>DOUGH
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1448446526225743872
Today is the 1 year anniversary of Hunter Biden having done nothing wrong. By coincidence, tomorrow is also the 1 year anniversary of Hunter Biden having done nothing wrong, followed by the day after tomorrow, and the day after that.
sup fag
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/576182-clooney-compares-biden-administration-to-a-battered-child
Clooney compares Biden administration to a 'battered child'
>Clooney compares Biden administration to a 'battered child'
"It's like taking a battered child and thinking everything's going to be OK his first day in school," the "Ocean's Eleven" actor said in a Sunday interview on the BBC's "The Andrew Marr Show."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09y7qyc/player
>It's like taking a battered child and thinking everything's going to be OK his first day in school
shills, you're becoming more transparent every single day
every single day
>Ghislaine Maxwell Was ‘Giddy As A Schoolgirl’ About Allegedly Giving George Clooney A Blowjob In A Bathroom
>Is Kamala a tranny?
>I fear Democrats still aren't taking this threat sufficiently seriously.
https://twitter.com/CPHO_Canada/status/1447623316995518469
Each person on the autism spectrum is unique. This means the timing and severity of the first signs and characteristics can vary widely.
>Each person on the autism spectrum is unique. This means the timing and severity of the first signs and characteristics can vary widely.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/autism-spectrum-disorder-asd/about-autism-spectrum-disorder-asd.html
About autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
ASD is a neurological disorder that affects how the brain functions. The exact cause of ASD is not known.
>This means the timing and severity of the first signs and characteristics can vary widely.
>throwback
Christine Lagarde: The contribution of finance to combating climate change
Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the Finance at Countdown event
The urgent need to transition to carbon neutral
We have seen this summer what climate change can do in terms of disasters. We had floods in Europe, heatwaves in North America and elsewhere; there have been ample examples this year of what the world may look like in the future. And it might be worse. The prominence of climate change in the public debate shows that people are now sitting up and taking notice. To quote Honoré de Balzac, "It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action". This is now what we are seeing, and I take the view that everybody must take action, whatever their role, mission and position.
What we did at the ECB is conduct an economy-wide climate stress test, which provides evidence that there is a need for urgent action. We conducted an exercise that combined the financial information and climate exposures of four million companies and some 1,600 consolidated euro area banks, and we mapped this to data in order to understand, on the basis of the scenarios of the Network for Greening the Financial System, what the climate change consequences could be. Let me give you one number: the default probabilities of the corporate loan portfolios of the most vulnerable banks could increase by 30% in a scenario of no further climate policies. And we also found out that the risks would be concentrated in certain areas and in certain banks.
An orderly transition to carbon neutral entails greater costs in the near term, but these are far outweighed over the longer term by lower physical risks and higher output. It is a no-brainer option. We need to take action. Even a disorderly transition, where policies are enacted in a haphazard way or before green technologies are fully mature, is still less costly than sitting down and watching and there being no transition at all. The long-run benefits from acting early on climate are clear.
In that context, I wanted to focus on three particular elements which are critically important and in which the financial sector can provide serious input: by disseminating information, accelerating innovation and bolstering adaptation.
Information
Financial markets have certainly started to grasp the opportunities of the green transition. Since 2015, assets under management of ESG funds have almost tripled and the outstanding amount of green bonds issued by euro area residents has increased tenfold. Yet this is just a fraction of the finance needed to meet net zero ambitions.
One of the key strengths of financial markets is their ability to absorb, analyse and disseminate information in a way that far exceeds what individuals can achieve by themselves. That is a role that can greatly benefit the green transition. Yet for sustainable finance itself to be sustainable, it needs to be trustworthy. That means taking active steps to root out greenwashing, developing standards and labels for financial products and ensuring that disclosures are comprehensive, internationally comparable and auditable. In addition, disclosures should be complemented by forward-looking measures that assess alignment with climate goals and net zero commitments. It is the future path for climate impact that matters most.
>Christine Lagarde: The contribution of finance to combating climate change
Innovation
By disseminating information, the financial sector can help steer credit to where it is needed to advance the transition. And one of the most vital places is innovation. Technological progress is necessary to further decouple economic growth from carbon usage, reduce emissions and develop working technologies for carbon capture and storage.
There are sectors where green innovation is beginning to have an impact. Solar power is now consistently a cheaper source of power than new coal or gas plants and in fact has become one of the cheapest forms of electricity generation the world has ever seen. Renewables already generate more electricity worldwide than natural gas, and are set to surpass coal in the next couple of years.
Yet there remain challenges for renewable energy to overcome, including the ability to flexibly change output on demand, or otherwise to efficiently store at scale. And there are several carbon-intensive sectors, such as metallurgy, cement and agriculture, for which carbon-zero technology is not yet mature and where much more and further innovation is needed.
While the rate of new technologies for climate change mitigation is increasing, Europe still has work to do. Bridging that gap and further accelerating innovation involves focusing on the entire structure of the financial system. Evidence produced by research at the ECB suggests that equity investments may play a beneficial role in boosting green innovation, and funding for venture capital is another area where the euro area needs to pick up the pace. That is why completing the capital markets union, as financial as it may sound, is going to contribute to this innovation that is needed and for which financing is indispensable.
Adaptation
The third contribution that finance can make is to bolster the process of adaptation to climate. Even if we manage to limit global warming to the goals of the Paris Agreement, physical risks are still set to increase. For example, extreme sea level events that used to occur once in a hundred years could become annual events by the end of this century. While every effort needs to be made to contain that rise by transitioning to carbon neutral, greater attention also needs to be placed on mitigating and adapting to climate.
Banks can help ensure economic activity takes place in less exposed locations by incorporating exposures to physical risks, such as floods and droughts, into lending decisions. But banks are not the only players. Insurance companies can also play a key role by mitigating the negative impacts of climate-related catastrophes. Recent joint work between the European Central Bank and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, which brings together all the insurance actors, finds that economic activity is less affected by catastrophes when a greater share of damages are covered by insurance. As such events become more frequent due to climate change, the value to society of insurance protection increases.
Yet, when you look at the protection around Europe, there is a significant protection gap: roughly speaking, only a third of the damage from catastrophes in Europe is currently insured. For climate-related catastrophes such as droughts, heatwaves and wildfires, the coverage drops to just about 7%. And there are reasons to suspect that coverage may fall even further. There are widespread reports of households and businesses in California and Australia struggling to renew insurance in the wake of devastating wildfires. So further consideration is needed at national and European levels to ensure the right constellation of risk-pooling is in place to ensure continued coverage. We need to adapt.
Conclusion
Combating climate change requires action from all parts of society. I have mentioned three important ways through which the financial sector can help protect against climate change: through information, innovation and adaptation. The ECB will also contribute within its mandate. Climate considerations played an important part in our recently concluded strategy review. And climate change is definitely part of our considerations for setting monetary policy and implementing it. The Governing Council has decided on a comprehensive action plan to further incorporate climate change considerations throughout our policy framework.
We need to not just sit up but take action. All of us, including the financial sector, including central banks, can play their part. And they will.
>Seth Rich redpills 2020 election fraud from the deep past.
hammer time
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/13/ghislaine-maxwells-lawyer-makes-highly-unusual-request-jury/
Keep jury selection questions secret, demand Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers
Legal team makes highly unusual request ahead of the socialite's trial on charges relating to the sex trafficking of a minor
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have made a highly unusual request to keep secret questions they plan to ask the judge and prospective jurors, ahead of what is set to be a bombshell trial….
https://twitter.com/TRF_Climate/status/1448199957182353412
@GretaThunberg doesn't have high expectations for #COP26.
Movie camera "We are so, so far behind what would be needed," she told @Reuters in an interview.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/thunberg-says-cop26-is-time-leaders-be-honest-2021-10-12/
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1448203482167664640
Drivers are taking matters into their own hands, dragging eco-protesters out of the road and ushering traffic through.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/man-arrested-after-toddler-found-gun-and-shot-mother-dead-during-work-zoom-call/
Man arrested after toddler found gun and shot mother dead during work Zoom call
yoiks
source that
>https://deblauwetijger.com/product/epoque-10/?lang=en
>Maybe Melania and Putin just do a shot of vodka? Does it have to be a bad thing?
https://thenationalpulse.com/news/pfizer-whistleblower-emails-imply-aborted-baby-cells-in-vaccine/
Pfizer Whistleblower Reveals E-Mails Implying Aborted Baby Cell Use in Vaccine.
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/yikes-fresh-fauci-e-mails-show-niaid-chief-wifes-flippancy-over-vaccine-deaths-more-interested-in-immortalizing-him/
“YIKES”: Fresh Fauci E-Mails Show NIAID Chief & Wife’s Flippancy Over Vaccine Deaths, More Interested in “Immortalizing” Him.
More of Fauci's e-mails are emerging, and they don't shower him or his wife in glory.
>former political candidate suspected of killing a 12-year-old Colorado girl in 1984
former candidate for governor in Idaho
Steve D. Pankey
Killer or “true crime junkie”? Suspect’s long obsession with Jonelle Matthews’ 1984 disappearance at center of trial
Opening statements heard in what’s expected to be a five-week trial of Steven Pankey
Steven Pankey’s decades-long fixation on the 1984 disappearance of Greeley’s 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews is at the center of the murder case against him.
Whether that fixation is evidence of guilt or merely a true-crime obsession will be decided by a Weld County jury at the end of an approximately five-week trial that began with opening statements Wednesday.
Pankey, 70, is charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping in Jonelle’s death. The girl disappeared while she was briefly home alone on Dec. 20, 1984. Her body was not discovered until 2019; she’d been shot in the forehead and buried in a remote, sandy field.
There is no DNA evidence in the case, Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke told the jury during opening statements.
“What you will hear,” he said, “is the type of evidence older than time itself. Statements. Statements by the defendant himself. Statements and behavior that will lead you to one conclusion — that he is the individual we have been looking for for 35 years.”
But Pankey’s defense attorney, Anthony Viorst, said Pankey had nothing to do with Jonelle’s killing and theorized to the jury that another man whose mother lived across the street from the Matthews family carried out the killing.
Viorst said Pankey became obsessed with Jonelle’s case because he is a “true crime junkie,” and that he involved himself in the investigation out of an inflated sense of self-importance. Pankey lives with Asperger syndrome, which changes the way he processes information, Viorst said. He called Pankey “a little crazy” and said he tells ”white lies.”
Aside from Jonelle’s case, Pankey previously claimed to be involved in a separate murder in the 1970s, Viorst said, but he was not involved and someone else was convicted of the crime.
“Steve Pankey is a busy body,” Viorst said. “He gets into people’s business. I’m not here to say that’s a great quality, but that’s who he is. He gets in the middle of things. And when it comes to these true crime situations, he’s particularly interested and he gets particularly involved.”
Pankey was home with his family when Jonelle went missing, Viorst said, and he did not own a gun at the time. But starting just weeks after the disappearance, Pankey for years claimed to have information about the case and sought immunity in exchange for sharing that information with police.
The day after Jonelle disappeared, Pankey took his then-wife and child on a surprise road trip to California to visit family. On the drive back, he listened to the radio obsessively for information about the girl’s case, Rourke said. When they arrived home, he drove his wife to a grocery store, asked her to pick up the last few days’ newspapers, and then had her read aloud, in the car, all of the stories about Jonelle. Over the next few days, he dug in his front yard and a car on his property burst into flames, Rourke said.
Within weeks, Pankey went to the FBI, claimed he was a minister (he was not) and said he’d learned information about the killing through a pastoral confession. The FBI dismissed the claims as unimportant, Rourke said. But it was the start of a decades-long obsession for Pankey.
Data downloaded from Pankey’s electronic devices shows he conducted thousands of online searches on Jonelle’s case. In August 2019, a month after Jonelle’s body was discovered, he clicked on a news article that noted there was no DNA in the case, Rourke said.
“Two days later he voluntarily picks up the phone and says, ‘I want to voluntarily give my DNA’ — after he knows there is no DNA in this case.”
Viorst told the jury that a man named Norris Drake was the actual killer of Jonelle. Drake’s mother lived across the street from the family, and he’d visited for dinner on the night Jonelle disappeared, Viorst said. He said a witness described Drake leaving his mother’s house around the time Jonelle was home alone, and not returning until early the next morning.
Drake was known to have a sexual interest in young girls, Viorst said, suggesting that Drake lured Jonelle out of her house — perhaps gaining her trust by saying he was the son of her neighbor — and then killed her. Drake, who is dead, was never charged with Jonelle’s kidnapping or murder.
Jonelle’s parents and sister took the stand Wednesday. Jim Matthews described his daughter, who was adopted, as an outgoing girl.
“Strong-willed, (she) liked the attention, had lots of friends,” he said. “If Jonelle was in the room, you knew she was in the room. And (she was) very proud of her Latino background. And just a very lively young lady.”
Jonelle’s mother, Gloria Matthews, who flew to California before Jonelle disappeared on Dec. 20, 1984, described calling her husband to let him know she’d arrived safely, only to hear from him that Jonelle was missing.
“And right away, I had this feeling in my stomach that things weren’t right,” she said. “Because Jonelle would have written a note or something…I hung up and all I did was cry for the rest of the night.”
She flew home the next day, cutting her trip short. For Christmas dinner, Gloria Matthews set a place at the table for her missing daughter.
“Like she was coming home,” she said.