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WATCH: OAN Cuts Away From Batsh*t Lin Wood Speech Calling For Death of Trump Opponents After He Touts QAnon

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One time Trump attorney Lin Wood spoke at the weekend’s Health and Freedom Conference which was carried live by One America News (OAN), but even the very pro-Trump cable outlet cut away from his comments as he referenced QAnon as some sort of spiritual savior.

The conservative conference reportedly drew thousands of attendees from around the nation and featured a who’s who of pro-Trump speakers like General Michael Flynn among many other conspiracy theorists.

After speaking about his four divorces (and how that’s less than King David) Wood revealed how God forgave him and how, when the time comes that He’s ready and you’ve been learning, God would save all those in attendance too. Then he paused briefly and told the crowd “now catch this next move,” before saying “He’s going to rebirth you into the spirit world and create exactly the person that he intended you to be,” while drawing the letter “Q” with his finger.

In the event that symbolism was missed by anyone in attendance, Wood explained “there’s the ‘Q'” which delighted the audience so much that they rose to their feet in applause. It was at this point, however, where Wood’s speech appeared to be even too much for OAN who cut away from the speech to report on other news of the day.

The Q as spiritual savior moment wasn’t even the strangest part of Wood’s speech. As Twitter account PatriotTakes points out, Wood also suggested that all critics of Trump should be put in front of a firing squad and killed for “committing acts against humanity.”

Over the course of the last several years, Wood had frequently appeared on Fox News and defended Nick Sandmann in his defamation suit against CNN. But recently his comments and political positions appeared even too outlandish for basic cable news, and he has been relegated to QAnon-centric conferences.

Watch above via OAN.

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Syrian opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19

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BEIRUT, April 19 (Reuters) - Prominent Syrian dissident Michel Kilo, a writer who was jailed for opposing the country's leadership, had died in France from COVID-19, opposition politicians said on Monday.

Kilo, a Christian in his early eighties from the coastal city of Latakia, was involved in the opposition early on in the 10-year conflict in Syria that spiraled after a crackdown on mass protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Before his exile, Kilo had tried to operate within the confines of Syria's political system, monopolized by the Baath Party for decades. (Reporting by Beirut bureau, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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COPENHAGEN, April 19 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Denmark's Danske Bank resigned on Monday after Dutch authorities named him as a suspect in an investigation into violations of money-laundering regulations at lender ABN Amro .

Chris Vogelzang, who held some senior positions at Amsterdam-based ABN Amro between 2000 and 2017, said he was very surprised by the Dutch authorities' decision, adding that his status as a suspect did not imply that he would be charged.

"However, given the special situation Danske Bank is in and the intense scrutiny the bank is under … I do not want speculations about my person to get in the way of the continued development of Danske Bank," Vogelzang said.

Vogelzang took the helm of Danske Bank in June 2019 with the job of steering Danske through one of the world's biggest money-laundering scandals, which involved 200 billion euros ($239 billion) in suspicious transactions passing through its Estonian branch between 2007 and 2015.

He was tasked with rebuilding investor and customer trust in the lender, which is still being investigated by authorities in Denmark, the United States, Estonia and France.

Separately, Dutch bank ABN Amro said on Monday it had reached a 480-million-euro ($574 million) settlement with prosecutors in the Netherlands over money-laundering allegations, which will impact its first-quarter results.

"It is super unfortunate that it's once again money laundering that this is related to. It's almost embarrassing," Jyske Bank analyst Anders Haulund Vollesen told Reuters about Vogelzang being named as a suspect and resigning.

However Vogelzang made strides to clean up Danske Bank and the lender is starting to deliver on its 2023 plan to improve the business and reduce costs, Vollesen said.

"He has succeeded, but he does not get to see the fruits of his labour."

Danske shares were down 1.2% in early-morning trade.

Danske Chairman Karsten Dybvad said the lender was very sorry to see Chris Vogelzang leave.

"He has been instrumental in the initiation of the ongoing transformation of Danske Bank and the progress and results it has already created," Dybvad added.

Carsten Egeriis, Danske's chief risk officer for the past four years, will take over as chief executive, effective immediately, Danske said.

Danske board member Gerrit Zalm, Vogelzang's former boss at ABN Amro, has also resigned, the bank also said on Monday.

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>ABN Amro

clinton foundation

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/abn-amro-renewable-energy-fund

ABN AMRO Renewable Energy Fund

Commitment by Bnp Paribas, ABN AMRO Australia Holdings Pty Limited

In 2007, ABN AMRO committed to to create a renewable energy private equity fund to make major investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency companies. This commitment recognizes the pressing need to promote investments in clean energy as a means to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The monetary commitment was originally made by ABN AMRO Asset Management, which has since been acquired by Fortis Investment-which, in turn, has been bought by BNP Paribas Investment Partners. The commitment, under the Clinton Global Initiative, of 50 million Euros into the Fortis Clean Energy Fund has not been formally reconfirmed by BNP Paribas, but the substance has been continued under BNP Paribas Investment Partners. On the back off the initial commitment made by the parent company, the Fortis Clean Energy Fund has been successful in raising further commitments from investors and, to date, 200 million Euros has been raised to invest in European renewable energy projects.

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https://fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2008-05-22-Hillary-Clinton-for-President-Contributions-by-Employer-FEC-May-22-2008.pdf

336 pages of donations

abn amro on list

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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/childrens-investment-fund-fund-calls-for-break-up-of-abn-amro

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Investment_Fund_Management

In 2008 The US railroad company CSX won a court case against the Children’s Investment Fund and 3G Capital Partners, another hedge fund, after the funds announced that they had acquired about 20% of CSX’s stock.[8] TCI succeeded in electing four of its five directors to the CSX board, but CSX shares declined by about 50 percent after the meeting. TCI declared defeat and sold its shares, taking its directors off the board. Chris Hohn, the founder of TCI vowed to abandon shareholder activism as an investing strategy.[9] When the case was appealed, the judge gave limited support for the original finding.

In 2008 the company was suffering from heavy losses but recovered very well and assets under management reportedly stood around $6 billion. At the end of 2010, the company recorded a loss of 80% in profits as a result of reduced investment performance.[10] By 2020 the hedge fund was managing more than $30 billion. It recorded a 41% gain in 2019 after gaining just 0.9% in 2018.[11]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jul/05/hohn-charity-donation

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The secretive hedge fund manager and philanthropist Chris Hohn last year donated almost half a billion pounds to the children's charity run by his wife, it emerged yesterday.

The £486m gift follows hefty profits at Hohn's hedge fund TCI in 2007, and beat the previous year's donation of £276m. The financier has now donated more than £1bn in total, more than the gross domestic product of countries including Greenland and Antigua.

The funds will be given to the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the charity that Hohn co-founded with his wife Jamie to help children in poor and developing countries, mostly in Africa, Asia and Central America.

Media-shy Hohn, 42, is the son of a Jamaican car mechanic who emigrated to Britain in the 1960s. He attended Southampton University, and was encouraged to apply to Harvard University, where he completed an MBA. He met his Chicago-born wife, now 44, there while she was attending the Kennedy School of Government.

Hohn runs TCI, a London-based activist hedge fund that invests in companies to instigate changes such as asset sales or mergers. His role as an activist investor in Dutch bank ABN Amro was criticised for helping to pave the way for the bank's sale in 2007 to the Royal Bank of Scotland.

TCI's profits in the year to the end of August 2008 surged by 73% to £555m, doubling Hohn's pay to £1.7m. The firm, however, warned that this year will be tougher, following a plunge in credit and equity markets since September, when US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. The average hedge fund lost around 19% in 2008.

The hedge fund industry, once worth $2tn (£1.2tn), has shrunk to about $1.3tn as asset values plummet and wealthy investors withdraw their cash, seeking safer deposits. Hedge funds are finding it increasingly difficult to justify their fee structure – they typically receive 2% commission and a 20% share of profits – as investors face falling revenues.

Hohn founded TCI in 2003, one year after the Children's Investment Fund Foundation was incorporated.

The fund directs some of its profits to the charity, which at the same time invests in the fund. The Foundation dedicated £33.7m to charitable activities in the 12 months to August 2008, up from £11.6m the previous year, according to its accounts. This is in line with US charity guidelines of investing about 5% of assets, said Gerry Elias, a spokesman and trustee of the foundation. Assets are also allocated to investment managers other than TCI. The charity invests in foreign exchange, commodities or fixed income, areas outside TCI's focus, Elias said.

Managed by Jamie Cooper-Hohn from a Mayfair office, along with 17 staff, CIFF focuses on child survival, nutrition, education and development. It also invests in the HIV/Aids initiative of former US president Bill Clinton's Foundation, and has partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to donate food in more than 20 countries.

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foreign kids

trains

wife

clinton foundation

bill n melinda

maybe some boobies will wake you up

any company lately with money laundering charges like

ABN AMRO

JUST ADD CLINTON FOUNDATION TO SEARCH

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/business/abn-amros-money-laundering-settlement-prompts-danske-banks-chief-to-resign.html

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/news-and-media/press-releases-and-statements/press-release-president-clinton-announces-landmark-program-to-reduce-energy-use.html

Press Release: President Clinton Announces Landmark Program to Reduce Energy Use in Buildings Worldwide

New York

ABOUT CLINTON FOUNDATION'S WORK

CLINTON CLIMATE INITIATIVE

PRESS RELEASE

Four Multinational Corporations, Five Global Banks, and Sixteen Cities Partner with the Clinton Foundation to Retrofit Buildings and Reduce Carbon Emissions.

President Bill Clinton today announced the creation of a global Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, a project of the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI). This program brings together four of the world's largest energy service companies (ESCOs), five of the world's largest banks, and sixteen of the world's largest cities in a landmark program designed to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings.

"Climate change is a global problem that requires local action," said President Clinton. "The businesses, banks and cities partnering with my foundation are addressing the issue of global warming because it's the right thing to do, but also because it's good for their bottom line. They're going to save money, make money, create jobs and have a tremendous collective impact on climate change all at once. I'm proud of them for showing leadership on the critical issue of climate change and I thank them for their commitment to this new initiative."

Urban areas are responsible for approximately 75 percent of all energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Buildings account for nearly 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and in cities such as New York and London this figure is close to 70 percent. The Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program will provide both cities and their private building owners with access to the necessary funds to retrofit existing buildings with more energy efficient products, typically leading to energy savings between 20 to 50 percent.

Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Inc, Siemens and Trane will conduct energy audits, perform building retrofits, and guarantee the energy savings of the retrofit projects.

ABN AMRO, Citi, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS have committed to arrange $1 billion each to finance cities and private building owners to undertake these retrofits at no net cost, doubling the global market for energy retrofit in buildings.

These banks will work alongside energy efficiency finance specialist Hannon Armstrong and CCI to develop effective mechanisms to deploy this capital globally. Cities and building owners will pay back the loans plus interest with the energy savings generated by the reduced energy costs thanks to the building retrofits.

An initial group of sixteen of the world's largest cities has agreed to participate in the retrofit program, and offer their municipal buildings for the first round of energy retrofits: Bangkok, Berlin, Chicago, Houston, Johannesburg, Karachi, London, Melbourne, Mexico City, Mumbai, New York, Rome, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo, and Toronto.

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https://nypost.com/2021/03/06/businessmen-accused-of-ukraine-money-laundering-gave-millions-to-ny-charities/

Kolomoisky, who built his fortune during the lawless years immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union, reportedly has a controlling interest in Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company which put President Biden’s son, Hunter, on its board of directors in 2014 at a salary of $50,000 per month. Kolomoisky dispatched his private army to take over companies and destroy a Russian-owned oil and gas refinery in Dnipropetrovsk in 2014, according to reports.

Kolomoisky and a partner, Gennadiy Boholiubov, are accused of taking out billions in fraudulent loans and lines of credit from PrivatBank, which they co-owned, funneling the cash through a “web of entities” created by Korf and Laber.

PRIVATBANK,CLINTON FOUNDATION

https://clintonfoundationtimeline.com/tags/privatbank/

PrivatBank

March 7, 2014 – Nearly a billion dollars of Ukraine’s gold reserve is loaded on a plane destined for the United States

April 2014-March 2016: Stress Test For IMF in Ukraine — Igor Kolomoisky’s Privatbank is the biggest beneficiary of the IMF’S Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA)

April 30, 2014 – March 15, 2016: The Kolomoisky pyramid starts with Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland at the State Department and Christine Lagarde of the IMF

June 29, 2015 – IMF officials are implicated in theft, concealment of Ukraine loan corruption, US Justice Department investigates

November 16, 2016 – Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko discuss nationalizing Privatbank before Trump becomes president

August 4, 2020 – FBI raids the offices of Ukraine oligarch Igor Kolomoisky in Ohio and Florida

August 6, 2020 – Justice Department seeks forfeiture of two commercial properties purchased with funds misappropriated from PrivatBank in Ukraine

Credit Suisse

CLINTON FOUNDATION

https://nypost.com/2020/12/17/credit-suisse-charged-in-bulgarian-money-laundering-probe/

BUSINESS

Credit Suisse charged in Bulgarian money laundering probe

By ReutersDecember 17, 2020 | 2:25pm

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/obama-administration-waives-penalty-against-convicted-bank-credit-suisse-allowing

Hillary Clinton has been campaigning on a tough-on-Wall-Street-crime agenda, which could mollify Credit Suisse critics who want the bank more harshly punished. But Tony Podesta has bundled over $130,000 for Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to election records. And Clinton’s ties to the bank are not just through its lobbyists. In 2008, Clinton was the U.S. Senate’s third-biggest recipient of campaign cash from Credit Suisse employees, and in 2006 she was the Senate’s top recipient. In all, she has received more than $318,000 in donations from the bank’s employees. Her family’s foundation has also received $100,000 from Credit Suisse, and her husband has been paid by the bank for a speech.

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ubs money laundering

CLINTON FOUNDATION

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ubs-ceo-probed-over-ing-money-laundering-issues/ar-BB1bLFdS

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ubs-deal-shows-clintons-complicated-ties-1438223492

A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts.

If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court.

Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS, an outcome that drew criticism from some lawmakers who wanted a more extensive crackdown.

From that point on, UBS’s engagement with the Clinton family’s charitable organization increased. Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according to the foundation and the bank.

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The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth