Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:29 a.m. No.12105557   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5916 >>6055 >>6243

Overdose deaths far outpace COVID-19 deaths in San Francisco

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far.

 

The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn't for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the beginning of November to save someone from the brink of death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.The data reflects the number of times people report using Narcan to the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project, a city-funded program that coordinates San Francisco’s response to overdose, or return to refill their supply. Officials at the DOPE Project said that since the numbers are self-reported, they are probably a major undercount.

 

Last year, 441 people died of drug overdoses — a 70% increase from 2018 — and 2,610 potential overdoses were prevented by Narcan, a medication commonly sprayed up the nose to reverse an opioid overdose, according to data from the city Medical Examiner's office and the DOPE ProjectThe crisis is deepening because fentanyl, which can be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, flooded the city's drug supply, the newspaper said. Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted city services like housing and treatment, and left many people who rely on others to help save them if they overdose to use alone.

 

While nearly 40% of the deaths occurred in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods near downtown, city data showed the epidemic has touched every part of the city. Many people overdosed in low-income apartment buildings and in city-funded hotel rooms for the homeless. Others died on sidewalks, in alleyways and parks around the city..

 

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/12/overdose-deaths-far-outpace-covid-19.html

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:32 a.m. No.12105575   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5604 >>5609 >>5839 >>5874 >>5916 >>6055 >>6243

Microsoft discovers SECOND hacking team dubbed 'Supernova' installed backdoor in SolarWinds software in March - as Feds say first Russian 'act of war' cyber attack struck at least 200 firms and US federal agencies

 

Microsoft researchers say a second unidentified hacking team installed a backdoor in the same SolarWinds network software that facilitated a massive cyber espionage campaign, as the number of victims in the attack rose to 200.

 

The second backdoor, dubbed SUPERNOVA by security experts, appears distinct from the SUNBURST attack that has been attributed to Russia, raising the possibility that multiple adversaries were attempting parallel attacks, perhaps unbeknownst to each other.

 

It comes after President Donald Trump contradicted members of his own administration to suggest that China may be behind the sprawling attack, which compromised key federal agencies.

 

'The investigation of the whole SolarWinds compromise led to the discovery of an additional malware that also affects the SolarWinds Orion product but has been determined to be likely unrelated to this compromise and used by a different threat actor,' Microsoft said in a security blog on Friday.

 

The second backdoor is a piece of malware that imitates SolarWinds' Orion product but it is not 'digitally signed' like the other attack, suggesting this second group of hackers did not share the same access to the network management company's internal systems.

 

It is unclear whether SUPERNOVA has been deployed against any targets, such as customers of SolarWinds. The malware appears to have been created in late March, based on a review of the file's compile times.

 

The SUNBURST backdoor was first deployed in March, though the same group behind it appears to have tampered with SolarWinds products as early as October 2019.

 

In past breaches, security researchers have found evidence that more than one suspected Russian hacking group penetrated the same system, duplicating their efforts in a way that suggested each did not know what the other was doing.

 

One such case was the breach of the Democratic National Committee's servers in 2016, when CrowdStrike researchers found evidence that Russian hacking groups dubbed Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear had both broken into the system.

 

It's also possible that the SUPERNOVA and SUNBURST attacks represent the actions of separate nations attempting to use SolarWinds products to penetrate other high-value U.S. targets.

 

In a statement, a SolarWinds spokesman did not address SUPERNOVA, but said the company 'remains focused on collaborating with customers and experts to share information and work to better understand this issue.'

 

'It remains early days of the investigation,' the spokesman said.

 

http://www.stationgossip.com/2020/12/microsoft-discovers-second-hacking-team.html

 

Looks more and more like a cabal False flag

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:34 a.m. No.12105595   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5916 >>6055 >>6243

Will we ever learn the truth about China and the pandemic? Two inquiries are 'cloaked in secrecy', WHO lets Beijing vet investigators and it appoints British scientist with links to Wuhan

 

Explosive emails from a group of top-level scientists and Government doctors in the United States reveal one suggested Covid-19 could have originated from human activities rather than arising naturally from animals.

 

Another asked if it might have been deliberately engineered.

 

The documents also show that a key letter sent early in the pandemic from America’s top scientists to the White House had a line deleted that suggested the virus could have been ‘an unintentional release from a laboratory’.

 

These revelations come as evidence of China’s cover-up grows, alongside fears the World Health Organisation, widely criticised for its failure to challenge Beijing at the start of the pandemic, is letting the regime dictate its inquiry into the origins.

 

The WHO has allowed China to vet scientists taking part in the probe, while also appointing to its ten-strong team the British charity chief Peter Daszak whose funding for research on bat viruses in a high-security Wuhan laboratory was stopped on safety grounds.

 

Daszak, president of Eco-Health Alliance, has led efforts that have dismissed concerns over lab leakage as a ‘baseless’ conspiracy theory. Also, to the fury of critics, he is heading a task force on the pandemic’s origins for The Lancet medical journal.

 

Although it is crucial to find the pandemic’s source in order to help protect against further eruptions, some experts fear that official investigations will sweep aside even the possibility that Sars-Cov-2 – the strain that causes Covid-19 – might be man-made.

 

‘A lot of time has been lost and there is still no evidence of an effective independent investigation starting into the origins of Covid-19,’ said Nikolai Petrovsky, professor of medicine at Flinders University in Australia and a leading vaccine researcher.

 

David Relman, an expert on emerging infectious diseases, has condemned both the WHO and Lancet inquiries for being ‘cloaked in secrecy’ and demanded that conflicts of interest must be ‘addressed’ to ensure credibility.

 

‘Rather than resorting to hunches and finger-pointing, each scenario must be systematically and objectively analysed using the best available science-based approaches,’ he wrote in the journal of the National Academy of Sciences.

 

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/12/will-we-ever-learn-truth-about-china.html

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:35 a.m. No.12105610   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5655 >>5916 >>6055 >>6243

French investigators want to quiz Prince Andrew as part of their probe into the Jeffrey Epstein underage sex ring after arrest of fashion agent Jean-Luc Brunel - while the Duke leaves Windsor Castle

 

Investigators in France want to speak to Prince Andrew as part of investigation

It comes after the arrest of Jean-Luc Brunel, part of French inquiry hearing

Both Andrew and Brunel deny wrongdoing in connection to Epstein sex ring

 

French investigators want to interview Prince Andrew as part of their investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein underage sex ring.

 

They confirmed they wish to speak to the Duke of York following the arrest of Jean-Luc Brunel as part of a French judicial inquiry hearing about the fashion agent.

 

Virginia Roberts Giuffre alleges she had 'sexual relations' with Brunel several times when she was aged between 16 and 19.

 

Ms Giuffre, now 37, claims she was trafficked by Epstein and pressured into having sex with Prince Andrew.

 

The Duke, 60, has vehemently denied the claims or any wrongdoing. Brunel, 74, also denies any wrongdoing.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9071285/French-investigators-want-quiz-Prince-Andrew-probe-Jeffrey-Epstein-sex-ring.html

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:37 a.m. No.12105619   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5652 >>5916 >>6055 >>6243

“This Is Very Reminiscent of the Old Soviet Union” – Rep. Devin Nunes Compares Joe Biden’s Basement Campaign Victory to Soviet Agitprop

 

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures earlier today.

 

Nunes described perfectly what just was perpetrated here in the 2020 US election.

 

Nunes compared Joe Biden’s stunning and fraudulent win with the former Soviet Union “elections.”

 

Rep. Devin Nunes: I think the American people now see it too, Maria. You have an election here where just a few counties in the United States of America and the big cities that are all run by Democrats and the left and the state of California which is under one-party control, they essentially elected a guy who ran the first campaign ever out of a basement. So, when you go back in history we don’t have to go back very far. This is very reminiscent of the old Soviet Union where they just take these old decrepit leaders, they put them up there, then they have the people underneath, the Politburo, that would actually run their leaders…

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/reminiscent-old-soviet-union-rep-devin-nunes-compares-joe-bidens-basement-campaign-victory-soviet-agitprop-video/

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:41 a.m. No.12105651   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5715 >>5916 >>6055 >>6209 >>6243

Hunter Biden Email Reportedly Names Kamala Harris, Others as Key Contacts for ‘Joint Venture’ With China Energy Co.

 

This isn’t a new story, but it’s worth repeating considering everything you are seeing right now with election interference and communist China. Hunter Biden literally laid out what’s happening in emails released back in October.

 

Take a look, it’s worth the read.

 

The emails purported to be Hunter Biden’s on that abandoned laptop have been verified by one recipient and they’re spectacularly damning, according to Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden.

 

Another email begs for answers from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris. Fox News reports:

 

A list of “key domestic contacts” for a joint venture involving Jim and Hunter Biden and now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co. included former Vice President Joe Biden‘s current running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, among other prominent Democrats, Fox News has learned.

 

An email exclusively obtained by Fox News, with the subject line “Phase one domestic contacts/ projects” and dated May 15, 2017, Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, shared a list of “key domestic contacts for phase one target projects.”

 

The email is unrelated to the laptop or hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son.

 

Jim Biden is the Democratic nominee’s brother.

 

It’s a shame the media won’t stir itself to cover this. Or, if they do, they’ll spin it faster than a NutriBullet.

 

It looks for all the world like the whole Biden family trades on Joe’s long and mediocre career in politics, with Hunter as the tip of the lucrative spear.

 

And they don’t care at all about who they trade with, including the communist oligarchy that rules China.

 

Here is the actual email. Mr. Bobulinski is one of the cc’d recipients, along with Hunter Biden and two others.

 

https://thedcpatriot.com/hunter-biden-email-reportedly-names-kamala-harris-others-as-key-contacts-for-joint-venture-with-china-energy-co/

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:43 a.m. No.12105668   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5728

White House cancels release of statement alleging Russia' involvement in cyber attack - AP

 

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed earlier US allegations Russian hackers were behind those cyberattacks

 

NEW YORK, December 20. /TASS/. White House officials planned to make a statement alleging that Russia had been involved in the hacker attack against computer systems of the US government but were instructed at the last minute not to release it, Associated Press newsagency reports, citing a source.

 

"Officials at the White House had been prepared to put out a statement Friday afternoon that accused Russia of being "the main actor" in the hack, but were told at the last minute to stand down, the news agency says, citing a US official familiar with the conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity.

 

"This is looking like it’s the worst hacking case in the history of America," the official said.

 

Reuters reported Monday that a group of hackers allegedly working for Russia carried out a cyber attack on December 13 to obtain unauthorized access to computer systems of the US Department of Homeland Security. The department itself confirmed that cyber attack had taken place. According to Reuters, the hackers got their hands on data from the Department of State and the Pentagon.

 

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed earlier US allegations Russian hackers were behind those cyberattacks.

 

https://tass.com/world/1237525

 

So the AP lies about a non-existent report to cover its other lies about Russia hacking the US

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:44 a.m. No.12105676   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5916 >>6055 >>6243

Netanyahu said seeking 3rd national lockdown ‘within days’

 

PM reportedly calls for full cabinet meeting to debate drastically increased limits on public amid rising cases and fear of mutated virus spreading in Israel

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-december-20-2020/

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:46 a.m. No.12105699   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5712 >>5720 >>5816 >>5834 >>5916 >>6055 >>6197 >>6243

Democratic memo declares 'rise of white Christian nationalism is a national security threat'

 

A Political Action Committee and a group of Democratic lawmakers want Joe Biden to pursue a 'secular agenda' that pushes back religious liberty gains made under Trump.

 

The Secular Democrats of America PAC prepared a report for Joe Biden and his transition team that outlines a roadmap to "boldly restore a vision of constitutional secularism and respect in the land for religious and intellectual pluralism."

 

The federal political action committee "represents secular Democratic individuals and organizations" and advocates for "secular governance, promote respect and inclusion of nonreligious Americans, and mobilize nonreligious voters."

 

The proposal was formally presented by Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Jared Huffman, co-chairs of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, and endorsed by Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney.

 

“We’ve offered the new administration a roadmap to restore our basic constitutional values and protect science, reason and public health in American government,” Raskin and Huffman said in a joint statement.

 

The proposal calls for Biden's team to work with Congress and governors to "advance a secular agenda at all levels of government, taking into account the current makeup of the federal courts and new, unfavorable precedents that your administration will have to contend with."

 

In the document, the group argues that Trump has "empowered the religious right in ways no other administration has before, making significant advances in enacting their Christian nationalist agenda."

 

The proposal outlines recommendations for reversing certain policies and "proactively" implementing new rules that would "restore secularism to federal governance and disentangle entrenched religious interests from federal policy."

 

Some of the recommendations in the document are related to Homeland Security policy.

 

"The rise of white Christian nationalism is a national security threat," read the document. "We recommend you: encourage the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice to dedicate resources to de-radicalization programs aimed at hate groups, including, but not limited to, white nationalists; increase monitoring of such groups, including the online environment, and take action to address increased hate crimes toward minority faith communities; and shift rhetoric to label violent white nationalist extremists as terrorists."

 

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/democratic-lawmakers-call-biden-advance-secular-agenda-all-levels-government

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:49 a.m. No.12105737   🗄️.is 🔗kun

THE TALMUDIC/COMMUNIST BLUEPRINT TO CONQUER AMERICA – COL. JACK MOHR

 

https://www.bitchute.com/video/fPFob9BgSB2s/

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:53 a.m. No.12105793   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5916 >>6055 >>6243

In Chile, Resistance Is Criminalised and Perpetrators of Crimes Against Humanity Are Absolved

 

Last November, memory and human rights organisations in Chile, as well as relatives of dictatorship victims endured yet another blow in the Chilean courts’ decision to acquit 60 former DINA agents of their roles in the kidnapping, torture, murder and disappearance of 16 Revolutionary Left Militants (MIR), between 1974 and 1975. Operation Colombo, or the Case of the 119, as it is also known, was a dictatorship clandestine operation which sought to track down and eliminate the socialist forces opposing Augusto Pinochet’s U.S.-backed dictatorship. The coverup utilised by the dictatorship included right-wing media, which blamed their disappearance on infighting between the militants themselves.

 

Among the acquitted agents is Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko – a notorious name among torture survivors who, witnesses say, even refused to hide his identity during torture, and a hero figure among the right-wing Pinochet supporters who have idolised Krassnoff’s image and erroneously painted him as a prisoner “for serving Chile”.

 

Decades after Operation Colombo, Chile’s courts still have issues with penalising the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Lawyer Nelson Caucoto Pereira described the Chilean court’s sentence as “violating the principles of proportionality” with regard to international human rights law and further questioned how the Chilean state can guarantee that the same crimes would not be repeated.

 

The protests which were triggered by an increase in bus fares in October 2019 and which quickly swept across Chile, with the nation calling for an end to the dictatorship constitution and for Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to step down, have illustrated Chile’s concept of state violence and how this emulates dictatorship tactics. Imposing a military curfew, ostensibly to protect civilians, even as the state allowed for its actors, notably the police and the military, to unleash violence upon Chileans, many of whom have been permanently maimed with rubber bullets shot directly at the eyes.

 

On Monday, Pinera announced he will not be pardoning Chileans who were arrested by the police due to their participation in the demonstrations.

 

As international scrutiny over Chile intensified in the early days of the protests, Pinera attempted the rewriting of the protests’ narrative by claiming that a state of emergency was necessary to re-establish order in the country. Later, as Chileans likened the state’s measures to the dictatorship era and footage of rampant state violence became accessible on social media, Pinera briefly sought to distance the government from the military, stating disagreement with the tactics used but failing to protect civilians or provide the basics of recourse for the detained. human rights violations, including sexual abuse, killings and forced disappearances were documented by human rights organisations.

 

Pinera’s recent statement was made following new demonstrations by Chileans near the presidential palace La Moneda, clamouring for reforms in the pension funds, which the Chilean government is adamantly opposing, despite growing inequalities within society.

 

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/20/in-chile-resistance-criminalised-and-perpetrators-of-crimes-against-humanity-absolved/

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:55 a.m. No.12105823   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5843 >>5897 >>5916 >>6055 >>6243

Russian scientist working on COVID-19 vaccine plummets to death in St. Petersburg

 

 

A prominent Russian scientist who was working on a COVID-19 vaccine was found dead with a stab wound after plummeting out his window in St. Petersburg, according to news reports.

 

Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky, 45, was in his underwear when he fell to his death from his 14th-floor apartment, according to the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.

 

The scientist also suffered a stab wound, police said.

 

Police believe there was a scuffle before Kagansky fell from the building, reports said.

 

Russian police say they are investigating Kagansky’s death as a possible homicide and questioning a 45-year-old man as a potential suspect, e2news.com said.

 

Kagansky, best known for his work on cancer research, was an assistant professor in Vladivostok and had spent 13 years working in Edinburgh, Scotland, until 2017, the outlet said.

 

He was most recently working as director of the Center for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine at Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University.

 

He had been working on developing a vaccine against the coronavirus, e2news said.

 

Kagansky’s body was found by a neighbor on Zamshin Street, the report said.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/12/20/russian-scientist-working-on-covid-19-vaccine-plummets-to-death/

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:57 a.m. No.12105844   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5884 >>5904 >>5916 >>5983 >>6055 >>6243

WHAT?!: Michigan’s Sec. of State Secured Court Order Redacting Evidence of Vote-Flipping

 

Contrary to what Michigan election officials insist, redacted information from the forensic audit of the Dominion machines indicate votes were, indeed, flipped from Trump to Biden

 

Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson (D), won a court ruling that ordered the redaction of critical evidence found in a forensic examination of Dominion Voting System machines and software that proves empirically that the enacted algorithm was written to flip votes.

 

Russell Ramsland Jr., the analyst who led the forensic audit team on Dominion Voting Systems machines and software in Michigan, said Friday that the information state officials successfully petitioned the court to order redactions in their report that hide information that the outcomes of November 3, 2020, General Election races were changed.

 

Lawyers for Benson’s office petitioned 13th Circuit Judge Kevin Elsenheimer last week to order the redaction of the computer logs before allowing the forensic audit report’s release.

 

Benson’s lawyers – essentially lawyers for the Democrat Executive Branch elected officials in that state – argued that the logs “might be source code” and publishing them could be a security issue.

 

“The original report had log evidence that we published in the report to show exactly what we did and exactly the findings. Now, those did ultimately get redacted. And so now, the complaint is ‘well, but there’s no real proof and Dominion says ‘no, these things can’t be done,’” Ramsland said during an interview with the media.

 

“But at that point, Dominion’s argument is no longer with us,” Ramsland continued to say. “Dominion’s argument is with their own user’s manual and their own logs, because the logs—had they been able to be published—show very clearly that the RCV [ranked-choice voting] algorithm was enacted. It shows very clearly that the error messages were massive. It was very clear that races were flipped.”

 

Ramsland is a former Reagan administration official with Ivy league pedigrees from Harvard and Duke Universities. He worked for NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before co-founding the Allied Security Operations Group, the firm that performed the forensic examination.

 

https://nationalfile.com/what-michigans-sec-of-state-secured-court-order-redacting-evidence-of-vote-flipping/

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 10:59 a.m. No.12105868   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5916 >>5924 >>5986 >>6055 >>6243

US House Intelligence Panel Chief Slams Trump For Blaming China Instead of Russia for Massive Hack

 

Several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle previously reiterated accusations levelled by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who claimed that it was "pretty clear" that Russia was behind the cyberattack on several government institutions. However, Trump appeared to disagree with him, suggesting that China might be the culprit.

 

The chairman of the House Committee on Intelligence, Democrat Adam Schiff, has blasted President Donald Trump in an interview with MSNBC over POTUS’ alleged downplaying of Russia's supposed role in the recent cyberattacks on the US government and pointing the finger at China instead.

 

"It [is] just uniformly destructive and deceitful, and injurious […] to our national security", Schiff said, commenting the president's earlier tweets on the matter.

 

Schiff went on to claim that he does not "think there's any question" that Russia was behind the massive hack, the impact (if any) of which on government computer networks remains unclear.

Lawmakers and Secretary of State Disagree With President on Culprit of Hacks

 

The statements by the Intelligence Committee chief go in line with similar claims made by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s head, Republican Marco Rubio, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, both of whom have accused Moscow of the cyberattacks, with both also failing to present any evidence to support their claims.

 

The methods used to carry out the cyberhack are consistent with Russian cyber operations.

 

But it’s crucial we have complete certainty about who is behind this.

 

We can’t afford to be wrong on attribution, because America must retaliate, and not just with sanctions.

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 18, 2020

 

Rubio claimed that the methods used to carry out the attack were "consistent with Russian cyber operations", although it is not clear whether Rubio, or Schiff for that matter, has been briefed on the attack. Pompeo vaguely stated that he could "say pretty clearly" that Moscow participated in the cyber intrusion.

 

Russia, in turn, has strongly denied involvement. President Vladimir Putin noted during his major 17 December press conference that, as is customary with the "Russia did it" accusations, the new claims against the Kremlin are unsubstantiated. He further suggested that the theory that Russia was behind the hacks was being peddled in the US media by the very people who groundlessly accused the Kremlin of interfering in the 2016 US election.

 

….discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!). There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA. @DNI_Ratcliffe @SecPompeo

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2020

 

US President Donald Trump also expressed doubt about Russia's alleged role in the cyberattacks on the government, suggesting that the anti-Russia narrative has been peddled by the "Lamestream media". He suggested an alternative theory, mulling that China might have been responsible for the attacks, although failed to elaborate on what led him to that assumption.

 

https://sputniknews.com/us/202012201081520014-us-house-intelligence-panel-chief-slams-trump-for-blaming-china-instead-of-russia-for-massive-hack/

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 11:01 a.m. No.12105898   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6003 >>6048 >>6055 >>6243

Visiting "Bad Websites" Will Lower Your Credit Score, Says IMF

 

A new white paper by the IMF calls for linking your search history to your financial credit score, which would in effect lower your score if you visit websites marked harmful by their fact-checkers.

 

Your Search History Will Determine Your Financial Credit Score In Future, Says IMF

 

In a new blog post for the International Monetary Fund, four researchers presented their findings from a working paper (read below) that examines the current relationship between finance and tech as well as its potential future.

 

The researchers propose using the data from your browsing, search, and purchase history to create a mechanism for determining the credit rating of an individual or business.

 

The plan is outlined in a blog written by Arnoud Boot, Peter Hoffmann, Luc Laeven and Lev Ratnovski, pitching the Orwellian notion as a breakthrough in financial technology (Fintech).

 

Fintech resolves the dilemma by tapping various nonfinancial data: the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases. Recent research documents that, once powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these alternative data sources are often superior than traditional credit assessment methods, and can advance financial inclusion.

 

Overall, while much of the technological progress in finance is evolutionary, its pace is accelerating fast. Fintech’s potential to reach out to over a billion unbanked people around the world, and the changes in the financial system structure that this can induce, can be revolutionary.

 

Governments should follow and carefully support the technological transition in finance. It is important to adjust policies accordingly and stay ahead of the curve.

 

Gizmodo commented on the proposal and its mortifying consequences if it were actually implemented on a grand scale.

 

The researchers acknowledge that there will be privacy and policy concerns related to incorporating this kind of soft-data into credit analysis. And they do little to explain how this might work in practice. The paper isn’t long, and it’s worth a read just to wrap your mind around some of the notions of fintech’s future and why everyone seems to want in on the payments game.

 

As it is, getting the really fine soft-data points would probably require companies like Facebook and Apple to loosen up their standards on linking unencrypted information with individual accounts. How they might share information with other institutions would be its own can of worms.

 

However, the policy seems to be designed to bring an end to alternate news media with grave consequences for those engaged with the organisation.

 

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78815/visiting-bad-websites-will-lower-your-credit-score-says.html

Anonymous ID: 27efe3 Dec. 20, 2020, 11:05 a.m. No.12105958   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5964 >>6055 >>6243

Nunes Plans Criminal Referrals To DOJ Following Release Of Strzok’s Internal FBI Messages

 

Rep. Devin Nunes accused the Justice Department and FBI officials of misleading Congress regarding documents Republicans sought as part of their investigation into abuse of the FISA program.

Nunes said Sunday that he plans to submit criminal referrals to the Justice Department regarding information found in newly declassified FBI messages from Peter Strzok.

Nunes said that the messages should have been provided to his committee years ago, but that government officials denied they existed.

 

Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday he plans to make new criminal referrals to the Justice Department following the release of internal FBI messages from the account of Peter Strzok, the top FBI investigator on Crossfire Hurricane.

 

In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Nunes said the messages, which the Justice Department and FBI declassified earlier this month, should have been provided to Congress years ago when Republicans began investigating whether the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in order to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

 

“They knew that we were investigating FISA abuse, why would this not have been given to Congress? This is just another example we’re going to have to do another criminal referral,” Nunes said Sunday.

 

The messages in question are from Strzok’s Lync account, the FBI’s internal messaging system. The messages, which The Daily Caller News Foundation published on Thursday, show Strzok discussing details of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.

 

The messages show Strzok, who was fired from the FBI in August 2019, commenting on July 28, 2016, about open counterintelligence investigations related to Trump. The FBI has insisted that the bureau was not investigating Trump before Strzok opened Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016.

 

Nunes has long doubted the FBI’s official claims about the beginning of its investigation of the Trump campaign.

 

He said Sunday that Strzok’s messages show the FBI’s narrative “was always nonsense.”

 

Strzok sent a message to another FBI employee on Sept. 23, 2016, asserting that former British spy Christopher Steele had spoken to a news outlet regarding a dossier he compiled on Donald Trump in order to “influence” the FBI’s investigation.

 

The Justice Department inspector general blasted the Crossfire Hurricane team for withholding exculpatory information regarding the Steele dossier in its applications for FISA warrants against Carter Page.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/20/devin-nunes-criminal-referrals-peter-strzok/

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YouTube Removes Video of Trump Lawyer’s Opening Statement at Senate Committee Hearing

 

YouTube has removed the opening statement from President Donald Trump’s lawyer Jesse Binnall before the Senate Homeland Security hearing on election fraud.

 

YouTube has said that they will be removing “content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. presidential election.”

 

Binnall tweeted about the censorship on Saturday.

 

“YouTube has decided that my opening statement in the U.S. [Senate], given under oath and based upon hard evidence, is too dangerous for you to see; they removed it. To this day, ‘our evidence has never been refuted, only ignored.’ Why is Google so afraid of the truth? #BigBrother,” lawyer Jesse Binnall wrote on Twitter.

 

Another copy of the video was still live on another account.

 

You can watch it here:

https://youtu.be/2fLtD89wKMg

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/wow-youtube-removes-video-trump-lawyers-opening-statement-senate-committee-hearing-watch/