Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:35 a.m. No.18259889   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9937 >>9979 >>9983 >>0143 >>0148 >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Kari Lake DESTROYS Stephen Richer And Bill Gates’ Lies With Maricopa County Heat Map And Locations Of Machine Failures On Election Day, AT LEAST 7,000 Ballots Rejected EVERY 30 Minutes

 

Kari Lake came out swinging at the Arizona establishment RINOs and Democrats responsible for the stolen 2022 Election on Sunday at her MASSIVE Save Arizona rally.

 

Kari Lake’s rally exceeded capacity, with thousands skipping the last pre-Super Bowl NFL playoff game and turning out to see their duly elected Governor take on the lies promulgated by the mainstream media and leftist politicians.

 

The Midterm Elections in Arizona were stolen in broad daylight, with machines failing at nearly 60% of voting centers the moment polls opened on Election Day. The Arizona Court of Appeals is set to hold a February 1 conference in Kari Lake’s lawsuit contesting her stolen election and the trial court’s dismissal of her case.

 

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on Maricopa County’s intentional voting machine failures caused by faulty ballot printer settings that were changed on election day.

 

The printer settings caused incorrectly sized images of a ballot to be printed onto the ballot papers on the day that Republicans turned out 3:1 to vote for Kari Lake and Republican candidates.

 

The Gateway Pundit’s Brian Lupo reported on newly released footage from Election Day showing that only six ballots were accepted out of 50 vote attempts in an 11-minute period.

 

We recently reported on a bombshell presentation by We The People AZ Alliance in the Arizona Senate Elections Committee on 2022 Election failures in Maricopa County. Some of the most shocking findings in their investigation included hundreds of Election Day tabulators reportedly rejecting nearly 1/4 million vote attempts on election day. using system log (SLOG) files “that tell you every read in those tabulators for the 2022 election, “We The People AZ Alliance co-founder and Chairman Shelby Busch revealed in the presentation that “tabulators failed at 235 times the Election Assistance Commission’s regulated failure rates.” Previously, Maricopa County attempted to claim that less than 18,000 ballots were affected by machine failures at just over 30% of vote centers.

 

Qualified data analyst, Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M, and consultant for major national and international firms and government departments, Walter C. Daugherity declared under penalty of perjury that “over 7,000 ballot insertion failures occurred in almost every single 30-minute period for the entirety of Election Day, starting at 7 am and after 8 pm.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/huge-kari-lake-destroys-stephen-richer-bill-gates-lies-maricopa-county-heat-map-locations-machine-failures-election-day-least-7000-ballots-rejected-every-30-minutes-video/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:37 a.m. No.18259908   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9979 >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Hunter Biden’s Laptop Emails Reveal Another Crime – NEVER FILED a FARA Application yet Hunter Acted as Foreign Agent – Email Shows He Discussed Breaking FARA Laws

 

In 2017 General Michael Flynn was sentenced and along with it he was also forced to admit to “making materially false statements in multiple documents filed pursuant to FARA.” The DOJ reportedly obtained Flynn’s guilty plea by threatening his son with the alleged crime of not filling out a FARA application.

 

In 2018, Paul Manafort “pleaded guilty in the District of Columbia to two counts: (i) conspiracy to commit multiple offenses, including violating FARA by failing to register and by providing false statements in a document filed with FARA.” Manafort was sent to prison.

 

FARA violations were used against these two individuals who were close to President Trump.

 

But not so with Hunter Biden.

 

In Hunter’s laptop were a number of emails that show that Hunter Biden acted as a foreign agent. Hunter’s actions in Ukraine with Burisma were one example.

 

Hunter Biden was on the Board of Burisma. He and his buddy Devon Archer and later Joseph Cofer Black were also on the board. Hunter, an attorney, and Cofer Black, a former CIA agent, both should have known that there are actions required for being an agent for companies and countries overseas.

 

Cofer Black, for example, signed a resolution for Burisma in 2019 related to dividend distribution. Cofer Black with his background should have known that the company was foreign and engaged in foreign political activities while looking for ways to build its name in the US. The hiring of Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Cofer Black were examples of this.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/exclusive-hunter-biden-emails-laptop-show-hunter-biden-another-crime-acted-foreign-agent-never-filed-fara-application-coming/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:40 a.m. No.18259918   🗄️.is 🔗kun

US oil giant posts monster profit

 

Exxon’s 2022 earnings set a historic high for the Western oil industry

 

US oil major ExxonMobil earned $55.7 billion in profits last year, the company disclosed on Tuesday. The figure was a new high for Exxon, whose previous record was $45.2 billion in 2008, when a barrel of oil cost close to $150 – some 30% higher on average than in 2022.

 

According to company CEO Darren Woods, profits soared on the back of recovering post-Covid-19 demand amid energy supply constraints.

 

“While our results clearly benefited from a favorable market, the counter-cyclical investments we made before and during the pandemic provided the energy and products people needed as economies began recovering and supplies became tight. We leaned in when others leaned out,” Woods said.

 

The company’s output also grew by about 100,000 barrels of oil and gas equivalent per day (bpd) against 2021, rising to 3.8 million bpd.

 

Exxon’s earnings are believed to be a record high for the Western oil industry, although fellow majors BP, Chevron, Shell, and TotalEnergies have yet to post their 2022 results. According to a recent calculation by Refinitiv analysts, the five supermajors are expected to report a combined profit of nearly $200 billion for 2022 following last year’s spikes in energy prices.

 

However, the bumper figures have fed the debate on whether governments should further hike taxes on windfall profits for the sector as consumers suffer high energy prices. Shell recently said its extra tax from windfall levies in Europe and the UK for 2022 is estimated at around $2.4 billion. TotalEnergies reported earlier this month that windfall taxes cost the company at least $2 billion in the fourth quarter.

 

Exxon said its fourth-quarter earnings fell short by $1.3 billion due to the EU’s windfall tax and asset impairments. The company is suing the bloc in a bid to scrap the levy, arguing that Brussels exceeded its legal authority by imposing it.

 

https://www.rt.com/business/570758-us-oil-giant-exxon-profit/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:41 a.m. No.18259931   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Sex, lies and videotapes: Yet another scandal involving Western mercenaries engulfs Ukraine

 

A lawsuit alleges that the American founder of the ‘Mozart’ group is a sex pest and conman

 

A lawsuit filed by a former member of the mercenary Mozart Group has raised serious questions about the controversial outfit, including its founder – former US marine Andy Milburn. It’s just the latest example of how grift in the Ukraine conflict has led to very serious consequences.

What is ‘Mozart Group’?

 

Founded in mid-March 2022, the organization was designed to make a major impact in the Ukraine conflict, in every way. Its name was attention seeking, a provocative pun on Wagner, the Russian private military company that in recent weeks has been steadily liberating Ukraine-occupied territory in the Donbass. The media-savvy, combat-experienced Milburn was highly effective at inserting himself into the coverage, being widely quoted by Western news outlets.

 

“Driven by the same pro-Ukrainian spirit that has put yellow and blue flags flying across the Western world, Mr. Milburn feels strongly that this is a just war,” the New York Times oozed in October 2022. “But there are other forces operating on him — boredom, guilt, his own sorrows and a quest for redemption.”

 

Mozart’s representatives publicly sought to characterize themselves not as an army-for-hire, but a team of seasoned veterans who don't personally carry guns, but provide vital military training to the Ukrainian army, and extract civilians from the frontline. While Milburn made much of his three decades of service, including deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, he also claimed staff would be fired on the spot if they engaged in direct combat with Russian forces.

 

The entire Western media bought the line that Mozart wasn’t in Ukraine for belligerent purposes. The idea that a bunch of battle-hardened marines would simply show up in a combat zone to help – but disavow violence while they were there – was always a farce and recent comments by Milburn make this clear. Speaking to RT on 28 January, he said his primary goal was to “kill Russians”:

 

“Why do we train guys? It isn’t simply to defend themselves, it’s to kill the enemy. Everything we’re doing is exactly within the parameters of NATO policy. The West is providing Ukraine with lethal weapons that kill Russians…When we train soldiers that is their goal. It’s why we teach them how to operate their weapons.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/570708-sexual-harassment-threats-corruption/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:45 a.m. No.18259954   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0088

Utah official 'apologizes' after video reveals him pressuring police to release lawfully arrested son

 

A San Juan County Commissioner is "apologizing" after bodycam footage revealed him pressuring police to release his lawfully arrested son.

 

"It appeared to me that [Bruce Adams] was trying to use his influence as a County Commissioner to intimidate me into showing information that I was not permitted to do," San Juan Sheriff's Deputy Wyatt Holyoak said, per KUTV's reporting.

November's traffic stop incident

Bodycam footage shows Bruce Adams' disturbing interaction with San Juan County Sheriff's Deputy Wyatt Holyoak following a November 25, 2022, traffic stop, KUTV reported.

Earlier in the evening, Deputy Brayden Giddings pulled over Bruce Adams' son, Kenneth Adams, for failing to stop at a stop sign and failing to signal. Additional officers came to the scene after the deputy discovered Kenneth Adams had an outstanding warrant, the validity of which Kenneth Adams disputed. Kenneth then phoned his parents, the outlet notes.

 

Deputy Wyatt Holyoak, also at the scene, next suggests Kenneth Adams' car be released to his parents, per the footage.

The commissioner's demands

 

Holyoak reports that Commissioner Adams, on arriving to pick up the car, demanded to see the "mother fcking warrant"; said he wanted the officer to "turn [Kenneth] loose"; and then threatened to "sue the son-of-a-b*tch county sheriff because he arrested my kid on a false warrant," the outlet also said.

 

After the deputy received permission from his superiors to "de-escalate the situation" by showing Adams his son's warrant, the commissioner reportedly continued to argue the document was "false."

 

A disputed apology

 

Commissioner Adams later called the sheriff's office to complain about his son's arrest. After that, then-Sheriff Jason Torgerson expressed concern about Adams' "lack of professionalism" in a meeting at the county's public safety building, KUTV's reporting explained.

 

Though Adams says he apologized to the sheriff's office, the reports do not mention any such apology. "I called the sheriff the next day and I said, you know, I shouldn't have done what I did," Adams told KUTV's Daniel Woodruff Thursday.

 

"It's embarrassing for me to act that way," Adams also told the outlet. "I feel bad that I did that. But I was emotional."

 

Adams denied acting as a county commissioner at the time of the incident. "In my opinion, I was acting as a father," he also said.

 

San Juan County's Commission website lists Adams as the chair of the elected board. The body is charged with "responsibilities for the executive and legislative powers, duties and functions of the county."

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/utah-official-apologizes-after-video-reveals-him-pressuring-police-to-release-lawfully-arrested-son

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:47 a.m. No.18259968   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9979 >>0052 >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Patients Denied Transplants for Declining COVID Jabs Get Their Day in Court

 

"We jumped through all their hoops, and the hospital changed the rules in the middle of the game…"

 

A Michigan judge will soon decide if 73-year-old Ross Barranco can be denied a donated kidney because he won’t take the COVID-19 vaccine.

 

“I just don’t see the logic of it,” stated Barranco in an interview with The Epoch Times. “Everybody knows an organ transplant procedure requires the nearly complete suppression of a recipient’s immune system so the body won’t reject it.

 

“Then why do I need to be immunized against COVID before the operation?”

 

When asked if he thought the vaccine would make any difference in his prognosis, he replied, “Yeah, the vax can kill me.

 

“To qualify for a transplant both of my kidneys have to be functioning at 20 percent or less. What if the vax destroys the remaining function before the operation? If it does, I’m done.

 

“The jab does absolutely nothing beneficial for a transplant patient,” he said.

 

Given the current COVID-19 testing capability, it remains unclear why transplant patients cannot be tested for COVID-19 before the operation. A negative result could then green-light the procedure.

 

It is also unclear why, given the data showing numerous fully vaccinated people have come down with COVID-19 multiple times, the shot is still being regarded by some hospitals as an immunization.

 

Barranco’s legal team made reference to a 2021 survey of 200 transplant centers across the country.

 

Of the 140 that responded to the survey, only half required transplant candidates to take a COVID-19 vaccine regimen.

 

“The vax can hardly be deemed medically necessary if half of the responding transplant centers are not requiring it,” said Deborah Catalono of the Liberty Counsel, a researcher tracking hospital transplant policies and a lawyer familiar with many similar cases to that of Barranco and Shier.

 

The Liberty Counsel is a non-profit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to upholding religious liberty and Christian values.

 

Medical questions and safety concerns aside, Barranco, a Roman Catholic, actually refused the vaccine on religious grounds.

 

He said his faith and conscience do not permit him to receive a shot that he is convinced was developed using body parts obtained from aborted babies and has fetal tissue in its ingredients.

Vax-up or Else

 

On Feb. 1, 2022, Barranco received what he perceived as an “ultimatum” from the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.

 

“There’s an active list and a holding list for patients awaiting a transplant. At the time, I was on the holding list.

 

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/be-the-change/patients-denied-transplants-for-declining-covid-jabs-get-their-day-in-court

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:48 a.m. No.18259975   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0011 >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

School Cop and his Teacher Wife Arrested for Grooming, Raping, and Filming Students

 

Prosecutors described a "highly elaborate grooming process" carried out by the couple.

 

A disgraced school resource officer and his now-fired teacher wife have been indicted on disturbing sex charges involving a student from the school where they worked. Parents and students from Corinth Holders High School in Wendell, N.C. are now asking if anyone else was involved.

 

According to authorities, Mike Medlin, a Johnston County Sheriff's Office deputy and school resource officer, and his wife Ami Medlin, a teacher for 22 years and worked as a family and consumer science teacher at Corinth Holders High School, have been hit with multiple charges.

 

The couple was indicted on three charges each of taking indecent liberties with a student, first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, and sexual servitude.

 

Prosecutors described a "highly elaborate grooming process" carried out by the couple on a troubled boy at the school. The abuse spanned the course of two years.

 

"He was invited into their home and given alcohol. Videos were made of him doing sexual things and then given to Miss Medlin at school so she could watch," the prosecutor said.

 

Details of the abuse were made public, including the fact that Mike Medlin admitted to being "involved" after the student was intoxicated. According to police documents, the couple admitted to taking a student home with them to "watch movies" in their bed with them.

 

The couple was also accused of inappropriate relationships with other children, including a girl who had been a babysitter for their children.

 

Despite the couple's own admissions and the extremely disturbing allegations surrounding their indictments, the courtroom was packed on Monday with their supporters, according to WRAL.

 

The male victim, who is now an adult, was also in the courtroom on Monday as the district attorney asked for $75,000 bail for each of them. The judge, who was apparently swayed by the thin blue line, bumped the bail down to $50,000 and the couple quickly posted it and returned home.

 

The investigation began last year and Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell fired Deputy Medlin following an internal investigation into allegations of an inappropriate relationship with two alleged victims. Medlin was terminated on May 23, 2022. Ami Medlin was suspended on May 16, 2022, by Johnston County Schools.

 

According to the indictment, “the defendant took indecent liberties with the student victim by: willfully taking and attempting to take immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with the student victim for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire; and by willfully committing and attempting to commit lewd and lascivious acts upon and with the body and any part of member of the body of a student victim.”

 

It gets worse.

 

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/school-cop-and-his-teacher-wife-arrested-for-grooming-raping-and-filming-students

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:53 a.m. No.18259997   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0230 >>0232 >>0309 >>0333

Hunter Biden allies talking about creating legal defense fund: report

 

Allies of Hunter Biden ​have held initial discussions about starting a legal defense fund to aid the first son as Republicans ramp up congressional investigations into his business relationships and the federal probe into his taxes continues, according to a report on Tuesday.

 

A collection of attorneys have been representing Hunter, 52, in recent years and new ones are being added as his team pursues fresh legal strategies — but the Biden scion has struggled to pay them all due to dwindling financial resources, the Washington Post reported.

 

It’s unclear exactly how much the first son owes in legal fees because some of the work has been treated as pro bono.

 

But others close to the situation say Hunter’s debt could reach into the millions of dollars — and that amount is expected to go up as the House GOP launches probes.

 

President Biden’s son has no steady source of income, the report said, and the once-lucrative payouts from his foreign business relationships have dried up under continued public scrutiny.

 

The Post revealed Hunter Biden’s shady connections to Ukraine and China in a series of reports in October 2020.

 

While the first son is currently trying a career as an artist, reportedly selling one painting for $500,000, other pieces of his artwork have not fetched nearly as much, the report said.

 

At the same time, some potential buyers have reneged on their purchases because of the congressional investigations and other potential blowback.

 

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter last week to the Soho gallery owner who exhibited Hunter Biden’s paintings, seeking information about who purchased the art as part of his investigation into alleged influence peddling.

 

The gallery owner, Georges Berges, told The Post that the request for sales information should go through his lawyers, but took the time to gush about Hunter Biden’s artwork.

 

“His is a story of perseverance; Hunter’s story reflects what I believe is the beauty of humanity, judged not by the fall, but by having the strength to rise up, by having the character required to change and the courage to do i​t,” Berges told The Post about the recovering ​crack addict.

 

Other prominent figures, including former President Bill Clinton and longtime political operative Roger Stone, have created legal defense funds as they confronted mounting legal bills in the face of investigations.

 

But the disclosure process governing the funds is often vague, raising ethical questions about who’s donating and whether they are trying to influence the White House.

 

The Washington Post report also noted there are few rules governing legal defense funds for private citizens.

 

While the Office of Government Ethics, the agency monitoring conflicts of interest in the executive branch, has started to come up with rules for executive branch officials, that process is ongoing.

 

Still, the office is not considering rules for the children of elected officials, despite concerns over donors trying to buy influence.​

 

“The Federal Election Commission does not consider legal defense funds to be a part of the campaign finance system,” ​Craig ​Holman​, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, told the outlet.

 

https://nypost.com/2023/01/31/hunter-biden-allies-talking-about-creating-legal-defense-fund-report/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:55 a.m. No.18260009   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0022 >>0043 >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

DeSantis Responds To Trump Attacks

 

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to former President Donald Trump criticizing him for his COVID-19 response Tuesday. He said he has “people attacking” him from “all angles” and that the verdict is ultimately up to the “people.”

 

“Trump has criticized you a number of times in the past couple of days on a number of different issues, one of them being COVID in the state,” Daily Caller chief national correspondent Henry Rodgers asked DeSantis at a press conference on education.

 

“I roll out of bed, I have people attacking me from all angles,” DeSantis responded. “It’s been happening for many, many years. And if you look at the good thing about it, though, is like if you take a crisis situation like COVID, you know, the good thing about it is when you’re an elected executive, you gotta make all kinds of decisions. You gotta steer that ship, and the good thing is that the people are able to render a judgement on whether they reelect you or not.”

 

“I’m happy to say, you know, in my case, not only did we win reelection, we won with the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican candidate has in the history of the state of Florida,” DeSantis added. “That verdict has been rendered by the people of the state of Florida.”

 

On Saturday and Sunday, Trump issued multiple attacks on DeSantis’ handling of COVID-19 and his shutting down of Florida’s beaches. The former president has also labeled the governor “DeSanctimonious,” and has said that a DeSantis presidential run in 2024 would be bad for the “base.”

 

“The revelations about Ron DeSanctimonious doing FAR WORSE than many other Republican governors, including that he unapologetically shut down Florida and its beaches, was interesting, indeed. DJT leading BIG!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

 

DeSantis had largely been silent on Trump’s criticisms. In November, he appeared to respond to Trump by alluding to “noise” around him.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/31/ron-desantis-press-conference-education-donald-trump-covid-19-attacks-republicans-2024/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 9:59 a.m. No.18260030   🗄️.is 🔗kun

High-Ranking Air Force Officer Admits To Taking Highly Sensitive Classified Material, Storing At Home: Report

 

A high-ranking officer in the United States Air Force has reportedly admitted to federal investigators that he took extremely sensitive classified material and illegally stored it at his home in Florida.

 

Robert Birchum retired from the Air Force in 2018 as a lieutenant colonel after working at the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Special Operations Command (SOCOM), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

 

The Daily Beast reported that Federal law enforcement officials were tipped off in early 2017 that he had a flash drive at his home that contained classified material that, if released, “could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States.”

 

Investigators recovered 135 classified files at his home that were marked Top Secret, Top Secret/ACCM (Alternative Compensatory Control Measures), Secret, and/or Confidential, the report said. Investigators later found an additional 117 classified files on a personal hard drive that he kept during an overseas deployment and 28 classified paper documents in a storage unit.

 

The report said that the plea agreement was signed just on August 26, 2022, just weeks after former President Donald Trump was raided at Mar-a-Lago in an investigation into Trump’s handling of classified information. Birchum now faces a decade in prison after admitting to willful retention of national defense information.

 

He is set to make his first appearance in court in several weeks. A date for his sentencing has not been set.

 

Court documents said that some of the classified material that Birchum had at his home “concerned Department of Defense locations throughout the world, detailed explanations of the Air Force’s capabilities and vulnerabilities, and, among other things, the methods by which the Air Force gathers, transmits, and uses information observed by various Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms.”

 

Cedric Leighton, a retired Air Force colonel who worked at the NSA and the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), said that the type of information that officers like he and Birchum handle is so sensitive that it is classified at a level above the Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) level.

 

“Much of the intelligence and operational information of these commands is within SAP (Special Access Program) channels, which means the handling requirements for this information are much stricter than they are for TS/SCI,” Leighton said. “I noted with concern that he had briefing slides in his possession that detailed NSA’s special collection capabilities. I used to work with those. Revealing them could potentially cause grave damage to our capability to execute military operations and collect information vital to our national security.”

 

President Joe Biden is under investigation after classified material was found at his home and private office late last year and early this year. News broke last week that a lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence found classified material at Pence’s home which was subsequently handed over to federal officials.

 

http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/01/high-ranking-air-force-officer-admits.html

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10 a.m. No.18260038   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Biden’s FCC Nominee Works For A Think Tank Funded By The Telecom Giants She Was Nominated To Oversee, Memo Claims

 

The Biden administration’s FCC nominee may have deep conflicts of interest with the companies she may oversee, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire.

 

According to the memo, Sohn’s public records show that she is a consultant for the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, a think tank dedicated to expanding broadband access. But that think tank is funded by many of the telecom giants she is nominated to oversee. And Sohn has publicly criticized that exact behavior before.

 

According to Sohn’s Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report with the Office of Government Ethics from January 2022, Sohn earned some $137,002 in “consulting fees” from the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, which accounts for nearly half of her reported salary. In the filing, Sohn described her work as “[p]ublic advocacy, coalition building and strategic guidance that broadens public awareness about the importance of universal, affordable and open communications networks.”

 

According to the Benton Institute’s website, Sohn has been a Senior Fellow and Public Advocate with the organization since 2018, and has published nearly 20 articles for their blog, and another she co-authored for the website TechDirt.

 

However, according to a donor list also on the Benton Institute’s website, the organization is sponsored by several of the largest telecommunications giants in the country, companies that Sohn will oversee if appointed to the FCC. Among the organization’s “Platinum Sponsors” are Google Fiber, the internet giant’s fiber-to-the-premises broadband subsidiary; Verizon; and T-Mobile. One of the group’s “Gold Sponsors” is the National Lifeline Association, a non-profit which supports the federal Lifeline program. “Silver Sponsors” include AT&T, Dish Network, and Twitter.

 

And Sohn has criticized these exact groups in the past. “Yes, it’s better that @FCC is again run by telecom, cable & broadcast industries & their bought & paid 4 think-tanks,” Sohn tweeted sarcastically in 2017, replying to a critic. “Now that’s democracy!”

 

Sohn advertises her position at the Benton Institute in her Twitter bio.

 

On January 3, President Joe Biden re-nominated Sohn for a vacant seat on the FCC formerly held by Ajit Pai. He previously nominated her in 2021, but her nomination stalled because of concerns about overtly partisan statements and advocating for censorship of conservative news networks like Fox News and Sinclair Media.

 

“My principal concern with Ms. Sohn is that she has expressed a significant willingness to use government power against political enemies, and to use government power as a tool of censorship,” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz said in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing last March. “And I think the FCC is a particularly dangerous place for a partisan who is willing to try to muzzle those with whom she disagrees.” Cruz also raised ethical concerns over a secret legal settlement made by company she served on the board of, just one day after Biden announced her nomination.

 

The Commerce Committee deadlocked on her nomination, sending her confirmation to the full Senate with extra procedural hurdles. The nomination was never brought to the floor, and the Senate returned the nomination to Biden on January 3, before the 117th Congress concluded and the 118th Congress opened.

 

Sohn is currently facing criticism over her position on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which opposed a pair of bipartisan laws passed in 2018 aimed at stopping online sex trafficking, as well as sharing a tweet attacking former President Trump.

 

http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/01/exclusive-bidens-fcc-nominee-works-for.html

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:03 a.m. No.18260047   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0097 >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Poland Says It’s Ready to Send F-16s to Ukraine in Coordination With NATO

 

Biden said "No" when asked if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine, but the US previously ruled out providing other arms it eventually sent

 

Polish officials said Monday that Warsaw is willing to send US-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine but only in coordination with NATO.

 

“We will act in full coordination here,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. Since the US and Germany announced last week that Ukraine would be receiving Abrams and Leopard tanks, Ukrainian officials have been demanding Western-made fighter jets as the next escalation of military aid.

 

When asked on Monday if the US would be sending F-16s to Ukraine, President Biden simply replied, “No.” But US officials previously said they wouldn’t provide Kyiv with M1 Abrams tanks and other equipment that Washington ultimately sent.

 

Ukrainian officials appear confident that they will receive F-16s or some other kind of fighter jet. A Ukrainian Air Force spokesman said work was being done to prepare Ukraine’s airfields for advanced Western-made fighter jets.

 

In order to send F-16s, Poland needs the approval of the US under export rules. The Netherlands has also signaled that it might be willing to send Ukraine F-16s, with the Dutch foreign minister saying his country would have an “open mind” if asked to make the transfer.

 

So far, there’s no sign that US approval of the weapons transfer is imminent, but POLITICO reported over the weekend that the idea of sending the F-16s is gaining steam in the Pentagon. Sending fighter jets would risk provoking Moscow, but the US is less concerned about escalation and the chances of Moscow using nuclear weapons than earlier in the war, even though the risk still clearly exists.

 

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/30/poland-says-its-ready-to-send-f-16s-to-ukraine-in-coordination-with-nato/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:04 a.m. No.18260053   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0069 >>0080 >>0105 >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

U.S. Surgeon General Warns 13-Years-Old Is Too Young To Join Social Media

 

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy believes children 13 years old are too young to join social media platforms, citing kids are still “developing their identity,” and such engagement can create a distorted sense of themselves.

 

Murthy, who has served as surgeon general under the Obama and the Biden administrations, signaled the warning in an interview with CNN, noting adolescents should only be allowed to access the platforms until they were 16 years old at the earliest.

 

“It’s a time, you know, early adolescence, where kids are developing their identity, their sense of self,” Murthy said. “It’s a time where it’s really important for us to be thoughtful about what’s going into how they think about their own self-worth and their relationships, and the skewed and often distorted environment of social media often does a disservice to many of those children.”

 

Social media giant platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter require a minimum age of 13 to join.

 

Murthy further noted the issue with addictive algorithms, which pits youth against Big Tech.

 

“You have some of the best designers and product developers in the world who have designed these products to make sure people are maximizing the amount of time they spend on these platforms,” he said. “And if we tell a child, use the force of your willpower to control how much time you’re spending, you’re pitting a child against the world’s greatest product designers.”

 

“And that’s just not a fair fight,” he added. “And so that’s why I think our kids need help.”

 

The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study earlier this month which sampled 178 12-year-olds from three public middle schools in North Carolina and reviewed how often the minors check social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.

 

Researchers found individuals with habitual checking behaviors showed initial hypoactivation but increasing sensitivity to potential social cues over time. Nonhabitual individuals, however, showed initial hyperactivation and decreasing sensitivity.

 

“Our findings suggest that checking behaviors on social media in early adolescence may tune the brain’s sensitivity to potential social rewards and punishments,” Dr. Eva Telzer, co-author of the study and a professor in developmental psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said.

 

Dr. Adriana Stacey told CNN using social media releases a “dopamine dump” and compared the addictiveness of smartphones to cocaine.

 

“It tells our brains to keep using that,” Stacey said. “For teenagers in particular, this part of their brain is actually hyperactive compared to adults. They can’t get motivated to do anything else.”

 

Surgeon General Murthy called on parents to band together to prevent their children from logging on to social media platforms until they’re at least 16 years old.

 

“That’s a much more effective strategy in making sure your kids don’t get exposed to harm early,” he said.

 

Seattle Public School District officials filed a lawsuit earlier this month against several social media platform owners, including Facebook and TikTok, for allegedly intentionally cultivating and creating a mental health crisis among the youth and have caused a public nuisance affecting Seattle Public Schools.

 

President Joe Biden drew attention to social media platforms in his 2022 State of the Union Address, alleging the harm social media has wrought on American youth should implore all to “hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they’re conducting on our children for profit.”

 

http://www.womensystems.com/2023/01/us-surgeon-general-warns-13-years-old.html

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:06 a.m. No.18260063   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Two air force aircraft collide mid-air in central India

 

Two Indian air force fighter aircraft collided mid-air in central India killing one pilot, a government statement said.

 

An inquiry has been ordered into the incident that took place Saturday near the city of Gwalior, the air force said in the statement, adding that the aircraft were on routine training mission. One of the three pilots involved, sustained fatal injuries, it added.

 

The accident involved a Russian made Sukhoi-30 and a French-made Mirage-2000, an official with knowledge of the matter added, asking not to be identified, because the details were not public.

 

India has a history of fatal military crashes owing to its aging fleet. India’s then Chief of Defense Staff, General Bipin Rawat, was killed in late 2021 when the Russian-made helicopter he was traveling in crashed in Southern India.

 

In 2016, in one of the worst air accidents, a Russian-made medium lift transporter flying to Andaman Nicobar Island from Chennai crashed into the Bay of Bengal, killing all 29 persons on board. And in 2019, another 13 people were killed when another AN-32 craft crashed in Arunachal Pradesh.

 

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/01/two-air-force-aircraft-collide-mid-air-in-central-india/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:12 a.m. No.18260091   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0185

United States Conducted HIV Experiments On Ukrainian Servicemen

 

On January 30, the Russian Defence Ministry revealed that US specialists held experiments with HIV on the territory of Ukraine. Ukrainian servicemen were among those used as “guinea pigs” in US laboratories on the Ukrainian territory. The Defense Ministry previously revealed a network of American laboratories in Ukraine. Washington confirmed researches in the field of public health there, but denied the development of any biological weapons.

 

According to Lieutenant General, Chief of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kirillov experiments of the US specialists on the HIV have been taking place in Ukraine since 2019. They were held “not only patients with a high risk of infection — convicts or drug addicts — but also representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” (Full report bellow)

 

In January 2023, local residents discovered biomaterials belonging to the Pentagon laboratory. They were dug at the cemetery in the village of Rubezhnoe in the LPR. Biomaterials, bags with cards and personal belongings of the patients were found at the cemetery.

 

https://southfront.org/united-states-conducted-hiv-experiments-on-ukrainian-servicemen/

 

https://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12452991@egNews

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:15 a.m. No.18260107   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Gallant to Blinken: We speak in one voice; your visit sends a clear message to Iran

 

Defense minister calls for more security coordination with regional US allies; in his meeting with top US diplomat, Lapid stresses importance of protecting democratic institutions

 

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday morning that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit sent a “clear message” that the United States and Israel stand together against the threat from Iran.

 

“Your visit comes at a critical time, and it sends a clear message to our adversaries as well as our partners in the region: the US and Israel are united in the need to face Iran and anyone who threatens peace and stability,” Gallant said to Blinken, according to a statement from the Defense Ministry.

 

“We speak in one voice when we say that Iran must not gain a nuclear weapon and that we will not tolerate Iranian aggression,” Gallant said.

 

According to the Defense Ministry, Gallant briefed Blinken with a focus on Iran and its proxies in Lebanon and Syria.

 

Gallant also referenced the recent Juniper Oak military exercise, the two allies’ largest-ever joint exercise in Israel and the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gallant-to-blinken-we-speak-in-one-voice-your-visit-sends-a-clear-message-to-iran/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:15 a.m. No.18260110   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Santos steps down from committee assignments

 

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is stepping down from his committee assignments, he informed House GOP colleagues on Tuesday in a conference meeting.

 

The representative had faced a whirlwind of criticism over numerous fabrications and misrepresentations of his resume and personal history, as well as questions about his personal and campaign finances.

 

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said that Santos informed the conference he would recuse himself from committees “temporarily” until “things get settled.”

 

One source told The Hill that Santos called himself a “distraction.”

 

“And then he asked that we all support him when everything settles down for him to serve on committees,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told reporters after the meeting.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3837430-santos-steps-down-from-committee-assignments/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:17 a.m. No.18260114   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Israel Bar Association chair resigns following accusation of sexual abuse

 

Avi Himi heeds growing calls for him to step aside but says indecent act was consensual, accuses ‘desperate politicians’ of trying to silence anyone with a different opinion

 

The head of the Israel Bar Association submitted his resignation on Tuesday after a report accused him of performing an indecent act during a video chat with a young female lawyer.

 

Avi Himi, one of the loudest opposition voices against the government’s plan to radically overhaul the judicial system, allegedly exposed himself during the video conversation and touched himself onscreen, Channel 13 reported Monday evening.

 

The report said the incident took place during a call with a lawyer who had asked Himi to support her appointment as a judge. After notifying her that he had sent a letter recommending her promotion, the senior lawyer allegedly took his pants off and started pleasuring himself in front of her without her consent.

 

Himi did not immediately deny the report but said that the act was consensual. In the hours after it aired, he accused “the poisonous machine of those seeking to promote the judicial overhaul” of targeting him because he opposes it.

 

“Once again we witness how desperate politicians work tirelessly to trample anyone with a different opinion than theirs,” he said.

 

“I considered the possibility that instead of trying to deal with my position, they would try to harm me on a personal level and that’s a price I’m gladly willing to pay,” he added earlier Tuesday, initially holding off on a resignation announcement.

 

But uproar extended beyond the ruling coalition that Himi has criticized.

 

Merav Michaeli, chairwoman of the opposition Labor party, who is well known for her feminist activism, also urged Himi to resign.

 

“Avi Himi seemingly hasn’t denied carrying out sexual acts with a woman whose professional future was in his hands,” she said. “Even if it was ‘consensual’ and he only ‘suggested’ something, that is sexual abuse and the wrongful use of his authority and position,” she charged.

 

Hagit Pe’er, chairwoman of the women’s rights organization Na’amat, also called on Himi to resign immediately.

 

“A person who heads an organization that represents lawyers and Israel can’t be a person who allegedly took advantage of his position… Such offenses must not become political issues between those who support or oppose the government – public officials must serve as an example,” she said.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-bar-association-chair-urged-to-resign-following-accusation-of-sexual-abuse/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:22 a.m. No.18260141   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0165 >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Senate Judiciary to probe Durham investigation

 

Durbin's comments come in response to a New York Times report about the probe.

 

The Senate Judiciary Committee will look into reports of abuses in Special Counsel John Durham's probe of the origins of the FBI's investigation into allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.

 

"The Justice Department should work on behalf of the American people, not for the personal benefit of any president," Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin said in announcing the effort.

 

The Illinois Democrat made the announcement Monday, following a New York Times report alleging flaws in the Durham probe.

 

"As we wait for the results of ongoing internal reviews, the Senate Judiciary Committee will do its part and take a hard look at these repeated episodes, and the regulations and policies that enabled them, to ensure such abuses of power cannot happen again," Durbin also said.

 

He also said "former President Trump and his allies weaponized the Justice Department" with the investigation, which he said was reportedly filled with "outrageous" abuses that even caused Durham's "longtime colleagues [to] quit in protest."

 

Longtime Durham aide Nora Dannehy resigned in 2020 over "a series of disputes between them over prosecutorial ethics," the Times stated. Another prosecutor left a year later after objecting to plans to indict Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, who was later acquitted.

 

Durham's probe also led to the indictment and subsequent acquittal of Steele dossier source Igor Danchenko. It additionally brought a guilty plea from former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith for falsifying a record that was used to justify a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

 

The Times report states that "the Durham inquiry was marked by some of the very same flaws … that Trump allies claim characterized the Russia investigation."

 

Durham also allegedly gained access to the emails of an aide to billionaire Democratic mega-donor George Soros during his investigation, but the special counsel has not cited information from the emails in any cases he pursued.

 

Durham is working on his investigation's final report.

 

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-judiciary-probe-durham-investigation

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:24 a.m. No.18260147   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

PM Netanyahu: IDF cyber intel. experts training 20,000 students

 

IDF cyber warfare experts are training the next generation to boost the country's defense capabilities

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said IDF Unit 8200 cyber intelligence officials are now training 20,000 Israeli students to boost the country’s future cyber defense capabilities.

 

“Nationally, we are building an IDF school for computer science in Beersheba and Unit 8200 is training some 20,000 young people for the field of cyber,” said Netanyahu speaking at the Cybertech conference in Tel Aviv.

 

The prime minister said that, “The people who are actually practicing defense against cyber attacks are teaching the youngsters – the result is superior.”

A cyber iron dome

 

Next, Netanyahu said that, “Israel has become a leading cyber power, both on a government level and at the private sector level.”

 

“Let me focus on the dramatic increase in cyber attacks…emanating from governments. In Israel, we are creating a cyber iron dome. We are using advanced AI [artificial intelligence] and defusing data from multiple sources to deal with multiple attacks as they are all happening” simultaneously, he said.

 

He spoke about threats both from nation states and ransomware hackers, who might not be affiliated with governments.

 

Further, he advocated high levels of public and private sector cooperation as well as international cooperation where “the league of like-minded countries with smarts, advanced advanced AI and advanced cyber” capabilities can help each other.

 

Moreover he said, “Cyberwarfare is in its infancy. The capabilities of cyber war are not limited to democracy, but democracies must pool their resources to defend themselves.”

 

Earlier at the conference, former IDF intelligence Unit 8200 chief and Team8 Co-Founder and CEO Nadav Zafrir said on Tuesday that “if there is a resolution in 2023,” in the Russia-Ukraine war, cyber attacks will become worse, not better.

 

“Cyber as part of the toolkit will become the main tool and we will see more threats, not less,” said Zafrir.

 

The former IDF cyber intelligence chief also said sarcastically that the world is “almost celebrating a year of war in Ukraine. A year ago, no one would believe we would have a global war in Ukraine that looks like World War.”

 

Next, he discussed “what did not happen. We didn’t see the cyber doomsday weapon come out in Ukraine. We didn’t see it because there was no motivation to take it out. But we did see cyber become a real thing. In this war, it was a part of the toolkit.”

 

Further, he said that “we will be in the Wild West of cyber in 2023” given a complete breakdown in US-Russia relations leading to unprecedented levels of global nation state and ransomware attacks.

 

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk said that 2022 saw a record $8.4 trillion in losses due to hacking, making up 9% of the world economy.

 

Mandiant UK Managing Director Stuart McKenzie Mandiant said Russia’s cyber attacks on Ukraine led to “the most sophisticated attacks we have ever seen.”

 

He said that governments and organizations need to realize that their “crown jewels” of critical items to focus on defending cannot be limited to intellectual property and trade secrets, but also must include how they deliver their services.

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-730160

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:27 a.m. No.18260157   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0230 >>0309 >>0333

Chinese Companies Are Buying American Military Academies, Lawmaker Warns

 

Institutions with JROTC programs now owned by firms with ties to Chinese Communist Party

 

Chinese firms with ties to the Chinese Communist Party have in recent years purchased American military academies that operate military officer training programs.

 

In 2015, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which serves as the Chinese Communist Party's political advisory board, purchased Donald Trump's alma mater, the New York Military Academy, for $16 million dollars. Conference member Mo Tianquan secured the purchase after a bidding war with another Chinese conglomerate.

 

Two years later, a Chinese education conglomerate purchased the Florida Preparatory Academy as part of its plan to create "a global educational alliance system." The organization partnered with a CCP-controlled regional government agency on the initiative. Both the New York Military Academy and Florida Preparatory Academy operate Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) programs, which train future military officers.

 

Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, says Chinese ownership of these schools could pose a national security threat.

 

"To the extent that those private schools have junior ROTC programs that are forming the backbone of our future leaders of our military, this is something I would hope and would expect the Defense Department would work with me to better understand," Waltz told the Washington Free Beacon.

 

Waltz on Tuesday sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, urging the Pentagon to survey JROTC programs at private schools across the country to see if they are foreign-owned.

 

"With the ongoing military recruitment crisis, I am concerned that any students we recruit into the service from these CCP-influenced schools will have a sympathetic view of China's political and strategic aims," Waltz, who chairs the House subcommittee on military readiness, wrote to Austin.

 

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-companies-are-buying-american-military-academies-lawmaker-warns/

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:28 a.m. No.18260160   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Blinken: Israel should back all Kyiv's needs given Russia's Iran ties

 

As ties between Moscow and Tehran grow stronger, they also grow more concerning.

 

Israel should do more to support Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia in light of Moscow’s deepening ties with Iran, US Secretary of State said as he wrapped up his two-day visit to the Jewish state.

 

“Tehran’s deepening ties with Moscow and the sophisticated weaponry they are exchanging, are among the many reasons that we raised with Israel the importance of providing support for all of Ukraine’s needs,” Blinken said.

He clarified that this means “humanitarian, economic and security as it defends its people against Russia’s brutal aggression,” Blinken said.

A neutral stance?

 

It’s the clearest statement he has made to date about the simmering disagreement between Washington and Jerusalem over Israel’s more neutral stance on Russia.

 

Israel has lagged behind western countries in its support of Ukraine, siding diplomatically with Kyiv in its statements and votes at the United Nations, but limiting its public support to humanitarian assistance.

Ukraine has pressured Israel to provide it with defensive weapons against missiles and armed drones. It has also called for Israel to deliver on its promise to send it an early alert system.

Israel has feared that active military support for Ukraine particularly with respect to defensive and or offensive weapons would force Russia to end the deconfliction agreement under which the IDF aerially attacks Iranian targets in Syria.

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-730194

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:29 a.m. No.18260166   🗄️.is 🔗kun

11 US cities — all governed by Democratic mayors — listed among 50 most dangerous in world

 

Three Democrat-run U.S. cities rank in top 20 on annual list: Baltimore (#15), Memphis (#18), and Detroit (#19). Two more are among world's 30 most dangerous: Albuquerque (#23) and St. Louis (#27).

 

Eleven U.S. cities rank among the 50 most dangerous in the world, according to a recent report published by Numbeo, a global quality of life database. All 11 are governed by Democratic mayors.

 

Three U.S. cities — Baltimore, Memphis and Detroit — are ranked among the 20 most dangerous cities on the planet.

 

The three cities have more in common than just violent crime. All three are run by Democrats.

 

Baltimore ranks #15 on the annual dangerous cities list, with Memphis and Detroit close behind at #18 and #19, respectively.

 

Brandon Scott, just 38 years of age, is the mayor of Baltimore. Jim Strickland Jr., an attorney and politician, is the 64th and current mayor of Memphis, where the Memphis police department has just announced plans to permanently deactivate the unit that five of the officers involved in the vicious beating of Tyre Nichols belonged to. Mike Duggan, meanwhile, is currently serving as the mayor of Detroit.

 

Two more U.S. cities run by Democrats appear among the 30 most dangerous in the world: Albuquerque (#23), where 45-year-old Tim Keller serves as the 30th mayor, and St. Louis (#27), where Tishaura Oneda Jones has served as mayor since April of 2021.

 

Tracking back for a wider view yields a still grimmer perspective for Democrats, as another six Democrat-run cities rank among the world's 50 most dangerous: New Orleans (#35), Oakland (#38), Milwaukee (#40), Chicago (#43), Philadelphia (#46), and Houston (#50). Again, all of these cities are run by Democrats.

 

Numbeo's report contains both a Crime Index, which is an estimation of overall levels of crime in a given city, and a Safety index. A city with a high safety index is considered very safe. A city with a high crime index is considered anything but. If a city's crime levels are lower than 20, for instance, this is considered excellent. Crime levels between 20 and 40 are considered good; crime levels between 40 and 60 are moderate; crime levels between 60 and 80 are considered high. Finally, crime levels higher than 80 are considered dangerously high. The Safety Index, meanwhile, is ranked in the completely opposite way, with scores higher than 80 indicating that a city is very safe, and scores under 20 indicating that a city is borderline uninhabitable.

 

Baltimore has a Crime Index score of 75.5 and a Safety Index score of 24.5. "Charm City" finds itself sandwiched between Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, and Rosario, Argentina's third-most populous city.

 

In 2019, then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr referred to Baltimore as the country's "robbery capital." Although the comment was deemed controversial by some commentators, it is amply substantiated by crime statistics. Last year, the city of 576,000 experienced a sharp spike in robberies, with robberies of convenience stores jumping by 300%. Baltimore also suffered a sharp increase in homicides.

 

Some 900 miles away, in Memphis, overall crime increased by more than 8% last year. By August of 2022, 4,501 crimes had been reported in the downtown area of the city, 600 more than had been reported by August of 2021, according to the city’s Data Hub.

 

In Detroit, more than 220 officers left the police department last year. Long known as the automobile capital of the world, Detroit has, in recent times, become more closely associated with assaults, shootings and homicides. On New Year's Day, for instance, a total of 6 people were shot, one of them fatally. Five days later, a 16-year-old was killed and an 11-year-old was injured in yet another shooting.

 

Democrats have often been labeled "soft on crime" by their opponents. The latest Numbeo report will do little to stem such denunciations.

 

https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/tue-dangerous-cities

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:40 a.m. No.18260220   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Son of Longtime Azerbaijani Oil Official Owns Luxurious London Flat Worth Over $20 Million

 

Until last year, Rovnag Abdullayev headed Azerbaijan’s state oil company, SOCAR, where he made a modest official salary. Yet his son Rashad purchased an ultra-expensive property in London’s Grosvenor Square at the age of 25.

 

Key Findings

 

Rashad Abdullayev owns the posh London flat through a company registered in Guernsey.

He was revealed as its beneficial owner thanks to a U.K. law, passed last year, that requires such entities to disclose their ultimate beneficial owners.

The source of the money used to buy the flat is unclear.

SOCAR, the state firm Abdullayev’s father led for 17 years, has been widely criticized for corruption and secretive financial dealings.

 

For the first time, a luxury foreign property has been identified as belonging to a family member of Rovnag Abdullayev, the longtime president of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR.

 

The vast state enterprise, which Abdullayev led until last year, has been criticized for its lack of transparency and for enriching Azerbaijani elites, including apparently members of his family, at the expense of public coffers.

 

Abdullayev, who now serves as a deputy economy minister, has had no known sources of income besides his official salary.

 

But a new corporate filing reveals that his 28-year-old son, Rashad Abdullayev, owns a luxury flat at Twenty Grosvenor Square, a prominent address in one of London’s most expensive areas. He acquired the property through a secretive offshore company for 17.3 million British pounds ($22.4 million) in 2019.

 

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/son-of-longtime-azerbaijani-oil-official-owns-luxurious-london-flat-worth-over-20-million

 

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/son-of-longtime-azerbaijani-oil-official-owns-luxurious-london-flat-worth-over-20-million

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:42 a.m. No.18260229   🗄️.is 🔗kun

CBP Officers Seize over $2 Million of Methamphetamine at the Hidalgo International Bridge

 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge intercepted $2,262,400 worth of alleged methamphetamine.

 

“Our CBP officers used of all of our available tools and resources to thwart this smuggling attempt and prevented these harmful narcotics from getting to American streets,” said Port Director Carlos Rodriguez, Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Port of Entry.

 

On January 26, 2023, CBP officers assigned to the Hidalgo International Bridge encountered a blue Ford pickup truck making entry from Mexico. A CBP officer referred the vehicle for further inspection. After physically inspecting the vehicle, which included utilizing non-intrusive inspection (NII) equipment and screening by a (canine team), officers extracted six buckets of alleged methamphetamine weighing 253.09 pounds (114.80 kg) concealed within the vehicle.

 

CBP OFO seized the narcotics and vehicle. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents arrested the driver and initiated a criminal investigation.

 

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-officers-seize-over-2-million-methamphetamine-hidalgo

Anonymous ID: 73c1a5 Jan. 31, 2023, 10:50 a.m. No.18260270   🗄️.is 🔗kun

We rented an LED truck and parked it outside of @pfizer

world headquarters in Manhattan today

 

Stay tuned…

 

https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1620447276832559104