit on this should go to our Vidanon who posts nice short sauce comparison vids and also to our UK Baker who has been posting lots of SV images, vids and articles.
#141537 at 2022-07-04 16:02:43 (UTC+1)
QRB General #959: Habby Fourth Fam Edition
>>141534, >>141536
> Jill Wine-Banks looks like a certain ROTH, check those eYes and facial movements
https://qagg.news/?q=banks { Q Drops: 3 }
selected 4718 (20) (2)
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 09/16/2020 12:52:26 ID: 338ebd
8kun/qresearch: 10668478
Q Clock [ Min: 54 | :25/:55 Mir: 56 | 180 Mir: 24 | :35/:05 Mir: 16 ]
Delta to Reply: 0 D_0:1:59 (seconds total: 119) (11) (2)
Anonymous 09/16/2020 12:50:27 ID:e75e4a
8kun/qresearch: 10668433
Image Name: ClipboardImage.png
Filename: 1dfb277053d6b8ac92507b05ed9d3dc638bce4284900ddda280c43a05a9ffc17.png
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Looks like this BANKS dude has his truck filled to set fires too
https://twitter.com/HYVEE7/status/1306273521044201474?s=20
>>10668433
WikiLeaks' Clinton emails show Rothschild, Rockefeller Partnership
By anonwatcher - March 30, 2016
"I was trying to reach you to tell you and Teddy that I asked Tony Blair to go to Israel as part of our full court press on keeping the Middle East negotiations going..."
It is one of the many emails between Hillary Clinton and the de Rothschild family, displaying Clinton's admiration for the power elite.
hilary-close-with-rothschilds-rockefelers
According to The Free Thought Project, who discovered this connection,
WikiLeaks' trove of personal emails sent from her personal server provides hints at a potential "Rockefeller-State partnership."
Clinton's unwavering admiration for the families, and emails between her and Lynn Forester de Rothschild offer an insight into their partnerships.
The Rothschild banking family respond to Clinton's arrangement for Blair to go to the Middle East in 2010, saying,
"You are the best, and we remain your biggest fans."
UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 04: Hillary Clinton And Lady De Rothschild, Lynn De Rothschild's Party For Hillary Clinton, To Celebrate The Launch Of Her Book
"Living History" At The Orangery, Kensington Palace, London (Photo by Dave Benett/getty Images)
In another email, months prior to this, Lynn Forester Rothschild wrote Hillary Clinton saying she'd "love to catch up"
- and "I remain your loyal adoring pal."
Clinton responds with a "let's make that happen," but admits to a busy schedule.
It doesn't stop there with only personal niceties. An email dated March 10, 2012, details a Rockerfeller-State partnership, with an insight into Clinton's future.
"I forgot to tell you that Judith Rodin offered you a suite of offices after you leave State for your own use at Rockefeller Fdtn, if you're interested
- with no strings attached.
She also said they'd be happy to provide you with a month at their center in Bellagio if you just want to read and write in a beautiful place."
Nothing within the emails is overly-damning.
But, it does offer an insight into Clinton as the favorite of two elite families, giving some credence to the 'chosen candidate' theory,
that the FreeThoughtProject discusses.
The emails also show content about media, and content control.
One email in particular stands out, discussing a day-in-the-life article to sway readers with 'fluff' material - between L F de Rothschild and Clinton.
"He said he would give you a veto over content and looked me in the eye and said, "she will like it."
Maybe you know this, but did not want it to fall between the cracks. Enjoy your vacation and love to all of you."
At the very least, concrete establishment roots?
Sources: WikiLeaks, The Free Thought Project, Hillary Clinton Email Archive 1, Hillary Clinton Email Archive 2.
This article (WikiLeaks' Clinton emails show Rothschild, Rockefeller Partnership) is a free and open source.
You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author AnonWatcher and AnonHQ.com.
https://anonhq.com/wikileaks-clinton-emails-show-rothschild-rockefeller-partnership/ { https://archive.ph/JYn1l }
#138082 at 2022-06-08 21:59:08 (UTC+1)
QRB General #934: Dims Will Eat 1/6 Mistakes Edition
Politics
House Republicans question former news executive's work for Jan. 6 committee
By Catherine Herridge, Graham Kates
June 8, 2022 / 4:20 PM / CBS News
A group of House Republicans questioned Wednesday whether the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol violated rules when it hired a former news executive.
The five representatives wrote in a letter to the committee's Democratic leadership that they are seeking confirmation that former ABC News president James Goldston is working for the committee. Axios first reported Monday that Goldston is an "unannounced advisor" to the committee, which is holding the first of at least six public hearings in a rare prime-time session Thursday.
How to watch the Jan. 6 public hearing on Thursday, June 9
The Republicans wrote that they are unaware of whether a required letter requesting approval of Goldston's hiring has been submitted to the Committee on House Administration.
"To our knowledge, the Committee has not received or considered such a request," wrote the representatives, who include Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis, and four others who in July 2021 were recommended by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to join the Jan. 6 committee. Those recommendations were later rescinded by McCarthy after Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of the five, Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep. Jim Banks.
The Republicans noted in their letter that Goldston would be barred from working for the Jan. 6 committee for free.
James Goldston
James Goldston, then president of ABC News, speaks ahead of the Democratic presidential candidates' debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Dec. 19, 2015. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via getty Images
"Such an arrangement would violate House Rules and the House Ethics Manual regulations which clearly states that "no logical distinction can be drawn between the private contribution of in-kind services and the private contribution of money," they wrote.
The Offices of Jan. 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson and Committee on House Administration Chairperson Zoe Lofgren did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
Committee chair Bennie Thompson said last week that the hearing will feature a "combination of witnesses, exhibits, things that we have through the tens of thousands of exhibits we've [...] looked at, as well as the hundreds of witnesses we deposed or just talked to in general."
The committee, which has interviewed some of former President Donald Trump's closest advisers - including his children Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner - has promised to show "previously unseen material" from its nearly yearlong investigation.
The select committee plans to call two witnesses on Thursday: Nick Quested, a filmmaker who followed the Proud Boys on Jan. 6, and Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, the first law enforcement officer injured by rioters storming the Capitol grounds. Edwards suffered a traumatic brain injury and has not been able to return to work since the attack, according to the committee.
#137655 at 2022-06-06 14:27:49 (UTC+1)
QRB General #931: D5 Snowballng, NCSWIC Edition
@X22Report
?
46m
The people know, they will always do the opposite, the people are awake
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/06/06/gun-control-misfire-trudeau-pistol-ban-sees-stores-sell-out-of-handguns/
Gun stores in Canada have seen handguns fly off the shelves, with many selling out altogether after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced gun control legislation freezing all pistol purchases.
In what appears to be a seismic political misfire, Canadian gun stores have been reporting a massive surge in handgun sales after the country's leftist prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced that he would be implementing gun control laws totally freezing the import and sale of this class of firearm.
Many shops in the country have now reportedly sold out of pistols entirely, despite extremely restrictive laws already in place in the country which can make the purchase of a handgun onerously difficult.
According to a report by the AFP, every gun store owner who spoke to the agency openly derided Trudeau's declaration that he would ban the sale of handguns, while also saying that they had all seen a massive surge in pistol sales since he made the announcement last week.
Jen Lavigne, co-owner of That Hunting Store, speaks with customers on June 3, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. - Canadians rushed to buy handguns this week, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on May 30, 2022, a proposed freeze on sales in the wake of recent mass shootings in the US. "Sales have been brisk," said Lavigne. "We sold 100 handguns or almost our entire stock in the last three days since the prime minister announced the freeze," she said. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via getty Images)
#137396 at 2022-06-04 13:06:05 (UTC+1)
QRB General #929: Biblical On The Docket, Keebler Not Forgotten Edition
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/radio-latino-media-network-televisaunivision/2022/06/03/id/1072877/
Soros-Backed Group Buys Univision's Radio Group
Financier and philanthropist George Soros in 2017 (Sean Gallup/getty Images)
Activists and entrepreneurs Jess Morales Rocketto and Stephanie Valencia on Friday announced the formation of a new Hispanic media company known as the Latino Media Network following the purchase of 10 radio stations from TelevisaUnivision.
Morales Rocketto, who previously worked at Hillary for America and the AFL-CIO among other groups, and Valencia, a former White House staffer under President Barack Obama, received $80 million in backing from a group of investors led by Lakestar Finance, which is affiliated with Soros Fund Management, founded by George Soros, along with several individuals.
The Latino Media Network will include 18 Hispanic radio stations in 10 different markets, which were purchased from TelevisaUnivision in a deal worth about $60 million. The media group's advisers will include Maria Elena Salinas, an anchor with Univision, and Al Cardenas, the former chair of both the Florida Republican Party and the American Conservative Union.
#136708 at 2022-05-31 15:30:29 (UTC+1)
QRB General #925: KEK Is All Around Us, With Us, WRWY Edition
https://www.rt.com/news/556385-turkey-warning-france-germany/
Turkey issues strong warning to Germany and France
Ambassadors from the two European countries were summoned to Ankara over Kurdistan Workers' Party rallies
Turkey issues strong warning to Germany and France
? getty Images / Westend61
Turkey's Foreign Ministry has summoned ambassadors from Germany and France to issue a note of protest over the unhindered activity of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in their countries. Ankara warned all NATO members, and particularly Finland and Sweden, who are trying to join the bloc, that it will not tolerate any support for anti-Turkish terrorist groups.
In an interview with the state-run Anadolu Agency on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated that Turkey was concerned with the recent rise in activities by the PKK and other terrorist organizations in France and Germany, after the group, who Ankara considers to be terrorists, held demonstrations in the two countries.
"We are talking about rallies at which symbols and flags of terrorists were demonstrated. The ambassadors of Germany and France were summoned yesterday to the Foreign Ministry. They were handed notes regarding such actions of terrorist organizations. We gave them a stern warning," said Cavusoglu.
Although the minister did not specifically mention which demonstrations had prompted Ankara's response, it seems likely that he was referring to the Long Marches currently being held by Kurdish Youth movements in Germany, France, Greece, England, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The marches, which kicked off on Sunday and are expected to last for several days, are being held in protest at the Turkish state's alleged invasion and "genocidal attacks" against Kurdistan - a roughly defined separatist territory spread between Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The movement calls for the freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan and expresses solidarity with the guerrillas who are currently fighting Turkish forces in Southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq).
The foreign minister's comments came as he was explaining why Turkey continues to oppose Sweden and Finland's accession to NATO, reiterating Anakara's position that it will not agree to the Nordic countries' membership until they meet Turkey's demands of halting all support for terrorist groups.
He pointed to the fact that both nations continue to provide political, military and economic assistance to terrorist groups such as the PKK, its Syrian offshoot the YPG, and FETO, which Ankara believes to be behind an attempted coup in 2016. Cavusoglu also noted that both of the countries refuse to extradite any members of these organizations, despite them facing prosecution in Turkey.
Asked to comment on the attempts of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to get Turkey to hold a meeting with Finland and Sweden at the alliance's headquarters, Cavusoglu stated that although he was grateful for these efforts, Ankara had its own way of doing things.
"We are not against diplomacy for the resolution of this problem. We thank the secretary general for his efforts. But we have already handed these two countries a formal document about our demands. We cannot hold another meeting before we receive an answer," he said.
Turkey won't let 'terrorism supporters' join NATO
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Turkey won't let 'terrorism supporters' join NATO
On Sunday, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that, as long as he is president, his country will never allow any nation supporting terrorism to join the NATO alliance, reiterating that Turkey will not give a green light to Finland and Sweden's bids until they properly address Ankara's concerns.
Delegations from the two Nordic countries met with their Turkish counterparts last week and were issued a list of demands, among which is the crackdown on groups Ankara considers to be extremists. However, Erdogan has blasted these talks as dishonest.
"They are not honest or sincere," he said. "They don't take necessary steps, they are still allowing the terrorists to freely walk in the streets of Stockholm and provide security to them with their police."
Finland and Sweden both decided to break with their history of neutrality on May 15, citing Russia's military offensive against Ukraine as motivation for them to join NATO. Their membership bids were welcomed by Washington and its European NATO allies, however, Turkey and Croatia have threatened to obstruct the applications unless their national security concerns are addressed.
#133849 at 2022-04-21 15:39:47 (UTC+1)
QRB General #907: KEK AND DIGGIES RULE Edition
>>133822, >>133846
< 3 of 3
>Jackson Browne - "Tender Is The Night" (original video)
> *STAR*[ing] Daryl Hannah*
Whatever Happened to... Daryl Hannah? - STACK
'May 7, 2021 ... Marriage to rocker Neil Young, 75', is a full-time job for Daryl ...
and as Tom Hanks's mermaid girlfriend in Ron Howard's rom-com, Splash.
^= https://stack.com.au/film-tv/whatever-happened-to-daryl-hannah/
The mermaid who married the rocker
December 11, 2020
Rose to fame in the eighties as the replicant Pris in Blade Runner (1982)
and then getting into the shoes of an attractive mermaid who fell in love with a very young Tom Hanks
in 1, 2, 3... Splash (1984).
Daryl Hannah, always faithful to her long blonde hair, turns 60 today.
And it does withdraw from the media spotlight.
She lives with her husband, the musician Neil Youg, fifteen years older than her,
in a farm in colorado and the two are engaged in activism in favor of the environment. { clim-ATt-cult }
In her professional career, after several more or less successful roles, she once again stood out,
under the guidance of Quentin Tarantino, in Kill Bill I Y Kill Bill II (2003 and 2004)
playing the relentless murderer Elle Driver.
As the years went by, the impression that she was "a little weird" spread in Hollywood cliques;
actually Hannah was fighting Asperger syndrome that she was diagnosed as a child.
"I had a lot of social phobia, I felt very uncomfortable," she explained on one occasion.
-=> THERAPy /_\ mkU ??
The actress married composer Neil Young, who just turned 75, in 2018.
-=> "KNEEL" WHO ? { member of CLuB-C_A ?? }
Matt Winkelmeyer / getty
Beyond her acting career, Daryl Hannah made headlines for the Heart Press in the early 1990s.
The artist was the girlfriend of John F. Kennedy Jr.,
member of the most influential political dynasty in the US.
The actress and the heir moved in the same environments.She was the stepdaughter of Jerrold Wexler,
one of the richest men in the country who, when he died in 1992, left her a substantial inheritance.
The Kennedys and Wexlers often met on the Caribbean island of San Mart?n
and they had known each other since they were teenagers.
He had never been to the altar. In 2018, at the age of 57, she did it with Neil Young,
whom she met four years earlier while filming a Greenpeace documentary.
Their defense of the planet united them.
Their courtship lasted six years.
At that time the rumor spread that Jackie, John's mother ,did not approve of the relationship
and she even did her best to end it.
Finally, the appearance on the scene of Carolyn Bessette caused the courtship
to end in a more or less friendly way.
Actor Daryl Hannah with former boyfriend John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960 - 1999) at Edward Kennedy Jr.'s wedding
on Block Island, Rhode Island, 10/10/93. (Photo by Stephen Rose/getty Images)
Her six-year relationship with John F. Kennedy jr. in the early nineties, he put it in the media spotlight.
In the picture, together in 1993
Stephen Rose / getty
Earlier, Daryl had dated the singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, the actor Val Kilmer,
the magician David Blaine and the pianist Rami Jaffee.
She had never been to the altar. In 2018, at the age of 57, she did it with Neil Young,
whom she met four years earlier while filming a Greenpeace documentary.
Their defense of the planet united them.
A Police officer arrests American actress Daryl Hannah during a protest against the construction of the
Keystone XL pipeline, outside the White House in Washington, DC, August 30, 2011.
Hannah was among dozens of protestors arrested in a demonstration against the oil pipeline which,
if constructed, would run from Alberta's oilsands in Canada to Texas.
AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP via getty Images)
The actress has been arrested on several occasions for participating in protests in defense of the environment
SAUL LOEB / getty
Daryl, who has been a vegetarian since she was a child, has been active in environmental activism since
the 1990s. Her commitment is such that has been arrested on several occasions for participating in protests, including two in front of the White House and one in 2006, when she tied herself to a tree to prevent the
sale of a farm in Los Angeles.
Source: Portada by www.lavanguardia.com.
*The article has been translated based on the content of Portada by www.lavanguardia.com.
^= https://tekdeeps.com/the-mermaid-who-married-the-rocker/
#128996 at 2022-03-03 17:17:10 (UTC+1)
QRB General #870: Love It When A Plan Comes Together Edition
White House's $10 billion Ukraine-aid request would help fund 'KleptoCapture' task force targeting Russian oligarchs
The Biden administration is asking Congress for $10 billion to aid Ukraine amid the invasion by Russia, a request that includes $59 million for a new task force aimed at enforcing sanctions against Russian oligarchs.
The $10 billion aid request is part of a broader $32.5 billion package that the White House hopes Congress will approve. It also includes $22.5 billion to bolster the U.S. fight against COVID-19. "This request identifies an immediate need for $10 billion in additional humanitarian, security, and economic assistance for Ukraine and Central European partners due to Russia's unjustified and unprovoked invasion," acting White House budget director Shalanda Young wrote to lawmakers. n Congress is currently wrangling over a long-term budget deal, and lawmakers are facing a March 11 deadline for agreement. The new request may be attached to that larger package.
Biden discussed the new task force in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, saying: "Tonight, I say to the Russian oligarchs and the corrupt leaders who've bilked billions of dollars off this violent regime: No more."
Dubbed Task Force KleptoCapture, the new entity is "dedicated to enforcing the sweeping sanctions, export restrictions, and economic countermeasures that the United States has imposed, along with allies and partners, in response to Russia's unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine," said Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement on Wednesday. getty Images
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The Biden administration is asking Congress for $10 billion to aid Ukraine amid the invasion by Russia, a request that includes $59 million for a new task force aimed at enforcing sanctions against Russian oligarchs.
The $10 billion aid request is part of a broader $32.5 billion package that the White House hopes Congress will approve. It also includes $22.5 billion to bolster the U.S. fight against COVID-19.
"This request identifies an immediate need for $10 billion in additional humanitarian, security, and economic assistance for Ukraine and Central European partners due to Russia's unjustified and unprovoked invasion," acting White House budget director Shalanda Young wrote to lawmakers.
Congress is currently wrangling over a long-term budget deal, and lawmakers are facing a March 11 deadline for agreement. The new request may be attached to that larger package.
Biden discussed the new task force in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, saying: "Tonight, I say to the Russian oligarchs and the corrupt leaders who've bilked billions of dollars off this violent regime: No more."
Read: Biden says Putin's war on Ukraine is making 'Russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger'
Dubbed Task Force KleptoCapture, the new entity is "dedicated to enforcing the sweeping sanctions, export restrictions, and economic countermeasures that the United States has imposed, along with allies and partners, in response to Russia's unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine," said Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement on Wednesday.
"Task Force KleptoCapture will ensure the full effect of these actions, which have been designed to isolate Russia from global markets and impose serious costs for this unjustified act of war, by targeting the crimes of Russian officials, government-aligned elites, and those who aid or conceal their unlawful conduct," said Garland.
The $10 billion request is above an earlier-discussed figure of $6.4 billion that congressional Democrats and Republicans showed signs of supporting.
In her letter, Young said that she anticipated that "additional needs may arise over time" given the evolving situation in Ukraine. Likewise, she said she expects extra funding will be needed to support the COVID response.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/white-houses-10-billion-ukraine-aid-request-would-help-fund-kleptocapture-task-force-targeting-russian-oligarchs-11646323771
#128050 at 2022-02-25 16:12:26 (UTC+1)
QRB General #865: American Convoy On The Road Edition
In response to the mounting tension with Russia, Sweden has been boosting its military preparedness and has sent soldiers and heavy military equipment to its largest island, Gotland, strategically located in the Baltic Sea, just 330 kilometers from Kaliningrad, the headquarters of Russia's Baltic Fleet... Sweden has been observing a deteriorating security environment in recent years with repeated Russian incursions into Swedish airspace and territorial waters.
Unlike Sweden, Finland, which shares a long land border with Russia, never stopped investing in its defense capabilities. It recently ordered 64 F-35 fighters, at a value of $9.5 billion, to replace its existing and ageing combat jets. According to Finland's former Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, Finland "can mobilize a reserve of 280,000 trained soldiers, which no other country in Europe can do."
In a meeting with Sweden and Finland on January 24 about the worsening security situation in Europe, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg invited the two countries to join NATO, stressing that each country has the right to choose its own military alliances.
Denmark is deploying four air force fighter jets to the Baltic states and a Danish Navy frigate will most likely be patrolling the Baltic Sea, as a contribution to NATO's patrolling in the region. This is "a very clear signal to Russia," Danish Defense Minister Trine Bramsen said.
In response to the mounting tension with Russia, Sweden has been boosting its military preparedness and has sent soldiers and heavy military equipment to its largest island, Gotland, strategically located in the Baltic Sea, just 330 kilometers from Kaliningrad, the headquarters of Russia's Baltic Fleet. Pictured: Swedish Soldiers patrol in Visby harbor, in Gotland on January 13, 2022. (Photo by Karl Melander/TT News Agency/AFP via getty Images)
Russia's military buildup on the borders of Ukraine and its sweeping ultimatums to NATO on halting further expansion and rolling back its engagement on NATO's eastern flank is also causing tension in northern Europe. Russia has threatened that if Finland and Sweden which are not members of NATO but enjoy close ties with the transatlantic organization join the alliance, it "would have serious military and political consequences that would require an adequate response from the Russian side."
In response to the mounting tension with Russia, Sweden has been boosting its military preparedness and has sent soldiers and heavy military equipment to its largest island, Gotland, strategically located in the Baltic Sea, just 330 kilometers from Kaliningrad, the headquarters of Russia's Baltic Fleet. Swedish troops are now patrolling the streets of Visby, including its harbor and airport. Sweden has been observing a deteriorating security environment in recent years with repeated Russian incursions into Swedish airspace and territorial waters.
Most recently, Sweden has been experiencing an influx of large military-style drones hovering over its nuclear and power plants, royal castles and military areas. According to the Swedish Security Service (S?po), the drones were suspected of "grave unauthorised dealing with secret information." Drones have also been observed around the parliament and government buildings, as well as the royal palace in Stockholm, and near the Kiruna and Lule? airports in the north of the country. On January 30, authorities arrested a Russian man who was flying a drone near one of the Swedish royal family's castles. The man claimed he was a tourist.
In 2019, Sweden, after realizing that it lacked crucial military capabilities and would be unable to defend itself against a Russian offensive, decided to increase its military spending by around 40%, with an increase in the military budget of 27.5 billion Swedish crowns ($3.10 billion) by 2025.
"Nothing can be ruled out in this situation. It may end in a total invasion with the risks of invading one of Europe's largest countries, but I think it is out of the question that nothing will happen," head of the Swedish Defence Forces, Micael Byd?n, said. "The only question is what happens."
Lieutenant General Michael Claesson, Chief of Joint Operations of the Swedish Army, told Reuters that the army had recently noted an expansion of foreign offensive capability near Sweden. "... Russian landing ships are an example of such offensive capability," Claesson said. "They have passed through (Denmark's) Great Belt strait and continued into the Baltic Sea."
Unlike Sweden, Finland, which shares a long land border with Russia, never stopped investing in its defense capabilities. It recently ordered 64 F-35 fighters, at a value of $9.5 billion, to replace its existing and ageing combat jets. According to Finland's former Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, Finland "can mobilize a reserve of 280,000 trained soldiers, which no other country in Europe can do."
In a meeting with Sweden and Finland on January 24 about the worsening security situation in Europe, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg invited the two countries to join NATO, stressing that each country has the right to choose its own military alliances:
"NATO's door remains open. While NATO cooperates closely with Finland and Sweden, we fully respect your strong and independent security policies. It is for Finland and Sweden alone to decide on your path. Not Russia. Not anyone else. Sovereign nations have the right to self-determination."
Finland has made it very clear that it reserves the option to join NATO. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto reacted forcefully to Russia's threats by saying:
"Finland's room to maneuver and freedom of choice also include the possibility of military alignment and of applying for NATO membership should we ourselves so decide."
Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin shares Niinisto's sentiment, but has also said that she does not foresee a NATO application from Finland during her term, which ends in April 2023.
Russia, ironically, could end up pushing both Finland and Sweden towards NATO membership in the longer term. The Russian threats are forcing the countries to rethink their neutrality and spurring new debates about membership. One Finnish MP said that the country was now "closer than it has ever been" to applying for NATO membership and, for the first time, opposition to NATO membership has dropped to a record low. More than a quarter of Finns (28%) are now for NATO membership with 42% against, according to a recent survey, and the share of those who are uncertain at 30%. In the past, opposition to membership of NATO has been as high as 68% among Finns. Respondents were also asked on their position if Sweden were to join NATO, which caused respondents in favor of membership to rise to 38% and opposition to fall to 39%.
"We have been forming ever-closer cooperation agreements not only with NATO, but also the United Kingdom and the United States," said Elina Valtonen, vice-chair of Finland's opposition National Coalition Party, adding that joining NATO was "a natural step."
In Sweden, opposition to joining NATO is also at an all-time low, with 37% of respondents in favor of NATO membership and 35% against, according to a recent survey. In 2017, by contrast, 32% said yes to NATO, while 43% opposed it. Furthermore, Sweden, until now, has not had a NATO "option" as part of its declared foreign policy, but there is now a majority of parties in the Swedish parliament that want, as part of Sweden's foreign policy, to declare a "NATO option", similar to that of Finland. It is a marked departure from the past, when neutrality was paramount.
Not only are Sweden and Finland perceiving Russia to be the biggest threat in northern Europe. The Danish Defense Intelligence Service, in its most recent security assessment, concluded that Russia is one of the biggest threats to Denmark's security, especially Russian offensive intelligence operations and cyber espionage activities. Denmark, unlike Sweden and Finland, is a member of NATO.
"Russia is very concerned about Denmark by virtue of our geographical location and our membership in NATO. It is clear that the situation in the Baltic Sea, where there is a high level of military exercises, of course, raises concerns," said intelligence chief Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen. Denmark is deploying four air force fighter jets to the Baltic states and a Danish Navy frigate will most likely be patrolling the Baltic Sea, as a contribution to NATO's patrolling in the region. This is "a very clear signal to Russia," Danish Defense Minister Trine Bramsen said.
https://ineptocracychronicles.substack.com/p/russia-driving-sweden-and-finland?utm_source=url
#121292 at 2022-01-16 07:32:11 (UTC+1)
QRB General #825: NCSWIC Edition
Hello QRB, UK bread visiting with a fun half-dig. Am not sure whether I shared this dig with you or not. We've dug up and down and sideways upside down and have some odds and ends leftovers hanging about. Here's another of those half-spun digs but it's fun to share.
I always thot that anon's speculation in Q post 2800 that the value targets might have arrived at the Embankment by boat was wild speculation, thinking "Oh, come on," but there remains the fact Q linked to that anon and a couple of others.
With that in mind, I's like to share this vidcap from a Ytube vid was an accidental find by UK anons for a building lights match with the LISAMI6 building called the MILLBANK BLDG. it was the first such match found by the UK anons.
It presented a conundrum, being found in a vid by a photographer whose Ytube vid was stated to contain photos from a photography event called 'Photo 24 London' which according to the photog took place in June 2014. However, UK anons determined the hoarding on that particular tower could not have occurred in June 2014, and by that evidence, could only have occurred between NOV '13 and MAR '14. By April 2014 the hoarding on the tower of Westminster would be gone. So we figured that the photog had by mistake included that pic in the video by mistake. It would only be later that an anon would find the sunset getty images from Christmas Day 2013 which would be a match for the building lights seen in LISAMI6. But those getty images would also be a compelling match for this private photo. We dubbed it 24LONDON.
The photo, if taken during the time window of LISAMI6, would show an 'over the side' image of TATTERSHALL CASTLE which could have been taken the same night as LISAMI6.
The pic appears to show a vessel alongside TATTS and another dark vessel that has hauled up to the riverside. It is a timelapse photo which appears to show the boat wakes of the two vessels. Noteworthy, is that the boat wakes come from down river toward the sea. We estimate, by looking at the rotation seen on LONDON EYE, that the film exposure was 5 minutes. Here's why: One revolution of LONDON EYE takes 30 minutes. Look at how far LONDON EYE has moved. It appears LE has moved 1/6th of its circumference.
Do anons recall Q post 2800?
Posting it below:
2800
Feb 18, 2019 4:34:26 PM EST
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI
Feb 18, 2019 4:30:37 PM EST
Anonymous
Feb 18, 2019 4:28:59 PM EST
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Feb 18, 2019 4:28:43 PM EST
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>>5248705
Is the boat dock relevant? Did the people in the photo arrive via boat? I'd assume that's preferable as most points of entry will have lots of security and cameras.
I just checked googlemaps (i konw nothing of UK geography) and it looks like yes: you could take a boat from France (or really anywhere on the atlantic) and then mosey on over to the Corinthian. I wonder if the traffic cam is new and nobody knew about it?
Also in the photo of "LP" (hard to see, we assert, not known) it looks like they're walking away from the boat dock. Not conclusive that they came from there, but does hint towards that.
Feb 18, 2019 4:26:46 PM EST
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI
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>>5248780
>>5248728
Found the camera
>>5248831
(END OF Q POST)
Video with pic showing MILLBANK match with LISAMI6. See 1min:01sec
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eDzV7cMRvHM
A POST-NOTE: I remember when we were discussing this 'over the side' view of TATTS and daring to ask, what if it showed boat activity alongside and near TATTS' portside on that same night as the Embankment pics. All of a sudden from nowhere we had a double-team of derision shills throwing up some profanity-laced posts in opposition to even the thought.
#120718 at 2022-01-13 18:46:56 (UTC+1)
QRB General #820: Here We Go Edition
Muh Dick?
Kek...the pictures
Rare Covid symptom that affects penis size as sufferer claims he's lost an INCH
A bigger-than-average fella from America was riding high until he took some Covid in the peen - now he's less equipped than he was and is understandably devastated
The man's weapon isn't quite as dangerous as it once was
15:56, 12 Jan 2022
Talk of Covid symptoms are everywhere, with each one more wild than the last, but this truly is a standout - a man claims his penis has shrunk due to the virus.
The anonymous man has been warned by doctors that the effects on his member could be irreversible.
The devastated man, thought to be an American in his 30s, is reported to have been blessed with an above-average johnson before the drama began - now he's just a regular joe.
A University College London study of 3,400 people found the symptom is rare among the 200 who developed long Covid.
Read on for what the unfortunate chap said, and an expert's view on the science behind 'Covid penis'.
He's convinced he's lost an inch, and doctors say it's entirely possible ( Image: getty Images/iStockphoto)
Speaking on the podcast How To Do It, the patient said: "I'm a heterosexual man in my thirties. In July of last year, I contracted Covid and was very sick.
"When I got out of the hospital, I had some erectile dysfunction issues. Those gradually got better with some medical attention, but I seem to be left with a lasting problem.
"My penis has shrunk. Before I got sick, I was above average, not huge, but definitely bigger than normal. Now I've lost about an inch-and-a-half and become decidedly less than average.
"It's apparently due to vascular damage, and my doctors seem to think it's likely permanent.
"It shouldn't really matter, but it has had a profound impact on my self confidence in my abilities in bed."
Speaking on the podcast, US urologist Ashley Winter MD, said: "It is true that having erectile dysfunction leads to shortening.
"You have this period of time where the penis is not stretching itself out, where it's not, you know, getting all this full blood into it, and that can lead to scarring of the penis and shortening of the penis.
"And that's probably what you know your caller is referring to now."
The Sun reports that the risk of a shorter piece from erectile dysfunction is possible if the cause of the issue is physical, rather than psychological.
An example of a physical cause could be cancer.
The man's case is potential evidence that Covid can get into the penis' bloodstream. Dr Winter said that proper blood flow to the penis can occur from the virus, which in turn can cause erectile dysfunction.
Dr Winter also referenced a urologist's study that found two men who had completely recovered from the virus still had traces of it in their penises. Both had regularly operating members before they caught the virus.
Both men went for penis implant surgeries months after they had been infected.
There is hope for all these poor chaps, however, because on the podcast experts said there are treatments for erectile dysfunction which might be able to help them recover from the traumatic experience.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/rare-covid-symptom-affects-penis-25927765
#117135 at 2021-12-24 12:51:43 (UTC+1)
QRB General #791: It's Christmas Eve, Would You Believe? Edition
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1474352925925335045
Two state attorneys general ask court to require Biden administration to finish border wall | Just The News
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton | (Kirk Irwin / getty Images)
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/paxton-schmitt-ask-court-require-biden-administration-finish-border-wall
Two state attorneys general ask court to require Biden administration to finish border wall
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued the administration in October.
7:15 AM ? Dec 24, 2021?
From: >>>/deepdigs/3344
#116212 at 2021-12-19 16:58:36 (UTC+1)
QRB General #785: Doctors for Covid Ethics Hits It Outta the Park! Edition
Been IRL'n hard don't know if this got posted...
BuzzFeed NYC Holiday Party Becomes a Covid Superspreader Event, Several Employees Infected: Insider
Dec 16th, 2021
Several BuzzFeed staffers have been infected with Covid-19 following the company's Holiday party in Manhattan last week, according to a report from Insider.
Three BuzzFeed employees who tested positive following the party told Insider that they were vaccinated and received their booster shots prior to contracting Covid-19 at the event, and are experiencing mild symptoms.
The outbreak also comes as Covid-19 cases have risen in New York City due to the Omicron variant.
BuzzFeed has reportedly strengthened Covid-19 protocols following the party and amid the surge of cases in New York City, including putting a temporary freeze on group meetings over six people, requiring masks in the office until further notice, and freezing all non-essential business travel until the new year.
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Several BuzzFeed staffers have been infected with Covid-19 following the company's Holiday party in Manhattan last week, according to a report from Insider.
Three BuzzFeed employees who tested positive following the party told Insider that they were vaccinated and received their booster shots prior to contracting Covid-19 at the event, and are experiencing mild symptoms.
The outbreak also comes as Covid-19 cases have risen in New York City due to the Omicron variant.
BuzzFeed has reportedly strengthened Covid-19 protocols following the party and amid the surge of cases in New York City, including putting a temporary freeze on group meetings over six people, requiring masks in the office until further notice, and freezing all non-essential business travel until the new year.
The company is also conducting contact tracing, as well as offering free testing for close contacts.
The party, held on Dec. 10 at the Starrett-Lehigh building in Manhattan, was attended by employees from BuzzFeed's New York and Washington offices, in addition to employees from HuffPost, which BuzzFeed acquired last year.
One of the positive staffers told Insider that they became aware that they had been exposed after BuzzFeed's in-house contact tracing team notified them that they had been in contact with a positive case.
"The communication referenced that the contact might have been at BuzzFeed's New York office, the holiday party, or at a group gathering in Los Angeles the prior weekend," added Insider's Steven Perlberg. "Another of the COVID-positive employees estimated that there were about 10 cases they knew of. This staffer said they were aware of five or six other staffers who currently feel sick and are awaiting test results."
BuzzFeed's head of global real estate, office services, and security, reportedly sent an email to employees on Thursday, writing, "With COVID positive cases rising across the US, we now have a number of known full-time and freelance employees who have tested positive in recent days."
The email went on to say that staffers who had close contact with a positive case were able to take a same-day PCR test at the BuzzFeed offices in New York or Los Angeles, while those not located near an office could get the cost of their tests reimbursed by the company.
"BuzzFeed requires vaccinations for staffers, and partygoers had to present their vaccination cards to get into the event," Perlberg reported, noting that CEO Jonah Peretti was in attendance. "Two days before the party, BuzzFeed updated its rules to require masks 'unless you are actively eating or drinking.'"
https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/buzzfeed-nyc-holiday-party-becomes-a-covid-superspreader-event-several-employees-infected-insider/
#113106 at 2021-12-02 02:22:43 (UTC+1)
QRB General #756: Ebil Foosballers Down Edition
France Deploys Military Police To Caribbean Islands Amid Unrest Over Vaccine Mandate
The French government has deployed military police to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe amid intensifying protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic related restrictions.
Following several weeks of unrest and violent protests over COVID-19 measures-including a vaccine mandate for health care workers-police reinforcements were sent to the French Caribbean territories on Tuesday.
Compulsory vaccinations for health workers, a measure already introduced on the French mainland, had fuelled resentment among the islands' population.
Sebastien Lecornu, the minister for France's overseas territories, said 70 gendarmes had arrived in Martinique earlier in the day, in addition to two squadrons that were deployed from metropolitan France unannounced, to help clear road blocks.
French Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu speaks as he attends a press conference during his official visit in Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, on Nov. 30, 2021. (Alain Jocard/AFP via getty Images)
"Social dialogue is not possible without a sound basis and that sound basis is the re-establishment of freedoms ... and our capacity to re-establish order," Lecornu told a press conference in Martinique after meeting its leaders and trade unions.
In Guadeloupe, home to some 400,000 residents, 70 police reinforcements were sent on Tuesday along with 10 extra SWAT team members to help shore up security, Lecornu said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/france-deploys-military-police-caribbean-islands-amid-unrest-over-vaccine-mandate
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/france-deploys-military-police-caribbean-islands-amid-unrest-over-vaccine-mandate
#109391 at 2021-11-16 17:34:42 (UTC+1)
QRB General #725: New and Improved Kinetic Launch System Edition
PolitiFact Refuses to Correct Claim that Rittenhouse Illegally Possessed Gun After Judge Dismisses Charge
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/16/politifact-rittenhouse-gun-judge-charge/
The "fact-checking" outlet Politifact is defending its August 2020 claim that Kyle Rittenhouse's possession of an AR-15 was not "perfectly legal," even though the gun charge against Rittenhouse was dismissed by Judge Bruce Schroeder.
On August 28, 2020 - just three days after Rittenhouse had used the rifle on the streets of Kenosha - Politifact Wisconsin tweeted, "A Facebook post says, 'At 17 years old Kyle (Rittenhouse) was perfectly legal to be able to possess that rifle without parental supervision.' That's False."
The tweet linked to a PolitiFact article, which said:
In an Aug. 27 post, one Facebook user said it was "perfectly legal" for Kyle Rittenhouse - who was arrested in Antioch, Ill., after fleeing Wisconsin - to brandish an assault-style rifle on the streets of Kenosha.
"Carrying a rifle across state lines is perfectly legal," the poster said. "Based on the laws I can find of this area at 17 years old Kyle was perfectly legal to be able to possess that rifle without parental supervision."
The PolitiFact article zeroed in on the phrase "perfectly legal" and opined, "Is that true? State law suggests not."
PolitiFact concluded:
Whether Rittenhouse violated Wisconsin law by possessing a firearm underage is the subject of ongoing litigation. But the Facebook post claimed that it was "perfectly legal" for the teenager to carry an assault-style rifle in Kenosha.
At best, that's unproven. At worst, it's inaccurate. Either way, we rate the post False.
On November 15, 2021, Breitbart News noted that Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed the firearms charge against Rittenhouse, siding with the Defense's claim that the law is only applicable if Rittenhouse carried a Short Barrel Rifle (SBR).
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN - NOVEMBER 10: Judge Bruce Schroeder, reprimands Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger in his conduct in line of questioning while cross-examining Kyle Rittenhouse during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 10, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three demonstrators, killing two of them, during a night of unrest that erupted in Kenosha after a police officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back while being arrested in August 2020. Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, was 17 at the time of the shooting and armed with an assault rifle. He faces counts of felony homicide and felony attempted homicide. (Photo by Sean Krajacic-Pool/getty Images)
#108142 at 2021-11-12 13:26:44 (UTC+1)
QRB General #716: Monday Deliberation On The Calendar Edition
>>108138
orig finding
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/another-elite-sex-trafficking-victim-speaks-out-on-stew-peters-video/
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>>108140
{ excerpt }:
Here are some points raised in the video:
(intro) Peters: 'Ashley Biden's diary is real'. Peters reviews her childhood history. Ally Carter tried to post her story on Instagram in July 2020, but was blocked on account of the upcoming election.
She was trafficked through many elite places, including Buckingham Palace and the getty Museum in LA (underground) and Hollywood parties, while being under the care of Child Protection Services (CPS).
Her mother started this life for her. CPS were called constantly from the age of 3 months. At the age of 13, after a suicide attempt, CPS entered the picture: she was put in a mental hospital, then into foster care. A pimp, whom CPS officially labelled a 'boyfriend', was trafficking her services and CPS knew this. She was even taken out of the country by this man and was told to keep quiet about it by social workers. She claims that while we know the big names in this business (she names Biden, Obama, Michelle Obama, and Stephen Tyler among others), we need to pay attention to people at far lower levels. "I was trafficked to people within my schools. I was trafficked in underground tunnels that link under your schools, through your cemeteries, under your amusement parks, through Universal Studios and into Hollywood elite homes, all over the place, all over the world. People can't fathom that ... there are 200 children missing, and there's 300 children missing ... how many times do you receive an amber alert every year? ... People don't want to face it..."
She claims to have had sexual encounters with Obama, Biden, Michelle and Stephen Tyler. Carter talks about the underground tunnels containing all sorts of transportation in many locales. She was sold to Joe Biden 'multiple times', for 'blow jobs and sex'. 'There are millions just like me. There are millions far worse than me.' She alludes to children getting their blood drained for creating a 'fountain of youth', presumably referring to adrenochrome production. "People have many sick fetishes, and the Hollywood elite, we sign their paychecks every single day - when you stream their music, when you buy something from their brands ... their image is not what you think it is. They're sick, evil people."
She reveals the attitude of the authorities toward kids in foster care and how their self-esteem is conditioned to be broken. She attended 19 high schools in a single year, and never stayed in a place longer than a month. "I was never in a home." She was passed on because nobody wanted to deal with the problem. Her own adoptive mother had gone to various legal figures to address the problem, but she was shut down and made out to be crazy. Carter was always dealt with as 'crazy' yet would go back to her homes showing evidence of physical harm. CPS is a cover up, an agency that trades in children. Some social workers are not corrupt but cannot speak up. Police have a freemason component, too, which protects this kind of activity. Carter and her adoptive mother have been harassed continually for well over a year.
Carter has lots of evidence of her claims in the form of reports, rape kits, videos, etc. that nobody wants to see.
"MK Ultra and DID exist". MK Ultra is used on Hollywood elites. It's part of the control matrix; it's like having a remote control over someone's life and nobody knows who's pushing the buttons.
She claims staff in her schools were complicit in what was happening because she would be taken to school, then picked up by her pimp for the day. Yet the teachers would sign her as being present. Many people in the school were notified of the problem, and social workers documented it, but nobody acted on it.
Why are cops, investigators and federal agents ignoring this? 'Because they're all customers.' Everybody's worried about people at the top, but people around us at the local level are complicit. The good people don't dare to speak out because, aside from losing their jobs, they can be harassed continually for the rest of their lives.
Peters: 'We've all heard about these tunnels' since the start of the Trump presidency. Carter makes it clear that Trump has never been heard of in relation to these elite pedophile activities.
Children of all ages are also having their organs harvested, and many have their bodies used as suitcases for shipping things over borders. Organs that are harvested are sold on the black market and sent to our hospitals. Which is why human organs for transplant are so expensive.
Peters: 'Someone somewhere is going to hear this that has the balls, that has the authority and that has the courage and that knows what is right.'
#107725 at 2021-11-10 18:41:57 (UTC+1)
QRB General #712: Bready Won't Bakey Edition
>>107676
The Chinese own approximately 30 million acres of prime real estate in the United States.
-Lt. General Michael Flynn
China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down.
Bipartisan pressure is building to stop foreign nationals from purchasing American farm operations and receiving taxpayer subsidies.
The push to drain China's influence from the U.S. economy has reached America's farm country, as congressional lawmakers from both parties are looking at measures to crack down on foreign purchases of prime agricultural real estate.
House lawmakers recently advanced legislation to that effect, warning that China's presence in the American food system poses a national security risk. And key Senate lawmakers have already shown interest in efforts to keep American farms in American hands.
The debate over farm ownership comes amid broader efforts by Congress and the Biden administration to curb the nation's economic reliance on China, especially in key industries like food, semiconductors and minerals deemed crucial to the supply chain. The call for tighter limits on who owns America's farms has come from a wide range of political leaders, from former Vice President Mike Pence to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), after gaining momentum seeded in farm states.
Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during an event.
Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during an event. | Sean Rayford/getty Images
"America cannot allow China to control our food supply," Pence said Wednesday during a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation, urging President Joe Biden and Congress to "end all farm subsidies for land owned by foreign nationals."
Chinese firms have expanded their presence in American agriculture over the last decade by snapping up farmland and purchasing major agribusinesses, like pork processing giant Smithfield Foods. By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Agriculture Department.
Still, that's less than farmland owned by people from other nations like Canada and European countries, which account for millions of acres each. It's also a small percentage of the nearly 900 million acres of total American farmland.
But it's the trend of increasing purchases and the buyers' potential connections to the Chinese government that have lawmakers spooked.
USDA reported in 2018 that China's agricultural investments in other nations had grown more than tenfold since 2009. The Communist Party has actively supported investments in foreign agriculture as part of its "One Belt One Road" economic development plans, aiming to control a greater piece of China's food supply chain.
"The current trend in the U.S. is leading us toward the creation of a Chinese-owned agricultural land monopoly," Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) warned during a recent House Appropriations hearing.
The committee unexpectedly adopted Newhouse's amendment to the Agriculture-FDA spending bill (H.R. 4356 (117)) that would block any new agricultural purchases by companies that are wholly or partly controlled by the Chinese government and bar Chinese-owned farms from tapping federal support programs.
That move followed a contentious debate over the potential consequences for Asian Americans if Congress adopted a provision aimed squarely at China. Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) said that if the amendment was about national security, buyers from other countries should also face similar restrictions. "It would perpetuate already rising anti-Asian hate," Meng warned at the markup.
Rep. Grace Meng speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, on May 27, 2020, in Washington. | Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo
But Meng, Newhouse and committee leaders indicated they would find a solution as the legislation winds through Congress. The measure is expected to reach the House floor before the end of July, as part of a broader appropriations package, although the Senate has not yet drafted its own version of the spending bill.
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"We are new in this process," said Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.), chair of the agriculture appropriations subcommittee. "I would suggest that we sit down and we work through it so we can accomplish our objective, but do it in a way that is sensitive to all those who might be somewhat offended by the approach."
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/china-buying-us-farms-foreign-purchase-499893
#107577 at 2021-11-10 06:09:16 (UTC+1)
QRB General #711: Rent Free WW Edition
Kyle Rittenhouse looks like he's headed for an acquittal, legal analyst says
On Monday, the prosecution's case against an Illinois teen, 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, collapsed with a confounding unforced error. Watching the trial unfold, I now believe that a key witness's calm, revelatory description of events, ensured Rittenhouse's acquittal on five of the six charges in the controversial case.
The Kenosha saga began with the police shooting of knife-wielding Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 23, 2020. Following three days of fiery protests and property destruction, Rittenhouse, then a 17-year-old minor, traveled across state lines, armed with a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle provided by a friend.
Rittenhouse, a former police cadet from Antioch, Illinois, had publicly stated that his mission was to protect businesses and potential victims of the mayhem. In the ensuing melee, he shot and killed two people and wounded a third. The state of Wisconsin alleges he is a murderer. His defenders describe his actions as self-defense.
He faces six charges: five felonies and one misdemeanor. The most serious is first degree intentional homicide, use of a deadly weapon. With video footage from the scene and witness accounts, this remains an impossible charge to prove. The allegation - analogous to first-degree murder in certain states - requires prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Rittenhouse intended to kill a person, Anthony M. Huber, without attendant mitigating circumstances such as self-defense. Videos shot by bystanders show Rittenhouse being chased and threatened throughout the incident.
Kyle Rittenhouse may be heading towards an acquittal in five of the six charges against him at this trial.
Rittenhouse clearly shoots his first victim, Joseph Rosenbaum, according to journalist Richie McGinniss, who witnessed the altercation. But he described Rittenhouse as wheeling around and firing, as Rosenbaum lunged for Rittenhouse's rifle.
Gaige Grosskreutz was the man who was wounded, and whose testimony spectacularly backfired for the prosecution on Monday. During a skillful cross-examination, Rittenhouse's attorney, Corey Chirafisi, impelled Grosskreutz to concede that the accused only fired after Grosskreutz pointed his pistol at him while advancing and attempting to disarm him.
The image of Rittenhouse holding a rifle on the streets of Kenosha was a source of outrage, particularly on the left. The prosecution may have been pressured to charge intentional homicide by activists and the very real fears of more deadly riots if state prosecutors failed to bend to their will. This doesn't mean they have a case.
Rittenhouse, interviewed just prior to the shootings he is charged with, stated his intentions: "Our job is to protect this business, and part of my job is to also help people."
Was he misguided in transporting a weapon across state lines? Undoubtedly.
But was Rittenhouse also representative of a vast swath of the American public sickened and angered by the media's attempted portrayal of riots as "mostly peaceful protests?" Recall the time we were asked to disbelieve our lying eyes.
Kyle Rittenhouse never set out to murder innocent people on that fateful night. It is reasonable to conclude he was there, as he suggests, to help protect a business that had been looted, vandalized and firebombed by criminals masquerading as protestors. In many jurisdictions during the civil unrest prevalent during the Summer of 2020, police were "stood down" - directed to back off and allow the anger to work itself off.
Gaige Grosskreutz, who was one of the three people shot by Rittenhouse, testifying at the trial.
Photo by Mark Hertzberg-Pool/getty Images
When cowardly politicians create vacuous policies that lead to a security void, some citizens just might be inclined to step up and fill the void to protect people and property. Again, this doesn't make Rittenhouse's actions leading up to the shootings righteous. But it may help one to better understand the mood of a fed-up nation. Simply put - the toleration of lawlessness always encourages more lawlessness.
This prosecution is neither neutral nor dispassionate; reflecting only political expedience. These court proceedings also highlight an overplayed hand. Kyle Rittenhouse may indeed be guilty of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18, the misdemeanor. He was, after all, a minor at the time. But he clearly and unequivocally acted in self-defense. Anything other than an acquittal on the top charges would be a miscarriage of justice.
James A. Gagliano is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and doctoral candidate in Police Use of Force at St. John's University.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/09/kyle-rittenhouse-looks-like-hes-headed-for-an-acquittal-legal-analyst/
#107428 at 2021-11-09 18:53:37 (UTC+1)
QRB General #710: Weaponized Grannies Oh My Edition
>>107425
A bill becomes law if signed by the President or if not signed within 10 days and Congress is in session. If Congress adjourns before the 10 days and the President has not signed the bill then it does not become law ("Pocket Veto.")
>The president has ten days (excluding Sundays) to sign a bill passed by Congress. A regular veto occurs when the President returns the legislation to the house in which it originated, usually with a message explaining the rationale for the veto.
>https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Vetoes_vrd.htm
https://nypost.com/2021/11/08/wh-biden-to-sign-infrastructure-bill-when-congress-reopens/
Where's the BIF?: Biden won't sign infrastructure until Congress reopens
By Callie Patteson November 8, 2021 3:00pm Updated
At a press briefing on Monday, deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she did not have a date for the bill signing. FP via getty Images
Forget about a thousand words, this picture's going to be worth $1.2 trillion.
After pressing Congress to urgently pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill last week, President Biden is now holding up the Senate- and House-passed legislation
- until he can gather key members of Congress for a bill-signing photo op.
During Monday's White House daily press briefing, deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked why Biden has not yet signed the bill after the White House and president "talked about the urgency" of passing it.
"So he talked about this on Saturday
- he and he basically said he wants to make sure that the congressional members who work very, very hard on this when they come back, then we'll
- we'll figure out a time to sign it," Jean-Pierre told reporters.
"But you're right, is it
- it's urgent, but we also want to make sure that the people who spent the last couple of weeks, last couple of months just all in delivering on this
- on this promise are here for the signing as well," she added.
#107410 at 2021-11-09 18:19:41 (UTC+1)
QRB General #709: Monday Evening Friends Stick Together Edition
Singapore will stop covering the medical bills of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients
https://www.nepm.org/post/singapore-will-stop-covering-medical-bills-unvaccinated-covid-19-patients#stream/0
People in Singapore mask up to take a mass rapid transit train on Friday. Singapore has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. As of Sunday, 85% of its population was fully vaccinated.
People in Singapore mask up to take a mass rapid transit train on Friday. Singapore has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. As of Sunday, 85% of its population was fully vaccinated.
ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP VIA getty IMAGES
Singapore's government has been covering the medical bills of COVID-19 patients throughout the pandemic. But it says unvaccinated people will soon be on their own.
Those who are "unvaccinated by choice" will have to start paying for their own COVID-19 treatment starting Dec. 8, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday, citing the strain they are putting on the nation's health care system.
"Currently, unvaccinated persons make up a sizeable majority of those who require intensive inpatient care, and disproportionately contribute to the strain on our healthcare resources," it said in a statement.
Until now, the government has been covering the cost of COVID-19 care for all Singaporeans, permanent residents and long-term pass holders, excluding those who tested positive after returning from overseas travel.
"This was to avoid financial considerations adding to public uncertainty and concern when COVID-19 was an emergent and unfamiliar disease," it explained, adding that this system will continue to apply to "the majority who are vaccinated ... until the COVID-19 situation is more stable."
The policy change means the government will start charging all unvaccinated COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals and designated "COVID-19 Treatment Facilities" on or after Dec. 8. Those patients can still use their regular health care financing arrangements to pay their bills where applicable.
#107390 at 2021-11-09 17:25:27 (UTC+1)
QRB General #709: Monday Evening Friends Stick Together Edition
>>107323
>Newsome located at ostentacious getty wedding
and we all paid for Nancy to be there to 'officiate'.
Cap#1 arrival on Saturday
Cap#2 departure on Sunday
#107129 at 2021-11-07 23:50:54 (UTC+1)
QRB General #707: Kameltoe Gives Away The Show Edition
UN Committee To Decide Who Gets Afghanistan's Seat Amid Rival Claims
The Taliban has now held power over Afghanistan for nearly three months, yet it's the former US-backed Afghan national government that's still being represented to the United Nations in New York, creating a tense diplomatic showdown with the Taliban, which is vying for official recognition to take the seat.
The ousted government of former President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country in August amid the rapid Taliban advance on Kabul, is still being represented by Amb. Ghulam Isaczai. For now he's continuing to act as Afghanistan's ambassador, while the Taliban's nomination for the position, Suhail Shaheeen, has been waiting on the sidelines.
getty images
Bloomberg describes that the standoff looks to continue unresolved for at least the near future: "At a meeting this month, a UN committee that includes China, Russia, and the US is widely expected to punt on rival requests for diplomatic representation - one from the UN ambassador of the deposed Afghan government and another from the Taliban."
The committee has nine members who've expressed a desire to see Afghanistan stabilized, and for the Taliban to enact reforms - specifically promises it's previously made such as upholding human rights for all including women and girls, as well as combatting terrorism.
Both Russia and China have appeared more ready to recognize the Taliban government, maintaining increased communications with the Islamist rulers, and with the latter opening up trade and investment ties. But Washington has so far refused to bestow official legitimacy, keeping Taliban assets abroad under sanction, and only recently authorizing the resumption of humanitarian aid into the war-torn country.
As for Russia, as spokesman was quoted last week: "No-one is in a hurry to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's government, Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said on Friday, signaling that Moscow is not ready to allow the Islamists to represent Afghanistan at the United Nations."
"The primary thing today is to stabilize the country," Nebezia added in the statement. "The economy is on the verge of collapse with the lack of any resources, which are frozen and are not being released anytime soon, judging by the statements that we hear."
But in its latest report Bloomberg underscores the Taliban is hamstrung by the lack of UN recognition, given this translates to not receiving badly needed aid from international institutions - the World Bank and International Monetary Fund being prime examples:
The Taliban is facing a cash crunch after the U.S. and its partners froze Afghanistan's access to more than $9 billion in overseas assets, mostly central bank reserves held in American banks. The Biden administration has rejected appeals from Russia and China to release the assets as the situation worsens. On Nov. 3, the Taliban banned the use of foreign currencies and ordered the public to use local currency in a bid to ease the crisis.
Finally settling the UN ambassador post dilemma in favor of the Taliban would essentially mean international and Western acknowledgement that the Taliban is there to stay. But this is the very thing that many powerful countries are as yet unwilling to do.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-committee-decide-who-gets-afghanistans-un-seat-amid-rival-claims
#105744 at 2021-11-03 12:57:32 (UTC+1)
QRB General #696: Big 2021 Wins for REPUBS, Now Time for 2020 Audits in 50 States! Edition
With New Jersey too close to call, here's how election recounts work in the Garden State
Ronn Blitzer 33 mins ago
The New Jersey governor's race remained too close to call early Wednesday morning as Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli held a narrow lead over incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, meaning that no matter who ends up in front once all votes are counted, the other side will want to challenge the outcome.
So how do recounts work in New Jersey? While some states have automatic recounts that are triggered by slim margins between candidates, the Garden State does not - it does, however, allow candidates to challenge results on a county-by-county basis.
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"When any candidate at any election shall have reason to believe that an error has been made in counting the votes of that election, the candidate may, within a period of 17 days following such election, apply to a judge of the Superior Court assigned to the county wherein such district or districts are located, for a recount of the votes cast at the election in any district or districts," New Jersey law says.
How does it work?
The recount itself would be conducted by a county board under the judge's direction. The county board has the power to subpoena district board members to provide any necessary documents or other materials, and to be present for the opening of the ballot boxes. The county board can also have the district board members testify, if needed. Should there be any disputes, the county board can vote on them, but if the issue cannot be settled with a majority vote, the judge overseeing the recount would decide the matter.
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR'S RACE: WHAT TO KNOW
Who pays for it?
Should a judge grant an application for a recount, the candidate has to pay a deposit for each district being recounted. The deposit amounts are based on the number of votes, but capped at $25 per district.
Should the recount result in a different outcome, or if it results in a change of at least 10 votes or 10% of the votes cast (whichever is greater), the government will pay the costs and the deposits will be refunded. Otherwise, the recount costs will be deducted from the deposits.
Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, exits after speaking during an election night event in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via getty Images) getty ? getty Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, exits after speaking during an election night event in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via getty Images) getty
What happens if there is a different outcome?
If the election has already been certified before the recount, and the recount shows that there is a new winner or a tie, the judge will issue an order revoking the certification. In the event of a new winner, the judge would hand down another order for the chairman and clerk of the county board of canvassers to issue a new certification.
If this happens, however, recounts were only done in particular counties, the candidate who held the lead after the initial vote can request recounts in every district. If the original winner then gains enough votes to retake the lead, the recount process will stop unless the original challenger pays another deposit.
What happens if there is a different outcome?
If the election has already been certified before the recount, and the recount shows that there is a new winner or a tie, the judge will issue an order revoking the certification. In the event of a new winner, the judge would hand down another order for the chairman and clerk of the county board of canvassers to issue a new certification.
If this happens, however, recounts were only done in particular counties, the candidate who held the lead after the initial vote can request recounts in every district. If the original winner then gains enough votes to retake the lead, the recount process will stop unless the original challenger pays another deposit.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-new-jersey-too-close-to-call-heres-how-election-recounts-work-in-the-garden-state/ar-AAQgU93
#99490 at 2021-10-08 18:13:03 (UTC+1)
QRB General #643: Diggin' in for the Fight Edition
Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley's latest wild bet on living forever
muh paywall fuck'em: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/04/1034364/altos-labs-silicon-valleys-jeff-bezos-milner-bet-living-forever
Funders of a deep-pocketed new "rejuvenation" startup are said to include Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner.
by Antonio Regaladoarchive page?
September 4, 2021
ALAMY, getty (BEZOS)
Last October, a large group of scientists made their way to Yuri Milner's super-mansion in the Los Altos Hills above Palo Alto. They were tested for covid-19 and wore masks as they assembled in a theater on the property for a two-day scientific conference. Others joined by teleconference. The topic: how biotechnology might be used to make people younger.
Milner is a Russian-born billionaire who made a fortune on Facebook and Mail.ru and previously started the glitzy black-tie Breakthrough Prizes, $3 million awards given each year to outstanding physicists, biologists, and mathematicians. But Milner's enthusiasm for science was taking a provocative and specific new direction. As the scientific sessions progressed, experts took the stage to describe radical attempts at "rejuvenating" animals.
That meeting has now led to the formation of an ambitious new anti-aging company called Altos Labs, according to people familiar with the plans. Altos is pursuing biological reprogramming technology, a way to rejuvenate cells in the lab that some scientists think could be extended to revitalize entire animal bodies, ultimately prolonging human life.
The new company, incorporated in the US and in the UK earlier this year, will establish several institutes in places including the Bay Area, San Diego, Cambridge, UK and Japan, and is recruiting a large cadre of university scientists with lavish salaries and the promise that they can pursue unfettered blue-sky research on how cells age and how to reverse that process.
Some people briefed by the company have been told that its investors include Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, who stepped down as CEO of Amazon in July and weeks later risked his life by jumping into a rocket capsule to reach outer space. Technology Review confirmed that Milner and his wife Julia have invested in Altos through a foundation.
#97113 at 2021-09-30 14:20:30 (UTC+1)
QRB General #625: The Show Must Go On Edition
>>97112
>Has Mark Zuckerberg's total control of Facebook turned into a liability?
Facebook 'overpaid in data settlement to avoid naming Zuckerberg'
Dan Milmo Global technology editor Fri 24 Sep 2021 11.12 EDT Last modified on Fri 24 Sep 2021 11.39 EDT
Lawsuit alleges settlement in Cambridge Analytica case driven by desire to protect founder Mark Zuckerberg
If Mark Zuckerberg had been personally named he would have suffered 'extensive reputational harm', the suit claims.
Photograph: Bloomberg/getty Images
Facebook paid $4.9bn more than necessary to the US Federal Trade Commission in a settlement
<>over the Cambridge Analytica scandal in order to protect Mark Zuckerberg, a lawsuit has claimed.
The lawsuit alleges that the size of the $5bn settlement was driven by a desire to protect Facebook's founder and chief executive from being named in the FTC complaint.
Facebook was fined by the FTC in 2019 for "deceiving" users about its ability to keep personal information private, after a year-long investigation into the Cambridge Analytica data breach, where a UK analysis firm harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters.
"Zuckerberg, [chief operating officer Sheryl] Sandberg, and other Facebook directors agreed to authorise a multibillion settlement with the FTC as an express quid pro quo to protect Zuckerberg from being named in the FTC's complaint, made subject to personal liability, or even required to sit for a deposition," said the shareholder lawsuit filed in Delaware last month but made public this week.
The suit quotes a commissioner on the FTC, Rohit Chopra, who said the government "essentially traded getting more money, so that an individual did not have to submit to sworn testimony and I just think that's fundamentally wrong".
The lawsuit claims that the settlement was approximately $4.9bn more than Facebook's "maximum exposure under the applicable statute".
If Zuckerberg had been personally named in the complaint he could have faced substantial fines for future violations and would have suffered "extensive reputational harm", the suit claims. It adds: "The risk would have been highly material to Zuckerberg, who is extraordinarily sensitive about his public image and has been reported to have political ambitions."
The suit also accuses Facebook of a lax approach to corporate governance, particularly regarding its founder. "The board has never provided a serious check on Zuckerberg's unfettered authority. Instead, it has enabled him, defended him, and paid billions of dollars from Facebook's corporate coffers to make his problems go away."
In a post on his own Facebook page after the fine was announced, Zuckerberg said the company had transformed the way it handled users' information.
"We've agreed to pay a historic fine, but even more important, we're going to make some major structural changes to how we build products and run this company," he wrote.
Facebook declined to comment on the new lawsuit but referred the Guardian to a recent tweet from Andy Stone, a spokesperson who wrote: "Portraying this as some kind of new allegation is wrong. The suggestion that we overpaid or underpaid on this settlement isn't new and is something we will address during the litigation."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/24/facebook-overpaid-in-data-settlement-to-avoid-naming-zuckerberg
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#97111 at 2021-09-30 14:06:24 (UTC+1)
QRB General #625: The Show Must Go On Edition
>>97107
<> Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Has Mark Zuckerberg's total control of Facebook turned into a liability?
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Congressional anger at damaging new revelations and a legal action resulting from the Cambridge Analytica affair have put the social media giant's founder under renewed pressure
Senator Josh Hawley during the recent congressional hearing on social media companies. Photograph: getty Images
For devotees of C-Span, the public-service media network that covers the US Congress, Tuesday was an interesting day. The Senate judiciary subcommittee on competition policy, antitrust and consumer rights held a hearing on the social media companies, which for most purposes meant Google and Facebook. It was intriguing in several ways. For one thing, the senators were exercised, sceptical and sometimes angered by the evasive cant served up by the corporate executives whom they had summoned. More importantly, the perceptible anger was bipartisan (a rare thing in the current Congress).
And lastly, some of the most aggressive questioning of the hapless Facebook representative came from Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri,
who is believed to be PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel's preferred candidate for president in 2024.
And Thiel is a member of Facebook's board of directors!
This congressional ire was triggered by a terrific scoop in the Wall Street Journal, which had got its hands on a trove of internal Facebook documents. These exposed the yawning chasm between Facebook's public versions of its stance on various contentious issues and its internal discussions of them. Specifically, the trove showed that: at least 5.8 million high-profile users had been allowed to avoid the company's normal enforcement processes; research by Instagram (owned by Facebook) had revealed the risk the platform poses to teenagers' mental health ("We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls" was one striking phrase); the company knew that its algorithms rewarded outrage; and it had been slow to stop drug cartels and human traffickers from using its platform.
These revelations were so stark that they even moved Facebook's preposterous oversight board to publish a blog post on the matter. "In light of recent developments," it bleated, "we are looking into the degree to which Facebook has been fully forthcoming in its responses in relation to cross-check, including the practice of whitelisting. The board has reached out to Facebook to request they provide further clarity about the information previously shared with us. We expect to receive a briefing from Facebook in the coming days..." Note the words "request", "expect" and "further clarity", which provide a neat illustration of the mendicant status of this ludicrous, virtue-signalling outfit.
Facebook is one of the most toxic corporations on the planet. Its toxicity has two roots. The first is its business model: intrusive and comprehensive surveillance of its users in order to compile profiles that enable advertisers to target messages at them. This business model is powered by the machine-learning algorithms that construct those profiles and determine what appears in the news feeds of the company's 2.85 billion users. In large measure, it is the output of these algorithms that constitutes the focus of congressional anger and inquiry.
#93471 at 2021-09-20 16:11:44 (UTC+1)
QRB General #600: Big Six Oh Oh Bunker Makeover Before The Storm Edition
People listen as former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally on July 3, 2021 in Sarasota, Florida. Co-sponsored by the Republican Party of Florida, the rally marks Trump's further support of the MAGA agenda and accomplishments of his administration. Photo illustration by Salon/Eva Marie Uzcategui/getty Images
There's been a ton of reporting and analysis on Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's new book, "Peril", most of it focusing on the final days of the Trump administration - which by all accounts were even more of a chaotic mess than we could see from the outside (and we saw plenty). The bizarre antics from the president and his henchmen regarding the election results were unprecedented and continue to this day.
But one of the most chilling quotes from the book that I've seen so far comes from this review of the book by history professor Eric Rauchway in the Washington Post. As we knew, Vice President Mike Pence tried every way he could to come up with a rationale to do Trump's bidding and refuse to ceremonially confirm the electoral count in the joint session of Congress on January 6th. On that morning, before the fateful rally that inspired the insurrection, Pence came to the White House to reluctantly tell his boss that he just didn't have the power to do that under the Constitution:
Gesturing at some of his supporters already gathered and shouting outside the White House, Trump asked, "Well, what if these people say you do?
When Pence demurred again, Trump mused, "wouldn't it almost be cool to have that power?"
As Rauchway points out, "the president was willing to find authority in the mob if he lacked it in the law." It's entirely possible that if the mob had succeeded in finding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or the vice president or had been able to corner some of those elected officials in the Capitol that day, Trump would have gone along with it. All the recent books, including "Peril" have Trump watching the event unfold and being unmoved by exhortations to step in from everyone from his daughter Ivanka to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, to whom he reportedly said, "well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."
That comment about the mob conferring the power to overturn the election results got me thinking about the timeline on Jan. 6 and it occurs to me that Trump only issued his pathetic video in which he said he loved the gathered rioters but implored them to go on home once it became clear that all the officials had gotten away safely and there was no longer any chance his supporters would succeed in finding them. He had waited to see if they could physically force the Congress to overturn the election.
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As predicted, the "Justice forJ6" rally last Saturday was a non-event. More media showed up than protesters, largely because the organizer has no talent for organizing and the word on all right-wing social media was that the FBI was going to arrest everyone. As I noted earlier, Trump himself said it was a "set-up." But in case anyone wondered where he stood on the premise of this rally, which is that the federal authorities are unjustly holding peaceful protesters as political prisoners, he left no doubt when he issued his statement in solidarity. "Our hearts and minds are with the people being persecuted so unfairly relating to the January 6th protest concerning the Rigged Presidential Election. In addition to everything else, it has proven conclusively that we are a two-tiered system of justice."
ABC's Jonathan Karl reported on "This Week" that when he's interviewed Trump for his new book, it's clear that Trump has no regrets:
I was absolutely dumbfounded at how fondly he looks back on January 6th. He thinks it was a great day. He thinks it was one of the greatest days of his time in politics.
Trump is still flouting the law and openly condoning the violent insurrection. As Rauchway said, he "finds authority in the mob." He's always engaged in lurid rhetoric and has nudged his followers and police to beat protesters and the like. But starting with his calls to "liberate" states that were trying to mitigate the spread of the pandemic, he has been backing insurrectionist and vigilante activity. And his followers are listening.
We've seen threats and intimidation against government workers and public health officials for months. Congressional representatives are under constant threat having to hire private security and bodyguards. We are starting to see violence in everyday interactions between local officials and their constituents. School board meetings have become fraught with locals citizens yelling at officials that they know where they live and they will find them. Last week GOP Congressman Anthony Gonzales announced that he would not run for reelection in Ohio because ever since he voted to impeach Donald Trump after the insurrection he and his family have needed security due of the risk of violence from Trump supporters. Trump quickly put out a statement indicating his elation at the success of that intimidation:
NEW!
"1 down, 9 to go!" - President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/HpqIyVPYCe
- Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) September 17, 2021
The 9 he refers to are the other Republicans who voted to impeach him. He is using the "authority of the mob" to chase his perceived enemies in the GOP out of politics and to send a message to all the other Republicans that they will be subject to the same treatment if they cross him.
All the recent polls show Trump is as popular as ever with Republicans. His obsessive attention to his Big Lie seems to have hardened their attitudes with more of them believing he was cheated than believed it last January. The vast majority of his voters have lost faith in the electoral system to deliver a fair result and will likely not accept anything but a victory going forward, particularly if Donald Trump is on the ballot.
Rauchway's review of "Peril" features an unexpected insight into President Biden's view of Trumpism. He writes:
Biden regards the -ism, not the man, as the real threat; Trump put the nation in peril because he evoked and organized a darkness that was already there.
That darkness isn't going away. It is energized and stimulated by the strong threat of violence that is running through our politics. Like it's leader Trump, it sees the "authority in the mob" as the best way to preserve its dominance in a culture it believes is slipping away. Biden is right that Trump is not the real threat. The threat is the violent beast he has unleashed and there isn't any obvious way to put it back in its cage.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-quietly-unleashes-his-mob/ar-AAODCSW?
#89475 at 2021-09-08 13:40:14 (UTC+1)
QRB General #570: Is It Suicide Weekend Yet? Edition
Kneepads to California
AF2 USAF C-32A west from JBA to Oakland Int'l
Kneepads to campaign for Gov. Newsom in Calif. recall election
Vice President Kamala Harris will be in the Bay Area today to campaign for Gov. Gavin Newsom in California's recall election.
https://abc7.com/kamala-harris-california-recall-election-gavin-newsom-ca/11008105/
Not AF1 Joe goes next week.....all the stops to keep getty boi in position.
99-0004 USAF C-32A also out fro JBA
BOXER94 USAF C-40C sw from JBA
SAM269 USAF G5 also sw
morning
#89412 at 2021-09-08 04:25:25 (UTC+1)
QRB General #569: WePaintThePicture.png Edition
Fuhg....newly available mil infrastructure, lightly used....
China Weighing Occupation of Former U.S. Air Base at Bagram: Sources
Building on friendly relations Beijing has secured with the new Taliban government in Afghanistan, China is now considering new ways to expand influence and embarrass the U.S.
Sept. 7, 2021
China is considering deploying military personnel and economic development officials to Bagram airfield, perhaps the single-most prominent symbol of the 20-year U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.
The Chinese military is currently conducting a feasibility study about the effect of sending workers, soldiers and other staff related to its foreign economic investment program known as the Belt and Road Initiative in the coming years to Bagram, according to a source briefed on the study by Chinese military officials, who spoke to U.S. News on the condition of anonymity.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday issued a carefully crafted denial of plans for an imminent takeover of the military airfield roughly an hour from Kabul, first established by the Soviets during their own occupation in Afghanistan and which at the height of the U.S. military presence there was its busiest in the world.
"What I can tell everyone is that that is a piece of purely false information," Wang Wenbin told reporters Tuesday morning. China has repeatedly denied many of its other military deployments beyond its borders.
However, the current consideration in Beijing is not for any pending movements, rather a potential deployment as long as two years from now, the source says. And it would not encompass taking over the base but rather sending personnel and supplies at the invitation of the government in Kabul - and certainly after the Taliban secures its rule.
In addition to expanding its regional influence, Beijing's potential plan for Bagram would also amount to a devastating blow to the image of the U.S., which increasingly considers China its most pressing and challenging global threat.
"Given their past experience, the Chinese must be eager to get their hands on whatever the U.S. has left at the base," says Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center think tank.
Beijing has already recognized the geostrategic importance of Bagram overtly. Its state media almost immediately hopped on the sudden and surprise U.S. departure from the key logistics hub in July, sending a video crew, which gained easy access to it, to document the aftermath of what it described as a "hasty withdrawal" and "humiliating defeat."
China's latest consideration matches well-worn practices it has perfected in recent years to quietly expand its economic and military influence beyond its borders under the guise of infrastructure investment projects.
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Photo taken on July 8, 2021 shows the Bagram Airfield base after all U.S. and NATO forces evacuated in Parwan province, eastern Afghanistan. (Photo by Rahmatullah ALizadah/Xinhua via getty Images)
A view of the Bagram Airfield base after all U.S. and NATO forces evacuated in Parwan province, eastern Afghanistan, on July 8, 2021.(XINHUA NEWS AGENCY/getty IMAGES)
China is considering deploying military personnel and economic development officials to Bagram airfield, perhaps the single-most prominent symbol of the 20-year U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.
[ READ: The War in Afghanistan Ends Where It Started ]
The Chinese military is currently conducting a feasibility study about the effect of sending workers, soldiers and other staff related to its foreign economic investment program known as the Belt and Road Initiative in the coming years to Bagram, according to a source briefed on the study by Chinese military officials, who spoke to U.S. News on the condition of anonymity.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday issued a carefully crafted denial of plans for an imminent takeover of the military airfield roughly an hour from Kabul, first established by the Soviets during their own occupation in Afghanistan and which at the height of the U.S. military presence there was its busiest in the world.
"What I can tell everyone is that that is a piece of purely false information," Wang Wenbin told reporters Tuesday morning. China has repeatedly denied many of its other military deployments beyond its borders.
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However, the current consideration in Beijing is not for any pending movements, rather a potential deployment as long as two years from now, the source says. And it would not encompass taking over the base but rather sending personnel and supplies at the invitation of the government in Kabul - and certainly after the Taliban secures its rule.
Moar @
https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2021-09-07/china-weighing-occupation-of-former-us-air-base-at-bagram-sources
#89186 at 2021-09-07 17:39:42 (UTC+1)
QRB General #568: Nurses Know, The Lies, The Hypocrisy Edition
ICYMI: "Exclusive: Former U.K. Commander in Afghanistan Says Biden 'Self-Inflicted' Exit Worse than 'Surprise' 9/11 Attacks"
09/07/21
Read the full article by Joshua Klein with Breitbart here.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp blasted President Biden's exit from Afghanistan, claiming it was worse than 9/11 and calling it "the greatest victory for jihadists" and "a blow for American prestige" which won't recover for decades.
Kemp also warned of new threats in the wake of unfolding events there, including another refugee crisis and emboldened adversaries such as Iran, Russia, and China.
The former commander who led British forces in Afghanistan in 2003 and later joined the committee supervising the country's intelligence services, began by describing the unfolding events in Afghanistan as "the greatest foreign affairs and military catastrophe since the Second World War, without a doubt."
A convoy of Taliban fighters patrol along a street in Kabul on September 2, 2021. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via getty Images)
A convoy of Taliban fighters patrol along a street in Kabul on September 2, 2021. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via getty Images).
"If you combine the Vietnam fiasco and Suez [Crisis] for the British, it's worse than the two of those combined in its magnitude and its implications," he stated.
He also described recent events there in light of the Biden administration's chaotic exit as worse than the 2001 September 11 attacks - the deadliest terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
"It's certainly worse than 9/11 which was maybe the result of intelligence failure and possibly could have been prevented," he said, adding that they were "surprise" attacks, "whereas this is a self-inflicted wound."
394261 14: A fiery blasts rocks the World Trade Center after being hit by two planes September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/getty Images)
A fiery blasts rocks the World Trade Center after being hit by two planes September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/getty Images).
ARLINGTON, VA - SEPTEMBER 14, 2001: (SEPTEMBER 11 RETROSPECTIVE) A military helicopter flies in front of the Pentagon September 14, 2001 in Arlington, Virginia at the impact site where a hijacked airliner crashed into the building. (Photo by Stephen J. Boitano/getty Images)
A military helicopter flies in front of the Pentagon September 14, 2001 in Arlington, Virginia at the impact site where a hijacked airliner crashed into the building. (Stephen J. Boitano/getty Images).
Calling it a "result of a deliberate policy decision" by the U.S. president "against the advice of his generals," Kemp described the "complete disaster" of a withdrawal as "completely avoidable."
"It basically ceded a huge amount of authority and power and influence in the world from the West to the authoritarian states of Iran and North Korea, but particularly China and Russia," he said.
He also accused the Biden administration of having "undermined the efforts that have been recently discussed in Britain, America and the G7, and elsewhere about trying to work to persuade or entice those countries... considering coming into the sphere of influence of China and Russia."
"It's basically prevented that from happening really because these countries that we wanted to encourage to join our sphere of influence are going to be asking why they would do that when the U.S., and the West more widely, is a fair-weather ally," he said.
"When it gets difficult, they get out," he added, "and Russia and China will be more reliable friends."
He also claimed that the recent U.S. actions "will certainly inspire Russia and China to push harder against us, knowing that they will not be met with much resistance."
President Joe Biden turns to leave the podium after speaking about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Joe Biden turns to leave the podium after speaking about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci).
"They already thought the West was weak, and now they think it's weaker than originally thought," he said.
"Basically it's a real blow for American prestige which will not be recovered from probably for decades," he added.
full article
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/09/02/exclusive-former-uk-commander-in-afghanistan-says-biden-self-inflicted-exit-worse-than-surprise-9-11-attacks/
#89185 at 2021-09-07 17:37:12 (UTC+1)
QRB General #568: Nurses Know, The Lies, The Hypocrisy Edition
ICYMI: "Poll: Majority Blame Joe Biden for Deaths of 13 U.S. Servicemembers and 170 Afghans"
09/07/21
Read the full article by Wendell Husebo with Breitbart here.
A poll on Friday revealed the majority of Americans hold President Joe Biden responsible for the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers and 170 Afghans, according to Washington Post-ABC News.
Before asking the question, the poll prefaced that 13 "members of the U.S. military and at least 170 Afghans were killed near the Kabul airport in a suicide bombing by the Islamic State."
"How much, if at all, do you blame this attack on Biden's handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan - a great deal, a good amount, not much, or not at all?" the poll asked.
Fifty-three percent blamed Biden, 38 percent blaming him a "great deal" and 15 percent a "good amount."
Forty-three percent blame him less than others, which includes 22 percent "not much" and 21 percent "not at all." Only four percent had no opinion.
Holding Biden responsible for the deaths in Afghanistan mirrors the 52 percent of respondents who disapprove of Biden's handling of the withdrawal, though 77 percent still support former President Trump's initial idea of withdrawal:
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Air Force personnel during an event September 15, 2017 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. President Trump attended the event to celebrate the 70th birthday of the U.S. Air Force.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Air Force personnel during an event September 15, 2017 at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. President Trump attended the event to celebrate the 70th birthday of the U.S. Air Force (Alex Wong/getty Images).
Overall, respondents in the poll only gave Biden a 44 percent approval rating. Of the 44 percent, only 24 percent strongly approve of Biden, while 19 percent somewhat approve of him.
A majority disapprove of Biden's job performance. Fifty-one percent disapprove, including 9 percent who somewhat disapprove and 42 percent who strongly disapprove.
The polling comes after up to 200 Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan, but it is unknown exactly how many Americans still remain. The White House's initial count of Americans in Afghanistan before the country collapsed was about 11,000. Biden said in his non-primetime speech after the deadly evacuation that he decided to leave ten percent of those Americans behind.
The poll sampled 754 individuals and has a margin of error of 1.4 percent.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/03/majority-blame-joe-biden-deaths-13-u-s-servicemembers-170-afghans/
#87507 at 2021-09-01 00:50:46 (UTC+1)
QRB General #555: Salute to Robert David Steele "Expand Your Thinking" Edition
>>87504
Sorry, CORRECTION on those open source MILLBANK BLDG lights. S/b getty images, not ALAMY. Been a long while since that building lights dig.
#87297 at 2021-08-31 11:54:23 (UTC+1)
QRB General #554: DARPA Gonna Save the World from Cancer - Hallelujah! Edition
Sara A. Carter Retweeted
Robert Davi @RobertJohnDavi
·My response to Bernie on the @thehill have a listen @SaraCarterDC
@DavidJHarrisJr
https://twitter.com/RobertJohnDavi/status/1432524284652494850
10:02 PM {EDT} · Aug 30, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
22:02h
/ vidCAP
talks about Bernie Sanders, the gettys, Pelosi's Nephew Newsom, the Browns, California MAFIA,WATER! /picrel KeK
[1] QPost has ALL FOUR FAMILIES:
QPost # 2782 (19) (10)
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 02/18/2019 04:19:58 ID: 2d7d7c
...
{ FlowCHART; FOUR FAMILIES, THREE GENERATIONS: BROWN, PELOSI, NEWSOM, getty }
Image Name: 7D41C3B5-45E7-41C7-B5B4-DE94E77998DB.jpeg
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[Example CA]
https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/amp/?
{ by Dan Walters , January 6, 2019Updated July 8, 2019 } { https://archive.ph/VpHtj }
What 'family' runs CA?
They are all connected.
Wealth-Power-Influence
[RIGGED]
The More You Know....
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dasting TimeStamp 22:02h { CURRENT MOVIE ! ~ sub BOTUS for POTUS ~ IMPEACH PANIC ! }
QPost # 2202 (6) (6)
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI 09/17/2018 20:37:56 ID:
PANIC IN DC.
BLACKMAIL v Senate & House [BRIDGE: FAKE NEWS MEDIA] being used
to apply leverage against POTUS and/or force immediate 'impeachment' hearings
based on 'mental state - potential release of state secrets - sources & methods....'
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#80387 at 2021-08-07 20:14:29 (UTC+1)
QRB General #493: This Is Not A Game Edition
>>80386
Wedding certificate was with a cache of wedding pictures anon came across, open source.
The chart in the previous post shows the connect between Newsom and getty.
#80386 at 2021-08-07 20:05:19 (UTC+1)
QRB General #493: This Is Not A Game Edition
>>80363 pb
>>80362 pb
"All of them Witches"
From the movie "Rosemary's Baby" by Roman Polanski, who also directed "Chinatown," which story was set in the corruption /scheme over the water procurement necessity, .which created Los Angeles as we know it today.. The scheme created the possibility for the city; And the family who did that ended up owning it all
"Watch the Water"
Harry Chandler of that family created the original "HollywoodLand" sign and likely, since he created that development, was responsible for the name? Holly Rood. Holy Stick.
In the movie "Chinatown" the family was of the "incest is best" variety, like the Bidans, and ran the show from the power position of the Pedo Father figure. (L.A.) Rumor is that the movie was based upon the the L.A. Times owner family "Chandler" of the Ray Chandler fame.
Newspapers / Politics, goes back farther than Mockingbird.
Hearst - Orson Welles - RCA - Rockefeller - "War of the Worlds" - Radio psy-op , beta test for things to come.
They say "she's" (Ray) is not from that family, but there's a close match between her and Otis, who ran the newspaper company for many years. The resemblance is too close (see attached).
and some School friends from Brentwood, so they say, contend they thought "she" was from that family?
How else would she be close friends with Paris Hilton, who lived near-by - ish and run in the party circles, as "she" did?
(I put "She" in parenthesis since the marriage license ID 'd "her" as male. Maybe it was a typo?)
Polanski did both the films "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby" and is also is on the lam from Courts in USA over pedophile charges.
getty ties in there somehow; remember the abandoned houses belonging to San Fran's Socialite Gorden getty]'s mistress - where they found the gun cache.. ? And the weird beach house with the Satan signs scrolled on the walls that also belonged to that Mistress? And the rumors around the getty museum near the beach - had very sparse show rooms for artwork originally (the place can only exhibit 2 per cent of it collection at any one time (. as I recall, considering its size to begin with? and was built up on a cliff - like Hearst "castle" ? Roman antiquities like Hearst. Pools of Water, like Hearst) . Up a narrow path for access? Like Hearst's. Expanded massively to be re-opened in '06 and that's when rumors of what was dug up there surfaced. It also expanded to another campus? The original is near the Hollywood colony at Malibu.
Some people questioned why it would be placed there.. Kind of an out of the way place for a major Art Museum
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g32676-d1067416-Reviews-or5-The_getty_Villa-Malibu_California.html
"Don't confuse this place with the getty Museum in Santa Monica"
#80362 at 2021-08-07 18:10:44 (UTC+1)
QRB General #492: Stay Focused on the Audits Edition
>>80335
https://8kun.top/squirrel/res/93.html#q431
>>80335
"Owl" in Greek is the same word as WITCH
still looking for the citation / sauce.. I posted it a few days ago
>>80353
maybe. But maybe they are just doing their mockery?
>>80345
obviously deliberate.. Family connects with getty
>>79958, pb
>>79963, pb
>>79965 pb Belzer, comedian?
More on "Jones" history
If I posted this already, sorry about that.
"Jones" earned his chops by entry into Bohemian Grove.
If you look at that closely you'll see that it was staged.
Everything is connected.
#75995 at 2021-07-26 18:46:52 (UTC+1)
QRB General #449: [DS] In Full Panic Edition
>>75991
Cause dhey don't wanna werk!!
Most of the service related biz's are dying here cause fuggen getty boi won't do shit about ending it here.
Incidentally I habs no faith that he will be gone after the recall.
None at all.
#67406 at 2021-06-29 21:01:17 (UTC+1)
QRB General #359: Trump Florida Extravaganza T-Minus 5 Edition
One of the largest owners of bitcoin, who reportedly held as much as $1 billion, is dead at 41
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The bitcoin pioneer, who was believed to own over $1 billion in the world's No. 1 crypto, making him, at the time, one of the asset's larger single-holders, died off the coast of Costa Rica, according to a Spanish-language publication, Teletica.com, which reported last week that a foreigner had drowned at Playa Hermosa de Garabito, Puntarenas, in Costa Rica, describing the victim as a 41-year-old "of Polish origin." However, Popescu is a well-knowned name in Romania and he has been described on some sites as a Romanian entrepreneur and blogger.
Popescu was viewed as a pioneer in digital assets and one of the earliest adopters. An article in Bitcoin Magazine written by Pete Rizzo said that Popescu was known for starting MPEx, a bitcoin securities exchange, around the same time as Coinbase Global launched.
At its mid-April peak this year, Popescu's bitcoin holdings would have been worth nearly $2 billion.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/one-of-the-largest-owners-of-bitcoin-who-reportedly-held-as-much-as-241-billion-is-dead-at-41-reports/ar-AALyfPt
#64985 at 2021-06-21 16:46:21 (UTC+1)
QRB General #332: WE CAUGHT THEM in Georgia, AZ Next!! Edition
New Study Links Ivermectin to 'Large Reductions' In COVID-19 Deaths
June 21, 2021
A recent pre-print review based on peer-reviewed studies has found that using antiparasitic drug ivermectin could lead to "large reductions" in COVID-19 deaths and its use could have a "significant impact" on the pandemic globally.
For the study (pdf), published on June 17 in the American Journal of Therapeutics, a group of scientists reviewed the clinical trial use of ivermectin, which has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, in 24 randomized controlled trials involving just over 3,400 participants. The researchers sought to assess the efficacy of ivermectin in reducing infection or mortality in people with COVID-19 or at high risk of getting it.
Using multiple methods of sequential analysis, the researchers concluded with a moderate level of confidence that the drug reduced the risk of death in COVID-19 patients by an average of 62 percent, at a 95 percent confidence interval of 0.19-0.79, in a sample of 2438 patients.
Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the risk of death was found to be 2.3 percent among those treated with the drug, compared to 7.8 percent for those who were not, according to the review.
"Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease," the authors wrote.
?A health worker shows a box containing a bottle of Ivermectin as part of a study of the Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Studies, in Cali, Colombia, on July 21, 2020. (Luis Robayo/AFP via getty Images)
Since the start of the pandemic, both observational and randomized studies have evaluated ivermectin as a treatment for, and as prevention against, COVID-19 infection.
"A review by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance summarized findings from 27 studies on the effects of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection, concluding that ivermectin 'demonstrates a strong signal of therapeutic efficacy' against COVID-19" the researchers wrote, referring to one recent review, which was based on data from both peer-reviewed studies and preprint manuscripts.
They cited another recent review that concluded that ivermectin reduced deaths by as much as 75 percent, while noting that neither the National Institutes of Health in the United States nor the World Health Organization (WHO) have recommended the use of ivermectin outside clinical trials for use in the fight against COVID-19.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in a note on "Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19," warns that it has received "multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses."
"Using any treatment for COVID-19 that's not approved or authorized by the FDA, unless part of a clinical trial, can cause serious harm," the FDA said in the note, adding that it has not reviewed data to support the use of ivermectin in COVID-19 patients.
The WHO said in March that "the current evidence on the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients is inconclusive" and that, until more data becomes available, the agency recommends that "the drug only be used within clinical trials."
The authors of the ivermectin efficacy study argued, however, that the drug has an "established safety profile through decades of use" and "could play a critical role in suppressing or even ending the SARS-CoV2 pandemic."
"The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally," they argued in the study abstract.
The authors noted in their publication that all the studies on which they based their conclusions have been peer-reviewed.
https://m.theepochtimes.com/new-study-links-ivermectin-to-large-reductions-in-covid-19-deaths_3867278.html
#63051 at 2021-06-15 00:18:54 (UTC+1)
QRB General #307: Botus Bombs @ NATO Summit Edition
Johns Hopkins Doctor Marty Makary Accuses CDC of 'Sitting on Data' to Suit Their Narrative
6/14/21 AT 3:44 PM
night, Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins Hospital claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "sits on a lot of data." He also suggested the reason why the health organization holds back information is to better support their agenda.
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During a television appearance on Sunday night, Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins Hospital claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "sits on a lot of data." He also suggested the reason why the health organization holds back information is to better support their agenda.
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Dr. Marty Makary speaks during a screening of the HBO documentary film 'Bleed Out' on December 12, 2018, in New York City. He recently claimed the CDC holds back information to suit their agenda.
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Along with being a healthy policy expert and surgeon, Makary is a Fox News contributor. It was on that network where he made the comments regarding the CDC not being forthcoming about its information. The claim came during the Sunday edition of the Fox News program The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton.
While discussing the effects of COVID-19 on youth, Makary said, "The headlines that were not broadcast by the CDC, and the media did not cover, was that no child in that entire study died of COVID, number one."
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BY JON JACKSON ON 6/14/21 AT 3:44 PM EDT
During a television appearance on Sunday night, Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins Hospital claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "sits on a lot of data." He also suggested the reason why the health organization holds back information is to better support their agenda.
Along with being a healthy policy expert and surgeon, Makary is a Fox News contributor. It was on that network where he made the comments regarding the CDC not being forthcoming about its information. The claim came during the Sunday edition of the Fox News program The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton.
While discussing the effects of COVID-19 on youth, Makary said, "The headlines that were not broadcast by the CDC, and the media did not cover, was that no child in that entire study died of COVID, number one."
"And number two, the hospitalization rate was lower for COVID than it was of influenza. The CDC sits on a lot of data," he continued. "And by the way, why are we getting this data from February now in June, again, with the heart-swelling complications of over 300 kids? They had that data now for three weeks; they announced it last Wednesday. They're having their emergency meeting about a week and half later."
His comments were made in reference to the CDC declaring an advisory panel will convene an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss reports of heart inflammation in adolescents who received the COVID-19 vaccine.
The CDC said 226 confirmed cases of a heart-swelling condition, called myocarditis, have been reported in people under 30 who got the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Makary also said to host Steve Hilton on Sunday, "They [the CDC] sit on a lot of data, and they don't give the key data that tells us which kids are dying of COVID. If we had that data, we could target our strategy. It turns out that there's probably only been one child in the United States who has ever died of COVID, who was healthy, that is didn't have a comorbid condition."
https://www.newsweek.com/johns-hopkins-doctor-marty-makary-accuses-cdc-sitting-data-suit-their-narrative-1600545
#61886 at 2021-06-10 17:59:27 (UTC+1)
QRB General #292: Audit Distraction Well Played Edition
Prince Philip's Reliant Scimitar
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh with his new Reliant Scimitar, during a visit to see Princess Anne at King Edward VII's Hospital in London, 30th April 1966. The car's numberplate is '66 Ogle'. (Photo by Stan Meagher/Express/Hulton Archive/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh-with-his-new-reliant-news-photo/1271920778
The car shown is a Ogle SX250 It pre dated the scimitar and had a daimler 250 v8 engine
#59949 at 2021-06-05 04:39:25 (UTC+1)
QRB General #268: Night Shift On Edition
US President George W. Bush (R) presents the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Human Genome ... [+] AFP VIA getty IMAGES
Today, as the director of the National Institutes of Health, Collins has a bird's eye view of the pandemic, our national response, and how the iterative nature of science brought us to be able to respond as well as we have.
The Human Genome Project, an international effort to sequence the human genome, is the only government initiative that I recall coming in early and under budget. While the United States contributed a bit more than half of the budget and the manpower, it was an international effort also involving scientists from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan and China. It was a monstrous effort and Collins served as the project lead, ensuring that all worked together and the genome was completed in 2003-two years ahead of schedule.
"That had never really been tried at that scale before. It was crossing into this territory of Big Science for biology and medicine, but it worked," Collins told me. The project also launched an era of data release and openness, with all of the human DNA information delivered into the public domain daily. The idea, Collins explained, was that DNA is our shared inheritance and all of us should be able to learn from it.
That mindset-that biomedical research happens faster with collaboration and sharing of data-is responsible for any success we've had with the COVID-19 pandemic. While there have been missteps, the technological advances of genomic sequencing and the international data sharing expectations sped our response by months if not years.
"You can draw a direct line from the success of the Genome Project to the fact that we learned so quickly about SARS-CoV-2: what kind of virus this was, what kind of approach might be necessary to go after it," Collins said. After the Chinese lab released the sequence of the virus in January 2020-a process that takes a good lab just an hour or two now-researchers around the world could begin researching the virus without needing a sample. "That made it possible within 24 hours for the first vaccine design to get started!" Collins said.
The investments the American people made in the Human Genome Project-Collins told me they spent about $3 billion on the project, $400 million of which was on the sequencing itself-have repaid us hundreds of times over in biomedical, technology, computing, and economic advances.
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#58958 at 2021-06-02 03:27:31 (UTC+1)
QRB General #254: Libs Be Like... Edition
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-goes-after-former-gop-rep-who-said-few-republicans-would-search-for-him-if-he-disappeared-tomorrow/
Trump Goes After Former GOP Rep. Who Said Few Republicans Would Search for Him If He 'Disappeared Tomorrow'
By Josh FeldmanJun 1st, 2021, 7:25 pm
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Former President Donald Trump put out a statement on Tuesday going after former Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (R- VA).
Just two days ago, Comstock said on Meet the Press that if Trump "disappeared tomorrow," not many Republicans would search for him.
#55792 at 2021-05-22 16:45:05 (UTC+1)
QRB General #215: UFOs Arriving Soon in a City Near You? Edition
A judge ruled that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell could keep his address secret, after Lindell's lawyers said someone repeatedly threatened to decapitate him
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell with President Donald Trump during a coronavirus briefing on March 30, 2020. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via getty Images
A judge says MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell doesn't have to publicly share his address in a legal battle.
A legal filing said Lindell had received malicious phone calls and death threats.
It also said someone mailed a pair of pillows covered in fake blood to MyPillow's headquarters.
A district judge in Washington, DC, has ruled that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell doesn't have to publicly reveal his address in court documents related to his legal battle against Dominion Voting Systems, after lawyers for Lindell said it would put him at risk of death threats.
In documents filed May 14, legal representatives for Lindell said MyPillow had reported at least seven people to the Chaska, Minnesota, police, claiming the people had "directly threatened Mr. Lindell's life or physical safety."
This included a person who Jeremiah Pilon, the deputy general counsel for MyPillow, said repeatedly ringed MyPillow's call center and detailed a plan to kidnap and decapitate Lindell.
Pilon added that the local police patrolled MyPillow's corporate office more often in response.
Read more: The MyPillow guy says God helped him beat a crack addiction to build a multimillion-dollar empire. Now his religious devotion to Trump threatens to bring it all crashing down.
Lindell, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump and a major GOP donor, has repeatedly supported Trump's debunked claims challenging the integrity of the 2020 election.
This has led to Twitter blocking him, retailers pulling his products, and Dominion filing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against him, after he spread baseless claims that its voting machines helped rig the election.
As part of that case, Lindell filed a motion May 14 for leave to file his home address under seal and ex parte, rather than filing it publicly. His request was granted by DC District Judge Carl Nichols on Tuesday.
"Lindell reasonably believes that publicizing his residential address would, in all likelihood, put him at risk of imminent harm," Douglas Daniels and Trey Mayfield, Lindell's defense counsels, wrote in the filing.
Pilon said that in December a "threatening box" was delivered to MyPillow's headquarters in Chaska.
"The box was open on top and contained two MyPillow bed pillows that had been slit open and splattered with a red-colored substance intended to look like blood," Pilon wrote. He added that a sign was attached to the box reading: "Mike Lindell Loves Murderers."
He added that MyPillow could present the court with audio recordings of some of the threats.
In March, Lindell said he hadn't been to his home in Minnesota for two months over safety concerns and instead had been moving between "undisclosed locations."
He also took a hiatus from in-person events, which he said were "too risky," but he has since spoken at events including the Conservative Political Action Conference and a rally at South Dakota's Corn Palace to promote his voter-fraud website, Frank Speech.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-mypillow-dominion-lawsuit-death-threats-donald-trump-election-2021-5
#55003 at 2021-05-20 08:44:36 (UTC+1)
QRB General #206: The Power of the People Edition
Group launches bid to recall Gov. Inslee over handling of the pandemic
May 18, 2021 at 11:34 am
Gov. Jay Inslee. (Photo by David Ryder/getty Images)
A citizen group has launched a bid to recall Gov. Jay Inslee, levying a series of accusations against the governor regarding his handling of the pandemic over the last year.
Recall campaign, Kshama Sawant dig in for lengthy battle
The group included five charges in its recall filing, alleging the following:
That Inslee violated religious freedoms in restricting large gatherings
That the rights of residential landlords were infringed upon by the state's eviction moratorium
That he overstepped his authority by suspending the Open Public Meetings Act
That he violated state law by suspending large gatherings
That he failed to adequately demonstrate a "just cause" for issuing proclamations related to Washington's declared state of emergency
The recall petition still requires court approval to move forward. Should it get that approval, the group behind the effort estimates that it will need roughly 1.5 million certified signatures to get the recall on the ballot.
Inslee 'won' reelection in 2020 [through mail-in voting and rigging, with help from Soros-backed Secretary of State Kim Wyman], 'defeating' Republican challenger Loren Culp 56% to 43%, marking his largest ever margin of victory as governor. Culp garnered just over 1.7 million votes.
This will mark the second attempt to recall Inslee in recent years. In 2019, Arthur West submitted a recall filing alleging that Inslee "was absent from Washington too frequently" while campaigning for president, and "failed to notify the lieutenant governor of these absences." West also claimed that the governor had "improperly campaigned for a ballot initiative."
A Thurston County court struck down that petition, finding the charges to be "legally and factually insufficient to submit to voters." The Washington Supreme Court affirmed that decision, ruling that "West's petition may have stated reasons to disagree with Governor Inslee, but they were not proper reasons to support a recall."
This is also the latest in a series of high-profile recall efforts in Washington over the last year-plus, including failed efforts to remove Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, and Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza. A recall against Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is currently gathering signatures in hopes of getting on the ballot.
https://mynorthwest.com/2909776/group-launches-recall-bid-gov-inslee-pandemic/
#44803 at 2021-04-10 21:15:33 (UTC+1)
QRB General #87: Ship Tidied, Ready to Sail! Edition
Twitter Refuses to Host Archive of Trump's Banned Tweets
4-9-21
Twitter will not put former President Donald Trump's tweets back on its platform, the company said this week, making it more difficult for the National Archives (NARA) to archive the missives Trump sent when he was commander-in-chief.
"Given that we permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump, the content from the account will not appear on Twitter as it did previously or as archived administration accounts do currently, regardless of how NARA decides to display the data it has preserved," a Twitter spokesperson told news outlets in a statement.
"Administration accounts that are archived on the service are accounts that were not in violation of the Twitter Rules."
The California-based technology giant did not respond to a request for more information.
NARA said the archives "intends to provide public access to all captured and preserved Presidential Record social media, including any blocked or deleted Tweets that have been transferred to us."
"Twitter is solely responsible for the decision of what content is available on their platform. NARA works closely with Twitter and other social media platforms to maintain archived social accounts from each presidential administration, but ultimately the platform owners can decline to host these accounts. NARA preserves platform independent copies of social media records and is working to make that content available to the public," the agency told The Epoch Times via email.
Trump did not respond to a request for comment.
Epoch Times Photo
This illustration photo shows a woman in Los Angeles looking at the official Twitter account of then-President Donald Trump on June 23, 2020. (AFP via getty Images)
The content from the personal accounts used by Trump and others during his administration will be hosted at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library.
Several private websites have archives of Trump's old tweets, but NARA would host an official record that could be used by journalists, nonprofits, and other organizations with confidence in the accuracy of the posts.
Twitter permanently suspended Trump on Jan. 8, accusing him of inciting violence through his posts.
Facebook also banned Trump. That decision is being reviewed by the independent Facebook Oversight Board, which can overrule company actions.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-refuses-to-host-archive-of-trumps-banned-tweets_3768901.html
#44605 at 2021-04-09 18:17:12 (UTC+1)
QRB General #85: Swamp Creatures Surface Edition
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/547308-news-corp-issuing-1-billion-bond-for-acquisitions-operations
News Corp issuing $1 billion bond for acquisitions, operations
© getty Images
News Corp is issuing $1 billion worth of bonds to potentially fund more acquisitions as well as other general corporate purposes, including raising working capital, the company announced Thursday.
The $1 billion figure is an increase from $750 million worth of bonds the company previously announced it would be issuing.
The mention of possible acquisitions comes not long after News Corp - which owns the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal (and that paper's parent company Dow Jones) and HarperCollins - recently completed two significant corporate purchases.
On March 29, the company announced it was buying Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books and the Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for $349 million. The deal will give News Corp the rights to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and other J.R.R. Tolkien books as well as the George Orwell titles "1984" and "Animal Farm" along with many other titles.
On March 25, News Corp announced plans to purchase Investor's Business Daily for $275 million from O'Neil Capital Management.
Those News Corp acquisitions are only two of several deals that have been completed, announced or rumored this year.
#43261 at 2021-04-02 09:26:52 (UTC+1)
QRB General #69: President Trump, Shout It OUT! Edition
>>>/qresearch/13339740
https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/carbon-tax-democrats-progressive-agenda/2021/03/31/id/1015827/
'Sneaky' Carbon Tax Could Help Fund Democrats' Progressive Agenda
(ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via getty Images)
By Marisa Herman | Wednesday, 31 March 2021 07:35
#28886 at 2019-07-26 15:34:23 (UTC+1)
QRB General #37: Make Capital Punishment Great Again Edition
>>28858
>>28875
>>28852
Found flag of Ethiopia, has yellow 5-pointed star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ethiopia
It's a match for the background behind Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani that some anon said was important. (Don't know yet why it's important.)
OK found the occasion & date.
Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Addis Ababa
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - APRIL 10: Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (L) meets President of Ethiopia Mulatu Teshome (R) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on April 10, 2017. (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/getty Images)
OK my dig is done. Found
who, context, date, place, event.
#28875 at 2019-07-26 15:22:07 (UTC+1)
QRB General #37: Make Capital Punishment Great Again Edition
Perusing the getty Images of Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar. This fucker gets around. Diplomacy photos with numerous world leaders. He's a very tall man. Interesting... Pics probably unrelated to search for background flag.
Using date filters to narrow search.
Tineye says pic first appeared July 3, 2017.
Narrowed it to 43 pics on getty in July 2017.
PageSix photo not found in July 2017 getty. Shit.
Filter July 2016-July 2018, number of people = 1. Not found! Other filters, not finding it.
Still digging.
Searching DDG on that flag.
#28861 at 2019-07-26 15:03:44 (UTC+1)
QRB General #37: Make Capital Punishment Great Again Edition
>>28858
getty Images has 3702 images tagged
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani
Looking for that flag...
#28858 at 2019-07-26 14:56:40 (UTC+1)
QRB General #37: Make Capital Punishment Great Again Edition
>>28852
So I'm digging a bit.
1) Who is this guy? Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, according to
https://pagesix.com/2017/07/03/qatar-buys-townhouse-just-for-the-maids
2) Who took the photo? Credit to getty Images. What was the occasion? Date? Location? Others present?
I'm gonna go search getty Images for photo meta data.
3) Current stories about this guy? Context?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3740712/Billionaire-real-estate-executive-56-divorces-wife-15-years-date-22-year-old-Harvard-student.html
"Billionaire real estate executive, 56, [Andrew Farkas] 'divorces wife of 15 years and starts dating 22-year-old Harvard student'
Andrew Farkas founded real estate merchant bank Island Capital Group
He split with wife Sandi, a playwright who he married in 2001
Farkas is dating senior at his alma mater, partying together in Hamptons
Harvard renamed building housing famed Hasty Pudding club after Farkas contributed a hefty gift, but new romantic interest is not affiliated
Following divorce, Farkas put his Upper East Side townhouse up for sale
He purchased 10,000-square-foot mansion in 2007 for $23million and is now selling it for $42.5million"
Farkas sold the townhouse for 2x market price(?) to this Emir of Qatar who was said to be buying it for "maids' quarters" ???
Article dated July 6, 2017
Qatar buys townhouse just for the maids
https://pagesix.com/2017/07/03/qatar-buys-townhouse-just-for-the-maids
Qatar is expanding its footprint on Manhattan.
After the nation bought two landmarked townhouses next door to each other on East 72nd Street to combine into a royal palace, it has now bought another adjacent townhouse, just to put up the staff.
The emir of Qatar reportedly bought 7-9 East 72nd St. from the Lycée Français for $26 million in 2002 after the posh private school moved to a new building.
The Beaux-Arts properties underwent years of construction to be combined into one mega-mansion said to be one of the largest private residences in the city. Reports said it will boast an indoor swimming pool, two floors of bedrooms, a maze of foyers on the first floor and an astonishing 8,500-square-foot roof area.
Curbed wrote that the buildings were owned by a company operated by the ambassador of Qatar, but it is likely that Qatar's Princess Sheikha Mayassa Bint Hamad Al Thani, an avid art collector, would reside there, while the emir would move in for the annual UN General Assembly in September.
Also, billionaire Andrew Farkas, a close buddy of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the founder of real estate merchant bank Island Capital Group, has sold his townhouse at 12 E. 73rd St. to a representative of oil-rich Qatar for $42.5 million.
A real estate source told us, "Andrew sold it to Qatar directly, with no broker involved. They bought it because it backs directly onto their property at 7-9 East 72nd St. Andrew spent no expense renovating the place, but apparently it will be used for maids' quarters."
The source added, "Andrew was lucky because the Upper East Side townhouse market is slow. If he'd sold it on the open market, he'd have [gotten] $20 million for it." He didn't respond to requests for comment, nor did the consulate-general of Qatar.
Meanwhile, Qatar remains in a dangerous dispute with other Arab gulf states that broke diplomatic relations because of Qatar's purported support of terrorism.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Bought it for the Princess who's an "avid art collector"? Like, yeah, right. Foreign royalty can ship art overseas to/from, without customs inspections, using diplomatic immunity? Large, huge containers containing "art"? Where have we seen that before (Marina -- 'art for embassies' program)?
Human trafficking red flags all over the place here?
What kind of name is "Farkas" anyway? Sounds Arabic.
#24582 at 2019-07-22 14:37:47 (UTC+1)
QRB General #32: Revving Up for Monday Fireworks Edition
>>24555
Photo (later one_
CIA Report
LANGLEY, VA - JULY 9: The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of CIA Headquarters, July 9, 2004 at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Earlier today the Senate Intelligence Committee released its report on the numerous failures in the CIA reporting of alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. (Photo by Charles Ommanney/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.it/detail/fotografie-di-cronaca/the-cia-symbol-is-shown-on-the-floor-of-cia-fotografie-di-cronaca/79000158
Also, maybe we should look at similar stories with earlier photo? Janitor pic doesn't seem to be available from getty (CORBIS) any more.
#22422 at 2019-07-21 04:11:35 (UTC+1)
QRB General #29
Costa Rica latest alcohol poisoning news: Contaminated alcohol kills at least 19
So far around 34 patients have been hospitalised as a result of the methanol-tainted alcohol. Of those 19 have died from the contaminated substance. According to News Breaking Live, those killed are aged between 32 and 72.
Local reports suggest that six different brands of alcohol have subsequently had warnings placed on them.
The brands were Guaro Montano; Aguardiente Barón Red; Aguardiente Timbuka; and Molotov Aguardiente.
The country's health ministry suggested that some vendors were selling counterfeit products.
However, they said it was unclear whether this was done so knowingly, or unknowingly.
So far around 34 patients have been hospitalised as a result of the methanol-tainted alcohol (Image: getty)
It is also believed the majority of death toll were people who were homeless and alcoholics.
The huge total has grown since the first reports back in June.
Costa Rican authorities are reported to have seized 30,000 bottles of alcohol.
Experts are still working to understand how widespread the poisoning could be.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1155931/costa-rica-latest-alcohol-poison-news-liquor-Guaro-Montano-Molotov-updates
#17473 at 2019-07-18 05:54:40 (UTC+1)
QRB General #22: IT'S Q, BABY, WWG1WGA, BABY Edition
Donald Trump Out On The Town With Ghislaine Maxwell
Photo: Arnaldo Mag
315274 10/29/97 New York City
Magnani/getty Images
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/new-york-city-donald-trump-out-on-the-town-with-ghislaine-news-photo/51043131?adppopup=true
#17432 at 2019-07-18 05:23:20 (UTC+1)
QRB General #22: IT'S Q, BABY, WWG1WGA, BABY Edition
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2019/07/todays-blind-items-retail-king.html
reveals i saw on another site
#9: Here's the $77M Mansion the Feds Want to Seize from Jeffrey Epstein
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-house/
#11: Unraveling the web of Epstein's Manhattan real estate
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/unraveling-web-epsteins-manhattan-real-estate
Hollywood movie star: Richard Chamberlain
TV miniseries: "The Thorn Birds"
Grandmother Vera:
Retail King married: Abigail S. Koppel
New Media King: Rupert Murdock (A Big Deal Goes Down at NYC's Lordly 834 Fifth Avenue)
https://variety.com/2011/dirt/real-estalker/a-big-deal-goes-down-at-nycs-lordly-834-fifth-avenue-1201231218/
C&C: Hillary and Bill Clinton
Creature: Jeffrey Epstein
Royal's friendship: Prince Andrew
Creature's Heiress companion/father: Ghislaine Maxwell/Robert Maxwell
Comedian/actor: Bill Cosby
Billionaire businessman: Robert Warren
Miller/Socialite wife: Diane von Furstenberg
Daughter Pia Christina Miller married getty Oil heir Christopher Ronald getty, son of Jean Ronald getty and grandson of Jean Paul getty
Daughter Marie-Chantal Claire Miller married Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
Youngest daughter married and divorced the son of a famous socialite/clothing designer: Alexandra Natasha Miller/Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg
Socialite's second husband: Barry Diller
Extraordinary SY: Yacht "EOS"
https://www.superyachtfan.com/sailing-yacht-eos.html
#13856 at 2019-07-17 04:25:54 (UTC+1)
QRB General 18: Bread Unlocked Bunker Unchained Edition
>>13837
Been out most of day. Saw Diller and of course Cosby across street, but the getty connection is def YUGE.
Wow. Makes sense with the insistence on "heated sidewalks" now, right?
#13837 at 2019-07-17 04:19:52 (UTC+1)
QRB General 18: Bread Unlocked Bunker Unchained Edition
just a simple anon doing my part for the cause
#9038
>>7063463, >>7063732 LSJ LLC digs
>>7063502 California Gov - petition is being passed around and they need 13% of the voters last election, to trigger election
>>7063510, >>7063540, >>7063585 Kim Dotcom twats about Seth Rich, and digs
>>7063530, >>7063577, >>7063580, >>7063625, >>7063677 anons on CNN and Richard Spencer as analyst/contributor
>>7063699, >>7063719 ENTY drops: contruction of Epstein Manhattan House, Ehud Barak, Megan Markel - gets nom for notable
>>7063739 Boatfag: RC knows Roy Carroll the North Carolina developer. Roy owned two large yachts, RHINO and SKYFALL
>>7063767 D rep Emanuel Cleaver abandons the House chair - unfairness is not enough, we just want to fight
>>7063774, >>7063870 lack of image in cap of Qs drop draws anons attention
>>7063812 getty owns house across from Epstein in Manhattan
>>7063889, >>7063911 Green files articles of impeachment
>>7063974 EO: Collecting Information About Citizenship Status in Connection With the Decennial Census
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replace with
>>>/qresearch/
for any relevant interest
ex
>>7063812 getty owns house across from Epstein in Manhattan
>>>/qresearch/7063812 getty owns house across from Epstein in Manhattan
#13270 at 2019-07-17 00:49:26 (UTC+1)
QRB General #17: Pelosi Sparks Uproar in House Edition
>>13254
See:
https://blindgossip.com/the-secret-recordings/
That entire block in New York.
Looking more like Eyes Wide Shut by the hour.
Speaking of movies, am currently watching "All the Money in the World", about the getty kidnapping
Scene cuts to a view captioned "getty Mansion - England"
It's Waddesdon Manor
Rothschilds
We've been getting hints about this for years.
#11280 at 2019-07-16 09:41:34 (UTC+1)
QRB General #14: Board Of Peace Edition
Suspect In getty-Linked Bel Air Mansion Gun Cache Faces Judge
LOS ANGELES, CA - A 58-year-old man accused of stockpiling a massive cache of weapons inside a Bel-Air mansion pleaded not guilty Monday to 64 felonies.
Girard Damian Saenz was arrested following a May 9 search of the home at 111 N. Beverly Glen Blvd. Investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized more than 1,000 guns during the search. ATF officials said they searched the home in response to an anonymous tip.
The home is owned by Cynthia Beck, who has three daughters with J. Paul getty's son, Gordon getty. The Los Angeles Times reported that Beck bought the home in 2001, but she has not been linked to the stockpile of weapons.
Saenz is charged with 23 counts of possession of an assault weapon, 17 counts of unlicensed transfer of a handgun, 15 counts of unlawful assault weapon/.50 BMG rifle activity, seven counts of possession of a short-barreled rifle or shotgun and two counts of possession of a destructive device.
Saenz, who was freed on $50,000 bail after his May arrest, pleaded not guilty Monday during a hearing at the Airport Branch Courthouse. His bail was increased to $100,000, which he posted.
He faces up to 48 years and eight months in prison if convicted, according to the District Attorney's Office.
https://patch.com/california/pacificpalisades/s/gs3t3/suspect-getty-linked-bel-air-mansion-gun-cache-faces-judge
#9417 at 2019-07-15 21:13:11 (UTC+1)
QRB General #12: BOOM Week Edition
I saw this on Qresearch
Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/1150798030888558592
Article: Ex-Fox & Friends co-host Clayton Morris has left the country amid more than two dozen lawsuits from investors who say he defrauded them in real estate deals involving properties in Indianapolis.
Morris, who previously resided in a $1.4 million home in New Jersey, has moved with his family to a coastal resort town Portugal, according to his wife's Facebook post.
In an email to IndyStar, Morris's wife and business partner, former MSNBC anchor Natali Morris, said they plan to continue fighting the lawsuits from abroad. They have denied responsibility for investor losses, instead blaming their Indianapolis business partner Bert Whalen and his company, Oceanpointe.
Accusations of fraud: Investors say ex-'Fox & Friends' host turned them into unwitting slumlords
Tenants suffer: Renters lived 'horrible.' Morris business partner lived large. The government helped.
"We have and continued to take responsibility for all of our legal challenges that came from our relationship with Oceanpointe. We have answered all of our attorney general requests in all states. We have answered all lawsuits," Natali Morris said.
"We have not run from anything," she added. "We continue to show up for this until the last lawsuit is dismissed and it is clear that we neither had the money from Oceanpointe investors nor did we defraud anyone."
But investors and their attorneys expressed concern about the move. They worry it could make it more difficult to serve Morris with legal notices and could complicate efforts to retrieve any damages if a judge finds in their favor.
"In my clients' opinion, innocent people don't flee the country," said Jynell Berkshire, an Indianapolis real estate attorney who is representing several investors.
Clayton Morris left 'Fox & Friends' in 2017.
Clayton Morris left 'Fox & Friends' in 2017. (Photo: Monica Schipper/getty Images)
No criminal charges have been brought against Morris or Whalen. Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in Indiana and New Jersey declined to confirm or deny any investigation.
In a lengthy post Thursday on her website, Natali Morris said the legal problems, animosity from investors and negative news coverage drove the family's decision to leave the country.
"I am not one of those who rejects America," she wrote. "We had a good life there. But my husband and I have had a hard few years in our business and this collective soul challenge forced us to question everything."
She said her husband was unfairly blamed because of his "residual 'fame' from his former career as a news anchor."
"But America is polarized and if you can write a headline about a Fox News guy doing something wrong, it will get clicked on in order to reinforce people's conviction bias, one way or another," she wrote.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2019/07/12/ex-fox-friends-host-clayton-morris-leaves-country-for-portugal-amid-fraud-allegations/1705521001/
#7028 at 2019-07-14 21:06:47 (UTC+1)
QRB General #9: Its OK To Question The Jews! Edition
David Wassong, managing director of Soros Fund Management LLC, right, and oceanographer Ghislaine Maxwell stand for a photograph at the Park Avenue Armory gala in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Park Avenue Armory is a not-forprofit organization whose mission is to revitalize one of America's historic treasures as a dynamic alternative arts space unlike any other. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg via getty Images
#7011 at 2019-07-14 21:00:42 (UTC+1)
QRB General #9: Its OK To Question The Jews! Edition
NEW YORK CITY, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: (L-R) Brad Gooch, ?, ?, Ghislaine Maxwell, Anne McNally, ? and Andre Balazs attend LA DOLCE DIVA, DIANE von FURSTENBERG Spring 2006 at DVF STUDIO on September 11, 2005 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via getty Images)
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (6)
#19487583 at 2023-09-04 10:25:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#31 - Part 69
Qanon / Conspiracy Theory Hit Pieces, Australia and Worldwide - Part 2
>>19321154 Donald Trump remains an existential threat to the survival of US democracy - "Donald Trump's orchestrated efforts to subvert the will of the voters and attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 US presidential election, to effectively instigate a coup d'?tat, is the most serious and egregious charge that can be made against anyone who believes in democracy, freedom and the rule of law. The prospect, though, of Trump being re-elected as president challenges the survival of this system. Trump has also shattered the norms and conventions of US politics; namely, the principle of the peaceful transfer of power embodied by George Washington, who retired after two terms. No previous US president, however upset at their defeat, sowed disinformation and discord like Trump. Trump remains a disgusting, disgraceful, dangerous individual. He is the first US president to be charged with a criminal offence. Trump's indictment for attempting to overturn the presidential election of 2020 will be one of the great trials of our time. It is imperative, for the survival of US democracy, that he is found guilty of these crimes and does not return to power." - Troy Bramston - theaustralian.com.au
>>19327086 Video: Senator says Uluru Statement 'confirmed' as 26 pages by NIAA, after Albo blasts claim as 'QAnon' conspiracy - Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the Uluru Statement from the Heart has been "confirmed" as being 26 pages long by the agency that produced the documents under freedom of information, as she called on Anthony Albanese to "come clean" after the Prime Minister derided the claim as a "QAnon" style conspiracy theory on Tuesday. Mr Albanese used Question Time on Tuesday to blast the claims as a "QAnon" style conspiracy theory. "That is a conspiracy in search of a theory, Mr Speaker," the PM said. "It is something that has been out there, like a whole lot of the QAnon theories, we have all sorts of conspiracy stuff out there, but this is a ripper. That is the Uluru Statement from the Heart on an A4 bit of paper. That is it. But what we have here is the conspiracy theories colliding with each other. They're struggling to get their scares straight. I mean, what role did Marcia Langton play in the faking of the moon landing, Mr Speaker? What was the role of the Uluru Statement from the Heart in that?" He stressed it was "absolutely nonsense".
>>19333351 Why PM's backtrack on the Uluru Statement from the Heart won't wash - "This week in parliament, Anthony Albanese doubled down on his claim that the Uluru Statement from the Heart is just a simple one-page statement -- almost an Australian version, he's said, of the gettysburg Address. He's doing this because he needs the Uluru Statement to be a benign, uplifting document in order to get his voice referendum passed by voters, and because he needs to deny that the voice is just the first step in "Voice, Treaty, Truth" - a lengthy and complex process that will lead to multi-?billion dollar reparations payments (on top of the near $40bn a year that's currently spent on Indigenous Australians) and the rewriting of our history as a story of shame. He's so keen to bluff people out of referencing the full statement that he denounced the claim that it's actually a 26-page document as a "conspiracy" worthy of QAnon." - Peta Credlin - theaustralian.com.au
>>19387408 A tale of two conferences: a choice between hope and despair - "CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp, a wealthy political adviser and lobbyist, will appear at the Australian conference this weekend alongside Matthew Whitaker, who served briefly as acting attorney-general to Trump, despite nine legal challenges to his appointment. Australians love to think of themselves as larrikins who thumb their noses at suits and sophisticates. But not the CPAC Australia mob. Among the current and former Coalition MPs scrambling to share a stage with the grizzled men of the Grand Old Party are Tony Abbott, Barnaby Joyce, Bridget McKenzie, Keith Pitt, Alex Antic, Ted O'Brien and Bronwyn Bishop. And, of course, Mundine and Price. This pair love to present themselves as champions of "average" Australians, squaring off against the "elites" of Canberra. But it's hard to imagine a more elite look in politics than sharing a stage in a ballroom at The Star with two Trump loyalists. That's the No campaign. Full of doublespeak and hyperbole, happy to trade in misinformation and outright lies, and to demonise their opponents when called out. Just like Donald Trump." Marcus Stewart, Nira illim bulluk man of the Taungurung Nation and a member of the Uluru Dialogue - theaustralian.com.au
#19333351 at 2023-08-10 11:54:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
>>19222755
>>19327086
Why PM's backtrack on the Uluru Statement from the Heart won't wash
PETA CREDLIN - AUGUST 10, 2023
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This week in parliament, Anthony Albanese doubled down on his claim that the Uluru Statement from the Heart is just a simple one-page statement - almost an Australian version, he's said, of the gettysburg Address.
He's doing this because he needs the Uluru Statement to be a benign, uplifting document in order to get his voice referendum passed by voters, and because he needs to deny that the voice is just the first step in "Voice, Treaty, Truth" - a lengthy and complex process that will lead to multi-?billion dollar reparations payments (on top of the near $40bn a year that's currently spent on Indigenous Australians) and the rewriting of our history as a story of shame.
He's so keen to bluff people out of referencing the full statement that he denounced the claim that it's actually a 26-page document as a "conspiracy" worthy of QAnon.
On Wednesday, to justify his claim in the parliament the day before, Albanese produced a statement from Megan Davis, which she issued late on Tuesday night. "The Uluru Statement is just one page," the statement read. There's only one problem with this. It's not what Professor Davis has said repeatedly for years in official speeches, documents and in her many media appearances.
Professor Davis, who was one of the Uluru Statement's main ?authors and a key member of the PM's hand-picked Referendum Working Group, said in her 2018 Parkes Oration: "The Uluru Statement from the Heart isn't just the first one-page statement; it's actually a very lengthy document of about 18 to 20 pages, and a very powerful part of this document reflects what happened in the dialogues".
In May 2022, she wrote in this newspaper that: "The Uluru Statement ... is occasionally mistaken as merely a one-page document ....in totality (it) is closer to 18 pages and includes ... a lengthy narrative called 'Our Story'."
And in November last year, she spoke at the Sydney Peace Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture saying: "It's very important for Australians to read the (Uluru) Statement, and the statement is also much bigger, it's actually 18 pages."
It's because this part - after page one - is so full of anger, entitlement and the demand to atone for the past 240 years of Australian history that the PM now wants to pretend that it doesn't exist or has no status. In other words, it is political dynamite.
Then there's the official report of the Referendum Council, co-chaired by Pat Anderson and Mark Leibler, about the constitutional consultations that culminated in the 2017 Uluru meeting that endorsed the Statement from the Heart, which is the foundation of the voice campaign.
The council's final report starts with the one-page version of the Uluru Statement that the PM so frequently eulogises. But then, from page 16 of the final report, there are many passages of what it says are "extracts from the Uluru Statement from the Heart" including "Our Story", as referenced by Professor Davis.
(continued)
#19327086 at 2023-08-09 13:16:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
>>19222755
>>19297392
Senator says Uluru Statement 'confirmed' as 26 pages by NIAA, after Albo blasts claim as 'QAnon' conspiracy
Senator Jacinta Price says the full Uluru Statement, which talks of "reparations", has been "confirmed" as being 26 pages long by the agency that produced the documents.
Frank Chung - August 9, 2023
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Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the Uluru Statement from the Heart has been "confirmed" as being 26 pages long by the agency that produced the documents under freedom of information, as she called on Anthony Albanese to "come clean" after the Prime Minister derided the claim as a "QAnon" style conspiracy theory on Tuesday.
The Opposition's Indigenous Australians spokeswoman told Sky News on Tuesday night that the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) had confirmed to her office that the full statement, contained in a lengthy FOI release to the Northern Territory Senator earlier this year, was indeed 26 pages.
"My office today sought clarification from the FOI team at NIAA to determine whether the Uluru Statement from the Heart is simply one page or the full 26 pages," she told Sky News host Peta Credlin. "My staff got a phone call at 12.54 this afternoon with a verbal clarification that the document is, in fact, the 26 pages and not just, of course, the one page."
In a statement to news.com.au on Wednesday, an NIAA spokeswoman said the Uluru Statement from the Heart "is a one-page document, confirmed by the authors Noel Pearson, Pat Anderson AO and Professor Dr Megan Davis".
"The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) released a document under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act), containing the one-page Uluru Statement from the Heart, followed by 25 pages of background information and excerpts of regional dialogues that informed the one-page Uluru Statement from the Heart," she said.
"Jody Broun, NIAA chief executive officer, has written to Senator Price to provide clarification."
Debate over the 2017 document has been raging since last week, after Credlin accused Mr Albanese of misleading voters by repeatedly claiming the Uluru Statement - which he has likened to the gettysburg Address - was a "two-minute" read that can "fit on one A4 page".
Credlin urged Australians to read the "full" 26 pages, the tenor of which she said was one of "anger, grievance, separatism, and the need to undo, as far as possible, the last 240 years of Australian history".
The NIAA documents, which also include minutes from 13 "regional dialogue" consultation events with around 1200 Indigenous people that informed the final wording of the Uluru Statement, raise the prospect of a "financial settlement" and "reparations" to Indigenous Australians for "past, present and future criminal acts" under a proposed treaty, with suggestions that "a fixed percentage" of GDP be handed over through "rates, land tax and royalties".
(continued)
#16677669 at 2022-07-08 15:37:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition
>retrospective roe
Journalist Who Exposed Planned Parenthood: Kamala Harris Weaponized Her Office to Punish Me on Behalf of Her Donors
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David Daleiden28 Oct 2020
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has a history of abusing the powers of her office to target and punish Americans she disagrees with. I know firsthand that Harris is one of the biggest threats to First Amendment civil liberties that our country has ever seen because I have been on the receiving end of her unconstitutional abuses of power when she was California's attorney general.
In 2015, after I released undercover videos of taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood officials trafficking the body parts of live-aborted fetuses, Planned Parenthood was desperate and furious. The organization turned to Harris, its political patron in the California Attorney General's office, for help to silence me and my message. Though local law enforcement made it clear to Planned Parenthood that the California videos were recorded in public places and were perfectly legal, the abortion provider and its allies within the state Department of Justice conspired to enforce California's video recording law for the first time ever against newsgathering, in order to punish me for speaking out.`
On March 23, 2016, Harris met secretly with several top California Planned Parenthood executives in Los Angeles. The action items from the meeting show they discussed Planned Parenthood's political agenda in California as well as issues in Harris's so-called "investigation" of me and my coworkers, such as Planned Parenthood's false claims that my videos made threats against their personnel. Two of the Planned Parenthood officials interviewed in Harris's probe were present at the meeting.
#16672381 at 2022-07-08 15:01:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition
>>16558494
About THIS
https://www.foxnews.com/us/cornell-university-removes-gettysburg-address-lincoln-bust-from-library-alleged-complaint
#16662055 at 2022-07-07 17:31:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #24: TRUMP CARD COMING Edition
Dem Lawmakers Slam Biden's Plan to Sell F-16s to Turkey
By Brian Freeman
Tuesday, 05 July 2022 04:59 PM EDT
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Dem Lawmakers Slam Biden's Plan to Sell F-16s to Turkey
F-16s in flight
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By Brian Freeman | Tuesday, 05 July 2022 04:59 PM EDT
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Democrat congressmen on Tuesday harshly criticized President Joe Biden's intention to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, noting that Ankara is currently under sanctions by the U.S. for purchasing the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system, Politico reported.
The lawmakers said in a statement that the Biden administration "has not provided answers to how Turkey would qualify to be exempt from these sanctions and how the administration would mitigate the risks of co-locating F-16s and modernization kits with a Russian weapons system, which is why Turkey was removed from the F-35 program."
The Democratic members of the Hellenic Caucus who signed the statement - Reps. Dina Titus of Nevada, Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Charlie Crist of Florida, Carolyn Maloney of New York, Frank Pallone of New Jersey and John Sarbanes of Maryland - added that "over the last decade, Turkey has not been a productive member of NATO nor a reliable ally to the U.S."
Their opposition comes after the president said last week at the NATO Summit that he backs selling the jets to Turkey, according to Politico.
The day before, Ankara dropped its opposition to permitting Finland and Sweden to join NATO. However, the White House denies any link between the two moves.
The Democratic lawmakers wrote that "while Turkey's relenting on their opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO is a welcome development, there are still too many outstanding issues to move forward with the sale of F-16s to (Recep) Erdo?an's government."
The congressmen also pointed out that Turkey has violated Greece's airspace more than 2,300 times this year, slammed Ankara for its "antagonistic actions in the Aegean Sea" and warned against a possible Turkish re-invasion of Syria to strike at Kurdish allies of the U.S.
The critics stressed in their statement that "until the administration can provide suitable answers on how they intended to mitigate the above-listed concerns, we will continue to object to this weapons transfer and do everything we can to ensure that these F-16s are not delivered to the Turkish government."
The Democrats who signed the statement are not the only ones in the party who slam the proposed sale, Politico noted, with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez, whose approval is needed for the sale to go through, also expressing his opposition.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/democrats-turkey-f16s/2022/07/05/id/1077445/
8chan/8kun QResearch CANADA Posts (25)
#18285741 at 2023-02-04 22:39:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #39: Independence for Alberta? Edition
The Truckers Freedom Convoy - And The Grapes of Wrath
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-truckers-freedom-convoy-and-the-grapes-of-wrath/5807274
On the first anniversary of the Truckers for Freedom Convoy, I must modify somewhat President Lincoln's gettysburg address and state quite unequivocally that "the world will continue to take note and long remember what Canadian Truckers did here, and it can never forget what they achieved here."
The Convoy has passed through the narrow confines of time and become immortal.
In John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath," (turned into a widely acclaimed film), two Truckers do an enormous good deed to an unsuspecting diner and store keeper.
The very hard times of the great depression (the "Grapes of Wrath") were of no consequence to the Truckers. With triumphant grace, humble nonchalance, they handsomely reimburse with several dollars, the bewildered store lady for giving two poor kids two nickel-worth of candy, for a penny.
Kris Kristofferson turned this beautiful story into a beautiful song, in which the store lady calls out to the Truckers as they leave - "hey you left too much money." The Truckers tell her as they pick up their coats to leave, "what's it to you?"
Here's what the Canadian Trucker's Freedom Convoy was to us - a reason to hope again, a reason to believe in humanity again, a reason for millions of Canadians to show the world that tyranny has a defined lifespan and that peaceful civil disobedience can shake its fragile foundations.
It was all that and more to us! Continue…
#18253678 at 2023-01-30 16:54:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #39: Independence for Alberta? Edition
Thousands of Chickens Killed as Huge Blaze Decimates Egg Farm
https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2023/01/30/thousands-of-chickens-killed-as-huge-blaze-decimates-egg-farm/
Connecticut authorities are working to establish the cause of a massive fire that swept through an egg farm and likely killed thousands of chickens, fire officials said Sunday.
The fire at the Hillandale Farms property in Bozrah was reported at about 1 p.m. Saturday. The blaze drew dozens of firefighters from the area and surrounds, AP reports.
Hillandale Farms bills itself as one of the country's top egg producers, raising over 20 million chickens for eggs. It has corporate offices in gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
WSFB reported a total of 21 fire departments responded to the three-alarm fire, and it took firefighters eight hours to extinguish the blaze. Continue…
#18149837 at 2023-01-15 19:17:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #39: Independence for Alberta? Edition
Doctor Calls For Withdrawal Of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Following New Research
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/doctor-calls-withdrawal-pfizer-moderna-covid-19-vaccines-following-new-research
An American doctor is joining the calls for the withdrawal of the messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, pointing to new research that highlights a connection between the shots and adverse events.
Doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and vaccination record cards await pediatric patients at UW Medical Center - Roosevelt in Seattle, Wash., on June 21, 2022. (David Ryder/getty Images)
Dr. Joseph Fraiman, a doctor based in Louisiana who also conducts research on COVID-19 and other health issues, says it's time to halt the administration of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines until new clinical trials prove the benefits from the vaccines outweigh the harms.
The new research, including a reanalysis of the trials for the vaccines, raise concerns about whether the benefits from the vaccines outweigh the harms, according to the doctor. Continue…
#17808000 at 2022-11-25 17:29:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #38: Expose Them All Edition
Canadians paying for Ukraine's gas - Kiev
https://www.rt.com/business/567114-canada-pays-ukraine-gas/
The announcement comes as many households in Canada are struggling to pay their energy bills
Canadians paying for Ukraine's gas - Kiev
Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau ? Mateusz Wlodarczyk / NurPhoto via getty Images
Ukraine has received nearly $350 million from Canada to fill up its underground storage facilities with gas for the winter, Ukrainian media reported on Wednesday, citing Prime Minister Denis Shmigal.
The government in Ottawa has transferred 12.7 billion hryvnia ($344 million) to Ukraine's state-owned gas company Naftogaz he said, adding that "Ukraine earlier received this money from the government of Canada." Shmigal also noted that the "procedure for using state budget funds for procuring gas in 2022-2023 was endorsed at today's [government] meeting."
This week, Kiev also received ?200 million ($208 million) from Norway for the same purpose and is awaiting another ?300 million to be bankrolled by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development under the agreement reached earlier, the Ukrainian premier said.
The funding comes as citizens in Canada and the EU are facing unprecedented energy inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, with thousands of families struggling to pay their energy bills.
Canadians have seen a dramatic surge in electricity and gas prices in recent months. Energy analysts warn that households in the country can expect their bills to rise by between 50% and 100% on average this winter.
#16691669 at 2022-07-09 00:27:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #35: Canada hit by massive mobile and internet outage Edition
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/former-u-s-president-barack-obama-orders-lunch-with-florida-news-photo/1062688600
#16660451 at 2022-07-07 17:10:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #34: Still Trucking Along Edition
>>16602598
Founder of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee (C) with his children Alice Berner-Lee and Ben Berners-Lee
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/founder-of-the-world-wide-web-sir-tim-berners-lee-with-his-news-photo/149273347
#16375017 at 2022-05-31 17:30:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #32: Signing Sovereignty Away Edition
ANH Feature: Monkeypox - a smokescreen for a global health powergrab?
https://drtrozzi.org/2022/05/29/anh-feature-monkeypox-a-smokescreen-for-a-global-health-powergrab/
By Rob Verkerk PhD
Founder, executive and scientific director, ANH-Intl
Scientific director, ANH-USA
Co-chair, Health & Humanity Committee, World Council for Health
Topline
* WHO case definitions are set up perfectly to mask immune suppression that reflects covid-19 jab injury such as the increasing prevalence of shingles following covid-19 injection
* Imagery being used by global media are not representative of current international cases of monkeypox and have been recorded incorrectly by CDC and getty Images that are the sources
* Next-generation smallpox vaccines are almost ready for global roll-out and are likely to be justified as necessary by health authorities despite a lack of evidence of safety, let alone interactions with 'genetic vaccines'
* International agencies have already engaged in a monkeypox simulation that draws heavily on the covid playbook and Bill Gates' newly released book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
* Whether monkeypox gathers momentum or dwindles, its timing is ideal to justify further support for global, centralised health governance orchestrated by the WHO through the International Health Regulations and the WHO 'pandemic treaty'
The current World Health Organization (WHO) suspected case definition of monkeypox is broad enough to include anyone with covid or a common cold, who also have a shingles rash. As it happens, there are a large number of people out there who have suffered immune suppression from covid-19 injections, who also sport a shingles rash.
Should we be worried? We think so, but not about monkeypox itself. Much more about what the WHO and collaborating institutions, governments and corporations are up to. A lot of 'truth seekers' will have already found out about the WHO tabletop exercise in 2021and it is without doubt interesting that the 15 May 2022 date is given as the 'attack' date of the monkeypox outbreak. But let's look beyond that.
Let me explain. Continue…
#16370766 at 2022-05-30 23:31:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #32: Signing Sovereignty Away Edition
General Research #20709 >>16370494
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1531404032488755202
Canada's Trudeau announces 'national freeze' on handgun ownership, mandatory gun buyback legislation=
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Canada's Trudeau announces 'national freeze' on handgun ownership, mandatory gun buyback legislation
The legislation would make it impossible to "buy, sell, transfer or import handguns in Canada," Trudeau said
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#16362435 at 2022-05-29 15:14:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #32: Signing Sovereignty Away Edition
World Council for Health: The biggest threat to global health is the ongoing effort of the WHO and its private partners to vaccinate every man, woman, and child with new experimental vaccines and injections that have not been adequately tested
https://www.truth11.com/the-biggest-threat-to-global-health-is-the-ongoing-effort-of-the-who-and-its-private-partners-to-vaccinate-every-man-woman-and-child-with-new-experimental-vaccines-and-injections-that-h/
World Council for Health Statement on Monkeypox cases
World Council for Health
The World Council for Health notes that non-scientific speculation on recent monkeypox cases by the WHO is being used to justify further human rights violations together with a roll-out of new and experimental smallpox vaccines.
Join us in the WCH Newsroom this Monday, May 30, 2022 to learn about this emerging story. Subscribe for updates.
Images of people infected with monkeypox being used by global media, most of which has been derived from old CDC and getty Images, is not representative of current international cases of monkeypox.
The World Council for Health notes that the United States and the United Kingdom have been stockpiling smallpox vaccines, and the province of Quebec in Canada is already planning to vaccinate people with a smallpox vaccine to contain the supposed spread of monkeypox.
There is no rational scientific basis for vaccinating for smallpox to prevent monkeypox and, among people already multi-vaccinated with experimental Covid-19 vaccines, this strategy has the potential to do great harm. Continue…
#16240638 at 2022-05-09 14:27:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #31: Anons Never Forget Edition
>>16239885
Dog comm's, K9, 911 Putin's plan for May 9?
Jill Biden, Justin Trudeau, U2's Bono and The Edge Visit Ukraine on Same Day
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/jill-biden-justin-trudeau-u2s-bono-edge-visit-ukraine-day/
Ukraine got a big show of support from Western allies on Sunday with separate visits by Jill Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and pop group U2 singer Bono and guitarist The Edge. The U.S. also sent Charges d'Affaires Kristina Kvien to Kyiv for a brief stay at the shuttered embassy in Kyiv to join in VE Day celebrations. Meanwhile Joe Biden stayed at the Biden's Delaware home where he participated in a virtual G7 - Zelenskyy meeting Sunday morning before heading out for a round of golf.
First lady Jill Biden (L) receives flowers from Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska on May 8 outside of a public school that has taken in displaced students in Uzhhorod. Photo: Susan Walsh/Pool/AFP via getty Images
Jill Biden's visit capped off a Mothers Day themed trip to Romania and Slovakia where she visited Ukrainian refugees. Biden made an unannounced trip across the border Sunday to the town of Uzhhorod where she met Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska. It was reportedly the first time Zelenska had been seen in public since Russia's war on Ukraine began on February 24.
Trudeau was in Kyiv to reopen the Canadian Embassy and to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trudeau also visited the Kyiv suburb of Irpin.
Bono and The Edge played a concert in a Kyiv subway station that serves as a bomb shelter. They also visited the liberated towns of Borodyanka, Irpin and Bucha where a Russian massacre of civilians took place while under occupation.
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The visits came as news broke of a Ukrainian school in Luhansk being bombed by Russia with fears of dozens killed.
#14609157 at 2021-09-18 15:40:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #24: TruDo Pelted With Rocks Edition
WATCH: Hundreds Arrested as Anti-Lockdown Protesters Break Police Lines, Trample Officers
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/09/18/watch-hundreds-arrested-as-anti-lockdown-protesters-break-police-lines-trample-officers/
(AFP) - Officers used pepper spray and made over 200 arrests in Melbourne as several hundred protesters flouted stay-at-home orders and marched through an inner-city suburb.
The illegal gathering comes as the city goes through its sixth lockdown since the pandemic started, with the wider state of Victoria reporting over 500 cases of Covid-19 on Saturday.
Police said six officers were taken to hospital after they were pelted with projectiles and trampled in clashes with the crowd of around 700 people.
"What we saw today was a group of protesters that came together, not to protest freedoms, but simply to take on and have a fight with the police," Victoria Police Commander Mark Galliott told media.
Police attempted to reduce access to the centre of the city, blocking roads and stopping public transport in a bid to avoid a repeat of violent scenes at a rally that drew thousands last month.
But marchers then relocated, with footage from one incident showing a crowd charging through a police line as scuffles erupted along a tram route.
Protesters march through the streets during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne on
Huge numbers of police managed to deter a similar gathering in Sydney, with officers swarming a park where the protest had been due to go ahead.
New South Wales Police said they arrested around 20 people in the city, mainly across the public transport network, while several others were arrested in smaller gatherings around the state.
Both cities are enduring lengthy lockdowns as authorities race to vaccinate a way out of restrictions amid growing outbreaks.
Protesters
Anti lockdown protesters clash with members of Victoria Police on Burnley Street in Richmond on September 18, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Anti-lockdown protesters gathered despite current COVID-19 restrictions prohibiting large outdoor gatherings. Metropolitan Melbourne is currently subject to lockdown restrictions as health authorities work to contain the spread of the highly contagious Delta COVID-19 variant, with people only permitted to leave their homes for essential reasons. Victorian COVID-19 restrictions have been eased from today in Metropolitan Melbourne to allow outdoor picnics and small exercise groups, while the permitted travel distance from home has extended to 10km. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/getty Images)
Australia successfully pursued "Covid-zero" for most of the pandemic, enabled mainly by closed international borders and restrictions on movements.
But the arrival of the Delta variant plunged its two largest cities back under stay-at-home orders earlier this year, and authorities are now aiming for a 70 per cent vaccination rate before further easing lockdowns.
#14558649 at 2021-09-11 14:59:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #24: TruDo Pelted With Rocks Edition
Hungary's Orban: 9/11 Proved 'Christian Civilization Is Something We Must Fight for Every Day'
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/09/11/hungarys-orban-9-11-proved-christian-civilization-something-we-must-fight-every-day/
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orb?n marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by saying that it proved "Christian civilisation" must be defended at all times, and vowing to stop mass migration from facilitating further terror.
"Two decades after the terrorist attacks in New York, it is still with a heavy heart that we remember the thousands of innocent victims. September 11, 2001, proved that the peace and security of Christian civilization is something we must fight for every day," said the national conservative leader in a statement received by Breitbart London.
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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 4: This undated photo of two metal beams (L) forming a cross rises out of the destruction at the World Trade Center was made available in New York 04 October 2001. The cast iron "cross," which fell intact from Tower One into nearby Building Six, was blessed 04 October 2001 by Rev. Brian Jordan, a Franciscan priest, as rescue workers who have adopted it as a symbol of faith gathered around to watch. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP via getty Images)
"After these sad events 20 years ago, Hungary was one of the first countries in Europe to take on a role in the fight against terrorism, and we supported our allies in NATO operations to the best of our ability," he continued, recalling that "The 2015 European migration crisis brought terror to Europe as well" and noting that "now, what is happening in Afghanistan is again a cause for concern for us all. The security threat level is rising, and instability in the region poses significant risks to Europe."
Prime Minister Orb?n, who masterminded the construction of a highly effective border barrier at the onset of the 2015 migrant crisis, pledged that, for its part, "Hungary will defend Europe's borders," adding that "We are working to ensure that what happened in New York 20 years ago never happens again."
The Hungarian leader struck a markedly different tone to Britain's Boris Johnson, who did not reference the terror threat posed by a migrant exodus from Afghanistan and instead made the somewhat odd claim that "Recent events in Afghanistan" - i.e the Joe Biden-led and badly botched withdrawal from the country - "only strengthen our determination to remember those who were taken from us, cherish the survivors and those who still grieve and hold fast to our belief in liberty and democracy, which will always prevail over every foe."
Prime Minister Johnson also declined to characterise the radical Islamic terrorist attacks on September 11th as an assault on "Christian civilisation", as his Hungarian counterpart did, instead opting to describe them as an attempt to "destroy the faith of free peoples everywhere in the open societies which terrorists despise and which we cherish."
One Christian landmark was indeed destroyed by the 9/11 terrorists, however - namely the St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York, which was smashed beneath the South Tower of the World Trade Center as it collapsed.
A much grander replacement for St Nicholas is only now ready to be reopened. It will also serve as a National Shrine to 9/11 victims.
#14323247 at 2021-08-11 13:17:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #23: BRING THE HEAT Edition
Attention Turns From Tokyo Olympics To Beijing 2022 Amid Calls For Boycott
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/attention-turns-tokyo-olympics-beijing-2022-amid-calls-boycott
As the Tokyo Summer Olympics closed on Aug. 8, attention has turned back to the controversy surrounding the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Tokyo Olympics games ran relatively smoothly during the COVID-19 pandemic, although it was not open to spectators.
The United States scored the most gold medals with 39, with China coming in second with 38. The United States also ranked first in the overall medal tally with 113 medals, including 41 silver medals, and 33 bronze medals-far surpassing China, again in second place, with 88 medals.
Players from the United States react after defeating Brazil to win the gold medal in women's volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 8, 2021. (Frank Augstein/AP Photo)
As the host country, Japan performed the best in its history since participating in the Olympics, winning a total of 58 medals, including 27 gold.
While the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging around the world, there are only six months before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The pandemic is just one of the problems that the Beijing Winter Olympics is facing.
CTV, Canada's largest private television network, conducted a poll of thousands of Canadians during the Tokyo Olympics. It announced its results on the closing day of the Tokyo Olympics showing that more than 60 percent of respondents supported a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In recent years, the Chinese regime has been accused by human rights experts and organizations, liberal democratic nations, and United Nations experts of mass detention of at least one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Policies amounting to cultural extermination and experiences of political brainwashing has been characterized by U.S. administrations as "genocide."
But while the ruling CCP continues to push back against the "genocide" accusations, more and more international organizations and countries are calling for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved from Beijing.
Activists including members of the local Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur communities hold up banners and placards in Melbourne, Australia, on June 23, 2021, calling on the Australian government to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over China's human rights record. (William West/AFP via getty Images)
In February, more than 180 human rights organizations issued a joint open letter urging world leaders to take a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing, including not sending leaders or dignitaries to China to participate in any activity in protest of the regime's mass human rights abuses.
The letter cited accusations of serious human rights violations by the Chinese communist regime in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia. It also pointed out that Beijing has increased threats to regional security across the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, and the Sino-Indian border in recent years.
However, on the grounds of political neutrality and an inability to change a country's legal and political system, the International Olympic Committee refused to the request from international organizations to change the venue of the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing to other countries.
So far, no government has officially announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, but lawmakers in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom are all calling on their governments to take action.
#13988173 at 2021-06-26 14:46:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #21: Vaccine Villainy Edition
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While urging NATO to revamp its strategic approach to confront the Chinese communist threat, the United States is also promoting the Indo-Pacific Strategy, or the Quad, and strengthening the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-South Korea military alliance. This indicates that the military coalition among democratic countries is deepening.
NATO heads of the states and governments pose for a family photo during the NATO summit at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels on June 14. (Yves Herman/Pool/Reuters)
Economic and Technological Challenges
The West has to deal with not only the CCP's military provocations but also its economic and technological challenges. In order to ensure that the CCP does not use various illicit means to overtake the West while the world undergoes a digital transformation, it is necessary to strengthen coordination and integration based on shared values, as stated in the joint statement (pdf) of the U.S.-EU Summit: "We resolve to drive digital transformation that spurs trade and investment, strengthens our technological and industrial leadership, boosts innovation, and protects and promotes critical and emerging technologies and infrastructure. We plan to cooperate on the development and deployment of new technologies based on our shared democratic values, including respect for human rights, and that encourages compatible standards and regulations."
In addition, the statement said, "To kick-start this positive agenda and to provide an effective platform for cooperation, we establish a high-level EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC)."
In this regard, several positive developments have already taken place during the recent summits. For example, the United States and the European Union reached an agreement to stop the long-standing punitive trade tariffs over the Airbus-Boeing dispute, and agreed to confront "non-market economy countries." Meanwhile, Canada and the EU also launched a new partnership to secure supply chains for critical minerals and reduce reliance on China.
B3W to Counter CCP's BRI
Since the CCP launched its global infrastructure development strategy through the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI, also known as One Belt, One Road) in 2013, many countries have been mired in debt and corruption. The G-7 summit agreed to launch a new global infrastructure initiative called Build Back Better World (B3W), a major-democracies-led, high-standard, value-driven, transparent infrastructure partnership to help narrow the financial gap in the over $40 trillion infrastructure need in developing countries. This was the first strategic response from the West to the CCP's BRI.
Irreconcilable Differences Between Authoritarianism and Democracy
The irreconcilable difference between the CCP's authoritarian ideology and democratic values must lead to a fundamental confrontation between the CCP and the West.
On June 15, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that China's record on human rights is the main issue that divides the EU from Beijing and makes the communist regime a systemic rival for the democratic bloc.
For his part, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that the worldview differences between Australia and the CCP may never be resolved.
President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen gives a press conference after a U.S.-EU summit at the European Union headquarters in Brussels on June 15, 2021. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via getty Images)
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/west-strategically-reorganizing-fight-communist-china
#13988090 at 2021-06-26 14:34:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #21: Vaccine Villainy Edition
Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children "Or Else Leave EU"
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hungary-told-repeal-law-banning-lgbt-promotion-children-or-else-leave-eu
EU leadership is now fanatically dictating that Hungary and its 'defiant' prime minister Vickor Orban must bow the knee to the Pride Flag or else "must leave" the European Union.
Quoting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, The Telegraph describes massive pushback against a new Hungarian law which seeks to prevent the public promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism in front of children and minors:
Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, said Hungary either "must leave" the EU or repeal the law, which bans TV shows and other content seen as championing LGBT lifestyles for the under-18s.
However, some eastern European governments refused to join 17 of the bloc's 27 countries in a rare joint statement condemning a fellow member state.
Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán, AFP via getty Images
Other EU leaders, like European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, have been claiming that the law actively discriminates against LGBT people.
However, defenders of the Hungarian law have pointed out it puts decision-making on presenting these issues to children in the hands of parents and family members. Orban himself, for example, said the law and policy is fundamentally about "defending the rights of the kids and the parents" and is not about discrimination.
Orban said this week at the summit: "Homosexuality was punished, and I fought for their freedom and their rights," concluding that "I am defending the rights of the homosexual guys. But this law is not about that."
But the EU summit which met this is acting as if it's a declaration of war on human rights, and is vowing to respond accordingly:
Western leaders have said they will bring Hungary "to its knees" over a law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools at a bitter EU summit on Thursday.Continue…
#13870358 at 2021-06-10 14:11:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #20: Anons Accelerate, Adversaries Agonized Edition
Hydroxychloroquine & Azithromycin Boosted Survival Of Ventilated COVID-19 Patients By 200%: New Study Confirms
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin-boosted-survival-ventilated-covid-19-patients-200-new
A new study has found that the use of weight-adjusted hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZM) improved the survival of ventilated COVID-19 patients by nearly 200 percent.
The observational study, which hasn't yet been peer-reviewed, was based on a re-analysis of 255 patients on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) during the first two months of the pandemic in the United States.
The researchers found that when the HCQ-AZM combination was given at lower dosages to treat ventilated COVID-19 patients, the risk of death was more than three times higher.
"We found that when the cumulative doses of two drugs, HCQ and AZM, were above a certain level, patients had a survival rate 2.9 times the other patients," the authors of the study noted.
"By using causal analysis and considering of weight-adjusted cumulative dose, we prove the combined therapy, >3 g HCQ and > 1g AZM greatly increases survival in COVID patients on IMV and that HCQ cumulative dose > 80 mg/kg works substantially better."
While the authors acknowledged that patients with higher doses of HCQ had higher doses of AZM, they "cannot solely attribute the causal effect to HCQ/AZM combination therapy."
"However, it is likely AZM does contribute significantly to this increase in survival rate. Since higher dose HCQ/AZM therapy improves survival by nearly 200 [percent] in this population, the safety data are moot," they added.
Hydroxychloroquine-an anti-inflammatory and anti-malarial drug-has been one of the most contested treatments for COVID-19 throughout the pandemic.
A pharmacist displaying a box of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets in his store in Hyderabad, India, on April 28, 2020. (Noah Seelam/AFP via getty Images)
The drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1955 to treat and prevent malaria. It's also prescribed for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
While the FDA initially granted HCQ an emergency use authorization (EUA) to treat COVID-19 in March 2020, the agency revoked it on June 15, 2020, because data suggested it was "unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19" and that its potential risks outweighed the benefits.
The FDA's turnabout came on the heels of a study by Oxford University in the United Kingdom that found HCQ underperformed its routine treatment protocols.
"Unfortunately, problems in research methodologies assessing the effectiveness and risks of HCQ have left lingering doubts," wrote Dr. Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician, in an op-ed for The Epoch Times. "Those problems include questionable dosing."
Some, like Epoch Times contributor Roger L. Simon, have argued that studies around the use of HCQ to treat COVID-19 were politicized by opponents of former President Donald Trump, who advocated the use of the drug.
#13866311 at 2021-06-09 22:17:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #20: Anons Accelerate, Adversaries Agonized Edition
TC Energy Terminates Keystone XL Pipeline Project Months After Biden Pulled Permit
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/pipeline/2021/06/09/id/1024534/
TC Energy Terminates Keystone XL Pipeline Project Months After Biden Pulled Permit
TC Energy Terminates Keystone XL Pipeline Project Months After Biden Pulled Permit
Demonstrators hold signs as they protest near the site of a fundraiser on April 3, 2013, in San Francisco. Hundreds of protesters staged a demonstration against the Keystone XL pipeline outsidea fundraiser to be attended by President Barack Obama. (Justin Sullivan/getty Images)
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Energy infrastructure company TC Energy said on Wednesday it had terminated the $9 billion Keystone XL pipeline project, months after President Joe Biden revoked a key permit in a blow to Canada's oil sector.
Keystone XL, which would have been under construction this year, was expected to carry 830,000 barrels per day of Alberta oil sands crude to Nebraska.
But opposition from U.S. landowners, Native American tribes and environmentalists had delayed the project for the past 12 years, with Biden pledging to scrap the permit, which he did on his first day in office.
Biden has taken heat from critics for his opposition to legacy fuel sources and advocacy of alternative energy sources, a position some say would be damaging to the economy.
"We remain disappointed and frustrated with the circumstances surrounding the Keystone XL project, including the cancellation of the presidential permit for the pipeline's border crossing," Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said in a statement.
TC Energy said it would continue to coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups to meet its environmental and regulatory commitments and ensure a safe termination of and exit from the project.
The company swung to a loss in the first quarter, hit by C$2.2 billion ($1.81 billion) impairment charges related to the suspension of the Keystone XL project.
#13620313 at 2021-05-09 15:00:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #18: Anons Nullify News Narratives Edition
Canadian Doctor Blows Whistle on Neurological Side Effects of Moderna Vaccine in First Nations Indigenous Patients
https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2021/05/canadian-doctor-blows-whistle-on-neurological-side-effects-of-moderna-vaccine-in-first-nations-indigenous-patients-2671873.html
Vials of the Moderna Messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine are shown. A family doctor in Lytton, British Columbia has stepped forward to sound the alarm on consistent neurological side effects he has seen in First Nations indigenous patients who took the Moderna vaccine in his practice. (Image: Cole Burston/getty Images)
A rural Canadian family doctor has stepped forward to blow the whistle on serious neurological adverse effects from the Moderna Messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine he has witnessed in his First Nations indigenous patients.
Dr. Charles Hoffe, a family doctor in the village of Lytton in the Canadian Province of British Columbia, wrote an open letter to BC Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry voicing his concerns generated from his experiences treating patients suffering adverse reactions to the vaccine.
In an interview with independent Canadian media outlet Rebel News, which cannot be viewed on the outlet's YouTube, but is available on Rumble, Hoffe said his community is composed of approximately two-thirds First Nations indigenous people and the only vaccine given to the community by the Canadian government is Moderna's Messenger RNA variant.
"My concerns about it are just what I've seen in my own patients. You know, this is not some kind of theory, this is not a 'what if.' I'm just telling what I've seen," he said in the interview.
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#11855635 at 2020-12-01 15:49:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #10: A Week to Remember Edition
dead getty reported found dead in "indian sitting pose"
Barry and Honey Sherman also found posed sitting indian style
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/murdered-billionaire-couple-posed-like-creepy-life-sized-figurines-found-in-home-report-1.4727419
#10532406 at 2020-09-05 02:24:15 (UTC+1)
Welcome To Q Research Canada Bread #7 - Brinks Bank and a Box of Doughnuts Edition
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#7794679 at 2020-01-12 21:44:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #4 - Beavers Drain the Northern Swamp Edition
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https://pagesix.com/2020/01/12/canadian-billionaire-frank-giustra-providing-luxe-hideout-for-prince-harry-meghan-markle/
Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra providing luxe hideout for Prince Harry, Meghan Markle
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been hiding out at the home of Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra, whose close ties to the Clintons have created international controversy, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Harry and Meghan refused to reveal the owner of the multi-million dollar waterfront mansion near Victoria, British Columbia - the place where they plotted their shock exit from the royal family.
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But multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told Page Six that the owner is Giustra, 62, who made his fortune as a stockbroker, co-founded Hollywood studio Lionsgate - producing flicks including "American Psycho" and the Michael Moore documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" - and is best known in the US as one of the biggest donors to the Clinton Foundation.
Giustra, a divorced father of two, is no stranger to controversy.
In 2005, he and President Bill Clinton traveled together to Kazakhstan to meet with the former Soviet republic's authoritarian leader. Days later, Giustra acquired shares in three of the country's state-run uranium mines - a venture valued at more than $3 billion. Months after the Kazakh pact, Giustra reportedly gave a $31.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation and has since publicly pledged he'll donate another $100 million.
Both Giustra and Clinton have denied the former US president helped him cement the Kazakh deal, and Giustra later divested himself of the assets.
Then in 2016, as Hillary Clinton was running for president, the leaked e-mails of her campaign chairman, John Podesta, revealed that Giustra and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim gave an endowment of $20 million in 2010 to the Clinton Foundation to set up the for-profit Haiti Development Fund, intended to give seed money to Haitian entrepreneurs after the devastating earthquake. Yet there is "almost nothing in the public record" showing what happened to the millions of dollars, according to reports at the time.
Giustra was furious at the claims and later told Canada's National Post that the Clinton controversy was "insanity ... a f-king circus," ranting, "I'm like, seriously, folks? I'm giving away money. There's a campaign, a political campaign. Anybody with half a brain would know what's happening."
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Bill Clinton with Giustra in Haiti in 2014Bill Clinton with Giustra in Haiti in 2014AFP via getty Images
Guistra, who currently runs the private equity firm Fiore Financial, remains on the board of directors of the Clinton Foundation and is a renowned philanthropist through his Radcliffe Foundation, which helps causes such as the Boys Club network and the homeless and supports the International Crisis Group by providing humanitarian aid and supplies to refugee camps in Greece and Turkey.
He won the 2014 Dalai Lama Humanitarian Award and the Order of British Columbia in 2016, the highest civilian honor for achievement benefiting local people.
Giustra - who did not respond to numerous calls and e-mails from Page Six for comment - is believed to have loaned the royal couple his uber-private digs for free.
The main house, called Mille Fleurs, was bought in 2014 and registered under a local country club to shield the identity of the owner. Even the neighbors haven't known who the buyer is. The home is11,416 square feet, with five bedrooms and eight bathrooms, and the property also boasts a 2,349-square-foot guest cottage with three beds and two baths.
Giustra is a very close friend of famed music producer David Foster, whose wife Katharine McPhee went to school and worked on theater productions with Meghan as the two women grew up in Los Angeles.
Foster has said he set up Meghan and Harry with the house after learning they were in need of a discreet location to spend the holidays.
A rep for Foster declined comment to The Post.
On Thursday, Meghan flew back to the waterfront bolt-hole to join baby Archie, who was under the care of a nanny, following a trip to London earlier in the week, when she and Harry made their shocking announcement to quit the British royal family. Harry has stayed behind in the UK to deal with the fallout from "Megxit" but is expected to join Meghan in Canada later this week, after a pre-scheduled public engagement Thursday.
It is not known how long the couple will remain at Giustra's property, but it is believed they will make Toronto or Vancouver their main home after finalizing the terms with Queen Elizabeth and Buckingham Palace officials to step down as senior royals.
#7752100 at 2020-01-08 16:42:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #3 - Maple Syrup Truth Bomb Edition
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are
They've been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. Some make us less neurotic, and others may even shape our social relationships. It turns out many ordinary medications don't just affect our bodies - they affect our brains. Why? And should there be warnings on packets?
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By Zaria Gorvett
8th January 2020
"Patient Five" was in his late 50s when a trip to the doctors changed his life.
He had diabetes, and he had signed up for a study to see if taking a "statin" - a kind of cholesterol-lowering drug - might help. So far, so normal.
But soon after he began the treatment, his wife began to notice a sinister transformation. A previously reasonable man, he became explosively angry and - out of nowhere - developed a tendency for road rage. During one memorable episode, he warned his family to keep away, lest he put them in hospital.
Out of fear of what might happen, Patient Five stopped driving. Even as a passenger, his outbursts often forced his wife to abandon their journeys and turn back. Afterwards, she'd leave him alone to watch TV and calm down. She became increasingly fearful for her own safety.
Then one day, Patient Five had an epiphany. "He was like, 'Wow, it really seems that these problems started when I enrolled in this study'," says Beatrice Golomb, who leads a research group at the University of California, San Diego.
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Alarmed, the couple turned to the study's organisers. "They were very hostile. They said that the two couldn't possibly be related, that he needed to keep taking the medication, and that he should stay in the study," says Golomb.
Ironically, by this point the patient was so cantankerous that he flatly ignored the doctors' advice. "He swore roundly, stormed out of the office and stopped taking the drug immediately," she says. Two weeks later, he had his personality back.
Others have not been so lucky. Over the years, Golomb has collected reports from patients across the United States - tales of broken marriages, destroyed careers, and a surprising number of men who have come unnervingly close to murdering their wives. In almost every case, the symptoms began when they started taking statins, then promptly returned to normal when they stopped; one man repeated this cycle five times before he realised what was going on.
Antidepressants may not just lighten moods, they may also reduce expressions of neuroticism, research suggests (Credit: getty Images)
According to Golomb, this is typical - in her experience, most patients struggle to recognise their own behavioural changes, let alone connect them to their medication. In some instances, the realisation comes too late: the researcher was contacted by the families of a number of people, including an internationally renowned scientist and a former editor of a legal publication, who took their own lives.
We're all familiar with the mind-bending properties of psychedelic drugs - but it turns out ordinary medications can be just as potent. From paracetamol (known as acetaminophen in the US) to antihistamines, statins, asthma medications and antidepressants, there's emerging evidence that they can make us impulsive, angry, or restless, diminish our empathy for strangers, and even manipulate fundamental aspects of our personalities, such as how neurotic we are.
In most people, these changes are extremely subtle. But in some they can also be dramatic.
#6434930 at 2019-05-07 04:42:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #2: Lets make The True North Strong and Free Again
>>5240502
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/07/blind-items-revealed-14_5.html
the gettys
#5515132 at 2019-03-05 06:39:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #2: Lets make The True North Strong and Free Again
>>5514404
>>5514536
>>5514761
OK, will try to tie this together.
Pegasus museum. Remember it was behind Comet Ping pong. Not open to public / hidden in plain site.
getty museum. https://qresear.ch/?q=getty+museum
Hella stuff to follow up on with the getty museum.
>>5514901 - Steven Kelly whistleblows on the crazy shit they are up to there. Lots to read up on if you don't know about this. Apparently they have underground / slave base etc. Bloodlines.
>>5240502 at 2019-02-18 13:14:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6696: California Rigging Edition
Oh here we go.
getty FAMILY:
As many of you know about the rumours of the getty museum in LA, and know about the getty family influence in CA politics, here is some more information about the getty family.
Wormsley Park is the private estate of the getty family in England. Purchased by John Paul getty, who was son to one of the richest guys in the world at the time from oil money.
He was involved in the Conservative Party of England. Renounced his citizenship with USA. He did a bunch of heroin in the 60s and his estranged wife died of an overdose.
His son Gordon getty is now the top getty. He has raised money as a fundraiser for Nancy Pelosi, Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom and John Kerry.
>>5339881
Why would [HUSSEIN] transfer US Gov't control of the internet to a non-profit CA co?
To get control of the internet in the hands of major donors and fundraisers for Obummer - gettys
To allow the creation of a TLD exclusively for museums.
getty
J. Paul getty Museum
Pegasus Museum
Both connected through donations of JPgetty's Granddaughter Anne (getty) Earhart via Marisla Foundation.
Pic related.
The part about the internet / non profit is quite interesting as well, as it's related to recent Q posts.
>>4887758 at 2019-01-24 17:33:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6240: Iran And Hezbollah's Venezuela Connections Edition
CAVES
Remember the getty museum Fire in LA
Theory was there was huge underground CAVE or DUMB that they were using to hold, grow, experiment on kids
http:// sananda.website/pedogate-getty-museum-home-of-the-cabals-underground-city-of-child-sex-slaves-threatened-by-fire-december-8th-2017/
These guys don't see borders. My suspicions are they are from California to Alaska and are using Port of Vancouver for trafficking. Just like the port of Long Beach in Q drops.
#5452632 at 2019-03-01 21:26:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #1: Lets make The True North Strong and Free Again
>>5435735
>>>5435061 (You)
>City studios// cambie bridge// spyglass place// false creek south // and kids and company// vpd // the rise// olympic village//
>
>>5435699
>>>5435061 (You)
>lionsgate/lionsgate films/ bridge studios as well. It all connects.
>
>>5435937
>>>5435061 (You)
>Nxivm is also related in this case. U1 AND huawei
>
>>5435949
>>>5435061 (You)
>royal family and canadian pm visited downtown east side womens center i almost shit
>Think getty
>
8chan/8kun QResearch CHINA Posts (2)
#11555233 at 2020-11-09 09:59:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research China #1: "It's Time for a new beginning" Edition
>>11555230
Commenting on the letter, Chen Yonglin, a diplomat-turned-whistleblower formerly stationed at the Chinese consulate in Sydney, said that Chinese-sponsored researchers are under the Chinese consulates' control and "came overseas with tasks at hand." Since defecting in 2005, Chen has exposed the Chinese regime's infiltration tactics in the West.
"Once they arrive, they would need to register with the local consulate and periodically undergo political study at the consulate about [Party leader] Xi Jinping's speech and the Party's policies," he said in an interview. "They are the most reliable people for the Chinese government-even more so than ordinary international students."
Through the short-term scholar programs, the researchers gain easy access to advanced technologies, and their function is to "steal when the occasion allows," said Chen.
"They are basically informants, agents of the Chinese Communist Party," he added.
The CSC grant covers virtually all expenses during the program, from flights, lodging, transportation, phone bills, to social activities. Those who traveled abroad on government money must sign a contract with the CSC. They would have to pay back the full amount of the grant plus additional fines if they breach the terms, such as by behaving in ways that "harm the national interests and national image," or engaging in activities unrelated to academic studies that create "negative impact," a 2018 CSC handbook stated. As part of the agreement, scholars also must return to China upon completing the program for a mandatory two-year "service."
Signs are seen at the Chinese consulate after the United States ordered China to close its doors in Houston, Texas, on July 22, 2020. (Go Nakamura/getty Images)
"The so-called government-sponsored scholars are required to hand over their findings," Chen said. "[They report] how much they learned, the research accomplishments, what they managed to steal, and after going back, they might receive a promotion or receive new research funding."
A number of recent espionage cases prosecuted by U.S. authorities involve researchers funded by the CSC.
Wang Xin, a Chinese military officer who hid his ties with the Chinese military, was tasked to "observe the layout of the UCSF [University of California, San Francisco] lab" where he was studying, and replicate it in China, according to prosecutors. Hu Haizhou, a CSC-sponsored University of Virginia researcher, was charged with stealing advanced "bio-inspired" computer code. Tang Juan is allegedly a Chinese military officer who hid her identity while doing research at the University of California, Davis. She fled to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after being questioned by FBI agents and was arrested in July on visa fraud charges.
Amid souring U.S.-China relations, the University of North Texas recently terminated a CSC-funded program and told 15 Chinese visiting scholars at its campus to return home.
President Donald Trump in late May issued a proclamation to limit Beijing's ability to co-opt Chinese graduate students and visiting scholars by halting visa issuances for military-linked researchers, citing concerns of intellectual property theft. In implementing the proclamation, the State Department also revoked over 1,000 Chinese nationals' visas as of September.
Luo Ya contributed to this report.
Follow Eva on Twitter: @EvaSailEast
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-regime-keeps-close-tabs-on-overseas-scholars-leaked-document-shows_3567509.html
#11266079 at 2020-10-25 06:16:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research China #1: "It's Time for a new beginning" Edition
This article was removed from the source shortly after it made notables in Qresearch General:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinas-elite-capture-strategy-and-the-bidens_3549839.html
Online backup is still available:
https://wearethene.ws/notable/156229
Backup everything
China's Elite-Capture Strategy & The Bidens
Excerpted from the book: 'Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World'
In 2018 the well-connected Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin pointed out that China had been building networks of influence in the United States over many years, and that the U.S. government "is preparing for the possibility that the Chinese government will decide to weaponize" them to get what it wants. (Although Beijing is not known to use Russian-style "active measures" in the West, deploying them is only a matter of political calculation.)
One of the CCP's most audacious penetration operations, Chinagate in 1996, saw a top intelligence operative meeting a naive President Clinton in the White House, along with donations to the Clinton campaign made through people with ties to the Chinese military.
Beijing has been working to gain influence in the U.S. Congress since the 1970s. Through the activities of the CCP's International Liaison Department, and Party-linked bodies like the China Association for International Friendly Contact, China has made some influential friends. Nevertheless, Congress has for the most part remained skeptical of China, although its voice has been muted at times by the influence of "pro-China" members. The president, the White House, the bureaucracy, think tanks, and business lobby groups have all been targeted by Beijing, to good effect.
Democratic Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 22, 2020. (Jim Watson/AFP/getty Images)
Until recently, almost all players in Washington D.C. and beyond were convinced by the "peaceful rise of China" trope, and the value of "constructive engagement." The common belief was that as China developed economically, it would naturally morph into a liberal state. This view was not without foundation, because the more liberal factions within the CCP did struggle with the hardliners, but in the U.S. it reinforced a kind of institutional naivety that was exploited by Beijing. Many of those who stuck to this view even after the evidence pointed firmly to the contrary had a strong personal investment in defending Beijing.
The billionaire businessman and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was a late entrant in the contest to become the 2020 Democratic Party candidate for U.S. president. He is the most Beijing-friendly of all aspirants. With extensive investments in China, he opposes the tariff war and often speaks up for the CCP regime.
8chan/8kun QResearch FRANCE Posts (3)
#16623182 at 2022-07-06 11:46:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research FRANCE #6: La Chute de la Cabale
#20974
>>16576543 Pothole Pete is given BILLIONS to destroy interstate and attack private cars
>>16576553 China's Typhoon Chaba
>>16576557 Tesla hit by new lawsuit alleging racial abuse against Black workers
>>16576562, >>16576563, >>16576565, >>16576568, >>16576569, >>16576572 Donald J. Trump: The J6 Show Trial Is Lying About Election 'Fraud'9
>>16576620, >>16576638, >>16576705, >>16576745, >>16577091 PDJT TS & announcements
>>16576596 Early Voting in Oakland, California
>>16576613, >>16576615 Trump's SCOTUS Keeps #Winning with EPA Decision
>>16576616, >>16576599, >>16576987 More Images from Canada Day - GO GO GO PATRIOT CANUCKS
>>16576618 Clarence Thomas cites claim that covid vaxes based on cell lines from aborted children
>>16576650 AOC advocating bombing the offices of conservative politicians
>>16576657, >>16576658 Greg Gutfeld: Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony has been ruined and so has the J6 Cmte
>>16576668 Economic Woes Hit Americans for 4th of July as the Biden Regime Laughs at Us
>>16576672 Apple Top Insider Trading Lawyer Pleads Guilty To Insider Trading
>>16576678 Drunk on Power: Michigan Dem AG Threatens To Jail Opponent
>>16576689, >>16576708 Herridge on Bolton's comments on J6 & 2020 election
>>16576758 World UFO Day ("Consider the VASTNESS...." )
>>16576761 On July 1, 1863, the decisive Battle of gettysburg began.
>>16576774 Pima County Arizona Democratic Party
>>16576813 Kanekoa: Germany labels journalist criminal and seizes.....
>>16576869 Oil Mogul John Catsimatidis just admitted oil is neither fossil nor scarce (not even finite) - this guy could use a DIG
>>16576985 Ck out recent CPAC interview on John Ratcliffe
>>16577009 QClock June 30, 2022
>>16577047 After a black man is killed by police, Akron cancels July 4 celebration [any excuse, right?]
>>16577147 SCOTUS Vacates 'Assault Weapons' Ban, 'High Capacity' Mag Ban
>>16577164 Pentagon unveils $820 million security assistance package for Ukraine
>>16577178 Trump gp pays for J6 lawyers, "raising concerns of witness pressure"
>>16577182 As the West Normalizes Moral Depravity, Russia Moves Against Pedophiles
>>16577199 Monterrey Mexico authorities turned off the water during a drought because reservoirs went dry. 5.3 million souls.
>>16577219 Seven GOP primary winners who questioned the 2020 election (Or; Target spotted.)
>>16577262 #20974
#14161824 at 2021-07-20 17:53:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research France #4
Le Consortium Soutenu Par George Soros Et Bill Gates Achète Un Fabricant Britannique De Tests Covid Pour 41 Millions De Dollars
Les milliardaires George Soros et Bill Gates font partie d'un consortium appelé à acheter Mologic, un fabricant britannique de tests Covid, dans le but d'accroître l'accès à "une technologie médicale de pointe abordable" dans le monde, selon un communiqué publié lundi.
Le Fonds de développement économique Soros et la Fondation Bill & Melinda Gates ont annoncé le lancement d'une nouvelle initiative, Global Access Health (GAH), visant à renforcer le déploiement mondial de la technologie médicale d'économie et l'acquisition ultérieure de Mologic Ltd, mieux connue aujourd'hui pour la technologie de narine profonde utilisée pour fournir des tests rapides Covid-19. La technologie peut également être utilisée pour tester la dengue, la bilharziose et la cécité des rivières.
Bill Gates Et Ben Affleck S'Expriment Lors De L'Audience "Diplomatie, Développement Et Sécurité Nationale"
Bill Gates, Coprésident de la Fondation Bill & Melinda Gates getty Images
Les tests rapides dits de flux latéral offrent un dépistage précoce de Covid-19 et ont été utilisés dans le monde entier pour aider à rouvrir des magasins, des bars, des événements sportifs et des lieux de travail en donnant un résultat d'alerte précoce pour les personnes qui peuvent ne pas présenter de symptômes mais qui sont toujours infectieuses et peuvent transmettre le virus à Au Royaume-Uni, les tests Covid à flux latéral doivent être confirmés par un deuxième test avant que Covid-19 ne soit officiellement diagnostiqué.
Le consortium GAH, qui comprend les armes philanthropiques de Soros et Gates, investira "au moins " 41 millions de dollars dans cet accord, selon le communiqué.
"Transaction unique'
Soros et Gates font partie de la communauté des milliardaires qui cherchent à diriger leurs efforts philanthropiques vers le soi-disant sud mondial, se référant largement aux régions d'Amérique latine, d'Asie, d'Afrique et d'Océanie que beaucoup craignent d'être laissées pour compte alors que l'Occident plus riche accélère son programme de vaccinations, de tests et de bulles de biosécurité dans les années à venir. Sean Hinton, PDG du fonds Soros, a déclaré dans un communiqué que la pandémie avait "douloureusement démontré les inégalités fondamentales" en matière de santé publique mondiale, ajoutant que cette "transaction unique" avait réuni des fonds philanthropiques et des investisseurs pour résoudre le problème.
George Soros Prend La Parole Au Carnegie Endowment
L'investisseur George Soros prend la parole lors d'un programme organisé par la New America Foundation. getty Images
Roxana Bonnell, experte en santé publique de l'Open Society Foundations de Soros, qui prétend être le plus grand bailleur de fonds privé au monde pour les droits de l'homme et les groupes de défense de la justice sociale, a déclaré: "Comme nous l'avons vu pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, l'accès aux tests est absolument essentiel pour contenir la propagation"
Flux Mologique
Mologic a été fondé en 2003 en tant que laboratoire de recherche médicale et d'innovation à but lucratif par le PDG Mark Davis et son père, Paul Davis, qui est le directeur scientifique de Mologic. Paul Davis est également connu comme l'inventeur d'une autre technologie médicale de renommée mondiale: le test de grossesse Clearblue, lancé pour la première fois en 1988. Le test de grossesse a été la première application commerciale au monde de la technologie de flux latéral, affirme la société.
Mologic a travaillé avec la branche philanthropique de Gates dans le passé. En 2016, Mologic a créé le Center for Advanced Rapid Diagnostics (CARD) avec le soutien d'une subvention de la Fondation Bill & Melinda Gates, en se concentrant sur la réduction du coût des soins de santé à livraison rapide.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2021/07/19/george-soros-and-bill-gates-backed-consortium-to-buy-uk-maker-of-covid-lateral-flow-tests-for-41-million/?sh=5c8ea2b72687
#13989680 at 2021-06-26 19:07:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research France #4
À l'origine Canada #21 > > 13988090
La Hongrie A Dit D'Abroger La Loi Interdisant La Promotion LGBT Aux Enfants " Ou Bien Quitter L'UE"
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hungary-told-repeal-law-banning-lgbt-promotion-children-or-else-leave-eu
Les dirigeants de l'UE dictent désormais fanatiquement que la Hongrie et son Premier ministre "provocateur" Vickor Orban doivent plier le genou devant le drapeau de la fierté ou bien "doivent quitter" l'Union européenne.
Citant le Premier ministre néerlandais Mark Rutte, Le Telegraph décrit un refoulement massif contre une nouvelle loi hongroise qui vise à empêcher la promotion publique de l'homosexualité et du transgenre devant des enfants et des mineurs:
Mark Rutte, le premier ministre des Pays-Bas, a déclaré que la Hongrie "doit quitter" l'UE ou abroger la loi, qui interdit les émissions de télévision et autres contenus considérés comme défendant les modes de vie LGBT pour les moins de 18 ans.
Cependant, certains gouvernements d'Europe de l'Est ont refusé de se joindre à 17 des 27 pays du bloc dans une rare déclaration commune condamnant un autre État membre.
Le premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orbán, AFP via getty Images
D'autres dirigeants de l'UE, comme la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen, ont affirmé que la loi discriminait activement les personnes LGBT.
Cependant, les défenseurs de la loi hongroise ont souligné qu'elle place la prise de décision sur la présentation de ces questions aux enfants entre les mains des parents et des membres de la famille. Orban lui-même, par exemple, a déclaré que la loi et la politique visent fondamentalement à "défendre les droits des enfants et des parents" et non à la discrimination.
Orban a déclaré cette semaine au sommet: "L'homosexualité a été punie, et je me suis battu pour leur liberté et leurs droits", concluant que "Je défends les droits des homosexuels. Mais cette loi n'est pas à ce sujet."
Mais le sommet de l'UE qui s'est réuni à cette occasion agit comme s'il s'agissait d'une déclaration de guerre aux droits de l'homme et promet de réagir en conséquence:
Les dirigeants occidentaux ont déclaré qu'ils mettraient la Hongrie "à genoux" sur une loi interdisant la promotion de l'homosexualité dans les écoles lors d'un sommet de l'UE jeudi.Continuer...
8chan/8kun QResearch GERMANY Posts (21)
#16691657 at 2022-07-09 00:27:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #99: Links Grün Versiffte Wärmehallen - Edition
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1532936274050486272
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
getty watermark is the coup de gr?ce
Translate Tweet
Image
12:04 AM ? Jun 4, 2022?Twitter for iPhone
who is this ????????????
#16678183 at 2022-07-08 15:39:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #98: Rot Grün Gelbes Irrenhaus - Edition
>>16390537
also, Potus' June 2 "typo" correction was 12 minutes later
delta between Q drops was 12 days
>>16390537
>Now pretty sure it's
>SpecialCounsel
Turley: Sessions' Appointing Utah Federal Prosecutor Much Better for Trump than 2nd Special Counsel
21,793
jeff sessions
getty
Ken Klukowski31 Mar 2018Washington, DC6,255
WASHINGTON, DC - Professor Jonathan Turley, a top national legal expert on government investigations, commented on Thursday about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to bring in U.S. Attorney John Huber. Turley called it "brilliant"to combine all the powers of the U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general with a prosecutor who can bring charges, seek indictments, and get results for President Trump far more quickly than a second special counsel.
>>16390533
>It's long been a mystery why Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation when there was nothing to investigate (FBI knew Danchenko disavowed Steele & Alfa data was hoax).
#16644570 at 2022-07-06 17:56:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #97: Mit Vollgas an die Wand - Edition /4
The Xxxth Summer Olympic Games In London 2012: Opening Ceremony
The Xxxth Summer Olympic Games In London 2012: Opening Ceremony. La c?r?monie d'ouverture des 30?mes Jeux olympiques d'?t? de LONDRES 2012 au stade de Stratford : sir Tim BERNERS-LEE, l'inventeur du premier site Web tweetant sur un clavier d'ordinateur ? This is for everyone ? (C'est destin? ? tout le monde). (Photo by Philippe Petit/Paris Match via getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/the-xxxth-summer-olympic-games-in-london-2012-opening-news-photo/162995352
#16641413 at 2022-07-06 16:20:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #97: Mit Vollgas an die Wand - Edition /3
>>16401476
Nevermind, I had a brain fart - says right on it getty Museum
#16640398 at 2022-07-06 16:16:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #97: Mit Vollgas an die Wand - Edition /3
Andrew Gillum Leads Protest March
TALLAHASSEE, FL - Tallahassee Mayor and Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum leads the Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee Community College, and Tallahassee area high school students, along with citizens of Tallahassee, FL, in a march from Florida State University to the Florida Capitol for a rally to demand gun control on February 21, 2018. (Photo by Mickey Adair/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/tallahassee-mayor-and-gubernatorial-candidate-andrew-gillum-news-photo/939340538
#13789987 at 2021-05-30 06:57:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #80: FCK GRT RST - Edition
>>13789977
<ah gut, mal bei getty anfragen, welcher depp bei denen vor 5 minuten auf nem 20 jahre alten bild war (tipp: es war nur einer). schon hat man die IP von unserem komplettidiot.
KEK
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/sam-jolig
#13789977 at 2021-05-30 06:52:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #80: FCK GRT RST - Edition
>>13789967
ah gut, mal bei getty anfragen, welcher depp bei denen vor 5 minuten auf nem 20 jahre alten bild war (tipp: es war nur einer). schon hat man die IP von unserem komplettidiot.
#13789967 at 2021-05-30 06:49:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #80: FCK GRT RST - Edition
>>13789949
> Sandra Sabine Jolig (SAM),
Sängerin Und Freundin Von Alex Jolig, Sandra Mahnkopp Bei Premiere "Men In Black 2" In Berlin (Photo by Franziska Krug/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/s%C3%A4ngerin-und-freundin-von-alex-jolig-sandra-mahnkopp-bei-news-photo/170669642
#12013717 at 2020-12-14 00:14:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #72: Falsche Flagge(n). POTUS 100% abgeschirmt. Feuerwerk. GERECHTIGKEIT. #326
>>12012060
Fake news Scheisse
https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/december-2019-berlin-winfried-kretschmann-prime-nachrichtenfoto/1186560426
BILD IST VON DEZEMBER 2019
#11764125 at 2020-11-24 11:26:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #71: Q ist die größte militärische Geheimdienstoperation aller Zeiten - Edition
https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/leute/leute/der-familien-fluch-geht-weiter-getty-erbe-mit-52-tot-im-hotel-aufgefunden-74102402.bild.html
Der Familien-Fluch geht weiter
getty-Erbe mit 52 tot im Hotel aufgefunden
#10451380 at 2020-08-28 14:09:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #64 | Germany Needs a Peace Treaty / Friedensvertrag - Edition
https://www.epochtimes.de/politik/deutschland/1400-opfer-melden-sich-mindestens-654-moenche-und-nonnen-veruebten-sexuellen-missbrauch-a3321546.html
1400 Opfer melden sich: Mindestens 654 Mönche und Nonnen verübten sexuellen Missbrauch
Epoch Times/26. August 2020 /Aktualisiert: 26. August 2020 14:45
Katholische Kirchengemeinde in Berlin. Symbolbild.Foto: Maja Hitij/getty Images
Im Missbrauchsskandal der katholischen Kirche in Deutschland sollen sich auch mindestens 654 Mönche und Nonnen an Kindern, Heranwachsenden und Schutzbefohlenen vergangen haben.
Eine am Mittwoch von der Deutschen Ordensoberenkonferenz in Bonn veröffentlichte Umfrage unter den Ordensgemeinschaften ergab, dass sich 1412 Männer und Frauen als Missbrauchsopfer gemeldet hatten.
Von den als Tätern beschuldigten Nonnen und Mönchen seien etwa 80 Prozent bereits gestorben. Allerdings seien 95 Beschuldigte nach wie vor Mitglied ihrer Ordensgemeinschaften, weitere 37 seien aus ihren Orden ausgetreten.
Die tatsächlichen Opfer liegen weitaus höher
Die nun veröffentlichten Missbrauchsfälle kommen zu den bereits von der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz ermittelten Fällen hinzu. Laut einer 2018 ermittelten Studie vergingen sich mindestens 1670 Priester und Diakone an mindestens 3677 Kindern - zusammengerechnet gab es also mehr als 2200 Täter und mehr als 5000 Opfer im katholischen Raum.
Kritiker warfen den Orden immer wieder vor, die Aufarbeitung der Vorgänge in den Klöstern zu verschleppen. Nach Angaben der Vorsitzenden der Deutschen Ordensoberenkonferenz beteiligten sich an der Umfrage drei Viertel der insgesamt 392 Ordensgemeinschaften.
Nach den Ergebnissen kam es in mindestens 22 Prozent der aus Nonnen bestehenden Frauenorden und in 69 Prozent der aus Mönchen bestehenden Männerorden zu Missbrauchsfällen.
Vorsitzende der Deutschen Ordensoberenkonferenz gesteht Versagen der Kirche ein
Die Vorsitzende der Deutschen Ordensoberenkonferenz, Schwester Katharina Kluitmann, erklärte: "Ja, Brüder und Schwestern unserer Gemeinschaften haben sexuellen Missbrauch in seinen verschiedenen Formen verübt."
Nicht nur diese Taten hätten "unsägliches Leid" über die Betroffenen gebracht. "Auch der Umgang von Leitungsverantwortlichen und anderen Ordensmitgliedern mit Betroffenen und ihren Berichten haben Menschen erneut verletzt, die sich durch ihre mutige Öffnung einen gemeinsamen Schritt auf ihrem Weg der Heilung erhofft hatten - wir bedauern das sehr und erkennen unser Versagen erneut an."
Der Missbrauchsbeauftragte der Bischofskonferenz, der Trierer Bischof Stephan Ackermann, sprach von einer selbstkritischen Auswertung. Er begrüße, dass die Orden den Willen geäußert haben, weiter mit der Bischofskonferenz zu kooperieren. (afp)
#10252682 at 2020-08-11 15:17:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #62 | Day of Freedom - Edition
>>10252526
Kein Problem.
Das nächste Mal einfach dazu schreiben wo du es her hast und was du mit dem Post bezweckst.
Da gibt es erst gar keine Missverständnisse.
Ist halt alles etwas sehr sensibel und wird immer sensibler - der Druck steigt halt immer mehr.
Jeder hat mit dem ersten Spatenstich angefangen. Das lernt man ganz schnell.
Nimm die Bilder doch als Beispiel und versuche die veranstaltungen herauszufinden auf denen sie entstanden sind.
Das geht schnell mit der Bildersuche - dazu gibts ein cooles Addon auf Firefox "search by image"
Die mMn beste Suchmaschine für Bilder ist zZt yandex aus Russland.
Bilder von Veranstaltungen werden auch gerne von getty, Shutterstock oder anderen Bildagenturen vertrieben. Dot nach Namen suchen
Der Ton hier ist manchmal etwas rauh - niemals persönlich nehmen.
o7
#9466673 at 2020-06-04 17:23:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #57 | Information Warfare - Edition
>>9463580
>Wer das Mädchen ist, kann ich nicht sagen nur spekulieren.
Das ist seine Tochter Ivanka.
https://www.gettyimages.de/fotos/harley-davidson-cafe-opening?mediatype=photography&phrase=harley%20davidson%20cafe%20opening&sort=mostpopular#license
#8197885 at 2020-02-20 21:28:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #38 | The Great Awakening - Edition
2/2
Nur die Waybak Machine ermöglicht einen Rückblick auf die Seite, die erstaunlicherweise von jener Maschine erstmalig am morgen des 20.2. um 6:55 aktiviert worden ist [7]. Es gibt auf der Speicherung von 6:55 (also vor Bildzeitung und fapage.it) tatsächlich einen riesigen Adler zu sehen, das Impressum und eine Datenschutzerklärung. Um kurz nach 9 Uhr wurde die Seite aus dem Netzt entfernt. Die Italiener können die Wölfe nur gesehen haben, wenn sie vor 6:55 die Homepage betrachtet haben, aber das wäre vor der Veröffentlichung in der Bild-Zeitung. Der gezeigte Adler ist ein Riesenfoto von getty-Images, die jeden verklagen, der ihre Fotos ohne zu bezahlen nutzt. Aber die Quelle wurde inzwischen offensichtlich auch gelöscht. Bei Despositfotos kann man es aber noch kaufen [8].
Der Ernst der Lage wird auch von der Bundeskanzlerin erkannt, die eine Reise kurzfristig absagt [6]. Wie fast immer in solchen Fällen seit dem 9/11 ist der Täter und damit Hauptzeuge des Geschehens tot. Er wurde erschossen in seiner Wohnung aufgefunden. Erstaunlicherweise ist auch seine 72-jährige Mutter mit erschossen worden.
Meine Wenigkeit muss offen gestehen, dass ich mit meiner Recherchearbeit an dieser Stelle nicht mehr weiterkomme. Mir fällt auf, dass eine Person, die zuvor noch nie im Internet ernsthaft tätig war, innerhalb kürzester Zeit eine Homepage aufbaut, ein kurzes Video hochlädt, dann ein Massaker an Muslimen begeht, seine eigene Mutter ermordet und dann sich selbst. Natürlich sind solche menschlichen Abgründe möglich, aber die zeitliche Nähe zu der ausgehobenen Terrorzelle, die Massaker in Moscheen verüben wollte, ist sehr auffällig.
Daher stelle ich mir wie immer die Frage: Wer würde von einem Massaker in Moscheen, in Schischa-Bars, unter Muslimen profitieren? Es wären diejenigen, die sich eine vergiftete Atmosphäre in Deutschland wünschen! Es wären diejenigen, die sich bürgerkriegsähnliche Zustände wünschen. Natürlich wären das zuallererst Nazis, die solch eine Vorstellung gepaart mit ihrem unmenschlichen Rassismus vereinbaren könnten. Aber das wäre zu kurz gegriffen, denn es würde die weltweite Lage ausklammern. Weltweit ist das USraelische Imperium am Wanken. Und ein wankendes Imperium ist ein sehr gefährliches und unberechenbares Imperium. Deutschland versucht immer wieder den Klauen des Imperiums zu entkommen, selbst wenn es nur nadelstichartig gelingt. Der Wirtschaftskrieg des Imperiums gegen Deutschland ist schon lange nicht mehr zu verheimlichen. In dieser Lage gelingt es den Bundesbehörden eine sehr gefährliche Terrorzelle auszuheben, über die wir fast gar nichts erfahren! Das deutet auf Geheimdienstquellen hin. Kurze Zeit später erfolgt ein Massaker mit vielen Toten. Derweil wird klar, dass der Amri-Fall immer merkwürdiger wird [9] und möglicherweise der in Italien (!) erschossene Amri gar nicht der Täter war. Selbst Presstituierte der Systempresse müssen eingestehen, dass an dem Fall etwas nicht stimmt [10].
Nein, es steht mir wirklich nicht zu, an dieser Stelle Schlussfolgerungen zu ziehen. Nur folgenden Hinweis erlaube ich mir. Es sieht sehr deutlich so aus, als wenn es in diesem Land Kräfte gibt, die Terroranschläge planen und Kräfte, die sie zu verhindern suchen. Es wäre die Aufgabe eines jeden muslimischen Bürgers die Kräfte zu unterstützen, die Terroranschläge verhindern wollen, selbst wenn es die Unterstützung eines Staates bedeuten würde, der in vielen Ländern der Welt Terroristen unterstützt. Nur in einer Atmosphäre des inneren Friedens können diese äußeren Verbrechen thematisiert und verhindert werden.
Etwas Weiteres ist bei diesem Fall deutlich geworden: Auf Muslime in diesem Land kommen jeden Tag schwerere Zeiten zu! Das wird so lange weitergehen, bis das verbrecherische kapitalistische USraelische System zusammengebrochen ist. Danach wird es aber ein Fest aller Völker geben!
[1] https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitges…griffe-moscheen
[2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit…oldid=167610571
[3] https://www.fanpage.it/esteri/il-video-d…agli-americani/
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdwYQ6c7nlQ
[5] https%3A%2F%2Forrudejatech.tk%2Ffrancesco-piccinini-curriculum-vitae.html&usg=AOvVaw1jFK_3Cet2lSeb0zK9NMXX
[6] https://www.welt.de/politik/live20600293…h-Schuesse.html
[7] https://web.archive.org/web/202002200655…ias-rathjen.de/
[8] https://de.depositphotos.com/stock-photo…background.html (erstes Foto in der zweiten Reihe)
[9] https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Amri-De…tz-4662995.html
[10] https://www.welt.de/politik/article20597…nzeltaeter.html
#8021014 at 2020-02-04 15:26:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #36 | THE BEST IS YET TO COME! - Edition
Schokolade im Test: Beliebte Marken oft stark mit Mineralöl verunreinigt
https://www.oekotest.de/essen-trinken/Schokolade-im-Test-Beliebte-Marken-oft-stark-mit-Mineraloel-verunreinigt_10975_1.html
http://archive.is/1JJf2
Labore haben die Schokolade im Test auf Mineralöl untersucht, außerdem auf krebsverdächtiges Acrylamid, Cadmium und Salmonellen. (Foto: Eivaisla/getty images)
Mineralöl in Schokolade - kein neues Thema. Unser Schokoladen-Test von 2017 hatte teils erhebliche Belastungen mit Mineralölbestandteilen offengelegt. Im aktuellen Test hat das von uns beauftragte Labor immerhin keine krebsverdächtigen MOAH-Verbindungen mehr nachgewiesen.
Allerdings kritisieren wir nur zwei Hersteller im Schokoladen-Test nicht wegen MOSH-Verbindungen. Diese gesättigten Kohlenwasserstoffe reichern sich im menschlichen Körper an. Das ist aus unser Sicht unerwünscht. In vier Tafeln stecken aus unserer Sicht "sehr stark erhöhte" Belastungen.
In zwei getesteten Milchschokoladen überschritten die MOSH-Mengen sogar einen Orientierungswert, den Lebensmittelämter mit dem Lebensmittelverband Deutschland, also der Industrie selbst, festgelegt haben. Neun Milligramm pro Kilogramm - eine hoch angesetzte Grenze und aus unserer Sicht eher eine Einladung zum Ausruhen. Grundlage für den Wert war die Belastungssituation ab 2016 - 90 Prozent aller Schokoladen lagen schon damals unter diesem Wert.
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Fairtrade garantiert keinen fairen Kakao
In einer UTZ- oder einer Fairtrade-Schokolade steckt nicht unbedingt UTZ oder Fairtrade. Der sogenannte Mengenausgleich erlaubt es, entsprechend zertifizierten mit nicht fair-gehandeltem Kakao zu mischen. Möglich ist das nur bei Kakao, Zucker, Orangensaft und Tee. Wer also wie etwa beim Kaffee erwartet, dass drin ist, was draufsteht, wird enttäuscht. Erkennbar ist das Verfahren bei Fairtrade an den Hinweisen "Fairtrade Cocoa Program" und "mit Mengenausgleich". UTZ arbeitet bei Kakao fast immer mit Mengenausgleich.
Hintergrund ist, dass viele Kleinbauern ihren Fairtrade-Kakao sonst nicht verkaufen könnten. Denn viele Händler in der Lieferkette sind nicht bereit oder in der Lage, den Kakao getrennt zu verarbeiten und zu lagern. Der Hersteller zahlt für 100 Prozent des Kakaos, den er verarbeitet, den höheren Preis. Er weiß aber letztlich nicht, wo sein Kakao genau herkommt und ob er tatsächlich fair gehandelt wurde. Auch die Fairtrade-Bauern bekommen den vollen Preis.
#7355426 at 2019-11-14 17:18:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #30 | 25.000 German ANTIFA Adresses EXPOSED - Edition
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#7144570 at 2019-07-23 12:29:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #28 | EU: von der Leyen is corrupt (McKinsey Scandal) Edition
>>7136601
msm!!!
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/angela-merkel-trump-news-1.4531480?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Merkel und Trump
Schluss mit der Schöntuerei
Merkel Holds Annual Press Conference
"Ich distanziere mich davon entschieden und fühle mich solidarisch mit den drei attackierten Frauen" - Merkel mit einer klaren Aussage zu Trumps Attacken auf Oppositionspolitikerinnen. (Foto: getty Images)
Lange Zeit haben westliche Politiker versucht, irgendwie mit dem US-Präsidenten klarzukommen. Nun hat die Kanzlerin endlich klare Worte gesprochen.
Kommentar von Detlef Esslinger
Ist das sinnvoll: Trump derart anzugehen? Ihn nicht nur als Rassisten wahrzunehmen, sondern ihn - jedenfalls indirekt - auch als solchen darzustellen, als Bundeskanzlerin? "Ich distanziere mich davon entschieden und fühle mich solidarisch mit den attackierten Frauen", sagte Angela Merkel am Freitag, zum Schluss ihrer Pressekonferenz. Der amerikanische Präsident hatte vor wenigen Tagen Politikerinnen der Demokratischen Partei aufgefordert, in ihre vermeintlichen Heimatländer zurückzugehen, "ihr könnt gar nicht schnell genug aufbrechen".
Spätestens in zwei Jahren wird Angela Merkel aufhören. In allen Rückblicken dürfte es dann die Szene von 2008 geben, in der sie zusammen mit dem Finanzminister Steinbrück von der SPD die Spareinlagen der Deutschen für "garantiert" erklärt. Es wird natürlich der "Wir schaffen das"-Satz von 2015 gezeigt werden. Und diese Bemerkung jetzt.
Bundesregierung Als wäre nichts passiert
Merkels Pressekonferenz
Als wäre nichts passiert
Neue Kommissionspräsidentin, neue Verteidigungsministerin, Zitteranfälle - war da was? Bei ihrem letzten Auftritt vor der Sommerpause zeigt Merkel sich als Meisterin der Lakonie. Doch ganz am Ende wird sie mit einem Wort deutlich, das in Erinnerung bleiben wird. ? Von Jens Schneider
Narzissten wollen permanent gepudert werden; zugleich meinen sie, ein Grundrecht auf Beleidigung von jeder und jedem zu haben und schäumen bei jedem Pikser, der ihnen selbst zuteilwird. Viele Spitzenpolitiker haben versucht, durch Pudern mit Trump irgendwie klarzukommen. Emmanuel Macron lud ihn zum Nationalfeiertag auf die Champs-Élysées ein. Theresa May besorgte ihm in London die gesamte Pracht und Herrlichkeit des Vereinigten Königreichs. Angela Merkel gewährte 2017 einer jungen Amerikanerin einen gemeinsamen Auftritt, die vielleicht auch etwas zu sagen wusste, ganz sicher aber die Tochter des damals neuen Präsidenten war.
Es wäre Verrat, Trump weiter zu pudern
Die Technik war ehrenwert und den Versuch wert. Trotzdem hat Trump den Pariser Klimavertrag und das Iran-Abkommen gekündigt, mit Autozöllen sowie mit Sanktionen im Fall einer europäischen Digitalsteuer gedroht, Deutschland als "schlimmer als China" bezeichnet und über May gesagt, dass sie Chaos angerichtet habe.
Natürlich muss auch ein amerikanischer Präsident in der Sache letztlich so entscheiden, wie er es jeweils für geboten hält. Was Trump betrifft, gründen Frust und Zorn darin, dass er am Gespräch nie wirklich interessiert ist, dass er das Recht des Stärkeren - also seins - für hinreichend hält und dies sein generelles Prinzip ist, im Umgang mit anderen Nationen und mit Kritikern daheim. Gäbe Trump nur den Klimavertrag auf, wäre dies schon desaströs genug. Indem er jedoch permanent die Prinzipien des Miteinander-Auskommens verrät, wäre es auch Verrat, ihn weiter zu pudern.
Angela Merkel, aufgewachsen in der DDR, war stets eine Bewunderin der amerikanischen Demokratie und hat sich nun entschlossen, dieser in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Präsidenten beizustehen. Im Idealfall hilft ihre Äußerung, dass sich der Fokus in der US-Gesellschaft jetzt allein auf den Rassisten im Weißen Haus richtet - und nicht darauf, was die von ihm Diskriminierten vielleicht früher geäußert haben und worüber man geteilter Meinung sein könnte; damit griffe man nur den hingelegten Giftköder auf. Eine Debatte gewinnt derjenige, der den Gegenstand dieser Debatte bestimmt. Trump darf sie sehr gerne verlieren; und danach in sein Heimatland zurückkehren. Sein Großvater zog einst aus der Pfalz nach Amerika, und wenn's dem Weltfrieden dient, nehmen die Menschen in der Gegend ihn bestimmt wieder zurück.
#6549494 at 2019-05-21 10:26:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #24 | Sleepless in Berlin Edition
>>6548272
https://www.epochtimes.de/politik/deutschland/steinmeier-ruft-zum-kampf-gegen-verschwoerungstheorien-auf-in-familien-schulen-und-bueros-a2888551.html
Politik » Deutschland
Steinmeier ruft zum Kampf gegen "Verschwörungstheorien" auf - in Familien, Schulen und Büros
Epoch Times17. Mai 2019 Aktualisiert: 17. Mai 2019 17:36
Der Kampf gegen sogenannte Verschwörungstheorien müsse "in Familien, Schulen, Büros und Betrieben ebenso ausgetragen werden wie in Zeitungsredaktionen, sozialen Netzwerken und Parlamenten", fordert Bundespräsident Steinmeier.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier.Foto: Sean Gallup/getty Images
Angeblich ist der Zuspruch für sogenannte politische Verschwörungstheorien groß. Deshalb hat Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier einen Appell an die Gesellschaft gerichtet: "Der Kampf gegen Desinformation und Verschwörungstheorien ist eine der großen Herausforderungen für die liberalen Demokratien", sagte Steinmeier am Freitag laut vorab verbreitetem Redetext im westfälischen Kloster Dalheim.
Dieser Kampf gehe alle an und müsse "in Familien, Schulen, Büros und Betrieben ebenso ausgetragen werden muss wie in Zeitungsredaktionen, sozialen Netzwerken und Parlamenten".
Bis heute glauben laut Steinmeier "viele Menschen daran, dass sich reale oder irreale Verschwörer im Geheimen zusammentun, um dunkle, meist verbrecherische Komplotte zu schmieden". Diese Einstellung untergrabe das Prinzip der Demokratie:
Wer ernsthaft glaubt, dass dunkle Mächte hinter politischen Entscheidungen stehen, der kann nicht daran glauben, dass er Einfluss auf die demokratische Willensbildung nehmen kann, der kann kein Vertrauen in die Demokratie und ihre Institutionen haben."
Der Bundespräsident warnte vor der Irreführung von Wählern durch Verschwörungstheorien. "Populisten in vielen Ländern verbreiten nicht nur sogenannte alternative Wahrheiten, sondern offensichtliche Lügen und Verschwörungstheorien."
Als Beispiel nannte er die "wirklich gefährliche Behauptung vom angeblichen großen Austausch der Bevölkerung". Nationalisten verbreiteten die Theorie, "dass sich die so genannten Eliten und die Medien gegen das Volk verschwören".
Steinmeier äußerte sich bei der Eröffnung einer Ausstellung mit dem Titel "Verschwörungstheorien früher und heute". (afp/so)
https://www.vimentis.ch/d/dialog/readarticle/der-un-bevoelkerungsaustausch/
Der UNO-Bevölkerungs-
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B?e?s?t?a?n?ds?e?rh??a??l??t??un?gs?mi??gr??ati??on?: Eine Lösung für abnehmende und alternde Bevölkerungen.
von Udo Ulfkotte [November 2015]
Die Vereinten Nationen fordern für die EU-Länder wie Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien einen »Bevölkerungsaustausc??????????????h« mit Migranten aus Nahost und Nordafrika. Offenkundig ist der Asyl-Tsunami von langer Hand geplant.
UNO-Bestandserhaltung
In dem erst jetzt bekannt gewordenen UN-Bericht »Replacement Migration« (ST/ESA/SER A./206) der Bevölkerungsabteilung?????????????? der UN (UN Population Division) aus dem Jahr 2001 wird die Öffnung Deutschlands für 11,4 Millionen Migranten gefordert, auch wenn das innerhalb Deutschlands zu sozialen Spannungen (»rise to social tensions«) führen werde.Das Resultat ist die AfD in Deutschland.
#6285825 at 2019-04-23 17:38:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #21 | This is not a game Edition
>>6284694
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2019-04/robert-mueller-donald-trump-russland-ermittlungen-william-barr?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Es wird hässlich
Der Mueller-Bericht wird veröffentlicht. Nun wird klar werden, ob sich Donald Trumps Sicht auf die Ermittlungen durchsetzt: keine Verschwörung, keine Justizbehinderung.
Eine Analyse von Carsten Luther
18. April 2019, 10:01 Uhr 568 Kommentare
Robert Mueller: US-Präsident Donald Trump auf dem Rasen des Weißen Hauses in Washington
US-Präsident Donald Trump auf dem Rasen des Weißen Hauses in Washington © Brendan Smialowski/AFP/getty Images
Inhalt
Es wird hässlich, so viel ist sicher. Wenn an diesem Donnerstag der Abschlussbericht des US-Sonderermittlers Robert Mueller veröffentlicht wird, gibt es kein Halten mehr. Die Politik in Washington, ihre Beobachter in den Medien und allerlei Netzwerken, interessierte Amerikaner: Sobald die nahezu 400 Seiten plus Anhänge einmal in der Welt sind, werden sie sich wie ausgehungerte Geier darauf stürzen. Und wenn sie ihre Köpfe wieder heben, hat doch nur jeder einen Brocken aus dem Fleisch des Reports gerissen. Es wird ein Kampf um die besten Stücke. Und wer zuerst kommt, frisst zuerst. Soll heißen: Welche Bedeutung das hat, was Mueller und sein Team aufgeschrieben haben, wird sich nicht sofort erschließen - aber alle werden es eilig haben, ein Narrativ zu prägen. So, wie Justizminister William Barr, der eine Pressekonferenz geben will, bevor der Bericht zu lesen sein wird.
Barr hatte es bereits zu einem gewissen Grad geschafft, den Ton zu setzen, als er die Öffentlichkeit Anfang des Monats erstmals über die Ergebnisse der Ermittlungen informierte. Nach fast zwei Jahren hatte Mueller seinen Bericht an Barr abgegeben, der ihn innerhalb von 48 Stunden auf zwei einfache Schlussfolgerungen zusammenschnurren ließ. Die eine: Bei den russischen Manipulationsversuchen während der US-Wahl 2016 gibt es keine tragfähigen Beweise für konkrete Absprachen und gemeinsames absichtsvolles Handeln des damaligen Präsidentschaftskandidaten Donald Trump und seines Teams mit dem Kreml. Die andere: Für den Vorwurf, der heutige Präsident habe die Ermittlungen in dieser Sache behindert, reichen die Beweise ebenfalls nicht aus - nachdem Mueller auf eine Empfehlung in dieser Frage für den Abschlussbericht verzichtet hatte, traf Barr diese Entscheidung.
Für Trump war die Sache klar: totale Entlastung, alle Vorwürfe vom Tisch - die Siegerrunde auf Twitter und vor johlenden Anhängern hat die vergangenen zwei Wochen bestimmt. Und bei vielen Amerikanern dürfte genau das vorerst hängen geblieben sein, obwohl in Umfragen die Mehrheit sagt: Wir wollen den ganzen Bericht sehen. Was aber wird es darin zu lesen geben? Und wer will das überhaupt noch wissen?
Mueller muss nicht alles berichten, was er weiß
Zunächst ist wichtig zu verstehen, was Mueller unter Umständen nicht aufgeschrieben hat. Er ist nicht verpflichtet, über alles zu berichten, was er und sein Team herausgefunden haben. Er muss lediglich begründen, worauf seine Anklagen beruhen beziehungsweise die Entscheidungen, keine Anklagen zu erheben. Das kann bedeuten, dass zu den bereits erhobenen Anklagen nicht viel mehr zu erfahren sein wird, als die Anklageschriften schon hergeben. Auch wie ausführlich die Fälle beschrieben werden, in denen es zu keiner Anklage kam, ist fraglich. Wie tief außerdem die Details über Ermittlungsstränge jenseits der Kernfragen russische Wahlmanipulation und Justizbehinderung gehen, die Mueller teils längst an andere Staatsanwaltschaften abgegeben hat, ist ebenso offen. Ja, es könnte Einzelheiten geben, die so noch nicht bekannt waren. Aber niemand sollte glauben, das sei dann nun wirklich alles, was es in der Russland-Affäre zu erfahren gibt.
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#5541139 at 2019-03-06 19:45:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #16 Winter VI | Austria declares War on Kekistan Edition
>>5539550
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2019-02/europaeische-union-eu-kommission-ungarn-viktor-orban-gegenoffensive
EU-Kommission startet nach Orbáns Schmähkampagne Informationsoffensive
Die EU-Kommission hat auf Ungarisch eine Broschüre veröffentlicht, mit dem sie die Vorwürfe der ungarischen Regierung von Viktor Orbán entkräften will.
28. Februar 2019, 15:48 Uhr Quelle: ZEIT ONLINE, AFP, dpa, jkl 122 Kommentare
Die Plakatkampagne der ungarischen Regierung zeigt den EU-Kommissionspräsidenten Jean-Claude Juncker und den in Ungarn geborenen Unternehmer George Soros. © Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/getty Images
Die EU hat auf die Plakatkampagne der ungarischen Regierung gegen EU-Kommissionspräsidenten Jean-Claude Juncker reagiert. Die Kommission veröffentlichte ein vierseitiges Informationsblatt auf Englisch und Ungarisch, in dem sieben Vorwürfe gegen die Europäische Union entkräftet werden sollen. Die Kommission bedauere, dass dies nötig sei, sagte eine Sprecherin. Die Ungarn hätten es aber "verdient, die Wahrheit zu erfahren".
Die nationalkonservative Regierung von Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán hatte vergangene Woche eine Kampagne unter dem Motto "Auch Sie haben ein Recht zu erfahren, was Brüssel vorbereitet" gestartet. Auf Plakaten wird ein unvorteilhaftes Bild von Juncker und dem US-Milliardär George Soros gezeigt. Ihnen wird vorgeworfen, sie wollten die EU-Länder zur Flüchtlingsaufnahme verpflichten und den nationalen Grenzschutz schwächen.
"Die Behauptungen der ungarischen Regierung sind im schlimmsten Fall geradezu sachlich falsch oder bestenfalls höchst irreführend", heißt es im Vorspann des Informationsblatts. "Die Kommission möchte daher die Dinge richtigstellen, Punkt für Punkt." Die Kommission verweist zudem darauf, dass jeder Mitgliedstaat "einschließlich Ungarns" die Verantwortung für auf EU-Ebene gemeinsam getroffenen Entscheidungen trage.
In der konservativen Europäischen Volkspartei (EVP), der sowohl Juncker als auch Orbán angehören, hat die Kampagne eine Diskussion darüber ausgelöst, ob die ungarische Fidesz-Partei ausgeschlossen werden sollte. Am Mittwoch diskutiert darüber erstmals die EVP-Fraktion im Europaparlament. Juncker hatte vergangene Woche gesagt, aus seiner Sicht sei für Orbán kein Platz mehr in der EVP.
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#4164978 at 2018-12-05 16:08:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #9 Dezember Ausgabe
>>4164311
MehrKill mit Freimaurer Notsignal auf dem Parteitag.
Das Gesicht geht aber noch teuflischer ;)
https:// www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/angela-merkel-germanys-chancellor-and-christian-nachrichtenfoto/924474902
8chan/8kun QResearch JAPAN Posts (5)
#21695285 at 2024-10-02 10:21:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research Japan #25: The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind Edition
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#19396202 at 2023-08-21 01:43:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research Japan/Nihon #17: God woke you up for a reason Edition
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Q Research Japan/Nihon #17: God woke you up for a reason Edition
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Q Research Japan/Nihon #11: God bless and stay safe Edition
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8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (4)
#20711275 at 2024-04-11 14:15:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20711136
>In 1949 Huddleston was elected Provincial of the Community of the Resurrection in South Africa and was made Superintendent of St Peter's School.
>>20711136
>On 26 June 1959, Huddleston and Julius Nyerere addressed the founding meeting of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) which was held in London. In 1961, Huddleston became the Vice-President of the AAM, a position he held until 1981.
Trevor Huddleston influenced Oliver Tambo
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803102015333
South African political leader and anti-apartheid activist who spent thirty years in exile before returning to his native country.
The son of a peasant farmer, Oliver Tambo was born at Bizana in the Transkei and educated at the Ludeke Methodist Mission School (1924-29), the Anglican Holy Cross Mission School (1929-33), and St Peter's Secondary School, Johannesburg (1933-38). The Anglican priest Father Trevor Huddleston (1913-98), a lifelong campaigner against apartheid, was a strong influence. After attending university at Fort Hare, Tambo took a correspondence course in law and became a teacher at St Peter's School. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944 and became vice-president of its youth league the following year. From 1951 onwards Tambo practised as a lawyer in Johannesburg, rising within the ranks of the ANC to become its secretary-general in 1955.
Shortly afterwards, as he contemplated entering the priesthood, Tambo was arrested and detained (1956-57) on charges of treason, which were later dropped. In 1960, still officially banned from attending political meetings, Tambo escaped to London. As acting president of the ANC from 1967 and president from 1977, Tambo was for thirty years the effective head and international spokesman of a South African anti-apartheid government in exile, while its inspiring leader, Nelson Mandela, remained in gaol. Returning at last to South Africa in 1990, Tambo stepped down from the presidency of the ANC the following year on grounds of failing health, to be replaced by the newly released Mandela.
Picture: "Father Trevor Huddleston (1913 - 1998) bids farewell to his friend, South African politician Oliver Tambo (1917 - 1993) as he leaves Liverpool Street Station in London, bound for Africa, where he will take up his new post as Bishop of Masasi in Tanganyika (Tanzania), 8th September 1960. (Photo by Ron Case/Keystone/Hulton Archive/getty Images)" https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/father-trevor-huddleston-bids-farewell-to-his-friend-nachrichtenfoto/825516126
#20489082 at 2024-02-28 13:55:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20489078
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"The Life and Death of Adolf Lundin" - Part 1
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btft67cpjzhyizh0pvk0/home/the-life-and-death-of-adolf-lundin
November 15, 2006
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There was, seemingly, no place on earth Lundin would not go to find his fortune, nowhere he would not dig or deal. He found gold in Argentina; copper in the Congo; oil in Sudan and Malaysia; natural gas in the Middle East and Russia; nickel in Australia; and a variety of minerals in Canada, Europe and the U.S.
For years the Swedish press excoriated Lundin for cutting deals with governments notorious for corruption and brutality. Singling out an especially contentious Lundin oil venture in war-torn Sudan in 2001, Sweden's then-minister of Foreign Affairs, the late Anna Lindh, called his activities detrimental to Sweden's image. "We expect Swedish companies to respect an ethical code in line with human rights and the environment in which they operate abroad," she said.
But there is no denying Lundin's business acumen. While amassing a fortune for himself and his family, he earned at least twice that much for thousands of mostly Swedish and Swiss investors with the nerve to endure the steep rises and falls of Lundin stocks. "It was wild, but if you stuck by Adolf, you made a lot of money," recalls Rudolf M?ller, 66, a retired Swiss investment banker with UBS who invested his money and that of his clients with Lundin.
Today, Lundin is best known for his investments in Russian natural gas. His Vostok Nafta Investment fund is the single largest foreign portfolio investor in Gazprom (see box). It has a 1.34 percent stake in the controversial, state-controlled Russian energy giant, whose market capitalization is $250 billion.
The young Lundin identified with the rough-and-ready image of American cowboys and oil barons, even though neither existed in his Stockholm suburb of ?ppelviken. He spiced his English with tough-guy clich?s - "No guts, no glory" and "When the going gets tough, the tough get going" - straight out of the Hollywood action movies that enthralled him as a boy. He was riveted by popular biographies of John D. Rockefeller and J. Paul getty.
But Lundin, who hadn't abandoned adolescent fantasies of becoming an American-style oil tycoon, chafed at the notion of remaining a well-paid management employee. "John D. Rockefeller was long dead," he recalled in his interview with Institutional Investor. "So Armand Hammer became my idol." He thought Hammer, the maverick American chairman of Occidental Petroleum, showed real genius by operating in high-risk countries that the oil majors avoided, like Libya, Peru and the Soviet Union. Like Hammer, Lundin was convinced that one of the few advantages a smaller natural-resources company enjoys over the global giants is the ability to gamble on projects in countries that are politically suspect and not creditworthy enough.
#13989794 at 2021-06-26 19:21:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Originally Canada #21 >>13988090
Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children "Or Else Leave EU"
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hungary-told-repeal-law-banning-lgbt-promotion-children-or-else-leave-eu
EU leadership is now fanatically dictating that Hungary and its 'defiant' prime minister Vickor Orban must bow the knee to the Pride Flag or else "must leave" the European Union.
Quoting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, The Telegraph describes massive pushback against a new Hungarian law which seeks to prevent the public promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism in front of children and minors:
Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, said Hungary either "must leave" the EU or repeal the law, which bans TV shows and other content seen as championing LGBT lifestyles for the under-18s.
However, some eastern European governments refused to join 17 of the bloc's 27 countries in a rare joint statement condemning a fellow member state.
Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán, AFP via getty Images
Other EU leaders, like European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, have been claiming that the law actively discriminates against LGBT people.
However, defenders of the Hungarian law have pointed out it puts decision-making on presenting these issues to children in the hands of parents and family members. Orban himself, for example, said the law and policy is fundamentally about "defending the rights of the kids and the parents" and is not about discrimination.
Orban said this week at the summit: "Homosexuality was punished, and I fought for their freedom and their rights," concluding that "I am defending the rights of the homosexual guys. But this law is not about that."
But the EU summit which met this is acting as if it's a declaration of war on human rights, and is vowing to respond accordingly:
Western leaders have said they will bring Hungary "to its knees" over a law banning the promotion of homosexuality in schools at a bitter EU summit on Thursday.Continue...
#9668513 at 2020-06-19 08:32:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research SOUTH AFRICA
Twitter Allows Pedophiles to Discuss Attraction to Minors
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CANNES, FRANCE - JUNE 21: Co-chair / founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey attends the ' #SheInspiresMe: Twitter celebrates female voices & visionaries ' Event at Cannes Lions on June 21, 2017 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Francois Durand/getty Images for Twitter)Francois Durand/getty Images for Twitter; Edit: BNN
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In the past week alone, it was reported that Twitter has suspended journalist Andy Ngo for tweeting inconvenient facts about the purported "epidemic" of transgender deaths, and undercover journalism organization Project Veritas from running recruitment ads. But if you're a pedophile who wants to discuss your attraction to minors - Twitter's just fine with that.
Big League Politics discovered a little-noticed, quietly enacted Twitter rule change from March, which says "Discussions related to child sexual exploitation as a phenomenon or attraction towards minors are permitted, provided they don't promote or glorify child sexual exploitation in any way."
So, if you post politically inconvenient yet accurate statistical facts, as Ngo did, you get suspended. But if you discuss "attraction towards minors," Twitter explicitly allows it.
It goes without saying that Twitter's policy did not arise out of some blanket commitment to free speech. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has specifically rejected such commitments, rubbishing the idea that Twitter is the "free speech wing of the free speech party," as one VP at the company described it in 2012.
In an interview with Wired last year, Dorsey said that the "free speech wing" comment was a "joke" that was taken too seriously.
"This quote around 'free speech wing of the free speech party' was never, was never a mission of the company. It was never a descriptor of the company that we gave ourselves," said Dorsey.
The Twitter CEO continued, saying that a commitment to free speech "comes with the realization that freedom of expression may adversely impact other people's fundamental human rights, such as privacy, such as physical security."
In other words, Twitter's decision to allow pedophiles on its platform is something they've chosen to do, not something they have to do.
In the worldview of twitter, a journalist posting statistics that contradict the intersectional left is somehow a threat to human rights, privacy, or physical security. But allowing pedophiles to openly organize isn't.
Breitbart News has reached out to Twitter for comment.
Are you an insider at Google, Facebook, Twitter or any other tech company who wants to confidentially reveal wrongdoing or political bias at your company? Reach out to Allum Bokhari at his secure email address allumbokhari@protonmail.com.
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News
8chan/8kun QResearch UK Posts (111)
#19461541 at 2023-08-30 19:34:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #50: Bletchley Park Mode Activated Edition
>>19434040
>The possible evening sightings for the >Millbank pattern are 24, 25 and 26DEC.
For each of those three days, and 27DEC, there is only one ROT1 lunar bearing match per day at 151.5 degrees.
24DEC: ROT1@3:22am, TfL buses running normally, but the building lights could have been different as that day began until time people left the Millbank building on Christmas Eve.
25DEC: ROT1@4:01am, NO TfL buses running
26DEC: ROT1@4:40am, TfL buses running normally.
27DEC: ROT1@5:23am, TfL buses running normally.
Including a magnified ROT1 showing a Millbank pattern that, although blurry, is not inconsistent with LISA or getty/Setterfield Christmas pics.
#19434040 at 2023-08-26 11:29:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #50: Bletchley Park Mode Activated Edition
>>19432136
(RE-POSTING THIS DIG BY REQUEST-Correction made to graphic and additional comment added)
RE: EMBANKMENT PICS (ROT1, LONDON2847and LISAMI6)
ROT1 shows the tide at a very high point (Hispaniola relative to her dolphins), after dark, after business hours, with the Moon at a bearing of approximately 151.5 degrees. No buses can be seen. We know that every Christmas holiday the buses stop running on Christmas Day from midnight Christmas Eve to midnight Christmas Day- 24 hours.
We know the Millbank building light pattern in LISAMI6 match the pattern in some (4) getty pics dated 25DEC2013. The light pattern seen could likely have been able to persist from Christmas Eve when people left work not to return again until the day after Boxing Day (26DEC) on 27DEC.
The possible evening sightings for the Millbank pattern are 24, 25 and 26DEC.
Adding the Moon seen at approx. 151.5 degrees eliminates 24DEC due to the only HIGH TIDE occurring after dark that night occurring at 6:37pm hours before moonrise and at which time there would be a bustling rush hour to include BUSLOADS of happy commuters heading home looking forward to a Christmas Eve with their loved ones.
There is only one day, Christmas, when the Moon could be seen (at 4:00am) just some 2 hours before actual high tide at 6:06am when it would still be 2 hrs before dawn. We have learned that most of the water volume of an incoming tide has accumulated by (t-minus 2) with very little incoming water remaining to raise the tide level. The tide change at this period is almost imperceptible during the last hour before HT and the hour after.
Another high tide was recorded for 25DEC2013 at 6:37pm, however the moon was below the horizon until 12:40am the next day. So can eliminate that one.
As for the high tides on 26DEC (Boxing Day), a famous shopping day, there would be lots of bus traffic (now resumed at 12am) taking people to shop "Downtown" at 6:52am and 7:29pm.
As for the day after Boxing Day, 27DEC, the one high tide before we can expect workers to begin turning on banks of office lights in the MILLBANK Bldg occurs at 7:51am, almost dawn. Yes still dark but there would be scads of morning buses ferrying commuters across town everywhere. And, there would be moon at the ROT1 bearing.
My sauce is the NOAA recordings for high and low tides for London at London Bridge, not too far from Hungerford Bridge from which the Embankment Q pics were taken.
#19380279 at 2023-08-18 04:09:49 (UTC+1)
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>>19379869
Oops, the 4 getty images of Millbank building lights match were taken 25DEC2013 and not 2014.
Also, I can add that for 25DEC2013 high tide at 6:37pm, the moon was below the horizon until 12:40am the next day. So can eliminate that one.
#19379869 at 2023-08-18 02:37:56 (UTC+1)
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RE: EMBANKMENT PICS (ROT1, LONDON2847and LISAMI6). ROT1 shows the tide at a very high point (Hispaniola relative to her dolphins), after dark, after business hours, with the Moon at a bearing of approximately 151.5 degrees. No buses can be seen. We know that every Christmas holiday the buses stop running on Christmas Day from midnight Christmas Eve to midnight Christmas Day- 24 hours.
We know the Millbank building light pattern in LISAMI6 match the pattern in some (4) getty pics dated 25DEC2013. The light pattern seen could likely have been able to persist from Christmas Eve when people left work not to return again until the day after Boxing Day (26DEC) on 27DEC.
The possible evening sightings for the Millbank pattern are 24, 25 and 26DEC.
Adding the Moon seen at approx. 151.5 degrees eliminates 24DEC due to the only HIGH TIDE occurring after dark that night occurring at 6:37pm hours before moonrise and at which time there would be a bustling rush hour to include BUSLOADS of happy commuters heading home looking forward to a Christmas Eve with their loved ones.
There is only one day, Christmas, when the Moon could be seen (at 4:00am) just some 2 hours before actual high tide at 6:06am when it would still be 2 hrs before dawn. We have learned that most of the water volume of an incoming tide has accumulated by (t-minus 2) with very little incoming water remaining to raise the tide level. The tide change at this period is almost imperceptible during the last hour before HT and the hour after.
As for the high tides on 26DEC (Boxing Day), a famous shopping day, there would be lots of bus traffic (now resumed at 12am) taking people to shop "Downtown" at 6:52am and 7:29pm.
As for the day after Boxing Day, 27DEC, the one high tide before we can expect workers to begin turning on banks of office lights in the MILLBANK Bldg occurs at 7:51am, almost dawn. Yes still dark but there would be scads of morning buses ferrying commuters across town everywhere. And, there would be moon at the ROT1 bearing.
My sauce is the NOAA recordings for high and low tides for London at London Bridge, not too far from Hungerford Bridge from which the Embankment Q pics were taken.
#19053602 at 2023-06-22 20:20:19 (UTC+1)
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>>19053153
Had seen No-name courting Harry in late 2013 when he was in DC for some exhibit continuing his mum's work on antipersonnel mines, No -name also went to London to visit Harry in late 2013. An odd combo to be sure. Not sure who was using who more for publicity. I get booted out of the getty pics links for some reason though. But they are not the ones in RedBus or Piccadilly. Might've been them at CH though.
Meghan Markle could be the woman at WW, mebbe mebbe with Harry.
Recommend cross searches like (name)/London/2013. Maybe add December or Christmas.
#18006642 at 2022-12-24 05:11:39 (UTC+1)
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>>18006567
Sauce for getty (Setterfield) pics on Christmas Day 2013 matching LISAMI6.
LONDON25A:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313293?s=2048x2048
LONDON25B:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
LONDON25C:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313295?s=2048x2048
LONDON25D:
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/london-eye-christmas-2013?events=455200669&family=editorial&phrase=london eye christmas 2013
#18006567 at 2022-12-24 04:50:31 (UTC+1)
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>>18006436
A minor correction- The Q pic on 2.16.18 was London2847 in Q post 784.
LISAMI6 was posted on 12.2.19 in Q post 3645 which has the first caps of Be Prepared. B and P = 2 and 16, linking the post with Q post 784 on 2.16.18.
It is Q post 1455 which (in this reading) appears to imply London2847 is from 25DEC2013.
As an aside FOR NEW EYES: LISAMI6 is independently connected to 25DEC2013 by matching open source getty pics dated Christmas Day 2013.
#17825345 at 2022-11-26 18:47:21 (UTC+1)
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>>17805910
BLUE STRUCTURE @ PICCADILLY
As a marker, has already caught out a pic as wrongly dated. (The 25NOV getty pic)
24NOV vid Lights, Action Sound - present
22DEC Farmer pic - present
>>17807087
28NOV Wide angle Piccadilly pic- present
>>17807090
25NOV getty STOCK photo - NOT present
I think this pic is the one misdated. One clue may be the workers seen inside the Eros Snow Globe. This pic may show them setting up the snow globe the week prior.
#17428422 at 2022-08-22 21:02:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
Updated Building Scrutiny Bun
>>16695651, >>16695655, >>16696348, >>16696361, >>16696367, >>16696371, >>16696377 The DUMONT
>>16695851, >>16696278, >>16696407, >>16720242 Camelford House, 87-90 Albert Embankment
>>16696244, >>16696248 Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel 18 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TJ, 1-AUG-2012-P vid of the two bridges over Thames, camera vantage The Eye (video)
>>16696414, >>16696415 Vauxhall SV images for 2012, 2013, 2019. Reference
>>16696455 Peninsula Heights Apartments, 93 Albert Embankment. The cranes in 22-DEC-2013-T are lit up on top
>>16696534 GE-07-2013-T (3D buildings overlayed)
>>16696573 Additional candidates for pink/ purple lit building?
>>16696609 Should not lose sight of the fact that most of the candidates for the pink/purple coloured building also reinforce the pre-2015-2016 conclusion UK Anons are working with for dating the Q pics
>>16696831, >>16696840 New Years Eve 31-DEC-2013-T videos for elevated night time views of the Embankments
>>16696954 NYE 31-DEC-2013-T via BBC One
>>16697024, >>16697063 Stock photos, various years
>>16704118, >>16704257, >>16720353 Riverbank Plaza Hotel, 18 Albert Embankment London SE1 7SP with obvious exterior lighting
>>16704262 2011, Crowne Plaza and Riverbank Plaza hotels
>>16747440, >>16747575 24London open sauce photo (nicknamed "Purple Sister" re LisaMI6) vid mark 1 minute https://youtu.be/eDzV7cMRvHM?t=63 Purple building lit, two crans at Vauxhall, shroud at Westminster tower
>>16747587 Moar points of interest in comparison between open sauce pics and LisaMI6
>>16747671 Pic taken from Millbank Tower: Note that the gap in the row of waterfront buldings had not yet appeared at the time of this pic. Also the Crowne Plaza had not yet undergone rennovations. And 18 Albert Embankment, the building with the 3-sided waterfront, had not been rennovated
>>16747726, >>16747742, >>16747754, >>16747766 Various SV images along the Millbank (A3212) provide a view of the other side of the river which is obstructed by treecover
>>16747778, >>16747901 Good view of the area of interest on Albert embankment, pre-demolition
>>16748013, >>16748035, >>16748204, >>16748313 getty stock photo, 25-DEC-2013-T. Close match with LisaMI6 and with 24London
>>16753143, >>16753358, >>16753413, >>16753504, >>16764764, >>16766154 Comparison pics, future site of Corniche building Google Earth GE-MAR-2012 Imagery Date: 8/2/2011 & GE-JUL-2013 Imagery Date: 18-JUL-2013 View Location: 51?29'27.88" N 0?07'18.01" W
>>16747817, >>16753504, >>16755363 Comparison: Google Earth JUL-2013 Streetview AUG-2013, checking for hoarding installations
>>16753687, >>16753747, >>16753808 SV-JUL-2014 The Corniche gap
>>16754392, >>16754461, >>16754678, >>16754723, >>16754735, >>16765628, >>16767324 18 Albert Embankment (Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel) glass facade and coloured floodlighting
>>16755875 Crowne Plaza hotel to open on Albert Embankment, 27 September 2013 https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7106
>>16755895, >>16755898, >>16755927, >>16755937, >>16755950 Albert Embankment: rooftop club overlooking Parliament approved 7 August 2016
>>16791771, >>16776457, >>16792252 The Science is Settled! pink/purple buikding is the Riverbank Plaza hotel, 18 Albert Embankment
>>16931199, >>16931282, >>16931284, >>16931580, >>16940460 Looking for the angle, St George peeking out from behind Millbank
>>16937114 From Tim Browne 10-APR-2014-P views from LE pod showing hoarding at Westminster, Millbank lighting
>>16941230 More views of hoarding at Westminster in 2013
#17416672 at 2022-08-19 23:35:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>17405925
>>17405925
Hey, don't know who posted this guy's pic first, but is that 31DEC2013? Oli Scarff-getty.
I see a big banner over Victoria Embankment, past the Air Memorial. See that? Is that 2013?
#17405752 at 2022-08-17 06:11:25 (UTC+1)
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>>17066825
Anons, what do you make of this solitary strand of lighting suspended between two (poles?) it seems across the Westminster Bridge entrance? Is it a modest Christmas decoration across the bridge entrance? It is visible in LISA and Kemp-getty pic as well.
Or have we already got narrower bookends with the cranes dig?
#17405256 at 2022-08-17 03:22:17 (UTC+1)
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>>17405151
Papadopoulos pic from his Facebook website, as per Agence France-Presse / getty Images.
Photo analysis. Picture taken at Harrods in London, UK. Taken between May 2014 and May 2015. Summer. So Summer 2014.
See details for markers in immediate vicinity of Bus Stop KA at Harrods, 87-135 Brompton Road, London, UK. Also see TfL bus route No. 14 to Putney Bridge.
#17405151 at 2022-08-17 03:02:55 (UTC+1)
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What Are the FBI and CIA Hiding?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-are-the-fbi-and-cia-hiding-1533078662
By Thomas J. Baker
July 31, 2018 7:11 pm ET
Pic
George Papadopoulos in London.
PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/getty IMAGES
Q 1780
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-are-the-fbi-and-cia-hiding-1533078662
[UK]
Q
The agency might have led the bureau down a rabbit hole in the 2016 Trump counterintelligence probe.
#17388650 at 2022-08-14 01:04:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
Updated Corinthia Hotel & Yellow Bike Bun
>>16704568 Image with two details that distinguish the scene from the Q-pics re CH
>>16704672 08-DEC-2012-T Corinthia Hotel and Blue Boris Bikes
>>16704822 Pics of the Yellow bike taken by same photographer on 22-DEC-2013. Both show one wheel IN FRONT of a post, Q pics show the wheel BEHIND that same post - with the exception of CH3
>>16704936 SV-May-2012 showing the pedestrian island
>>16705073, >>16720953 Yellow Bike SV images parked with one wheel in front of the post, SV-MAY-2014-P
>>16734442, >>16734449 1-MAR-2014-T Corinthia Hotel, blue Boris Bikes, Spamalot at the Playhouse Theatre, and that little green with white cross First Aid sign or whatever it is on the pole
>>17386122, >>17386123, >>17386130 Bahao Zhao Corinthia Hotel (night) January 2014 (big text links)
Millbank Bun
>>16747303 comparison, LisaMI6 with two open sauces
>>16748204, >>16748313 getty Christmas Day 25-DEC-2013-T pic provides close match with LisaMI6 and with 24London
>>16948257, >>16948269, >>16948322 Millbank Tower lighting pattern Sunday evening twilight or dusk 12-JAN-2014-T
>>16948356 Grade II Listed, 33-storey office tower, originally known as the Vickers Tower, completed circa 1963
>>16954416, >>16954418, >>16954447, >>16954462 Altitude 360 (video)
>>16954424 Skyloft (video)
>>16952510, >>17066176 Tineye first found 30-NOV-2016-P https://www.mrsmithworldphotography.com/photographs-of-london-landmarks/millbank-tower
>>16954598 Millbank light pattern 03-MAY-2013-P https://usa.watchpro.com/hot-100-to-take-place-at-stunning-altitude-360/
>>16954794 25-DEC-2013-T = basis for chart
>>16955732 Possibly part of renovation application of 2016
>>16948298, >>16948302, >>16955758 Russia Today is a 16th Floor Tenant
>>16955814, >>16956144, >>16962856, >>16971393 Millbank Brochure, not sure of date
>>16970388 For reference only. ROT1, on the chart. 25-DEC-2013-T, dusk Setterfield, on the chart
>>16970891, >>16971109 Purple Sister, on the chart 24London, date unestablished. Estimated Christmas week 2013
>>16971387 For reference only. Bright Sister, on the chart. Estimated Christmas week 2013
>>16971475, >>16971484 Chart 12-JAN-2014-T
>>16971970 Comparisons, A
>>16971973 Comparisons, B
>>17066429 Six overlays to compare
>>17066431 The current blank chart for Millbank lighting patterns
#17383432 at 2022-08-12 20:17:11 (UTC+1)
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Fren, I have fallen behind on the crane dig re the other cranes on South Bank. I get that we have a sequence for the cranes behind London Eye that iirc goes from there being NO CRANES visible in the Chadwick-Geograph pic on 28SEP2013, then ONE CRANE visible by the posted vid on 28NOV2013, and finally TWO CRANES by 14DEC2013 in the Kemp- getty pic. A soft bookend but pretty gud.
How did we do with the other cranes on South Bank or to the South?
Can you please do your best to write a current progress report on that?
P.S. May one ask, for new eyes as well, your synopsis on our best progress, and bookends maybe achieved in the Winter Wonderland dig re the lights?
Thanks very much, fren.
#17066318 at 2022-08-05 23:22:24 (UTC+1)
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There are other images of the Millbank in other buns, not sure if those are on the list to get charted
For now:
Millbank Bun
>>16747303 comparison, LisaMI6 with two open sauces
>>16748204, >>16748313 getty Christmas Day 25-DEC-2013-T pic provides close match with LisaMI6 and with 24London
>>16948257, >>16948269, >>16948322 Millbank Tower lighting pattern Sunday evening twilight or dusk 12-JAN-2014-T
>>16948356 Grade II Listed, 33-storey office tower, originally known as the Vickers Tower, completed circa 1963
>>16954416, >>16954418, >>16954447, >>16954462 Altitude 360 (video)
>>16954424 Skyloft (video)
>>16952510, >>17066176 Tineye first found 30-NOV-2016-P https://www.mrsmithworldphotography.com/photographs-of-london-landmarks/millbank-tower
>>16954598 Millbank light pattern 03-MAY-2013-P https://usa.watchpro.com/hot-100-to-take-place-at-stunning-altitude-360/
>>16954794 25-DEC-2013-T = basis for chart
>>16955732 Possibly part of renovation application of 2016
>>16948298, >>16948302, >>16955758 Russia Today is a 16th Floor Tenant
>>16955814, >>16956144, >>16962856, >>16971393 Millbank Brochure, not sure of date
>>16970388 For reference only. ROT1, on the chart. 25-DEC-2013-T, dusk Setterfield, on the chart
>>16970891, >>16971109 Purple Sister, on the chart 24London, date unestablished. Estimated Christmas week 2013
>>16971387 For reference only. Bright Sister, on the chart. Estimated Christmas week 2013
>>16971475, >>16971484 Chart 12-JAN-2014-T
>>16971970 Comparisons, A
>>16971973 Comparisons, B
#16955279 at 2022-08-03 14:17:45 (UTC+1)
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>>16954947
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
25-DEC-2013-T = basis for chart, done.
St George put aside, for now, but chart can be adapted later if needed.
For now went with counting from top. When we have better info on the designation of floor numbers we can tidy up. Right now we have no need for the ground to 20 floors anyway. BUT if solid info is dug on this detail, then, that would be useful for other purposes, as Anon said, and would provide good basis for altering chart keeping in mind that it has a main purpose and prolly can't meet every potential need in future
Here is a blank prototype. And another with the 25-DEC superimposed as reference. Expecting that simple coloured x might serve to fill-in a light position.
Work in progress. Give it a spin - but please don't rush ahead just yet. Changes and improvements can be made in next day or so.
#16949089 at 2022-08-02 15:27:17 (UTC+1)
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>>16949056
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/fireworks-viewed-from-westminster-bridge-light-up-the-news-photo/459883341?adppopup=true
The New Year Is Celebrated In London With A Firework Display
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 01: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was created as an Equirectangular Panorama. Import image into a panoramic player to create an interactive 360 degree view. Exclusive Content, outside of all subscription agreements - Premium Pricing applies) Fireworks viewed from Westminster Bridge light up the London skyline just after midnight on January 1, 2014 in London, England. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames near Parliament in central London to herald the start of 2014. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/360/getty Images)
Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/360 / Contributor
Editorial #: 459883341
Collection: getty Images Sport
Date created: 01 January, 2014
#16949056 at 2022-08-02 15:19:14 (UTC+1)
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31-DEC-2013-T 360 degree view from Westminster Bridge. Cranes. Moar.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/fireworks-viewed-from-westminster-bridge-light-up-the-news-photo/459883341?adppopup=true
Examples here, but look/watch original.
#16948974 at 2022-08-02 14:59:09 (UTC+1)
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11-DEC-2013-T Daniel Sorabji
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/fog-hangs-over-central-london-on-december-11-2013-flight-news-photo/455082529?adppopup=true
#16948941 at 2022-08-02 14:53:34 (UTC+1)
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01-DEC-2013-T Leon Neal
Construction cranes behind LE
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-sun-sets-over-central-london-on-december-1-2013-afp-news-photo/452758673?adppopup=true
#16942328 at 2022-07-31 21:23:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
Updated Building Scrutiny Bun
>>16695651, >>16695655, >>16696348, >>16696361, >>16696367, >>16696371, >>16696377 The DUMONT
>>16695851, >>16696278, >>16696407, >>16720242 Camelford House, 87-90 Albert Embankment
>>16696244, >>16696248 Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel 18 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TJ, 1-AUG-2012-P vid of the two bridges over Thames, camera vantage The Eye (video)
>>16696414, >>16696415 Vauxhall SV images for 2012, 2013, 2019. Reference
>>16696455 Peninsula Heights Apartments, 93 Albert Embankment. The cranes in 22-DEC-2013-T are lit up on top
>>16696534 GE-07-2013-T (3D buildings overlayed)
>>16696573 Additional candidates for pink/ purple lit building?
>>16696609 Should not lose sight of the fact that most of the candidates for the pink/purple coloured building also reinforce the pre-2015-2016 conclusion UK Anons are working with for dating the Q pics
>>16696831, >>16696840 New Years Eve 31-DEC-2013-T videos for elevated night time views of the Embankments
>>16696954 NYE 31-DEC-2013-T via BBC One
>>16697024, >>16697063 Stock photos, various years
>>16704118, >>16704257, >>16720353 Riverbank Plaza Hotel, 18 Albert Embankment London SE1 7SP with obvious exterior lighting
>>16704262 2011, Crowne Plaza and Riverbank Plaza hotels
>>16747440, >>16747575 24London open sauce photo (nicknamed "Purple Sister" re LisaMI6) vid mark 1 minute https://youtu.be/eDzV7cMRvHM?t=63 Purple building lit, two crans at Vauxhall, shroud at Westminster tower
>>16747587 Moar points of interest in comparison between open sauce pics and LisaMI6
>>16747671 Pic taken from Millbank Tower: Note that the gap in the row of waterfront buldings had not yet appeared at the time of this pic. Also the Crowne Plaza had not yet undergone rennovations. And 18 Albert Embankment, the building with the 3-sided waterfront, had not been rennovated
>>16747726, >>16747742, >>16747754, >>16747766 Various SV images along the Millbank (A3212) provide a view of the other side of the river which is obstructed by treecover
>>16747778, >>16747901 Good view of the area of interest on Albert embankment, pre-demolition
>>16748013, >>16748035, >>16748204, >>16748313 getty stock photo, 25-DEC-2013-T. Close match with LisaMI6 and with 24London
>>16753143, >>16753358, >>16753413, 16753504, >>16764764, >>16766154 Comparison pics, future site of Corniche building Google Earth GE-MAR-2012 Imagery Date: 8/2/2011 & GE-JUL-2013 Imagery Date: 18-JUL-2013 View Location: 51?29'27.88" N 0?07'18.01" W
>>16747817, >>16753504, >>16755363 Comparison: Google Earth JUL-2013 Streetview AUG-2013, checking for hoarding installations
>>16753687, >>16753747, >>16753808 SV-JUL-2014 The Corniche gap
>>16754392, >>16754461, >>16754678, >>1654723, >>1654735, >>16765628, >>16767324 18 Albert Embankment (Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel) glass facade and coloured floodlighting
>>16755875 Crowne Plaza hotel to open on Albert Embankment, 27 September 2013 https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7106
>>16755895, 16755898, >>16755927, >>16755937, >>16755950 Albert Embankment: rooftop club overlooking Parliament approved 7 August 2016
>>16791771, >>16776457, >>16792252 The Science is Settled! pink/purple buikding is the Riverbank Plaza hotel, 18 Albert Embankment
>>16931199, >>16931282, >>16931284, >>16931580, >>16940460 Looking for the angle, St George peeking out from behind Millbank
>>16937114 From Tim Browne 10-APR-2014-P views from LE pod showing hoarding at Westminster, Millbank lighting
>>16941230 More views of hoarding at Westminster in 2013
#16800117 at 2022-07-25 09:34:30 (UTC+1)
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>>16772531
The 14DEC2013 vid has a nice confirm of the 2 red crane lights near 'urbanest' around same time as the Kemp (getty) pic on 14DEC2013-T.
The 2 red cranes in the 14DEC vid match the location for the single red crane light in the vid posted 23NOV2013.
See a comparison of caps from the 2 vids looking left of and behind the carousel on South Bank.
#16800111 at 2022-07-25 09:33:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
Updated Building Scrutiny Bun
>>16695651, >>16695655, >>16696348, >>16696361, >>16696367, >>16696371, >>16696377 The DUMONT
>>16695851, >>16696278, >>16696407, >>16720242 Camelford House, 87-90 Albert Embankment
>>16696244, >>16696248 Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel 18 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TJ, 1-AUG-2012-P vid of the two bridges over Thames, camera vantage The Eye (video)
>>16696414, >>16696415 Vauxhall SV images for 2012, 2013, 2019. Reference
>>16696455 Peninsula Heights Apartments, 93 Albert Embankment. The cranes in 22-DEC-2013-T are lit up on top
>>16696534 GE-07-2013-T (3D buildings overlayed)
>>16696573 Additional candidates for pink/ purple lit building?
>>16696609 Should not lose sight of the fact that most of the candidates for the pink/purple coloured building also reinforce the pre-2015-2016 conclusion UK Anons are working with for dating the Q pics
>>16696831, >>16696840 New Years Eve 31-DEC-2013-T videos for elevated night time views of the Embankments
>>16696954 NYE 31-DEC-2013-T via BBC One
>>16697024, >>16697063 Stock photos, various years
>>16704118, >>16704257, >>16720353 Riverbank Plaza Hotel, 18 Albert Embankment London SE1 7SP with obvious exterior lighting
>>16704262 2011, Crowne Plaza and Riverbank Plaza hotels
>>16747440, >>16747575 24London open sauce photo (nicknamed "Purple Sister" re LisaMI6) vid mark 1 minute https://youtu.be/eDzV7cMRvHM?t=63 Purple building lit, two crans at Vauxhall, shroud at Westminster tower
>>16747587 Moar points of interest in comparison between open sauce pics and LisaMI6
>>16747671 Pic taken from Millbank Tower: Note that the gap in the row of waterfront buldings had not yet appeared at the time of this pic. Also the Crowne Plaza had not yet undergone rennovations. And 18 Albert Embankment, the building with the 3-sided waterfront, had not been rennovated
>>16747726, >>16747742, >>16747754, >>16747766 Various SV images along the Millbank (A3212) provide a view of the other side of the river which is obstructed by treecover
>>16747778, >>16747901 Good view of the area of interest on Albert embankment, pre-demolition
>>16748013, >>16748035, >>16748204, >>16748313 getty stock photo, 25-DEC-2013-T. Close match with LisaMI6 and with 24London
>>16753143, >>16753358, >>16753413, 16753504, >>16764764, >>16766154 Comparison pics, future site of Corniche building Google Earth GE-MAR-2012 Imagery Date: 8/2/2011 & GE-JUL-2013 Imagery Date: 18-JUL-2013 View Location: 51?29'27.88" N 0?07'18.01" W
>>16747817, >>16753504, >>16755363 Comparison: Google Earth JUL-2013 Streetview AUG-2013, checking for hoarding installations
>>16753687, >>16753747, >>16753808 SV-JUL-2014 The Corniche gap
>>16754392, >>16754461, >>16754678, >>1654723, >>1654735, >>16765628, >>16767324 18 Albert Embankment (Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel) glass facade and coloured floodlighting
>>16755875 Crowne Plaza hotel to open on Albert Embankment, 27 September 2013 https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7106
>>16755895, 16755898, >>16755927, >>16755937, >>16755950 Albert Embankment: rooftop club overlooking Parliament approved 7 August 2016
>>16791771, >>16776457, >>16792252 The Science is Settled! pink/purple buikding is the Riverbank Plaza hotel, 18 Albert Embankment
#16794799 at 2022-07-24 13:47:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16794718
>So maybe that white light was the moon in just the right position in the sky and it marks a narrow time interval. Or it was some other object that likewise was a short-lived on-off that just happened to be present for the Q pic.
Frankly, it wouldn't bother me one bit as I feel imho we have enuf to place LISA and the getty 25DEC pics on the same day. Well, +/- 1 day from Christmas Day.
As for me, it was the wheely bins that made LISA the outlier. I still think they are all within 1 or two days or on the same day with the EMB bins probly out out after, if on the same day. If not on the same day then +/- 1 day of each other.
Because of the fair MILLBANK light matches.
Nao we must reason if we think a crane operator's cabin could be seen on a day +/- 1 from Christmas but be missed in all the other very near in time sauces, both day and night.
#16794433 at 2022-07-24 12:20:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16794292
23-NOV-2013-P showed single red light, during a fraction of a second. For the greater part a larger bright object was captured in approximately the same position behind the Eye (LE).
KEMP 14-DEC-2014-T showed 2 red lights on 2 cranes behind LE.
24LONDON showed 2 red lights on 2 cranes
>ROT1 has 2 red lights in the same location as the lights seen in 24LONDON and ALSO has a blurred but compelling MILLBANK lights match with LISA, LONDON 2847 24LONDON and all 4 of the 25DEC2013-T getty series.
Fair enough. The matches are much less compelling on some of these views. Different hours of the night perhaps, but that would suggest more activity than has been assumed during Christmas Day.
>This leads me to surmise we had
>1 crane behind LONDON EYE on or before 23NOV2013. We got 2 red crane lights by 14DEC2013 which lights were still seen by CHRISTMAS DAY in the EMB pics.
The red lights showed only in ROT_1; no cranes were captured but your surmise is very reasonable, natch.
And as for the bight white object in the sky behind LE near its hub? Can an alternative to the moon be ruled-out based on the pictorial evidence alone or must that rely on reasonable conjecture alone?
Asking not because in disagreement; need to make each underlying stepping stone as rock solid as possible.
Red lights in approximate position within camera frames is more solid when cranes are also visible, for example. But many multiples of red lights/ no cranes that occupy the same approximte position within camera frame is more solid than a one-off from a different angle or vantage.
So the support the conjecture, we need more evidence, IMO, even though it would be great to reach conclusions sooner rather than later.
Your reasoning is very good and it stitches together the proxies and the directs. And that fits very well the Q instruction to note upgrades and changes to the surroundings. We have a series of London Pics during the same winter of 2013/2014 and all posted in the context of Spygate and the broader discussion of the origins of whatever it is that Q would have us dig organically.
The process of elimination is like weeding the garden. But the gardner needs to distinguish between what is best tended and what is best discarded. If I rightly remember, Q dropped a London-related text regarding the reality of disinformation and having more than we know.
For Baker, the working summary Anon provided is notable as it marks progress in connecting a wider range of pictorial evidence.
#16794292 at 2022-07-24 11:41:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16773003
Anon, I went to the 'long' original vid you mention and it has a posted(?) date of 23NOV2013.
Am left puzzled why you labeled your 'short' version of the original as 6DEC2013-P. Can you explain how you came up with the December date?
My current understanding, based on the original vid being from 23NOV2013-P is that we have a single red crane behind LONDON EYE on 23NOV2013.
Followed by the pic 14DEC2014-T
which shows 2 cranes behind LE.
The others following that are linked to the 4 getty pics (not showing the 2 crane lights behind LE) which were taken in sequence on Christmas Day and having a MILLBANK building lights match with LISAMI6 and also 24LONDON (which pic has 2 red crane lights behind LE).
ROT1 has 2 red lights in the same location as the lights seen in 24LONDON and ALSO has a blurred but compelling MILLBANK lights match with LISA, LONDON 2847 24LONDON and all 4 of the 25DEC2013-T getty series.
This leads me to surmise we had
1 crane behind LONDON EYE on or before 23NOV2013. We got 2 red crane lights by 14DEC2013 which lights were still seen by CHRISTMAS DAY in the EMB pics.
#16772210 at 2022-07-21 03:39:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16769475
TY Anon.
>>16769231
Yes, the getty 25-DEC-2013 pic has both content and metadata that indicates Christmas Day prior to sunset, as you deduced.
The halfmasted flag is interdasting because, so far, have not found flag treatment of that kind on sites closer to Westminister Palace where it would be expected if a significant British death had been acknowledged. Also interdasting because of the repeated use of full flown flags in several other Q drops. Might be something, might be nothing.
>>16768747
The flashing light solution to the apparent contradiction of 22-DEC-2013 would have to rely on muiltiple red lights on multiple cranes being in sync and off at the same moment. Now, that might account for 1 red light, I think, but what are the odds of all the red lights being off at the moments (multiple pics) that scene had been captured? Plausibe and possible, I supposed, but highly unlikely, I would speculate.
Of course, such a factor could have combined with the treecover to obscure the red lights on cranes that had been energized re safety requirements.
The 10-AUG-2013 pic is not Q match in terms of the brightly lit pink/ purple building. So there clearly were variables in play regarding these bits of pictorial evidence. Note that 18 Albert Embankment was not being redeveloped during the AUG-DEC-2013 interval. Its neighbours were - the Crown Plaza on one side and Hampton House and the other buildings that would be demolished on the other side. So at that time the crane that would have appeared later during the addition of floors ontop of 18 Albert Embankment would not have been in its place yet. But the crane behind Hampton House and the two cranes farther in the distance were in place at that time.
Need some evidence of these cranes being present, and sporting the red lights, subsequent to 22-DEC-2013 so as to confirm that such where present, but unseen, in the Q pics. But, if we find evidence they were not in the skyline, for whatever reason, during an interval after 22-DEC-2013, then, we'd have reconciled the apparent discrepancy.
>>16768134
You are quite right to point out that spot in the Q pic, fren. Tantalizing, isn't it? That could be red light. Please map it to a spot on other pics for comparison. We know the crane booms were NOT stationery, but can we place that spot in the Q pic to a relative spot in open source pics? That is, would that spot be within range of one of the 4 cranes that we've counted in the 22-DEC-2013 pic? There may be proxies that help with that, IDK.
#16770543 at 2022-07-20 21:51:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
Updated Building Scrutiny Bun
>>16695651, >>16695655, >>16696348, >>16696361, >>16696367, >>16696371, >>16696377 The DUMONT
>>16695851, >>16696278, >>16696407, >>16720242 Camelford House, 87-90 Albert Embankment
>>16696244, >>16696248 Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel 18 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TJ, 1-AUG-2012-P vid of the two bridges over Thames, camera vantage The Eye (video)
>>16696414, >>16696415 Vauxhall SV images for 2012, 2013, 2019. Reference
>>16696455 Peninsula Heights Apartments, 93 Albert Embankment. The cranes in 22-DEC-2013-T are lit up on top
>>16696534 GE-07-2013-T (3D buildings overlayed)
>>16696573 Additional candidates for pink/ purple lit building?
>>16696609 Should not lose sight of the fact that most of the candidates for the pink/purple coloured building also reinforce the pre-2015-2016 conclusion UK Anons are working with for dating the Q pics
>>16696831, >>16696840 New Years Eve 31-DEC-2013-T videos for elevated night time views of the Embankments
>>16696954 NYE 31-DEC-2013-T via BBC One
>>16697024, >>16697063 Stock photos, various years
>>16704118, >>16704257, >>16720353 Riverbank Plaza Hotel, 18 Albert Embankment London SE1 7SP with obvious exterior lighting
>>16704262 2011, Crowne Plaza and Riverbank Plaza hotels
>>16747440, >>16747575 24London open sauce photo (nicknamed "Purple Sister" re LisaMI6) vid mark 1 minute https://youtu.be/eDzV7cMRvHM?t=63 Purple building lit, two crans at Vauxhall, shroud at Westminster tower
>>16747587 Moar points of interest in comparison between open sauce pics and LisaMI6
>>16747671 Pic taken from Millbank Tower: Note that the gap in the row of waterfront buldings had not yet appeared at the time of this pic. Also the Crowne Plaza had not yet undergone rennovations. And 18 Albert Embankment, the building with the 3-sided waterfront, had not been rennovated
>>16747726, >>16747742, >>16747754, >>16747766 Various SV images along the Millbank (A3212) provide a view of the other side of the river which is obstructed by treecover
>>16747778, >>16747901 Good view of the area of interest on Albert embankment, pre-demolition
>>16748013, >>16748035, >>16748204, >>16748313 getty stock photo, 25-DEC-2013-T. Close match with LisaMI6 and with 24London
>>16753143, >>16753358, >>16753413, 16753504, >>16764764, >>16766154 Comparison pics, future site of Corniche building Google Earth GE-MAR-2012 Imagery Date: 8/2/2011 & GE-JUL-2013 Imagery Date: 18-JUL-2013 View Location: 51?29'27.88" N 0?07'18.01" W
>>16747817, >>16753504, >>16755363 Comparison: Google Earth JUL-2013 Streetview AUG-2013, checking for hoarding installations
>>16753687, >>16753747, >>16753808 SV-JUL-2014 The Corniche gap
>>16754392, >>16754461, >>16754678, >>1654723, >>1654735, >>16765628, >>16767324 18 Albert Embankment (Park Plaza London Riverbank Hotel) glass facade and coloured floodlighting
>>16755875 Crowne Plaza hotel to open on Albert Embankment, 27 September 2013 https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/7106
>>16755895, 16755898, >>16755927, >>16755937, >>16755950 Albert Embankment: rooftop club overlooking Parliament approved 7 August 2016
#16769231 at 2022-07-20 17:22:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16748013
>Could Anons help confirm the date take for each?
Well, speaking of just the 25DEC getty pic only (which btw is 1 of 4 consecutive pics at sunset) I can only say that the Christmas village lights not being lit or populated, as that other open sauce pic (with the flag at half mast) shows the stalls lit and with people about, and it being sunset (not middle of the night) seems to confirm it is Christmas Day. No people and no lights at a time when the Christmas Village on the South Bank should be bustling.
As for the other, if anon has already looked at the meta data on the pic and can't find moar, then this anon surely doesn't have abilities beyond yours.
#16749161 at 2022-07-17 07:52:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16749049
Mike Kemp, Date created: 14 December, 2013
UK - London - South Bank View during the busy Christmas season towards the London Eye and Westminster
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/view-of-the-southbank-during-the-busy-christmas-season-towards-the-picture-id527454362?s=2048x2048
#16749049 at 2022-07-17 07:07:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16748013
Another way to identify the relevant stock photos is by the photograher's name.
Justin Setterfield, 25-DEC-2013-T
https://media.128ducks.com/file_store/56ad217b16818d3b9151c942f6c2db2d1119658426f6a27ff7d443bbe27cf504.png
David Gonzalez, date not specified
https://media.128ducks.com/file_store/bf30272d2acca49233c831d703a98d84756a9d20c7b7c4784c6f76b3c850e98a.png
Nigel Allison, date not specified
https://media.128ducks.com/file_store/0ce9a1a4d6dd641716c37ab74c9ccbdac1aa9fc4ed79d44e8b95ca9926e1ccbb.png
Now, technically, all three of these have no specified date as per the online details that getty provided, however, the first, JUSTIN, has Chrismas Day in its filename and the pic markers indicate DEC-2013.
On the other hand, these pics were taken from similar vantage and also in the same winter, as per the markers within the camera frames.
#16748385 at 2022-07-17 04:11:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
To stitch together this analysis of the EMB pics will be quite the challenge.
1)
22-DEC-2013-T provides gud Q-match for the row of buldings on the riverfront of Albert Embankment. This pic shows cranes that are very difficult to confirm in the Q pics, if at all. This pic is a daytime shot.
2)
25-DEC-2013-T from getty is a gud match with Lisa-MI6 re Millibank Tower and the Speaker's apartment. Night shot.
We now have a series of open sauce pics that on their own show a range of changes within a time interval staked on 25-DEC-2013-T. And a series of pics of the Albert Embankment which reinforces 22-DEC-2013-T as a good proxy for examining the buildings in that location which is not well-captured in Q pics.
The pink/purple building is in each EMB night pic except for LisaMI6 because it is just out of camera frame. 24London provides a proxy for that aspect of the analysis. This building is out of frame of the other pics that show the Millibank Tower lights.
Two proxies: Chadwick 22-DEC-2013-T and 24London.
#16748313 at 2022-07-17 03:50:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16748204
Okay, so we have four good views of Millibank Tower lights at night around Christmas week 2013.
So to revisit the foundation. Note the shroud behind Big Ben, in each of these pics. Blue Eye.
Also note the lights on/off status at the Speaker's apartment, corner of Westiminster Palace. LisaMI6 shows that building's interior lights off and no, or very dim, flood lights. This is matched in 24London and getty 25-DEC-2013-T. The flood lights are on for >>16748035 and the interior lights are on for "Bright Sister" (middle pic in >>16747303 and middle pic in >>16747587 . Gonna suggest that where the floodlights are full on th Speaker's apartment, th epic was taken EARLIER than those with floodlights off; and same for the interior lights on vs off. This needs to be confirmed, natch.
Righto, next, compare the lights on Millibank Tower. >>16748204
Consider the upper level firt. The pattern holds across LisaMI6, 24London, 25-DEC-2013-T, and holds partially with >>16748035 in which one of the floors that are fully lit in the other pics is somewhat dimmed.
Next, the middle level floors. Unfortunately, in LisaMI6 this area is partially obscured by items between it and the camera. Still there is a discernible pattern that holds across LisaMI6, 25-DEC-2013, and >>16748035 . This does not hold in 24London and Bright Sister.
The best match may still be 24London (Purple Sister). However, we have a dated pic, 25-DEC-2013-T, provided by getty stock photos. That pic is a gud match for LisaMI6, too. It may be a better match.
Then there is >>16748035 which needs to be firmly dated. It looks like a good match except for just one upper floor difference.
#16748204 at 2022-07-17 03:24:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16747303 >>16748013 >>16747575
getty Christmas Day pic provides close match with LisaMI6 and with 24London. There are differences, of course, and so these three pics taken together indicate a passage of time within the same narrow time interval.
>>16748013
Will refine these comparison pics but for now work in progress.
#16748035 at 2022-07-17 02:53:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16748013
>>16748013
Anothe to date.
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/photo/illuminated-hungerford-bridge-and-golden-jubilee-royalty-free-image/686787501
#16748013 at 2022-07-17 02:48:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #47: Hunting Purple Buildings Edition
>>16747587
Add this to the mix. getty stock photo, 25-DEC-2013-T. This is an old find with which Anon found a match with the upper floor lighting on Millbank Tower in LisaMI6.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
And this one.
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/photo/cityscape-at-night-royalty-free-image/601905855
Could Anons help confirm the date take for each?
#16663888 at 2022-07-07 17:38:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #46: Beware the ides of July Edition
>>16560373
Fake news don't care
muh coup
They fell for it hook line and sinker
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"I'm the fucking president. Take me up to the Capitol now!" cried the sitting president of the United States when he was told he could not personally lead the insurrectionists into the seat of government. Trump then attempted to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limousine and, when he was stopped by Bobby Engle, the leader of his Secret Service detail, Trump tried to strangle Engle.
#16660022 at 2022-07-07 17:09:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #46: Beware the ides of July Edition
>>16580044
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1543191512451801088
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Washington state governor makes COVID vaccines a permanent requirement for many state employees | Just The News
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Washington state governor makes COVID vaccines a permanent requirement for many state employees
The new vaccination standards for state employees are meant to head off lockdowns, governor's order states.
7:15 AM ? Jul 2, 2022?Hootsuite Inc.
#16620225 at 2022-07-06 11:33:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #45: Anons Know Edition
>>16602598
Founder of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee (C) with his children Alice Berner-Lee and Ben Berners-Lee
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/founder-of-the-world-wide-web-sir-tim-berners-lee-with-his-news-photo/149273347
#16263248 at 2022-05-12 22:35:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #44: Bulbs, Coasters, and Bears OH MY Edition
>>16262995 getty dated 09-MAY-2016-T
>>16263198 ALAMY dated 25-JUN-2016-T
This pair of stock photos illustrated the before and after contrast that would compare the junction as it was in the Q pics and the junction as it was in the winter of 2015/2016.
However, the assigned date on the getty image confuses the comparison somewhat. Not straight forward. The content of the image suites the above purpose but the misdating could obscure the significance.
For those who understand the context of the history of the junction, and UK bread diggerz, this comparison serves to illustrate the guidance provided by Q to look to the updates in the suroundings. In this comparison the 'update' takes on a double meaning for us because a pic of pre-2015 was upped to 2016, in error, by getty. So if someone where to begin researching today, this could throw them off the time-interval that we have already established in UKQR during these past couple of years.
UK. Stay Alert.
#16263198 at 2022-05-12 22:25:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #44: Bulbs, Coasters, and Bears OH MY Edition
>>16262995
ALAMY stock photo of pretty much same scene with Date Taken about a month after the assigned date of the getty stock photo. Both can not be correct, natch.
Image ID:2C2FDWE
Date taken:25 June 2016
https://www.alamy.com/pedestrians-cross-embankment-while-a-tour-bus-and-other-traffic-waits-in-westminster-in-central-london-image362987226.html
#16262995 at 2022-05-12 21:46:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #44: Bulbs, Coasters, and Bears OH MY Edition
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/photo/junction-of-victoria-embankment-and-northumberland-royalty-free-image/577934050
Junction of Victoria Embankment and Northumberland Avenue, London - stock photo
London, England - May 9, 2016: People crossing the road at the junction of the Victoria Embankment and Northumberland Avenue in Central London on a sunny spring day. The park beyond the railings is Whitehall Gardens.
Note the lanes in the junction of Victoria Embankment and Northumberland in a stock photo with an assigned date taken of May 9, 2016.
This image pre-dates construction of the bike-only lane and the reconfiguration of the vehicle lanes in both directions AND the changes to the pedestrian islands and the crosswalk areas.
See related ALAMY stock photo of 25 October 2015.
https://www.alamy.com/search/imageresults.aspx?imgt=0&qt=F59B5W
NOV 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqwKJgtNsZs
Nov 26, 2015 Posted, 5min50secs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCc8KFhvmf0
April 2, 2016 Taken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDvHVhwCn5k
Compare with recording August 22, 2014 Posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuPPlp424I
Or October 23, 2015 Posted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGMdiqBNaBo
And March 12, 2015 Posted, 1min10secs
Description reads, "Taking the route of what will be the new superhighway."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CixBCdrbidk
UPSHOT - getty stock photo is misdated. The photo was taken BEFORE the assigned date.
#15861342 at 2022-03-14 15:57:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #43: "Boatfagging" Edition
>>15858332
>I'm also leaning towards the Stern of TATTERSHALL CASTLE is not carrying an advert for Christmas Bookings.
Because of the strong LISA pic matches for open source (getty) Christmas pics, and the year being diff or not stated on the Alamy pic, have only relied in that pic as proof of Christmas parties. Am thinking they could remove the ad banner once fully booked for the Christmas holiday season as it's served its purpose and open up the aft railings for unobstructed view. Whereas on the other hand, if the sign had said 'Happy Christmas' or 'Happy Holidays' then it's more of a decoration to be kept all thru the season. That's just a theory on why such an ad banner might not be present on the TATTS railings at Christmas.
#15849945 at 2022-03-12 23:41:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #43: "Boatfagging" Edition
>>15847751
Can anon splain wut dis is? I can't recognize it as (shrouding?). I don't trust any of that site you got that info from.
As far as our previous work, we have always dubble-chekked pics against other sources. When I see them change the 4 getty Christmas pics, then I'll know they tryin sumpin slick. We've been using all possible skeptical analysis of pics to this point. We've always compared all our pics with tourist vids, City walk vids, SV, and published historical accounts of refurbs work done on Westminster. I trust our research to date. On the possibility of fuggery, if (((anyone))) thinks the plan is somehao depeneding on our work dating the pics- all said and done, as much as we have kept to high standards like everything depended on us, we know nothing can stop wut is coming. So if sumbody tryin to mess wit TinEye just 'cause of us? Well das a compliment for sure. And totally desperate coz it changes nothing.
#15846936 at 2022-03-12 14:28:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #43: "Boatfagging" Edition
Fuckery is afoot with stock photo sauces.
Lately finding many of previously successful TinEye searches have been coming up empty, too.
https://www.alamy.com/beautiful-view-from-the-top-of-the-ferris-wheel-london-eye-with-the-river-thames-and-the-illuminated-city-of-london-united-kingdom-image228932975.html
Check the date taken for the image of Westminster Palace with the rooftop shroud that we have dated winter of 2013/2014.
Alamy puts it at 18 Nov 2018?
Big Ben and the Clock Tower were under scaffolding 2017 to 2020.
https://www.gettyimages.ca/photos/big-ben-covered-by-scaffolding
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1340751/Big-Ben-news-clock-tower-repairs-scaffolding-House-of-Commons-Elizabeth-tower
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/what-being-done-big-ben-15423821
In August 2017, Big Ben fell silent for the first time in a decade and it's not set to regularly chime again for some time. Major repairs to the clock tower meant the bell wouldn't chime again until 2021.
But due to popular demand and public outrage it was decided Big Ben would be allowed to bong on important national events and holidays throughout the four-year conservation period.
The bell made a brief comeback and chimed on November 11, and 12, 2018 to mark Armistice Day centenary commemorations.
Even covered in scaffolding Big Ben is still one of London's most recognised landmarks and draws millions of visitors every year.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/big-ben-bongs-fall-silent-13507115
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/big-ben-will-sound-for-armistice-on-remembrance-day/s3jbd1s2l
#15781645 at 2022-03-04 18:18:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #43: "Boatfagging" Edition
>>15779927
>Observs, frens?
Comparing with LISAMI6, the ad banners on the railing are a fair match. Add that we have compared the matching MILLBANK building lights in getty pics dated for Christmas…
Am including a pic I had. Sorry no date but you might TinEye it. The aft-most banner seems a gud match and for reference.
#15438969 at 2022-01-22 23:36:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #42: "One Year Delta" Edition
>>15436454
I take it the temporary sign on Whitehall is not found in any SV images?
The pedestrians link keeps CH2 within the EMB/CH (pedestrian) series. I think the LISA and CH3 pics are the only outliers we can definitely say are not immediately concurrent. By that I mean, because of the wheely bin (trash bins) anomalies, they could not have been taken at that same instant as the other pics on Victoria Embankment and Northumberland Avenue.
Not to despair, we can still make out the grainy magnified window lights pattern match (with that of LISAMI6) for the Millbank building in LONDON2847 and ROT1&2.
By "match" I mean the very grainy pattern of lights is weak BUT not at all in contradiction with the Millbank Building office lights pattern seen in LISAMI6 and getty Images for sunset on 25DEC2013. So, although the wheelie bins anomaly separates LISA from being immediately concurrent, the Millbank lights keep the rest of the EMB series within a 36-hour period when we can expect the building lights pattern to survive from 6pm on 24DEC to 6am on 26DEC.
CH3 has no such building lights match to keep it so tightly tethered to that EMB/CH series. Just going to need to accept that black sheep in the fold of the EMB/CH series like we accept LISA was taken quite closely to the rest of the EMB/CH pics.
ON ANOTHER TOPIC: Was telling clockfag about the Christmas tie-in with a clock he made for Christmas. He thought that London being a finance capitol might be something. Politely disagreeing with him I reminded that LP is an ATTORNEY, orig from DOJ then transf to effbi. Do fbeye agents need an attorney to hand-hold them throughout their investigations? If we allow that they do not, then why do we have LP in LONDON supposedly with PS (in DEC 2015) along with an fbeye agent? My theory is that she was acting as a "custodian of records" in a sharing of info in an fbeye investigative FILE.
Here is why, by way of an example. Sometimes in criminal court cases, the defending attorney will ask to review the arresting officer(s) personnel records to look for instances of wrongdoing. If the judge grants this look-see, then they schedule a hearing and the police agency is told to bring the relevant officers' personnel files for a non-public, confidential review. THE PERSON WHO BRINGS THE FILE(S) IS AN ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTS THE POLICE *and the ONLY person who can legally transport and share the file.
I have the strong suspicion that we have a similar situation when an fbeye attorney is required to fly out to London. I think she is acting in that custodian of records role. And in that role, someone above her and the fbeye agent she went with had to okay the sharing of that info in the fbeye file.
Now, think 2013 vs 2015. We are given the impression these two sharings are related. Kind of like someone owes someone a favor.
Now thinking about who and when might help to understand the why.
If in 2015, the US was asking for a RETURN FAVOR for (FBI) info shared with the UK in 2013, then we might spec what info the fbeye might have that would be a concern for HM (govt?).
Again, clockfag was under the same bias that LP is somehao in the 2013 pics. I choose my battles on that one. One wonders when the first favor was done vs the first exchange (return favor) being done.
One of those exchanges (return favor?) shelters a very senior member (of the fbeye?). The UK had dirt on a senior fbeye guy?
#14806980 at 2021-10-18 12:08:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14796302
>any I have missed?
Purple/ Pink building - see 1.00 mark, date taken, presumably during the 24London event BUT it was misdated and must have been taken before the changes to the shourd behind Big Ben. I think we settled on DECEMBER 2013 due to fairly close match with a series of stock photos, see below.
https://vimeo.com/98942743
LONDON25D, as we tagged it, was taken at night on Christmas Day 2013:
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/london-eye-christmas-2013?events=455200669&family=editorial&phrase=london%20eye%20christmas%202013
The sun sets across Westminster and the London Eye on Christmas Day, December 25, 2013 in London, England. Christmas plans have been badly affected for thousands of people after storms across the UK have resulted in flooding, power cuts and significant problems with transport infrastructure.
LONDON25A:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313293?s=2048x2048
LONDON25B:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
LONDON25C:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313295?s=2048x2048
Rare pic of sign on half-wall beside the Sir Joseph Bazalgette Memorial, Date Taken
Sunday, 22 December, 2013.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3816141
So to add to your list, fren, there is the pink building (with pics from 25 DEC 2013 and possibly other stock photos that week) and the sign on the river wall (in the one and only photo found online, dated 22 DEC 2013).
#14642054 at 2021-09-23 07:57:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
Not to distract anons from any current digs, I was looking at various stock photos of the ST. GEORGE WHARF TOWER, which I believe to be peeking over the shoulder of the MILLBANK BUILDING in the EMBANKMENTpics, and found this great getty photo from November 26, 2013. It has a nice view of the shrouding at Westminster and fully lit MILLBANK. Because of that, I suspect the pic is too perfect and probly originally intended as a promo but made its way into the getty library.
Anyway, wanted to sauce this before I forget.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/st-george-wharf-tower-london-united-kingdom-architect-news-photo/929384856
#14621529 at 2021-09-20 12:22:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14621263
Well, close. Which is what I am looking for in the NSA-Traf enlargements, but not as matched as LISA.
LISA and the getty pics have that long straight line of lights with no lights directly beneath them. The pic you found has some lights beneath that straight line of lights.
Let me tell you what I am looking for. We are not happy with the 4am and 4:40am times of the ROT1 moon for 24 and 25DEC. So, if we want to try to look for a MILLBANK that matches that straight line of lights with nothing immediately below, and which has that kind of "dot dash" pattern below, we are still free to pursue other dates for a MILLBANK match to the enlarged EMB pics.
Our requirements for a MILLBANK match with the EMB enlargements is much less than those of LISA.
We just need those 2 separate light configs in the EMB pics. Posting my best enlargement of MILLBANK. (I know other anons can do a better job though.)
I think we are looking for the same thing: another night that could also provide an earlier lunar ROT1 time.
#14621270 at 2021-09-20 09:46:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14621233
These are just projections as I only retained handwritten notes on the measured Thames tides until 23DEC. With that said, Christmas Low tide would be around Noon-ish. The getty pic would be nearing High tide toward 6pm-ish. Most of a tide (11/12ths) is in by the 5th hour with only 1/12 remaining for the 6th hour.
#14621263 at 2021-09-20 09:34:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
14 DEC 2013
The Millbank Tower lights seem gud match for LisaMI6.
14 = 25
Pattern captured in LisaMI6 not unique and perhaps not so random afterall.
Credit:
Mike Kemp / Contributor
Editorial #:
527454362
Collection:
Corbis News
Date created:
14 December, 2013
UK - London - South Bank View during the busy Christmas season towards the London Eye and Westminster
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/view-of-the-southbank-during-the-busy-christmas-season-towards-the-picture-id527454362?s=2048x2048
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/view-of-the-southbank-during-the-busy-christmas-season-news-photo/527454362
View of the Southbank during the busy Christmas season, towards the London Eye and Westminster across the River Thames. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike. (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via getty Images)
#14621233 at 2021-09-20 09:11:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14621207, >>14621210
4.40 pm?
Anons, what do can be observed about the tide at that time of day, 25 DEC 2013?
1. within these photos
2. tidal data
Might LisaMi6 have been taken with over-exposed highlights that are blown out? So as to more surely capture the Millbank Tower light pattern, perhaps.
If that pattern held from at least the time of the getty photo to the time of LisaMI6, we have the beginnings of an interval. Recall that the lights have been recorded coming on before dark just before sunset in MAY. This may not be connected to actual darkness but rather to time of day.
https://youtu.be/zgJWut2jqmE
#14621210 at 2021-09-20 08:53:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14621207
Slightly different photo of same scene same vantage point same time same date same caption.
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313293?s=2048x2048
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-news-photo/459313293
Credit:
Justin Setterfield / Contributor
Editorial #:
459313293
Collection:
getty Images News
Date created:
25 December, 2013
Sun Sets On Christmas In London
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 25: The sun sets across Westminster and the London Eye on Christmas Day, December 25, 2013 in London, England. Christmas plans have been badly affected for thousands of people after storms across the UK have resulted in flooding, power cuts and significant problems with transport infrastructure. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/getty Images)
#14621207 at 2021-09-20 08:49:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14608495
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313295?s=2048x2048
Credit:
Justin Setterfield / Contributor
Editorial #:
459313295
Collection:
getty Images News
Date created:
25 December, 2013
Sun Sets On Christmas In London
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 25: The sun sets across Westminster and the London Eye on Christmas Day, December 25, 2013 in London, England. Christmas plans have been badly affected for thousands of people after storms across the UK have resulted in flooding, power cuts and significant problems with transport infrastructure. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/getty Images)
#14621157 at 2021-09-20 08:11:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14620725
Here you go for that Justin Setterfield/getty Images link:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-news-photo/459313283
#14593207 at 2021-09-16 10:19:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14587862
>These two scenarios appear to be incompatable because No.1 is outside the interval of No.2.
Have taken a day to think about a response. First, I want to ask you what you may think about those grainy enlarged and brightened caps of ROT2 and LONDON2847 I made a long time ago. I think they are the current crux of our puzzle. Do you think they are sufficiently not in contradiction to the Millbank Building lights seen in LISA (which we think was taken either 24 or 25DEC)? Maybe there is another catching point, so crux is not a good choice of word, and that is if you think the white light behind London Eye is the Moon or a "rogue" crane operator.
We now have two discussions or more going on, so I hope I don't get too confusing. I'll just say that if we keep the moon theory but also keep the EMB pics as a Millbank match for getty pics then we could still have LISA and EMB pics taken on 2 days but they must be 24 and 25DEC. This is all bearing in mind the trash bins and cars being different in LISA vs the EMB pics.
If we do not commit to the grainy enhanced ROT2/LONDON2847 pics being a match for the Millbank lights, then we are free to look beyond 24/25DEC (LISA) for our 2nd evening EMB pics.
Then, there is the crane light theory which removes any lunar tables constraints on TIME but still leaves the discussion about 2 possible days open for discussion.
About the time of those pics…I was fortunate enough to have preserved some handwritten tide times (ACTUAL measured times from the Port of London Authority) which bear directly on LISA and the apparent HIGH TIDE shown by the angle of the TATTS' gangplanks. You might just make out the angle of the gangplanks in ROT1 as well.
You may be surprised at which direction the LOW TIDES point.
(Post too long- make this Part 1)
#14556927 at 2021-09-11 04:09:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14545314
Fren, hoping you had the actual pic from Brown Bear Photography from that 2013 24London Event.
All I had was a vid cap, but seem to recall we had the pic which captured the Millbank bldg. If you have it could u post it on End please? It showed 2 red crane lights to the left of LE.
In desperation to solve the conundrum of the Lisa/Enb match, I also went to the getty pics hoping they were not solidly attributed to 25DEC2013, but I guess you already knew the photographer def states they are from sunset on 25DEC.
I did find a gud pic from Hungerford toward LE but it is no later than July 11, 2013 and does not show those two cranes with ted lights. So, those cranes were prolly put up after? And so, they and the 24London pic are most likely from Christmas 2013?
So… Anon I really was hoping to undo that Millbank bldg tether to Christmas in the Lisa/Embankment pics. For me it would have just made things easier. But alas, no.
Am actually rooting for you to find some white crane spotlight that is not apparent in the 24LONDON pic. Hoping it could be a crane seen in operation soon after dusk (ie construction work still in progress on Christmas Eve?) in ROT1, but which crane may have moved its position and turned off its white spotlight when it was secured for the night, perhaps in a horizontal position like the crane on St.Thomas? Or is that crane a different type which always stays in that position? Idk
Gud hunting, Anon.
#14511976 at 2021-09-03 01:41:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14511105
>are we 100% that is the moon?
We had numerous discussions. Lot's of open source vids of the Moon rising behind the London Eye. They appeared the same size behind LEye. This combined with the fact that the Moon rises from the direction across the Hungerford Bridge to the East. The Moon rises in the East just as the Sun does. The exact location of Moonrise can vary somewhat (ie not exactly 90 degrees East) depending on the season. But across Hungerford Bridge is the general location of Moonrises.
We have found red construction crane warning lights behind LE, but no white lights. I recall looking for any tall buildings in that direction to address this question, the results being none.
Always open to anons looking into this again. Wish we had images to help the discussion.
Let me just welcome Anon to the discussion.
The items currently guiding the discussion are:
1. MILLBANK BLDG lights matched to getty images for 25DEC2013.
2. The MILLBANK lights seen in ROT1, although grainy, are not in contradiction to those see in LISA, so this leads to ROT1 being also connected to the 25DEC2013 date (+/- one day).
3. The lunar night sky simulations for those dates have the Moon appearing at that bearing of 151.5 degrees from the trafcam as occurring at about 4:00am and 4:40am. My discussion of LISA mentioned approaching early morning tide times as about 5:31 and 5:58am respectively for the mornings of 25DEC and 26DEC.
I had also mentioned that LISA might possibly document an early evening high tides (look at her gangways) around 5:15pm to 5:30pm.
There are 4 alternating high and low tides in 24 hours. 2 highs and 2 lows. Each tide is 6 hours. The 2 high tides will be approximately 12 hours apart but with some precession, or gain of 26-30 minutes each tide.
I myself am always chafing at the conundrums of the EMB pics and welcome your adding to the discussion anon. This is how we have had breakthroughs in the London digs.
Cheers, Anon. Welcome to the dig.
#14507277 at 2021-09-02 05:28:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #41: "Audit the 2021 London Elections" Edition
>>14492767
Anon knows his cars? Good thoughts.
>>14504972
Also, good thoughts. Unless the getty pics of MILLBANK on Christmas are wrongly attributed, then we are at 24/25DEC. And if the EMB pics are during that time, then the ROT1 pic, with the Moon behind London Eye shows the Moon very late (4-4:40am). Am using the timeanddate.com website to do night sky simulations for London on those dates. Assuming the pics are 24/25DEC, the EMB pics are very late by reason of the ROT1 Moon position for those dates.
But with LISA we have no time marker. Except that the tide does look high. My best estimates for the (next day) early morning high tides are 5:04am(actual), 5:31am, 5:58am and 6:25am respectively for the evenings of 23, 24, 25 and 26DEC2013.
Leaving the lunar site sauce if anons want to see the how it tells you the time the Moon reaches the azimuth of 151.5degrees from the Hungerford Bridge trafcam:
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/uk/london
#14071877 at 2021-07-07 09:15:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #40: "The End Of The Beginning" Edition
>>14071839
>DEC 23 is eliminated for which decisive reasons, fren?
For me, the evening of 23DEC precedes the yet to occur 8-hour long workday on 24DEC2013 after which, and when the last worker left the MILLBANK building, we were left with the distinctive pattern of office lights seen in the getty Christmas pics and our 24London photographer's pic which matches LISA, which we link to our ROT1 moon.
Wasn't WW scrubbed for 23DEC due to rain as well?
#13991090 at 2021-06-26 22:18:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
Final
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#39
>>13837570 RE-posted links for the 4 getty pics "posted" Christmas Day 2013 which show the MILLBANK tower lights
>>13843977 UK Column 4 June
>>13851951 More subsea cables
>>13859477 UK Column 7 June
>>13895192 UK Column 9 June
>>13895277 UK Column 11 June
>>13908863 Wuhan bat video shows much of pandemic origin information was 'Chinese disinformation' (video)
>>13886492, >>13910085 ROT1 Marker, two cranes with red ights behind London Eye
>>13911729 UK Column 14 June
>>13923109 Conservative MPs who voted against lockdown extension 16 June 2021
>>13926009 UK Column 16 June
>>13937224 KFC/Paris Cafe Bun
>>13940585, >>13940585, >>13941021, >>13941711 Still working the Moon
>>13943613 Millbank lights
>>13943685, >>13943721 Victoria Embankment vid compilation, overlays
>>13946259 UK Column 18 June
>>13959889 UK Column 21 June
>>13962917 November 2013 - US London Embassy notes a scenesetter for James Comey's upcoming visit
>>13966913 Piccadilly Bun
>>13966918 Routemaster Hunt Bun
>>13966923 KFC/Paris Cafe Bun
>>13987123 UK Column 23 June
>>13974789, >>13988970, >>13989119, >>13989370, >>13989566 Cool Britannia awnings and sale signs
#13966935 at 2021-06-23 22:07:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#39
>>13837570 RE-posted links for the 4 getty pics "posted" Christmas Day 2013 which show the MILLBANK tower lights
>>13843977 UK Column 4 June
>>13851951 More subsea cables
>>13859477 UK Column 7 June
>>13895192 UK Column 9 June
>>13895277 UK Column 11 June
>>13908863 Wuhan bat video shows much of pandemic origin information was 'Chinese disinformation' (video)
>>13886492, >>13910085 ROT1 Marker, two cranes with red ights behind London Eye
>>13911729 UK Column 14 June
>>13923109 Conservative MPs who voted against lockdown extension 16 June 2021
>>13926009 UK Column 16 June
>>13937224 KFC/Paris Cafe Bun
>>13940585, >>13940585, >>13941021, >>13941711 Still working the Moon
>>13943613 Millbank lights
>>13943685, >>13943721 Victoria Embankment vid compilation, overlays
>>13946259 UK Column 18 June
>>13959889 UK Column 21 June
>>13962917 November 2013 - US London Embassy notes a scenesetter for James Comey's upcoming visit
>>13966913 Updated Piccadilly Bun
>>13966918 Updated Routemaster Hunt Bun
>>13966923 Updated KFC/Paris Cafe Bun
#13959024 at 2021-06-22 20:35:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
>>13958944
Why? Really easy, Anon. Know the date, you can start asking who was in London that week.
Btw, we got the TRAF CAM pics down to Christmas Eve or Christmas Day by finding getty Images pics which matched LISAMI6 for the office building lights pattern on the MILLBANK BUILDING in the background.
Can't make up our minds if we can connect the Embankment pics with the Corinthia Hotel pics just yet.
#13944996 at 2021-06-20 16:35:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
>>13943685
>Will get on that. Any other images needed?
No, I think just LISA, ROT1, ROT2 and 2847 were needed to prove they were all taken on the same evening thusly: LISA building lights match with ROT2/2847. And by the pedestrian match of ROT2/2847 with ROT1 we tie them all together. The Westminster shroud in all is gud icing for the cake, but the cake here is the Millbank lights in light of the getty Christmas pics. Without this small proof, some might deny the EMB pics are taken on the same evening as LISA. And LISA has the best representation of Millbank.
Sometimes, I think that LISA faced in that direction not to include TATTS but to give us a useful capture of Millbank lights. And at this point I have the thought that in LISA we see someone is captured at the entrance to HISP, not TATTS.
#13943450 at 2021-06-20 10:09:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
>>13941021
>Please advise on the essential starting data and the variables.
Not sure what you are asking exactly, but the "how and why" of the Embankment dig arriving at those two dates of 24-25DEC2013 is based on the discovery of getty stock photos dated 25DEC2013 which capture the building lights of the Millbank building at night. A closer look at the pattern created by those office lights left on in those stock photos revealed they matched the pattern of he Millbank building office lights in the LisaMI6 photo.
It is expected that an office light configuration on a building will not be the same on any two given nights due to the variables of workers possibly working late or failing to turn off the lights, or leaving an entire floor's lights on for janitorial crews making their way from one floor to another.
However in the case of the lights being left on over a Christmas holiday we have to allow that the building lights might have remained the same for that time period between when workers left the building at the end of business on Christmas Eve until the morning of Boxing Day on 26DEC. During this time it is not likely that either office workers or janitorial crews would be scheduled to work. Therefore we figured the office lights could remain untouched during all of Christmas Eve night and all of Christmas Day but for Boxing Day there might begin to be some workers returning to work and the chance of the lights remaining as they were on Christmas Eve being slim.
To narrow even further from a date to a time of evening which the LisaMI6 pic had captured, we proceeded with the understanding that the LisaMI6 pic is connected to the NSA_traffic_cam ROT1, by way of the Millbank building lights marker as well as the Westminster construction shroud positions being a match as well as matching pedestrians being seen
#13937237 at 2021-06-19 13:22:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
Note Taker will be away for some while today, dropping these now for anons:
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#39
>>13837570 RE-posted links for the 4 getty pics "posted" Christmas Day 2013 which show the MILLBANK tower lights
>>13843977 UK Column 4 June
>>13851951 More subsea cables
>>13859477 UK Column 7 June
>>13895192 UK Column 9 June
>>13895277 UK Column 11 June
>>13908863 Wuhan bat video shows much of pandemic origin information was 'Chinese disinformation' (video)
>>13886492, >>13910085 ROT1 Marker, two cranes with red ights behind London Eye
>>13911729 UK Column 14 June
>>13923109 Conservative MPs who voted against lockdown extension 16 June 2021
>>13926009 UK Column 16 June
>>13937218 Piccadilly Bun
>>13937220 Routemaster hunt Bun
>>13937224 KFC/Paris Cafe Bun
#13881806 at 2021-06-11 23:46:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
Hope I didn't skip anything, got these NOTES for 250
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#39
>>13843977 UK Column 4 June
>>13851951 More subsea cables
//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'/// Buns //'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'//'/////
Piccadilly Bun
>>13834609 Schools had probably just let out
>>13841048 RML with no ads on its board-side panels, looking for yellow stripes, not white
>>13836339 22 DEC 2013, BAZALGETTE MEMORIAL, currently the ONLY picture which matches SIDEWALK SIGNBOARD marker seen in ROT1
>>13841049 LG billboard showed LG GS advert in Q pic, that model of phone was released in UK in OCT 2013
>>13844990, >>13847130, >>13875611, >>13875734, >>13878893 Christmas light mountings come into focus
>>13847015, >>13847115 Cafe de Paris
>>13847167 Awnings at the KFC may give a clue
>>13847260 Street View MAY 2014
>>13847412 18 OCT 2018 looking down Coventry toward Whitcomb
>>13847335, >>13847344, >>13847377, >>13847389 Red Bus, reflections, looks like mid-day
>>13847412 18 OCT 2018 looking down Coventry toward Whitcomb
>>13850184 13 January 2015 Building New Coventry Street London Leicester Square
>>13850284 17 September 2015 Pedestrians walking through Leicester Square
>>13850442 Grosvenor Casino Piccadilly 3 - 4 Coventry Street London W1D 6BL
>>13851875, >>13855966, >>13857305 another sighting of "Roger" the guy with the red hat, potentially also in the red bus pic
>>13867623, >>13869614 More Red Hat Guy
>>13874109, >>13874233, >>13874359 Double decker bus is shown as imagined in the bus stand at kerbside
>>13874563, >>13875061 SV JUL 2014 just because got a clear view. Scene in SV MAY 2012 looks very much the same
>>13875196, Seeking the large yellow object, possible man lift for construction or hanging lights
>>13875226 Relevant stock photo, 23 MAR 2014, shows changes to the traffic lights
>>13875844, >>13875943, >>13876423, >>13878605 Good views of the mountings
>>13878893, >>13878989, >>13879103 Christmas lights near Grosvenor Casino
>>13878947, >>13878999, >>13879375, >>13880870, >>13881021 We seem to have a Police Box
>>13881106, >>1381171, >>13881252 We have two new markers for the RED BUS pic
Millbank Tower Bun
>>13837570 RE-posted links for the 4 getty pics "posted" Christmas Day 2013 which show the MILLBANK tower lights
#13837570 at 2021-06-05 22:55:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
Re-posting the links for the 4 getty pics "posted" Christmas Day 2013 which show the MILLBANK tower lights in a pattern which matches the building lights of the Millbank Bldg seen in Q's Trafcam, Lisa and EMB pics. These pics are currently our best evidence that the Q EMB pics are taken on Christmas Day (+/- 1 day).
LONDON25D:
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/london-eye-christmas-2013?events=455200669&family=editorial&phrase=london%20eye%20christmas%202013
LONDON25A:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313293?s=2048x2048
LONDON25B:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
LONDON25C:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313295?s=2048x2048
#13828570 at 2021-06-04 15:18:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #39: Peering Into Piccadilly Edition
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Quick summary of last bread
We made sudden progress around the EMB pics being on or about 2013 Christmas (+/- 1 day) was made while digging for open source stock photos on the pink/purple building seen at Albert Embankment in the 24LONDON pic match for MILLBANK lights. About the same time, an anon also found that picture match (pic dated 22DEC2013) for the sidewalk sign board seen in ROT1. Then came the getty stock pics of Christmas which match the MILLBANK lights. Since then, we had been trying to use process of elimination to remove rainy/bad weather days from consideration because our Q pics show dry conditions for the most part. That involved looking at he weather and wind conditions during Christmas week.
Currently we are taking a break from EMB to turn fresh eyes on Piccadilly.
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#13825123 at 2021-06-04 01:38:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13819967
>UK Baker here, I am still here and keeping things going. I am watching things progress but am getting a bit lost in the current London Pics dig.
Very nice to hear from you Baker. Your comment about getting lost in the current dig brought a smile. Only because it implies the progress and how unexpected it was. I recall the sudden progress around the EMB pics being on or about 2013 Christmas (+/- 1 day) was made while digging for open source stock photos on the pink/purple building seen at Albert Embankment in the 24LONDON pic match for MILLBANK lights. About the same time, an anon also found that picture match (pic dated 22DEC2013) for the sidewalk sign board seen in ROT1. Then came the getty stock pics of Christmas which match the MILLBANK lights. Since then, we had been trying to use process of elimination to remove rainy/bad weather days from consideration because our Q pics show dry conditions for the most part. That involved looking at he weather and wind conditions during Christmas week.
Currently we are taking a break from EMB to turn fresh eyes on Piccadilly.
Nice to have you back, Baker.
#13792980 at 2021-05-30 17:50:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
Updated Embankment pics and videos Bun Part Two
>>13740584 Moon phases, December 2013
>>13745360, >>13748156 LONDON as the base location for a night sky simulation on TimeandDate
>>13747170, >>13747379 For comparison, MOONs of DEC 2012 and 2014
>>13747465 Christmas Day 2013 there was little to no public transport
>>13747520, >>13767869, >>13768106, >>13768215, >>13768691 Weather factored in December 2013.
>>13750173, >>13750279, >>13750332, >>13750343, >>13750386 Embankment parking sign changes May 2012 to May 2015
>>13750591 Big Ben used as ref point for layering EMB pics down according to drop sequence (video)
>>13750601 Northumberland Avenue before sunrise posted 5 May 2021 (video)
>>13750872 Night time view from The Tattershall Castle posted 23 August 2010 (video)
>>13751634, >>13752433 Embankment lamp out in both Lisa MI6 and ROT2
>>13753594 Vid of London Marathon 13 April 2014. Shroud and roadwork from 30 March in view
>>13754727 JUNCTION of Northumberland / Embankment, 10 APR 2014 (video)
>>13767131 Embankment discussion
>>13767804 Smaller scale "Christmas Village" assortment of huts near LondonEye in getty images for 25DEC2013
>>13771122, >>13771496, >>13771640 All the EMB/CH pics lined up according to the night sky captured within the camera frames
>>13771945, >>13771982 Rearranged London and ROT1 to show sequence based on the pedestrians crossing
>>13773624 13 JUL 2013, view of CH for reference purposes
>>13773886 Another CH ref for comparisons. May 1, 2016: Long exposure at night
>>13777643, >>13777997, 13786366 Same vehicle at different times?
>>13781792, >>13785403, >>13786140, >>13788757, >>13788757 "Sunset" pics from Albert Embankment facing Southwest
>>13783809 Millbank Tower London Sky Bar/Altitude 360 2013 Christmas and Boxing Day hours
>>13787378 Possibly submitted to PHOTO24LONDON 2013 24-hour photo contest, calling it 24LONDON
>>13790372 NORTH and SOUTHEAST shroud positions in high res posted 4 May 2014
>>13790613 Pink/ Purple building in Thames Skyline 25 September 2014
#13786818 at 2021-05-29 23:16:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13786140
I would say Christmas is a good bet, would explain the market closed/no people - I would expect a Christmas market/fair to be open Christmas eve, even if it was rainy/windy someone would go - esp as these pics cover sunset, sun/light appears to be in the west
The fact the Millbank tower lights match, not just match but stayed static for some amount of time could also point to Christmas, people on a break etc. I would imagine the Millbank lights aren't static for long. Was thinking could potentially be new year, another chance where most of the building would essentially be shutdown but the clubs/restaurants would be open. The dates on getty do say 25th Dec, not 100% that is an uploaded/auto date and not user supplied.
>>13785533
I might have a look later anon, I used to be quite into my crypto. Got a tiny amount of ETH, bit of BTC and some shitcoins - will have to see if I can find any of my passwords etc, been a while. Its all a casino though.
#13785403 at 2021-05-29 20:41:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13781792
There is a 4th one in the set as well ..
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-news-photo/459313283?adppopup=true
Is very similar to 25A, looks like it was taken shortly before.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/london-eye-christmas-2013?events=455200669&family=editorial&phrase=london%20eye%20christmas%202013
#13781792 at 2021-05-29 08:24:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13766933
Anons, a little housekeeping matter of the apparent series of 3 getty photos tentatively "posted" on Christmas Day.
Things went fast this and last breads and our housekeeping got sloppy.
Since no one else has proposed working titles for these 3 getty images, which I suspect are a series and taken AT SUNSET.
i think I had, up bread, referred to one of them, in this post >>13736745 when I nom'd that post for a Notable. But there were two pictures in that post. A third was sauced not long after.
Am proposing that for reference we identify them as LONDON25A, LONDON25B and LONDON25C.
LONDON25A:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313293?s=2048x2048
LONDON25B:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
LONDON25C:
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313295?s=2048x2048
I think these are SUNSET photos. The sky to the Southwest, in the pictures' right side is definitely lighter in the direction of the Southwest where we would expect sunser.
There are no people about. We would expect SOME people about and especially near LondonEye and the modest assemblage of Christmas Village stalls to be seen but there are none.
The lack of people present makes this anon suspect this series at sunset being taken on
Christmas Day. Imho.
#13773886 at 2021-05-28 13:36:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13773624
Another CH ref for comparisons.
May 1, 2016: Long exposure at night of a street with illuminated buildings and car trail lights viewed from above at springtime.
https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/photo/long-exposure-at-night-of-a-street-with-illuminated-royalty-free-image/537895418?adppopup=true
What is that blue light in the central window?
#13771783 at 2021-05-28 03:18:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
Embankment pics and videos Bun Part Two
>>13740584 Moon phases, December 2013
>>13744863 Best date on SISter was Jan 2014, it was found on Google Earth
>>13744962 YT vid from Christmas and Boxing day 2013 shows Palace of Westminster with shrouds as well as Millbank lights
>>13745360, >>13748156 LONDON as the base location for a night sky simulation on TimeandDate
>>13747170, >>13747379 For comparison, MOONs of DEC 2012 and 2014
>>13747465 Christmas Day 2013 there was little to no public transport
>>13747520, >>13767869, >>13768106, >>13768215, >>13768691 Weather factored in December 2013.
>>13750173, >>13750279, >>13750332, >>13750343, >>13750386 Embankment parking sign changes May 2012 to May 2015
>>13750591 Big Ben used as ref point for layering EMB pics down according to drop sequence (video)
>>13750601 Northumberland Avenue before sunrise posted 5 May 2021 (video)
>>13750872 Night time view from The Tattershall Castle posted 23 August 2010 (video)
>>13751634, >>13752433 Embankment lamp out in both Lisa MI6 and ROT2
>>13753594 Vid of London Marathon 13 April 2014. Shroud and roadwork from 30 March in view
>>13754727 JUNCTION of Northumberland / Embankment, 10 APR 2014 (video)
>>13758190, >>13758277, >>13758697, >>13758855, >>13759010 New Zealand House comes into play
>>13767131 Embankment discussion
>>13767804 Smaller scale "Christmas Village" assortment of huts near LondonEye in getty images for 25DEC2013
>>13771122, >>13771496, >>13771640 All the EMB/CH pics lined up according to the night sky captured within the camera frames
#13771781 at 2021-05-28 03:18:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
Embankment pics and videos Bun Part One
>>13688750, >>13691764, >>13695653 Crane over St. Thomas Hospital, 2014
>>13689240, >>13690859 Embankment 16 March 2014 (video) and cap of crane
>>13690087, >>13693723 We may be without any Moon in 24 LONDON
>>13690899 Crane reference pics
>>13692008 St. Thoas Hospital pics comparing Aug 2013 with Jan 2018
>>13700623, >>13700636 Shrouded scaffolding on the rooftop behind Big Ben, Sunday 13 April 2014
>>13700647 VID that illustrates close-up of the shroud as captured in LisaMI6 (video)
>>13701027, >>13701112, >>13704780, >>13705022 Moon Phases/HISPANIOLA advert boards
>>13706497, >>13706858, >>13706999, >>13723825 More on Moon phases
>>13708392, >>13708630, >>13708635, >>13708704 Pics of HISPANIOLA entrance area
>>13709007 Vid cap from 2013, posted MAY 2013,TATTERSHALL CASTLE and HISPANIOLA entrance
>>13709074 Vidcap from April 2013 with view from bridge of the back side of the handrails, HISPANIOLA entrance
>>13709237 Vidcap from April 2013, street side, HISPANIOLA entrance
>>13710992, >>13711114, >>13712121 TATTERSHALL CASTLE stock pic poster dated 27 September 2013
>>13711151 Cityscape of London at night with the London Eye, Houses of Parliament and Hungerford Bridge 23 March 2014
>>13711268 London Eye and Thames boat traffic 1 March 2014
>>13711294 Westminster Palace from Westminster Bridge showing shrouding 9 March 2014
>>13711582 LAYOUT of the Palace of Westminster, aka Houses of Parliament
>>13711707 Night ref pic for Houses of Parliament
>>13712186 CAP of vid posted 5 FEB 2014 recorded some time before the posted date as per the form of the shroud behind Big Ben
>>13712276, >>13712623, >>13712784, >>13712784 Westminster large shrouding
>>13712416, >>13713036, >>13713632 Comparisons: CAP of vid posted 5 FEB 2014, SISter, and 24London
>>13712623, >>13712836, >>13713056 More Westminster shrouding pics
>>13713056, >>13713138, >>13713395, >>13713860, >>13721131, >>13721150 Shrouds pics to reconcile
>>13722400, >>13722687, >>13733487 St. Patricks Day vid captured shrouds
>>13722623, >>13722660, >>13722808, >>13722931, >>13723157 March 2014 pics
>>13723257, >>13723321 Two pics from same poster from same date. Showing the TATT and HISP 30 MARCH 2014
>>13723625 Upgrade in the surroundings that occured end of MARCH through early APRIL 2014
>>13725418 Best lunar dates for FEB 2014 for a match with ROT1.
>>13725684 April 2014 shroud close-ups
>>13725762, >>13725772 Trying to tie in Westminster shroud pics to Winter Wonderland timeframe
>>13725945, >>13729932 Tree stump at corner of EMB at Big Ben to help date (video)
>>13730435, >>13730586, >>13730632, >>13730756, >>13730856, >>13730887 Narrowing down LisaMI6
>>13733342 Werking list on evidence of rooftop shrouding as markers for EMB pics
>>13733376 8 September, 2013 North shroud
>>13733514 Intervals for the other subsets of these London pics
>>13733634 Westminster, 26 November, 2013
>>13733659, >>13733685 Series of 23 NOV 2013 shroud images
>>13733717 Westminster, date created: 21 January, 2014
>>13733944 Westminster, 25 December, 2013
>>13734003, >>13734058, >>13734081, >>13734143 Westminster, 21 January, 2014
>>13736089, >>13737325, >>13739717, >>13739732, >>13740125, >>13740189 Sign at HISP sidewalk wall, Monday 23 December, 2013
>>13736745 Westminster, more getty images
>>13744863 Best date on SISter was Jan 2014, it was found on Google Earth
>>13744962 YT vid from Christmas and Boxing day 2013 shows Palace of Westminster with shrouds as well as Millbank lights
#13770113 at 2021-05-28 00:11:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13767804
Anyone going through the getty Images for 25DEC2013, please keep an eye out for that Royal Pod with red lights on it. See if we can't find a match for ROT1? That most definitely could not hurt to find that.
#13767804 at 2021-05-27 19:24:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13767701
Oh, Almost forgot. Do look at the smaller scale "Christmas Village" assortment of huts near LondonEye in those getty images for 25DEC2013. The area around the Christmas huts is a ghost-town. No people.
That is a seasonal feature is it not? Sorry if wrong. But still a ghost town.
#13767701 at 2021-05-27 19:12:03 (UTC+1)
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>>13766933
>This can still leave the possibility of Christmas Eve open due to no one likely reporting for work on Christmas since getting off work at 6pm (a ballpark figure) on Christmas Eve.
Yes, and more than that, potentially.
Guess could try to find out how the date created field is filled at the getty site. It seems a deliberate effort to distinguish it from date taken or date posted.
If it is automatically generated with upload, then, that pic was uploaded 25 DEC rather than taken on.
If it is automatically generated by photo archiving software, that some sites provide for their originators, then, its an archival date rather than a taken on date.
And, natch, sometimes the orignator provides the date, manually, and so could archive and upload on different dates while over-rideing and assigning his or her actual date taken. I think that created may be an aspect of a particular type of archival software for images, but can't be sure at this time.
So default would be a very cautious taking at face value that the reported date is the latest the image could have been taken. It is a soft date, in that sense, and so, yeap, corroboration will be needed.
Thinking you are on the right track and am ready to lend support for your leading charge into the fray, fren.
#13767621 at 2021-05-27 19:02:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13766933
Anon, the getty site explicitly provide a 'Date created' for their photos. The 24 DEC 2103 is a reported date and as a single datapoint it calls for corroboration to firm it up. The filename says Christmas Day, but maybe we can do better, IDK. If it the interval is narrowed that tighty, a day or 48 hour duration, then, we will need to be very servere in our assessment of any evidence that would corroborate - to be on the safe side. Or, if we can take it only so far, at least we can be factual about that limitation.
#13766933 at 2021-05-27 17:33:49 (UTC+1)
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>>13733685
>Date created: 25 December, 2013
Anon, We have no evidence of that claim do we? The three getty images are saying taken on Christmas Day.
(SEE BELOW)
>https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313295?s=2048x2048
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313293?s=2048x2048
Very important. The MILLBANK lights apparently match Christmas Day. This can still leave the possibility of Christmas Eve open due to no one likely reporting for work on Christmas since getting off work at 6pm (a ballpark figure) on Christmas Eve.
After Christmas, the increase in the chances of the MILLBANK building lights changing, decreases the likelihood of a MILLBANK building lights match.
It is a battle between MILLBANK lights and Westminster SHROUDS.
MARKERS CONSIDERED:
22DEC2014 Sidewalk Signboard (match with ROT1 signboard)
getty Christmas pics 25DEC2013 of MILLBANK lights (match with LISA, ROT2, London2847) and shroud/scaffold match?
Currently, this anon is favoring, basically the time when work stopped on Christmas Eve to a time when people returned to work on Friday. I agree with the anon up bread who argues for inclusion of Boxing Day on 26DEC, and yes a lot of employees (the ones who can) might opt to take the next day after Boxing Day off, but there are going to be the unlucky ones who must "man the phones" on that working day of 27DEC.
This is where I see the target area for EMBANKMENT. It all changed with finding the one and only open source pic of the sidewalk signboard in front of HISP dated 22DEC2013.
Combine that pic with the Christmas matches for Millbank Bldg lights and the Westminster scaffolding on SE tower with Small North tower is shrouded.
So for EMB, am strongly leaning to a time period from 24DEC to 27DEC due to the very short "expiration date" to be expected for the MILLBANK lights configuration to "expire".
For WW and CH, no strong feelings. Just think we MIGHT look at those dates with DECEMBER in mind.
#13762994 at 2021-05-27 02:39:44 (UTC+1)
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>>13701112
>we must treat Q's pics as direct evidence of some things. And that means details such as the shroud, the boards, and the Millbank lights all agree if they mark the same interval…
How do you see the recently discovered markers' effect on the the bookends for EMB and how that could influence the CH bookends? Or conversely, recent developments with CH affecting the EMB bookends?
Some recently discovered and notable markers are:
the Sidewalk Signboard dated 22DEC2013, the open source getty pics dated 24DEC2013 which match the Millbank lights in LISA and partial scaffolding on SE with shroud on originsl Small North tower, numerous pics throughout March showing both SE and original shrouds up at the same time, and I have probly left some out.
Anon, could you get the conversation started?
#13757850 at 2021-05-26 13:46:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13757793 (me)
>Btw we should look for more good pics where those 2 Christmas pics with matches for LISA's Millbank building lights. Was that Alamy?
No, it was getty.
#13748801 at 2021-05-25 08:54:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13742111
>Re WW opening week.
>21 NOV THURSDAY = VIP PREVIEW
>22 NOV FRIDAY = PUBLIC OPENNING
>26 NOV TUESDAY = getty PHOTO
>23 DEC MONDAY = CLOSED FOR STORM
>25 DEC WEDNESDAY = CLOSED CHRISTMAS
>5 JAN SUNDAY = END OF SEASON, CLOSED
WW and LONDONEYE DATES:
WW 23DEC2014 storm closure
LondonEye 23DEC2014 ????also????
WW 24DEC2014 OPEN
LondonEye 24DEC2014 OPEN
WW 25DEC2014 CLOSED
LondonEye 25DEC2014 CLOSED
So any "Christmas" pics taken from LONDONEYE or which show movement of LONDONEYE , or which show WW amusement park are most definitely NOT taken on CHRISTMAS DAY.
#13744991 at 2021-05-24 22:13:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
Embankment pics and videos Bun
>>13688750, >>13691764, >>13695653 Crane over St. Thomas Hospital, 2014
>>13689240, >>13690859 Embankment 16 March 2014 (video) and cap of crane
>>13690087, >>13693723 We may be without any Moon in 24 LONDON
>>13690899 Crane reference pics
>>13692008 St. Thoas Hospital pics comparing Aug 2013 with Jan 2018
>>13700623, >>13700636 Shrouded scaffolding on the rooftop behind Big Ben, Sunday 13 April 2014
>>13700647 VID that illustrates close-up of the shroud as captured in LisaMI6 (video)
>>13701027, >>13701112, >>13704780, >>13705022 Moon Phases/HISPANIOLA advert boards
>>13706497, >>13706858, >>13706999, >>13723825 More on Moon phases
>>13708392, >>13708630, >>13708635, >>13708704 Pics of HISPANIOLA entrance area
>>13709007 Vid cap from 2013, posted MAY 2013,TATTERSHALL CASTLE and HISPANIOLA entrance
>>13709074 Vidcap from April 2013 with view from bridge of the back side of the handrails, HISPANIOLA entrance
>>13709237 Vidcap from April 2013, street side, HISPANIOLA entrance
>>13710992, >>13711114, >>13712121 TATTERSHALL CASTLE stock pic poster dated 27 September 2013
>>13711151 Cityscape of London at night with the London Eye, Houses of Parliament and Hungerford Bridge 23 March 2014
>>13711268 London Eye and Thames boat traffic 1 March 2014
>>13711294 Westminster Palace from Westminster Bridge showing shrouding 9 March 2014
>>13711582 LAYOUT of the Palace of Westminster, aka Houses of Parliament
>>13711707 Night ref pic for Houses of Parliament
>>13712186 CAP of vid posted 5 FEB 2014 recorded some time before the posted date as per the form of the shroud behind Big Ben
>>13712276, >>13712623, >>13712784, >>13712784 Westminster large shrouding
>>13712416, >>13713036, >>13713632 Comparisons: CAP of vid posted 5 FEB 2014, SISter, and 24London
>>13712623, >>13712836, >>13713056 More Westminster shrouding pics
>>13713056, >>13713138, >>13713395, >>13713860, >>13721131, >>13721150 Shrouds pics to reconcile
>>13722400, >>13722687, >>13733487 St. Patricks Day vid captured shrouds
>>13722623, >>13722660, >>13722808, >>13722931, >>13723157 March 2014 pics
>>13723257, >>13723321 Two pics from same poster from same date. Showing the TATT and HISP 30 MARCH 2014
>>13723625 Upgrade in the surroundings that occured end of MARCH through early APRIL 2014
>>13725418 Best lunar dates for FEB 2014 for a match with ROT1.
>>13725684 April 2014 shroud close-ups
>>13725762, >>13725772 Trying to tie in Westminster shroud pics to Winter Wonderland timeframe
>>13725945, >>13729932 Tree stump at corner of EMB at Big Ben to help date (video)
>>13730435, >>13730586, >>13730632, >>13730756, >>13730856, >>13730887 Narrowing down LisaMI6
>>13733342 Werking list on evidence of rooftop shrouding as markers for EMB pics
>>13733376 8 September, 2013 North shroud
>>13733514 Intervals for the other subsets of these London pics
>>13733634 Westminster, 26 November, 2013
>>13733659, >>13733685 Series of 23 NOV 2013 shroud images
>>13733717 Westminster, date created: 21 January, 2014
>>13733944 Westminster, 25 December, 2013
>>13734003, >>13734058, >>13734081, >>13734143 Westminster, 21 January, 2014
>>13736089, >>13737325, >>13739717, >>13739732, >>13740125, >>13740189 Sign at HISP sidewalk wall, Monday 23 December, 2013
>>13736745 Westminster, more getty images
>>13740584 Moon phases, December 2013
>>13741757 Behind the GIANT OBSERVATION WHEEL in skyline beyond limits of Winter Wonderland attractions 3 Jan 2013
>>13741785, 13741949, >>13742193, >>13742245, >>13742257 Winter Wonderland 2012/2013
>>13744863 Best date on SISter was Jan 2014, it was found on Google Earth
>>13744962 YT vid from Christmas and Boxing day 2013 shows Palace of Westminster with shrouds as well as Millbank lights
#13742120 at 2021-05-24 13:52:24 (UTC+1)
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>>13742111
getty PHOTO 26 NOV 2013
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/st-george-wharf-tower-london-united-kingdom-architect-news-photo/929462660?adppopup=true
#13742111 at 2021-05-24 13:51:15 (UTC+1)
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>>13742007
Re WW opening week.
21 NOV THURSDAY = VIP PREVIEW
22 NOV FRIDAY = PUBLIC OPENNING
26 NOV TUESDAY = getty PHOTO
23 DEC MONDAY = CLOSED FOR STORM
25 DEC WEDNESDAY = CLOSED CHRISTMAS
5 JAN SUNDAY = END OF SEASON, CLOSED
St George Wharf Tower, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Broadway Malyan Limited, 2013. Thames view with city landmarks.
Date created: 26 November, 2013
—
Winter Wonderland to close ahead of stormy weather
https://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-12-22/winter-wonderland-closes-ahead-of-stormy-weather/
23 DEC 2013
#13742007 at 2021-05-24 13:28:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
VIP Preview, 21 NOV 2013.
Cara Delevingne attends the Winter Wonderland VIP launch in Hyde Park on November 21, 2013 in London, England.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/cara-delevingne-attends-the-winter-wonderland-vip-launch-in-news-photo/451313597?adppopup=true
Think it was open, officially anyway, 5PM to 10PM. But, ya know, muh VIPs.
>>13725762
10am to 10pm daily
Friday 22nd November - 5th January 2014
(opens at 5pm only on 22nd November and closed on Christmas Day)
The park was closed due to winter storm during at least one day of the 2013/2014 season.
#13740513 at 2021-05-24 06:18:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13740266
Concur on location. The count of ornate spindels is very nearly the same. Difference of 1 more or less, is due to difference in angle of view.
Concur on content of poster/sign. Top part of the poster/sign does not have a sticker on it but is slightly obscured by tree coverage - end of a branch. That might give impression of a modification. But that is only apparent; not a real difference.
>Identical
In sum, yeap.
1. Now, since this particular poster/sign has been so difficult to find any other month, let us indulge in convenient speculation so as to focus our efforts.
The poster/sign made a brief appearance during the latter part of DEC 2013 and possibly during the very beginning of JAN 2014.
2. The phases of the moon in DEC 2013 would eliminate the first half of that month, anyway, and prolly most of the last week, too. See pic.
3. The DEC night views in getty photos posted upbread are such close matches with LisaMI6 it appears they are sisters rather than distant cousins. Millbank lights strongly support that as discussed upbread. Scaffold/shroud evidence of NOV 2013 does point to DEC as the best match.
But that still leaves JAN 2014 as a possibility. Not sure we can also eliminate FEB 2014, yet. The getty photos for JAN cause me to pause; the sparcity of FEB 2014 images so far, also causes me to pause. However, for focus of effort, DEC 2013 seems a better candidate at this time.
Which means we shift from FEB and JAN and dig on DEC 2013 for corroboration or for elements that eliminate portions or all of that month.
That's my thinking on it. Anons contribute any which way you are capable.
WWG1WGA
#13734081 at 2021-05-23 13:16:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13734003
Date created: 21 January, 2014
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/the-houses-of-parliament-and-the-river-thames-are-shrouded-news-photo/464142925?adppopup=true
#13734058 at 2021-05-23 13:11:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13734003
Another view, same day, 21 JAN 2014
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/the-houses-of-parliament-and-the-river-thames-are-shrouded-news-photo/464142931?adppopup=true
#13734003 at 2021-05-23 13:00:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
Date created: 21 January, 2014
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-houses-of-parliament-and-the-river-thames-are-shrouded-news-photo/464142929
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-houses-of-parliament-and-the-river-thames-are-shrouded-in-early-picture-id464142929?s=2048x2048
Alternative view with moar skyline
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-houses-of-parliament-and-the-river-thames-are-shrouded-news-photo/464142925
#13733944 at 2021-05-23 12:48:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
25 December, 2013
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
#13733753 at 2021-05-23 11:57:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
Date created: 26 November, 2013
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/st-george-wharf-tower-london-united-kingdom-architect-broadway-malyan-picture-id929462586?s=2048x2048
#13733717 at 2021-05-23 11:43:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13733691
Date created: 21 January, 2014
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-houses-of-parliament-and-the-river-thames-on-january-21-2014-in-picture-id464142921?s=2048x2048
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-houses-of-parliament-and-the-river-thames-are-shrouded-in-early-picture-id464142929?s=2048x2048
#13733685 at 2021-05-23 11:28:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13733659
For scrutinizing comparisons with 23 NOV 2013.
Date created: 25 December, 2013
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313295?s=2048x2048
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313291?s=2048x2048
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-sun-sets-across-westminster-and-the-london-eye-on-christmas-day-picture-id459313293?s=2048x2048
Gud for shroud positions but also Millbank Tower lights. These night images are from the day before Christmas Eve.
#13733659 at 2021-05-23 11:21:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13733634
Gud series of 23 NOV 2013 shroud images at that website.
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/st-george-wharf-tower-london-united-kingdom-architect-news-photo/929384856?adppopup=true
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/st-george-wharf-tower-london-united-kingdom-architect-broadway-malyan-picture-id929462568?s=2048x2048
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/st-george-wharf-tower-london-united-kingdom-architect-broadway-malyan-picture-id929462608?s=2048x2048
#13733634 at 2021-05-23 11:13:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
Date created: 26 November, 2013
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/st-george-wharf-tower-london-united-kingdom-architect-news-photo/929462660?adppopup=true
#13733538 at 2021-05-23 10:13:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #38: "Carbis Bay G7" Edition
>>13733532
>>13722660
General view of the Houses of Parliament seen from the BT Tower, London PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday March 11, 2014.
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/general-view-of-the-houses-of-parliament-seen-from-the-bt-news-photo/853146422?irgwc=1&esource=AFF_GI_IR_TinEye_77643&asid=TinEye&cid=GI&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=TinEye&utm_content=77643
#13682672 at 2021-05-17 09:59:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #37: "Richard Trevithicks 250 Birthday" Edition
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011
Farrer & Co Senior Partner Anne-Marie Piper Fraud Identity Theft Bribery "Forensics Client Files" - CARROLL ANGLO-AMERICAN TRUST = J. PAUL getty ESTATE LONDON LOS ANGELES + DECHERT LAW FIRM NEW YORK LONDON = DEAN OF WINDSOR BISHOP DAVID CONNER = HRH THE PRINCESS MARINA DUCHESS OF KENT ESTATE = ST GEORGE'S CHAPEL WINDSOR CASTLE - QUEEN'S CHAPEL OF THE SAVOY STRAND LONDON - HM Queen Elizabeth II "Head of State" Gerald 6th Duke of Sutherland - Gerald J. H. Carroll Forged Birth Certificate "Sealed Files" - ROYAL AUDITORS KPMG UK CHAIRMAN BILL MICHAEL * CHURCH OF ENGLAND * ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY JUSTIN WELBY * CHURCH COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND * CHURCH BUILDINGS COUNCIL CHAIRMAN SIR TONY BALDRY THEFT FRAUD STORY * TAYLOR WESSING LAW FIRM LONDON = GERALD 6TH DUKE OF SUTHERLAND TRUST = NAME-SWITCH = CARROLL FOUNDATION TRUST = SLAUGHTER & MAY LAW FIRM LONDON HONG KONG * WITHERSWORLDWIDE LAW FIRM OLD BAILEY LONDON * PENNINGTONS MANCHES COOPER LAW FIRM CEO DAVID RAINE * QUEEN'S SOLICITORS IN SCOTLAND MORTON FRASER * LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND = GEORGE 5TH DUKE OF SUTHERLAND ESTATE = DORNOCH CATHEDRAL HIGHLANDS SCOTLAND * CHURCH OF SCOTLAND * ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER CARDINAL VINCENT NICHOLS = THE VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES STORY = THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - PWC GLOBAL GENERAL COUNSEL - Royal Courts of Justice + US Department of Justice Most Famous Corporate Identity Theft Liquidation Bank Fraud Bribery Case in the World
https://usmarshaloffice.blogspot.com/2011/04/us-senate-homeland-security-economic.html
#12857086 at 2021-02-08 05:20:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #31: "Captain Tom's" Edition
According to the recently released information there were a number of attacks on the 2020 US election from the UK. The successful one was from a company called TALKTALK in Salford. The owner of the company is Sir Charles Dunstone.
Here is a summary & some links posted in another bread:
On November 4rth the ip address linked to TALKTALK was the origin of a hack and loss of 67,000 votes for Trump in Allegheny County PA. TalkTalk is a part of a wider network owned by Sir Charles Dunstone who re-asserted direct involvement and is listed as a director and major owner of TalkTalk in Manchester. That company was originally located at 11 Eveshem Street in London but moved to Salford, near Manchester on April 1, 2020. The hack occurred from the Salford location. In December 2020 Dunstone finally agreed to sell the company to Tosca Fund effective first quarter 2021.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06534112/officers
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06534112/persons-with-significant-control
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/talktalk-founder-dunstone-takes-reins-harding-100112363–finance.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/talktalk-agrees-to-1-5-billion-toscafund-take-private-bid/ar-BB1c05G
Here are some other links. You might find the wedding pics interesting - maybe recognize some ppl I don't know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dunstone
ttps://www.boatinternational.com/luxury-yacht-life/owners-experiences/on-board-with-sir-charles-dunstone-owner-of-classic-yacht-shemara–27171
https://www.superyachtcontent.com/superyachts-owned-britain-elite/
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/celia-gordon-shute?phrase=celia%20gordon%20shute&sort=mostpopular#license
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/the-best-connected-man-in-business-carphone-warehouse-billionaire-charles-dunstone-on-cameron-congestion-and-karma-9527339.html
Looks to me he took very the company with te specific plan to interfere in the election. Haven't found any connections he has with the US but could have missed it.
Anyway, thought you should know, as no one else seems to be talking about it.
#11083043 at 2020-10-15 13:51:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #23: "London Calling"
>>11080540
check out night shot, stockphoto, different lighting around windows.
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/photo/the-corinthia-hotel-london-at-night-london-england-royalty-free-image/1211823380
#10761168 at 2020-09-23 22:27:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #21: "Black Boxes and Bus Stops" Edition
>>10758829
anyone have the monarchy / getty map?
#10068886 at 2020-07-25 00:39:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #19 "We have the Tides" Edition
Old bozo's on the Adreno again. Just look at the eyes.
https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/10/BORIS-J-2.jpg - A press photo late last year. Notice the relatively normal eyes, with only slight Adrenochrome baggage.
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/07/23/13/gettyimages-1226601159.jpg - A getty Images photo from today. Jesus christ, he took a massive hit.
I saw a news report earlier that had him pale as a ghost and with total panda eyes - conveniently can't find that now. I think it might've been on the BBC 6'o'clock news?
Anyone close to the PM know what the fuck's going on here? I mean it's no secret what he's involved in, but has he stepped up his dosage as of late? Sure looks like it…
#9980437 at 2020-07-16 18:25:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #19 "We have the Tides" Edition
>>9979046
Returned from a refit in MAY 2004. Moored permanently as a pub/restaurant at the Embankment in the location seen in Q's pics. Funnel white on top, as in Q's pics.
See Vid: Tattershall Castle returns to Thames
Date created:19 May, 2004
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/video/tattershall-castle-returns-to-thames-live-itn-england-news-footage/925235418
Tattershall Castle returns to Thames; LIVE ITN ENGLAND: London: Victoria Embankment: EXT i/c ITN DAWN TGV Foating pub, Tattershall Castle, along River Thames against orange sky MS Tattershall Castle past L-R Brian Andrews (The Tattershall Castle) interview SOT - (talks of improvements made)/ bringing it up to standard of modern day pub-bar INT GV Lounge area of ferry PAN to plastic-wrapped chairs GV Lounge area with plastic-wrapped chairs EXT BV & MS Terry Prudames (Chief Engineer) looking over ship's rail LA Funnel MS Deck and piping MS Name on ship 'Tattershall Castle' to SOFT FOCUS Terry Prudames (Chief Engineer) interview SOT - it's a job of love/ I'll be proud to share her with people, hope we get lots and lots of people GV Millennium Wheel (London Eye) on far side of river PAN to Tattershall Castle moored LIVE ITN Hull of Tattershall Castle PAN to i/c
Also see embedded vid, posted MAY 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvRUyKxytKs
See Mark 16:45
Photos of TATT in SEP 2018, after another reft and change in colour scheme (funnel red on top).
Also see news story (open until 1st JAN 2014).
https://www.hospitalityandcateringnews.com/2015/05/full-steam-ahead-tattershall-castle/
Managed pub and bar operator TCG closed its flagship site on 1st January ahead of a journey later in the month to Hull, the city where the Tattershall Castle spent 39 years as a passenger ferry across the Humber. Repairs, including strengthening of the hull, repainting and interior redesign, were carried out at the MMS shipyard in Hull and then at Tilbury Dock, before the ship returned to its berth opposite the London Eye in April
See vid, Tattershall Chronology, mark 03:24, tables and umbrellas on deck, open for business. Also see mark 04:28 to 04:39. Also mark 06:15 & 07:43 & 08:39 overhead views 2013-2014. And mark 09:57 view from bridge APR 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLhJW6JJJqo
Pic related - view of TATT from footbridge JUL-2014.
Pic: HISP & TATT aerial view NYE 2015 (i.e. 31-DEC-2014).
Sauce Vid
https://youtu.be/7W4Plur00po
Also: TATTERS (An overview).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlMLeyPs6Ko
TV story on TATT relocated for refit in JAN 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STwhAcvAp4
#6772773 at 2019-06-17 18:37:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #7 God Save the Queen Edition
>>6770141
>>6770113
Does the Guildhall know you've been brass-rubbing their heraldry?
What's the link between Sad-Dick and Franklin affair. Does Sad-Dick even know where Boystown is ?
Where's your evidence he's even been to confession
You & your faggetty brass rubbings.
#5945803 at 2019-03-28 19:12:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #4: DOJ Coordination w/ UK Edition
>>5941132
According to getty, it was a demonyby an anti-suicide activist group.
#5941889 at 2019-03-28 15:37:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #4: DOJ Coordination w/ UK Edition
>>5941285
Found this… But still think there's something else going on here…
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/young-activists-from-crazy-talk-took-to-westminster-bridge-news-photo/1079956552
And with the other news see this and the screenshot from the main board last night… The streets won't be safe for (them) but maybe NZ would be their best bet?
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers/
8chan/8kun QResearch Topic Alien & UFO's Posts (1)
#1421363 at 2018-05-15 18:25:37 (UTC+1)
Alien, UFO, Advanced/Hidden Technology, Antigravity, DUMBs, etc.
>>1418836
>>1414646
the image is of an albino model taken by professional German photographer Uwe Krejci. There are more stock photos of this model at getty images:
www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-woman-with-white-hair-and-pale-blue-high-res-stock-photography/829393-008
www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-woman-sitting-in-white-environment-high-res-stock-photography/829393-006
www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-woman-with-white-hair-and-pale-blue-high-res-stock-photography/829393-007
www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-woman-with-white-hair-and-pale-blue-high-res-stock-photography/829393-010
www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-woman-with-white-hair-and-pale-blue-high-res-stock-photography/829393-009
www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/young-people-standing-in-futuristic-setting-high-res-stock-photography/829393-005
www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/group-of-young-men-and-woman-with-lightened-high-res-stock-photography/829393-001
8chan/8kun QResearch Topic Clockwork Posts (5)
#16662834 at 2022-07-07 17:34:14 (UTC+1)
Clockwork Qrange #17
https://twitter.com/GroupofThirty/status/1534916824659333120
11:14 AM ? Jun 9, 2022?Twitter Web App
#G30 member @RaghuramRRajan discusses the downsides of "friend-shoring" trade mandates stating that, if applied too broadly, "they would have devastating effects on international trade."-
Just Say No to "Friend-Shoring"
project-syndicate.org/commentary/friend-shoring-higher-costs-and-more-conflict-without-resilience-by-raghuram-rajan-2022-06
June 3, 2022
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via getty Images
Jun 3, 2022 Raghuram G. Rajan
Following major shocks to global supply chains in recent years, it is not surprising that governments are groping for new policies to build more resilience and ensure a continuous supply of critical inputs. But abandoning free and fair trade is not the answer.
CHICAGO - In an important speech to the Atlantic Council in April, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen issued a welcome call for revitalizing the world economic order. But she also generated headlines with a single sentence advocating what she called "friend-shoring": that is, limiting the trade of key inputs to trusted countries in order to reduce risks to the supply chains on which the United States and its partners rely.
The Supply Solution to Stagflation Economics
1/
#16629361 at 2022-07-06 13:11:04 (UTC+1)
Clockwork Qrange #16
>retrospective roe
Journalist Who Exposed Planned Parenthood: Kamala Harris Weaponized Her Office to Punish Me on Behalf of Her Donors
24,283
Kamala-Harris-collage-getty-Daleiden-BNN
Drew Angerer/getty Images, David Daleiden, BNN Edit
David Daleiden28 Oct 2020
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has a history of abusing the powers of her office to target and punish Americans she disagrees with. I know firsthand that Harris is one of the biggest threats to First Amendment civil liberties that our country has ever seen because I have been on the receiving end of her unconstitutional abuses of power when she was California's attorney general.
In 2015, after I released undercover videos of taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood officials trafficking the body parts of live-aborted fetuses, Planned Parenthood was desperate and furious. The organization turned to Harris, its political patron in the California Attorney General's office, for help to silence me and my message. Though local law enforcement made it clear to Planned Parenthood that the California videos were recorded in public places and were perfectly legal, the abortion provider and its allies within the state Department of Justice conspired to enforce California's video recording law for the first time ever against newsgathering, in order to punish me for speaking out.`
On March 23, 2016, Harris met secretly with several top California Planned Parenthood executives in Los Angeles. The action items from the meeting show they discussed Planned Parenthood's political agenda in California as well as issues in Harris's so-called "investigation" of me and my coworkers, such as Planned Parenthood's false claims that my videos made threats against their personnel. Two of the Planned Parenthood officials interviewed in Harris's probe were present at the meeting.
#16620742 at 2022-07-06 11:36:15 (UTC+1)
Clockwork Qrange #16
https://twitter.com/GroupofThirty/status/1534916824659333120
11:14 AM ? Jun 9, 2022?Twitter Web App
#G30 member @RaghuramRRajan discusses the downsides of "friend-shoring" trade mandates stating that, if applied too broadly, "they would have devastating effects on international trade."-
Just Say No to "Friend-Shoring"
project-syndicate.org/commentary/friend-shoring-higher-costs-and-more-conflict-without-resilience-by-raghuram-rajan-2022-06
June 3, 2022
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via getty Images
Jun 3, 2022 Raghuram G. Rajan
Following major shocks to global supply chains in recent years, it is not surprising that governments are groping for new policies to build more resilience and ensure a continuous supply of critical inputs. But abandoning free and fair trade is not the answer.
CHICAGO - In an important speech to the Atlantic Council in April, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen issued a welcome call for revitalizing the world economic order. But she also generated headlines with a single sentence advocating what she called "friend-shoring": that is, limiting the trade of key inputs to trusted countries in order to reduce risks to the supply chains on which the United States and its partners rely.
The Supply Solution to Stagflation Economics
1/
#15261278 at 2021-12-27 07:41:43 (UTC+1)
Clockwork Qrange #14
>>15255798
Cheers Clockfag. You dropped a clock in UK bread re 26DEC and asked about a 2.16 connection. I kinda found one in 3645 with the first line letters B and P. Not many have paid attention to the UK's digs. But while we were being ignored, we were making great progress. If you didn't know, then you should know that we have dated LISAMI6 (from Q post 3645) to Christmas Day. We matched the building light pattern in LISA to some getty images from Christmas 2013. It may also help you to know that all of the London pics are likely from that week preceding and including Christmas. It may help in your decodes to be also looking for anything from 17 thru 25 DEC 2013. As I was already familiar with LisaMI6 being from Christmas Day, I thought you might want to see a 2.16 that came out in an attempt at a decode of that Q drop which had the LISA pic in it. Although LISA is likely 25DEC +/- 1 (because of that building likely not being occupied from end of day until morning of 26DEC) the other pics on the Embankment may be on another day. Not because we want it so, but because we can't prove LISA was taken the same evening. There is a detail (some trash bins) which are seen by the 3rd tree down from the RS Hispaniola entrance in the Trafcam pics but not in LISA.
I did a decode comparing the two 'WARNING' drops a while back expecting nothing in particulat but came up with the delta of 48 hours. I then noticed the second post said to pay attention to the IMM 'chatter', so I gave IMM some numbers. 9-13-13. I also used the delta of 48, because Q was putting Vegas lights on it. I made 48 into 12. Being a Londonfag, I already gave significance to 13 as a possible year. Then, 9 and 13 add up to 22.
Going back as I said to what we Londonfags know about the pics being from December 2013, it was easy for me to come up with 22DEC2013. But only as some other date in the London pics. Not for LisaMI6.
Another outlier we we are just finding is CH3. Again, the trash bins. But in this case, the bins are in CH3 but not in the other CH pics, or ROT3.
I do get another 25DEC date in a decode of Q post however. It becomes evident that Q is being redundant in mentioning a POTUS tweet about DEC 2015 then Q mentions WW at Hyde Park so I felt there was more being communicated. Leaving those caps. Basically, the POTUS tweet is the "time"; the 31-day month of December is the "timeframe" in which to determine the "time". The POTUS tweet is a fraction of a day. Give that fraction a number. Divide that number into 31 and you get 25.33. Christmas
#14747352 at 2021-10-08 19:18:41 (UTC+1)
Clockwork Qrange #13
Dear Clockfags, a question from a UK researcher. Can you advise which Q aggregator site you have found most reliable as to timestamps?
Am not late to the party. Just have not focused on the need for accurate time stamps til now when it has become extremely important to dating the NSA Traf cam pics.
In Q post 1423, thankfully, Q had screencapped the prior post 784. In that screencap it shows the time to be 18:26:57 EST but the aggregator I'm using, Qalerts, shows a timestamp of 8:26:57pm.
This is wrong. It seems the aggregator sites have completely bolloxed the time stamps and sometimes Q post numbers to where one doesn't know which can be trusted. Thank Goodness Q capped post 784 to verify the time on that.
As you have been using timestamps all along, you are best able to advise on this issue. How are you dealing with the aggregators getting things wrong? Which do you trust?
PS Kind of related: We are currently focused on Christmas 2013 on ALL of the London pics, except for the black box at the bus shelter pic. LISA is our "ground zero" pic which we feel has been matched to some getty pics of the Millbank building lights pattern on Christmas Day 2013. However, for the NSA Trafcam pics, you will notice some wheely bins (trash bins) left out at the curb at the location of the LISA pic which are not present in the LISA pic. We feel that if the bins were placed at the kerb on Christmas night, they would have likely been left out after the restaurant ship Tattershall Castle closed at 23:00 and would have remained there til morning on the 26th of DEC. Here is the problem: The ROT1 pic shows the Moon behind London Eye at what we have calculated at a bearing of 151.5 degrees from the estimated camera position. We don't expect the wheely bins were placed at the kerb on Christmas Eve. No trash pick up on Christmas. But if placed there on Christmas Day evening, then there would likely be pick up next day on the 26th.
Problem is the Moon would not be present that evening as seen in ROT1 until 3:40am or so, using Night Sky simulations on Timeanddate(dot)com. If Q is pointing to a time of around 11:26:57pm London time, then the best Night Sky sim appears to be on 17DEC2013 for the NSA traf cam pics, a week before the LISA pic.
8chan/8kun QResearch2Gen Posts (4)
#24196 at 2018-06-05 09:46:46 (UTC+1)
2nd Generation Q Research General #32 - End of an Era? Edition
>>24195
Good morning anon.
I've been doing a bit of digging on Sawyer. It's hard to believe I hadn't heard of him before today. I guess if one doesn't watch anything Alex Jones, it would be easy not to know of him. He's also made a couple of movies of which I'd not heard of. The second one is coming out soon, I think. I'm still pulling all the info I've read, together. And I'm in bed, very tired tonight, so I'm not absorbing things properly, I guess.
It seems that there is nothing bad said abouthim, anywhere, apart from one guy who does not like him in the slightest, calling him controlled opposition. Which was where I was also going with it. Steven Kelly is his name. He has a thing about the getty Institute. I've not gone too much nto him, but might see what else he has to say tomorrow. But getting back to not finding anything else negative on Sawyer. It seems off to not have anything bad said about him, anywhere. Too clean! And then of course there's the security he provided for Clinton, McCain and others.
I've watched him speak a few times. When he started the V4CR, he came across as quite insincere and didn't know much about what he was talking about. He displayed no passion whaysoever.
Yes, the forensics are fucked in that camp. The whole thing stinks of LOKK, SHINY. Lewis Arthur also stinks. I've waatched him speak quie a bit. He's dirty as, in my opinion. The veteran thing is an emotional tug. He sells it too hard.
Also, at the camp, they're collecting all the clothes and toys and what have you snf burning them all. It doesn't make any fucking sense at all.
Indeed, anon; while we're looking at this, what are we missing?
Pic = the one that Eds posted in the second bread. Similarities? Badges are sensored, though. >>1273
Grrrrrrrr, damn wifi keeps cutting out still. I have no idea what ID I'll be under this time.
#13609 at 2018-04-10 17:54:29 (UTC+1)
2nd Generation Q Research General #18 - Pain of McCain Edition
>>13376
Russian state television has released a satellite photograph that it claims shows that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. But the U.S. government dismissed the report as preposterous and online commentators called the photo a fake.
MH17 report says jet struck by 'high energy objects'
Ukraine rebel leader backtracks on Buk missile claim
Vladimir Putin stations Russian warships off Australia's coast ahead of G20?
All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was shot down July 17 over a rebel-held area of Ukraine. Ukraine and the West have blamed the attack on Russia-backed rebels using a ground-to-air missile.
The photo released Friday by Russia's Channel One and Rossiya TV stations purportedly shows a Ukrainian fighter plane firing an air-to-air missile in the direction of MH17. The channels said they got the photo from a Moscow-based organization, which had received it via email from a man who identified himself as an aviation expert.
The U.S. State Department on Friday dismissed the Russian TV reports as yet another "preposterous" attempt by Moscow to "obfuscate the truth and ignore ultimate responsibility for the tragic downing of MH17." It renewed a call to Moscow and Russia-backed separatists to "grant unfettered access for international investigators to the crash site."
Numerous problems
Several bloggers said the photograph is a forgery, citing a cloud pattern to prove the photo dates back to 2012, and several other details that seem incongruous.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July, killing 298 people. Many Western governments have said publicly that a Buk surface-to-air missile, likely supplied by Russia to rebels, hit the plane mid-flight. (Manehem Kahana/AFP/getty Images)
Some saw the photo as a propaganda effort intended to deflect criticism over the tragedy that Russian President Vladimir Putin faces as he attends the Group of 20 summit in Brisbane, Australia.
Mark Solonin, a Russian author who is an engineer by training, said in his blog that both aircraft looked disproportionate to the landscape and concluded that their images were crudely edited into a satellite picture.
Others noted that the commercial airliner in the photo appears to be of a different type, a Boeing 767.
Buk system nearby crash site
The Russian television stations stood by the report, saying their source was the Russian Union of Engineers, an obscure Moscow-based organization that had previously issued a report claiming that the Malaysian plane had been downed by Ukrainians.
The organization's vice president, Ivan Andriyevsky, said in televised remarks that it received the image via email from a man who said he was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with 20 years of experience as an aviation expert.
There are several models of Buk Missile Systems used by multiple countries, including both the Russian and Ukrainian government military. (Mikhail Metzel/Associated Press)
Attempts to reach Andriyevsky by telephone and email on Saturday were unsuccessful.
Most of the victims of the MH17 crash were Dutch, and a preliminary report issued by Dutch crash investigators in September said the Malaysia Airlines plane was likely downed by multiple "high-energy objects," a finding aviation experts say is consistent with a missile strike.
Pro-Russian separatist rebels in Ukraine have always denied any involvement in shooting down the plane.
However just three hours before MH17 was downed, The Associated Press reported the passage of a Buk M-1 missile system - a machine the size of a tank bearing four ground-to-air missiles - through the rebel-held town of Snizhne near the crash site.
A highly placed rebel officer told the AP in an interview after the disaster that the plane was shot down by a mixed team of rebels and Russian military personnel who believed they were targeting a Ukrainian military plane.
#13291 at 2018-04-09 18:26:08 (UTC+1)
2nd Generation Q Research General #18 - Pain of McCain Edition
>>13288
getty Images has this posted in May, 2012.
#6004 at 2018-03-17 05:03:56 (UTC+1)
2nd Generation Q Research General #8
>>5911
German president Horst Koehler (R), his wife Eva Luise (C) and German chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a memorial service at the Sankt Karl Barromaeus church on March 21, 2009 in Winnenden near Stuttgart, Germany. President Koehler, chancellor Merkel and thousands of mourners hold a memorial ceremony to commemorate the victims of a school shooting. 17 - year old Tim Kretschmer opened fire on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 on teachers and pupils at his former school Albertville, killing 15 people and leaving many more injured. Kretschmer fled the scene and shot himself dead after being cornered by police. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/getty Images) * Local Caption * Horst Koehler;Eva Luise Koehler;Angela Merkel
8chan/8kun TheStorm Posts (3)
#27503 at 2018-01-08 19:47:08 (UTC+1)
The Storm General #34: DJT in ATL Edition
>>27314
Highly probable. That article is from 2006, so in 11 years the tech is much more advanced now. The project is called 'Thor'… well, speaks for itself. It can penetrate underground facilities. Perfect! That's what we need for Pine Gap and getty Museum.
#17112 at 2018-01-07 20:10:10 (UTC+1)
The Storm General #21 - Calm Before The Justice - Edition
>>17023
The Saudi Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud is married to Lucy Caroline Cuthbert and she is the niece of Ralph Percy the Duke of Northumberland. Ralph Percy's son George Percy went to the University of Damascus, speaks Arabic, and did business in Abu Dhabi. George Percy is the CEO of Hotspur Geothermal which does oil drilling in Africa. King Mohammed VI of Morocco is worth about 6 billion and has major shares in Moroccan companies that are in contract with many European companies. King Mohammed VI has also been exposed for high level corruption involved in business and politics. Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud is the Governor of Mecca and is close friends with Prince Charles. Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud is also a Knight of the Order of Francis I under the Italian House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies with Prince Carlo the Duke of Castro as the sovereign head. A close relative of the Duke of Castro; Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Parma is a member of the Dutch royal family through his mother Princess Irene of the Netherlands and worked for the ABN AMRO Bank. The House of Orange-Nassua established the Netherlands Trading Society which later established ABN AMRO Bank and ABN AMRO partly owns Saudi Hollandi Bank of Saudi Arabia. Abdullah bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa paid the serial child molester Michael Jackson for his court fees when he was prosecuted for pedophilia for the second time. Michael Jackson faked his death and has been hiding out in Bahrain to avoid any more charges against him.
The Kingdom of Jordan was established by the United Kingdom through the British Mandate for Palestine and then fully through the Treaty of London of 1946 which appointed the House of Hashemite as the reigning monarchs. King Abdullah II of Jordan is a member of the British Army and also went to the Jesuit University of Georgetown in Washington DC. King Abduallah II is a knight of various military orders including in Italy and in the United Kingdom. The House of Thani in Qatar and Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani run several banks in Luxembourg through Precision Capital. Luxembourg uses private banking like in Switzerland which enables money laundering and tax evasion. Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani and his company went into contract with BAE Systems in New Jersey and their accounts were froze for an investigation into money laundering. Hamad paid off the Jersey officials with 6 million and they then dropped their investigation. Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is an Italian Knight of the Order of Merit and French Knight of the Legion of Honour. The getty family who own getty Oil purchased oil fields from the House of Saud and this made them one of the wealthiest families in the United States for a period of time. The getty family are also intermarried with the Italian Ruspoli family today.
The various royal families in the Mid East have an accumulation of hundreds of billions of dollars and are working closely with the European royal families who put them into power in their regions. Many of the Islamic royal families do business at the City of London Corporation and are in contracts with companies owned by the royal families like British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. The royal families of Europe use the Mid Eastern royal families as financiers for their agendas as part of their contracts for being allowed to be wealthy and rule their nations. They have some authority over the Shriner Freemasons, Five Percenters, and Nation of Islam. They use their wealth to fund these organizations and other secret societies like Wiccan cults. They have an Arab Mafia headquartered in New Jersey and have infiltrated the ports in the United States. Islamic royal families include the House of Saud, House of Alawite, House of Khalifa, House of Thani, House of Hashemite, and Sulayem family as well as others. These families are extremely predatory and are targeting people from other nations. The House of Saud are extremely fascist and oppress their own people. Many of the Mid Eastern royal families are tyrannical and oppressive. They rule their nations sovereignly in most cases however they ultimately serve the Black Nobility and European royal families.
want more?
#15877 at 2018-01-07 16:36:32 (UTC+1)
The Storm General #19 These People Are SICK Edition
>>15834
While many charitable organizations devote time and money to health initiatives, only the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation can say it is the largest nonprofit dedicated solely to "improv[ing] the health and health care of all Americans." Robert W. Johnson II, son of Johnson & Johnson co-founder Robert W. Johnson, established the Johnson New Brunswick Foundation in 1936 to aid New Jerseyans most affected by the Great Depression. The foundation was renamed to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1952, and 20 years later, it officially broadened its reach beyond the borders of the Garden State. With almost $9 billion in assets, according to the Foundation Center, the foundation covers a full spectrum of health-related issues; it works in the four "priority topics" of health policy, prevention, cost and value, and leadership. Specific projects include efforts to reverse childhood obesity and ensure coverage for the uninsured, in addition to grantmaking across the board.
Charitable organizations strive to touch lives, and that's exactly what the J. Paul getty Trust seeks to do through "presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world's artistic legacy." In 1948, oil tycoon and art lover J. Paul getty donated a number of pieces from his personal collection to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; five years later, he started his own museum open to the public. With $10.4 billion in assets, according to the Foundation Center, the trust today administers two locations of the J. Paul getty Museum. The getty Center in Los Angeleshouses European and American pieces, while the getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades is home to works from ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. Other components of the trust include research opportunities and conservation activities. This year, almost 600 individuals applied for 40 spots in the getty scholars program.
With almost $11 billion in assets, according to the Foundation Center, the Ford Foundation is dedicated to "working with visionary leaders and organizations to change social structures and institutions." Established in 1936 by Edsel Ford, son of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford, the foundation has initiatives in North and Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It also awards grants to organizations and individuals working in three main areas. The first of these is economic opportunity and assets; the second is democracy, rights, and justice; and the third is education, creativity, and free expression. The New York City-based foundation makes around 1,400 grants annually
8chan/8kun CBTS Posts (60)
#250813 at 2018-01-05 21:25:05 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #298: Sifting Through The Swamp -- We Won't Get Lost Edition
>>250714
That CDAN blind everyone was talking about other the day that everyone seemed to think was John getty sr and Fernando Marcos were running a child trafficking ring that eventually lead to John getty jr burying 50 bodies under the getty foundation seems pretty relevant. At this point I Consider CDAN as vital to Q in terms of getting these fuckers. CDAN is honestly a godsend.
I'm still trying to get my friends to look at it.
#246669 at 2018-01-05 05:28:46 (UTC+1)
CBTS #293 Glorious, Glorious Q Year Edition
Sheila Jackson-Lee
getty image PHOTOSHOPPED? Was she FRAMED? Watch: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4703065/sheilas-ring
Short clip shows actual ring she was wearing, vs. the getty Pedo Photoshop job (shop done by getty photog Mark Wilson?). Was she framed for control, extortion? Note 28:23. Compare to: http://www.gettyimages.com/event/house-committee-holds-hearing-on-tsa-security-breach-79734832#chairwomen-sheila-jacksonlee-questions-acting-transportation-security-picture-id94528071
Did we miss our mark with the Meme?
(and is a meme a shot fired without smoke?)
Summary of all posts on subject:
>>239979
>>240002
>>240031
>>240032
>>240051
>>240082
>>240118
>>240135
#240135 at 2018-01-04 09:04:22 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
>>240084
No faggot - that's why I went and dug. Because I posted the Meme on twitter, and wanted to make sure the Memer was't pulling fuckery to keep clear conscience if I was going to jump on wagon and throw her under the bus.
Went straight to getty database. See:
>>240082
So, it still didn't make sense after the getty image, and have done a bit of photography, and the shadows were odd, and things didn't fit. So went to the f'in video footage and watched - there are two points where you can see it (somewhat) clearly, the time stamps should be in the images of the testimony screencaps. Here's another, it's totally fuckin clear in this one - NOT THE PEDO RING = FRAMED to control. Done on 2009, 2 years after the FBI memo with that symbol.
https:/ /file.wikileaks.org/file/FBI-pedophile-symbols.pdf
Which wasn't public back then, but someone would have had a little sit-down and shown her the fbi file, and the getty image. "Here's what we want you to do…"
Oh, and what was the subject of the hearing where the image was taken (then shooped)???
" Combatting Human Trafficking in our Major Cities"
KEK
#240118 at 2018-01-04 08:57:46 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
>>240082
Mark Wilson has over 64,000 images uploaded to getty Images and is listed as a staff photographer….
#240106 at 2018-01-04 08:54:55 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
>>240084
not shilling, but shit man get the TRUTH not bullshit. you showed her in
>>.240002
where she is wearing the same suit and earrings and in only one shot that ring is on her finger, the others are a completely different ring. makes no sense. so did getty photoshop that in?
#240097 at 2018-01-04 08:51:52 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
>>240072
The one here where she's "doing what she's told and attacking Roy Moore" looks a lot like the one she wore that day in 2009.
Def not the getty shot though. The photographer's name is Mark Wilson. Any other dirt on him? He has like 63,000 shots going back in time. Who has the original RAW image? getty or Mark? Higher rez court footage would reveal all. Have been meaning to send this to Jefferson Sessions attention. Would be another count against the Obama/Hillary camp for extortion. She'd probably sing if she thought someone would listen before she got Arkacided.
#240084 at 2018-01-04 08:49:41 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
>>240072
that pedo ring looks photoshopped on. why would it appear in only 1 photo out of all the photos of the same hearing. who photoshopped it on there? getty? no… the user who downloaded it. she is a jerk and and idiot but that ring is fake news
#240082 at 2018-01-04 08:49:23 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
>>240002
The original images is uploaded to getty Images with the pedo ring….If anyone faked the ring in the photo it would be (((Mark Wilson))) the photog….both getty Images and the photographer are responsible for (((this))) image….any and all legal concerns should be directed to getty Images and the original photographer….
House Committee Holds Hearing On TSA Security Breach
WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 16: Chairwomen Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) questions acting Transportation Security Administration Administrator, Gale Rossides during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, December 16, 2009 in Washington, DC. The Committee is hearing testimony on how a classified TSA screening manual was posted online recently. (Photo by (((Mark Wilson)))/getty Images)
Details
Restrictions: Contact your local office for all commercial or promotional uses. Full editorial rights UK, US, Ireland, Canada (not Quebec). Restricted editorial rights for daily newspapers elsewhere, please call.
Credit: Mark Wilson / Staff
Editorial #: 94528066
Collection: getty Images News
Date created: December 16, 2009
License type: Rights-managed
Release info: No release, but release may not be required. More information
Source: getty Images North America
Object name: 59160681
Max file size: 3000 x 2055 px (10.00 x 6.85 in) - 300 dpi - 662 KB
www.gettyimages. com/license/94528066
#240031 at 2018-01-04 08:35:53 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
>>239979
>>240005
Photo from getty. Watched testimony footage, image not reversed. Shadows around her nose aren't same intensity as ring. Zoom in and doesn't look perfect.
#239979 at 2018-01-04 08:21:41 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
Also, Sheila Jackson-Lee was framed as a Pedo. Did some digging and she was NOT wearing that ring, think the getty photog or whoever framed her to control her, as chair of Homeland Security. Happened in 2009.
Some things that dont' fit - ring was backwards with design. couple other things. Shadows. Watched video forever, think she was wearing a different ring that day. Need to dig for my screencaps of the friggin' testimony that day inDec 2009
#239959 at 2018-01-04 08:16:29 (UTC+1)
CBTS #284 - MONDAY Everything Has Meaning - 2018 Q Edition
Okay so checked out CDAN for the world politician and they reckon it's Marcos/getty. Trump was in the Phillippines and I think he held a golden head. I think this is the stolen Nazi gold which was buried in the Philippines which was the source of Marcos's wealth. That gold is about imho to be released under the gold collateral accounts.
Trump falling out with Bannon is a kabuki so Ba can release the dirt on the leaders. 7d chess. They are still friends underneath it all.
#237787 at 2018-01-04 02:31:06 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #281: Happy Days - New Year Edition 2018
John Paul getty Jr?
#237347 at 2018-01-04 01:12:58 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #281: Happy Days - New Year Edition 2018
>>237312
They are. Tricia (if you follow you see her) she was someone very in. She knows too much. There is the infamous 'himmmmm' people say is possibly related to Mr. Stark ;)
Anyways. This story for some reason makes me think of the movie the Post. getty also has a movie coming out. The post owner killed her self like her father did (did she really suicide?). Ionno. This has threads all dangling- but there is soo much already on the table. And we have lost focus as a group. This has to be how Ed Norton felt when it became 'Project Mayhem' and things were no longer just in the basement.
#237334 at 2018-01-04 01:10:49 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #281: Happy Days - New Year Edition 2018
>>237271
Jean Paul getty?
#237294 at 2018-01-04 01:02:57 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #281: Happy Days - New Year Edition 2018
>>237271
If we are going to use CDAN as a source (we have no reason not to at this point)- you must read the comments. Certain people comment daily with excellent guesses. G may equal getty. John Paul getty. Makes those stories about under the getty interesting too. They even brought that up. Always read their comments but one reader says bodies were at an annex. getty Villa. All this shit relates. Look at all the art in getty Villa (mostly greek.) Who else had the greek head as a profile picture (JA) in the pizza parlor??? We are close. They all know it.
>blogger. com/comment.g?blogID=37309174&postID=2300754112559718988&isPopup=true&bpli=1&pli=1
#237046 at 2018-01-04 00:06:11 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #280: Happy Days - New Year Edition 2018 - No.3
>>236575
The old getty was on PCH. The new getty is in the hills where fire was. Different locations.
#236661 at 2018-01-03 22:51:36 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #280: Happy Days - New Year Edition 2018 - No.3
>>236575
Pretty sick what's been rumored about the getty. I find it extremely interesting how during the open ceremony he was knighted by QEII. The insane amount of money it cost to build, mainly due to all the tunnels. The agreement with the Brit royals to use as bunker in case they need to flee UK. It's location, difficult to access, remote. It's connection to the Skirball natural center, and all the schools surrounding the area.
#236575 at 2018-01-03 22:37:14 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #280: Happy Days - New Year Edition 2018 - No.3
>>236515
>>236515
What's with the getty. That old bastard didn't like humans. He, Hammer, Huntington Hartford all these criminal buying history and worship galleries , believe it is a regional programming node for the social macro organism myself but I expect I am alone in that.
#235398 at 2018-01-03 19:37:21 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #278: Happy Days - New Years edition 2018
>>235381
>I researched getty Images years ago when Pelosi held a lot of stock. They ONLY bought (invested) in image libraries (public and private). Sold NO product at the time. Now they are stamped on most internet images.....
what about the 100 thousand children slaves, under the getty Museum?
#235381 at 2018-01-03 19:34:18 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #278: Happy Days - New Years edition 2018
>>235361
I researched getty Images years ago when Pelosi held a lot of stock. They ONLY bought (invested) in image libraries (public and private). Sold NO product at the time. Now they are stamped on most internet images…..
#235361 at 2018-01-03 19:30:26 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #278: Happy Days - New Years edition 2018
>>235085
Sure sounds like getty with the annexes
#234111 at 2018-01-03 14:37:58 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #277: 7's For Luck Edition
>>234106
Trump Denounces Iran as a 'Rogue Regime'
10/13/2017 2:16PM
President Donald Trump announced plans on Friday to decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal, reinforcing his commitment to cancel the agreement if congress doesn't act on whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran. Photo: getty Image
http: //www.wsj.com/video/trump-denounces-iran-as-a-rogue-regime/E1023BE2-32C7-448F-8749-C6039BE024B9.html
#219330 at 2018-01-01 01:22:45 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #258: Q Year's Eve Countdown Edition
>>219304
Hint: Place your text over the markup.
getty is pedo central anyway! Justified!
#215831 at 2017-12-31 12:20:15 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #254: Q, Q got what I need Edition
>>215828
Secret Law
Graff-sidebar2-AP-getty.jpg
AP/getty
In 2015, when Obama released his new hostage policy-known as Presidential Policy Directive No. 30-close watchers of the administration realized the last publicly announced PPD had been No. 28, which meant that sometime between January 17, 2014, and June 24, 2015, he had signed yet another directive whose very existence was classified. Whatever it is, PPD 29 is one of dozens of secret presidential national security orders, some of which stretch back decades.
Each president has called these documents something slightly different, but collectively they deal with high-level strategic and policy decisions around national security and, more recently, homeland security.
The whole point of these laws and procedures is to grant the president power the public doesn't even know he has-and might not know until it's unveiled to us in the midst of a crisis, either real or invented."
#195545 at 2017-12-28 17:20:46 (UTC+1)
CBTS #229 If theres no bread, bake it edition
Does ANYONE feel surprise to know getty IMAGES sells images that are openly SATANIC?
Who would pay for this shit?
Oh that's right… "satan porn" is (was) a thing…
Ever heard of "Dilara Findikoglu"?
http: //www.gettyimages.ae/photos/dilara-findikoglu?sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=dilara%20findikoglu
#195391 at 2017-12-28 16:53:18 (UTC+1)
CBTS #229 If theres no bread, bake it edition
>>195119
No it's Oscar de la Renta on a new postage stamp.
He designs her gowns.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (2nd L), Anna Wintour (3rd L), Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (3rd R) and Anderson Cooper of CNN (R) pose for a photo during an unveiling ceremony for the U.S. Postal Service Oscar de la Renta Forever stamp, at Grand Central Terminal, February 16, 2017 in New York City. A black and white stamp with De La Renta's portrait is included in the collection, in addition to ten other stamps featuring details from De La Renta designed dresses and gowns.
(Feb. 15, 2017 - Source: Drew Angerer/getty Images North America)
http://www.zimbio.com/ photos/Michael+Bloomberg/Hillary+Clinton+Anna+Wintour+Attend+Oscar/8vJe97vo-t6
#190229 at 2017-12-27 23:09:53 (UTC+1)
CBTS #223 Not A Place For Muh Feels! Edition
Disney CEO, ABC News Cozy With Clinton, WikiLeaks Reveals
Image: Disney CEO, ABC News Cozy With Clinton, WikiLeaks Reveals
(L-R) President at Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, CCO at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, John Lasseter, producer/president at Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, chairman/CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger, and deputy editor at Vanity Fair, Stephanie Mehta on October 19, 2016, in San Francisco, California. (Mike Windle/getty Images for Vanity Fair)
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WikiLeaks email revelations from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta show that not only is there a deep connection with the media - reporters, opinion writers, and news anchors - but it also reaches as high as the corporate executive suite.
Disney CEO Bob Iger appears in the latest round of released WikiLeaks emails, offering insight that those at the very top of the organization accept and encourage the pro-liberal bias at the company's media division: ABC News.
Iger is a visible and active supporter of progressive politicians, thus sending a powerful message throughout the company about his political beliefs and - potentially - his expectations of news coverage. With the CEO investing significant amounts of his personal money in liberal politicians, it would likely be career-limiting to challenge his political investments. On the contrary, attacking conservatives could be the ticket to career advancement.
A long-time Hillary supporter, Iger appears in an email chain - subject: "Email from Steve Bing" - with Clinton campaign head John Podesta and Steve Bing and Andy Sowers from Shangri-LA business group.
The emails refer to Iger expressing an interest in taking an active role in the campaign stating, "He wants to be helpful." In a follow-up email months later, Bing mentioned that Iger had connected with Podesta and that those discussions had gone well, "[Iger's] had a couple of good talks with you."
At this point, we don't know the outcome of Iger's conversations with Podesta or what it meant to Clinton's campaign, but we do know the Disney leader co-hosted a Beverly Hills fundraiser at billionaire Haim Saban's home last August that carried a $100,000 cover charge for hosting couples.
According to a Washington Free Beacon story last year, "Disney CEO Bob Iger has given more than $400,000 to Democratic candidates (including Hillary Clinton) and campaign committees since 1999."
Iger's aggressive support of Democrats, in general, and Hillary Clinton, in particular, provides cover for ABC News to be as biased as its left-wing heart desires.
Given the pro-Clinton bias at Disney and ABC, it's not surprising that the Clinton campaign would target George Stephanopoulos with ideas to challenge "Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer. (The book describes how the Clintons built a personal fortune by leveraging their political influence.) WikiLeaks documents show a series of emails from Clinton staffers celebrating the April 2015 interview on "This Week With George Stephanopoulos." One Clinton team member, Jesse Ferguson, touts Stephanopoulos' success in refuting Schweizer's claims and takes credit for the group providing background to the host of "This Week."
great work everyone. this interview is perfect. he lands nothing and everything is refuted (mostly based on our work)
In addition, Stephanopoulos did not disclose that he donated a total of $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation prior to the interview with Schweizer, even though the Foundation was the focal point of his book. Stephanopoulos merely issued a statement apologizing to ABC News and his viewers for not disclosing his donations to the Foundation. Predictably, ABC News backed Stephanopoulos, saying the failure to disclose his donations "was an honest mistake."
Given Iger's support of Clinton and that Stephanopoulos is the former communications director for President Bill Clinton, it was highly unlikely the host of "This Week" would get penalized for aggressively challenging Schweizer or for not disclosing his own donations to Hillary's campaign.
It seems that Iger's backing of Clinton virtually eliminates any penalties for its media unit's employees who get caught playing footsie with team Clinton. And WikiLeaks shows that when it comes to Disney and ABC News, liberal media bias comes from the very top.
Dr. Tom Borelli is a contributor to Conservative Review. As a columnist he has written for Townhall.com, The Washington Times, Newsmax magazine, and also hosts radio programs on SiriusXM Patriot with his wife Deneen Borelli. Dr. Borelli has appeared on numerous television programs on Newsmax TV, Fox News, Fox Business and TheBlaze.
#177039 at 2017-12-26 05:23:53 (UTC+1)
CBTS #207 Christmas Before The Storm Edition
>>176982
It was designed by Richard Meier:
http:// www.richardmeier.com/?s=getty
Same company just finished the Rothschild Tower in Tel Aviv, Israel this Sept:
http:// www.richardmeier.com/?press_release=richard-meier-partners-completes-the-rothschild-tower-in-tel-aviv-israel
#176982 at 2017-12-26 05:15:05 (UTC+1)
CBTS #207 Christmas Before The Storm Edition
I want to know what is under the getty "museum". I want to see it gutted and exposed and then demolished.
#176459 at 2017-12-26 04:42:55 (UTC+1)
CBTS #206 - MERRY CHRISTMAS! SPECIAL BIG WE PRAY FREEDOM. CONF_WHITE_WHITE_ - Edition
Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options
By Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Jaffe
December 25, 2017 at 2:14 PM
What is known as Building One of the Kremlin houses President Vladimir Putin's working office in downtown Moscow.
What is known as Building One of the Kremlin houses President Vladimir Putin's working office in downtown Moscow. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/getty Images)
The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. - the middle of the day in Moscow.
"Hello, my name is Alice Donovan and I'm a beginner freelance journalist," read the Feb.?26, 2016, message.
The FBI was tracking Donovan as part of a months-long counterintelligence operation code-named "NorthernNight." Internal bureau reports described her as a pseudonymous foot soldier in an army of Kremlin-led trolls seeking to undermine America's democratic institutions.
Her first articles as a freelancer for CounterPunch and at least 10 other online publications weren't especially political. As the 2016 presidential election heated up, Donovan's message shifted. Increasingly, she seemed to be doing the Kremlin's bidding by stoking discontent toward Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and touting WikiLeaks, which U.S. officials say was a tool of Russia's broad influence operation to affect the presidential race.
Alice in Wonderland double meaning?
#167043 at 2017-12-24 20:32:05 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #194: For God So Loved The World Edition
>>166316 (OP)
Qs for Q
(add more and re-post?)
-is there truth to the crazy rumors about the getty? massive underground production line for slaves/food?
-will you be releasing footage of these labs/facilities as evidence? IMO we *don't* need to see baby burgers being made, but we need to see the true scope of the network. video of raids would be interesting, esp if they provide catharsis via including bad guys being snuffed.
-if the hampstead children accounts are true, are the practices described approx. the worst we should expect (but on a massive global scale)? how could it get any worse on the human abuse front when above 40k ft view?
-is >'40K ft view' also referring to SRM/CTs/GeoEng programs?
-is Dimitri Khalezov real and should we be sharing his 9/11 information? VERY BITTER PILL
-are you working to purify our food and water sources? many of us have been diagnosed with mysterious digestive diseases which make life hell. GMOs need to be a subject again, as does glyphosate!
#149786 at 2017-12-22 17:23:41 (UTC+1)
CBTS #173 - 2018 will be GLORIOUS! Edition
>>149732
Ncal was very close to roths wine enterprises
http:// www.sonomanews.com/news/7394958-181/accused-murderer-steven-rothschild-released?artslide=0
Scal fires hit the getty center (think DUMB) look for videos about this. also near santa barbara, where michael aquino wrote a thesis on MINDWAR and founded the temple of set. there is a big jesuit property near the fire, as well as oprah and al gore's mansions . . . anything else i'm missing? very expensive real estate can now be bought in big chunks for cheap i would guess. also possible evidence destroyed. Nat G still deployed in these areas i can confirm.
#131252 at 2017-12-20 06:31:48 (UTC+1)
CBTS #150 2 Week Party in Maralago for all Anons on Soros - Can't wait to HUG YOU ANON #nohomo
>>127154
Is Q referring to the recent fires in California? The one in LA was really close to the getty center and Rupert Murdoch's house.
#125328 at 2017-12-19 17:40:44 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #143 Jesus Weeps Edition
>>125251
sb county also hid corey feldmans pedo testimony till very recently. FULL of military/space contractors in sb area. oprah and al gore live in sb county oprah has multiple homes, not far from michael jackson. after eyes wide shut came out they were bragging in local papers about eyes wide shut parties near oprah and al gore's homes in montecito (sb county). fire at getty -> fire in montecito near jesuit property. . .hmm. sta barbara lives in a tower, the patron st. of artillery. . .think column-bia . . .there symbols will be their undoing.
#112882 at 2017-12-17 14:25:28 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #128 - KEEP FIRING THOSE GLORIOUS CANNONBALLS LADS FIRE
>>112871
Did you know your pic has a getty center sign in it? You must've right? getty Center as in possible massive literally underground child sex slave op?
#102561 at 2017-12-15 15:11:53 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #116: Global Thermonuclear War Edition
getty MUSEUM
We were on to something, there are more details in this clip>https://youtu. be/MWCjhY0ZT4M?t=11m11s>underground>affiliation with queen>children
#97891 at 2017-12-14 22:04:23 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #110: Haters Gonna Hate Edition
>>97797
Maybe you /newfag/ boomers should have paid attention to pgate instead of dismissing it as some 'alt-right conspiracy theory'. This getty info is OLD news. Fuck off
#97833 at 2017-12-14 21:55:03 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #110: Haters Gonna Hate Edition
>>97814
By the way the getty Center is shaped like a masonic pyramid. Can't tell because it's covers with the southern california mountain side that it's built into. Right in the heart of Beverly Hills/ Santa Monica (Skirball fire)
#97798 at 2017-12-14 21:48:13 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #110: Haters Gonna Hate Edition
>>97786
Yes,the getty Center is the flagship for satanic baby eating pedo, human trafficking activity. It's all underground and you need to take a tram to the top to enter. No normies are allowed in the catacombs
#97797 at 2017-12-14 21:48:08 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #110: Haters Gonna Hate Edition
>>97786
sgtreport just did a video on the getty. some guy claims its a massive child sex bunker.
#96556 at 2017-12-14 17:46:07 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #108: I Know The Pieces Fit Edition
Connections to the getty museum we were talking about yesterday
#91616 at 2017-12-14 01:44:32 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #102: The Sounds of Silence - Where Are You Q? Edition
>>91576
>most of those fir
there is also some info here on the getty museum related to pizzagate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXDaOwGtL9A
#70037 at 2017-12-11 04:27:35 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #79: Monday looms, and were comfy as fuck Edition
>>69977
getty museum.
https://throughthelook ingglassnews.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/on-the-highway-to-hell-exploring-the-pizzagate-pedogate-pedowood-connection-to-the-getty-center-compendium/
#64864 at 2017-12-10 06:57:42 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #73: Q Returns! - [R]enegade in the Crosshairs Edition
>>64852
>This is what happens when a meth head gets redpilled by the wrong peeps....
Oh yeah? How do you know that isn't the final reveal? We've already got demons from other dimensions, aliens, literal vampires, and cave people under the getty. Lizards from mars doesn't sound nearly as crazy as it did month ago.
#63431 at 2017-12-10 03:06:56 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #71: REVENGE and B.I.G. BREAK(?) Edition
>>63378
I'm sure many. Rumor something might be hidden within the getty. But I don't know. Haven't been there to know. But hollyweird has always had connections with (Illuminati) and govt.
#60357 at 2017-12-09 18:43:13 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #68: Fight For Change Edition
>>60336 Renegade
dek
Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / getty
President Barack Obama opted for this moniker after being presented with a list of names beginning with the letter "R." As custom dictates, the rest of his family's code names will be alliterative: wife Michelle is known as "Renaissance;" daughters Malia and Sasha are "Radiance" and "Rosebud," respectively.
#58017 at 2017-12-09 05:07:46 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #65 - One Glorious Destiny Edition
>>57876
One of these started very close to the getty Center.
#54877 at 2017-12-08 17:51:48 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #61 - Pensacola Edition
>>54866
Pantone is to color what getty is to images.
>faggots
#53471 at 2017-12-08 07:58:33 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #60: --end--
wonder what those clowns are burning san diego for?
we know why LA(getty)
#52516 at 2017-12-08 04:08:17 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #58: The Lord of the Rings
>>52416
getty Images.
Buys up libraries of images.
Owns majority of images.
#51812 at 2017-12-08 02:43:09 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #58: The Lord of the Rings
getty images? Connection to the getty museum?
#48675 at 2017-12-07 16:16:55 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #54 Filter VQC Edition
>>48371
Wildfires are burning near the getty museum causing evacuations in that area. There's alleged to be a massive Elite bunker under the getty that is many levels deep that includes a place for children to be stored, tortured, and sacrificed. Coincidence? Let's keep an eye on the getty.
#48371 at 2017-12-07 14:31:56 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #54 Filter VQC Edition
>>48183
J. Paul getty had a fortune. Everyone else paid the price. All The Money In the World is in theaters December 22.
Trailer for a new movie coming out
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=KXHrCBkIxQQ&feature=youtu.be
#48324 at 2017-12-07 14:14:29 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #54 Filter VQC Edition
>>48179
More on the getty...long been rumored to be tied to Pedogate
https://youtu.be/HB_0PIs_9aQ
#48260 at 2017-12-07 14:00:04 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #53: As The World Turns
>>48179
The conspiracy side of the getty and it's alleged underground city.
https://youtu.be/AOnIzawFmiI
#48237 at 2017-12-07 13:53:35 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #53: As The World Turns
>>48210
It's so hard to know for sure. Art/Institutes/Education is another cover to build slush funds and redistribute wealth. Win this kind of art the connections to big wealth, heads of state are pretty certain.
It was evacuated some 7 months ago (if I read that right) for an undisclosed threat. I don't believe in coincidences.
http://abc7.com/news/getty-museum-evacuated-due-to-unspecified-threat/1889336/
#48210 at 2017-12-07 13:44:54 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #53: As The World Turns
>>48202
It COULD be connected. How far away is Heff's honeypot mansion from the getty museum?
#48179 at 2017-12-07 13:33:28 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #53: As The World Turns
From Nov 30
>U1-CA-EU-Asia/NK
>Underground massive data center
Could this be the getty Museum that is being consumed by the wildfires in CA? It's said to have a huge underground bunker, and…it looks like a large White Castle…
#43134 at 2017-12-06 17:35:54 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #48: WONDERFUL friends Edition
Is the getty Center on fire? A google search turned this up from 11 months ago on the getty Center:
https://www.facebook.com/search/str/occupy+the+getty/keywords_top
The getty Center in Los Angeles is a multi billion dollar structure built to house the art collection of the getty Foundation. J. P. getty was given a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth when it was completed. The reality is that it is a front for a fortress protecting an elevator that goes down into a deep underground sanctuary, intended to house the royal family in the future. The entire structure, and the complete system of underground structures is also home to a Satanic empire that provides massive amounts of children to the caver's that live there, for pedophilia, ritual abuse, and sacrifice, with consumption. This is the bottom of the Iceberg that #pizzagate is the tip of. If you want to end this corruption on every level of our society, you must root out the evil heart of the monster, that we can get to if we force the FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate, and arrest those people, and free the 100,000 child sex slaves held below.
#42857 at 2017-12-06 16:29:00 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #47: Bombs Away
Gee, I wonder if the getty will be okay?
http://fox5sandiego.com/2017/12/06/new-brush-fire-burning-near-getty-center-in-brentwood-nb-405-freeway-closed/
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#56082 at 2022-08-06 13:58:00 (UTC+1)
Q War Room #9481: Work Together Edition
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1555901826981052416
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
CDC admits goof on COVID vax link to heart inflammation in feds' second recent FOIA botch | Just The News
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, July 20 | (STEFANI REYNOLDS/getty)
justthenews.com
Contrary to open records response, CDC pointed to myocarditis risk from vaccines as early as June 2021.
9:01 AM ? Aug 6, 2022?Hootsuite Inc.
#55671 at 2022-05-30 23:48:00 (UTC+1)
Q War Room #9481: Work Together Edition
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1531404032488755202
Canada's Trudeau announces 'national freeze' on handgun ownership, mandatory gun buyback legislation=
#JustTheNews
Justin Trudeau | (Dave Chan / getty Images)
justthenews.com
Canada's Trudeau announces 'national freeze' on handgun ownership, mandatory gun buyback legislation
The legislation would make it impossible to "buy, sell, transfer or import handguns in Canada," Trudeau said
6:35 PM ? May 30, 2022?Hootsuite Inc.
#48618 at 2020-11-06 06:08:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operation's War Room #9473 Congrats Amy Coney Barrett Edition
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/403148-dhs-chief-calls-on-election-officials-in-all-50-states-to-have
DHS chief calls on officials in all 50 states to have 'verifiable' ballots by 2020 election
© getty Images
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday called on election officials in all 50 states to ensure that ballots used during the 2020 presidential election are able to be audited.
Nielsen told a group of reporters touring the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) in Arlington, Va., that she wants "all state and local election officials to make certain that by the 2020 presidential election, every American votes on a verifiable and auditable ballot."
"Our systems must be resilient. We must be able to demonstrate that the votes count and that they are counted correctly," she added.
#46447 at 2020-04-16 14:26:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operations #9470 NBC [N]othing [B]ut [C]rap Edition
>>46416
The connections date back at least 80 years, to when Jerry Brown's father, Pat Brown, ran for San Francisco district attorney, losing in 1939 but winning in 1943, with the help of his close friend and Gavin newsom's grandfather, businessman William newsom. As mayor, newsom became nationally recognized for ordering the distribution of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. And the shop with the mop sink upstairs, PlumpJack Wines, grew into a line of successful restaurants, hotels, and wineries managed by newsom's sister, Hilary. A Times review of campaign finance records identified eight of San Francisco's best-known families as being among newsom's most loyal and long-term contributors. Among those patrons are the gettys, the Pritzkers and the Fishers, whose families made their respective fortunes in oil, hotels and fashion. They first backed him when he was a restaurateur and winery owner running for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1998, and have continued their support through the governor's race. They are not newsom's largest donors: The families in total have given about $2 million of the $61 million that donors have contributed to his campaigns and independent committees backing those bids. But they gave while he was a relative unknown, providing crucial support to a political newcomer in the years before his campaign accounts piled high with cash from labor unions, Hollywood honchos, tech billionaires and donors up and down the state. Gavin newsom is succeeding someone who could be considered his quasi-uncle, since his inauguration continues the decades-long saga of four San Francisco families intertwined by blood, by marriage, by money, by culture and, of course, by politics - the Browns, the newsoms, the Pelosi's and the gettys. Lt. Gov. Gavin newsom (D) defeated businessman John Cox (R) in the general election on November 6, 2018, for governor of California. President Donald Trump (R) endorsed Cox and former President Barack Obama (D) endorsed newsom in the race. The forecasting outlets Ballotpedia covered rated the race either Safe Democratic or Solid Democratic in the month leading up to election day. Fast forward two decades. Gov. Pat Brown's administration developed Squaw Valley for the 1960s winter Olympics and afterward awarded a concession to operate it to William newsom and his partner, John Pelosi. The Squaw Valley concession was controversial at the time and created something of a rupture between the two old friends. William newsom wanted to make significant improvements to the ski complex, including a convention center, but Brown's Department of Parks and Recreation balked. newsom and his son, an attorney also named William, held a series of contentious meetings with officials over the issue. An eight-page memo about those 1966 meetings from the department's director, Fred Jones, buried in the Pat Brown archives, describes the newsoms as being embittered and the senior newsom threatening to "hurt the governor politically" as Brown ran for a third term that year against Ronald Reagan. After newsom retired from the bench in 1995, he became administrator of Gordon getty's own trust, telling one interviewer, "I make my living working for Gordon getty." The trust provided seed money for the Plump Jack chain of restaurants and wine shops that Newson's son, Gavin, and Gordon getty's son, Billy, developed, the first being in a Squaw Valley hotel. Yet the early hand he received in politics and business continues to form the basis of criticism against him. newsom's opponents in the mayor's race painted him as privileged and out of touch. In the gubernatorial contest, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Treasurer John Chiang, both Democrats, are beginning to do the same.
#46434 at 2020-04-16 14:03:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operations #9470 NBC [N]othing [B]ut [C]rap Edition
>>46433
Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO
Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO
We are GO for Twitter Cannons OPERATION: #VoterID
California has become a hotbed for corruption and crime. 4 Families over 3 generations. Brown Pelosi newsom getty. It is 95% Democratic Controlled with abundant Voter Fraud. Our mission is to get California Patriots to Push for California Voter ID. Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff seem to be at the forefront of this debacle. We will target them, as well as their followers and newly elected Democrats in California.
California needs our help. There are LOTS and LOTS of patriots living in California who cannot easily pick up and leave. An anon pointed out a few days ago: their mortgages are underwater (they owe more than the property would sell for in the current RE market), and if they move, wages are lower elsewhere. California American citizen patriots are our brothers and sisters, in some cases they are our families or neighbors or longtime acquaintances. We don't abandon other Americans. Q pointed out how we can help them so let's do it! If you must hate, hate the politicians in Sacramento who have done this to the state. Hate the liberal media who has brainwashed a significant fraction of the people. You'd be surprised how many of California's agricultural and rural counties are deep red Republican, feeling overwhelmed and trapped in a terrible situation that was not of their own making.
TARGET: SpeakerPelosi RepAdamSchiff RepMaxineWaters SenFeinstein
All their Followers and Newly elected California Democrats and Democrats in California Swing Districts
MEME: VoterID, Corruption, Homelessness, WildFires, Drugs, Crime, SanctuaryCities...
PUSH: #VoterID | #California | #DemandVoterID
DATE: NOW
SHARE: https://imgur.com/a/exRJe3I
[EXAMPLE LIVE FIRE SAMPLE] >>7662286
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>>7662183 POTUS delta points to CA election op?
>>7662217 7661893 they are afraid!
>>7662195 Notable Bun
Intel >>7662903, >>7663312, >>7662057, >>7662087, >>7662140, >>7662204, >>7662293, >>7661909, >>7661913, >>7661941, >>7662140
Memes >>7675364, >>7667382, >>7667057, >>7667081, >>7667096, >>7662873, >>7662889, >>7662897, >>7662907, >>7662916, >>7663229, >>7663282, >>7662198, >>7662301, >>7662195, >>7661933, >>7661901, >>7661915, >>7661927, >>7661907, >>7661915, >>7661920, >>7661927, >>7661907, >>7661915, >>7661920, >>7661927, >>7662198
VoterID Meme Repo: https://mega.nz/#F!EV4HkQ7A!fxp-5L2RjgKl1D3YK1xGYA
VOTERID
GO GO GO - THIS IS NOT A DRILL - FIRE AT WILL
AND KEEP FIRING MEME CANNONS TILL SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING
WE ARE THE NEWS NOW!
FGNC Q OPERATIONS WARROOM -o7
Dough: https://pastebin.com/qCFqDYr3
#46433 at 2020-04-16 14:03:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operations #9470 NBC [N]othing [B]ut [C]rap Edition
>>46416
Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO
Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO
We are GO for Twitter Cannons OPERATION: #VoterID
California has become a hotbed for corruption and crime. 4 Families over 3 generations. Brown Pelosi newsom getty. It is 95% Democratic Controlled with abundant Voter Fraud. Our mission is to get California Patriots to Push for California Voter ID. Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff seem to be at the forefront of this debacle. We will target them, as well as their followers and newly elected Democrats in California.
California needs our help. There are LOTS and LOTS of patriots living in California who cannot easily pick up and leave. An anon pointed out a few days ago: their mortgages are underwater (they owe more than the property would sell for in the current RE market), and if they move, wages are lower elsewhere. California American citizen patriots are our brothers and sisters, in some cases they are our families or neighbors or longtime acquaintances. We don't abandon other Americans. Q pointed out how we can help them so let's do it! If you must hate, hate the politicians in Sacramento who have done this to the state. Hate the liberal media who has brainwashed a significant fraction of the people. You'd be surprised how many of California's agricultural and rural counties are deep red Republican, feeling overwhelmed and trapped in a terrible situation that was not of their own making.
TARGET: SpeakerPelosi RepAdamSchiff RepMaxineWaters SenFeinstein
All their Followers and Newly elected California Democrats and Democrats in California Swing Districts
MEME: VoterID, Corruption, Homelessness, WildFires, Drugs, Crime, SanctuaryCities...
PUSH: #VoterID | #California | #DemandVoterID
DATE: NOW
SHARE: https://imgur.com/a/exRJe3I
#43601 at 2020-01-07 00:44:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research Operations #9467 Soleimani SHREDDED!!! Edition
CHEKET
==Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO==
==Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO==
'''We are GO for Twitter Cannons OPERATION: #VoterID'''
California has become a hotbed for corruption and crime. 4 Families over 3 generations. Brown Pelosi Newsom getty. It is 95% Democratic Controlled with abundant Voter Fraud. Our mission is to get California Patriots to Push for California Voter ID. Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff seem to be at the forefront of this debacle. We will target them, as well as their followers and newly elected Democrats in California.
California needs our help. There are LOTS and LOTS of patriots living in California who cannot easily pick up and leave. An anon pointed out a few days ago: their mortgages are underwater (they owe more than the property would sell for in the current RE market), and if they move, wages are lower elsewhere. California American citizen patriots are our brothers and sisters, in some cases they are our families or neighbors or longtime acquaintances. We don't abandon other Americans. Q pointed out how we can help them so let's do it! If you must hate, hate the politicians in Sacramento who have done this to the state. Hate the liberal media who has brainwashed a significant fraction of the people. You'd be surprised how many of California's agricultural and rural counties are deep red Republican, feeling overwhelmed and trapped in a terrible situation that was not of their own making.
'''TARGET:''' SpeakerPelosi RepAdamSchiff RepMaxineWaters SenFeinstein
All their Followers and Newly elected California Democrats and Democrats in California Swing Districts
'''MEME:''' VoterID, Corruption, Homelessness, WildFires, Drugs, Crime, SanctuaryCities...
'''PUSH:''' #VoterID | #California | #DemandVoterID
'''DATE:''' NOW
'''SHARE:''' https://imgur.com/a/exRJe3I
[EXAMPLE LIVE FIRE SAMPLE] >>7662286
-------------
>>7662183 POTUS delta points to CA election op?
>>7662217 7661893 they are afraid!
>>7662195 Notable Bun
Intel >>7662903, >>7663312, >>7662057, >>7662087, >>7662140, >>7662204, >>7662293, >>7661909, >>7661913, >>7661941, >>7662140
Memes >>7675364, >>7667382, >>7667057, >>7667081, >>7667096, >>7662873, >>7662889, >>7662897, >>7662907, >>7662916, >>7663229, >>7663282, >>7662198, >>7662301, >>7662195, >>7661933, >>7661901, >>7661915, >>7661927, >>7661907, >>7661915, >>7661920, >>7661927, >>7661907, >>7661915, >>7661920, >>7661927, >>7662198
VoterID Meme Repo: ''https://mega.nz/#F!EV4HkQ7A!fxp-5L2RjgKl1D3YK1xGYA''
==VOTERID==
GO GO GO - THIS IS NOT A DRILL - FIRE AT WILL
AND KEEP FIRING MEME CANNONS TILL SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING
WE ARE THE NEWS NOW!
FGNC Q OPERATIONS WARROOM -o7
Dough: https://pastebin.com/qCFqDYr3
/////
the imgur is now in the paste :)
#43144 at 2019-12-30 14:31:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9466 Romania Romania Romania Edition
==Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO==
==Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO==
==Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO==
==Q OPERATIONS #CALIFORNIA #VOTERID IS A GO==
BAKER NOTABLE BUN PB >>7653741
>>7653316 Q 'No (R) option in CA when registering to vote?'
We are HOT for Twitter Cannons '''OPERATION: #VoterID'''
VoterID Meme Repo: https://mega.nz/#F!EV4HkQ7A!fxp-5L2RjgKl1D3YK1xGYA
California has become a hotbed for corruption and crime.
4 Families over 3 generations.: Brown Pelosi Newsom getty
It is 95% Democtratic Controlled with abundent Voter Fraud.
Out mission is to get California Patriot Democrats to Push for California Voter ID.
Nancy Pelosi, Maixine Waters and Adam Schiff seem to be at the forefront of this debakle.
We will target them, as well as their followers and newly elected Democrats in California.
SYNOPSIS: Target California Democrats Sentors, House, Governors and thier followers to implement #VoterID in California.
MEME: VoterID, Corruption, Homelessness, WildFires, Drugs, Crime, SanctuaryCities...
HIJACK: #MondayThoughts | #MondayMotivation | #RuinTheHolidaysIn5Words
PUSH: #VoterID | #CaliforniaVoterId | #DemandVoterID
DATE: NOW
TARGET
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff
https://twitter.com/RepMaxineWaters
Newly elected California Democrats and Democrats in California Swing Districts
EXAMPLE TWEET (Direct Reply to maxine waters)
[Tweet] - .@RepMaxineWaters how are you this #MondayMorning? My #MondayThoughts is #VoterID in #California. Can we #DemandVoterID? Any thoughts?
[Meme] - Pic of the Voter Corruption in California Orange County
-------------
GO GO GO - THIS IS NOT A DRILL FAGGOTS - FIRE AT WILL
AND KEEP FIRING MEME CANNONS TILL SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING
WE ARE THE NEWS NOW!
FGNC
-o7 Q OPERATIONS WARROOM
https://pastebin.com/iXNS1YKa
#43047 at 2019-12-28 05:24:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9466 Romania Romania Romania Edition
gotem on pelosi thats for sure
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/7638934.html#7639387
4 Corrupt Families Of California ~ Newsom, Brown, Pelosi & Feinstein
The connections date back at least 80 years, to when Jerry Brown's father, Pat Brown, ran for San Francisco district attorney, losing in 1939 but winning in 1943, with the help of his close friend and Gavin Newsom's grandfather, businessman William Newsom. As mayor, Newsom became nationally recognized for ordering the distribution of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. And the shop with the mop sink upstairs, PlumpJack Wines, grew into a line of successful restaurants, hotels, and wineries managed by Newsom's sister, Hilary. A Times review of campaign finance records identified eight of San Francisco's best-known families as being among Newsom's most loyal and long-term contributors. Among those patrons are the gettys, the Pritzkers and the Fishers, whose families made their respective fortunes in oil, hotels and fashion. They first backed him when he was a restaurateur and winery owner running for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1998, and have continued their support through the governor's race. They are not Newsom's largest donors: The families in total have given about $2 million of the $61 million that donors have contributed to his campaigns and independent committees backing those bids. But they gave while he was a relative unknown, providing crucial support to a political newcomer in the years before his campaign accounts piled high with cash from labor unions, Hollywood honchos, tech billionaires and donors up and down the state. Gavin Newsom is succeeding someone who could be considered his quasi-uncle, since his inauguration continues the decades-long saga of four San Francisco families intertwined by blood, by marriage, by money, by culture and, of course, by politics - the Browns, the Newsoms, the Pelosi's and the gettys. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) defeated businessman John Cox (R) in the general election on November 6, 2018, for governor of California. President Donald Trump (R) endorsed Cox and former President Barack Obama (D) endorsed Newsom in the race. The forecasting outlets Ballotpedia covered rated the race either Safe Democratic or Solid Democratic in the month leading up to election day. Fast forward two decades. Gov. Pat Brown's administration developed Squaw Valley for the 1960s winter Olympics and afterward awarded a concession to operate it to William Newsom and his partner, John Pelosi. The Squaw Valley concession was controversial at the time and created something of a rupture between the two old friends. William Newsom wanted to make significant improvements to the ski complex, including a convention center, but Brown's Department of Parks and Recreation balked. Newsom and his son, an attorney also named William, held a series of contentious meetings with officials over the issue. An eight-page memo about those 1966 meetings from the department's director, Fred Jones, buried in the Pat Brown archives, describes the Newsoms as being embittered and the senior Newsom threatening to "hurt the governor politically" as Brown ran for a third term that year against Ronald Reagan. After Newsom retired from the bench in 1995, he became administrator of Gordon getty's own trust, telling one interviewer, "I make my living working for Gordon getty." The trust provided seed money for the Plump Jack chain of restaurants and wine shops that Newson's son, Gavin, and Gordon getty's son, Billy, developed, the first being in a Squaw Valley hotel. Yet the early hand he received in politics and business continues to form the basis of criticism against him. Newsom's opponents in the mayor's race painted him as privileged and out of touch. In the gubernatorial contest, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Treasurer John Chiang, both Democrats, are beginning to do the same.
#42567 at 2019-12-17 05:17:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9466 Romania Romania Romania Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani @RudyGiuliani
SEANHANNITY https://twitter.com/SeanHannity @SeanHannity
JUDEGEJEANINE https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine @JudgeJeanine
SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC @SaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs @LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson @TuckerCarlson
---
@Family - Potus Flotus DonaldJTrumpJr EricTrump IvankaTrump
@Media - IngrahamAngle dbongino MorningsMaria FoxBusiness? SundayFutures? FoxNews?
@Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
@FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
@Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Posts
>>36226 watching the stars..
>>36258 Bilderberg Group
>>36282 Q = Alice
>>36347 Utopian communities formed in the 19'th century
>>36467 How to build a ' wind up toy shooter
*Minibuns
Christine Pelosi Kauffman >>36435
Alexandra Pelosi Vos >>36447
Oct 11 article Reid's sons/Pelosi/Biden >>36468
Paul Kaufman-Soap Opera connections >>36485
Prowa(Pelosi son in law family) cult and silver oneida >>36262, >>36269
Ukraine/PaulPelosi >>36487
federal budget and money-dispensing process >>36221 >>36222 >>36223
History timeline on Eric Ciaramella. >>36217 >>36222 >>36223
Biden Ukraine Rosemont Seneca >>36106 >>36107 >>36109 >>36113 >>36138
QQ >>35941 >>35989 >>36001 >>36002 >>36003 >>36029 >>36047 >>36048
Follow The Family >>36002 >>36003 >>36004 >>36007
RG Destroys Schiffs First Witness >>35905 >>35910 >>35950 >>36006 >>36078 >>36195
Californi Attorney General Xavier Becerra >>35871 >35872 >>35877 >>35883 >>35887 >>35895 >>35898 >>35937 >>36019 >>36031 >>36078 >>36195
Dynacorp Pstain >>35850 >>35851 >>35852 >>35854 >>35855 >>35856
Saturn >>33947 >>34623 >>34636 >>35035
LSU ALABAMA >>34273
Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun >>32318
EGO JUPITER SOUL >>32119 >>32120
Project Veritas >>31399
Finders >>25389 >>25386 >>25324
compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved >>25212 >>25214
marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun >>20035
Potus Tweet Analysis >>16890
HARPA dig mini-bun >>16610
RALLEY >>15875
minibun history and origin of our National Anthem >>15356
Christopher Zullo Bun >>15478
Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE: >>11077
Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania) >>14139
Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer >>14190
DJT Minneapolis rally bun: >>14814
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
orderred and organized moar
need to load mega
need moar memes on variety of subjects
#41580 at 2019-11-27 01:09:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9464 USMCA vs NAFTA Edition
'''Vicky Ward'''
Victoria Penelope Jane Ward was born on 3 July 1969. She is the daughter of Simon Charles Vivian Ward and Myrtle Jillian Eileen East. She married Matthew William Monteith Doull on 15 July 1995. From 15 July 1995, her married name became Doull.
http://www.thepeerage.com/p40211.htm#i402104
'''Biography'''
Vicky Ward (Victoria Penelope Jane Ward) is a British-born author, investigative journalist, columnist and television commentator. Ward is a magazine editor-at-large and former newspaper editor. '''She has been living in New York City since 1997 and is a U.S. citizen'''. Ward was born on 3 July 1969 in Chelmsford, England. She is 49 years old as of 2018.
After moving to the U.S., Ward became a columnist and feature writer for '''Britain's The Independent newspaper'''. In New York City, she did News and featured as an Editor of the '''New York Post (1999-2001) and Tina Brown's executive editor at Talk (2000-2001). She was also a contributing editor to Vanity Fair (2001-2012) as well as a columnist for the London Evening Standard (2007-2011)'''. Her articles on Vanity Fair covered a wide array of subject matter: '''politics, finance, art, and culture and society. Among other things, she wrote about Hewlett Packard, Morgan Stanley, Bruce Wasserstein, a failed coup in Africa, Kate Middleton, Valerie Plame, counter-terrorist czar Dick Clarke, Brooke Astor, Veronica Hearst, the Guggenheim, the getty, Phillips de Pury Luxembourg, St Barths, Vivendi, Jeffrey Epstein, Washington interns, the Fairfield Greenwich hedge fund and Bernie Madoff'''. Ward was appointed '''Editor at large for HuffPost and Huffington Post Highline''' in July 2017, their long-form magazine. Latest HuffPost exclusives have '''included interviews with Blackwater's Erik Prince, Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, and Anthony Scaramucci on the White House and why he was fired'''. For the Huffington Post Highline, She recently wrote about Vice President Mike Pence's Chief of Staff, Nick Ayers and Robert and Rebekah Mercer's influence in the 2016 election. '''Charlie Rose later interviewed Ward on this piece'''.
Ward is also an Editor at large at '''Town & Country magazine''', where she writes about culture. Her article pieces have included an article on the late, seminal Russian art collector Sergei Shchukin, Frank Gehry's first-ever sailboat design, a $2 billion fraud in the modern art world and the Knoedler art trial. Ward has contributed to, among others, the '''Financial Times, The New York Times, The London Times and Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the UK Spectator Magazine, British Vogue, US Harpers Bazaar and Porter'''. Ward has also had '''on-air contracts with CNBC and Bloomberg TV. Ward appears regularly on MSNBC's Morning Joe'''. In her last role, Ward wrote investigative long-form articles for '''Esquire''' including a piece in October 2016 on Jared Kushner. In December 2016 ward profiled the Russian-born cyber-terrorism expert Dmitri Alperovitch.
Ward is the author of two best-selling books, the New York Times bestseller, The Devil's Casino: Friendship,
Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers (Wiley, 2010) and
The Liar's Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How one Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons (Wiley, 2014). The Liar's Ball is being developed as a possible feature film by J.C. Chandor and A24 Productions.
Her latest book is Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump (St. Martin's Press, 2019).
https://informationcradle.com/europe/vicky-ward/
#40881 at 2019-11-23 15:30:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9464 USMCA vs NAFTA Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani @RudyGiuliani
SEANHANNITY https://twitter.com/SeanHannity @SeanHannity
JUDEGEJEANINE https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine @JudgeJeanine
SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC @SaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs @LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson @TuckerCarlson
---
@Family - Potus Flotus DonaldJTrumpJr EricTrump IvankaTrump
@Media - IngrahamAngle dbongino MorningsMaria FoxBusiness? SundayFutures? FoxNews?
@Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
@FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
@Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Posts
Michael Flynn Legal Defense Fund https://mikeflynndefensefund.org/
>>36226 watching the stars..
>>36258 Bilderberg Group
>>36282 Q = Alice
>>36347 Utopian communities formed in the 19'th century
>>36467 How to build a ' wind up toy shooter
>>36787 Planets and Gods https://pastebin.com/EbQZBT9E
*Minibuns
Davis twat, Hill worked for Soros, Open Society >>40791
Biden in Cypress minbun >>40749
Manatos & Manatos >>40750 >>40727
Khoury's Company Mantos/Tawfic Khoury/Skippy >>40751
Original Q poster minibun >>39810
Biden Soros Burisma Ukraine >>39608
Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich >>39564
ETS diggz ISP:PE Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich >>39053
Masonic Lodge fashion show >>38887
Q Review minibun >>37346
Q Review mp4 listing Great for Dissemination Educate the People! >>37424 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPwvjP0o_qENtLu_zuke_w
Planets and Gods >>37033
Christine Pelosi Kauffman >>36435
Alexandra Pelosi Vos >>36447
Oct 11 article Reid's sons/Pelosi/Biden >>36468
Paul Kaufman-Soap Opera connections >>36485
Prowa(Pelosi son in law family) cult and silver oneida >>36262, >>36269
Ukraine/PaulPelosi >>36487
federal budget and money-dispensing process >>36221 >>36222 >>36223
History timeline on Eric Ciaramella. >>36217 >>36222 >>36223
Biden Ukraine Rosemont Seneca >>36106 >>36107 >>36109 >>36113 >>36138
QQ >>35941 >>35989 >>36001 >>36002 >>36003 >>36029 >>36047 >>36048
Follow The Family >>36002 >>36003 >>36004 >>36007
RG Destroys Schiffs First Witness >>35905 >>35910 >>35950 >>36006 >>36078 >>36195
Californi Attorney General Xavier Becerra >>35871 >>35872 >>35877 >>35883 >>35887 >>35895 >>35898 >>35937 >>36019 >>36031 >>36078 >>36195
Dynacorp Pstain >>35850 >>35851 >>35852 >>35854 >>35855 >>35856
Saturn >>33947 >>34623 >>34636 >>35035
LSU ALABAMA >>34273
Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun >>32318
EGO JUPITER SOUL >>32119 >>32120
Project Veritas >>31399
Finders >>25389 >>25386 >>25324
compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved >>25212 >>25214
marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun >>20035
Potus Tweet Analysis >>16890
HARPA dig mini-bun >>16610
RALLEY >>15875
minibun history and origin of our National Anthem >>15356
Christopher Zullo Bun >>15478
Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE: >>11077
Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania) >>14139
Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer >>14190
DJT Minneapolis rally bun: >>14814
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Anons - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
minibuns
#40014 at 2019-11-21 17:41:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9463 USMCA Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani @RudyGiuliani
SEANHANNITY https://twitter.com/SeanHannity @SeanHannity
JUDEGEJEANINE https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine @JudgeJeanine
SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC @SaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs @LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson @TuckerCarlson
---
@Family - Potus Flotus DonaldJTrumpJr EricTrump IvankaTrump
@Media - IngrahamAngle dbongino MorningsMaria FoxBusiness? SundayFutures? FoxNews?
@Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
@FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
@Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Posts
>>36226 watching the stars..
>>36258 Bilderberg Group
>>36282 Q = Alice
>>36347 Utopian communities formed in the 19'th century
>>36467 How to build a ' wind up toy shooter
>>36787 Planets and Gods https://pastebin.com/EbQZBT9E
*Minibuns
Original Q poster minibun >>39810
Biden Soros Burisma Ukraine >>39608
Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich >>39564
ETS diggz ISP:PE Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich >>39053
Masonic Lodge fashion show >>38887
Q Review minibun >>37346
Q Review mp4 listing Great for Dissemination Educate the People! >>37424 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPwvjP0o_qENtLu_zuke_w
Planets and Gods >>37033
Christine Pelosi Kauffman >>36435
Alexandra Pelosi Vos >>36447
Oct 11 article Reid's sons/Pelosi/Biden >>36468
Paul Kaufman-Soap Opera connections >>36485
Prowa(Pelosi son in law family) cult and silver oneida >>36262, >>36269
Ukraine/PaulPelosi >>36487
federal budget and money-dispensing process >>36221 >>36222 >>36223
History timeline on Eric Ciaramella. >>36217 >>36222 >>36223
Biden Ukraine Rosemont Seneca >>36106 >>36107 >>36109 >>36113 >>36138
QQ >>35941 >>35989 >>36001 >>36002 >>36003 >>36029 >>36047 >>36048
Follow The Family >>36002 >>36003 >>36004 >>36007
RG Destroys Schiffs First Witness >>35905 >>35910 >>35950 >>36006 >>36078 >>36195
Californi Attorney General Xavier Becerra >>35871 >>35872 >>35877 >>35883 >>35887 >>35895 >>35898 >>35937 >>36019 >>36031 >>36078 >>36195
Dynacorp Pstain >>35850 >>35851 >>35852 >>35854 >>35855 >>35856
Saturn >>33947 >>34623 >>34636 >>35035
LSU ALABAMA >>34273
Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun >>32318
EGO JUPITER SOUL >>32119 >>32120
Project Veritas >>31399
Finders >>25389 >>25386 >>25324
compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved >>25212 >>25214
marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun >>20035
Potus Tweet Analysis >>16890
HARPA dig mini-bun >>16610
RALLEY >>15875
minibun history and origin of our National Anthem >>15356
Christopher Zullo Bun >>15478
Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE: >>11077
Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania) >>14139
Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer >>14190
DJT Minneapolis rally bun: >>14814
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Anons - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
#39363 at 2019-11-20 19:23:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9462 Look Here ImpeachmentScam. Don't Look Here #USMCA Edition
The news about the mid-November 2019 impeachment hearings featured several Jews. (getty Images/JTA Montage)
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The first public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry began this week with quite a splash.
A bunch of Jewish actors are at play in this drama, and we've covered some before: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is caught in the middle of it all. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the Californian Democrat who is running the hearings. And Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the associates of Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer, who are alleged to be instrumental in pressuring Zelensky to give in to Trump and provide damaging information on his political rivals.
In the hearings Wednesday, and in their aftermath, there were some new and familiar Jewish wrinkles. Here are a few:
Who was that lawyer?
Democrats handed the first 45 minutes of questioning to Daniel Goldman, and his restrained sarcasm immediately drew attention. "I want to spend a little time reading the transcript, as we've been encouraged to do," he said. Trump has urged Twitter followers to "read the transcript" at least a dozen times. (Of course, Goldman proceeded to read parts of the transcript that backed the Democrats' charges.)
Daniel Goldman, director of investigations for the House Intelligence Committee majority staff, left, asks questions to top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor and career Foreign Service officer George Kent, as they testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, during the first public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., right, listens. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Goldman is a former U.S. attorney who earned a reputation for busting mobsters and became a "TV lawyer" on NBC. (Watch him confess to popping the question to his wife with a ring inside a fortune cookie.) He's also descended from Levi Strauss stock.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-players-in-the-trump-impeachment-hearings/#comments
>the jew cries out as he strikes you
Trumps a bully, a tweeting bully!
#39127 at 2019-11-20 04:41:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9462 Look Here ImpeachmentScam. Don't Look Here #USMCA Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani @RudyGiuliani
SEANHANNITY https://twitter.com/SeanHannity @SeanHannity
JUDEGEJEANINE https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine @JudgeJeanine
SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC @SaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs @LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson @TuckerCarlson
---
@Family - Potus Flotus DonaldJTrumpJr EricTrump IvankaTrump
@Media - IngrahamAngle dbongino MorningsMaria FoxBusiness? SundayFutures? FoxNews?
@Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
@FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
@Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Posts
>>36226 watching the stars..
>>36258 Bilderberg Group
>>36282 Q = Alice
>>36347 Utopian communities formed in the 19'th century
>>36467 How to build a ' wind up toy shooter
>>36787 Planets and Gods https://pastebin.com/EbQZBT9E
*Minibuns
ETS diggz ISP:PE Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich >>39053
Masonic Lodge fashion show >>38887
Q Review minibun >>37346
Q Review mp4 listing Great for Dissemination Educate the People! >>37424 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPwvjP0o_qENtLu_zuke_w
Planets and Gods >>37033
Christine Pelosi Kauffman >>36435
Alexandra Pelosi Vos >>36447
Oct 11 article Reid's sons/Pelosi/Biden >>36468
Paul Kaufman-Soap Opera connections >>36485
Prowa(Pelosi son in law family) cult and silver oneida >>36262, >>36269
Ukraine/PaulPelosi >>36487
federal budget and money-dispensing process >>36221 >>36222 >>36223
History timeline on Eric Ciaramella. >>36217 >>36222 >>36223
Biden Ukraine Rosemont Seneca >>36106 >>36107 >>36109 >>36113 >>36138
QQ >>35941 >>35989 >>36001 >>36002 >>36003 >>36029 >>36047 >>36048
Follow The Family >>36002 >>36003 >>36004 >>36007
RG Destroys Schiffs First Witness >>35905 >>35910 >>35950 >>36006 >>36078 >>36195
Californi Attorney General Xavier Becerra >>35871 >>35872 >>35877 >>35883 >>35887 >>35895 >>35898 >>35937 >>36019 >>36031 >>36078 >>36195
Dynacorp Pstain >>35850 >>35851 >>35852 >>35854 >>35855 >>35856
Saturn >>33947 >>34623 >>34636 >>35035
LSU ALABAMA >>34273
Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun >>32318
EGO JUPITER SOUL >>32119 >>32120
Project Veritas >>31399
Finders >>25389 >>25386 >>25324
compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved >>25212 >>25214
marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun >>20035
Potus Tweet Analysis >>16890
HARPA dig mini-bun >>16610
RALLEY >>15875
minibun history and origin of our National Anthem >>15356
Christopher Zullo Bun >>15478
Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE: >>11077
Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania) >>14139
Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer >>14190
DJT Minneapolis rally bun: >>14814
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Anons - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
minibuns
warroom new tool/service
#38587 at 2019-11-19 13:36:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9461 Build the Web. *Pic Related Edition
satanists love the art, museum, foundation business - for good reason. Art can have any assigned value. An art market can be created overnight in a previously unknown artist like Keith Haring. This makes art/museums antiquities a perfect way to move money around, while, at the same time, promoting inventory or stock-in-trade, art, as a store of long-term value.
A painting is worth what you say it is if you're the getty Museum, the Hammer, the Broad, the Norval, the Huntington or the whatever-cult-tycoon is pretending philanthropy and laughing at us as we reverently troop through their art gallery front operation. There's another good, valid and unholy reason satanic cult con artists like to use art galleries foundations and museum cover structures as operational fronts.
In the case of *art* we've been POWERFULLY conditioned never to seriously question art. Anyone who says "my kid could do that- " is culturally defined as an idiot. Only an ignoramus questions art. We've been taught this in movies and sitcoms, we've been told a hundred ways, a thousand times: only vulgar and uneducated people criticize art. Philistines. Prudes. Hicks. Yokels. Furthermore, we are taught that art is a specialist area, and if we aren't specialists or insiders, we couldn't possibly have anything worthwhile to say and we ought keep our crude thoughts to ourselves and our boorish mouths shut around what we don't understand; because art is sacrosanct; the sacred self-expression of the individual.
Decades of this powerful conditioning allowed Pedosta's fat brother Tony to pose for a multi-page spread in a glitzy DC magazine with his daemonic sculpture of a gilded homosexual torture victim and with pictures of abused children in bizarre ritual locations. ART. The same conditioning protects Marina Abramovic and the crowd of *stars" and *celebrities" photographed eating an *art* corpse soaked in honey at an *art* event. It's ART. The pedovores are rightfully confident in the powers of our conditioning to protect them that they licensed photos of themselves with forks stuck into the honeyed *art* corpse to be published in *art* & fashion magazines, blogs and supermarket tabloids. The honeyed corpse is a gnostic occult ritual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man
#38261 at 2019-11-18 18:26:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9461 Build the Web. *Pic Related Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump
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SEANHANNITY https://twitter.com/SeanHannity @SeanHannity
JUDEGEJEANINE https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine @JudgeJeanine
SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC @SaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs @LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson @TuckerCarlson
---
@Family - Potus Flotus DonaldJTrumpJr EricTrump IvankaTrump
@Media - IngrahamAngle dbongino MorningsMaria FoxBusiness? SundayFutures? FoxNews?
@Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
@FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
@Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
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-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Posts
>>36226 watching the stars..
>>36258 Bilderberg Group
>>36282 Q = Alice
>>36347 Utopian communities formed in the 19'th century
>>36467 How to build a ' wind up toy shooter
>>36787 Planets and Gods https://pastebin.com/EbQZBT9E
*Minibuns
Q Review minibun >>37346
Q Review mp4 listing Great for Dissemination Educate the People! >>37424 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPwvjP0o_qENtLu_zuke_w
Planets and Gods >>37033
Christine Pelosi Kauffman >>36435
Alexandra Pelosi Vos >>36447
Oct 11 article Reid's sons/Pelosi/Biden >>36468
Paul Kaufman-Soap Opera connections >>36485
Prowa(Pelosi son in law family) cult and silver oneida >>36262, >>36269
Ukraine/PaulPelosi >>36487
federal budget and money-dispensing process >>36221 >>36222 >>36223
History timeline on Eric Ciaramella. >>36217 >>36222 >>36223
Biden Ukraine Rosemont Seneca >>36106 >>36107 >>36109 >>36113 >>36138
QQ >>35941 >>35989 >>36001 >>36002 >>36003 >>36029 >>36047 >>36048
Follow The Family >>36002 >>36003 >>36004 >>36007
RG Destroys Schiffs First Witness >>35905 >>35910 >>35950 >>36006 >>36078 >>36195
Californi Attorney General Xavier Becerra >>35871 >>35872 >>35877 >>35883 >>35887 >>35895 >>35898 >>35937 >>36019 >>36031 >>36078 >>36195
Dynacorp Pstain >>35850 >>35851 >>35852 >>35854 >>35855 >>35856
Saturn >>33947 >>34623 >>34636 >>35035
LSU ALABAMA >>34273
Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun >>32318
EGO JUPITER SOUL >>32119 >>32120
Project Veritas >>31399
Finders >>25389 >>25386 >>25324
compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved >>25212 >>25214
marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun >>20035
Potus Tweet Analysis >>16890
HARPA dig mini-bun >>16610
RALLEY >>15875
minibun history and origin of our National Anthem >>15356
Christopher Zullo Bun >>15478
Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE: >>11077
Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania) >>14139
Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer >>14190
DJT Minneapolis rally bun: >>14814
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Anons - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
#37471 at 2019-11-16 18:01:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9460 EDDIE RISPONE FOR GOVERNOR!!! Edition
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JUDEGEJEANINE https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine @JudgeJeanine
SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC @SaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs @LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson @TuckerCarlson
---
@Family - Potus Flotus DonaldJTrumpJr EricTrump IvankaTrump
@Media - IngrahamAngle dbongino MorningsMaria FoxBusiness? SundayFutures? FoxNews?
@Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
@FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
@Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Posts
>>36226 watching the stars..
>>36258 Bilderberg Group
>>36282 Q = Alice
>>36347 Utopian communities formed in the 19'th century
>>36467 How to build a ' wind up toy shooter
>>36787 Planets and Gods https://pastebin.com/EbQZBT9E
*Minibuns
Q Review minibun >>37346
Q Review mp4 listing Great for Dissemination Educate the People! >>37424 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPwvjP0o_qENtLu_zuke_w
Planets and Gods >>37033
Christine Pelosi Kauffman >>36435
Alexandra Pelosi Vos >>36447
Oct 11 article Reid's sons/Pelosi/Biden >>36468
Paul Kaufman-Soap Opera connections >>36485
Prowa(Pelosi son in law family) cult and silver oneida >>36262, >>36269
Ukraine/PaulPelosi >>36487
federal budget and money-dispensing process >>36221 >>36222 >>36223
History timeline on Eric Ciaramella. >>36217 >>36222 >>36223
Biden Ukraine Rosemont Seneca >>36106 >>36107 >>36109 >>36113 >>36138
QQ >>35941 >>35989 >>36001 >>36002 >>36003 >>36029 >>36047 >>36048
Follow The Family >>36002 >>36003 >>36004 >>36007
RG Destroys Schiffs First Witness >>35905 >>35910 >>35950 >>36006 >>36078 >>36195
Californi Attorney General Xavier Becerra >>35871 >>35872 >>35877 >>35883 >>35887 >>35895 >>35898 >>35937 >>36019 >>36031 >>36078 >>36195
Dynacorp Pstain >>35850 >>35851 >>35852 >>35854 >>35855 >>35856
Saturn >>33947 >>34623 >>34636 >>35035
LSU ALABAMA >>34273
Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun >>32318
EGO JUPITER SOUL >>32119 >>32120
Project Veritas >>31399
Finders >>25389 >>25386 >>25324
compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved >>25212 >>25214
marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun >>20035
Potus Tweet Analysis >>16890
HARPA dig mini-bun >>16610
RALLEY >>15875
minibun history and origin of our National Anthem >>15356
Christopher Zullo Bun >>15478
Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE: >>11077
Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania) >>14139
Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer >>14190
DJT Minneapolis rally bun: >>14814
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
orderred and organized moar
need to load mega
need moar memes on variety of subjects
#36602 at 2019-11-14 22:00:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9459 DIG_MEME_PRAY [ALL3] Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
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JUDEGEJEANINE https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine @JudgeJeanine
SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC @SaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs @LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson @TuckerCarlson
---
@Family - Potus Flotus DonaldJTrumpJr EricTrump IvankaTrump
@Media - IngrahamAngle dbongino MorningsMaria FoxBusiness? SundayFutures? FoxNews?
@Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
@FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
@Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Posts
>>36226 watching the stars..
>>36258 Bilderberg Group
>>36282 Q = Alice
>>36347 Utopian communities formed in the 19'th century
>>36467 How to build a ' wind up toy shooter
*Minibuns
Christine Pelosi Kauffman >>36435
Alexandra Pelosi Vos >>36447
Oct 11 article Reid's sons/Pelosi/Biden >>36468
Paul Kaufman-Soap Opera connections >>36485
Prowa(Pelosi son in law family) cult and silver oneida >>36262, >>36269
Ukraine/PaulPelosi >>36487
federal budget and money-dispensing process >>36221 >>36222 >>36223
History timeline on Eric Ciaramella. >>36217 >>36222 >>36223
Biden Ukraine Rosemont Seneca >>36106 >>36107 >>36109 >>36113 >>36138
QQ >>35941 >>35989 >>36001 >>36002 >>36003 >>36029 >>36047 >>36048
Follow The Family >>36002 >>36003 >>36004 >>36007
RG Destroys Schiffs First Witness >>35905 >>35910 >>35950 >>36006 >>36078 >>36195
Californi Attorney General Xavier Becerra >>35871 >35872 >>35877 >>35883 >>35887 >>35895 >>35898 >>35937 >>36019 >>36031 >>36078 >>36195
Dynacorp Pstain >>35850 >>35851 >>35852 >>35854 >>35855 >>35856
Saturn >>33947 >>34623 >>34636 >>35035
LSU ALABAMA >>34273
Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun >>32318
EGO JUPITER SOUL >>32119 >>32120
Project Veritas >>31399
Finders >>25389 >>25386 >>25324
compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved >>25212 >>25214
marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun >>20035
Potus Tweet Analysis >>16890
HARPA dig mini-bun >>16610
RALLEY >>15875
minibun history and origin of our National Anthem >>15356
Christopher Zullo Bun >>15478
Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE: >>11077
Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania) >>14139
Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer >>14190
DJT Minneapolis rally bun: >>14814
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
orderred and organized moar
need to load mega
need moar memes on variety of subjects
#35762 at 2019-11-13 05:24:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9458 It's a COUP! Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump
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SEANHANNITY https://twitter.com/seanhannity
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SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanineSaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/tuckercarlson
---
Family - @Potus @Flotus @DonaldJTrumpJr @EricTrump @IvankaTrump
Media - @IngrahamAngle @dbongino @MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Minibuns
>>33947 >>34623 >>34636 >>35035 Saturn
>>34273 LSU ALABAMA
>>32318 Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun
>>32119 >>32120 EGO JUPITER SOUL
>>31399 Project Veritas
>>25389 >>25386 >>25324 Finders
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
orderred and organized moar
need to load mega
need moar memes on variety of subjects
#34931 at 2019-11-11 18:34:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9457 Molech is Here! PRAY!!! Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
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SEANHANNITY https://twitter.com/seanhannity
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SARAHCARTER https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanineSaraCarterDC
LOUDOBBS https://twitter.com/LouDobbs
TUCKERCARLSON https://twitter.com/tuckercarlson
---
Family - @Potus @Flotus @DonaldJTrumpJr @EricTrump @IvankaTrump
Media - @IngrahamAngle @dbongino @MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @danielcameronag
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
*Minibuns
>>33947 >>34623 >>34636 Saturn
>>34273 LSU ALABAMA
>>32318 Lou Dobbs Comms MiniBun
>>32119 >>32120 EGO JUPITER SOUL
>>31399 Project Veritas
>>25389 >>25386 >>25324 Finders
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
orderred and organized moar
need to load mega
need moar memes on variety of subjects
#34099 at 2019-11-09 17:59:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9456 Demand VoterID Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>32119 >>32120 EGO JUPITER SOUL
>>31399 Project Veritas
>>25389 >>25386 >>25324 Finders
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
minibuns
qcomms
rcomms
archives online updated
need moar memes on variety of subjects
#33262 at 2019-11-08 03:40:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9455: No Servant Is Greater Than His Master Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>32119 >>32120 EGO JUPITER SOUL
>>31399 Project Veritas
>>25389 >>25386 >>25324 Finders
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
minibuns
qcomms
rcomms
archives online updated
need moar memes on variety of subjects
#32431 at 2019-11-07 05:37:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9454 Louisiana Vote Ed Rispone! Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>32119 >>32120 EGO JUPITER SOUL
>>31399 Project Veritas
>>25389 >>25386 >>25324 Finders
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
minibuns
qcomms
rcomms
archives online updated
need moar memes on variety of subjects
#31647 at 2019-11-05 22:52:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9453: Remember Remember Election Day Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
#30815 at 2019-11-04 19:33:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9452: Rally Bread Goes Best With Frens! Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
#30044 at 2019-11-03 09:41:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9451: Rig For Red Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
#29290 at 2019-11-02 07:21:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9450: Non-Linear Memetic Warfare Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
#28560 at 2019-11-01 13:55:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9448: Blessings Upon All & Harm Towards None Edition
https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-republicans-hold-press-conference-attempt-to-enter-closed-door-house-committee-deposition_3125200.html
Nice to see all these over paid assholes whining on a stage oh woooh is me. Get off your asses and do something. How about releasing Schitt's connection to the Chinks or his relationship with Ed Buck. What did he do at the Standard Hotel. WHat about the 7.8 million he got for looking the other way at the Port of Long Beach deal with the chinks. Jesse Smollet link. Go do something instead of sitting and whinning. How about releasing the details to Pelosi, getty and Newsome. Trump is right!!!!These faggots don't know how to fight.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?465945-1/house-republicans-hold-news-conference-impeachment-inquiry-resolution-vote&live&vod
#28510 at 2019-11-01 06:57:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9449: We Can Say "Eric Ciaramella" Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
#27741 at 2019-10-31 05:44:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9448: Blessings Upon All & Harm Towards None Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
Fox - ?@MorningsMaria ?@FoxBusiness? ?@SundayFutures? ?@FoxNews?
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
orderred and organized moar
#26919 at 2019-10-30 04:28:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9447: We Have It All Al-Baghdadi Compound Cache Edition
==EYES ON==
*Follow
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU
@EddieRispone
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
==NeverForget== https://pastebin.com/NA9q6AcY
''' [''' Lindsey Ukraine MccAine and Peroshenko '''] '''
>>22185 >>22187 https://thedivinegreatawakening.wordpress.com/
>>22107 time to wake up anons!
https://vaxxter.com/
>>22128 my advice would be to decalcify, learn to meditate and don't waste your time or money on university.
>>22027 archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/230296021/
>>17271 SHILLS OATH
>>16940 Shit like this: pic related
>>16840 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119
>>16440 Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State
>>16435 https://libraryofconspirators.info/wiki/ now there beginings
>>16433 https://www.libraryofconspirators.info/ukraine-documents/ Solomen files
>>16150 Article accompanying Project Vertias CNN Announcement
>>16079 Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Trump's Emergency Funding For Border Wall Unlawful
>>16051 The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread
>>15910 THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERYBODY
>>15560 Pelosi's drug dealer?
>>15546 UK Letter Stating President Obama Asked UK to Spy on Trump Organization and Trump Campaign
>>15263 Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign governmen
>>15137 If you don't want to dig on this Ukraine thing
>>15091 Origin Of National Anthem
>>19942 do nothing democrats
>>19341 smolett connection
>>20026 forgot susan rice DJT
>>19196 EXCLUSIVE: FBI Claims the DOJ Is Lying! Refuses to Locate Any Seth Rich Records in FOIA Request!
>>19195 Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump
>>19192 Zelenskii In Free-Fall
>>19161 Lawyer for Epstein Accuser Ejected From Dershowitz Suit
>>19146 US Representative Elijah Cummings dies at 68
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
Social - Go to giuliani's twat, grab those GREAT reply memes on his last twat.
Moar BV Notes: https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
Does warroom need its own thread?
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
moved shit around
changed sections around, added titles
orderred and organized moar
#26583 at 2019-10-29 22:44:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9446: Lindsey and NoName Do Romania Edition
*Follow
POTUS https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
RUDOLPH https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU @EddieRispone @StormIsUponUs
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>25212 >>25214 compares 8chan & endchan | Discussion continues (heated but ultimately resolved
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
#26111 at 2019-10-29 06:17:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9446: Lindsey and NoName Do Romania Edition
=EYES ON=
*Follow
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU
@EddieRispone
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
==NeverForget== https://pastebin.com/NA9q6AcY
''' [''' Lindsey Ukraine MccAine and Peroshenko '''] '''
>>22185 >>22187 https://thedivinegreatawakening.wordpress.com/
>>22107 time to wake up anons!
https://vaxxter.com/
>>22128 my advice would be to decalcify, learn to meditate and don't waste your time or money on university.
>>22027 archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/230296021/
>>17271 SHILLS OATH
>>16940 Shit like this: pic related
>>16840 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119
>>16440 Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State
>>16435 https://libraryofconspirators.info/wiki/ now there beginings
>>16433 https://www.libraryofconspirators.info/ukraine-documents/ Solomen files
>>16150 Article accompanying Project Vertias CNN Announcement
>>16079 Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Trump's Emergency Funding For Border Wall Unlawful
>>16051 The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread
>>15910 THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERYBODY
>>15560 Pelosi's drug dealer?
>>15546 UK Letter Stating President Obama Asked UK to Spy on Trump Organization and Trump Campaign
>>15263 Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign governmen
>>15137 If you don't want to dig on this Ukraine thing
>>15091 Origin Of National Anthem
>>19942 do nothing democrats
>>19341 smolett connection
>>20026 forgot susan rice DJT
>>19196 EXCLUSIVE: FBI Claims the DOJ Is Lying! Refuses to Locate Any Seth Rich Records in FOIA Request!
>>19195 Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump
>>19192 Zelenskii In Free-Fall
>>19161 Lawyer for Epstein Accuser Ejected From Dershowitz Suit
>>19146 US Representative Elijah Cummings dies at 68
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
Social - Go to giuliani's twat, grab those GREAT reply memes on his last twat.
Moar BV Notes: https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
Does warroom need its own thread?
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
moved shit around
changed sections around, added titles
orderred and organized moar
#25696 at 2019-10-28 16:43:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9445: Al-Baghdadi Taken Out in US Raid Edition
>>25681
>>25681
Unfortunately the getty will not burn. It was designed to be impregnable, earthquake flood and fire proof.
Be sure it's well defended also.
J p getty was an alpha parasitic predator and he planned for the future.
getty sits like an Imperial palace over LA.
After the destruction of the US it would have been.
#25681 at 2019-10-28 16:12:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9445: Al-Baghdadi Taken Out in US Raid Edition
When you built your MKUltra brainwashing getty Museum so strong and fire proof, not thinking you will be able to burn down the evidence. Also burning around Laurel Canyon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNrzGCrj5Js
getty Center , has a underground celebrity mind programming center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqNIHh18RtU
#25645 at 2019-10-28 14:36:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9445: Al-Baghdadi Taken Out in US Raid Edition
There's a big fire in LA up Sullivan and Mandeville canyons - from there East to the 405 freeway.
That includes the getty Museum - known pedovore domain.
#25268 at 2019-10-27 17:57:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9445: Al-Baghdadi Taken Out in US Raid Edition
=EYES ON=
*Follow
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU
@EddieRispone
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
==NeverForget== https://pastebin.com/NA9q6AcY
''' [''' Lindsey Ukraine MccAine and Peroshenko '''] '''
>>22185 >>22187 https://thedivinegreatawakening.wordpress.com/
>>22107 time to wake up anons!
https://vaxxter.com/
>>22128 my advice would be to decalcify, learn to meditate and don't waste your time or money on university.
>>22027 archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/230296021/
>>17271 SHILLS OATH
>>16940 Shit like this: pic related
>>16840 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119
>>16440 Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State
>>16435 https://libraryofconspirators.info/wiki/ now there beginings
>>16433 https://www.libraryofconspirators.info/ukraine-documents/ Solomen files
>>16150 Article accompanying Project Vertias CNN Announcement
>>16079 Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Trump's Emergency Funding For Border Wall Unlawful
>>16051 The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread
>>15910 THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERYBODY
>>15560 Pelosi's drug dealer?
>>15546 UK Letter Stating President Obama Asked UK to Spy on Trump Organization and Trump Campaign
>>15263 Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign governmen
>>15137 If you don't want to dig on this Ukraine thing
>>15091 Origin Of National Anthem
>>19942 do nothing democrats
>>19341 smolett connection
>>20026 forgot susan rice DJT
>>19196 EXCLUSIVE: FBI Claims the DOJ Is Lying! Refuses to Locate Any Seth Rich Records in FOIA Request!
>>19195 Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump
>>19192 Zelenskii In Free-Fall
>>19161 Lawyer for Epstein Accuser Ejected From Dershowitz Suit
>>19146 US Representative Elijah Cummings dies at 68
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
Social - Go to giuliani's twat, grab those GREAT reply memes on his last twat.
Moar BV Notes: https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
Does warroom need its own thread?
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
moved shit around
changed sections around, added titles
orderred and organized moar
#24492 at 2019-10-26 17:06:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research #9444: Multiple Reports Coming, Swamp Rats Reeeeing Edition
=EYES ON=
*Follow
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU
@EddieRispone
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
==NeverForget== https://pastebin.com/NA9q6AcY
''' [''' Lindsey Ukraine MccAine and Peroshenko '''] '''
>>22185 >>22187 https://thedivinegreatawakening.wordpress.com/
>>22107 time to wake up anons!
https://vaxxter.com/
>>22128 my advice would be to decalcify, learn to meditate and don't waste your time or money on university.
>>22027 archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/230296021/
>>17271 SHILLS OATH
>>16940 Shit like this: pic related
>>16840 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119
>>16440 Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State
>>16435 https://libraryofconspirators.info/wiki/ now there beginings
>>16433 https://www.libraryofconspirators.info/ukraine-documents/ Solomen files
>>16150 Article accompanying Project Vertias CNN Announcement
>>16079 Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Trump's Emergency Funding For Border Wall Unlawful
>>16051 The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread
>>15910 THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERYBODY
>>15560 Pelosi's drug dealer?
>>15546 UK Letter Stating President Obama Asked UK to Spy on Trump Organization and Trump Campaign
>>15263 Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign governmen
>>15137 If you don't want to dig on this Ukraine thing
>>15091 Origin Of National Anthem
>>19942 do nothing democrats
>>19341 smolett connection
>>20026 forgot susan rice DJT
>>19196 EXCLUSIVE: FBI Claims the DOJ Is Lying! Refuses to Locate Any Seth Rich Records in FOIA Request!
>>19195 Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump
>>19192 Zelenskii In Free-Fall
>>19161 Lawyer for Epstein Accuser Ejected From Dershowitz Suit
>>19146 US Representative Elijah Cummings dies at 68
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
Social - Go to giuliani's twat, grab those GREAT reply memes on his last twat.
Moar BV Notes: https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
Does warroom need its own thread?
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
moved shit around
changed sections around, added titles
orderred and organized moar
#23575 at 2019-10-25 03:37:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9443: John Durham has the Power Edition
=EYES ON=
*Follow
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU
@EddieRispone
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
==NeverForget== https://pastebin.com/NA9q6AcY
''' [''' ADAM SHIFF LIED ABOUT POTUS UKRAINE PHONE CALL >>18339 '''] '''
>>17271 SHILLS OATH
>>16940 Shit like this: pic related
>>16840 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119
>>16440 Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State
>>16435 https://libraryofconspirators.info/wiki/ now there beginings
>>16433 https://www.libraryofconspirators.info/ukraine-documents/ Solomen files
>>16150 Article accompanying Project Vertias CNN Announcement
>>16079 Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Trump's Emergency Funding For Border Wall Unlawful
>>16051 The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread
>>15910 THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERYBODY
>>15560 Pelosi's drug dealer?
>>15546 UK Letter Stating President Obama Asked UK to Spy on Trump Organization and Trump Campaign
>>15263 Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign governmen
>>15137 If you don't want to dig on this Ukraine thing
>>15091 Origin Of National Anthem
>>19942 do nothing democrats
>>19341 smolett connection
>>20026 forgot susan rice DJT
>>19196 EXCLUSIVE: FBI Claims the DOJ Is Lying! Refuses to Locate Any Seth Rich Records in FOIA Request!
>>19195 Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump
>>19192 Zelenskii In Free-Fall
>>19161 Lawyer for Epstein Accuser Ejected From Dershowitz Suit
>>19146 US Representative Elijah Cummings dies at 68
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
Social - Go to giuliani's twat, grab those GREAT reply memes on his last twat.
Moar BV Notes: https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
Does warroom need its own thread?
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
moved shit around
changed sections around, added titles
orderred and organized moar
#22794 at 2019-10-24 06:29:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9442: God Wins! Edition
=EYES ON=
*Follow
Military - https://pastebin.com/0JVakGS9
FBI - https://pastebin.com/N04DMase
Civilian - https://pastebin.com/N9mkxyBU
@EddieRispone
*Media - https://pastebin.com/Fh0ZFt8Z
-https://www.projectveritas.com
-https://www.full-spectrum-dominance.com/
-https://stoplookthink.com/
-https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
*Minibuns
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>16890 Potus Tweet Analysis
>>16610 HARPA dig mini-bun
>>15875 RALLEY
>>15356 minibun history and origin of our National Anthem
>>15478 Christopher Zullo Bun
>>11077 Mini-bun on targeted persons regarding UKRAINE:
>>14139 Bidens, General (may have overlap Ukraine/Romania)
>>14190 Biden Gen | Biden/romainia | Biden/ukraine | Edward Szofer
>>14814 DJT Minneapolis rally bun:
==NeverForget== https://pastebin.com/NA9q6AcY
''' [''' ADAM SHIFF LIED ABOUT POTUS UKRAINE PHONE CALL >>18339 '''] '''
>>17271 SHILLS OATH
>>16940 Shit like this: pic related
>>16840 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119
>>16440 Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State
>>16435 https://libraryofconspirators.info/wiki/ now there beginings
>>16433 https://www.libraryofconspirators.info/ukraine-documents/ Solomen files
>>16150 Article accompanying Project Vertias CNN Announcement
>>16079 Clinton-Appointed Judge Rules Trump's Emergency Funding For Border Wall Unlawful
>>16051 The Constitution: It doesn't need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread
>>15910 THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERYBODY
>>15560 Pelosi's drug dealer?
>>15546 UK Letter Stating President Obama Asked UK to Spy on Trump Organization and Trump Campaign
>>15263 Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign governmen
>>15137 If you don't want to dig on this Ukraine thing
>>15091 Origin Of National Anthem
>>19942 do nothing democrats
>>19341 smolett connection
>>20026 forgot susan rice DJT
>>19196 EXCLUSIVE: FBI Claims the DOJ Is Lying! Refuses to Locate Any Seth Rich Records in FOIA Request!
>>19195 Schiff pushed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump
>>19192 Zelenskii In Free-Fall
>>19161 Lawyer for Epstein Accuser Ejected From Dershowitz Suit
>>19146 US Representative Elijah Cummings dies at 68
*BOARD VOLUNTEER NOTES
BO - Update Dough.
BV - [PIN] current Baker's Bread.
BV - [Lock] Last Baker's Bread.
Bakers - Use Tripcodes Baking.
Baker - Eyes on POTUS TWITTER.
Social - Go to giuliani's twat, grab those GREAT reply memes on his last twat.
Moar BV Notes: https://pastebin.com/pFLKY8L5
Does warroom need its own thread?
*BOARD OWNER DOUGH UPDATES
formated some shit
moved shit around
changed sections around, added titles
orderred and organized moar
#20106 at 2019-10-19 07:52:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9439 Turkey - Syria Cease Fire!!! Edition
#9438 LB DOUGH UPDATES
>>20044 plan of attack >pastebin postions
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>20026 for got susan rice DJT >notables
>>20005 >>20009 do nothing democrats >neverforget
>>19990 >>19989 >>19966 basic work flow >pastebin postions
>>19984 >>19957 Pay attention social >thread social
>>19957 eyes on social >thread social
>>19946 SO heres my theory. (we need to act like a virus) >neverforget
>>19942 do nothing democrats >eyes on
>>19908 Corrupt Dems Change Impeachment Rules AGAIN >neverforget
>>19906 Bolton was the original leaker >neverforget
>>19883 clinton link dump >thread emails
>>19873 Q Clearance Patriot >letters https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/229860764
>>19866 some history >neverforget
>>19856 >emails
>>19849 Hill was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer >neverforget
>>19833 Ghislaine maxwell's boyfriend, scott borgerson is a shipping leader. >neverforget
>>19830 "Former NYC lawyer shot to death on marshalll islands" >never forget
>>19818 "The person or persons posting as Q are certainly highly experienced in the intel community. >neverforget
>>19816 ANONS DIGG!! But what to dig on?? >neverforget
>>19777 Nothing can stop what is coming. >neverforget
>>19768 God IS and We ARE thread
>>19765 Dallas rally Anon here >neverforget
awakening
>>19709 Boris Johnson gets EU Brexit deal; next hurdle is Parliament >neverforget
>>19680 Want a functional board? >effective board
>>19661 If a group knew you were 'Qualified', how would they have found out? kek >neverforget
>>19659 RE how you know bakers are legit if no tripcodes. >tripcodes
>>19629 Can we get some gaslighting memes? >meme reqst
>>19627 Bill Barr Subpoenas entire Chicago suburb Democrats >never forget
>>19626 commands are now complete >positions
>>19624 People love the memes and Notables. >neverforget
>>19268 >>19265 >>19569 >>19512 >>19264 >>19263 notables??? LB
>>19542 Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019 >neverforget
>>19459 The Trump administration's successful war against bureaucratic bullies >neverforget
>>19311 quick threads >instructions on generating quick threads - ex. comey
>>19426 Awakening
>>19381 In light of Biden's reference to the 17th and POTUS's trip to Dallas tonight, please join me in prayer. >letters
>>19359 >social tags
>>19341 smolett connection >eyes on
>>19320 Hussein designated our "election infrastructure" as under National Security, thereby transferring authority of over to DHS. >neverforget
>>19313 'WHAT IF THE BELOW COULD BE PROVEN? >neverforget
>>19290 US Bombs Its Own Base In Syria To Prevent NATO Ally Turkey From Using It
#20105 at 2019-10-19 07:49:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9438: Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! Edition
>>20044 plan of attack >pastebin postions
>>20035 marshall island | general valley | barr subpoenas | getty fam >minibun
>>20026 for got susan rice DJT >notables
>>20005 >>20009 do nothing democrats >neverforget
>>19990 >>19989 >>19966 basic work flow >pastebin postions
>>19984 >>19957 Pay attention social >thread social
>>19957 eyes on social >thread social
>>19946 SO heres my theory. (we need to act like a virus) >neverforget
>>19942 do nothing democrats >eyes on
>>19908 Corrupt Dems Change Impeachment Rules AGAIN >neverforget
>>19906 Bolton was the original leaker >neverforget
>>19883 clinton link dump >thread emails
>>19873 Q Clearance Patriot >letters https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/229860764
>>19866 some history >neverforget
>>19856 >emails
>>19849 Hill was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer >neverforget
>>19833 Ghislaine maxwell's boyfriend, scott borgerson is a shipping leader. >neverforget
>>19830 "Former NYC lawyer shot to death on marshalll islands" >never forget
>>19818 "The person or persons posting as Q are certainly highly experienced in the intel community. >neverforget
>>19816 ANONS DIGG!! But what to dig on?? >neverforget
>>19777 Nothing can stop what is coming. >neverforget
>>19768 God IS and We ARE thread
>>19765 Dallas rally Anon here >neverforget
awakening
>>19709 Boris Johnson gets EU Brexit deal; next hurdle is Parliament >neverforget
>>19680 Want a functional board? >effective board
>>19661 If a group knew you were 'Qualified', how would they have found out? kek >neverforget
>>19659 RE how you know bakers are legit if no tripcodes. >tripcodes
>>19629 Can we get some gaslighting memes? >meme reqst
>>19627 Bill Barr Subpoenas entire Chicago suburb Democrats >never forget
>>19626 commands are now complete >positions
>>19624 People love the memes and Notables. >neverforget
>>19268 >>19265 >>19569 >>19512 >>19264 >>19263 notables??? LB
>>19542 Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019 >neverforget
>>19459 The Trump administration's successful war against bureaucratic bullies >neverforget
>>19311 quick threads >instructions on generating quick threads - ex. comey
>>19426 Awakening
>>19381 In light of Biden's reference to the 17th and POTUS's trip to Dallas tonight, please join me in prayer. >letters
>>19359 >social tags
>>19341 smolett connection >eyes on
>>19320 Hussein designated our "election infrastructure" as under National Security, thereby transferring authority of over to DHS. >neverforget
>>19313 'WHAT IF THE BELOW COULD BE PROVEN? >neverforget
>>19290 US Bombs Its Own Base In Syria To Prevent NATO Ally Turkey From Using It
#20093 at 2019-10-19 06:35:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9439 Turkey - Syria Cease Fire!!! Edition
anon-collected notables #2 for thread #9438
>>19518 Did Ukraine teach President Trump how to deal with Turkey? (historical) moar: >>19521
>>19527 Quid pro quo? or no? Analysis
>>19542 EO 13894 10-14-19: Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Syria
>>19562 "Wild Night With 90mph Wind Gusts" - Bomb Cyclone Unleashes Hurricane-Force Winds In NE
>>19576 >>19794 Bitter cripple's tech updates on 8kun and his SJW tactics
>>19584 >>19585 >>19586 >>19596 >>19599 History of the Alamo & why it's important
>>19627 Bill Barr Subpoenas entire Chicago suburb Democrats >>19636 archive CT story (orig) >>19708
>>19713 >>19724 Barr story related to LOOP Capital? +info
>>>>19793 Barr Chicago subpoena story BIG -related to getty, >>19815 Miller sisters >>19824 moar on getty family
>>19629 Schlichter: Bad Gaslighting Epidemic Sweeps The Elite
>>19650 >>19765 >>19828 Dallas rally anon
>>19659 Functional board basics + community
>>19673 Odd POTUS tweet - AW laptop, DNC server, HRC emails - JoeD & VictoriaT on Lou Dobbs (maybe /ourguys/ have the server?!
>>19709 Boris Johnson gets EU Brexit deal; next hurdle is Parliament
>>19725 Jim Watkins: update on 8kun config fail
>>19728 >>19731 >>19753 >>19785 (audio, start at 28:25) Interview w/ General Paul E. Vallely (Major General, USA, Ret.) confirms Q (+ info & archive) >>19790 short 2-3 min audio clip
>>19818 Full twt thread confirming Q is MILINT (only 1 very experienced man's word, so note & file it away)
>>19735 Rolling Home baker rolls home, >>19739 other baker goes too
>>19760 Bitter cripple's interview tweet
>>19766 Voat notes POTUS' phenomenal, infectious GOOD energy
>>19770 VIDEO: Megan McCain Let Slip Father Was Executed? Says "You Can't Kill Him Again"!!
>>19780 Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson reveals he was hired in 'fall of 2015' to investigate Trump
>>19782 Diversity article scrubbed in less than 24 hours
>>19786 Russia taking over Venezuela (& all of their oil while) we're still quagmired in Afghanistan & Iraq
>>19789 >>19791 Former PBS department chair David Bucci commits suicide
#20035 at 2019-10-19 03:48:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9438: Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! Edition
>>20031
>>19512
>>20030
==anon-collected mini-buns for thread #9438==
For your convenience:
'''MINI-BUNS'''
Multi-posts on single/related topics:
'''Marshall Islands'''
>>19830 Former NYC lawyer shot to death on Marshall Islands
>>19832 Bigtech/media event in Marshall Islands "Sanctuary for families" + Ghislaine Maxwell
>>19833 Sylvia Earle/Podesta/Maggie Nixon, Shareblue
>>19834 Ghislaine Maxwell's "Terra Mar" closed post-Epstein
>>19934 mini-bun
'''General Vallely interview on Q'''
>>19728 Patriotsoapbox page on Gen. Vallely interview
>>19731 Background & show description
>>19753 archive & link to original site
>>19785 (audio, start at 28:25) Interview w/ General Paul E. Vallely (Major General, USA, Ret.) confirms Q (+ info & archive)
>>19790 short 2-3 min audio clip
>>19818 Full twt thread confirming Q is MILINT (1 very experienced man's word, so note & file it away)
'''Barr Subpoenas Entire Democrat Org of Chicago Suburb in Corruption Probe'''
>>19627 Bill Barr Subpoenas entire Chicago suburb Democrats
>>19636 archive Chicago Tribune story (orig) >>19708
>>19713 Barr story related to LOOP Capital?
>>19724 Loop Captial info/Chicago politics
'''getty family involvement/Barr'''
>>19793 Barr Chicago subpoena story BIG -related to getty,
>>19815 Christopher getty/Miller sisters
>>19824 Home purchase made by Lyons Mayor Chris getty raises questions in southwest suburbs/Andrew Rork getty dies under "mysterious circumstances"
>>19838 Search "getty" on CDAN
#20030 at 2019-10-19 03:42:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9438: Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! Edition
>>19512
==anon-collected notables #2 for thread #9438==
>>19518 Did Ukraine teach President Trump how to deal with Turkey? (historical) moar: >>19521
>>19527 Quid pro quo? or no? Analysis
>>19542 EO 13894 10-14-19: Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Syria
>>19562 "Wild Night With 90mph Wind Gusts" - Bomb Cyclone Unleashes Hurricane-Force Winds In NE
>>19576 >>19794 Bitter cripple's tech updates on 8kun and his SJW tactics
>>19584 >>19585 >>19586 >>19596 >>19599 History of the Alamo & why it's important
>>19627 Bill Barr Subpoenas entire Chicago suburb Democrats >>19636 archive CT story (orig) >>19708
>>19713 >>19724 Barr story related to LOOP Capital? +info
>>>>19793 Barr Chicago subpoena story BIG -related to getty, >>19815 Miller sisters >>19824 moar on getty family
>>19629 Schlichter: Bad Gaslighting Epidemic Sweeps The Elite
>>19650 >>19765 >>19828 Dallas rally anon
>>19659 Functional board basics + community
>>19673 Odd POTUS tweet - AW laptop, DNC server, HRC emails - JoeD & VictoriaT on Lou Dobbs (maybe /ourguys/ have the server?!
>>19709 Boris Johnson gets EU Brexit deal; next hurdle is Parliament
>>19725 Jim Watkins: update on 8kun config fail
>>19728 >>19731 >>19753 >>19785 (audio, start at 28:25) Interview w/ General Paul E. Vallely (Major General, USA, Ret.) confirms Q (+ info & archive) >>19790 short 2-3 min audio clip
>>19818 Full twt thread confirming Q is MILINT (only 1 very experienced man's word, so note & file it away)
>>19735 Rolling Home baker rolls home, >>19739 other baker goes too
>>19760 Bitter cripple's interview tweet
>>19766 Voat notes POTUS' phenomenal, infectious GOOD energy
>>19770 VIDEO: Megan McCain Let Slip Father Was Executed? Says "You Can't Kill Him Again"!!
>>19780 Fusion GPS's Glenn Simpson reveals he was hired in 'fall of 2015' to investigate Trump
>>19782 Diversity article scrubbed in less than 24 hours
>>19786 Russia taking over Venezuela (& all of their oil while) we're still quagmired in Afghanistan & Iraq
>>19789 >>19791 Former PBS department chair David Bucci commits suicide
1/2
#19838 at 2019-10-18 18:49:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9438: Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! Edition
>>19824
search "getty" on CDAN:
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/search?q=getty&max-results=8
#19824 at 2019-10-18 18:01:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9438: Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! Edition
>>19819
Thanks. This may be small potatoes, but might be moar links if anyone is collecting to connect the dots.
Home purchase made by Lyons Mayor Chris getty raises questions in southwest suburbs
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/566935
Found this also.
== getty Grandson dead ==
A member of the tragedy-ridden getty family was found dead in his home in the 2900 block of Montcalm Avenue, in the Hollywood Hills near Mulholland Drive, on Tuesday, March 31, 2015, around 2 PM Pacific time. This is near the iconic Laurel Canyon, also.
Andrew Rork getty (pictured above), the grandson of J. Paul getty, was discovered deceased "under suspicious circumstances," and his ex-girlfriend was detained as a possible witness or suspect.
https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2015/04/getty-obit.html
#19815 at 2019-10-18 17:00:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9438: Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! Edition
>>19793
>Mayor Christopher getty
MILLER TIME'S OVER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DECADE'S RICHEST SIBLINGS
August 10, 2003 | 4:00am
It was a fairy tale - well, three.
The blond Miller sis ters, raised in Hong Kong and Europe, burst onto the Manhattan social scene in the 1990s with their headline-making marriages to enormously well-bred men.
Pia, now 37, wed Christopher getty, grandson of American oil king J. Paul getty, in 1992. Marie-Chantal, 34, married Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, son of exiled King Constantine, in 1995. And later that same year, Alexandra, 31, wed Alexandre von Furstenberg, son of flamboyant Austro-Italian Prince Egon von Furstenberg and designer Diane.
more here: https://nypost.com/2003/08/10/miller-times-over-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-decades-richest-siblings/
Shot Across The Bow?
Battle of gettysburg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_gettysburg
#19793 at 2019-10-18 15:23:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9438: Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! Edition
== Bigger than you know ==
AG Barr Subpoena's The Entire Democratic Organization Of Chicago Suburb In Latest Corruption Probe
"On the day of the raid in Sept. 26, Lyons was also served with a federal grand jury subpoena demanding a wide range of records on a hotel and resort backed by Mayor Christopher getty, the home security system at getty's residence and the entire Democratic Organization of Lyons Township - headed by state Sen. Steven Landek."
https://news-metropolis.com/ag-barr-subpoenas-the-entire-democratic-organization-of-chicago-suburb-in-latest-corruption-probe/
== Christopher getty ==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/getty_family
https://www.famechain.com/family-tree/4060/christopher-getty/pia-getty
== getty Center , has a underground celeberty mind programming center ==
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqNIHh18RtU
#19708 at 2019-10-18 04:57:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9438: Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! Edition
>>19697
I had the same thought - pic related
>>19700
sob as in the act of sobbing
I gotcha
I'm not trying to make anyone sob either :)
text... sometimes it's a difficult medium of communication
>>19701
>opinion piece
Facts can still be conveyed in an opinion piece. If you read it carefully, it's only a few lines that are opinion before the facts start:
From The Chicago Tribune: FBI agents who raided the village hall in southwest suburban Lyons last month seized a plethora of evidence, including information on a clout-heavy red light camera company, a popular brewery, an embattled video gaming magnate and a construction magnate who owns a huge quarry in town, records show.
On the day of the Sept. 26 raid, Lyons was also served with a federal grand jury subpoena demanding a wide range of records on a hotel and resort backed by Mayor Christopher getty, the home security system at getty's residence and the entire Democratic Organization of Lyons Township - headed by state Sen. Steven Landek.
The documents, released by Lyons after business hours on Tuesday, were the latest public disclosure in a sprawling federal political corruption investigation that has rocked Springfield and Chicago's near southwestern suburbs, the traditional power base of Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.
The investigation, which records show has been going on behind the scenes since at least 2017, exploded in the public eye on Sept. 24, when the FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents carried out search warrants at the offices of state Sen. Martin Sandoval in the Capitol and in west suburban Cicero.
So far, no one has been criminally charged in the ongoing probe.
Lyons officials had initially issued a blanket denial of open records requests from the news media, claiming federal investigators had asked that no information be released about the warrant. But the town acquiesced after being sued by several media outlets.
Chicago Tribune story
FBI seized records on mayor's home, red light cameras and even a popular brewpub in raid on southwest suburban Lyons
By Jason Meisner, Dan Petrella and Jamie Munks
Chicago Tribune |
Oct 16, 2019 | 12:49 PM
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-lyons-subpoena-federal-investigation-20191016-sordnocdbjg2jmmpcaq7wziuxi-story.html
https://archive.fo/Sn0PV
It's a real story.
#1020 at 2019-08-29 13:44:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9415 Know Your Bunker Exits Edition
Mar 25, 2019 | www.theepochtimes.com
Originally from: Spygate The True Story of Collusion [Infographic]
The State Department, with its many contacts within foreign governments, became a conduit for the flow of information. The transfer of Christopher Steele's first dossier memo was personally facilitated by Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland gave approval for FBI agent Michael Gaeta to travel to London to obtain the memo from Steele. The memo may have passed directly from her to FBI leadership. Secretary of State John Kerry was also given a copy.
Steele was already well-known within the State Department. Following Steele's involvement in the FIFA scandal investigation, he began to provide reports informally to the State Department. The reports were written for a "private client" but were "shared widely within the U.S. State Department, and sent up to Secretary of State John Kerry and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who was in charge of the U.S. response to Putin's annexation of Crimea and covert invasion of eastern Ukraine," the Guardian reported.
Nuland passed on parts of the Steele dossier to the FBI. (Mark Wilson/getty Images)
In July 2016, when the FBI wanted to send Gaeta to visit Steele in London, the bureau sought permission from the office of Nuland, who provided this version of events during a Feb. 4, 2018, appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"In the middle of July, when [Steele] was doing this other work and became concerned, he passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding and our immediate reaction to that was, this is not in our purview. This needs to go to the FBI if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian Federation. That's something for the FBI to investigate."
Steele also met with Jonathan Winer, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement and former special envoy for Libya. Steele and Winer had known each other since at least 2010. In an opinion article in The Washington Post, Winer wrote the following:
"In September 2016, Steele and I met in Washington and discussed the information now known as the 'dossier.' Steele's sources suggested that the Kremlin not only had been behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign but also had compromised Trump and developed ties with his associates and campaign."
In a strange turn of events, Winer also received a separate dossier , very similar to Steele's, from long-time Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal. This "second dossier" had been compiled by another longtime Clinton operative, former journalist Cody Shearer, and echoed claims made in the Steele dossier. Winer then met with Steele in late September 2016 and gave Steele a copy of the "second dossier." Steele went on to share this second dossier with the FBI, which may have used it to corroborate his dossier.
Winer passed on memos from Christopher Steele to Victoria Nuland. (State Department)
Other foreign officials also used conduits into the State Department. Alexander Downer, Australia's high commissioner to the UK, reportedly funneled his conversation with Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos -- later used as a reason to open the FBI's counterintelligence investigation -- directly to the U.S. Embassy in London.
Read more:
http://casinocapitalism.info/Skeptics/Political_skeptic/Neocons/nulandgate.shtml#a20190325X_nuland_role_in_russiagate
endchan qrbunker Posts (32)
#143048 at 2024-07-14 12:24:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #447: Industrial Sabotage and the GDP Edition
https://x.com/jsolomonReports/status/1812428288041615516
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Mississippi congressman's field director says 'don't miss next time'
Chairman Bennie Thompson | getty Images
From justthenews.com
11:05 PM ? Jul 13, 2024
#139893 at 2024-05-02 07:04:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #435: In Hoc Signo Vinces Edition
>>139892
cont...
'''Dan Schneider, vice president of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center, said Soros - a Hungarian-born Jew and a Holocaust survivor whose loyal lieutenants have scored unmatched access to President Biden's White House - has a long history of standing against Israel and backing groups who champion terrorists.'''
"George Soros and his son Alex have a long history of supporting the most radical organizations across the planet, and that includes pro-Hamas organizations that support the most heinous kind of behavior," said Schneider, who recently co-authored a letter with MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell demanding Soros cease funding to groups who've recently spewed pro-Hamas rhetoric.
"We've called on George Soros to withdraw this funding, but he seems very determined to continue supporting antisemitic organizations that want to upend western civilization," he said.
Protesters at the "Flood Brooklyn for Palestine" protestors called for the eradication of Israel. getty Images
Former City Councilman David Greenfield, a Brooklyn Democrat who now heads the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, said "the world has changed" since the Oct. 7 massacre, so Soros' group must decide if it will be on "the side that is going to liberate Palestinians or on the side that wants to eliminate Jews."
Open Society Foundations and related nonprofits the 93-year-old Soros founded have doled out more than '''$32 billion worldwide since 1984''', according to its website. In June, the progressive billionaire announced he's handing control of his empire over to his 38-year-old son Alexander.
Ari Remez, a spokesman for Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, said Open Society Foundations "has been generously supporting our work on defending the human rights of Palestinians under Israeli control for many years, and we are grateful for their immense contribution to this effort."
The Soros family, Open Society Foundations, Tides, Adalah Justice Project and other pro-Palestinian groups that got Soros funding did not return messages.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/28/metro/soros-funneled-15-m-plus-to-groups-rallying-for-hamas/
#132795 at 2023-10-15 12:10:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker #402: Ring of Fire Edition
Jewish boat flying the Nazi flag
The new Jewish liner photographed upon its arrival in Genoa,
the Hebrew characters form, with the swastika flag,
a rather unexpected contrast, in Genoa, Italy on February 28, 1935.
(Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via getty Images )
original unmarked photo:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/le-nouveau-paquebot-juif-photographi%C3%A9-%C3%A0-son-arriv%C3%A9e-%C3%A0-g%C3%AAnes-news-photo/965912496
picrel:
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Why_Did_Zionists_Hoist_Nazis_Swastika_Flags_On_Their_Ships.html
#130997 at 2023-08-17 14:24:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker Edition #391: The Manchurian Candidate Edition
Chick-A-Boom . . Chick-A-Boom
(Don't Ya Jes Love It)
Chick-A-Boom
............BOOM
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/17/james-comer-demands-nara-provide-records-related-joe-bidens-work-ukraine/
James Comer Demands NARA Provide All Documents for VP Biden's Secret Pseudonym 'Robert L. Peters'
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 08: House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is seen in front of a newspaper page with a photograph of Hunter Biden and his father President Joe Biden during the Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media hearing with former Twitter employees before the ...
Matt McClain/The Washington Post via getty Images
#125347 at 2023-04-06 23:56:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #359: Q+ Edition
>>125319
read below photo caption slowly and carefully with an emphasis on word meaning and reading comprehension. kek
An artist's impression of what it could look like if one really, really big Starlink satellite broke up in Earth's orbit and wiped out all the dinosaurs (Stock image) (Image: getty Images/Stocktrek Images)
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/news/elon-musks-new-satellites-falling-29643448
#117442 at 2023-01-22 23:12:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #326: Globalists Touched by Extraterrestrials Edition
>>117438
NIH Director Anthony Fauci And White House Ebola Coordinator Ron Klain Discuss The Outbreak
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 05: White House Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain (L) and President of Georgetown University John DeGioia (R) participate in discussion December 5, 2014 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The university held a discussion on "Ebola: Responding to the Domestic and Global Challenges." (Photo by Alex Wong/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/white-house-ebola-response-coordinator-ron-klain-and-news-photo/459992640
#110413 at 2022-11-22 19:14:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #294: Now is the time for all Good Men Edition
>>110364
tybb
getty them all, kitty.
#103572 at 2022-11-15 19:19:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #272: Tuesday Morning Melania Edition
United Nations exhibit put on by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Central motif was this frame containing copy of Atlantic charter, with amplifiers at each end broadcasting speeches by Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek every half hour, and surrounded by statues of the four freedoms. [Freedom from Want; Freedom of Speech]. Artist Marjory Collins. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via getty Images)
#94456 at 2022-11-10 18:25:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #260: American's See The Steal Edition
>>94455
EGYPT-UN-CLIMATE-COP27
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pictured after participating in a discussion session at the Reselience Hub, at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name, during the COP27 climate conference, on November 10, 2022. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH EID/AFP via getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-is-pictured-after-participating-news-photo/1244659177
#86153 at 2022-11-06 02:22:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #246: Rally in PA Edition
>>86129
>>86132
>>86133
>>86145
>So....Like a zombie?
nailed it
==Watch: Trump Fills Pennsylvania Airport for Dr. Oz as Obama, Biden Rally for John Fetterman Features Empty Seats==
Twitter via @presidentbeb/ED JONES/AFP via getty Images
Twitter via @presidentbeb/ED JONES/AFP via getty Images
John Binder5 Nov 202235
1:14
A rally for Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), featuring former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden, failed to fill the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, videos posted from the event reveal.
Just days from the highly-contested Pennsylvania Senate election, where Fetterman is facing Republican Mehmet Oz, Obama and Biden were unable to fill the 10,000-seat Liacouras Center in deep blue Philadelphia - echoing a lack of enthusiasm among Democrats this cycle.
Videos posted online from the rally showed entirely empty upper sections as well as empty seats in lower sections that organizers sought to fill:
#77828 at 2022-11-01 20:25:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #229: Flying BLIND Edition
satanists love the art, museum, foundation business - for good reason. Art can have any assigned value. An art market can be created overnight in a previously unknown artist like Keith Haring. This makes art/museums antiquities a perfect way to move money around, while, at the same time, promoting inventory or stock-in-trade, art, as a store of long-term value.
A painting is worth what you say it is if you're the getty Museum, the Hammer, the Broad, the Norval, the Huntington or the whatever-cult-tycoon is pretending philanthropy and laughing at us as we reverently troop through their art gallery front operation. There's another good, valid and unholy reason satanic cult con artists like to use art galleries foundations and museum cover structures as operational fronts.
In the case of *art* we've been POWERFULLY conditioned never to seriously question art. Anyone who says "my kid could do that- " is culturally defined as an idiot. Only an ignoramus questions art. We've been taught this in movies and sitcoms, we've been told a hundred ways, a thousand times: only vulgar and uneducated people criticize art. Philistines. Prudes. Hicks. Yokels. Furthermore, we are taught that art is a specialist area, and if we aren't specialists or insiders, we couldn't possibly have anything worthwhile to say and we ought keep our crude thoughts to ourselves and our boorish mouths shut around what we don't understand; because art is sacrosanct; the sacred self-expression of the individual.
Decades of this powerful conditioning allowed Pedosta's fat brother Tony to pose for a multi-page spread in a glitzy DC magazine with his daemonic sculpture of a gilded homosexual torture victim and with pictures of abused children in bizarre ritual locations. ART. The same conditioning protects Marina Abramovic and the crowd of *stars" and *celebrities" photographed eating an *art* corpse soaked in honey at an *art* event. It's ART. The pedovores are rightfully confident in the powers of our conditioning to protect them that they licensed photos of themselves with forks stuck into the honeyed *art* corpse to be published in *art* & fashion magazines, blogs and supermarket tabloids. The honeyed corpse is a gnostic occult ritual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man
Why do satanist pedovores parade their pathology in front of us? When we see Tony Pedosta, John "Skippy" Pedosta's brother's sculpture we do not understand consciously what we are seeing is a gold leaf covered model Dahmer's homosexual torture victim. What effect does seeing something we don't consciously understand or necessarily recall having seen have on us?
A lot. This is the "secret" of the effectiveness subliminal and subsonic embed programming. Words and images we don't know that we've seen are perceived by the unconscious component of our minds. We know this because tests using subliminal embeds not consciously seen still raises our blood pressure, increases our pulse rate, and fMRI studies show that these unperceived influences activate portions of the brain associated with memory and emotional trauma. We *do* understand sex and death images unconsciously and traumatic images are retained in memory below the threshold of conscious awareness to influence our future behavior over time. Images of sex and violence in unconscious memory affect us like PTSD caused by real world exposure to rape, torture, child pornography or physical trauma.
Information War or IW operations target the unconscious mind. This "witchcraft" works best when we are *not* aware of images we've been exposed to subliminally or even that we are being targeted at all.
Sculpture of Dahmer's torture victim is presented at galleries and in publicity as fashionable, highly sought after, rare and precious work collected by knowledgeable, prominent people like Tony and John Podesta.
https://www.artforum.com/diary/linda-yablonsky-at-the-la-moca-gala-29517
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/07/blind-items-revealed-14_5.html
http://washingtonlife.com/2015/06/05/inside-homes-private-viewing/
#77712 at 2022-11-01 19:01:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #228: Pray for our Patriots AUMen Edition
>>77707
most recent getty pic of nanshee pelosi is from oct 25 2022
Speaker Pelosi Meets With Israeli President Herzog
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 25: (L-R) Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speak with each other as they arrive to deliver remarks to the press before their meeting at the U.S. Capitol October 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. Herzog is on a two day trip to Washington, DC and will meet with U.S.President Joe Biden on Wednesday. (Photo by Drew Angerer/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/israeli-president-isaac-herzog-and-speaker-of-the-house-news-photo/1244224344
#75715 at 2022-10-31 01:31:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #222: Trips Of Truth Durham Not Done Edition
>>75692
>>75707
2. Roth Mocked Those Who Have Attacked Him Online by Joking That His College Evaluations Were Harsher
Yoel Roth Twitter
getty
In a tweet on May 25, Roth mocked those who have attacked him on social media. Roth tweeted, "Somehow, regularly being told by internet strangers that I'm a soulless corporate shill is still less harsh feedback than I got from anonymous peer reviewers in my past academic life."
According to Roth's Twitter profile, he has a Ph.D. from The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, Roth studied political science at Swarthmore College. According to his website, Roth's dissertation at The Annenberg School was on "Gay Data." Roth has described his area of study as focusing "on the privacy and self-expression choices of gay men using geosocial networking services like Grindr."
3. Roth Said That in 2020 Americans Are Facing a 'Particularly Divisive Political Moment'
Yoel Roth Instagram
Instagram/Yoel RothRoth pictured in 2015. Roth also maintains social media pages for his dog, Rye.
In March 2020, Roth was interviewed by National Public Radio's Ari Shapiro. Roth spoke about his role in fighting "election disinformation." He said, "I think in 2020, we're facing a particularly divisive political moment here in the United States, and attempts to capitalize on those divisions amongst Americans seem to be where malicious actors are headed."
Roth said Russian operatives were not solely responsible for the disinformation but that it was the work of a "wide range of malicious actors." Roth did speak in the interview about the use of Russian troll-farms during the 2016 and 2018 elections in the United States. Roth said that following the 2016 election, Twitter found that multiple accounts belonged to "inauthentic personas." Roth said, "We've seen some indication that that remains part of the Russian playbook."
#75318 at 2022-10-30 17:43:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #221: Ramen Clam: Getting To The Bottom, Shovels In Hand Edition
>>75299
notable residents
Larry Ellison: co-founder and chairman of Oracle Corporation[26]
Gordon getty: billionaire businessman and composer
Ann getty: philanthropist, publisher, anthropologist, socialite
Jonathan Ive: former chief designer at Apple Inc.[26]
Jay Paul: billionaire real estate developer[27]
Nancy Pelosi: current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Danielle Steel: author
Peter Thiel: co-founder of PayPal[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Heights,_San_Francisco
#72970 at 2022-10-28 22:36:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #213: The Purge Begins Edition
>>72968
>>72948
Jerry Lee Lewis & His Child-Bride/Cousin
American rock musician Jerry Lee Lewis hugs his second cousin and third wife Myra Brown as they arrive in the airport from London after his tour of England was cancelled, New York, May 28, 1958. (Photo by Hulton Archive/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/american-rock-musician-jerry-lee-lewis-hugs-his-second-news-photo/50997800
#72968 at 2022-10-28 22:33:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #213: The Purge Begins Edition
>>72948
nicknamed "The Killer"
The Killer & Kristofferson
American singer and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis (left) and actor and singer Kris Kristofferson on stage together at the Performing Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, January 22, 1982. (Photo by Thomas S. England/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/american-singer-and-pianist-jerry-lee-lewis-and-actor-and-news-photo/57099263
#61217 at 2022-10-22 01:02:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #181: Kekistan Adds New Bishop: Welcom Bishop Schneider Edition
>>61215
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/chinese-labs-purchase-us-land-primate-breeding-facility-draws-scrutiny
Chinese Lab's Purchase Of US Land For Primate Breeding Facility Draws Scrutiny
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, OCT 21, 2022 - 08:00 PM
Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A Chinese firm's purchase of land in Florida to build a lab monkey breeding facility is drawing scrutiny over the company founders' ties to the Chinese military.
An engineer looks at monkey kidney cells as he make a test on an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 virus inside the Cells Culture Room laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing, China, on April 29, 2020. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via getty Images)
JOINN Laboratories CA Inc., the California subsidiary of a biotech firm headquartered in Beijing, in July purchased more than 1,400 acres of land for building a primate facility in Florida's Levy County, county records show.
With a combined value of $5.5 million, the 10 parcels of land purchased from L & T Cattle & Timber represents one of the largest known Chinese acquisitions of U.S. land in recent years. While construction has not begun, the deal has attracted public attention at a time of heightened concern about Chinese investments in the United States over security and other risks.
Read more...
#59746 at 2022-10-20 20:39:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #176: The "Marco" "Polo" Of HBidens Laptop Edition
JAPAN-ARTS-AWARD
International advisor Chris Patten of Britain (L) speaks with fellow advisor Hillary Rodham Clinton of the US (R) during a photo call following a press conference for this year's laureates of Japan's biggest arts award, the 33th Praemium Imperiale, in Tokyo on October 18, 2022. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/international-advisor-chris-patten-of-britain-speaks-with-news-photo/1244052048
#59744 at 2022-10-20 20:36:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #176: The "Marco" "Polo" Of HBidens Laptop Edition
JAPAN-ARTS-AWARD
Winners of Japan's biggest arts award, the 33th Praemium Imperiale, (top 2nd L to R) German director Wim Wenders, Polish musician Krystian Zimerman, Japanese architects Ryue Nishizawa, Kazuyo Sejima, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and Italian artist Giulio Paolini pose during a photo call at the end of a press conference for this year's laureates of Japan's biggest arts award, the 33th Praemium Imperiale, in Tokyo on October 18, 2022, with Australian architect and 2021 Praemium Imperiale laureate Glenn Murcutt (top L), (bottom L to R) honorary advisor David Rockefeller, Jr. of the US, international advisor Lamberto Dini of Italy, Hisashi Hieda, chairman of the Japan Arts Association, international advisor Hillary Rodham Clinton of the US, international advisor Klaus-Dieter Lehmann of Germany, international advisor Chris Patten of Britain and international advisory Serge Degallaix of France. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via getty Images)
October 18, 2022
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/winners-of-japans-biggest-arts-award-the-33th-praemium-news-photo/1244052104
#59742 at 2022-10-20 20:31:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #176: The "Marco" "Polo" Of HBidens Laptop Edition
God's Love We Deliver 16th Annual Golden Heart Awards
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: Huma Abedin and Anna Wintour attend God's Love We Deliver 16th Annual Golden Heart Awards at The Glasshouse on October 17, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/huma-abedin-and-anna-wintour-attend-gods-love-we-deliver-news-photo/1434337147
Golden Heart Awards 2022 Benefiting God's Love We Deliver
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: Huma Abedin speaks the Golden Heart Awards 2022 Benefiting God's Love We Deliver at The Glasshouse on October 17, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/huma-abedin-speaks-the-golden-heart-awards-2022-benefiting-news-photo/1434273363
#55672 at 2022-10-17 16:19:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #163: Midterms Approaching PA is FLipped Call to Dig on Fetterman Edition
Brabourne And Mountbatten
Sir John Ulick Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne (1924 - 2005) with the Honourable Patricia Mountbatten, daughter of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, shortly before their marriage, 1946. Baron Brabourne later became a successful television producer (Photo by Gordon Anthony/Hulton Archive/getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/sir-john-ulick-knatchbull-7th-baron-brabourne-with-the-news-photo/55747358
#26430 at 2022-08-10 20:23:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #90: Trump, Scavino & Anons - WWG1WGA! Edition
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11099581/Three-oil-scions-PAYING-hundreds-eco-activists-25-000-year-professional-protesters.html
Offsetting guilt: How eco-minded descendants of billionaire oil barons are PAYING hundreds of activists $25,000-a-year to protest around the world because they feel 'moral obligation to put genie back in bottle'
Aileen getty, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert, Peter Gill Case paying salaries for eco-thugs through non-profits
getty, whose granddad created getty Oil, has so far splashed out $1million through Climate Emergency Fund
Lambert and Case, members of the Rockefeller family, have forked out $30million on The Equation Campaign
They've put eco-activists on the payroll for around $25,000 as well as pumped money into the organizations
It comes as eco-warriors have been continuing to wreak havoc across the world with stunts in recent months
By JAMES GANT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 13:59 EDT, 10 August 2022 | UPDATED: 16:05 EDT, 10 August 2022
Three American oil scions have been bankrolling mobs of eco-zealots who have terrorized the world by slashing tires, blocking traffic and attacking firms.
Aileen getty, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert and Peter Gill Case, who are heirs to their families' huge fortunes, are paying the salaries for thugs through their non-profits in an apparent bid to offset their relatives' legacies.
getty, whose grandfather created getty Oil, has so far splashed out $1million through her California-based Climate Emergency Fund.
Lambert and Case, who are both members of the Rockefeller dynasty that founded Standard Oil in 1870, have forked out $30million on The Equation Campaign.
They have put eco-activists from groups such as Just Stop Oil on the payroll for around $25,000 each as well as pumped money into the organizations themselves.
It comes as eco-warriors have been continuing to wreak havoc across the world in recent months, including in the US, Europe, the UK and Australia.
SUV cars tires have been slashed in America, Britain and Australia, while famous oil paintings have been targeted in EU countries.
#25508 at 2022-08-08 22:50:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #87: Zombie Apocalypse Edition
https://twitter.com/GroupofThirty/status/1534916824659333120
11:14 AM ? Jun 9, 2022?Twitter Web App
#G30 member @RaghuramRRajan discusses the downsides of "friend-shoring" trade mandates stating that, if applied too broadly, "they would have devastating effects on international trade."-
Just Say No to "Friend-Shoring"
project-syndicate.org/commentary/friend-shoring-higher-costs-and-more-conflict-without-resilience-by-raghuram-rajan-2022-06
June 3, 2022
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via getty Images
Jun 3, 2022 Raghuram G. Rajan
Following major shocks to global supply chains in recent years, it is not surprising that governments are groping for new policies to build more resilience and ensure a continuous supply of critical inputs. But abandoning free and fair trade is not the answer.
CHICAGO - In an important speech to the Atlantic Council in April, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen issued a welcome call for revitalizing the world economic order. But she also generated headlines with a single sentence advocating what she called "friend-shoring": that is, limiting the trade of key inputs to trusted countries in order to reduce risks to the supply chains on which the United States and its partners rely.
The Supply Solution to Stagflation Economics
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#23373 at 2022-08-08 05:58:00 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #87: Zombie Apocalypse Edition
>>23368
>>23347
So there's disruption to the traffic/use for sure. I'm looking also for something re free speech infringement, but my eyelids are getty droopy.
#22321 at 2022-08-06 14:04:51 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker #85: Kari Lake WINS! Edition
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1555901826981052416
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
CDC admits goof on COVID vax link to heart inflammation in feds' second recent FOIA botch | Just The News
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, July 20 | (STEFANI REYNOLDS/getty)
justthenews.com
Contrary to open records response, CDC pointed to myocarditis risk from vaccines as early as June 2021.
9:01 AM ? Aug 6, 2022?Hootsuite Inc.
#13806 at 2022-06-06 14:29:09 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #74: WEF SUX Edition
@X22Report
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46m
The people know, they will always do the opposite, the people are awake
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/06/06/gun-control-misfire-trudeau-pistol-ban-sees-stores-sell-out-of-handguns/
Gun stores in Canada have seen handguns fly off the shelves, with many selling out altogether after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced gun control legislation freezing all pistol purchases.
In what appears to be a seismic political misfire, Canadian gun stores have been reporting a massive surge in handgun sales after the country's leftist prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced that he would be implementing gun control laws totally freezing the import and sale of this class of firearm.
Many shops in the country have now reportedly sold out of pistols entirely, despite extremely restrictive laws already in place in the country which can make the purchase of a handgun onerously difficult.
According to a report by the AFP, every gun store owner who spoke to the agency openly derided Trudeau's declaration that he would ban the sale of handguns, while also saying that they had all seen a massive surge in pistol sales since he made the announcement last week.
Jen Lavigne, co-owner of That Hunting Store, speaks with customers on June 3, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. - Canadians rushed to buy handguns this week, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on May 30, 2022, a proposed freeze on sales in the wake of recent mass shootings in the US. "Sales have been brisk," said Lavigne. "We sold 100 handguns or almost our entire stock in the last three days since the prime minister announced the freeze," she said. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via getty Images)
#13737 at 2022-05-30 23:50:26 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #73: FF Shooter Exposes LEO's Edition
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1531404032488755202
Canada's Trudeau announces 'national freeze' on handgun ownership, mandatory gun buyback legislation=
#JustTheNews
Justin Trudeau | (Dave Chan / getty Images)
justthenews.com
Canada's Trudeau announces 'national freeze' on handgun ownership, mandatory gun buyback legislation
The legislation would make it impossible to "buy, sell, transfer or import handguns in Canada," Trudeau said
6:35 PM ? May 30, 2022?Hootsuite Inc.
#9815 at 2021-09-13 10:10:03 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #30: Where is DiFiChi? Edition
>>9808
That old regular visitor on QRB is me. I coaxed our vidanon, and really fantastic and tenacious digger, over here just recently. We have been digging together on the London pics since even before I started posting on QRB.
The renewed discussion about the ROT1 Moon being apparently too late prompted me to review the night sky sims. At first I was thinking maybe Q wanted us to compare with Winter 2015/2016 and thought maybe those trash bins and different cars are a clue. But, anon's digs on the construction shrouds on Westminster narrowed the timeline on that to between end of OCT2013 to 5MAR 2014. So I stuck to 2013.
The current conundrum lies in whether or not we feel the LISA pic (which matches the Millbank bldg lights seen in getty images for 25DEC2013) is linked to the other EMB pics. I had made a very rough enhancement of ROT2 and LONDON2847 in which I felt we had a "not in contradiction" match on three separate areas of the Millbank lights. See pics related. If these are NOT a match though, then we would be free to consider that we are able to get ROT1 lunar bearing matches DURING EARLY EVENINGS after sunset from 10DEC (@ 5:18pm) through 22DEC (@ 2:06am).
Perhaps anons can do a better job at enhancing ROT2 and 2847 to eliminate them or confirm them as matches with LISA as far as those Millbank bldg lights configurations go. If we feel they are a match then we are stuck with ROT1 being around 4am and 4:40am.
#9696 at 2021-09-11 04:32:04 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #30: Where is DiFiChi? Edition
>>9672
(Re-posting this from UK Bread)
Fren, hoping you had the actual pic from Brown Bear Photography from that 2013 24London Event.
All I had was a vid cap, but seem to recall we had the pic which captured the Millbank bldg. If you have it could u post it on End please? It showed 2 red crane lights to the left of LE.
In desperation to solve the conundrum of the Lisa/Enb match, I also went to the getty pics hoping they were not solidly attributed to 25DEC2013, but I guess you already knew the photographer def states they are from sunset on 25DEC.
I did find a gud pic from Hungerford toward LE but it is no later than July 11, 2013 and does not show those two cranes with ted lights. So, those cranes were prolly put up after? And so, they and the 24London pic are most likely from Christmas 2013?
So... Anon I really was hoping to undo that Millbank bldg tether to Christmas in the Lisa/Embankment pics. For me it would have just made things easier. But alas, no.
Am actually rooting for you to find some white crane spotlight that is not apparent in the 24LONDON pic. Hoping it could be a crane seen in operation soon after dusk (ie construction work still in progress on Christmas Eve?) in ROT1, but which crane may have moved its position and turned off its white spotlight when it was secured for the night, perhaps in a horizontal position like the crane on St.Thomas? Or is that crane a different type which always stays in that position? Idk
Gud hunting, Anon.
Posting that 11July2013 pic looking at LE from Hungerford. It has a gud skyline view behind LE but the 2 cranes seen in ROT1 and 24LONDON are not there (yet).
Also, in the getty images photographer's words, he mentions "significant problems" experienced with transportation infrastructure at that time, from the severe storm that passed through. Don't know if it would be bad enuf to to cause traf on Victoria Embankment to be delayed to such a late hour as 4:00 to 4:40am though.
#9673 at 2021-09-09 23:20:30 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #30: Where is DiFiChi? Edition
>>9668
Anon, am posting a vidcap showing that photo contest submission by BrownBear Photography for the 24London Photo contest. We had been referring to this photo as 24London. It explains/confirms the red lights behind London Eye to be safety lights from construction cranes.
Posting this for new eyes as well.
Fren, I wish we could eliminate one of these clue constraints. I was even going to ask if even the getty Christmas images could be incorrectly attributed to 25DEC2013. The Millbank Bldg lights match ties all the ROT series to 25DEC2013.
Some thoughts: The red lights are what we are used to seeing on a crane secured for the night. We have seen cranes with a white light on them though. My thought is that these white lights are spotlights used DURING construction hours. There were early sunsets around 4pm. Actual dusk? Add half an hour. But construction on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, bearing in mind the Millbank building lights, is also a concern.
Imho.
#4036 at 2019-11-21 19:00:14 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #13: Coincidence? Ukraine Was Single Largest Donor To Clinton Foundation Edition
https://www.dailywire.com/news/epstein-guard-offers-to-cooperate-with-prosecutors-wants-to-spill-details-on-suicide/
NOVEMBER 21ST, 2019
Epstein Guard Offers To Cooperate With Prosecutors, Wants To Spill Details On Suicide
By Emily Zanotti
DailyWire.com
A New York Medical Examiner's car is parked outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held, on August 10, 2019, in New York. - Epstein has committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial on charges that he trafficked underage girls for sex, officials and media reported Saturday, sparking an FBI investigation. Epstein, a convicted pedophile who befriended numerous politicians and celebrities over the years, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center from "an apparent suicide", the US Department of Justice said. (Photo by Don Emmert / AFP) (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/getty Images)DON EMMERT/AFP/getty Images
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One of Jeffrey Epstein's prison guards, Tova Noel, who was charged Tuesday with falsifying records to cover an unauthorized period of absence, now says she wants to cooperate with Federal prosecutors and spill details about the night Epstein committed suicide to Federal investigators.
It's not clear what information Noel has that would interest either the Department of Justice or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, aside from details about why she was missing from her post for at least two hours the night Epstein hung himself in his prison cell at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, the New York Post reports.
#272 at 2019-11-09 02:17:33 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #1: Home Away From Home With Frens Edition
>>268
oh, there is moar
the guy who hired Havlicek is George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld. Look him up--into publishing affilitated with getty (?), Cali families
(can't focus too much on that, doing baking stuff right now).
So we have tie-ins to
- Soros
- Cali families
- European royalty (as in DS)
- Club of Three (founded by founder of ISD)
- US DOD (look up Strong Cities program, i think they help fund it, just can't lay my hands on the files on very short notice)
- Strong Cities reminiscent of Agenda 21, except with a focus on the environment (I think); it one of the main parts of ISD, the propaganda stuff is another branch of the org
- from wikipedia, forget about this:
In 2017 Google.org and ISD partnered to deliver a £1m innovation fund to counter hate and extremism in the UK.
Think Google Jigsaw is involved here....that's part of our dig from last year too
Will post something later showing relationships, gotta go now
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- Question: https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1310625667923443717 [SCREENSHOT OF Q POST >>903385 5-5-20 NBC NEWS ARTICLE FBI RUSSIA HOAX; Then and now. [Brennan] & [Comey] assessment [Clapper assist] [hard-push]? DOJ CRM FEDERAL LAW ON CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE US, KNOWINGLY & WILLINGLY, TITLE 18, PART 1, CHAPTER 115]
Answer: filename: EXR7GgMWAAIFVox.jpg jsolomonReports tweet: https://archive.fo/0aQgA Breaking: Next declassification could flip Russia collusion script, point to effort to hurt Trump | Just The News Lindsey Graham in 2019 | (ADEM ALTAN/AFP via getty Images) Next declassification could flip Russia collusion narrative, point to help for Clinton Former NSC official says some evidence cut against claim Russia was helping Trump. justthenews.com 10:01 AM - 28 Sep 2020
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- Question: SYSTEM OF CONTROL. [GRAPHICS SHOWING 4 FAMILIES, 3 GENERATIONS (BROWN, PELOSI, NEWSOM, getty)]
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- Question: Insurgency can be defined as ‘the organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region'. Domestic terrorism. [PHOTO OF ANTIFA MEMBERS LIGHTINT UP US FLAG, WHILE HOLDING ANTIFA FLAG]
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- Question: What city was Epstein arrested in? NYC? 5:5? Watch CA.
Answer: EPSTEIN DIAGRAM FROM CRAZYDAYSANDNIGHTS.NET https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MycRAZopu9mlAtLEQHBr5eiciuTBUB6k/preview
Extra Answer: Here's who lives on the same block on 71st in NYC: * Epstein (Les Wexner of Victoria Secret Fame purchased the property) * Bill Cosby (across the street from Epstein) * Barry Diller (Rumored head of the Velvet Mafia in H-wood with notorious reputation; across the street) * Robert Warren Miller (British billionaire owner of Duty Free Shops, across the street) * Paul getty https://media.8ch.net/file_store/ed61da702f42ca33025a22c96f842bd211b2176dce982bbf333524136d8988f4.png Nearby: * Gloria Vanderbilt https://ny.curbed.com/2015/6/8/9952230/gloria-vanderbilts-old-upper-east-side-house-now-17m-less
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- Question: Re: BC/RC Epstein Plane Pic Did the FBI/DOJ interview RC? When did 'public awareness' grow across social media? [CLAS 1-99] What age is RC in picture? Under the age of 18? [15] Who posted the picture? RC? Who posted 'internal security cam' pics (Temple)(IG)? Untouchable mindset by all involved? Blackmail? Power? Top-down protection? Plane + Temple + XYZ pics = witness? Witness+[CLAS 1-99]? Why did RC start/form a modeling/talent agency? Why was RC / Epstein & the [M]-Temple highlighted in the past? Dark to LIGHT. These people are sick.
Answer: BC = Bill Clinton RC = Rachel (Ray) Chandler >Blackmail? >Power? >Top-down protection? GHISLANE MAXWELL - EPSTEIN'S MADAME, BOOK ABOUT HER FATHER: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September 2003, page 85 Book Review Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul https://www.wrmea.org/003-september/book-review-robert-maxwell-israel-s-superspy.html ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/ArRoz When asked to spy for Israel’s Mossad, Israel’s CIA, Maxwell eagerly accepted because of his great love for Israel—although the money he made in Israel was also to his liking. Following a visit to Israel Maxwell said that he had traveled everywhere in the world and Israel was the only place where he felt at home. In Israel he found the faith he thought he had lost. Viewing himself as a savior of Israel’s ailing industries, he shrewdly bought ailing Israeli companies and turned them into successful enterprises. Some of the companies became covers for Mossad. Robert Maxwell traveled the world and peddled Promis, software the Israelis stole from Inslaw, the American company that developed the program. Promis could track data on any target subject by querying and integrating information from innumerable electronic databases, without requiring reprogramming. The theft took place when the Mossad’s Rafi Eitan traveled to the United States impersonating an assistant prosecutor in the Israeli Ministry of Justice in Tel Aviv and met with William Hamilton, the inventor of Promis, at Inslaw. After his meeting with Hamilton, Eitan immediately went to the Department of Justice, and, through serendipity, acquired a copy of Promis. Eiten then worked through former Mossad agent Ari Ben Menashe, who found Yahuda Ben-Hanan in California’s Silicon Valley to construct a back door to the program. This enabled the Mossad to monitor Promis and obtain the information the program developed as it worked for all who used it—friend and foe alike. With the help of former Texas Senator John Tower, Maxwell managed to sell the software to the Los Alamos Laboratories, thus making Israel’s Mossad privy to the innermost secrets of American atomic energy programs. When Promis was sold to Credit Suisse, Israel was able to follow the money flows from any government or business agency that used the bank. GHISLANE'S FATHER --> PROVIDED ACCESS (VIA STOLEN SOFTWARE) = INTELLIGENCE & FINANCIAL CONTROL GHISLANE (VIA SEX TRAFFICKING/BLACKMAIL RING) --> PROVIDED BLACKMAIL MATERIAL = POLITICAL CONTROL Epstein Arrest Casts Ominous Spotlight On Clinton-Linked Socialite Gal Pal by Tyler Durden Sat, 07/13/2019 - 18:35 Following the arrest of pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein last Saturday, many outlets have turned their attention to his longtime confiante, socialite heiress Ghislaine Maxwell - who has been accused by three women of procuring and training young girls to perform massage and sexual acts on the 66-year-old registered sex offender and his associates. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-13/epstein-arrest-casts-ominous-spotlight-clinton-linked-socialite-gal-pal https://archive.fo/wfFNh
Extra Answer: EPSTEIN DIAGRAM (relationships, like Muckety Maps) https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2019/07/the-epstein-diagram.html Ghislaine Maxwell The Mirror organised a Disney day out for the kids at Lord and Lady Bath's Longleat House, in Wiltshire. A great fun day in which Ghislaine Maxwell presented a cheque for ú2000 for the save the children fund. Ghislaine meets Henry Thynne, Lord Bath and his wife Virginia. 13th September 1985. (Photo by George Phillips/Mirrorpix/getty Images) https://www.gettyimages.no/photos/ghislaine-maxwell?family=editorial&page=9&phrase=ghislaine%20maxwell&sort=mostpopular flight logs SK Sarah Kellen? Sarah Kensington was formerly Sarah Kellen. She changed her identity after she left the entourage of a wealthy sex offender named Jeffry Epstein. The US government has identified Sarah as a “potential co-conspirator†in a sex slave ring which involved housing underage girls in a property they worked at. Brian Vickers’ wife Sarah Kensington Vickers has been accused of “bringing girls to Epstein’s mansion to be abused.†The Guardian reports: ‘a series of alleged victims of Epstein told investigators that they were led to a massage room in Epstein’s mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, by a woman named Sarah.’ 2015 articles http://www.playerwives.com/nascar/brian-vickers-wife-sarah-kensington-vickers/ http://archive.is/9QYos Jeffrey Epstein scandal: women with new identities run firms from Epstein-linked property This article is more than 4 years old Two women questioned about Prince Andrew in 2010, operating businesses from New York property years after appearing to have left Epstein’s entourage Jon Swaine in New York @jonswaine Wed 7 Jan 2015 20.04 GMT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/07/jeffrey-epstein-former-accomplices-property-prince-andrew https://archive.fo/xjacW
Open Answer: MOAR ON GHISLANE MAXWELL: IRS Form 990 copies for 2017 and 2016 Attached PDF (19 pages) is 2017 Form 990 https://media.8ch.net/file_store/b848134ace0ed6b552e3d2bb2e2ed985797614de86e729942b8482d3ffe733fb.pdf TERRAMAR PROJECT, INC. Employer ID # 45-5091884 Of note are some (new?) names listed under "Officers, Directors, Trustees and Key Employees" 2017: Ariadne Calvo-Platero, Secretary Steven Haft, Director Amir Dossal, Director Ghislaine Maxwell states on the form that in 2017, she spent an average of 60 hours a week working for TerraMar Project, Inc. (Sixty hours a week, Ghislaine? Seriously?) On page 3 of the 2017 990, stated that TerraMar Project, Inc. "loaned" $549,093 to an officer or director that was still unpaid at the end of 2017. Accounting firm which prepared the 2017 return for TerraMar Project, Inc.: DeCicco Gulman & Company LLC 150 Presidential Way Suite 510 Woburn MA 01801 Check out the erratic numbers in revenue sources! Since 2013, bouncing all OVER the place. Definitely huge red flags, accounting-wise. You'd think this alone would trigger an audit, but that would mean the IRS would actually be functional. Take a look at Schedule L "Transactions With Interested Persons in the 2017 990 on page 15 (pic related) TerraMar Project had "LOANED" Ghislaine a ton of money (pic related) Exactly how did the original amount bounce from $283k to a 2017 balance due of $549k? More red flags. Finally, in Schedule O, "UBS VISA SIGNATURE" Now we know what credit Ghislaine uses as her main "operating" account. Namely: https://www.ubs.com/us/en/wealth-management/banking/cards/personal.html She's got to be using a UBS Visa "Infinite" Card This is all just for the 2017 IRS 990. Will look at 2016 now. Ariadne Calvo Platero Gotta have one of them social workers that hangs with fake news cnn (((journalist))) Christiane Amanpour https://goodnessandharmony.wordpress.com/tag/jeffrey-epsteins-sex-slave-virginia-roberts-wins-round-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-british-socialite-and-alleged-pimp-ghislaine-maxwell/ Ghislaine’s best friend is Ariadne Calvo-Platero, daughter of Lord Beaumont who had strong links to the Royals, PIE’s Peter Righton, John D Stamford of EGH-linked Spartacus, Jeremy Thorpe, Antony Grey, Albany Trust, Eton Mission … and Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lord-beaumont-of-whitley-millionaire-priest-and-publisher-who-became-the-first-green-peer-807774.html
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- Question: This one case has the ability to bring down the (many) rich & powerful people. Those who scream the loudest….
Answer: Day in the life on set if Gia Coppolas… Photos by Rachel Chandler http://archive.is/E6CQP So this solidifies Chandler's and getty relationship Gia Coppolas mom is Jacqui Coppola. Married to Peter getty, son of Gordon getty Grandson of J. Paul getty of the J. Paul getty foundation Power brokers in control of CA Proven relationships with pelosi, newsom, and brown families. getty Foundation is major CF donor getty foundation joint fellowship with Rothschild Foundation This is it guys. Connect Chandler to other families tied in this dig.
Extra Answer: Husband Tom Guinness styled pics: https://models.com/work/v-man-dream-weaver/969158?epik=dj0yJnU9bktiZG9GeHhNYzQ2RUJXTzVaWURsYkpfM29zNHVqZVombj1DbEFoNHFtYUFNWkpRWXRBa0dfNUJRJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUeWVz https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/tom-guinness-and-the-tenacity-of-style?epik=dj0yJnU9bWlHOU00TnpDdG1Tb3dKT2xMbE5ubDVsa2tjM0Jnbkkmbj1yMmVoU1BQM2ZzQ3NoSW9jNllucmh3Jm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUeVd3 Daphne Guinness is weird as heck. Her younger pics are spitting image of Chandler. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Guinness Assoc w LadyGaga. Check out hand glove GaGa fashioned for Horror Flick https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lady-gagas-american-horror-story-830679 http://www.mtv.com/news/2342108/lady-gaga-american-horror-story-glove/?XRS=PI_DS&epik=dj0yJnU9bFRZYkMxUElnN0dOd216WC1QeTd5OGdibDhob0hGSmkmbj1hSTBELXlpOUpvT2RfUUVlenJIMGlnJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUdWRv#30d4a4cf Also close to Alexander McQueen who suicided. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McQueen Here are pic links. Enjoy: https://m.vanityfair.fr/style/mode/diaporama/daphne-guinness/34?epik=dj0yJnU9SzFGWURheDB2SV9HbjlKeF9OSC0yZ29uTkxnOTVCRmMmbj1zYmVTU1lKT3NrbFBOUk9kVlQxWmRRJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUeW1V#3 https://milk.xyz/articles/2935-The-Lucid-Dreams-of-Eckhaus-Latta/ http://purple.fr/diary/love-ren-hang-exhibition-opening-maison-europeene-de-la-photographie-paris/?epik=dj0yJnU9a29lUlUtWkJLcFRnc3BpVlNxRXJKOW5rOGo4d0JQVXcmbj1SamFKcUhvMllwODZoUk5QSGg0clhRJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUd3Nn http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/24188/1/trip-through-new-york-s-fashion-underground?epik=dj0yJnU9dHA5SUtEY1BMaUFfaTB3MWYtRFRycVEyUC1EY1BZeU8mbj00YkMtZXBuckliQlNURzVJWG5oc09BJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUd2dr http://iloveyourstyle.com/i-your-style-rachel-chandler-guinness/?epik=dj0yJnU9RVFpZ3liRVVBb0gyNHpERGljREJ3c2hDNzlpQml2WHImbj1mcVhsbU5ienBQTnlnRl9iRDVDWDNBJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUd0VR https://theadventurine.com/jewelry/jewelry-news/at-auction-shaun-leanes-jewels-for-alexander-mcqueen/?epik=dj0yJnU9elNiQWFrdzNjZnF1a0I2ZlNJV0R6eHY2d0U1VTdhTGYmbj1aSFhOWEhHNnZTNHg0Mm8zblhyNVZnJm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUdnpB https://wwd.com/eye/parties/gallery/eye-peter-brant-honored-at-tribeca-ball/?epik=dj0yJnU9Sm9OelFSRExOMDh1clNKVkxINzZPcnZYWFZxVmV1QmEmbj1nY1l5djlmVktoaERucUt5UGQ0U1R3Jm09MyZ0PUFBQUFBRnlUdXRz#!1/robert-de-niro-2
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