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Nice try but no cigar. When has Trump ever done anything that wouldn't result in his personal gain? Looks like he was trying to fund the building permit for Trump Tower Moscow...
No, the FBI's Trump investigation is not just like the Hillary Clinton email probe. Here's why
As more details emerge about why the FBI decided to raid former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month, both Trump and his allies are increasingly suggesting the FBI is treating him differently than it treated Hillary Clinton, who avoided charges for her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
"James Comey read off a list of all ... Hillary Clinton's crimes, only to say that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute," Trump said of the former FBI director in a social media post this past weekend.
But a review of government documents from both investigations suggests there are key differences between the evidence uncovered in Clinton's case and the evidence already publicly documented in the Trump investigation.
Comparing classified info
Some of Trump's allies claim that the way Clinton allegedly mishandled sensitive information was -- as one pundit put it -- "a lot more serious" than the way Trump allegedly did.
Just on the surface, the number of items containing classified information is different. In the Clinton case, federal authorities identified "approximately 193 individual emails" that, when sent, contained some level of classified information, according to a 2018 report from the Justice Department's inspector general.
In the Trump case, federal authorities have identified more than 322 individual documents containing classified information that were kept at Mar-a-Lago: 184 "unique documents" containing classified information were retrieved early this year, another 38 such documents were retrieved in June, and then more than 100 more documents marked "classified" were found during the FBI raid on August 8, according to Justice Department filings in court.
In Clinton's case, the most sensitive "top secret" information on her servers was deemed by authorities to be "relevant to" and "associated with" a tightly-guarded "Special Access Program" -- and the inspector general said that "investigators found evidence of a conscious effort to avoid sending classified information, by writing around the most sensitive material."
"It's not unusual for folks with clearances to sometimes discuss classified matters in unsecure settings," said Tony Mattivi, a former federal prosecutor who coordinated the Justice Department's counterintelligence and counterterrorism cases in Kansas. "You can't always be in a [secure room] when you need to talk to some people or do certain things, so the way you do that is talk around the classified part. ... [But] that's very different than possessing classified material."
In contrast, federal authorities have recovered from Mar-a-Lago more than 100 "unique documents" marked "secret" and dozens of other documents marked "top secret," including "Special Access Program materials," according to the Justice Department and National Archives. Some of those documents marked "classified" were found inside Trump's desk in his office, the Justice Department said.
Accordingly, there "is a meaningful distinction" between Trump's alleged handling of classified documents and what the Justice Department's inspector general says transpired in the Clinton case, according to Mattivi, a Republican who recently lost a primary race to become attorney general of Kansas.
Where's the evidence, literally?
In accusing the FBI of treating Trump and Clinton differently, Trump's allies have publicly noted that -- even though Clinton potentially compromised classified information -- "we didn't raid her home," as Trump's former CIA director, Mike Pompeo, recently put it.
But in his report on the Clinton matter, the Justice Department's inspector general made clear that federal investigators in that case were able to obtain the materials at issue -- Clinton's private email servers and the emails themselves -- without raiding her home.
"Where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement after the raid on Trump's estate.
As described in the inspector general's report on the Clinton matter, "the FBI obtained more than 30 devices" from Clinton and her aides, and "received consent to search Clinton-related communications on most of these devices." Among those 30 devices were two of Clinton's three private email servers, after the third server had been "discarded" years earlier "and, thus, the FBI was never able to access it for review," the inspector general's report said.
In Trump's case, the evidence at the center of the ongoing investigation was still being held at Mar-a-Lago, even after a federal grand jury subpoena three months earlier instructed that "any and all documents" marked "classified" be turned over.
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Trump's lawyers have emphasized that "documents were provided" to the FBI in response to the subpoena, but in a court filing Tuesday, the Justice Department said, "Through further investigation, the FBI uncovered multiple sources of evidence indicating that the response to the May 11 grand jury subpoena was incomplete and that classified documents remained at (Mar-a-Lago)."
"The government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room (at Mar-a-Lago) and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation," the Justice Department said.
What's the intent?
The final decision over whether to charge Trump or his aides may rest on what prosecutors find about their intent in taking documents marked "classified" to Mar-a-Lago and then rebuffing the U.S. government's efforts to reclaim those documents.
Publicly-released portions of the affidavit used to support the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago say that the FBI is investigating, among other potential crimes, whether Trump engaged in the "willful" mishandling of documents or information relating to the national defense, as defined by section 793(e) of U.S. code 18.
Federal prosecutors looked at the same statute when contemplating charges against Clinton and her aides for the classified information found on her private email servers.
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To charge any of them with violating 793(e), prosecutors would have had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clinton or her aides acted "willfully" and "with the intent to do something the law forbids," the Justice Department's inspector general said in its report on the case.
Prosecutors determined that the evidence and facts of Clinton's case showed "a lack of intent to communicate classified information on unclassified systems," especially since "(n)one of the emails Clinton received were properly marked to inform her of the classified status of the information," and investigators found evidence that Clinton and her aides "worded emails carefully in an attempt to 'talk around' classified information," according to the inspector general's report.
"There was no evidence that the senders or former Secretary Clinton believed or were aware at the time that the emails contained classified information," prosecutors concluded, according to the inspector general.
So prosecutors decided "there was no basis" to charge Clinton or her aides, the inspector general said.
That decision "was consistent with the Department's historical approach in prior cases under different leadership," the inspector general said, noting his office "found no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations."
Nevertheless, in his controversial July 2016 press conference announcing the FBI's findings, Comey said that -- despite a lack of sufficient evidence to bring charges -- Clinton and her aides were still "extremely careless" in handing "very sensitive, highly classified information," noting that "none" of the emails they sent "should have been on any kind of unclassified system."
Responding to those remarks while still on the campaign trail, then-candidate Trump insisted Clinton was "so guilty" but the FBI "let her off the hook." He has since repeated those claims.
In the latest case targeting Trump, it's unclear what -- if any -- evidence the FBI has uncovered relating to the intent of Trump or his aides in allegedly keeping hundreds of documents marked "classified" at Mar-a-Lago.
But since the FBI's raid at Mar-a-Lago, Trump and his team have claimed that, while still in office, Trump issued "a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them." And Trump has said on social media that the documents at Mar-a-Lago were "all declassified."
Mattivi said the idea of a "standing order" declassifying swaths of documents "is preposterous."
"Because there is a process, and part of the process involves (the originating agencies) knowing what's being done with their information," he said.
In its court filing on Tuesday, the Justice Department said that in January, when providing an initial set of documents to the National Archives, and even as recently as June, when providing the FBI with a limited response to the grand jury subpoena for classified documents, neither Trump nor his legal team had claimed the documents were declassified.
Records 'torn up' by Trump
According to the redacted affidavit released in Trump's case, the FBI is also now investigating whether Trump or his aides may have violated a federal law that criminalizes the "willful" concealment, removal or mutilation of federal records.
In 2016, federal prosecutors contemplated charging Clinton or her aides for violating the same law -- Section 2071 of U.S. Code 18 -- after more than 30,000 emails, which her legal team erroneously deemed personal in nature, were deleted from a server.
"The purpose of this statute is to prohibit conduct that deprives the government of the use of its documents, such as by removing and altering or destroying them," the Justice Department's inspector general said in his report about the Clinton investigation.
Witnesses in the Clinton case told investigators they "expected that any emails sent to a state.gov address would be preserved" -- and many of those emails were acquired from other devices -- so "there was no evidence that Clinton or anyone else" intended to conceal, remove or destroy the emails from government systems, the inspector general said.
In addition, federal prosecutors concluded that, unlike the electronic communications underpinning Clinton's case, "every prosecution under Section 2071 has involved" the "physical removal" or destruction of a document, the inspector general said.
Federal authorities now suggest Trump's actions might fit that mold.
In January, after a months-long effort to retrieve government records from Trump, the National Archives publicly released a statement saying "some of the Trump presidential records" it received from Mar-a-Lago "included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump." The National Archives then referred the matter to the Justice Department, flagging that it could constitute a violation of Section 2071, the Justice Department said in its Tuesday filing.
'The biggest difference'
Mattivi said that the difference in the two cases comes down to what's known versus what's not.
"The biggest difference right now between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump" is that with Clinton, "we know there was no prosecution -- that ship has sailed," said Mattivi.
"With Trump, we don't know what's going to happen," Mattivi said.
Why don't you? I couldn't find any with actual evidence.
keep jerking yourself off if you think only republicans were involved with Epstein
Essentially the company is putting roughly half their remaining loan balance ($8,333,333.50) into escrow, and it will be paid to the lender if they fail to file all their reports by September 12 as they've announced is their intention. If they file all their reports, as they've said they would, then they get to keep the escrow deposit, but their loan payment obligations will continue as before.
Basically, they're trying to reassure the lender that their investment is safe and the reports will be filed by September 12.
The only hoax was Barr's lie that Mueller exonerated Trump...
Trump was not exonerated by my report, Robert Mueller tells Congress
US President Donald Trump's claim that he was "totally exonerated" by special counsel Robert Mueller was rejected by Mr Mueller in a hearing on Wednesday.
Mr Mueller said he had not exonerated Mr Trump of obstruction of justice.
The former FBI director spent two years probing alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, but did not establish collusion in a crime.
He concluded that Russia had interfered in the election with the intention of benefitting Mr Trump's campaign.
Mr Trump frequently criticised the special counsel investigation during its investigation, branding it a "witch hunt". Responding to Mr Mueller's testimony on Wednesday, he said: "This was a great day for me."
In all, 35 people and three companies were charged by the special counsel on matters relating both directly and indirectly to alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. No members of the Trump family were charged.
Mr Mueller and his team concluded that they were unable to charge the president with a crime, but could not exonerate him either.
What did Mr Mueller say?
Across two Congressional hearings, Mr Mueller repeatedly declined to stray outside of confines of his 448-page report, generally giving clipped answers or referring committee members back to the text of his findings.
He appeared at times to struggle with the proceedings, amid convoluted and detailed questioning from House committee members about various parts of his team's 448-page report.
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Did the president refuse to be interviewed? Yes, says Mueller.
The questions focused largely on Mr Mueller's investigation of President Trump and his decision to say he could not exonerate the president of obstruction of justice, but Mr Mueller repeatedly stressed the importance of concerns over ongoing Russian interference in US democracy.
"Over the course of my career I have seen a number of challenges to our democracy. The Russian government's effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious," he said.
He added: "Much more needs to be done in order to protect against this intrusion, by the Russians but others as well."
Yes, they did all that because your fascist cult leader kept breaking the law. He was caught lying over 30,000 times during his presidency...
Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years
...He tried to bribe the Ukrainian President by withholding military aid in exchange for inventing evidence against his political rival, Joe Biden...
How the Ukraine invasion connects to Trump's first impeachment — and where the players are now
As Russia bombards Ukraine, Donald Trump is wading into the conflict barely two years after he faced an impeachment trial on charges that he abused his power by essentially extorting the Kyiv government and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Trump was acquitted in February 2020 after the House impeached him, alleging he held hostage hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid in order to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, including his eventual successor, Joe Biden. The aid was eventually provided, but not before a crisis that rattled two continents and desperate pleas by Zelenskyy’s government for help fending off the very Russian aggression that now threatens to topple him from power in Ukraine.
This is what the committee has established so far.
* The insurrection was carnage, not the overwrought protest described by Trump allies. Previously unseen film footage from outside and inside the Capitol showed Trump's mob smashing windows, battling with security officers and seeking vengeance against then-Vice President Mike Pence for failing to block President Joe Biden's election win. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards testified about a "war scene," adding, "I was slipping in people's blood."
* Trump was told repeatedly he lost the election by campaign aides, officials and lawyers but he persisted in his lies and attempts to steal power.
* Those fraud claims were "idiotic" and devoid of evidence according to multiple witnesses, including Trump's former Attorney General William Barr.
* Trump imposed extreme pressure on Republican officials in key swing states to overturn the election -- like Arizona Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who testified that he chose the Constitution over politics. Georgia election workers, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman, said Trump's intimidation campaign left them afraid to leave their homes.
* Trump was personally involved in schemes to get Pence to overturn the election in Congress -- a power the vice president lacked, and to create slates of fake electors to steal Biden's state victories.
* According to witness testimony, Trump thought Pence, rushed to safety by the Secret Service as the rioters invaded, deserved the calls for him to be hanged. The danger to Pence was real -- the mob got to within 40 feet of him. A committee witness, whose identity was obscured, testified in a recording on Thursday that members of Pence's detail genuinely feared that they would be killed.
* Rioters testified that they came to Washington because Trump asked them to. The ex-President incited the mob at his rally on the Ellipse, and he knew members in the crowd were armed but he exhorted them to march on the Capitol anyway. In fact, he would have gone there with them himself if the Secret Service had let him.
* Trump did not just watch the mayhem unfold on television; he expressly refused to fulfill his duty as president to protect the Capitol and democracy. And he further incited the crowd with a tweet.
A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and agreed to cooperate with the government.
Brian Ulrich entered his guilty plea at a virtual hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The 44-year-old from Guyton, Ga., is the second Oath Keeper to plead guilty to sedition charges in the highest-profile case to emerge from the federal investigation into the Capitol riot.
Ulrich is one of 11 Oath Keepers, including the group's founder Stewart Rhodes, to be charged with seditious conspiracy and other crimes for allegedly plotting to use force to prevent Congress' Jan. 6 certification of President Biden's election win.
The only people responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Americans are Republicans who convinced their followers not to get vaccinated or to take Covid seriously. You can go to your grave with their blood on your hands...
Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame - Updated December 5, 2021
Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That's according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic.
NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. People living in counties that went 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.73 times the death rates of those that went for Biden. Counties with an even higher share of the vote for Trump saw higher COVID-19 mortality rates.
In October, the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth, according to Charles Gaba, an independent health care analyst who's been tracking partisanship trends during the pandemic and helped to review NPR's methodology. Those numbers have dropped slightly in recent weeks, Gaba says: "It's back down to around 5.5 times higher."
The trend was robust, even when controlling for age, which is the primary demographic risk of COVID-19 mortality. The data also reveal a major contributing factor to the death rate difference: The higher the vote share for Trump, the lower the vaccination rate.
The analysis only looked at the geographic location of COVID-19 deaths. The exact political views of each person taken by the disease remains unknowable. But the strength of the association, combined with polling information about vaccination, strongly suggests that Republicans are being disproportionately affected.
The U.S. Surgeon General Is Calling COVID-19 Misinformation An 'Urgent Threat'
Recent polling shows that partisanship is now this single strongest identifying predictor of whether someone is vaccinated. Polling also shows that mistrust in official sources of information and exposure to misinformation, about both COVID-19 and the vaccines, run high among Republicans.
"An unvaccinated person is three times as likely to lean Republican as they are to lean Democrat," says Liz Hamel, vice president of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy think tank that tracks attitudes toward vaccination. Political affiliation is now the strongest indicator of whether someone is vaccinated, she says: "If I wanted to guess if somebody was vaccinated or not and I could only know one thing about them, I would probably ask what their party affiliation is."
There was a new PR this week. From 8/18/2021...
Everything Blockchain Continues to Expand Its Intellectual Property Portfolio
Patents filed for the company’s data protection SaaS application showcase ability to innovate
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Everything Blockchain Inc. (EBI), (OTCMKTS: OBTX), a technology company that provides powerful data protection solutions for business owners and individual consumers, today announced that it filed two additional patents for EB Control. EB Control is an easy-to-use and affordable data protection SaaS application.
These patents are pivotal to further EBI’s intellectual property and showcase’s our ability to innovate in this rapidly growing market. In fact, Fortune Business Insights states that the global blockchain market size is projected to reach $163.83 billion in 2029, at a CAGR of 56.3% during the forecast period. They also predict the global cybersecurity market to reach $376.32 billion in 2029, at a CAGR of 13.4%. The addition of these two patents expands the company’s provisional patent portfolio to 23 globally.
The solutions offered by EBI enable it to be ideally poised to empower companies to take advantage of blockchain’s advanced confidentiality and integrity, secure messaging, authentication fortification and strengthened public key infrastructure.
“Blockchain and cybersecurity are hot categories that require rapid innovation in order for companies to stay ahead of the curve,” said Brandon Hart, Chief Technology Officer, EBI. “Expanding our portfolio of patents helps us meet the needs of our customers with innovative solutions while protecting our IP.”
With EB Control, the original data owner retains control of who, when, how and where their data can be accessed. EB Control, which was launched into market in July, is secure by design, as reinforced by an independent third-party architectural review conducted by Bridgery Technologies LLC. EB Control is available to individual customers on desktop via the EB Control website (www.ebcontrol.io) and mobile via the Apple store and Google Play store.
For more information about EB Control, please click here. For more information about EBI, visit everythingblockchain.io
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Everything Blockchain, Inc. (OTCMKTS: OBTX) envisions a future where every transaction is trusted and blockchain is used to meet ESG goals, support cities of the future, build and control the transparency of supply chains and ensure the rights of data ownership sustain forever. The company’s patent-pending advances in blockchain engineering deliver the essential elements needed for real-world business use: speed, security, and energy efficiency. Current sub-brands include: EB Advise, EB Build and EB Control. For more information, please visit https://www.everythingblockchain.io/
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Vengar Technologies, LLC, an Everything Blockchain Inc. company, is a pioneer in bringing zero-trust concepts to data security. The company’s solution, EB Control, merges military-grade encryption, multi-factored authentication, geo-fencing, time-fencing and DRM technologies to provide users with perpetual control of their data whether stored or shared. EB Control’s intuitive, simple platform empowers users to take back control of their data security. Forever. For more information, please visit: https:/www.ebcontrol.io/
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I support having medical decisions made by patients and families in consultation with medical professional and experts, not by politicians.
Oh, you mean like when you can't recognize how fascist your party has become.
You asked for it. Here's why the rest of us know you and your GOP ilk are fascist tyrants...
* You have no qualms about forcing any woman to remain pregnant and have a child, much less a 10 year old rape victim.
* You're happy to see women's rights taken away, and would condemn young men to 18 years of child support for a one night stand.
* You, and the party you support, would curtail all of our reproductive rights by eliminating contraceptives.
* You encourage neighbors to spy on, and rat on, neighbors who assist someone to get an abortion.
* You're party has been waging a war on, and whipping up hate against, trans gender people to court their fundamentalist base.
* You're OK with your party's appeals to racists by suppressing minority voters.
* You support a man who used white nationalist storm troopers to try to overthrow our government and keep him in power, and would reward him for doing so by voting for, and supporting him and his supporters again.
* Multiple xenophobic and antisemitic policies and statements under Trump have inspired a record number of hate crimes in the past several years.
* Your party blindly follows a leader who has committed multiple crimes, cheated dozens of people he's done business with or taken loans from, and has spouted over 30,500 lies during the 4 years he was president.
* You trust him and your party for medical and scientific advice over medical and science professionals.
* You ban words and books and prosecute teachers for saying things, or teaching things, on your forbidden subjects list in classrooms.
* You promote suspicion of news media and government institutions.
* You incite hate against the FBI and CIA and all federal law enforcement agencies that you don't control.
* You have a propaganda channel devoted to electing your candidates and shaping your policies which invents issues such as Critical Race Theory and Antifa to promote divisions.
* It has no problem with touting complete lies like election fraud, and the recent claim that the out of state abortion for a 10 year old rape victim was an invention of the left.
* You follow a man whose been sewing distrust of free elections since he first started running for President and made numerous phony claims of election fraud.
* You make believing Trump's lie, that he won the 2020 election in a landslide, a condition for someone in your party to run for office, and placed scores of these people on the ballot to become state and local election officials.
* You're OK that Trump issued Executive Order 13957 just before he left office to gut the civil service and remove anyone (up to 30,000 people) opposed to him and replace them with political appointees.
* You handle all criticism by calling it fake news and accusing your opponents of everything your guilty of.
* Your appointees to the Supreme Court no longer base their rulings on the Constitution or court precedent but invent new principles, the latest one (Dobbs) backed by a medieval English jurist who prosecuted witches.
Are we feeling the Nazi vibe yet??
Fascist, Paramilitary Groups Seen Aligning With Republican Political Targeting
New technologies will soon make lithium batteries as obsolete on cars as side vent windows...
Global Warming Solutions, Inc. Prepares to Launch Marketing Campaign to Increase Exposure as Its Sodium Battery Progresses to Final Stages of Production
Temecula, CA,, Aug. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Warming Solutions, Inc., (OTC: GWSO), a worldwide developer of green technologies to mitigate global warming, prepares to launch a new marketing campaign to increase company awareness. GWSO plans to unveil its innovative sodium battery next month. As part of a campaign to raise exposure, the company will host necessary events for existing shareholders and new potential partners. Michael Pollastro, president of Global Warming, stated: "Our innovative, American-made sodium battery is expected to be complete in September. Our job now is to raise awareness and ensure that our sodium battery is a household name when electric vehicle batteries are brought up. To increase our exposure, we plan to host press conferences, webinars, and round table discussions showcasing our finished product. Not only do we want to showcase our achievement to the shareholders, but we also want to demonstrate the prominent potential of our technology to potential auto-manufacturing partners. We want to emphasize the benefits that switching to sodium batteries will have not only for auto manufacturers but also for the environment. I am excited for this huge day for our loyal shareholders”.
“Sodium is the most abundant substance in the ocean, after water. Therefore, a sodium-based battery for an electric vehicle will be 10-20 times cheaper than lithium-ion. Laboratory samples from sodium batteries at the end of last year showed that the specific energy content of a sodium battery is several times higher than that of the best battery samples on the market. Now we are working to make the sodium battery easy to manufacture, operate, and maintain. After extensive testing of a full-sized sample of our sodium battery, we will be able to develop a range of batteries for various applications to meet the expectations of a wide variety of customers.” said Artem Madatov, scientific director of the project.
“At AQST, when we consider a new project or program for our clients or our own, we study and analyze them in depth. And when we decide to move forward with a project, it is because we are confident and believe in the project. For this new development of a Hybrid Electrochemical System (HES), better known as a GWSO Hydrogen/Battery, we are confident in our ability and the ability of the GWSO team to build an advanced, transformative, and revolutionary technology that will transform people’s lives. And we are working non-stop and focusing on making it a fully functional prototype and a reality in the coming weeks” stated Raymond Caldas CEO of AQST LLC.
In other news, uniquely positioned GWSO looks to benefit from the new Inflation Reduction Act. Under the new Act, a tax credit of up to $7,500 could be used to defray the cost of an electric vehicle. While most auto industry participants won’t qualify for the tax credit, GWSO has the advantage. The bill requires that an electric vehicle must contain a North American-built battery and use minerals mined or recycled on the continent.
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The Form C they filed has the following statement regarding the arbitrary price...
BTZI Form C
How are the securities being offered being valued? Include examples of methods for how such securities may be valued by the issuer in the future, including during subsequent corporate actions.
We have used an arbitrary offering price. The offering price per unit was arbitrarily determined by the Company and is unrelated to specific investment criteria, such as the assets or past results of the Company’s operations. In determining the offering price, the Company considered such factors as the prospects, if any, of similar companies, the previous experience of management, the Company’s anticipated results of operations, and the likelihood of acceptance of this offering. Please review any financial or other information contained in this offering with qualified persons to determine its suitability as an investment before purchasing any shares in this offering.
Competition is heating up. Here's another company with a non-Lithium solution that seems ready to hit the market...
Global Warming Solutions, Inc. Prepares to Launch Marketing Campaign to Increase Exposure as Its Sodium Battery Progresses to Final Stages of Production
Their FY2022 10-K thru April 30, 2022 is due by Monday. They need to file the 10-K or equivalent soon or they won't be current much longer.
SMHLMAO Quite a feat. I could claim today that they placed a target at $.0020/share and crow about how right I was several months from now if/when the price drops to $.0010. Their pps has been hovering around $.0020/share for at least two months. Do you think they're targeting $.0020/share?
The pps hovered around $.05/share for roughly five months during the past year. Gee, the company must have been targeting that. Right? If they could do that, why didn't they target $.10 share or $.20/share? Wouldn't we have been better off. Please explain.
I agree with everything you said. One thing though, I don't believe the $.05/share is completely arbitrary, otherwise why not just ask for $1/share or more. They must have put some form of logic into how they're valuing their company in order to attract new investors
Another observation, their "Total Assets Most Recent Year End" is the same number as what they listed on their 3FQ22 10-Q as "Total Assets" as of 4/30/2021. Consequently, these are not new financial numbers for FY2022.
I agree that it looks strange. I'm not sure that they're out of options. Somehow, over the past year, they've grown their assets from $ 915,934 to $ 6,787,112 and their accounts receivable went from $ 218,257 to $ 1,246,146 with zero revenue. In the meantime, they spent $8,026,463 (lost income).
They're doing something. I suspect that these results reflect their cryptocurrency mining operation. The spending would have been for mining rigs while the asset growth came from mined crypto coins. Accounts receivable would come from sale of coins. I don't know how else you can explain these numbers.
The stock sale may simply be an effort to bring their pps up to roughly $.05/share. JMO
So what would you fascists recommend for hermaphrodite children. For the more simple minded republicans in our audience, those are babies born with both sex organs. Do they just get banned from sleepovers until they're adults? Can't participate in gym or sports?
The point Rachel Levine was making is that this is a complex subject that, just like abortion, shouldn't be left to politicians and assholes like you, but should be decided by parents, adolescents and their doctors in consultation with medical experts.
Another one of your "If someone said it on twitter it must be true" facts. You people have really got to stop getting your news from a propaganda station...
Fact check: Dr Rachel Levine, during hearing, did not confirm or deny support for children having gender reassignment surgery without parental consent
Social media users have been sharing posts online which claim that Dr Rachel Levine, former Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and now President Joe Biden’s new assistant health secretary, believes children should be allowed to have gender reassignment surgery without parental consent. There is no evidence to support this claim...
...The posts likely refer to an exchange between Senator Rand Paul and Levine during her Senate confirmation hearing on Feb. 25, 2021...
...Paul starts the C-SPAN clip saying “genital mutilation has been condemned by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Population Fund.” Reuters was unable to find WHO or U.N. statements condemning gender reassignment surgery for transgender people, and searches for “genital mutilation” and these agencies result in papers on female genital mutilation, an entirely different practice indeed that has been condemned by both agencies ( here , here , here , www.unfpa.org/born-complete ).
In the exchange, Paul asks Levine whether she supports minors being able to transition, calling the procedure “genital mutilation.”
At 1:33, Paul asks: “Dr. Levine, do you believe that minors are capable of making such a life-changing decision as changing one’s sex?”
Levine responds: “Well, Senator, thank you for your interest in this question. Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed and, if I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as the assistant secretary of health, I will look forward to working with you and your office and coming to your office and discussing the particulars of the standards of care for transgender medicine.”
Paul then says: “The specific question was about minors. Let’s be a little more specific, since you evaded the question. Do you support the government intervening to override the parent’s consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or amputation surgery of the breasts and genitalia?”
Paul then describes a story of a young girl who later regretted transitioning. At 3:50, Paul asks again: “Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions?”
Levine responds with almost the exact same answer, explaining that transgender medicine is complex and that she will discuss it with Paul if she is confirmed.
Levine did not directly answer the question, neither confirming or denying the statement presented in these posts, that minors should be able to have access to government-funded sex reassignment surgery without parental consent.
Levine has written and spoken about supporting transgender children in the past (here, here). On Jan. 24, 2020, she tweeted here a CNN article discussing a study that found puberty blockers to be life-saving drugs for trans teens with mental health problems. Reuters did not find evidence, however, of Levine saying she supports giving these treatments without parental consent.
Paul’s questioning received criticism, as reported here and here .
As reported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Feb. 2020, a global rise in the number of teenagers seeking to go through gender reassignment has spurred a series of court cases around the age at which young people are able to choose to transition – and who has the final word. Gender reassignment surgery is widely restricted to adults over the age of 18 (here).
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) standards of care here , explain the three categories of physical interventions for adolescents. These consist of fully reversible interventions such as hormone suppression to delay puberty, partially reversible interventions such as hormone therapy, and irreversible interventions such as surgical procedures.
The association advises that “moving from one stage to another should not occur until there has been adequate time for adolescents and their parents to assimilate fully the effects of earlier interventions.” Genital surgery should not happen until the individual reaches the age of majority to give consent in a given country and have lived continuously for at least 12 months in their gender identity, according to the association.
Puberty-suppressing medications are reversible, as explained in a 2016 report by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics here . The report categorizes hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgeries for “older adolescents” and “adults”, not children.
VERDICT
Missing context. Dr. Rachel Levine did not confirm or deny a question by Rand Paul asking her if she would support overriding parental consent for gender reassignment surgery for minors.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.
Bad timing for your doom and gloom propaganda...
Economy adds 528,000 jobs in July as hiring surges despite high inflation. US recovers all jobs lost in COVID.
U.S. employers added a booming 528,000 jobs in July as the labor market now has recovered all 22 million jobs lost in the pandemic and continued to defy soaring inflation, rising interest rates and a slowing economy.
The unemployment rate fell from 3.6% to 3.5%, matching a 50-year low, the Labor Department said Friday.
Again, Republicans think they can make better health care decisions than medical doctors. As usual, they invent issues that really aren't problems. Where are the hordes of people who have been harmed by gender dysphoria treatments who are demanding change? The fact is, sex change involves castration in males and mastectomy in females and most doctors agree that there should be a minimum age for people deciding about their permanent sexual identity. Like abortion, patients and their doctors, not republicans, should be able to decide what happens to their bodies...
Should There Be a Minimum Age for Gender Transition?
Despite scientific evidence and existing clinical practice guidelines, critics also remain in the medical community. According to results of a poll hosted on Sermo, a global social platform for physicians, 94% of physicians think that an age minimum is an appropriate benchmark for patients who wish to transition: more than half (62%) of these respondents said that the minimum age should be 21 years, while nearly a third (32%) said that age 18 years would be an appropriate minimum.
While many countries recognize 16-year-old patients as legally competent to make medical decisions, others believe that abilities such as good risk assessment do not develop until after age 18 years.10 The Endocrine Society guidelines state that gender-affirming treatment in the form of sex hormones may be initiated “after a multidisciplinary team…has confirmed the persistence of [gender dysphoria]/gender incongruence and sufficient mental capacity to give informed consent,” which is typically around age 16 years.10 Some research suggests that there are risks associated with waiting until as late as age 16 years, and more long-term studies are needed to determine the optimal age for treatment.
On Sermo, one endocrinology physician shared a belief that children and adolescents do not possess the capacity to make informed decisions about fertility or permanent body alterations. “Affirming a child’s false gender identity, instead of providing exploratory counseling to help resolve the dysphoria, is astonishingly negligent.”
Another physician, specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation, agreed. “Children [do not] know enough about themselves to be trusted to make the correct, irreversible decisions, and generally do not have the maturity to handle it. More kids question their gender now due to it being popular socially, or more in the news and social media. We cannot allow them to be potentially permanently harmed for a potentially temporary condition.”
This is a sentiment with which Dr Klein strongly disagrees.
“Trans people have been around forever,” he said. “This is not an invention of the aughts. People have been [providing] care in trans communities for decades now…and finally there are formalized guidelines…and people are feeling more comfortable expressing their gender truthfully and are feeling comfortable enough to do something about it.”
Although transgender people may now feel safer to publicly express their gender, some lawmakers are creating policies that have the opposite effect. Since taking office, President Donald J. Trump has made efforts to roll back many of the steps undertaken by the Obama administration to bring equality and protection to the transgender community under federal law.
In 2017, this included the removal of protections that allowed transgender students to use bathrooms that corresponded with their gender identity.12 In 2018, it took the form of the Trump administration attempting to narrowly redefine the concept of gender as “a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth,”13 or essentially, as one New York Times article stated, defining the word transgender “out of existence.”
Most recently, the Trump Administration moved to repeal Obama-era protections that banned discrimination against transgender patients in medical settings and as health insurance customers.14
These legislative maneuvers, coupled with the recent statements from Texan legislators about the Younger case, have left some within the medical community concerned. The Pediatric Endocrine Society, for example, has called out the recent “public discourse” as potentially harmful to the wellbeing of both transgender and gender-diverse children and their families — and in opposition to the current standard of care.
“We strongly oppose public discourse that misrepresents and contradicts evidence-based standard of care recommendations and risks the wellbeing of transgender youth and their families,” the statement read in part.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, those risks can range from depression and anxiety to eating disorders, self-harm, and suicide.
“We know that our transgender kids, especially children and adolescents, have a much higher risk for and rate of self-harm and of suicidal thoughts or suicidal attempts, and of depression and anxiety — especially those who are not affirmed within the home or school, ” said Dr Klein. “It is not so much being transgender that causes depression…alcohol and drug abuse, anxiety, or things like that. It is really being unaccepted that does that.”
Yeah, Michigan voters should reward the party that that breeds murderous anti-democratic fascist seditionist militias...
New motive revealed in militia plot to kidnap, murder Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Since the FBI broke up a heavily armed militia group in 2020, the belief was Governor Gretchen Whitmer had been targeted because of Michigan's strict COVID controls. Key witnesses who were part of the alleged plot now said the target was actually the 2020 presidential election and preventing Joe Biden from taking office.
When the Wolverine Watchmen militiamen amassed an arsenal of assault rifles, explosives and tactical gear in the summer of 2020, they were aiming to kidnap and kill Gov. Whitmer, according to federal prosecutors.
While the four men, now on trial in western Michigan, were furious about the COVID restrictions put in place by Whitmer, co-militiaman and now key government witness, Ty Garbin, said they were actually targeting the presidential election in hopes of causing such social disruption that it would prevent Biden from ever getting into office.
Garbin's testimony confirmed details of the plot that was to spark civil unrest, including blowing up a bridge to the governor's vacation home and then abducting her, while taking no other prisoners.
During Thursday's federal criminal trial, the government's second key witness, Kaleb Franks, said he considered the kidnap and kill plot against Whitmer to be a suicide mission. He said he planned to be killed during the raid and wanted to die. Franks has now cut a deal with prosecutors to testify against his former militia brothers.
The events of recent years, including the January 6, 2021, insurrection at our nation’s Capitol, and the alleged plot to kidnap and potentially execute Governor Gretchen Whitmer, have made it more apparent than ever that right-wing extremism is on the rise in Michigan....
...While these groups have a variety of different core ideologies and are made up of members with differing views, common threads you’ll find weaving them all together include: white supremacy and white nationalism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi ideology, anti-LGBTQ views and misogny, enthusiam around firearms, and conspiracy theories and anti-government views.
In recent years there has been a blurring of boundaries between hate groups, militias, and anti-government groups. Cassie Miller, a senior researcher at the SPLC, has said, “the far-right is not simply a collection of groups, but it’s really a widespread movement.” People who are associated with this right-wing extremist movement have given up on accomplishing their goals through our current democratic system and can see violence as a way to remedy what they believe are threats to our country.
The January 6 insurrection is a prime example of multiple right-wing groups, along with those who have become radicalized but may not have joined a particular group, coming together around conspiracy theories and disinformation and being driven to violence.
While there is usually a decrease in membership of these groups during Republican administrations, researchers saw the opposite under former President Trump, who often played up the conspiracy theories and fears that say white men (who make up the majority of these groups) should be taking action. In recent years militias have stepped into the public eye more and more, attending pandemic protests, countering Black Lives Matter rallies, and being part of “Stop the Steal” rallies. Hampton Stall, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict and Event Location Data Project said this revitalization of militias coincides with how conservatives are embracing “a politics of expressing disaffection.”
It is undeniable that the Republican Party and right-wing political movements have become drivers of right-wing extremism. The SPLC’s recently released The Year in Hate and Extremism 2021 report reveals that “our democracy is now under threat from a hard-right, anti-democratic movement made up of hate and extremist groups, Trump loyalists, the Republican Party, right-wing think tanks, media organizations, and committed activists with institutional power.”
Michigan’s Right-Wing Extremist Groups
As of 2021, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) found 18 separate hate groups that exist in Michigan. It’s becoming more difficult to track participation in the groups as social media makes it easier to become radicalized—and for all intents and purposes a part of the movement—without explicitly joining a specific group. It is also difficult to track participation in militias, as the groups rise and fade, and often split into many groups over differences of personality or ideology.
There are an estimated two to three dozen active militia groups in Michigan, which include some crossover with the SPLC’s 18 hate groups. According to experts, Michigan is a “hotbed” for militias and our militias have “always been the kind to which other states’ militias look up to.” While not all militia groups are considered a threat, militias across the country have been involved in violence over the past several decades. Michigan militias have made the national news before, perhaps most notably, when Lapeer native Terry Nichols worked with Timothy McVeigh on the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City that killed nearly 200 people.
White supremacist propaganda campaigns have greatly increased during the Trump era, and are accompanied by a rise in hate crimes. In Michigan, hate crimes rose 40 percent from 2015 to 2019. A 2021 report from the Anti-Defamation League found a 36 percent increase in incidents of white supremacist propaganda in Michigan as compared to 2019.
The prevalence of conspiracy theories such as QAnon that have spread like wildfire online and gained a cult-like following—including among Republican members of Congress, Michigan Republican lawmakers, and Michigan Republican candidates for office—can be partly credited with the rise in militias. And, of course, we would be remiss not to mention how the right’s continued push of the Big Lie and near-religious reverence for former President Trump have continued to radicalize more and more people into the right-wing extremist movement.