Bill Gates' divorce could expose affairs, inappropriate behavior covered up by NDAs: report

Melinda Gates' team denied a claim she hired a private investigator at some point before the divorce filing

Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce was already expected to get somewhat messy because of their massive fortune, but there are new factors that may make things even stickier.

According to a new report from Vanity Fair, an increased spotlight on Bill, 65, may expose inappropriate behavior toward his employees.

For many years, the tech pioneer has been plagued by rumors such as being an unpleasant boss. Now, a former employee is alleging to Vanity Fair that Gates is, in fact, difficult to work with.

The source claimed that Gates frequently used nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) to suppress such rumors.

"For such a long time you were told, ‘You have an NDA. You can’t talk,'" said the ex-employee, who said they signed such an agreement.

The insider was encouraged to speak up by the rise in interest in Gates' workplace behavior, but the former employee is also aware that the tech giant has attorneys that are "not nice" waiting in the wings.

A source told Fox News, however, that all Microsoft employees sign an NDA, as is commonplace in the tech industry. NDAs were not used selectively by Gates to silence detractors, the source said.

The employee that spoke to VF accused Gates of being impatient and demanding – though the publication notes that such behavior is not unexpected in the fast-paced and competitive world of tech.

Gates was "unrelenting" and "condescending," said the source. "He would ask you a question, and when you answered, he’d look at you and go, ‘That is NOT the right answer.’"

A former partner who previously worked with Gates on multiple major product announcements offered similar sentiments, claiming that if a deadline was missed, Gates would directly address the party responsible.

Since news of Gates' split from his wife broke, rumors have swirled about extramarital affairs. Such affairs were somewhat of an open secret amongst his circles, claimed the former employee who signed an NDA.

They remembered multiple occasions when Gates arrived at the office driving a Mercedes just an hour before leaving in a golden brown Porsche that a member of his security team brought.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bill-gates-divorce-could-expose-affairs-inappropriate-behavior-covered-ndas

Here’s why TSMC and Intel keep building foundries in the Arizona desert

Fresh water supply isn't the only consideration for chip fabrication.

Two of the world's leading chip manufacturers—Intel and TSMC—are increasing their US-based manufacturing presence by building new plants in Arizona.

Chip foundries are critically dependent on water, and Arizona is one of the driest states in the nation. Arizona gets only 13.6 inches of annual rainfall (compared with 50-60 inches in most of the Deep South, or 30.3 inches average for the USA as a whole). But as Forrester research director Glenn O'Donnell told CNBC, chip-fabrication plants are similar to indoor swimming pools—"you need a lot to fill it, but you don't have to add much to keep it going."

Counterintuitively, the famously thirsty industry can even improve the local water supply due to a focus on reclamation and purification—Intel has funded 15 water restoration projects in the Grand Canyon State with a goal of restoring 937 million gallons per year, and it expects to reach net positive water use once the projects are completed.

What Arizona lacks in water, it makes up for with overall stability—the state is very seismically stable and does not suffer from hurricanes, with low risks of other natural disasters such as tornadoes to boot. Building chip fabs without such guarantees is possible—for example, Intel has a large presence in Oregon—but chip fabricators on the West Coast must take extreme isolation measures, which Arizona plants don't require.

Arizona's lack of rainfall comes with another benefit—plentiful sunshine, which former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano once said gives the state the potential to be "the Persian Gulf of solar energy." As of 2018, the state's utility companies generated roughly 5.2 GW—nearly 5 percent of its entire power budget—via solar generation. Distributed (nonutility-scale) generation in Arizona provided another 2.3 GW in the same year.

The human factor, however, may add up to more than the state's natural advantages do. Intel established its presence in Arizona more than 40 years ago and currently employs more than 12,000 people in the state. Arizona local universities responded by establishing "a strong reputation for semiconductor design courses and research," according to Gartner analyst Alan Priestley. And, as Forrester director O'Donnell points out, "the political machinery in Arizona is determined to make the state business friendly… the recent announcements by Intel and TSMC come via a lot of help from federal, state, and local government entities."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/why-do-chip-makers-keep-building-foundries-in-the-arizona-desert/

Congressman tweets photo of his laptop and it sure looks like he shared a password, too

No one has ever accused politicians of being the most technically savvy, but this one takes the cake.

Rep. Mo Brooks, a Republican congressman from Alabama, accidentally shared what appears to be his Gmail password or username and an unidentified PIN number with the world on Twitter on Sunday afternoon. Mashable has blurred the PIN and added the red arrow to the photo below.

How this happened is even more ridiculous.

On Sunday, the congressman tweeted that he was served with a lawsuit from Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California. Swalwell and his legal team has been attempting to serve the Republican with the suit related to Brooks' role in the violent storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 by Trump supporters.

Brooks has gone out of his way to avoid receiving the legal documents. The lawsuit alleges that Brooks — along with former President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and others — incited the riot, aided the rioters, and broke laws such as the anti-terrorism act.

According to Brooks, his wife was served with the papers over the weekend. He claims the process in which she was served was illegal.

In order to prove this, he pulled up a list of laws on the Alabama legislature's website. Brooks wanted to share a screenshot of the page with his followers. However, perhaps because he wasn't sure how to take a screenshot on his computer, Brooks took a photo of his laptop screen using an iPad and tweeted it out.

Unfortunately for him, the photo of his laptop screen included a note taped to his screen on which you can clearly see an assortment of letters and numbers labeled "PIN" and the phrase "momar5456" labeled "Gmail."

It should be noted that Rep. Brooks sits on the House Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems (CITI). This subcommittee has jurisdiction over the Defense Department's policies on technology, software, and cybersecurity.

It's unclear whether the sensitive information that appeared in Rep. Brooks' screenshot is current.

However, a quick Google search for "momar5456" pulls up an email address connected to Rep. Brooks and social media usernames connected to the politician's wife, Martha Brooks.

It's also possible that "momar5456" is a Gmail address that the congressman and/or his wife uses. A check for the username on Gmail shows that it's unavailable to register.

For example, here is Martha's Pinterest account, where she uses the username "momar5456." Rep. Brooks has also used the email address momar5456@yahoo.com when filing to run for Congress with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

The tweet from Rep. Brooks was still live on Twitter up until Monday afternoon. A followup tweet from Brooks that cropped out the sensitive data in the photo is still on Twitter. The text in the tweet is exactly the same as the deleted one, except for an added period in front of Rep. Swalwell's Twitter handle so it would show on users' feeds instead of as a reply.

https://mashable.com/article/republican-mo-brooks-gmail-password-twitter.amp

Anthony Fauci Threatened Indian Scientists to Withdraw Study Linking COVID-19 to AIDS Virus

Last year group of Indian scientists discovered that coronavirus was engineered with AIDS like insertions. After GreatGameIndia published the results of the study, it attracted heavy criticism to an extent that the authors were forced to retract their paper. Now, Fauci Emails reveal that it was Dr Anthony Fauci himself who threatened the Indian scientists and forced them to withdraw their study linking COVID-19 to AIDS virus.

Last year, a group of Indian scientists discovered that coronavirus was engineered with AIDS like insertions. The study concluded that it was unlikely for a virus to have acquired such unique insertions naturally in a short duration of time.

Readers of GreatGameIndia would remember how after we published the results of the study, it attracted heavy criticism from social media experts to an extent that even the authors were forced to retract their paper.

Concerns about the manmade origin of the virus and the implications of the findings of the study were raised with Dr Anthony Fauci as well, but he chose to remain silent and ignore it.

https://humansarefree.com/2021/06/fauci-threatened-scientists-to-withdraw-study-linking-covid-19-to-aids-virus.html

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Researcher Adam Gaertner explained to Dr Fauci how the virus was created in an email titled, “Coronavirus bioweapon production method”.

Now the Fauci Emails show that when he was asked about this research paper by the Indian scientists, he had dismissed it saying it is “really outlandish”.

Several other emails have also shown that Dr Fauci was warned that COVID-19 may have been ‘engineered’, but he had dismissed all of them

A leading infectious disease expert, Kristian Andersen, emailed Dr Fauci referring to the Indian study saying that some of the features of the virus looked engineered. But he did not announce it in public.

This reveals that Dr Fauci was already aware of the man-made nature of the virus but he did not inform the public about the same.

Further, Professor Madhav Nalpat, the Director of the Department of Geopolitics & International Relations at Manipal University claimed on Indian television that Dr Fauci threatened to tarnish reputations and destroy careers of scientists.

“What is even more disgusting is the cover-up. Any scientist who spoke up was strictly warned that his career would be destroyed should he speak against Dr Fauci,” said Prof Nalapat.

Wuhan Panic: Is Fauci Going To Jail?

https://youtu.be/CVzrdFa3aYU

This fact was also revealed by Josh Rogin, a columnist of the Washington Post who claims that scientists don’t speak up about issues connected to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s research. Rogin also claims Fauci is the ‘Godfather’ of gain-of-function research that was taking place at the Wuhan laboratory which was then named as the site of the coronavirus outbreak.

Josh Rogin appeared on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, where he said – ‘I often talk to scientists who say the same thing, who say, “Listen, we really want to speak out about this, but we can’t do it.”

‘Why can’t we do it? Well, we get all of our funding from NIH, or NIAID, which is run by Dr. Fauci.” So we can’t say anything like ‘Oh, gain-of-function research might be dangerous, or it might have come from a lab, because we’re going to lose our careers, we’re going to lose our funding, we’re not going to be able to do the work.”

He said clearly referring to Dr Fauci, that the paper was outlandish for those who wanted to prove the ‘natural origin’ theory for the virus. He said that their study had correctly identified sections of the genome that are giving this virus its speciality.

When asked why they had withdrawn the paper, he said that was withdrawn due to the pressure from the people with vested interests.

Pandey also said that this paper was just a section of the different studies that they had conducted and they wanted to include the entire findings in the updated version. But the revised manuscripts were hard-blocked by the publishers.

He said that in the revised manuscript, they have provided information on why the virus infection remains asymptomatic and why it infects human beings so easily. But it never was allowed to come out, he said

Peter Daszak is also the same guy the WHO sent to China to investigate the claims whether the virus evolved naturally or was coronavirus engineered.

https://humansarefree.com/2021/06/fauci-threatened-scientists-to-withdraw-study-linking-covid-19-to-aids-virus.html

IT’S SPREADING: “Trump Won” Banner Unfurled at Boston Red Sox Game – Fan Escorted From Fenway Park by Security

It’s spreading!

A fan at Fenway Park on Monday evening unfurled a “Trump Won” banner during a Boston Red Sox game.

The crowd went wild and cheered as the Trump supporters displayed his banner.

According to a Boston Red Sox spox, the fan was escorted from Fenway Park by security for violating the park’s policy prohibiting signs.

Last week at a New York Mets game, a “Trump Won” banner was displayed during the baseball game.

The banner was similar to the one unfurled at Yankee Stadium just days prior. They both read “Trump Won – Save America”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/spreading-trump-won-banner-unfurled-boston-red-sox-game-fan-escorted-fenway-park-security-video/

Chicago police superintendent responds to continued shootings after another deadly weekend

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown held a press conference Monday to discuss recent crime rates. Murder and gun violence particularly are on the rise compared to last year, but on a downward trend from month to month.

Brown reported that murders are already up 5% from last year and shootings have increased by 17%. January saw the biggest increase with 34% more murders and 46% more shootings. May saw the smallest increase with only 13% increase in murders and 20% increase in shootings. “It’s nothing to celebrate,” Brown said, “but form a macro perspective it’s a downward trend.” Yet, even though May saw the fewest shootings this year, Memorial day weekend in particular saw a significant increase from 2020.

We are at 5,000+ guns recovered so far this year. Every gun recovered is a potential deadly force encounter and arguably, a potential for reducing violence. Gun recoveries are one part of the formula to impact and reduce violence. pic.twitter.com/MFU3S0VZRT

— Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown (@ChiefDavidBrown) June 7, 2021

But Chicago police have also confiscated over 5,000 guns this year already. According to the superintendent, that means they’re projected to confiscate more than the 11,000 guns they recovered last year.

“Every gun recovered is a potential deadly force encounter and arguably, a potential for reducing violence,” Brown said. “The other part of the formula is a consequence in the court system.”

During the question and answer portion, the police department also released an update on the 11-year-old girl who was shot Sunday night, saying she is in stable condition. She’s from out of town and caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting.

https://saraacarter.com/chicago-police-superintendent-responds-to-continued-shootings-after-another-deadly-weekend/

Russia Hits Canada With Mirroring Sanctions: 9 Officials Barred From Country Indefinitely

Russia has hit back at Canada after March 24 sanctions which saw nine Russian officials banned from Canada over "gross and systematic violations of human rights in Russia" related to the Alexey Navalny saga.

At that time senior Russian officials had been accused over "the attempted murder" of Navalny last August, which saw the anti-Putin activist hospitalized in Berlin. Moscow had vowed it would prepare retaliatory sanctions in return, and that moment has come Monday, with the foreign ministry announcing a ban on precisely nine Canadian citizens from indefinitely entering its territory.

Canada has been among multiple countries, including the US and EU, to level sanctions on Moscow in relation to Navalny, who since his return from Germany to Moscow has been serving a couple year stint at a prison outside the Russian capital stemming from a prior embezzlement case.

Also on Monday Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin had some interesting words testifying before Russia's State Duma (lower house) on Monday.

"The sanctions regime has always been in place. And it will remain so forever, let us be realistic. Sanctions have been enshrined in many legal acts, in the US and other states, and it is impossible to roll them back," the diplomat stated.

"All of them are illegitimate, they were slapped under very shaky pretexts, without any proof, but those facts, which are deemed as committed, cannot be rolled back," Pankin added.

Pankin emphasized that he "would not ask anyone to lift sanctions and would not say sorry for what it is not doing" - which appears a response to the currently hyped accusations of everything from election interference to cyberattacks on US infrastructure to "aggression" in Eastern Ukraine.

On the latter point, the high-ranking diplomat said, "It’s clear that we won’t give up Crimea. If Crimea is part of Russia, we will always be under sanctions like there were sanctions against the Baltic Region until it separated and became three different states. This is a tough idea, but we need to be realistic."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-hits-canada-mirroring-sanctions-9-officials-barred-country-indefinitely

DeSantis signs bill targeting trade secret theft, and bill to protect state from foreign influence

The Florida governor described China as "a hostile foreign power."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a piece of legislation that seeks to shield the state from the tentacles of foreign influence and another bill that targets those who perpetrate trade secret theft.

"Make no mistake — China is a hostile foreign power, and every Governor has the responsibility to protect their education system, and every other entity within their purview, from the espionage and commercial theft undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party," DeSantis said. "While China remains the biggest threat, numerous countries are working to infiltrate our state and nation. By signing these bills today, we are taking action to ensure foreign adversaries will not have unfettered access to our schools, government, and companies."

One of the provisions of HB 7017 is that the legislation "Prohibits specific agreements between state/public entities and the seven countries of concern (Russia, PRC, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela)," according to the governor's press release. The other bill, HB 1523, makes "new criminal offenses in Florida for the theft and trafficking of trade secrets."

https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/desantis-signs-bill-targeting-trade-secret-theft-and-bill-protect-state

China Will Use "Coercive Power" To Force Digital Yuan On Population

It was supposed to be the biggest threat to the reserve status of the dollar (China's denial that it has no desire to replace the USD with the digital yuan only confirms it) since the failed experiment that is the "whatever it takes" euro, but instead it is turning out to be one giant yawn.

While many pundits have argued that China's digital yuan would be a "potentially fatal challenge" to American hegemony according to historian Niall Ferguson, Templeton's Hasenstab saying it could undermine the dollar's role as a reserve currency and even Biden's White House studying the potential threats to the US currency, one month ago we reported that those who’ve actually used the digital yuan in China offer a vastly different response: big shrugs of indifference.

After interviewing users of China's digital currency, Bloomberg noted that they showed little interest in switching from mobile payment systems run by Ant Group and Tencent that have already replaced cash in much of the country, with some openly balking the digital yuan - which recall is programmable and comes with an ad hoc expiration date - and which gives authorities access to real-time data on their financial lives.

“I’m not at all excited,” said Patricia Chen, a 36-year-old who works in the telecom industry and was one of the more than 500,000 people in Shenzhen eligible to take part in the trial. The lukewarm responses of the seven participants in China's great monetary experiment underscored the major challenge facing President Xi's government as it lays the groundwork for adoption at home and abroad. And, as we noted last month, "even if authorities ultimately convince - or rather force - citizens to embrace the digital yuan, it’s unclear how they can do the same with international consumers and businesses already wary of China’s capital controls, Communist Party-dominated legal system and state surveillance apparatus."

It's also why with the Yuan's share of global payments seemingly capped at around 3% in recent years - in no small part due to China's closed capital account and great monetary firewall - a digital version of the currency is unlikely to boost its share by much more than 1 percentage point, according to Zennon Kapron, managing director of Singapore-based consulting firm Kapronasia.

“The global impact will be very small” barring structural changes to China’s economy and financial system, said Kapron, author of “Chomping at the Bitcoin: The Past, Present and Future of Bitcoin in China.”

Those familiar with China's grand ambitions suspect that Xi has high hopes for international use of the digital yuan as he tries to lessen his country’s reliance on the U.S.-led global financial system. But so far at least, Chinese policy makers have given mixed signals about their ambitions in public.

As Bloomberg reports, Zhu Jun, head of the central bank’s international department said in an article last month that China faces an “important window” to promote global use of yuan as U.S.-China decoupling threatens to spread to finance from trade, technology and investment. She said China “should take advantage of the early progress” in the digital yuan’s development to explore potential areas for internationalization.

There is just one problem: nobody can figure out why they need to use a digital currency which allows authorities to snoop on their every activity, when existing alternatives offer everything the digital yuan can do.

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/china-will-use-coercive-power-force-digital-yuan-population

GEORGIA UPDATE: Ruby Freeman who Jammed Suspect Ballots Into Voting Machines Multiple Times on Election Night Is Subpoenaed

Yesterday we reported that Shaye Moss was subpoenaed in Georgia for her activities in the 2020 election in Fulton County. Now it’s her mother’s turn, Ruby Freeman.

Over the weekend it was reported that Ruby Freeman’s daughter Shaye Moss, who was also Ruby’s boss during the election counting process in Fulton County, Georgia, was subpoenaed:

Shaye Moss was famous for kicking everyone out of the room where votes were counted in Fulton County and telling observers to go home. Then Shaye and others including Ralph Jones and her mother Ruby dragged hidden boxes of ballots out from underneath tables and started running them through the machines. Ruby Freeman was caught on tape running the same stack of suspect ballots through the machines multiple times:

Now tonight it’s mama’s turn.

Ruby Freeman was subpoenaed and was served as is noted in the below tweet.

Like daughter, like mama. This story is not over yet!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/breaking-georgia-update-ruby-freeman-jammed-suspect-ballots-voting-machines-multiple-times-election-night-subpoenaed/

PETER NAVARRO UNLEASHED: “Fauci was Mastermind of a Coverup – The Coverup Is ALWAYS Greater than the Crime”

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro joined Cortes and Pellegrino Monday night on Newsmax TV.

Navarro was locked and loaded and ready to unleash on Dr. Tony Fauci.

According to Navarro, Dr. Fauci was wrong about most everything from the get-go. But what Navarro said tonight would be making headlines across the country if we had a real mainstream media and not the horrible Marxist hacks in charge today.

Fauci is the “mastermind of a coverup.”

Peter Navarro: The first time I met Dr. Fauci was on January 28th in the Situation Room. I immediately got into a strong argument with him. I was for the travel ban. The president sent me there to argue it. He was dead set against it. I won that particular argument. The travel ban saved hundreds of thousands of lives. If we would have listened to Fauci a lot of people would be dead right now. But the next thing was in February there were two people who were sure that the virus came from a lab. It was Tom Cotton and myself. Maria Bartiromo in the media facilitated that. And all we got was a raft of criticism. Here’s the breaking news. Fauci was part of the coverup to try to shut me and Cotton up. And what he did was two things, and he did it right at the White House. At the press briefings, he basically denied that this thing came from the lab, lied to the American people when he knew it probably did. And then he actually orchestrated a – scientists who said that thing was genetically engineered and from a lab. He actually recruited them to say just the opposite. So, breaking news, Fauci he was mastermind of a coverup. The coverup is always worse than the crime!

Via Cortes and Pellegrino:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/peter-navarro-unleashed-fauci-mastermind-coverup-coverup-always-greater-crime-video/