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Google Losing the Match: Will Shut Down ‘Stadia’ Gaming Service
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/09/30/google-losing-the-match-will-shut-down-stadia-gaming-service/
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Defiant, Stands By 2020 Fraud Concerns
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Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, reiterated her concerns about 2020 election fraud during an appearance before the Jan. 6 committee.
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Thomas answered questions from the committee for 3 1/2 hours.
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“She answered all the Committee’s questions. As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas had significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election. And, as she told the Committee, her minimal and mainstream activity focused on ensuring that reports of fraud and irregularities were investigated,” Thomas’s attorney Mark Paoletta said.
https://offthepress.com/update-ginni-thomas-defiant-stands-by-2020-fraud-concerns/
https://twitter.com/james_levinson/status/1575480134441865216
Book reveals secret meeting between Adam Schiff's aides and Ukraine whistleblower attorney
Claims by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) that he had no contact with the intelligence community whistleblower at the center of the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump are disputed in a new book. In Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump, authors Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian reveal a meeting between the whistleblower’s attorney, Andrew Bakaj, and lawyers working for the House Select Committee on Intelligence. This occurred in the run-up to the fall 2019 launch of an impeachment inquiry into Trump over allegations he demanded Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to initiate corruption investigations into now-President Joe Biden in exchange for U.S. military aid already promised to Kyiv. Schiff was, and is, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. Lawyers working for the committee who met with Bakaj, the attorney representing the person who filed a whistleblower complaint with the intelligence community inspector general detailing Trump's demands (made during a July 25, 2019, telephone conversation with Zelensky), reported directly to Schiff. That Sept. 9, 2019, meeting occurred prior to revelations about the phone call surfacing in the press and got underway before the whistleblower complaint had been forwarded to Congress, lending some credence to Republican charges, made during the impeachment inquiry, that the California Democrat was secretly coordinating with the whistleblower from the very beginning. From an excerpt of Unchecked (publishing Oct. 18 by William Morrow) shared with the Washington Examiner, here is how Bade, a reporter for Politico, and Demirjian, a reporter for the Washington Post, set the scene for the key meeting between Bakaj and Schiff’s committee lawyers, plus his chief investigator Dan Goldman, now the Democratic nominee in New York’s 10th Congressional District: “Andrew Bakaj was known around Washington for representing government employees calling foul on sensitive national security matters. So when he reached out to Schiff’s Intelligence panel on Sunday, September 8, asking to discuss something sensitive in person, Schiff’s counsels promptly agreed. The following afternoon, panel counsel Maher Bitar escorted Bakaj down three flights of stairs to a conference room in the committee’s secure chambers, where Dan Goldman, Schiff’s investigations director, and another panel lawyer were waiting.” Under federal law, Bakaj was not yet, at the time of this meeting, permitted to reveal specifics of his client’s whistleblower complaint to Schiff’s staff. But according to Bade and Demirjian, Bakaj, an experienced attorney, provided enough “breadcrumbs” to make clear the incident and players involved. That might have been because this was not the first time Schiff’s underlings on the committee, and therefore, presumably, the panel chairman himself, got wind of the Trump-Zelensky call.
Before Bakaj trekked to Capitol Hill to meet with Schiff's staff on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, there had been another meeting, reported by the New York Times in October 2019 and recounted by Bade and Demirjian in Unchecked; “In late July, a CIA official who had previously been detailed to the White House approached an old colleague of his, who was working as a lawyer for Adam Schiff on the House Intelligence Committee. Because they were off-campus, their meeting had the air of a social visit, but the CIA official had very serious matters of state on his mind. He was worried that Trump — along with [former New York Mayor Rudy] Giuliani — had tried to solicit election interference from the president of Ukraine during a phone call that had taken place just days before. “The official had not listened to the call himself but had heard enough alarming details from others to feel compelled to do something. Without sharing those details, he asked Schiff’s lawyer for advice on what he should do.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/secret-meeting-adam-schiff-aides-ukraine-whistleblower-attorney
The Log Cabin 38: The conservative gay lobby’s top 2022 picks
The Log Cabin Republicans, the national Republican LGBT lobby, has endorsed 38 candidates in the congressional midterm elections — outing, so to speak, GOP supporters of wider diversity.
Leading the pack are Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Just this week, they added a handful more, including Alaska’s Sarah Palin, who is running for the state’s lone House seat.
“Our candidates not only possess the tenacity and resolve to retake majorities in both the U.S. House and Senate, but they also have the expertise to put an end to the detrimental policies of the Biden administration,” said the group’s president, Charles T. Moran.
“While each of our candidates are unique in their stories, experiences, and skills, they stand united in the desire to support pro-business policies that encourage economic growth, protect individual liberties, and end the devastating single-party rule in Washington,” he added.
These are the candidates the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed:
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (AK at-large)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Senate candidate for Alaska)
Kelly Cooper (AZ-4)
John Dennis (CA-11)
Rep. Ken Calvert (CA-41)
Jayme Stevenson (CT-4)
George Logan (CT-5)
Rep. Kat Cammack (FL-3)
Christian Zimm (GA-5)
Joe Akana (HI-2)
Rep. Ashley Hinson (IA-2)
Keith Pekau (IL-6)
Regan Deering (IL-13)
Jeffrey Sossa-Paquette (MA-2)
Bob May (MA-06)
Ed Thelander (ME-1)
Tyler Kistner (MN-2)
Cicely Davis (MN-5)
Tim Baxter (NH-1)
Bob Healey (NJ-3)
Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-7)
Alexis Martinez Johnson (NM-3)
Adam Laxalt (Senate Candidate for Nevada)
Mark Robertson (NV-1)
Sam Peters (NV-4)
Nick LaLota (NY-1)
Rep. Andrew Garbarino (NY-2)
Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Colin Schmitt (NY-18)
Alek Skarlatos (OR-4)
Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-5)
Christian Nascimento (PA-4)
Dave Galluch (PA-5)
Lisa Scheller (PA-7)
Jeremy Shaffer (PA-17)
Allan Fung (RI-2)
James Rodgers (TX-30)
Christina Nolan (Senate candidate for Vermont)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/the-log-cabin-38-gay-lobbys-top-2022-picks
https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/1575195188469071872
Ukraine formally applies for fast-track NATO membership
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg shies away from directly endorsing Ukraine’s bid, but stresses alliance is open to new members.
Ukraine on Friday formally requested an “accelerated accession” to join NATO, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced — a response to Russia formally annexing four Ukrainian regions. “We trust each other, we help each other and we protect each other. This is what the Alliance is. De facto. Today, Ukraine is applying to make it de jure,” Zelenskyy said during a video address. The move was intended to draw attention away from Vladimir Putin’s elaborately staged speech earlier in the day, in which he announced the annexations to an audience seated under gilded chandeliers. But there wasn’t any indication that Ukraine’s request would advance its membership hopes, which have been in limbo for years. The prospect of Ukraine joining NATO has long fueled frustration for Moscow, which regularly rails against the military alliance’s eastward expansion in recent decades.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday evening reiterated the alliance’s unchanging position that it is open to new members but shied away from directly endorsing Ukraine’s bid. “Every democracy in Europe has the right to apply for NATO membership and NATO allies respect that right, and we have stated again and again that NATO’s door remains open,” Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels. He added that NATO members recently affirmed at a summit in Madrid that they “support Ukraine’s right to choose its own path, to decide what kind of security arrangements it wants to be part of.” Stoltenberg was direct, however, that the alliance’s immediate focus is on the war. “A decision on membership, of course, has to be taken by all 30 allies and we take these decisions by consensus,” he said. “Our focus now,” he added, “is on providing immediate support to Ukraine, to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian brutal invasion.” NATO allies in 2008 pledged that Ukraine would eventually become an alliance member. But as that process stalled over the years, it seemed increasingly unlikely that Ukraine’s bid would become a reality. But Russia’s war has upended the geopolitical landscape, reopening the question of Ukraine’s possible membership. In recent months, NATO has also welcomed the application of two other new members in Europe — Finland and Sweden. Before Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Moscow requested binding guarantees from Kyiv not to join the U.S.-led security alliance, and used this as a pretext for launching the invasion. Zelenskyy’s announcement came mere hours after Putin, in his speech, vowed to use all the powers at his disposal to defend the four Ukrainian he annexed following hastily organized sham referendums in each. European countries condemned the votes as a pretext to further “violate” Ukraine’s sovereignty. During his address, Putin called upon Kyiv to cease military action and said Moscow was open to negotiations, although Ukraine has long insisted that it will not stop fighting until Russian forces entirely leave the country. Zelenskyy responded in his own address, saying that while Ukraine was open to negotiations, such talks were “impossible” with Putin, and would have to be with another Russian president. In his comments on Friday, NATO’s Stoltenberg warned that Putin’s mobilization of fresh troops, his “nuclear saber-rattling” and illegal annexation represent “the most serious escalation since the start of the war.”
But, the NATO chief said, “none of this shows strength — it shows weakness.” “It is an admission,” Stoltenberg said, “that the war is not going to plan and that Putin has utterly failed in his strategic objectives.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-formal-application-join-nato/
This is a panic move anon. No Nordstream? Leverage lost? Enjoy the show.
Navy recruit is found NOT GUILTY of 2020 arson that gutted USS Bonhomme Richard - as it's revealed there was a SECOND suspect who was kicked out of service
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Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays was found not guilty of setting the fire that destroyed USS Bonhomme Richard in July 2020
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Prosecutors failed to present enough evidence which tied Mays to the arson
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The ship burned for more than four days and caused an estimated $1.2 billion in damages
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Mays' defense introduced information that the Navy had another suspect they gave up on after the sailor was kicked out of the service
A 21-year-old Navy recruit was found not guilty of arson in the fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard in July 2020. Captain Derek Butler ruled that the prosecution against Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays did not present enough hard evidence connecting Mays to the arson. Butler added that the evidence presented was primarily circumstantial, according to a CBS8 report. Mays' defense added new information to the trial which indicated the Navy had another suspect they were previously investigating. The investigation was then dropped after the sailor was kicked out of the service. The prosecution's initial argument against Mays, who was 19 at the time, is that Mays was acting out of revenge for having failed to become a Navy SEAL. The fire, which led the Navy to scrap the vessel entirely, burned for four days and caused an estimated $1.2 billion in damages. 'I am so grateful that this is finally over, it has been a long two years,' Mays said. 'I've been waiting a long time. I can say that the past two years have been the hardest two years of my entire life as a young man.'
Mays was presented as the prime suspect after testimony from one sailor who said they saw Mays walking toward the source of the fire minutes before it began. In the prosecution's closing arguments, they added the blaze was 'a mischievous act performed by a disgruntled sailor aimed at proving a point.' Prosecutor Capt. Jason Jones alleges Mays ignited cardboard boxes the morning of the fire in a lower vehicle storage area on the ship. This was done to reinforce a text Mays had sent earlier to his division officer that the area of the ship was so cluttered that it was 'hazardous as (expletive).' The prosecution continued, despite having primarily circumstantial evidence, by citing Mays had motive, opportunity and ability to commit arson. For Mays's defense, his team argued the prosecution was biased. Use of the eyewitness was arbitrary as they reportedly changed their story several times and admitted they felt 'pressured' in naming a suspect. Additionally, Capt. Jones acknowledged the fire was both preventable and unacceptable while saying there were lapses in training and fire preparedness. Failure to contain the fire led to temperatures exceeding 1,200 degrees which melted portions of the ship.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11267683/Navy-recruit-not-guilty-arson-setting-USS-Bonhomme-Richard-fire.html
https://twitter.com/JasonSlossFOX5/status/1575892311023575047
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Federal Reserve announces major ‘pilot exercise’ for ESG social credit score system
"Climate finance" is almost identical to that of the Chinese Communist Party's social credit score system.
The Federal Reserve has taken a major step in the direction of facilitating an ESG compliant monetary network that effectively acts as a parallel system to that of the Chinese Communist Party’s infamous social credit scoring system. The Fed said in a statement Thursday: “Six of the nation's largest banks will participate in a pilot climate scenario analysis exercise designed to enhance the ability of supervisors and firms to measure and manage climate-related financial risks. Scenario analysis—in which the resilience of financial institutions is assessed under different hypothetical climate scenarios—is an emerging tool to assess climate-related financial risks, and there will be no capital or supervisory implications from the pilot.” In other words, The Fed is working with the big banks to monitor their ability to comply with the ruling class’s preferred enviro statist technocratic tyranny. The unaccountable people behind the American money printer claim that this exercise is “exploratory in nature and does not have capital consequences.” The statement adds that the “scenario analysis can assist firms and supervisors in understanding how climate-related financial risks may manifest and differ from historical experience.”
What exactly does this mean?
The Fed is clearly leaning in to the climate hoax narrative, or the pseudoscientific idea that humans are catastrophically impacting the climate, but not because they somehow care about the environment. The climate narrative is the chief rhetorical facilitator for the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) movement. ESG acts as a trojan horse for the continuing centralization of the American financial system. ESG finance, popularized by hyper political asset management behemoths like BlackRock and Vanguard, acts to prevent outsiders from challenging the regime-connected insiders on Wall Street and in Washington, under the guise of acting to manifest a healthier planet. In other words, pro-ESG institutions are committed to attacking free market principles by means of deception, preferring the CCP-style “stakeholder capitalism” that allows for a small group of technocratic elites to make broad determinations about society. Unsurprisingly, the legacy media has thus far cheered The Fed’s plan, with The New York Times reporting “that it often lagged behind its global peers when it comes to talking about and coming up with a plan for policing risks related to climate change.” The ESG “green transition,” frequently popularized by powerful world governments and the Davos elite, has served as the main vehicle for this movement. Akin to the Chinese social credit score, which is used to coerce businesses, and, by extension, individuals, into specific actions, ESG rules force individuals and businesses in America to deploy capital through the gatekeepers of the system. The Federal Reserve statement continues: “By considering a range of possible future climate pathways and associated economic and financial developments, scenario analysis can assist firms and supervisors in understanding how climate-related financial risks may manifest and differ from historical experience.” The banks involved in this pilot program are Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo. Of course, it’s just a scenario, until it’s not. The Fed pilot program is set to launch in early 2023.
https://dossier.substack.com/p/federal-reserve-announces-major-pilot?
https://twitter.com/SominiSengupta/status/1575527568689827843
If a Town has a Taco Bell, Walmart, Target and McDonalds in it, what does that say about the town residents? Take responsibility.