Former Labor staffer John Zhang investigated for money laundering after Chinese foreign interference taskforce finds bundles of cash at Sydney home

An explosive foreign interference investigation into a New South Wales Labor MP's former staffer has widened to focus on money laundering after around $60,000 in bundles of cash was seized from the Chinese-Australian man's Sydney home.

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A former staffer for a NSW Labor MP is being investigated for money laundering after bundles of cash were found at his home

John Zhang, a former policy adviser to Upper House MP Shaoquett Moselmane, is the prime suspect in an AFP-ASIO investigation into Chinese foreign interference

The AFP says it has found evidence Mr Zhang met multiple times with China's foreign influence agency, the United Front Work Department

Documents filed in the High Court by lawyers for the prime suspect, 62-year-old John Zhang, reveal new allegations in the investigation which has already infuriated Beijing and triggered suspicions in Canberra of a retaliatory crackdown on Australians in China.

A joint taskforce led by Australia's spy agency ASIO is investigating whether Mr Zhang, a former senior policy adviser to state Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane, conspired with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents to influence the politician, his party and the public.

ABC Investigations revealed in September the ASIO-AFP probe had embroiled a senior Chinese consular official and leading Chinese academics and journalists, sparking a furious response from Beijing.

The revelations fuelled accusations against China of a tit-for-tat crackdown, which saw an Australian TV news anchor arrested in Beijing and two Australian journalists evacuated after questioning.

The new documents, filed in the High Court last week and now published, contain the first account of the investigation agreed upon by the Australian Government and Mr Zhang, a prominent Chinese-Australian community leader and businessman.

The documents, signed by lawyers on behalf of Mr Zhang and the Australian Government Solicitor, have been referred to the full bench of the High Court, which will consider a challenge brought by the 62-year-old against the investigation and Australia's new foreign interference laws.

The documents contain an agreed outline of the case which reveals police allege they have found evidence of meetings between Mr Zhang and agents from the CCP's foreign influence unit, the United Front Work Department (UFWD).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-18/investigation-finds-bundles-of-cash-at-ex-labor-staffers-home/12890806

More Votes Found in Georgia: Trump Cuts Biden Lead to Under 13,000

A new batch of votes was found in Georgia Tuesday during the statewide recount in Fayette County, cutting Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump in the state by a reported 449 votes to just under 13,000. The issue today was reported to be a memory card that was not uploaded.

“Gabriel Sterling with the GA Sec. of State’s office says 2,755 votes discovered in Fayette County. Unlike in Floyd County, these were scanned votes that were in the system. 1,577 for Donald Trump 1,128 for Joe Biden. This makes a net gain of over 400 for Trump. #11alive #gapol”

“New: a memory card was found during the audit in Fayette county with 2,755 votes. Decreased Biden statewide lead by 449. New margin total statewide in GA is a 12,929 lead for Biden”

“Clarifying: A memory card in Fayette County was scanned, but not uploaded to the county’s electronic results. 13,378 advantage after Floyd County counting issue yesterday. Now there’s 12,929 vote advantage for Biden. #gapol 1577 Trump 1128 Biden 43 Jorgenson 7 Write ins”

On Monday it was announced that Floyd County had found over 2,600 uncounted votes that ended up giving Trump over 1,600 votes to over 800 for Bidens.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/votes-found-georgia-trump-cuts-biden-lead-13000/

Ron Perlman: ‘I Feel Like Lindsey Graham Is Ripe for an A Fking’

Joe Biden has pushed a message urging healing in America. Yet, some of his most ardent supporters in Hollywood aren’t heeding his call. Take actor Ron Perlman. The Pinocchio and Hellboy star is the latest celebrity to attack conservatives, taking to Twitter on Tuesday to fantasize about a sexual attack on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

“I feel like Lindsey Graham is ripe for an ass fucking,” said Ron Perlman in a tweet he has since deleted.

It’s unclear what prompted Perlman to publish his vile aimed at Sen. Graham, it appears to be in response to a story about the senator’s alleged conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

“What in the actual fuck, [Lindsey Graham]? You are a disgrace,” tweeted actress Alyssa Milano on Tuesday. “Georgia secretary of state says Lindsey Graham implied he should try to throw away ballots.”

What in the actual fuck, ⁦@LindseyGrahamSC⁩? You are a disgrace.

Georgia secretary of state says Lindsey Graham implied he should try to throw away ballots https://t.co/a9lrWsiEWQ

— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) November 17, 2020

Milano was reacting to a CNN piece, which stated that Raffensperger said Graham had hinted that he should try to discard some ballots in Georgia, where a recount is underway.

“He asked if the ballots could be matched back to the voters. I got the sense it implied that then you could throw those out if you look at the counties with the highest frequent error of signatures. So that’s the impression that I got,” said Raffensperger of Graham.

Regardless of what prompted Perlman, this was not the actor’s first time attacking conservatives and America.

Over the summer, Ron Perlman declared America a “shithole country” with a “diseased” population.

“Americans under Donald Trump have been banned from entering into Europe,” said Perlman after Americans were barred from entering the European Union because of an uptick in coronavirus cases. “Because we are diseased. Yes my friends, in 3 short years this reality show clown has turned us into a Shithole Country.”

Last year, Perlman exploded on the Republican Party, calling it the “KKK party” in an unhinged rant.

“Hey Kevin McCarthy! Ted Cruz! Steve Scalise! How dare you suddenly start condemning the Nazi that is Steve King when you’ve been cheering him on for his entire embarrassing career! You are the KKK party. Own it muthafuckas! And one more thing… FUCK YOU!” said Perlman.

Indeed, Ron Perlman celebrated Joe Biden a day after the election, saying “Congratulations Mr. President elect Joe Biden, Ms. vice president select Kamala Harris. And most of all congratulations to America for returning to sanity.”

Congratulations Mr. President elect Joe Biden, Ms. vice president select Kamala Harris. And most of all congratulations to America for returning to sanity.

— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) November 7, 2020

Perlman is not the only celebrity to have made disparaging remarks about conservatives in the wake of Biden and Harris calling for “unity” and “healing.”

On Tuesday, actress Rosanna Arquette took to Twitter to smear tens of million of Americans, claiming that the GOP are “Nazi gestapo” that “blindly follow their insane unhinged leader and commit crimes against humanity.”

“The Gop are Nazi gestapo they blindly follow their insane unhinged leader and commit crimes against humanity,” wrote Arquette.

The Gop are Nazi gestapo they blindly follow their insane unhinged leader and commit crimes against humanity.

— ✌🏼rosanna arquette (@RoArquette) November 17, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/11/17/ron-perlman-i-feel-like-lindsey-graham-is-ripe-for-an-a-fking/

Deep State Pentagon Officials Willing to Meet with Joe Biden Despite the Election Fraud and Continued Lawsuits

Power is everything.

These deep state officials are truly the worst.

Deep State Pentagon officials signaled they are willing to meet informally with Joe Biden’s team as election fraud and lawsuits continue.

Mediaite reported:

Pentagon officials are reportedly willing to meet with members of Joe Biden’s transition team informally if a standoff over the White House transition continues into December.

“January is too late,” one official told The Wall Street Journal in a report published Tuesday.

It isn’t clear how many officials would be involved with that effort, or the extent to which the mutiny against President Donald Trump extends to the department’s leadership. The president last week appointed Christopher Miller to replace fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, with whom Trump disagreed on a range of issues, including the withdrawal of troops from the Middle East, which the administration reportedly plans to do by Jan. 15.

The General Services Administration, meanwhile, has refused to declare Biden the winner of the presidential election, mostly preventing federal agencies from working with Biden’s transition team, and preventing his team from claiming $9.9 million in federal funding to assist with related activities.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/deep-state-pentagon-officials-willing-meet-joe-biden-despite-election-fraud-continued-lawsuits/

Gov. Cuomo to get a $25K raise despite New York’s $63B budget deficit

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be getting a $25,000 pay raise in January 2021, as the state faces a massive $63 billion budget deficit owed to revenue losses tied to the coronavirus pandemic.

Cuomo’s salary will jump from $225,000 to $250,000 on Jan. 1, 2021 — making him the highest paid governor in the nation.

But judges and 213 state lawmakers serving in the state Senate and Assembly didn’t get the green light for their own excepted raises, which have to be approved by the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation which argued the state is too broke to pay up thanks to COVID-19.

“We understand the potential for significant budget cuts may be necessary at the state executive level as well if the federal government does not enact additional funding to address the economic hardship caused by COVID-19,” the panel wrote in a new report released Monday evening.

“Substantial additional state monies will be needed to deal with the pandemic, including providing face masks, virus tracking, contact tracing, enforcement efforts, and distribution of the hoped for new pandemic vaccine.”

“Simply put the commissioners’ worst fears as articulated in the 2019 Report – a downturn in the state’s finances coupled with an inability to cover increased salary obligations – has unfortunately come to stark reality in the worst possible way,” explained the group, as last year they also declined to approve state Supreme Court judges’ salary boosts, citing last year’s $6 billion budget hole at the time.

The report released Monday concluded: “Granting raises to public servants, no matter how much they might otherwise deserve them, is simply not possible at this time.”

The decision stands for the next four years, unless the Legislature passes their own law to alter their own salaries.

But Cuomo will still get his expected raise, as only the Democratic-controlled state Legislature has the power to approve or deny via a joint resolution by the state Senate and Assembly.

That measure was approved during the spring of 2019.

It’s also not Cuomo’s only new source of revenue this year — he found time throughout the first six months of the pandemic to write a leadership book released in October called “American Crisis” which has landed on the New York Times Bestseller List.

The governor has yet to say how much money he’s getting for the book deal, but has said a portion of the sales will go to a coronavirus-related charity.

The third-term Democratic governor isn’t the only one getting a pay hike, as Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will also see their base pay raised at the start of the new year, as their raises are also bound to legislative approval.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/17/gov-cuomo-to-get-raise-as-judges-pols-frozen-in-face-of-deficit/

Twitter CEO's Shocking Excuse for Censoring NY Post on Biden While Allowing NYT’s Trump Tax Returns

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to task over his company’s suppression of the bombshell New York Post report on Hunter Biden’s emails linking Joe Biden to his son’s notorious business deals. In a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Cruz pressed Dorsey on how Twitter could possibly claim not to be a publisher when it selectively applied its hacked materials policy against the Biden story but not against the New York Times article on Trump’s tax returns.

The Post story broke in the lead-up to the 2020 election, and a Newsbusters survey suggested that the legacy media and Big Tech efforts to suppress the story about Biden corruption may have made the crucial difference in the election. A small but significant portion of Americans who voted for Biden and did not hear about the corruption story said they would not have voted for the Democrat had they known.

Cruz argued that the immunity platforms like Twitter enjoy under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is “in effect, a subsidy,” a form of “corporate welfare” for some of the most influential companies on the planet. Under Section 230, companies like Twitter are not held liable for the content others publish on their platforms. Section 230 gives the companies the ability to curate content to some extent on the premise that they are not acting as publishers.

Cruz asked Dorsey, “Is Twitter a publisher?” The Twitter CEO insisted, “No, we are not.”

The senator cited the definition of “publisher” under Section 230: “any person or entity that is responsible in whole or in part for the creation or development of information provided through the internet…”

Cruz then pressed Dorsey on Twitter’s decision to censor The New York Post.

“Was Twiter being a publisher when it censored The New York Post?” the senator asked.

“No,” Dorsey replied. “We have very clear policies on the conduct we enable on the platform and if there’s a violation, we take enforcement action. And people choose to commit to those policies and to those terms of service.”

Cruz countered that Twitter’s “policies are applied in a partisan and selective manner.”

https://youtu.be/lamQQOsrenc

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/11/17/watch-ted-cruz-skewers-jack-dorsey-on-twitters-suppression-of-ny-post-story-n1153731

'More Room For Mischief': Internet Explodes as Twitter Introduces Its Own Stories Named 'Fleets'

It was Snapchat that in 2013 first introduced the idea of temporary posts that disappear after 24 hours - with the trend later adopted by Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and many other social media platforms.

On Tuesday, Twitter joined other platforms in incorporating the "stories" format, although the name of the posts appeared to have been changed to "fleets".

"That thing you didn’t Tweet but wanted to but didn’t but got so close but then were like nah. We have a place for that now—Fleets! Rolling out to everyone starting today", the social media platform tweeted.

Users were quick to share their opinion of the new feature. However, the ones who seemed to enjoy it appear to be drastically outnumbered by those frustrated with the update, slamming Twitter for copying features from other platforms while failing to deliver what users have been asking for.

Particularly, users requested an edit button - something that would allow changing the content of a tweet after it was posted.

https://sputniknews.com/viral/202011171081196844-more-room-for-mischief-internet-explodes-as-twitter-introduces-its-own-stories-named-fleets/

>>11684868

>Klaus Schwab

Marianne Schwab was born in Frankfurt in 1919. She grew up in the town of Bad Homburg, where her father, Louis Rothschild, managed a bank.

Feds: Paroled Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector Does It Again

TRENTON, N.J. – An Ocean County, New Jersey, man has been arrested on charges that he distributed and possessed images and videos depicting child sexual abuse.

Andrew Ramey, 34, of Brick, New Jersey, is charged by criminal complaint with one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. He was arrested Nov. 13, 2020, by special agents of the Department of Homeland Security, appeared by videoconference before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lois H. Goodman and was detained without bail.

According to documents filed in this case:

From March 13, 2020, through June 8, 2020, Ramey distributed material containing images of child sexual abuse and child pornography, via the BitTorrent Network, a publicly available online peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network of linked computers. Users must download P2P software, which is widely available for free on the Internet. The software allows the user to place files into a designated “shared” folder on his or her hard drive, from which other BitTorrent users can then download those files directly to the “shared” folders of their own computers. Users can then search, select, and directly download, those files.

Law enforcement used investigative software to access the BitTorrent Network and downloaded video files containing child pornography from a device or devices assigned to an IP address at Ramey’s residence. On Nov. 13, 2020, law enforcement searched Ramey’s residence and found multiple images and videos containing images of child sexual abuse, as well as BitTorrent software, on a mobile phone belonging to Ramey.

In a prior federal prosecution in New Jersey in 2018, Ramey was convicted of one count of possession of child pornography. The distribution charge is punishable by a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a statutory maximum penalty of 40 years in prison, along with a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the gross pecuniary gain or loss caused by the offense, whichever is greater. The possession charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, along with a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross pecuniary gain or loss, whichever is greater.

U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited special agents of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations Atlantic City, under the direction of Newark Special-Agent-in-Charge Jason J. Molina; detectives of the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer; the Brick Police Department, under the direction of Chief James Riccio; and the Mount Laurel Police Department, under the direction of Chief Stephen Riedener, with the investigation leading to today’s arrest.

https://breaking911.com/feds-paroled-jersey-shore-child-porn-collector-does-it-again/

>>11685089

another one ffs

>>11685089

rape alot of kids too