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09-0016 USAF C-32A on approach to Luke AFB west of Phoenix
Citigroup, Closely Tied to the Clintons, Had a Senior V.P. Outed as a QAnon Promoter, a Conspiracy Group that Reviles the Clintons
this is old news but a nice, brief wrap-up of the back-story with Shitigroup history on how we got here
This is the perfect litmus test of just how little mainstream media knows about the dangerous Wall Street banks. Last Thursday, the fact-checking website, Logically, outed Jason Gelinas, who was living a secret-life as a promoter of the conspiracy group, QAnon, while also holding down a Senior V.P. technology position at Citigroup, a giant Wall Street bank that played a key role in the financial and economic collapse of 2008. But instead of headlining the story as “Citigroup V.P Outed as QAnon Promoter,” dozens of headlines described Gelinas as “NJ Man.” (Check out the “NJ Man” headlines here.) As far as we’re aware, there is no context in which the state of New Jersey would be relevant to this story, but there certainly is relevance when it comes to Citigroup.
Citigroup has remained strangely silent about the matter, declining to respond to a request from a Bloomberg News reporter as well as an email inquiry sent by Wall Street On Parade. It’s an embarrassment to Citigroup for sure. A leaked FBI memo that specifically names QAnon, indicated that such groups may pose a domestic terrorism threat. That’s not exactly someone you want in a senior role in technology security at one of the largest banks in the country.
QAnon’s conspiracy theories stem from an anonymous poster known as “Q,” whom QAnon followers believe is a person inside the Trump administration helping the President uncover and expose an evil cartel that includes child sex traffickers. In the eyes of QAnon commenters, Trump has taken on super action figure status while Hillary and Bill Clinton have been designated permanent roles in the evil cartel. Deconstructing the posts on the various QAnon websites, it’s very hard not to draw the conclusion that Q is someone in the Trump campaign, or a zealous Trump supporter, simply trying to throw red meat to Trump’s base and keep them engaged.
We located a French language website, DisSept.com, which has a direct link to the QAnon website set up by Gelinas, QMap.pub, (now taken down but visible at the Wayback Machine) and echoes the same themes: Trump is out to save the U.S. while the Clintons are pure evil. A website analytics firm, SimilarWeb.com, shows that DisSept.com was the main referral site to QMap, although the bulk of QMap’s 10 million visitors a month in May, June and July were coming directly to the site, not through a referral site.
There is heavy irony in Citigroup now being outed as the employer of Gelinas, whose LinkedIn resume (also now removed) indicated he had worked for the bank for the past 17 years. Citigroup has a heavy history with the Clintons. President Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary was Robert Rubin. After Rubin helped to engineer the 1999 repeal of the 1933 banking legislation known as the Glass-Steagall Act, allowing federally-insured banks to merge with Wall Street trading casinos, Rubin became a member of the Citigroup Board of Directors and reaped $120 million in compensation over the next decade. Citigroup desperately needed the repeal of this legislation because it had already illegally merged Citicorp with Salomon Brothers the prior year. Sandy Weill, the Co-CEO at Citigroup in 1999, who lobbied for the repeal of Glass-Steagall, was given a commemorative pen from the Clinton signing ceremony that repealed the legislation. Just nine years after the repeal, Wall Street banks like Citigroup blew up Wall Street, taking down the U.S. economy in the process. According to PolitiFact, Citigroup was the bank that provided the Clintons with a $1.995 million mortgage to buy their Washington, D.C. residence in 2000, as President Bill Clinton’s second term in the White House was ending.
Citigroup also paid Bill Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees after he left the White House according to financial disclosure forms. The bank also committed at least $5.5 million to the Clinton Global Initiative — a nonprofit created by Bill Clinton in 2005, after leaving the White House. The nonprofit previously brought global leaders together annually to make action commitments.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Citigroup was the number one contributor to Hillary Clinton’s reelection run for the Senate in 2006. Goldman Sachs was number two. The banks are not allowed to donate directly to the candidate. The money comes from bank employees, their spouses, and the banks’ political action committees.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/09/citigroup-closely-tied-to-the-clintons-had-a-senior-v-p-outed-as-a-qanon-promoter-a-conspiracy-group-that-reviles-the-clintons/
TEAL73 USAF WC-130J Hercules with runs across Hurricane Sally and near the very dis-organized eye
The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, a component of the 403rd Wing located at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., is a one-of-a-kind organization. It is the only operational unit in the world flying weather reconnaissance on a routine basis.
The mission of the Hurricane Hunters is to recruit, organize and train assigned personnel to perform aerial weather reconnaissance. They provide surveillance of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean,
the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the central Pacific Ocean for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The unit also flies winter storm missions off both coasts of the United States. WC-130Js carry a basic crew of five: pilot, co-pilot, navigator, flight meteorologist and weather reconnaissance loadmaster. The pilot, who serves as the aircraft commander, and the co-pilot man the flight controls. The navigator keeps track of the aircraft's position and movement and monitors radar to avoid tornadic activity. The flight meteorologist acts as flight director and observes and records meteorological data at flight level using a computer that encodes weather data every 30 seconds. The weather reconnaissance loadmaster collects and records vertical meteorological data using a parachute-borne sensor known as a dropsonde. It measures and encodes weather data down to the ocean surface.
https://www.403wg.afrc.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/192529/53rd-weather-reconnaissance-squadron-hurricane-hunters/
Revolve Group sold by TPG Consumer Partners: $73.04m-September 11
a sale of $101,322,083 on August 17th, 2020 as well
Revolve Group, Inc., formerly Revolve Group, LLC, is fashion accessories retailing company. The Company provides an online platform, which offers over 45,000 apparel, footwear, accessories and beauty style products from more than 500 emerging, established and owned brands. The Company offers apparels for both men and women in various categories, which include active wear, denims, intimates, jackets and coats, wedding dresses, jumpsuits, loungewear, pants, rompers, shorts, skirts, sweaters and knits, swimwear and tops. The Company offers varieties of shoes, which include boots, booties, flats, heels, mules, sandals, sneakers and wedges. Its beauty and other accessory products include lipsticks, nail polishes, shampoos, conditioners, dry shampoos, hair styling products, moisturizers, eye care products, hats, sunglasses and eyewears, belts, scarves, backpacks, cluthes, travel bags, rings, bracelets and necklaces. Number of employees : 1 008 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/REVOLVE-GROUP-INC-59178690/company/
TSG Consumer Partners is a San Francisco, California-based private equity company. The firm was founded in 1987, and was among the first private equity firms to invest exclusively in consumer product companies. The firm was founded in 1987 as the Montgomery Consumer Fund, a partnership with an initial equity interest from Montgomery Securities. In 1988 the firm's founders, J. Gary Shansby and Charles H. Esserman, repurchased Montgomery Securities' interest and renamed the company The Shansby Group. The firm changed its name to TSG Consumer Partners in 2005 when Esserman became CEO. Shansby left the firm in 2005 to focus on philanthropic projects as well as health issues.
The firm has been noted as an anomaly in the private equity industry for its high percentage of female employees – 50 percent of the firm’s employees are women, compared to 13.7% of private equity professionals in North America. In its most recent fund, TSG reported a net return of 50 percent, more than double the industry average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSG_Consumer_Partners
TPG Portfolio
https://www.tsgconsumer.com/portfolio
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1755514&tc=7&b=2
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