Brittany Higgins alleged rape: Parliament office steam cleaned after alleged attack

The Department of Finance sent in the cleaners to the office where a staffer was found half-naked on the couch, sparking a police inquiry.

The Department of Finance sent in the cleaners to Defence Minister Linda Reynolds’ office after a Liberal staffer was found half-naked on the couch sparking a police inquiry into whether there had been an attempt to “interfere with a suspected crime scene.”

News.com.au has confirmed that police investigated the matter after concerns were raised about the decision to send in the cleaners on the same day the woman, 24-year-old Brittany Higgins, was found in a disorientated state.

But the Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) says the Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigation found that because it did not know at the time it was a potential sexual assault that no “criminality” was involved in the clean.

Ms Higgins alleges she was raped in the then Defence Industry Minister’s office by another Liberal staffer after a night out drinking.

News.com.au raised questions with Parliament’s presiding officers about the clean after being contacted by a whistleblower who claimed the office was “steam cleaned” on the day of the incident.

“The AFP has advised DPS that it had conducted enquiries into the action of DPS staff in the initial handling of the incident, including whether there was any criminality identified, such as attempts to conceal or interfere with a suspected crime scene,’’ the DPS spokesman told news.com.au

“The AFP advised that there were no disclosures of sexual assault made by the complainant on the day of the incident and therefore actions taken by them (DPS) were not in response with a suspected crime”.

The DPS also reveals in the statement that they entered the office of the then Defence Industry Minister on the weekend to clean it “at the request of the Department of Finance” which is responsible for managing the ministerial wing

This was immediately after the DPS informed the Department of Finance that two staffers had been found after hours in breach of the rules.

“DPS advised the Department of Finance, administrator of the Ministerial Wing of APH, on the morning of the incident,’’ a DPS spokesman told news.com.au.

“At the request of the Department of Finance, DPS cleaners were granted access to the suite to conduct a routine office clean on the late afternoon of 23 March 2019.

Despite claims that the finance department told Senator Reynolds’ office that an ambulance was offered to Ms Higgins, the DPS said this was not the case.

“DPS is not aware of any ambulance being offered. DPS has had extensive consultation with the AFP on this matter,’’ a spokesman said.

This new account accords with Ms Brittany’s own recollection that she was never offered medical assistance or an ambulance.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/brittany-higgins-alleged-rape-parliament-office-steam-cleaned-after-alleged-attack/news-story/fa1797427cf198241d555eb67ec3a306

The Secret Luxembourg Base of Italy’s ’Ndrangheta Mafia

By the time Santo Rumbo turned up in Luxembourg, he was already deeply enmeshed in the world of the Italian mafia.

At just 31 years old, he’d allegedly risen to one of the highest ranks of the ’Ndrangheta, the vicious Calabrian crime group that is responsible for a good chunk of Europe’s cocaine trade.

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Siderno in Calabria, a major center of ’Ndrangheta activity.

So Italian police were more than a little concerned to learn he had moved to the tiny northwestern European nation, where he got involved in a restaurant business along with a group of young migrants from an impoverished Italian village near his hometown of Siderno, in the ’Ndrangheta’s heartland.

The intensely hierarchical and clannish ’Ndrangheta have fanned out across the world from their home base in southern Italy, often using family-based chain migration to get footholds in new markets.

But the town of Siderno, on the sunny Ionian coast, is still the capital of their global narco-empire. There, the mighty Commisso clan rules over a number of ’Ndrangheta families that are so powerful that their decisions can affect global cocaine prices.

Santo Rumbo’s father, Riccardo, was one of these family leaders, heading the Rumbo-Figliomeni ‘ndrina

subgroup.

He had a reputation for power and ruthlessness, and taught Santo the ways of his trade. In 2009, the younger Rumbo set up a money-lending business in Siderno under his father’s guidance. When Riccardo was jailed in 2010, Santo allegedly took an important role in the Rumbo ’ndrina.

At some point after that — investigators don’t know when — Santo Rumbo made his way to Canada, where he spent time with mob bosses there and received one of the ’Ndrangheta’s highest rankings.

Societies and Endowments

The upper echelons of the ’Ndrangheta are intensely secretive and almost impossible to penetrate. Even lower-ranking mafiosi might not know who holds what dote, or rank, much less police and investigators. But we do know that doti are incredibly important.

The highest possible dote is Padrino, followed by Quartino, Trequartino, Vangelo, and Santa. Only mafiosi holding one of these top rankings are allowed to interact with heads of other mafia groups, the state, business leaders, and members of the fraternal order of Freemasons. Mafiosi above a certain dote are also eligible to sit on the provincia, the institution that rules over the entire ’Ndrangheta.

Like any other organization, the ’Ndrangheta can suffer from title inflation. The Vangelo ranking was created relatively recently, after bosses felt the ranks of the Santa had become too crowded, according to notes seized during searches.

Prosecutors in Reggio Calabria only learned about Santo Rumbo’s high ranking by chance, when they overheard two ’Ndrangheta bosses in Canada talking about him on a wiretap. One mentioned that Rumbo was given a higher dote than his brother, who’d held the Vangelo until he died.

If Rumbo did hold a ranking of Trequartino before the age of 30, this would have been an extraordinarily rapid rise through the mafia ranks.

Unfortunately for him, around that time an Italian police operation was under way to root out branches of the ’Ndrangheta in Canada. Wiretapped conversations from Operation Canadian Connection 2 tipped police off that Santo Rumbo’s next stop was Luxembourg.

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Differdange, in Luxembourg, where Santo Rumbo turned up after allegedly climbing through the ranks of the ’Ndrangheta, is a far cry from his hometown of Siderno.

The tiny country in the heart of Europe is one of the continent’s most notorious tax havens and has a poor record on corporate transparency. Until recently there was no public information available about who owned companies registered in Luxembourg.

This can make it hard for Italian investigators to follow networks into that country. These very same qualities made it a draw for the mafia, according to Giuseppe Lombardo, a top antimafia prosecutor in the ’Ndrangheta stronghold of Reggio Calabria.

https://www.occrp.org/en/openlux/revealed-the-secret-luxembourg-base-of-italys-ndrangheta-mafia

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Planet Normal: ‘Scientists Should Be ‘the Last People Running Society’

“Nerdy” scientists should not be running the country during the pandemic, a former NHS consultant has claimed, arguing they “tend to miss the big picture.” Special guest, leading pathologist Dr John Lee talks with Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan for the Planet Normal podcast,

One of the fatal flaws in governments’ dramatic claims of ‘COVID deaths’ has been a marked change in recording COVID deaths – making much easier to attribute the cause of death to COVID – even though the actual cause of death was more likely multiple chronic, long-term health conditions. As a result of this statistical distortion, the government and mainstream media have been running hysterical fear campaign and crippling lockdown policies.

Dr Lee explains, “I think recording the death in this way …. it’s become very difficult to know the role that COVID is playing in what we’re seeing in the health service over the last year.”

“The three things are the nature of the threat due to this virus, the effectiveness of the responses that we’ve introduced to it, and then the cost other costs of those responses. I think if we just look at what’s happened over the last year it seems to me anyway that the nature of the threat has been exaggerated, and the effectiveness of the responses that have been introduced have been exaggerated – while the costs of the responses that we’ve introduced have been greatly underestimated. And you put those three things together and what we have is a pretty unpleasant view of the world and not a way to deal with an epidemic,” said Dr Lee.

More aptly, they are asking the question: why scientists ‘tend to miss the big picture? Listen:

https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/02/15/planet-normal-scientists-should-be-the-last-people-running-society/

A Doctor’s View About the New mRNA Vaccines

It’s important to know both what we know about the new vaccines and what we don’t know.

I’ve practiced for 35 years. I am always honest with my patients, even if conversations are difficult or confrontational. I will also be honest about saying “I don’t know.” This happens when a diagnosis is not readily apparent or when there are limits to the help I can give. With the passage of time, I’ve learned that what we don’t know about medicine outweighs what we do know.

I’ve always been a proponent of older, more established vaccines. However, they are imperfect and, like all medical treatments, can have side effects. Unfortunately, in the conversation about the new COVID-19 vaccines, the tenets of honesty and a willingness to admit ignorance are being compromised.

Operation Warp Speed was remarkable, but it leaves an uncomfortable question: Is it a good thing to rush a vaccine (or medicine) to the public without the usual safeguards? Operation Warp Speed might be a great business objective or military goal, but is it great for a medical treatment?

The pharmaceutical industry, government health authorities, and the media insist the new vaccines are safe and effective. While the initial results are promising, this is not the whole truth. Both honesty and acknowledging ignorance require answering a few questions.

What do we know about the new TYPE of vaccine being given?

Pfizer and Moderna were the first COVID-19 vaccines to be approved. Both use a new technology called mRNA vaccine, which has never been broadly given to a human population to prevent any disease.

Let that sink in for a moment.

All previous vaccines take a weakened virus or a piece of the virus and inject it into humans to induce an immune response sufficient to prevent a disease. Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines inject mRNA, which is a protein code that instructs the body to make a part of COVID-19’s spike protein that will then induce an immune response.

Our bodies daily use our own mRNA to carry instructions from DNA to make various proteins the body uses. While this new vaccine science sounds intriguing, it has never been tried in humans in this scope. It may be a breathtaking scientific advancement heralding a new path for all vaccines. It may also be less effective or have currently unknown side effects.

Is the mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 safe?

So far, the limited study of the vaccines approved for emergency use (one major study for each vaccine approved) has shown some short-term side effects. The vaccine is a two-shot series and side effects were prominent after the second shot. Side effects were more common if the recipient was younger than 65 years old.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/a_doctors_view_about_the_new_mrna_vaccines.html

Ex-NFL star Vincent Jackson dead at 38

TAMPA – The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Vincent Jackson. Jackson, 38, was found dead on Monday at the Homewood Suites — located at 10240 Palm River Road in Brandon, Florida.

According to hotel staff, Jackson, who is a South Tampa resident, checked into the hotel on January 11, 2021, and had been staying in a room since that date.

On February 10, members of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office spoke with Jackson’s family members who called to report that he was missing. A formal report was filed on February 11. The following day, February 12, HCSO located Jackson at the Homewood Suites and spoke with him. After assessing Jackson’s well-being, the missing persons case was canceled.

Jackson was found dead at 11:30 a.m. on February 15 in his hotel room by a housekeeper.

https://breaking911.com/breaking-former-nfl-star-vincent-jackson-found-dead-in-florida-hotel-room-he-was-38/

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>Vanderbilt

Are you fucking kidding me?

https://www.9news.com.au/national/australia-breaking-news-live-coronavirus-updates-headlines-february-16-2021-coronavirus-vaccine-victoria-covid-numbers/16597675-73e7-4dbf-a761-5422eea21d5d

Attackmay have been a test

>>12937465 Brittany Higgins alleged rape: Australian Parliament office steam cleaned after alleged attack

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Previous Study on AccuVote Voting Machines Like Those Used in New Hampshire Found Serious Flaws and Ability to Steal Votes with Little Risk of Detection

The Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine

A recent hand recount in the Rockingham District 7 NH House Race in Windham, New Hampshire, found that the Dominion-owned voting machines shorted EVERY REPUBLICAN by roughly 300 votes.

The Dominion machine counted results were wrong for all 4 Republicans in Windham by almost exactly 300 votes or roughly 6% of their votes.

Granite Grok reported:

The Town of Windham used Dominion machines to count paper ballots and upon a believable hand recount, it was confirmed each Republican was machine-cheated out of roughly 300 votes.

You would think this would have been solved by the Dominion machine company, the Secretary of State, the Elections Unit of the AG’s Office, or the laughable Ballot Law Commission. (Kathy Sullivan, d (Term expires July 1, 2024)

Nope.

Just like every other state that used machines that alter ballot counts in favor of one political party over another – here we are.

Dominion Voting Systems owns the intellectual property of the AccuVote machines used in New Hampshire.

This should not be a surprise.

A previous study found that the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machines are highly unreliable and susceptible to fraud.

From reader Bryan:

I saw your article. I knew that a single random voting district in New Hampshire was going to be analyzed, “to prove that there had not been any voting improprieties.” It was a promise made to a Republican poll watcher. That was in December. I did not know which one would be studied or when but I knew that they were going to look at a Dominion AccuVote machine. So I tried to find if anyone had ever examined the machines previously. Pay dirt! I’m still waiting to see if the state of New Hampshire will disclose the machine model and vintage year of manufacture, but here is what I found. I think you will find it interesting. The researchers have quite a pedigree.

A study performed on the Diebold AAccuVote-TS machines in 2006 found that the voting machines were able to easily steal votes. Anyone who has physical access to a voting machine, or to a memory card that will later be inserted into a machine, can install said malicious software using a simple method that takes as little as one minute.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/previous-study-accuvote-voting-machines-like-used-new-hampshire-found-serious-flaws-ability-steal-votes-little-risk-detection/

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possibly the AI