Oracle CEO Donated Quarter of a Million Dollars to Sen Graham's Super PAC 3 Days Before TikTok Deal

TikTok discarded the offer of another American tech giant, Microsoft, before reaching an agreement with Oracle, which is expected to protect the Chinese video platform from being banned on the territory of the US over accusations of being a threat to national security.

CEO of the tech giant Oracle, Larry Ellison, donated a hefty sum of $250,000 to the "Security is Strength" Super PAC, which only supports Senator Lindsey Graham's re-election bid, three days before TikTok announced that it would strike a deal with Oracle to avoid being banned in the US.

Graham, who is currently trailing slightly in the polls behind his Democratic opponent, Jaime Harrison, previously claimed that he would be the one responsible for saving TikTok from being pushed out of the US should a deal be reached. He namely shared that he tried to personally convince Trump to let TikTok "thrive" under the control of an American company. It is, however, not entirely clear if his involvement affected the deal between the video platform and the tech giant.

"If TikTok is saved, you can thank me", Graham boasted.

According to the Federal Election Commission's data, first unearthed by the Verge, Ellison made his generous donation on 14 September, while the deal between the Oracle and TikTok's owner, Chinese company ByteDance, was announced on 17 September.

The "Security is Strength" Super PAC has spent most of the raised money so far on placing ads supporting Graham's bid for the Senate in the 3 November vote – over $740,000, according to the analysis of the Open Secrets Centre.

US Crackdown on TikTok

TikTok's owner ByteDance was forced to seek a partnership with American companies in order to avoid a ban in the US after President Donald Trump accused the platform of transferring Americans' data to the Chinese government and of being a national security risk due to its alleged capability to meddle in the upcoming election. While the company has denied all accusations and filed a suit against the White House for its attempts to block the app's downloads in the US, it still negotiated, primarily with Microsoft and Oracle, to organise a joint venture to control TikTok's operations on US soil.

The platform announced on 17 September that Oracle would become its technological partner in the US. Later it was announced that retail giant Walmart would also take part in the deal, becoming TikTok's commercial partner. The deal suggests the creation of a new company, based in Texas, that will run the platform's operations. US President Donald Trump announced on 19 September that he "blessed" the trilateral deal. He later added that Oracle and Walmart must have total control over TikTok under the agreement, stressing that otherwise, he will proceed with TikTok's US ban.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202010171080803774-oracle-ceo-donated-quarter-of-a-million-dollars-to-sen-grahams-super-pac-3-days-before-tiktok-deal/

Giuliani Says It’s Reasonable To Worry About Biden’s Allies Potentially Killing People

New York City — Rudy Giuliani says the computer repair shop owner who provided him with a copy of Hunter Biden’s alleged hard drive made four copies and distributed two to friends “in case he was killed.”

Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, made the comments during an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller’s senior White House correspondent Christian Datoc while describing the timeline of how the copy of Biden’s alleged hard drive came into his possession.

“They gave it to the FBI, the FBI took it,” the former New York City mayor stated. “He told the FBI agent he was afraid of the consequences.”

Giuliani further explained that the shop owner made copies of the drive, and though he gave the original to the FBI, “he held on to four copies of it.”

“He gave two to friends of his in case he was killed,” Giuliani continued. “Don’t laugh. The presidency is at stake and we have some very dangerous people involved. I’ve been in law enforcement long enough to know you don’t laugh at that. The reality is, he kept four copies and gave two to friends in case he was killed.”

Though he claimed the information he said he will release in the coming weeks will effectively end Biden’s election chances within 10 days of election day, he would not commit to ever releasing the hard drive in its entirety to be inspected by the media.

Giuliani says the hard drive originally came into his possession after the Mac Shop owner created four copies to distribute to his friends because he feared for his life. He passed along the original, physical hard drive to the FBI, and finally handed over the copy in Giuliani’s possession to Robert Costello, Giuliani’s attorney, months later. He claims the shop owner attempted to give it to other Republican operatives but no one would take it.

Giuliani claims the hard drive corroborates a tip he received from a confidential informant about a secret meeting between Hunter Biden and former Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken at the State Department that violates the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). In total, he claims the hard drive includes “six or seven” FARA violations.

Giuliani claimed that text messages sent by Hunter Biden indicate a “kickback” program where he sent “half of his salary” back to Joe Biden, “which is a Chinese method of corruption.” He did not answer questions about whether there were bank documents or other evidence supporting that claim contained on the hard drive.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/17/rudy-giuliani-reasonable-worry-biden-campaign-potentially-killing-people-hunter-biden-laptop/

More Than 200 Million Americans Could Have Toxic PFAS in Their Drinking Water

A peer-reviewed study by scientists at the Environmental Working Group estimates that more than 200 million Americans could have the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS in their drinking water at a concentration of 1 part per trillion, or ppt, or higher. Independent scientific studies have recommended a safe level for PFAS in drinking water of 1 ppt, a standard that is endorsed by EWG.

The study, published today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters, analyzed publicly accessible drinking water testing results from the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Geological Survey, as well as state testing by Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina and Rhode Island.

“We know drinking water is a major source of exposure of these toxic chemicals,” said Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., vice president for science investigations at EWG and a co-author of the new study. “This new paper shows that PFAS pollution is affecting even more Americans than we previously estimated. PFAS are likely detectable in all major water supplies in the U.S., almost certainly in all that use surface water.”

The analysis also included laboratory tests commissioned by EWG that found PFAS chemicals in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities. Some of the highest PFAS levels detected were in samples from major metropolitan areas, including Miami, Philadelphia, New Orleans and the northern New Jersey suburbs of New York City.

There is no national requirement for ongoing testing and no national drinking water standard for any PFAS in drinking water. The EPA has issued an inadequate lifetime health advisory level of 70 ppt for the two most notorious fluorinated chemicals, PFOA and PFOS, and efforts to set an enforceable standard could take many years.

In the absence of a federal standard, states have started to pass their own legal limits for some PFAS. New Jersey was the first to issue a maximum contaminant limit for the compound PFNA, at 13 ppt, and has set standards of 13 ppt for PFOS and 14 ppt for PFOA. Many states have either set or proposed limits for PFOA and PFOS, including California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont.

“It’s not too late for this Congress to protect us from the growing PFAS contamination crisis,” Faber said.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/10/more-than-200-million-americans-could-have-toxic-pfas-in-their-drinking-water.html

French government imposes curfew on 20 million citizens to handle COVID crisis

Meanwhile, the ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 infections in France appears to be only a wavelet.

PARIS, France, October 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A strict curfew will take effect as of Saturday in eight major cities in the Eastern half of France as well as the greater Paris region, affecting over 20 million people — close to one third of the French population.

By ordering people off the streets from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. for four weeks — or six, if Parliament approves the “state of sanitary emergency” law until April 1, 2021, that has already obtained the vote of the National Assembly (or lower chamber) — the government officially aims to slow down hospitalizations and occupation of ICU beds in hospitals due to COVID-19.

How such closures — when only about 10 percent of known contamination clusters appear in restaurants, bars and other evening venues — are going to change anything remains a mystery.

The announcement was made on Wednesday evening during a television interview that saw French president Emmanuel Macron explain, “We are slowly learning again how fully to be a nation; we had gradually become used to being a society of free individuals. We are a nation of citizens in solidarity.”

His words were widely interpreted, both on social media and by a small but slowly increasing number of journalists, as meaning that personal freedoms are no longer acceptable in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic — which is now sending ten times fewer people to the hospital than at the height of the pandemic in March and April, and causes only slightly more daily deaths at present than an above average flu season. The Wuhan coronavirus appears to have weakened in strength even though it is “circulating actively” throughout the country, as the authorities repeatedly warned.

The curfew, which is enforced with a €135 fine (about $150) for first-time offenders, and €1,500 to €6,000, and even up to six months imprisonment, for repeat offenders, came as a shock to the French because it is reminiscent of the time of the German occupation in 1940–1944 during the Second World War. The only other curfew Parisians can remember dates back to the “Guerre d’Algérie,” the war of independence of France’s former colony Algeria at the beginning of the 1960s.

It is in practice a death penalty for an estimated 30 percent of restaurants in the affected areas, with bankruptcies, job losses and indirect losses to suppliers and related businesses, as many of these establishments, especially the most prestigious ones, make a large proportion of their income from dinner guests after 8 p.m. Bars, theaters, cultural activities and cinemas will also be heavily hit as young people are deprived of their meeting points, while families will not be able to invite their friends given working hours up to 7 p.m. or later, and the time it takes to reach home before the fatal “21 hours” mark turns all and sundry into potential delinquents.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/french-government-imposes-curfew-on-20-million-citizens-to-handle-covid-crisis?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

NYC Harvesting Student And Teacher DNA

What happens when medical testing and interventions enter the schools? Are bureaucrats and school superintendents practicing medicine without a license? Who is collecting DNA? Where is it going? For what purpose?

NY Teachers For Choice

NYC public school teacher and founder of NY Teachers for Choice, Michael Kane, has been outspoken on new medical mandates such as COVID testing being forced upon public school youth, teachers, and professionals. If teachers refuse COVID testing, they will be placed on unpaid leave.

On his website, NYTeachersforChoice, Michael shares his blog, “Is NYC Stealing Teacher and Student DNA? Michael requested answers from local leaders and State officials including United Federation of Teachers Union President Michael Mulgrew, City Mayor Bill De Blasio, and others. Their responses?

Crickets.

The harvesting of DNA by state government is a blatant invasion of bodily privacy. The mandatory COVID testing (i.e., swabs for DNA harvesting) is taken by “a trained individual” and not by a doctor or nurse. Why is there no reasonable accommodation made for such testing outside of schools for those who want some privacy?

Michael writes:

While every teacher who wants to get the coming COVID vaccine should have easy and quick access to it, do we really want our unions or governments forcing medical procedures upon us to keep our jobs?

Why is this happening in the NYC public schools when over 50 percent of all students are fully remote because they opted out of the hybrid model (attending in person school 2-3 days a week)? Is NYC a beta test of the full U.S. population? Who is collecting the swabs?

NYC has contracted with the private company, Fulgent Genetics, for testing. Fulgent Genetics owns a proprietary library of genetic information. Michael asks the obvious question of officials: does the company have the right to catalogue student and adult DNA that is provided to them? Michael has filed a complaint with public advocate Jumaane Williams. What could Fulgent Genetics do with DNA 5-10-20 years down the road? Will it be sold? What will it be worth?

As of October, 2020, Fulgent Genetics, Inc. company shares have gained +259.77% over the last six months, with this year growth rate of 557.89%, compared to 2.8% for the industry. Insiders own 58% of shares. An estimated revenue figure of $58.49 Million for the next quarter is predicted by December 01, 2020.

In a recent interview with Jason Goodman, Michael Kane questioned current mandates that will lead to compulsory vaccination. Ironically, these mandates are promoted through the unions. The head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, wants to force vaccinate “in person” teachers, suggesting that she would not be required to participate, herself. Her close relationship with the Gates Foundation is a blatant conflict of interest. Further, such an experiment on the human population, without data, violates the Nuremberg Code which calls for informed consent on any patient or subject involved in any procedure or test.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/10/nyc-harvesting-student-and-teacher-dna.html

Susan Collins Donated To QAnon Supporters Running For Office

The embattled Maine senator dropped $400 into the coffers of two men running for the state legislature.

Sen. Susan Collins, the Maine Republican facing stiff competition from Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, donated to two state legislature candidates who support the bizarre conspiracy theory QAnon, Mainer was first to report Friday.

Both of the Republican candidates, Kevin Bushey and Brian Redmond, received $400 from Collins’ political action committee, Dirigo PAC, recordsshow.

A request for comment from Collins’ office was not immediately returned.

Polls show Gideon has a solid lead over Collins, a centrist whose 2018 vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court kicked off a massive fundraising effort for her eventual opponent.

She has recently drawn the ire of President Donald Trump for a “nasty rumor” that she would not vote to support his latest Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. It is more than just a rumor: Collins pledged last month not to vote on Trump’s nominee to fill the seat vacated by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Now, in the final weeks of her campaign, Collins is facing criticism for indirectly promoting QAnon, a baseless far-right conspiracy that posits Trump is fighting a deep-state cabal of Satanic pedophiles. Its followers have exhibited violent tendenciesin the past.

Trump also sparked outrage when he was asked about the conspiracy theory during his town hall Thursday night and dodged by claiming to know “nothing” about the group.

“What I do hear about it is they are very strongly against pedophilia, and I agree with that,” the president said, adding that they “fight it very hard.”

Both Bushey and Redmond are military veterans running to represent districts in northern Maine.

Their social media activity showed them advocating for QAnon and its convoluted belief system, according to Mainer, which also interviewed Redmond.

“What I understand about the QAnon program is that the military is going to need to intervene eventually,” Redmond told the outlet, explaining that “Nazis never lost World War II” because although ”[Nazism] was dissolved, they were consumed into the U.S.A., and the rich, cultist, Satanist families continued to utilize this Nazi force.”

“The end of World War III will end with Donald Trump,” Redmond said. He is challenging Democrat David McCrea, a second-term incumbent.

Bushey, whose writings and views are not difficult to find on the internet, is challenging Democrat John Martin, currently serving his 21st non-consecutive term in the Maine House.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/susan-collins-donated-to-qanon-supporters-running-for-office_n_5f89ed81c5b62dbe71c2939f?ri18n=true&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

What are they playing at now?

>>11122395

>Did a non- anon inject this to make anons look foolish so fakenews could attack anons?

Yes

A no-feel Sexxit? UK reintroduces sprawling casual-sex ban amid nationwide lockdown ramp-up

The UK government has warned horny citizens that getting down with someone who lives outside their household will violate strict new lockdown measures which have reanimated an unpopular policy from earlier this summer.

British couples who don’t live together have once again been banned from bonking by London’s coronavirus restrictions, which - as of Friday - forbid individuals living in “high risk” Tiers Two and Three regions from staying overnight at the house of someone outside their “bubble.” Unlike similar regulations rolled out over the summer, even individuals in an “established relationship” are strongly discouraged from getting it on.

The new rules prohibit mixing of households indoors unless the individuals involved are members of a support or childcare “bubble.” Traveling to the next town to have a sleepover with your significant other of several years is right out, as is taking home that hot little number you met at the bar (which closed, as Covid-19 diktat requires, at 10pm) - at least, for all who live under Tiers Two and Three, designated “high” and “very high” risk areas for Covid-19 transmission.

As of this week, Tiers Two and Three encompass all of London, Essex County, and most of the north of England, as 10 Downing Street added some 26.7 million people to the growing majority of Britons who will be forbidden from hooking up with their lovers.

“The purpose of the measures we’ve put in place is to break the chain of transmission between households,” a spokesman for PM Boris Johnson stated on Friday, explaining why there was no exemption for “established relationships” in areas designated Tiers Two and Three. “You should mix with your own household only unless you’ve formed a support bubble.”

While the spokesperson admitted that “obviously that does apply to some couples,” he reiterated that “there is greater transmission of the virus indoors” - words of wisdom that perhaps could be interpreted as encouraging virus-crossed lovers to try their hand (or other body parts) at al-fresco loving.

Perhaps embarrassed to probe even more deeply into residents’ sex lives, the Department of Health has also avoided trying to pin down what constitutes an “established” couple, other than to suggest that those “in the early stages of a relationship” should be careful to obey social distancing.

“If you intend to have close contact with someone, you should discuss how you can help to prevent risks of transmission as a couple, for example, by ensuring you are both avoiding close contact with people you do not live with,” they stated.

https://www.rt.com/uk/503755-sex-ban-couples-not-living-together/

By backing housing charity’s ‘Jewish only’ rule, UK court drops the ball. Aren’t we all equal in Britain?

A small legal challenge has turned into a precedent-setting case about whether someone in today’s Britain can be prioritised or denied housing on the basis of their religion.

The law isn’t always right and it’s not just people who can be taken hostage.

In a disgraceful decision deemed legitimate by the UK’s highest court, a single mother with four children was refused social housing – because she wasn’t a Jew.

It’s that simple.

The charity Agudas Israel Housing Association (AIHA) owns 470 houses in the London borough of Hackney. Local authorities promised, in October 2017, the next available home to the woman and her kids, two of whom are autistic.

AIHA refused to hand over the keys to any of its SIX four-bedroom, unoccupied flats.

Their argument was it makes offers “only to members of the Orthodox Jewish community.” As Britain is a secular nation, the woman’s legal team found this claim astonishing and argued it had the same sentiment as the ‘No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish’ signs that were once displayed in some pubs.

Lord Sales stated the charity’s use of positive discrimination was lawful, under the Equality Act 2010, in order to correct the disadvantage faced by the community. The issue apparently was not racism, but discrimination on the grounds of religious observance. The court considered the “widespread and increasing overt antisemitism in our society.”

Intolerance or hate speech of any form is unacceptable. But it’s hard to believe the courts and public reaction would have been the same, if this had been Islam or a group of Pashtuns from the Iranian border region.

Jewish affairs are treated differently. There's a 'kid gloves' approach and they’re deemed to be culturally valuable, while other communities are sometimes dismissed as interlopers. AIHA’s founder Ita Cymerman-Symons, speaking last year about the legal action, offered the view: “Which non-Jewish person honestly speaking wants to live in the midst of a building full of Haredi men with all the beards, and all the chanting on a Friday night and all the children?”

A homeless single mother with four children for one, along with many others.

Plenty of people in social housing endure noisy neighbours, potent cooking smells and screaming kids. But isn’t that wonderful? Diversity and living cheek by jowl with people who see, think and believe different things to you.

That’s a rich learning experience for anyone.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/503764-jewish-only-housing-court-london/

Judge Denies Bronfman’s Request for Release Pending Appeal

Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis did not spend much time deliberating over Clare Bronfman’s bail motion.

Submitted yesterday, Bronfman sought to be released from prison pending appeal of her 81 month sentence. As ordered, the prosecution responded by 12:00 noon today, and the judge issued his Order before 1:00 PM denying her request:

The judge ruled: …. The Defendant remains a flight risk, who now has even greater incentive to flee after being sentenced; the Defendant has not identified a “substantial question of law or fact likely to result in… a reduced sentence to a term of imprisonment … and the Defendant has not offered a compelling reason for the court to reconsider its conclusion made at sentencing that a custodial sentence is warranted in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic. The court has reviewed Defendant’s remaining arguments and finds them meritless. Accordingly, Defendant’s motion is DENIED. Ordered by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis on 10/16/2020.

This means that Bronfman, who is now serving day 17 of a 2,464 days sentence, will remain at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center until assigned a permanent prison.

In its response to Bronfman’s motion, the prosecution wrote Bronfman “poses a substantial risk of flight. As she acknowledges, she has ‘significant foreign ties, including family members in England and France, and property in Fiji’ … along with access to vast wealth…. This Court recognized that she posed a significant risk of flight under the more forgiving standard set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3142 when it granted her release on a $100 million bond, secured with $50 million in assets.

“The defendant’s incentive to flee has increased significantly following the Court’s imposition of a term of 81 months’ imprisonment….

“Her assertion that she ‘intends to demonstrate’ that the Court erred in imposing sentence in light of the sentences imposed in other cases involving ‘similar, non-violent crimes’ borders on the frivolous….

“Finally, the defendant has failed to direct the Court’s attention to any case, or to the conduct of any defendant, that is factually similar to the defendant’s conduct in this case. As set forth at length in the Court’s sentencing memorandum, the defendant’s ‘criminal conduct places her in an altogether different category from other defendants who are convicted of the same offenses, and therefore her circumstances defy easy comparison.’

“Finally, the defendant offers no reason for the Court to revisit its conclusion that ‘[n]either [the defendant]’s age nor health condition . . . place her in the category of high-risk individuals…. Her assertion that she is currently incarcerated in a ‘facility that potentially has many positive diagnoses for COVID-19’ is …. refuted by data made available by the Bureau of Prisons… As of the date of this letter, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York has no active cases of COVID-19 among inmates….”

https://frankreport.com/2020/10/16/bronfmans-request-for-release-pending-appeal-denied-by-judge/

>>11122512

yeah she's Jewish and did anyone ever confirm whether or not Bill Barr was her cousin??????