/qnotables/ - ===Q Notables===

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079120 (300117ZNOV24) Notable: Don't get in her way: Guaranteed victory for her opponent Edition

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079181 (300136ZNOV24) Notable: Joe Rogan hints he will record podcast from Mar-a-Lago with Trump as ‘walk-on’ guest

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Joe Rogan hints he will record podcast from Mar-a-Lago with Trump as ‘walk-on’ guest — after refusing to travel for Harris

https://nypost.com/2024/11/29/us-news/joe-rogan-hints-he-will-record-podcast-from-mar-a-lago-with-trump-as-walk-on-guest-after-refusing-to-travel-for-harris/

Podcast guru Joe Rogan said Thursday he would be open to recording an episode of his wildly popular show from Mar-a-Lago — after refusing to travel to interview Vice President Kamala Harris while she was on the 2024 campaign trail.

“Yeah, we have to. We helped Trump get elected,” Rogan blurted out after being asked by comedian Ari Shaffir about heading to Trump’s West Palm Beach, Fla., estate during a 13th sit-down with other fan-favorite guests and fellow comics Mark Normand and Shane Gillis.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079502 (300255ZNOV24) Notable: Sweden asks for China’s cooperation over Baltic Sea cables cut while a Chinese ship was nearby

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Sweden asks for China’s cooperation over Baltic Sea cables cut while a Chinese ship was nearby

HARPSUND, Sweden (AP) — Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate in explaining the recent rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in an area where a China-flagged vessel had been sighted, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Thursday.

The two cables, one running from Finland to Germany and the other from Lithuania to Sweden, were both damaged in Swedish waters last week, in an area where the Yi Peng 3, a China-flagged bulk carrier, was seen.

The Yi Peng 3 has been moored in international waters between Sweden and Denmark. Kristersson told a news conference in the town of Harpsund that Sweden would like the vessel to move to its own waters to allow for an inspection within the ongoing international investigation.

“As I had said before, Sweden has expressed our desire for the ship to move to Swedish waters and we are in contact with China from Sweden,” Kristersson said. “Today I can also tell you that in addition to that Sweden has also sent a formal request to China to cooperate with Swedish authorities in order to create clarity on what has happened. ”

He was speaking after a security meeting of government leaders of the Baltic sea region.

In the same news conference, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed “full solidarity and full support” and trust in Sweden’s reliability as it acts in the interest of all countries in the Baltic region.

Finnish, Swedish and German authorities have launched investigations into the rupture of the two cables. Germany’s defense minister said that the damage appeared to have been caused by sabotage, though there is no proof at present.

Chinese authorities in Beijing said earlier this month they had no information about the ship but that China was ready to “maintain communication” with relevant parties.

They called for the vessel’s rights to normal navigation to be protected.

Last year Sweden announced a cable running from its coast under the Baltic Sea to Estonia had been “deliberately” ruptured.

https://apnews.com/article/sweden-china-data-cables-ship-baltic-yi-peng-41fe86ce24db533945253248fb8f67ad

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079509 (300256ZNOV24) Notable: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just admitted that Western leaders have been running an “open borders experiment”

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just admitted that Western leaders have been running an “open borders experiment”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079512 (300257ZNOV24) Notable: Black Friday

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Black Friday.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079520 (300259ZNOV24) Notable: Russia reportedly loses a record 2,030 troops in one day in Ukraine

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Russia reportedly loses a record 2,030 troops in one day in Ukraine

Russia's daily losses in Ukraine surpassed 2,000 for the first time, according to figures released by Kyiv on Nov. 29.

According to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces, Moscow's troops lost 2,030 men over the preceding day.

This surpasses the previous record of 1,950 set on Nov. 12. The total figure stands at 738,660.

The figures do not specify killed or wounded, though the overall consensus is that it includes dead, wounded, missing, and captured. They are broadly in line with estimates from Western nations.

Ukraine has largely avoided revealing the full extent of its military casualties. President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowleded only in February that 31,000 Ukrainian fighters have been killed.

But estimates by The Economist published on Nov. 26 said between 60,000 to 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the full-scale war, and 400,000 more are too injured to fight on.

The Economist wrote that Russia and Ukraine lost a greater share of their population than the U.S. during the Korean and Vietnam wars combined.

Almost one in 20 Ukrainian fighting-age men have been killed or injured because of the war, The Economist wrote.

It based its calculations on leaked or published intelligence reports, defense officials, researchers, and open-source intelligence.

In September, the Wall Street Journal provided similar estimates, positing that Ukraine had lost 80,000 soldiers killed and 400,000 wounded. The outlet estimated Russia's losses at up to 200,000 killed and 400,000 injured.

The exact figures for both sides are nearly impossible to establish as Kyiv and Moscow are secretive about their casualties.

The last figure provided by Russian authorities was 5,937 killed soldiers as of September 2022.

The surge in Russian losses comes as Moscow's forces step up pressure across the front lines.

NATO allies believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is aiming to recapture territory lost to Ukraine in Kursk Oblast before Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

A British defense intelligence assessment, seen by The Telegraph, warns that Russia is likely to intensify kamikaze drone attacks on Ukrainian positions, using new launch sites near the border.

Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Nov. 9 that "tens of thousands of enemy soldiers from the best Russian shock units" are aiming to push Ukrainian forces out of the Russian enclave, raising concerns of a significant escalation in the war.

The Kremlin is also facing economic pressures — the purchasing power of the Russian ruble this week hit the lowest point since March 2022, as the economic toll of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine becomes glaring.

Russia's expanding spending on the war has fueled inflation, prompting Russia's Central Bank to hike its interest rate to the highest level since the early 2000s — 21 percent — to rein in consumer prices.

"Russia is currently facing an impossible economic conundrum because of the rapid increase in military expenditures and the Western sanctions," Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist specializing in post-Soviet countries, told the Kyiv Independent.

However, economists and analysts are divided on how much of an impact Russia's economic problems will have on its war effort.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russias-reported-daily-losses-ukraine-094956218.html

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079528 (300301ZNOV24) Notable: France shows off restored Notre Dame after 'impossible' restoration

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France shows off restored Notre Dame after 'impossible' restoration

President Emmanuel Macron conducted an inspection of the restoration, broadcast live on television, saying workers had done the "impossible" by healing a "national wound" after the fire on April 19, 2019.

While every effort has been made to remain faithful to the original look of the cathedral, an international team of designers and architects have created a luminous space that has an immediate impact on the visitor.

The floor shimmers and the freshly-cleaned walls dazzle, while a subtle combination of natural and artificial light creates a near theatrical impression.

"You have achieved what was thought impossible," Macron told restoration workers and officials who packed Notre Dame, after he toured the cathedral.

"The blaze at Notre Dame was a national wound, and you have been its remedy through will, through work, through commitment," he said, adding the cathedral's re-opening will be a "shock of hope".

Notre Dame will welcome visitors and worshippers again over the December 7-8 weekend, after a sometimes challenging restoration.

World leaders are expected to attend but the guest list has yet to be revealed.

Macron toured the key areas of the cathedral, including the nave, choir and chapel, and spoke to experts.

"Sublime," said a visibly pleased Macron, who was accompanied by the archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich, plus France's culture minister, the mayor of Paris and other officials.

"It is much more welcoming," he added, praising Notre Dame's pale-coloured stones and saying everyone involved in the reconstruction should "be proud".

After the devastating fire Macron set the ambitious goal to rebuild Notre Dame within five years and make it "even more beautiful" than before, a target that the French authorities say has been met.

The "building site of the century" was a "challenge that many considered insane", Macron has said.

Some 250 companies and hundreds of experts were brought in for restoration work costing hundreds of millions of euros.

All 2,000 people who contributed to the effort had been invited to Friday's event.

The restoration cost a total of nearly 700 million euros (more than $750 million at today's rate).

It was financed from the 846 million euros in donations that poured in from 150 countries in a surge of solidarity.

The 19th-century gothic spire, which collapsed dramatically in the blaze, has been resurrected with an exact copy of the original.

The stained windows have regained their colour, the walls shining after fire stains were cleaned and a restored organ is ready to thunder out again.

Unseen to visitors is a new mechanism to protect against future fires, a discreet system of pipes ready to release water in case of a new disaster.

Notre Dame, which welcomed 12 million visitors in 2017, expects to receive an even higher figure of 14 to 15 million after the reopening, according to the church authorities.

French ministers have also floated the idea of charging tourists an entrance fee to the site but the Paris diocese has said free admission was an important principle to maintain.

Macron had hoped to speak inside Notre Dame to mark the reopening on December 7 but after negotiations with the diocese, he is now set to speak in the forecourt only.

France is by its constitution a secular country with a strict division between church and state.

Sunday December 8 will see the first mass and consecration of the new altar.

Macron said in December 2023 he had invited Pope Francis to the reopening of the cathedral but the head of the Catholic church announced in September, to the surprise of some observers, that he would not be coming.

Instead, the pontiff is making a landmark visit the following weekend to the French island of Corsica.

The French Catholic church has in recent years been rocked by a succession of sexual abuse allegations against clerics, including most recently the monk known as Abbe Pierre who became a household name for providing aid to the destitute.

Over five years on, the investigation into what caused the fire is ongoing, with initial findings pointing to an accidental cause such as a short circuit, a welder's torch or a cigarette.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241129-macron-offers-first-glimpse-of-post-fire-notre-dame

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079534 (300303ZNOV24) Notable: Putin’s secret daughter ‘part-time DJ living in Paris under pseudonym’

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Putin’s secret daughter ‘part-time DJ living in Paris under pseudonym’

Vladimir Putin’s youngest daughter is an occasional DJ who has lived in Paris under a pseudonym, according to reports.

While the Russian president officially has two daughters with his ex-wife, who has remarried as Lyudmila Ocheretnaya after she and Putin were divorced in 2014, he is also alleged to have had a daughter with a woman named Svetlana Krivonogikh.

In a report in 2020, independent Russian outlet Proekt said Ms Krovonogikh, a former economics student and cleaner from St Petersburg, had been close to Putin at the turn of the millennium and, in 2003, had a daughter who “bears an uncanny resemblance” to him.

While it was dubbed “gutter press” by the Kremlin, the report alleged that Ms Krovonigh had received substantial gifts from Putin’s friends and owned assets worth around $100m, with the UK government last year sanctioning her for owning shares in the pro-Ukraine war National Media Group.

The late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation also alleged in 2021 that Ms Krivonogikh – who was named in the Pandora Papers leak that same year – had received property and shares from Mr Putin’s friends after their daughter was born.

Her daughter Elizaveta has now been reported in Ukrainian media to haved lived in Paris under the name Elizaveta Olegovna Rudnova, and to have studied at the ICART international school of art management.

The middle name Olegovna, as opposed to Vladimirovna, means “daughter of Oleg”. A close friend of Mr Putin prior to his death in 2015, Oleg Rudnov, was previously reported to have carried out personal tasks for the Russian president, including purchasing property for Ms Krivonogikh, now aged 49.

Russian outlet Agentstvo also reported this week that it had analysed a leaked airline database and confirmed that a person named Elizaveta Olegovna Rudnova had previously purchased flight tickets and had the same date of birth and phone number as Elizaveta Krivonogikh.

️It cited a leaked border database as showing that the 21-year-old last flew abroad to Paris in May 2021, before flying from the Russian resort city of Sochi to St Petersburg two months later.

Following the initial report about her identity in 2020, Ms ️Krovonogikh told a Proekt journalist in a conversation on social media app Clubhouse that she was “very grateful” for the publicity.

She said: “I’d hit a rut in life. Things had stagnated. I’m very grateful that I got this opportunity – that I lit up like this and people saw my account [on Instagram]. I’ve never tried to be popular, but … I’m feeling great, so don’t you worry about me.

“I don’t follow politics at all. I’m busy with the things I like,” she said, adding: “I live my own life and I’m busy with fashion. It’s not the centre of my life, but I like it. I’m not going to stop doing everything I was doing because of your investigation. I’m still living the same life and talking to the same friends.”

A report in the Moscow Times in 2021 said there had been consternation among frequenters of a progressive bar in the Russian capital which had hosted a DJ set by a woman believed to be Mr Putin’s daughter, using the same pseudonym mentioned in this week’s reports.

Ms Krivonogikh is not the only reported child of Russia’s elite to have lived in European capitals, as their parents engage in what they increasingly paint as an existential battle against the West following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The son of Mr Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has previously lived in Paris, while his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s stepdaughter lived in London.

Mr Putin is also rumoured to have had children in an affair with Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, which he has always angrily denied. In 2008, a Moscow newspaper was closed down within hours of writing about the alleged affair.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-daughter-paris-dj-luiza-rozova-b2655871.html

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079554 (300305ZNOV24) Notable: What are the odds that Michael Obama had a front row seat to watch the Notre Dame burn down?

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079662 (300325ZNOV24) Notable: True The Vote publishes a 40 page action plan to secure integrity in our voting system

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True The Vote publishes a 40 page action plan to secure integrity in our voting system.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079738 (300339ZNOV24) Notable: What are the odds that Michael Obama had a front row seat to watch the Notre Dame burn down?

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PICTURED: Moment Michelle Obama's idyllic Parisian river cruise turns sour as the former First Lady and other revelers realize Notre Dame is on fire

Michelle Obama was spotted on an idyllic dinner cruise in Paris when she and the other guests learned that the nearby Notre Dame Cathedral had gone up in flames.

The former first lady boarded the boat with her fellow passengers just across from the Eiffel Tower on Monday evening and set off along the Seine River.

Mrs Obama was pictured smiling and sipping wine as she mingled with other guests on the roof of the luxury boat as they cruised past the iconic monuments of Paris.

But their mood changed considerably soon after when news filtered through that the nearby 800-year-old cathedral was on fire.

At one point, Mrs Obama was pictured staring intently at a fellow passenger's phone with an increasingly concerned look on her face.

The fire broke out at about 6.30pm when Notre Dame had closed to the public for the evening.

Plumes of smoke quickly billowed from the cathedral and could be seen across much of Paris.

As the fire unfolded, the captain of the boat opted to tweak the route of the cruise.

The dinner, prepared by famous French-born chef Alain Ducasse, went ahead as planned.

Mrs Obama, who was in Paris for her Becoming book tour, later took to social media to say her 'heart aches with the people of France'.

She shared an old photo on Instagram of herself, her husband Barack and their two daughters lighting candles in the cathedral.

'I will never forget the first time I walked into the Notre Dame Cathedral. I was a teenager on a school trip to Paris. It was my very first international trip, and until then, I hadn't seen much outside of the South Side neighborhood I grew up in,' she wrote.

'But the majesty of Notre Dame - the history, the artistry, the spirituality - took my breath away. The feeling was almost indescribable - a place that lifts you to a higher understanding of who we are and who we can be. Every time I've visited in the years since, including as First Lady, I felt the same thing.

'So being here in Paris tonight, my heart aches with the people of France. Yet I know that the Notre Dame I experienced all those years ago, as so many others have over the centuries, will soon awe us again.'

Her husband Barack also tweeted: 'Notre Dame is one of the world's great treasures, and we're thinking of the people of France in your time of grief.'

More than 400 firemen were needed to tame the inferno that consumed the roof and collapsed the spire of the gothic masterpiece on Monday night.

The fire swiftly ripped through the cathedral's oak roof supports, where workmen had been carrying out extensive renovations to the spire's timber-framed supports.

Hundreds of stunned onlookers had lined the banks of the river Seine late into the night, reciting prayers and singing as they stood in vigil while the fire raged.

Firefighters worked through the night and finally quelled the blaze some 14 hours after it began.

Authorities said they suspected the fire was caused by accident.

On Tuesday, firefighters examined the facade with its spectacular 10-metre filigreed stained-glass rose window still intact.

From the outside, the imposing bell towers and outer walls stood firm but the insides and the upper structure had been eviscerated.

Investigators will not be able to enter the cathedral's blackened nave until experts are satisfied its walls withstood the heat and the building is structurally sound.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6928937/Michelle-Obama-Paris-cruise-Notre-Dame-caught-fire.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079815 (300352ZNOV24) Notable: Ghislaine Maxwell situation report

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Ghislaine Maxwell situation report

Ghislaine Maxwell has been left ‘starving’ this Thanksgiving after the jail where she is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking ‘ran out of money’.

Sources say convicted madam Maxwell, 62, and other inmates at FCI Tallahassee in Florida are ‘going hungry’ because of the lack of food.

One source said: ‘This has been going on since last week. The inmates have been told the Bureau of Prisons has run out of money and Ghislaine and the others have been left starving.

‘Portion sizes have been cut from 8oz to 2oz and Ghislaine hasn’t had food for five days. The prison says it can’t afford to buy the vegetarian diet plan she is on. She and the others are going hungry.’

Prisoners have been told there is ‘no money for medication’.

Another person familiar with the situation said: ‘The prisoners who need medication, everything from chemotherapy drugs to blood pressure medication, were pulled to one side and told there isn’t money for the drugs.

‘It’s insane.’

Maxwell this week lost the latest round of her appeal against her December 2021 conviction for her role in sexually abusing multiple minor girls alongside ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.

The former socialite and close friend of Prince Andrew’s was convicted of luring girls as young as 14 into Epstein’s clutches.

She has always vehemently denied the charges and continued to deny them in a jailhouse interview with international journalist Daphne Barak for The Mail on Sunday.

Maxwell told Barak that meeting Epstein was ‘the greatest mistake of my life’ adding: ‘I didn’t know that he was so awful. I mean, obviously now, looking back with hindsight, of course.

‘But at the time, I mean he had lots of friends. He was friendly with just about everybody you could imagine. There was no reason to imagine that he was someone who was capable of evil.’

Her lawyers are planning to appeal her case all the way to the US Supreme Court.

Epstein, a convicted pedophile, killed himself in a New York jail in 2019 after being arrested on multiple child sex charges.

A source said: ‘People have no sympathy for prisoners but there is a difference between an inmate serving time for a crime and being inhumanely punished. What is going on in Tallahassee is inhumane.’

A Department of Justice report last year was scathing about conditions inside the Tallahassee prison which was found to have moldy food, rat droppings and rotten vegetables.

Prison inspectors described conditions as ‘alarming’ with prisoners resorting to using feminine hygiene products to plug leaks in ceilings and windows.

The 49-page December 2023 report said: ‘We observed moldy bread being served as well as discolored and rotting vegetables in a food preparation refrigerator at the female prison. In the food storage warehouses, we found likely evidence of rodent droppings, as well as bags of cereal with insects in them and warped food containers.

‘We also found that female housing unit roofs routinely leak and that all five general population housing unit roofs need to be replaced. Many female inmates live in housing units in which water frequently leaks from ceilings and windows on or near their living spaces.

'We observed housing areas in which feminine hygiene products were being used to absorb water from leaking windows.’

Last night, the Federal Bureau of Prisons refused to comment.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14138279/Florida-Ghislaine-Maxwell-vegan-Thanksgiving-Tallahassee-prison.html

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079957 (300422ZNOV24) Notable: Bitcoin heads for nearly 40% November gain as it edges closer to $100,000

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Bitcoin heads for nearly 40% November gain as it edges closer to $100,000

The price of bitcoin is tracking for one of its best months of the year after former President Donald Trump’s election victory catapulted the flagship cryptocurrency to new records consistently throughout the month.

Bitcoin is on pace to post a 38% gain for November, according to Coin Metrics, which would make the month its best since February, when it gained 45% following the launch of spot bitcoin ETFs. That was also ahead of its first new record of the year since November 2021.

On an intraday basis, bitcoin was last higher by more than 2% at $97,081.81. Earlier, it traded as high as $98,722.00. Coinbase

fell 4.75%, while bitcoin proxies MicroStrategy

and Mara Holdings

gained 0.67% and 1.86%, respectively.

Investors in November were pricing in Trump’s second presidency. During his re-election campaign this year, he pitched himself to Americans as the candidate who would bring the crypto industry out of a dark period defined for many by the absence of clear digital assets regulation and the regulation-by-enforcement approach the Securities and Exchange Commission, under Chair Gary Gensler, has taken toward crypto businesses.

Trump’s victory sent bitcoin rallying to as high as just a couple hundred dollars shy of the highly anticipated $100,000 milestone. While another Trump term is expected to add another layer of legitimacy to the young crypto industry, it also serves as a macro catalyst, implying larger budget deficits, potentially more inflation and changes to the international role of the dollar — all things that would have a positive impact on the price of bitcoin.

After the election, bitcoin ETFs, led by BlackRock’s popular IBIT fund, registered strong inflows — including their largest day of inflows ever at one point — initially offsetting sell pressure from long-term holders who took profits at new highs. In the same period, options on bitcoin ETFs began trading, ushering in a new way to trade and speculate on the price of bitcoin.

Bulls expect bitcoin’s price to reach $100,000 by the end of 2024 and potentially double by the end of 2025. While the outcome of the U.S. election boosted the price in the short term, many investors agree its impact as a bitcoin catalyst will stay behind in 2024. The coin was already largely derisked from a regulatory perspective, there’s little uncertainty about how it trades or its role as digital gold, and investors are relying on its fundamentals to keep taking the price higher.

Specifically, between the reduction in bitcoin’s supply after this year’s April halving and the growing demand for bitcoin by institutions, as well as by states and countries as a treasury reserve asset, the price is expected to soar. Bitcoin’s cycle peaks usually take at least a year after the halving to come.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/29/bitcoin-heads-for-nearly-40percent-november-gain-as-it-edges-closer-toward-100000.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22079976 (300429ZNOV24) Notable: Sources Say Georgia Supreme Court Set To Dismiss Fani Willis Case Against President Trump

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BREAKING: Sources Say Georgia Supreme Court Set To Dismiss Fani Willis Case Against President Trump

https://100percentfedup.com/breaking-sources-say-georgia-supreme-court-set-dismiss/

Internet rumors and a NY Post story suggesting 'informed sources' say.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22080002 (300436ZNOV24) Notable: Maye Musk is superstar in China

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Maye Musk is superstar in China

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is already huge in China — but now his 76-year-old mother is a rapidly rising star there as well.

Maye Musk, a model and dietitian, has been a frequent visitor to China since last year, gaining a big online following from a Chinese public curious to know more about the woman who raised their business idol while becoming a celebrity in her own right as a “silver-haired influencer.”

During her travels, she makes a point of supporting her son’s business interests, noting in social media posts how many Teslas she sees on Chinese roads even as the U.S. electric vehicle maker faces growing competition from domestic rivals such as BYD.

She is also full of praise for the country.

“China is so advanced in roads, tunnels, buildings, infrastructure, and ports,” she wrote on her son’s social media platform X in October. “Always impressed when I visit.”

Musk told Women’s Wear Daily in February that she visited 12 Chinese cities last year for speaking engagements and modeling. Speaking to the publication in New York, she brushed off the idea that Chinese tensions with the U.S. might dampen her travel there.

“When I go to China, everybody’s happy, friendly and fun,” she said. “Even with my friends here, they all want to visit China now.”

Musk has quickly amassed a substantial number of followers on Chinese social media, including about 575,000 on Xiaohongshu, China’s equivalent of Instagram, and 355,000 on Douyin, China’s equivalent of TikTok.

Musk is one of a number of “silver-haired influencers” in China, a fast-aging country where there is growing concern about aging well.

“Physical beauty fades, but after enduring the test of time, her demeanor becomes more refined, her grace more noble — truly admirable,” one person wrote on Xiaohongshu.

Much of her popularity stems from her 2019 memoir, “A Woman Makes a Plan,” which was translated into Chinese the following year, said Ashley Dudarenok, the founder of ChoZan, a China-focused digital consultancy based in Hong Kong.

The book traces Musk’s “unconventional career path,” Dudarenok said, as well as her struggle to provide for her three children as a single mother after divorcing their father, Errol Musk, at age 31.

“She basically did it her way,” Dudarenok said. “That was one message that resonated very strongly.”

The other appeal, she said, “was that people wanted to figure out, how do you actually give birth [to] and raise billionaires?”

The book has found an audience among working women in China, who are increasingly resistant to social pressure to get married and have children, even as the Chinese government clamps down on the feminist movement and says it is up to them to boost the national birth rate.

“A must-read for all girls! Thank you for showing us the resilience and strength of women,” one Xiaohongshu user wrote.

Though much of the initial interest in Maye Musk came because of Elon, “she is really becoming kind of her own personality,” Dudarenok said.

Older Chinese, who in the past would have devoted all their spare time and money to their grandchildren and other family members, have in recent years realized “that they have this whole life ahead of them, 20, 30 years ahead,” Dudarenok said.

“They have hobbies, they look after themselves in terms of fashion, nutrition, skin care and whatnot,” she said. “And they love to see those role models of somebody who is aging gracefully.”

For Musk, that means appearing on magazine covers and lots of opportunities to endorse products. She has walked the runway for Chinese apparel brand JNBY and appeared at an event in Shanghai this year for the sportswear brand Fila.

She is also a global brand ambassador for Chinese mattress brand AISE Baobao, attending a store opening in Shanghai this month, and has appeared in smartphone advertisements for Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer Oppo.

Her popularity in China could come in handy for her son. Though Elon Musk is still widely admired, Dudarenok said there has been a “cooling off” in public opinion since he financially backed the campaign of President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to be tough on China.

Given his close ties to Trump — who has asked Musk to head up a new “Department of Government Efficiency” — Musk could take part of the blame if U.S.-China relations deteriorate under the new administration.

Maye Musk’s positive image, Dudarenok said, “helps to make Elon’s future political career and business success in China even more human.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-elon-musk-maye-musk-rcna182118

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UK votes to legalize assisted suicide

MPs have backed proposals to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales in a historic vote which paves the way for a change in the law.

In the first Commons vote on the issue in nearly a decade, MPs supported a bill which would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life by 330 to 275, a majority of 55.

It followed an emotional debate in the chamber, where MPs from both sides shared personal stories which had informed their decisions.

The bill will now face many more months of debate and scrutiny by MPs and peers, who could choose to amend it, with the approval of both Houses of Parliament required before it becomes law.

Supporters gathered outside Parliament wept and hugged each other as the result was announced.

Campaign group Dignity in Dying said the vote was a "historic step towards greater choice and protection for dying people".

Dame Esther Rantzen, one of the most high-profile campaigners for assisted dying, said she was "absolutely thrilled".

The broadcaster, who has terminal lung cancer, said any change in the law would probably come too late to affect her personally.

But she said "future generations will be spared the ordeals we have to suffer at the moment" if the bill becomes law.

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who put forward the bill, told the BBC she was "a bit overwhelmed" following the vote and it meant "a huge amount" to be able to tell campaigners the bill had passed its first parliamentary hurdle.

However, Conservative Danny Kruger, a leading opponent of the bill, said it could be defeated at a later stage if MPs' concerns were not properly addressed.

He said many of his colleagues believed the bill was "very dangerous" and he hoped that if safeguards in the legislation were not strengthened they would choose to vote against it in the future.

MPs were given a free vote, meaning they could make a decision based on their own conscience rather than having to follow a party line.

A higher percentage of female MPs backed the bill compared to their male counterparts.

Of the 258 female MPs able to express their preference, 143 - or 55% - were in favour, while 188 (49%) of the 381 male MPs backed the bill.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Conservative predecessor Rishi Sunak voted in favour, while Tory leader Kemi Badenoch voted against.

The PM, who previously supported a change in the law in 2015, did not speak in the debate or reveal how he planned to vote in advance, saying he did not want to influence the decisions of MPs.

The government has taken a neutral stance on the bill and has said it will work to ensure it is effective if Parliament backs a change in the law.

The vote followed more than four hours of passionate debate in a packed Commons chamber.

More than 160 MPs requested to speak but far fewer got an opportunity to do so due to time constraints.

Opening the debate, Leadbeater said the current law was "failing" and needed to change to give terminally ill people choice at the end of their life.

The MP for Spen Valley said too many people were experiencing "heartbreaking" suffering as a result of the "cruel reality" of the status quo.

She gave examples of terminally ill people who had died "screaming for assistance" or taken their own lives because they were in uncontrollable pain.

Opponents of the bill raised concerns that terminally ill people, particularly the elderly, disabled or vulnerable, could be pressurised into ending their own lives.

They also argued the focus should be on improving end-of-life care rather than introducing assisted dying.

Leadbeater insisted her bill included "the most robust and strongest set of safeguards and protections in the world", with strict eligibility criteria.

To be eligible for assisted dying under Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, someone must have the mental capacity to make a choice about ending their life and express a "clear, settled and informed" wish, free from coercion or pressure, at every stage of the process.

Two independent doctors and a High Court judge must be satisfied someone is eligible and has made their decision voluntarily.

However, Labour's Diane Abbott was among those who argued these safeguards were not sufficient.

The longest serving female MP said she feared the role of the judge could be only "a rubber stamp".

She told MPs some terminally ill people may also feel under pressure to end their lives as they don't "want to be a burden" or because of the cost of their care.

Cabinet ministers are divided over the issue, with Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood – the two ministers who would have overall responsibility for implementing any change in the law – voting against.

Overall 15 cabinet members, including Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, voted in favour, while eight voted against.

Current laws across the UK prevent people from asking for medical help to die.

A separate bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland, external has been proposed by a Liberal Democrat member of the Scottish Parliament and is expected to be voted on by MSPs next year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzkp79npgo

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New missile plan by US-Japan

WASHINGTON —

A U.S. plan to deploy sophisticated missiles on a Japanese island chain close to Taiwan is prompting angry responses from both China and its close ally Russia.

The United States is drawing up a joint military plan with Japan to deploy High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and other weapons to Japan’s Nansei Islands, according to a Sunday report by Kyodo News, which cited unnamed sources. The plan is expected to be completed by December.

The island chain stretches from Japan’s main islands to within 200 kilometers of Taiwan and includes Okinawa,which has a major U.S. military presence. The U.S. could use the missiles to defend Taiwan in case of a Chinese invasion of the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims as a renegade province.

The plan, the first joint operation by the U.S. and Japan to prepare for a war between Taiwan and China, will involve sending a U.S. Marine Corps regiment that possesses HIMARS and setting up temporary bases on the Nansei Islands to station them, said Kyodo. The Japan Self-Defense Forces would be expected to provide logistic support, including fuel and ammunition.

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson criticized the reported plan at a press conference on Monday, saying, “China opposes relevant countries using the Taiwan question as an excuse to strengthen military deployment in the region, heighten tensions and confrontation, and disturb regional peace and stability.”

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded with a stronger statement, warning that her country would respond to the deployment with “necessary and proportionate steps” to strengthen its defense capabilities, according to the Russian news agency Tass on Wednesday.

“We have repeatedly warned the Japanese side that if, as a result of such cooperation, U.S. medium-range missiles emerge on its territory, this will pose a real threat to the security of our country,” Zakharova said.

Tass also quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov urging Washington to reconsider the deployment of missiles to the Asia-Pacific. He warned that Moscow will not rule out stationing shorter- and intermediate-range missiles in Asia in response to the U.S. deployment.

Earlier in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin said China is Russia’s ally and “Taiwan is part of China,” and that China conducting wargames near the island is “a completely reasonable policy” while Taipei is escalating tensions.

While Russia and China have no formal military treaty, Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have spoken of having a “no limits” partnership, and the United States accuses China of supporting Russia’s war efforts against Ukraine.

U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken said at a press conference held at the G7 meeting in Italy on Tuesday that China’s support for Russia’s defense industry is “allowing Russia to continue the aggression against Ukraine.”

US-Japan missile plan

Despite Moscow’s alarming rhetoric, analysts say the deployment of HIMARS to the region is primarily aimed at protecting Taiwan from Chinese warships.

“The most important purpose of HIMARS” would be “an anti-ship capability” and to “protect the island and base itself,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Navy Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said last week at a forum held by the Brookings Institution that China this past summer conducted its largest rehearsal to date for an invasion of Taiwan involving 152 vessels. He cautioned that the U.S. “must be ready.”

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy possesses the world’s largest naval force with over 370 ships and submarines while the U.S. has about 290 vessels.

Eye on Chinese invasion

Timothy Heath, senior international defense researcher at the RAND Corp., said HIMARS on the Nansei islands “could help sink amphibious landing ships as well as destroyers and other PLA Navy ships that might approach the island from the north” and also “target concentrations of PLA troops on beaches near Taipei.”

Heath continued, “The fielding of these weapons systems shows that the U.S. and its allies are learning lessons from the Ukraine theater, where HIMARS have been effectively deployed against Russia.”

The U.S. is also planning to deploy the Multi-Domain Task Force’s (MDTS) long-range firing units to the Philippines, said Kyodo news on Sunday. The MDTS uses HIMARS as long-range firing units.

“The deployment of HIMARS to Nansei islands and long-range firing units to the Philippines will impose greater costs on China,” said Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi, an associate professor at Tokyo International University Institute for International Strategy and a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative.

“Both locations are vital to deter China’s aggressive moves in not only the Taiwan Strait and East China Seas, but also Beijing’s ambitions in the Pacific. Still, one can expect China to do more to outdo such measures by enhancing their military readiness and conducting more assertive activities in the coming years,” he said.

Taiwan and the Philippines, as well as Japan and Indonesia, make up what China calls the first island chain potentially blocking its military access to the Pacific.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin concluded a nine-day trip to the Indo-Pacific on Monday after a series of meetings with the defense heads of countries in the region, including Japan, the Philippines, Australia and South Korea.

At the meetings, Japan agreed to increase its participation in annual trilateral amphibious training with the U.S. and Australia. The Philippines agreed to share military intelligence by signing a General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) with the U.S.

https://www.voanews.com/a/new-missile-plan-by-us-japan-eyes-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan-/7879818.html

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The Matrix: Mirrored doorknob: There was no way to properly hide the camera, so the director of photography threw a coat onto himself with a tie matching the one Morpheus was wearing, trying to blend in as much as possible.

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#BREAKING: Numerous people have reported hearing and seeing a large explosion at the Port of Miami

📌#Miami | #Flordia

At this time, numerous people in the Port of Miami, Florida area have reported hearing and feeling a massive explosion. Witnesses are seeing a large fire with thick black smoke rising into the air, accompanied by multiple secondary explosions The cause of the explosion is currently unknown, and an investigation is underway. This is a developing situation

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22080793 (300900ZNOV24) Notable: Jefferson: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control … their children wake up homeless"

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Was the goal to bring in all these illegals and create a massive workforce of cheap quasi-slave labor? According to the Massachusetts AG that’s exactly what happened. But it’s worse than that because eventually the American people through this cheap labor would also be turned into quasi-slaves.

As Jefferson said: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."

Tell me this isn’t what is going on?

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22080795 (300902ZNOV24) Notable: Female athletes are saying “enough” and refusing to play unfair match-ups

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Bravo to the brave women athletes who

are standing up to trans madness

New York Post, by Staff

Posted By: ladydawgfan, 11/30/2024 12:11:41 AM

A quiet revolt is stirring in women’s sports: Female athletes are saying “enough” and refusing to play unfair match-ups against biologically male opponents. This season, woman volleyballers at the University of Wyoming, Utah State, the University of Nevada, Reno and Southern Utah have forfeited games against San Jose State instead of playing against a reportedly transgender athlete on the Spartans, Blaire Fleming. The Boise State squad not only forfeited twice during the regular season, it made the painful decision to sit out the Mountain West Conference semifinals game against the Spartans. With coaches being fired for spelling out the issues here, the team’s statement still made it obvious:

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Note: the tactics used are having posters on underground stations walking up to westminister, lobby groups, letters and pressure on m.ps to think about those dying in their last hours, but no one mentioned this when they vaxxed everyone, shut them down, demonized them, put them out of work and cut their bank accounts.

THIS STINKS OF COVER UP AND CORRUPTION

UK MPs back assisted dying in historic vote

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-mps-back-assisted-dying-law-at-first-hurdle-in-historic-vote/

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November 29, 2024 3:28 pm CET

By Esther Webber

LONDON — MPs have voted by 330 to 275 in favor of a bill to legalize assisted dying in England and Wales for the first time.

MPs backed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, introduced by backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, at second reading, meaning it will now continue through parliament for further scrutiny.

The decision followed a packed five-hour debate in the House of Commons, where MPs made their choice in a free vote, meaning they did not have to vote on party lines.

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Assisted dying bill splits UK parliament

Ahead of a hard-to-call vote on whether the terminally ill should be given help to end their lives, unlikely alliances are being formed

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-parliament-divided-assisted-dying/

November 28, 2024 4:00 am CET

By Esther Webber

LONDON — Less than six months after its general election the U.K. has been tipped headfirst into a fraught debate on a matter of life and death.

The landmark piece of legislation currently dominating the nation’s attention does not concern the state of the economy, the NHS, the courts system, housing or welfare.

Instead, MPs will vote Friday on a bill that would for the first time give terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to die at the time of their choosing.

The U.K. is the latest among a string of European countries to attempt to permit assisted dying. Irish MPs earlier this year endorsed a parliamentary report calling for assisted dying. Similar attempts to introduce legislation have been made recently in Scotland, Jersey and the Isle of Man.

Meanwhile, France was debating an assisted dying bill earlier this year, but progress was interrupted due to a snap election. And various forms of assisted dying are already legal in Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.

The U.K.'s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) bill is being treated as a matter of conscience, meaning MPs will be given a free vote and do not have to make their choices along party lines.

The bill was introduced by a backbench Labour MP, Kim Leadbeater, rather than by the government, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised ahead of the summer general election to allow the issue to come before parliament.

Unlikely alliances

The question has engendered deep divisions among those with responsibility for deciding and carrying out the potential change in the law.

Starmer’s Cabinet is split in two, while MPs from all the major parties find themselves in disagreement with close colleagues. Medical specialists have also made interventions both for and against the bill.

A recent YouGov study showed that 73 percent of Britons think assisted dying should be legal. However, 19 percent said that while they support assisted dying in principle, they oppose it in practice because they don’t believe adequate laws can be created to regulate it.

Former prime ministers are also split on the subject, with Gordon Brown, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss all against the plan, while David Cameron wrote in the Times that he had changed his mind and now supports assisted dying.

The debate has fostered some unlikely alliances too, with veteran Tory Edward Leigh teaming up with left-wing Labour stalwart Diane Abbott to express concern that the move would put vulnerable people at risk.

As Leadbeater attempted to drum up support for the bill in the final days of campaigning, she told the BBC she thought the vote would be “very close.”

Shifting positions

While the proposal was once assumed to have widespread support among new, younger Labour MPs, the outcome now looks extremely uncertain.

This is down, in part, to some striking changes in approach by those at the top of government.

In his former job as director of public prosecutions, Starmer acted to make it less likely that people motivated by compassion to help someone die would face prosecution.

Earlier this year he told broadcaster and campaigner Esther Rantzen that he was “personally in favor of changing the law.”

Since he has entered No. 10, however, he has kept out of the fray and refused to say how he will vote on Friday.

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At the same time, Health Secretary Wes Streeting — a prominent member of the Cabinet who would be responsible for implementing the policy — has moved from backing assisted dying to opposing it.

Streeting told Labour MPs last month he didn’t believe Britain’s palliative care system was good enough to support the change — an argument that has dominated the debate ever since, with some complaining of a lack of leadership from Starmer.

Leadbeater in turn said she was “disappointed” by Streeting’s intervention, suggesting he had not read the bill properly before he commented.

Yet momentum has not moved only in one direction.

Disabled MPs split

Disability advocates have in the past been among the most influential voices against assisted dying, arguing it could open the way to disabled people being coerced into ending their lives. Leadbeater and her supporters argue it would simply not apply to disabled people.

High-profile disabled members of the House of Lords such as Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson and equality campaigner Jane Campbell have both stated their opposition to the bill.

However, the new parliament includes a higher number of disabled MPs than in previous years, with Labour members forming a Disability Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) for the first time, joining the Women’s PLP and the Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic PLP.

Conversations that POLITICO has held with disabled MPs suggest this group, whose voices could prove influential in the debate, is by no means united in opposition to the bill.

Luke Akehurst, a new Labour MP who has reduced mobility, said he wanted to be sure that “all the correct safeguards are in the bill,” but conceded that “at this stage I am minded to vote for the assisted dying law.”

Two other disabled Labour MPs, granted anonymity because they had not yet informed constituents of their views, said they were undecided, with one leaning in favor and one against the bill.

Others remain opposed, with government whip Vicky Foxcroft confirming to POLITICO that she still believed, as she stated before the election, that “you have a large amount of the population that are terrified of it.”

Marsha de Cordova, who is registered blind, posted on X that disabled people’s “real and legitimate fears must not be ignored.”

What next?

If voted down at second reading, the bill will fail. While the result of the vote may be impossible to call, it will have huge ramifications either way.

Many MPs see this as a one-off chance at progressive social reform, and will not easily forgive their opponents if they succeed in blocking it.

Paul Blomfield, a former Labour MP who now campaigns for assisted dying, warned that if the bill is rejected, it does not leave “a benign status quo — it’s either voting for Kim’s bill or endorsing the status quo, which is deeply cruel and distressing.”

If the bill progresses, parliamentary scrutiny could continue for months, drawing time and energy away from the government’s agenda.

The government may find it difficult not to become more closely involved in a cause which some members of the Cabinet fervently oppose.

It’s also not yet clear what body would be responsible for administering any service that might allow people to choose to die. The issue is certain to be controversial as the NHS remains under severe strain.

With Starmer inevitably having to put down his marker this week, the list of unenviable tasks he faces in this parliament only seems to grow.

John Johnston, Bethany Dawson and Claudia Chiappa contributed to this report.

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W.E.F SARAH ZIEGLAR W.E.F EXPERT AND ADVOCATE FOR ASSISTED DYING

Sarah Ziegler

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Zurich

https://www.weforum.org/people/sarah-ziegler/

Sarah Ziegler is Postdoctoral fellow at Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on medical end-of-life decisions and palliative care. She investigates the prevalence of medical end-of-life decisions such as forgoing life-prolonging treatment decisions, intensified alleviation of pain and symptoms and physician-assisted death. She also studies current trends in palliative sedation and how these are related to healthcare professionals' conceptual and procedural understanding, patients' sociodemographics and clinical characteristics, and healthcare settings. She presented her research at the 5th and 6th International Conference on Advance Care Planning and End of Life, as well as at the 10th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. She was named as member of the international advisory board within the project „SedPall: From anxiolysis to deep continuous sedation – Development of recommendations for sedation in specialist palliative care“. Papers from Sarah's work has been published in international peer reviewed journals. In addition to her research portfolio at the EBPI, Sarah is the part-time coordinator for the international structured PhD program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

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4 PAGES OF ARTICLES, PDF AND PRESENTATIONS FROM THE W.E.F ON ASSISTED DYING - THINK BRAVE NEW WORLD!!

Note: latest article from 2022 being the most recent.

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https://www.weforum.org/search/?query=assisted+dying

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David Sinclair explains what an ageing population means for economies around the world

Jan 18, 2022

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/01/david-sinclair-on-ageing-population-impact-economy-world/

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This article is part of: The Davos Agenda

David Sinclair, Director, International Longevity Centre, says the world's ageing population will change everything from cities, transport and consumption to relations between countries.

Ageing can be harnessed to be positive for societies and economies, but innovation must consider education, health equality, loneliness and isolation and income.

This interview served as input for The Great Narrative, a new book by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret.

The world has been ageing for some time, according to David Sinclair, Director, International Longevity Centre, but policy has still not caught up to tackle the potential problems this may cause for the world.

He says that an ageing population will have an impact on the future like at no other time in history and will change everything from cities, transport and consumption to relations between countries, and for that to be positive rapid policy changes are needed.

The below interview with David Sinclair served as one of 50 inputs from global thought leaders for The Great Narrative, the new book by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret that describes how we can create a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable future post-COVID-19.

Have you read?

Do you have anything to share with us about yourself that we won’t find on the web?

I’ve worked in ageing and ageing policy for about 20 years – that’s the LinkedIn version.

When I started working, I used to work for an older persons’ organization. Older people said I was too young to work in ageing but, when my hair turned grey, they didn’t say that anymore (I’ve had a mid-life COVID-19 crisis and have gone red to tackle that challenge).

I’m very passionate about active travel, involved with the local Parkrun and cycling group and volunteered to join the Olympics in 2012. It was a fascinating insight because I spent two weeks looking at politicians, heads of state and royal families to see how the other world works.

And how does it work?

It works remarkably efficiently from their point of view, and it’s striking how organized it is. You’d get a call three minutes before, saying that Prince William and Kate are two and half minutes late. You’d spend the entire day before checking where they will walk, who they’re going to meet – it’s remarkable how well planned and organized the whole thing is.

What’s interesting also is the VIPs, such as Tony Blair and John Major; I met some really interesting people during the short time of the Olympics. It shows we’re all humans; they find it a drag, too, that their security people say they can’t say hello to a person.

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This interview served as input for The Great Narrative, a new book by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret.

The world has been ageing for some time, according to David Sinclair, Director, International Longevity Centre, but policy has still not caught up to tackle the potential problems this may cause for the world.

He says that an ageing population will have an impact on the future like at no other time in history and will change everything from cities, transport and consumption to relations between countries, and for that to be positive rapid policy changes are needed.

The below interview with David Sinclair served as one of 50 inputs from global thought leaders for The Great Narrative, the new book by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret that describes how we can create a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable future post-COVID-19.

Have you read?

Do you have anything to share with us about yourself that we won’t find on the web?

I’ve worked in ageing and ageing policy for about 20 years – that’s the LinkedIn version.

When I started working, I used to work for an older persons’ organization. Older people said I was too young to work in ageing but, when my hair turned grey, they didn’t say that anymore (I’ve had a mid-life COVID-19 crisis and have gone red to tackle that challenge).

I’m very passionate about active travel, involved with the local Parkrun and cycling group and volunteered to join the Olympics in 2012. It was a fascinating insight because I spent two weeks looking at politicians, heads of state and royal families to see how the other world works.

And how does it work?

It works remarkably efficiently from their point of view, and it’s striking how organized it is. You’d get a call three minutes before, saying that Prince William and Kate are two and half minutes late. You’d spend the entire day before checking where they will walk, who they’re going to meet – it’s remarkable how well planned and organized the whole thing is.

What’s interesting also is the VIPs, such as Tony Blair and John Major; I met some really interesting people during the short time of the Olympics. It shows we’re all humans; they find it a drag, too, that their security people say they can’t say hello to a person.

An ageing world changes everything

You’re known as someone who has been working on longevity and how it should be addressed. If you had to distil everything you’ve been doing, what would be your main, big idea?

The world is ageing, but this will have major social and economic impact, much more than in the past. The argument that hasn’t been well played out, and organizations like the World Economic Forum are starting to think about this, is that there is a major opportunity to be grasped from ageing.

It will change the world – where we live, and not just the houses but the streets we play in, and the jobs we do. And alongside it, technology will speed up the changes, and over the next five years, things like e-bikes and last-mile travel will transform how our towns and cities look.

On the one hand, we’ve got ageing and people starting to struggle to get around; and also COVID-19, which means people won’t necessarily be going into cities as much; and these interesting innovations in last-mile travel. I suspect the big demand for e-bikes will come from older people, and that will play a role in how our cities will look.

Help us understand what an ageing world will look like from an economic and societal view, in terms of relations between countries, standards of living and consumption – it will change everything, right?

The combination of climate change, global conflict, fears and opportunities around technology and ageing present a scary world for many people. Climate change and ageing are long-term challenges with very little short-term benefit for politicians, so people have found it difficult to innovate and change.

Technology moves quickly, but societal and policy changes don’t. I remember that before Donald Trump won the American presidential election, an interesting website from a group of over-100-year-old women, a homemade one, said we’ve waited 100 years for a woman president, and, of course, they’re still waiting. Certain things take a long time.

A good example of that is ageing. We’ve been ageing for over 300 years. Most of the West has been ageing far too slowly, and as a result, policy has been slow to adapt.

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We’ve had the frog-in-warm-water parable: if you put a frog in warm water, it sits and waits to boil to death, whereas if you put it in boiling water, it jumps out. What’s changing now is that ageing is increasingly global; it’s no longer just for the United Kingdom, France, northern Europe, the United States and other places. Singapore and Korea are ageing in 40 years in the way that the United Kingdom and France were ageing over 300 years.

So, there’s a political imperative to tackle the challenges, and that means some of the innovation won’t come from western or northern Europe. Economic opportunities in some of the younger countries, like Nigeria, with big working-age populations, will be interesting to watch. Some new global powers could start to develop if they could invest in healthcare systems.

In the main, the technology is moving quicker and quicker yet we’re slow at adapting to ageing. Because cities are a global issue and tie into climate change and innovation, we’ll see a step change over the next decade or so.

The Great Narrative by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret

Which parts of the world aren’t ageing? Only India and Africa?

In India, it’s interesting to see the big growth of the population aged 80 and over and for China as well. Where a difference across the world exists is that in places like Europe and the United Kingdom, welfare systems were developed when those areas had a young population, but China and India have to develop welfare states while their populations are already starting to age. Economically, that’s very difficult to do.

Nigeria and some of the African countries are still relatively young. Over the next 40 to 50 years, we’re going to see populations start to decline. Work in The Lancet suggests that populations will begin to fall across big parts of the world in the 2050s, but alongside that, we’re living much longer. In the future, countries will have much smaller populations but older populations, and the challenge for governments is how to make that work economically and socially.

Ageing population can be an opportunity

And very often, when you ask economists what ageing is about, opinions are divided: it’s an opportunity or a danger. What’s your view?

Looking at the recent European Union ageing report, the Australian intergenerational report and one on UK fiscal sustainability, it all turned from “ageing is going to be a problem” to “it’s actually manageable.” If we work a little bit longer, if we focus on the positive opportunities of ageing, we needn’t be as scared as they thought we were going to be.

Economists haven’t thought enough about this – that with a strong, older population that continues to work longer, a healthier older population works for longer and they spend more, care more and volunteer more. The challenge is how to get there. I think we’ll start to see a step change in that area.

The future of retirement will be fascinating because we might discover that the last 30 to 40 years of retirement in the West will be an outlier in the long run. There was a fortunate turn of events with high growth and a growing younger population, where you could afford to let people work from the age of 20 to 55 and then give them a decent pension at the end of it.

It’s hard to see any way of having a sustainable economy on 1.5% or 2% growth in the future, where people are potentially working for 30 to 35 years and not working for 50+ years.

Economically, it feels really difficult to balance that out. People used to work longer. Currently, in the United Kingdom, a million people over 65 years old are working; in the 1960s, a higher proportion of men worked after the age of 65 than do now.

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Work hasn’t gotten harder. In fact, huge mistakes were made in the late 1980s and the 1990s, forcing people out of work too early with the belief that older people prevented younger ones from getting jobs. Large parts of Europe now have massive skills shortages.

From Hong Kong to the United Kingdom, we don’t have enough healthcare workers – indeed almost anywhere in the world – and have massive skills shortages. We’ve incentivized people to leave the workforce too early. At least we’re starting to realize this now.

Health inequalities need to be reducing, not increasing, and more concentration is needed on how to make the most of the economic opportunities.

”— David Sinclair, Director, International Longevity Centre

What are the main measures required for society to age gracefully and successfully, besides education and healthcare

In many places around the world, we’re not ageing very well. We spend more time at home as we get older, and TV and being alone is the main source of activity.

First, we’ve got to address the issues around isolation and participation in society, that’s really core. Second, there’s income. At the same time, we must design policies to meet our needs for income across our lives; things are getting worse with the end of final salary pensions, so you’re likely to see increases in pension poverty.

Third, a successful ageing society doesn’t have the health inequalities we see now. COVID-19 has shined a light on that because, despite improvements in health and health innovation, we’re seeing health inequalities growing, not falling, across the world, and that’s a major challenge in the concept of ageing.

Good work is important in ageing and there’s a strong relationship between a grey and a green New Deal. Not only are too many forced out of work too early – in the United Kingdom, about 1.4 million people are forced out before their time, with resulting skills shortages occurring – but tied to this is that the wrong sorts of jobs are being created.

Economies have jobs that people don’t want to do, or not enough people want to do, and are creating bs jobs with no meaning or value.

Lastly, we must be sure welfare states can support a 100-year life and can engage companies to better recognize older consumers.

In short, we have to address isolation and participation across our lives, from the very young to the very old, and public policies need to help ensure pension poverty isn’t inevitable.

Health inequalities need to be reducing, not increasing, and more concentration is needed on how to make the most of the economic opportunities. How to focus on the workspace (supporting good-quality work for longer). How to support companies to better engage with this market? And, from a government point of view, how to ensure welfare states can sustainably afford older populations.

Living better and longer

From that perspective, which countries do best in the world?

People always look to Scandinavia. They say Japan is interesting, but it has major economic challenges. While the country has a nice model of engaging older people, it has significant problems with isolation and loneliness among younger people.

Some countries are starting to do bits well; Canada, for example, has an interesting pension system that includes state and private provision. Governments are beginning to look at how to address the welfare-state area. The private sector is an undervalued opportunity, and perhaps this highlights the weakness of the nation-state in some respects, as some challenges are global.

I can’t point to one country that has managed to support people to work longer, tackled health inequalities, or created exciting cities that work for people of all ages. I don’t think we’re there at all almost anywhere, but I hope and think that over the next 20 years, things will change.

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Can you share with us more generally what you feel optimistic about for tomorrow’s world? What could be a positive narrative? Of course, you’re longevity-biased.

I remember in Barack Obama’s book; the first line was something about if you had to choose a moment in history to be born, you’d choose now.

When you talk to older people born after the First World War, one gets the feeling that, despite climate change and conflict, that it was really, really tough. And there are now exciting opportunities, whether they be through the internet, through global migration and some of the really exciting opportunities the come from understanding the world better.

It was a positive starting point of the narrative that it’s all really, really bad and terrible: well, maybe it’s not. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic helped create the National Health Service; the Great Depression and the Second World War helped set the stage for the modern welfare state; and we’re probably at another turning point as a result of COVID-19.

We’ll absolutely see change. We’re absolutely going to invest in health and especially preventative health in the future and we’ll value it better; we’ll support work and good jobs and invest in lifelong learning; and we’ll unlock opportunities to tap into older people’s powers and as consumers. Our towns will be transformed and work better for people old and young alike.

Active travel works in terms of longevity; physical activity works, and one of the ways to get people to be more physically active is through active travel. This growing movement is looking at the 15-minute city: how people get everything they need within 15 minutes of where they live. And the next thing will be, what do we need that’s one minute from our homes? In addition, optimism would also be slightly less reliance on cars around the world and it’s an exciting opportunity for cities in the future.

So physical movement is essential.

Yes. We need to live better, not longer, and tackle those inequalities. All ages can work together. As populations age, we might even see less conflict, as much global conflict is driven in countries with very young populations, and we might see that global conflict starts to fall as well.

This interview served as input for The Great Narrative, the new book by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret that encapsulates the Davos Vision, and explores how we can shape a constructive, common narrative for the future.

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Baker On Duty

has the dough

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>>267260HOSPICE never actually reads a patient's medical history, ignores their medical conditions altogether and just prescribes their "ONE SIZE, FITS ALL" LETHAL OPIOID, HALDOL, ATIVAN & MULTIPLE LAXATIVES COCKTAILS which put my loved one in such PURE EXCRUCIATING AGONY and TORTURE, CRYING & BEGGING ME FOR HELP!

Comfort Care or Pallaitive Care, my arse! More like agonizing torturous pre-meditated euthanasia against my loved one's will, for profit! THERE'S MILLIONS OF STORIES JUST LIKE MINE, HERE IN THE USA!

HOSPICES' FIRST GO TO DRUG TO USE AND KEY IN HOSPICE'S LETHAL SEDATION, STARVATION & DEHYDRATION METHOD IS the Antipsychotic Medications: Haldol**HaloperidolHaloperidol Systemic—ALSO KNOWN AS A "LIQUID LOBOTOMY", "LOBOTOMY IN A PILL" & “PHARMACOLOGICAL LOBOTOMY"!

Lobotomies were halted in the late 1950's because of outrage at the barbarity of the procedure & the emergence of new drugs ANTIPSYCHOTICS for mental illnesses.

STRONGLY NEVER RECOMMENDED, PERIOD, per-2023 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria®!

HOSPICE prescribes HALDOL to ALL OF THEIR PATIENTS REGUARDLESS OF THEIR MEDICAL CONDITONS OR MEDICAL HISTORY.

Benzodiazepines: Ativan*** Lorazepam

Antipsychotic Medications: Haldol**Haloperidol*Haloperidol Systemic

BOTH Benzodiazepines: Ativan*** Lorazepam AND Antipsychotic Medications: HaldolHaloperidol*Haloperidol Systemic ARE ALSO KNOWN AS “PHARMACOLOGICAL TORTURE" AND shouldn't be used on the elderly, period. THE SOVIET UNION USED HALDOL FOR TORTURE DUE TO THE " AGONY" COMMON SIDE EFFECTS OF THE DRUG ON THEIR PRISONERS/DISSIDENTS-BUT IS NOW BANNED IN THE SOVIET UNION.

EVEN Organizations like Amnesty International, Freedom from Torture and the United Nations have recognized the escalation of pharmacological torture drugs like like benzodiazepines and antipsychotics used against political prisoners.

Pharmacological Torture Drugs: Antipsychotics Drugs: Haldol, Haloperidol Systemic, Haldol Decanoate-Benzodiazepines Drugs: Ativan, Lorazepam,

BUT HERE IN THE USA, THEY'RE GIVEN TO OUR ELDERLY BY HOSPICE WITHOUT ANYTHING BEING DONE ABOUT IT BY OUR GOVERNMENT-PATHETIC INHUMANE TORTURE!

Lobotomies were halted in the late 1950's because of outrage at the barbarity of the procedure and the emergence of new drugs "LIQUID LOBOTOMY, LOBOTOMY IN A PILL & “PHARMACOLOGICAL LOBOTOMY" — ANTIPSYCHOTICS for mental illnesses—HALDOL and other antipsychotics which result in the same side effects as a lobotomy.

Now known as HOSPICE'S first to go to, drug. For every patient, regardless of their medical conditions or medical history.

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''YT pushes tranny children but won't allow discussions of the DC PIPE BOMBER - they just wiped out two separate discussions from #1 - Tucker & Darren Beattie and #2 - Dan Bongino

NOV 2024 KARLIN YOUNGER PIPE BOMB DIG - THE ORIGINAL INTERVIEWS POSTED HERE WERE JUST WIPED OUT BY YT

DIG started on SUNDAY, Nov. 24, 2024:

>>264795 pb, >>264797 pb Tucker Interview with Darren Beatty on the j6 Pipe Bomber: How Could Karlin Younger's "Discovery" of the Pipe Bomb Have Been a Coincidence When the FBI gave her company $92 million Contract in Dec 2020?

NOW the ENTIRE INTERVIEW IS GONE - removed by YT

https://youtu.be/VGDB2SREaHM

BUT SEE THE CLIP HERE:

https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/22047482.html#22047744

BONGINO also discussed the PIPE BOMB MYSTERY, emphasizing its importance for showing the engineering behind J6.

ALSO WIPED BY YT:

https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/22047482.html#22047756

CLIP of the key parts:

https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/22053963.html#22054471

don't let them get away with it!

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I was on the boards when this happened (see links below)…

At the time it was implied (not a Q post) by anons?… that this was a Q team op and a boot was put on Trudeau.

I suspect Trudeau has been controlled from this point on…

crazy ass movie….

Feb 9, 2018

Justin Trudeau’s motorcade crashes in California, injuring three

JUSTINi Trudeau’s motorcade was hit by a civilian driver in a crash that injured three people, including a California police officer.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/justin-trudeaus-motorcade-crashes-in-california-injuring-three/news-story/b314667cdf82175a5facdda0962e378c

CHP Officer in Justin Trudeau Motorcade Injured in Simi Valley Crash

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/chp-officer-involved-in-justin-trudeau-motorcade-injured-in-simi-valley-crash/

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Handoff or Ghost

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Just the News

@JustTheNews

Lawmakers press Google, Meta, others on addressing deep fake pornography

Meta headquarters in California, Dec. 2022 | (Anadolu Agency/Getty)

From justthenews.com

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081157 (301256ZNOV24) Notable: Texas Considers Plan That Could Significantly Speed Up Trump Admin Deportations

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Texas Considers Plan That Could Significantly Speed Up Trump Admin Deportations: Report

By Samuel Short November 29, 2024 at 9:42am

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081177 (301306ZNOV24) Notable: Texas Considers Plan That Could Significantly Speed Up Trump Admin Deportations

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-mayors-say-they-will-use-police-obstruct-trumps-deportation-illegals

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New Statewide Mandatory Organic Waste Collection - CalRecycle

SB 1383 allows jurisdictions to customize collection systems while also requiring bin color and labeling consistency throughout California. Learn More. Food …

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https://calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/

Organic Materials Management - CalRecycle Home Page - CA.gov

Organic waste is 48% of what California throws in landfills, by weight, including 2.5 billion meals worth of unspoiled food a year.

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Home Composting

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https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/news/california-food-scrap-fine-goes-into-effect/

California's food scrap fine goes into effect - Waste Today

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/country-papers/2971-2021-statistical-analysis-of-u-s-trade-with-china/file

U.S. Trade with China - Bureau of Industry and Security

Mechanical Appliances, Sound Recorders and TV sets were the most traded commodity sectors. In the last five years, U.S. exports of those commodities show an …

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https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/country-papers/3268-2022-statistical-analysis-of-u-s-trade-with-china/file

U.S. Trade with China 2022 - Bureau of Industry and Security

Apr 24, 2023 … In 2022, after four consecutive years of increases, U.S. exports of those commodities decreased by 14.3% ($5.2 billion) from. $36.1 billion in …

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https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-pivot-us-farm-imports-bolsters-it-against-trade-war-risks-2024-11-01/

China pivot from US farm imports bolsters it against trade war risks

Nov 1, 2024 … China's push to shift its food import sources since 2018 has put it in a better position to impose tit-for-tat tariffs on U.S. farm

SEC needs a CBOE guy.. jussayin.

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Syrian rebels have taken the city of Aleppo.

https://gab.com/JoeyCamp2020/posts/113567336891695863

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@JoeyCamp2020

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Aleppo prison break happening.

https://gab.com/JoeyCamp2020/posts/113568644042447004

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Aleppo has fallen. Assad is now in Moscow.

Aleppo has 2,100,000 residents. The second largest city is Syria.

https://gab.com/JoeyCamp2020/posts/113569317907149733

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Who had the ability to create, and execute an operation on this scale?

The Syrian army has reported hundreds of phones, walkie talkies, radios, and other electronic devices have near simultaneously exploded in the hands of the military members using the devices.

Images are being reported from vastly different cities, with the explosions being nearly the exact time opposition rebels began taking Aleppo.

https://gab.com/JoeyCamp2020/posts/113569442282405518

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081235 (301323ZNOV24) Notable: Syrian rebels have taken the city of Aleppo.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081239 (301324ZNOV24) Notable: JIM ACOSTA MELTS OVER ELON MUSK AND TRUMP

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JIM ACOSTA MELTS OVER ELON MUSK AND TRUMP.

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If CNN wants to survive, they better not assign this goon to the WH

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081270 (301335ZNOV24) Notable: Syrian rebels have taken the city of Aleppo.

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Russia Steps Up Support For Assad Regime, 'Ukrainians' Support Rebel Advance, Assad In Moscow, SNA Also Moves Against Regime

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081285 (301340ZNOV24) Notable: Fani Willis is the last person still prosecuting Trump

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Fani Willis is the last person still prosecuting Trump — but the case isn’t likely to last much longer: sources

DANA KENNEDY

November 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM

As the national tide turns in President-elect Donald Trump’s favor, Fulton County DA Fani Willis is the last woman standing in his way — but she isn’t likely to last long.

Willis is prosecuting the only court case left against Trump before he returns to office in January, over alleged election interference in Georgia.

Federal cases into the returning president’s involvement in the January 6, 2021 insurrection in Washington DC and his alleged hoarding of classified documents were both dropped after he won the presidential election.

A lot has changed from one year ago when Willis, 53 — the first woman elected as Fulton County DA in 2021 — was riding high as the prosecutor set to take down Trump in a blockbuster high-profile RICO racketeering case.

Although Willis appears adamant she will stay the course, she could potentially bekicked off the case by a body who are investigating it or usurped by the state Supreme Court, who are likely to step in and close it, according to sources.

“Fani doesn’t see how she’s headed for a brick wall,she’s going full tilt with vengeance and emotions,” one local defense lawyer who knows her told The Post.

“She’s still so full of herself and hasn’t learned her lesson yet. She doesn’t realize she is her own demise and she’s the reason everything’s falling apart.”

Willis – who won re-election for a second term as DA in November – has remained defiant and ignored a subpoena in September from a special senate committee looking into the case, refusing to show up for a hearing when was supposed to testify.

Last week, a Georgia appeals court abruptly canceled oral arguments scheduled for next month in the case and Trump’s lawyers are likely cite the federal end to the election interference charges against him to get the Georgia case thrown out.

“I would be shocked if it wasn’t (dismissed) but Fani has an ego bigger than the entire state so who knows,” a source close to the Willis investigations told The Post.

Representatives for Willis and Wade did respond to requests for comment from The Post for this article.

Willis, the daughter of a Black Panther-turned-criminal defense attorney, blew up her own reputation in Jan. 2024 when it came out that she had hired her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, a criminal defense lawyer with no prior experience with felony cases, to be a special prosecutor on the Trump case. Wade, who operates out of a basement office in a local industrial park, was allegedly paid thousands more than the other qualified lawyers on the team by Willis’ office.

Despite the scandal which engulfed Willis and effectively derailed the case, she still keeps an Official Fani Store online selling personalized merchandise, including “On My Grind: Madam’s Coffee,” T-shirts with the words “Fani T. Willis Fan Club,” a “Fani T. Willis Integrity Matters” button, as well as framed posters, hoodies and mugs with her name and photo.

Meanwhile, another high-profile case Willis is involved in — a sprawling and costly trial over Atlanta area rapper Young Thug and his associates in the group YSL – Young Slime Life — is also going astray.

Her decision to prosecute Young Thug and YSL under RICO statutes, as if the rapper and his associates were a Mafia-level criminal gang also backfired, several sources close to the case told The Post. The original indictment charged 28 people with conspiring to violate Georgia’s RICO act but only six defendants were part of the trial that began one year ago.

Jurors began deliberating this week are considering whether to convict Shannon Stillwell and Deamonte Kendrick, who raps as Yak Gotti, on gang, murder, drug and gun charges. The other four defendants, including Young Thug, took plea deals in October which one source close to the case told The Post were “far better deals” than they had been offered at the start.

“No doubt this case has been a fiasco,” Doug Weinstein, the attorney representing Yak Gotti told The Post. “There were about 50 mistrial requests alone and repeated instances that bordered on prosecutorial misconduct. The judge scolded the prosecutors regularly. They were unprepared and disorganized. And while Fani Willis was not the prosecutor in charge, she chose the one who was and the buck stops with Fani.”

“Fani Willis wanted to appear as being tough on crime,” a commenter in a forum online about the case posted. “She thought a famous rapper high profile case would bolster her image,so they went after Thug without real evidence and that’s why the case is a complete clusterf–k.”…

https://www.aol.com/fani-willis-last-person-still-202655007.html

(I can't wait to the new Admin DOJ takes up this case of Fani and Wade)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081329 (301352ZNOV24) Notable: FBI agent accused of multiple rapes was found not guilty of attempted murder 2 years ago

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FBI agent accused of multiple rapes was found not guilty of attempted murder 2 years ago

Eduardo Valdivia allegedly raped two women in a tattoo studio in Gaithersburg, Maryland, according to officials. In 2022, Valdivia was found not guilty on multiple charges of shooting a man on a train.

Nov. 26, 2024

An FBI agent was arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault two years after he was acquitted of attempted murder.

Eduardo Valdivia, 40, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, is charged with two counts of second-degree rape, four counts of fourth-degree sexual offense and four counts of second-degree assault, according to a Tuesday statement from the Montgomery County Police Department.

Two women allege they were raped inside a tattoo studio, andpolice say Valdivia may be have additional victims.

Police say the two women were raped inside DC Fine Line Tattoos, a studio on Washingtonian Boulevard in Gaithersburg,operated by Valivida under an alias.

The first woman said she was raped in October by a man named “Lalo Brown.” A second woman came forward this month with a similar report of sexual assault, police said.

During a news conference on Tuesday,police say Valdivia was luring victims online through an Instagram pagedevoted to a tattoo business operated by him under the alias Lalo Brown.

The first woman was offered a free tattoo in exchange for modeling art work, police said. When she returned to the studio a second time for a photo shoot and a modeling contract, that's when Valdivia sexually assaulted her, police said.

After the first assault, police say the woman was coerced and threatened with legal action if she did not return to comply with the contract=. The woman returned for a second shoot at a nearby hotel and was again sexually assaulted by Valdivia, police said.

Valdivia met the second alleged victim through the same Instagram account, and police said there are other women on the tattoo shop's social media page who could be additional victims.

Montgomery County Police Department Assistant Chief Nicholas Augustine saidinvestigators are concerned some women may not come forward because they signed contracts.

“We want the community to know that no matter if you sign a contract, that does not allow for you to be sexually assaulted,” he said during the media briefing.

Valdivia's alleged victims said they believed they had been communicating with a woman before they met him.Both women positively identified Valdivia as their assailant, police said.

Valdivia was being held at the Montgomery County Detention Center on Tuesday afternoon without bond, a jail representative said. His attorney was not immediately reached for comment.

The FBI Washington Field Office s noaid in a statement the agency is cooperating with Montgomery police in their investigation of Valdivia. He is suspended pending the police investigation, the FBI said.

“The FBI takes allegations of criminal violations and misconduct very seriously,” the statement said. “We are aware of the matter involving the recent arrest of an FBI employee and are fully cooperating with the Montgomery County Police Department. Because this is an ongoing investigation, the FBI cannot comment further.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-agent-accused-multiple-rapes-was-found-not-guilty-attempted-murder-rcna181902

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081333 (301354ZNOV24) Notable: Ellen DeGeneres' Cotswolds dream submerged: Hollywood star's idyllic multi-million-pound farmhouse is hit by floods

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Ellen DeGeneres' Cotswolds dream submerged: Hollywood star's idyllic multi-million-pound farmhouse is hit by floods with surrounding fields underwater - just days after she and wife Portia di Rossi moved to the UK to flee Donald Trump's America

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14138003/Ellen-DeGeneres-Cotswolds-farmhouse-flooded-Storm-Bert.html

https://twitter.com/DailyMailUK/status/1862857245542756422

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081365 (301403ZNOV24) Notable: Fauci still peddling his lies, he ought to be afraid of what Dr. Jay B. And RFKjr will reveal

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Fauci still peddling his lies, he ought to be afraid of what Dr. Jay B. And RFKjr will reveal

The arrogance of this liar is beyond anyone. But he got away with this shit since 1987.

https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1862484026063561168

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081394 (301410ZNOV24) Notable: Trump neuters the watchdogs

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Trump neuters the watchdogs

Neal Rothschild

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081402 (301411ZNOV24) Notable: Biden: @elonmusk He was never really in charge

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Kinda wild that Joe Biden is still president and people have already forgotten about him.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

He was never really in charge

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081403 (301411ZNOV24) Notable: Madcow responded to the election results by declaring that she has been given “marching orders from the universe” to protect democracy

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Tick tock.

MSNBC news anchor, Rachel Maddow responded to the election results by declaring that she has been given “marching orders from the universe” to protect democracy from its own president-elect because “this is what we’re on this earth to do”.

“Half the country went to bed sad tonight but then woke up tomorrow fired up with a new sense of purpose,” she told viewers.

In reality, most of the country was watching someone else.

Ratings on Maddow’s weekly show and MSNBC as a whole have collapsed after Mr Trump romped home in the election, winning the popular vote and all of the seven closest battleground states.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/11/28/rachel-maddow-is-dragging-msnbc-down-with-her/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081406 (301412ZNOV24) Notable: Trump neuters the watchdogs

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>Neal Rothschild

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081432 (301418ZNOV24) Notable: @DeptofDefense Defense system that has been keeping a watchful eye on the National Capital Region, is set to get a face-lift

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Department of Defense 🇺🇸

@DeptofDefense

The integrated air defense system that has been keeping a watchful eye on the National Capital Region, is set to get a face-lift. A new artificial intelligence-based visual recognition & identification system offers an exponential increase in capabilities.

From defense.gov

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081519 (301432ZNOV24) Notable: @NATO_ACT Cognitive Warfare affects society's attitudes & behaviour

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(Anons get digging, didn't click the link, Cog Warfare, love death..sick)

NATO ACT

@NATO_ACT

Cognitive Warfare affects society's attitudes & behaviour by influencing, protecting, or disrupting individual, group, or population level cognition.

Click & learn more how

@NATO_ACT's Cognitive

Warfare Concept helps the Alliance to be stronger: https://act.nato.int/article/cogwar-concept/

#WeAreNATO

5:05 AM · Nov 29, 2024

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https://x.com/NATO_ACT/status/1862437598326669466

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081535 (301440ZNOV24) Notable: @C__Herridge Thank you, Elon The impact + reach of our investigations @X exposed government bureaucracy…

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atherine Herridge

@C__Herridge

Thank you, Elon!

The impact + reach of our investigations @X

exposed government bureaucracy…

And drove accountability for service members.

9 Purple Hearts Awarded

Expedited Military Record Reviews

Full Back Pay

The kind of impact journalism corporate newsrooms aim for.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081548 (301443ZNOV24) Notable: UNESCO study reveals misinformation crisis among social media influencers 6 out of 10 influencers don’t fact check before sharing

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UNESCO study reveals misinformation crisis among social media influencers

6 out of 10 influencers don’t fact check before sharing.Kek

In a world where social media influencers hold significant sway over public opinion, a recent study by UNESCO has raised alarming concerns about the prevalence of misinformation among these digital creators. The report highlights that a staggering 62 percent of influencers do not fact-check the content they share, which poses a serious threat to public trust and discourse.

Understanding the study

Conducted in August and September 2024, the UNESCO study surveyed 500 influencers from 45 countries, all with a minimum of 1,000 followers. The findings reveal a troubling trend: while 37 percent of influencers occasionally consult fact-checking websites, many rely on subjective measures such as a source’s popularity or recommendations from friends. This lack of rigorous verification can lead to the spread of false information, which can have far-reaching consequences.

Influencers’ role in shaping public perception

The implications of this study are particularly concerning given that nearly 40 percent of young Americans aged 18 to 29 regularly receive their news from influencers, according to a Pew Research Center study. Unlike trained journalists, many influencers depend on personal experiences or trending topics as their primary sources of information. Notably, 42 percent of surveyed influencers assess a source’s credibility based on the number of likes or views it receives, while only 17 percent prioritize documented evidence. Despite this, 69 percent believe they are promoting critical thinking and digital literacy among their audiences.

Misinformation’s real-world impact

The timing of this report is crucial, coinciding with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, where influencers played a pivotal role in disseminating information. High-profile figures like President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris utilized influencers and podcasters with large followings to connect directly with voters. However, the lack of fact-checking has real-world implications. Earlier this year, false claims about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, stealing pets went viral, leading to bomb threats and school closures, despite local officials’ efforts to debunk the rumors.

Challenges in combating misinformation

Efforts to combat misinformation have proven challenging for both governments and social media platforms. For instance, platforms like X have implemented “Community Notes” features for fact-checking but often struggle to remove false content effectively. YouTube has also banned the monetization of election-related misinformation, yet continues to profit from such videos.

Opaque funding and sponsored content

Another significant issue highlighted in the UNESCO study is the lack of transparency regarding influencer funding. Over half of the surveyed influencers (53 percent) reported creating sponsored content, yet 7 percent admitted to not disclosing these sponsorships, misleading their audiences. This lack of transparency can further erode trust in the information influencers share, especially when some may inadvertently promote divisive narratives funded by foreign entities. A recent indictment by the U.S. Justice Department revealed that Russia had paid several conservative influencers to spread misinformation, although these influencers were not accused of wrongdoing.

Calls for enhanced media literacy

In light of these findings, UNESCO has called for enhanced media literacy among influencers, advocating for tools and training to help creators identify credible sources and verify facts. The organization stated, “The prevalent lack of rigorous critical evaluation of information highlights an urgent need to enhance creators’ media and information literacy skills.”

While some influencers, like UK journalist Kassy Cho, utilize mainstream media as a foundation for their content, others, such as China-based influencer Zhang Zhaoyuan, rely solely on personal experiences. This disparity underscores the broader challenges in ensuring accuracy across the digital content landscape.

The path forward

As social media continues to dominate the information ecosystem, the need for accountability and transparency among influencers has never been greater. By prioritizing fact-checking and promoting media literacy, influencers can play a crucial role in fostering a more informed public. The responsibility lies not only with the influencers themselves but also with social media platforms and audiences to demand higher standards of accuracy and integrity in the content they consume.

https://rollingout.com/2024/11/29/misinformation-social-media-influencers/

Link to study

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000392006

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081550 (301444ZNOV24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

November 30, 2024

Winter and Summer on a Little Planet

Winter and summer appear to come on a single night to this stunning little planet. It's planet Earth of course. The digitally mapped, nadir centered panorama covers 360x180 degrees and is composed of frames recorded during January and July from the Col du Galibier in the French Alps. Stars and nebulae of the northern winter (bottom) and summer Milky Way form the complete arcs traversing the rugged, curved horizon. Cars driving along on the road during a summer night illuminate the 2,642 meter high mountain pass, but snow makes access difficult during winter months except by serious ski touring. Cycling fans will recognize the Col du Galibier as one of the most famous climbs in planet Earth's Tour de France.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081589 (301455ZNOV24) Notable: Large Bushfire Blazing North of Perth, Australia

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Large Bushfire Blazing North of Perth, Australia

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This false-color (bands M11-I2-I1) corrected reflectance image of a large bushfire north of Perth, Australia, was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-21 platform.

Press the blue "Play" button in the lower left corner of the image to view an animation of the spread of the bushfire from November 23 to November 28.

Click the icon in the upper right corner to interactively explore this fire in NASA Worldview.

The fire began about 200km north of Perth as a result of a car crash on Monday, November 25.

It has burned through 68,250 acres of land, and approximately 200 firefighters are currently battling the fire.

The fire is moving in a westerly direction and is threatening the coastal communities of Cervantes, Wedge, and Grey.

Visit Worldview to visualize near real-time imagery from NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS); find more imagery in our Worldview weekly image archive.

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/worldview-image-archive/large-bushfire-blazing-north-perth-australia

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081628 (301503ZNOV24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science

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Nov 28, 2024 at 11:05 AM EST

In the southeastern reaches of Alaska, landscapes are being dramatically reshaped as ice gives way to water.

Recent images released by the NASA Earth Observatory reveal striking changes to the region's proglacial lakes, formed as glaciers retreat and meltwater pools at their fronts.

Over the past four decades, three lakes—Harlequin, Alsek and Grand Plateau—have grown at an astonishing pace, transforming the region into a burgeoning "lake district."

The trio of glaciers feeding these lakes—Yakutat, Alsek and Grand Plateau—descend from Alaska's inland mountains to the coastal plain southeast of Yakutat borough.

In the southeastern reaches of Alaska, landscapes are being dramatically reshaped as ice gives way to water.

Recent images released by the NASA Earth Observatory reveal striking changes to the region's proglacial lakes, formed as glaciers retreat and meltwater pools at their fronts.

Over the past four decades, three lakes—Harlequin, Alsek and Grand Plateau—have grown at an astonishing pace, transforming the region into a burgeoning "lake district."

The trio of glaciers feeding these lakes—Yakutat, Alsek and Grand Plateau—descend from Alaska's inland mountains to the coastal plain southeast of Yakutat borough.

Grand Plateau Glacier's northern arm saw the most significant change, retreating 4.8 miles.

These changes were captured in a pair of satellite images from the Landsat 5 and Landsat 8 satellites in the summers of 1984 and 2024, revealing how water now fills the void left by ice.

Together, the three lakes almost doubled in size over the 40-year period.

In 1984, the lakes spanned about 50 square miles. By 2024, they covered 90 square miles—an area larger than New York's Seneca Lake, one of the Finger Lakes also carved by ancient glaciers.

"The lakes that are forming in this region are immense, starting at the mountains and spreading toward the coast, making this a new lake district that is unique in our nation," Pelto said in a statement.

Pelto suggested this lake system could represent the fastest-growing collection of lakes in the U.S. in this century, reflecting the accelerated retreat of Alaska's glaciers due to climate change.

The lakes are not only expanding but also undergoing noticeable transformations.

Alsek Lake, for instance, appears much bluer in the 2024 image compared to 1984.

This shift suggests that the lake is receiving less "glacial flour"—fine-grained sediment carried by meltwater streams, according to a NASA Earth Observatory article.

As sediment levels drop, the lake's water will continue to darken, allowing more light to penetrate and potentially fostering aquatic life and fishery development.

The pattern is one that is repeating across Alaska and the Arctic more broadly.

According to the National Park Service, glaciers within Alaska national parks shrank by 8 percent between the 1950s and the early 2000s.

This pace ticked upward, with 13 percent lost from 1985 to 2020.

https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-images-reveal-stark-changes-alaska-lakes-1993119

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081640 (301509ZNOV24) Notable: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day/Space/Science

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Flood in server room halts NASA solar observatory operations

November 29, 2024

The SDO observatory was launched by NASA in 2010. It is located in geostationary orbit at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers above the Earth and studies the Sun and its activity.

SDO is capable of observing in 12 wavebands ranging from extreme ultraviolet to visible light.

In 14 years of operation, SDO has experienced almost no serious problems. Ironically, the mission’s first notable failure occurred not in space, but on Earth.

The fact is that all data collected by SDO was stored and processed on a server at Stanford University’s Joint Center for Science Operations. On November 26, it stopped working.

The reason was flooding of the server room.

It’s not yet known how long the server has been repaired — but judging by the official announcement, we’re talking about quite a long time.

All the while, scientists will be left without SDO data, which certainly can’t be called good news.

The fact is that the Sun is now at the peak of its activity and regularly produces powerful flares and coronal masses.

And SDO observational data play a very important role in assessing this activity and better understanding what processes lead to its cyclic amplifications and attenuations.

But for now, scientists will have to do without the machine’s data for a while.

https://universemagazine.com/en/flood-in-server-room-halts-nasa-solar-observatory-operations/

https://solarweb1.stanford.edu/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081643 (301510ZNOV24) Notable: James P. Rubin, Global Engagement Center/KARLIN YOUNGER PIPE BOMB DIG

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James P. Rubin

Special Envoy and Coordinator

Global Engagement Center

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James P. Rubin

James P. Rubin serves as Special Envoy and Coordinator for the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center. Mr. Rubin has more than 35 years of experience in foreign policy. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Rubin served as a diplomat, political advisor, commentator, professor, and broadcaster. Before joining the State Department, Mr. Rubin served as Diplomatic Counsellor to the Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, advising Secretary General Mathias Cormann on global affairs. Prior to that, he served as Chair for International Policy and Strategy at Ballard Partners, based in Washington DC. He also was a Contributing Editor at Politico, and a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Rubin served as Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. During the Clinton administration, Mr. Rubin served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. In 1999, he was a special negotiator to secure the demobilization of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Mr. Rubin also served as Senior Adviser and Spokesman for the U.S. Representative to the United Nations Madeleine K. Albright (1993-1996), and Research Director for the nonpartisan Arms Control Association (1985-1989). Mr. Rubin served as a Commissioner of the Port Authority and Counselor to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and Co-Executive Editor for the launch of Bloomberg View. Mr. Rubin was an anchor and commentator for SKY News, a Visiting Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, a partner for the financial advisory firm the Brunswick Group, and co-anchor of the PBS series Wide Angle. In 1998, Mr. Rubin was the recipient of Columbia University’s John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement. In 2000, he received the State Department’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. Mr. Rubin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and an M.A. degree in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081648 (301512ZNOV24) Notable: James P. Rubin, Global Engagement Center/KARLIN YOUNGER PIPE BOMB DIG

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>Special Envoy and Coordinator

>Global Engagement Center

State Dept.’s Fight Against Disinformation Comes Under Attack

The Global Engagement Center has become the focus of Republican-led criticism that the U.S. government coerces social media platforms into removing offensive content.

James Rubin standing outside the revolving doors of a building, holding coffee and some papers.

James P. Rubin, the coordinator of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, disputed the allegations that his organization censored Americans’ comments online.Credit…Tayfun Salci/Zuma Press Wire

Steven Lee Myers

By Steven Lee Myers

Dec. 14, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/technology/state-department-disinformation-criticism.html

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081666 (301518ZNOV24) Notable: Jamie Ratskins WIFE was the same troll that was gifted GEN FLYNN'S INFO in the UNMASKING??? DELTA Q DROP

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BETHESDA INTERVIEW: JAMIE RASKIN AND SARAH BLOOM RASKIN

https://raskin.house.gov/2021/7/bethesda-interview-jamie-raskin-and-sarah-bloom-raskin

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>James P. Rubin

>Special Envoy and Coordinator

>Global Engagement Center

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>He's a fucking liar.

James Rubin

23rd Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

In office

August 7, 1997 – April 2, 2000

President Bill Clinton

Preceded by Thomas E. Donilon

Succeeded by Richard Boucher

17th Spokesperson for the United States Department of State

In office

1997–2000

Preceded by R. Nicholas Burns

Succeeded by Richard Boucher

Personal details

Born James Phillip Rubin

March 28, 1960 (age 64)

Larchmont, New York, U.S.

Political party Democratic

Spouse Christiane Amanpour

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(m. 1998; div. 2018)​

Children 1

Relatives Elizabeth Rubin (sister)

Education

Columbia University (BA, MIA)

Boston University

James Phillip Rubin (born March 28, 1960) is an American former diplomat and journalist who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997–2000. He wrote a regular column on foreign affairs for The Sunday Times of London, and has been Diplomatic Counselor to the Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) since June 2021.

Having served in the State Department during the administration of President Bill Clinton, Rubin became a Sky News presenter with his own show called World News Tonight. The show was short-lived and after it was cancelled he became a commentator for the channel. In 2013, he moved from New York City to live permanently in London, England, with his then-wife, CNN Chief International Correspondent and anchor Christiane Amanpour, and their teenage son.[1]

In December 2022, Rubin was appointed Special Envoy and Coordinator of the State Department's Global Engagement Center.[2]

Early life

Rubin was born on March 28, 1960, into a Jewish family in New York City,[3][4] and raised in the village of Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York.[5] He is the son of Harvey Rubin, a publisher and President of Pindar Press, and his wife, Judith (née Lowe), who trained students specializing in psychiatry.[6][7] His sisterElizabeth Rubin is a journalist, Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.

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Culmination of Initial Phase of Training for Gaganyatris for Joint ISRO-NASA Mission to International Space Station

November 28, 2024

Towards the goal of accomplishing a joint ISRO-NASA effort to the International Space Station, the two Gaganyatris (Prime-Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and Backup-Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair) assigned for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) commenced their training in the U.S.A from first week of August,2024.

The initial phase of training has been completed successfully by the Gaganyatris.

During this phase of training, the Gaganyatris have completed initial orientations for mission-related ground facility tours, initial overview of mission launch phases, SpaceX suit fit checks, and selected space food options.

Furthermore, the training also included familiarization sessions with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and various onboard systems of the International Space Station, including photography from space, daily operations routine, and communication protocols.

One of the important highlights of this phase was training for various types of emergencies in space, including medical emergencies.

Upcoming training will primarily address the remaining modules of the U.S. Orbital Segment of the space station along with training towards conducting scientific research experiments in microgravity environment during the mission.

In addition, the crew will train and perform different mission scenarios in the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

https://www.isro.gov.in/Training_Gaganyatris_ISRO-NASA_Mission.html

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>Children 1

>Relatives Elizabeth Rubin (sister)

The Media as a Force for Public Accountability

As part of the Edward R. Murrow 60th Anniversary initiative current and former fellows discuss the stories that have had the most impact and present ideas for sustaining serious international journalism.Former fellow Elizabeth Rubin considers why she was blacklisted by the media department of the 101st Airborne Division. Using her experience covering the military she also explores possibilities for the future of international reporting at this time of upheaval. For more on the initiative, visit cfr.org/murrow.

Interviewby Elizabeth Rubin

September 8, 2009 1:57 pm (EST)

https://www.cfr.org/interview/media-force-public-accountability

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JFK wanted to register AZC (AIPAC) as a "Foreign Agent" under FARA ACT.

Then he was assassinated.

watch the video and save.

https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-jewish-hasbara-in-all-its-glory-lies-lies-everywhere/

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Catholic NASA scientist delves into investigation of potential life on other planets

November 30, 2024

The unresolved question of whether life exists on other planets continues to spark curiosity from the public and the interest of scientists — but one Catholic physicist working on missions to search for potential life also recognizes it as an opportunity to see the glory of God.

Jonathan Lunine, a convert to the Catholic faith and the chief scientist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, spoke to roughly 100 Catholic scientists about the subject at an event in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Nov. 15.

The lecture followed a Gold Mass, celebrated for Catholic scientists, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. A Gold Mass is held on the feast of St. Albertus Magnus — a Dominican friar, medieval scientist, patron saint of scientists, and mentor to St. Thomas Aquinas.

It was sponsored by The Catholic University of America and the local chapter of the Society of Catholic Scientists, which seeks to respond to St. John Paul II’s calling for Catholic scientists to “integrate the worlds of science and religion in their own intellectual and spiritual lives.”

“I’m not a theologian; I’m a scientist,” Lunine told the crowd as they finished eating brunch at the Beacon Hotel, which is a short walk from the cathedral, about a half-mile north of the White House.

Lunine — whose work at NASA has involved the search for the possibility of unintelligent microbial life on Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan — said that as a scientist, “this has been a wonderful journey, being able to participate in these missions.”

As a Catholic scientist, he said he sees “the gift of the mind” as a gift that “God has given us to … understand the glory of God’s creation.”

Microbial life on other planets, if it were to be found, he said, would be a “manifestation of the order that is baked into the universal design that God created when he created the universe” and created so that “beauty might shine forth from that very order.”

Lunine said those three moons are the most likely locations to have the conditions to sustain life that we have the ability to reach, particularly due to the prevalence of water.

The mission to Europa should conclude between 2030 and 2035, the mission to Titan should conclude in the 2030s, and the mission to Enceladus should conclude in the 2040s, he said.

If microbial life were to be discovered on any of those moons, Lunine told CNA, it would show us that there are “other places beyond the Earth where life began.”

Lunine said more theological questions would be raised if the search for life on other planets develops into a search for intelligent and self-aware life that developed on another planet. This would lead to questions like “Are they saved?” or “Are they fallen?”, he said.

If intelligent life exists on other planets, he said it would be “hard to imagine” that none had fallen from God’s grace, noting that it is easy to fall and “even the angels, some of them have fallen.”

He said this would create questions such as “did Christ come to their world in a separate incarnation” to save them, and how would humanity would “be the central pivot point of cosmic history.”

The Catholic Church holds no official position on whether intelligent life exists on other planets, but Pope Francis commented on the subject in 2015, saying:

“Honestly I wouldn’t know how to answer,” adding: “Until America was discovered we thought it didn’t exist, and instead it existed.”

The pontiff, however, did affirmatively say that everything in the universe has been created through divine intelligence and “is not the result of chance or chaos.”

https://denvercatholic.org/catholic-nasa-scientist-delves-into-investigation-of-potential-life-on-other-planets/

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James Rubin Married Life & Reason Behind Divorce with Christiane Amanpour

Syd Saila November 2, 2024 Journalist No Comments

It is not sure that marriage will last forever. Every relationship starts with friendship, and eventually became more than friends and got married. If you want a long last relationship and work on it and be honest with your partner, otherwise, you know would be the result.

Likewise, American journalist James Rubin ended his marriage with Christiane Amanpour after being together for two years. When the couple announced their divorce, everyone got shocked. What forced then to take that decision? Here we uncovered everything about Christiane’s ex-husband, including his relationship status.

James Rubin Earned a degree in an MIA in 1984

James Philip Rubin, aka Jamie, is the son of Harvey Rubin, a publisher and President of Rinder Press and his wife Judith Lowe, who is psychiatry. Rubin was born and raised into a Jewish family in Larchmont, Westchester County, New York.

Image of James Rubin is a Journalist

Caption: James Rubin is a Journalist

Rubin was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire from where he graduated in 1977. Then he enrolled at Columbia University and graduated with a BA in political science in 1982. Afterward, Rubin pursued a Master of International Affairs from Columbia ‘s School of International and Public Affairs in 1984. Further, he also attended Boston University.

His Career in Politics

James has been interested in politics from an early age. After post-graduation, he went on to worked under President Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs as well as Chief Spokesman for the State Department for three years.

In 2008, he became a member of the Hillary Clinton campaign team. At the time, he was a guest on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer along with Susan Rice.

James Worked for Bloomberg News for Nine Years

James Rubin started his career as the assistant director of research at the Arms Controls Association. Then he and his family moved to London, where he took on a portfolio career and became a Visiting Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics.

After that, he hosted a weekly international affairs program, Wide Angle, on PBS Network. After returning to the USA, he worked for Bloomberg News in December 2010 but quit his job ten months later. In 2013, he moved along with his family to London to work on several projects. He also wrote weekly foreign affairs column for the Sunday Times.

Since 2017, he has been working as the Chairman at International Policy and Strategy at Ballard Partners that located in Washington, Dc.

James Rubin Was Married to Christiane Amanpour

People Magazine reported that James and his wife, Christiane, divorced after twenty years of marriage.

Image of James Rubin and Christiane Amanpour attend the after-party for the premiere of ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ at The Standard Hotel Rooftop in December 2011

Caption: James Rubin and Christiane Amanpour attend the after-party for the premiere of ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ at The Standard Hotel Rooftop in December 2011

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>Caption: James Rubin and Christiane Amanpour attend the after-party for the premiere of‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ at The Standard Hotel Rooftop in December 2011

Rubin and Amanpour met in 1997 in Bosnia. At the time, Rubin was the US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, while Amanpour was the Chief Assistant Secretary of Stet for Public Affairs. They married in Bracciano, Italy, in August 1998.

Christiane is a British-Iranian journalistand TV host. Amanpour majored in journalism from the University of Rhode Island. Currently, she serves as the Chief International Anchor for CNN and also hosts CNN International’s nightly program, Amanpour.

In 2018, James and Christiane divorced. According to The Washington Post, the divorce was amicable, but they remain close friends.

James and His Ex-Wife Have a Son

Ex-wife, Christiane, and James share a son, Darius John Rubin who was born in 2000 in New York City. In 2010, James moved back to London permanently from New York City along his wife and son.

Now, Darius is 20 years old. He is currently studying in college. The couple’s son rarely appeared in front of the media. Back in 2019, Christiane and Darius attended the International Emmys with Iman. She posted an image on her social media with a caption that she is so proud of her son, Darius.

How Much is James Rubin’s Net Worth?

James Rubin has accumulated an enormous asset from his career. As a spokesperson, Rubin earns an impressive salary that added to his net worth. James Rubin has a whopping net worth of $14 million.

On the other husband, his ex-wife, Christiane earns a salary of $2 million annually. Christiane Amanpour’s estimated net worth is $12.5 million.

Social Media

Despite being the high profile, James Rubin is not active on social media. He is a news anchor and worked for several news channels. However, you can check out his ex-wife on her social profile.

https://famous-journalists.com/james-rubin-christiane-amanpour-divorce/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22081817 (301556ZNOV24) Notable: Cause of America Presents: Dr. Douglas Frank, Post Election Analysis, Election Reform

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Baker TAPS, THERE IS NO BAKER

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The second-biggest loser of the 2024 election is Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is being demoted from the powerful Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate to the largely powerless Minority Leader.

Schumer’s demotion to the minority status — which is shared by the other 46 Democrats — was smoothed by his support for President Joe Biden’s maximum-migration policy.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/11/30/second-biggest-loser-2024-chuck-schumer/

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Globalist Poster Boy Justin Trudeau Pictured Having Dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/globalist-poster-boy-justin-trudeau-pictured-having-dinner/

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House Advances Overhaul of Veterans’ Healthcare

November 26, 2024

The bipartisan bill expands in-home care for veterans and mental health support for caregivers.

The House of Representatives passed the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act this month.

The bipartisan effort would enhance veterans’ healthcare, particularly for aging veterans and their caregivers.

The bill focuses on expanding access to home-based and community-based care, allowing more veterans to receive medical treatment at home instead of nursing facilities.

The legislation would also increase financial support for in-home care, raising coverage from 65 percent to 100 percent of nursing home costs.

It includes a mental health care grant program for family caregivers and closes loopholes to ensure burial benefits are preserved for hospice patients.

“For nearly two years we have been listening to the veteran community to find the gaps within VA’s services to build a VA that meets the needs of today’s community and puts veterans — not government bureaucracy — at the center of the system,” House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chair Mike Bost of Illinois stated.

“[This bill] will help to meet that mission head-on.”

https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/2024/11/26/house-advances-overhaul-of-veterans-healthcare/

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8371

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Allied Command Transformation develops the Cognitive Warfare Concept to Combat Disinformation and Defend Against “Cognitive Warfare

July 3, 2024

NATO faces a new kind of threat: a war fought not with bombs and missiles, but with lies and manipulation. Adversaries are attempting to undermine public trust in NATO by spreading disinformation and confrontational rhetoric online. This strategy forms part of our adversaries approach to wage cognitive warfare on the Alliance, aiming to sow discord and weaken our ability to protect ourselves effectively.

To counter this threat, NATO’s Allied Command Transformation is developing the Cognitive Warfare Concept. This is a collaborative effort, with direct contribution from over 20 NATO member nations, numerous NATO commands, academia, and industry experts, represents a significant step forward in understanding and preparing NATO to compete in this constantly evolving space.

The Cognitive Warfare Concept serves a dual purpose. First, it provides a shared framework for understanding the dynamics and mechanisms of cognitive warfare. It lays out the ways adversaries exploit societal influence to manipulate public opinion, disrupt decision-making processes, and ultimately, weaken military capabilities. The concept details the potential consequences of successful cognitive attacks, highlighting the vulnerability of national audiences, political structures, and even military operations to misinformation and cognitive attacks.

Secondly, the Cognitive Warfare Concept outlines a path for NATO to enhance its cognitive resilience, and develop its capabilities to effectively compete in the cognitive dimension. This includes protecting existing military capabilities and decision-making from manipulation, while also exploring ways to strengthen public trust and understanding of NATO’s role. By proactively shaping the information environment and deterring foreign manipulation efforts, NATO can ensure its freedom of action and continue to safeguard the security of its member states.

As part of the wider Cognitive Superiority Warfare Development Imperative, the implementation of the Cognitive Warfare Concept will be a multi-pronged approach. Allied Command Transformation plans to deliver an immersive demonstration of the concept for key decision-makers, while also integrating cognitive warfare considerations into NATO’s defence planning and capability development processes. Furthermore, the concept will inform future war games and experimentation exercises, ensuring that NATO’s military forces remain prepared to operate effectively in an environment increasingly influenced by information warfare and disinformation campaigns. Finally, Allied Command Transformation will provide valuable military advice on the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence, a technology that holds both immense potential and inherent risks in the cognitive domain.

By taking these proactive steps, NATO demonstrates its commitment to safeguarding the rules-based international order and ensuring the continued security and well-being of its member states in the face of an evolving and complex threat landscape.

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BepiColombo's fifth Mercury flyby

29/11/2024

On Sunday 1 December 2024, BepiColombo will fly past planet Mercury for the fifth time, readying itself for entering orbit around the Solar System’s mysterious innermost planet in 2026.

The spacecraft will fly between Mercury and the Sun, getting to within 37 630 km from the small planet’s surface at 15:23 CET.

This is much farther than its first four flybys of the planet, when BepiColombo flew as close as 165–240 km from the surface.

What makes this flyby special is that it will be the first time that BepiColombo’s MERTIS instrument is able to observe Mercury.

This radiometer and thermal infrared spectrometer will measure how much the planet radiates in infrared light, something which depends on both the temperature and composition of the surface.

This will be the first time that any spacecraft measures what Mercury looks like in mid-infrared wavelengths of light (7–14 micrometres).

The data that MERTIS will collect throughout the mission will reveal what types of minerals the planet’s surface is made of, one of the key Mercury mysteries that BepiColombo is designed to tackle.

BepiColombo’s other science instruments will monitor the environment outside Mercury's magnetic field.

Among other things, they will measure the continuous (but changeable) stream of particles coming from the Sun known as the solar wind.

The other instruments switched on during this flyby are the magnetometers MPO-MAG and MMO-MGF, the MGNS gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, the SIXS X-ray and particle spectrometer, the MDM dust monitor and the PWI instrument which detects electric fields, plasma waves and radio waves.

BepiColombo, a joint mission between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), will be the second and most complex mission ever to orbit Mercury.

It comprises two science orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. While on their way to Mercury, the two orbiters are both attached to the Mercury Transfer Module.

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/11/BepiColombo_s_fifth_Mercury_flyby

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Watch live: Vega-C to launch Sentinel-1C

29/11/2024

The Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite is ready for liftoff! Tune in to ESA WebTV on 4 December from 22:00 CET to watch the satellite soar into space on a Vega-C rocket to be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

Sentinel-1C is scheduled to liftoff at 22:20 CET.

The launch will be the return to flight for Vega-C, Europe’s lightweight, high-performance rocket – further securing Europe’s autonomy in space after the successful launch of Ariane 6 last summer.

Once in orbit, Sentinel-1C will extend the Sentinel-1 mission’s legacy, delivering radar imagery to monitor Earth’s changing environment to support a diverse range of applications and scientific research.

Follow the launch live on ESA WebTV on 4 December from 22:00 CET.

About Copernicus Sentinel-1C

The Sentinel-1 mission, the first in the family of Copernicus, is based on a constellation of two identical satellites flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery for Copernicus – the Earth observation component of the EU’s Space Programme.

Sentinel-1A was the first satellite in the series, launched in April 2014, followed by the launch of Sentinel-1B in 2016.

The Sentinel-1B mission came to an end in August 2022 after experiencing a technical fault that rendered it unable to acquire data.

The satellite has been successfully de-orbited and will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere within 25 years.

Sentinel-1C, along with its sibling Sentinel-1A, will return the mission to its full potential as a two-satellite constellation. Sentinel-1A is then due to be replaced by Sentinel-1D later next year.

As an advanced radar mission, Copernicus Sentinel-1 can image the surface of Earth through cloud and rain and regardless of whether it is day or night.

Sentinel-1 carries a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument, which allows it to capture high-resolution imagery of Earth's surface.

This powerful radar system operates in several modes, including wide swath and high-resolution, providing detailed data on land subsidence, ice movements and ocean conditions.

The new Sentinel-1C satellite will also carry a new Automatic Identification System (AIS).

Developed by the International Maritime Organisation, this system is designed to help ships avoid collisions, particularly when they are too far from land-based radar systems.

This technology assigns a unique ID to each vessel and tracks its position and movements in real-time, creating a virtual map of the ships at sea.

About Vega-C

Europe’s Vega-C rocket can launch 2300 kg into space, such as small scientific and Earth observation spacecraft.

At 35 m tall, Vega-C weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad and reaches orbit with three solid-propellant-powered stages before the fourth liquid-propellant stage takes over for precise placement of satellites into their desired orbit around Earth.

Vega-C is the evolution of the Vega family of rockets and delivers increased performance, greater payload volume and improved competitiveness.

Complementing the Ariane family to launch all types of payloads into their desired orbits, Vega-C ensures that Europe has versatile and independent access to space.

ESA owns the Vega-C programme, working with Avio as prime contractor and design authority. Arianespace will serve as the launch service provider for the launch of Sentinel-1C.

This launch marks Vega-C’s return to flight, a key step in restoring Europe’s independent access to space. The first commercial flight in December 2022 failed due to a nozzle issue in its Zefiro-40 motor.

Since then, an improved nozzle was designed and built and the complete Zefiro-40 stage has undergone two successful firing tests, in May and October 2024, which demonstrated the motor's ability to perform reliably under different pressure conditions and burn durations.

These tests have confirmed the motor's readiness, clearing the path for Vega-C’s upcoming flight.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Watch_live_Vega-C_to_launch_Sentinel-1C

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082078 (301723ZNOV24) Notable: Space NASA & Related

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SpaceX Starlink Mission

November 30, 2024

On Saturday, November 30 at 12:00 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

This was the sixth flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched CRS-31, Crew 8, Polaris Dawn and now three Starlink mission.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-6-65

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082081 (301724ZNOV24) Notable: Today in Q Post History we have 24 Deltas

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Today in Q Post History we have 24 Deltas

November 30

There were24 Q Postson the date ofNovember 30.

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082119 (301734ZNOV24) Notable: Edward Snowden has powerful allies in new Trump administration

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Fuck it, made it one-stop shopping

https://nypost.com/2024/11/30/us-news/edward-snowden-has-powerful-allies-in-trump-white-house/

Edward Snowden has powerful allies in new Trump administration

Nov. 30, 2024, 9:57 a.m. ET

Deep state whistleblower Edward Snowden may be getting a new lease on life.

The famous fugitive, who has been living in Russia since 2013 after leaking classified National Security Agency documents showing the US was engaged in a massive surveillance program, has been a cause célèbre among left-wing and free speech activists, but has received a chillier reception from Republicans.

But Snowden has some powerful allies in President-elect Trump’s cabinet, insiders told The Post.

Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, co-sponsored a resolution in September 2020 calling on the United States to drop all charges against Snowden.

A person close to Gabbard told The Post clemency for Snowden issue remained important to her and that she would likely push for that in Trump’s second term.

Gabbard co-sponsored the bill with Florida GOP congressman Matt Gaetz, who Trump nominated to be attorney general Though Gaetz was forced to withdraw, he is still expected to retain influence in Trump world.

“Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!” Trump said in a Truth Social post after Gaetz withdrew.

Another apparent Snowden ally is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the presumptive health and human service secretary, who told the Libertarian National Convention in May that he was going to “pardon Edward Snowden.” A month before he promised to build a statue to Snowden.

Reps for Kennedy did not respond to request for comment from The Post.

Vice President Elect J.D. Vance has not taken any public positions on Snowden, but people close to him said they expected him to be sympathetic to the whistleblower’s situation.

“Course correcting the deep state and intelligence community that has a lack of safeguards and oversights and transparency is something he would want,” a person close to Vance said.

Trump was almost there on the issue in the closing days of his first term. In late 2020, the president was “strongly considering” a pardon for Snowden. The issue faced blowback from Trump’s top lieutenants including then-Attorney General Bill Barr and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who believed Snowden’s action were criminal and harmed national security. Neither is expected to return to roles of influence in Trump’s second term.

“Ed Snowden is a whistleblower who exposed the crimes of others, yet he’s the one who’s been punished while the criminals remain in power. It’s hard to think of a more grotesque injustice. Anyone who argues against his pardon is your enemy,” said Tucker Carlson, a close ally of President Trump.

Team Trump did not respond to request for comment from The Post.

Snowden through his attorney, Ben Wizner said: “This is exactly the kind of case that the pardon power was created for. He broke the law in the public interest, for love of country, and he’s paid a price. He does not belong in exile.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082133 (301740ZNOV24) Notable: Failing NYT hit piece on Pete Hegseth

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Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for YearsNYTs

Nov. 29, 2024Updated 8:38 p.m. ETA new low for NYT's1/2

Penelope Hegseth made the accusation in an email to her son in 2018, amid his contentious divorce. She said on Friday that she regretted the email and had apologized to him.

The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character.

“On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help and take an honest look at yourself,” Penelope Hegseth wrote, stating that she still loved him.

She also wrote: “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”

Mrs. Hegseth, in a phone interview with The New York Times on Friday, said that she had sent her son an immediate follow-up email at the time apologizing for what she had written. She said she had fired off the original email “in anger, with emotion” at a time when he and his wife were going through a very difficult divorce.

In the interview, she defended her son and disavowed the sentiments she had expressed in the initial email about his character and treatment of women.“It is not true. It has never been true,” she said. She added: “I know my son. He is a good father, husband.” She said that publishing the contents of the first email was “disgusting.”

Questions about Mr. Hegseth’s treatment of women have emerged in the weeks since Mr. Trump chose him, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, to lead the Pentagon. The issue is expected to be a subject of scrutiny during Senate confirmation hearings.

Reports of his infidelity have focused attention on his character and leadership, particularly for a civilian overseeing the military, where active-duty service members can be subject to prosecution for adultery under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Another issue is how the senators will view a rape complaint against Mr. Hegseth filed to police in October 2017 after an incident at a political conference in Monterey, Calif. No charges were ever brought and the complainant has not come forward publicly.

Mr. Hegseth has said that he was falsely accused by a woman with whom he had a consensual sexual encounter. He secretly paid her a settlement a couple years later — only because, according to his lawyer, he wanted to protect his job as weekend anchor at Fox & Friends.

Mrs. Hegseth emailed her son on April 30, 2018, during a turbulent period in his life. He was in the middle of a contentious divorce from his second wife, Samantha, the mother of three of his children. Samantha Hegseth filed for divorce after her husband impregnated a co-worker, part of a pattern of adultery that dated back to his first marriage.

Mr. Hegseth’s mother wrote in the email that she was upset about his treatment of Samantha, writing: “For you to try to label her as ‘unstable’ for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you?”

“She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand,” she said. “Neither did Meredith,” Mrs. Hegseth added, referring to his first wife.

Mrs. Hegseth forwarded a copy of her email to Samantha the same night she sent it to her son, according to documents reviewed by The Times. The Times obtained a copy of the email from another person with ties to the Hegseth family. The email does not describe in detail the circumstances that prompted Mrs. Hegseth to write it.

Mrs. Hegseth said on Friday that she would consider providing The Times with her apologetic follow-up email to her son but did not immediately do so.Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, said in an email that The Times was “despicable” for publishing “an out-of-context snippet”of Mrs. Hegseth’s exchange with her son, adding that Mrs. Hegseth had “expressed regret for her emotional message and apologized.”

Thirteen months after she wrote the accusatory email, Mrs. Hegseth praised her eldest son on Fox News on Mother’s Day, saying he had excelled in high school and college. Above all, she said, he had displayed a love of country in his military service. “I’m grateful for that, Pete, and proud every day to be your mom,” she said, holding hands with him on a couch on the set.

(How much did the NYTs pay to the ex-wife to destroy him)

https://archive.ph/XCrvj

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082137 (301741ZNOV24) Notable: Failing NYT hit piece on Pete Hegseth

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The disclosure of the email comes as Mr. Hegseth and his allies, including Vice President-elect JD Vance, are mounting a concerted effort to help him win approval by the Senate. Mr. Trump will not be able to formally submit his nomination until after taking office on Jan. 20.

Several key Republican senators have said that the sexual assault allegation in Monterey is not an obstacle to Mr. Hegseth’s nomination because it was never proven. But Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican of Iowa who has said she was sexually harassed while in the military, told Politico: “Any time there are allegations, you want to make sure they are properly vetted, so we’ll have that discussion.”

Mr. Hegseth married Meredith Schwarz, his high school sweetheart, in 2004, one year after they both graduated from college. Ms. Schwarz sued for divorce less than five years after their wedding. The 2009 court judgment cited Mr. Hegseth’s infidelity as the reason for the breakdown of the marriage.

The following year, Mr. Hegseth married Samantha. Within five years, they had three boys.

Mr. Hegseth has repeatedly said he is a Christian who adheres to conservative family values. In a short-lived bid for the Republican nomination for a Minnesota seat in the U.S. Senate in 2012, he credited his parents for instilling those values in him, saying, “I didn’t learn conservatism out of a book.”

In an essay that same year, he acknowledged that he had erred by fathering a child “out of wedlock” with Samantha, who had been his co-worker at a nonprofit group called Vets for Freedom, after his first marriage ended.

“Had I been raised in a family where faith, fidelity and fatherhood were not valued, my choices could have led to family breakdown,” he wrote in a publication about fragmented families for the Center of the American Experiment, a nonprofit group.

By late 2016, Mr. Hegseth, a Fox News contributor and aspiring anchor, was having an affair with Jennifer Rauchet, an executive producer at Fox News. He was named as the weekend anchor of Fox & Friends in early 2017 — a post he held until earlier this month, when Mr. Trump announced he wanted him to head the Defense Department.

Ms. Rauchet, who has three other children, delivered a baby girl in August 2017, one month before Samantha Hegseth filed for divorce. Mr. Hegseth married Ms. Rauchet in 2019 at a ceremony at Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck in New Jersey.

The acrimonious divorce from Samantha took 10 months to finalize and led to the appointment of a parenting consultant to help negotiate disputes over dividing time with the children.

Mr. Hegseth’s mother, who is a longtime executive business coach, wrote her email three months before the final divorce decree. It began: “Son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent.”

She said that “Sam is a good mother and a good person,” adding that she knew that her son thought that “we” had taken her side. That was “bunk,” she wrote. “We are on the side of good and that is not you.” The email did not say who “we” referred to, beyond herself.

“It’s time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women,” she wrote. “We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character.” If the email “damages our relationship further,” she added, “so be it.”

She described his abusive behavior over the years as “dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling” women.

She told him not to bother to reply, because “you twist and abuse everything I say anyway.”

In the years that followed, Pete and Samantha Hegseth continued to fight over care of the children, according to documents in their divorce record. In 2020, after Mr. Hegseth sent a text to his ex-wife calling her “pathetic and selfish,” the court-appointed consultant said she wanted to see “an action plan from Pete regarding cessation of hostile and degrading communication to and about Sam.”

In an affidavit filed with the court, Mr. Hegseth said that he had slipped up, regretted the text, and had not always been as respectful as he could have been. He said, “I am committed to learning from my mistakes and communicating with Sam in a positive manner.”

(Sharon LaFraniere, who has been reporting on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selections for cabinet positions, welcomes tips at nytimes.com/tips. She reported from Washington. Julie Tate provided research from Washington.)

https://archive.ph/XCrvj

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082142 (301742ZNOV24) Notable: Space NASA & Related

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Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications

November 29, 2024

NASA has confirmed that one of its greatest ever missions, Voyager 1, is back in business with communications restored following an incident in October that had led to the veteran spacefarer losing its voice.

Now 47 years old, Voyager 1 is 15.4 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) from Earth, a distance that grows greater with every passing second.

With the power supply from its decaying plutonium dwindling, only four of its instruments remain operational — and surprisingly so, given they are now all working at temperatures lower than they were originally designed for.

So, when engineers commanded Voyager 1 to switch on one of its heaters to give the instruments a gentle thermal massage, a safety feature was tripped because of low power levels.

The spacecraft's fault protection system monitors how much energy Voyager 1 has left, and if it deems there to be too little energy for the probe to continue operating, it automatically switches off non-essential systems.

It seems that the heater was using too much energy, but the problem was that all the non-essential systems had been switched off long ago to conserve what little power remained, so the fault protection system took it upon itself to switch off the main X-band transmitter and activate the lower-power S-band transmitter instead.

Because of the great distance between Voyager 1 and Earth, however, transmissions on the S-band antenna could not be heard by NASA's Deep Space Network, meaning that Voyager 1 had effectively fallen silent.

NASA engineers were able to resolve the problem early in November, and X-band communication resumed on Nov. 18, with the spacecraft once again returning data from its four remaining instruments: the Low-Energy Charged Particle Experiment, the Cosmic-Ray Telescope the Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer and the Plasma Waves Experiment.

It's not the first time Voyager 1 has experienced communication problems; the spacecraft has certainly been showing its age. In 2022 and 2023, Voyager 1 began returning garbled telemetry, the latter issue taking until the summer of 2024 to resolve.

And in 2023, its twin Voyager 2 experienced a period of communications difficulties. This latest problem just exemplifies how fragile the spacecraft and their subsystems really are.

Of course, this should not come as a surprise. Both Voyager 1 and 2 are considered quite elderly now, and it doesn't help that they are the farthest spacecraft from home, traversing a cold, dark environment.

Like you might worry about an elderly relative, every slight stumble that the Voyager probes make is alarming. And yet, the two Voyager spacecraft seem to be outlasting predictions that they would have succumbed to low power levels by now.

Their remaining instruments keep operating as they explore the depths of the outermost solar system beyond the Kuiper Belt, although Voyager 2 was forced to switch off its Plasma Science instrument in September — the first instrument on either spacecraft to have been switched off in 16 years.

And, as each spacecraft loses 4 watts of energy per year from its total energy budget— as the decaying plutonium in their on-board radioisotope thermoelectric generator begins to ebb — their lifespan will ultimately be curtailed.

If they can reach their half centuries, which is looking promising, it would be a magnificent achievement. The two Voyagers may now be old and require constant TLC, but they are true trailblazers.

Having launched mere weeks apart in 1977, they have explored the outer solar system, discovered a wealth of detail about Jupiter and Saturn's moons, including the intricacies of Io's volcanoes, visited some planets for the first and still the only time (Uranus and Neptune), passed clean through the Kuiper Belt and exited the sun's heliosphere, entering interstellar space.

Yet, when they do eventually succumb to the night, the Voyagers won't stop. They'll continue ploughing their lone furrows as they begin long orbits around the galaxy. Their story is just beginning.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/voyager-1-interstellar-spacecraft-finds-its-voice-again-as-nasa-restores-communications

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082189 (301755ZNOV24) Notable: Space NASA & Related

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China launches first Long March 12 from new commercial spaceport in boost for country’s lunar plans

November 30, 2024

China launched its first Long March 12 rocket Saturday, marking an advance in its crewed moon plans and the debut of a new spaceport that will boost the country’s access to space.

The two-stage, 62-meter-tall Long March 12 lifted off at 9:25 a.m. Eastern (1425 UTC) Nov. 30 from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site.

The rocket climbed into the night sky above the coastal spaceport, with amateur live streams from the area capturing the event.

The Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), the rocket’s maker, declared launch success within an hour of liftoff.

SAST announced the previously undisclosed payloads on the flight to be the experimental “Satellite Internet Technology Test Satellite” and “Technology Test Satellite-3”. No details of the spacecraft were provided.

The kerosene-fueled Long March 12 is China’s first 3.8-meter-diameter launch vehicle. It can carry a payload of 12,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit (LEO), and 6,000 kg to sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), according to SAST.

The new rocket could play a role in the construction of China’s planned LEO megaconstellations.

The launch is a step forward for SAST in bringing new rockets online, for its parent company CASC in the development of new rocket engines for its lunar plans and, through the debut launch from the new commercial Wenchang spaceport, the easing of a bottleneck in access to launch pads in China.

It is distinct from Wenchang’s existing national spaceport and is made to enable higher launch frequencies for multiple CASC and commercial rockets.

China had aimed to launch around 70 Long March rockets in 2024 and approximately another 30 launches from commercial providers.

A lack of reusable launchers and options for launch pads likely contributed to the slower than expected pace, with the launch being China’s 59th orbital launch attempt with just a month of 2024 remaining.

The launch was the first flight use of the YF-100K engine, with the Long March 12 using four YF-100K engines on its first stage.

The YF-100K is an uprated version of the YF-100 kerosene-liquid oxygen engines that power China’s new-generation liquid propellant rockets.

These newer rockets include the Long March 5, 6, 7 and 8. The YF-100K notably will power the first stages of the Long March 10 rocket.

That launcher is intended to send China’s astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade.

A reusable version of the engine, the YF-100N, is also being developed.

It is unclear how the Long March 12 will be used, with it being in the same class as the existing Long March 7 and several launchers from China’s commercial sector.

It is, however, a much more economical option than the Long March 7, which was designed to be rated for human spaceflight and is used to send cargo spacecraft to the Tiangong space station.

The Long March 12 has a much lower mass at takeoff (430,000 kg and 597,000 kg for Long March 7) and does not feature side boosters.

It also has a much larger payload fairing volume—with either 4.2m or 5.2m-diameter fairings—thus making it potentially very useful for China’s Guowang and Qianfan/Thousand Sails megaconstellations.

The latter project alone envisions 14,000 satellites in LEO, which would require launching an average of just over seven satellites per day, every day, until the end of the decade.

SAST has also revealed plans to develop reusable methane-liquid oxygen launchers. It has conducted a successful vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) test using a 3.8-meter-diameter methalox test article.

The launch was China’s 59th orbital launch attempt of 2024, following the first launch of the enhanced commercial Zhuque-2 methane-liquid oxygen rocket Nov. 26.

Another Zhuque-2E rocket could fly as soon as December, while a Long March 5B with an unknown payload could also fly before the end of the year.

Launches from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center are also expected in early December.

https://spacenews.com/china-launches-first-long-march-12-from-new-commercial-spaceport-in-boost-for-countrys-lunar-plans/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082221 (301800ZNOV24) Notable: TRUMP TRUTH - I just had a very productive meeting with PM Justin Trudeau …

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082249 (301804ZNOV24) Notable: Space NASA & Related

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Space Force awards Raytheon $196.7 million for additional work on GPS ground control system

November 29, 2024

The U.S. Space Force awarded Raytheon a $196.7 million contract extension for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX), a critical upgrade to the GPS infrastructure that is years behind schedule.

The contract, announced Nov. 27 by Space Systems Command, targets the next software upgrade to be delivered by November 2025.

This latest award brings Raytheon’s total OCX contract value to nearly $4.5 billion since the program’s inception in 2010.

OCX represents a comprehensive modernization of GPS ground control infrastructure, designed to enhance navigation signal accuracy and cybersecurity for both military and civilian applications.

The program has been plagued by significant delays, with the current delivery timeline approximately seven years behind the original schedule.

A cornerstone of the system is its ability to manage the highly secure M-Code signal, which provides jam-resistant capabilities vital for military operations in contested environments.

The GPS network underpins navigation, communications, and precision timing for both civilian and military applications.

The program has become a cautionary tale in Pentagon procurement. Initially slated for delivery in 2018, the OCX program has been set back due to the complexity of its software development.

Unlike other programs that build upon existing platforms, OCX requires entirely new code that integrates cutting-edge cybersecurity measures to protect against evolving threats.

During the extended development phase, the Space Force has relied on an interim GPS ground control software developed by Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of GPS satellites.

The Government Accountability Office has repeatedly flagged the program’s delays as a risk to the GPS enterprise, citing concerns over the slow pace of software development and its cascading effects on military operations.

The Space Force is also grappling with delays in fielding compatible M-Code-enabled receivers for military personnel, compounding the challenges of providing more secure GPS navigation.

OCX is being installed at 17 ground control stations worldwide.

https://spacenews.com/space-force-awards-raytheon-196-7-million-for-additional-work-on-gps-ground-control-system/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082261 (301806ZNOV24) Notable: 'Green' federal building once ridiculed by Trump being dedicated to Nancy Pelosi

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'Green' federal building once ridiculed by Trump being dedicated to Nancy Pelosi

President Trump previously said San Franciscans consider it 'one of the ugliest structures in their city'

Michael Dorgan By Michael Dorgan Fox News November 30, 2024

An 18-story government building in California – once referred to as "one of the ugliest structures" in San Francisco by President-elect Trump – will be formally dedicated to former House Speaker Nanci Pelosi next week.

The San Francisco Federal Building, a 234-foot-tall building located in the city’s South of Market neighborhood, had its name changed to "Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building" last year and the high ranking Democrat will be on hand to unveil new signage at a ceremony on Monday, according to Bay City News. The building was named after Pelosi in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.

The energy efficient "green" building opened in 2007 at a cost of $144 million and consists of stainless steel panels V-shaped panels at the top that fold over its broad concrete frame. It is designed to consume one-third the energy of a typical California office building, use natural light to illuminate 80% of the building and create a healthy environment for workers.

It was the first U.S. federal building to be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified. It is a globally recognized rating system that measures the sustainability of a building.

The building houses offices for Pelosi along with the Social Security Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture, according to the General Services Administration (GSA) which operates the building.

"The building’s shape and orientation maximize natural airflow for cooling and ventilation and take advantage of natural daylight for the majority of office interiors," per the GSA website.

Although praised for its energy efficiency, its gray and dull exterior has divided opinions, particularly as it sits across from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece on Seventh Street.

In 2020, then-President Trump issued an executive order, dubbed "make federal buildings beautiful again," promoting beautiful federal civic architecture, which mentioned the building as being an unsatisfactory design.

"GSA selected an architect to design the San Francisco Federal Building who describes his designs as 'art-for-art’s-sake' architecture, intended primarily for architects to appreciate. While elite architects praised the resulting building, many San Franciscans consider it one of the ugliest structures in their city," the executive order reads.

The executive order was revoked by President Biden in February 2021.

Last year, workers raised safety concerns about entering and leaving the building due to the proliferation of drug dealers and homeless people congregating outside the building, the San Francisco Standard reported last year

Deep blue San Francisco saw a 7-point swing to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/green-federal-building-once-ridiculed-trump-being-dedicated-nancy-pelosi

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22082322 (301817ZNOV24) Notable: Tom Homan - Investigate Foreign Countries and NGOs Behind Border Invasion

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Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan Says Trump Administration Will Investigate Foreign Countries and NGOs Behind Border Invasion