FBI Special Agent Michael Gaeta – Legal Attaché in Rome – Was Likely Stefan Halper’s Handler and the Now Infamous “Case Agent 1”

It has been widely reported that the Obama administration had a spy by the name of Stefan Halper working inside the Trump campaign.

The question that is still unanswered is who from the FBI was Halper’s handler?

As we first reported in May 2018, internet sleuths determined the name of the FBI spy inside the Trump campaign.

Jeff Carlson at theMarketswork put together a piece where he placed an individual by the name of Stefan Halper as a potential FBI spy into the Trump campaign. (Note that some believe that Obama may have had more than one spy in the Trump campaign).

It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper.

Internet sleuth Jacob Wohl discovered that Stefan Halper was paid $282,295 in September 2016 for “research and development in the social sciences and humanities.”

This is important because Halper enticed young George Papadopoulos to London with the promise of thousands of dollars for his assistance.

Another Twitter sleuth identified a second payment to Halper in the amount of $129,280 making the total payments to Halper more than $400,000 from President Obama’s Administration to spy on the future President of the United States.

Deplorable Lori found that the Deep State paid Stefan Halper made an additional $129,280 in 2017 for additional work.

At that time in May 2018 we identified that Stefan Halper was paid a total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work with the US government that included spying on the Trump campaign. (It was later revealed that Halper made much more than that.)

We now know that that Halper was the same person who invited George Papadopolous to London, where he just so happened to meet that infamous Australian “Diplomat” (who also worked with the Clinton Foundation) Alexander Downer. Halper also lured Carter Page into compromising situations involving “Russians”. He also was connected to setting up General Flynn in late 2015 with Russian President Putin. He apparently was the one who started rumors about General Flynn having an affair with a young Russian woman whom Flynn met at an event Halper was connected to overseas.

It has been reported that an individual by the name of James Baker (not the same James Baker who worked in the DOJ at this time) but another individual in the Pentagon was linked to Halper and perhaps oversaw the payments to Halper from the Deep State. But we don’t know who was Halper’s handler at the FBI.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/fbi-special-agent-michael-gaeta-legal-attache-in-rome-was-likely-stefan-halpers-handler-and-the-now-infamous-case-agent-1/

SEC Investigating BMW For Using "Sales Punching" To Potentially Inflate Sales Numbers

While Tesla continues to waltz around regulators, breaking any and all securities laws it wants to, underreserving its warranty liabilities and allowing its self-driving cars with human beta testers to slam into inanimate objects before bursting into flames, regulators have decided to instead pay attention to BMW.

It was reported yesterday that the SEC has now opened an investigation into whether BMW's sales figures have been manipulated, according to the Wall Street Journal. On a side note, there's been no word on whether or not BMW counts its "factory gated" vehicles in its press releases.

Instead, the SEC is looking at whether or not the automaker has engaged in "sales punching", a practice that encourages dealers to register cars despite them not being sold.

BMW acknowledged they were being investigated, stating: “We have been contacted by the SEC and will cooperate fully with their investigation.”

BMW also faces litigation by European authorities on allegations of colluding with rivals to manipulate prices and control emissions. BMW has vowed to fight the case and took a $1.1 billion charge as a result in April.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/sec-investigating-bmw-using-sales-punching-potentially-inflate-sales-numbers

‘What About Homeless Americans?’ – Jill Biden Receives Huge Backlash For Handing Out Tamales, Christmas Gifts to Asylum-Seekers in Mexico

What about our homeless veterans?

What about American children in need?

Democrats only care about illegal aliens and foreigners seeking to come here to live off the largess of the American taxpayer.

Joe Biden’s wife Jill Biden attended an event with asylum-seekers in Matamoros, Mexico this week and handed out tamales and Christmas gifts to foreigners living in a migrant camp.

“It’s heartbreaking. It’s really heartbreaking,” Jill Biden said of the migrant camp, according to Border Report. “Across the river is the flag of the United States. The flag of the United States offers people hope. They’re bringing their families and their loved ones here for hope of a better future and a better life for themselves.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/what-about-homeless-americans-jill-biden-receives-huge-backlash-for-handing-out-tamales-christmas-gifts-to-asylum-seekers-in-mexico/

Twitter bans animated PNGs to prevent trolls from weaponizing them and triggering seizures

Twitter has banned animated PNG image files (APNGs) on the platform in a bid to prevent the file format being weaponized against people with epilepsy, following a series of troll attacks on the platform.

The company announced the changes, indicating that it had detected a bug which allowed users to bypass its autoplay protection settings and include multiple animated images in a single tweet, which could potentially trigger seizures in people with sensitivity to motion and flashing images.

The news follows reported attacks on Twitter in which trolls hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation’s twitter handle and hashtags used during National Epilepsy Awareness Month in the US in November.

From now on, only GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) will be animated on the platform, as they cannot circumvent the autoplay settings, though the company stated that existing tweets with APNGs (Animated Portable Network Graphics) won't be deleted.

Trolls reportedly weaponized APNGs with strobing light effects, targeting the foundation’s roughly 33,300 followers in an estimated 30 separate attacks. It is unclear how many people were affected by the attacks but criminal complaints have been lodged against several accounts involved in them.

Animated images can be considered as a deadly weapon, according to precedent set in Texas in 2016, when John Rayne Rivello was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for sending a flashing GIF to journalist Kurt Eichenwald, triggering an eight-minute-long epileptic seizure.

Epilepsy is a potentially life-threatening condition believed to affect more than 50 million people, according to the World Health Organisation; of this number, roughly three percent have photosensitive epilepsy.

https://www.rt.com/news/476725-twitter-bans-animated-pngs-epilepsy/

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