https://www.justice.gov/
>Baker Must GO
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/06/28/world-bank-launches-first-ever-pandemic-bonds-to-support-500-million-pandemic-emergency-financing-facility
World Bank Launches First-Ever Pandemic Bonds to Support $500 Million Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility
>That is a Great Title
https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000
>The media is clownland.
https://www.cfr.org/experts/henri-j-barkey
Henri J. Barkey is an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Chair in International Relations at Lehigh University. At CFR he works on the strategic future of the Kurds in the Middle East. Previously he was the Director of the Middle East Center at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (2015-2017). Barkey served as chair of the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University for thirteen years. He served on the State Department Policy Planning Staff (1998-2000) working on the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and intelligence-related issues. He was a non-resident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2008-2011). Currently he also serves as the chair of the Academic Committee on the Board of Trustees of the American University in Iraq, Sulaimani. He has written extensively on Turkey, the Kurds and other Middle East issues.
>Anyone have more info here?
>https://gab.com/EfstathiaQ/posts/106414502406790938
>7th floor
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/17/fbi-releases-100-new-pages-on-clinton-email-probe.html
“There was a powerful group of very high-ranking STATE officials that some referred to as ‘The 7th Floor Group’ or ‘The Shadow Government.’ This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything CLINTON-related to FOIA/Congressional inquiries,” the FBI’s interview summary said.
One such passage, present in the draft but not in the final report states that “Sources reported that a senior ‘7th Floor’ Department official ordered [diplomatic security] to stop the investigation of an ambassador accused of pedophilia, and another such senior official had [diplomatic security] stop an investigation of an ambassador-designate.”
Meetings are attended by the Secretary of State John Kerry, Deputy Chief of Staff Jennifer Stout, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, Kennedy, Assistant Secretary Julia Frifield, and unnamed members of the Office of the Legal Adviser.
Hillary Clinton is not known to attend the meetings, but this is a reasonable inference from the fact that some names were redacted from the FBI document, and the fact that her office was also located on the 7th Floor of the US State Department Headquarters, where she is known to have met with her top advisers, including Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.
The group appears to have been disbanded by Donald Trump’s administration. On 17 February 2017, CBS reported that “Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices, were told today that their services were no longer needed.”
https://www.foxnews.com/person/t/jessica-tarlov.html
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cia-john-brennan-leftwing-rhetoric-antifa
"When I was director of the CIA until I left on Jan. 20 of 2017, there were a number of very concerning interactions between individuals affiliated with the Trump campaign and individuals affiliated with Russia and Russian intelligence. And that's where I think it was incumbent upon the FBI to investigate that," he told Juliette Kayyem, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/the-world-health-organization-wont-root-out-coronavirus-origins
The World Health Organization won't root out coronavirus origins, and the G-7 knows it
“We also call for a timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based WHO-convened Phase 2 COVID-19 Origins study including, as recommended by the experts’ report, in China,” they said.
Turning to the WHO is not a serious way to seek accountability from China. It's hard to imagine anyone less fit for that task.
This is the organization that ignored Taiwan’s warning that COVID-19 could spread from human to human and then repeated China’s lie that human transmission was impossible. The WHO blocked Taiwan from participating in emergency meetings to coordinate Asian countries’ response to the outbreak. The WHO praised the Chinese Communist Party’s response to the pandemic, even though it was clear China withheld critical information about the virus’s spread from the rest of the world.
It should have been obvious from the WHO’s first origins report that the organization still cared more about pleasing Beijing than discovering the truth about the coronavirus. The report dismissed the theory that COVID-19 may have escaped from a Chinese lab as “extremely unlikely” but entertained the CCP’s favorite theory that COVID-19 arrived in China via frozen food as “possible.”
The WHO asserted the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s facilities “were well-managed, with a staff health monitoring program” even though a 2018 State Department report confirmed the WIV’s lab practices were dangerously unsafe, and a 2019 report revealed three WIV researchers fell ill with what might have been the coronavirus.
The WHO’s credibility is gone. It has proved repeatedly throughout this pandemic it will pander to China’s interests to the detriment of the rest of the world. And the G-7’s attempt to give the organization a second chance proves WHO leaders aren’t the only ones afraid of stepping on China’s toes.
Still got a link to that tweet?
it is good to be back after some more of that /random redirect baloney
What's going on in the divorce courts?
Who's pool is this?
https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/hunter-bidens-artwork-is-actually-good-experts-say/
Hunter Biden’s artwork is actually good and will be worth a lot, experts say
This will help stroke his ego!
Scandal-tarnished first son Hunter Biden’s newfound career as a painter may actually prove to be a success — as experts say his artwork is impressive and will fetch big bucks.
“I think it’s pretty strong — I like it,’’ Mark Tribe, chairman of the MFA Fine Arts Department at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, told The Post.
“The colors and compelling organic forms — it’s the kind of organic abstraction that I find easy on the eyes and provokes your curiosity,’’ Tribe said of the mixed-media paintings and drawings by President Biden’s son.
Hunter, 51, has said he is embarking on a full-time career as an artist, with plans in the works for a private showing of his creations for potential buyers in Los Angeles in the fall and then an exhibition in New York, artnet.com said Monday.
He paints, draws and assembles collages — typically colorful works that range from geometric patterns to trees and human body parts.
“I’ve been in the art business since 1956,’’ Alex Acevedo, 75, who owns the Alexander Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, told The Post.
>https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/hunter-bidens-artwork-is-actually-good-experts-say/
“I’m not impressed with modern art at all. But I was floored by that guy,’’ he said of Hunter’s artwork.
“The palette was wonderful. The space was well-organized. I would buy a couple of them.
“And anybody who buys it would be guaranteed instant profit,” Acevedo added. “He’s the president’s son. Everybody would want a piece of that. The provenance is impeccable.’’
Prices for Hunter’s art range from $75,000 for works on paper to half a million bucks for his large paintings, his Soho art dealer, Georges Berges — who once served jail time for assault with a deadly weapon — told artnet.
Acevedo said the pieces would garner more like $25,000 to $100,000 if not for Hunter’s name. The art consultant said he expects some of the works to possibly top $1 million in the end.
Tribe said it doesn’t bother him that Hunter has no formal training.
“I understand that he’s self-taught but that he’s been making art all his life — that’s pretty common, and to me, that’s no reason to discount the value of his work,’’ Tribe said.
Still, on the pricing of Hunter’s work, “That would be on the high end, certainly, for an emerging artist,’’ Tribe said.
Hunter — a lawyer and former lobbyist who has been caught in a slew of explosive scandals, including alleged corruption in his business dealings with China and Ukraine — told artnet that his creative work is “not a tool that I use to be able to, in any way, cope.
“It comes from a much deeper place,’’ said the former drug addict.
“If you stand in front of a Rothko, the things that he evokes go far beyond the pain that Rothko was experiencing in his personal life at that moment,’’ said Hunter, invoking abstract-painting legend Mark Rothko.
“I don’t paint from emotion or feeling, which I think are both very ephemeral,” Hunter said. “For me, painting is much more about kind of trying to bring forth what is, I think, the universal truth.
“The universal truth is that everything is connected and that there’s something that goes far beyond what is our five senses and that connects us all.’’
Asked whether the president is a fan of his art, Hunter replied, “My dad loves everything that I do, and so I’ll leave it at that.’’
Art consultant Martin Galindo told The Post that while he’s “not a fan” of the work by Hunter that he’s seen, “I’m very positive that he’s gonna do well in the market because this industry is very much about, what’s a simple way to put this — it’s like clout.”
Referring to a psychedelic blue and pinkish ink work by Hunter that resembles bacteria under a microscope, Galindo said, “Oh, my God, that looks like COVID.
“Honestly, I mean, from an aesthetic perspective, I don’t like it. But I’m sure he’s gonna do really well,” the art consultant said.
Meanwhile, a 67-year-old art collector on the Upper East Side called Hunter’s work “nice.”
“They’re different,’’ she said of some of his pieces.
Still, the woman, who only gave her first name, Jill, said, “I think a lot of people can do that.
And she added of the president’s son, who has not been charged in any of his political scandals:
“I wouldn’t pay s–t for it because he’s a criminal.’’
>And she added of the president’s son, who has not been charged in any of his political scandals:
<“I wouldn’t pay s–t for it because he’s a criminal.’’
>pretty chinese
not a subaru
>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/247997/update-meeting-between-pope-francis-and-president-biden-did-not-happen
Meeting between Pope Francis and President Biden did not happen
President Joe Biden’s attendance at early morning Mass with Pope Francis was nixed from an early plan for the first meeting of both leaders, a reliable Vatican source told CNA.
President Biden is currently in Europe for several high level meetings, offering a potential opportunity to meet with Pope Francis. According to Vatican sources June 15, there is no meeting currently scheduled between the two men.
The President’s entourage had originally requested for Biden to attend Mass with the pope early in the morning, but the proposal was nixed by the Vatican after considering the impact that Biden receiving Holy Communion from the pope would have on the discussions the USCCB is planning to have during their meeting starting Wednesday, June 16.
The U.S. bishops are slated to vote on creating a committee that would draft a document about Eucharistic coherence.
President Biden is in Europe for several high-level meetings. After attending the G7 summit in Cornwall, England, he traveled to Brussels, Belgium. He wil then fly to Geneva, Switzerland, for his scheduled summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16.
Then U.S. Vice President Biden met with Pope Francis for the first time in September 2015, when the pope visited the United States to attend the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.
The following year, on April 29, 2016, Biden went to the Vatican for a summit on regenerative medicine, where he praised Pope Francis and advocated for a global push to cure cancer.
Biden opened his speech at the Vatican by recalling how, while visiting the United States the previous September, Pope Francis had comforted him after the loss of his eldest son Beau, who passed away the previous summer at the age of 46 from brain cancer.