One-Third Of Ukraine's Power Stations Destroyed As WHO Warns Of "Brutal" Winter Ahead

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Tuesday that up to one-third of all power stations have been attacked by Russian missile and drone strikes over the past week, causing "massive blackouts across the country."

He called these ongoing strikes against energy infrastructure "terrorist attacks" and said this means there's "No space left for negotiations with Putin’s regime," according a tweet.

For more than a week Russia has stepped up an aerial bombardment campaign against dozens of cities and towns which has included widespread use of suicide drones. Ukraine and its Western backers suspect these are Iranian-made drones, cause the EU to threaten new sanctions against Tehran on Tuesday.

Zelensky said in a separate social media post that Russian forces act "insidiously – kills civilians, hits housing, infrastructure," according to a Telegram statement. "Due to the Russian missile terror in some cities and regions of Ukraine, energy workers have to limit the supply of electricity so that the entire system works stably."

The Hill on Tuesday wrote of some the latest strikes, "The city of Zhytomyr, which is west of the capital Kyiv, lost power after a double missile strike targeted an energy facility on Tuesday." The report observed further that "In Kyiv, missile strikes damaged two power facilities and on Monday the city was bombarded by waves of exploding suicide drones."

Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, which sits near the Russian border, was also hit in a major attack on its energy infrastructure. This has threatened the power grid in a city with a pre-war population of nearly 1.5 million. Reuters has called it a "deliberate campaign to destroy electricity and water facilities before winter."

The two Russian regions of Belgorod and Kursk have meanwhile said their populations have been terrorized by shelling attacks from the Ukrainian side of the border. "Train traffic in the Belgorod region was temporarily brought to a halt after shelling struck a railway station and damaged the railroad tracks, the region’s Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on his official Telegram channel," The Moscow Times reports.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/one-third-ukraines-power-stations-destroyed-who-warns-brutal-winter-coming

Texas Officials Seize Over 336 Million ‘Lethal Doses’ of Fentanyl Since March, Enough to Kill Everyone in US

Law enforcement officers in Texas have seized over 342 million lethal doses of fentanyl since March 2021 as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star,” according to his office.

Abbott, a Republican, said in a press release on Monday that the millions of lethal doses are enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States.

The giant seizure of drugs comes as Texas is battling with a chronic border crisis, which Abbott has largely blamed on the Biden administration’s lax immigration policies.

Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. As little as two milligrams is potentially enough to be lethal.

An increasing number of Mexican cartels have been importing fentanyl from China before pressing it into pills or mixing it into other counterfeit pills made to look like Xanax, Adderall, or oxycodone. The drugs are then sold to unaware buyers in the United States.

“Fentanyl remains the single deadliest drug threat our state and nation has ever encountered, killing four Texans every day,” said Abbott in a statement on Monday. “Fentanyl is a clandestine killer, with Mexican drug cartels strategically manufacturing and distributing the drug disguised as painkillers, stimulants, anti-anxiety drugs, and even candy.”

https://www.ntd.com/texas-officials-seize-over-336-million-lethal-doses-of-fentanyl-since-march-enough-to-kill-everyone-in-us_857824.html

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-launches-one-pill-kills-statewide-campaign

The CIA’s hypocrisy on ‘sources and methods

The Agency’s carelessness in protecting its own agents reveals the cynicism of the US government’s treatment of whistleblowers.

Reuters recently published new reporting on the story of one of the worst U.S. intelligence failures in decades. From approximately 2010 to 2013, dozens of CIA informants in China, Iran, and elsewhere were rounded up and executed, jailed, or flipped to double agents. In Iran and China, almost the entirety of the CIA’s network in two of its top-priority countries are reported to have been exposed.

Some in the U.S. government seemed to try to pin much of the blame on a betrayal by CIA officer Jerry Lee, who was later prosecuted and pleaded guilty to spying on behalf of the Chinese government. But Lee’s alleged espionage could not account for all the sources blown.

In a series of articles published by the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Yahoo! News, another explanation emerged: an astonishing laxity of source protection at the CIA itself. The reporting outlined several lapses in basic tradecraft (which included sending new recruits to meet at locations known to be under close foreign surveillance), but most catastrophic was the (not so) secret communications system the CIA used with these sources. Even if there had not been a mole, it seems hard to believe that the slapdash system could have long evaded the sophisticated counter-intelligence capabilities of the Chinese and Iranian governments.

Essentially, the CIA had set up a system to embed a messaging function hidden in the search box of hundreds of cheaply produced fake websites. The word “hidden” should be used loosely here — the new Reuters reporting found more than three hundred of the sites and showed that a cursory look at their publicly available HTML source code revealed labels such as “message,” “compose,” and “password.” And because the agency purchased the domain names in bulk, the websites were assigned sequential IP addresses — making it almost trivially easy to identify the whole network once a few were discovered.

In other words, simply entering the correct operators into a Google search might have led to dozens of informants rounded up and executed. This level of sloppiness is deeply shocking and inexcusable for a spy service with the resources and expertise available to the CIA. But there are additional layers of hypocrisy and bitter irony that have been less discussed.

This episode coincided with the Department of Justice ramping up its war on whistleblowers. The government used “sources and methods” as a cudgel in these unprecedented Espionage Act prosecutions: they claimed to assign the gravest weight to the protection of sources — so much so that no concern of public interest, no matter how great, could ever be weighed against the secrecy. But those sources were treated as utterly disposable: the agency couldn’t even be bothered to obscure the HTML on its communications system.

In a pattern common to the intelligence community’s most catastrophic self-owns, no one seems to have yet been held accountable. Well, except one person. As you may have guessed, there was a whistleblower. In 2008, a CIA contractor named John Reidy started sounding the alarm through internal channels that these grave flaws in the system were a ticking time bomb. Reidy was fired in retaliation, and his complaint to the Inspector General went uninvestigated until well after dozens of informants had already been jailed or killed. As Reidy tried to fight the retaliation, the government even prohibited him from telling his own attorney anything about the nature of his disclosures.

At the same time when the CIA’s carelessness was burning its own assets, it became fashionable for the critics of whistleblowers who went public to condemn them for not sticking to “internal channels.” Those channels didn’t do much for John Reidy, or for the scores of intelligence sources he tried to save.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/18/the-cias-hypocrisy-on-sources-and-methods%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC/

5 Big Election Fraud Stories Breaking Just Before The 2022 Midterms

#1 — Why are election officials in Delaware County (PA) illegally mailing out ballots for the 2022 midterms before the logic and accuracy tests have started?

"They Will Steal The Midterms"

Thanks to the authors of The Parallel Election for sending me the following information about election fraud being prepared for the 2022 mid-terms in Delaware County, PA. First, read this announcement…

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#2 — How come a Dominion Voting machine “error code” that was found in Tennessee’s machines was also found in 97% of the counties in Georgia?

The State of Tennessee, the EAC, and the two accredited entities that test voting machines, Pro V&V and SLI Compliance, investigated the anomaly and were able to repeat the problem but were not able to determine the root cause of the anomaly.

Bombshell Dominion 'Error Code' Uncovered in 97% of Georgia Counties

In a podcast episode released last week Thursday, David Cross and Kevin Moncla of the Election Oversight Group reveal that open records request from 64 of 66 Georgia counties show the same security error “QR code signature mismatch” and warning message…

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#3 — Why did Fulton County (PA) file a lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems for breach of contract last month?

Fulton County has made a very simple and very effective argument: if the Halderman Declaration is accurate — and neither the federal government’s own cybersecurity agency nor Dominion Voting Systems have claimed otherwise — then Dominion Voting Systems could not have delivered properly certified machines according to the contract.

Fulton County Sues Dominion Voting Systems!

On September 20th, Fulton County (PA) filed a lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems for breach of contract and breach of warrant. Need I tell you, dear reader, that America’s corrupt corporate media ignored this landmark lawsuit? Here’s page 13 of Fulton County’s 29-page lawsuit …

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#4 — Why did the FBI try to hide that a Chinese CEO of an election software company in America was breaking the law?

FBI Conceals Chinese Infiltration of U.S. Election Software

In a live chat released on Monday, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips appeared together on “truethevote.locals.com” to discuss their 15-month involvement with what was characterized to them as a “counter-intelligence operation” with the Federal Bureau of Investigation into American election company Konnech Inc…

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5 — How is it possible that a well known cyber security expert identified “a critical privacy flaw in the election infrastructure sold by Dominion Voting Systems” in the United States just this week?

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/83637/5-big-election-fraud-stories-breaking-just-before-the-2022.html

This is the tale of the epic conspiracy and effort the political Left and their Trump-hating friends on the Right put into hiding Hunter’s laptop.

Hiding Hunter’s Laptop

The American public was subjected to a campaign right out of the Soviet playbook designed to obfuscate the Biden family corruption.

Near the end of the 2020 presidential campaign there was an October Surprise. A shocking and provocative story that could potentially alter the outcome. That was, of course, Hunter Biden’s laptop.

This report shows the full extent of a successful censorship and disinformation campaign by the Left that directly influenced the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

In the final months of the 2020 race an amazing revelation of corruption and actual crimes by Hunter and Joe Biden came to light. The New York Post ran an exposé of emails from a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop. They showed evidence the Bidens were involved in taking money from foreign entities and providing access to the U.S. government.

At a minimum, these are likely felony violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and perhaps also the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

Joe Biden was the Democratic candidate and the entire country was about to decide whether he was suitable to serve as president. This story was highly relevant for citizens trying to make an informed voting decision. Voters were denied the opportunity to see and evaluate this information. Worse yet, they were subjected to a calculated disinformation campaign designed to discredit it.

This project has identified the conspirators, their strategy, their actions, and the chilling effect they had on our representative democracy. Sadly, this is not an isolated incident. It is a perfect example of the tilted playing field for ideas the Left has created. Our goal is to shine so bright a light on their actions they will not be able to do this again.

The Usual Suspects

This operation was run by the same people who control information flow to the vast majority of the American people.

The conspirators were:

Corporate Media

Tech Tyrants

The deep state

The political Left

These groups wanted to save a weak candidate from the probable defeat to which the evidence contained on that laptop would lead. They had zero regard for the truth, ethics, or the law. They were going to stop Trump by any means necessary, and they did.

Uncle Joe was supposed to be the antidote for Trumpism, the smiling storyteller who wouldn’t cause any trouble. But that carefully crafted fiction would crumble if his involvement in selling out his country to enrich his own family was exposed.

That meant the story had to be covered up, and the Left jumped into action to do so in the fashion Dave Burge noted on Twitter.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/hiding-hunters-laptop/

https://amgreatness.com/2022/10/14/hiding-hunters-laptop/

Ex-RAF jet pilots offered £250,000 to train up Chinese armed forces

British defence intelligence has issued a rare ‘threat alert’ warning after former RAF pilots are being drafted in to train up Chinese troops.

Up to 30 pilots have secured annual salaries of £250,000 to teach Western flying procedures, the BBC reports.

There is nothing the Armed Forces can do to prevent this due to a legal loophole which allows third-party head hunters to recruit the former pilots.

Other top Royal Air Force pilots have been approached by people acting on behalf of the People’s Liberation Army, but so far they have declined the offers.

Fast-jet pilots from Australia and Canada have also been lured to China on huge contracts.

Armed forces minister James Heappey hit out at the move on Sky News this morning, and said the government would seek to change the law to punish military pilots who take part.

He said: ‘We’ve approached the people involved and have been clear of them that it’s our expectation they would not continue to be part of that organisation.

‘We are going to put into law that once people have been given that warning it will become an offence to go forward and continue with that training.

‘China is a competitor that is threatening the UK interest in many places around the world.

‘It is also an important training partner but there is no secret in their attempt to gain access to our secrets, and their recruitment of our pilots in order to understand the capabilities of our air force is clearly a concern to us and the intelligence part of the MoD.’

The practice of headhunting ex-RAF pilots started in 2019 and then was slowed down during the pandemic.

Once coronavirus restrictions were lifted the recruitment effort was ramped up once again.

China is using third-party head hunters, including a company based in South Africa, to target personnel because direct approaches would be intercepted by the security services.

This includes a a private flying academy in South Africa called the Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA).

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/18/ex-raf-pilots-are-drafted-in-to-train-up-chinese-military-17583785/

Senate Looks to Give Taiwan $10 Billion in Military Aid

The funds will be included in the Senate version of the 2023 NDAA

The Senate’s version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will include $10 billion in military aid for Taiwan, Defense News reported on Monday.

The $10 billion would be given to Taiwan over five years in the form of Foreign Military Financing (FMF), a State Department program that gives foreign governments money to purchase US weapons.

However, Taiwan will be able to use $300 million of the FMF each year to purchase military equipment from its own industrial base, a privilege only currently enjoyed by Israel. Other FMF recipients need waivers to use the funds to purchase arms that don’t come from the US.

The $10 billion is a massive increase from the $4.5 billion initially proposed by Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in a piece of legislation known as the Taiwan Policy Act. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee brought the military aid up to $6.5 billion when it advanced the bill in September.

But the senators have decided to include the military aid portion of the Taiwan Policy Act in the NDAA, which was boosted to $10 billion in a bipartisan amendment added to the military spending bill by Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI).

The Taiwan Policy Act would also boost diplomatic ties with Taiwan, requires sanctions in the event of Chinese aggression, and give Taiwan the benefits of being a major non-NATO ally. But those aspects of the bill were not included in the NDAA amendment.

The Senate is expected to vote on the NDAA when Congress returns to Washington after mid-term elections in November. Once approved, the House and Senate will need to negotiate the final version that will head to President Biden’s desk.

The Senate’s effort to give Taiwan a massive amount of military aid comes as tensions are soaring between the US and China over the island. China’s unprecedented military drills in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visiting Taiwan and its rhetoric over the issue make it clear that more US support for Taiwan will only make a conflict in the region more likely.

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/10/17/senate-looks-to-give-taiwan-10-billion-in-military-aid/

Smotrich launches bid to neuter judiciary, potentially halt ally Netanyahu’s trial

Religious Zionism leader’s legal reforms would abolish offense of ‘fraud and breach of trust,’ let MKs ignore court rulings on laws, give gov’t control over selection of judges

Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich unveiled a program of radical, far-reaching legal reforms on Tuesday which, if enacted, would drastically reduce judicial authority and could lead to the termination of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal trial.

Smotrich said that acceptance of his proposals would be a precondition for his far-right party joining a future coalition following the November 1 elections.

The proposed changes to the legal system would also hobble the ability of the High Court of Justice to strike down Knesset legislation if it contravenes one of Israel’s Basic Laws, and give the government control over the appointment of all judges, including those for the High Court.

Smotrich, whose party is polling at around 13-14 seats, which will likely make it the country’s third-largest party, claimed the reforms would strengthen Israel’s Jewish and democratic character.

Critics denounced the proposals, with Prime Minister Yair Lapid alleging they emanated from Netanyahu who, he said, “has decided to destroy the legal system and the rule of law in Israel.”

Said Lapid: “If this gang gets into power, they’ll make every effort to destroy Israeli democracy, to cancel all the authority of the courts, to destroy the separation of powers in Israel. They don’t even bother to hide this anymore. It’s a deliberate campaign to cancel Netanyahu’s trial, and if they cancel Netanyahu’s trial by using political power that would mean that Israeli democracy is no longer Israeli democracy as we know it. We’re battling against this.”

Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar described the program as “a paradise for government corruption,” and said the reforms marked “the politicization of the legal system” and constituted a ruse to cancel Netanyahu’s trial.

Religious Zionism is part of the so-called Netanyahu bloc, an alliance of right-wing and Orthodox parties seeking to defeat the outgoing coalition parties on November 1.

One of the central demands laid out by Smotrich is to abolish the offense of “fraud and breach of trust,” which the Religious Zionism leader argued enables legal officials to interfere in the political system. Netanyahu is charged with this offense in all three of the cases for which he is currently on trial, along with a bribery charge in one of the cases.

Speaking at a press conference in Kfar Maccabiah on Tuesday afternoon, Smotrich acknowledged that Israeli law as it stands would mean that Netanyahu’s fraud and breach of trust charges would be dropped if that crime were abolished, since changes to the criminal code are immediately applicable, even to ongoing proceedings.

He claimed, however, that a way would be found to ensure Netanyahu’s trial would nevertheless continue, so that the legislation could not be portrayed as a “personal law” designed for Netanyahu’s benefit.

The Likud party said in response to Smotrich’s proposals that they would “not be applied retroactively” and would not affect the legal proceedings against Netanyahu.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-unveils-plan-to-neuter-judicial-authority-potentially-halt-netanyahu-trial/

Biden's family got 'interest-free,' 'forgivable' loan from China, new evidence reveals

2017 business email and new information released by Sen. Chuck Grassley expose Chinese effort to enrich first family.

President Joe Biden has made waves this fall with his plan to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars of student loans, shifting the burden to taxpayers. Five years earlier, his family cashed in on a zero-interest, forgivable loan of its own from an energy company in communist China, according to evidence in the possession of the FBI.

The loan arrangement, confirmed in documents obtained by Just the News and also new information released by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), shows the Chinese energy firm CEFC Beijing International Energy Company Limited understood the transaction would benefit Joe Biden's family (referred to as "BD family" in the emails), but it also was creating heartburn with its own compliance/risk management officers.

The Chinese company's leaders "fully support the framework of establishing the JV (joint venture), based on their trust on BD family," stated a July 26, 2017 email from a CEFC official to Tony Bobulinski, a Hunter Biden business partner at the time. The email was written in part to explain why there had been a delay in getting the money to a firm called SinoHawk associated with the future president's son and brother, Hunter Biden and James Biden, respectively.

"The delay of wire is caused by the details on the JV building, as follows: 1) the positioning and strategy of the JV are not made fully clear to CEFC 2) 5 million is lent to BD family in the 10 million charter capital. How will this 5 million be used (or the 10 million as a whole)? This 5 million loan to BD family is interest-free," the email stated.

"But if the 5 M is used up, should CEFC keep lending more to the family?" the email inquired. "If CEFC lends more, they need to know the interest rate for the subsequent loan(s)."

The CEFC official went on to explain the nebulous transaction was raising worries with the company's compliance officers. "Because of the reasons above, the risk management department of CEFC is showing concerns on the operation of SinoHawk, hence the delay of the wire," CEFC's Raymond Zhao wrote.

You can read the full message here.

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2017-07-26_-11.49-_Latest_update_from_DZ.pdf

At the time of the transaction, Joe Biden had already left the White House as vice president, was a private citizen and was planning for his eventual 2020 presidential run. Bobulinski has said in media interviews that Joe Biden was a silent partner in the Chinese transaction, identified in internal documents as "the big guy" who might get 10% of the deal.

Grassley on Monday released a letter he sent to the FBI that contained a summary of an October 2020 interview Bobulinski gave to the FBI concerning the Chinese loan transaction.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/forgiving-student-loans-bidens-family-got-interest-free-forgivable

Alleged Mossad agents taken to court in Malaysia after botched operation

The abduction attempt of the Gazan man with alleged ties to Hamas occurred in Kuala Lumpur on September 28.

Israel has remained officially silent regarding reports that a team of Mossad agents were captured during a botched operation to kidnap a Hamas operative in Malaysia.

On Tuesday, the first images of the group of 11 suspects — 10 men and one woman — were published as they were brought to the court where they were charged.

"The Israelis wanted to know about his experience in computer application development, Hamas' strength in developing software, members of the Al-Qassam Brigade that he knew and their strengths."

Malaysian New Straits Times source

The botched Mossad operation

The abduction-style capture of the Gazan man, whose ties to Hamas were allegedly subject to a Mossad investigation, occurred in Kuala Lumpur on September 28, according to local press.

Malaysian mercenaries allegedly operating on behalf of the Mossad drove up to two Palestinian nationals, who were reportedly computer programming experts. They dragged one into the vehicle – warning the other to stay away – and drove him to a secretive location, where he was tied up and forced to answer questions via a video call with Israeli agents, the Malaysian New Straits Times reported.

"The Israelis wanted to know about his experience in computer application development, Hamas' strength in developing software, members of the Al-Qassam Brigade that he knew and their strengths," a source told the paper.

Malaysian security forces freed the Palestinian man and arrested the alleged Mossad operatives 24 hours later, as the second alleged victim lodged a report at a Kuala Lumpur police station about 40 minutes after the abduction.

Malaysia and Hamas

On Tuesday, Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said the government would take action if the reports were true.

"We should look into matters [allegations] like this, then we will announce [further action]," he said according to the Straits Times report.

In 2020, a Gazan imam was sentenced to a year in jail for smuggling funds from Malaysian charities to Hamas, and in 2018 a Hamas-affiliated Palestinian engineer from the Gaza Strip was shot dead in Kuala Lumpur in what many suspected was a Mossad assassination.

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-719946

ATTN True the Vote

Perfectly linking a voting technology company currently used in Australia, Canada, and the United States — through Konnech Inc., Eugene Yu, Yulian Network Co., Lin Yu, Red Date Software Co., and Hongzheng Technology Co. — to a Chinese Communist Party election company partnered with China’s largest telecom giants in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, China.

To summarize, Eugene Yu registered the Yulian Network business under his Chinese name Jianwei Yu.

Further to this

The Hongzheng Technology business, an election company partnered with Lenovo, Huawei, China Unicom, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China’s National People’s Congress was registered to Lin Yu.

Huawei paying top dollar for Israeli engineers

Despite its US blacklisting, Huawei's operations in Israel are bigger than ever, employing about 500 researchers in Haifa and Hod Hasharon.

Chinese giant Alibaba may have closed its Israeli R&D center but Huawei really needs Western knowledge and experience, and is also willing to pay for it. Meanwhile, . Ofir Dor In May 2019, the US Department of Commerce put the Chinese telecommunications and technology giant Huawei on a blacklist. US companies or companies that use US technology require a US government license to sell to those that appear on this "Entity List". Along with Huawei, another 68 of its subsidiaries from around the world were put on the list at that time. 46 additional subsidiaries were added to the list in August 2019.

But one name was surprisingly absent from both lists: Huawei's R&D center in Israel, Toga Networks. Staff at Toga's offices in Hod Hasharon and Haifa were also surprised the company was not included, and to this day it is not entirely clear how the Israeli subsidiary managed to avoid this. One explanation offered by employees is that Toga's name, which does not have the word "Huawei" in it, confused the US authorities, but apparently this was not the case. In any case, in August 2020 the grace period ended, and Toga was included on the third round of the list along with other Huawei entities, from Chile to Singapore.

According to former employees, the Israeli subsidiary utilized the period between Huawei’s blacklisting and that of Toga for intensive stocking of testing and development equipment before sanctions would be imposed on it as well. In some cases, according to former employees, the suppliers, which did not want to risk entanglement with the US government, requested statements from Toga managers that the equipment would be used only by Israeli workers at the branch in Israel. Sources close to the R&D center claim there were no such special purchases, and that equipment was purchased only according to project needs.

After being put on the blacklist, Toga was prevented from using popular software like programming tool MATLAB. In its place, Toga employees use open-source alternatives, non-American software, or tools developed by Huawei. In the wake of the sanctions, some employees also left the center, fearing that working for Huawei could harm their future careers, and especially future employment with US companies.

Nonetheless, two years after the listing, Toga’s R&D centers in Israel are bigger than ever, employing about 500 people in 12-14 research groups that are responsible for projects in various areas. As present, while other development centers are scaling back on recruitment, Toga has 55 open positions. And although another Chinese giant, Alibaba, closed its R&D center in Israel last month, it appears that its Israeli development centers are of special importance to Huawei, precisely, perhaps, because of the American sanctions.

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https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-huawei-paying-top-dollar-for-israeli-engineers-1001420781

Raheem J. Kassam

@RaheemKassam

Well, it’s designed to terrify you. Like the O Zone bullshit. Or the oil running out. Or the ice caps literally crashing into your face by 1999. Or something. But of course it’s total horseshit that in 30 years time, no one will have to answer for. But we’ll all be poorer for it.

https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1582428348977799168

Credit Suisse to Pay $495M in U.S. to Settle “Deceitful” Securities

Credit Suisse has agreed to pay US$495 million to settle a case related to the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the U.S., which contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.

New Jersey Attorney General, which announced the settlement on Monday, said the lender made fraudulent and deceitful representations of the risks of the mortgage backed securities from 2006 to 2007 in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

In a 2013 filed lawsuit, the attorney general’s office alleged over $3 billion in damages from the Swiss bank’s involvement.

“This agreement in principle holds Credit Suisse accountable for the loss of billions of dollars that helped put the nation in financial crisis,” said First Assistant Attorney General Lyndsay Ruotolo.

Ruotolo added that the settlement of the decade-long probe and litigation will “provide meaningful financial relief to investors nationwide who were left holding the bag in the fallout from Credit Suisse’s conduct.”

The attorney general's office said the Swiss bank sold the “toxic” mortgage-backed securities to hundreds of institutional investors, including pension funds, hospitals, and charities throughout the U.S. from its offices based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Credit Suisse will neither admit nor deny the state’s allegations as part of the expected settlement.

The lender said on Monday that it was “pleased to have reached an agreement” that allows the bank to resolve its only remaining mortgage-backed securities matter involving claims by a regulator, the largest it encountered.

Prior to Monday’s payout, the Swiss bank settled multiple residential mortgage-backed securities lawsuits with U.S. authorities that played a key role in spiraling the 2008 financial crisis; including a $5 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice in January 2017.

The settlement is the latest legal woe to hit one of Switzerland’s biggest bank’s reputation after a turbulent summer.

Credit Suisse was fined over $20 million in June by a Swiss court for failing to prevent a Bulgarian crime ring from laundering money related to cocaine trafficking, and in July its CEO Thomas Gottstein resigned after two and a half years on the job.

The secretive bank and its clients have also been the center of attention following a leak of documents in February, which lead to the Suisse Secrets investigative series OCCRP was part of.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16907-credit-suisse-to-pay-495m-in-u-s-to-settle-deceitful-securities

Lafarge Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations

In Justice Department’s First Corporate Material Support for Terrorism Prosecution, Lafarge S.A. and its Syrian Subsidiary Admit Revenue-Sharing Agreement with ISIS and Agree to Pay $778 Million in Fines and Forfeiture

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/lafarge-pleads-guilty-conspiring-provide-material-support-foreign-terrorist-organizations

Former 3rd Circuit State Attorney And Former Dixie County Attorney Sentenced To More Than Three Years In Prison For Extortion And Other Crimes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/former-3rd-circuit-state-attorney-and-former-dixie-county-attorney-sentenced-more-three

CDC to vote on granting Pfizer, Moderna permanent legal immunity through child COVID shot schedule

By adding the shots to the childhood schedule, Pfizer and Moderna will be able to bring an FDA-approved shot to the market without opening itself up to lawsuits.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee will convene this week and likely vote Thursday to deliver permanent legal indemnity to Pfizer and Moderna, through the process of adding the drug companies’ mRNA injections to the child and adolescent immunization schedules.

By adding the shots to the childhood schedule, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will transfer liability for vaccine injuries to the federal government’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), allowing for Pfizer and Moderna to finally bring an FDA-approved shot to the market without opening itself up to lawsuits. Moreover, it will act as another windfall for companies that have already brought in hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues, by requiring these vaccinations for children who attend public schools.

In March 2020, the federal government invoked the PREP Act, which gave Pfizer and Moderna a tort liability shield due to the declared “public health emergency,” which the government is reportedly going to revoke in early 2023.

The companies’ emergency use authorization shots have since been protected by the federal government through this 2005 congressional action.

A draft agenda published by the CDC shows what will be on the schedule for Wednesday and Thursday’s meetings.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/cdc-to-vote-on-granting-pfizer-moderna-permanent-legal-immunity-through-child-covid-shot-schedule/

Oh go fuck yourself you dirty pedophile………..

Sobbing Kevin Spacey reveals 'terrifying and humiliating' childhood at the hands of his 'white supremacist neo-Nazi' father who called him a 'f****t'

Spacey, 63, told New York court his father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi

He said his father, Thomas Fowler, would call him a f****t' and yell at him as child

Spacey said his father's angry rants led him to hate bigotry and intolerance

ctor Kevin Spacey broke down in sobs as has revealed his father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi who would scream at him when he thought he was gay, a New York courtroom heard.

Spacey, 63, said whilst taking the stand in a civil court case in New York that as a child, his father, Thomas Fowler, would call him a 'f****t' while lecturing him for 'hours and hours' about his racist and homophobic beliefs.

An emotional Spacey, giving an unprecedented view into his private life as he wiped away tears, told the court that his father's rants led him to hate bigotry and intolerance.

The House of Cards actor said it was 'terrifying' to consider bringing his school friends home because he was 'terrified' about what his father, who died on Christmas Eve 1992 aged 68, would say.

Spacey, choking up, said that when he became interested in theatre, he endured the screams of Mr Fowler, a failed writer, who 'used to yell at me at the idea that I might be gay.'

Spacey said he did not come out as gay publicly for years because his upbringing made him believe you should 'never ever, ever talk about anything.'

He told the New York courtroom: 'I grew up in a very complicated family dynamic. My father was unemployed a great deal of the time so therefore he was home a lot of the time.

'My father fell in with some ideas and people that I believe damaged his mind and sensibility and my father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi.

'It meant we were forced to listen to hours and hours and hours of lectures about his beliefs and ideas.'

Spacey said it was these lectures that were the basis of his 'hatred of bigotry and intolerance.'

He said: 'I was humiliated and terrified of even considering bringing my friends home to my house because I was afraid of what my friends would say.

'My best friend was Jewish. I couldn't bring him to my house. Everything that was happening at that house was something I felt I had to keep to myself, keep private and never ever talk about anything.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11326981/Sobbing-Kevin-Spacey-reveals-terrifying-childhood-hands-white-supremacist-neo-Nazi-father.html

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