Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:14 a.m. No.12133338   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3396 >>3466 >>3613

“Attorney-Client Privilege?” – Federal Prosecutors for SDNY Working to Seize Rudy Giuliani’s Emails

 

Federal prosecutors for the SDNY are actively working to seize Rudy Giuliani’s electronic communications, NBC News reported.

 

Gestapo thugs for the SDNY have been working with DOJ officials in DC about gaining access to Giuliani’s emails and they need Washington’s stamp of approval before they can ask a judge for a search warrant.

 

It is unclear if Bill Barr, who is on his way out as Attorney General rubber-stamped the approval.

 

The feds are investigating Rudy Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine.

 

In October of 2019, it was revealed the federal investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s business dealings in Ukraine and relationship with Ukrainian-American businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman was much broader and more invasive than previously known.

 

Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was also a subject of a counterintelligence investigation by the FBI.

 

Most of the FBI agents and prosecutors who targeted Michael Cohen and imprisoned him are now handling Giuliani’s case, according to reports.

 

Rudy responded to the news on Tuesday morning, “Attorney-client privilege?”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/attorney-client-privilege-federal-prosecutors-sdny-working-seize-rudy-giulianis-emails/

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:18 a.m. No.12133381   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Hunter Biden Made Money on China’s Energy Company CEFC On Its Way Up and On Its Way Down

 

Hunter Biden and the Biden family were happy to make money from the Chinese at CEFC on their way up and on their way down.

 

You can’t make this stuff up. The Bidens made money on Chinese company CEFC when it went up and when it went down.

 

We’ve already reported how the Bidens were involved with CEFC and how they brought New York Governor Cuomo into the scene as well:

 

We also reported that the entire Hunter Biden fiasco with CEFC was what Carter Page was blamed for doing while Hunter Biden did it:

 

Today we can report that the Bidens made money off of CEFC after they were taken over and were on their way down as well. (Hat tip Yaacov Apelbaum.)

 

Patrick Ho (the Vice-chairman and Secretary-General of the CEFC) was busted in New York for international money laundering, conspiracy, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, his partner Hunter signed up to be his lawyer. Hunter’s retainer was $1 million.

 

Hunter, who is not a criminal attorney, ended-up hiring another attorney named Edward Y. Kim. Not surprisingly, Kim spent a decade as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Southern district in NY.

 

This is life in today’s dual system of justice but Bill Barr says everything is fine. Nothing to see here.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/hunter-biden-made-money-chinas-energy-company-cfce-way-way/

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:21 a.m. No.12133414   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3466 >>3613

Johns Hopkins Newspaper Removes Study Examining COVID Death Rate

 

Johns Hopkins University’s student newspaper staff retracted an article featuring a university study claiming that COVID-19 did not significantly increase the U.S. death rate.

 

The newspaper's editor stated that it was brought to their attention that the article was being used to spread “dangerous inaccuracies” online.

 

Assistant Director for the university’s Applied Economics program Genevieve Briand critically analyzed the net effect of COVID-19 on deaths in the United States based on historical data. Using information from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Briand identified the percentages of total deaths per age category both before and after the pandemic began.

 

“Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19,” said the News-Letter’s article.

 

“Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.”

 

Though deaths in categories like respiratory illnesses and heart disease seasonally rise and fall together in the United States, Briand noticed a strange trend.

 

“Instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease,” in addition to “all other causes.” Additionally, “the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths by COVID-19.”

 

“All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary,” Briand concluded in her presentation. She told the News-Letter that “a decreased number of heart attacks and all the other death causes doesn’t give us a choice but to point to some misclassification.”

 

The News-Letter removed the article in late November after staff discovered its coverage of the study was "used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.” The paper linked a PDF of the original article with a watermark stating “Retracted by the News-Letter” to a statement explaining the decision.

 

The News-Letter explained that it made the decision independently and encouraged readers to take the article “in context with the countless other data published by Hopkins, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”

 

The staff of the News-Letter referred Campus Reform to an op-ed written December 3 by the paper’s editorial board, which said that “the article should not have been deleted in the first place.”

 

“Instead of temporarily removing it from our website, the News-Letter should have immediately retracted and provided a detailed explanation of the inaccuracies in Briand’s research,” explained the editors.

 

“We did not intend to silence Briand; instead, we sought to put her claims in conversation with findings from Hopkins, the World Health Organization and the CDC.”

 

Briand told Campus Reform that the News-Letter’s decision to remove the article was its own, and pointed out that she explained "during the presentation where I found and downloaded the data from, so anyone can easily replicate my analysis.”

 

https://campusreform.org/?id=16463

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:23 a.m. No.12133435   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3447 >>3448 >>3451 >>3466 >>3566 >>3593 >>3613

McConnell Joins With Schumer To Block Potential Trump VETO Of Defense Bill, Keep Big Tech Protection

 

Mitch McConnell has made a deal with Chuck Schumer to block a potential Trump veto of the National Defense Authorization Act.

President Trump has threatened to veto the bill because it allows Big Tech to censor conservatives.

 

Mitch McConnell doesn’t care.

He’d rather join with Chuck Schumer and Democrats to protect Big Tech.

 

The New York Post reported:

 

 

Senate leadership hammered out a bipartisan deal to block President Trump from possibly vetoing the defense authorization bill, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced early Tuesday.

 

“The Democrat leader and I have agreed to unanimous request as follows: The Senate will meet for pro forma sessions only until Dec. 29 when we will return to session,” the top Republican said from the Senate floor.

 

In the proposed post-Christmas gathering, lawmakers will “process” a veto override, according to McConnell (R-Ky.).

 

“In the event that President Trump does elect to veto this bipartisan bill, it appears the House may choose to return after the holidays to set up a vote to consider the veto … In the event that the president has vetoed the bill, and the House has voted to override the veto, the Senate would have the opportunity to process a veto override at that time.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/mcconnell-joins-schumer-block-potential-trump-veto-defense-bill-keep-big-tech-protection/

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:25 a.m. No.12133449   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3466 >>3474 >>3613

Billions in foreign aid & racehorse tax breaks: Trump urged to veto Covid-19 relief bill over under-the-radar provisions

 

Supporters of President Donald Trump are urging him to veto the long-awaited Covid-19 relief bill, taking issue with it being tied to foreign aid, the amount of in-person payments and some provisions unrelated to the pandemic.

 

After the House and the Senate sealed the deal on a $900 billion plan on Monday night, some US conservatives took to Twitter, highlighting the legal details they found questionable.

 

A hefty amount of outrage was caused by the stimulus bill being tied to billions in foreign and military spending, as both were part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act. Online commenters were dismayed at the US government being ready to spend hundreds of millions on foreign aid, while in-person checks for many struggling Americans would amount to a mere $600 per person. For example, $1.3 billion would go to Egypt, $700 million to Sudan and $500 million to Israel.

 

@realDonaldTrump you MUST veto this farce, aka COVID relief bill!!! This isn't a stimulus package. This is a MASSIVE foriegn pork bill. And really?…$1,800 to illegals and $600 back to the tax paying citizens??? Billions going foriegn nations? I don't think so.

— Mike Detmer - Michigan Patriot (@DetmerMike) December 22, 2020

 

“Every American left and right should be calling for a veto of this stimulus ‘deal’— which provides more funding to foreign governments and to American arts centers, than to the American people,” tweeted conservative commentator Candace Owens.

 

Every American left and right should be calling for a #VETO of this stimulus “deal”— which provides MORE funding to foreign governments and to American arts centers, than to the American people. RETWEET so EVERY American sees how corrupt the Covid-19 “relief” packing is. pic.twitter.com/N08YB51vsx

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) December 22, 2020

 

There should not be any foreign aid given to any country, ever, but especially not in a COVID relief bill that's supposed to be helping Americans

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 21, 2020

 

Dear President Trump,I would rather not receive a pitiful $600 check of my own tax money, if it means that Democrats and RINOs will benefit the most from it with the pork they stuffed in for themselves.Veto it, and fight for our freedom to be open instead.🙏🏻@realDonaldTrump

— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) December 22, 2020

 

Some others were baffled by several provisions of the relief bill that seem to be less discussed in the media than the in-person checks.

 

For example, in a major win for the entertainment industry, the stimulus bill would make illegal media streaming a felony with up to 10-year prison sentence.

 

Among other curious parts, the supposed relief plan also includes an extension of a tax credit for racehorse owners as well as an official US stance on the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, intended as a condemnation of China’s treatment of Tibetan Buddhists.

 

Some Twitter users thought Trump should at the very least veto specific items in the bill to “cut off all the money for stuff not related to Covid-19.”

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/510438-trump-urged-veto-bill/

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:26 a.m. No.12133457   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3613

190 officers deployed in raid against suspected Islamist in Berlin after tip-off about ‘imminent’ bombing

 

Berlin police have launched an operation against a suspected Islamist after receiving information about a possible bomb plot. Local media said the suspect was a young Syrian man.

 

The operation in the German capital’s Marzahn district was directed at a person suspected of being on the “Islamist spectrum” and preparing “a serious crime,” Berlin police said, adding that 190 officers were involved in the raid.

 

According to the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, police were searching the apartment of a man suspected of planning a terrorist attack. The paper said the suspect was a 22-year-old Syrian, but the information was unconfirmed.

 

Berlin’s public prosecutor’s office later said the information about an “imminent Islamist bomb attack” had not been confirmed during the search, and the investigation was still ongoing.

 

German authorities have been on alert for possible terrorist plots during the holiday season. There was an attack in Berlin in 2016, when a failed asylum-seeker from Tunisia killed a truck driver and then rammed the vehicle into a packed Christmas market, killing 11 bystanders.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/510415-berlin-police-raid-islamist/

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:30 a.m. No.12133495   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3561 >>3613

RIP OFF: U.S. ‘Stimulus’ Sends BILLIONS To Sudan, Venezuela, Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan

 

The latest COVID-19 stimulus bill contains over $1 billion of taxpayer dollars directed towards a host of countries and organizations that provide no demonstrable benefit to American workers.

 

Among the most egregious expenditures in the December 21st stimulus are $700,000,000 being directed towards the country of Sudan and $33,000,000 “shall be made available for democracy programs for Venezuela.”

 

“Not less than” $135,000,000 will be sent to Burma, “not less than $85,500,000” will be sent to Cambodia, and “not less than $130,000,000” will be sent to Nepal.

 

The stimulus also stipulates that in Pakistan “not less than $15,000,000 shall be made available for democracy programs and not less than $10,000,000 shall be made available for gender programs.”

 

In addition to foreign countries receiving taxpayer dollars, which many slammed for hemorrhaging money that could have aided struggling American citizens, the stimulus also directs funds to social justice-driven causes.

 

The bill sets aside funds to investigate “archaeological sites” related to the 1908 Springfield Race Riot and creates two new Smithsonian museums: the National Museum of the American Latino and a “comprehensive women’s history museum.”

 

An additional $1,500,000 will be sent to the House Appropriations Committee’s “Office of Diversity and Inclusion” efforts.

 

A testament to wasteful government spending, the stimulus also uses federal funds to launch a commission tasked with educating “consumers about the dangers associated with using or storing portable fuel containers for flammable liquids near an open flame.”

 

https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/america-last-stimulus/

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:31 a.m. No.12133505   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3613

‘Maybe Google drank early’: Tech giant leaves people scratching their heads with mistaken DM message made public

 

Google tweeted and quickly deleted a message that appeared to be meant for a user experiencing issues with the system, inspiring a flurry of responses and mockery.

 

“Hmm. We’ve sent you a DM with the next steps. Please check and let us know if you have any questions,” the tech company tweeted on Monday. Google often responds by direct message to users having difficulty with their email accounts.

 

The company deleted the tweet within minutes, but that didn’t stop some from poking fun at the accidental message.

 

“I won’t forget you tried to slide into my DMs, Google,” one user wrote.

 

“Maybe Google drank early before Christmas,”replied another.

 

One person joked with the tech giant that they "didn't get" the DM in question and still had a few questions about "you know what."

 

*quickly checks my DMS… pic.twitter.com/v8U9eO08Pa

— Michelle472 (@Michelle4724) December 22, 2020

 

Still waiting for that DM.

— Contrebia (@thecontrebia) December 22, 2020

 

This sounds like fun. I await the DM from Google.

— Andy Blough (@LogicalQuestion) December 22, 2020

 

Please resend. My DMs are open.

— Ssaman Mardi (@SsamanMardi) December 22, 2020

 

Some were also seemingly in the process of chatting with Google about account issues and took the tweet as an opportunity to vent those frustrations.

 

not really, I lost my acc and you told me to dm you to further inform you about it, and you haven't replied back.

— yeethaw | commissions open (@ReaperzNathan) December 22, 2020

 

Google has not acknowledged the mistake on their Twitter account.

 

https://www.rt.com/usa/510466-google-dm-twitter-mistake/

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:32 a.m. No.12133514   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3613

CONFIRMED: Google Notifies Children If Parents Are Monitoring Their Accounts

 

The Big Tech behemoth believes it is important to notify children that their parents are watching

 

Google confirmed this month that they inform children when their parents are monitoring their account activity. The tech giant claims they are doing so as a way of balancing the interests of both parents and children.

 

Their child-notification policies came to light after film director Robby Starbuck posted an update to Twitter, explaining that his 7-year-old child received a warning message from Google that his account was being monitored.

 

“Our 7-year-old son has to have Google for homeschooling,” Starbuck tweeted, “So naturally we setup parental controls but look what [Google] did. They sent my son an email to tell him his privacy is important to them and telling him we’re supervising his account.”

 

“Your privacy is important to us,” the company’s warning message to the child read, “and we want to remind you that your parent…is supervising your Google account.”

 

Our 7 year old son has to have google for homeschooling so naturally we setup parental controls but look what @Google did. They sent my son an email to tell him his privacy is important to them and telling him we’re supervising his account. Let me explain what they’re doing. pic.twitter.com/iGEFCTxPQ0

 

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 10, 2020

 

When approached for a comment on this overt interference into the relationship between parent and child, Google representatives confirmed it does, in fact, notify young children when parents are monitoring their account activity and claim that in doing so they are adhering to UN stricture.

 

Google cited both the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the recently passed UK Age Appropriate Design Code as examples of “child-privacy” activism to which it adheres.

 

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – which dates to 1990 – says, in part, that “no child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honor and reputation.”

 

The British provision cited by Google is a bit more caustically ideological. It states that parental controls, while letting parents properly supervise their children, can also have an “impact on the child’s right to privacy…and on their rights to association, play, access to information and freedom of expression.”

 

“Children who are subject to persistent parental monitoring may have a diminished sense of their own private space which may affect the development of their sense of their own identity,” the code says. “This is particularly the case as the child matures and their expectation of privacy increases.”

 

The question Google’s interference raises is one of legal liability. Should a child engage in something illegal where the parents could legally be held liable, what complicity does Google claim in attempting to shield the child’s actions from the parent.

 

In most states in the United States the natural legal age for emancipation is 18 years of age. Special circumstances can sometimes see that age lowered.

 

In the area of a minor child driving drunk and causing physical harm or death to another person, parents are held liable. If minors consume alcohol at a home, the parent(s) are held liable.

 

By interfering in the parent-child relationship – and especially when the parent is paying the bill for the device being monitored, Google should be held to a level of culpability for it’s actions.

 

https://nationalfile.com/confirmed-google-notifies-children-if-parents-are-monitoring-their-accounts/

Anonymous ID: d4111c Dec. 22, 2020, 9:33 a.m. No.12133525   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3613

UK ‘exploring’ digital ‘freedom passport’ app proving Covid-19 negative status for right to visit public places – report

 

The British government has hired two firms to explore how a national database of Covid-19 test results could be used to give access to public venues only to people free from the disease, contract records show.

 

The companies, Netcompany UK and The Hub Company, have been given contracts worth £42,000 and £36,000 respectively (over $100,000 in total) to conduct work on “Covid-19 Certification/Passport MVP [minimum viable product].” The Daily Mail was the first to report on the records, which were made public last week.

 

Under the proposed system, people would be assigned individual QR codes referring to a national database for Covid-19 test results. Public venues like pubs, schools and workplaces would be able to scan the code to check the profile, which includes a photo, and confirm the visitor is Covid-19 free before letting them in.

 

The idea to somehow link participation in social life with Covid-19 status has been floated by various governments since the start of the pandemic. The UK’s version, as reported by the Telegraph in November, envisions a “freedom pass” issued to those who receive two negative tests in a week.

 

Logistical difficulties with mass testing and the fact that patients who have recovered can be reinfected have prevented practical implementation so far. But the introduction of vaccines has brought the idea back into the spotlight. Some nations like Israel and Ireland plan to give privileges to vaccinated people, but in the UK, there is strong public resentment to this approach. Critics say it would create an “apartheid” society that discriminates against vaccine-dodgers.

 

Boris Johnson’s government has repeatedly said that it has no plans to make the Covid-19 vaccine mandatory either directly or through coercion. Vaccination cards given to recipients will not be used as some sort of ticket to a football match or a pub, officials said.

 

https://www.rt.com/uk/510410-covid-tests-qr-codes/

 

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