Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 7:55 p.m. No.13253391   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3521 >>3533 >>3576 >>3642 >>3746 >>3852 >>3949 >>4016

Kellyanne Conway seals multimillion-dollar Donald Trump book deal: Report

 

"… expected to net Conway the biggest advance ever for a Trump tell-all," a news report says about the book deal.

 

Kellyanne Conway, a top political adviser for former President Trump, has reportedly inked a multimillion dollar deal to write a book.

 

"This one’s recipe is a little about her tough pillow talk with her husband, a little about growing up a growing family and a lot about Donald," The New York Post reported Thursday.

 

Conway previously wrote "What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live" in 2005.

 

Talk about a book deal for Conway first emerged in December 2020.

 

"Members of Donald Trump's inner circle are 'quaking in their boots' after learning Kellyanne Conway sealed a multi-million dollar deal to write a blockbuster memoir about her time in the White House, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal," wrote the U.K. paper.

 

"Details are being kept under wraps but the deal is expected to net Conway the biggest advance ever for a Trump tell-all, dwarfing the $2 million paid to former national security adviser John Bolton," said the paper.

 

"Of all the White House insiders, Kellyanne is going to write the most unvarnished, eye-popping account of her time working for the president," an insider told the Mail. "She's got some of us quaking in our boots."

 

Conway's book is expected to delve into her relationship with her 16-year-old daughter, who became a social media star with her vocal opposition to Trump, and her husband, George Conway, was also an outspoken Trump critic.

 

"Teenage Claudia became a strident political noise against her. The proud husband became an outspoken anti-Trumper. The more her voice was heard, the louder they screamed. To save either her family or her sanity Kellyanne eventually resigned," wrote the Post.

 

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/kellyanne-conway-reportedly-lands-multimillion-dollar-donald-trump-book

Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 7:59 p.m. No.13253413   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3521 >>3533 >>3576 >>3642 >>3746 >>3852 >>3949 >>4016

Navy Cruiser Returns to Port Again After Crew Spots Another Fuel Tank Leak

 

A Navy warship has halted the start of its deployment again after turning back to shore a second time in about two weeks to address more trouble with a fuel tank.

 

Vella Gulf, a Virginia-based Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, arrived in Norfolk on Sunday – a day after officials announced it was briefly back at sea following repairs to a leaking fuel oil tank. The new problem affected the same tank, but a Navy official familiar with the problem said the issues appear to be unrelated.

 

Tank corrosion is believed to have caused the first leak.

 

The cruiser turned back to shore this weekend while operating near the Virginia Capes by the Chesapeake Bay. A technical assessment is underway to repair the new problem.

 

"Experts are still evaluating the scope of the issue," said Lt. Marycate Walsh, a spokeswoman for U.S. 2nd Fleet. "This is an ongoing situation, and more information will be provided once it becomes available."

 

Vella Gulf deployed with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group on Feb. 19. The crew noticed a fuel oil leak in one of its engineering spaces after hitting heavy seas, forcing the ship to turn back.

 

It arrived back in Norfolk on Feb. 26, where it remained until March 13. The crew stayed on the ship last time to prevent possible exposure to COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

 

Walsh said they're taking the same precautions this time.

 

"The ship is currently in a bubble," she said. "The crew will remain onboard at this time until the extent of damage is determined."

 

She said the Navy remains confident in the repair work to fix the problem on the ship earlier this month, even though the new leak affected the same tank.

 

"The tank was inspected by qualified structural engineers, and corroded and pitted areas were evaluated using established engineering methods and standards," she said. "Repairs were completed where required."

 

Navy leaders always have the safety of sailors at front of mind when making operational decisions, she added.

 

"Technical experts deemed the ship safe for sea, and provided professional advice that informed the underway timeline," Walsh said. "We will follow the same process when preparing the ship to return to sea this time."

 

The rest of the carrier strike group remains at sea. A second Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, the Monterey, is deployed with the Eisenhower.

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/18/navy-cruiser-returns-port-again-after-crew-spots-another-fuel-tank-leak.html

Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 8:05 p.m. No.13253440   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3502 >>3521 >>3533 >>3576 >>3589 >>3642 >>3670 >>3746 >>3852 >>3949 >>4016

Walmart to offer immunity passport to customers who take COVID vaccine jab

 

Watchdog groups have warned that vaccine immunity passports will become tools for government-backed 'abuse, discrimination, and oppression.'

 

Walmart has teamed up with providers of a digital immunity passport so that customers who receive the COVID-19 vaccine at thousands of the retail giant’s locations across America will be able to prove they’ve been vaccinated when such proof is required for them to travel, return to work or school, and attend sports events and other entertainment venues.

 

The company announced yesterday that customers vaccinated at Walmart and Sam’s Club will be able to access their vaccination records through the Health Pass by CLEAR app and TCP’s CommonHealth and CommonPass apps.

 

“These platforms are free to users who choose to use them in order to verify their vaccine status to safely return to travel, work, school, sports events, entertainment and other venues while protecting their health data privacy,” the company stated.

 

“Our goal is to give customers vaccinated at Walmart free and secure digital access to their vaccine record and enable them to share that information with third parties seeking to confirm their vaccination status,” said John Furner, CEO and President of Walmart US.

 

“We are proud to be the first retailer to strategically partner with both The Commons Project Foundation and CLEAR, and we look forward to working with them to empower people with digital access to their vaccination records so they can use them whenever and however they choose,” he added.

 

Watchdog groups have warned, however, that vaccine immunity passports will be used by those in power to restrict the rights and freedoms of those who refuse to go along with the medical experiment of receiving an unproven COVID-19 vaccine.

 

“The real risk of ‘vaccine immunity passports’ is the violation of our rights and freedoms,” Ted Kuntz, president of Vaccine Choice Canada, told LifeSiteNews in a recent interview. “The unstated intention of such a document would be used to restrict access to travel and services of those individuals not partaking in this medical experiment.”

 

Citizens in countries that have already rolled out such a vaccine passport program, such as Israel, are already experiencing what they call a “medical Apartheid.”

 

“It’s very intense over here in Israel,” said Ilana Rachel Daniel in a video posted March 3rd on Bitchute. “It’s terrible. It’s a very, very, very frightening situation.” Daniel related how the country has instituted a “green passport” where those who have not been vaccinated are not able to “get into theaters or malls or all sorts of things.”

 

“They are creating a medical Apartheid,” said Daniel.

 

A prominent left-leaning civil liberties group in Canada warned in December that “immunity passports” for those who receive the COVID-19 vaccination shot would ultimately become tools for government-backed “abuse, discrimination, and oppression.”

 

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association said that an immunity passport health program would place citizens in one of two camps, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, which would create a “dangerous social sorting, a categorization of human beings as safe vs unsafe, deserving vs undeserving, based on their personal decision about their health.”

 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/walmart-to-offer-immunity-passport-to-customers-who-take-covid-vaccine-jab

Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 8:08 p.m. No.13253451   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3463 >>3476 >>3491 >>3507 >>3510 >>3521 >>3533 >>3576 >>3642 >>3746 >>3852 >>3949 >>4016

Starbucks Founder Says China "Is An Adversary Not An Enemy" & US "Must Find A Way To Cooperate"

 

Former Starbucks CEO and one-time Independent presidential wannabe Howard Schultz made an appearance at Bloomberg's Equality Summit on Thursday to try and remind President Biden - whose administration has maintained many, but not all, of the tough on China policies adopted by his predecessor - that the US and China must cooperate.

 

In a seemingly contradictory quote, Schultz told his audience that China is "an adversary but not an enemy" and that America and the Chinese "must figure out a way to cooperate."

 

Schultz added: with the "rhetoric of the last four years" being unhelpful to finding common ground, if relations aren’t improved, "there will be significant problems," he said, though he is "confident that we will find a way to cooperate to benefit the rest of world".

 

"I have great respect for the Chinese people and the relationships we have built as a company there," Schultz said. "China is not going to conform to everything America wants in the same context that America is not going to conform to everything China wants."

 

Switching topics to economic inequality, an issue that Starbucks has long claimed to lead on, regarding domestic US issues, Schultz said the "underbelly" of inequality in American society can be seen in broadband Internet access, which he said is lacking in more than half of low-income households.

 

"That alone demonstrates the significant divide in America," Schultz proclaimed.

 

But to improve racial harmony, "we need to do better at teaching sensitivity and compassion,” he said. “We have to have a society with respect and dignity for all". And finally, Schultz turned his attention to small business owners, whom he said have been among the hardest-hit during the pandemic.

 

A "large majority" of those affected "have been Black- and brown- owned businesses" which threatens the "social fabric in neighborhoods and communities".

 

Whatever you might think of Schultz and his virtue-signaling, it's important to remember that China has played an increasingly critical role to Starbucks' bottom line over the last year (while he no longer runs the company, he's still the founder, and a board member). Even though Chinese consumers haven't taken to coffee like American executives had hoped (who can forget the demise of Starbucks' domestic competitor Luckin Coffee?), Starbucks' stores comprised a larger portion of its international revenue in 2020. What's more, Starbucks' stores in China were largely open for most of last year, unlike the company's stores in the US.

 

With senior diplomats from the US and China meeting in Alaska today and tomorrow, expect to hear more of this from American captains of industry as we head into the weekend.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/starbucks-founder-says-china-adversary-not-enemy-and-us-must-find-way-cooperate

Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 8:15 p.m. No.13253496   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3501 >>3521 >>3533 >>3576 >>3642 >>3746 >>3852 >>3949 >>4016

The Ghislaine Maxwell Case And the ongoing(?) investigations of Epstein's co-conspirators

 

Ghislaine Maxwell remains in jail, awaiting trial for charges including (1) conspiracy to entice/transport minors to engage in illegal sexual acts; (2) transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts; and (3) perjury. She doesn’t yet have a trial date and sits (or, as Maxwell would say, suffers) in jail as the the case continues.

 

Maxwell is currently fighting this war on multiple fronts. The first has to do with dismissal. As we previously reported, she is trying to get the charges dropped. One of her best arguments (read her motion to dismiss on Scribd) is that the Epstein plea deal precludes her prosecution:

 

MORE

https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-ghislane-maxwell-case

Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 8:16 p.m. No.13253505   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3521 >>3533 >>3576 >>3642 >>3746 >>3852 >>3949 >>4016

Australia's news media bargaining code is a form of ransomware, and someone paid up

 

The battle baffled the world. The big so-called 'tech companies' now have to pay Australian news producers to use their content, but what actually happened here?

 

We need to do something. This is something. Therefore we need to do it. This is the logic that led to Australia's wondrously strange news media bargaining code.

 

Let's take a step back. There was indeed a problem, a problem that goes back more than a quarter of a century. It's that the internet changed everything. But it was only ever really a problem for news business that failed to adapt.

 

News is expensive to make. That's why for most of the 20th century, commercial news operations bundled it with advertising, which was the main income stream, and cheap filler content.

 

The audience got the whole bundle in one lump, whether it be on dead trees whose slaughter and distribution they paid for, or via radio or TV.

 

But then the internet unbundled everything.

 

People who wanted the advertising went straight to sites that were nothing but ads for real estate or used cars or second-hand furniture or people who wanted a date.

 

Advertising also moved to places like Facebook, which has personally relevant content that people give them for free, or Google, which provides a whole bunch of useful services.

 

It turns out there's fewer people who just want quality news than the big old news factories had thought. The data finally showed them how few people read stories past the headline. Most of those people aren't willing to pay for all the news content when they only want a few bits and pieces.

 

Profits soon plummeted. Journalists were sacked. News got cheaper, but not in a good way.

 

Meanwhile, most people are happy with reading the snippets of news they see on the Facebooks or the Googles, or even just the headline. The tech giants get some ad revenue from that, but the news factories get nothing unless people click through.

 

So as I say, there's a problem, but only for the old news factories.

 

https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-news-media-bargaining-code-is-a-form-of-ransomware-and-someone-paid-up/

Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 8:33 p.m. No.13253622   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3788

Moderna

 

Enabling Drug Discovery & Development

 

We built Moderna on the guiding premise that if using mRNA as a medicine works for one disease, it should work for many diseases. And, if this is possible – given the right approach and infrastructure – it could meaningfully improve how medicines are discovered, developed and manufactured.

Our Operating System

 

Recognizing the broad potential of mRNA science, we set out to create an mRNA technology platform that functions very much like an operating system on a computer. It is designed so that it can plug and play interchangeably with different programs. In our case, the "program” or “app” is our mRNA drug - the unique mRNA sequence that codes for a protein.

 

We have a dedicated team of several hundred scientists and engineers solely focused on advancing Moderna's platform technology. They are organized around key disciplines and work in an integrated fashion to advance knowledge surrounding mRNA science and solve for challenges that are unique to mRNA drug development. Some of these disciplines include mRNA biology, chemistry, formulation & delivery, bioinformatics and protein engineering.

 

Our mRNA Medicines – The ‘Software of Life’

 

When we have a concept for a new mRNA medicine and begin research, fundamental components are already in place.

 

Generally, the only thing that changes from one potential mRNA medicine to another is the coding region – the actual genetic code that instructs ribosomes to make protein. Utilizing these instruction sets gives our investigational mRNA medicines a software-like quality. We also have the ability to combine different mRNA sequences encoding for different proteins in a single mRNA investigational medicine.

 

We are leveraging the flexibility afforded by our platform and the fundamental role mRNA plays in protein synthesis to pursue mRNA medicines for a broad spectrum of diseases.

 

Overcoming Key Challenges

 

Using mRNA to create medicines is a complex undertaking and requires overcoming novel scientific and technical challenges. We need to get the mRNA into the targeted tissue and cells while evading the immune system. If the immune system is triggered, the resultant response may limit protein production and, thus, limit the therapeutic benefit of mRNA medicines. We also need ribosomes to think the mRNA was produced naturally, so they can accurately read the instructions to produce the right protein. And we need to ensure the cells express enough of the protein to have the desired therapeutic effect.

 

Our multidisciplinary platform teams work together closely to address these scientific and technical challenges. This intensive cross-functional collaboration has enabled us to advance key aspects of our platform and make significant strides to deliver mRNA medicines for patients.

 

https://www.modernatx.com/mrna-technology/mrna-platform-enabling-drug-discovery-development

Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 9:08 p.m. No.13253814   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3852 >>3949 >>4016

Navarro urges Biden to send China 'trillion-dollar bill' for COVID-19 chaos

 

Former White House adviser Peter Navarro stresses the Biden administration needs to “hold China accountable” and send the country “a bill for trillions of dollars”.

 

Mr Navarro also warned that the party could be compromised over deals they may have with the Communist Party.

 

“Over 20 per cent of the Biden administration are compromised in some way through money pots by the Chinese Communist Party," he says.

 

Mr Navarro is urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to “confront the Chinese” as high level talks with US and Chinese officials have begun in Alaska.

 

“Time to stand strong with the Chinese Communist Party. America wants that. Hear me Joe Biden on that," he told Fox News.

 

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6241813884001

Anonymous ID: 7bc05a March 18, 2021, 9:34 p.m. No.13253948   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3971 >>3984 >>4016 >>4027

Fauci: Whitmer ‘A Really Good Governor,’ Who Has ‘Done Some Really Good Things’

 

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is “a really good governor, I think she’s done some really good things.” But did say the state should “hold off” on relaxing restrictions.

 

Fauci said, “I mean, she’s a really good governor, I think she’s done some really good things. But I am telling them, just hold off for a bit. When you get the overwhelming majority of your population vaccinated, the chances of there being a surge are minuscule. So just hang in there, don’t turn the switch on and off, pull back gradually, not all at once, everything, all things are off and everything goes, that’s not a good idea.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/03/18/fauci-whitmer-a-really-good-governor-who-has-done-some-really-good-things/