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09/20/2019
Comments allegedly made by
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson
during a meeting
at the agency's San Francisco office, was reported
to upset many people
present at the meeting, as well as
outrage from prominent transgender rights advocates
who heard about the remarks.
msn.com:
"Ben Carson's remarks during San Francisco visit spark backlash"
Three staffers present at the meeting
reported the comments to The Washington Post
and said at least one person walked out
of the meeting in protest.
The staffers reported that Carson said,
"Society did not know the difference between
men and women anymore."
The staffers say Carson told them,
"Transgender people should get the same rights as everyone else,
but they don't get to change things for everybody else."
Carson is also alleged to have remarked,
"Shelter operators and women's groups
informed him that homeless women would
be traumatized if big, hairy men
enter shelters identifying themselves as women."
Carson told staffers, "That single-sex shelters
should be able to turn away transgender people."
HUD secretary Ben Carson may have been listening
to women's rights advocates from the
United States' northern next door neighbour
Canada,
such as
the staffers of the
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter?
The VRRWS is
the oldest rape-relief center in Canada,
founded by women in 1973.
Within this past year
the Canadian women's refuge was
defunded by the city of
Vancouver, hit
with boycotts, threats,
vandalism by graffiti and
even had a dead rodent nailed to
the front door entrance
by radical trans activists
because
the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter's
rape-relief programs
and housing are
reserved for those who were
born female and therefore
have a shared experience
of being female from birth.
Previously, at the 2016
British Columbia Federation of Labour conference,
the federation and
its affiliated unions stopped funding
the women's shelter
for not allowing
biological males who "identify as women"
into their rape-relief center.
National Review:
"Women-Only Rape-Relief Shelter Defunded, Then Vandalized"
Carson wants to protect women in shelters
from men who "feel they are women" because
it would be traumatizing for the women
to share a bedroom or shower
with a "trans woman
with a penis".
Allowing men who "identify as women"
into women's shelters
are a risk not only to
the women at the
shelter, but also the surrounding
neighbourhood where women and children
may come and go.
Canadian resident, Bec,
alerted the public
via a popular San Francisco
social-media platform,
of the seemingly
predatory social
media posts,
of a "transgender
woman with a penis", who
goes by the intials, T. P.,
who was staying at
another Canadian women's
refuge that does allow "transgender
women",
the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
in Vancouver.
T. P. posted to
social media and shares "her" experiences
at the women's shelter
from the shelter itself.
T.P. posted selfies
from the shelter with
text that described how "her"
penis was getting erections
again in the mornings due to
taking progesterone.
Here is one example,
"B...h. please.
'I'ma' walk around
in the morning topless,
titties out and a bulge in
my pants.
In the 'woman's' shelter.
With a piece of toast in my hand
and my hair tied up."
To see more of T.P.'s
lewd posts use link below.
Screen shots of T.P's
posts.
After Bec posted the screen shots from
T.P. on social media and alerted,
the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
of the creepy behaviour of the
"transwoman" staying at the women's
shelter,
the agency was flooded with inquires from
other people concerned about
what appeared to be
a sexual menace at the shelter.
DEWC replied back to Bec via social media:
"Hi Bec, we are a low-barrier women's shelter which includes trans women.
Our staff takes women's safety very seriously and know Tyler personally.
She is held to the same standards as others in ensuring the space is safe for women."
The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
also released a public statement
on their website to let it
be known that they refuse to
debate on social media.
They said anyone
who would imply that
a penis enabled "transgender
woman" would be a threat or
make women living
in the shelter feel uncomfortable
is a transphobe.
The shelter said they had been,
"...inundated with transphobic messages,
comments, and negative
reviews on Facebook and Twitter after
we confirmed our trans-inclusive stance online in
regards to a trans woman who accessed our shelter."
DEWC.CA,statement:
In the USA, in 2018
a faith-based women's homeless shelter in Anchorage
had concerns of men having access to the shelter and sued
to block the city from requiring it to accept "transgender women".
The ordinance would allow men to come to the
shelter and sleep and dress along side women.
WNYT.com/news:
"Anchorage shelter seeks to exclude transgender people"
In 2017, two women were kicked out of
a Canadian women's refuge, called the
Okanagan, for breeching a confidentiality
agreement with the shelter when they went to
the press to say they felt
vulnerable sharing housing with a "trans woman".
They said they were, "Fleeing bad experiences
from men and now they have a man living at
the shelter."
The USA can learn from what is already happening
in Canada
as well within its own borders,
of the consequences for vulnerable
at risk
women that are forced to cohabitate with
men "who identify as women" in women's shelters.
Feminists oppose housing men
who call themselves "trans women" with women
because women are oppressed because of their sex
and share the common experience of being born female,
faith based women's refuges
oppose due to faith, and
women who believe in biology and
are concerned about sexual predatory behaviour
in their own neighbourhoods where women's
shelters are located, all are aware of
the risks to women.
Feminists, faith based organizations, and
women who believe that sex is biological
and distinctly different from
gender would most likely
agree with HUD Secretary Carson's alledged remarks,
"Transgender people should get the same rights as everyone else,
but they don't get to change things for everybody else."
The risks to women
cohabitating with men in women's
refuges
are known and the consequences are
foreseeable, therefore it is criminal and
a human rights violation to force
women's rape-relief
shelters to house men who "indentify as
as women".
09/18/2019
The Policemen's Benevolent Association Local 105 union has filed
a complaint on behalf of
female prison guards to block
the transfer of a "transgender woman",
that has male genitalia,
to New Jersey's only female prison.
A "transgender woman" is a male who "identifies"
or thinks he is a woman.
App.com repoted: "Female NJ prison guards shouldn't have to strip search
transgender female inmate: lawsuit"
"Ordering female corrections officers
to strip search a transgender
inmate with male genitalia completely violates... the law,"
said Frank M. Crivelli, the attorney representing
the prison guards.
In August of 2019, New Jersey state officials
were facing a lawsuit from
the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey,
when they agreed to transfer Sonia Doe,
not "her" legal name, to
the Edna Mahan Correctional
Facility for Women, the only prison
in the state that houses
female inmates.
"N.J. kept a transgender woman in men's prisons
for over a year. She
says she was harassed and beaten," per NJ.com.
The prisoner had served in the men's prisons for over
seventeen months and the agreement to transfer
from the men's to the women's
prison came two weeks after the
transgender inmate's lawsuit was filed.
"Woman Who Is Transgender Will Be
Transferred to New Jersey's Women's Prison," Insider NJ.
In March of 2018,
Sonia Doe
entered custody to the New Jersey
Department of Corrections due to offenses
stemming from,
"...addiction to prescription pain pills
following extensive surgeries
related to car accidents and injuries," claims Doe.
Before being arrested and since approximately
2005, Doe had been on hormone therapy which
changed "her" fat distribution, facial hair growth & skin to
more resemble the female sex.
In 2007,
Sonia obtained a New Jersey driver's license that states
"her" gender is female and "her" feminine legal name.
Doe was moved four times between three
men's prisons while in custody before
filing a lawsuit.
Doe lived with the male population
or was put in isolation.
Sonia was transferred out of
and
then moved back to
one prison of the three men's prisons.
Doe's lawsuit asked the Department of Corrections
to treat her the same as other female inmates,
use female pronouns and provide female undergarments.
Doe's lawsuit claims that
while housed in the men's facilities,
"she" was physically assaulted by guards
and sexually harassed by guards and inmates.
Doe stated that, "I am a woman and
feel unsafe in a men's prison."
You can read Doe's lawsuit in the link below.
ACLU-nj.org:Sonia Doe.
It is inhumane for any incarcerated person to be sexually harrassed.
If a person has male genitalia should that person be housed in
the men's prison?
Should men's prisons have a transgender
wing for the growing population of
"transgender women" or
is it fair to the female guards
and female inmates to share
facilities with a feminized man that
has a penis?
No person can change their biological
sex,
yet they can legally change their gender
to be treated with all of the same
rights and restrictions of a woman.
Is it a violation of the female guards rights to be required
to strip search a person of the opposite sex?
Female guards blocking the transfer of a male inmate
that "identifies"
as woman or thinks "she" is a woman
and is legally a woman clearly demonstrates
how "transgender" rights conflict with women's
sex based rights.
The outcome of lawsuit will be signifcant.
What are you thoughts?
04/26/2019
On the date of April 24, 2019, California state legislators passed,
Senate Bill, number 132,
which allows any
individual incarcerated by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,
who has a "gender identity" which
is incongruous from their sex, does not need
a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or any other physical or
mental health diagnosis, and regardless of anatomy,
must be
addressed in a manner consistent with their
gender identity.
If a man decides that he is woman, then all prison workers
must address the person born a man as "she" even if "she"
has a penis.
A man serving time for a felony could decide to
change his gender identity during his incarceration
and request to be transferred to the women's ward if he would feel safer.
A study of California's prisons found the rate of sexual assault
of incarcerated
"transgender women", or males who "indentify as women",
in those prisons
was thirteen times higher than for men who "identify as men",
in the same prisons.
Senate Bill, number 132 does not mention any studies about
the impact of putting
"transgender men", or females who "identify as men",
in with the male prison population.
Sexual assault is a human rights violation,
a crime that should not happen in any prison.
The text of the legislature says that
sexual assaults are often not reported and prison staff are not
trained or prepared to prevent, report and treat instances of sexual assault
and rape.
Protecting all incarcerated persons from sexual assault and rape
should be the gold standard in any prison.
Bill 132 may have had good intentions, however it
puts all females in the prison and jail system
at risk, be they correctional
officers, female prisoners or women "identifying as men".
A man, with typical male anatomy, who "identifies as a woman",
is entitled to be searched by an officer
whose "gender identity" is female,
if the incarcerated requests it.
If the gender of the person being searched
"cannot be determined" then the individual
must be searched by an officer who "identifies as female".
Why do women always have to do the dirty work?
A female officer may be required to touch
a male's genitalia and the female officer has no right to say no.
Incarcerated women are most vunerable,
many may have been previously traumatized
by rape or domestic violence and may suffer
from post traumatic stress syndrome.
Sharing intimate spaces with males may trigger
post traumatic stress syndrome and, or cause
emotional wounds to re-open.
Under the new legislation, if a prisoner may change
their gender, then it would seem that a correctional officer
may change their gender as well?
Would it be possible for
an incarcerated female to be searched by a male
prison worker,
possessing male anatomy, who "identifies as female"?
Women may be forced to share a prison cell or prison shower with a
fully endowed male who identifies "as a woman".
A male may be sexually assaulted, only a woman can be raped
and incur the risk of pregnancy,
therefore a woman is more at risk when
sharing the women's ward with "a woman with penis",
or with a male who thinks that
he is a woman, than
a man who thinks he is a woman in a male prison.
Putting a male that has declared to
magically "change his gender"
in a women's ward subjugates one
group's rights over another
which makes Bill number 132
unconstitutional.
California should look to other countries that
allow people to "change their gender" and learn
from those country's mistakes.
In Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England,
a male that was transitioning, though
not yet legally female,
Karen White,
born,
Stephen Wood,
sexually assaulted two female inmates at a
women's jail while serving time for previously
raping two other women.
Stephen was first arrested for attacking his
sixty six year old
neighbor with a steak-knife.
Fortunately, Stephen Wood, also known as
Karen White, has been moved to the
men's ward and is highly unlikely to be moved back
to a women's prison due to the risk he poses,
even if he is legally declared a woman.
If Stephen Wood was capable of using his transgender
persona, Karen White, to gain access to women's spaces
and
women, what would prevent someone else from trying it?
Even a male that has undergone penis inversion or "gender confirmation
surgery" may be unsafe to women
in a women's prison,
because other
male characteristics remain intact and
males typically have a physical
advantage over females.
Born Karl Amati,
Evie Amati,
underwent gender "reassignment" surgery in Thailand in 2014.
In January of 2017, feeling
unattractive after meeting two women from the
dating site "Tinder", Evie dropped the women
off at a hotel and went home.
Still feeling angry and
rejected by the women, Karl/Evie left his home
later that night or early morning and
attacked three random strangers with
an axe.
The transgender axe attacker was convicted of three attempted murders,
and is serving time in Mary Wade Correctional Centre,
an Australian maximum-security women's prison.
Is it equitable for females to share their bunks, showers and
intimate prison facilities with
Karl/Evie even though
he has under gone bottom surgery?
A person incarcerated in California for a felony offense
can change their gender while serving their sentence
and the state would be required to move that person to a
prison that matches their new "gender identity"
without any medical intervention or psychiatric evaluation.
California Senate Bill number 132
is good for males who "identify as women", but it
is detrimental to females prison workers, as well as
female prisoners
and
does nothing to address "transgender men" or women who
"identify as men", in men's prisons.
Female correction officers may be forced to search males.
Vunerable female prisoners may be forced to be searched
by correctional officers who are really males, but
"identify as women", and female prisoners
may be housed in the women's prison
with men who "identify as women".
Under this law, women who "identify as men", also known as
"transgender men", will be housed in the men's prison.
It seems highly doubtful that women who "identify
as men" will be safer
from rape and sexual assault in a
men's prison than in a women's prison.
The consequences and risks for females are easily foreseen
with the passing of California's anti-women Bill number 132.
Are we going to wait for a woman to get assaulted before we
pay attention to the fact
that women are giving up their rights to
sex-segregated spaces, be they prisons or restrooms,
for the
sake of men who think they are women?
Bill number 132 tramples the rights of the most vunerable women
in society, the imprisoned female population.
Men who "identify as women", also known as "transgender
women" are not women, they are unique males, but still males.
Conflating gender and sex in law is a Pandora's box of
problems.
Legislators should pass a law that
requires training for correction workers to prevent
and report sexual assault and rape in all prisons.
Perhaps we should require a special wing in the men's
prison dedicated to men who think they are women?
Why dump male prisoners in the women's ward and
force female officers to search those that refuse to
state their sex? Under this Bill, a
person cannot be disciplined
for not fully disclosing complete information
about their gender identity.
Are prisoners normally required to disclose
everything else?
Why is it legal for a person
to change such a fundamental fact about their identity?
Republican representative, Mike Morrell voted no.
Democratic representative, Holly Mitchell,
was a "no votes recorded", in other words she didn't
bother to vote and
Republican California Senator,
John Moorlach was a "no vote recorded" as well.
Democrats that voted aye:
Steven Bradford,
Hannah-Beth Jackson,
Nancy Skinner, and
Senator Scott Wiener who first introduced
the anti-women bill which erases the
meaning of the words "women" and "sex"
and gives away hard won
sex-based rights for women.
12/27/2018
California Assembly Bill 1266,
also known as,
School Success and Opportunity Act,
was created to protect transgender
students in grades kindergarten through tweleve
from discrimination and
to address transgender privacy,
facility use, and participation in
school athletic competitions.
All students must be allowed to participate
in sex-segregated activities, facilities
and locker rooms
consistent with the student's personal gender
identity,
even if the student's gender identity
does not match
with their biological and chromosomal
sex or
the sex or gender listed in the pupil's
records.
Assembly 1266 has good intentions
to protect transgender students, yet
girls and young women are being asked to give up their sports,
safe spaces and
their very own sex.
The Bill was introduced by Assemblyman
Tom Ammiano on February 22, 2013 and
approved by Governor Brown August 12, 2013.
Assembly Bill 1266 became a provision within California Education Code,
Section 221.5(f), on January 1, 2014.
According to the Bill, "gender" means "sex," and
includes a person's, "gender identity" and "gender
expression."
"Gender identity" refers to appearance or behavior
whether or not stereotypically associated with
the person's physiology or,
"Assigned sex at birth."
What the Bill calls, "Assigned sex at
birth," is based
on many criteria, such as anatomical and
chromosomal characteristics used to determine sex.
Definition of sex: Medical Dictionary.
"Gender Identity" refers to external cues used
to communicate gender to others such as
hair style or clothing.
People who do not identify with their biological
characteristics are described as transgender.
A biological, chromosomal female that
identifies as a male is refered to as a
"transgender boy" or "transgender man" and
chromosomal males that
identify as females are described as
"transgender girls" or "transgender women."
Medical treatments or procedures are not
considered a prerequisite
for one's recognition as transgender.
"Gender nonconformity" refers to a person whose
gender expression is not stereotypical of
their chromosomal sex or those whom identfy as
as androgynous.
Finally, not all transgender youth
are homosexual
or bisexual and not all homosexual
youth are gender-nonconforming.
Bill 1266 states School districts should accept and
respect a student's assertion
of their gender identity where the student
expresses their identity at school
or where there is
evidence that the gender identity is
a sincerely held part of the
student's core indentity, such as letters from
family members and or healthcare providers.
If a student meets the criteria, the school may
not question the student expect in rare
circumstances when there is credible basis
that the student is making the assertion for
improper reasons.
A transgender or gender nonconforming student may
not express their gender identity at home and only
at school.
The transgender student has a right to keep their
transgender status private
from their parents. The
school may not tell the transgender student's
own parents the student's
transgender status, unless the student gives the school
permission.
The right to keep a student's
transgender status private from
their parents encourages students to keep secrets
from their parents.
Although the law may have good intentions,
it condones the practice of students keeping
secrets from their
parents.
Child predators also tell their victims to keep secrets.
Assembly Bill 1266, allows schools to maintain
seperate restroom and locker room facilities for
male and female students.
However, students shall
be allowed to use the locker rooms and
restrooms that corresponds to their "gender identity"
asserted at school.
Gender neutral or private changing rooms
may be made available and used
by any student for any reason, but schools cannot
require a transgender student to be singled out and
required to use separate facilities, as it is not only a
denial of equal access, it may violate the student's
right to privacy by possibly
disclosing the student's
transgender status.
Parents and, or students who are uncomfortable
with a transgender student using the same
sex-segregated restroom
or locker room are not a reason to deny access to
the transgender student.
The School Success and Opportunity Act
states that school
administrators and counseling staff
should work with the parents and students who
are not comfortable sharing sex-segregated
locker rooms or
restrooms with transgender students to address
their discomfort and to foster and understanding
of gender identity and a school culture that
respects all students (except for chromosomal girls).
Assembly Bill 1266 changes the meaning of
sex to include "gender identity" and
effectively causes chromosomal girls and young women
to give up their rights based on their sex.
All students deserve protections.
The School Success and Opportunity Act is
well intentioned to protect
transgender students, but is detremental to girls
and women.
Girls are now forced to compete with chromosomal males
who identify as girls in
atheletic competetions
Girls competing with chromosomal males identifying as
females, also known as transgender girls are
at an unfair disadvantage and are at risk for
more sports injury due to the skeletal and muscular
differences of chromosomal girls verses transgender girls.
In California it is
the law that
girls are required to accept people
with male anatomies in locker rooms, restrooms and
at school overnight
activities and must accept that a girl with a penis
is perfectly normal.
If girls and parents don't like it then the
girls and parents are wrong and
must seek counseling and
learn to be inclusive.
Parents are also the losers, as secrecy is condoned.
Schools are fobidden from disclosing the
student's transgender status to the
student's very own parents, as
some students are not transgender at home.
Withholding information from parents prevents the family
from seeking counseling together.
Many transgender students have other issues
and it is not fair to the students
to not allow the family to help.
Conditioning students to keep secrets from
parents is wrong as child molesters encourage
children to keep secrets.
Rather we like it or not, this has been
the law since twenty fourteen.
The main political push
for the trans activists
is do away with or replace the word,
"sex," which is the biologic characteristics
that distinguishes male and female, with the
word, "gender," which is based on stereotypes.
Women are being asked to give up their sports,
safe spaces and most importantly
their very own sex
to males who identify as females.
Do you think Bill 1266 is fair to girls,
young women and parents?
Is there a more equitable way to
balance the needs and rights of
chromosomal girls and women
with transgender students?
Your comments are greatly appreciated.
08/29/2018
The Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also
known as DARPA, whose mission is to make pivotal investments in
breakthrough technologies for United States
national security, is
researching using plants as
intelligence gatherers.
The full article is linked below.
Nature's Silent Sentinels Could Help Detect Security Threats
The Advanced Plant Technologies program,
or APT, will pursue technologies
to engineer robust, plant-based sensors
that are self-sustaining in their environment and
can be remotely monitored using existing hardware.
APT will try to modify the genomes of plants in order to
harness the plant's natural mechanisms
for sensing and responding
to environmental stimuli
and extend
them to detect the
presence of certain chemicals, pathogens, radiation,
and electromagnetic signals,
and do so in a way that does not compromise
the plant's ability to thrive.
Living plant sensors could also be used
outside of the military, such as,
for communities to safely identify
landmines or unexploded ordinances.
Plants manifest physiological responses to basic
stimuli such as light and temperature,
also in some cases plants respond to touch,
chemicals, pests, and pathogens.
APT addresses how modified plants allocate internal resources
and compete in natural environments,
so that the modified plants can thrive despite
anticipated interactions with natural stressors such as microbes,
animals, insects, and other plants.
APT is a synthetic biology program and
initial work on the program will take place in a contained
laboratory and greenhouse facilities.
If the research is successful,
later-phase field trials would
take place under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service,
following all standard protocols for plant biosafety.
APT will rely on existing ground, air,
and space-based technology
to remotely monitor plant reporting.
Such systems are already capable of measuring plant's
temperature, chemical composition, reflectance, and body plan,
among other qualities, from a standoff distance.
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01/30/2018
On November 14, 2017 the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
United States House of Representatives
conducted an interview with Glenn Simpson
of Fusion GPS, the company that
created the so-called dossier memos, which are
a collection of
intelligence concerning
Donald J. Trump that was
collected mostly during the presidential campaign.
Representatives present were Conaway, King, Rooney
Ros-Lethinen, Gowdy, Schiff, Himes, Speier, Quigley,
Swalwell, Castor and Heck.
Also present were counsel for Mr. Glenn Simpson,
Esquires Robert F. Muse, Joshua Levy, and
Rachel Clattenburg.
The interview was voluntary and Mr. Simpson
was under oath.
The following is a brief of the interview with
Mr. Simpson.
The complete transcript
is linked here.
Executive Session...Interview with Glenn Simpson
Mr. Simpson works at a consulting firm in Washington D.C..
The trade name of the firm is Fusion GPS.
The legal entity is called Bean LLC and
Simpson believes that it was established in 2010.
It is a commercial research firm that
sometimes does strategy, and public affairs.
The primary line of work is research specializing in
public records research and other journalistic style
information gathering.
Simpson was asked about the meaning of the phrase "opposition
research?"
Simpson explained that the
the conventional use of the phrase "opposition research"
usually refers to people who are working on
campaigns looking for information for debates
or other election related activities.
Fusion GPS does opposition research from time to time.
Opposition research is not a big part of their business.
Generally, Fusion GPS is hired by corporate cients, banks
and large law firms.
Most of Simpson's work is not election-related.
His work mostly has to do with fraud, coruption investigations,
policy disputes and high-dollar litigation.
Mr. Simpson confirmed that he was
hired around September or October of
2015 to do research into then
candidate Donald Trump by
the enity known as The Washington Free Beacon.
Simpson started out by taking
an open-ended look at
Donald
Trump's
business
career, litigation
history,
relationships with
questionable people, as well as
how much Trump was really
worth, how
Trump ran his
casinos, and what kind
of performance Trump had in other lines
of work.
Simpson started his research into Donald J. Trump
with a very broad unfocused look,
which is Simpson's normal business
practice.
Fusion GPS attempts to gather all information
in a neutral way be it positive or
negative.
One of Fusion GPS's specialties is
business and corporation investigations.
Simpson interputs that he was hired by
The Washington Free
Beacon because Trump is a businessman and
Fusion GPS has a background in doing
business investigation.
Simpson started his agency with The
Washington Free Beacon in
September or October of 2015 and the relationship tapered
off
in April, sometime in the spring.
As the Republican primaries came to
an end it became obvious to Simpson the
work was going to end.
Simpson believes that his work with The
Washington Free Beacon ended in
April or May 2016.
Fusion GPS was hired by a second client
to do research opposition on then candidate
Trump.
The second client to hire Fusion GPS
was a large law firm based
in Seattle, Washington named Perkins Cole.
Having been in Washington for several decades
it was well known to
Mr. Simpson that the law firm Perkins Cole
represented
The Democratic National Committee.
When Perkins Cole hired Fusion GPS
to research Trump,
Simpson was aware that Perkins Cole
represented The Democratic National Committee.
Mr. Simpson felt that he had not been released
from his client to talk about the specifics of
how he knew that Perkins Cole represented The
D.N.C., he could only say that he was aware of it.
Simpson began his work for Perkins Cole
by reviewing what they had learned in the
previous months
about candidate Trump.
He began to develop specific lines of inquiry.
Things such as Trump's business deals, and
his history with regard to tax disputes.
Gradually Simpson figured out that while Trump
was running on a platform of economic nationalism
that Trump outsourced his clothing line to developing
countries and Simpson wanted to look into labor
practices in Trump's factories.
Simpson wanted to explore Trump's bankruptcies and
get a better sense of his business partners.
Simpson reached an agreement about funding
and thought that he had the funds, "..to
do a bunch of things."
Mr. Simpson charges a flat fee plus expenses
and he thinks that the fees were fifty thousand
dollars per month.
Simpson left his job as a journalist for the
Wall Street Journal in 2009.
In his last few years with the
Wall Street Journal he lived
in Brussels, Belgium
and developed
a line of reporting around the crime
and corruption in the former Soviet Union.
Simpson wrote about Vladimir Putin
and the corruption and orgainzed crime acitvities
making it's way westward from Russia.
Eventually Simpson started doing a lot of work on
corruption in Ukraine, and connections to the
Russian mafia and
that is when Simpson first came across Paul Manafort.
Simpson met Christopher Steele
in 2009 just after Mr. Steele
left the British Government.
Simpson and Steele both had a common
interest in Russian organized crime.
In the beginning of doing research into
candidate Trump, Simpson enlisted
Steele to focus on Trump's relationship
with a convicted racketeer named Felix Sater.
Sater was alleged to have a Russian
organized crime background.
During Simpson's first phase or the first project
on Trump additional information developed that suggested
Trump had been associated with Felix Sater, and
an entity named Bayrock
who engaged in illicit financial business activity
and had organized crime connections.
As Simpson pieced together the early years of Trump's
biography, it seemed as if during the early part of
Trump's career he had
long term assoiciations with or connections
to a lot of
Italian mafia figures and then gradually during
the nineties Trump became associated with
Russian mafia figures.
The research was not speculative by 2016
and was pretty well-established.
Trump had attempted to downplay his relationship
with Sater by saying that he would not recognize
Sater if he saw him on the street, but there
were pictures of Trump and Sater together.
Simpson found Trump's statements on Sater
to be suspicious and not credible.
Other people around Bayrock were
found to be from the former
Soviet Union and had associations with
possible organized crime ties such as
Tevfik Arif, whose real name was Tofik Arifvo,
an alleged organized crime figure from
central Asia.
In the prior decade Trump's career
had evolved into a lot of projects overseas,
particulary in the former Soviet Union.
These projects were opaque.
Trump had made a number of trips to
Russia, but said that he had never done
a business deal there.
Christopher Steele's
initial engagement with Fusion GPS
was for the short term of twenty to thirty days.
Ultimately Steele was paid one hundred sixty
thousand dollars.
Fusion GPS would expense the client that
hired the firm for Steele's
fees.
Mr. Steele had been exposed as a former undercover
British Intelligence officer who had worked
in Moscow, so it would not be wise for
Mr. Steele to go to Russia.
Mr. Steele used a number of subsources or
subcontractors that could travel and talk to people.
Mr. Simpson's original reaction to the
memos was to supspend judgement.
He was not particularly interested in some of the
things that Steele found
to be the most controlversial.
Simpson said that to this day he
doesn't have a strong view as whether
these things were false or true, per se.
The names and places all checked out.
Simpson has not seen anything that would contradict
the memos as of date of the interview.
Mr. Simpson stated that he did not
find anything wrong in the memos.
Part of the process of accessing whether intelligence
is credible is to see where there are elements
of what people say that you can check.
As an example, one of Steele's reports
described how the Kremlin's election operation
was being run by Sergei Ivanov who was the
head of the presidential administration.
Simpson had not heard that before.
Simpson was able to dig up more obscure
academic work by more distinguished scholars of
the subject and found Ivanov was at the
head of a sort of internal, "White House
plumber's operation," and that Ivanov had the
kind of duties described in the memo.
Another example of how the intelligence in
the memos matched up with things that could
be checked was one memo indentified
a person that worked for an NGO or
a non-governmental organization
called Rossotrudnichestvo.
The FBI considers Rossotrudnichestvo
to be a front for
the SVR which is a Russian foreign
intelligence operation.
Simpson would try to deciepher if the person
providing intelligence just knew obsucre
information or if the person was giving
credible information.
In regard to Simpon's first
client that hired him to
research Trump, The Free Beacon,
to Simpson's knowledge The Free Beacon is
a foundation, a freestanding entity.
The Free Beacon was from the wing of the
Republican party that was concerned
about a takeover of the party by the
Donald Trump wing.
There was a brutal struggle during the
Republician primaries between the more traditional
conservatives and
the more populist, nationalist, protectionist
consevatives.
Simpson thought that The Free Beacon
was from the free markets arm of the
Republican party.
To Simpson's knowledge The Free Beacon
was not a proxy for a specific candidate.
During the period of time that Simpson
was employed by The Free Beacon,
Simpson came across the first information
about then candidate Trump's business
ties with Russia.
Trump may have had unexplained connections
to Russia or with people involved in
that part of the world such a Paul Manafort.
Simpson had written about Manafort during his
career at the Wall the Street Journal.
Simpson knew from years earlier
about Manafort's involvement with the pro-Russian
party in Ukraine and oligarchs.
Simpson was quite struck when Paul Manfort
resurfaced and was appointed first to
the convention
manager and then to Trump's campaign manager.
Manafort surfaced within the Trump campaign
in March,
at that time
Simpson was transitioning
between the two clients that hired
hired him for opposition research on Trump.
During the first phase of Simpson's research
while doing work for the Free Beacon
Simpson found Russian-related things.
Initially Simpson was concerned about
the funding of Bayrock which seemed to have
funding sourced from either Russia or
the former Soviet Union.
An "amazing" number of people from the former
Soviet Union had purchased properties from Mr. Trump.
One person was Dmitry Rybolovlev, who
purchased a derelict estate
in Florida at an extreme
mark up.
Simpson looked a Trump's trips and
marketing activities in Russia.
Russians are far more sophisticated in their
criminal organized crime activities than
the Italians.
The Russians are a lot more global,
and understand finance a lot better than
the Italians and tend to use elaborate
methods to move money.
Russians understand financial markets
and are much more integrated in the way
they operate within political
and sort of legitimate business structures.
While not too many Italian mafia members
are shareholders in big media,
Russian mafia members can definitely be found
to be big shareholders in international media
companies.
Facts that concerned Mr. Simpson
were that various criminals were
buying Trump properties and
a Russian gangster was living in
the Trump Tower.
Associates of a gangster named Taiwanchik, not his real name,
were
running a high-stakes gambling ring out of
the Trump Tower.
Taiwanchik himself was a fugitive for
having rigged the skating competition at the Salt
Lake Olympics and other sporting
events.
At the Miss Universe pageant in
Moscow in 2013 Taiwanchik was in the VIP section
with Mr. Trump along with "lots" of
other Kremlin "biggies."
Generally speaking, these patterns of
activity were thought to be suggestive
of money laundrying, such as fast turnover
deals where there seemed to have been
efforts to disguise the buyer's identity.
Existing Trump investments
of concern are specifically a project in Panama,
and one in Toronto.
Both have a lot of fraud associated with them
and have Russian mafia figures listed as
buyers who may or may not have
actually bought them.
There were also a couple of offshore
large condominium
deals that are now in bankruptcy and
Trump is no longer associated with them.
Simpson was asked if he saw any Russian money
involved with Trump's golf courses in
Scotland and Ireland?
Simpson noted that Eric Trump
made remarks about having unlimited
Russian money available for his courses.
The financial statements available from
the two countries did not show Russian
involvement, but they did show
enormous amounts of capital flowing
into the projects from unknown sources.
The financials show that the
golf courses in Scotland and Ireland
don't actually make any money.
Simpson said that it is well established
in criminology that Russian mafia
is essentially under the dominion of
the Russian Government and Russian
Intelligence Services.
Putin took control of both oligarch and
mafia groups when he was consolidating
power.
Simpson said that if
the Russian mafia were buying Trump
properties or arranging for other people
to buy, it raises the question about
whether they're doing it on behalf of
the Russian government.
Schiff asked that if
the President's son
boasted that they were getting
lots of financing from Russian and
if that financing were illicit
would that be known to the Kremlin?
Simpson said that was a true
statement and that
he had specific reporting on that and
believed it to be credible.
Simpson also agreed with Schiff that
if the Kremlin knew about the illicit
deals than that could be used
as leverage on the
current President.
Another Russian link found during
the first phase of Simpson's research
was that before the Miss Universe pageant
of 2013 there was a Trump vodka marketing
project in Russia.
Some of the people that made an orchestrated
effort to help Trump's Vodka business later appeared or
came up after the
first Steele memo.
Trump did not got to Russia himself to
promote the Vodka project, he sent his
representatives.
One person who organized the
Vodka project trip was Sergi Millian.
There was a picture of Millian and Trump.
Millian had boasted of selling Trump condominiums
to Russians and was an exclusive agent
of Trump in Russia.
As time went on a connection was found between
Millian and Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen.
Cohen denied knowing Millian, but followed him
on Twitter and exchanged messages with him.
Simpson also had concerns about Trump's
associations with a Russian friendship
entity called
Rossotrudnichestvo that was the subject of
an FBI recruiting operation.
Separate and apart from the so-called
dossier, Simpson gradually began to
understand more about Donald Trump's
lawyer Michael Cohen.
Simpson learned about Cohen in part
due to Sergi Millian.
Cohen had a lot of connections to
the former Soviet Union and seemed
to have associations with
Russian orgainzed crime firgures
in New York and Florida.
Cohen was associated with figures such as
Simon Garber, "the taxi king," and Cohen was
in the taxi business with Evgeny Freidman.
Cohen had transactions that were
in litigation in Florida regarding a
mysterious missing payment,
some parties in the dispute had
been identified as organized
crime figures.
People said that Cohen spoke Russian.
Michael Cohen's father-in-law
was from Ukraine.
Cohen seemed to have a lot of business dealings
in Ukraine and has had a conviction for
a money laundry related crime.
Another case that Simpson came across
was a tax court involving the Agalarovs
that involved a criminal investigation
of the Agalarovs from the early nineteen
nineties.
Simpson had learned through his reading
that during the early nineties there were
a lot agents of influence from Russia that
came to the United States to launder money.
Russian Intelligence Services never really
closed up shop, and continues to insert
people into the United States and run
United States operations.
As Simpson gained a deeper understanding
of Trump's career and history it reached
a point where it seemed that most people
around Trump had a connection to
organized crime in one way or another.
Mr. Schiff asked about the fact that Aras Aglarovs
was responsible at least according to public
emails, for setting up the meeting at Trump
Tower?
Simpson replied that a reasonable
interputation would be that
it was a Russian Government
directed operation of some sort
based on what he knows.
Simpson looked at some of Jared Kushner's
dealings and focused on a project in Jersey
City, partly because Trump may have had position in
the project.
In the mid-2000s Trump was not credit-worthy.
Trump said he was a billionaire and
he couldn't get a bank loan.
The Jersey City project was to
be financed by selling visas to
foriegn citizens seeking green cards to the
United States.
Simpson did not find specific events of fraud at
the time that he looked at it, but
it looked controversial as the U.S. Government
conducted previous investigations into whether
foreign intelligence figures were using
the EB-5 program to get people into the
United States.
Later it became very controversial
that the New Jersey project was
using the EB-5 program for funding.
Simpson did not find any money laundering
allegations on the President's tax returns.
Documents in Las Vegas and other locations
gave realistic assessments that the financial
conditions of a lot of
Trump's properties were extremely poor.
Mr. Rooney asked Simpson if with what
he knows to this point, if Simpson could say
conclusively as a fact that the Russian
Government and the Trump were colluding
with each other to beat Hillary Clinton?
As far as Simpson was concerned that
over the past year as
evidence developed
since President Trump took office,
"..a well-established
pattern of surreptitious contacts
occured last year that supports the broad
allegation of some sort of an undisclosed
financial relationship between the The
Trump Organizationn
and the people in Russian.
I'm certainly not prepared to say and never
wanted to be the person who had to determine
whether that's a ciminal conspiracy."
Christopher Steele continued to supply
information after the election, even though
Simpson and Steele were no longer employed by anyone
to research Trump, as the
intelligence sources kept talking to Steele.
At the time this subject was the central
issue of Simpson's life.
Steele does not pay his sources
for information.
Steele gets his informaition in
the field talking to his contacts.
Simpson stated that
numerous things in the dossier have
been verified such as the Russian
Government had been investigation Hillary
Clinton, had a lot of information about her
and the Trump people were interested in
getting that information, which turned
out to be true.
The earlier Steele memos indicated that
the Kremlin was mounting a specific
operation to get Donald Trump elected
while at that time the United States
Intelligence community was saying
that the Russians were just seeking
to disrupt our election and
our politcal process.
Simpson said that Steele turned
out to be correct, the operation
was specifically designed to elect Donald
Trump to the presidency.
Simpson also stated that
the dossier was credible at the time
that it came in and Simpson was able
to corroborate various things that supported
its credibility.
Simpson did not know of anything to be
false.
Initially when Simpson started
briefing news outlets he thought
that Hillary Clinton was going to
win the election.
Simpson felt that it was
important information that he had found
and he briefed national secruity reporters and
not campaign reporters.
Foriegn influence on elections
has been a longstanding
interest of Simpson.
Simpson worked on the subject in
the nineties at the Wall Street Journal.
He wrote a series of articles about a
Chinese government operation to
help elect Bill Clinton.
In June or late July of
2016, Mr. Steele informed Mr. Simpson
that as a former intelligence officer,
and from the United States' closest ally that
he had professional obligations.
If there is a national secruity issue or
a possible national secruity that he
should report it.
Mr. Steele said that he had a contact
at the FBI that he could talk to and
this was serious enough that it
needed to be reported to law enforcement.
Simpson and Steele
did not seek permission nor get instructions
from their client to go to the FBI.
Before stepping down from his questioning,
Mr. Rooney noted that the Russian
scores in that Salt Lake Olympics
were pretty low, very supspicious.
Everybody got a ten or a nine and
the Russians a five.
In June of 2016 it became public
information the FBI had told
the DNC that they had been hacked.
Hacking in itself is not unusual
or totally alarming.
What was alaming was
the suggestion that the Russians
were going to weaponize that information,
it was more than a intel gathering operation
and that the Russians were going to engage
in active measures.
By late June there were many signs
that was going to happen.
Mr. Simpson wanted to put it on
record the he and Mr. Steele were
not the ones that gave the dossier
to BuzzFeed.
Simpson was unhappy, very upset,
thought that it was a very dangerous
thing to do and
that someone had violated his
confidence.
Mr. Simpson also wanted to put on
record that he doesn't remember how
much he was paid by The Free Beacon and he
thinks it was not fifty thousand per month.
Switching back to the point that Steele
first went to the FBI,
Simpson had given his assent
as a citizenship obligation
and Steele went to the FBI right
after
the fourth of July.
Almost immediately they were plunged into
a very intense situation with regard
to the hacking attacks.
There was a long period where Simpson
and Steele did not hear back from the FBI.
Finally the FBI got back in touch with
Steele and asked for a second meeting.
Mr. Simpson was not contacted by
by the FBI or the Department of Justice
during the election.
Only Mr. Steele spoke with the FBI.
After the election, sometime
after Thanksgiving, Simpson was contacted
by a procsecutor named Bruce Ohr to
follow up with the information that
Steele had previously provided to the FBI.
A very surprising thing had happended,
Donald Trump had won.
Simpson and Steele were still
concernced about rapidly accumulating
indications that the Russian Government
had mounted a massive attack on the
the American election system and that
Donald Trump or his associates might have
been involved.
Alarming things were happening including
Donald Trump saying things
about Vladimir Putin that didn't
make any sense and weren't ordinary for
Republicans to say.
Also, at this time the FBI had indicated
to Steele that they were investigating
Trump and then apparently told the New York
Times there was no investigation.
Simpson and Steele were scared for the
country and felt that they
needed to speak to someone
higher up.
Both Simpson and Steele knew Bruce Ohr
and Steele suggested that Simpson speak
with Ohr, eventually Simpson did meet with
Ohr at a coffee shop, were Simpson told
Ohr the story.
Donald Trump Jr. had traveled
a lot to Russia and was involved
in investment related discussions.
Junior had also traveled to Kazakstan
and Latvia.
Regarding the Kushner family.
The Jersey City project was
sort of a Kushner branded project that
Trump was involved with.
People familiar with the story
of the Kushner family say that
the Kushner family and their connections
were a big attraction
for Trump before the
marriage.
There was a business element to
the
Trump and Kushner connection.
The Kushners are ethnic Russian and
Simpson was told that they had
relationships of their own with
Russian capital.
The story is that the Kushners
relationships were with Russian diaspora
in the New York area.
During the seventies, in the Refusnek era,
there was a lot of Russian Jewish
immigration in the New York area.
The community was very large, and
many people became very successful
and wealthy.
Switching gears back to Fusion GPS's
engagement with
the Baker Hostetler
law firm and the Prevezon
litigation in the Southern District of
New York.
Simpson described Baker Hostetler as a big
Midwester Republican-oriented law firm
and one of Simpsons oldest clients and
the professional relationship went
back to 2009 or '10.
In 2013 Simpson was hired
by Baker Hostetler to help investigate
Baker Hostetler's client, a company
named Prevzon.
The Justice Department had brought
charges against Prevezon that
involved real estate and money laundrying.
Prevezon claimed that
the original complaint against them
originated with
an organized crime figure who was
blacking them and that the blackmailer
had been prosecuted and arrested for
blackmailing them.
Natalia Veselnitskaya hired Baker who in
turn hired Simpson.
Veselnitskaya told the story that
Dimitry Barenovsky was a captain in the
Solntsevo brotherhood, which is the dominant
mafia family in Moscow.
The brotherhood surfaces bizzarrely later
in the Trump story and was run by Semion
Mogilevich.
Prevezon claimed to be involved in
a shakedown matter and the Russian lawyer
Veselnitskaya had all the information
from the Russian courts.
The gangster turned out to get all
of his information from a former
American citizen named Mr. Browder.
Browder gave up his citizenship when
he started making a lot of money in
Russia.
Mr. Schiff asked if Simpson uncovered
any information regarding a connection
between Trump or those around him
and Wikileaks?
Separate from the Steele memos
and towards the end of the project
Simpson and Steele gradually
became interested the
subject.
Roger Stone bragged about
having a contact and
they tried to figure out who the contact
was.
Stone and his relationships essentially
led to sort of international far right.
Simpson said that Brexit happened and
that Nigel Farage was someone that
they were very interested in.
Simpson's opinion was that there
was an unacknowledged relationship
between the Trump people and the
UKIP people and that the path
to Wikileaks ran through that
relationship.
Also, Bannon went to the United Kingdom
in or around 2011, he was trying
to set up a sort of Britsh tea party,
which was an inopportune choice of...
Mr. Shiff interupts, "The anti tea party."
Simpson goes on to say that there are
other Bannon and Stone associates
such as Theodore Rossevelt Malloch
an American living in the U.K.
and associating with UKIP.
Simpson thought that the Mercers
were significant.
Shiff asked if Simpson knew
of any factual links between
the Mercers and Assange or WikiLeaks
or Farage?
Things that Simpson had heard
he thinks could be sorted out by
an official inquiry were that
Nigel Farage and Air Bank
made a number
of trips of to and had meetings
in New York, and that there was
misrepresentation of the length and
extend of that relationship.
Simpson had been told and had not
confirmed that Nigel Farage had
made additional
trips to the Ecuadornan Embassy and
it had been reported in the papers
that
Farage provided data on a
thumb drive to Julian Assange.
Simpson first directed Mr. Steele
to go to the media with information from
the dossier in mid-September to early
October, mainly to a few high-level
members of the national security press about
a Russian intelligence operation that
was more than just hacking and
that there was a major effort to interfere
with the election and that it allegedly
involved the Trump Organization.
The motivation for going to the press
was that Simpson thought that it was
historic and something that the
press should investigate and
ask the Intelligence Committee about,
Simpson wanted to expose it.
At the time Simpson thought that Clinton
was going to win the election and there
was no urgency about the story and
Simpson assumed that nothing would be
published about the Russian interference
until after the presidential election.
Simpson explained that generally after Labor
Day people stop publishing stories
that could be precieved as
a late hit in the campaign.
Simpson and his company wanted people
to know that there were some serious
allegations and that
the allegations were not against just Russians.
It was Russians working with Americans.
Indeed no one ran off with the story.
There were some stories about Carter Page
and his trip to Moscow which was something
of interest to the FBI.
It didn't bother Simpson because
he did not expect his story to get
a lot of coverage at the time.
Then in late October, some extraordinary
things started happening.
Simpson testified,
"The Russians- WikiLeaks releases
John Podesta's emails and then you know,
most extraodriary of all, James Comey
sends a letter to Congress saying he is
reopening the Hillary Clinton email
investigation."
The Justice Department has regulations
about interferring with an election.
People in Washington embrace the
concept that
law enforcement shouldn't interfere
in elections by announcing
investigations at the last minuet.
Simpson was shocked and angry and
the reopening of the Clinton
email investigation
began to influence the election.
Simpson had the knowledge that in fact
the FBI was investigating the Trump
Organization for possibly having
illegal dealings with Russia.
Simpson was confused and
Steele was a little scared as they
didn't really understand what
was going on at the FBI.
Simpson and company
began to talk to the press
again as they felt that
Comey had violated one of the
more sacrosanct policies of
telling people about the investigation
and it would only be fair if the
world knew that both candidates
were under FBI investigation.
Mr. Shiff noted that Simpson
had itemized a number of things
including Russian money involved in
transactions with Trump properties,
and suspicious activity potentially
between the Trump campaign,
Nigel Fargae and Assange-WikiLeaks.
Shiff wanted to know what
should they should be aware
of outside of the dossier
and what to investigate in
the exercise of due diligence?
Simpson suggested that the Center
for the National Interest was
one thing to look into.
Also, Dimitri Simes who is known
in the Russian expat community
as a suspected Russian agent.
Talking to Russian intelligence
defectors in general would be useful.
Looking into the origins of the
Manafort-Stone-Trump relationship
would be an interesting area.
Stone made a joke about Manafort
carting bags of cash on Yanukovich's
plane.
Roger Stone did work in Ukraine
around the same time as Manafort.
Stone was a protege of Arthur
Finkelstein, who hired him
to work on the Nixon campaign.
Finkelstein was one of the
first political
consultants to target voters
in a way similiar to the way
that the Trump campaign and
the Russians did.
Finkelstein worked with Stone
and Manafort in or around
2005, 2006, for a cast of "bad guys."
Finkelstein later went to
Hungary to work for the
pro-Russian
prime minister
Victor Orban.
Simpson describes Orban as essentially
a Putin puppet.
Simpson would look at the unexplained
travel of various people.
Mr. Shiff noted that Carter Page had been
to Hungary.
Simpson testified that Gorka
had been to Hungary about three
times, was told that J.D. Gordon
went but wasn't sure that was
reliable.
Simpson said that if they were
going to look into European
travel that he would include
Jared and Ivanka.
Looking at travel records would
help a lot.
A specific sequence of events
that has intrigued Simpson and
his company was when Cohen, Ivanka,
Jared and Trump were in the
Hamptons in August,
Dmitiry Rybolovlev's plane
was nearby and later Rybolovlev's
plane landed in Dubrovnik and
Jared and Ivanka surfaced in Dubrovnik.
Simpson was not sure if the Kushners
flew with Rybolovlev or not.
There were rumors of the Trumps
meeting Russians on yachts anchored off
of Dubrovnik.
Mr. Shiff wanted to know if Simpson
had found any
evidence that Mr. Cohen had been
a part of the delegation?
Simpson noted that Cohen's
daughter had posted her travels to Europe
on social media and Simpson thought
it probable that Cohen may have been
with her and that there were many
ways to reconstruct a person's whereabouts
and it would be
useful in light of a meeting that Mr.
Cohen had in Praque.
The history of the Agalarovs would
be important to look at and what
role Irakly Kaveladze played in the
Trump Tower meeting.
Agalarovs and Kaveladze had
worked together since the 1990s
and both have been involved in
money laundrying, some of it
going back to suspected KGB money
laundrying.
Simpson was unaware of the Trump
Tower meeting before or after and
heard about it at the same time
as the rest of the public, Simpson
was shocked as anyone to see the two
matters intersect.
Ms. Speier wanted to
know the interest of Russsia with
The National Rifle asociation?
Simpson could say broadly, it
appears that the Russian operation
was designed to infiltrate conservative
organizations, they
targeted religious and other groups and
seemed to have made
a very concerted effort to get in
with The NRA.
Another figure involved
in The NRA was a
Russian, "banker-slash-Duma member-
slash-Mafia leader," named
Alexander Torshin who is a life long
member
of the NRA and is well known
to Spanish law enforcement for
money laundrying activity, Toshin,
"..was
supposed to have a meeting with
President Trump after his
inaguration."
Toshin would be an important figure
and another person who Torshin
was working with was Maria Butina.
Butina was a big Trump fan in Russia,
she suddenly showed up in the USA and
started, "hanging around the
Trump transition."
She registered at American University
and rented an apartment there which
probably got her a visa.
Simpson finds the Russian and NRA
relationship the most absurd as
Vladimir Putin is not in favor
of universal gun ownership for
Russians.
Other groups infiltrated by the Russians
are California Independence
and Texas Independence movements.
Ms. Speier wanted to know how
much of Trump's revenue came from
naming rights during the mid-2000s
when Trump was financially underwater?
Simpson tesified that it was hard
to get reliable information on that,
though he
did say that a lot of Trump's
income comes from trusts that
his father had set up, and
that Trump doesn't actually
make that much money in terms
of profits from his own activities.
Mr. Shiff asked if it were correct
that Simpson did not provide
Buzzfeed with the doessier
as it was published on January 10, 2017?
Mr. Simpson said that was correct that
he did not provide Buzzfeed with the
dossier.
Simpson treated the
information contained in
the dossier as a national
security issue and felt
that a lot of people could get hurt
if the dossier were to be
just put out in the
public in the way that it was.
If anyone was peddling the dossier
it was without Simpson's knowledge
and against his wishes.
Mr. Levy wanted to know if Fusion GPS
was hired to conduct research on any
of the other sixteen republican
canidates during the 2016 election
cycle?
Simpson testified that he did
work on Ted Cruz and thinks that
was part of the work that he did
for the
Washington Free Beacon.
Mr. Shiff asked
if Simpson thought that Veselnitskaya
may have had a bigger role as
a Russian agent than Simpson
realized at the time?
Simpson's view was that
with Fusion GPS finding certain
information while working on
the Prevezon case for
Baker Hostetler who was originally
retained by Veselniktskay, that
information was the ticket
to advancement for Veselnitskaya.
The
only way up in Russia is to
impress Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Simpson said that
he was prepared to be wrong
because the people were Russians.
He doesn't know who everyone is
when dealing with the Russians.
Simpson trys to avoid
situations where something could
happen and he may become compromised.
Simpson refuses to go to Russia and
he only did the Prevezon case
because Baker Hostetler was one of
his oldest
clients.
Simpson felt that he
still got sucked into something and
thanks G_D that he didn't know
about the Trump Tower meeting or
else he would really have some
explaining to do.
Shiff stated that it has been
publically reported that
Don Junior went to Paris and
had a meeting with a pro-Russian
think tank.
Shiff asked if that was subject of
investigation as well?
Simpson described France
as a major theater of operation for
Russian services.
There are a lot of phony think tanks
and other operations there.
A person named Malofeev "sort of"
runs the operations.
Beyond that
Simpson was told that Kushner
had to been to Paris, but it
was not confirmed.
Mr. Shiff wanted to know
if Simpson sent Steele to
look for evidence of Trump
entertaining women?
Simpson did not send Steele
out to find evidence of Trump
entertaining women in whatever
hotel.
To Christopher Steele kompromat is
a big deal.
Simpson thought that the
FBI should be notified of a
conspiracy afoot.
Steele told Simpson that he had
to go to the FBI and
was specifically concerned
about the kompromat issue and
whether a candidtate for
president of the United States,
a nominee had been kompromated.
Steele felt it was his duty to
report.
Simpson's feeling was that
he and Steele should report
in addition to the kompromat
the rest of this alleged crime to
the FBI and was comfortable with
Steele reporting it.
01/19/2018
On January 9, 2017, Senator Dianne Feinstein
released the transcripts of
an interview by the Senate Judiciary Committee with
Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS.
The subjects of the interview were
Fusion GPS's activities
related to the dossier compiled by Christorpher Steele,
the Prevezon case, and the Magnitsky Act.
The interview
was conducted on August 22, 2017 and is
linked below.
Senate Judicary Committe, US Senate, Washington, D.C.:
Interview of Glenn Simpson.
The following are highlights of the interview.
Regarding the Prevezon case, Fussion GPS was retained
for litigation support in the Spring of
2014 by the law firm Baker Hostetler which
was representing Prevezon.
The partner in charge
was Mark Cymrot, who was the attorney of record
for Prevezon Holdings.
As an aside from the interview,
here is some background on the Prevezon case.
In October of 2015, Preet Bharara, who at the time
was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of
New York, filed charges against Prevezon.
The charges alleged that Prevezon
engaged in an elaborate tax refund scheme that stole
the identities of the Hermitage portfolio companies.
Hermitage Capital Management is an investment firm in
Russia.
Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian attorney who represented Hermitage
in investigating and uncovering the alleged fraudulent activities,
later Magnitsky
was arrested, tortured
and passed
away in a detention center in Moscow.
The case is linked here.
United States of America, Plaintiff v. Prevezon Holdings LTD.
The Prevezon case was settled in May of 2017 before it went
to trial under a different district attorney,
Joon H. Kim, without ommission of wrong doing by the
Prevezon organization.
Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces $5.9 Million Settlement Of Civil Money Laundering.
Now back to the interview with Glenn Simpson.
Prevezon's response to the government's allegations
was that the allegations originated
with an organized crime figure in
Russia who had been extorting them.
The Department of Justice agent who worked on
the case against Prevezon told Simpson that he got all of his
information from William Browder.
Browder surrendered his citizenship in 1998 and moved
outside the United States.
That was around the
time Browder started making money in Russia.
Browder has
never had to pay United States taxes on his profits
from his time in Russia, which Glenn said became important in
the case later.
William Browder was willing to hand information
off to the
Department of Justice anonymously in the beginning and cause the DOJ to
launch a court case against somebody, but he wasn't
interested in speaking under oath about it,
why he did that, and about his own activities in Russia.
Browder was so determined in his efforts
to avoid
testifying under oath, that he ran away from
subpoenas, frequently changed
lawyers and made lurid allegations against
Fusion GPS such as when Glenn Simpson and his
two subcontractors
tried to serve Browder with a subpoena in
a parking lot in
Aspen, Colorado.
Browder said he thought that Glenn and his
associates were KGB
assassins so he dropped the supoena and ran
away.
In the course of Fussion GPS's research,
Simpson learned that Browder had a
history of tax avoidance in Russia.
Browder set up shell companies inside of Russia,
and in the remote republic of Kalmykia which is
a Buddist republic near Mongolia.
If you set up your company in the
Republic of Kalmykia you can
lower your taxes.
These shell companies hired Afghan war veterans
because there was a tax preference for
Afghan war veterans.
Ultimately Browder was caught and
had to pay an enormous tax payment to the
government of Russia in 2006.
Sergei Magnitsky was working for
William Browder during the time that
the shell companies were being set up to avoid
Russian taxes.
This happened prior to and
proceeds events
involving the Russian treasury fraud and Magnitsky's
jailing.
In regards to Browder's decision to surrender his
United States American citizenship, Simpson discoverd
when the Panama Papers came out
that Browder
incorporated shell companies offshore in the mid 1990s
in the British Virgin Islands.
His hedge fund's shares were transferred to
an offshore company which managed several of
Browder's offshore comapanies.
The company was
a Panamania law firm named Mossak Fonseca,
which is known for setting up offshore companies
for drug kingpins, narcos, "keltos," and these
types of bad actors.
Mr. Simpson has long had an interest in
corruption in Russia and Russian kleptocracy and
the police state that was there.
Simpson was stationed in Europe from 2005 to 2007
or 2008 at the time when Putin was consolidating
power and, "When a wave of power was coming."
Mr. Simpson has read widely on the history of
Putin's rise.
Simpson discribes the key expertise of his firm,
Fusion GPS, is public information.
Fusion GPS's associates are ex-jounalists,
and investigative reporters.
Being a journalist is all about finding public
information.
Fusion has branched out to
into data science, such as obtaining databases
through the FOIA or the Freedom of Information Act.
Simpson's company also works with court and
corporate records.
The employees have experience in
financial crime,
money laundering, fraud investigations,
tax evasion and similiar cases.
Simpson himself was a politcal reporter and covered
campaigns and elections.
In general most of Fusion GPS's business is structured
so that most campaigns don't have the budget for the
services that the company provides.
Only people who have the resources to pay for
a serious piece of research could afford it so
Fusion GPS did research for things such as a
California initiative or, "presidential."
In the course of the 2016 Presidential election
Fusion GPS did some
political or campaign research related to
then Candidate and now President Trump.
The research began
as a holistic examination of Donald Trump's
business record and associations, his bankruptcies,
his supppliers and offshore or third-world
suppliers of his products.
The research quickly evolved into Trump's
relationships to organized crime figures and
ran the gamut of Donald Trump.
They read books about him that covered his divorces,
his casinos and his early years dealing with
labor unions and mafia figures.
Fusion GPS also looked at his taxes and finances.
The firm known as
Fusion GPS was hired to look into then Candidate
Trump in either September or October of 2015.
Mr. Simpson refused to identify the client as it
might implicate privilege.
Early on in Fusion GPS's research on
Candidate Trump, Mr. Simpson
found various references to Donald
Trump having connections
to Italian organized crime and later to a Russian
organized crime figure named Felix Sater.
Simpson covered Russian organized crime
extensively for the Wall Street Journal and
wrote a series of front-page
articles about
various corrupt politicians from Russia,
oligarchs, and connections between western
politicians and Russian business figures as well.
Simpson had previously written about the crime figures
that he was discovering while researching Donald Trump.
Felix Sater was
connected to the same Russian crime family that was
at issue in the Prevezon case, which is the
dominant Russian crime family in Russia, has a
robust U.S. presence and is involved in a lot of
crime and criminal activity in the United States.
For many years the leader of this
family, whose name is
Semyon Mogilevich, was on the FBI's most wanted list and
currently lives in Moscow as a fugitive from U.S. law for a
very elaborate stock fraud.
Simpson found it notable that Trump
didn't want to talk about Felix Sater
and Trump testified under oath
that he wouldn't know Felix if he ran into him in the
street.
Simpson said he knew that was not true.
Trump knew Sater well and,
in fact, Trump continued to associate with
Felix Sater long after
Trump learned of Felix's organized crime ties.
Simpson found it troubling that Trump seemed to
be okay with Felix's ties to organized crime.
Fusion GPS discovered that some of Trump's
money came from Kazakhstan as well as other places and
some of the money could not be accounted for.
In the early stages of Fusion GPS's research
it collected a lot of
documents from Scotland
as Trump had been in a big controversy there about land
use. There was also another lawsuit in Ireland.
Fusion used
a lot of Freedom of Information Act
requests.
Part of the early research was to find out if Trump
was as rich as he said he was.
Trump settled and failed to prevail in a
libel case against a journalist who said that
Trump was not as wealthy as he claimed to be.
Trump failed to prove that he was a billionaire.
Sometime before the
November Presidential
election of 2016,
Fusion GPS ended its relationship with the first
client that hired the firm to
do research on Trump back in September or
October of 2015.
Fusion GPS was hired by a second client
to research
then Candidate Trump and Simpson
continued his research on the Candidate
after his agency with the first client ended.
Fusion
GPS's
agency with the new mystery
client began in the first half of 2016.
Getting back to when Fusion GPS was providing supporting
research for the Prevezon organization.
Simpson stated that
William Browder is an especially
aggressive media self-promoter and promoter of his
own story and Simpson spent a lot of time
talking to the press about
the wild allegations against Prevezon that were made
by Willaim Browder.
Simpson did want the press to know that
Browder was unwilling to appear in court
in public under oath to talk about the story that
he'd been selling for years about his activities in
Russia.
Simpson first interacted with Natalia Veselnitskaya
sometime in 2014.
Ms. Veselnitskaya
was a Russian lawyer who retained
the law firm Baker Hostetler to defend
Prevezon.
Baker Hostetler later
retained Fusion GPS for litigation support
on the Prevezon case.
Simpson and Ms. Veselnitskaya
had attended two dinners with a small
group of people
on June 8th and 10th of 2016.
Veselnitskaya had issues with her visa,
but was able to get her visa to come to an
Appellate Court hearing on
June 9th in New York
on an appeal
of a District Court ruling related to a
disqualification motion that had been filed by
William Browder against Baker Hostetler after Browder
was ordered to give testimony.
After the Court said that Browder couldn't get out
of the subpoena and he had to give testimony, Browder
then triggered a new delay in his testimony by
filing a disqualification motion.
Simpson believes he had dinner with Veselnitskaya on
June 8th, saw her in Court on the 9th,
and then had dinner with her again on the 10th.
Veselnitskaya speaks Russian and needs a translator,
and Mr. Simpson does not speak Russian, they
exchanged greetings, but did not have any dicussions.
Ms. Veselnitskaya and Mr. Akhmetshin and others met
with Donald Trump Junior, Paul Manafort, and Jared
Kushner on June 9th, 2016.
Mr. Simpson was not aware of the meeting and learned
about it around the time that the story broke in
the New York Times.
Simpson said that he was stunned.
Regarding Fusion GPS's investigation on
Candidate Donald J. Trump, the investigation
continued into 2016.
One of the things Simpson was looking at
was Donald Trump's international
business dealings through the spring
of 2016.
Simpson looked in various places such as
Latin America.
Trump has
worked on projects all over the world.
In particular Trump had several projects
in the former Soviet Union as well as
Georgia and Azerbaijan, both of which
are former Soviet republics.
When the intelligence from Steele started to
come in
Simpson had heard rumblings at
that time about
hacking and that political
digital espionage was going to be a component of
the Presidential campaign.
At the time the memos from Steele were coming in
Trump had said weird things
about the Russians and Putin and things that are
very atypical for a Republican and that people
found that to be odd.
Simpson said that what
people call the dossier is not really a
dossier.
It's a collection of field memoranda, of
field interviews, a collection that accumulates
over a period of months.
The memos came in
intermittently, there was no schedule.
Simpson said that he was not
dealing in an ordinary case when
it came to investgating Trump as
usually he would gather public
information in an open fashion.
Simpson quoted what he called one of
the key lines in the
Steele memos was, "... he (Trump)
and his inner
circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence
from the Kremlin, including on his democratic and
other political rivals."
Simpson said that the issue with
the Trump Tower meeting,
as he understands it,
is that the Trump people were
eager to accept intelligence from a foreign
government about their political rivals and that
is a form of interference.
Simpson describes Russia as
a dangerous place, it's a
kleptocracy and a police state, but it's also a
giant bureaucracy and in some ways it's a much more
open society, much more open than the Soviet Union
ever was in that he could
pull records for companies and
things of that nature.
In late July a Steele
memo was prompted by the
beginnings of public reporting
that Debbie Wasserman
Schultz had been the subject of a very aggressive
hacking campaign, a weaponized hack, the likes of
which have never really been seen.
Simpson discribed the hack as
a mass theft of e-mail and then to
dump it all into the public sphere was
extraordinary and it was criminal.
At this point in time Simpson and Steele
questioned if the hacking had anything
to with Russia.
By the time the memo that was prompted
by hacking came in, Christopher Steele
had already met with
the FBI about an earlier memo,
also referred to as the first memo.
Simpson recalled that Steele said that
he was very concerned about whether the
information gathered in the first memo
represented a national security threat
and Steele thought that they were obligated
to tell someone in the government
about this information.
From Steele's professional
perspective there was a security issue
about whether a Presidential Candidate was being
blackmailed.
The first memo was dated in late
June of 2016.
In regards to the
alleged incident described in the first
memo in which Steele was concerned about
the
potential for blackmail
of then Canadidate Trump,
Simpson noted that,
"It's well known in intelligence
circles that the Russians have cameras in all the
luxury hotel rooms..."
As the of Summer of 2016 progressed,
the efforts by the Russians to
influence the election and the possibility that the
Trump organization was, in fact, doing things to
curry favor with the Russians became more and more
serious as external developments occurred.
For instance, they changed the Republican
platform.
Carter Page
showed up in Moscow and gave a speech.
Page was a Trump campaign advisor and he gave a speech about
dropping sanctions.
Trump continued to say
mysterious things about what a great guy Putin was.
These external events
prompted Simpson and Steele to
wonder what the FBI did with the information
from Mr. Steele's first memo that Steele
provided during his first meeting with
law enforcement,
which was the state of things throughout
September.
Finally, in mid to late September,
Mr. Steele heard back from the FBI who
said they wanted to talk to him about everything
that he had on Trump
and that Mr. Steele and the FBI
were going to meet in Rome.
Since the first meeting between the FBI and
Mr. Steele which was back around June, Steele had
continued to research Candidate Trump.
Based on Mr. Simpson's
decades of experience dealing with
United States elections, Simpson noted
that you can't expect the government
or the FBI to be of any use in a campaign because
the DOJ has rules against law enforcement getting
involved in investigations in the middle of a
campaign and this
became a huge issue.
After Steele's second meeting with the
FBI in September, Steele told Simpson
that the FBI
had other intelligence from an
internal Trump campaign source and that
it was Simpson's understanding that the
FBI believed
Steele at this point, and that Christpher's
information might be credible because the
FBI had
other intelligence that indicated the same information
as Steele
and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human
source from inside the Trump organization.
Simpson was not sure if the human intelligence
source was in the Trump campaign or the
Trump organization.
Simpson declined to state who he thinks
the human intelligence source may be as
he had to be careful because obviously it has
been in the news lately that people who get in
the way of the Russians get hurt.
Mr. Steele's second meeting with the FBI
took place in Rome in early Octorber.
After that Simpson believes that
probably there was some sort of
telephonic interaction that occurred between
Christopher Steele and the FBI
after Director Comey sent his letter to Congress
reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's
e-mails.
That episode obviously created
some concern that the FBI was intervening in a
political campaign in contravention of
long-standing Justice Department regulation.
Reopening the investigation of Clinton
caused a lot of people, including
Glenn and Christopher, to be
concerned about, "What the heck was going on at the
FBI?"
On October 31st the New York Times posted a
story saying that the FBI is investigating Trump
and found no connections to Russia.
Mr. Simpson
said, "It was a real Halloween special," for
himself
and Mr. Steele.
Sometime thereafter
Christopher Steele severed
his relationship with the FBI out of
concerns that he didn't know what was happening
inside the FBI and that the FBI
was being manipulated for political ends by the
Trump people and Steele and Simpson
didn't really understand
what was going on.
Steele stopped dealing with
the FBI.
Simpson said that
Christopher Steele's memos
identified Carter Page as
someone who had seemed to be in the middle of
the Trump campaign and the
Kremlin, and he later turned out to be an espionage
suspect who was, in fact, someone that the FBI had
been investigating for years.
Glenn Simpson and Christorpher Steele
identified Carter Page
at the time when there was
a lot of skepticism in the press about
whether he could be linked between the Kremlin and
the Trump campaign because Page seemed
like a zero, a lightweight.
Simpson discovered that the Russian government was
distributing lots of pension payments to Russian
immigrants in the United States.
There are a large number of
Russian emigres in the United States who receive
pension payments that are paid through the
embassies and various people,
such as Russian lawyers and
others who Simpson and Steele became
interested in during the course of
this investigation.
Simpson was not saying
they did anything illegal.
As Glenn looked into this money flow
system, and from the perspective
of someone who does a lot of money
laundering work, this was an interesting thing that
he had not heard about.
Money flowing into the United
States from Russia, probably
flows in under some
sort of diplomatic status.
If there are sanctions
on Russia and the Russians can't move money in the
United States for most things.
This system of money flow,
would be an ideal mechanism for moving money into the
some kind of illicit purpose.
Simpson was asked
if there was
information
that either corroborated, verified
and or amplified information
on any of the individuals relevant to Russia's
interference or possible ties with the Trump
campaign?
Simpson answered that what
they worked on was in regards to
Sergei Ivanov, who was the head of
the head of administration, which himself
and Mr. Steele confirmed from
open sources, was a kind of an internal Kremlin
intelligence operation, and that Ivanov, according
to experts on Russia, the Russian military,
and Russian
intelligence, does, in fact, run this internal
Kremlin intelligence operation that sort of sits
atop the FSB and the SVR, the GRU, which are the
other agencies specifically tasked with areas of
intelligence, military for the GRU, foreign for the
SVR, domestic for the FSB.
Simpson did not know about
this internal Kremlin structure
until he read Steele's memo.
Simpson was asked if the the description of
Fusion GPS,
at a news briefing on August 1, 2017 by White
House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders were she
described Fusion GPS as a democratic linked firm as
accurate?
Mr. Simpson did not agree with Huckabee's description.
Mr. Simpson said that as a journalist for most of his life
he is a professional at not taking sides.
He has had lots of Republican and Democratic clients and
friends with a thirty year proud history of not
being partisan.
His firm prefers to hire
journalists who don't see through
idiologiocal prisms as that is not
helpful when doing research.
Simpson hired contractors from specific parts of the
world that Trump engaged in business with
such as sweat shops in Asia or Latin America
that produced Trump merchandise sold in the USA.
At the time Fusion GPS was not totally focused on
Russia.
When Simpson gets to a point in his
investigations where he has
gathered all of the public record information and
begins to exhaust open
resources he then tends to find specialists who
can further delve into a subject.
Christopher Steele was one of those specialists.
Simpson has known
Christopher Steele since he (Simpson) had
left the Wall Street Journal.
Steele was
the lead Russianist at MI6 prior to leaving the
government and was an extremely well-regarded
investigator, researcher that Simpson considers as a
friend that shares an
interest in Russian kleptocracy
and organized crime issues.
Simpson hired Steele to find out about Trump's
business activities in Russia
in May or June of 2016.
Simpson hired Steele because Simpson
thought is was odd
that Donald Trump had made a number of
trips to Russia and talked about doing a number of
business deals but never did a deal or business there.
Simpson wanted to know if
whether there was some issue with improper business
relationships in Russia or any place else.
Steele and Simpson colloborated and
had a discussion
when Paul Manafort
was elevated to running the Trump campaign, they talked
about Paul Manafort and his long history of
dealings with Russian oligarchs.
Mr. Simpson's attorney did not allow
Simpson to answer a question about how
Simpson verified sources,
stating that
the reasons for the decline were that it
was a voluntary interiew and that,
"...he (Mr. Simpson) wants to be very careful to
protect his sources.
Somebody's already been
killed as a result of the publication of this
dossier and no harm should come to anybody related
to this honest work."
Simpson was asked
if the two sets of clients who
hired Fusion GPS to do
research on Candidate Trump
were Republician or Clinton supporters
or a person whose mind had changed?
Simpson's attorney did not allow Simpson
to answer the question,
although Simpson did state that if
someone calls him and says
that they had heard
client No. 1 was a Republican then he'd say I don't
have any problem with you writing that.
Simpson said that he chose not to
deny and was not going to mislead people.
Fusion GPS didn't do any more work on the Trump
matter after the Presidential election date.
Early in 2016, Glenn Simpson reached
a conclusion about Donald Trump as a businessman
and his character and he did become opposed
to Donald Trump based on the factual information
that he had gathered about Trump over the
course of the project.
Simpson was concerned about
Trump's relationship with organized crime figures.
Simpson found various allegations of
fraudulent or dishonest business practices
and connections with organized crime figures.
Simpson was asked about
an investigation about money
from Kazakhstan and what he had
learned from that investigation?
Simpson replied, "There
was some parallel litigation in
New York involving attempts by the government of
Kazakhstan to recover money that had been allegedly
stolen from Kazakhstan, billions of dollars in a
colossal bank failure.
The name of the bank was
BTA Bank.
It's been well established in various
courts that the government's allegations are
basically true, which is that large amounts of
money were illicitly removed from this bank,
laundered across Europe and into the United States
apparently.
Allegedly."
Simpson
stated that, ".. it's been more recently in the
media that he's (Felix Sater)
helping the government of
Kazakhstan to recover this money.
There's been
media reports that the money went into the Trump
Soho or it went into the company that built the
Trump Soho."
Simpson could not recall the name of the
company.
It was a company the Donald Trump and
Felix Sater were involved in together.
Simpson did not uncover
any evidence of any criminal activity by
by Donald Trump.
Simpson's main concern was Trump's
association with known organized figures.
Another known crime
figure involved in the Trump Soho
project was a central Asian person named Tevefik
Arif.
The first name is
generally spelled T-E-V-F-I-K.
A search under a different transiteration of that
name one can find open source reporting alleging
that he's an organized crime figure from Central
Asia and he had an arrest for involvement in child
prostitution.
Simpson reviewed public information about
Trump property, estates, and other
public records.
Simpson concluded that Trump's
statements about what individual properties were
worth were greatly exaggerated and at odds with the
information that he'd supplied, in legal
filings with tax authorities, other records,
and
corporate records.
Simpson did not find anything that
indicated any connection with
Russia or the Russian
government or Russian officials or Russian
oligarchs while researching public records.
Research into the value of
Trump golf courses found that
a number of Trump courses do not make
any money.
Trump has golf courses in Scotland and
Ireland.
United Kingdom or anglo
company law requires private companies to file
public financial statements.
Donald Trump
doesn't like to share information about his
company, it was useful to find a jurisdiction where
it is required to share that information with the
local government.
Simpson found that there is
a long-running land use controversy,
he thinks there are
multiple long-running land use
controversies over both Scotland and
Ireland properties.
There were also environmental issues that
were part of the research.
The courses in Scotland and Ireland
were not profitable entities.
The companies did not do very well and Trump
had sunk a lot of money into the businesses
and hadn't gotten a lot of money back
yet.
Glenn Simpson was asked about his
particular familiarity
with Paul Manafort.
Glenn had
previously stated
that he was more
familiar with Paul Manafort than Christopher Steele.
Simpson was asked what was his focus when
he looked into Manafort and the main areas that
he was familiar with?
Simpson described how over the years, originally at
the Wall Street Journal he learned of his
relationship with Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs
and generally continued in that vein.
Paul Manafort was the
subject of some litigation over his business
dealings in New York.
There was a lawsuit filed by
the opposition politician from Ukraine accusing
Manafort of inolvement in corruption in Ukraine.
Simpson was familiar with Paul Manafort because
these are matters that he follows and not for any
particular client.
Another individual that Simpson was asked about
was Sergei Millian.
Simpson learned from sources that
Millian had connections to the Trump
orgaization and Simpson did an open
source investigation on Sergei Millian.
Simpson found
picture of Millian
with Donald Trump and another real
estate investor in Florida.
It was discovered that
Sergei Millian was not his
real name or at least not the name
he came to the United States with and that before
he became a real estate broker he was a linguist
and translator.
Generally, people with
advanced training in linguistics are often times
involved in intelligence matters, but Simpson
didn't know
whether Millian had any involvement
in intelligence.
Various reporters became
interested in Millian because he was boasting about his
connections to the Trump organization in the Trump
campaign.
Sergei Millian was either Twitter or
Facebook friends with Michael Cohen.
It was public information.
Simpson and Steele inferred from the
social media connection that Sergei Millian
and Michael Cohen did know each other.
Gradually Simpson learned of Michael Cohen's role
in the Trump campaign as opposed to his role
in the Trump organization.
What was learned about Michael Cohen's
role in the Trump campaign
was that his job included dealing
with inquiries about Russia and he seemed to get
all of the serious inquiries, investigative
inquiries about Russia.
Cohen seemed to know a lot
about that.
Simpson also learned that Michael Cohen was a very
intimidating person who had a history of
threatening reporters with libel suits.
Cohen's father-in-law is a
Ukrainian emigre.
Michael Cohen had some Ukrainian
clients and connections to the taxi industry in
New York which is heavily populated with Russian
emigres.
Cohen was involved in
some of Trump's projects where there were a lot
Russian buyers.
Michael Cohen was also the person who dealt with
allegations against Mr. Trump from the tabloids.
Mr. Simpson was asked if he was
hired not to find
positive information about Mr. Trump?
Mr. Simpson answered that to the contrary
when doing research on any subject he's trying
to figure out what the truth is.
If Donald
Trump's got a good business record and he's really
worth billions of dollars, that's important
information.
Mr. Simpson does not think that he
should be feeding
reporters stories about how Donald Trump is not
worth billions of dollars if Trump is
worth billions of
dollars.
Mr. Simpson understands the negativity,
he stated that
he just is trying to figure out what is true.
As in the the Prevezon case, he was
trying to figure out who was telling the truth,
was it his, "guys," or was it Browder.
Mr. Simpson stated, "I do my job well and I
get rehired when I give them the right information,
when I give them accurate information.
So if
Donald Trump turned out to be a great businessman,
that's what I would have to tell people."
08/22/2017
The Daily Caller reported on August 16, 2017,
that
Califorina's 48th District Republican Congressman,
Dana Rohrabacher, has met
with WikiLeaks chief and founder,
Julian Assange.
Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE:
Republican Congressman Meets
With WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
,
Congressman Rohrabacher is the
first United States
representative or
official to meet with
Assange since the onset of
the United states independent
investigation of Russian interference with the
2016 United States Presdential election, which
aims
to determine
the extent of the Russian interference and if
President Trump or his campaign representatives
knowingly or unknowing helped with or sought to
benefit from the Russian interference.
Representative Rohrabacher is not involved in the
independent investigation and visited
Assange at his accord.
The meeting was arranged by a conservative
journalist, Charles Johnson.
Rohrabacher met with
Assange privately for
three hours at the Ecuadorian embassy in London
where Assange has sought sancturary
and has lived
since 2012
to
escape from rape charges in Sweden
and now Assange remains holed up
in the Embassy to
avoid possible extradition to the United States
as the U. S. Justice Department
is reportly preparing
to press charges against
Assange for helping Edward Snowden.
CNN:
Sources: US prepares charges to seek arrest
of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
The journalist who arranged the meeting told
the Daily Caller that Assange is seeking a
deal with the United States and that
Rohrabacher would be the envoy to bring
that deal to the, "Trump Whitehouse."
After the Daily Caller disclosed
the meeting
Congressman Rohrabacher
released a statement which said that
Assange,
"emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the
hacking or disclosure of those emails."
The statement continues that Rohrabacher,
"plans to divulge more of what he
found directly to President Trump."
The Hill reports
Rohrabacher said the
meeting at the London Embassy
was attended by Assange, his attorney,
Jennifer Robinson, and Chuck Johnson,
a conservative activist and right-wing provocateur.
The Congressman also told The Hill,
"Julian passionately argued the case that
WikiLeaks was vital to informing the
public about controversial though necessary issues."
Rohrabacher said he, "hoped that WikiLeaks -
an award-winning journalistic operation -
might be granted a seat in
the White House press corps.
As a former newsman myself
I can't see a reason why they shouldn't be granted news
status for official press conferences."
Rohrabacher is convinced that Julian has specific
information about the DNC email hack, but Assange
is refusing to go public with the
information at this time.
Would a journalist withhold vital information
and use the information as a bargaining
chip to avoid prison or
for any personal gain?
Rohrabacher also told
The Hill
that he intends to
include a request to the U.S. President
that the WikiLeaks organization be given a
news media seat inside the White House press room.
Dana Rohrabacher also used the trite term,"fake news media,"
whilist describing Julian's health and principals.
The Hill writes that,"Assange rose to
prominence after publishing thousands of sensitive U.S.
diplomatic and military documents
that included leaks related
to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars."
Would a jounalist publish sensitive
military documents without permission?
Is a person who published sensitive military
documents that had the potential to or
possibly
did put military personel in danger
as well as publishing stolen emails that were
perfectly timed to diminish a Presidential candidate
worthy to
be given a media seat in the White House
as the established U.S.
news outlets are mocked
by the President himself on the
rare occassions
that he holds Press conferences?
Does the public have the right
to decide which news outlets are
good sources for themselves or
do they neeed the President to
decide for them?
The Hill: Assange meets US congressman, vows to prove
Russia did not leak him documents
Califorina's 48th District Republican Congressman,
Dana Rohorabacher, has served in Congress
since 1989 and
represents Orange County from Seal Beach to Laguna Beach,
which includes the districts of Seal Beach, Sunset Beach,
Surfside, Corona del Mar, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach,
Laguna Beach, Aliso Viejo, Newport Coast,
Newport Beach, Laguna Niguel, Fountain Valley
as well as portions of Midway City,
Westminster, Santa Ana and Garden Grove.
All of the municipalities in the 48th
district are California's
prime Real estate and the populations tend to
vote Republican.
Are the voters of the 48th District
the folks that
Trump calls his, "good," supporters?
Aerospace and scientific research companies
are important businesses within the District.
The Military installations and facilities in
the 48th District are comprised of the
Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station and the U.S. Coast
Guard Station in Newport Harbor.
The Republican Congressman also enjoys surfing.
Congresman Dana Rohrabacher:
Proudly Serving California's 48th District
The Congressman has a lifetime
of experience in regards to Russia.
In 2014, participated in an interview with
Buzz Feed News.
In the interview he said was sent
to Afghanistan following his election to Congress in 1988
to fight the Russians
alongside the mujahideen
during the Reagan administration.
He told Buzz Feed that he
shot a rocket onto a Russian
position and that at the time
he was Vladmir Putin's, "worst nightmare."
The Representative told Buzz Feed that
Putin was being demonized for
taking military action
in the Ukaraine.
Buzz Feed:
GOP Congressman Thinks Putin Is Being "Demonized" In The U.S.
In November of 2016,
Politico called Representative,
Rohrabacher, "Putin's favorite Congressman."
Getting exclusive infromation from Assange
is not the only Russia related
information that the Representative
has put forth.
In the summer of 2016,
Representative Rohrabacher used
information he received directly
from the Russian government to
promote one of President Vladimir Putin's
top priorities: removing the name
of the martyred Russian lawyer
Sergei Magnitsky from a global anti-corruption law.
Multiple independent investigations blamed Russian
officials for the death in jail of Magnitsky, a
whistle-blowing attorney who
allegedly uncovered evidence of a $230 million theft
by officials of the Putin regime.
Politico: Putin's favorite congressman
The Daily Beast has recently reported
the information that
Dana recieved directly from Moscow,
which he then
used to try and discredit Magnitsky and
anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder,
was given to him by
members of the team of Russians who secured a
June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr.
and Jared Kushner.
Rohrabacher had planned to confront Browder
with a
feature-length pro-Kremlin propaganda movie,
as well as at least two witnesses linked to
the Russian authorities, including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Ultimately, the hearing was
canceled when senior Republicans
intervened and agreed to allow a hearing on
Russia at the full committee level with a
Moscow-sympathetic witness.
During the hearing
Rohrabacher approvingly compared Donald Trump to Vladimir, and
submitted, for the congressional record, testimony,
Russia had not been behind the radioactive poisoning of former FSB
officer Alexander Litvinenko in London.
The following day after the hearing,
House Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy was caught on tape,
"There's two people I think Putin pays:
Rohrabacher and Trump."
When some of the lawmakers laughed,
he replied: "Swear to God."
McCarthy later said the comment was meant as a joke.
The Daily Beast also reports that
in 2012,
Rohrabacher was taken into a quiet room in Congress
and warned by FBI agents that
Russian intelligence operatives
were trying to recruit him as an asset.
Rohrabacher claims he once arm-wrestled Putin.
The Daily Beast gives an
gives an indepth story on Rohrabacher.
The Daily Beast:
'Confidential'
GOP Lawmaker Got Direction From Moscow,
Took It Back to D.C.
DARPA: Towards a High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interface
08/05/2017
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA
has awarded contracts to five research organizations and
one company to support its Neural Engineering System Design
or NESD progam. The organizations will work to
develop research and technologies to pursue a
nueral interface and integate them to create and
demonstrate working systems that are able to
support potential future therapies for sensory
restoration.
Four of the teams will focus on vision and
two will focus on
hearing and speech.
DARPA announced the Neural Engineering System Design
program in January of 2016
with the goal of developing a
system able to provide precision
communication between the brain and the digital world
which is implantable in the brain itself.
DARPA envisions an interface that
would convert the electrochemical
signaling used by neurons in the brain
into the ones and zeros that constitute
the language of information technology,
and do so at far greater scale than is currently possible.
DARPA strives to create a
communications link in a
biocompatible device no larger than one cubic
centimeter in size,
about the volume of two nickels stacked back to back.
DARPA believes that the work will significantly advance
understanding of the human sensory system
as well as lead to new treatments for people living
with sensory deficits.
Neural Engineering System Design (NESD)
The Neural Engineering System Design program has two
phases. The program's first year focuses
on making fundamental breakthroughs in hardware,
software, and neuroscience,
and testing those advances in
animals and cultured cells.
Phase II of the program calls for
ongoing basic studies,
along with progress in miniaturization and
integration, with attention to possible
pathways to regulatory approval
for human safety testing of newly developed devices.
Researchers will cooperate with the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration or FDA
to begin exploration of issues such
as long-term safety, privacy, information security,
and compatibility with other devices.
The newly contracted research teams will
use a mix of methods to pursue the
development of
complete brain computer interface systems or to
advance its research.
A Brown University team led by Dr. Arto Nurmikko
will seek to decode neural processing
of speech.
The proposed interface would be composed of
networks of up to 100,000 untethered,
submillimeter-sized "neurograin" sensors implanted onto
or into the cerebral cortex.
A separate radio frequency
unit worn or implanted as a
flexible electronic patch would
passively power the neurograins and
serve as the hub for relaying data to
and from an external command center that transcodes and processes
neural and digital signals.
A Columbia University team led by Dr. Ken Shepard
will study vision and will try to develop
a non-penetrating bioelectric interface
to the visual cortex.
The scientists envision
layering over the cortex a single,
flexible complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
(CMOS) integrated
circuit containing
an integrated electrode array.
A relay station transceiver worn on
the head would wirelessly power and communicate
with the implanted device.
A Fondation Voir et Entendre
team led by Drs. Jose-Alain Sahel and Serge
Picaud will study vision.
The team aims to apply techniques from
the field of optogenetics to enable
communication between neurons in the
visual cortex and a camera-based,
high-definition artificial retina
worn over the eyes, facilitated by a
system of implanted electronics and
micro-LED optical technology.
A John B. Pierce Laboratory team led by Dr. Vincent
Pieribone will study vision.
The team will pursue an interface
system in which modified neurons capable
of bioluminescence and
responsive to optogenetic stimulation
communicate with an all-optical prosthesis
for the visual cortex.
To facilitate recording of neural activity,
the researchers hope to develop genetically encoded
bioluminescent reporters that endogenously
express
luciferin, a
small molecule involved in the
production
of light in fireflies and other
bioluminescent systems.
A Paradromics, Inc., team led by Dr. Matthew Angle
aims to create a high-data-rate cortical interface
using large arrays of penetrating
microwire electrodes for
high-resolution recording
and stimulation of neurons.
The team will seek to build an implantable
device to support speech restoration.
Paradromics' microwire array technology exploits
the reliability of traditional wire electrodes,
but by bonding these wires to specialized
completary meta-oxide-semiconductor or
CMOS electronics.
The team seeks to
overcome the scalability and bandwidth limitations of
previous approaches using wire electrodes.
Finally,
A University of California, Berkeley, team
led by Dr. Ehud Isacoff aims to develop a novel "light field"
holographic microscope that can
detect and modulate the activity
of up to a million neurons in the
cerebral cortex.
The team will attempt to create quantitative
encoding models to predict the responses
of neurons to external visual and tactile stimuli,
and then apply those predictions to structure
photo-stimulation patterns
that elicit sensory percepts in the visual
or somatosensory cortices, where the
device could replace lost vision or
serve as a brain-machine
interface for control of an artificial limb.
Additional details of the
proposed projects can be found in the NESD
Factsheet.
Darpa:
Neural Engineering System Design
Proposed
Team Activities
DARPA has been involved in brain-machine interface
technology since the 1970s and began investing heavily
in the early 2000s when improved sensing and information
technology lead to new capabilities.
DARPA has invested hundreds of
millions of dollars transitioning 'neuroscience'
into 'neurotechnology'
Two broad categories of DARPA programs
are the ultimate goals of
supporting the nation's warfighters
first with brain computer interface efforts
aimed at restoring neural and/or
behavioral function,
and secondly with brain computer efforts aimed at
improving human
training and performance.
The programs are synergistic and
complementary to one another, and
promote interdisciplinary collaborations among
researchers, engineers, and clinicians.
ScienceDirect:
DARPA-funded efforts in the development of novel brain-
computer interface technologies
Technologies such as the "BrainGate"
implant have already shown that
machinery can be controlled with the mind alone,
and games manufacturers have
already brought out low-cost helmet
controllers that enable wearers to play by mind power alone.
The obvious application
for the military is mind-controlled
weaponry and remotely-piloted aircraft,
which could make operation and reactions far faster.
Army Technology:
Weapons of perception: neuroscience
and mind-controlled weapons
A report by the Royal Society published in
2012 that stated performance enhancing
applications seek to improve one's own
forces or for rehabilitation as
well as
applications for degrading one's enemy.
Royal Society:
Brain Waves 3: Neuroscience, conflict and security
The Neural Engineering System Design program
is one of many DARPA programs that support
Obama's Brain initiative of 2013
which promises to accelerate the
invention of new technologies that
will help to produce real-time
pictures of complex
neural circuits and visualize
the rapid-fire interactions of cells that
occurs at the speed of thought.
BRAIN Initiative Challenges Researchers to
Unlock Mysteries of Human Mind
DARPA structured the NESD program to
facilitate commercial transition
of successful technologies.
DARPA wants to
lay the
groundwork for a future in which
advanced brain interface
technologies will transform
how people live and work,
and to be foremost in
understanding how national
security might be affected
as new "players" and even more
powerful technologies emerge.
The Hill:
Jill Stein looped into widening investigation of Russia and Trump Jr. connections
07/25/2017
Dr. Jill Stein's communications with
Donald Trump Jr. are included in a United States
congressional probe into Russian interference
in the presidential campaign.
Stein's name was included in
a Senate Judiciary Committee letter requesting all
communications between President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr.
and others such as
Russian officials
and other members of Trump's presidential campaign.
The Kremlin has been trying to cultivate relationships
and influence United States politics since the Cold War.
Typically the outreach has been to the left.
In the last five years Russia has been sowing
influence with the right as well.
Time: Moscow Cozies Up to the Right
The Kremlin has been courting the twice Green Party
Presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein,
since at least her first
run for the White House of 2012.
Russia Network television RT posted an interview
with Dr. Stein in 2012.
RT: Jill Stein: US political system hostile to Americans
Russia TV Network RT hosted its own
2012 United States
Presidential debate featuring
Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party
candidate Gary Johnson, along with the Free and Equal Elections Foundation.
RT also covered their campaigns.
RT:
RT recalls 2012: Giving US presidential elections a third voice
Dr. Stein announced in November of 2015 that she had been
invited to the now infamous dinner in Russia by
Vladimir Putin himself.
Stein said, "I've already been invited to a dinner with
Russian President Vladimir Putin, and to meet with members of Russia's
parliament, including the heads of two international affairs committees.
I'm meeting with Russian leaders to gauge
their reactions to a new foreign policy based on diplomacy,
international law, and human rights. In particular, I want to discuss
the potential for an agreement to eliminate nuclear weapons and
use the vast resources thus saved to fight climate change."
Green Party Watch:
Stein invited to meet with Russian leaders
Dr. Stein attended the
December 2015 dinner celebrating the tenth
birthday of Russian TV network RT.
At a luxe Moscow hotel, President Vladimir Putin,
as well as Michael Flynn,
who would later become Donald Trump's national security adviser and was already advising
Trump's presidential campaign when he was paid $45,000 to speak at the gala,
and
Russian luminaries toasted the Russian tv network
that U.S. intelligence calls a Kremlin mouthpiece.
NBC News:
Guess Who Came to Dinner With Flynn and Putin
The Green Party candidate was condemned by
leading Russian environmental and human rights activists
Yevgenia Chirikova and Nadezhda Kutepova
(both of whom fled Russia due to pressure from the government to cease their campaign
activities)
for neglecting their struggles, after a series of statements she made,
calling for closer cooperation with the
Kremlin at the dinner with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Chirikova and Kutepova wrote in an open letter to Dr. Stein,
"How is it possible to have a discussion
with Mr. Putin and not mention, not even once, the fate of
Russian political prisoners, or the attacks against
Russian journalists, artists, and environmentalists?
Is it fair to speak with him about 'geopolitics' and not mention new Russian laws against freedom of speech,
restrictions on NGOs and activists, or the shameful law that forbids 'homosexual propaganda'?"
Newsweek:
Russian Environmentalists Brand U.S. Green Party Putin 'Accomplices'
Although Dr. Stein announced before she
attended the dinner that she
intended to discuss with Russian
leaders nuclear weapons and
climate change,
in response to the activists Dr. Stein claimed
she did not have any
discussion with Vladimir Putin at all.
Although Stein sat across the table from
Putin she wrote that there was no interpreter present,
there was no opportunity to discuss human rights
or anything else.
Stein goes on with some scare mongering,
"In the America I grew up in, one of our greatest fears was war with the
Soviet Union, which we knew could end in nuclear oblivion for both countries, if not the world.
So it is frightening to see Hillary Clinton,
who has enthusiastically supported bloody wars in Iraq, Libya and elsewhere,
turn her belligerence toward Russia.
Clinton supports a no-fly zone over Syria, which could push the US into an air war with Russia.
More recently, Clinton accused Russia of hacking into the
Democratic National Committee and even state election systems
and warned that as president she would respond to "cyber attacks"
with "serious political, economic and military responses."
War between the US and Russia is a horrifying prospect
that would be disastrous for Americans, Russians, and the planet we share.
Yet we seem headed down that dangerous path
with the belligerent and hysterical anti-Russian rhetoric we now hear
regularly from Clinton and her supporters, both Democrats and Republicans."
Stein writes, "Donald Trump seems as uninterested in human rights as he is in environmental progress."
and explains,
"We (the Green Party) see Russians not as enemies to conquer or resources to exploit, but as members
of the global community whom we must deal with.
Dr. Stein also boasts,
"As a member of the only American political party that refuses to accept money from corporations,
I can serve as an honest broker for these critical discussions,
because the Green Party's only agenda is to secure peace, justice, democracy,
and a livable planet for all people, not to promote military and economic domination of other lands
as both Democrats and Republicans have done."
Jill2016:
Jill Stein responds to Russian environmentalists
Dr. Stein did have some corporate donors. Her top corporate
donor was
Alphabet Inc. which contributed $44,013 and Amazon came in second
at $11,266.
OpenScrets.org Center for Responsive Politics:
Top Contributors, federal election data for Jill Stein, 2016 cycle
Dr. Stein and her husband Richard Rohrer
have a diverse portfolio
that includes investments in big carbon,
big banks, Wall Street, defense contractors, and the pharmaceutical industry
and has built significant wealth through these investments.
According to the financial-disclosure
form that Stein filed with the U.S. Office of
Government Ethics on March 30, 2016, Stein and Rohrer
have investments (with the exception of real estate)
valued in a range of
anywhere from $3,832,050 to $8,505,000.
The Daily Beast:
Jill Stein's Ideology Says One Thing-Her Investment Portfolio Says Another
Dr. Stein stated in August of 2016 that
Julian Assange, who posted emails stolen from the
DNC, was a hero who reveals 'the unvarnished truth' to the public.
The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE Jill Stein op-ed: In praise of WikiLeaks
In February of 2017 Rachel Madow wondered
why Jill Stein had not said anything about
the investigation of Russia's interference
of the Presidential election and or
the possible collusion of the Trump campaign?
Rachel Maddow: 'Why is Jill Stein so quiet about the Trump-Russia scandal?'
In October of 2016
Jill Stein stated,
"Under Hillary Clinton, we could slide into nuclear war very
quickly from her declared policy in Syria."
Hillary Clinton wanted to negotiate a no-fly zone
in Syria to creat a safe place for refugees.
The idea was controversial as it puts pilots
in danger if they make a mistake.
It is a stretch to suggest
that it would escalte into a nuclear war.
International Business Times:
Green Party Nominee Claims Hillary Clinton Is 'Scarier'
Than Donald Trump, Citing Potential Nuclear War With Russia
Donald Trump has said frightening things about
nuclear war and taunts North Korea
which has nuclear weapons.
Think Progress.org:
Nine Terrifying Things Donald Trump has Publicaly said
about Nuclear Weapons
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Dr. Jill Stein: The Accidental Colluder?
What's a Nice Woman Such as you Doing in
a Russian Interference Investigation Like This?
ThinkProgres.org: NRA recruiting video stops just short of calling
for violence against anti-Trump progressives.
07/09/2017
The National Rifle Association or
the N.R.A. is
an anti-free press,
anti-first amendment,
anti-women and a pro-Russian organization.
The National Rifle Association
released a video advertisment on its facebook page
which writer for ThinkProgress.org, Aaron Rupar,
surmises stops short of a call for violence on
people who are opposed to Donald J. Trump.
The video presented by NRATV
implores deplorables, "To fight this violence of
lies with a clinched fist of
truth."
NRATV: Warning shot to those that oppose Trump.
After great public outcry over the video,
The N.R.A. followed up with another video
that tells, "The lying media, and
the violent left," that it, "...will
never apologize for warning America about
chaos creators who want to impose their
will upon us through their violence and lies
and we stand firm with a clenched fist of truth while
they wilt with an open mouth of lies."
NRATV: The unapology video.
The N.R.A.'s videos are an assault on the free press
and
the first amendment and greatly exaggerates
the so-called
left's potential for violence.
During the Presidential campaign
Democrats and liberal activists denounced violent
acts as aberrations out of step with
largely peaceful anti-Trump
demonstrations.
Washington Post.com: Democrats fear that violent anti-Trump protesters are only helping him.
The Women's Marches which took place across
the United States to protest Donald Trump's
inauguration may have been the largest and
most peaceful day of protest in United States history.
The Women's Marches against Trump were held
across the country
on January 21, 2017, one day after
Donald J. Trump took office.
Between 3.3 million and 4.6 million protesters
held marches across the United States, yet
no arrests were reported at the largest protests
across the nation in Los Angeles, Washington D.C.,
New York, Chicago or Seattle.
The N.R.A. videos are a threat to and a
dog-whistle to violence
against anti-Trumpers many of
whom are women.
Women's March against Donald Trump is the largest day of protests in US history, say political scientists.
Pro-Trump rallies on the other hand
have a history of attracting violence.
Violence trailed President Trump's rallies all during his
own 2016 campaign. At times violence was
encouraged by the then candidate's own rhetoric.
Last March pro-Trump rallies
were originally organized to celebrate an anticipated
repeal of the American Care Act.
When the House canceled
its vote on repeal legislation the
rallies went ahead anyway.
The rallies
attracted bad actors on both sides.
Fights broke out between Trump supporters and
anti-Trump protesters.
Members of the anti-facist group known as the,
"Black Bloc," who don masks and wear black showed up at
some of the pro-Trump rallies.
Some who showed up to support Trump
also wore black masks, notably at the rally in Salem led by
anti-government organizations such as the militia-oriented, "3 Percenters."
Pro-Trump Rallies Attract Opposition, and Violence Again Ensues
Russia has been cultivating links to Republicans
and conservative groups such as the N.R.A.
and the crusade predates the rise of Trump.
The Russians and conservative groups bond
on issues such as Christianity and
guns.
Last February a dinner that was
set in traditional Russian style
was held at the
Washington, D.C., George Hotel.
Conservative activist
and Rockefeller scion George O'Neill Jr.
hosted the gathering.
The dinner was part of the festivities surrounding
the National Prayer Breakfast which is
an annual event run by evangelicals.
A delegation of Russians attended the National Prayer Breakfast.
The group of sixteen officials
included Kremlin advisers,
university presidents and the mayor of an eastern Russia city.
Also prsent at the dinner were
Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California,
as well as
Deputy Russian Central Banker
and former Russian senator Alexander Torshin
and a gun rights activist Maria Butina.
Butina has spent years forging connections between
Russia's leaders and American conservatives.
With Torshin's help, Butina has managed to form
close relationships with top N.R.A. officials.
Butina is
from
a provincial Siberian town and moved to Moscow in 2011.
After moving to Moscow she founded a gun rights organization,
"The Right to Bear Arms,"
and began traveling back and forth to the United States.
In 2015, a collection of N.R.A.
officials flew over to attend Maria Butina's
annual gun conference. Among them
was Paul Erickson a veteran Republican activist;
former N.R.A and American Conservative Union or A.C.U.
chief David Keene;
gun manufacturer and N.R.A. first vice president Pete Brownell;
and Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke.
One of their hosts was Russian Deputy Prime
Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who was sanctioned by the White House
in 2014 in connection with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
According to a disclosure filed by Sheriff Clarke,
Maria Butina's organization spent
six thousand dollars for the sheriff's meals, lodging,
transportation and incidentals.
Butina's relationship to the Republican Party
goes beyond gun rights and into influencing politics.
"It may take the election of a Republican to the White House
in 2016 to improve relations between the Russian Federation
and the United States,"
she wrote in the summer of 2015 in the National Interest,
a magazine published by the Center for the National Interest.
The Center for the
National Interest, the Washington think
tank, hosted a foreign policy speech
for candidate Trump in April 2016, where Trump was
introduced to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak
In April 2015, Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin
traveled to the United States
to attend two separate campaign events for both
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who was
then viewed
as a leading contender for the G.O.P. nomination
and Donald J. Trump.
When Butina flew to Las Vegas for one of Trump's first campaign events.
She asked Trump whether he would end the, "damaging," U.S. government
sanctions on Russia. "I know Putin, and I'll tell you what, we'll
get along with Putin," Trump responded.
"I don't think you'd need the sanctions."
Alexander Torshin is said to be Maria Butina's mentor.
Torshin, who according to Bloomberg News,
has been accused by Spanish investigators of directing
a money laundering operation for a Moscow syndicate.
Torshin has denied any wrong doing.
Torshin claims to have met President Trump's son,
Donald Trump Jr. at the 2016
N.R.A. convention held in
Louisville, Tennessee which should raise
alarm bell per
a former White
House official.
Time.com: Moscow Cozies Up to the Right
Torshin, a former senator in Vladimir Putin's United
Russia party, directed dirty money
flows for mobsters in Moscow before
he was named as Deputy Head of the Russian
Central Bank last year,
according to investigators in Spain.
Investigators determined
that Alexander Torshin instructed members of the Moscow based
Taganskaya crime syndicate on how to launder ill-gotten
gains through banks and properties
in Spain while he was a deputy speaker of the
upper house of parliament.
Bloomberg: Mobster or Central Banker? Spanish Cops Allege This Russian Both
Russia has a history of and
contines
to try to influence United States politics.
The Kremlin has tradtionally courted the left and
still reaches out to the left. Green Party
Presidential
candidate Jill Stein was seated at Vladimir Putin's
table at a 2015 banquet
in Moscow for the state sponsored propaganda
outlet Russia Today, and Russia Today hired former
MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz, who has a liberal fan base.
Over the past five years,
Russia has also been fostering a growing affinity on the right.
According to a February Gallup poll,
nearly one-third of Republicans
now say they have a favorable impression of Putin,
up from
twelve percent two years ago and
far higher than Putin's rating among Democrats.
The Kremlin's program has reached out to
the National Rifle Association and the Republican party.
In May of 2016 The N.R.A. endorsed
Donald J. Trump for President.
During his campaign Trump stated that Hillary Clinton
wanted to take away people's guns and promised to
eliminate gun free zones,
which exist at some schools and at military bases.
ABC News: NRA Endorses Donald Trump for President
In February 2017, the N.R.A. declared itself,
"The Counter Resistance," and
vowed to defend Donald Trump from,
"The forces who conspired," against his candidacy.
The N.R.A.
produced a video adverstisment that
begins with an ominous score and apocalyptic imagery,
including shots of angry protesters
as well as
video footage of a random fire captured by
the Kremlin sponsored
television network Russia Today.
TheTrace.org: The NRA Appoints Itself Leader of the Trump 'Counter Resistance'
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NRA: Woven in with Russia, Religion,
Misogyny and an Alleged Russian Money Launderer
PBS Newshour:
With Kissinger at his side,
Trump delivers first in-person response to Comey firing
05/16/2017
The day after FBI Director James Comey was fired,
Donald J. Trump met with Henry Kissinger in
an unannounced visit. Kissinger and
Trump sat in front of the press as
Trump gave his first in person response
regarding his decision to
terminate Comey.
Earlier on the same
day as the meeting with Kissinger
Trump received an official visit from
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the White House
in a meeting that was closed to the United States press.
When the United States media was finally allowed in to
take pictures and ask questions of the
Foreign Minister and the President they were instead
given a photo-opportunity
with Donald J. Trump and Henry Alfred Kissinger.
Before we explore the link between
the Kremlin, Putin, Kissinger
and Trump, here is the back story.
Present at the meeting between Lavrov
and Trump was
a key figure at the center of the
probe into Trump's campaign,
Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak.
The meeting with Sergey Kislyak was not officially disclosed.
A White House readout of Trump's meeting with Lavrov,
omitted Kislyak's presence at the meeting.
Kislyak's appearance surprised many media outlets,
who discovered his presence when Russian media
shared photographs of
Lavrov, Kislyak and Trump smiling and appearing to chuckle.
Aside from Trump,
Lavor and Kislyak,
the only two other people present were an
American photographer and a Russian photographer.
The White House under the
Trump administration has refused to revive official
visitor logs instituted
under President Barack Obama to promote transparency.
Business Insider:
The reason we know about Trump's meeting with a key figure in
the Russia probe is because of the Kremlin
The White House visitor logs were made public under Obama in 2009
to show that the administration was aimed at pushing
for transparency in government.
The logs clearly show that Ambassador Kislyak visited the
White House at least twenty two times
from 2009 to 2016.
Newsline:
Russian Visit: Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was a Frequent
Guest with at Least 22 Visits at
the White House under Obama's Term
Former President Barack H. Obama expelled thirty five members of
Kislyak's team late last year for
their alleged interference in the
election campaign to help Donald J. Trump.
Russian Ambassador Kislyak had telephone conversations
with United States General Michael Flynn
before Trump's inauguration.
When Trump took office he appointed
Michael Flynn to National Security Adviser.
Flynn was forced to resign after less than a month
in office.
Flynn was forced to resign when he
admitted he had misrepresented to Vice President Pence that
he had spoken to Kislyak
about the steps Obama took in
response to charges
that Russia hacked and disseminated emails
from the Democratic National
Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Multiple conversations between Flynn and Kislyak have
been intercepted by U.S. intelligence.
The White House has acknowledged that last December General
Michael Flynn and Trump's son-in-law and
senior adviser, Jared Kushner,
met with Kislyak at Trump Tower in New York.
Kislyak has also met
with Jeff Sesseions at least three times.
When Jeff Sessions who is now the United States Attorney General,
was a Senator he
met with Kislyak during the
the United States Presidential election campaign.
Sessions said when he met with Kislyak
at the ambassador's request.
Jeff Sessions testified during
his Senate confirmation hearing
that he, "did not have communications with the Russians."
Later Sessions was forced to
clarify that while he did have
communications with Russians it was
while he was acting in role as a Senator
and not in his role
as a campaign surrogate for Trump.
Sessions maintains that he was acting in his
role as a Senator when he met with Kislay,
but decided to
recuse himself from any investigations into
Russia's role in the U.S. Presential election.
After months of repeated denials by Trump officials that
his campaign
had no contact with officials representing the Kremlin,
it was revealed on a
schedule and from social media photographs
that ambassadors
from dozens of countries attended
the Global Partners in Diplomacy conference in Cleveland during
the Republican National Convention there last summer.
At the Conference
Kilsyak met other Trump staffers, former Pentagon
spokesman J.D. Gordon and Carter Page.
USA Today:
Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak leaves
trail of U.S. election meddling
Attorney Jeff Sessions
acknowledged in early March of 2017
that he met Kislyak twice during the election year,
in response
to media reporting on the meetings.
Bloomberg:
Trump Met Russian Ambassador at Reception During Campaign
It was reported a week later on March 8, 2017 that
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to amend prior
testimony to Congress acknowledging that
contrary to an earlier statement, he'd encountered the Russian
ambassador to the United States twice in the last year.
Sessions appears to have left out a third instance
that he met Kislyak.
In April of 2016, Sessions attended a VIP reception at a hotel in
Washington, D.C., with Donald Trump and roughly two dozen guests,
including four ambassadors.
One of them was Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
The cocktail meet-and-greet took place in a private
room at the Mayflower Hotel near the White House.
Shortly thereafter, Trump
delivered a foreign policy speech in the hotel's ballroom,
where he called for improved U.S.-Russia relations.
Kislyak was seated in the front row.
Huffington Post:
Jeff Sessions Likely Met Russian Ambassador A Third Time:
The attorney general initially denied
any contact with the Russians,
then later admitted to just two meetings.
Trump himself was reported to have briefly
the met
Russian Ambassador
to the U.S., Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak.
Donald Trump spoke with and "warmly greeted"
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak prior to giving
a foreign policy speech on April 27, 2016.
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Goes His Own Way With Vladimir Putin
Trump's foreign policy speech
at the Washington, D.C. Mayflower Hotel was arranged by his
son-in-law Jared Kushner
and was hosted by the,
"Center for The National Interest."
Jacob Heilbrunn is the editor of
the magazine, "The National Interest."
After Trump's speech,
Heilbrunn wrote an article
posted April 27, 2016,
for, "Politico Magazine."
Heilbrunn stated
that
the, "Center for the National Interest," was
originally contacted by Jared Kushner
about hosting the event long
before Manafort was even associated with the
(Trump) campaign.
Heilbrunn claims to have met Trump at a reception
in the, "Senate Room," of the Mayflower,
where there were a number of politicians and Trump advisers,
such as Senator
Jeff Sessions and ambassadors at the event.
Heilbrunn wrote, "Trump wants to treat
America like a business. He's going to engineer a takeover
of the American government, fire the
current staff and create a foreign policy based
on American interests."
Heilbrunn also says that magazines such as, "The
National Interest," have long urged the GOP
to take a second look at its history in Iraq.
He describes Trump as, "A blunt instrument,
who can rip away the moth-eaten drapery
that has occluded the GOP from accepting basic realities about
American foreign policy seems obvious."
He also makes comparisons of Trump's
philosophies to the policies of
former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon.
Politico Magazine:
Why I Hosted Trump's Foreign-Policy Speech
After his son-in-law contacted us...
As an aside, current
White House Chief Strategist,
Steve Bannon told Vanity Fair back in
August of 2016 when he was Trump's
campaign Chief Executive of Operations,
"Trump is a blunt instrument for us. I don’t
know whether he really gets it or not."
Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Stephen Bannon, Trump's New C.E.O., Hints at His Master Plan
The transcript of Trump's foreign policy speech
at the Mayflower hotel is
here.
New York Times:
Transcript: Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Speech
Trump's speech was originally scheduled
to take place at "The National Press Club."
Twenty four hours before the scheduled event the venue
was changed and moved to
the Mayflower Hotel, "due to the overwhelming interest."
Washington Times:
Donald Trump's foreign policy speech
venue moved to Mayflower Hotel
Huffington Post, Seattle Times, Dallas Morning News, and
Washington Post columnist Seth Abramson,
explained on the social media platform
Twitter that
the Mayflower Hotel is less secure,
smaller has private rooms and areas of
restricted access.
Abramson also wrote
in series of tweets that
Manafort wanted Trump to hold an intimate,
twenty four person cocktail
hour in the Mayflower's VIP Senate Room
and that
it's blatantly clear the venue change was anything but accidental.
The Mayflower provided ample opportunity for private meetings.
The meet and greet cocktail hour before
Trump's speech
was attended by
Russian Ambassador Kislyak,
Iran-Contra figure Bud McFarlane, one of America's chief
advocates for a bargain with Russia on oil access
as well as
ambassadors to Russia, Italy, Sinapore
and the Phillipines which are
targets for expansion
by the Russian state's oil company Rosneft.
Abramson alleges
Trump was given 0.5% of Rosneft and aid in
getting elected in exchange for lifting U.S.
sanctions.
The biggest oil deal in Russia's history occured
in December of 2016 and
involved
the coordination of entities from three countries.
Bipartisan Report:
Evidence Surfaces Blowing Trump's Russia Scandal
Out Of The Water -
He's Finished
In December of 2016
Russia announced one of its biggest privatizations since the 1990s,
selling a 19.5 percent
stake in its giant oil company Rosneft.
It is not
possible to determine from public records the full
identities of those
who bought it.
Reuters:
How Russia sold its oil jewel: without saying who bought it
In January of 2017, "Fortune.com,"
reported that President Trump
offered to end sanctions imposed
on Russia for its annexation of Crimea in 2014,
in return for a nuclear arms deal.
While
on the campaign trail,
Trump once suggested that the U.S. should recognize
the annexation. Lifting those sanctions would require
just an executive order from the Oval Office.
Here's Another Way Russia Is Getting a Boost From Donald Trump's Election
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Hernry Kissinger has been
a fixture in U.S. and world politics for
a long time so it is not unusual
for Kissinger to be seen with Presidents
and heads of States.
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In recent times,
Henry Kissinger had advised Barack Obama
Obama first became President of the United States.
Forbes wrote in 2009 that the
Obama administration placed its
faith in two elder statesmen–Henry Kissinger
and James Baker,
to lay the groundwork for the first meeting of the U.S.
and Russian Presidents G-20 summit in London.
&nbsb;
Kissinger and Baker were both
former secretaries of state.
&nbsb;
Baker was a partner in the law firm Baker Botts, which was retained
by two entities dear to the Kremlin,
Gazprom,
the Russian state gas monopolist,
and Rosneft, the Russian oil major.
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Henry Kissinger's rapport with former Russian
President Vladimir Putin,
who was prime minister at the time, was an open secret.
They've known each other since the early 1990s,
when the former secretary of state traveled to St. Petersburg,
and then First Deputy Mayor Putin greeted him.
Why The Rush To Engage Russia?
Hillary Clinton wrote a review of
Kissinger's book, "World Order," in the
Washingtion Post. Clinton claims that Kissinger was a friend,
and
that she relied on Kissinger's counsel
when she served as secretary of state.
Clinton revealed that Kissinger,
"checked in," with her regulary
to share his astute observations
about foreign leaders and sent
written reports on his travels.
Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton reviews Henry Kissinger's 'World Order'
The day after the final U.S.
Presidential debate,
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump gave keynote speeches
at the 71st annual Alfred E.
Smith Memorial Foundation
Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in
New York.
Henry Kissinger was a guest at
the charitable event.
Trump gets booed by crowd at New York charity dinner
Ironically, at the Catholic chartity dinner,
During his turn to speak, Trump joked that,
"Hillary Clinton is
so corrupt she got kicked of
the Watergate Commision."
Trump also makes a reference to Wikileaks which
can be viewed in the CNN video
at about twenty minuets and 19 seconds or
20:19 in the linked here.
Trump jokes that Clinton would not have
attended dinner if the invitations were sent by email
and Wikileaks didn't tell her.
C-Span:
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner 2016
How is Henry Kissinger the
missing link between
Trump and the Kremlin?
Kissinger has had a rapport with
Putin since the early 1900s.
Incidentlly,
Trump started exploring real estate
options in Russia in the 1990s, touring Moscow
with Howard Lorber.
Trump made repeated trips to Russia, including in 2013,
when a Russian billionaire bought
the rights to host the Miss Universe pageant.
Sergio illian, a Russian consultant based in New York,
told ABC News that during that trip he
helped arrange a series of meetings between
Trump and Russian businessmen.
ABC News:
From Russia With Trump: A Political Conflict Zone
Donald Trump and Henry Kissinger met
twice in 2016 after Trump's speech at the
Mayflower hotel.
In May at Kissinger's home.
Then they were scheduled to meet again
in November.
The presidential transition team said in a statement,
"President-elect Trump and Dr. Kissinger have
known each other for years and had a great meeting.
They discussed China, Russia, Iran, the EU and other
events and issues around the world."
ABC News:
Donald Trump Holds Meetings With SC
Gov. Nikki Haley and Henry Kissinger
Dr. Henry Kissinger is an
Honorary Chairman
on the board of directors of,
"The Center for National Interest."
The organization that Jared Kushner
contacted and that utimately hosted
Trump's foreign policy speech at the
Mayflower hotel were Trump and his team
met with
Kislyak and other Kremlin representatives.
Center For The National Interest:
Board of Directors
Incidently,
The Center For The National Interest was
formerly known as the Nixon Center.
After Richard Nixon resigned from his Presidency
in 1974,
he
founded the Nixon Center as
a public policy think-tank
in January of 1991.
"The Nixon Center,"
became The Center for the National Interest in March 2011.
U.S. Presidents:
Richard Nixon
37th President, 1969-1974
Kissinger has described the election
of Donald Trump as an opportunity to redefine U.S.
foreign policy.
He has said that he has no doubts
Russia was hacking the U.S., and hoped
the U.S. was hacking Russia as well.
RT:
Trump presidency 'extraordinary opportunity' - Kissinger
In December of 2016,
Putin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov,
said that Kissinger could mediate between Moscow and
Washington during the presidency of Donald Trump.
Kissinger met Vladimir Putin for the first time after
the fall of the Berlin Wall when Putin was a security guard.
According to sources, Trump admires Kissinger,
as well as other national leaders of previous times, such
as Robert Gates and Condoleezza Rice.
Kissinger supposedly
offers to improve relations between the United States and Moscow.
To create a counterweight to the growing influence of China.
The balance between America and Russia,
Kissinger believes, should strengthen stability in the world.
Kissinger also
advises the President-elect should recognise Russia's
dominance in former Soviet republics.
As for Ukraine, Kissinger allegedly suggests developing
a plan, in accordance with which Russia should
guarantee security in the east of Ukraine,
and the West would
not raise the Crimean issue anymore in return.
Pravda Report:
Donald Trump wants Henry Kissinger to save the world from war
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein's 'sex slave'
Virginia Roberts wins round in defamation
lawsuit against British socialite and alleged 'pimp'
Ghislaine Maxwell...filed in 2015
05/06/2017
Virginia Roberts Giuffre,
one of Jeffrey Epstein's child rape accusers
has won a court victory. Judge Robert Sweet has thrown out a motion
that would
have prevented Virginia Roberts from suing
Ghislaine Maxwell for
defamation. Maxwell was convicted sex offender and billionaire Jeffery
Epstein's former, "girlfriend."
"The defamation suit filed in 2015
alleges Maxwell
instructed her spokesman to attack Virginia's honesty
and truthfulness and to accuse Giuffre of lying."
The court victory for Virginia Roberts Giuffre allows her
to proceed with defamation
charges against Ghislaine Maxwell and helps to bolster her credibility.
Virginia
Roberts, also known as Jane Doe 1,
filed charges in 2006 againt Jeffery Epstein
which led to a
Federal investigation and charges of
the prostitution of minors and
trafficking across interstate lines. In her suit
Roberts, who now goes by her married
name Virginia Giuffre, described how she became
a victim of human trafficking at the age of fifteen years,
when Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her. Virginia met Ghislaine at
Mar-a-largo where Viginia worked.
Ghislaine Maxwell was the girlfriend
of billionaire Jeffery Epstien.
Virginia claims that she was abused by both Maxell and Epstien
who groomed her and coerced the then teenager
into encounters with their firends.
Roberts claims to have
been abused by Prince Andrew and United States attorney Alan
Dershowitz.
Roberts has stated that she met powerful and connected
world leaders in politics, science, and business while traveling
to different locales throughout the world.
William Jefferson Clinton was among those Roberts says she saw
on Epstein's private Caribbean Island,
but she says she never had any encounters with former President
Clinton,
nor did she ever see Clinton
have unappropriate relations with any minors or
anyone else.
In 2006 Miami then U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta, who is now
Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration, and his
office joined the FBI in an investigation that concluded,
according to documents produced by the U.S. attorney's office,
that Epstein, working through several female assistants,
recruited underage females to travel to his home
in Palm Beach, Florida to engage in lewd conduct in exchange
for money.
More than forty minor girls, most between the ages of
thirteen and seventeen years
old were alleged to have been abused by Epstien.
Typically these kinds of cases with one victim would end up in a
ten year sentence.
Epstien should have been facing Federal prosecution but instead
in 2007, Acosta signed a non-prosecution deal in
which he agreed not to pursue federal charges
against Epstein or four women who the government
said procured girls for him.
In exchange, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to a
solicitation charge in state court, accept a
thirteen month sentence, register as a sex offender and pay
restitution to the victims
identified in the federal investigation.
Washington Post:
Labor nominee Acosta cut deal with billionaire guilty
in sex abuse case
The 2007 federal non-prosecution agreement with Epstein states,
among other things, that he "knowingly and willfully"
conspired with others to use interstate commerce to "persuade,
induce, or entice
minor females to engage in prostitution."
If convicted of that charge, and others cited in the agreement,
Epstein faced possible prison for life.
Instead Epstein served his thirteen month sentence
in a vacant wing at the Palm Beach
County Stockade
with liberal work release privileges.
Now Esquire Edwards is representing Epstein's victims again.
Fort Lauderdale attorney, Bradely Edwards,
who represents Epstein's
victims
is currently suing the government on behalf of
"Jane Doe 1 and
Jane Doe 2" and others under the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act
(CVRA).
The lawsuit, filed in 2008, alleges the U.S. Attorney's
Office under Acosta violated the rights of Epstein's
victims by, among other things, "conspiring" with Epstein to keep
them "in the dark" so the plea arrangement
could be done without the victims "raising any objection."
Edwards
also has a
malicious prosecution claim against Epstein which is pending.
In that case
Donald J. Trump is on a list of witnesses for the trial which is
expected to be in court this summer although, Trump
is not likely to be called to the witness stand now that he is
the president.
Trump is on the witness list because
attorney Edwards, in his affidavit, suggests Trump has
personal knowledge of Epstein's criminality.
Edwards stated Trump banned Epstein from his Mar-a-lago Club in
West Palm Beach because Epstein sexually
assaulted an underage girl at the club.
The affidavit notes,
(a)
Trump visited Epstein at Epstein's West Palm Beach home at the same
home where Epstein abused minor girls daily.
(b) Trump called Epstein's West Palm Beach mansion on several occasions
during the time period relevant Edward's client's complaints.
(c) One of Epstein's victims "Jane Doe #102" alleged that she was initially
approached at Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort by Ghislaine Maxwell
and recruited to be Maxwell and Epstein's "underage sex slave."
(d) Maxwell was Epstein's longtime companion, helped run his companies and recruit
underage children to be abused both by Estein and herself.
(e) Jeffery Epstein's brother, Mark Epstein,
testified that Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein's
plane with him (the same plane that Jane Doe 102 alleged
was used to have sex with underage girls).
(f) Finally,
Edward's affidavit cited a 2002 New York Magazine article about Epstein titled,
"Jeffrey Epstein:
International Moneyman of Mystery."
The New York Magazine article quotes Donald J. Trump as
saying,
"I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy.
He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes
beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them
are on the younger side.
No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
While former President Clinton is not on the witness list
for the trial, Edwards listed a number of reasons
in his affidavit to believe that Clinton might have
relevant information about Epstein,
including Clinton's friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell.
FloridaBulldog.org:
President Trump on witness list in Palm Beach lawsuit involving billionaire
pedophile
The 2002 New York Magazine article is linked below.
New York Magazine:
Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's aunt said in an interview with the Daily Mail UK
that
Virginia was fifteen years old when she met Ghislaine Maxwell at
the Trump branded resort Mar-a-largo were she
folded towels at the pool. Donald J. Trump now
refers to Mar-a-lago as the or his,
"Winter White House."
Virginia's father, Sky Roberts worked as a maintenance man at Mar A Largo.
When Virginia worked for Epstein and
met Prince Andrew her family thought that she had
a legitimate occupation and were proud of her.
The family was stunned when Virginia came out, they believe her and think
anyone who abuses young people deserves to be prosecuted.
Daily Mail UK:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2904911/Abused-child-Dabbling-drugs-Virginia-Roberts-s-aunt-reveals-Jeffrey-Epstein-girl-says-fear-life.html
Donald J. Trump will most likely never be called to the witness stand
for Esquire Edwards'
malicious prosecution claim against Epstein.
Will Donald J. Trump be able to avoid or want to avoid the witness stand
in a seperate civil case that has been refiled against him and Jeffery Epstein?
In the United States Distric Court, Southern District of
New York the case of Jane Doe verses Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein
was originally filed June 6, 2016, then voluntarily
dismissed on September 16, 2016
refiled with an additional witness on September 30, 2016.
The refiled case alleges that, Defendant Trump initiated sexual contact
with Plaintiff at four different parties.
On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump,
Defendant Trump restrained Plaintiff
and
forcibly raped Plaintiff. During
the course of this savage sexual attack,
Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect.
Defendant Trump responded to Plaintif
pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the
face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted."
The complaint continues,
"Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that,
were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse
of her by Defendant Trump, Plaintiff and her family
would be physically harmed if not killed."
According to the suit Jeffery Epstein was angry that Donald J. Trump had
taken Plaintiff's virginity before himself and
took his anger out on the Plaintiff by sodimizing
and attempting to beat her. The Plaintiff was
also threatened by Epstein. The Plaintiff was thirteen at the time and says
that Trump was aware of her age.
Scribd.
Doe v. Trump et al refiled complaint 9/30/16
In October,
Federal Judge Ronnie Abrams ordered a hearing in regards to
the refiled complaint against Trump for
December 16, 2016 in a New York court.
The judge asked for both sides to provide information to assist
the Court in advancing the case to settlement or trial.
I could not find information on what happened in that hearing or
if the hearing ever actually occured.
Independent.co.UK:
Donald Trump underage rape accusation: Judge sets date for hearing of lawsuit
Phys.org: Symbolic 'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnight (Update)
04/27/2017
In January of 2017 the symbolic, "Doomsday Clock,"
was moved thirty seconds closer to midnight.
The clock which serves as a metaphor for how close humanity
is to destroying the planet. It was last changed in 2015,
from five to three minutes before midnight.
The clock is now set at two and a half minutes to midnight,
amid concerns about, worldwide nationalism,
United States
President Donald Trump's comments on nuclear arms and
climate issues and a global security
of increasingly sophisticated technology.
The last time it was closer to midnight than now
was 63 years ago in
1953 after the then Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb,
which created the modern arms race.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
wrote that Trump was a key factor in their decision.
Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock
largely
because of the statements of a single person but, when that person
is the President of the United States his words matter.
Words are not enough to stress the dangers of nuclear fallout
and the end of humanity after a nuclear war.
If the United States and Russian were involved in a nuclear exchange,
enormous fires would be created by nuclear explosions in
cities and
industrial areas and it would cause 150 million tons of smoke to be
lofted high into the stratosphere.
The smoke would quickly spread around the world and form
a dense smoke layer around both Hemispheres;
the smoke would remain in the stratosphere for many years and
act to block sunlight from
reaching the surface of the Earth.
A mass extinction event would occur.
Even people living in shelters equipped with many years worth of
food, water, energy, and medical supplies would probably not survive
in the hostile post-war environment.
NuclearDarkness.org: Nuclear Darkness, Global Climate Change
& the Deadly Consequences of Nuclear War
If a nuclear war is not started deliberately there is
the possibility of a war starting accidently.
Before Trump became the president of the United States,
William Perry, who served at the Pentagon from 1994 to 1997,
said in January of
2016, that a new danger of nuclear exchange between Russia and the United
States is being brought about by the possibility a substantial
miscalculation or a false alarm.
The Guardian:
Nuclear Weapons Risk Greater Than in Cold War, says Ex-Pentagon Chief
The threat of nuclear destruction has reared it's head again as
on April 26th North Korea released images of live fire drills
which it says is the nations largest ever, to mark the 85th anniversary
of the founding of the country's army.
Forces from the United States and South Korea have also been
carrying out maneuvers this week, while Japanese
warships have conducted drills with
a United States aircraft carrier strike group.
Yahoo News: North Korea Releases Dramatic Images of 'Largest Ever' live
Fire Drill Amid Tensions with the US
The same day as the North Korean fire drill,
The United States conducted
unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental
ballistic missile launches during an operational
test at 12:03 a.m., PDT, April 26,
from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The Minuteman
system has been in service for sixty years. The
test was described as an
important demonstration of the United States
nuclear deterrent capability.
Vandenberg Airforce Base:
MINUTEMAN III LAUNCHES FROM VANDENBERG
Also in the United States, a drill named,
"Gotham Shield," which is a collaboration between
state and federal agencies
that tests their response skills in case a nuclear attack,
took place April 25th and 26th at
the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
"Gotham Shield 2017," focuses on the aftermath
of a 10-kiloton nuclear blast.
Although the timing of the drill is concerning the
planning for the drill began almost two years ago.
NorthNewJersey.com:
Nuclear aftermath drills held at MetLife Stadium
While "Gotham Shield," was taking place, on April 26,
all United States Senators were invited to
the White House for a thorough briefing on North Korea.
The idea for the briefing was by Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell and Donald J. Trump.
Typically Senators are regularly briefed by the
administration
on national security issues,
particularly those lawmakers who sit on committees with
oversight of intelligence and national security agencies.
Those briefings occur on Capitol Hill,
where rooms are specially
designed for that type of sensitive discussion.
A White House audtorium was outfitted for security and
hundreds of Senators were shipped in on buses to
the White House.
Trump only showed up briefly. A least one Senator
said that the briefing was sobering while many said
that they learned nothing new and the meeting was
for show.
CNN:
Senators: Little Learned During Rare
All-Hands North Korea Briefing
The Trump administration has indicated that
the United States
is stepping up diplomatic and economic pressure on
North Korea, and military preparations are "underway"
in the event
that such action is necessary.
Yahoo News:
Military Preparations 'Underway'
on North Korea, Trump aide Says
Although it is not known if North Korea could hit
the United States with a nuclear ballistic missile,
North Korea has been albe to reach Japan
for twenty years.
In 1998, North Korea fired a Taepodong-1 missile,
ostensibly for launching a satellite, over Japan and
into its economic zone
on the Pacific Ocean side.
This week the
prime minister of Japan issued
a public message to the
citizens of Japan regarding, "new actions to
protect yourself,"
including for the first time instructions
on how to respond if a North Korean
ballistic missile is heading towards Japan.
Japan's official civil defense website
states that it could take as little as ten minuets
for a ballistic missile launched from North Korea
to hit Japan.
Washington Post:
Japan Warns Citizens They Might Have Only Ten Minutes To
Prepare for a North Korean Missile
In 1945 the United States dropped two atomic bombs on
Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan knows the cruelty of the atomic bomb,
some victims were vaporized instantly, many survivors
were horribly disfigured, and death from radiation
was uncertain as it might not claim its victims for days,
weeks, months, or even years.
AtomicBombMuseum.org:
Health Affects
Trump has also taken a tougher stance with Iran.
Iran and major powers met in Vienna this week to
review adherence to their 2015 nuclear deal as
uncerntainty of the accord grows under the
Trump administration which says that Iran
is, "not living up to the spirit of the terrible deal."
Iran's deputy foreign minister said, "that Iran was
adhering to the deal but this did not completely
hold true for the other side."
MSN:
Iran Nuclear Deal Reviewed as Uncertainty Grows
Since the nuclear deal with world powers,
the hard-line Revolutionary
Guard of Iran
has stepped up its encounters with the United
States in Persian Gulf. Although encounters are
not unusual,
a United States, Navy guided-missile destroyer fired
a warning flare toward an Iranian Revolutionary Guard
vessel
coming near it in the Persian Gulf
last Monday, it is a sobering addition to the
aggressive posturing of the
United States. If the nuclear
deal
goes away for what ever reason then Iran may start to
try and
develop nuclear weapons.
My Plainview:
U.S. Navy Fires Warning Flare at
Iran Vessel in Persian Gulf
Increasing complications between the United States
and Iran, is that
Iran is also backing the Houthi movement in Yemen, which
is fighting against a Sunni Arab coalition lead by
Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia buys weapons and gets military advice
on targets
from the United States.
Business Insider:
Iran is Reportedly Stepping Up its Support for Houthi
Rebels
in Yemen's bloody civil war
Donald J. Trump's, "extreme approach," is deemed to be
dangerous by China.
Last January when Trump became president of the
United States of America, China, which is a country that
has nuclear weapons, issued a statement through
state media and military observers that its was
stepping up preparedness for a possible military
conflict with the United States as the Donald Trump
presidency has increased the risk of hostilities
breaking out.
The People's Liberation Army of China
said in a commentary on its official website
on the day of Trump's inauguration,
that the chances of war have become,"more real"
amid a more complex
security situation in the Asia Pacific.
SouthChinaMorningPost:
China 'Steps up Preparedness for Possible
Military Conflict with U.S.'
Nine countries together posses around 15,000 nuclear
weapons.
The United States and Russia maintain roughly 1,800 of
their nuclear weapons on high-alert status and
ready to be launched within minutes of a warning.
Most are many times more powerful than the atomic
bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.
A single nuclear warhead, if detonated on a large city,
could kill millions of people, with the
effects persisting for decades.
The United States was the first country to develop
nuclear weapons and the only country to have used them in
war.
The second country to develop nuclear weapons is Russia.
It has the largest arsenal of any country and
is investing heavily in the modernization of its
warheads and delivery systems.
Other countries that have nuclear weapons are
the United
Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel,
and North Korea.
The United States of America
spends more on its nuclear arsenal than
all other countries combined.
Besides nations that have nuclear weapons,
there are many nations with nuclear power or research
reactors capable of being diverted for weapons production.
The spread of nuclear know-how has increased the risk
that more nations will develop the atomic bomb.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons:
Nuclear Arsenals
Although the United States spends more on its nuclear
arsenal than all other countries combined and
can destroy the earth several times over,
Donald J. Trump wants to greatly strengthen and expand
the nations nuclear capabilities.
CBSNews:
Donald Trump tweets on expanding U.S. nuclear capabilities
In October, while the United States was trying to
find out if Russia had hacked and interfered with its
presidential election, Russia apparently had been
preparing for war.
The Hill reported that,
"Posturing of military forces within close proximity to
each other in geographic areas that are
politically unstable with both sides engaged in
uncoordinated combat operations
against a range of adversaries only requires one
incident to rapidly spiral events out of control
and produce an effect none of us is expecting
but which will
influence all of our futures."
The Hill:
Russia Prepares For War While We're
Distracted with Tapes and Emails
Steve Bannon has a diminished role in the Trump
administration but, is still a so called advisor to
the president, predicted back in February,
"The United States and China will fight a war within
the next 10 years over islands in the South China Sea,
and there's no doubt about that. At the same time,
the U.S. will be in another
major war in the Middle East."
The Guardian:
Steve Bannon: 'We're going to war in
the South China Sea...No Doubt'
April 27th,
Trump told Reuters in an Oval Office interview,
"There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major
conflict with North Korea. Absolutely."
Trump stated that, "We've love to
solve things diplomatically but it's very difficult."
The administration has sent an aircraft carrier and a
nuclear-powered submarine to the region.
Any direct United States military action would run the
risk of massive North Korean retaliation and huge
casualties in Japan and South Korea and
among United States forces in both countries.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump says 'Major, Major' conflict with
North Korea Possible, but Seeks Diplomacy
Human Rights Watch: Yemen: Embargo Arms to Saudi Arabia
U.S., U.K., France Risk Complicity in Unlawful Airstrikes
03/27/2017
In March of 2016, Human Rights Watch International
warned that the United States, the United Kingdom and France
risks complicity in unlawful Saudi airstrikes and that
under international law, the United States
is a party to the armed
conflict in Yemen.
This week Reuters reported that
one hundred civilians a month are dying in
Yemen's war which enters its third year.
Most of the civilians are
killed by the United States
backed Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes and
shelling including internationally banned cluster
munitions which have been used in multiple locations,
according to the United Nations
human rights office.
Reuters: 100 civilians killed a month in Yemen war, most by coalition: U.N.
The nation of Yemen is home of the
world's oldest and most beautiful old city.
The Old City of Sana'a
has been inhabited for more than two thousand five
hundred years.
Many of the houses resemble ancient skyscrapers,
reaching several storeys high and topped with flat roofs.
They are decorated with elaborate friezes, intricately
carved frames and stained-glass windows.
Yemen is located along the southern tip of the Arabian
Peninsula and borders strategic oil shipping routes in the
Red Sea.
In 2015 the
Saudi-led coalition killed at least six
civilians, injured several other innocents and
reduced several historic houses and building to
rubble in the Old City of Sana'a, a Unesco world heritage site.
International Business Times:
Yemen: World's oldest 'skyscrapers' in Sana'a reduced to
rubble by Saudi air strikes.
Yemen, which has long been one of
the world's poorest nations, has seen its food security
deteriorate dramatically since its civil war escalated two years ago
after the intervention of a
Saudi-led coalition.
Last year the United States admitted 84,995 of the world's refugees.
In contrast Yemen
the poorest country in the
Arab world took in 117,000 new refugees and
migrants in
2016. Yemen is also the host
to more than 255,000 refugees from Somalia.
Yemen is a path of escape for Somalis fleeing the
Horn of Africa, refugees of one conflict, stranded in
their flight, and trapped in a country where deadly conflict
is precipitating into deadlier famine.
Yemen is now beginning to host
the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
YemenPress.org:
Reality and the U.S.-Made Famine in Yemen
In September 2014, the Houthis, a Zaidi Shia group from
northern Yemen also known as Ansar Allah,
took control of Yemen's capital, Sana'a.
In January 2015, they effectively ousted President Abdu Rabu
Mansour Hadi and his cabinet. The Houthis, along with forces loyal
to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh then swept south, threatening
to take the port city of Aden.
Ali Adullah Saleh was President of Yemen for
thirty three years and was backed by the
United States until he transfered
executive power to his then
Vice President, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, in 2011.
The United States has since been backing the government,
led by Abed Hadi, which has been
largely relegated to the southern port city of Aden.
CNN: Ali Abdullah Saleh Fast Facts
Saleh was accused of crimes against humanity, although
he was granted
an immunity deal, which was backed by the United States
government,
the European Union, and Persian Gulf states,
that could shield the former President
and his aides from
prosecution for deadly attacks
on largely peaceful demonstrations by state security forces
and pro-government gangs in 2011.
Human Rights Watch:
Yemen: Governments Should Oppose Saleh's Immunity
Saudi Arabia, is among the region's
cruelest dictatorships and a staunch United States ally,
became nervous in 2015 about the outcome of the civil war and
with support from nine regional allies,
consisting of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar,
the United Arab Emirates, Egypt,
Jordan, Morocco, and Sudan,
began subjecting the country to a punishing
barrage of airstrikes,
and also imposed a blockade that
ended the inflow of food and supplies to
Yemen through a major port.
This was accomplished with massive,
ongoing weapons shipments from the United States.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest United States
Foreign Military Sales or FMS customer.
The United States and Saudi Arabia are defense partners
and participate in joint military exercises.
Obama White House archives:
FACT SHEET: United States-Saudi Arabia Bilateral Relationship
Saudia Arabia also hosts three United States mililtary bases.
MilitaryBases.com:
U.S. Military Bases in Saudi Arabia military bases.
Saudi authorities ban women from driving cars and deny
them other rights, and its government champions its
interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law, by funding religious
schools around the world.
United States businesses have been involved in Saudi Arabia's
oil industry since 1933, when Standard Oil of California
(now Chevron) won a concession to explore in eastern
Saudi Arabia and discovered oil in 1938.
Providing security for the oil-rich Persian Gulf region
has been a
United States foreign policy priority
since World War II as well.
Council on Foreign Relations:
U.S.-Saudi Relations
The Houthis and Saleh loyalists do not possess
the ability to conduct airstrikes.
The Saudi-led coalition does have the
ability to conduct airstrikes because
they
purchase weapons of mass distruction from the
United States of America.
Abdallah al-Mouallimi, Saudi ambassador
to the United Nations
admits to the use of cluster bombs once
on a specific military target in Yemen, but the Saudi Kingdom
is accused of
using cluster bombs indiscriminately on cilivians by human rights
groups.
The ambassador states that Saudi Arabia is not a member of the
treaty that bans cluster bombs just as the United States
is not as well as other countries are not.
Amassador, al-Mouallimi says Saudi government
is exercising every effort possible to
exercise a dialogue but, the military
seige will continue as long as necessary with the goal
being for the Houthis to reconize their acceptance of
Resolution #2216, which was endorsed by the (United
Nations) security
council almost unanmiously.
Aljazeera:
What does Saudi Arabia want for Yemen and Syria?
The United Nations Security Council
Resolution #2261 of 2015,
demands that all parties in the embattled country,
in particular the Houthis,
immediately and unconditionally end violence and
refrain from further unilateral actions that
threatened the political transition of Saleh
to Hadi.
The resolution also imposes sanctions
including a general assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo to
Houthis.
UN.org:
Security Council Demands End to Yemen Violence,
Adopting Resolution 2216 (2015), with
Russian Federation Abstaining
The Houthis are not capable of deploying airstrikes
and are only able to
deliver one type of ground launched cluster munition that the
coalition also uses. The Human Rights Watch in 2016 found
six cluster bomb attacks in civilian areas in Yemen.
One case involved a ground launched munition that
the Houthis are cable of firing,
it may have come been deployed by either the
Saudi-led coalition or the
Houthis. The remaining five cluster bombs
were launched by Saudi airstrikes.
Human Rights Watch believes the Saudi Arabia-led
coalition of states operating in Yemen is responsible
for all or nearly all cluster munition attacks
because it is the only entity operating
aircraft or multi-barrel rocket launchers capable of
delivering five
of these types of cluster munitions.
This was not the first that time cluster munitions have
been used in Yemen. Previously, Saudi Arabia, the United States,
and likely the Yemeni government, used cluster munitions
in separate attacks in different
parts of the country in 2009.
Human Rights Watch:
Technical Briefing Note: Cluster Munition Use in Yemen
Since the Saudi intervention
there has been an
unprecedented increase in
deformities of the brains, backbones, throats,
digestive and nervous systems of babies born in Yemen.
Fetal malformations can occur due to several reasons,
including mothers' diseases and subsequent viral infection of
the faction and/or poor nutrition.
The phenomenon could be attributed to war and
ordinances, given the fact that a great proportion
of women with deformed fetuses
lived in bombarded areas.
Yemen Press:
Infant deformities in Yemen linked to Saudi-led bombardment
AP News: China
Grants Preliminary Approval to 38 New Trump Trademarks
03/08/2017
China has granted preliminary approval for thirty eight
new Trump business trademarks. The trademarks offer
a potential business foothold for President Donald
Trump's family company and also protects the Trump name
from being trademarked by counterfeiters.
The trademarks cover everything from hotels and golf clubs to
bodyguard and concierge services.
Ethics lawyers across the political spectrum say
that if Trump receives any special treatment in securing
trademark rights, it would violate the United States Constitution,
which bans public servants from accepting
anything of value from foreign governments unless
approved by Congress. Concerns about potential
conflicts of interest are particularly barbed
in China,
where the courts and bureaucracy are designed
to reflect the will of the
ruling Communist Party.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Califorina) issued a statement on February 17th,
that said in part, "These types of conflicts concerning (trademarks pending)
are exactly what we feared would happen: the president profiting off of his public service."
Senator Feinstein Statement
on Most Recent Trump Conflict of Interest
However the Trump Organization chief legal egale
officer, Alan Garten,
said the company has been enforcing its
intellectual property rights for more than a decade in China
and began registering
trademarks relating to its core
real estate brand years before Trump
announced his presidential run.
"The latest registrations are a natural result
of those longstanding, diligent efforts
and any suggestion to
the contrary demonstrates a
complete disregard of the facts as well as
a lack of understanding of international
trademark law," he said in an email.
Although Dan Plane, a director at Simone IP Services, a Hong Kong
intellectual property consultancy,
said he had never seen so many applications
approved so expeditiously.
Plane said he would be, "very, very surprised,"
if officials from the ruling Communist Party
were not monitoring Trump's intellectual property interests.
"This is just way over your average
trademark examiner's pay grade," he said.
The Hill.com noted in October 2016,
'Russians are not the only American adversaries to support
Trump's business.
The state-owned Central Bank of China has
loaned Trump hundreds of millions of dollars.
The New York Times has reported that
American companies owned by Trump have at least
$650 million in debt and the Bank
of China is among the lenders.'
The Hill.com:How much money does The Trump Organization
owe Russia and China?
Trump also has a relationship with The Industrial and Commercial
Bank of China,
which is controlled
by the Chinese government. The bank has an office at
725 Fifth Avenue in New York City - Trump Tower.
Think Progress:
A Bank Controlled by the Chinese Government is Helping Make
Trump Rich
The Industrial and Commericial Bank of China is the world's biggest
lender by assets and is due to renegotiate its lease at Trump
Tower in October 2019. This will pose an additional
potential conflict of interest for Trump.
South China Morning Post:
Why Trump's ties with a Chinese state bank raise fears over
president-elect's 'conflicts of interest'
Trump and his family have many business relations in China,
Trump lists multiple companies on his
FEC filing possibly related
to business in China.
In October, Trump Hotels CEO Eric Danziger told Chinese media that he plans to open
locations in twenty to thirty Chinese cities.
Bloomberg Politics:
Tracking Trump's Web of Conflicts
Last November Trump's son inlaw Jared Kushner
and Wu Xiaohui, the chairman of the Waldorf's owner,
Anbang Insurance Group, dined at the Waldorf Astoria hotel as
they were getting close to an agreement on a
joint venture in Manhattan: the redevelopment
of 666 Fifth Avenue, which belongs to the Kushner family.
The New York Times
Jared Kushner, a Trump In-Law and Adviser, Chases a Chinese Deal
A Trump-branded tower in New Jersey is funded by rich Chinese
cititzens
who invest cash in exchange for visas.
Trump Bay Street is a fifty story luxury rental
apartment building being built by Kushner Companies, whose
chief executive officer is Jared Kushner.
The firm that was hired to seek investors,
US Immigration Fund, is run by Florida developer
Nicholas Mastroianni, who announced a partnership last
year with a Trump golf course
in Jupiter, Florida.
The US Immigration Fund visa program is known as EB-5.
In exchange for investing at least $500,000 in a project
promising to create jobs, foreigners receive a two-year visa with
a good chance of obtaining permanent residency for
them and their families.
In 2014, the most recent year for which records are
available, the U.S. issued 10,692 of these
visas and eighty five percent went to people from China.
Bloomberg Politics:
Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas
Chinese business culture is based on relationships and
connections which the Chinese call "guanxi." Long term
family prestige is empahasized.
Quick MBA:
Inside Chinese Business
It is well known that Donald Trump and his family
have been forging relationships in China for years
and that they sell
goods manufactured in China.
ABC News:
Donald Trump Sells Chinese Goods Despite Accusing China of Stealing US Jobs
Even "The Apprentice" television show produced by Trump
was exported to China in 2005.
China Daily:
Donald Trump Goes to China
Trump was tough on China during his campaign but,
Trump has shown little interest in
holding China accountable for its human-rights
record, even as President Xi Jinping has
tightened control on free-thinkers
who speak out against the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Trump appears not
care about whether China is an authortarian state.
"Trump is not going to be as harsh on human
rights as Hillary Clinton would have been,"
said Zhang Ming, a professor at the Institute of Political Studies at Renmin University in Beijing.
During the campaign, Trump even lauded the steeliness
of the Chinese leadership for ordering the
1989 massacre of Tiananmen
democracy protesters.
Trump's conservatism and isolationism mean he will intervene less,
which souds great to the Chinese.
Time.com:
Donald Trump's Victory Is Some of the Best Foreign News China
Could Have Hoped For
Cell: Interspecies Chimerism with Mammalian Pluriopotent Stem Cells
02/28/2017
Chimeras are organisms or cells composed of two or more different species. Researchers from the
Salk Institute for Biological Studies located in La Jolla, California,
have sucessfully created rat-mouse chimeras that have lived through adulthood as well as
bovine-human embyos and pig-human embryos that were gestated for about twenty eight days.
The derivation of human stem cells both from pre-implantion human embryos that are left over
from in vitro fertilization as well as from adult
stem cells and cells from foreskins
that are reprogrammed to become pluripotent stem cells or cells that have the potential
to become any organ have provided new experitmental platforms and effieciency in single-cell cloning
and genome editing. Now researchers are using stem cells to create animal-human embryos for scientific
research.
Scientists are creating chimeras
in the hopes of finding ways to test new drugs, gain insights into human development,
as well as to discover ways of regenerating tissue
and ultimately growing human organs in other
animals such as pigs or cattle.
To gain understanding the first experiments involved injecting
rat stem cells into mouse blastocysts which are the early structures of mammals.
The embryos were then transferred to surrogate mouse mothers and resulted in live rat-mouse chimeras.
Many of the rat-mouse rodents
developed into adulthood, with one reaching two years in age.
Rat cells were observed in
the tissues of both the
neonatal and aged rat-mouse chimeras. The different tissues
contained different percentages of rat cells, with the highes contribution observed in the heart.
Rats lack a gallbladder but, the pressence of a gallbladder was found in the rat-mouse chimeras.
Next, scientists tried to find out if they could target the rat cells to grow into specific organs
within the mouse. CRISPR-Cas9 was used to knock out the development of specific organs during
embryotic development with the hopes that the complementing rat stem cells would enrich or form into
the
knocked out or disabled organ.
The experiments worked.
The pancreas, heart and eye, as well as several other organs were sucessfully
generated
chimerized organs and demonstrated the efficacy of CRISPER-Cas9.
In another experiment rodent cells were injected into pig blastocysts, but the rodent
cells failed to contribute to chimera formation. The researchers looked to more diverse
mammals bovine and procine to mix with human stem cell tissue.
Cattle and boar embryos were obtained by in vitro fertiliztion using oocytes collected from ovaries obtained
from a slaughterhouse. A laser was used to access the blastocyst cavity for transferring
human stem cells. The human stem cell enriched bovine or porcine blastocysts were transferred to
surrogate animal mothers which carried the embryos but, not for the full term. The surrogates were
slaughtered and the embryos studied. Chimerism was observed in both the cattle and pig embryos.
A small percentage of the human cells did integrate
and survive with
varing efficacy.
Human cells were found in pig tissue although by a lower percentage in pig embryos when compared
to rat-mouse chimeras.
Trump Dossier Analysis: Corroborating Evidence of Trump/Russia Dossier
02/23/2017
Scott J. Dworkin is the co-founder of and the senior advisor to the Democratic Coalition.
Dworkin announced on twitter that he
has given two hundred members of congress an indepth analysis on the
Trump/Russia Dossier.
The analysis provides confirming evidence of the Trump/Russia dossier
claims that,
"(The)Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for
at least five years. (The) Aim, endorsed by Putin, has been to
encourage splits and divisions in (the) western alliance."
The complete document is linked above.
The Dossier claims that a Kremlim spokesperson, Dimitry Peskove
had files on both Hillary Cliton and Donald Trump.
Peskove has been photographed with Aras Agalarov who paid Trump to
have the Miss Universe Pagent in Moscow.
A dossier of compromising material on Clinton by Russian Intelligence Serivces over
many years are mainly bugged conversations and intercpeted phone calls during
Clinton's various trips to
Russia.
Trump's dossier has compromised activities sufficient to blackmail him which include
perverted sexual acts arranged and monitored by the Federal Security Service or FSB
which is Russia's internal security and counterintelligence service.
The dossier states that Trump's campaign manager,
Paul Manafort and Trump's foriegn policy advisor, Carter
Page colluded with the Russians, Wikileaks is a front for the Kermelin and Russia
had moles within the Democratic party.
The mechanism for transmitting intelligence involved pension disbursments to Russian
emigres living in the United States.
Putin was motivated by fear and loathing of Hilary Clinton. There was an exchange of
information in both directions between the highest levels of the Kremlin and the Trump
team. The dossier says that it has been suggested that the
Trump campaign members may be happy to have Russia as media
bogeyman to mask more extensive corrupt business ties to China and other emerging
countries.
Trump's foreign policy advisor Carter Page was in Russia multiple times
during and after the campaign. Page advised the
Russian gas company Gazprom in 2005 when Putin made the Kremlin the majority stockholder in
the company. Today Page still has ownership in Gazprom. Page denies being a middleman in
Russia, although Page has made appearences on Russia Today, Russia's
propaganda network.
The dossier claims that
Carter Page secretly met with the CEO of a Russian oil company, Rosneft Igor Sechin and with
Igor Dveykin, a Russian intelligence officer. Sechin raised the issue of energy co-operation
and the lifting of sanctions over the annexation of Ukraine placed by President
Barack Obama's admimistration.
Page was non-committal about lifting the sanctions in his response after which
Dveykin discussed releasing 'kompromat' or compromising information on Hillary Clinton and
hinted that he had intelligence on Trump as well.
Yahoo news confirms that Page met with Sechin as decribed in the dossier. Page also wrote a
blog defending Sechin.
The Kremlin funded trips to Moscow for Michael Flynn, Dr. Jill Stein
and Carter Page. The Kremlin underestimated the liberal reaction to the DNC hack.
The educated youth vote was targeted to turn them into Trump voters or to
keep Clinton bogged down with domestic affairs
and therefore become ineffective in foreign affairs if she had won.
General Flynn confirmed that he was paid to create a propaganda video by and for Russia Today.
Dr. Jill Stein and Michael Flynn were paid to be at an event with Putin by Russia Today.
Michael Flynn gave Putin a standing ovation.
Paul Manafort served as the Chariman of the Trump campaign and
has extensive ties to pro-Russian Ukarnian leaders.
Ex-Ukrainian President Yanukovych told Putin that he paid Paul Manafort kick-back payments.
Manfort was paid $12.7 million in cash by pro-Russian, Ukrainian leaders as evidence against
Manafort by the country of the Ukraine.
A Russian diplomat was sent back to Russian because of his links to the United States election hacks.
Sergei Ivanov, backed by Russian Foreign Intelligence, who advised Putin that the pro-Trump, anti-Clinton
operation was plausable was succeeded by Anton Vaino partly because Vaino has not been involved with
the United States presidential operations.
The dossier notes that Alpha Group/Bank is close with Putin.
This same bank with an alledged Russian server was
communicating with Trump Towers.
These are just a few highlights of the remarkable and eloborate
relationships between Trump's campaign, his family and Russian elites
that are exposed in the dossier.
Dworkin has provided extensive corroborating evidence of the Trump/Russian Dossier.
Trump, his family and his associates have numerous ties with Russian oligarchies.
You may follow Scott Dworkin on Twitter:
Scott Dworkin@funder
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Leading Intelligence Integration:
Joint DHS, ODNI, FBI Statement on Russian Malicious Cyber Activity,
01/04/2017
The Director of National Intelligence, Leading Intelligence Integration released a joint statement
with the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and
Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding
Russian malicious cyber activity. The full statement is linked above.
This latest statement is an expansion of a previous statement from
October 7, 2016,
in which the intelligence community asserted it was confident the Russian Government directed
the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and
institutions, including from U.S. political organizations,
and that the disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails
on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks are consistent with the Russian-directed efforts.
The statement also noted that the Russians have used similar tactics
and techniques across Europe and Eurasia to influence public opinion there.
Russian intelligence services is part of a ten year campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at
the U.S. Government and its citizens.
Cyber operations have included spearphishing which uses information hacked from a targeted computer
and uses that information to trick a person into answering an e-mail.
For more information regarding spearphish scams, kindly see the link below.
FBI: Spearphising
Malicious cyber campaigns target government
organizations, critical infrastructure,
think tanks, universities, political organizations and corporations.
Information is hacked from these organizations,
and recently some of this stolen information was released to the public.
In other countries, Russian intelligence services have also undertaken
damaging and disruptive cyber-attacks,
including on critical infrastructure, in some cases masquerading as third
parties or hiding behind false online personas designed to cause
victim to misattribute the source of the attack.
The statement is in regards to the, "Joint Analysis Report," which
bases a great deal on
the works, analysis and forensic information related to Russian government activity
published by a wide range of security companies
and private sector network
owners and operators. The report provides new indicators
of compromise and malicious infrastructure identified during
the course of investigations and incident response.
The, "Joint Analysis Report," or, "JAR," is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of
Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For technical details the full
report is linked below here.
Joint Analysis Report: Reference Number: JAR-16-20296:
GRIZZLY STEPPE - Russian Malicious Cyber Activity
In retailation against the cyber interferrence, on December 29,
U.S. President Obama issued an executive order sanctioning nine entities and individuals:
the GRU and the FSB, two Russian intelligence services;
and four individual officers of the GRU.
In addition, the Treasury designated two Russians
for using cyber-enabled means to cause misappropriation of
funds and personal identifying information.
Two Russian compounds, in Maryland and New York, used by
Russian personnel for intelligence or spy gathering,
and declared the thirty five Russian intelligence operatives as "persona non grata."
The personnel and their families, from the Russian Embassy
in Washington and the Russian Consulate in San Francisco,
were given seventy two hours to leave the United States.
Washington Times: Obama slaps sanctions on Russia,
expels intelligence agents over election hacks,
"All Americans should be alarmed"
On December 30, "Burlington Electric Department of Vermont," issued a statement
that it was alerted by the, "Department of Homeland Security,"
of an infection of its cyber system from
the malware code dubbed, "Grizzly Steppe," the same malware linked to
campaign hacks and public disclosure.
A scan of all of the department's computers
detected the malware in a single laptop. Fortunetly the laptop was
not connected to the organization's electrical grid system.
Burlington Electric Department Statement in Response to Reports of Russian Hacking of Vermont Electric Grid.
Vldamir Putin will wait for President Elect Donald J. Trump to become President to address the imposed
sanctions from Obama.
The decision by Putin to delay action was praised by the President Elect Trump who
has stated that he (Trump) knows things about
the campaign hacking that other people do not know,
disagrees with the, "Joint Analysis Report," and that the
Russian State was not in anyway involved in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
Trump is finally going to sit down for an Intelligence briefing this Friday, January 7,
and has promised to
issue a statement after the meeting.
CIA Director, John Brennan, encourages individuals who have not seen the reports to hold judgement until
they see the evidence for put forth.
The Hill: Wait and See Report Before Making Judgements
In the meanwhile on Decemeber 31,
Trump's own senior advisor and former CIA director, Jim Woolsey,
who has studied cyber issues for twelve years, "thinks,"
that the President Elect will, "change his tune,"
now that the, "Burlington Electrical Department," been exposed to the malicious Russian code.
Woosley describes the breech as extremely dangerous,
"The Russians have hacked successfully into Ukraine and Georgia's electric grid.
This is some of the same software
and hardware that they used in those hackings."
'This is a very big deal': Trump's own advisor warns him over latest Russian hack of electric company
Senator John McCain has no doubts that the Russian state has been interfering and has had an effect on
the elections.
December 18, Republican Senator, John McCain of Arizona, called for a bipartisan
select committee to investigate Russian hacks on during CNN's State of the Union.
McCain said, "We need a select committee.
We need to get to the bottom of this.
We need to find out exactly what was done,
and what the implications of the attack were,
especially if they had an effect on our election.
There's no doubt they (Russian State actors) were interfering, and no doubt there was a cyber attack.
The question now is how much, and what damage
and what should the United States of America do."
Politics USA: Here's Why John McCain's Call For A Select Committee On Russian Hack Should Terrify Trump
Adding fuel to the fire and casting doubt, in an interview from his refuge in
the Ecuadorian embassy of London, were he is avoiding rape charges in Sweden
amid fears Sweden may extradite him to the U.S. were he is under criminal investigation for
leaking top secret documents allegdly provided by Chealsea Manning,
WikiLeaks, Cheif Executive Leaker and purveyor of stolen information, Julian Assange, reiterated today
in a, "Fox News," interview with Sean Hannity,
his source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party."
Assange told Hannity that a fourteen year old could have pulled off a spearsphising attack but, failed to
explain the other evidence of finding the malware the is unique to Russia.
Time: Julian Assange Says a '14-Year-Old Kid Could Have Hacked Podesta' Emails
Assange has muddied the waters in the past
by implying that his sources take a lot of risk while speaking of
an employee of the Democratic National Committee that was mysteriously murdered.
In turn, an unproven conspriacy theroy
arose that
the employee
was disgruntled with the treatment of Senator from Vermont,
Bernie Sanders during the primaries. According to the unproven theory the emplpoyee
was saddly and mysteriously murdered by agents of
Hillary Clinton while on his way to, "sing to the F.B.I.."
The parents of the
dearly departed D.N.C employee,
said that their son just recieved a promotion with the Hillary Clinton
campaign and
was happy about his future prospects.
Furthermore, the parents of the deceased
are distressed by the political exploitation of their son's death by Clinton's opponents or
as Trump would say her, "enemies."
Later the WikiLeaks organization, clarified on Twitter that,
"This should not be taken to imply that the employee was a source for WikiLeaks or
to imply that his murder is connected to our publications."
Yet, the ugly rumor that Hillary Clinton ordered the murder of the D.N.C. employee persists and
doubt continues to this day.
Newsweek claims the technical complexity of the malicious code found
is not just some guy downloading emails and handing
them off to Assange.
Every indication is this was a remote attack
from a foreign government—the Russians. There is no indication that
there was any nefarious action taken
by any employees in that environment per Newsweek.
Newsweek: Seth Rich: Inside the Killing of the DNC Staffer
Donald Trump continues to trumpet the talking points of Julian Assange.
To futher alarm sensible people, Trump has chosen incoming National Security Advisor,
General Michael Flynn, who deleted a damnig fake news tweet on November 14, from Twitter.
The deleted tweet was posted November 2, with a link to a fake news story about
Hillary Clinton's involvement in sex crimes with minors.
General Flynn circulated a false, disgusting and vicious rumor which took on the name, "Pizza Gate."
CNN: Michael Flynn quietly deletes fake news tweet about Hillary Clinton's involvement in sex crimes
It is unprecentd that a President Elect would take the word over a person that is
under investigation for leaking secret documents over the United State's own intelligence.
Trump doubts the intelligence of the FBI, the DHS and the ONDI and defends his distrust by
claiming that intelligence mislead George W. Bush, which is a lie. On February, twenty four,
two thousand one, Colin Powell stated that, "Saddam has not developed any significant capability
with respect to weapons of mass destruction."
What happens when a President does not believe or ignores his own intelligence advisors?
Former U.S. President, George Walker Bush, did not believe his intelligence advisors
briefes that there was no evidence linking Saddam to the nine eleven attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon. Donald Rumsfield created his own intelligence unit to link
Iraq to the terror attacks leading up to the Iraq occupation.
President Bush Jr. was also briefed in August, 2001 that
Bin Laden was determined to strike in U.S.,
"FBI highlights Al Qaeda
activities consistent with hijacking preparations, as well as surveillance of federal buildings,
but Bush did not take action
expect to reply,
"All right, you've covered your ass now."
Mother Jones: Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq
As citizens of the U.S. debate the source of the hacking
of the election, cyber attacks on utilities, organiztions and
the implications for cyber security as well as the effects on their
constitutionally limited representative democratic republic and the credibility of the U.S.,
the hacking, leaking, sanctions by President Obama and the posturing of President Elect, D. Trump,
has caused other nations to take notice and action.
China sent President Elect Donald Trump a clear signal
when its nine hundred ninety nine foot, first aircraft carrier, accompanied by five warships, sailed into
disputed waters of the South China Sea.
The implicit message from Beijing was: We are not cowed by your tough talk.
Numuroligists as well as conspiracy theorists may note that the number 999 upside down is 666.
Let that sink in, pun intended.
Yahoo News: China Just Gave Trump a 999-Foot-Long Middle Finger
The Russian Navy announced on
January third, it was
planning to hold war games with the Philippines which is traditionally
a U.S. ally, as two of its ships made a rare stop in Manila following Filipino
President Rodrigo Duterte's pivot from the U.S. over various differences including
the brutal killing of drug dealers occuring in his country. Duterte is moving to
shift his nation's foreign and military alliances towards China and Russia.
Nigeria Daily News: Philippines: Russia Flags War Games with US Ally
Al Jazeera: Trump picks settlement supporter as Israel ambassador
12/16/2016
Donald J. Trump has nominated religious extremist, David Friedman, to become the
United States ambassador to Israel. Friedman helped
represent Trump to file for chapter eleven bankruptcy for Trump Casinos in 2010.
The AM Law Daily: The Bankruptcy Files: Trump Casinos Exit Chapter 11
Friedman, has no diplomatic experience and
is a supporter of Israel's Jewish-only settlements,
which are considered illegal under international law,
in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Friedman does not believe in a two state Israel-Palestine solution and would like to
move the Israel embassy from Tel Aivv to Jeruselum,
the eastern part of which has been occupied by Israeli forces in contravention
of international law since 1997.
Friedman writes in the publication, "Arutz Sheva, International Jewish News,"
that Palestine must accept Israel as a "Jewish State."
Arutz Sheva: End the two-state narrative
Palestinians have recognized the State of Israel as such
in the 1993 Oslo Accords (which were based on an
Israeli promise to establish a Palestinian state within five years,
a promise now shattered).
A "Jewish State" is inherently undemocratic as it discriminates based on religion.
As an alternative, an Israel State that is a civil, democratic, and pluralistic state
whose official religion is Judaism, does not make non-Jewish or indigenous
people second class citizens. An indepth article that explains why Israel cannot be
a "Jewish State," is linked here.
Al Jazeera: Why Israel can't be a 'Jewish State'
Friedman is a fundamentalist that
dislikes American liberal Jews such as Jeremy Ben-ami of "J Street,"
David says such Jews do not hold "real" Jewish values and hearken back to the days of the Kapos
during the Nazi regime which were a minority of Jews betraying their own.
A link to "J street" is provided here.
JStreet.org: Political Home of Pro-Israel and Pro-Peace Americans
He states that,"Jewish liberals claim that traditional Jewish and
Zionist principles are in conflict with the
rights of other peoples to live freely in Israel.
But this is an entirely false conflict."
Friedman says, "The
Torah commands to permanently destroy the memory
of the Amalekites, the Arab terrorists of yesteryear."
He makes the case that "we" (Zionist Jews) are at war with evil and not Arabs but, evil
exist in the Arab world.
Arutz Sheva: Liberal Jews: Easy to Love, Hard to Like
Friedman's Ultra-Orthodox, fundamentalist religious views are dangerous in a secular world just
as Sharia law or extreme Christian views are.
David Friedman and the state of Israel do not reflect the values of
Jewish people throughout the world.
Israel is the only nation in the world without defined
borders and is continuing to expand its occupation.
Friedman uses religion to justify the crimes against humantiy occuring in Palestine.
A report by Amensty International states,
"In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,
Israeli forces committed unlawful killings of Palestinian civilians,
including children, and detained thousands
of Palestinians who protested against or
otherwise opposed Israel's continuing military occupation, holding
hundreds in administrative detention. Torture and other ill-treatment
remained rife and were committed with impunity."
Amensty International: Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories 2015/2016
DonaldJTrump.com: Donald Trump's Contract with the American Voter; First 100 Days
12/07/2016
President Elect, Donald J. Trump, has released his plan for his first one hundred days in office.
Trump's contract with the American voter, which is linked above,
states, "I (Trump) will lift the restrictions on the production of
$50 trillion dollars' worth of
job-producing American energy
reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal."
Trump also vows to, "lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital
energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline,
to move forward." The contract stipulates to, "cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate
change programs and use the money to fix America's
water and environmental infrastructure."
It is possible that Trump could sign a number of executive orders to accomplish his goals.
On domestic issues he will be hindered, delayed and his efforts diluted from lawsuits as well as
other obstacles.
Withdrawing from the U.N. climate change program would take anywhere from one to four years and
could have a ripple effect on countries such as The Peoples Republic of China, and cause them
not adhere to agreements.
Scientific America: The incoming administration
could quickly withdraw the U.S. from international climate change agreements,
but domestic change is likely slower.
In addition to getting the Keystone-Pipeline back,
how will the Trump administration affect the Dakota access pipeline?
The Standing Rock Sioux and the nonprofit Earth Justice sued the Army Corps of Engineers over
the issue of "tribal sovereignty," regarding the Dakota access pipeline also known as the DAPL.
Standing Rock Sioux tribe maintains that they were not consulted before the
Army Corps of Engineers approved the project. The DAPL, runs through newly discovered
scared sites and memorial grounds, as well as under
the Missouri River at Lake Oahe, half a mile north of the reservation. A leak or spill could send
oil directly into the tribe's main source of drinking water. Peaceful, unarmed water
protecters representing many tribes, veterans
and ordinary citizens flocked to North Dakota
in support of the Standing Rock Sioux and were met by a police force armed with tanks.
Recently, the Army Corps and President Obama decided to review alternate routes for
the pipeline.
Water protesters celebrated a victory but, hopes were dampened when shortly after the decision to rethink the
route,
CEO Kelcy Warren of Energy Transfer Partners, a Dallas based company funding DAPL, which is
a 3.7 billion dollar project, told NBC News
that he is one hundred precent certain that the Trump administration
will approve the pipeline route as is and without delay.Vox.com: The battle over the Dakota Access Pipeline, explained.
Warren donated one hundred thousand dollars to Trump's victory fund during the election.Federal Election Commission
The Hollywood Reporter: Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots
"An Entirely New Political Movement" (Exclusive)
12/01/2016
Michael Wolff, writer for the "The Hollywood Reporter", interviewed Steve Bannon, former chief of operations of the Trump
presidential campaign and now the
chief strategist for
president-elect Donald John Trump. In the exclusive interview, Bannon praises the power of Satan.
Bannon is quoted as saying, "Darkness is good.
Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they
get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing."
The full interview is linked above.
MikeRogers.com/Howey Politics: Rogers sizes up Indy terror targets
11/15/2016
Former Representive of Michigan, Mike Rogers who was slated to lead president-elect
Donald Trump's national secuity transition team stepped down today due
to his close relationship with Chris Christie however, his work lays the foudation a post-elect Trump presidency.
On Howey Politics, which is linked above, Rogers makes the case for increased cyber-security for
foreign threats as well as more surveillance of
private citizens to safeguard against lone wolf terror attacks within the United States.
Mike Rogers calls for moderating social media, tapping phone calls as well as
following people suspected of
commiting a future crime.
CBS News: Rogers Steps Down
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency:
DARPA Enlists Insects to Protect Agricultural Food Supply and Commodity Crops
10/24/2016
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA has announced a new program
named, "Allied Insects", which
involves engineering genes inside of plant viruses altered to have "protective" traits, the altered viruses can then
be inserted into insects. The insects with the altered plant viruses transmit the viruses
to the targeted plants that they feed upon.
Scientists and farmers are increasingly turning to molecular techniques to improve resilience
in plant varieties, today's genomic tools generally do not allow
for alteration of mature plants.
Genetic modification of plants has historically been done only to
plant embryos inside of laboratories using tissue cultures and typically requires five to seven years of
research to indentify relevant genes as well as another ten years to propagate the desired traits in crops.
The "Allied Insect" program aims to modify gene expression in mature plants within a single growing season and with zero
expression in non-targeted plants. This
is the first effort to modify the genes of mature plants and DARPA
envisions that one day masses of mature plants will be modified at once.
United States Patent 6,506,148: Nervous System Manipulation by Radio Frequency From Monitors
10/13/2016
The United States government can access your nervous system and
control your mind through your computer monitor
and television set. The United States Patent 6,506,148, dated January, 14, 2003,
is for a techonolgy that uses
computer and television monitors to emit a weak low-frequency electromagnetic field
by pulsing the intensity of displayed images. The pulsing is
capable of exciting a sensory resonance which can be used
to manipulate the nervous system and lead a pathway
to the brain of a
subject nearby a monitor. It is possible to produce pyschological effects
by manipulating the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby monitor or
television set. On the television the
image pulsing may be imbedded in the program material itself, or it may be overlaid
by a modulated video screen, either as radio frequency signal or as a video signal.
The image displayed on a computer monitor may be pulsed by a computer program. The images are
pulsed subliminally or without the subject being aware of the manipulation.
Weak magnetic fields that are pulsed with sensory resonance that produce pathways to the brain can induce
the same physiological effects as pulsed electric fields. Unlike electric fields, magnetic fields
penetrate biological tissue with nearly undimenished strength.
Effects include ptosis or dropping of the eye lids, relaxation, drowziness, the feeling of pressure
at a centered spot on the lower edge of the brow, seeing moving patterns of dark purple and
greenish yellow with the eyes closed, a tonic smile, a tense feeling in the stomach, sudden loose stool,
and sexual excitement, depending on the frequency used.
University of Washington: Secure passwords can be sent through your body, instead of air
10/05/2016
University of Washington computer scientists and electrical engineers have demonstrated
that low radio frequency signals
generated by fingerprint sensors and touchpads can be re-purposed to securely send passwords
through the body instead of the air.
University of Washington engineers used signals from touchpads and mobile phones
as output that corresponds to data contained in a password or access code.
When entered on a smartphone, data that
authenticates your identity can travel securely through your body to a receiver embedded in a
device that needs to confirm who you are.
Because your password never goes through the air,
inventors say this is a more secure way to transmit authenticating information
between devices that touch parts of your body, such as a
smart door lock or wearable medical device.
For example you
can touch the doorknob that has an electrical lock and touch the fingerprint sensor on a mobile phone
and transmit a
passcode through your body to open the door.
The technology may be useful for secure key transmissions to medical devices
such as glucose monitors or insulin pumps,
which seek to confirm someone's identity before sending or sharing data.
The scientists from the University of Washington
do not mention that super-low intensity RFR effects have resulted in changes in genes
and problems with
chromatin conformation (DNA) and the that effects on human health are not well understood.
BioInitiative.org:
Reported Biological Effects from Radiofrequency Radiation at Low-Intensity Exposure
(Cell Tower, Wi-Fi, Wireless Laptop and 'Smart' Meter RF Intensities).
DarpaMilNews:
Keeping a Watchful Eye on Low-Flying Unmanned Aerial Systems in Cities
10/01/2016
Darpa has announced it's new "Aerial Dragnet" program, a
comprehensive tracking system
to quickly detect and identify low flying unmanned aerial systems or drones,
especially in cities where sight lines are limited
and many objects may be moving at similar speeds.
DARPA's Aerial Dragnet programs primary focus is on protecting military troops
operating in urban settings overseas, the system could have
civilian application as well to help protect
United States metropolitan areas from unmanned aerial systems enabled terrorist threats.
"Dragnet" will use many innovative approaches and envisions a
network of surveillance nodes, each providing
coverage of a neighborhood-sized urban area, perhaps mounted on
tethered or long-endurance unmanned aerial systems. Using sensor
technologies that can look over and between buildings, the
surveillance nodes would maintain the tracks of drones even when the
craft disappear from sight around corners or behind objects.
The output of the Aerial Dragnet system is envisioned to be a continually updated on
common operational picture (COP) of the airspace at
altitudes below where current aircraft surveillance systems can monitor and
disseminated electronically to
authorized users via secure data links.
Research Gate: Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases IV: cancer and related pathologies
09/15/2016
Monsanto, the maker of Roundup the world's most widely used herbicide dismissed its own early studies
linking glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide formulation,
to cancer and
was
dishonest in comparing its findings to data
from unrelated historical controls,
in order to get market approval.
In January, 2015 Doctors Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff,
published in the Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry their review of
an examination of Monsanto's early studies
on glyphosate, and used Monsanto's data to explain how
the biological effects of glyphosate could induce cancers.
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, its usage,
particularly in the United States, has increased dramatically in the last twenty years, in step with
the adoption of Roundup-Ready crops.
Glyphosate includes application
to non genetically modified crops as well such as dried peas, beans and lentils.
Glyphosate is used for pre-harvest
staging for perennial weed control and is now a major crop
management strategy. Glyphosate is also used by cities for weed control and by home gardners. It is
present in drinking water and prevasive throughout the environment.
The World Health Organization
recently labelled glyphosate as, "probably carcinogenic".
Evidence supports strong
correlations between glyphosate usage on crops and a multitude of cancers that are
reaching epidemic proportions, including breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer,
thyroid cancer, liver cancer, bladder cancer and myeloid leukaemia.
Reviewers of Monsanto's earlies studies of glyphosate
noted that a significant incidence of
tumours was found. However, through
the dishonest magic of comparing the findings to data
from unrelated historical controls, they were explained
away as a mystery and deemed not to be related to
the administration of glyphosate.
The Doctors concluded
the research literature on
glyphosate and on the biological processes associated
with cancer, have provided strong evidence that
glyphosate is likely contributing to the increased prevalence
of multiple types of cancer in humans. Monsanto's own
early studies revealed some trends in animal models that
should not have been ignored. Forty years of glyphosate
exposure have provided a living laboratory where humans
are the guinea pigs and the outcomes are alarming.
The Alliance for Natural Health USA: Glyphosate Levels in Breakfast Foods: What is Safe?
09/14/2016
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the world's
most widely used herbicide, its use is
mostly associated with crops
genetically modified to be resistant to it.
The World Health Organization, through the International
Agency for
Research on Cancer, classifies glyphosates as a probable human carcinogen.
Increasing scientific studies are demonstrating that glyphosate residues are everywhere in the
environment and may be in common foods.
The Alliance for Natural Health U.S.A. recently released its own research
that shows that glyphosate residues are
widely distributed in common foods, such as bagels, breakfast cereals,
dairy based creamers and eggs. The study reveals
further evidence that glyphosate accumulates in animal tissues, presumably also in humans.
Although the majority of samples tested
contained levels below the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed
allowable
daily intake limit,
this level is increasingly contested
as it
does not take into account recent evidence of
carcinogenicity or
toxicity of
adjuvants or substances used to enhance performance in glyphosate formulations as well
as the very wide distribution of
glyphosate in food and water.
In 2007, Monsanto's Roundup herbicide which contains glyphosate became the world's most
widely used herbicide in commercial agriculture and second most widely used by home gardeners.
Roundup Ready genetically modified crops include
soybeans, canola oil, corn, cotton, sugar beets, and alfalfa.
Dupont has also developed glyphosate resistant crops.
Genetically modified seeds now account for ninety four percent of soybeans and eighty nine percent
of all corn grown in the United States.
Every year hundreds
of millions of
pounds of glyphosate are dumped on the land
in crop growing, in weed control in cities, even in
environmental efforts to restore native species to prairie lands or
areas succumbing to invasive plants.
The makers of glyphosate said that the it was harmless to humans and wildlife and rapididy
biodegradable. Yet, Monsanto's own early studies on glyphosate safety found links to cancer.
Doctors
Samsel and Seneff examined how Monsanto itself
described the possible mechanisms by which glyphosate may trigger cancer.
The study brings forth evidence that glyphosate is linked
to the increase of
cancers, such as breast, thyroid, kidney, pancreas, liver, bladder, and
myeloid leukaemia.
The doctors state that, Monsanto found destruction of every gland and organ of
laboratory animals during long
term chronic studies.
However, Monsanto dismissed all of the findings by use of unrelated historical controls.
Research Gate:
Glyphosate, Pathways to Modern Diseases IV: Cancer and related Pathologies
The United States Enviormental Protection Agency
saftey levels for the daily intake of glyphosate
was determined based
on industry tests of high levels of glyphosate on adult laboratory animals. The
tests may not be accurate as glyphosate may be an
endocrine disrupter which would affect homornes in the
body and produce different effects during various stages of human development.
Also, the tests were done on glyphosate in isolation
and did not include the commercial pesticide formulations
containing additional adjuvants
that may themselves be toxic or intensify the toxicity of glyphosate.
The Alliance for Natural Health, U.S.A. tested both conventional and organic
corn flakes, instant oatmeal, bagels, yogurt, bread,
frozen hash browns, potatoes, cream of wheat, eggs and non
dairy creamers.
Tests were done by an independent laboratory.
EpilepsyBehavior.com: Cortical processing during smartphone text messaging
09/05/2016
Little is known about the effects of using personal electronical devices, such as smart phones and ipads,
may have on the brain. A study published in Epilespy Behavior (linked above)
indicates that texting may alter brain waveforms
in a completely unique way than
other cognitive-sensorimotor tasks
during video-EEG monitoring.
The objective was to report the EEG features of text messaging using smartphones.
A reproducible texting rhythm (TR) presents during active text
messaging with a smartphone was compared with passive and forced
audio telephone use, thumb/finger movements, cognitive testing/calculation,
scanning eye movements, and speech/language tasks in patients
with and without epilepsy.
The results suggest that the texting rythm (TR) on scalp EEG represents
a novel technology-specific neurophysiological alteration of brain networks.
Researchers propose that cortical processing in the
contemporary brain is uniquely activated by the use of personal electronic devices.
Phys.org: The Dolly legacy: Are you eating cloned meat?
08/28/2016
In 2008 the United States Food & Drug Administration
concluded that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and
the offspring of clones from any species traditionally consumed as food, are as safe to eat
as food from conventionally bred animals.
There was however, insufficient information for the agency to reach a conclusion on the safety of
food from clones of other animal species, such as sheep.
FDA.gov: FDA Issues Documents on the Safety of Food from Animal Clones...
The Food & Drug Aministration does not require labeling or any other additional
measures for food from cattle, swine,
and goat clones, or their offspring. Because clones would be used for breeding,
they would not be expected to enter the food supply in any significant number. The FDA cannot
state for certain that some cloned animals may enter the food supply.
The intent is for sexually reproduced offspring of clones be
used for producing meat and milk for the marketplace.
In the U.S.A. the use of cloning to produce breeding stock is greatly utilized.
There are no requirements to label meat
or milk from a cloned animal or its offspring, whether sold domestically or abroad.
The European Union does not allow the practice of cloning in animal husbandry.
But, officials acknowledge that meat or milk derived from bovine with a
cloned ancestor may have made its way into the food supply, whether directly imported,
obtained from a live imported animal, or one bred domestically from
genetic material brought into the European Union.
Last September, the European Parliament called by a large majority not
only for a ban on cloned animals, but also on products derived from them.
The final decision rests with the European Commission, which has taken a less hard-line position.
Other countries that clone livestock are
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Australia.
The world leader in the cloning business is Boyalife, which recently opened a new factory in the
northern coastal city of Tianjin, China.
Boyalife forecasts an annual output of one hundred thousand cows this year and up to a million by
the year 2020. Boyalife is also attempting to clone
thoroughbred racehorses, pets and police dogs specialised in searching and sniffing.
The China based company has partnered with the South Korean company Sooam and
the Chinese Academy of Sciences to improve primate cloning technology,
to create better test animals for human disease research.
In December, Boyalife's lead scientist and chief executive Xu Xiaochun,
said he would not shy away from cloning humans if regulations allowed it.
Magazine for Healthy:
A California City Is Fending Off Zika by Releasing 40,000 Mosquitoes Every Week
08/08/2016b
In an effort to control the Zika virus,
the Northern Fresno county city of Clovis, California is releasing
twenty tubes containing one thousand mosquitoes every week over
summer and plans to introduce a total of four hundred thousand insects over the subdivision.
The city of Clovis has partnered with
Kentucky based, biotech startup MosquitoMate and is embarking on a grand experiment of
releasing mosquitoes that have been injected with the bacteria Wolbachia.
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes do not naturally carry Wolbachia.
Wolbachia lives inside insect cells, and is passed down from mother to offspring.
Scientists still are not sure what Wolbachia does inside insect cells.
Research shows when mosquitoes are infected by different strains
of Wolbachia or one with Wolbachia and one without mated, it interfered with how DNA
duplicates and the eggs never hatched.
At this time a proposal to test genetically modified insects is hotly protested in Florida as it
awaits approval from the Food and Drug Administration,
which regulates genetically modified animals.
MosquitoMate company submitted data to the Environmental Protection Agency to
get Wolbachia in a related mosquito, Aedes albopictus,
approved as a pesticide. It is an easier process to go through the Environmetal Protection Agency
and takes less time than the Federal Drug
Administration's approval process which could take years.
Last July, Fresno county had it's first travel related Zika virus illness.
Marin Independent Journal: Marin electronic medical record system hacked, ransom paid
08/08/2016
Marin Medical Practices Concepts of Novato California provides
medical billing and electronic medical records services to many physicians practicing in
Marin county, just
North of San Francisco, California. Marin Medical Practices also
operates the county's public health clinics' electronic health record system.
The company was denied access to its own computer for over a week and many Marin county doctors
were denied access to patient's electronic medical records. The company decided to pay an
undisclosed ransom in order to gain back control of its system.
Clinics were not disrupted and it is being reported that patient data has not been breeched at this time.
Several health care organization data systems have been hacked this year.
Last February, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
in Los Angeles paid a ransom of $17,000 in digital currency Bitcoin and the FBI is handling the case.
The Los Angeles Times story is linked below.
$17,000 bitcoin ransom paid by hospital to hackers sparks outrage
MedStar Health, which operates ten hospitals throughout the District of Columbia and Maryland;
Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino; Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville and
Methodist Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky were hacked in March.
The computing systems are attacked by a computer virus known as "ransomware" that
encrypts data.
The data hostage is held hostage and companies are unable to accesss their own records
until
a ransom is paid. Digital currency is usually the hacker's preferred method of
payment as digital currency is harder to trace.
Military.com/Daily-News: US Army Chaplain Submits Resignation Over Drone Warfare
08/06/2016
In an April 12, 2016 letter to President Barack Obama,
United States Army Chaplin,
Unitarian Universalist Church minister,
Reverend Christopher John Antal of New York, who served in Afghanistan,
submitted his resignation in protest over the military's use of drone
warfare and the decision to place nuclear warheads
on air-launched cruise missiles.
Reverend Antal wrote that
the White House "continues to claim the right to kill anyone, anywhere on earth,
at any time, for secret reasons, based on secret evidence,
in a secret process, undertaken by unidentified officials.
I refuse to support this policy of unaccountable killing."
The Reverend Antal is a minister for the Unitarian Universalist
Congregation at Rock Tavern, New York, a chaplain at the Department
of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, and a founder of the Hudson Valley,
New York, chapter of Veterans for Peace.
In 2012, the Reverend's message of peace
during a sermon to troops and civilian contractors in Kandahar,
where he was a battalion chaplain led
to his unrequested departure from Afghanistan,
a do-not-promote recommendation and a separation from the Army that was overturned
only by a congressional inquiry after
he challenged the Army's actions. An inquiry
by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, resulted in Alton's
reactivation into the military and a promotion to captain.
After preaching in Kandahar in 2012, handing out a copy of
the sermon to those in attendance and posting it
to a UUC website, Antal says that he
was called before his battalion commander at Kandahar and told his sermon made Americans out
"to be the bad guys" and "does not support the mission."
The serman,
"A Veterans Day Confession for America", by United States Army Reserve
Chaplin, Christopher John Antal is linked here:
On this Veteran's Day Let us confess our sins before G-d and neighbor.
The Reverend's resignation is pending.
Antal states in his resignation letter
his refusal to support a nuclear weapons policy that costs
billions to maintain and threatens human existence as well as
President Obama's decision to support a nuclear air-launched cruise missile.
He and his congregation wrote letters to the White House urging the administration to change
its drone and nuclear policies.
The Army Chaplin decided to resign when a February report on Obama's
targeted drone killing policy from The Stimson Center,
a nonpartisan think tank, gave the administration moslty
failing grades in meeting earlier recommendations to reform
the program and make it more transparent.
Antal also wrote that he could not support "preventive war, permanent military
supremacy, and global power projection" and "imperial overstretch."
American Type Culture Collection, ATCC: Zika virus (ATCC(R) VR-84(TM)
Classification: Flaviviridae, Flavivirus / Product Format: freeze-dried
08/04/2016b
The depositor for the zika virus Strain MR 766 (Original) is listed as
the J. Casals, Rockefeller Foundation since 1947 per the ATCC or American Type Culture Collection.
The Zika virus is sold to laboratories with proper credentials for experimential purposes
and shipped freeze dried.
ATCC(R) VR-84(TM) or Zika virus can clot
goose and chicken red blood cell count, and this strain is non-pathogenic
for hamster, guinea pig, or rabbit.
However, accidental infection has occurred in laboratory personnel with the effect on the host
being paralysis or death. The specifications for Zika virus are paralysis or death.
The patented zika virus was originally sourced from rhesus monkeys.
Zika virus is a single-stranded RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family, genus Flavivirus
(which also includes the Dengue, and West Nile Viruses).
Zika virus is transmitted to humans primarily
through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito.
Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in rhesus monkeys.
It was identified in humans in 1952
in Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania.
UC Berekeley News: Sprinkling of neural dust opens door to electroceuticals
08/04/2016
University of California, Berkeley engineers have built
the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body and are working
towards creating a medical
device that could monitor and influence a person's internal nerves, muscles or organs.
Researchers envision the wireless medical devices could potentially be used to
improve brain control of prosthetics thus avoiding wires that go through the skull.
These implantable devices may also pave the way for a technology called, "electroceuticals",
which may possibly be used to
stimulate nerves and muscles to treat disorders such as epilepsy or to stimulate
the immune system or tamp down inflammation.
Neural dust was implanted in the muscles and peripheral nerves of rodents and
is unique in that ultrasound is used both to power or control and read out the measurements.
Ultrasound technology is well-developed for hospital use.
Unlike radio waves, ultrasound vibrations are able penetrate
nearly anywhere in the body.
The sensors are a 1 millimeter cube or about the size of a large grain of sand
and contains a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasound vibrations from outside
the body into electricity to power a tiny, on-board transistor
that is in contact with a nerve or muscle fiber.
A voltage spike in the fiber alters the circuit and the vibration of the crystal,
which changes the echo detected by the ultrasound receiver,
typically the same device that generates the vibrations. The slight change, called backscatter,
allows engineers to determine the voltage.
The goal is to implant neural dust motes anywhere in the body,
and have a patch over the implanted site send ultrasonic waves to wake up and
receive information from
the motes for the desired therapy.
DefenseTech.org/2016/07/20/army-to-test-dragon-silk-armor-for-soldiers/:
Army to Test 'Dragon Silk' Armor for Soldiers
08/02/2016b
The United States Army plans to test a product, produced by
silkworms that are genetically modified with spider DNA, called "Dragon Silk" for potential
use in ballistic vests for
soldiers.
"Dragon Silk" is made from silkworms genetically modified with spider DNA to weave stronger silk.
Spiders spin incredibly strong silk, an order of magnitude stronger than that of silkworms, however
spiders will not spin in colonies because many are cannibalistic.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc., based in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
recently received a ten month contract with the U.S. Defense Department
that is potentially worth one million dollars
to deliver ballistic shoot packs constructed from its proprietary
"Dragon Silk" material for performance testing.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc., chief operating officer,
Jon Rice, claims that "Dragon Silk"
scores very
highly in tensile strength and elasticity, which makes it one of the toughest
fibers known to man and the ideal material for many applications.
The Pentagon is always searching for
products to better protect troops from battlefield injuries and
to develop blast-resistant underwear featuring
silk and Kevlar-like material after hundreds of
service members incurred genital-related
injuries from improvised explosive devices in combat zones.
One thousand three hundred seventy eight
male service members incurred injuries to the
genitals and other parts of the genitourinary tract between
2001 and 2013 while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Army.Mil/article/172523/: Neuroscience advances could boost battlefield performance
08/02/2016
The United States
military is getting more advanced at creating super soldiers and a human drone army using mind control
techniques. Army Military news is reporting (see link above) that advances in neuroscience
could lead to enhanced decision making and performance of soldiers in the near future.
Dr. Jean Vettel, a neuroscientist from the Army Research Laboratory spoke during a media day
on Thursday, July 28 at Aberdeen Proving Ground,
a United States Army facility located in Aberdeen, Maryland.
For the last seven years, Vettel's team has been experimenting in various ways
to try to understand the individual differences in brain patterns
that could lead to future capabilities
for soldiers in the timeframe of 2040.
Dr. Vettel's researchers
use an electroencephalogram, or EEG, which records
voltage fluctuations in different parts of the brain through
sensors placed on a person's head in order to measure brain wave patterns.
Soldier subjects are hooked up
to an EEG and other sensors and then drive either in a car simulator or an
actual car, while data is collected on their brain patterns. Researchers sometimes measure
multitasking by introducing a car passenger to talk to the driver.
Brain patterns are formed by activated neural pathways linking various
regions of the brain, but active neural connections can vary
among people performing the same activity.
Dr. Vettle wants to build a database on the brain patterns of
individuals and groups that will enable researchers to predict how soldiers will drive
in both proactive and reactive states.
In a proactive state a driver has good situational awareness of the road,
such as being able to stay in one's lane.
A reactive state is when a driver must react to a situation,
such as when a driver misses an exit and must
come up with a new strategy.
The researchers are beginning to use the database from their experiments to predict
the driving performance of subjects in both proactive and reactive states.
Dr. Vettel's future experiments may include, induced fatigue or sleep deprivation
in a car simulator as well as examining the brain
patterns of soldiers on patrol.
The experiments are
only in basic research, not applied research. The knowledge gained
has a good likelihood of transitioning to
prototype testing in the decades ahead.
The good doctor envisions a future where
EEG-like sensors could be embedded in a soldier's helmet or clothing
and the possible applications are as follows.
A soldier may have an inkling of possible danger, but that almost subconscious feeling
has not yet reached
the threat threshold and therefore the soldier gives no warning.
If several other soldiers
have the same inkling, the sensors could detect that and transmitters could convey
a threat alert to them or to their commanders
back at headquarters.
A soldier inside an autonomous vehicle could be alerted and given back control if the vehicle
is about to do something dangerous.
Finally, Dr. Vettel would like her researchers to use non-invasive sensors
to monitor soldiers all day long and doing a variety of tasks, which would
dramatically increase the data they collect.
Fusion.net: Police asked this 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man's fingers to unlock his phone
07/27/2016
Police have recently asked
Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University, to create replicas of the fingers of a
murder victim to
unlock the victim's phone. The police think that the phone may hold clues to the murder but,
do not have access to the phone without a fingerprint or password.
Anil Jain
is a computer science professor who works on biometric identifiers such as facial recognition programs,
fingerprint scanners and tattoo matching to study how to make devices less hackable.
Instead of going to the company that made the phone for access,
the police are creating 3D printed fingers.
The victim may have been previously arrested as
the police already have a scan of the victim's fingerprints that was taken while he was alive.
Using the scans the lab was able to recreate all ten digits. Police need all ten digits as
they do not know which finger the victim used to unlock his phone. Most people use their thumb or
index finger to access their phone.
A 3D printed finger alone can't unlock most phones.
Most fingerprint readers used on phones are capacitive which means they rely on the
closing of tiny electrical circuits to work. Ridges of fingers
cause some of these circuits to come in contact with each other,
generating an image of the fingerprint. Skin is conductive
enough to close these circuits, but 3D printing plastic is not.
To get around this obstacle, the 3D printed fingers were coated with a thin layer of metallic particles
so that the fingerprint scanner will be able to read them.
PLOS.org: Anthropogenic Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Elicit
Neuropathic Pain in an Amputation Model
07/21/2016b
Researchers report
that air pollution from human caused radio-frequency electromagnetic
electric fields cause nerve pain
in the case of peripheral nerve injury in amputees and
substantiate patient reports of RF EMF-pain.
The
air pollution from RF EMFs have no adverse sensory
effects in the general population, however
RF EMF stimulus is sufficient to directly contribute to the
depolarization of dissociated sensory neurons in persons who have had amputations.
In addition
the perfusion or premeation of inflammatory cytokine TNF-a resulted in a
significantly higher percentage of active sensory neurons
during RF EMF stimulation.
Increased concentrations of TNF-a are found in acute and chronic
inflammatory conditions such as trauma, sepsis, infection and rheumatoid arthritis,
create a shift toward a proatherogenic lipid profile and
impaired glucose tolerance occurs per the
Journal of Lipid Research
A broad spectral band of EMF frequencies (50 Hz-5 GHz) are passing around and
through us, and are generated from sources that range from
electricity transport to mobile communication devices.
The question are RF EMFs capable of triggering post-neurotomy pain is signifcant as
currently 1.7 million amputees are living in just the United States alone. Aside
from the loss of function, approximately twenty to thirty percent
of this population endures chronic, debilitating pain associated
with the formation of benign peripheral nerve tumors
in their residual limbs, called amputation neuromas.
Military Daily News: Requiring Women to Register for the Draft Passes Senate
07/21/2016
Miltary Daily News has reported that
a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 will
for the first time in United States history require women to register
for the draft upon turning the age of eighteen.
The bill was passed by both chambers in identical form July, 7 2016.
The bill goes to the President next who may sign or veto the bill. The vote was without objection
so no record of individual votes was made.
S. 2943: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
The provision to require females to register for the draft
was vigorously debated in the Senate on June seven by Republicans
Ted Cruz and John McCain.
Ted Cruz argued that
that the provision of including women in the draft entered the bill through committee,
rather than in public, open debate.
Senator Cruz said, "Women can do anything they set their mind to, and I see that each and every day.
The idea that we should forcibly conscript young girls
in combat to my mind makes little or no sense. It is at minimum
a radical proposition. I could not vote for a bill
that did so without public debate."
Senator McCain won the arguement by countering that including
women in the draft was a matter of equality.
Frontiers In Public Health: Human and Environmental Dangers Posed by
Ongoing Global Tropospheric Aerosolized
Particulates for Weather Modification 6/30/2016
07/17/2016
Post-Doctrate researcher, J. Marvin Herndon, recently published a paper (which is linked above)
in the "Journal for Frontiers in Public Health" regarding the public and environmental dangers
of praticulates from ongoing global weather modification.
Evidence presented states the
U.S. military has a history of unethical nuclear experiments performed
on unsuspecting individuals without their consent and
that subsequent perception of weather warfare has led to exposing millions
of unsuspecting individuals to toxic coal fly ash with no public disclosure,
no informed consent, and no health warnings.
Hernedon used three scientific methods, to analyse
rainwater samples, thought to have leached from aerosolized coal fly ash, with corresponding coal
fly ash laboratory leachate, air filter dust with corresponding elements in coal fly ash
and
fibrous mesh found after snow melted with corresponding elements in coal fly ash.
Fibrous mesh provides an inferred direct connection with the aerosolizing jet aircraft via coal fly ash
association with jet combustion.
Hernedon concludes that there is strong evidence for
the correctness of the hypothesis: coal fly ash is likely the
aerosolized particulate emplaced in the troposphere for geoengineering, weather modification,
and/or climate alteration.
Documented public health associations for particulate pollution are also
applicable to aerosolized coal fly ash.
The ability of coal fly ash to release heavy metals and
radioactive elements upon exposure to body moisture has
potentially grave human health implications including cancer,
cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory diseases,
reduced male fertility, and stroke.
Fibrous mesh pose the possibility of
disastrous formation of methylmercury and ozone-depleting chlorinated-fluorinated
hydrocarbons in jet exhaust. The
geophysical implications include atmospheric warming and rainfall retardation.
Commercial weather modification technology began in 1946. Today weather alteration is used
for agricultural as well as for other commercial purposes such as ski resorts to increase chances of
of snow and insurance companies use it to
to cut risks when guaranteeing certain weather conditions for commercial
projects or to minimize potential
losses caused by hail storms.
The United States military has a long history of interest in controlling the weather.
Geoengineering is taking place in the troposphere (lower atmosphere) over a large number of
countries, including the United States, Canada, the European Union countries,
England, Australia and New Zealand, although
the academic community has been hesitant to publically acknowledge
military geoengineering activity there is
abundant observational evidence for its existence.
The researcher says that since the
Vietnam war, military weather modification has become a secret global-scale activity buttressed
by a campaign of disinformation.
Weather modification or geoengineering continues to be covertly developed and practiced,
especially over the past twenty years.
Geoengineering activity poses a global-scale public-health danger
due to the nature of the principal substance being sprayed into the lower atmosphere,
tropospher where it mixes with the air we breathe.
The United States government hides the known (and unknown) health risks and
misleads the public about its geoengineering program and
the aerosol substances it employs.
Rueters: Fake CIA agent and FOX News terror expert sentenced to prison for lying to the public for years
07/16/2016
Wayne Simmons, 62, was sentenced in U.S. District
Court in Alexandria, Virginia to thirty three
months in prison on July 15, 2016 on charges that he fraudulently claimed
to have been a CIA agent for decades.
Wayne Simmons had appeared on Fox News as an unpaid guest analyst
on terrorism since 2002.
Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said,
"Simmons has no military or intelligence background, or any skills relevant to the positions he attained
through his fraud."
Simmons was employed
as a team leader in an Army program, and again in 2010 when he was deployed to
Afghanistan as an intelligence adviser.
Simons was indicted for portraying himself as "Outside Paramilitary Special
Operations Officer" for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000.
Monsanto & Du Pont Announce New Herbicide to Combat Roundup Resistant Superweeds
Reuters: Monsanto, DuPont sign supply agreement for dicamba herbicide
07/15/2016
Immortal Corporations Monsanto and DuPont have announced
a multi-year supply agreement for a new herbicide named dicamba in the United States and Canada.
Monsanto will supply farm seeds and chemicals to go with dicamba. Du Pont will market dicamba
under the names FeXapan and VaporGrip Technology.
Dicamba is meant for use with Monsanto's genetically modified Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans.
DuPont signed a licensing agreement to incorporate Monsanto's Xtend trait in its seeds in 2013.
Widespread planting of glyphosate-tolerant corn,
soybeans and cotton in the United States
has contributed to the rise of weeds that are resistant to glypshosate.
Farmers are seeking alternative varieties of crops that can
withstand other herbicides.
Monsanto has invested over one billion dollars in a dicamba production
plant in Luling, Louisiana.
Xtend will be Monsanto's largest launch. Monsanto foresees that
fifty million acres of Xtend soybeans will be planted by 2019.
The Government of Canada: Global Affairs:
Agreement Between Canada and the United States
of America Relating to the Exchange of Information on Weather Modification Activities
07/14/2016b
The Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America are aware
that weather modification may effect the nation's territories.
The treaty linked above notes
diverse weather modification activities in both Canada and the United States
by private parties, by State and Provincial authorities,
and by the Federal Governments.
Weather modification activities are performed with the intention of producing
artificial changes in the composition, behaviour, or
dynamics of the atmosphere.
There are many forms of weather modification such as aersol spraying
using jets equipped to disperse chemicals mixed with acetone into the atmosphere that the public
sees and calls "chemtrails".
Experiments in the United States,
Australia, Israel, and other countries have also used airplanes
for dispersing silver iodide particles. Silver iodide in acetone has been
burned in generators suspended from the wings of one or more airplanes.
In some tests pyrotechnical devices have been employed for this purpose.
When they are dropped from above into clouds, a solid mixture of silver iodide
and an inflammable substance is ignited per
the Encyclopedia Britannica: Weather Modification
Nevada County Scooper: Nevada City to Become Nation's First Chemtrail-Free Zone
07/10/2016c
The Nevada City council seats new members this year,
including community activist Reinette Senum.
First on the agenda, according to
City Hall insiders, will be a declaration that Nevada City
is a chemtrail-free zone. The historic gold rush town will make history by becoming the first town
in the United States of America to enact such a law.
"It's clear that the global elite are trying to control everything,"
said Green Party member Derrick Packard after the swearing-in ceremony.
"We need to demonstrate to the (new) world (order) that the buck stops here in Nevada City.
If you control the skies, you control life."
Built into the proposed ordinance is language that allows Nevada City's general fund to
sue chemtrail flyovers.
The Nevada County Scooper states that the cost of litigation will be high
by repeating the talking point that there is zero evidence of any global chemtrail conspiracy.
The Nevada County Scooper is correct, chemtrails
is a term that the public uses to describe aerosol spraying from aircraft for weather modificaitoin or
manipulation,
solar radiation management and other purposes
is not a conspiracy theory.
Global Research.org: Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails
'At an international symposium held in Ghent, Belgium May 28-30, 2010,
scientists asserted that "manipulation of climate through
modification of Cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory."
It is "fully operational"
with a solid sixty-year history. Though "hostile" environmental
modification was banned by
UN Convention in 1978, its "friendly" use today.'
The Airforce studies geoengineering for weather manipulation.
Airforce Military: Weather as a Force Multiplier:
Owning the Weather in 2025
'2025
is a study designed to comply
with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the
concepts, capabilities, and
technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space
force in the future.'
Mr. Derrick Packard wants the world to know that Nevada City
is leading the charge against the elite brainiacs who want
everything for themselves.
Also on the agenda is the a motion to remove all radio producing devices except
for local radio station.
USA Police use Bomb Detecting Robot Equipped with Explosives to Target & Kill
a Civilian Suspect for the First Time
PoliceOne.com: Robot used by Dallas police to kill ambusher opens ethical debate
07/14/2016
For the first time in the history of the United States of America,
police used a bomb disposal robot
strapped with explosives
to kill an armed suspect in the fatal shootings of five officers in Dallas, Texas.
Security experts and law enforcement officials say they cannot recall another time when U.S. police
have deployed a robot with lethal intent to execute a civilian.
Is it legal for the police to use explosives to murder dangerous suspects?
Many robots that police forces use are coming from a U.S. Department of Defense program
transferring surplus equipment from the military. In the past the robots have been used to detonate
suspected bombs.
Law enforcement agencies have recieved robots such
as Packbot made by Endeavor Robotics, the Talon from QinetiQ and
the MARCbot made by Exponent.
FindLaw states, "This is not the first time police have
employed deadly explosives to end a standoff, nor is it the first time police
have deployed robots with deadly effects. But the
use of the bomb robot in Dallas may be the first time police have combined
a bomb robot and a bomb in a targeted killing."
FindLaw.com: Is It Legal for Police to Use Bomb Robots
to Execute Dangerous Suspects?
The Washington Post: 'This is the brain on horror': The incredible calm of Diamond 'Lavish' Reynolds
07/10/2016
Ms. Diamond Lavish Reynolds
video recorded her boyfriends death by police as she was pulled over for a
traffic stop. She posted the horror on FaceBook. The world marveled at the calm that she had during
the traumatic situation. Her child and Philando Castile were in the back seat together when Philando
Castile was shot and died at the hands of a police officer.
Trauma expert Jim Hopper, a psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School,
perfectly explains to the Washington Post how taurma based mind control works.
Dr Hopper said Diamond Lavish's behavior, which was calm, was consistent
with what he calls a dissociative state.
New York Times: Self-Driving Tesla Was Involved in Fatal Crash, U.S. Says
06/30/2016
A Tesla Model S, was involved in a fatal accident
with its auto piloted self-driving mode enabled when the death occured.
In a statement, the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration said it had sent an investigative team to examine the vehicle and
the crash site in Williston, Florida.
Tesla states to have informed the traffic
safety agency about the accident immediately after the accident
which occured May 7, 2016.
Telsa executives decided to disclose the fatality publicly eight week later on Thursday June 30,
after learning that the agency
had begun to investigate and that the public was going to find out anyway.
The traffic safety agency is set to release new guidelines and regulations
regarding the testing of self-driving
vehicles on public roads in July, 2016.
The Spectrum.iee states that driver-less cars
must decide in an instant with incomplete information, in situations
that programmers often will not have considered and
ethics must be encoded into the artificial intelligence mechanisms.
Spectrum.iee.org: Can You Program Ethics Into a Self-Driving Car?
West Hawaii Today: Some Kauai residents unhappy about wall being built by Facebook billionaire
06/29/2016
Mark Zuckerberg, famous for wanting to make the New World Order more connected and
making a fortune off of leeching your personal data, is pissing off his neighbors in Kilauea, Kaui by
building a wall around his 700-plus-acre
property that obstructs both the views and the breezes. Residents say the wall is ten feet tall
at road level and the length and widith is not yet known. Not aloha or friendly to the residents of
Kilauea.
Mark has also annoyed his bay area neighbors in San Francisco, California,
while building own his personal elite home prison.
Business Insider: Mark Zuckerberg Is Annoying His Neighbors With The Fortress-Like Home He's Building In San Francisco
National Public Radio: In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human
06/28/2016
A group of United States scientists are creating part human and part
animal embryos to research cures for human aliments. Researchers hope
to create better animal models to study how human diseases happen and how they progress.
The golden ticket for the researchers would be to create pigs with human organs to use in
human transpalants for teminally ill patients.
As of September, 2015, the U.S. department of Health & Human Services'
National Institutes of Health has imposed a moratorium on public funding of
research in which human pluripotent cells are
introduced into non-human vertebrate animal pre-gastrulation
stage embryos while the Agency considers a possible policy revision.
NIH Research Involving Introduction of Human Pluripotent Cells into Non-Human Vertebrate Animal Pre-Gastrulation Embryos
A small number of researchers are pursuing the work with alternative funding in hopes
the results
will persuade the NIH to lift the moratorium.
UC Davis Department of Animal Science
Pablo J. Ross, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor the
Department of Animal Science at the
University of California
Davis, is one such researcher.
Doctor Ross uses the gene-editing technique named CRISPr to
to remove the gene that pig embryos need to develop a pancreas,
then he injects adult human induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPS for short, into the pig embryos.
The altered procine embryos are surgically implanted into a living pig. Pablo J. Ross has also done
this experimentation with sheep. He hopes to be able to grow a human pancreas within a procine to
create organ transplants for people.
Centers For Disease Control: ACIP votes down use of LAIV for 2016-2017 flu season
06/27/2016b
The Centers for Disease Control's
Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted this week
that live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), also known as the "nasal spray" flu vaccine, should not be used during the
2016-2017 flu season.
The ACIP vote is based on data showing poor or relatively lower effectiveness of LAIV from
2013 through 2016. The reason for the recent poor performance of LAIV is not known.
The ACIP recommendation
recommendation must be reviewed and approved by CDCs director before it becomes CDC policy but, it
may particularly affect pediatricians
and other vaccine providers for children since data from recent
seasons suggests nasal spray flu vaccine accounts for about one-third of all flu
vaccines given to children.
American Medical Association, News Room: AMA Adopts Community Guidance to Reduce the Harmful Human and Environmental Effects of High Intensity Street Lighting
06/27/2016
The Amercian Medical Association states that improper
energy efficient, light emitting diodes or LED's used as street lamps
have harmful effects on human health and the
evnvironment.
The American Medical Association has recently adopted guidance for communities on
selecting LED lighting options for optimal design and engineering features
to minimize potential harmful
human and environmental effects.
High-intensity LED lighting designs emit a large amount
of blue light that appears white to the naked eye, creates worse nighttime
glare, discomfort and disability than conventional lighting and are a concern for road safety.
Blue-rich LED streetlights operate at a wavelength that adversely suppresses melatonin in the human body
during the night. It is estimated that
white LED lamps have five times greater impact on circadian sleep rhythms than conventional
street lamps. Brighter residential nighttime lighting is associated with reduced
sleep times, dissatisfaction with sleep quality, excessive sleepiness, impaired
daytime functioning and obesity per recent large surveys.
Excessive outdoor lighting disrupts many species that need a dark environment.
The United States national parks have adopted lighting
designs and practices that minimize the effects of LED light pollution.
The AMA encourages communities to minimize and control blue-rich environmental lighting by using the
lowest emission of blue light possible recommends that the lights
be properly shielded well as dimmed during off-peak hours.
The United States has banned the manufacturing and importing incandesant light bulbs for
use in the home in an
effort to force a phase out of the traditional warm glow light bulbs in favor of LED bulbs which
are more energy efficient but are harmful to eye sight and human health.
PC New: What You Should Know About the 2014 Light Bulb Ban
The Guardian: EU parliament leader: we want Britain out as soon as possible
06/24/2016
The voters of Britain are the first of
the European Union's twenty eight member states
to vote to leave the European Union in it's fifty nine year history.
Prime Minister, David Cameron resigned and will leave office in three months.
The Telegraph: What is the EU and Why was it created?
The European Union
was originally set up after WWII to create unity between Germany and France.
The EU now operates as a
single market which allows free movement of goods, capital, services and people between member states.
US Department of Health & Human Services: Parent Project Number: 5P01AI104715-03:
ANIMAL AND LABORATORY CORE
05/12/2016
The National Institute of allergy & infectious diseases was awarded
$645,312 in 2015, to fund a project that uses humanized mice to research
HIV/AIDS, immunization, infectious diseases, prevention, vaccines;
and vaccine related to (AIDS).
Humanized mice also known as transgenic mice, are frequently used by immunologists
who give the mice a mostly-human immune system to study infectious diseases and may also
be used to study other body systems. Humanizing mice requires the
transfer of 17-19 weeks developed human fetal tissue into young mice, 6-8 weeks of age,
with weakened immune systems. The mice are irradiated and then injected with
stem cells derived from human fetal liver and thymus tissue.
Harvard Education: Part-Mouse-Part-Human
Humanized Mice Made with Human Embryos Taxpayer Funded
PrWeb: Reanima Advanced BioSciences: The Reanima Project - Is Death Reversible?
05/07/2016
The Institutional Review Board or IRB which was established by
the American Public University (APU) and the American Military University,
is a committee to review and approve research involving human subjects
to ensure that all human subject research is conducted in accordance with all federal, institutional,
and ethical guidelines. The IRB has approved the first in human experiments that attempts
to reanimate the central nervous system of
clinically brain dead people.
IRB
Bioquark, Inc., a company that
uses "novel biologics" that have the ability to alter
the regulartoy state of human tissues and organs with the focus on regeneration
and disease reversion,
and Revita Life Sciences,
a biotechnology company focused on "translational" therapeutic applications of
autologous stem cells (cells that are derived from the same indivdual's body),
have teamed up for
the "Reanima Project", which asks the question,"Is death reversible?".
Initially twenty subjects will be enrolled in the
proof of concept study that will use multi-modalities to reanimate the centeral nervous systems of
of people that are brain dead due to traumatic brain injury
or having diffuse axonal injury. The study
will be conducted at Anupam Hospital in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand India.
Death is defined as the termination of
all biological functions that sustain a living organism.
Brain death, the complete and
irreversible loss
of brain function (including involuntary
activity necessary to sustain life) as defined in the 1968
report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School,
is the legal definition of human death in most
countries around the world.
When humans transition through the brain death window,
currently defined by the medical establishment as "irreversible",
they are technically no longer alive,
despite the fact that human bodies can still
circulate blood, digest food, excrete waste,
balance hormones, grow, sexually mature,
heal wounds, spike a fever, and gestate and deliver a baby.
It is even acknowledged by thought leaders that
recently brain dead humans still may have
residual blood flow and electrical nests of activity in their brains,
just not enough to allow for an integrated functioning of the organism as a whole.
EurekaAlert.org: Scientists develop human embryos through early post-implantation stages for first time
05/06/2016
Scientists at the University of Cambridge, have developed a technique that allows them to keep
embryos viable up to thirteen days. With previous techniques researchers were only able
to keep the embryos alive for up to seven days and the longest
embryo kept alive was nine days developed. Usual invitro practices require the embryos
to be implanted at seven days of development
in order
to survive. In papers published in Nature and Nature Cell Biology,
two international teams report a technique that for the first time,
allows them to culture human embryos
outside the mother for an additional six days and
up to thirteen days of development. The current legal limit to keep embryos viable for
research is fourteen days. Scientists have pushed the current legal limit in the United Kingdom.
The embryos were donated by couples who had sought invitro-fertilization and had left-over embryos.
Money CNN: Chris Matthews' Melania Trump remarks caught on hot mic
05/05/2016
Chris Matthews was caught commenting on Melania Trump's beautiful walk while his
microphone was on. Chirs Said, "Did you see her walk? Runway walk. My God is that good.
I could watch that runway show." Matthews was obviously objectifying Melania. Donald Trump
objectives women right and left. Melania is a successful business person and seems to be
as smart as she is sexy. Melania seems to enjoy being objectified and that is why she can stand
being married to
her current husband. The Trump's mostl likely are secretly quite pleased
that Melania made Matthews
drool. Objectification has it time and place. Women should be able to dress as provocatively as they
please and be free from harrassment. That being said...
GeneticEngineering & Biotechnology News: Mistakes Shorten First Approved GMO's Shelf Life
05/04/2016
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News is reporting
that a series of mistakes or flaws in the science as well as
the business model has spoiled Calgene's genetically modified tomatoes.
The GM tomatoes, trademarked as Flavr Savr's and developed in California, were the first
genetically modified food
crop to be marketed commercially following FDA approval in 1994.
Calgene, started off with a million dollar contract with the Campbell Soup Company,
to study if the gene of an enzyme which naturally occurs in tomatoes,
polygalacturonase (PG), could be isolated and reintroduced in reverse or "antisense"
orientation. PG breaks down the cell wall pectin, a setting agent in ripe fruits such as tomatoes,
to create a more fluid tomato paste.
Campbell was seeking to reduce
the production costs for its tomatoe soup in the hopes of bypassing the traditonal
way of breaking down pectin by heating to
make a paste.
Calgene reasoned that because PG enhanced viscosity or thickness
it would also slow the rotting of a tomato,
which it did or so they thought.
Due to creative differences with the recipe of
Campbell's tomatoe soup, Calgene and the Campbell Soup Company parted their ways.
In order to justify a higher stock market price, Calgene decided to sell the tomatoes
on the fresh produce market.
The FDA approved the Flavr Savr tomatoes on May 18, 1994. Flavr Savr was
introduced under the brand name MacGregor at two grocery stores in
Davis, CA and the other in Northbrook, IL. Despite protests and being seventy cents higher than
conventional tomatoes, the genetically modified tomatoes had brisk sales in the beginning.
Commericially grown tomatoes are traditionally picked while green and hard,
then ripened by
treating with ethylene gas.
Calgene picked
its modified tomatoes when they were vine ripe.
Calgene invisioned or dreamt that the PG
enzyme would stave off rotting and prevent softening during ripening which would allow
the fruit to be transported hundreds of miles across the U.S. of America all without bruising,
stay fresh longer once consumer takes the
them home and all the while will
retain their vine-ripe taste. Which sounded like a great idea at the time.
In addition to the antisense PG gene, MacGregor tomatoes contained a bacterial plasmid to be used
as marker to the antisense PG gene.
Unfortunately the tomatoes did not stand up to shipping or Calgene's hopes:
'"Flavr Savr failed because it
made a minimal impact on shelf life/fruit softening,
and the transgene was put into some very poor germplasm," Harry J. Klee, Ph.D., Monsanto's
chief tomato scientist two decades ago, told Genetic Engineering & Biology News.'
Through a series of mishaps the Flavr Savr tomatoes
ended up costing ten dollars per pound to produce while selling for one dollar and
ninety nine cents per pound at the grocery store.
Calgene was forced to sale it's assets and Monsanto was there to take over.
Monsanto is now the controlling stake holder.
The tomato distributor Gargiulo.
Monsanto has been in the biotechonology business since 1981. In 1987
Monsanto conducted the first U.S. field trials of plants with biotech traits.
The same year Calgene launched Flavr Savr, Monsanto introduced to the U.S. its first biotech product Posilac,
bovine somatotropin (BST) for the dairy cow.
Monsanto's other genetic experiments are:
Roundup Ready versions of crops that include
soybeans, cotton, canola, and corn, featuring an in-seed tolerance to glyphosate-based herbicides
that are contained in the company's Roundup herbicide.
Although Flavr Savr did not live up to expectations to increase shelf life of tomatoes,
the Calgene company
did succeed in helping to establish FDA's current approach to regulating genetically modified
crops and foods in effect today.
Following consultations with Calgene, the FDA in 1992 first developed its "Statement
of Policy-Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties,"
which intended to apply the same regulatory standards to transgenic
and conventional crops and concluded that foods genetically modified
foods or crops do not require labling as the FDA states,
'"In most cases, the substances expected to become components of food as a result of genetic
modification of a plant will be the same as or substantially
similar to substances commonly found in food, such as proteins,
fats and oils, and carbohydrates."'
Groups that represent consumers that feel that they have
a right to know what they were eating lost
that argument that succumbed to industry-funded opposition in
California in 2012, but succeeded 2 years later in Vermont when it passed its mandatory
GM food labeling law.
The genetically modified tomatoe that at first seemed
very promising but later,
did not meet expectations and was not cost effective,
yet helped to lobby
effectively against the consumer's right to know if they are eating gmos and to
not have any more regulations than conventional foods.
Global Farmer Network: Zimbabwe's Rejection of GMO Food Aid is a Humanitarian Outrage
04/29/2016
February 2016, Zimbabwe rejected any food aid that comes in the form of genetically
modified organisms. Zimbabwe is suffering from one of the worse (most likely geo-engineered)
droughts in twenty years, yet the wise and good steward of the land,
the Minister of Agriculture, Joseph Made was firm in his stance against accepting any aid
that comes in the form of genetically modified food and made this statement,
"The position of the government is very clear, we
do not accept GMO as we are protecting the environment
from the grain point of view."
Nyasha Mudukuti, a writer for the propaganda organization known as
the Global Farmers Network,
wrote a column which first appeared in the Wall Street journal that makes the case that the rejection
of GMO aid by Zimbabwe is an outrage because poor nations should not be allowed to have a choice to
reject gmos.
Nyasha Mudkuti spelled out the brave new world Global Farmers talking points
to stifle free thinking and here is the list:
(1)Better fed than dead (as in better dead than red); (2) Questioning the GMO dogma
is anti-science; (3) GMOs pose no threat to human health or
the environment per "every"
scientific study that they let us see while other studies are not done or have been surpressed;
(4) GMOs are "positively" good for the environment and for companies that sell GMO seeds as the poor
farmers must buy the seeds every year and the sellers make a nice profit;
(5) Opposing GMOs is an ideological luxury for wealthy countries and people such as Gwenyth Paltrow,
poor nations can not afford to reject Franken food and should not have
a choice to decide for themselves what they want to eat or grow as they are poor and
wealthy countries know what is best for poor black people;
(6) The world is over populated and we need to
keep feeding the masses with GMOs so people can get cancer and their children can grow up to be sterile;
GM corn set to stop man spreading his seed
(6) It is only fair as countries such as United States, Brazil, and India are "doing it";
and finally (7) "Label" people who thoughtfully question
GMOs as extremists with the use of pharses such as "anti-science extremism".
MedicalXpress: Chinese team uses CRISPR to genetically modify human embryo
04/26/2016
Researchers from
Guangzhou Medical University, China have
published in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction & Genetics
that they sucessfully modified four of twenty six human embryos using CRISPR/Cas9,
the gene editing technique.
Two hundred thirteen zygotes from a fertility clinic,
which had been deemed unsuitable for in vitro therapy due to genetic mutations
were donated for scientific research provided that the zygotes were not allowed to mature into
actual people.
Some embryos were used as a control group and
others resulted
in unexpected gene mutations.
The genes were edited to add a mutation that causes damage to an
immune cell gene called CCR5.
CCR5 cells that are damaged naturally have been found to lead to HIV resistance.
The sciencists seek to produce humans
immune to HIV, and
say the research is paving the way for future brave new world order
efforts but, have no intention of allowing genetically modified embryos to
mature at this point in time.
The scientists believe that in the future modified humans will be common place.
Rueters: How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist
04/25/2016b
Unknown hackers were able to siphon off eighty one million dollars
by breaching Bangladesh Bank's systems and obtaining its credentials for payment transfers.
The hackers then transfered money from the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York also known as crooks, with nearly
three dozen requests to move money from the Bangladesh Bank's account there to entities
in the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
A transfer request for a
Sri Lankan non-profit organization was held up
because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO,
Shalika Foundatio. The NGO is not listed as a registered foundation.
The hacker's
misspelled "foundation" in the NGO's name as "fandation",
prompting a routing bank, Deutsche Bank, to seek clarification from the Bangladesh central bank,
which stopped the transaction.
In the meanwhile the unusually large number of payment
instructions and the transfer requests to private entities as opposed to other banks also known as
crooks,
raised suspicions at the Federal Reserve,
which also alerted the Bangladeshis.
The Bangladesh Bank has billions of dollars in a current account with
the Federal Reserve, which it uses for international settlements.
FDA.gov: FDA proposes ban on electrical stimulation devices intended to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior
04/24/2016
The Food & Drug Administration appears to be doing it's job and
has announced that it will seek to ban
electrical stimulation devices used in behavior modification. Electrodes are attached to the
skin and electical shocks are administered in an attempt to get patients to stop
engaging in self-injurious or aggressive behavior.
Many of the people who are exposed to these devices
have intellectual or developmental disabilities that make it difficult to
communicate their pain or consent. The people who administer these shocks are most likely
sadists. Psychological and physical risks associated with the use of these devices, include
depression, anxiety, worsening of self-injury behaviors
and symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, pain, burns, tissue damage and errant
shocks from a device malfunction.
MLive.com: Woman in leading Flint water crisis lawsuit slain in twin killings
04/23/2016
A leading plaintiff in a lawsuit against government officials and other entites
connected with the Flint, Michigan poisoned water crisis was found shot
beside another woman on April 19, 2016
in area of the 2600 block of Ridgecrest Drive.
Both women were pronounced deceased.
One of the first plaintiffs of a growing number of lawsuits, Sasha Avonna Bell, claimed that her
her child suffered lead poisoning. Police say they have caught a suspect but, have not released
a name or filed charges.
The Daily Mail UK reports that Ms. Bell was nineteen years old and a one year old child
was found alive and physically unharmed at the scene.
The relationship of the child to Ms. Bell has not been confirmed.
Woman, 19, who filed first Flint lawsuit against government is MURDERED just days after suspicious death of foreman at city's water treatment plant
TheMonroeNews: Ready, set, think! Mind controlled drones race to the future
04/22/2016
Sixteen pilots used their brain waves to fly drones through a
brain controlled interface in the world's first mind controlled drone race.
The mind controlled drones competed
in an indoor basketball court at the University of
Florida this past weekend. Intel Corporation sponsored the research.
The pilots were fitted with a
EEG headset that is calibrated to identify the unique
electrical activity associated with particular thoughts
in each wearer's brain.
Programmers write code to translate these thought signals into commands that computers
send to the drones.
Professor Juan Gilbert, whose students organized the race,
wants to push this technology down our throats and
onto the populace outside of medical purposes
such as for starting a driverless car
and says, "The applications seem to be limited only by
the human imagination."
The US Defense Department is looking
for brain control applications for military drones.
If you do not mind giving your brain wave data to a third party and the government,
you may buy a brain activity tracker today starting at just $299.
Emotiv Insight: The Next Generation Brainwear(r)
Prince Talks About Chemtrails & Indentured Slaves
04/21/2016b
Watch the video above to hear Prince say that chemtrails can make people angry and
how we are all indentured slaves. Prince became an independent artist and renounced some of his own
music. Prince was an awake black man with a lot of influence.
North America Weather Modification Council: Mission Statement
04/21/2016
Have you noticed the criss-cross "contrails" in the sky that spread across the sky
and block out the sun? Have you wondered who is spraying you like a bug? Have you tried to
tell people what you see with your very own eyes and they laugh at you that it tell you
it cannot be happening
and or tell that
spraying aerosols into the atmosphere has nothing to do with
the strange weather or climate change and is nothing to be concerned about?
Is the aluminium in the air that we are breathing making us all stupid and passive?
The following is evidence that you can share to show folks that chemclouds are real and the
the scientific community knows that they are taking a major risk with our planet.
North America Weather Modification Council meets this April 26, 2016
in Long Beach, California. Please visit their website (linked above under photo)
for more information. This
is an association to promote weather modification and the many members
are using solar radiation management that involves the spraying of aerosols into the
atmosphere. The North American Weather Modification Council claim
to reduce the size of hail stones but, the scheme seems to be
backfiring over Texas as Texas is being whalloped with hail stones the size of baseballs and
torrential flooding.
Weather modification is a world wide practice. A meeting held by the
World Meteorological Organization
Commission For Atomspheric Sciences in 2010 in Abu Dhabi is evidence of the world wide promotion
of and the continuation of aerosol spraying and is relevant today.
WMO Expert Team on Weather Modification Research:
to establish an
International Center for Weather Modification Research (ICWMR) in the UAE and recognized by
WMO as a center promoting international weather modification research, training and related
science (aerosols, cloud physics and meteorological research)
EconStor: Subject: Public perception
social movements
Climate engineering
Cooling-off: Exploring public perception of environmental technology over time
04/20/2016c
A working paper published in EconStor explores how to
manipulate the populace into accepting geoengineering.
Braun, Carola
Rehdanz, Katrin
Schmidt, Ulrich: "Public opinion has a substantial
impact on political actions. However, public opinion might be
driven by temporary emotions. If these emotions cool off over time,
public opinion might change as well.
This paper analyses how emotions drive
public opinion over time for the case of an
environmental climate engineering technology, namely solar radiation management (SRM).
SRM is a possible strategy to fight climate change
by injection of sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere.
Its potential implementation involves major risks and faces strong public opposition. Using panel survey data, we show that most respondents initially show strong negative emotions towards SRM and reject the technology. However, emotions cool off over time and acceptance increases. The increase in acceptance is larger,
the longer the cooling-off period between two surveys is." Emotions get in the way of New World Order
domination. The people must be placated.
Mirror UK: Rich Americans seek black market brain implants in
bid to plug into artificial intelligence 'matrix'
04/20/2016b
Zoltan Istvan, USA presidential candidate representing the
TransHumansist party, knows two people seeking black market
brain implants in central America so they can link to artificial inteligence.
In an interview with The Mirror, Istvan said,
"I have friends who are buying tickets to Central America
to perform this kind of surgery."
Zoltanistvan.com: Transhumanist From Mill Valley, California & USA Presidential Candidate
04/20/2016
Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan is a United States presidential candidate representing the
Transhumanist Party, a group that wants rich people to mesh with technology and live forever
or until their money runs out.
GeoEngineeringWatch.org:
Former Air Force Officer Warns Of Atmospheric Spraying And The Coming Collapse
04/19/2016b
Former Air Force Officer Randall Smith, Ph.D., Commander, NECN writes for GeoEngineeringWatch.org,
that people are deluding themselves that writing
letters to "elected representatives" will, in any way,
make a difference and implores us to please stop and apply our thinking,
actions and words in more productive approaches.
There is no longer a "Republican" or a "Democratic" party.
There is one party,
and it is not accountable to the people but is
in concert with the stated goals of U.N. "Agenda 21" per Officer Randall Smith.
The Guardian UK: Artist threatened with lawsuits if she sells nude Donald Trump painting
04/18/2016c
"Make America Great Again", 2016 is a
beautiful 11"x14" pastel pencil depicting a nude male human
that has a flattering resemblance to
Donald Trump. Instead of celebrating freedom of expression and/
or the beauty of the male human body the artist has not been well recieved at
all in freedom of speech loving and evently prudish United States of America, may
G-d bless her purple mountains majesty.
The art has attracted bids of over one million dollars after it went on display at the
Maddox Gallery in Mayfair, London. The American artist from Los Angeles
Illma Gore has received thousands of death threats,
been censored on social media,
and delisted from eBay after the anonymous filing of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice
threatening to sue Gore, and
galleries in the USA have refused to display Illma Gore's art due to security concerns.
IllmaGore.com
"It Aint the Meat, It's the Motion," Maria Muldaur
The New York Daily News: Clinton, Sanders turn on Obama by supporting bill to allow
families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
04/18/2016b
As President Barack Obams is deciding to declassify documents from the
911 Commision that may give insights on Saudia Arabia, legislation co-sponsored by
New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democratic, and Texas
Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, "The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act,"
which passed the Senate earlier this year,
would take away immunity from foreign governments in cases "arising from a terrorist attack that kills
an American on American soil," and allow Americans to seek resitution in US courts
from foreign entities deemed culpable for terrorist attacks in the United States.
Los Angeles Times: The American Independent Party is California's largest third party.
A poll shows 73% may be in it by mistake. Are you one of them?
04/18/2016
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a poll of member's of
California's largest third party the "America Independent Party"
indicates that seventy three percent (73%) of the members polled
may have thought that they were registering as independent voters with no party
affilation but, the "American Independent Party" is a real party just as the "Democratic Party"
and the "Republican Party".
"Fight for Your Right (to Party)," The Beastie Boys (A Jewish Rap Group, oy)
Jamaica Observer: Removal of Queen as head of State, fixed election date and term limit for PM
04/17/2016c
The Jamaican Government has signalled that it intends to make good on its promise to sever colonial ties with Britain by bringing a Constitution amendment bill to Parliament to have the Queen of England Elizabeth ll, replaced with a
non-executive president as head of state. Her Majesty the Queen of England overlords the
Commonwealth: The Royal Commonwealth Society, was founded in 1868 and is a network of individuals and
organizations that span over fifty three member states.
The Royal Common Wealth Society
Rolling Stone: Watch Robert De Niro Talk Pulling Anti-Vaccine Film From Tribeca
04/17/2016b
Robert De Niro was scheduled to screen,
"Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe," on April 25, 2016 at the
15th annual Tribeca Film Festival. De Niro pulled the film screening due to pressure and backlash from
fellow unfestive filmmakers who threatened to leave the ego fest.
In the United States of America the
federal law of the land is that drug companies are not liable if vaccines cause harm.
The Centers for Desease Control cannot guarantee that vaccines do not cause harm to some people.
Valid science is forever changing as we continue to make new discoveries. When people
cease to test and question scientific
hypothesis science becomes as religion as the science is based on
faith. Freedom to voice diverse opinions used to be a tradiontal U.S. of A. value.
Christian Science Monitor: Parents can't sue drug firms
when vaccines cause harm, Supreme Court says
New Hampshire Public Radio: Why Hillary Clinton's Vermont Statistics In The Gun Violence Debate Are Misleading
04/17/2016
At a gun control forum in Port Washington, New York earlier this week Hillary Clinton
told the audience, "The state that has the highest per-capita
number of those guns that end up committing crimes in New York (is)
Vermont." Hillary Clinton was trying to imply that
Vermont is a huge contributor to gun-related crime in New York.
Nature the international weekly journal of science: Ritual human sacrifice
promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies
04/16/2016d
A study published in "Nature: the International Weekly Journal of Science",
explains how the ruling or governing elite have histroically used religion and human sacraifice
to instill fear and control over
the masses. This happened mostly in societies were there were significant differences between
"the haves" and "the have nots" or were only a few controlled the wealth such as the 1% of today.
Fox News World: Japan prepares for release of radioactive material from Fukushima plant
04/16/2016c
One thousand tanks are
lined up around the defunked Nuclear Power plant in Fukishima, Japan,
and each tank hold hundreds of tons of water that have been cleansed of
radioactive cesium and strontium but not of tritium. It would be very costly to remove the tritium,
so many scientists suggest releasing it to into the ocean. Many in the public are
concerned including
those in the
fisheries business as well as people with young children.
"I'll Stop the World and Melt with You", Modern English
Nature, International Weekly Journal for Science: Scientists must help to inform regulators wrestling with how to handle the next generation of
genetically engineered crops.
04/16/2016b
Activists in Paris protested against an emerging class
of genetically altered crops. Regulators often
classify these as the product of "new breeding techniques" or NBTs,
that are different from classical and genetically modified or GMO plants. Protesters
gathered at the "Friends of the Earth", demonstration in Paris on April 6, 2016
are unconvinced by that argument.
They call the new plants "hidden GMOs".
Science News: Gene-edited mushroom doesn't need regulation, USDA says
04/16/2016
The United States Department of Agriculture will not subject the CRISPR-edited genetically
modified white cap button mushroom (Agaricus Bisprous) to require additional regulations
as other genetically modified plants as it contains no foriegn DNA and is not considered a pest.
USDA: Request for confirmation that trans-gene free, CRISPR-edited
mushrooms are not a regulated article.
CrimeFeed.com: Foil-Wrapped Robbers Outwit Bank's Alarm, But Get Caught On Security Cameras
04/14/2016
Would be bank robbers wrapped themselves in aluminum foil to get past a bank's
alarm system in Praia Grande, Brazil and the ruse worked except that the closed circuit television
surveillance system did tip off the police.
Santa-Catarina: Assaltantes se embrulham em papel alumÃnio para tentar furtar banco
The Technews: Mark Zuckerberg's Future Plan Is to Make Augmented Reality Glasses
04/13/2016c
Chief Executive Officer of FaceBook, Mark Zuckerberg is holding his "F8"
Summit
in San Francisco.
Bots, Live and A.I.: What to expect at Facebook's F8 conference
Zuckerberg sees a future
were artificial intelligence will run your bussines as well as
"virtual reality" and "expanded reality" with Occulus Rift, Google glasses type technology,
satellites, and
the whole enchilada.
Your every move
can be constantly videoed and uploaded into the matrix.
Mark plans to partner with others to help with his ideas since he
does not really invent anything himself.
CNBC: Swiss banker whistleblower: CIA behind Panama Papers
04/13/2016b
Bradley Birkenfeld is a citizen of the United States of America
and the most significant financial whistleblower of all time for exposing over one hundred years of
Swiss banking secrecy. Bradley Birkenfeld said
in an interview with CNBC Munich on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 he is sure that the C.I.A. are behind the
"Panama Papers" leak because only so called enemies of the United States were named and David Cameron
was colateral damage. Mr. Birkenfeld said, "They (the CIA) selectively bring the information
to the public domain that doesn't hurt the U.S. in any shape or form. That's wrong. And
there's something seriously sinister here behind this."
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: Agencies Announce Determinations and Provide Feedback on Resolution Plans of Eight Systemically Important, Domestic Banking Institutions
04/13/2016
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve
Board on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 jointly announced that
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley,
Bank of New York Mellon and State Street were not credible or would not facilitate an orderly
resolution under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Citigroup was not deficient but had short-comings.
The major domestic U.S.A. banks failed miserably to present a "Living Will" which is
a plan that must describe the company's strategy for rapid and orderly
resolution under bankruptcy in the event of material financial
distress or failure of the company as required by
Section 165(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act.
The agencies are still assessing
foreign banking cartels: Barclays PLC, Credit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank AG, and UBS.
BillBoard: ARHT Media Secures Digital Rights to Notorious B.I.G. Hologram: Exclusive
04/12/2016c
Augmented Reality Holographic Technology Media has acquired the digital rights to
exploit the deseased rapper the Notorious B.I.G. and will create a slave hologram capable of interacting
with audiences to perform in videos and on stage. The hologram is called a "humagram" and is
a digital human being. In the past Tony Robbins (who is living) and Tupac (deceased) have performed at
different venues.
The Guardian: I'm the real-life Gordon Gekko and I support Bernie Sanders
04/12/2016
Asher Edelman writes in the Guardian:
"The potential for a depression looms heavily on the horizon.
As a trained economist who has spent more than 20 years on Wall Street -
and one of the models for Gordon Gekko's character -
I know the financial system is in urgent need of regulation and responsibility.
Yet Hillary Clinton is beholden to the banks for their largesse in funding
her campaign and lining her pockets.
The likelihood of any Republican candidate taking on this key issue
is not even worthy of discussion."
NewWorldOrderBank.org: Demand for World Bank Lending on the Rise as Countries Face Headwinds
04/11/2016
"As developing countries continue to face strong economic headwinds,
demand for lending from the World Bank has risen to levels never
seen outside a financial crisis, and is on track to climb to more than $150 billion
in support between FY13
and the current fiscal year", per the World Bank Group press release on April, 11, 2016.
The banksters will loan middle to low income countries just enough currency to implement programs but,
not enough to account for the accumulating interest keeping the countries and the citizens
in perpetual debt. In the meanwhile the same money that was
loaned out ends up back at the bank and sits in the
same vault ready to be loaned out again and/ or used in money laundrying schemes and
then siphoned
off to Panama. End off to the working people and their children.
A key stipulation of current lending has been in the form of "Development Policy Financing".
Developing country governments are feeling the pressure to produce more, because poor people are
lazy and need to be reprogrammed and countries are not doing enough to exploit precious resources.
"Development Policy Financing" calls for countries to be under control of the
World Bank group with a broad set of legal, regulatory, institutional, and even logistical reforms
that make investing more attractive to the World Bank Group.
Pix11.com: Bernie Sanders gains momentum for NY primary at Harlem rally
04/09/2016b
After winning the Wyoming Primary,
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
told a packed crowd at the world famous Apollo Theater in Harlem that the momentum is with his campaign
to win the New York primary. Hillary must be pissed.
BernieSanders.com: Read about Bernie Sanders at his official website
The Japan News: Fingerprints to be tested as 'currency'
04/09/2016
Japan will test a system in which inbound tourists will
be able to verify their identities using only their fingerprints.
Tourists may opt to register their fingerprints and other data, such as credit card information
with the government.
Hotels, airports and shops will identify and track people and then the data
will be stored. The officials of Japan hope to implement the system throughout the country,
including Tokyo, by 2020.
Stan Bush, Reporter for KCNC-TV, CBS4 Denver: Must have chose static noise as a
privacy wall since they wanted to hold event outside
in a public neighborhood.
04/08/2016
A Colorado fundraiser for Hillary Clinton was held in an outdoor
tent at the home of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper on April 7, 2016.
Reporter for KCNC-TV, CBS4 Denver, Stan Bush tweeted that as soon as the band,
"Big Head Todd & the Monsters", stopped playing and as Ms. Clinton started speaking
the journalists were bombarded with "white noise" to
drown out Hillary's fundraiser speech.
MailOnline: Another blow to political transparency as
Clinton campaign blasts reporters with white noise machine so they can't hear her
speech at outdoor campaign fundraiser
Daily Mail UK: Is this the secret to getting curves like Kim?
Cosmetic surgeon loved by the Kardashian clan unveils new 'no scalpel butt lift' for
clients who want 'a more shapely' derriere
04/07/2016c
Beverely Hills, California so called "doctor" Simon Ourian will charge you
$15,000 to $40,000 to permantently disfigure your buttocks
by injecting you with dermal fillers or your own fat.
Darpa.mil: DARPA Director to Christen ACTUV Prototype Vessel
04/07/2016b
Darpa with the Office of Naval Research launched the
christening of a,
"Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel", in Portland, Oregon, to include the traditional breaking
of a ceremonial bottle over the bow, and
signifies the beginnings of an entirely new class of ocean-going vessel,
one
able to traverse thousands of kilometers over the open seas for months at a time,
without a single crew member aboard.
Darpa.mil: Bridging the Bio-Electronic Divide
04/07/2016a
A new "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency"
program named, "Neural Engineering System Design",
aims to develop an implantable neural interface that will be able to
provide an unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between
the human brain and the digital world.
NESD is part of a broader portfolio of programs within DARPA that support
President Obama's brain intiative. Obama has mostly likely had a brain implant
installed in his brain and that is the reason he signed this Executive Order in the first fucking place.
DARPA & the Brain Initiative.
ArtsTechnica.com: Exploration Researchers keep pig heart beating in baboon belly for two years-a new record
04/07/2016
Researcher's report in "Nature Communications" progress in breaking down
the biological barriers of cross-species organ donation.
Scientists were able to keep the hearts from gentically modified pigs alive and beating
in the abdomens of five baboons for record amounts of time and up to two years.
Nature Communications:pig-to-primate cardiac xenograft...
Darpa.Mil/news:
Minimally Invasive "Stentrode" Shows Potential as Neural Interface for Brain
04/06/2016
The Department of Advanced Research Projects has created a
neural-recording device that can be implanted into the brain through blood vessels via a shot
instead of traditional brain surgery.
The "Stentrode" offers new potential for expanding the use of brain and machine interfaces.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
04/04/2016b
A massive leak of documents exposes
how a global industry of law firms and major banks sells financial
secrecy to politicians, fraudsters and drug traffickers as well as billionaires, celebrities and
sports stars. "The Panama Papers" covers nearly 40 years, from 1977 through the end of 2015 and looks
at how dark money flows through the global financial system, breeding crime and stripping national
treasuries of tax revenues and causing the suffering of innocent people.
Science Daily: Scientists pinpoint brain circuit for risk preference in rats
04/04/2016
Stanford Univerisity
investigators have identified a group of nerve cells in a specific brain region of rodents
whose signaling activity
is responsible for risk taking or the lack of risk taking behavior.
Scientists used "fiber photometry" a single, hair-thin optical fiber implanted in the rodents'
nucleus accumbens to both monitor electrochemical signals and
duplicate these naturally occurring signals' timing and magnitude technique.
Scientists were able to temporarily stop the rodents from engaging in risk taking behavior
by stimulating brain cells with light using a technique called "optogenetics".
Science: Artificial intelligence steals money from banking customers
04/02/2016d
Deep Learning Interface for Accounting also known as DELIA was
developed by computer scientists at Stanford and Google to help people keep
track of their checking and savings accounts.
NewsDiscovery: Realistic Robot Lady Cheerfully Agrees To Destroy Humans
04/02/2016c
David Hanson Robotics envisions a world in twenty years where robots will walk amongst us.
Hanson of Hanson Robotics believes that it will be impossible to tell a robot from a human in the future.
Some people believe that robots already do "live" with us now.
DailyMail: Peace out, fools! Obama plays the clown by flashing the peace sign for nuclear security summit 'team photo'...
and gets a very unimpressed look from David Cameron and bemused world leaders
04/02/2016b
President Obama holds up two fingers during a photo
opportunity with fifty four other presidents and prime ministers in Washington, D.C., as they meet
for a submit on Iran and terrorist threats involving nuclear weapons.
Daily Mail UK: 'I love him dearly and that's not the man I know': Cosby Show child star
Keshia Knight Pulliam talks for the FIRST time about about her disgraced TV 'dad' Bill Cosby
04/02/2016
Keshia Knight Pulliam was forced to defend fellow actor Mr. Cosby during her podcast,
"Kandiedly Keshia", while interviewing Amber Rose when Ms. Rose brought up Bill Cosby
Ms. Pulliam gave Ms. Rose a civics lesson,
"But, you know, we still live in a country where you're innocent until proven guilty...
I did work with him for a really long time, I love him dearly still, and that isn't the man that
I know."
"No Entiendes La Onda (How I Could Just Kill A Man)" Cypress Hill
Rt.com: Fukushima ice wall gets Japan nuclear regulator's approval
04/01/2016b
Japan will launch an "ice wall" around the Fukushima disabled power plant.
The plan is to freeze the
entire wall on the seaside and about half of the wall on the mountain side to first focus
on preventing further contamination of the ocean.
The $312 million government project built by Kajima Corporation began in June 2014,
and was completed more than a year behind
schedule due to technical difficulties.
GeoEngineeringWatch.org: Climate Engineering And Regional Weather Modification, Understanding The Difference
04/01/2016
Dane Wigington of
geoengineeringwatch.org recently wrote, "A recent routine publication in a
Southern California Newspaper about a localized small scale weather modification program was touted by many as an admission to geoengineering programs,
this is not the case...The small scale programs in question are
virtually meaningless against the backdrop of the ongoing
global climate engineering assault. Again, such programs are only used as a "red herring". The
video below is an expose' of this fact."
Video: Stopping Climate Engineering
U.S. Department of Defense: DoD Hosts Army Cyber Innovation Challenge Kickoff in Silicon Valley
03/31/2016
The United States Defense Department's innovation outpost
is hosting an information meeting with U.S. Army and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency officials
to highlight potential contracting opportunities with technoloical companies on March 31, 2016
at "the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental",
in Mountain View, California.
The Department of defense needs to upgrade "Microclouds" which are the foundation
of the Army's defensive cyberspace operations.
The Army builds and fields these networks at "home"
and with deployed forces.
Norse - Superior Attack Intelligence: See live Cyber Attacks
The Royal Society Interface: Insect-computer hybrid legged robot with user-adjustable speed, step length and walking gait
03/30/2016b
Scientists engage in the unethical and sickening toture of
living beetles to create cyborg beetles that can be completely controlled.
First beetles, next humans.
Darpa is already deep into human mind control and is
supporting the Executive Order, "The Brain Initiative",
in many ways such as Restoring Active Memory (RAM):
'The RAM program aims to develop and test a wireless, fully implantable neural-interface medical device
for human clinical use.
The device would facilitate the "Formation of New Memories" and
retrieval of existing ones in individuals...'.
DARPA and the Brain Initiative
National Institutes of Health: Brain 2025
Washington Post: Brain-zapping gadgets promise to make you a better you - smarter, stronger, even happier
03/30/2016
Technological companies are emerging with gadgets that specialize in
brain "enhancement" by electric shock as well as other brain & computer interfacing devices.
Daily Mail: BREAKING NEWS: US Capitol on lockdown after visitor opened fire...
03/23/2016c
The Daily Mail Uk is reporting that an active shooting occured
at the Nation's Capitol just after an email was sent to staff warning of an active shooter
drill exercise. The Mail reports that a police officer was shot but the Associate Press now reports
that a man pulled a gun at a Capitol check point and was shot and then hospitalized.
AP: Man shot by police after drawing weapon at US Capitol
The President & the First Lady were hosting thirty five thousand people
including Beyonce, Jay Z, Shaquille O'Neal, and Idina Menzel just a few hundred meters away from alleged
incident
at the White House Easter Egg Roll.
Los Angeles Times:In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA
03/23/2016b
Your tax dollars at work:
'Syrian militias armed by different parts of the
U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city
of Aleppo and the Turkish border...' per the Los Angeles Times.
Militias armed by the Pentagon are fighting militias armed by the CIA.
"You Don't Have to Live Like a Refugee", Tom Petty
CenterforHealthReporting.org:More Californians face Medi-Cal death fee
03/23/2016
Low income people are placed on Med-ical under Covered-California.
Medical used to be a pay for service system, but is now a managed health care plan
that pays a monthly premium to a third party. People enrolled in Medical are
subject to the Medical estate recovery program after they die, the bill will automatically be based on
the monthly payments made to their plan since age fifty five.
Even if you never use Medi-cal services your heirs will still
inherit the debt from the monthly premiums
payed to your managed care system that you are forced into.
For more information please see the link from
Nursing Home Reform: Medi-cal Recovery...
Napa Valley Register:Initiative proponents hope to defuse opposition
03/24/2016b
Napa Valley California vinters oppose a purposed ballot initiataive to protect
Napa Valley's watershed and Oak Canopy. Do vinters benefit from the drought as the grapes are more
concentrated and sweeter?
Is climate change making wine taste better?
DailyMail UK:Obama dances while Brussels burns: President & Michelle take to the floor to
TANGO during glitzy state dinner in Buenos Aires
as he ignores calls to come home in wake of terror attacks
03/24/2016
President Obama dances the tango in Argentina after historic visit to Cuba
one the day after the Brussels terror attacks on 3/22/2016.
DailyMail: THIRD brush with terror: American Mormon, 19, left with burns
and shrapnel injuries in Brussels attack also survived Boston and Paris bombings
03/24/2016a
An American man, Mason Wells has survived three terror attacks, in Boston,
Paris and Brussels.
Daily Mail UK:
Does Google basically work for the White House?
Internet giant revealed to have offered to help overthrow Assad as Obama reveals broadband for Cuba
03/21/2016c
Hillary Clinton's emails reveal how
Google wanted to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using a mapping tool while
partnering with Al-Jazeera.
The email exchange was provided March 19th by
WikiLeaks.
Physics.org: Autonoumous Cloud Seeding Aircraft Successfully Tested in Nevada
03/21/2016b
An industry & academic research partnership between
the Desert Research Institute, Drone America, and AviSigh have invented a
unique eight-rotor drone to carry and disperse into the atomosphere
large payloads of cloud seeding toxins,
with advanced software and a Global Positionng System for guidance.
Los Angeles Times: LA Shot Clouds With Iodide Particles to Make it Rain Over the Weekend
03/21/2016a
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works
used land-based cloud seeding generators set up by North American Weather Consultants this March.
The seeding solution is composed of silver iodide mixed in acetone per the
North American Weather Consultants website.
Jewish Business News: Swiss Billionaire Margarita Louis-Dreyfus...
03/21/2016
Ranked by Forbes as the 171st wealthiest person in the world,
controlling shareholder of Louis Dreyfus Commodities BV, Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
has given birth to twin females.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities is a private company and trader of key agricultural commodities.
The company posted a record profit last year due to the strong global food demand and
high crop prices following a severe U.S. geo-engineered drought.
USA Today: Elon Musk: Nukes can make Mars more like Earth
09/11/2015
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claims that Mars is a "fixer upper of a planet".
Musk says Mars can be made to be more Earth like if it can be made hotter and strategically placed
nuclear bombs could increase global warming on Mars.
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