Reward Offered in the Mysterious Killing of Former World Bank Economist

The police and family of Johan de Leede have announced a new reward for information concerning the mysterious killing of 83-year old de Leede, a retired World Bank economist, in his Fairfax County home around 1 a.m. on March 11, 2016.

Someone shot and killed him from outside a living room window and vanished into the night.

Detective John Vickery of the Fairfax County police said that he has had few other cases like it in his career and that every detective in the department has worked on it at some point.

“It is very rare that we don’t have anything,” Vickery said.

The case is all the more baffling because de Leede was living a quiet life, tending to his garden and sailing at his home on an idyllic stretch of the Potomac River on the Mason Neck Peninsula near Lorton, Va. He was surrounded by a large family.

And so it was on March 11, 2016. Johan de Leede had enjoyed a meal with his wife and houseguests that Friday night. Family members said everyone except him had gone to bed around 11:30 p.m. He had settled into a chair in his living room with a banana and a warm glass of milk, his nightly ritual. Around 1 a.m., his wife awoke to the sound of gunfire…

At the news conference Wednesday, police added new details about the most significant lead in the case. A neighbor saw a dark-colored pickup truck — possibly a Ford F-250 — speeding down Mallard Road near the de Leedes’ home on River Road about five or six minutes after the gunshots.

Vickery said a neighbor told detectives the truck had no lights on and blew through a stop sign at Oak Grove Street. The truck then turned on Hallowing Drive and was not seen again.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/69179/reward-offered-in-the-mysterious-killing-of-former-world-bank.html

THE GALL: Bernanke Says the Fed Needs System to Bailout Shadow Banks

Remarkable. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wants to add to the types of financial institutions that the Federal Reserve can loan money out to during Fed-created financial crises.

Bernanke said at a conference at New York University on Friday that the Fed needs to have expanded powers to lend to institutions that are not commercial banks, which is the only industry that the central bank can offer emergency funds to as a “lender of last resort,” reports Yahoo Finance.

That tool, Bernanke said, needs to be extended to cover shadow banks like broker-dealers and other non-bank institutions that could prove systemic in the next financial downturn.

“I fear they are not fully adequate,” Bernanke said of the Fed’s regulatory powers.

I'm sure it's all coincidence but Bernanke now is an adviser to two such shadow banks.

He is a senior adviser at Citadel, a $25 billion hedge fund, and also a senior adviser at Pimco.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/11/the-gall-bernanke-says-fed-needs-system.html

Incendiary photos show the damage in Paradise, a town that a California wildfire ‘destroyed’

Fast-moving flames are eating up large swaths of California, with three separate wildfires burning. As Ines de La Cuetara reports, the fires are putting tens of thousands of people on the move.

That much is obvious from a California Statewide Fire Map that shows the extent of the blazes that are scorching territory all over the state.

There are two fires grabbing most of the attention: the Woolsey Fire, burning an area of 35,000 acres including Malibu, and the Camp Fire, burning at 90,000 acres north of Sacramento.

The Camp Fire is believed to have “destroyed” the community of Paradise, levelling over 6,700 homes and killing at least nine people.,

https://globalnews.ca/news/4650668/california-wildfire-photos/

>>3833627

The 1 pic doesn't belong , this one does, no crying about it

Texas Rangers Help Arrest 9 For Illegal Voting Scheme In Texas

In Edinburg, Texas, nine people have been arrested for participating in an illegal voting scheme.

The arrests are connected to an ongoing investigation involving political workers (mostly democrats) recruiting people who did not live in the area to claim fraudulent addresses so they could vote there. They were already busted on election night saying that DACA illegals could vote.

Guadalupe Sanchez Garza, Araceli Gutierrez, Brenda Rodriguez, Rosendo Rodriguez, Cynthia Tamez, Ruby Tamez, Belinda Rodriguez, Felisha Yolanda Rodriguez and Jerry Gonzalez, Jr., will be prosecuted by the Hidalgo County DA’s Office, and were apprehended by the Texas Rangers, as well as the district attorney’s office.

“Illegal voting, particularly an organized illegal voting scheme orchestrated by political operatives, is an affront to democracy and results in corruption at the highest level,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said.

https://conservativedailypost.com/texas-rangers-help-arrest-9-for-illegal-voting-scheme-in-texas/

Beijing’s Control of the Global Pharmaceutical Market

With David Goldman, Rosemary Gibson, Vice Adm. Robert Monroe and Bill Gertz

DAVID GOLDMAN, Author of How Civilizations Die, Best known for his series of essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler:

Trump’s press conference on China’s 2025 aims

National security implications of Beijing’s control of 5G technology

ROSEMARY GIBSON, Senior Advisor, The Hastings Center, Author, China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine:

How manufacturing of prescription drugs moved East

The health, economic and national security risks of China’s control of pharmaceuticals

VICE ADM. ROBERT MONROE, U.S. NAVY (Ret.), Rear Admiral in U.S. Navy, commanded South Atlantic Force; U.S. Atlantic Fleet; directed Navy Systems Analysis and commanded Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Director of the Defense Nuclear Agency from 1977 to 1980:

Why maintaining our nuclear deterrence is critical

The condition of our physical capacity to support nuclear weapon testing

BILL GERTZ, Senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age (2016):

Defense Secretary Mattis to remain at Pentagon

Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of AI technologies

https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2018/11/09/beijings-control-of-the-global-pharmaceutical-market/

How the world’s 10 largest economies have evolved since 1961, in one chart

Visualization shows U.S. economic dominance, but the decades-long race for No. 2 is interesting

The fact that the U.S. economy has long been the world’s largest is not new. Nor is China’s rapid ascent to the world’s second-largest economy.

But an animated graphic making its way around the internet gives new perspective to how the world’s 10 largest economies, measured by GDP, have developed over the past six decades.

The graphic, seen in this tweet from Madrid-based fund manager Jaime Albella, shows the dominance of the U.S. economy since 1961, and also the horse race among other countries for the runner-up spot.

In the early 1960s, aside from the U.S., the list is topped largely by Western European economies, along with Japan and China. The U.S. already has a sizeable lead, since it was pretty much the only major economy that did not have to rebuild after World War II. The U.K. and France trade the No. 2 spot until 1968, when Japan vaults above them, evidence of its post-war “economic miracle.” Germany comes out of nowhere to suddenly take the No. 2 spot in 1971. (And why did it come out of nowhere? Because West Germany did not report GDP data to the World Bank, which the graphic is based on, until 1970.)

Japan retakes the lead in 1973, and after going head-to-head with Germany for a few years, sharply pulls away from the pack in the 1980s, and its surging economy challenges the U.S. into the 1990s.

And where’s China during all this? It keeps slipping in the rankings until dropping out entirely by 1978, popping back up for a few years in the 1980s then falling off again in 1987.

China re-emerges onto the scene in 1993, after massive economic reforms had taken hold, and stays there, steadily passing each and every country ahead of it — except for the U.S. In 2010, it overtakes Japan for the No. 2 spot, and then pulls away as the Chinese economy boomed while Japan’s contracted. As of 2017, the U.S. still holds a wide lead over China, which itself has an even wider lead over third-place Japan.

https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2018/11/09/how-the-worlds-10-largest-economies-have-evolved-since-1961-in-one-chart/

>>3833830

Like when he refused to go for the opening of the new embassy

>>3834002

Maybe he'll start a GoFundMe page for legal bills

Broward Mystery Boxes Tossed Into Trucks After Missed Deadline; Gaetz Forcibly Removed While Filming

After a Florida Judge ordered Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes to allow for the immediate inspection of tens of thousands of ballots suddenly found after Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson lost to Republican Gov. Rick Scott, Snipes failed to abide by a 7 PM deadline set at the emergency hearing. Instead, workers were filmed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) shuffling boxes into a truck, before he was forcibly removed by a police officer.

BREAKING: I took this video as the riot police removed me from where trucks were secretly loading stuff in/out of Broward Supervisors office. All this while they are violating constitutional rights & a court order! #BrowardCounty pic.twitter.com/DbxyKRde4f

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) November 10, 2018

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-10/mystery-broward-ballots-shuffled-trucks-rep-matt-gaetz-forcibly-removed-while

>>3834045

not even a ebake

>>3833549

Haven't you heard its a battle of word, the poster bearer cried . Ask any linguist