Zuckerberg Directly Implicated in Huge Backroom Deal in 2018: Law Enforcement Bombshell

An amended version of a lawsuit filed in December of 2020 by multiple states accuses the CEOs of Facebook and Google of being direct participants in what the suit says is an illegal agreement to corner the digital advertising market.

The lawsuit has claimed that Google and Facebook acted to throttle competition.

The lawsuit claims the tech giants agreed to decrease prices paid to publishers, cut out rivals and manipulate ad auctions, according to CNBC.

“Google understood the severity of the threat to its position if Facebook were to enter the market and support header bidding,” the complaint reads, according to MarketWatch. “To diffuse this threat, Google made overtures to Facebook.”

When the initial complaint was made public, the outlines of the allegations were complete, but the text of the lawsuit was heavily redacted.

The amended version was less so upon a judge’s order, allowing Americans to see that the coalition of states led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton targets top tech officials in its case against the tech giants. Existing redactions black out names, but not titles.

Thus by following the titles, CNBC would learn that Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, called the agreement “a big deal strategically” in an email that included CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose name was also redacted. Sandberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai both OK’d the terms, CNBC reported.

The New York Post, citing the lawsuit, reported that Zuckerberg and Pichai “signed off on the backroom deal in 2018, which allegedly guaranteed Meta subsidiary Facebook would both bid in — and win — a fixed percentage of ad auctions.”

“Facebook CEO [REDACTED] wanted to meet with COO [REDACTED] and his other executives before making a decision,” says the complaint, meaning Zuckerberg and Sandberg.

“We’re nearly ready to sign and need your approval to move forward,” Sandberg wrote Zuckerberg.

“Google CEO Sundar Pichai also personally signed off on the terms of the deal,” the lawsuit said, according to the Post.

The tech giants said they did nothing wrong.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/zuckerberg-directly-implicated-huge-backroom-deal-2018-law-enforcement-bombshell/

Glenn Greenwald Exposes Deep State Effort To Stop Trump Pardoning Edward Snowden And Julian Assange

here was much speculation toward the end of Donald Trump’s term as president of the United States that Trump would pardon Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, or both of these men who were responsible for exposing vast amounts of wrongdoing by the US government. But, it did not come to pass. Why? Glenn Greenwald, who played a key role in helping Snowden expose information about the US government’s mass surveillance programs and who advocated in public and behind the scenes that Trump pardon both men, has some interesting thoughts about that.

The reason Trump failed to issue a pardon for either Snowden or Assange centers on the deep state trying to protect itself by placing Trump in jeopardy, suggested Greenwald last week in an episode of his System Update show.

In a written introduction for the episode, Greenwald notes that Trump, while president, had both “raised the possibility that he might pardon Snowden” and was “actively considering a pardon for Assange.”

Greenwald, in the introduction, zeros in on a recent interview of Trump by Candace Owens. In the interview, Trump stated he came “very close” to pardoning one of them but did not ultimately do so. Why? Trump said the reason was because Trump “was too nice” to issue the pardon.

Greenwald isn’t buying that explanation. He writes:

The question that obviously emerges from that answer: too nice to whom? To the U.S. security services — the CIA, NSA and FBI — which had spent four years doing everything possible to sabotage and undermine Trump and his presidency with their concoction of Russiagate and other leaks of false accusations to their corporate media allies? Too nice to the war-mongering servants of the military-industrial complex in the establishment wings of both parties who were the allies of those security services in attempting to derail Trump's America First foreign policy agenda? Too nice to John Brennan, James Clapper and Susan Rice, the Obama-era security officials most eager to see both Assange and Snowden rot in prison for life because they exposed Obama's spying crimes and the Democrats’ corruption in 2016? Trump's “I'm too nice” explanation is, shall we say, less than persuasive.

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2022/january/14/glenn-greenwald-discusses-the-deep-state-effort-to-stop-donald-trump-from-pardoning-edward-snowden-and-julian-assange/

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‘Vax dates’: Victorian youth body urges teens to get Covid-19 jab without parents’ permission

A Victorian youth body has released a TikTok video encouraging teens to go on “vax dates” to get the Covid-19 jab without their parents’ permission.

A Victorian government-funded youth body has created a TikTok video encouraging teenagers to go on “vax dates” to get the Covid-19 vaccine without their parents’ permission.

The video by the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACVIC) features two teenage girls who go on a post-lockdown date to see a movie – but when asked to show their vaccination certificate, one says “my parents haven’t let me get vaccinated yet”.

“I mean, you’re over 14. You don’t actually need to get their permission,” the other girl says. “Wanna go do it now – go on a vax date?”

“That sounds fun,” the girl replies.

“After googling ‘vaccine clinic finder’, they found their nearest clinic,” the video text reads.

The girl then gets her Covid-19 vaccine, and the pair skip out of the clinic holding hands. “Live, Love, Jab for more cute dates in your life,” the video says.

The caption reads, “Pro tip: if you’re over 14, you can have your own Medicare card and consent to getting vax’d.”

A number of states including Victoria and NSW have removed parental consent requirements for young people in a bid to increase vaccination rates among 12- to 15-year-olds.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/teens/vax-dates-victorian-youth-body-urges-teens-to-get-covid19-jab-without-parents-permission/news-story/d9516cd5d90aed4032f156dfd43aa001

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Ex-Clinton adviser says there’s ‘good chance’ of 2024 Hillary/Trump rematch

Dick Morris, a onetime top adviser to former President Bill Clinton, says there’s a “good chance” of a 2024 rematch between Hillary Clinton and ex-President Donald Trump.

Morris said Sunday that if Democrats lose control of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will be toast — paving the way for a second Hillary bid, with husband Bill playing an architect to her strategy.

“There’s a good chance of it,” said Morris, referring to a Hillary-Trump rematch, to John Catsimatidis on the radio host’s WABC show.

“Hillary has set up a brilliant strategy that nobody else is able to do,” Morris added. “Knowing the people around her, I believe there is only one person capable of that level of thinking — and that’s her husband, Bill.

“The second the election is over … every Democrat is going to take a shot at Biden and Harris. They will be DOA,” Morris said.

Meanwhile, at a time when no Democrats are publicly criticizing Biden, Clinton has been warning her party about aligning itself with the policies of progressive Democrats.

​”She has set up a zero-sum game where the worse [Biden] does, the better she does, because she’s positioned herself as the Democratic alternative to Biden. Not just to Biden, but to the extreme left in the Democratic Party,” Morris said.

“The person who staked out the turf first and owns the turf in the Democratic Party is going to be Hillary. It’s a brilliant, brilliant strategy​,” Morris said.​

In an interview with MSNBC, Hillary, the former secretary of state in the Obama administration, cautioned Democrats to take time for “some careful thinking” about winning elections, “not just in deep-blue districts where a Democrat and a liberal Democrat, or so-called progressive Democrat, is going to win.”

Morris said, “She was right about that.

“She staked out a ground, not on ideological issues, but on pragmatism.”

https://nypost.com/2022/01/16/dick-morris-2024-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-rematch-is-likely/

‘Red-Handed’ Contains 1,093 Endnotes, No Unnamed Sources

The soon-to-be-released bombshell book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win by nonpartisan investigative bestselling author Peter Schweizer contains 1,093 endnotes totaling 81 pages of source material, Breitbart News has learned.

Furthermore, the highly anticipated book relies on zero unnamed sources, making its findings—which Sean Hannity said are “going to be massive”—easier for federal law enforcement and U.S. intelligence services to track down. Indeed, Schweizer’s bestselling book Clinton Cash sparked an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

Schweizer, who is the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a Breitbart News senior contributor, spent over a year conducting the research for Red-Handed with his team of forensic investigators, according to publishing giant HarperCollins.

Although the book remains under a strict embargo, the publisher states that the six-time New York Times bestselling author and his team scoured “a massive trove of global corporate records and legal filings to uncover the hidden transactions China’s enablers hoped would never see the light of day.”

Last week, Schweizer, who is also the host of the DrillDown podcast, stated that the revelations in Red-Handed are the “scariest” of his quarter-century career as an investigative journalist.

Former congressman Jason Chaffetz, a distinguished GAI fellow, tweeted: “Exposed. @peterschweizer does the best research. There are going to be some people who won’t want this published.”

Schweizer’s track record investigating both Republicans and Democrats is well-established, winning him a unique mix of bipartisan praise for his investigative work from both the left and the right. After the release of Clinton Cash, liberal columnist Eleanor Clift called Schweizer “an equal-opportunity investigator, snaring Republicans as well as Democrats.” Clift added: “It’s a mistake for the Clinton campaign to write off conservative author Peter Schweizer as a right-wing hack. It won’t work, and it’s not true.” Similarly, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessing wrote that “on any fair reading, the pattern of behavior that Schweizer has charged is corruption.”

On the right, Schweizer has also won praise, including from conservative radio and TV host Mark Levin who said Schweizer should receive the Medal of Freedom for his excellence in journalism. In January of 2021, Rush Limbaugh called Schweizer “a renowned investigator” who “has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Bidens.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/16/red-handed-contains-1093-endnotes-no-unnamed-sources/

‘Give a damn about someone other than yourself’: NSW Health Minister blasts the unvaxxed as Omicron surge leaves hospital staff ‘exhausted’

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has unleashed on the unvaccinated begging them to “give a damn about someone other than yourself" as the Omicron variant continues to put hospitals under pressure.

As the Omicron variant continues to put hospitals under strain, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has blasted the unvaccinated asking them to “give a damn about someone other than yourself".

Mr Hazzard made the comments during a COVID-19 update press conference on Monday, pointing out the pressure unvaccinated people are placing on "exhausted" hospital staff.

“The latest data from NSW Health shows that in this Omicron wave, if you are not fully vaccinated, you are six times more likely to end up in hospital and 13 times more likely to end up in ICU," he said.

As the Omicron variant continues to put hospitals under strain, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has blasted the unvaccinated asking them to “give a damn about someone other than yourself".

Mr Hazzard made the comments during a COVID-19 update press conference on Monday, pointing out the pressure unvaccinated people are placing on "exhausted" hospital staff.

“The latest data from NSW Health shows that in this Omicron wave, if you are not fully vaccinated, you are six times more likely to end up in hospital and 13 times more likely to end up in ICU," he said.

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“That means you are requiring the assistance of the health staff who are already exhausted,” he said.

Mr Hazzard also said those who had chosen to remain unvaccinated were placing themselves over the community.

“Can I just say to those people who have chosen not to get vaccinated - it's time to give a damn about someone other than yourself.

“Give a damn about your community, your family and most particularly, the health staff across New South Wales who you expect to be looking after you, if and when, you end up in our hospital system. Thank you.”

As the Omicron variant continues to put hospitals under strain, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has blasted the unvaccinated asking them to “give a damn about someone other than yourself".

Mr Hazzard made the comments during a COVID-19 update press conference on Monday, pointing out the pressure unvaccinated people are placing on "exhausted" hospital staff.

“The latest data from NSW Health shows that in this Omicron wave, if you are not fully vaccinated, you are six times more likely to end up in hospital and 13 times more likely to end up in ICU," he said.

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“That means you are requiring the assistance of the health staff who are already exhausted,” he said.

Mr Hazzard also said those who had chosen to remain unvaccinated were placing themselves over the community.

“Can I just say to those people who have chosen not to get vaccinated - it's time to give a damn about someone other than yourself.

“Give a damn about your community, your family and most particularly, the health staff across New South Wales who you expect to be looking after you, if and when, you end up in our hospital system. Thank you.”

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Dr Lucy Morgan, a lung specialist, also spoke at the press conference about the strain being placed on the hospital system by the almost two-year long pandemic.

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At Arizona rally, Trump stirs racial tensions, repeats claim of stolen election

Former US president falsely claims white people being denied vaccines, sent to back of line for therapeutics; indicates he won’t endorse candidates who accept 2020 results

Donald Trump rallied his faithful in Arizona on Saturday, rehashing yet again his unfounded claims that the US presidential election was stolen from him, and stirring racial tensions.

After abandoning a pledged press conference on January 6 — the anniversary of the invasion of the Capitol by his supporters — the defeated former president was back in front of a sympathetic crowd for the first time since October.

At the rally in Florence, a rural area outside Phoenix, Trump seeded racial resentments in remarks that twisted the facts on public-health policy and exaggerated the effects of racially conscious antiviral treatment guidelines in New York, falsely claiming that public health authorities are denying the COVID-19 vaccine to white people because of their race.

“The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating … white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics. … In New York state, if you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health,” Trump said.

There has been no evidence that white people are being excluded from vaccines, of which there is a plentiful supply. And there is no evidence they are being sent to the “back of the line” for COVID-19 care as a matter of public health policy.

Trump’s words distorted a New York policy that allows for race to be one consideration when dispensing oral antiviral treatments, which are in limited supply. The policy attempts to steer those treatments to people at the most risk of severe disease from the coronavirus.

It says that nonwhite race or Hispanic ethnicity “should be considered a risk factor” because long-standing health and social inequities make people of color more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus.

Trump extrapolated from that to assert wrongly that white people are being forced to “the back of the line” for health care and being shut out both from vaccines and therapeutics.

Michael Lanza, a New York City Health Department spokesman, told the New York Post that race is not used to deny treatment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found late last year that Black, Hispanic and Indigenous people were about twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than non-Hispanic whites and were notably more likely to be hospitalized. An earlier Associated Press analysis of the pandemic’s first waves found that COVID-19 was taking a disproportionately heavy toll on Black and Hispanic people.

CDC research in October reported that people in certain ethnic and racial minority groups were dying from COVID-19 at younger ages and a report from the institution Friday said minorities are less likely to receive outpatient antiviral treatment than whites.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-arizona-rally-trump-stirs-racial-tensions-repeats-claim-of-stolen-election/