Green Spam: Fed Joins Global Group For "Greening" Financial System

As if the Fed didn't have far bigger problems on its plate - like, for example, what it will do when the inflation it has been doing everything in its power to create finally materializes and how it will tighten financial conditions without sparking the biggest tantrum in history and sending risk assets plummeting, on Tuesday morning the following bizarre headline hit terminals around the world:

FED FORMALLY JOINS NETWORK FOR GREENING THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM

Immediately there were questions: does this mean the Fed will literally make it rain dollar bills to "green" the financial system, or is this another pathetic, desperate attempt to deflect attention from the Fed's catastrophic actions that have pushed the world to the verge of collapse and only purchasing $1.3 trillion in assets every hour is preventing an all out collapse?

Turns out it was the latter, because it turns out that headlines was refering to a Fed announcement according to which the central bank formally joined the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System, or NGFS as a less idiotically sounding acronym, as a member. Why is the Fed engaging in the disgusting virtue signaling of epic proportions? This is what it said:

By bringing together central banks and supervisory authorities from around the world, NGFS supports the exchange of ideas, research, and best practices on the development of environment and climate risk management for the financial sector. The Board began participating in NGFS discussions and activities more than a year ago.

"As we develop our understanding of how best to assess the impact of climate change on the financial system, we look forward to continuing and deepening our discussions with our NGFS colleagues from around the world," said Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell.

Oh, so now the Fed cares about the environment? That's so touching. But once we pass the virtue signaling stage, maybe Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell can explain why the Fed's explicitly enabled the emission of billions of CO2 gasses in the atmosphere as a result of its policy of keeping zombie companies - such as uber-polluting shale corporations - alive by depressing yields so low that any junk bond issue by an insolvent shale was snapped up in millisecond by yield starved managers of other people's money.

What's that? The Fed won't touch that topic and instead it will point all media inquiries to its noble pursuit of "greening the financial system?" Well, that's a surprise: one almost wonders if the Fed is joining this group, which also includes the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, just so it has a way to deflect questions that touch on the Fed's true nature of being - along with its Chinese central bank peer - the biggest enabler of massive global pollution.

And not just the Fed: one wonders if the true motive of all those billionaires who take their private jets to Davos year after year (their gargantuan carbon footprint clearly exempt from the rules they impose upon ordinary peasants) and virtue signal for days on end how the world has to fight global warming (without ever pointing the finger at their biggest sponsor, China), is likewise not quite as pure. But that's impossible: it would suggest that the world's "through leaders", top politicians and top 0.001% richest are… hypocrites!?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/green-spam-fed-joins-global-group-greening-financial-system

USEFUL: Georgia Sec of State Unwittingly Provides Legal Basis For Congress To Nullify State’s Electoral Votes

In his statement, Georgia’s Secretary of State provides the basis for the US Congress to nullify Georgia’s Electoral College slate of Electors

Unwittingly or not, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), cryptically provided justification for the US Congress to nullify Georgia’s slate of Electors to the Electoral college in his announcement of a signature match audit of Cobb County in his state.

Raffensperger announced the audit after claims of voter fraud, just a very few claims of vote fraud his office has taken action on.

The Secretary of State told reporters Monday that he launched the audit in order to restore Georgians’ faith in the election.

Describing himself as a “conservative Constitutional Republican”, a claim many of his Republican colleagues in elected office have disputed given his lack of action to date on protecting the Constitution amid a sea of voter fraud and ballot tampering in his state, Raffensperger said his goal is to “make our elections accurate.”

Raffensperger again refused to acknowledge the existence of the mountain of evidence pointing to vote fraud and ballot tampering in his state.

He went on to say he would be working on a “third party signature match statewide audit study” that would be produced in coordination with an accredited university.

He also indicated that his office is currently working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, “to conduct a signature match audit in Cobb County following specific reports that the county failed to adequately conduct signature matching. This audit will take around two weeks but will not change the outcome of the November elections.”

Our office will be partnering with @GBI_GA to conduct a signature match audit in Cobb County following specific reports that the county failed to adequately conduct signature matching. This audit will take around two weeks but will not change the outcome of the November elections

— GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GaSecofState) December 14, 2020

A determination that the Cobb County vote was flawed or affected by vote fraud or ballot tampering would suggest other counties suffered the same malfeasance and, thus, open an avenue for the whole of the state’s slate of Electors to be rejected by the joint session of Congress that tallies the Electoral College Certificates of Certification from each state.

The Certificates of Certification of the vote, attested to by the seated slate of Electors from each state, will be received and voted on in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021. It is at this time the Electoral College elects the President and Vice President of the United States.

It is also at this time that challenges to the certificates will be submitted. Should one US Representative and one US Senator object, then a series of debates and procedures would then play out if there is enough approval from members of the joint session. This could potentially lead to a contingent election, and an almost certain second term for President Donald Trump.

https://nationalfile.com/useful-georgia-sec-of-state-unwittingly-provides-legal-basis-for-congress-to-nullify-states-electoral-votes/

California Sheriff Refuses 'Absurd' Order to Release Murderers and Rapists Due to Pandemic

You’ve got to hand it to the ACLU. Their legendary defense of traitors, terrorists, and others who would try and destroy the United States is consistent and predictable.

Last April, the ACLU sued Orange County to release inmates who might be “medically vulnerable” to getting sick from the coronavirus. What those inmates did to be in jail didn’t matter. Can’t have a child rapist get sick and die from COVID. That would be heartless.

A judge apparently didn’t care either. He ordered the release of all medically vulnerable prisoners no matter what their crimes. He ruled that Don Barnes, the sheriff of Orange County, showed “deliberate indifference to the substantial risk of serious harm from COVID-19 infection to … medically vulnerable people in [his] custody” which “violates their rights.”

Barnes is a practical man and must have done a double-take when the judge gave that order.

Fox News:

“We’ve released 1,400 inmates to date since March for low-level offenders. The only inmates remaining now are serious offenders,” he explained. “Of the medically vulnerable, 90 of them are in custody for murder or attempted murder, 94 for child molestation.”

This may be why Barnes is dismissing the judge’s order and says his office will appeal.

“Everybody in the community is at risk of COVID right now,” Barnes said in response to the judge, adding, “not considering the risk to the public they present by being released back into the community, I think is not only absurd, I think it places the community at significant risk …”

“I have no intention of doing that, of releasing those individuals back into the community. I think they pose a serious threat,” Barnes told “Fox & Friends.”

And it’s not like his jail is a Petri dish for the virus.

“He got a lot of his facts incorrect,” Barnes told co-host Ainsley Earhardt. “We have been testing inmates. We have been so far ahead of the curve when it came to best practices within our jails. We mitigated our COVID crisis from 220 in March to zero as of last Monday.”

That was last Monday. According to ABC7, that number jumped to 416 as of yesterday. Barnes says the number is high because they’re testing everyone in the jails, even asymptomatic inmates.

But the ACLU made it clear in their statement that they just don’t get it.

“Public safety does not just mean crime,” said Jacob Reisberg with the ACLU. “Public safety also means, is there a hospital bed open if you get sick? And if there’s a massive outbreak in the jail, which this de-population order is trying to avoid, there will not be hospital capacity in Orange County for people on the outside who get COVID.”

The “low-level” offenders released earlier have committed crimes at three times the normal rate, according to the DA’s office. What do you think releasing murders and rapists would do to the violent crime rate?

Keep testing the inmates, separate them from the general population when they test positive, and make sure there’s no way in hell they get any kind of release.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/12/15/california-sheriff-refuses-absurd-order-to-release-murderers-and-rapists-due-to-pandemic-n1213225

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Cocaine Bitch was trying to hand Dems the Senate way back when he was spending $9M of Republican donor money against Roy Moore just saying

https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1339012768960294912

Group says McConnell ‘wasted millions’ against Moore

October 5, 2017

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A group that backed Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s contentious U.S. Senate primary said a super PAC aligned with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “wasted millions” trying to defeat Moore.

The Senate Leadership Fund spent $9 million in the race on behalf of Sen. Luther Strange. Ed Rollins, lead strategist for the Great America PAC backing Moore, said the Senate Leadership Fund can “atone for this mistake” by providing Moore with the same level of financial support as he faces Democrat Doug Jones in the general election.

The Great America Alliance is a pro-Trump organization linked to former White House strategist Steve Bannon, who also supported Moore.

A Senate Leadership Fund spokesman declined comment. However, the group has previously pledged to support Moore.

https://apnews.com/article/0c89d5d36a464d14886bbfed7cba4828

Pentagon Imposes Emergency Shutdown of Its Secret Internet Protocol Router Network – Handles Classified Information Up to the Secret Level

The system, known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, handles classified information, up to the secret level.

The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered the emergency shutdown of a classified internal communications network, three Defense Department sources confirmed.

The unprecedented daytime shutdown comes amid recent revelations that other federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, were breached by hackers.

The Defense Department alerted employees that the SIPRNET system was being shut down in the late morning for emergency software updates, the sources told Just the News.

The Pentagon did not immediately return a request for comment, including one on whether the shutdown was related the hacking reported Sunday, allegedly by Russian agents.

The system, known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, handles classified information, up to the secret level, and was shuttered for several hours.

"This has never happened in the middle of a work day," one Pentagon official said. "Updates usually are done on weekends and after hours late at night. This was done on an emergency basis."

The shutdown applied only to computers handling the classified material, and was not imposed on other computers or on phone systems.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/pentagon-imposed-emergency-shutdown-computer-network-handling-classified

Paedophile Douglas Jackway to be released from Queensland prison

A convicted Queensland child rapist is set to be released from jail, despite being labelled one of “the worst” sex offenders in Australia.

A convicted child rapist and former suspect in the disappearance of 13-year-old schoolboy Daniel Morcombe is set to be released from a Queensland prison.

Douglas Brian Jackway has spent 25 years behind bars for the serious sexual assault of two children, a boy and a girl, in the 1990s.

The 44-year-old was also a suspect in the 2003 murder of Daniel Morcombe but was later determined not to be involved in the boy’s death.

Jackway was sentenced to eight years in jail in 1995 for abducting and raping a boy in Gladstone, Queensland.

He was released from jail in 2003 and in 2005 was sent back to jail for raping a girl aged between nine and 10 in 1991.

In February 2012, he was detained in custody for an indefinite term under sexual offenders legislation, a decision that has since been reaffirmed six times.

Now, the Supreme Court has ruled Jackway is ready to be released due to the help of rehabilitation programs and treatment.

“He has taken significant time, with the assistance of rehabilitation programs and treatment, to reach a point of maturation and develop methods to exercise self-control over his emotions and behaviour for the Court to reach a view that he can be managed on a supervision order,” a judgment summary read.

“His risks of reoffending are considered by psychiatrists to be moderate and below moderate under the conditions of a supervision order.”

Upon his release, Jackway will be required to live in the Wacol precinct, will be subject to a curfew and will be required to wear a GPS tracker.

The supervision order is set for 15 years, with the Supreme Court judgment stating the order will provide “adequate protection” to the community.

https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/courts-law/paedophile-douglas-jackway-to-be-released-from-queensland-prison/news-story/e25837cfae537c023d02425c70f618a0

GOP/Democrat COVID-19 Package Bails Out Defense Contractors, Excludes Stimulus Checks for Americans

A COVID-19 relief package, reportedly negotiated between a handful of Senate Republicans and Democrats, includes a bailout for Defense Department contractors while excluding a second round of stimulus checks for Americans.

A draft of the relief package, obtained by The Daily Poster, reveals that the spending bill does not include a plan by Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to provide Americans with $1,200 stimulus checks but does provide a bailout for defense contractors.

Slipped into the package, seemingly on the final 525 pages, is an extension of a CARES Act provision that allows federal agencies to pay taxpayer money to defense contractors who are not working during the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

“There are no direct payments for regular working people, people living off tips,” a congressional aide told Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist. “But they made sure there’s a provision in there to help defense contractors who aren’t working right now. They get what they’re looking for.”

The Daily Poster notes:

The draft stimulus legislation obtained by The Daily Poster includes an extension of a program to replace the wages of certain government contractors who miss work due to COVID-19. The program, Section 3610 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, allows federal agencies to reimburse contractors who are unable to work in person due to the pandemic, and whose jobs do not allow telework, for up to 40 hours per week of lost wages. In effect, the program uses government money to reimburse defense contractors for giving paid leave to their employees. [Emphasis added]

The provision was added to the last page of the 525-page bill after defense contractors sent a letter to congressional lawmakers lobbying for the language. The same bill does not authorize direct payments to millions of Americans — nor does it reimburse small businesses for providing paid leave benefits to their workers. [Emphasis added]

The package, at $748 billion, is far below the more than $3.4 trillion package that Democrats insisted on before the November 3 presidential election and is lower than Republicans’ counteroffers, which totaled nearly $2 trillion.

“In other words, Democrats just agreed to take seven times less than the $1.13 trillion they asked for in the HEROES Act…” Taibbi notes.

The Senate Republicans and Democrats involved with the package include:

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT)

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)

Sen. Angus King (I-ME)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/15/gop-democrat-covid-19-package-bails-out-defense-contractors-excludes-stimulus-checks-for-americans/

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