I'm pissed off
goodmorning.
>Camerota
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https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1303170472071356418
DEVELOPING: Investigators have learned that Obama CIA Director John Brennan ran a secret task force out of Langley with its own separate budget to investigate Trump campaign and alleged ties to Russia. Task force set up before FBI officially launched its own probe on 07/31/16
She's super.
silver doesn't know what the heck it wants
>gender reveal party
https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-serious-situation-chief-justice-john-roberts-will-decide-2020-election-dick-morris-predicts
‘A Serious Situation’: Chief Justice John Roberts Will Decide 2020 Election, Dick Morris Predicts
Former Clinton campaign adviser Dick Morris predicted during a Sunday interview that the 2020 presidential election is going to drag out because of mail-in voting and end up being decided by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
As Breitbart reported, Morris told “The Cats Roundtable” host John Catsimatidis that while he believes it will appear that Trump wins in a landslide on Election Night, Democratic officials in swing states will manage in subsequent days to discover millions of mail-in ballots in favor of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Regarding whether the election’s fallout will lead to civil war, Morris said, “Well, there certainly will be major conflict. I hope there won’t be civil war and it’s serious enough that I don’t take your question metaphorically.”
“The blue state governors are mailing out tens of millions of ballots, and they’re going to be returned with a vote on them, probably for Biden,” Morris continued. “And those people will not go to the polls to vote on Election Day. So what you’re probably looking at is that you’re going to have on election night a report that Trump carried […] all of the potential swing states.”
“And they’ll say that Trump has 330-350 electoral votes and won a landslide,” Morris went on. “And then, day after day, week after week, you’re going to find another million ballots counted here, another half-million there, another quarter of a million in another place. And gradually, these Democratic liberal secretaries of state who are in charge of the election in most of these blue states will say, ‘Oh, well, we’re sorry. It turns out Biden carried Wisconsin, not Trump.'”
Morris foretold that, “Then, the Trump people will sue. But that suit will have to be in state court. The state court judges are largely liberal, largely Democrat. And they are going to say, ‘Oh, we rule in favor of the state: Biden carried it.’ Then … they’ll probably go up to the federal courts. And the U.S. Supreme Court eventually will make the decision. And then the entire election will be in the hands literally of John Roberts. And we’ll see what he’ll do.”
“Dick Morris, this is a serious situation,” Catsimatidis interjected. “Me and you have been in politics for 30, 40 years. We know local politics. Nobody cross-checks mail ballots versus actual voting. There’s not enough people in the country to cross-check the difference.”
Morris, who agreed, said, “The Democrats, certainly if they feel they’re legitimately losing the election, are going to use the excuse of the COVID virus — nobody can come out and vote in person, they claim — and to mail-in ballots, and they’re going to deliberately game the system by sending in millions and millions of mail-in ballots for people that don’t exist or have already voted.”
“And the states will not verify the signatures, because they are under the control of Democrats,” Morris added. “And the courts will validate that process because they’re controlled by Democrats.”
During a Monday press conference on the North Portico of the White House, President Donald Trump predicted the fight over mail-in ballots is going to be “the dirtiest fight of all.”
>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-09/andrew-forrest-pledges-$70m-donation-to-bushfire-relief/11854654
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest pledges $70 million bushfire relief and recovery donation
The donation includes $20 million for immediate recovery and support
$50m was pledged to help create a national plan to mitigate bushfire threats
It comes after a wave of donations from celebrities and businesses worldwide
Major bushfire donors
Donor/s Amount
Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation $70m
Paul Ramsay Foundation $30m
Seven Group Holdings and Australian Capital Equity $10m
News Corp and Murdoch Family $9m
Crown and The Packer Family $5m
NAB $5m
Leonardo DiCaprio via Earth Alliance $4.3m
Murdoch family $4m
Coles $4m
AFL $2.5m
BHP $2m
Wesfarmers $1.7m+
Tabcorp $1.5m+
Westpac $1.5m+
Woolworths $1.5m
Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation $1.5m
Australian NBA stars $1m+
Commonwealth Bank $1m+
South32 $1m+
Boeing $1m+
Chevron $1m+
Petbarn Foundation $1m+
ANZ $1m
BlueScope $1m
Jeff Bezos/Amazon $1m
Shell Australia $1m
JBS $1m
Rio Tinto $1m
Qantas $1m
Orica $1m
Pratt Foundation $1m
Rio Tinto $1m
John and Pauline Gandel $1m
Elton John $1m
Chris Hemsworth $1m
Fortescue $1m
Kylie Jenner $1m
Hains family via Portland House Foundation $1m
The Perich Group $1m
Macquarie $1m
La Trobe Financial $1m
Lion $1m
Auction for Shane Warne's baggy green cap (purchased by the Commonwealth Bank) $1m
Holden $1m
James Gorman $1m
Metallica $750k
Lewis Hamilton $725k
JP Morgan $725k
BP $635k+
ASX $520k+
PwC $500k+
Scentre Group $500k+
Suncorp $500k+
Stockland $500k+
McDonald's $500k+
Mirvac $500k+
Woodside $500k
Justin Hemmes $500k
Kylie and Dannii Minogue $500k
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban $500k
Lendlease $500k
Pink $500k
Bette Midler $500k
Brambles $500k
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis $500k
*Table does not include fundraisers, such as Celeste Barber's efforts to raise tens of millions, or pledges conditional on future events, such as Nick Kyrgios' commitment to donate $200 for every ace he hits.
>https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/andrew-forrest-s-minderoo-foundation-to-fly-out-medical-supplies-from-china-20200401-p54g27.html
Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation to fly out medical supplies from China
West Australian iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation has bought 90 tonnes of medical supplies from Chinese suppliers, which will be flown into Perth to be distributed across the state and then Australia.
Mr Forrest said the foundation put $160 million "on the table" to secure the supplies, which had to be paid for with cash in advance, but the WA government would be buying the goods at cost.
He said a cargo plane was leaving Shanghai on Wednesday, with another due in in Perth on Friday and Saturday.
The Minderoo Foundation had secured 1 million N95-equivalent face masks, 400,000 surgical masks, 2.3 million medical-grade gloves, 100,000 nasal swabs, 200,000 medical coveralls, 10,000 medical goggles, 5000 touchless thermometers and 31 intensive care ventilators.
Mr Forrest said the money had to be put on the table to ensure suppliers they were serious about securing the equipment and to ensure supply lines remained open.
"We've been introduced by very powerful people in China to those suppliers," he said.
"They know there'll be instant repercussions if they don't [provide the supplies]."
The billionaire said China had been "great mates" to Australia.
"You've been our mates and I thank the People's Republic of China for protecting our critical medical orders in the face of intense pressure from other nations," he said.
China's consul-general to WA Dong Zhihua said the process of securing the supplies had been overseen by Chinese Ambassador Cheng Jingye.
"You can't imagine how many technical hurdles they had to overcome," she said.
"This outbreak of COVID-19 has caught us by surprise, which proves once again in a no less than tragic way that all mankind lives in a community of a shared future.
"In the face of the pandemic, to help others is to help oneself.
"The Chinese people will never forget that Mr Andrew Forrest and FMG has given us valuable support and assistance during the most difficult period of China's fight against COVID-19.
"The Chinese nation is grateful and always reciprocates others' kindness."
The Minderoo Foundation was also to increase WA's capacity to increase RNA-based diagnostic testing capacity from 400 per day to 10,000 a day, Mr Forrest said.
"We're aiming to use our partners in China and around the world and across Australia to help the West Australian government ramp up its COVID-19 RNA testing by some 20 times," he said.
Premier Mark McGowan welcomed Mr Forrest's intervention.
"If Minderoo is doing that … we welcome every bit of support from every West Australian whether you're a billionaire or a pensioner," he said.
The supplies would be used to meet demand in WA before being sent throughout Australia with the assistance of the federal government.
In an email circulated to health department staff on Tuesday, director general David Russell-Weisz said the hospital system had a four to seven-week supply of personal protective equipment.
This included 370,000 surgical masks, 104,000 N95 masks, 30,000 surgical gloves and 8 million gloves, but did not include a state emergency stockpile of medical supplies.
>Chief Justice John Roberts Will Decide 2020 Election
>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8707577/Ever-wondered-inspired-James-Bonds-bizarre-gadgets-New-book-reveals-genius-REAL-Q.html
The maverick genius who was the REAL 'Q': Ever wondered who inspired James Bond's bizarre gadgets? A new book reveals the gloriously eccentric story of 'MI9' and the boffin who invented exploding coal, steel-cutting shoelaces and domino maps
Whether it’s bagpipe flame-throwers, spear-wielding umbrellas or sports cars that turn into submarines, everyone has a favourite James Bond spy gadget, courtesy of the ever-resourceful ‘Q’ Branch.
While it has long been assumed that novelist Ian Fleming used an MI6 department as the inspiration for 007’s brilliantly bonkers gadgets — exploding shark capsule, anyone? — credit should actually go to MI9, or ‘Military Intelligence 9’, as revealed in a new book, MI9: A History Of The Secret Service For Escape And Evasion In World War Two, by Helen Fry.
A department so top secret that most people have never even heard of it, it relied heavily on the inventions of a prematurely balding maverick called Christopher Clayton Hutton.
‘Clutty’, as he was known, was a former soldier, airman and journalist, who had been obsessed with escapology and illusions since boyhood.
He was once described as ‘mad and brilliant’, and would have given today’s Q a run for his money when it came to inventiveness.
Set up in 1939 and run by Major Norman Crockatt (later Brigadier) and Clutty, MI9 was responsible for helping airmen and prisoners find their way home from behind enemy lines.
To this end, it supported resistance networks and encouraged a philosophy of ‘escape-mindedness’, drumming into every soldier that it was their duty to try to escape.
A single airman took three months to train at a cost of £15,000, so the War Office needed them back.
In turn, the boffins at MI9 did everything they could to support them, designing and supplying countless gadgets including pencil cameras, daggers hidden in pens, wire saws hidden in shoe laces and playing cards containing maps of Europe.
Clutty, in particular, was relentless in his task. He hired a magician to help devise hidden compartments and built himself an underground bunker in the middle of a field — in the grounds of the MI9 headquarters in Wilton Park, Beaconsfield — so he could work undisturbed.
Such was his disregard for protocol that he was frequently in trouble with the police and authorities for helping himself to Army stocks without permission, and would have given today’s Health and Safety executives multiple coronaries.
But he was a genius.
It was he who persuaded Waddington to adapt their Monopoly sets into escape kits, complete with maps of Europe and compasses. He also helped design the standard issue maps, nearly half a million of which were printed on non-rustling silk with non-running ink, which could be hidden inside a chess piece.
Naturally, it was also Clutty who came up with a compass concealed in a jacket button with reverse screw threads, on the basis that it would never occur to the ever-orderly German mind that something might unscrew the wrong way.
He was right.
And in 1942, every invention was carefully recorded in a large red leather-bound catalogue entitled Per Ardua Libertas — Liberty through Adversity — for the benefit of visiting American intelligence officers.
Of course, unlike 007’s flaming bagpipes and killer umbrella, everything MI9 created was small enough to be hidden inside something else.
Clutty’s gadgets might not have been quite as flamboyant as Bond’s bullet-proof Aston Martin or ski pole gun, but they actually worked.
Of the 35,000 British and Allied troops who escaped and made it to safety during the war, more than half were carrying one of his silk maps, and most were aided by at least one of the following inventions.
>one minute on Nov 11 2019
When's the Q gender reveal party?
somebody made some money?
seeing it at 16 just last year hurts with it floating above 26 now
Vietnamese store in Korea-town?
no source
>https://twitter.com/annabelcrabb/status/1303066827958878208
Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson tells RN Breakfast she will testify personally that Assange was offered a pardon by the Trump administration if he agreed to state that Russia was not involved in document leaks.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/judge-rejects-julian-assanges-bid-to-delay/12639112
Judge rejects Julian Assange's bid to delay US extradition hearing
Lawyers for Australian Julian Assange have failed in their bid to delay his extradition hearing after months of delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Wikileaks founder is fighting attempts to send to him to the United States, where he faces criminal charges of conspiring with hackers to access classified government information.
The charges carry a maximum prison term of up to 175 years.
Featured:
Barrister Jennifer Robinson, has represented Julian Assange for almost a decade
Duration: 11min 16sec
Broadcast: Tue 8 Sep 2020, 6:12am
I'm kind of a big deal.
>Suicide Watch
>originated in the United States military
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_juice
Two parts 180-proof grain alcohol, and three parts pineapple juice.