Robert Maxwell Goes to Texas: The Story of Bluebonnet
April 4th, 2023Via: Unlimited Hangout:
Understanding Bluebonnet requires unpacking a tangled and diffuse web of fraudsters, intelligence assets, bankers and real estate developers who together rampaged across Texas and surrounding states during the mid-1980s, bilking and crashing a near-limitless number of thrifts and related lending institutions in a then-unprecedented spree of brazen financial crime. Much of this was exactly what the mainstream narrative of the S&L crisis said it was: runaway greed enabled by deregulatory fever, which allowed crooks to spirit away untold sums. Yet, this isn’t the full picture. In many instances, it seems that money was siphoned off into offshore accounts, where it was then used to help finance covert intelligence operations—support for the Contras of Nicaragua, and for the transfer of arms and sensitive technology to the Middle East.
Trump Leaves Florida for New York Ahead of Expected Surrender and Arraignment
April 3rd, 2023Update: Trump to be Charged Tuesday with 34 Felony Counts:
Donald Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records, according to a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president.
A New York City police arrest report summarizing the charges against Trump will then be prepared and entered into the court system before he is led into a courtroom to be formally arraigned on the charges, none of which are misdemeanors.
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Via: CBS:
Former President Donald Trump is en route to New York City after leaving Florida on Monday ahead of his planned surrender Tuesday afternoon to face criminal charges.
Trump left his residence of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach at 12:20 p.m. ET in a black SUV and is flying via private aircraft to LaGuardia Airport, where he will then head to Trump Tower and spend the night.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization, “I Hope There’s Nobody Inside There”
April 3rd, 2023I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been reading, watching and listening to things like this all weekend.
Via: Lex Fridman:
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WHO Now Says COVID Vaccines Not Recommended For Healthy Kids & Teens
March 31st, 2023After forcing it on millions…
Via: Summit News:
Yet another leading health institution has unveiled a significant Covid policy reversal this week… this time it’s none other than the World Health Organization (WHO) saying something that might have gotten an individual suspended from social media or publicly “canceled” a mere one or two years ago.
WHO now recommends healthy, young people NOT get the Covid Vaccines. pic.twitter.com/77FP0Qvi7v
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 30, 2023
Trump Indicted
March 30th, 2023
Via: New York Post:
The vote sets the stage for the first ever criminal prosecution of a former US president.
The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” investigation on Thursday voted to indict the former president, two sources with knowledge of the case told The Post.
Boston Dynamics: Stretch
March 30th, 2023Via: Boston Dynamics:
EU Planning to Invest Frozen Russian Assets, Give Returns to Ukraine
March 30th, 2023$300 billion.
Via: The Libertarian Institute:
The European Union is developing proposals on what to do with assets seized from the Russian central bank by member states. According to European officials, the bloc may invest the money and hand the returns to Ukraine.
Anders Ahnlid, a Swedish diplomat who leads the commission exploring what to do with the Kremlin’s money, told Politico that whatever decision is made will be without precedent. “There is a consensus among [EU] member states that it’s important to examine very, very carefully, what can be done under the instructions that we’ve been given, including that what is going to be done will have to be in compliance with EU and international law,” she said. “We are in an exceptional situation and probably any solution that we will come up with will be of a nature that hasn’t been there before.”
The diplomats believe the bloc will be able to legally invest the funds because Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an “exceptional and gross violation” of international and humanitarian law.
However, the commission admits it will have to change sanctions regulations to carry out the plan. The current statutes say once funds are unfrozen, then the target will get access to their capital as well as any returns that accrued during the sanctions period.
The bloc hopes other Western nations will join in on the scheme. The EU said taking steps in coordination with the Group of 7 (G7) was vital to not spooking investors. The commission estimates that EU and G7 countries have frozen about $300 billion in Russian central bank assets. It believes if the money is invested, it can earn about a 2.6% return.
The EU is not sure how it would handle losses. “Losses can never be excluded,” and so the question of “who bears any residual risk in case [of] such losses … will require a clear legal answer,” the commission admitted. Adding, losses have “political and financial implications.”
A Miscarriage of Statistics: The Thalidomide Sequel
March 30th, 2023Via: Arkmedic’s Blog:
The normal miscarriage rate of a healthy population is somewhere around 5-6%. For years, studies have been misrepresenting rates of 15-20% so that when new drugs are tested in pregnancy, a doubling of the miscarriage rate will fly under the radar.
This is how the COVID vaccine managed to be sold as “safe in pregnancy” when it was far from it. This article shows you how the data was misrepresented by the CDC and others to cover up the scandal.
RESTRICT Act Is Orwellian Censorship Grab Disguised As Anti-TikTok Legislation
March 30th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
The RESTRICT Act, introduced by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tom Thune (R-SD), is aimed at blocking or disrupting transactions and financial holdings linked to foreign adversaries that pose a risk to national security, however the language of the bill could be used to give the US government enormous power to punish free speech.
Warner, a longtime opponent of free speech who, as Michael Krieger pointed out in 2018 (and confirmed in the Twitter Files) pushed for the ‘weaponization’ of big tech, crafted the RESTRICT act to “ake swift action against technology companies suspected of cavorting with foreign governments and spies, to effectively vanish their products from shelves and app stores when the threat they pose gets too big to ignore,” according to Wired.
Bad actors listed in the bill are; China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.
In reality, the RESTRICT Act has very little to do with TikTok and everything to do with controlling online content.
In very specific terms a lot of U.S. websites would be impacted. Why? Because a lot of websites use third-party ‘plug-ins’ or ‘widgets’ or software created in foreign countries to support the content on their site. The “Restrict Act” gives the DNI the ability to tell a website using any “foreign content” or software; that might be engaged in platform communication the U.S Government views as against their interests; to shut down or face a criminal charge. In very direct terms, the passage of SB686 would give the Dept of Commerce, DNI and DHS the ability to shut down what you are reading right now. This is a big deal.
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The RESTRICT Act can also be used to punish people using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) if they’re used to access banned websites, and directs the Secretary of Commerce to “identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, investigate, or otherwise mitigate” that which is deemed a national security risk associated with technology linked to the above countries.
Penalties include fines of up to $1 million or 20 years in prison, or both.
New California Transgender Law Endangers Parental Rights Worldwide, Legal Group Warns: ‘Drastic Overreach’
March 30th, 2023Gender distress.
Via: Fox:
A new state law in California could incentivize “bad actors” from around the world to skirt custodial laws by relocating to the Golden State, a conservative legal group claims.
“We think it’s a drastic overreach by California,” Emilie Kao, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), told Fox News Digital. “Not only does it violate parents’ fundamental rights to direct the upbringing of their children, it also violates federal law on child custody and jurisdiction because it basically supersedes the federal law that gives jurisdiction to states on child custody matters.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week signed SB 107, which will block state officials from enforcing laws from other states that hinder access to transgender medical procedures and drugs.
“With this law, California is basically saying it can take temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child from anywhere if there’s a disagreement between a parent and the state of California over how to treat a child’s gender distress,” said Kao, whose organization was one of 50 groups that sent a letter of protest to Newsom over SB 107.
