Anonymous ID: fff284 QR Midnight Riders #197: Checkmate King Edition Jan. 14, 2021, 8:16 p.m. No.42628   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 14, 2021, 8:22 p.m. No.42630   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2643

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#196

>>42441 , >>42518, >>42553, >>42583, PF

>>42595 New Zealand central bank says cyberattack resulted in 'significant data breach'

>>42589 Watch: US Nuclear Submarine Approaches Iranian Naval Drills, Standoff Ensues

>>42584 OUTLINE OF THE OP

>>42581 , >>42586, Tósta na hÉireann

>>42580 Japan hails Britain's plan to send aircraft carrier group to Asia

>>42557 Boat Reporting

>>42551 PappyD (Twatt) Breaking: the President will have all declassified Obamagate files released to the American public as early as tomorrow

>>42517 @jsolomonReports After Trump bans, Facebook and Twitter saw combined $51 billion in losses, according to analysis

>>42509 Investigators pursuing signs US Capitol riot was planned

>>42493 , >>42500, >>42496, This is now as of 01.14.2020 the official channel of Sidney Powell - Attorney, Author, counsel for Gen. Flynn

>>42483 New Year’s Day, Delta Force operators infiltrated a Biden-controlled stronghold in southeast Ukraine near the port city of Mariupol

>>42476 ANTIFA Tactics at Jan 6 US Capitol Protest - Interview With Michael Yon, a war correspondent

>>42466 , >>42471, >>42485, >>42492, @jack busted , Twitter Insider Secretly Records CEO Jack Dorsey Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship, Veritas (vid 2:18)

>>42443 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT Q TOLD US. WE ARE THE CALM DURING THE STORM. BE NOT AFRAID, ENJOY THE SHOW.

>>42432 , >>42434, Black Lives Matter Activist Who Stormed Capitol on Jan. 6 Arrested, Charged

>>42621 #196

Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 14, 2021, 8:22 p.m. No.42631   🗄️.is 🔗kun

#195

>>42260, >>42273, >>42301, >>42307, >>42347, >>42349, >>42357, >>42381, >>42394, >>42399, >>42409 we love our planefag

>>42396 CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Antifa Protester John Sullivan Brags About Posing As Trump Supporter,

>>42367 Executive Order on Encouraging Buy American Policies For The United States Postal Service

>>42350 Project Veritas Election Fraud takes over Texas vid

>>42340 U.S. stock funds draw $2.2 billion in week

>>42334 Pulitzer winner Laura Poitras says she was fired for raising concerns about protecting whistleblowers

>>42328 Mailchimp blocked Virginia's top gun-rights group from sending newsletters through its service for unspecified reasons.

>>42321 Study confirms King Tut's dagger was made with iron from a meteorite

>>42317 Dr. #MoncefSlaoui, the chief scientific adviser of #OperationWarpSpeed, said he’s submitted his resignation at the request of President-elect Joe Biden.

>>42316 @USNavy Clear for takeoff

>>42315, >>42319 ODNI releases procedures on "attorney general guidelines" re: info collection on US citizens

>>42308 Toyota Motor Company to Pay $180 Million in Settlement for Decade-Long Noncompliance with Clean Air Act Reporting Requirements

>>42299 U.S. Seven Defendants Charged this Week as Part of Operation Clean Sweep

>>42297 O'Keefe: Jack, we have insiders coming to us literally about to blow the whistle on you

>>42305 THE PURGE: Disney Says Company Will Halt Donations to Lawmakers that Objected to Electoral Vote

>>42293 New statement from Trump.

>>42292 Parler judge balks at moving fast to restore site on Amazon

>>42291 Here's What Joe Biden May Announce Tonight, According To Goldman

>>42290 Ocasio-Cortez Wants To ‘Establish A Ministry Of Truth’ For The Media

>>42289 @JamesOKeefe Jack, we have insiders within your company coming to us literally about to blow the whistle on you…

>>42288 @USMC These #Marines engage targets during a live-fire .50 caliber machine gun range as a part of Fuji Viper 21.2 at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, #Japan …

>>42287 MIT professor,researcher arrested,charged w/ failing to disclose contracts, appointments and awards from entities in the People’s Republic of China to U.S. grant agency

>>42283 This week in 1920, Robert #Goddard's plan to use a multi-stage rocket to explore outer #space/reach lunar surface published

>>42282 Crews add barbed wire to fences near U.S. Capitol on Thursday (1/14)

>>42279 Follow case updates related to the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6

>>42278 Seeing Lots of Military Aircraft Over DC? It’s Probably NORAD.

>>42277 A 15-year-old from Veronia, Ore. has been charged over the Portland NYE riot where #antifa threw firebombs & started multiple fires

>>42276 DoD releases their latest Chinese ban list

>>42275 @usairforce Providing strategic depth

>>42274 The Bee: 20K troops in DC for inauguration said not to be enough to stop Trump's battlemech

>>42271, >>42272, >>42369 Pompeo wine

>>42269 The private security company for Biden's inauguration is called, "CHECKMATE."

>>42268 Comey: Biden should consider pardoning Trump

>>42264 Rep. Liz Cheney criticized by Wyoming #GOP for voting 'yes' on impeachment

>>42261 Seven Prominent Twitter Accounts Still Active After Promoting Violence and Disinformation

>>42258 Pompeo Announces Visa Restrictions Against Chinese Businessmen, CCP Officials Over S China Sea Spat

>>42254 US Gov can detect Iris pattern (know who you are) even with a mask on..

>>42246 Virgin Galactic shares blast higher as space-themed ETF set for launch

>>42245 Tom Hanks to host televised special for Biden's inauguration

>>42242 DC Metro Stations to Close for Days Leading Up to Inauguration

>>42241 McCabe Says Trump's Message Demanding Peace and Denouncing Violence is Actually "Coded Language" and a "Dog Whistle" to His Base to Fight

>>42421 #195

Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 14, 2021, 8:22 p.m. No.42633   🗄️.is 🔗kun

#194

>>42130, >>42141, >>42135, >>42156, >>42143, >>42165, >>42144, >>42156, >>42161, >>42165, >>42172, >>42176, >>42204, >>42215 planefaggins finest

>>42222 Dems Introduce Bill To Ban Trump From Entering US Capitol Forever

>>42207 BREAKING: Trump Team’s Peter Navarro Drops Third Major Report on Historic Election Fraud — Confirms “Trump Won”

>>42206 Why Alabama landed the national headquarters for Space Command

>>42198 Watch Fed Chair Jerome Powell live in a Q&A on the economy

>>42188 Short Interest in World’s Biggest ETF (SPY) Plunges to Decade Lows

>>42180 Facebook sold by Mark Zuckerberg: $94.17m since January 4, 2020

>>42187 CM now has Telegram

>>42186, >>42189 WH declass China policy strategy/pdf

>>42179 William McSwain, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Resigns

>>42178 President Trump reportedly has more pardons ready to go, also executive orders, plans to declassify Ukraine intel, and appoint special counsels. Unclear which he will do

>>42152 BlackRock results beat expectations as assets grow to $8.68 trillion

>>42147 Lou Dobbs vid

>>42139 no more United States of America on the C A logo.

>>42124 Xi Jinping Signs Order No. 1 'To Focus On War Preparedness' And Refers To The U.S. As 'Enemy'

>>42122 Executive Order taking further steps to deal with the threat posed by the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) increasing exploitation of United States capital

>>42046, >>42063 U.S. Navy w/CAP: @USNavy photos of the day: Sailors stand watch aboard #USSJohnSMcCain, #USSNorthDakota returns to @SUBASE_NLON

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Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 14, 2021, 8:23 p.m. No.42634   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 14, 2021, 8:23 p.m. No.42635   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 14, 2021, 11:06 p.m. No.42686   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2688

Looks like JudenClown are having a complete meltdown.

Merkel is out.

PM of Estonia resigns.

ITALY Government has COLLAPSED. Many Arrests.

The (((DUTCH))) government is considering resignations.

HAHAHAHA!

Fuck you, jews.

Your day in the SON, is OVER.

 

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/13/cdu-chair-merkel-conservatism-germany/

 

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-01-14/dutch-government-weighs-possible-resignation-even-as-it-battles-surging-pandemic

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/estonias-pm-resigns-corruption-scandal-party-75221440

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/italy-ministers-quit-coalition-putting-premier-conte-at-risk

Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 15, 2021, 12:18 a.m. No.42696   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2700 >>2766 >>2796 >>2841 >>2847

>>42694

Bakes did a rubbish notable anyway there was tons of reporting in MSM. That's what I get for being lazy and stealing, busted custard and embarrassed.

Thanks for the "how to and why", appreciate you taking the time to tell me how it is. Love that cat! kek Sleep tight fam

 

George HW Bush's sister, Nancy Bush Ellis, dies from COVID-19 complications

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George H.W. Bush's sister, Nancy Ellis, dies of COVID-19 complications at 94

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Nancy Bush Ellis, sister of former President George HW Bush, dies due to COVID-19

She was outspoken liberal before switching to GOP in 1979

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nancy-bush-ellis-sister-hw-bush-dies-covid-19

Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 15, 2021, 12:30 a.m. No.42697   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2700 >>2766 >>2796 >>2841 >>2847

CDU leadership vote: German party eyes post-Merkel future

The Christian Democratic Union will hold polls this weekend to determine who will succeed Germany’s second longest-serving chancellor.

Berlin, Germany – As Angela Merkel prepares to depart the stage after 15 years as chancellor, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has yet to choose who will lead the party into September’s federal elections, a decision with significant implications for the future of Germany and the European Union.

With attempts to hold an in-person conference frustrated by coronavirus restrictions, this Friday the CDU will convene a two-day online summit to determine its next chairperson who will outline the party’s post-Merkel direction and identity.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/13/after-angela-merkel-germanys-cdu-readies-to-appoint-successor

 

Angela Merkel to step down as German chancellor in 2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46020745

 

Angela Merkel announces she will step down as German chancellor in 2021

German leader takes responsibility for her party’s heavy losses in regional elections

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/angela-merkel-resigns-germany-chancellor-cdu-coalition-replacement-eu-a8606461.html

 

AUF WIEDERSEHEN Why is Angela Merkel stepping down as Chancellor of Germany and how long has she been in office?

Here's what you need to know about Angela Merkel and why she is stepping down as Chancellor of Germany

Erica Doyle Higgins

29 Oct 2018, 15:02Updated: 29 Oct 2018, 15:13????????

ANGELA Merkel has announced she is stepping down as Chancellor of Germany and will not seek re-election in 2021.

She has also said she is leaving the position of Chairman in her own party in December - here's what you need to know.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7609263/angela-merkel-chancellor-germany-resigns-party-chairman-cdu-election-losses/

 

AKK did not want Merkel's resignation from office, but parts of the CDU did

1/12/2021, 11:38:53 AM

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Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 15, 2021, 12:39 a.m. No.42698   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2700 >>2766 >>2796 >>2841 >>2847

Italy: ‘Cornerstone’ mafia trial begins with hundreds in dock

Prosecutors hope to strike a blow to Calabria’s ‘Ndrangheta by proving a web of crimes dating back to the 1990s.

Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri speaks to the media as he arrives to the tribunal for the trial of 355 suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta mafia accused of an array of charges [Yara Nardi/Reuters]

13 Jan 2021

Italy’s largest mafia trial in more than 30 years begins Wednesday, as prosecutors hope to strike a blow to the‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate,whose tentacles reach worldwide.

More than350 alleged members of the mafia and politicians, lawyers, businessmenand others accused of enabling them will face a judge in a huge, specially converted courtroom in the southern Calabrian town of Lamezia Terme, in the heart of ‘Ndrangheta territory.

Dozens arrested in Italo-Swiss sting against ‘Ndrangheta Mafia

Criminologist Federico Varese of Oxford University said the trial reflects the wide-reaching control of the‘Ndrangheta,who are embedded in the community and involved in every legal and illicit activity.==

“The real strength of these mafia families is they have control of the territory and within the territory they do everything,” said Varese. “If you want to open a shop, if you want to build anything, you have to go through them.”

“They are the authority.”

Prosecutors are seeking to prove a web of crimes dating back to the 1990s, including murder, drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering and abuse of office.

The trial “is a cornerstone in the building of a wall against the mafias in Italy”, anti-mob prosecutor Nicola Gratteri told the AFP news agency.

In Italy, so-called “maxi-trials”, which include scores of defendants and countless charges, are seen as the best judicial resource against the country’s various organised crime groups, of which the ‘Ndrangheta is now considered the most powerful, controlling the bulk of cocaine flowing into Europe.

The most famous maxi-trial of 1986-87 dealt a significant blow to Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, resulting in 338 guilty verdicts, but prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were later assassinated by the mob.

The current trial, expected to last at least a year and likely longer, features 355 defendants, more than 900 prosecution witnesses, and an unprecedented number of collaborators, given the close family ties within the ‘Ndrangheta that discourage turncoats.

Antonella Massaro, a professor of criminal law at the University of Rome 3, told Al Jazeera the trial was “very important” and could help prize open the secretive ‘Ndrangheta syndicate.

“The Ndrangheta, compared to Cosa Nostra [the Sicilian Mafia], is founded on a tight family network,” Massaro said.

“Up to now, it has been difficult to get them on trial as the logic of collaboration from insiders has [not been] effective – within the family you tend to protect.

“Potentially, you are uncovering a Pandora’s box so striking that it could have an effect on the consciousness of the people living in those lands.”

However, she did not expect things to change in this “historical moment” in southern Italy amid the coronavirus pandemic, because those with economic difficulties were likely to turn to organised crime for support.

Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 15, 2021, 12:39 a.m. No.42699   🗄️.is 🔗kun

‘Like a multinational’

The ‘Ndrangheta has expanded beyond its traditional domains of drug trafficking and loan sharking, now using shell companies and frontmen to reinvest illegal gains in the legitimate economy.

In many parts of Calabria, it has infiltrated practically all areas of public life, from city hall and hospitals to cemeteries and even the courts, experts say.

Authorities believe there are some 150 ‘Ndrangheta families in Calabria and at least 6,000 members and affiliates in the region. That swells to thousands more when including those worldwide, although estimates are unreliable.

“When the mafia … developed throughout Europe, especially in Germany, its structure changed and became more recognisable,” Massaro said.

The organised crime group generates more than 50 billion euros ($61bn) per year, according to Gratteri, who called it the world’s richest such organisation.

The prosecutor explained the ‘Ndrangheta as a network of families, each of which wield power over subordinates.

“I have to start with the idea that there’s an organisation, as in a business, as in a large multinational, with a boss and then down, like a pyramid, to all the other members,” Gratteri said.

 

Rubbing shoulders with the state

The current trial focuses on one family, the Mancuso group, and its network of associates who control the Vibo Valentia area of Calabria.

The town of Lamezia Terme, where the trial is taking place, was cited in a 2008 parliamentary organised crime report as a public safety emergency zone where the region’s “greatest increase in serious bloodshed has been recorded”.

Defendants include a high number of non-clan members, including an ex-parliamentarian, a high-ranking police official, mayors and other public servants and businessmen.

State apparatuses were “literally” at the Mancuso gang’s disposal, Gratteri said, following a wave of arrests in December 2019 throughout Italy and Europe that led to the trial.

But Al Jazeera’s Stefannie Dekker, reporting from Rome, said even if there were convictions when it comes to this particular family and their associations, there are still “far more powerful” entities within the ‘Ndrangheta that can continue to operate.

“We are not going to see even a dent in the operations of the organisation, but certainly the trial … shows people are starting to talk, or have a little bit more confidence in the legal system,” she said.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/13/italy-cornerstone-mafia-trial-kicks-off-with-hundreds-in-dock

Anonymous ID: fff284 Jan. 15, 2021, 12:59 a.m. No.42700   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2701 >>2706

>>42637 Dough

@60

 

#197

>>42698 ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate, whose tentacles reach worldwide, more than 350 alleged members of the mafia and politicians, lawyers, businessmen trial begins

>>42697 Angela Merkel to step down as German chancellor in 2021

>>42696 George HW Bush's sister, Nancy Bush Ellis, dies from COVID-19 complications

>>42687 Gab.com @getongab A must-listen spicy interview with the Scranton Times-Tribune (10mins)

>>42678 4 posts doc missed? kek thats going to make some one cranky

>>42668 , >>42676, Air Force Fires First-Ever Swarming Munitions From Fighter Jet

>>42667 The Destructive Hypocrisy Of The Political Left Is What Caused The Capitol Protest

>>42666 Mexican president mounts campaign against social media bans

>>42664 Did CNN collude in the Capitol Riot?

>>42651 , >>42655, Trump Declassifies 'Foot-High' Stack Of Russiagate, Obamagate Documents; Set For Release Within Days

#197

 

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