Twitter May Remove Unverified Election Result Claims

Twitter said Thursday it may remove unverified postings claiming electoral victory as part of a stepped-up effort to protect democracy, less than two months ahead of the US presidential vote.

The social media firm said that under a new policy in effect from next week, "we will label or remove false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process."

This will include "false or misleading information that causes confusion about the laws and regulations of a civic process," as well as "disputed claims that could undermine faith in the process itself, e.g. unverified information about election rigging, ballot tampering, vote tallying, or certification of election results."

The move comes amid rising concerns about when results will be verified for the Nov. 3 presidential election, in view of an expected large volume of mail-in ballots and criticism of that process by President Donald Trump.

The new policy also bans "misleading claims about the results" or interference with the electoral process such as "claiming victory before election results have been certified, inciting unlawful conduct to prevent a peaceful transfer of power or orderly succession."

Some analysts have suggested that Trump, who has a large social media following, may reject the results of the election or refuse to leave office if he loses.

The move by Twitter comes with social media firms facing pressure to deal with Trump's posts, which critics say could undermine the voting process, including his questioning the validity of mail-in ballots.

Both Twitter and Facebook have placed labels on Trump comments about mail-in voting.

The Twitter Safety team said it expects to take a strict approach to the updated policies.

"We will not permit our service to be abused around civic processes, most importantly elections," the company said.

"Any attempt to do so both foreign and domestic will be met with strict enforcement of our rules, which are applied equally and judiciously for everyone."

https://www.ibtimes.com/twitter-may-remove-unverified-election-result-claims-3043734

NY Gov. Cuomo reverses course: Allows restaurants to reopen at 25% capacity

Facing a class-action lawsuit from hundreds of New York City restaurant owners, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces indoor dining can reopen this month.

“Opening restaurants, I understand the economic benefit. I understand the economic pressure that there’s a whole industry around restaurants. We’re now announcing today that we can go to 25 percent of indoor dining,” said Gov. Cuomo in a press briefing.

But is the 25 percent capacity cap too little, too late to help the industry recover?

Gov. Cuomo described some of the protocols put in place, to ensure that this reopening is safe. There will be mandatory temperature checks at the door. One member of each party required to provide contact info for tracing if needed. No bar service, but you can still get drinks through your waiter or waitress.

https://saraacarter.com/ny-gov-cuomo-reverses-course-allows-restaurants-to-reopen-at-25-capacity/

Israel Funds America’s Israel Lobby, While U.S. Taxpayers Pay for Endless Fraud Against Themselves

Imagine for a moment that there is a foreign government that receives billions of dollars a year in “aid” and other benefits from the United States taxpayer. Consider beyond that, the possibility that that government might take part of the money it receives and secretly recycle it to groups of American citizens in the United States that exist to maintain and increase that money flow while also otherwise serving other interests of the recipient country. That would mean that the United States is itself subsidizing the lobbies and groups that are inevitably working against its own interests. And it also means that U.S. citizens are acting as foreign agents, covertly giving priority to their attachment to a foreign country instead of to the nation in which they live.

I am, of course, referring to Israel. It does not require a brilliant observer to note how Israel and its allies inside the U.S. have become very skilled at milking the government in the United States at all levels for every bit of financial aid, trade concessions, military hardware and political cover that is possible to obtain. The flow of dollars, goods, and protection is never actually debated in any serious way and is often, in fact, negotiated directly by Congress or state legislatures directly with the Israeli lobbyists. This corruption and manipulation of the U.S. governmental system by people who are basically foreign agents is something like a criminal enterprise and one can only imagine the screams of outrage coming from the New York Times if there were a similar arrangement with any other country.

The latest revelation about Israel’s cheating involves subsidies that were paid covertly by Israeli government agencies to groups in the United States which in turn took direction from the Jewish state, often inter alia damaging genuine American interests. The groups involved failed to disclose the payments, which is a felony. They also failed to register under the terms of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, which mandates penalties for groups and individuals acting on behalf of foreign governments. In particular, FARA mandates that the finances and relationships of the foreign affiliated organization be open to Department of the Justice inspection. It states that “any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or otherwise acts at the order, request, or under the direction or control of a foreign principal.” Those who fail to disclose might be penalized by up to five years in prison and fines up to $250,000.

Israel’s various friends and proxies, uniquely, have been de facto exempt from any regulation by the U.S. government. The last serious attempt to register a major lobbying entity was made by John F. Kennedy, who sought to have the predecessor organization to today’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) comply with FARA. Kennedy was killed before he could complete the process.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/10/israel-funds-america-israel-lobby-while-us-taxpayers-pay-endless-fraud-against-themselves/

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Joe Biden Campaign Firm Targeted By Russian Hackers, Microsoft Says

Russian hackers have targeted SKDKnickerbocker, a political strategy firm hired by Joe Biden's presidential campaign, in the past two months

The efforts were discovered by Microsoft and halted before any breach occurred

This is the latest in a long line of Russian efforts to intervene on behalf of President Trump

Microsoft said suspected Russian hackers targeted a political strategy firm affiliated with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign, Reuters reported Wednesday.

SKDKnickerbocker, a political strategy firm hired by the campaigns of Biden and many other Democratic candidates, was targeted over a period of two months, starting in July. Microsoft said it detected the attempts and alerted the targets, identifying the hackers as likely tied to the Russian government.

None of the attempted breaches was successful, and representatives of both the firm and Biden’s campaign declined to comment, Reuters said.

It’s still unclear whether the target was Biden’s campaign or one of the company's other clients, but Russian hackers have a history of supporting President Trump. The Mueller investigation found that during the 2016 presidential election, Russian hackers breached Democratic computer networks, attempted to coordinate with the Trump campaign, and spread disinformation and division through social media.

https://www.ibtimes.com/joe-biden-campaign-firm-targeted-russian-hackers-microsoft-says-3043573

Disney threatened to boycott Georgia over heartbeat law, filmed ‘Mulan’ near Uighur concentration camps

Viewers of the new 'Mulan' are 'potentially complicit in the mass incarceration of Muslim Uyghurs,' warned Hong Kong pro-democracy Joshua Wong.

Disney filmed Mulan in the region of China where Uighurs are imprisoned in concentration camps and more than a year after its CEO threatened to boycott the state of Georgia for passing a pro-life “heartbeat” bill.

The Daily Caller drew attention to Disney’s past anti-life stance in the wake of controversy erupting after Mulan’s online release Friday.

A live-action remake of Disney’s 1998 animated film, Mulan tells the story of a girl who disguises herself as a boy to fight in China’s imperial army in the place of her father.

Disney shot parts of the movie in China’s mountainous northwest Xinjiang province, the site of Beijing’s widespread human rights abuses against the Uighur people and other Muslim minorities – and the film’s credits thank eight agencies of China’s communist regime, reported the Guardian.

These include “the public security bureau” in Turpan, a city in eastern Xinjiang where several re-education camps detaining Uighurs have been documented, and the “publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee,” which is the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda department in Xinjiang, it reported.

Moreover, according to the Wall Street Journal, Disney shared its script with Chinese authorities and conferred with Chinese advisers so it could guarantee a cinema release in China, a market it was actively courting with the planning and release of Mulan.

The Daily Caller contrasted this activity to Disney CEO Bob Iger warning in May 2019 that the corporation might boycott Georgia after Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed a law prohibiting abortion if a doctor can detect the unborn baby’s heartbeat. The law took effect this January, but is currently blocked as a court battle over it ensues.

Iger told Reuters then it would be “very difficult” to film in the state once the law was on the books because a lot of people in the movie business wouldn’t want to work there.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/disney-threatened-to-boycott-georgia-over-heartbeat-law-filmed-mulan-near-uighur-concentration-camps?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

Confronting the Lies about the Virus: The Fear Campaign Has No Scientific Basis

Closing down the Global Economy as a means to combating the Virus.

That’s what they want us to believe.

If the public had been informed that Covid-19 is “similar to Influenza”, the fear campaign would have fallen flat…

The data and concepts have been manipulated with a view to sustaining the fear campaign.

The estimates are meaningless.

The figures have been hyped to justify the lockdown and the closure of the national economy, with devastating economic and social consequences.

The Virus is held responsible for poverty and mass unemployment.

Video: What is Covid-19. The Fear Campaign has no Scientific Basis. Michel Chossudovsky

With Excerpts from Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Speech to a Mass Protest Movement in Berlin

Note: According to scientific opinion, Covid-19 is akin (similar) to Seasonal Influenza (Flu) (Viruses A, B), Covid-19 is a coronavirus.

The common cold is often triggered by a coronavirus. “Common human coronaviruses, including types 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1, usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses, like the common cold.”

Seasonal influenza is not a coronavirus.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-what-is-covid-19-the-fear-campaign-has-no-scientific-basis/5723219

Deutsche Bank Predicts New World ‘Disorder’, Cold War Between US and China

The new report comes on the heels of predictions by market analysts and hedge funds that the US dollar could lose over a third of its value against the euro and slide against other currencies in the coming months owing to poor US economic performance and ballooning debt in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

The world is “on the cusp” of a new era marked by instability, disorder and the fragmentation of the previous period of globalisation, Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany and one of the largest financial institutions in the world, has predicted in a new report.

In a document for clients entitled the ‘Long-Term Asset Return Study’, the bank suggests that the coronavirus crisis has accelerated, but not caused, the coming about of what lead analyst Jim Reid refers to as the new ‘Age of Disorder’, in which deteriorating relations and divergent interests between the United States and China replace the age of “unfettered globalisation” (and smooth, easy profits) which began in the early 1980s.

“In terms of geopolitics, tension between the US and China should ‘characterise the era of disorder’ as China continues its path of restoring its historic role as a global economic powerhouse while preferring its own values to Western liberalism,” a summary of the report published on the bank’s website notes.

China is expected to overtake the United States in terms of nominal GDP by the end of the current decade, with the sea change expected to escalate a danger of the so-called Thucydides Trap (i.e. the heightened risk of military conflict between two rival powers when one catches up to another economically). The report recalls that wars took place in 12 of the 16 times that the Thucydides Trap has occurred over the past five centuries

https://sputniknews.com/business/202009101080420147-deutsche-bank-predicts-new-world-disorder-cold-war-between-us-and-china/

Adam Schiff's Latest Russia 'Whistleblower' Investigated By House Intel, Inspector General, & Was Fired From DHS For Surveilling Press

On Wednesday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has unveiled a new whistleblower - former DHS intelligence official Brian Murphy, who claims that Trump administration officials at the White House and Department of Homeland Security suppressed intelligence reports that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election, and 'altered intelligence' related to comments made by President Trump.

"We’ve received a whistleblower complaint alleging DHS suppressed intel reports on Russian election interference, altered intel to match false Trump claims and made false statements to Congress," Schiff tweeted, adding "We will investigate."

We’ve received a whistleblower complaint alleging DHS suppressed intel reports on Russian election interference, altered intel to match false Trump claims and made false statements to Congress.

This puts our national security at risk. We will investigate:https://t.co/Z7npo3P6zv

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) September 9, 2020

Except, Schiff did investigate - his whistleblower - for allegedly 'providing incomplete and potentially misleading information to Committee staff,' according to the New York Times.

Not only that, Murphy was fired from his job as the head of DHS's intelligence branch and reassigned after he compiled reports about protesters and journalists reporting on the Trump administration's response to the riots in Portland, Oregon in July.

Brian Murphy, the acting under secretary for intelligence and analysis, was reassigned to a new position in the department after his office disseminated to the law enforcement community “open-source intelligence reports” containing Twitter posts of journalists, noting they had published leaked unclassified documents, according to an administration official familiar with the matter. It was not clear what Mr. Murphy’s new position would be. -New York Times

As a result of Murphy's actions, acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf asked the Inspector General to investigate.

Here's the New York Times article on Murphy when he was reassigned… EVEN Democrats and media know he's a liar.

Murphy is also under investigation by the inspector general.https://t.co/dRpqaDcIZo

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 10, 2020

And now, Murphy is a 'whistleblower' and has things to say. Did Schiff get him to flip? And if so, is he telling the truth?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/adam-schiffs-latest-russia-whistleblower-investigated-house-inspector-general-and-was

Tens of Millions Displaced By ‘War On Terror,’ the Greatest Scam

A report from Brown University’s Costs of War Project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced as a result of America’s so-called War on Terror since 9/11, a conservative estimate of a number that may actually be somewhere between 48 million and 59 million.

That number — “at least 37 million” — happens by pure coincidence to be the exact same number of Americans reported to suffer from food insecurity because their government spends their wealth and resources killing and displacing people overseas.

This inconvenient revelation, which was actually reported on by The New York Times for once, is causing conniptions for all the right people, with The Washington Post‘s neoconservative war propagandist Josh Rogin ejaculating, “The @nytimes should be ashamed for running this as ‘analysis.’ Blaming the U.S. for the displacement of 7 million Syrians is crazy and dishonest. Way to launder anti-American propaganda.”

Sure Josh, it’s not like the extremist forces who flooded Syria with the goal of toppling Damascus were backed by the U.S. and its allies and sprung into existence as a direct result of the regional destabilization caused by Western interventionism in the name of fighting terror. Oh wait no that’s exactly what happened.

“This has been one of the major forms of damage, of course along with the deaths and injuries, that have been caused by these wars,” the lead author of the report David Vine told The New York Times. “It tells us that U.S. involvement in these countries has been horrifically catastrophic, horrifically damaging in ways that I don’t think that most people in the United States, in many ways myself included, have grappled with or reckoned with in even the slightest terms.”

Tens of millions of people forced to flee their homes in desperation as a result of the violence and destabilization caused by U.S. interventions justified by the need to fight “terrorism.”

How many Americans have indeed grappled with or reckoned with this in the slightest terms? Contemplated the scale and the depth of the suffering those interventions are causing real human beings with the same capacity for anguish as themselves? Asked themselves if the ends really justify the devastating means?

And, perhaps most importantly, asked themselves if they are quite sure who the real terrorists are in this situation?

We are ruled by monsters.

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/09/10/tens-of-millions-displaced-by-war-on-terror-greatest-scam/

Oh look Israel is selling more tech to the US's enemies!!!!

Despite Sanctions, Israeli Firm Cellebrite Sold Phone-hacking Tech to Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro's regime says it bought tech from Cellebrite, …

https://www.haaretz.com/

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium-despite-sanctions-israeli-firm-sold-phone-hacking-tech-to-venezuela-1.9144879

France Asserts Itself in Iraq as US Withdraws. Macron’s Trip to Baghdad

As the United States continues to drawdown its presence in Iraq more than 17 years after invading it, other powers have their eye on the vacuum that will be left by Washington cutting its losses and departing.

French President Emmanuel Macron recently made a trip to Iraq, pledging economic, military, and political support for the embattled government of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, reigniting discussion about France’s role in Iraq since the 1980s and its arms sales to the former regime of Saddam Hussein.

Domestically, however, neighbouring powers are once again being eyed with suspicion as thousands of tonnes of fish have mysteriously died in Iraq’s southern marshlands.

Local tribes reliant on both fish and water buffalo for their livelihoods have been affected, with some alleging foul play from actors originating in both Iran and Turkey, both large regional economies attempting that export significant quantities of food, including seafood, to Iraq.

France asserts itself as US withdraws

French President Emmanuel Macron has declared a raft of aid and support packages to assist the beleaguered Iraqi government, as reports indicate that the United States is planning further troop reductions in the embattled country.

US plans to withdraw from Iraq may be interpreted as an opportunity for other former world powers to reassert themselves on the international stage

Thousands of American troops could be heading home from Iraq this November, according to unofficial remarks made by anonymous US officials to the Wall Street Journal last Friday.

American troops are in Iraq to train and advise Iraqi security forces battling the Islamic State (IS) group, but the relationship has been rocky at times in large part because of periodic attacks by Iran-backed militia groups that are not fully controlled by the Iraqi government.

US troops, after invading Iraq and toppling President Saddam Hussein in 2003, had withdrawn from the country in 2011 only to begin returning in 2014 after IS militants swept across the Syrian border and took control of large swaths of Iraqi territory.

If enacted, the move would be in line with President Donald Trump’s campaign promises to bring American soldiers home from “endless” war and conflict zones abroad.

“We look forward to the day when we don’t have to be there,” Trump said then. “We were there and now we’re getting out. We’ll be leaving shortly and the relationship is very good.

“We’re making very big oil deals. Our oil companies are making massive deals…We’re going to be leaving and hopefully we’re going to be leaving a country that can defend itself.” But American plans to withdraw may be interpreted as an opportunity for other former world powers to reassert themselves on the international stage.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/france-asserts-itself-us-withdraws/5723506

#CancelNetflix trends after 'Cuties' release, as media critics dismiss outrage at child sexualization as 'right-wing campaign'

The debut of ‘Cuties’ on Netflix has sparked renewed accusations that the streaming giant is sexualizing kids — but the New Yorker seems unbothered, sparking backlash after calling the anger over the movie a “right-wing campaign.”

‘Cuties,’ which debuted on Netflix on Wednesday, previously inspired controversy over a poster featuring pre-pubescent girls posing provocatively. The synopsis accompanying the photo didn’t help either, describing an 11-year-old who begins to “explore her femininity” as she tries to join a “twerking dance crew.”

Netflix apologized for the “inappropriate artwork” used to promote the French film, but now footage from the movie itself has critics branding it “soft core child pornography” and deeming those behind it criminals.

While the movie has plenty of critics, it also has its defenders. The New Yorker, for instance, called the movie "extraordinary" and said it had become "the target of a right-wing campaign." New Yorker critic Richard Brody backs up this theory by saying that "some well known figures of the far right" are upset over the film — though if social media reaction is anything to go by, the outrage over the film is hardly restricted to conservatives

Meanwhile, in the UK Telegraph’s review, ‘Cuties’ is described as a “provocative powder-keg for an age terrified of child sexuality.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/500399-cancel-netflix-cuties/

How Australia's gone from being the envy of the world by flattening the curve at the height of the pandemic to a global embarrassment as power-hungry premiers destroy livelihoods and tear families apart - and why all we can do is watch

Australia was hailed in the early stages of COVID-19 for containing its infections

Some states have continued to keep their borders closed to outside residents

Victoria has some of the harshest restrictions in the world including a curfew

A Ballarat woman was handcuffed in her home for organising an online protest

Two elderly Melbourne women were threatened with arrest for not providing ID

Four Sydney children aged under 13 can't visit their dying father in Queensland

There's a scene in the classic 1986 Australian film Crocodile Dundee when the title character's wide-eyed American love interest asks if a reptile with a knife stuck in its skull is dead.

'Well, if it isn't it'll be a helluva job skinning the bastard,' Paul Hogan's laconic Mick Dundee says.

It will be a hell of a job convincing the rest of the world Australia is still the home of the larrikin spirit embodied by Hogan as they watch how parts of the country are dealing with COVID-19.

And it will be a hell of a job for a nation in recession for the first time in 29 years to undo the economic and social damage being done by ongoing lockdowns forced on the population by inflexible politicians.

By the time that is done, like Dundee's unfortunate crocodile, Australia as we know it could be dead.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8708091/How-Australias-reaction-COVID-19-global-embarrassment-draconian-lockdowns.html

Australian diplomats 'interfered in a Chinese legal case' by sheltering correspondents Bill Birtles and Mike Smith, China says

The Chinese Government has accused Australian officials of obstructing their law enforcement agencies when they sheltered two Australian journalists in diplomatic compounds last week.

Key points:

The ABC's Bill Birtles and AFR's Mike Smith took refuge in the homes of Australian diplomats in China

Both journalists had been slapped with a travel ban and ordered to submit to questioning

Australian government officials suspect the harassment of the men is part of a retaliation over a foreign interference investigation

The ABC's Bill Birtles and the Australian Financial Review's Mike Smith arrived in Sydney on Tuesday morning after a five-day diplomatic stand-off between the two countries.

Several Australian Government ministers have praised the way Australian diplomats handled the negotiations and secured permission for both correspondents to leave China.

But on Thursday night, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Australia's decision to shelter both men on diplomatic premises while the talks progressed was "an interference in China's internal affairs and judicial sovereignty".

"Australia's actions in organising the two journos to hide in the embassy completely exceeds the scope of consular protection and in fact is interference in a Chinese legal case," he said.

"This practice is inconsistent with the status and identity of the Australian embassy in China."

Birtles and Smith both took refuge with Australian diplomats after they were slapped with travel bans and Chinese Ministry of State Security officers demanded the pair submit to questioning.

Australian and Chinese officials negotiated for days before reaching an agreement to lift the bans in exchange for the two journalists agreeing to be interviewed.

Both men say they were asked about Australian TV presenter Cheng Lei, who worked for Chinese state broadcaster CGTN and has been detained on suspicion of endangering national security.

Birtles and Smith had met Cheng Lei, but neither knew her well. Both men said they believed they were being deliberately harassed by the Chinese Government.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade had previously warned the ABC and Nine, owner of the Australian Financial Review, that there were risks to Birtles and Smith's safety if they remained in China.

One Australian Government source dismissed the Chinese Foreign Ministry's latest attack and said the embassy simply relied on universally accepted principles of diplomatic protection.

A spokesman for Foreign Minister Marise Payne declined to comment.

The saga has fed into the increasingly poisonous relationship between Australia and China. This week Beijing also lashed out at Australia over an investigation into a foreign interference which has embroiled a number of Chinese journalists and academics in Australia.

Australian Government officials suspect that the Chinese Government's attempt to harass and intimidate Birtles and Smith was – in part — retaliation for that investigation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-10/china-accuses-australian-embassy-of-blocking-police-bill-birtles/12652348

QAnon cult shows America should fear the enemy within

The US faces great danger if Trump loses the election in November

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Mention terrorism and most Americans will instantly think of Islamist extremists. On Friday the US will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the September 11 2001 terror attacks. In reality, America should nowadays be far more worried about far-right threats. Two-thirds of its terrorist incidents last year were carried out by homegrown extremists from the far-right. That rose to 90 per cent in the first five months of this year.

Many of these were inspired directly or implicitly by QAnon, the extremist cult that is often downplayed as a fringe conspiracy group. That label should be kept for UFO spotters and people who think the British royal family killed Diana, Princess of Wales. As the FBI has concluded, QAnon bears all the ingredients of a “domestic terror threat”.

In contrast to any comparable threat, QAnon has the sympathy of senior US figures, including, implicitly, that of Donald Trump. Whether the president knows much about the group’s bizarre cult theology is beside the point. He retweets them and welcomes their support.

The great danger to the US will come if Mr Trump loses in November as opinion polls indicate is likely. In QAnon theology, that will be the equivalent of the infidels occupying the Holy Land. QAnon’s world view is literally predicated on Mr Trump as their only hope of defeating the satanic forces that control America’s deep state.

Many Americans do not take the threat seriously. This is despite the fact that QAnon-inspired gunmen have carried out or attempted several recent attacks. Most of the successful white nationalist attackers, including in Christchurch, New Zealand, have issued manifestos on 8chan, or 4chan, QAnon’s preferred websites, using similar rationales to the group.

That also applies to the rightwing extremist who killed 23 Hispanics in a shopping mall in Texas last year. Another killed 11 Jewish worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue the year before. There have been dozens of smaller incidents or foiled plots. Americans are used to screening out white perpetrators as lone wolves or people with mental health problems.

https://www.ft.com/content/fd781ff9-93bc-422a-8eee-55a0749a5f25?shareType=nongift

Seven Charged in Connection with a $2.1 Million Money Laundering Scheme that Involved Money from the Paycheck Protection Program

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seven-charged-connection-21-million-money-laundering-scheme-involved-money-paycheck

Biden’s Billionaires

Many years ago, while participating in a voter registration drive, I came upon a grizzled and disheveled old man sitting in the overgrown and weed-infested yard of his paint-starved house calming smoking his pipe. Despite his gruff demeanor, Ully (Ulysses) was very pleasant and loquacious as we talked for over an hour on topics ranging from the weather to the innate foibles of mankind. It turned out that he had to leave school after the fourth grade in order to work in the fields to help support his family and had toiled in a variety of menial and labor-intensive jobs ever since. Yet, he had a deep and thorough insight into human nature. Among his comments about the rich and ostensibly well-educated was: “All the money in the world cain’t buy a fool a lick of common sense.”

I was reminded of that observation after reading an article describing the 131 billionaires who are pouring millions into the coffers of the Democrat party and Joe Biden’s campaign in their mindless obsession to defeat President Trump in November. Among the prominent names areJeff Skoll, a founder of eBay who has contributed $4.5 million;Laurene PowellJobs of Apple and owner of The Atlantic magazine has donated $1.2 million, andJosh Bekenstein, Chairman of Bain Capital (co-founded by Mitt Romney), $5 million.

Far more Wall Street financers have also jumped on the Biden/Democrat party bandwagon than are supporting Donald Trump, whose policies have overwhelmingly revived the economy after the stagnation of the Obama-Biden years. The tech billionaires, not content to simply cough up untold millions in direct political contributions, are also funding massive voter drives, promoting mail-in balloting, creating divisive partisan news sites, aiding and designing the Democrat party’s digital campaigns and unabashedly censoring the social media accounts of the Trump campaign and innumerable conservatives.

The political party they are gleefully underwriting in order to oust Trump is no longer the party of the middle and working class (which is now one and the same) but a two-tier assemblage in which the prey is sleeping with the predator. The witless wealthy and socially aware are in bed with the avowed socialists and militant Marxists. What is holding this marriage of convenience together is a mutual hatred of Donald Trump and the undoable promises made by Joe Biden and the Democrat party hierarchy.

In a 2019 meeting with 100 super-wealthy potential donors, Biden assured the gathering that he would not demonize the rich and would only increase their taxes slightly while ensuring that their standard of living would not be affected by any of his policies. He also stated: “I’m not Bernie Sanders. I don’t think 500 Billionaires are the reason why we are in trouble”. Further, he unabashedly emphasized that the wealthy are not the reason for income inequality and “If I win this nomination. I won’t let you down. I promise you.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/bidens_billionaires.html

‘Operation Crystal Shield’ Cracks Down On ‘Ruthless’ Meth Cartels

919 pounds of methamphetamine seized by DEA before reaching the streets of West Texas and New Mexico

WASHINGTON – Today, Attorney General William P. Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the results of Operation Crystal Shield, DEA’s six-month-long effort targeting the command and control elements of Mexican cartels that operate major methamphetamine “transportation hubs” in the United States.

At a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, Attorney General Barr and Acting Administrator Shea announced that in just six months, Operation Crystal Shield generated a total of more than 750 investigations, resulting in nearly 1,840 arrests and the seizure of more than 28,560 pounds of methamphetamine, $43.3 million in drug proceeds, and 284 firearms.

In the DEA El Paso Division alone, which covers West Texas and New Mexico, DEA conducted 101 investigations, made 176 arrests, and seized 919 pounds of methamphetamine, $ 1,165,777 in drug proceeds, and 19 firearms.

“In the months leading up to the launch of Operation Crystal Shield, communities across the United States experienced a surge of methamphetamine,” said Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea. “The COVID pandemic locked down many communities and impacted legitimate businesses, but the drug trade continued. Under difficult conditions, DEA – along with our federal, state, and local partners – never stopped working as we helped stem the flow of methamphetamine onto our streets, even as violent drug traffickers sought new ways to smuggle it into the United States. The success of Operation Crystal Shield reflects the devotion of DEA and our partners to protect our communities from the scourge of drug trafficking and violent crime under any circumstances.”

“Methamphetamine abuse destroys lives and seriously affects the quality of life in communities where it takes hold,” said Kyle W. Williamson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Division. “By disrupting distribution networks, seizing their profits and putting dealers behind bars, DEA and its law enforcement partners are keeping dangerous drugs like methamphetamine off the streets and making communities safer.”

DEA launched Operation Crystal Shield on February 20, after identifying nine major methamphetamine trafficking hubs: Atlanta, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Phoenix, San Diego and St. Louis. Together these nine cities accounted for more than 75 percent of methamphetamine seized by DEA in 2019. Under this operation, DEA directed enforcement resources to these cities where methamphetamine is often trafficked in bulk and then distributed across the country.

Operation Crystal Shield leveraged existing DEA initiatives that target major drug trafficking networks, including the Mexican cartels that are responsible for the overwhelming majority of methamphetamine trafficked into and within the United States. From FY 2017 to FY 2019, DEA domestic seizures of methamphetamine increased 127 percent from 49,507 pounds to 112,146 pounds. During the same timeframe, the number of DEA arrests related to methamphetamine increased by nearly 20 percent.

https://breaking911.com/operation-crystal-shield-cracks-down-on-ruthless-meth-cartels/

NEW: DOJ Records Show Weissmann, Other Mueller Henchmen Claimed to Have “Accidentally Wiped” at Least 31 Phones Used in Russia Probe

Newly released DOJ records show “pitbull” Andrew Weissmann and multiple Mueller henchmen claiming to have “accidentally wiped” at least 31 phones used in the anti-Trump Russia probe.

The documents were uncovered thanks to a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit.

The phones were all conveniently wiped after the DOJ IG asked for the devices to be handed over — some phones wiped themselves, according to the DOJ!

The records show virtually all of Mueller’s lawyers used the same tactic: Put their phones in airplane mode, lock them and then nuke the phones by repeatedly entering the wrong password.

The wrong password must be entered 10 times in a row in order to nuke the phone.

“Employee tried to incorrectly enter password too many times, and the phone was wiped of all data” – one entry shows in the OIG records.

“During out processing conversation… [redacted] indicated she had to wipe her phone because she forgot the password. Her phone had to be wiped to be reset because the passcode provided was inaccurate and the phone was left in airplane mode.” – another entry stated.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/new-doj-records-show-weissmann-mueller-henchmen-claimed-accidentally-wiped-least-31-phones-used-russia-probe/

https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1303850978786054146

Catherine Herridge

@CBS_Herridge

NEW #Durham According to NBC News transcript, asked by @PeteWilliamsNBC

if “it's unlikely there'll be further criminal charges?” Attorney General Barr said, “No, I wouldn't say that at all, no.” READ FULL EXCHANGE: PETE WILLIAMS: Let me ask you finally about the Durham report.

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