Confusion And Mismanagement Reign In Biden White House As More Than 40 Groups Demand Meetings Over Proposed COVID Vaccine Mandate

Biden Federal officials are plowing through meetings requested by more than 40 groups and individuals that have raised questions and concerns about the coming rule that will require many companies to implement coronavirus vaccination or testing protocols for their workers, according to records posted on a government website.

Say what you will about the pro-Marxist agitator group Black Lives Matter, and over the years we’ve said plenty, but they certainly know how to push an agenda and get it through. If American patriots who are rightly opposing the Biden vaccine mandates would get out in the streets and start shutting stuff down until things started to change, things would start to change. But they won’t and the Biden White House is counting on that.

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2 (KJB)

America, what’s left of her, is in tatters, and we are watching the pillars of our institutions come tumbling down to reveal that the government which we can see is not the government that is governing. Whoever is actually in charge is letting the whole thing burn on one hand, and bringing in draconian mandates on the other. Did you ever think you would live to see the day where your government would demand you be injected with pharmakeia if you wanted to keep buying and selling? Hey, wait a minute…are we..?? Tick, tock, it’s later than you think.

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As the Biden White House tries to finalize vaccine mandate, dozens of groups seek last-minute meetings

FROM MSN: Lobbyists from industry associations and unions, as well as some private anti-vaccine individuals, are lining up to take meetings with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is in the process of finalizing the rule that will apply to some 80 million workers, before its expected release in coming weeks.

The unusually high number of groups requesting meetings is a sign of the intense interest in how the Biden administration crafts the policy. Many view this policy as its highest-profile — and probably its most widely contested — effort to increase coronavirus vaccination rates across the country, perhaps one of the most significant undertakings in Labor Department history.

A number of meetings appear to be initiated by small but vocal anti-vaccine factions, as right-wing message boards fill with instructions on how to utilize an obscure Clinton-era executive order requiring OMB to solicit these meetings, with the goal of slowing or even stopping the process.

But that goal is not possible. Although federal officials appear to be entertaining some of these requests, they do not have to take all of the meeting requests and can release the rule when they are ready. Biden has said the rule will apply to companies with more than 100 employees and will allow for coronavirus testing instead of mandatory vaccinations. Many companies have instituted their own vaccine mandates with high levels of compliance, but some others have said they have significant concerns about how a federal policy would be implemented.

Those who have had or requested meetings with Labor Department and OMB officials so far include industry groups such as the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA), the Corn Refiners Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Retail Federation; companies such as Walt Disney and auto conglomerate Stellantis; the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union federation; and conservative think tanks like the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity and the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/confusion-biden-white-house-as-groups-seek-to-stop-covid-19-vaccine-mandate/

CDC Director Walensky Says All Children Should be Forced to Wear Face Masks in School

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Wednesday said all school children should be forced to wear a face mask regardless of vaccination status.

This is child abuse.

“As we head into these winter months, we cannot be complacent,” Walensky said. “We know from previous data that schools that have had masks in place were 3.5 times less likely to have school outbreaks requiring school closure. So right now we are going to continue to recommend masks in all schools for all people in those schools and we will look forward to scaling up pediatric vaccination during this period.”

The Biden White House on Wednesday rolled out a plan to vaccinate children ages 5 to 11.

“The Biden administration has secured enough vaccine supply to vaccinate the 28 million children ages 5 to 11 who would become eligible for vaccination if the vaccine is authorized for that age group and will help equip more than 25,000 pediatric and primary care offices, hundreds of community health centers and rural health clinics as well as tens of thousands of pharmacies to administer the shots, according to the White House.” CNN reported.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/cdc-director-walensky-says-children-forced-wear-face-masks-school-video/

White House Details Plan To "Quickly" Vaccinate 28 Million Children Age 5-11

The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled its plan to 'quickly' vaccinate roughly 28 million children age 5-11, pending authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The jab - which doesn't prevent transmission of Covid-19 will be available at pediatricians, local pharmacies, and possibly even at schools, according to the White House, which expects FDA authorization of the Pfizer shot for children - the least likely to fall seriously ill or die from the virus, in a matter of weeks, according to the Associated Press.

Federal regulators will meet over the next two weeks to weigh the benefits of giving shots to kids, after lengthy studies meant to ensure the safety of the vaccines.

Within hours of formal approval, expected after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory meeting scheduled for Nov. 2-3, doses will begin shipping to providers across the country, along with smaller needles necessary for injecting young kids, and within days will be ready to go into the arms of kids on a wide scale. -AP

According to the announcement, the White House has secured enough to supply more than 25,000 doses for pediatricians and primary care physicians who have already signed up to deliver the vaccine, while the country now has enough Pfizer vaccine to jab roughly 28 million kids who will soon be eligible, meaning this won't be a slow roll-out like we saw 10 months ago when doses and capacity issues meant adults had to wait.

Meanwhile, the White House is rolling out an 'advertising' campaign to convince parents and kids that the vaccine is safe and effective. According to the report, "the administration believes trusted messengers — educators, doctors, and community leaders — will be vital to encouraging vaccinations."

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/white-house-details-plan-quickly-vaccinate-28m-children-age-5-11

Queen Welcomes John Kerry, Bill Gates and Others to Windsor Castle for a Very Lavish Reception

The Queen of England met with billionaires and others at Windsor Castle for a lavish reception. Bill Gates, John Kerry and others were all smiles when meeting the Queen at the event.

The Daily Mail reported:

The Queen put on a stylish display as she welcomed billionaire business leaders, presidential envoys and tech entrepreneurs to Windsor Castle for a lavish reception following a Government investment summit on Tuesday.

Her Majesty, 95, who looked effortlessly chic in a matching turquoise co-ord with floral detail, completed her outfit with a pair of trusted patent black shoes, dangling pearl earrings and three-strand pearl necklace.

The monarch also sported the historic Cullinan V brooch which features a heart-shaped central stone – and is the same silver diamond brooch she wore in a photograph released to mark late Prince Philip’s 99th birthday in 2020.

The Daily Mail continued:

US climate envoy John Kerry, Poppy Gustafsson, chief executive officer of cyber security firm Darktrace, and Hamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan managing director of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, were among those who met the senior royals.

The Queen, Charles and Prince William warmly welcomed the business leaders and members of the Government including Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who donned a cobalt blue ensemble, and International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan.

So John Kerry is now the climate envoy for the US as if one is needed?

There was no mention as to the rationale for the gathering. Bill Gates is associated with now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the Queen’s son was associated with Epstein as well. We don’t know if this had anything to do with the event. We do know that Gates knows Epstein is dead.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/queen-welcomes-john-kerry-bill-gates-others-windsor-castle-lavish-reception/

Trump Organization Facing New Criminal Investigation by Trump-Hating Democrat District Attorney in Westchester County, NY

The Trump Organization, which is currently under indictment in Manhattan, is facing a new criminal investigation by a Trump-hating Democrat DA in Westchester County, New York.

Democrat District Attorney Mimi Rocah has already subpoenaed records from Trump National Golf Club Westchester, the New York Times reported.

Rochah, who has repeatedly attacked Trump publicly, is on a fishing expedition looking for a crime.

Mimi Rocah desperately wanted Trump to be convicted by the senate in the second garbage impeachment.

Shortly after the senate acquitted Trump (for the second time), Mimi Rocah got to work and opened a criminal investigation into the Trump Org so she could harass him and get her conviction.

The DA’s office is probing to see if the Trump Organization misled the town of Ossining about the golf course’s property value to pay less taxes.

Earlier this year, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance hit the Trump Org with criminal charges.

The Manhattan case is tied to tax-related conduct amid claims Trump Organization employees illegally ‘received tax-free perks such as apartments and car leases.’

In July the Trump Org’s CFO Allen Weisselberg surrendered himself to the Manhattan DA after being indicted.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/trump-organization-facing-new-criminal-investigation-trump-hating-democrat-district-attorney-westchester-county-ny/

DC AG adds Zuckerberg as defendant in Facebook privacy lawsuit, claims he was ‘personally involved’ in Cambridge Analytica debacle

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been personally added to a data protection lawsuit against the social network, which could result in a penalty of up to $1.7 billion, DC Attorney General Karl Racine announced on Wednesday.

“I just added Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant in my lawsuit against Facebook,” Racine declared on Twitter, claiming that his “continuing investigation” has revealed Zuckerberg “was personally involved in decisions related to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook’s failure to protect user data.”

“This lawsuit is about protecting the data of half of all District residents and tens of millions of people across the country,” Racine continued, before calling on Facebook to “take its responsibility to protect users just as seriously.”

Racine filed the lawsuit in 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, when it was revealed that the political consulting firm had scraped masses of user data from Facebook to provide information on populations of interest to political campaigns around the world.

The attorney general claimed on Wednesday that adding Zuckerberg to the lawsuit would “send a message that corporate leaders, including the CEO, will be held accountable for their actions.”

According to the New York Times, Racine added Zuckerberg to the lawsuit after allegedly discovering that Facebook’s decision to give third parties more access to user information in 2010 was the “brainchild” of its CEO.

A Facebook spokesperson, however, told the newspaper that Racine’s allegations were “as meritless today as they were more than three years ago, when the District filed its complaint,” and said the company would continue to defend itself “vigorously and focus on the facts.”

The maximum penalty for such a lawsuit would be $5,000 per victim. Since Racine has claimed that over 340,000 DC residents were affected, the total maximum penalty could potentially reach over $1.7 billion, reports have observed.

Facebook, in turn, could lobby for the removal of Zuckerberg as a defendant in the lawsuit.

https://www.rt.com/usa/537984-facebook-zuckerberg-cambridge-analytica-lawsuit/

Wretched Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Vetoes Two Election Bills Attempting to Make Elections Legit

Michigan continues to play politics while Americans want fair and free elections and the truth about the 2020 Election.

Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who oversaw the corrupted election of 2020, vetoed two bills that would have made elections in Michigan more secure and accurate.

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed two Republican-backed election bills, arguing they “fail to advance” secure elections.

“How do we provide safe and secure elections in our state if the governor can’t even agree that we should be ensuring dead people aren’t on our voting rolls?” a sponsor of one the bills, Republican state Sen. Michael MacDonald, said in a statement following Whitmer’s vetoes on Friday.

One of the vetoed bills would have revised the administrative process for removing dead people from voter lists and required more frequent checks during the 45-day period before an election.

The bill passed through the state Senate and House with bipartisan support, and some clerks said the change would be welcomed.

Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum told the Detroit Free Press she had testified in favor of the change and said Friday she still supports the concept but had not discussed the veto with Whitmer…

…The other vetoed bill would have required the state elections board to canvass signatures for an initiative petition within 100 days of the filing. It currently must make a determination no more than 100 days before the election in which the proposal would appear on the ballot.

These actions overall are very disappointing and disgusting to Americans who saw the mess that took place in Michigan during the 2020 Election. Governor Whitmer oversaw COVID in the state and the 2020 Election, two major fails for freedom in the state.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/wretched-michigan-governor-gretchen-whitmer-vetoes-two-election-bills-ordered-absentee-ballots-upon-request/

Protesters claim Italian authorities tampered with ‘live webcam’ to show empty square instead of huge anti-vaccine-passport rally

Protesters in Italy have claimed that the authorities rigged a supposedly live webcam to show an empty square in Trieste’s city center while it was packed with demonstrators against the vaccine passport mandate.

On Monday evening, crowds gathered in the Piazza Unita d’Italia in Trieste to protest against the government’s imposition of a ‘green pass’. The government had made it a legal requirement for all workers to be vaccinated or provide a negative Covid-19 test from the previous 48 hours.

Videos from the square showed hundreds of people staging a sit-in in the northern Italian city, however, as highlighted by one of the protesters in a widely shared video, the city’s webcam suggested the piazza was almost empty.

The footage starts with the camera focusing in on a protester’s phone in which SkylineWebcams.com’s live stream for Trieste’s Piazza Unita d’Italia is shown. The empty square, as seen on the live webcam, appears to be in stark contrast to the reality, as the demonstrator pans their camera to show hundreds of people present in the Piazza Unita d’Italia.

Protesters and others online have accused the Italian authorities of tampering with the webcam to ensure news of the unrest did not travel far.

Others highlighted further discrepancies between the live webcam and the scenes in the square.

Trieste authorities have not commented on whether the feed was tampered with or whether some glitch occurred.

The city on the country’s border with Slovenia has been a hotspot for protests against the imposition of the so-called ‘green pass’. Sit-in protests have been ongoing since Friday when the pass was introduced. On Monday, police clashed with protesters at the city’s port. Water cannon and tear gas were used to disperse demonstrators who vowed to bring the city to a halt.

According to Stefano Puzzer of the Port Workers Coordination of Trieste, some 40% of Trieste’s port workers are not vaccinated. The figure is not representative of the general Italian population, in which over 80% of those over 12 are fully vaccinated.

The ‘green pass’ was implemented last Friday, having been voted into law in September.

https://www.rt.com/news/537973-italy-covid19-pass-protest-webcam/

UK govt must crack down on apps promoting extremism, Labour leader Starmer says, taking special aim at Telegram

The UK government must do more to crack down on platforms that fail to tackle violent content online, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has said, taking special aim at messenger app Telegram.

Speaking on Wednesday at a Prime Minister's Questions session, the leader of the opposition slammed Telegram, saying that it has been described as the "app of choice for extremists."

Starmer also said that, while tributes were being made to MP Sir David Amess, who was stabbed to death last Friday in Essex, in what Scotland Yard declared a terrorist incident possibly linked to Islamist extremism, the app's users could access "videos of murders and violent threats against politicians, the LGBT community, women and Jews."

He quoted an anti-racism advocacy group, saying Telegram had "facilitated a subculture that cheerleads for terrorists" and insisted "tough sanctions are clearly needed." He asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson why the directors of apps that are failing to clamp down on online extremism are not facing "criminal" penalties.

Telegram, however, has taken steps in the past to protect its users against terrorism. In December 2016 it announced that the app was routinely removing up to 70 Islamic State channels per month. In a joint operation conducted in late 2019 with Europol, the platform said it had purged 43,000 terrorist-related user accounts.

Starmer's remarks come after media reports emerged that Amess' suspected killer, Ali Harbi Ali, had been radicalised by extremist content online.

In the wake of the fatal stabbing, Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said that there was "a case" for removing the right to anonymity, as internet users should not be able to "abuse their position on social media from a veil of anonymity."

https://www.rt.com/uk/537982-uk-govt-must-crack-down-telegram/

Ghislaine Maxwell doesn’t want accusers being called ‘victims’ at trial

Ghislaine Maxwell is fighting to ban any of her accusers from being called “victims” at her upcoming sex-trafficking trial — as well as any mention of “rape” by her late boss Jeffrey Epstein, court documents show.

The accused madam’s legal team filed motions in Manhattan federal court late Monday seeking to have 13 items excluded ahead of her trial next month.

They include a “motion to preclude testimony about any alleged ‘rape’ by Jeffrey Epstein” as well as a “motion to preclude reference to the accusers as “victims” or “minor victims.”

Others include a bid to “exclude evidence related to accuser-3,” who was not identified in the filing, as well as any law enforcement witnesses from offering “expert opinion testimony.”

The filing also seeks to forbid any mention of “alleged flight,” preventing prosecutors from suggesting the 59-year-old media heiress was on the run when she was busted in July last year in a New Hampshire estate called “Tucked Away.”

Another motion was to “exclude evidence of Ms. Maxwell’s alleged false statements” and “allegations related to the perjury counts” from her earlier on-the-record testimony in lawsuits.

There is also a motion to “exclude items purportedly seized during search of 358 El Brillo Way on October 20, 2005” — referring to Epstein’s former mansion in Palm Beach, Florida.

Judge Alison Nathan has yet to rule on the motions.

Maxwell has been held without bail since her arrest, accused of procuring underage girls for multimillionaire pedophile Epstein to abuse in the 1990s and early 2000s.

She’s pleaded not guilty to the charges and requested five times that she be let out on bail pending trial. She was denied each time.

Her legal team has repeatedly complained about conditions in her Brooklyn lockup, as well as unfair press coverage that they’ve argued left her “tried, convicted, and condemned in the court of public opinion.”

The next hearing is a telephone conference Thursday ahead of a “firm trial date” of Nov. 29.

Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial for sex trafficking in a Lower Manhattan jail cell shortly after his arrest in 2019.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/20/ghislaine-maxwell-doesnt-want-accusers-called-victims-at-trial/

Lancet COVID Origins Investigator Wins $1 Million Chinese Prize For Claiming Virus Developed Naturally.

Dr. Malik Peiris, who previously served on the Lancet medical journal’s COVID-19 origins investigation committee, received China’s “Nobel Prize” for research affirming the Chinese Communist Party’s false narrative that COVID-19 developed naturally.

Peiris, a Sri Lankan virologist working in Hong Kong, was one of 12 scientists leading the now-defunct Lancet probe into the origins of COVID-19. While the task force is no longer listed on the medical journal’s website, as it was forced to disband due to extensive conflicts of interests with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, archived web pages reveal Peiris’s participation in the effort.

Following Peiris’s stint on the task force, the Chinese Communist Party awarded him with the prize in life sciences in the 2021 Future Science Prize – dubbed China’s “Nobel Prize.” China’s top scientific honor is accompanied by a $1 million prize, which is funded by several Chinese Communist Party-linked companies such as Baidu, Hillhouse Capital, and Sequoia Capital China.

State-run media outlet Global Times claimed the award was for his “major discoveries of SARS-CoV-1 as the causative agent of the global SARS outbreak in 2003 with impact on combating COVID-19 and emerging infectious diseases.” Peiris shared the award with co-author Kwok-Yung Yuen.

In an exclusive interview with the Chinese Communist Party-run media outlet, Yuen asserted “this is one of the most important prizes not just in China but also internationally.”

Peiris’s research was praised by award reviewers as playing an integral role in tracing the origins of COVID-19, as reviewer Wang Xiaodong noted “Chinese scientists were able to quickly identify the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to their contributions.” The research bolstered the Chinese Communist Party’s fake narrative that COVID-19 developed naturally as opposed to escaping from a lab.

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/lancet-covid-investigator-wins-china-nobel-prize/

Gates Foundation to Fund $120 Million of Oral COVID-19 Drug for Poor Nations

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in its COVID-19 response, will fund up to $120 million to increase access to an experimental drug for lower-income countries, which will be used in treating COVID-19, the foundation announced on Tuesday.

The funding will support efforts to develop and make generic versions of what could become the first oral antiviral medication for the disease if it wins regulatory approval, it explained in a statement.

“Merck has taken important steps to make this drug available as a COVID-19 therapy, including negotiating licenses with generics manufacturers to increase supply. We are pleased to work alongside these efforts to ensure affordability and availability in lower-income countries,” said Bill Gates, co-chair of the foundation.

The tablet medicine, dubbed “molnupiravir,” is being developed by pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. and is meant to combat cases of mild or moderate CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.

Earlier this month, an interim analysis of its phase 3 trial studying the drug showed it was effective in cutting the risk of hospitalization or death in half for adults who were deemed at risk but not hospitalized, according to a summary Merck released.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently reviewing the medication for approval in the United States as the decision on whether to authorize the drug for use sits with national regulatory agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO).

The final test results of the experimental medication haven’t yet been published, and some experts have said they’re worried about how the pill attacks the virus.

“There is a concern that this will cause long-term mutation effects, even cancer,” Dr. Shuntai Zhou, a scientist at the Swanstrom Lab at the University of North Carolina, told Barron’s.

Dr. Michael Carome, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, told The Epoch Times that the concern is theoretical for now and that it’s likely that signaling of rare adverse events would only be possible with long-term trials, because premarket trials typically only involve several thousand participants.

Molnupiravir embeds itself in the virus’s genetic material and causes a high number of mutations, ultimately overwhelming it to extinction, a process known as lethal mutagenesis.

Launched in 2000, the non-profit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the United States’ largest private philanthropic foundation and one of the world’s biggest, pouring about $1.9 billion into the fight against the pandemic since last year.

https://www.ntd.com/gates-foundation-to-fund-120-million-of-oral-covid-19-drug-for-poor-nations_690972.html

CNN: "Why Vaccinated People Dying From Covid-19 Doesn't Mean The Vaccines Are Ineffective"

This is an actual headline from CNN.

"Covid-19 vaccines do not protect you 100%," CNN Medical Analyst Dr Leana Wen said in the body of the article, which was published on Tuesday in the wake of "fully vaccinated" Colin Powell dying with covid. "No vaccine does, just likely virtually no medical treatment is 100% effective. That doesn't mean the vaccine doesn't work, or that you shouldn't take it."

A recent study from Humetrix for the Department of Defense's Project Salus examining Medicare data revealed that "fully vaccinated" Medicare patients made up an estimated 60% of hospitalizations in the week ending August 7th.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62618

BlackByte ransomware decryptor released to recover files for free

A free decryptor for the BlackByte ransomware has been released, allowing past victims to recover their files for free.

When executed, most ransomware will generate a unique encryption key per file or a single key per machine known as sessions keys used to encrypt a victim's device.

These keys are then encrypted with a public RSA key and appended to the end of an encrypted file or a ransom note. This encrypted key can now only be decrypted by the associated private decryption key known only to the ransomware operation.

This makes it so threat actors can decrypt the encrypted keys when a victim pays a ransom.

BlackByte reused encryption keys

In a report by Trustwave, researchers explain that the ransomware was downloading a file called 'forest.png' from a remote site under their control. While this file is named to appear as an image file, it actually contains the AES encryption key used to encrypt a device.

As BlackByte uses AES symmetrical encryption, the same key is used for both the encryption and decryption of files.

While BlackByte also encrypts this downloaded AES encryption key and appends it to the ransom note, Trustwave discovered that the ransomware gang was reusing the same forest.png file for multiple victims.

As the same 'raw' encryption key was being reused, Trustwave could use that key to build a decryptor that recovers a victim's files for free.

However, there are always drawbacks when releasing free decryptors like this as it alerts the ransomware gangs of the bugs in their programs and quickly fixed.

Trustwave's report and decryptor did not go unnoticed by the ransomware gang, who warned that they have used more than one key and that utilizing the decryptor with the wrong key would corrupt a victim's files.

"we have seen in some places that there is a decryption for our ransom. we would not recommend you to use that. because we do not use only 1 key. if you will use the wrong decryption for your system you may break everything, and you wont be able to restore your system again.we just want to warn you, if you do decide to use that, its at your own risk." - BlackByte.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blackbyte-ransomware-decryptor-released-to-recover-files-for-free/

Oligarch Oleg Deripaska slams 'stupid Americans' for raiding his DC and NYC mansions in furious statement: claims FBI search is linked to US establishment insisting that Russia meddled in 2016 presidential election

Russian oil tycoon Oleg Deripaska tore into the FBI and 'utter stupidity' of the American government in a lengthy statement on Wednesday, a day after homes linked to him in New York and Washington were raided by the agency.

A spokesman for Deripaska said the searches stemmed from sanctions imposed on him in 2018 and that the homes belonged to his relatives.

But on Wednesday Deripaska indicated both pieces of luxury real estate were 'abandoned.'

'I cannot help but marvel at the utter stupidity of a part of the American establishment… as they persist in spinning this story about the supposedly colossal role of Russians in the 2016 US presidential election,' Deripaska said.

'It's time to face the obvious: Trump didn't win on his own, of course!'

But he said it was Washington, DC's own fault for alienating Americans so they voted for an 'operetta character' like Trump.

'He had help from those dumb asses in Washington who had so fed up with their electorate that they were ready to vote for anybody (even an operetta character, but not the bribe-ridden members of the Clinton clan),' he said.

'It is convenient to feed your electorate (brought up on Hollywood movies about horrible Russians) with all sorts of bulls**t for another 10 years.'

The Kremlin vowed to protect Deripaska's interests 'in every possible way.'

Images of FBI agents surrounding the Washington, DC residence connected to Deripaska, a close Putin ally who has been linked to Paul Manafort and Christopher Steele, were first reported by NBC late Monday morning.

The action was court-ordered, an FBI spokesperson told multiple outlets.

Deripaska mocked investigators, apparently believing there was little relevant information to be found.

'One has to ask: was a shitload of Putin's money found yesterday in these abandoned houses?

'Did they manage to snack on the sour jam from the pantries and a couple of bottles of vodka stolen in the best traditions of the Bolsheviks during the search?'

He added, 'P.S. I'm fed up with the unfunny a**holes…'

The Kremlin said on Wednesday, 'We have heard statements that these real estate assets are not a property of the entrepreneur

The oil magnate is believed to be in Austria, according to one Moscow source.

The law enforcement activity is connected to a federal investigation based in New York, a spokesperson told CNN.

http://www.womensystems.com/2021/10/oligarch-oleg-deripaska-slams-stupid.html

Five U.S. Senators Tell Zuckerberg that Facebook Can’t Be Trusted and to Back Off His Crypto Plans

Today, five Democratic Senators, including the Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Sherrod Brown, sent a scorching letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and CEO of Facebook, telling him that Facebook “cannot be trusted to manage a payment system or digital currency when its existing ability to manage risks and keep consumers safe has proven wholly insufficient.” The letter demanded that Zuckerberg back off plans to launch a cryptocurrency and digital wallet.

The letter was authored by Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), and Tina Smith (D-Minnesota).

The Senators wrote:

“Given the scope of the scandals surrounding your company, we write to voice our strongest opposition to Facebook’s revived effort to launch a cryptocurrency and digital wallet, now branded ‘Diem’ and ‘Novi,’ respectively. In October 2019, Senators Schatz and Brown wrote to members of the Diem Association’s predecessor, the Libra Association, and expressed deep concerns about the risks the project posed to consumers and the financial system. Facebook subsequently shelved Libra amid regulatory scrutiny, but you did not address our concerns before resuming this endeavor.”

The Senators also reminded Zuckerberg that Facebook has a history of “moving fast and breaking things” and “misleading Congress in order to do so.”

For context on today’s letter to Zuckerberg, see our earlier report on Zuckerberg’s plan for the Libra digital currency: “Senator Compares Facebook’s Libra Association to Spectre in James Bond Movie.”

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/10/five-u-s-senators-tell-zuckerberg-that-facebook-cant-be-trusted-and-to-back-off-his-crypto-plans/

Biden’s EPA Faces Lawsuit for Illegally Stacking Science Advisory panels

If unchecked, EPA Administrator Michael Regan’s “climate action plan” will lead to a climate crisis….one involving economics rather than weather.

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in September, in a break from “presidential norms,” the Biden administration asked 12 officials appointed to military service academy advisory boards by former President Donald Trump to resign or face dismissal.

That isn’t the only havoc Biden has been wreaking among important government boards, either. A new lawsuit claims Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan has illegally fired dozens of independent scientific advisers from two key committees earlier this year and replaced them with academics dependent on the agency for grant money.

Stanley Young, a statistician who has worked on pharmaceutical research and is a former member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB), alleged in a complaint filed in Washington, DC federal court Thursday that the March 31 purge by Regan showed that the agency “has a problem with dissent.”

Regan bounced all 47 members of the SAB, including Young, as well as all seven members of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). In a statement at the time, Regan justified the move by citing “process irregularities” under the Trump administration — including an October 2017 ban on academics and non-government officials in receipt of EPA grants simultaneously serving on the advisory panels, which the administrator said “significantly restrict[ed] member eligibility.”

I covered several Obama-era cases of abuse and inept actions the EPA took, most famously the “Yellow River” debacle. Having at least a few impartial representatives among the sea of green justice advocates could be critical.

According to court filings, Young v. EPA asserts that when Regan removed all industry-focused officials, he violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). This act, enacted in 1972, ensured advice provided by committees is “objective” and accessible by the public.

“In its haste to eliminate all traces of industry from its advisory committees, EPA ran roughshod over FACA and its obligation to engage in reasoned decision-making,” the filings read.

The suit said 47 officials have been appointed to the SBA and seven as CASAC members – but not a single member is affiliated with a regulated industry.

In failing to comply with FACA, the filings allege the EPA further violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

“Industry representation is essential because industry inputs inform the advice of both the Board and the Committee, and the committees’ advice and the resulting EPA actions significantly affect numerous regulated industries,” the suit reads.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/10/bidens-epa-faces-lawsuit-for-illegally-stacking-science-advisory-panels/

Facebook Launches Major Corporate Rebrand To "Metaverse" As Zuck Tries To Move On From Scandals

After announcing plans to hire 10,000 workers in Europe (despite a looming global corporate tax agreement that could substantially increase his firm's tax burden) to get to work on building the Facebook Metaverse - before Microsoft or Roblox, or - even worse - some scrappy newcomer, can beat them to the punch - Facebook has just leaked a massive scoop to the Verge.

In a move that, in a way, resembles Google's big corporate re-brand to 'Alphabet' in 2015 (and also, in a way, the defense contractor formerly known as Blackwater's numerous name changes over the years to help move past reputational damage) the social media behemoth has decided to 'rebrand' and change its official corporate name from 'Facebook' to, well, something having to do with "the Metaverse."

In keeping with the 'rebranding' theme we mentioned above, some high-level source at Facebook (Zuckerberg?) told the Verge that the decision is meant to "signal the tech giant's ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail."

The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more. A spokesperson for Facebook declined to comment for this story.

Of course, we'd be remiss without sharing a few notes on the timing of this leaked announcement. Facebook's attempt to publicly pivot away from its social media mainstays comes at a time when:

Antitrust regulators have been trying to break up the company for some time now

Whistleblower Frances Haugen's explosive claims, in leaked documents and in Congressional testimony, are only a couple of weeks in the rearview

Just yesterday, Democratic Sens. Warren and Brown demanded the company halt its stablecoin pilot project meant to provide virtually free remittance payments between the US and Guatemala.

Even without the new hires in Europe, Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. In July, he told The Verge that, over the next several years, "we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company."

But here's the real key line in the Verge report: "a rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today."

https://www.cracknewz.com/2021/10/facebook-launches-major-corporate.html

Report: Israel Approves $1.5 Billion Budget for Potential Attack on Iran

The funds could be used to purchase bunker busters and bombers that can carry the munitions

According to a report from Israel’s Channel 12, the Israeli government approved a $1.5 billion budget to prepare for a potential attack on Iran.

The extra funds would be used to purchase additional aircraft, surveillance drones, and the munitions needed to strike Iran’s underground nuclear facilities. The report said about $620 million would come from the 2022 military budget, and the rest of the funds would come from this year’s budget.

For years, Israel has been seeking bunker-busting bombs that could penetrate Iran’s underground facilities. If they did acquire the munitions, Israel would also need bombers capable of carrying them, something it currently doesn’t have. The US tested a new 5,000-pound bunker buster earlier this month, which Israeli media interpreted as a possible message to Iran.

In July, it was reported that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) requested additional funds for next year’s budget to prepare for operations against Iran. Throughout the year, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi has repeatedly said the IDF is “accelerating” plans to strike Iran, and Israeli politicians have constantly been threatening the Islamic Republic.

Israel frequently carries out covert attacks against Iran’s civilian nuclear program, but the IDF planning suggests an overt operation could happen in the future. The US has joined Israel in issuing threats against Iran. Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken hinted at military action against Iran alongside Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. Blinken said if diplomacy with Iran fails, the US will turn to “other options.”

Lapid made clear that one of Blinken’s “options” was military action. “I would like to start by repeating what the Secretary of State just said. Yes, other options are going to be on the table if diplomacy fails. And by saying other options, I think everybody understands here … what is it that we mean,” Lapid said.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/10/19/report-israel-approves-1-5-billion-budget-for-potential-attack-on-iran/

Cheney: Bannon's actions suggest Trump was involved in Capitol riot planning

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said late Tuesday that former White House strategist Stephen Bannon’s refusal to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Capitol riot suggests former President Trump was "personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th."

"Based on the committee’s investigation, it appears that Mr. Bannon had substantial advance knowledge of the plans for Jan. 6 and likely had an important role in formulating those plans. Mr. Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on Jan. 6. He also appears to have detailed knowledge regarding the president’s efforts to sell millions of Americans the fraud that the election was stolen," Cheney said as the panel voted unanimously to hold Bannon in contempt and refer him to the Justice Department for criminal charges.

Cheney also said that Bannon and Trump's privilege arguments "do appear to reveal one thing."

"They suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of Jan. 6," she said. "And we will get to the bottom of that."

The committee said Monday that it contacted Bannon’s attorney multiple times seeking information in its investigation but did not receive an answer.

The full House will vote Thursday to hold Bannon in contempt after he refused to provide information despite a congressional subpoena.

Legal experts say the committee might have to pursue a civil suit again Bannon if the Justice Department chooses not to formally charge him.

Cheney has emerged as one of the top Republican critics of Trump.

Ahead of the vote on Tuesday, Trump said in a statement that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was unable to put "real Republicans' on the panel, "so they got stuck with low-polling warmonger Liz Cheney."

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/577515-cheney-bannon-refusal-to-cooperate-suggests-trump-personally-involved-in

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What was Jewish life in Israel like at the time of the Mishna and Talmud?

A new exhibition by the Israel Antiquities Authority at the Yigal Allon Center in Kibbutz Ginossar offers a glimpse of the centuries when Jewish sages managed to rebuild a community in the Galilee.

What was Jewish life in Israel like after Rome’s destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem? A new exhibition by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Kibbutz Ginossar’s Yigal Allon Center offers a glimpse of how the Sages managed to rebuild a community in the Galilee in the centuries that followed the great tragedy.

The “Sanhedrin Trail” features over 150 objects from the late Second Temple period and the following centuries, some of them on display for the first time, including an imposing stone engraved with a depiction of the Temple. It presents a deeper look into the hiking trail, inaugurated in 2017, connecting different sites from those centuries.

The Great Sanhedrin was the assembly of 71 Sages which acted as the supreme court for the Jewish people.

After the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, it was relocated several times, the Talmud recalls.

“The Sanhedrin was exiled in ten stages at the end of the Second Temple period and after the destruction of the Temple. This is known from tradition. It moved from “the Chamber of Hewn Stone, its fixed seat in the Temple, to Ḥanut, literally, shop, a designated spot on the Temple Mount outside the Temple proper; and from Ḥanut to Jerusalem; and from Jerusalem to Yavne;” reads a passage of the Rosh Hashanah Tractate (31a) as translated by the William Davidson Edition of the Talmud.

Located in the central part of the Land of Israel, according to Jewish tradition, “Yavne and its Sages” were the reward requested by Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakkai to Roman general Vespasian after predicting that he would become the new emperor.

“And from Yavne [The Sanhedrin moved to] to Usha; and from Usha it returned to Yavne; and from Yavne it went back to Usha; and from Usha to Shfaram; and from Shfaram to Beit She’arim; and from Beit She’arim to Tzipori; and from Tzipori to Tiberias,” the passage continues.

The history and life of the five centers in the Galilee, Usha, Shfaram, Beit She’arim, Tzipori and Tiberias is one of the focuses of the exhibition.

Artifacts on display include an oil lamp, inscriptions featuring the words ‘shalom’ and ‘shabbat’, and sages’ names such as Yaakov and Shimon in Hebrew and in Aramaic, and a hoard of silver and bronze coins from the time of the revolt against the Romans led by Shimon Bar Kokhba (132-135 CE), which was found in the middle of a burned building, suggesting the heavy toll that the conflict exacted even in the Galilee.

In addition, for the first time, the public is offered the opportunity to see the original Magdala Stone.

The stone was found in 2009 in Magdala, a large Jewish settlement during the early Roman period located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/what-was-jewish-life-in-israel-like-at-the-time-of-the-mishna-and-talmud-682627

The Age of Chatham House and the British Roots of NATO

With the expulsion of half of Russian’s diplomatic delegation to NATO, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Dimitry Peskov stated that “NATO is not an instrument of cooperation, not an instrument for interaction; it is a bloc that overall is anti-Russian in nature… These actions, of course, do not allow us to pretend there is a possibility of normalizing relations and resuming dialogue with NATO. Instead, these prospects are undermined almost completely.”

Unfortunately, with these and other belligerent actions which are propelling the world ever closer to WWIII, too many onlookers continue to see NATO as a purely American imperial institution without any regard for the actual center of global power that has sought to destroy not only Russia, but the United States itself since long before the Cold War ever began.

While this might appear paradoxical on the surface, the paradox can easily be resolved by recognizing that there have been since 1776, not one, but TWO opposing dynamics operating within America. Where only one is in alignment of the ideals of the Constitution and Declaration of independence, the other is entirely in alignment with the ideals of the British Empire and hereditary institutions from which it supposedly broke away.

One America has been defended by great leaders who are too often identified by their untimely deaths while in office, who consistently advanced anti-colonial visions for a world of sovereign nations, win-win cooperation, and the extension of constitutional rights to all classes and races both within America and abroad. The other America has sought only to enmesh itself with the British Empire’s global regime of finance, exploitation, population control and never-ending wars.

Lord Lothian and the White Man’s Burden

These two Americas frustrated Round Table controller Sir Philip Kerr (later “Lord Lothian”) in 1918 who wrote to his fellow Round Tabler Lionel Curtis explaining the “American problem” with the following words:

”There is a fundamentally different concept in regard to this question between Great Britain … and the United States …. as to the necessity of civilized control over politically backward peoples…. The inhabitants of Africa and parts of Asia have proved unable to govern themselves … because they were quite unable to withstand the demoralizing influences [i.e. their desire for modernization and independence–ed.] to which they were subjected in some civilized countries, so that the intervention of an European power is necessary in order to protect them from those influences. The American view… is quite different… The extent of this work after the war, sometimes known as the white man’s burden, will be so vast that it will never be accomplished at all unless it is shared… Yet America not only has no conception of this aspect of the problem but has been led to believe that the assumption of this kind of responsibility is iniquitous imperialism. They take an attitude towards the problem of world government exactly analogous to the one they [earlier] took toward the problem of the world war…. “If they are slow in learning we shall be condemned to a period … of strained relations between the various parts of the English-speaking world. [We must] get into the heads of Canadians and Americans that a share in the burden of world government is just as great and glorious a responsibility as participation in the war” (1)

At the time of Kerr’s writing, the British Roundtable, led by Lord Milner had just orchestrated a British coup in 1916 ousting Labour’s Herbert Asquith in order to bring Milner’s Round Table group into dominance as a shaper of imperial foreign policy at a pivotal moment in history. This coup allowed this group to define the terms of the Post-war world at Versailles).

These imperialists were obsessed with ending the dangerous spread of anti-colonial feelings from India, Ireland, Africa and other nations who firmly believed their sacrifices in WWI merited their independence. Most dangerous of all was that their sentiments were very much shared by many leading members of the American government who rejected the evil philosophical roots of the “white man’s burden”.

https://southfront.org/the-age-of-chatham-house-and-the-british-roots-of-nato/

Ontario gov't/Big Pharma conflict of interest? Dr. Charles McVety thinks so

Dr. Charles McVety, the president of Canada Christian College, tells David Menzies why he thinks Premier Ford's government is in a conflict of interest position when it comes to vaccine mandates.

At a Queen’s Park press conference, Dr. Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies in Whitby, Ont., alleged that the Ontario government is in a conflict of interest position regarding its relationship with Rubicon Strategy Inc.

Rubicon represents dozens of pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and AstraZeneca, both of which manufacture COVID-19 vaccines. The crux of the matter: the co-founder of Rubicon is Kory Teneycke; Teneycke was also the campaign manager for the Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party in 2018 and will apparently be resuming that role next year.

But McVety alleges that Teneycke has the ear of Premier Doug Ford, which might explain why Premier Ford was dead-set against vaccine passports for the province in July only to do an inexplicable backflip in August stating that a vaccine passport program is a good idea. McVety estimates that Pfizer and AstraZeneca have made “hundreds of millions of dollars in Ontario” thanks to Ontarians getting jabbed.

McVety questions how Teneycke can be “allowed to influence decisions which ultimately profit his own company, while countless Ontarians suffer?" While it is obvious that these pharmaceutical companies are massively profiting off of the COVID-19 pandemic, a key question remains unanswered: how much money have these corporations paid Rubicon? Our democracy is based on equality, fairness, and freedom. It must not be for sale to the highest bidder. It is a sad day when mega-corporations can pay for undue governmental influence. Every Ontarian should be rightly afraid of a system that allows anyone to purchase legislative power under the cover of media silence.”

In an interview with Rebel News, McVety alleges that Teneycke is also the influencer behind Canada Chrisitan College being denied university credentials. McVety claims the unspoken reason why Teneycke has contempt for his educational institution is due to Teneycke being “an atheist.”

We reached out to Kory Teneycke for comment and he made the following six points:

1. He didn’t lobby for mandates;

2. The purchaser of the vaccines is the federal government, not the provincial governments;

3. His firm, Rubicon, lobbied for vaccines (not Kory himself);

4. Pfizer was never a client (but rather, the vaccine industry group was);

5. He was not involved on Canada Christian College issues — those decisions predated Kory; Kory would say follow the process;

6. Kory works for the PC party, not the government — his comments to MPPs was in that capacity.

It should be noted that McVety is a long-time friend of the Ford family and was a huge supporter of Doug Ford when he ran for the leadership of the PC Party.

But it would appear that relationship is strained these days.

Says McVety: “The premier no longer answers my phone calls, let me put it that way.” (Premier Ford was not in the legislature on Tuesday, even though the house only resumed sitting on Monday after a four-month recess.)

McVety notes that he is himself double-vaccinated, but he does not believe people should be forced to get the jabs or lose their jobs.

https://www.rebelnews.com/ontario_govt_big_pharma_conflict_of_interest_dr_charles_mcvety_thinks_so

Saudi Arabia Arrests 21, Mainly Public Officials, for Corruption

Saudi Arabia Arrests 21, Mainly Public Officials, for Corruption

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Published: 20 October 2021

Written by Damir Bešlija

Saudi authorities said they have arrested 21 people accused of corruption and fraud, the kingdom’s Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) announced in Twitter thread titled No_place_for_corrupts_amongst_us.

“The Authority has initiated a number of criminal cases lately, and legal procedures against the accused individuals are underway,” the agency said.

Nazaha was established in 2011 to promote integrity and transparency and fight corruption in the kingdom. In 2018, the agency launched a smartphone application that allows users to report graft. The agency has been receiving thousands of reports annually.

In the latest round of arrests, authorities have nabbed public officials who allegedly received bribes to issue permits that should not have been issued or fix other administrative problems.

Among the accused are also managers of companies, bank employees, doctors and citizens who paid the bribes.

In one case, an officer working in one of the region's prison administration was arrested for receiving money to illegally release a detainee, and in another, two women were arrested for starting and managing a charitable association and collecting donations from which they would transfer up to US$199,513 to their personal accounts.

Among the arrested are two doctors affiliated with the Ministry of Health and three marketers for a milk manufacturer. The doctors are charged with taking bribes for issuing incorrect medical prescriptions in order to dispense baby milk the three marketers planned to resell to increase their sales.

Nazaha intensified its work in 2017, when the kingdom started its anti-corruption campaign and shocked the public with the arrest of hundreds of members of the country’s elite, including princes, ministers and businessmen.

All of them found themselves locked in luxury hotels, mainly the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh. Some were seen sleeping on the floor in the lobby.

Most of them agreed to settle charges brought against them, which injected over $100 billion into the country’s treasury. The operation that targeted the kingdom’s top was led by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

The crown prince was seen as a reformer but also as someone who wanted to make it clear who is in charge in Saudi Arabia and his anti-corruption episode as a power-grab. He dismissed this claim as “ludicrous.”

The prince’s international image was later stained by the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The anti-corruption campaign that targeted the top of the country ended in 2019 and since then focused on lower-level officials.

Nazaha also announced that five people were sentenced to years-long prison terms for corruption. A former colonel at the Ministry of Defense was given 10 years for bribery, embezzlement, forgery and money laundering.

The other four were sent behind bars for up to four years for bribery.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/15359-saudi-arabia-arrests-21-mainly-public-officials-for-corruption

Two Individuals Sentenced for Providing “Bulletproof Hosting” for Cybercriminals

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-individuals-sentenced-providing-bulletproof-hosting-cybercriminals

Eight Nigerians Charged with Conspiring to Engage in Internet Scams and Money Laundering from Cape Town, South Africa

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/eight-nigerians-charged-conspiring-engage-internet-scams-and-money-laundering-cape-town