Let them. I'm 4 move ahead.
Thanks for stopping by, there can be no peace with a censor. Strangely, they did not want peace until I started posting notables there, which shows just how much they are leaving out.
HiveMind General #3
>>2873, >>2875, >>2882, >>2886, @PapiTrumpo/DJTJr discussion
>>2662, >>2664, >>2671,DOWN THEY GOANOTHER MOS MEDIA ASSET REMOVED. SO LONG JEFF.
>>2677, >>2679, >>2685,Sexual misconduct is the 'public shelter' to accept resignation. Q POST 2219, 2337… Tell me again it ain't the Jews.
>>2860, >>2864, >>2869 I think we are watching in real-time as Israeli intel assets being removed from the media.
>>2687,So Jeff Zucker's alleged paramour at CNN was Allison Gollust, CNN's executive vice president. Her job before that? Gov. Andrew Cuomo's comms director.
>>2715 PDJT weighs in on (((Jeff Zucker))) perversions
>>2536 Man in Ottawa melts down over the honking from the freedom convoy.
>>2544 Freedom Intensifying
>>2549,17 percent see path to reinstate Trump before next election: poll
>>2817,PayPal shares plunge 17% as bleak forecast stokes growth fears
>>2552 Trudeau is the gift that keeps on giving.
>>2553 JUST IN - U.S. private payrolls fell by 301,000 for January vs. the estimate for a 200,000 gain, ADP reports.
>>2562 GOYIM KNOWING REACHING LEVELS NEVER BEFORE THOUGH POSSIBLE
>>2563 Team USA Warns Athletes About Using Personal Tech At The Beijing Olympics
>>2565 U.S. to move 3,000 troops closer to Ukraine as Russia crisis escalates
>>2568 Russia-Ukraine conflict: Satellite images reveal extent of Moscow’s military buildup
>>2571 With Sen. Luján in the hospital after a stroke, Democrats have no Senate majority and can't pass anything without GOP help
>>2572 Losing The War On Wokeness: Washington Football Team Officially Changes Its Name To "Commanders"
>>2573 Congressional Republicans back Canada 'Freedom Convoy' protest: 'Not some fringe minority'
>>2574 2 suspects in custody after Minnesota school shooting leaves 1 student dead, 1 injured
>>2577 Steny Hoyer (D) Tests Positive for COVID-19
>>2579 PayPal shares dive 25% after company blames inflation for weak guidance
>>2582 Jan. 6 committee member says Trump 'said the criminal part out loud' when he said Pence could have overturned the election
>>2588 _50 RNC members are co-sponsoring a resolution to expel Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger from the House GOP, report says__
>>2592 VaxTax Rollback! Quebec Abandons Policy of Taxation on the Unvax'd - Freedom Intensifying
>>2594 US to deploy warship & 5th generation fighter jets to UAE
>>2599 FBI Director Wray: Scale of Chinese Spying in the U.S. 'Blew Me Away'
>>2601 BASED - South Dakota Legislature Passes Ban on Boys Competing in Girls’ Sports
>>2605 Explosion fears remain as N. Carolina fertilizer plant burns
>>2614 Trump calls Lindsey Graham a "RINO"
>>2618 RCMP Adds More Officers as it Attempts to Clear Blockade at US-Canada Border
>>2621 Lockdowns virtually useless in curbing Covid-19 deaths, study claims
>>2622 Today in Supreme Court History: February 2, 1790 - 2/2/1790: Justice William Cushing takes oath.
>>2626 Leaked documents raise new questions about Biden admin's preparation for Afghanistan withdrawal: report
>>2630 SpaceX rolls outs 'premium' Starlink satellite internet tier at $500 per month
>>2681 "Russia-Ukraine escalation: Thousands of US troops deployed"
>>2678 People inside the building already have busy thumbs and there's much more to this Zucker story that goes well beyond a consensual relationship with a colleague. A few folks close to the former CNN president should be very nervous right now.
>>2690 Lyin' Ted fails to name them
>>2691 ISRAEL'S APARTHEID AGAINST PALESTINIANS
>>2705 JUST IN - U.S. Army: Soldiers who refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine will be immediately discharged, Reuters reports.
>>2743 CNN Quietly Resets 'Days Since An Employee Committed A Sex Crime' Counter Back To Zero
>>2721 A Dominion Voting Systems Rep is Sponsoring a Republican Senate Campaign Fundraiser.
>>2731 Aussie state lawmakers call to scrap all COVID restrictions in Victoria
>>2732 Biden Officials Signal US and Iran Close to Reaching Deal in Vienna
>>2733 The ADL just minutes ago changed its definition of "racism" as a response to the Whoopie situation.
>>2734 Lt. Col. Vindman sues Trump Jr., Scavino, Giuliani and Julia Hahn for attacks he faced during the 2019 impeachment proceedings related to Trump and Ukraine.
>>2736 REDDITORS ARE LOSING THEIR SHIT & CALLING FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST TRUCKER PROTEST
>>2737 FBI confirms purchasing Pegasus spyware, but denies using it - connects to >>2345
>>2742 Q Research General #19637: JEFF ZUCKER RESIGNS FROM [CP]NN!!! Edition - Completed @ 1:45pm EST with 751 posts
>>2757 I'm naming the Jews, Inauthentic Anon hates that.
>>2772 Sauce QR admins are banning/deleting posts and claiming it was porn. These people are fucking stupid.
>>2773 Together, anons form the mightiest faggot, one they'll never be able to cope and seethe away.
>>2779 Archbishop Vigano: “Time Will… Make the Masks Fall from Those Who… Disguised Themselves as Saviors of Humanity…"
>>2780 House Oversight Republicans give HHS a Feb. 16 deadline to turn over docs on funding for Wuhan lab and Fauci emails
>>2797 Hidden Pfizer trial data shows that ALL “vaccinated” women in pregnancy lost their unborn babies
>>2813 Q Research General #19638: ITS HABBENING!!! Edition - FINISHED WITH 751 @3:23 est
>>2811 Facebook has banned the rapidly growing “Convoy to DC 2022” group from its platform after it gained some 137,000 members.
>>2813 Q Research General #19638: ITS HABBENING!!! Edition - FINISHED WITH 751 @3:23
>>2822 Defense Sec. Austin tells GOP governors their National Guardsmen must receive COVID-19 vaccine
>>2823 The Dominoes are Falling!
>>2827 Controversial NYC Judge Denis Boyle no longer handling youth cases
>>2838 Q Research General #19639: We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore Edition - FINISHED WITH 751 @5:22 pm EST
>>2848 Volume up, enjoy.
>>2851 As Israeli spyware dealer NSO Group is facing renewed scrutiny over the abuse of its WhatsApp hacking tools, an American startup could also reportedly bypass the messaging app’s security. That startup was secretly backed by the millions of billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.
>>2852 Ottawa police chief Sloly says it is not in his mandate to negotiate end of a protest, which is global and national in nature. He reiterates once again that there may not be a policing solution to end this protest.
>>2856,Operation Black Rake
>>2857Black Lives Matter shut down all its online fundraising streams late Wednesday afternoon, just days after California threatened to hold the charity's leaders personally liable over its lack of financial transparency.
>>2862 Company says it’s developing a system that generates your face from DNA
>>2898 ALBERTA TRUCKERS BLOCKADING COUTTS BORDER CROSSING WILL NOT BACK DOWN
>>2911 16th state joins the convention of states, 34 needed
>>JonDoodle
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>Never heard of her.
Now you have and you can fuck off with your fake nice guy can't we all get along. You idiots stole the board, you attacked it for years and now you are deleting good information. There will be no peace with the admins. I have no qualms with real anons, but real anons research for themselves. If you'd like to continue this conversation, I expect you to know the content of these graphics before moving forward.
I hope all of you realize why they are now coming here trying to beg for peace or disrupt.
Fear
They have to censor, that is their mission. They know as time goes by, as it were yesterday, the bulk of good digs will originate from this board. They can't stop that because they are the cause of it. Furthermore, they only know how to censor, that is their only play, and as always the more they try, the worse it will get for them. We have already won, the moment this board was created left them with only 2 options.
1. Run Q Research as it was meant to be run and stop their plans, to keep anons
or
2. Try to shut us out and keep other anons from knowing we exist.
Option 1 is against their directive, so option 2 is their only real choice, and it is the choice that will bring their demise even faster. /Hivemind/ is now #2 board sit-wide, anons will slowly trickle over more and more. My goal is not to destroy Q Research, my goal is to give anons the choice /comms/ tried to take away.
For all the faults of the previous admin, you can not say they were power-hungering. Contrast that with the new admins that are willing to lie, cheat and steal to control Q Research. The problem is, they thought they would have a monopoly, they do not, and in that circumstance they will lose.
ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS POST EXCELLENT DIGS AND MAKE EXCELLENT NOTABLES, ALL ELSE WILL FOLLOW.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/03/ottawa-police-threatens-to-call-in-military-to-stop-trucker-protest/
breitbart.com
Ottawa Police Threatens to Call In Military to Stop Trucker Protest
Chris Tomlinson
4-5 minutes
Ottawa’s police chief said the capital may request aid from the armed forces to stop the ongoing anti-mandatory vaccine Freedom Convoy trucker protest, but the Defence Ministry responded saying they had no plans to get involved in the situation.
Police Chief Peter Sloly gave a briefing on Wednesday stating that the ongoing trucker protests, which began on Saturday, have become more than just an issue for Ottawa authorities.
“This is a national issue, not an Ottawa issue,” Sloly told city councillors and added, “I am increasingly concerned there is no policing solution to this,” broadcaster CBC reported.
“There is no lawful authority to seal a city, there’s no practical capability to seal a city of this size,” Sloly said and claimed that he would need at least 50,000 officers to attempt such a task. According to the Ottawa police service official website, Ottawa has just 1,480 police officers.
Sloly admitted that escalating the situation by bringing in the military was not a strategy without significant drawbacks. Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Viera quoted Sloly as saying, “Mixing them into a population in a highly volatile population … may mitigate some risk but escalate” others.
Since the remarkable comments on deploying the military to confront pro-freedom truckers, a spokesman for the Canadian Defence Ministry said they would not be getting involved. The Toronto Star quoted the spokesman’s denial of the military being deployed to the streets of the capital, who said: “The Canadian Armed Forces are not involved in law enforcement in this situation, and there are no plans for such CAF involvement”.
The statements by Ottawa’s police chief come just days after he stated that “all options are on the table” to deal with the protesters, who are demanding an end to vaccine mandates for truckers for cross border travel between the United States and Canada as well as an end to all coronavirus restrictions across the country.
In the days since the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa, some Canadian politicians have begun to discuss ending coronavirus-linked limitations on basic rights, including Saskatchewan conservative premier Scott Moe, who stated that the province would end restrictions such as the vaccine passport system by the end of the month.
Premier Francois Legault of the French-speaking province of Quebec also announced this week that his government would be scrapping the idea of a tax on unvaccinated residents, claiming that the policy could lead to social tensions.
Ottawa’s local government has slammed the Freedom Convoy protestors, with Ottawa city councillor Mathieu Fleury posted a note on Twitter on Monday that he would be launching court actions to seize cash from the GoFundMe fundraiser for the protests, which has amassed over ten million Canadian dollars as of Wednesday.
“This morning I have asked the city manager and city solicitor to immediately launch court proceedings targeting the millions of dollars in funds frozen by GoFundMe so Ottawa taxpayers are not left holding the bag for these protests,” Fleury said before locking his account and making his Tweets private, which they remain as of Wednesday. Following the comments, GoFundMe actually froze the Trucker fundraiser, publishing a statement saying they were reviewing the account.
They said: “This fundraiser is currently paused and under review to ensure it complies with our terms of service and applicable laws and regulations. Our team is working 24/7 and doing all we can to protect both organizers and donors. Thank you for your patience.”
BREAKING Shares of Facebook parent Meta plunged 24 percent in opening trading Thursday, weighing on the Nasdaq and threatening the stock market’s four-day winning streak
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1489248346015469573
https://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-insiders-suspect-chris-cuomo-flagged-zucker-relationship-revenge-reports-2022-2
CNN insiders suspect Chris Cuomo flagged Jeff Zucker's workplace relationship as revenge for firing him, reports say
CNN boss Jeff Zucker resigned after admitting to a romantic relationship with a network exec.
He said it was uncovered during the investigation into Chris Cuomo, the anchor who was fired in December.
Some CNN insiders think Cuomo's team flagged the relationship as revenge for his ousting, reports say.
Some CNN insiders suspect the former news anchor Chris Cuomo flagged Jeff Zucker's workplace relationship as revenge for firing him, multiple reports say.
Zucker resigned as CNN's president on Wednesday after admitting that he had failed to disclose a romantic relationship with Allison Gollust, a senior executive at the network.
In a memo, Zucker said he was asked about his relationship during an investigation into Cuomo, who was fired from the network last December after it emerged he had privately helped his brother, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, navigate a sexual-harassment scandal.
"Notice Zucker mentioned how this came from the Cuomo investigation," one senior CNN staffer told The Daily Beast after Zucker's announcement. "People think this is clearly Cuomo dragging down Zucker on his way out."
The New York Times cited two anonymous sources briefed on the matter as saying that Cuomo's legal team flagged Zucker's romantic relationship in discussions with WarnerMedia lawyers. WarnerMedia is CNN's parent company.
The WarnerMedia lawyers were interviewing Cuomo and CNN management about the anchor's eight-year tenure at the network, The Times reported.
In those discussions, Cuomo's lawyers claimed Zucker was hypocritical to suggest Cuomo had a personal conflict of interest when he was having a relationship with someone in the company, Politico reported, citing two sources.
Cuomo was said to be "livid" after his termination and making arrangements to sue CNN over the remainder of a four-year contract he signed in 2020, The Daily Beast and the New York Post reported at the time.
In an hourlong meeting with WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on Wednesday, the anchor Jake Tapper said: "An outside observer might say, 'Well, it looks like Chris Cuomo succeeded,'" The Wall Street Journal reported.
"He threatened Jeff. Jeff said we don't negotiate with terrorists. And Chris blew the place up. How do we get past that perception that this is the bad guy winning?" Tapper added, The Journal reported.
Representatives for Cuomo, Zucker, and WarnerMedia did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Cuomo once had a close relationship with Zucker, who personally recruited him from ABC News, The Daily Beast reported. Gollust also briefly served as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's communications director before joining CNN.
Zucker's sudden departure reportedly stunned many CNN staffers, who described him as a hands-on leader who took a personal interest in employees.
"Jeff was a great leader during a tumultuous time in the country," one senior network correspondent told New York Magazine.
"It's a mixture of shock and heartbreak. Jeff had relationships with everyone, from anchors to reporters to producers. Everyone loves Jeff," another CNN source told New York Magazine
https://www.businessinsider.com/havana-syndrome-may-caused-electromagnetic-attack-us-intelligence-report-2022-2
Mysterious 'Havana Syndrome' may be attacks caused by targeted electromagnetic pulses, US intel report says
1,000 people linked to US embassies worldwide have reported symptoms of the so-called "Havana Syndrome."
The CIA reportedly said it doesn't think a foreign power caused it, but is investigating.
An intelligence report this week said the illness may be caused by "pulsed electromagnetic energy."
The mysterious illness known as "Havana Syndrome" may be caused by a sort of "pulsed electromagnetic energy," a panel of US intelligence experts said.
More than 1,000 officials, employees, and families linked to US embassies and missions around the world have reported symptoms of the illness, which include headaches, vertigo, and sound heard in only one ear.
The first case was reported in Havana, Cuba, in 2016 but cases have since been reported in countries including France, Austria, Switzerland, and Vietnam. Two suspected cases were also found in Washington, DC.
On Tuesday, the Intelligence Community Experts Panel on Anomalous Health Incidents released a report on the illness and its likely causes, in which it said Havana Syndrome may be caused by "pulsed electromagnetic energy, particularly in the radio frequency range."
"Ultrasound also plausibly explains the core characteristics, but only in close-access scenarios and with information gaps," it said.
The panel added that it was possible the illness it could be caused by an external stimulus with "moderate power requirements," suggesting an electronic device.
The panel did not assess who was responsible for the attacks or why people were targeted. However, CIA officials said last month that the agency believed it was unlikely that a foreign power was responsible for the attacks.
"We assess it is unlikely that a foreign actor, including Russia, is conducting a sustained, worldwide campaign harming US personnel with a weapon or mechanism," a senior CIA official told The Washington Post.
However, that official said the agency would continue to investigate who was responsible.
The Intelligence Community Experts Panel panel said it received dozens of briefings, more than 1,000 classified documents, and anomalous health incident reports.
The panel ruled out "ionizing radiation, chemical and biological agents, infrasound, audible sound, ultrasound propagated over large distances, and bulk heating from electromagnetic energy" as explanations.
The panel also said that the illness did not appear to be a result of hysteria or delusion, as some people have suggested.
The panel's assessment matched that given by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in December 2020.
"Directed, pulsed radio frequency energy appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases," that report said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/judge-blocks-military-from-punishing-two-troops-seeking-religious-exemptions-to-vaccine-mandate_4254345.html
Judge Blocks Military From Punishing Two Troops Seeking Religious Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate
Services appear to be 'discriminatorily and systematically denying religious exemptions'
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and all other military officials are barred from taking punitive action against two service members seeking religious exemptions to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a federal judge ruled Feb. 2.
The Marine Corps. lieutenant colonel and Navy Command officer appear to have been “wrongfully denied a religious exemption from COVID-19 vaccination,” U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday, a George H. W. Bush nominee, wrote in a 10-page ruling.
The lieutenant colonel was told she would be disciplined starting Feb. 2 if she did not get one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to court documents.
The Navy officer, meanwhile, was told he would be removed from command of his ship on Feb. 3 if he did not start a COVID-19 vaccination series.
Both saw their religious exemption applications denied and appeals to the denials rejected.
Top military officials determined that the commander’s religious beliefs are sincere and would be “substantially burdened” by being forced to get vaccinated, but also claimed that granting the exemption request “would have a predictable and detrimental effect on the readiness of you and the Sailors who serve alongside you.”
In the Marines case, the lieutenant colonel’s religious opposition to any vaccine developed with fetal cell lines—all three COVID-19 shots cleared by U.S. regulators utilized aborted cells—stemmed from becoming pregnant from a rape, she said in a sworn declaration.
The rejection letter was identical to the letters received by 16 other sailors whose applications were denied despite each sailor getting their request endorsed by the woman, who is the unit’s commanding officer, and each sailor submitting “distinct, personal accounts of our religious practices and the method by which receipt of the COVID-19 vaccine would violate those tenets,” she added.
The denial letter, presented to the court, showed that a Marine official questioned whether getting a COVID-19 vaccine would substantially burden a religious belief because the same objections the lieutenant colonel lodged “could be made for every FDA approved vaccine [she has] received” in the military.
Even if the case could be made of a substantial burden, the official said that “the government’s compelling interests in military readiness and in the health and safety of the force” justified denying the request.
Both the Navy and Marine rejections failed to note that the branches have separately granted hundreds of medical exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Merryday, the judge, wrote.
The record in the case “creates a strong inference that the services are discriminatorily and systematically denying religious exemptions without a meaningful and fair hearing and without the showing required under RFRA (while simultaneously granting medical exemptions and permitting unvaccinated persons to continue in service without adverse consequence),” he said.
RFRA refers to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act—a law plaintiffs and defendants interpret differently.
The military has not established, and likely cannot establish, “that permitting the relatively small number of RFRA objectors, even if every request for exemption (much less the two at issue in this motion) were sincere and successful, to serve without adverse consequences to their standing and the terms and conditions of their service will adversely affect the public’s interest in the maintenance and readiness of the nation’s military forces,” Merryday added later. “In fact, the public undoubtedly has some considerable interest in maintaining the services of skilled, experienced, highly trained, patriotic, courageous, and esteemed service members, such as the two moving service members, in whom the public has an immense financial investment and who are not, to say the least, readily replaceable.”
The judge blocked punishment of the two members for now and ordered a hearing on Feb. 10 in federal court in Tampa, Florida.
Government lawyers had urged the court to not grant the request for a temporary restraining order, claiming it did not have jurisdiction to decide whether military commanders should remain in their positions.
“Plaintiffs invite this Court to begin judicial oversight of individual assignment, reassignment, and command decisions, asking this Court to enjoin the Navy from removing the commander of a warship and to stop withdrawal of another’s command selection. Such unprecedented judicial action would damage the military’s interests in readiness, health of service members, and good order and discipline, and the public interest in the national security of the United States,” they wrote in a filing that failed to sway the judge.
>The accusations were vile and, for me it shows they cannot be trusted under any circumstances
This has been their MO from day one. All it takes is 30 minutes browsing old /comms/ breads to see who they are.
https://www.businessinsider.com/democratic-rep-jamie-raskin-violated-federal-conflict-of-interest-law-2022-2
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin failed to properly report a massive stock payout for his wife — a Biden banking regulator nominee
Biden nominated Sarah Bloom Raskin as the Fed's vice chairwoman of supervision.
Her husband's paperwork shows the couple failed to properly disclose large holdings in Reserve Trust, a fintech company.
The late disclosures are a violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland violated a federal conflict-of-interest law by failing to properly disclose stock shares his wife received for advising a Colorado-based financial technology trust company.
The congressman disclosed information about the sale of Reserve Trust stock eight months after Sarah Bloom Raskin dumped the stock in late 2020 for $1.5 million, an Insider analysis of federal records indicates.
This violation of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act's disclosure provisions, which exist to promote transparency and defend against financial conflicts, comes at a time of significant national attention for the Raskins.
Jamie Raskin, who acknowledged the late filing to Insider, is a prominent congressman who led the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Sarah Bloom Raskin is President Joe Biden's nominee to fill the position of the government's most powerful banking regulator and is set to face a key Senate panel on Thursday.
If confirmed, Sarah Bloom Raskin would become vice chairwoman of supervision at the Federal Reserve , after having held top-level jobs at the US Treasury and the Fed during the Obama administration.
Yet she faces an uncertain confirmation path among Republicans and conservative Democrats in a narrowly divided Senate given that she has called for harsher financial regulations aimed at combating the climate crisis and supports tougher oversight on big banks.
The omission from congressional reports of the shares she held in Reserve Trust is likely to hand another round of ammunition to Republicans, who want to stall Biden's nominees. At least one conservative watchdog group is already questioning whether she used her past Fed connections to help the fintech trust.
In 2018, while Sarah Bloom Raskin sat on the advisory board, the Fed granted Reserve Trust unusual access to its master account — an enviable get that allows the company to move money for customers without relying on banks.
It's not clear when Sarah Bloom Raskin first acquired the shares. Jamie Raskin's office wouldn't say, and the White House only confirmed that Reserve Trust gave her the shares as compensation for her work with the company.
A Republican familiar with the materials Sarah Bloom Raskin disclosed to the Banking Committee, who spoke on condition of anonymity because that person wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the Fed nominee told them she acquired the stocks when she joined the board in 2017.
Ethics rules say that members of Congress have to report assets for themselves and their spouses every year if the assets are valued at more than $1,000. But Jamie Raskin didn't report the Reserve Trust holdings to the Clerk of the House in his annual reports representing 2017 to 2019, the years his wife served on the board.
Because the STOCK Act says that such assets from a member of Congress or a spouse have to be disclosed annually, Jamie Raskin should have reported them every year until their liquidation in 2020. The asset only appears on the 2020 report, which he submitted months after his wife cashed out the stock.
Sarah Bloom Raskin did not respond to an email about why her husband didn't disclose her holdings.
Insider's "Conflicted Congress" investigation, published in December, revealed that 54 members of Congress and at least 182 of the highest-paid Capitol Hill staffers, violated the STOCK Act with tardy or incomplete stock trades during 2020 and 2021.
The consequences for doing so are generally minimal, inconsistently applied, and not publicly recorded, Insider found. Since then, lawmakers on the left and right have introduced several bills to ban or otherwise limit their colleagues — and in some cases, spouses — from buying and selling individual stocks.
Relatedly, Jamie Raskin acknowledged that he was roughly seven months late disclosing that his wife sold her 195,936 shares in Reserve Trust for nearly $1.5 million on December 18, 2020. Stock purchases and sales exceeding $1,000 must be reported within 30 to 45 days after the transaction, depending on when a member learned of the transactions, according to the STOCK Act.
Jamie Raskin explained the task had fallen through the cracks because the liquidation happened just before the Raskins son, Thomas, died on December 31, 2020.
"We lost our son during the reporting period, and I filed the report late," Jamie Raskin told Insider.
Raskin has spelled out how she'd avoid conflicts of interest
Sarah Bloom Raskin's work with Reserve Trust is already drawing scrutiny, and The Hill reported that Republicans plan to ask her about it on Thursday.
Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Banking Committee where she's set to take questions about her nomination, tweeted about it Tuesday.
He also slammed the nominee for being part of Washington's "revolving door," a term used to describe the common practice in which high-level executives move in and out of roles in the public sphere and the more lucrative private sector.
It's unclear what role — if any — Sarah Bloom Raskin had in helping to secure the fintech trust's master account given her past work, connections, and knowledge of the Fed. The White House and Reserve Trust did not respond to Insider's questions on the matter.
"She said she didn't remember," said the Republican familiar with the materials she disclosed to the committee.
Reserve Trust has now been acquired by fintech venture capital company QED Fund. It obtained the master account in 2018, right in the middle of Sarah Bloom Raskin's work with the company.
Tom Jones, founder of the conservative research group American Accountability Forum, said Biden should withdraw Sarah Bloom Raskin's nomination over the omission and accused the Raskins of hiding the financial arrangement from the public.
"Sarah Bloom Raskin's behavior here is the worst type of revolving door crony capitalism," he said. "She took her connections and influence at the Federal Reserve and parlayed it into a $1.5 million payout. Adding insult to injury, she and her husband hid the deal from the public in violation of congressional ethics disclosure rules."
Biden on January 14 nominated Sarah Bloom Raskin to the vice chairwoman role, which was first created after the 2008 financial crisis. Raskin is currently a law professor at Duke University and is on the board of the Vanguard Group, one of the largest investment management companies in the world.
Filling out open roles at the Fed is crucial for the Biden administration as it gears up to get a handle on inflation, which has reached a 40-year high and has become a hot-button issue ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
Sarah Bloom Raskin detailed steps she would take to avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived, in a letter to the Fed's board of governors.
The Biden administration's "Ethics Pledge" requires members of the administration to recuse themselves from matters that would involve any former employers or clients that they worked with over the past two years. Raskin left the Reserve Trust in August 2019 so she wouldn't have to recuse herself from business involving the company, the White House said.
"Ms. Raskin's financial disclosures have been reviewed and certified by career ethics officials the Office of Government Ethics and the Federal Reserve," Chris Meagher, deputy press secretary at the White House, told Insider.
The White House said that she no longer held financial interest in Reserve Trust, "so no further divestiture is required."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/02/03/fncs-carlson-jeff-zucker-did-not-get-canned-for-his-sex-life-new-management-wanted-him-out-of-cnn/
FNC’s Carlson: ‘Jeff Zucker Did Not Get Canned for His Sex Life — New Management Wanted Him Out of CNN’
Wednesday, FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host Tucker Carlson dismissed the claim CNN head Jeff Zucker lost his position at the long-time cable news network for an improper romantic relationship he allegedly did not disclose.
According to Carlson, Zucker’s supposed indiscretion was well known, which made it difficult for Carlson to accept. The FNC host speculated it had more to do with other reasons, including bad ratings.
CARLSON: You probably heard CNN President, Jeff Zucker, got fired this morning. In a statement, Zucker said he has been dating a colleague, didn’t disclose it, and when his bosses found out, they made him leave. That’s not true.
Everyone in the TV business already knew about Zucker’s relationship with the head of CNN’s Marketing Department. Every executive in television has known about it for years, it was definitely not a secret. So Jeff Zucker did not get canned for his sex life. New management wanted him out of CNN for other reasons, including bad ratings, and maybe others that we’ll find out later.
So the relationship was just a pretext for what you saw. But as usual with CNN, you’ve got to wade through a lot of lies to get to what actually happened. So what happens next at CNN?
Well, for starters, let’s hope to get rid of the eunuch and his weird pop-eyed accomplice. The two have made a career of trying to kill free speech in this country. No news organization should ever employ people like that. It’s disgraceful.
As for who replaces Jeff Zucker, we hope it’s someone better. CNN is poison, we want that channel to improve. With Zucker gone, it’s at least theoretically possible it could happen. We didn’t like Jeff Zucker, we said that very clearly, for a long time. We attacked his programming decisions, we slammed his political agenda, we called him names, and we meant every word of it.
Still, on this day, when we should be celebrating Jeff Zucker’s departure, we’re not celebrating. Why is that? Because we see a pattern here.
There are an awful lot of contemptible leaders in Corporate America, maybe most of them, but only a certain kind of CEO ever gets fired. It’s not the weak ones, the guys who do what they’re told, issue the cringy statements and let the H.R. Department run everything, those people tend to keep their jobs until they retire. People like that just want to get it over with and cash out.
They don’t take risks. They don’t dare to build anything. They’re just caretakers. If their dignity is the price of job security, they are happy to pay it.
More than at any time in our history. America is run by people like that. It’s only the strong who are punished. Strong leaders tend to be abrasive. They’re arrogant. Sometimes they’re what we now call abusive. They ignore convention, they say outrageous things in public and private.
They don’t blend in with the group. Often, they alienate the more sensitive types around them. They don’t have maternal instincts. A lot of modern people are put off by strong leaders, but you’ve got to have them. Creative masculine energy is the essential quality in any civilization. It’s how we got civilization in the first place.
But increasingly, boisterous masculinity is systematically suppressed to make way for a timid caretaker class, for people who think the whole point of society is to get to zero COVID infections or eliminate all traffic deaths.
Those may sound like virtuous goals. In fact, they’re signifiers of decline. Not dying can never be the whole point. If it is, you’re already dead.
Our current leaders are fearful because they are old, but the opposite is also true. They kept power into their 80s because they put safety first. They put it over creativity, over courage, over leadership. Nancy Pelosi never built anything, neither has Joe Biden or Mitch McConnell. They’re not capable of building anything.
At the very best, they can preserve what others have built, not that they’ve even tried to do that.
So Jeff Zucker, whatever else we have said about him and meant, Jeff Zucker tried to do something new. We hated what he did. We did not share his vision. We found it repugnant and destructive, but at least Jeff Zucker had a vision. Too few still do.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/6500-evacuated-as-fears-grow-blazing-fertilizer-plant-may-explode-in-north-carolina_4251828.html
Thousands Evacuated as Fears Grow Blazing Fertilizer Plant May Explode
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—The city of Winston-Salem is working to evacuate 6,500 people as fears grow a smoldering fertilizer plant might explode near thousands of homes.
Fire trucks patrolled the mandatory evacuation area early Tuesday, blowing their horns and loudspeakers blasting a warning for people to evacuate as quickly as possible.
The mass exodus is due to a potentially explosive fire at the Weaver Fertilizer Co. in north Winston-Salem.
Just under 2,500 homes are within a mile of the plant, which stores tons of explosive materials as part of its products, the city said in a tweet.
Residents being are told to plan on being out of their homes for at least 48 hours, and roadblocks have been established around the area. A “reverse 911 call” went out at 6 a.m. Tuesday, to reach those who hadn’t yet left their homes.
The Education Building at the community’s fairgrounds has been opened as an emergency shelter, officials said.
“Don’t wait for something to happen. Something has happened. Now is the time to get out,” Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo wrote in a tweet just after midnight.
City officials are also warning people in the city as a whole to “avoid strenuous activities outdoors” due to the toxic air. People with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and respiratory illnesses were advised to stay indoors.
The smoke plume—which smells like “spent fireworks”—was expected to drift southwest Tuesday, to downtown Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University.
“Air quality will be poor,” officials said in a Facebook post.
Epoch Times Photo
The Winston Weaver Co. fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, N.C., continues to burn on Feb. 2, 2022. (Walt Unks/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)
Weaver Fertilizer released a recorded statement Tuesday, reporting “there have been no injuries or loss of life to any employees, first responders or citizens.” Plant officials also pledged “to participate fully in the investigation into the cause of the fire.”
The plant is known to include large quantities of volatile ammonium nitrate in its products, which prompted fire crews to pull back after 90 minutes, officials said on Facebook. One unmanned ladder truck has been hooked to a fire hydrant at the site, and it continues to spray water on a rail car that could potentially explode.
Emergency responders will not likely return to the plant site until late Wednesday, officials said at a news conference.
Investigators don’t know what caused the fire, but residents of the area reported hearing two “tremendous” booms.
Firefighters were called to the site about 6:45 p.m. Monday after someone reported a fire at the loading dock. They arrived to find “heavy fire and involvement in the building,” Mayo said in a video posted to Facebook.
“Subsequently the entire building has become consumed by fire and has collapsed in,” he said.
“The risk that is posed by this facility is, it stores ammonium nitrate … There is somewhere between 300 and 600 tons of ammonium nitrate in this facility. … At about 450 degrees, ammonium nitrate becomes pretty unstable. … It can explode.” (Fire officials later clarified those totals to report 500 tons of ammonium nitrate was inside the building and 100 tons was in a rail car outside the building.)
Such an explosion happened in 2013, he said, when chemicals at a Texas fertilizer plant ignited, killing 15 and destroying 120 homes, according to a report in the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
“That explosion involved 240 tons of ammonium nitrate,” Mayo said.
Winston-Salem Communications Director Ed McNeal warned the potential for an explosion “is not hyperbole.”
A drone flying over the flaming building has already confirmed “small explosions” have happened at the site, he said.
Wake Forest University announced it was canceling classes Tuesday and is opening up three campus sites to shelter students who are evacuated from their housing due to the fire.
“The evacuation area does not include on-campus housing, with the exception of Deacon Place, which is within the one-mile evacuation radius,” the university said.
The one-mile evacuation area is considered a “worst case scenario” of what would be impacted should an explosion occur, officials said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-department-leaked-documents-responding-russian-demands
State Department validates leaked documents responding to Russian demands, US holds firm on blanket NATO ban.
The State Department on Wednesday validated the authenticity of documents leaked to the press that revealed Washington’s response to Russian demands in exchange for de-escalating tensions with Ukraine.
"I have seen nothing to suggest these documents are not authentic," State Department press secretary Ned Price told reporters. "We did not make these documents public but now that they are we can confirm what we’ve always said – we are untied with our NATO allies in our resolve to engage in an open, constructive, serious set of diplomatic engagements."
Local residents train close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Russia's foreign minister claims that NATO wants to pull Ukraine into the alliance, amid escalating tensions over NATO expansion and fears that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine.
Local residents train close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Russia's foreign minister claims that NATO wants to pull Ukraine into the alliance, amid escalating tensions over NATO expansion and fears that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
The written responses by the U.S. and NATO were first obtained by El Pais after being submitted to the Russian Federation last week.
The State Department had remained mum on negotiations it laid out in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands which included a blanket ban on Ukraine’s ability to join the 30-member alliance and the placement of strategic strike weapons.
The U.S. and NATO once again flatly rejected the Kremlin’s calls for an admission ban on the former Soviet nation but said it would be willing to negotiate troop and missile deployment.
"The door remains open to discuss the ideas that are in this document," Price said. "Those ideas are not spelled out in terms of what it would look like in practice – how it would be executed.
"But it needs to be a discussion that takes place in the context of deescalation," he added.
El Pais, a Spain-based publication, did not disclose how it received the documents but reported that the U.S. rejected Russian demands to enter into a bilateral agreement on security in Europe.
An instructor trains members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces, in a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Dozens of civilians have been joining Ukraine's army reserves in recent weeks amid fears about Russian invasion.
An instructor trains members of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, volunteer military units of the Armed Forces, in a city park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Dozens of civilians have been joining Ukraine's army reserves in recent weeks amid fears about Russian invasion. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Washington and its NATO allies did propose several options to negotiate arms agreements and a "transparency mechanism" which would reveal where some "missile-launching bases" are located in NATO allied nations like Romania and Bulgaria as well as in Russia.
The U.S. chided Moscow for breaking the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with its production of SSC-8 missiles, ground-launched cruise missiles, which prompted the U.S. to pull out of the 1987 agreement in 2019.
But Washington did agree to enter into "bilateral conversations" with Moscow regarding short and long-range missiles – potentially paving the way for new disarmament agreements.
Price said the U.S. and NATO are still awaiting Russia’s response to the document, but the spokesman told reporters the Russian Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov appeared to indicate "that there will be an opportunity…for further diplomatic engagement."
Russian officials have repeatedly claimed it is not preparing for an invasion into Ukraine, despite its buildup of more than 120,000 troops along Ukraine’s border – a move that echoes steps taken prior to the 2014 incursion.
https://www.businessinsider.com/memos-alternate-electors-overturn-election-jan-6-new-york-times-2022-2
2 memos from 2020 show beginning of 'alternate electors' scheme and importance of January 6 deadline, The New York Times reports
Two memos from 2020 obtained by The New York Times highlight the importance of the date January 6.
The memos also detail the beginning of the "alternate electors" scheme.
The New York Times said the memos are the first known memos to outline a fake elector scheme.
Two memos obtained by The New York Times show the earliest known sketch of the plan to put forth fake pro-Trump electors for the 2020 presidential election and the Trump administration's interest in the January 6 date.
In an effort to overturn the 2020 election results in seven swing states that voted for Joe Biden, Pro-Trump supporters attempted to assume roles as electors and filed certificates claiming that Trump won, a nonprofit watchdog group called American Oversight found in March 2021. Previous electors had been chosen in fair elections.
In the first memo, sent to James R. Troupis, an attorney for the Trump campaign in the swing state Wisconsin, on November 18, 2020, another attorney, Kenneth Chesebro, argued that "the real deadline for settling a state's electoral votes" was January 6 — the day Congress meets to finalize the electoral vote count.
Chesebro added the deadline was not December 8 — which he said was the "'safe harbor' deadline under the Electoral Count Act" — or December 14 — which he said was the date "which electors must vote in their respective States."
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21196242-nov-18-trump-electors-memo?responsive=1&title=1
In the second memo, also obtained by The Times, sent to Troupis on December 9, 2020, Chesebro argued that "alternate electors" would be a legal act.
"Preferably all electors who were on the ballot in the particular State would be in attendance. But if some are unwilling (due to intimidation) or unable to make it, at least four of the States permit the electors who do attend to fill the empty slots with alternates," Chesebro said in the second memo, sent on December 9, 2020.
"The electors would then all vote for Trump for President, and Pence for Vice President, separately," Chesebro added.
Per The Times report, this reasoning led to Trump's failed attempt to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to prevent the certification of the election by Congress on January 6, 2021.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21196241-dec-9-trump-memo
The House select committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021 — including attempts to overturn the election and the Capitol riot — released a statement on January 28 saying 14 individuals who potentially acted as alternate electors had been subpoenaed.
Boris Epshteyn, Trump's former campaign advisor, admitted to MSNBC that he helped Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York and Trump's former personal lawyer, with the alternate elector scheme, as Insider reported in January.
According to The New York Times, citing an unnamed source, Rudy Giuliani, in addition to other attorneys such as John Eastman, used the memos to bring about "a strategy intended to exploit ambiguities in the Electoral Count Act."
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>Fucking idiots are thick here
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>Good luck you bunch of mindless quim.
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>Mewling over a board.
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>Fucking useless pathetic jokes.
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>Do the world a favor, and do a flip faggots.
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>An hero, all of you cunts.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/people-struck-by-canada-s-mysterious-brain-disorder-say-they-can-t-walk-talk-or-write-the-letterInauthentic Anon/ar-AATpCCq?ocid=msedgntp
At least 48 people in Canada have come down with symptoms indicative of a brain disease.
Episodes of pain are often followed by trouble walking, speaking, or performing basic tasks.
Officials say they've ruled out environmental causes and human transmission, but they don't have a diagnosis yet.
Dozens of New Brunswick residents have been struck with mysterious symptoms that point to a degenerative brain disorder, and authorities still don't have an explanation for the debilitating illness.
A report leaked in March 2021 noted a cluster of cases of what looked like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: spasms, memory loss, hallucinations, and severe weight loss as the condition keeps people from being active.
At the time, 48 cases had been identified, with symptoms starting between 2013 and 2020. However, a separate whistleblower from one of New Brunswick's health authorities told the Guardian that the mysterious illness had affected close to 150 by January 2022, and that many of those who got sick were young, previously healthy adults.
An investigation into the cases, previously headed by Canadian federal scientists, has lagged since it fell on the province. Provincial officials have promised to publish another report about the cases soon, but the public as well as patients and families are still awaiting information, Leyland Cecco wrote for The Guardian.
But there's still no report, and the case data on New Brunswick's public health website hasn't been updated since May 2021. People sickened with the illness don't even know what to call it, as there's no name or official diagnosis for the mysterious neurological disease.
For Terriline Porelle, it began with an "electric shock" pain in her leg during the summer of 2020, she told the Guardian. The pain crept up her arms and to her face in the days that followed. Soon, the 33-year-old's vision was like that of a 70-year-old, one optometrist told her.
One day, Porelle forgot how to write the letter "Q," and she went to a doctor for a brain scan. It came back normal, and provincial officials referred her to a neuropsychologist.
The specialist told Porelle she likely had PTSD. But Porelle has faced mental health challenges before, and she said the symptoms she has now are nothing like the anxiety and depression she's had in the past. She still struggles with declining mental function and says she relies on her partner for help with daily tasks.
"We've been given no resources from the government and no help," she said. "I don't know what to do. I try to keep positive, but it's hard. There are days when I don't know if I should even bother saving for retirement. Am I even going to live that long?"
Patients worry the investigation has slowed down
The January whisteblower told the Guardian that many cases with the symptom cluster have yet to be processed by the province, and many of the cases in backlog are among young people.
Of the cases reported so far, ages have ranged from 18 to 85. Nine people with illness have died, although the province notes that six of those individuals died of other known causes.
Previously, officials investigated and ruled out several environmental factors that could be causing the illness: blue-green algae, toxicity in shellfish, chronic wasting disease, or a toxic herbicide. None of the explanations have stuck, and some of the early patients have been left out of the loop.
Johanne Boucher, 63, told the Guardian she recently received a letter that said investigators would no longer be looking into her case. They suggested that she get some more tests — tests she said she had already taken — because her symptoms could be explained by Parkinson's disease or another form of brain degeneration.
For Boucher, who "can't even order a coffee" after completely losing her speech in late 2021, the news came as a shock. Her ability to speak deteriorated over four years, and she still doesn't have an explanation.
Read the original article on Insider
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I just think your inability to type the word Jew speaks volumes.
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>well then you are not noticing at all, I only appear after O-S_S spams the main board with off site links.
>Admits that they are terrified of real notables showing how shit their notables are… kek