Anonymous ID: 525d08 July 22, 2023, 4:42 p.m. No.19224474   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4812 >>4838 >>4877 >>4899 >>4914 >>4948 >>5033 >>5080 >>5108

Against SecDef's Wish, Diversity-Obsessed Biden Picks Woman To Lead Navy

 

Casting aside the recommendation of his defense secretary, President Biden on Friday nominated Admiral Lisa Franchetti to command the US Navy. If confirmed, she would be the first woman to command a military branch and the first on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

 

Biden's move took many observers by surprise, as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had recommended Admiral Samuel Paparo for the position. Paparo is TOPGUN graduate with more than 6,000 hours in F-14s, F-15s and F/A-18s, 1,100 carrier landings and experience commanding forces in war zones.

 

However, with the Biden administration obsessed with diversity hires, Paparo's bid was likely doomed by the fact that he's a white man.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/against-secdefs-wish-diversity-obsessed-biden-picks-woman-lead-navy

Anonymous ID: 525d08 July 22, 2023, 4:44 p.m. No.19224480   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4485 >>4516 >>4529 >>4546 >>4574 >>4812 >>4838 >>4877 >>4899 >>4914 >>4948 >>5033 >>5080

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the kneeling death of George Floyd, will petition the US Supreme Court to review his conviction after the Minnesota state Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal.

 

At least four of the nine justices must vote to grant a petition for it to move forward to the oral argument stage. The USSC is expected to release orders in ongoing cases on July 24, Aug. 21 and Sept. 8, meaning the Court could act on Chauvin's new case on one of those dates - or it could wait until the new term begins in October.

 

Chauvin's petition was dismissed by the state supreme court on July 18 in a one-sentence order without explanation, denying the former cop an opportunity to overturn his 22.5-year sentence. He asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to take up the case in May after the state Court of Appeals rejected his claim that he received an unfair trial the month before.

 

Mr. Chauvin, a white man who was a member of the Minneapolis police department at the time of the incident in March 2020, reportedly kneeled on Mr. Floyd, a black man, for more than nine minutes while he was handcuffed in a prone position after being detained on suspicion of passing a counterfeit 20-dollar bill at a convenience store. A passer-by captured video footage of him complaining while detained that he couldn’t breathe, and the video went viral, leading to protests in the United States and around the world.

 

The death of Mr. Floyd led to widespread public revulsion and a violent nationwide backlash against police that continues to affect the nation’s politics, criminal justice system, and culture, as well as riots across the country that resulted in billions of dollars in damages. -Epoch Times

 

In 2021, prosecutors asked jurors to dismiss autopsy findings in the Floyd case.

 

As Jonathan Turley noted at the time;

 

When called to the scene due to Floyd allegedly passing counterfeit money, Floyd denied using drugs but later said he was “hooping,” or taking drugs.

 

The autopsy did not conclude that Floyd died from asphyxiation (though a family pathologist made that finding). Rather, it found “cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s).” The state’s criminal complaint against Chauvin said the autopsy “revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation. Mr. Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease.” He also was COVID-19 positive.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cop-who-kneeled-george-floyd-appeals-us-supreme-court

Anonymous ID: 525d08 July 22, 2023, 4:50 p.m. No.19224515   🗄️.is đź”—kun

virus (n.)

 

late 14c., "poisonous substance" (a sense now archaic), from Latin virus "poison, sap of plants, slimy liquid, a potent juice," from Proto-Italic weis-o-(s-) "poison," which is probably from a PIE root ueis-, perhaps originally meaning "to melt away, to flow," used of foul or malodorous fluids, but with specialization in some languages to "poisonous fluid" (source also of Sanskrit visam "venom, poison," visah "poisonous;" Avestan vish- "poison;" Latin viscum "sticky substance, birdlime;" Greek ios "poison," ixos "mistletoe, birdlime;" Old Church Slavonic višnja "cherry;" Old Irish fi "poison;" Welsh gwy "poison").

 

https://www.etymonline.com/word/virus

Anonymous ID: 525d08 July 22, 2023, 5:11 p.m. No.19224612   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4672 >>4838 >>4877 >>4899 >>4914 >>4948 >>5033 >>5080

Richard Branson had breakfast with Jeffrey Epstein three years after the paedophile was jailed for child prostitution, court document says

 

A spokesperson for the billionaire previously said they had 'no relationship'

But in 2011 Epstein emailed his private banker and a minister about the meeting

 

Tycoon Sir Richard Branson had breakfast with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein three years after the US financier was jailed for a child prostitution offence, a court document claims.

 

In 2019, after Sir Richard's name had appeared in a 'little black book' of high-profile Epstein contacts, a spokeswoman for the billionaire Virgin founder said that the two men had 'no personal or business relationship'.

 

But a bombshell legal document seen by The Mail on Sunday reveals that in 2011 Epstein emailed his private banker Jes Staley and the former Labour Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson to tell them of his alleged meeting with Sir Richard.

 

The document states: 'On January 7, 2011 Epstein writes to Peter Mandelson (copying Staley) 'had breakfast with Richard Branson, he is also a big fan of Africa'.

 

Epstein was a convicted sex offender at the time of the alleged meeting. In June 2008 he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and was sentenced to 18 months in jail.

 

Sir Richard is the latest high-profile figure named in court papers from a civil case brought by the US Virgin Islands government against JP Morgan, an American US bank accused of ignoring warnings about Epstein's sex trafficking.

 

Asked by the MoS this weekend whether Sir Richard had ever met or had breakfast with Epstein, a source said: 'We have no record of a breakfast on January 7, 2011.'

 

The reference to Africa remained a mystery last night. Sir Richard bought a private game reserve in South Africa in 1994 and 12 years later helped establish a business school in Johannesburg to boost entrepreneurship.

 

Epstein also repeatedly visited the continent, including in 2002 when he flew there on his private plane with former US President Bill Clinton, actor Kevin Spacey and comedian Chris Tucker to raise awareness of poverty and the Aids crisis.

 

The source close to Sir Richard said he 'did not travel to Africa with Epstein, meet with Epstein in Africa or attend a 2002 trip with Epstein'.

 

The MoS revealed earlier this month that Epstein planned to hire Prince Andrew and Lord Mandelson to be his 'star advisers' for a new consultancy business.

 

Last weekend this newspaper also disclosed how Prince Andrew requested Epstein's help with securing $200 million (ÂŁ153 million) in funding for a mysterious fuel company in December 2010.

 

That coincided with a visit, lasting at least five days, by Andrew to Epstein's New York mansion. In his infamous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, the Prince claimed in that the 'sole purpose' of this trip was to break off his friendship with the disgraced financier.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12326961/Richard-Branson-breakfast-Jeffrey-Epstein-three-years-paedophile-jailed-child-prostitution-court-document-says.html