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Bill Gates poured millions into dark money fund attacking Elon Musk

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00 UTC
bill gates
© Michael Cohen/Getty Images
Research exclusively shared with Breitbart News identifies hundreds of millions of dollars flowing from Bill Gates' foundation to 11 of the 26 organizations that signed an open letter last month urging Twitter advertisers to boycott the company if Elon Musk restores free speech on the platform.

Breitbart News' report, based on research and analysis from the newly-formed Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO), analyzed public filings to trace hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions from the letter signatories back to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In total, 11 of the 26 anti-Musk organizations received funding from a Gates-backed entity.

Comment: It seems pretty obvious that part of the 'master plan' Gates is in on hinges on Democrats being in power. Since Musk is a threat to the Dems, and their brainwashing machine AKA Twitter, he now has a target painted on his head. This is clearly where the sexual harassment accusations are coming from. Richest man in the world or not, Musk is clearly up against a monolithic force. Hopefully he can be more effective than Trump was.

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Rocket

SpaceX president defends Elon Musk over sexual misconduct claims: 'I believe the allegations to be false'

Michael Sheetz
CNBC
Mon, 23 May 2022 20:34 UTC
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell
© Jay Westcott / NASASpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell.
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell defended Elon Musk in an email to employees last week, responding to sexual misconduct allegations directed at the CEO, CNBC has learned.

"Personally, I believe the allegations to be false; not because I work for Elon, but because I have worked closely with him for 20 years and never seen nor heard anything resembling these allegations," Shotwell wrote in a companywide email sent on Friday and seen by CNBC.

Musk has denied the allegations, which claim he propositioned a flight attendant on one of SpaceX's private jets in 2016, calling them "wild accusations."

Comment: The timing of the allegations couldn't be more revealing.

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Megaphone

Wife of Ukrainian POW says Russia keeping them in 'satisfactory conditions' - The Guardian


The Guardian
Wed, 25 May 2022 22:12 UTC
Prokopenko
© Azov Regiment/ReutersDenys Prokopenko told his wife the prisoners had not been harmed but it was not immediately clear if he had been able to speak freely during the conversation.
Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russian forces after the three-month siege of the Azovstal steel plant are being held in "satisfactory" conditions, according to the unit commander's wife, amid uncertainty over the fate of the prisoners.

Denys Prokopenko, commander of the Azov battalion, was able to briefly call his wife, Kateryna, who said she had also been told that the prisoners had not been subjected to violence. It was not immediately clear if Prokopenko had been able to speak freely during the conversation.

"He said he was 'OK' and asked how I was," Kateryna Prokopenko told the Guardian on Tuesday. "I've heard from other sources that the conditions are more or less satisfactory."

Comment: Meanwhile Ukraine has been caught torturing the few Russian POWs it has captured: The current Ukrainian government's Nazism, and the torture of Russian POWs

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Magnify

Cargoes of Russia's crude oil 'sitting out at sea' climbs to record high


Reuters
Tue, 24 May 2022 11:51 UTC
Russian vessel Tantal tanker
FILE PHOTO: The Russian vessel Tantal, an oil/chemical tanker is seen at sea outside the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia, October 9, 2017
Some 62 million barrels of Russia's flagship Urals crude oil, a record amount, are sitting in vessels at sea, data from energy analytics firm Vortexa showed, as traders struggled to find buyers for the crude.

Report informs, citing Reuters, that the volume of Urals crude oil on the water is triple the pre-war average, Vortexa said, even as Russian seaborne oil exports fell to 6.7 million barrels per day (bpd) so far in May, down about 15% from the 7.9 bpd in February.

The number of Urals cargoes at sea with no set destination is 15% of the total, also a new high, Seigle added. Some of the oil could be in transit to undisclosed buyers, while others could be unsold cargoes.

Most barrels of Russian crude oil have headed to Asia, mainly India and China, while volumes to Europe have also ticked up ahead of a ban.
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Briefcase

George Galloway sues Twitter in Dublin over 'Russian state-affiliated' label

Simon Carswell
The Irish Times
Wed, 25 May 2022 16:21 UTC
Former British MP George Galloway
© Gareth Fuller/PA WireFormer British MP George Galloway is suing social media network Twitter in the High Court in Dublin for labelling his account 'Russian state-affiliated media'
Former British Labour MP George Galloway has taken a High Court action in Dublin against Twitter for defamation after it labelled his account "Russian state-affiliated media".

The politician and broadcaster is also claiming in the legal proceedings that the social media company unlawfully processed his personal data by labelling and censoring his account.

The 67-year-old presented The Mother of All Talkshows on the Russian state-owned Radio Sputnik service, and also presented Sputnik: Orbiting the World with George Galloway on the Kremlin-linked RT network, formerly known as Russia Today, until it was shut down with British government sanctions in March over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Mr Galloway's talkshow continues to be broadcast on YouTube.

The "Russian state-affiliated media" designation by Twitter appears on Mr Galloway's profile and on tweets posted on the network. Mr Galloway said in a statement that Twitter's "unjust labelling of honestly held political views is the New McCarthyism and it must be held accountable".
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Mr. Potato

"Sick son of a bitch": Beto O'Rourke crashes school shooting press conference


Zerohedge
Wed, 25 May 2022 13:58 UTC
Beto O'Rourke
Former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke crashed a press conference by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday, interrupting the event to push for gun control following the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

"This was totally predictable" O'Rourke can be heard shouting, adding "The time to stop the next shooting is now, and you are doing nothing."

"This is on you," he exclaimed.

To which Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin shouted back: "You're out of line.. I can't believe you're a sick son of a bitch who would come to a deal like this to make a political issue."

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Chess

Financial analyst: US engineering artificial Russian default


RT
Wed, 25 May 2022 16:31 UTC
red sqaure
The latest US decision to not extend the general license waiver that allows Russia to make sovereign debt payments is an attempt to force the sanctions-hit nation into an "artificial default," according to Kyle Shostak, the director & CEO at Navigator Principal Investors.

The move will "effectively turn Russia's liabilities to the category of default as it is commonly understood and interpreted by international rating agencies," Shostak said in an interview with TASS.

"This situation can be called nothing but enforcement of an artificial default, as Russia now has enough funds to service its external debt."
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Bizarro Earth

One billion people at risk of power blackouts as global grids stretched


Zerohedge
Tue, 24 May 2022 23:45 UTC
global power grid
This summer, power grids worldwide won't produce enough electricity to meet the soaring demand, threatening more than one billion people with rolling blackouts. Grids are stretched thin by fossil fuel shortages, drought and heatwaves, commodity disruptions and soaring prices due to the war in Ukraine, and the failed green energy transition where grid operators retired too many fossil fuel generation plants. Combine this all together, and a perfect storm of blackouts threatens much of the Northern Hemisphere.

The power crisis, affecting a large swath of the world and top economies, could be less than a month away when summer begins on June 21. Regions that concerned Bloomberg are Asia, Europe, and the US, where there's not enough power to go around when cooling demand is set to surge as households crank up their air conditions to escape the sweltering heat.
Asia's heatwave has caused hours-long daily blackouts, putting more than 1 billion people at risk across Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India, with little relief in sight. Six Texas power plants failed earlier this month as the summer heat just began to arrive, offering a preview of what's to come. At least a dozen US states from California to the Great Lakes are at risk of electricity outages this summer. Power supplies will be tight in China and Japan. South Africa is poised for a record year of power cuts. And Europe is in a precarious position that's held up by Russia — if Moscow cuts off natural gas to the region, that could trigger rolling outages in some countries. --Bloomberg
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Black Magic

The NHS just edited their Monkeypox page...to make it scarier


OffGuardian
Tue, 24 May 2022 08:47 UTC
NHS England
A few days ago the UK's National Health Service (NHS) edited their Monkeypox page to alter the narrative in a few key ways.

Firstly, they removed a paragraph from the "How do you get Monkeypox?" section.

Up until a few days ago, according to archived links, the Monkeypox page said this, regarding person-to-person tranmission [emphasis added]:
It's very uncommon to get monkeypox from a person with the infection because it does not spread easily between people.
...this has now been totally removed.

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Arrow Down

Americans have lost $20 Trillion since the start of 2022


Zerohedge
Mon, 23 May 2022 06:55 UTC
economic collapse
Citing estimates from JPMorgan, over the weekend Bloomberg wrote that courtesy of a Biden administration terrified of what soaring inflation will mean for the Democrats in the midterms, and a Fed that is determine to do anything - even crash the market and spark a recession - to do Joe Biden's "kill inflation" bidding, the US faces a new scary threat: a plunge in wealth which JPM estimates at least $5 trillion, and could reach $9 trillion by year-end.

In short, the world's richest nation is waking up to an unpleasant and unfamiliar sensation: It's getting poorer... and worst of all, it's getting poorer at the behest of its own leaders.
Since the start of the year, the S&P 500 Index is down 18%, the Nasdaq 100 has lost 27% and a Bloomberg index of cryptocurrencies has plunged 48%. That all amounts to "a wealth shock that is set to drag on growth in the coming year," JPMorgan economists led by Michael Feroli wrote in a note Friday.
Of course, this is not news to regular readers who have known about this one unpleasant side-effect of Biden's phobia for higher prices: we pointed out as much almost two weeks ago.
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