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Media won't report the facts - We must! - Please share! NOT WHITE HOUSE APPROVED!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8841125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-75432343536112246982024-03-13T22:38:00.000-04:002024-03-13T22:38:19.136-04:00NTSB: Video Footage of Work on Boeing Jet's Door Plug Erased (Connecting the Dots: Boeing, FAA & Soros Funding, All Networking)<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">NTSB:
Video Footage of Work on Boeing Jet's Door Plug Erased (<span style="color: #660033;">Connecting the Dots: Boeing, FAA & Soros Funding, All Networking</span>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Newsmax.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wednesday,
13 March 2024 01:49 PM EDT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ntsb-boeing-video/2024/03/13/id/1157117/">https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ntsb-boeing-video/2024/03/13/id/1157117/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
head of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday
investigators still do not know who worked on a </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Boeing</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> 737 MAX 9 door
plug involved in a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines midair emergency and that video
footage was overwritten.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">NTSB
Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a letter to senators that investigators sought
security camera footage when the door plug was opened and closed in September
but were informed the material was overwritten. "The absence of those
records will complicate the NTSB’s investigation moving forward," Homendy
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
NTSB said previously that four key bolts were missing from the door plug that
blew out on the plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last
week, Homendy said she spoke to Boeing CEO David Calhoun "and asked for
the names of the people who performed the work. He stated he was unable to
provide that information and maintained that Boeing has no records of the work
being performed."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Boeing
did not immediately comment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the mid-air
emergency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
Friday, Boeing said it believes required documents detailing the removal of the
door plug during production were never created.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Boeing
said its working hypothesis was "the documents required by our processes
were not created when the door plug was opened."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Homendy
last week criticized what she called Boeing's lack of cooperation and failure
to disclose some documents, including on the door plug opening and closing, as
well as the names of 25 workers on the door crew at the 737 factory in Renton,
Washington. After Homendy's comments, Boeing provided the 25 names.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the aftermath of the incident the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA)</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">grounded
the MAX 9 for several weeks in January, barred Boeing from increasing the MAX
production rate and ordered Boeing to develop a comprehensive plan to address
"systemic quality-control issues" within 90 days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Separately,
the NTSB wrote Boeing on Wednesday reminding them they face restrictions on
information they can release publicly as a party to the investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Releasing
investigative information without context is misleading to Congress and the
public and undermines both the investigation and the integrity of the
NTSB," Homendy wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Edmund-P-Giambastiani-Jr/22282.muckety">Edmund P.
Giambastiani Jr.</a> is a director at the <b>Boeing Company</b> and a
lifetime director for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Stanley-O-Roth/193729.muckety">Stanley O. Roth</a> is
a VP for the <b>Boeing Company</b> and was a director at the<b> Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-L-Jones-Jr/105811.muckety">James L. Jones
Jr.</a> was a director at the <b>Boeing Company</b> and is a director
at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Rozanne-L-Ridgway/1447.muckety">Rozanne L. Ridgway</a> was
a director at the <b>Boeing Company</b> and a co-chair for the <b>Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Stanley-Ebner/86167.muckety">Stanley Ebner</a> was
the SVP at the <a name="_Hlk161245380"><b>Boeing Company</b> </a>and is a
lifetime director for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the founder
& chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b> and was the
chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Vernon-E-Jordan-Jr/1647.muckety"><b>Vernon E.
Jordan Jr.</b></a> is an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>, <b>Valerie B. Jarrett’s</b> great uncle, a
senior counsel for <b>Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</b> and
married to <b>Ann Dibble Jordan</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Akin-Gump-Strauss-Hauer-Feld-LLP/5000053.muckety">Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</a> is the lobby firm for the <b>Boeing
Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ann-Dibble-Jordan/55.muckety">Ann Dibble Jordan</a>
is married to <b>Vernon E. Jordan Jr.</b> and an honorary trustee at
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for the <b>Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Teresa-Heinz-Kerry/1565.muckety">Teresa Heinz
Kerry</a> is an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution
(think tank)</b> and married to <b>John F. Kerry</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, <b>John F.
Kerry’s</b> brother and a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kathryn-B-Thomson/97133.muckety">Kathryn B.
Thomson</a> was a partner at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b> and is the
chief counsel for the <b>Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b> and <b>Madelyn Payne Dunham</b> was
his maternal grandmother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Madelyn-Payne-Dunham/105491.muckety">Madelyn Payne
Dunham</a> was <b>Barack Obama’s</b> maternal grandmother and an
aircraft inspector for the <b>Boeing Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barbara-G-Fast/211447.muckety">Barbara G. Fast</a> was
a VP at the <b>Boeing Company</b> and a VP for the <b>CGI Group Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/CGI-Group-Inc/5011400.muckety">CGI Group Inc.</a> was
the <b>Obamacare</b> contractor that developed <b>Healthcare.gov
web site</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Obamacare/5100337.muckety">Obamacare</a> is <b>Barack
Obama’s</b> signature policy initiative. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Donna-S-Morea/156686.muckety">Donna S. Morea</a> was
the EVP for the <b>CGI Group Inc</b>. and a trustee at the <b>Committee
for Economic Development</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the<b> Committee for Economic Development</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b> and is the founder &
chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Edmund-P-Giambastiani-Jr/22282.muckety">Edmund P.
Giambastiani Jr.</a> is a lifetime director for the <b>Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank)</b> and a director at the <b>Boeing
Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Stanley-O-Roth/193729.muckety">Stanley O. Roth</a>
was a director at the<b> Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b> and is a VP for the <b>Boeing Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-L-Jones-Jr/105811.muckety">James L. Jones
Jr.</a> is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank)</b> and was a director at the <b>Boeing Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Rozanne-L-Ridgway/1447.muckety">Rozanne L. Ridgway</a> was
a co-chair for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>
and a director at the <b>Boeing Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Stanley-Ebner/86167.muckety">Stanley Ebner</a> is
a lifetime director for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b> and was the SVP at the <b>Boeing Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Donald
Trump Blasts Boeing for $4 Billion Air Force One: ‘Cancel Order!’ (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the Boeing Company</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 8, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/12/donald-trump-blasts-boeing-for-4.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/12/donald-trump-blasts-boeing-for-4.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Cameron Kerry</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
JULY 21, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) & Southwest Airlines (Connecting the Dots:
FAA, U.S. Transportation Department, Southwest Airlines, Earth Institute, Texas
A&M University & Soros Funding, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 30, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/12/federal-aviation-administration-faa.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/12/federal-aviation-administration-faa.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-47847369495615108122024-03-06T15:02:00.000-05:002024-03-06T15:02:06.110-05:00 Smaller Bites – Connecting the Dots: American Express, Bank of America & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">American
Express says customer data exposed in third-party breach</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cybernews.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Updated
on: March 04, 2024 8:31 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://cybernews.com/news/american-express-hit-by-third-party-data-breach/">https://cybernews.com/news/american-express-hit-by-third-party-data-breach/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">American Express (Amex)</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> credit card
holders may have had some of their account information exposed via a third
party breach, the company has disclosed.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
financial services and credit card giant filed a breach notification letter as
“a precautionary measure” with the Massachusetts State Attorney Generals Office
on March 4th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">An
American Express spokesperson told Cybernews the “incident was <b>not</b> caused
by a data breach” at the company of any of its service providers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
breach was the caused by “a point-of-sale attack at a merchant processor in
which American Express Card member data was impacted,” they said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
has been reported the merchant processor at the center of the hack is used by
the American Express Travel Related Services Company, one of the entities under
the company’s travel services division.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Amex notification letter states that the account information of some Card
Members “may have been involved,” including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Card account number<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;">§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Expiration date<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
applies to credit card account numbers that are currently active or were
previously issued, which means some customers may receive more than one letter
about the incident, the company said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
breach notification <a href="https://www.mass.gov/doc/assigned-data-breach-number-2024-210-american-express-travel-related-services-company-inc/download" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">letter</span></a> states
that Amex was informed by the third-party service provider – which is used by
numerous merchants – that it had “experienced unauthorized access to its
system” but did not provide any specific dates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“A
courtesy notice of this incident was provided to the Massachusetts regulators
due to impacts to American Express Card members residing in Massachusetts,” the
spokesperson said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amex
addresses card holders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Protecting
the security of our Card Members’ information is very important to us and we
strive to let you know about security concerns as soon as possible,” American
Express said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">American
Express Card Members will not be liable for fraudulent charges on their
accounts, and the company will take protective actions if it sees any unusual
activity on an account, the spokesperson told Cybernews.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“We
have sophisticated monitoring systems and internal safeguards in place to help
detect fraudulent and suspicious activity.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amex
is recommending customer regularly review and monitor their account activity,
and immediately contact Amex if they detect any suspicious activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“For
added protection, customers can receive free fraud and account activity alerts
via email, SMS text messaging, and/or notifications through our app,” the
spokesperson added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Headquartered
in lower Manhattan, American Express provides multiple banking services, such
as online checking and savings accounts, to personal loans, as well as
corporate and luxury travel programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
are over 121 million Amex card holders worldwide, according to the latest
research by Zippia, with more than 50% of those card holders in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Third-party
service providers need to be held accountable<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Liat
Hayun, CEO and co-founder of Eureka Security highlighted to Cybernews that the
Amex breach is “coming just weeks after similar incidents at Bank of America.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This
incident likely stemming from unauthorized system access… underscores the
critical need for organizations to hold their service providers accountable for
data security,” Hayun said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mid-February,
it was revealed that the data of more than 50,000 <a href="https://cybernews.com/news/bank-of-america-customer-data-breach-infosys-mccamish/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bank of America</span></a> customers
was exposed from a third party breach of the American financial services <a href="https://cybernews.com/news/infosys-hit-cyberattack/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Infosys</span></a> McCamish
Systems (IMS).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
IMS breach which took place last November was eventually claimed by the <a href="https://cybernews.com/news/lockbit-back-online-already-targeting-hospitals-with-ransomware/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">LockBit </span></a>ransomware
gang.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was the second third-party breach for </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bank of America</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">in 2023 – BOA fell
victim to the infamous <a href="https://cybernews.com/news/moveit-maker-warns-critical-vulnerability/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">MoveIT hacks</span></a> when
accounting giant <a href="https://cybernews.com/news/ey-bank-of-america-data-breach/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ernst & Young</span></a> was
hit by the Cl0p ransom group, exposing another 30,000 customers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Lessons
from past breaches highlight the importance of robust access controls,” Hayun
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“While
mapping access points for sensitive data can be complex, it's a crucial
security measure that organizations must prioritize in alignment with their
overall business objectives and compliance requirements,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-D-Robinson-III/651.muckety">James D.
Robinson III</a> was the chairman & CEO for the <b>American
Express Company (Bailout Company)</b> and is an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Joan-E-Spero/749.muckety">Joan E. Spero</a> was
the EVP for the <b>American Express Company (Bailout Company)</b> and an
honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/A-W-Clausen/4.muckety">A.W. Clausen</a> was an
honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and the
chairman & CEO for the <b>Bank of America Corp</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the chairman for the <b>Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Vernon-E-Jordan-Jr/1647.muckety">Vernon E. Jordan
Jr.</a> is an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think
tank)</b>, a senior counsel for <b>Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,
LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s</b> great uncle and was a director at the <b>American
Express Company (Bailout Company)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Akin-Gump-Strauss-Hauer-Feld-LLP/5000053.muckety">Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</a> is the lobby firm for the <b>American
Express Company (Bailout Company)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Stephen-J-Squeri/158691.muckety">Stephen J. Squeri</a> is
the group president for the <b>American Express Company (Bailout Company) </b>and
a trustee at the <a name="_Hlk160613658"><b>Harlem Children's Zone</b>.<o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George Soros</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a benefactor for the <b>Harlem
Children's Zone</b> and is the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote
Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Harlem Children's Zone</b>, the <b>International Rescue
Committee</b> and the <b>ClimateWorks Foundation</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Thomas-Schick/15754.muckety">Thomas Schick</a> is
a director & overseer for <a name="_Hlk160613775">the <b>International
Rescue Committee</b></a> and the EVP for the <b>American Express Company
(Bailout Company)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Richard-C-Levin/14913.muckety">Richard C. Levin</a> is
a director at the <b>American Express Company (Bailout Company)</b> and
the vice chair for the <b>ClimateWorks Foundation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">American
Express Company (Bailout Company) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on
the American Express Company</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
NOVEMBER 3, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/american-express-company-bailout-company.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/american-express-company-bailout-company.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bank
of America Reaches $17 Billion Mortgage Settlement with US (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Bank of America</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">FRIDAY,
AUGUST 22, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/08/bank-of-america-reaches-17-billion.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/08/bank-of-america-reaches-17-billion.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-19907025650896100082024-03-03T16:36:00.005-05:002024-03-03T17:03:01.769-05:00Smaller Bites – Connecting the Dots: Hamas, United Nations, Antony Blinken, The Center for Strategic and International Studies (think tank) & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">No,
most people in Gaza are not ‘just like us’</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Israel365News.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">GERALD
STEINBERG <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OPINION <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MARCH 1, 2024 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">3
MIN READ</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDL1KVcZ1yrdJ0KKWUl0gMARiFBKPOQ_Zfz7K14uNYnEnDcwEkEpcBkFtPhYYoYMUdS6ufVm5ogAe_nZH_PFe6CTwoxjaEK81qk2l3Y8ncoOBBSJR0YvE4DzCsGf0Ocdo1TKcgVffCOyi1ppfYlILn6OYO_bv4Szv9Y3Gx1tpjLAdM6OMXGdpD0johprM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1320" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDL1KVcZ1yrdJ0KKWUl0gMARiFBKPOQ_Zfz7K14uNYnEnDcwEkEpcBkFtPhYYoYMUdS6ufVm5ogAe_nZH_PFe6CTwoxjaEK81qk2l3Y8ncoOBBSJR0YvE4DzCsGf0Ocdo1TKcgVffCOyi1ppfYlILn6OYO_bv4Szv9Y3Gx1tpjLAdM6OMXGdpD0johprM=w475-h316" width="475" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://israel365news.com/387161/no-most-people-in-gaza-are-not-just-like-us/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://israel365news.com/387161/no-most-people-in-gaza-are-not-just-like-us/</a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">According
to the mantras of peace activists, the way to end wars—and the Israeli-</span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Palestinian</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> conflict in
particular—is by recognizing that the people on the other side are “just like
us.” Students in university peace studies programs are taught that conflicts
end by bringing individuals from opposing sides together, to discover shared
values and overcome stereotypes about “the other.” Based on this seemingly
indisputable truth, millions of dollars are provided every year for women’s
reconciliation dialogues, summer peace camps and similar frameworks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
articles of faith are also passionately repeated by Western diplomats. Speaking
to the Israeli public on Feb. 7, </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">U.S. Secretary of State <a name="_Hlk160365071">Antony Blinken</a></span></b><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160365071;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">declared
that most people in Gaza “are just like our families…The overwhelming majority
of the people in Gaza had nothing to do with Oct. 7. Their mothers and fathers
want to earn a decent living, send their kids to school and have a normal
life…We cannot, we must not lose sight of our common humanity.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But
is this belief reflected in reality? Is Palestinian society “just like” Israeli
society, or is this a comforting but very dangerous illusion?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
Israelis look at the evidence from Gaza, we see that many supported the
horrendous brutality in the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7. Large crowds in Gaza
turned out to cheer the terrorists returning from their heinous spree of
torture, murder, rape and kidnapping. When some Israeli hostages in Gaza were
transferred to the International Red Cross after weeks of torture, mobs
harassed and intimidated them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Long
before Oct. 7, everyone living in Gaza (including </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">United
Nations</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Relief
And Works Agency employees) knew that </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hamas</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was stealing
international aid to build a massive underground terror infrastructure that
could be used to attack Israelis. Some of these “ordinary civilians” who saw
the horrendous pogrom ran immediately to join in the looting. No Palestinian
has expressed human empathy for the Israeli victims. But Secretary Blinken did
not lecture Palestinians on the theme that Israelis are “just like” them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the face of this overwhelming evidence, what leads Western liberals to cling to
the myths of “common humanity” and a universal society? One
explanation is “mirror imaging,” which is a mindset that erases obvious and
fundamental societal differences. This filter removes the disturbing fact that,
in contrast to the majority of Israelis, many Palestinian mothers repeatedly
encourage their children to become “martyrs” and express pride when they are
killed while murdering and brutalizing Jews. No, they are not “just like us.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another
major difference is cultural—particularly what professor Richard Landes calls
“honor-shame cultures,” in which humiliation (such as defeat in an aggressive
war) leads to unbounded determination to exact revenge. This is the essence of
the Palestinian <i>nakba</i>—the ongoing humiliation of the Arab armies’
loss of the 1948 war. If Palestinians were “just like us,” they would instead
examine their own shortcomings. In contrast to the Palestinian textbooks and
those in many Arab countries, in which Jews and Israelis are depicted as
monsters, Israeli children are not systematically raised on hate and
incitement. The fundamental differences in our identities are deeply embedded
in cultural values, taught to children from generation to generation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another
key difference is that for some groups (Christians and Muslims, in particular),
affirmation of their identity and beliefs requires the conversion of others,
often through coercion and humiliation. The Islamic world relegates Christians
and Jews to second-class status (<i>dhimmis</i>). In contrast, Jews have
nothing comparable—we are content to be “a nation that dwells alone” and a
“light unto the nations,” neither of which leads to mass murder. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At
the same time, those who believe that people on the other side are “just like
us” need different explanations for wars and terror. These include conspiracy
theories that blame a small group of evil manipulators, often painted with
classical antisemitic symbols, who gain power illicitly and create conflict.
For example, instead of blaming Hamas and its allies for the Oct. 7 slaughter
and the war that followed, the myth spinners refer to “Netanyahu’s war” against
the presumably innocent civilians in Gaza. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">These
illusions carry a very high cost. The “Oslo disaster” was the product of good
intentions and myths, but instead of expected cooperation toward shared goals,
Arafat and the Palestinians interpreted Israel’s decision to give up territory
as weakness. Similarly, the hopes and illusions accompanying Israeli
withdrawals from southern Lebanon in 2000—and from Gaza in 2005—quickly turned
to dust. Even after the Hamas takeover and escalating attacks that followed,
Israel’s leaders continued to avoid a full-force response, and this mistake
culminated in the Oct. 7 slaughter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
avoid more disasters, Israelis must firmly reject the temptations of mirror
imaging, “common humanity” and other messianic illusions. Instead, we need to
return to the unfiltered political realism of Ben-Gurion, Begin, Meir and
others. As long as the goal of the Palestinians, Iran and their allies is the
elimination of Israel, sufficient military power must be available and
displayed so that they understand that attacks on Israel will result in their
own destruction. A strong and what might be falsely denounced as
“disproportionate” deterrent force is the best option for survival.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hopefully
in the future, Palestinians and their allies will begin to view Israelis as
“like us” enough to end generations of hate and terror. But until that happens,
we cannot afford to entrust our survival to illusions and myths.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Originally
published by The Jewish Journal.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Palestine/5042865.muckety">Palestine</a> <b>(Hamas)</b> is
a member of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Donald-F-McHenry/368.muckety">Donald F. McHenry</a> was
a U.S. ambassador for the <b>United Nations</b> and is an honorary
trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b> and is a board member for
the <b>International Crisis Group</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Zbigniew-Brzezinski/2005.muckety">Zbigniew
Brzezinski</a> is a board member for the <b>International Crisis
Group</b> and a trustee at the <b>Center for Strategic International
Studies</b> <b>(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Antony-Blinken/158919.muckety">Antony Blinken</a> was
a senior fellow at the <a name="_Hlk160365130"><b>Center for Strategic and
International Studies (think tank)</b> </a>and is the national security
adviser to the vice president for the <b>Barack Obama administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Henry-A-Kissinger/1864.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Henry-A-Kissinger/1864.muckety
http://www.muckety.com/Henry-A-Kissinger/1864.muckety">Henry
A. Kissinger</a> is a trustee at the <b>Center for Strategic and
International Studies (think tank)</b>, a friend of <b>Brent Scowcroft</b> and
a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Brent-Scowcroft/1794.muckety">Brent Scowcroft</a> is
a trustee at the <b>Center for Strategic International Studies</b> <b>(think
tank)</b>, a friend of <b>Henry A. Kissinger</b> and the chair,
international advisory board for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the founder & chairman
for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b> and was the chairman for the <b>Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>International Rescue Committee</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Elie-Wiesel/15233.muckety">Elie Wiesel</a> is
an overseer at the <b>International Rescue Committee</b> and a
messenger of peace for the <b>United</b> <b>Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-J-vanden-Heuvel/10425.muckety">William J.
vanden Heuvel</a> is an overseer at the <b>International Rescue
Committee</b> and was a U.S. representative for the <b>United</b> <b>Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Samantha-Power/15690.muckety">Samantha Power</a> was
a director at the <b>International Rescue Committee</b> and is the
U.S. ambassador for the <b>United</b> <b>Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Palestine/5042865.muckety">Palestine</a> <b>(Hamas)</b> is
a member of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Blinken
Urges 'Calm' as Israel-Palestinian Conflict Rises (Connecting the Dots: Antony
Blinken, Center for Strategic and International Studies (think tank), Iran,
United Nations, Palestine (Hamas), Obama, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros
Funding, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Antony
Blinken</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 6, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/11/blinken-urges-calm-as-israel.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/11/blinken-urges-calm-as-israel.html</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Smaller
Bites – Connecting the Dots: Palestine (Hamas), Barack Obama, Michelle Obama,
Sidley Austin LLP, Israel & Soros Funding, All Networking (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Hamas</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 4, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/11/smaller-bites-connecting-dots-palestine.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/11/smaller-bites-connecting-dots-palestine.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-81588648808593740062024-02-25T22:48:00.000-05:002024-02-25T22:48:36.269-05:00CBS Seizes Files of Fired Reporter Investigating Hunter Biden (Connecting the Dots: CBS, Sidley Austin LLP, Paley Center for Media and Soros Funding, All Networking)<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">CBS
Seizes Files of Fired Reporter Investigating Hunter Biden (<span style="color: #660033;">Connecting the Dots: CBS, Sidley Austin LLP, Paley Center
for Media and Soros Funding, All Networking</span>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Newsmax<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Mark Swanson<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thursday, 22 February 2024 10:56 PM EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/us/cbs-catherine-herridge-hunter-biden/2024/02/22/id/1154657/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">https://www.newsmax.com/us/cbs-catherine-herridge-hunter-biden/2024/02/22/id/1154657/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CBS
seized the confidential files, personal items, and laptop of investigative
reporter Catherine Herridge, who was investigating the Hunter Biden laptop
scandal when she became one of hundreds laid off last week, the New York Post </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/22/business/cbs-seizes-confidential-files-of-fired-reporter-pursuing-hunter-biden-laptop-story-in-unprecedented/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">reported </span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Post was told by a source within </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">CBS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> that the move was
"unprecedented," adding that CBS informed Herridge what, if
anything, would be returned to her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Further,
the documents seized might contain privileged conversations Herridge had with
her lawyer and identities of confidential sources, according to the report.
Herridge was in the middle of a First Amendment case, in which she refused to
identify a source to a court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The
timing of Herridge's termination immediately raised suspicions in
Washington," legal scholar and professor Jonathan Turley wrote in an
opinion piece for </span><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4481433-cbs-faces-uproar-after-seizing-investigative-journalists-files/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Hill.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"She
was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many
Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur report on Joe Biden's diminished
mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal, and the Hunter Biden
laptop," Turley wrote. "She continued to pursue these stories
despite reports of pushback from CBS executives, including </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">CBS
News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
CBS spokesperson told the Post that Herridges belongings will be returned to
her soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"We
have respected her request to not go through the files. And out of our concern
for confidential sources, the office she occupied has remained secure since her
departure," the spokesperson told the Post. "We are prepared to
pack up the rest of her files immediately on her behalf — with her
representative present as she requested."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Turley
called the approach to her files "heavy-handed," adding it
"left many wondering if it was the result of the past reported tension
over stories."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Regardless
of motive, the company is dead wrong," he wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SAG-AFTRA,
the union that represents CBS staffers, also responded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"This
action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent
for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First
Amendment," the union said in a statement to the Post.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Herridge
previously worked for Fox News. And Fox, according to the Post, is paying for
her legal counsel. It was at Fox News where she landed on a story in 2017, the
saga of which continues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Herridge's
First Amendment fight involved defying "U.S. District Judge Christopher
Cooper's order to reveal how she learned about a federal probe into a
Chinese American scientist who operated a graduate program in
Virginia," according to the Post.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
could be fined up to $5,000 a day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And,
according to the Post's sources, CBS could be subpoenaed to reveal the identity
of Herridge's source, which CBS could possibly have under guard in her old
office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Leslie-Moonves/2352.muckety">Leslie Moonves</a> is
the president & CEO & director for <b>CBS</b> and a trustee at
the <b>Paley Center for Media</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-S-Paley/1715.muckety">William S. Paley</a> was
the chairman for <b>CBS</b> and the founder of the <b>Paley
Center for Media</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Howard-Stringer/17901.muckety">Howard Stringer</a> was
the president for <b>CBS</b> and is a trustee at the <b>Paley
Center for Media</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Patricia-E-Mitchell/2109.muckety">Patricia E.
Mitchell</a> is the president & CEO for the <b>Paley Center for
Media</b> and the vice chair for the <b>Sundance Institute</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Sundance Institute</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Robert-Redford/27311.muckety">Robert Redford</a> is
the founder & president for the <b>Sundance Institute</b> and a
partner at the <b>Sundance Channel</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sundance-Channel/5026943.muckety">Sundance Channel</a> is
a partner at <b>CBS</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michael-H-Jordan/1128.muckety">Michael H. Jordan</a> is
the chairman & CEO for <b>CBS</b> and an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk159782408"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ellen-V-Futter/2250.muckety"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159782408;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ellen V. Futter</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159782408;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159782408;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a trustee
at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and was the president
of <b>Barnard College</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159782408;"></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, <b>John F.
Kerry’s</b> brother and a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Newton-N-Minow/14089.muckety">Newton N. Minow</a> is
a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b> and was director
at <b>CBS</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sundance-Channel/5026943.muckety">Sundance Channel</a> is
a partner at <b>CBS</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Robert-Redford/27311.muckety">Robert Redford</a> is
a partner at the <b>Sundance Channel</b>, and the founder & president
for the <b>Sundance Institute</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk159781423"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>Sundance Institute</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"></span><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George Soros</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote
Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159781423;"></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Patricia-E-Mitchell/2109.muckety">Patricia E.
Mitchell</a> is the vice chair for the <b>Sundance Institute</b> and
the president & CEO for the <b>Paley Center for Media</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Henry-A-Kissinger/1864.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Henry-A-Kissinger/1864.muckety
http://www.muckety.com/Henry-A-Kissinger/1864.muckety">Henry
A. Kissinger</a> was a trustee at the <b>Paley Center for Media</b> and
an overseer at the <b>International Rescue Committee</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Sundance Institute</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mary-M-Boies/24881.muckety">Mary M. Boies</a> is
a director at the <b>International Rescue Committee</b> and was the
VP for <b>CBS</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Ingrid Ciprián-Matthews</span></u><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is
the president of <b>CBS News</b> and She earned a bachelor's degree from <b>Barnard
College</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ellen-V-Futter/2250.muckety">Ellen V. Futter</a> was
the president of <b>Barnard College</b> and is a trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michael-H-Jordan/1128.muckety">Michael H. Jordan</a> is
an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and the
chairman & CEO for <b>CBS</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">CBS
tweet about being 'ready to worship' Satanic Sam Smith raises eyebrows:
'Compromised by evil' (Connecting the Dots: CBS, Pfizer, Paley Center for Media
& Soros Funding, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research
on CBS</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 6, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/02/cbs-tweet-about-being-ready-to-worship.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/02/cbs-tweet-about-being-ready-to-worship.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Cameron Kerry</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
JULY 21, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mike
Rowe on How Many Are Following the ‘Worst Advice in the History of the World’ (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Barnard College</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 16, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/mike-rowe-on-how-many-are-following.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/mike-rowe-on-how-many-are-following.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ingrid
Ciprián-Matthews<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Cipri%C3%A1n-Matthews">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Cipri%C3%A1n-Matthews</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ingrid Ciprián-Matthews</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is a Dominican
journalist and television producer serving as the president of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">CBS New</span><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">s</span></a></b> since
2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ciprián-Matthews</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was born in Santo
Domingo.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree from <b><span style="color: #660033;">Barnard
College</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-49535032302065667582024-02-20T21:38:00.000-05:002024-02-20T21:38:25.579-05:00Smaller Bites – Connecting the Dots: Koch Industries, Americans for Prosperity & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Nikki
Haley</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh62Jx3LVgnARkXB0gCKHUwxvgiWndj-oD7iQic0dOZZscEp8PWJksXBfsOeEYEyPD0OAqwLbKpPEdHy-mSL_i61-my9YS59nNczmKDrJl7u8Ryuz8veqz-Psi4N3l1KHFU5wbbSnQKOZxSt34Ri25D2bZW9uaXMPUyWdyKfqVNUQATY2i_Cl3XtH-9iqw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="800" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh62Jx3LVgnARkXB0gCKHUwxvgiWndj-oD7iQic0dOZZscEp8PWJksXBfsOeEYEyPD0OAqwLbKpPEdHy-mSL_i61-my9YS59nNczmKDrJl7u8Ryuz8veqz-Psi4N3l1KHFU5wbbSnQKOZxSt34Ri25D2bZW9uaXMPUyWdyKfqVNUQATY2i_Cl3XtH-9iqw=w298-h352" width="298" /></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#Presidential_campaign_(2023%E2%80%93present)" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#Presidential_campaign_(2023%E2%80%93present)</a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Presidential
campaign (2023–present) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Haley
was seen as a contender for the Republican nomination.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#cite_note-228"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[228]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#cite_note-229"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[229]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#cite_note-230"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[230]</span></a></sup> In
late October 2023, she was polling at about 8.3% in national Republican primary
opinion polls, behind Trump and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_DeSantis" title="Ron DeSantis"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ron DeSantis</span></a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#cite_note-231"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[231]</span></a></sup> She
received endorsements from two U.S. representatives—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Norman" title="Ralph Norman"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ralph Norman</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hurd" title="Will Hurd"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Will Hurd</span></a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#cite_note-232"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[232]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#cite_note-233"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[233]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#cite_note-234"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[234]</span></a></sup> Cindy
Warmbier, mother of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier" title="Otto Warmbier"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Otto
Warmbier</span></a>, also endorsed Haley's bid.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#cite_note-235"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[235]</span></a></sup> <b>In
November 2023, Haley was endorsed by</b> </span><a name="_Hlk159346214"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Americans
for Prosperity </span></b></a><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Action</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, an organization
connected to the </span></b><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Koch network</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Americans-for-Prosperity-Foundation/5092801.muckety">Americans
for Prosperity Foundation</a> is an affiliated group with the <b>Americans
for Prosperity</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Koch-Industries/5002758.muckety">Koch Industries</a> was
a funder for the <b>Americans for Prosperity</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-E-Stephenson/101512.muckety">James E.
Stephenson</a> is a director at the <b>Americans for Prosperity</b>
and a director at the <b>U.S. Chamber of Commerce</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-E-Rogers/8231.muckety">James E. Rogers</a> was
a director at the <b>U.S. Chamber of Commerce</b> and is a trustee at
the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for <b>Amnesty International</b>, and the <b>Aspen Institute (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/David-H-Koch/2226.muckety">David H. Koch</a> is
a trustee at the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b>, the EVP for <b>Koch
Industries</b>, the chairman for <b>Americans for Prosperity Foundation</b>
and was a donor for the <b>Americans for Prosperity</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Billionaire
Koch Brothers Throw Weight Behind Latest Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Americans for Prosperity</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/09/billionaire-koch-brothers-throw-weight.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/09/billionaire-koch-brothers-throw-weight.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-18763928007281839632024-02-19T21:25:00.001-05:002024-03-03T17:03:27.599-05:00Standard and Poor’s (Connecting the Dots: Standard & Poor's, The McGraw-Hill Companies, John Kerry, His Wife & Brother & Soros Funding, All Networking)<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Standard
and Poor’s </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/1816569298801347">https://www.facebook.com/reel/1816569298801347</a>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">S&P
Global Ratings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJ_SmUtA1q1RlePJM2eyUpet_EQALJv98ZHXtNnbx9_gQycE6gSn1FjbCEKbbnYyEpnFvRn9dFpasBtBHo2WWQc_OT0fufp7rtmCS9N6Rd8MqVh6sAJkpQeS6ELFNQLJtsotfa1_y2d9NGqeSLdWOnslw_8KCHkuFR0_2NAdf78wOC0x8iiOPFO0tYtUw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1920" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJ_SmUtA1q1RlePJM2eyUpet_EQALJv98ZHXtNnbx9_gQycE6gSn1FjbCEKbbnYyEpnFvRn9dFpasBtBHo2WWQc_OT0fufp7rtmCS9N6Rd8MqVh6sAJkpQeS6ELFNQLJtsotfa1_y2d9NGqeSLdWOnslw_8KCHkuFR0_2NAdf78wOC0x8iiOPFO0tYtUw=w403-h253" width="403" /></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global_Ratings#" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global_Ratings#</a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"S&P"
redirects here. For for the broadcasting entity, see Broadcast Standards and
Practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">S&P
Global Ratings (previously </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Standard & Poor's</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and
informally known as S&P) is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agency" title="Credit rating agency"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">credit rating agency</span></a> (CRA) and a division of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global" title="S&P Global"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">S&P
Global</span></a> that publishes financial research and analysis on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_stock" title="Capital stock"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">stocks</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_(finance)" title="Bond (finance)"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">bonds</span></a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity" title="Commodity"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">commodities</span></a>.
S&P is considered the largest of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(credit_rating_agencies)" title="Big Three (credit rating agencies)"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Big Three</span></a> credit-rating agencies, which
also include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moody%27s_Investors_Service" title="Moody's Investors Service"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Moody's Investors Service</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitch_Ratings" title="Fitch Ratings"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fitch Ratings</span></a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global_Ratings#cite_note-2"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</span></a></sup> Its
head office is located on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Water_Street" title="55 Water Street"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">55 Water Street</span></a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Manhattan" title="Lower Manhattan"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Lower Manhattan</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York City</span></a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global_Ratings#cite_note-3"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</span></a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Corporate
History<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
company traces its history back to 1860, with the publication by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Varnum_Poor" title="Henry Varnum Poor"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Henry Varnum Poor</span></a> of <i>History
of Railroads and Canals in the United States</i>. This book compiled
comprehensive information about the financial and operational state of U.S.
railroad companies. In 1868, Henry Varnum Poor established H.V. and H.W.
Poor Co. with his son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_William_Poor" title="Henry William Poor"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Henry William Poor</span></a>, and published two annually updated
hardback guidebooks, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor%27s_Manual_of_the_Railroads_of_the_United_States" title="Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Poor's Manual of the Railroads
of the United States</span></a></i> and <i>Poor's Directory of
Railway Officials</i>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global_Ratings#cite_note-snphistory-4"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global_Ratings#cite_note-time-history-5"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</span></a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
1906, Luther Lee Blake founded the Standard Statistics Bureau, with the
view to providing financial information on non-railroad companies. Instead of
an annually published book, Standard Statistics would use 5-by-7-inch cards,
allowing for more frequent updates.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global_Ratings#cite_note-snphistory-4"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</span></a></sup><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
1941, Paul Talbot Babson purchased Poor's Publishing and merged it with
Standard Statistics to become Standard & Poor's Corp. In 1966,
the company was acquired by </span><a name="_Hlk159259056"></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_Global" title="S&P Global"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration-line: none;">The
McGraw-Hill Companies</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, extending
McGraw-Hill into the field of financial information services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Douglas-L-Peterson/210999.muckety">Douglas L.
Peterson</a> was the president of <b>Standard & Poor's</b>, and
is the president & CEO for <b>McGraw Hill Financial Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Standard-Poors/5036382.muckety">Standard &
Poor's</a> is a subsidiary of <b>McGraw Hill Financial Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Lois-Dickson-Fitt/152864.muckety">Lois Dickson
Fitt</a> was a director at <b>McGraw Hill Financial Inc</b>., a guest
scholar at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, married to <b>Emmett
J. Rice</b>, is</span> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Susan
E. Rice’s</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
mother and a life trustee at the <b>Urban Institute (think tank)</b>
and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk159258400"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></a><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>Brookings Institution
(think tank)</b> and the <b>Urban Institute (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George Soros</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote
Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Susan-E-Rice/84161.muckety">Susan E. Rice</a> was
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, the
former U.S. ambassador to UN for the <b>Barack Obama administration</b>,
the White House national security adviser for the <b>Barack Obama
administration</b> and <b>Lois Dickson Fitt</b> & <b>Emmett
J. Rice’s</b> daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Emmett-J-Rice/152823.muckety">Emmett J. Rice</a> was
married to <b>Lois Dickson Fitt</b>, a U.S. alternative director for
reconstruction & development for the <b>World Bank</b> and is <b>Susan
E. Rice’s</b> father.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/A-W-Clausen/4.muckety">A.W. Clausen</a> was the
president of the <b>World Bank</b> and an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and the <b>Urban
Institute (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/David-Dollar/167728.muckety">David Dollar</a> is
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and was
the country director for China and Mongolia for the <b>World Bank</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Robert-S-McNamara/1408.muckety">Robert S. McNamara</a> was
an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, a
life trustee at the <b>Urban Institute (think tank)</b>, and the president
of the <b>World Bank</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-D-Wolfensohn/652.muckety">James D.
Wolfensohn</a> was an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>, the president of the <b>World Bank</b> and
is an overseer at the <b>International Rescue Committee</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>International
Rescue Committee</b> and the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ngozi-Okonjo-Iweala/82549.muckety">Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala</a> was a visiting fellow at the<b> Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b> and a managing director at the <b>World Bank</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Hilda-Ochoa-Brillembourg/13762.muckety">Hilda
Ochoa-Brillembourg</a> was the division CIO for the <b>World Bank</b>
and is a director at the <b>McGraw Hill Financial Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Douglas-L-Peterson/210999.muckety">Douglas L.
Peterson</a> is the president & CEO for <b>McGraw Hill Financial
Inc</b>. and was the president of <b>Standard & Poor's</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Standard-Poors/5036382.muckety">Standard &
Poor's</a> is a subsidiary of <b>McGraw Hill Financial Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/D-Edward-I-Smyth/154984.muckety">D. Edward I.
Smyth</a> is the EVP for the <b>McGraw Hill Financial Inc</b>. and was
the SVP for the <b>H.J. Heinz Co</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/H-John-Heinz-III/10436.muckety">H. John Heinz III</a> was
the heir to the <b>H.J. Heinz Co</b>. and married to <b>Teresa Heinz
Kerry</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Teresa-Heinz-Kerry/1565.muckety">Teresa Heinz
Kerry</a> was married to <b>H. John Heinz III</b>, is married
to <b>John F. Kerry</b> and an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and <b>John
F. Kerry’s</b> brother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Susan-E-Rice/84161.muckety">Susan E. Rice</a> was
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, the
White House national security adviser for the <b>Barack Obama
administration</b> and is <b>Lois Dickson Fitt’s</b> daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Lois-Dickson-Fitt/152864.muckety">Lois Dickson
Fitt</a> was a guest scholar at the <b>Brookings Institution (think
tank)</b>, a director at <b>McGraw Hill Financial Inc</b>. and is <b>Susan
E. Rice’s</b> mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Standard-Poors/5036382.muckety">Standard &
Poor's</a> is a subsidiary of <b>McGraw Hill Financial Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">S&P
500 index rises 4.3% in February (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on
the Standard & Poor's & The McGraw-Hill Companies</span>)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
MARCH 2, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/03/s-500-index-rises-43-in-february.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/03/s-500-index-rises-43-in-february.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Standard
and Poor's Downgrades Russia's Credit Rating (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the Standard & Poor's & The McGraw-Hill Companies</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
APRIL 28, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/04/standard-and-poors-downgrades-russias.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/04/standard-and-poors-downgrades-russias.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-22560727408864500512024-02-14T20:50:00.005-05:002024-02-14T20:50:59.500-05:00Smaller Bites – Connecting the Dots: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) & Soros Funding, All Networking<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Teacher
formerly known as Rachel Dolezal loses job over OnlyFans account</span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dolezal,
a white woman who identified as Black for years and later changed her name to
Nkechi Diallo, fired in Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Guardian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kari
Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wed
14 Feb 2024 20.13 EST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Last
modified on Wed 14 Feb 2024 20.18 EST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEVuLdaOhyLCqujN7ynOg9Wb0GJYKWqoI1ftp5q1FMMLHL4YMvbZG0eqxfpvdPwZkN_oEURhrbgErA0uGvkDqktI9hZ7rkA2A6C17Dj2Y_u9v_GMxIsxXPItU_scRJohFbcD3oVOLkrr88-n7qO30wKMIZ8hO14GmS4flEVsJ7F2NlHMg9ww1pmT1Xvlc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1900" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEVuLdaOhyLCqujN7ynOg9Wb0GJYKWqoI1ftp5q1FMMLHL4YMvbZG0eqxfpvdPwZkN_oEURhrbgErA0uGvkDqktI9hZ7rkA2A6C17Dj2Y_u9v_GMxIsxXPItU_scRJohFbcD3oVOLkrr88-n7qO30wKMIZ8hO14GmS4flEVsJ7F2NlHMg9ww1pmT1Xvlc=w580-h322" width="580" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Rachel
Dolezal in Spokane, Washington, on 4 December 2015. Photograph: Annie
Kuster/The Guardian</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/rachel-dolezal-nkechi-diallo-onlyfans-arizona-school-fired">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/rachel-dolezal-nkechi-diallo-onlyfans-arizona-school-fired</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Arizona-based educator formerly known as Rachel Dolezal has been ousted from
her position in a local school district due to content posted on her OnlyFans
account.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dolezal,
who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, had been teaching at an
elementary school in Arizona since August 2023, according to a report
from <a href="https://www.kvoa.com/news/local/breaking-news-tucson-teacher-loses-job-over-onlyfans-account/article_33f938fa-cb6b-11ee-a52d-d34f5a6df6a6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_KVOA"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">News4 Tucson</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
was fired this week after her OnlyFans account was brought to the district’s
attention, as its posts are “contrary to our district’s Use of Social Media by
District Employees policy and our staff ethics policy”, said Julie Farbarik,
the district’s director of alumni and community relations. The account was
linked in Diallo’s public Instagram profile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“We
only learned of Ms Nkechi Diallo’s OnlyFans social media posts yesterday
afternoon,” she said, according to News4. “She is no longer employed by the
Catalina Foothills school district.” The district did not immediately respond
to request for comment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Diallo
is best known for controversy surrounding her racial identity, identifying as a
Black woman for years and even heading the local chapter of the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">before her parents
publicly revealed she is white in 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
the controversy, Diallo lost her role teaching African studies at Eastern
Washington University and <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/19/rachel-dolezal-launches-onlyfans-for-foot-pics-and-squats/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">launched</span></a> an
account on OnlyFans in 2021 after struggling to find work. She has made 600
posts in the years since and shared hundreds of paywalled adult videos and
photos. Diallo could not be immediately reached for comment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Diallo’s
is not the first example of an educator being terminated or resigning due to
OnlyFans content. In 2023, a Missouri teacher <a href="https://www.wafb.com/2023/10/11/high-school-teacher-suspended-having-onlyfans-page-has-resigned-superintendent-says/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">was suspended</span></a> and
later resigned after her account was discovered and shared on Facebook. Some
have <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/teachers-turn-to-onlyfans-amid-low-wages-and-crippling-student-loan-debt-but-theres-a-risk/3281403/"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">argued</span></a> the
presence of teachers on OnlyFans underscores the financial pressures those in
education face, with the average school teacher <a href="https://www.nea.org/resource-library/educator-pay-and-student-spending-how-does-your-state-rank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">making</span></a> $66,745
per year and 40% of all education professionals earning less than $25,000 per
year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">OnlyFans,
a subscription-based adult content site, exploded in popularity during the
pandemic, going from 1 million global creators in 2020 to 3 million in 2023.
The average OnlyFans creator makes only $151 monthly, but some of the top
accounts bring in as much as $5.4m per year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">NAACP
Leader Calls Sen. Tim Scott Ventriloquist 'Dummy' (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 22, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/01/naacp-leader-calls-sen-tim-scott.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/01/naacp-leader-calls-sen-tim-scott.html</a></span></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-7884736598115267212024-02-14T19:04:00.001-05:002024-02-14T19:04:40.934-05:00 Smaller Bites – Connecting the Dots: Muslim Advancement, Rutgers University, Professor’s, Open Society Foundation, Foundation to Promote Open Society & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">GOP:
Soros Funds Prof Spreading 'Vile Antisemitic Propaganda'</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Solange Reyner | Wednesday, 14 February 2024 12:47 PM EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/us/george-soros-antisemitism-rutgers/2024/02/14/id/1153577/">https://www.newsmax.com/us/george-soros-antisemitism-rutgers/2024/02/14/id/1153577/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Senate
Republicans are probing a $143,000 fellowship awarded by </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">George
Soros</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">-backed
</span><a name="_Hlk158817671"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Open Society Foundation</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">professor</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Sahar Aziz, the
director of </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Rutgers University's</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Center for
Security, Race and Rights who they say has spread "vile antisemitic
propaganda."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The
work of the center, its promotion of terrorist sympathizers, and its
platforming of radical ideologues is troubling to us as members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee," the Senate Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2024/2/kennedy-judiciary-republicans-investigate-rutgers-center-over-promotion-of-terrorist-sympathizers-antisemitism" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">wrote
last week</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The
committee has a long history of working on legislation meant to root out
support for terrorism, and to compensate its victims. For example, in 2016
Congress passed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"As
the committee explores the efficacy of this legislation, particularly in the
context of recent world events, it is appropriate to evaluate the financial
backing of groups that seek to legitimize violence and provide platforms for
terrorist sympathizers," they concluded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">They
said they were looking into whether U.S. taxpayer dollars fund the center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rutgers
last year equated the condemnation of Hamas last year to attempts to
"ignore over 75 years of colonial violence and the horrific consequences
born out of these decades of oppression and attempted erasure."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"I
am not at all surprised that the center's director received funding from George
Soros's web of dark money," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2854016/soros-fellowship-anti-israel-center-terrorism-sahar-aziz/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">told the
Washington Examiner</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
said he and his colleagues aim to vet the center's funding sources and
"promotion of antisemitic propaganda."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">OSF
told the Examiner its foundation "is a leader in the effort to advance
racial justice in the United States, and in the fight against antisemitism and
anti-</span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Muslim</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
hate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"We
are proud to support individuals working to expand justice and opportunity for
historically marginalized communities through innovative projects and
research."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Daisy-Khan/143161.muckety">Daisy Khan</a> is
an executive director at the <b>American Society for Muslim Advancement</b>
and was a director at the <b>White House Project</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Gara-LaMarche/22485.muckety">Gara LaMarche</a> was
a director at the <b>White House Project</b>, a VP & director of U.S.
programs for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b> and an associate director
for the <b>Human Rights Watch</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Human Rights Watch</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the founder & chairman
for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b>, was a benefactor for the <b>Human
Rights Watch</b> and the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open
Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk158817684"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>Human
Rights Watch</b>, the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and the <b>Committee
for Economic Development</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Shirley-Ann-Jackson/1497.muckety">Shirley Ann
Jackson</a> is a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>
and was a professor at the <b>Rutgers University</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Shirley-Ann-Jackson/1497.muckety">Shirley Ann
Jackson</a> was a trustee at the <a name="_Hlk158817282"><b>Committee
for Economic Development</b> </a>and a professor at <b>Rutgers University</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mike
Rowe on How Many Are Following the ‘Worst Advice in the History of the World’ <a name="_Hlk158817240">(<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Rutgers
University</span>)<o:p></o:p></a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/mike-rowe-on-how-many-are-following.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/mike-rowe-on-how-many-are-following.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">University
To Students: You’re a Criminal If You Don’t Use Transgender Approved Language (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Rutgers University</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
AUGUST 23, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/08/university-to-students-youre-criminal.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/08/university-to-students-youre-criminal.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-13924457496495234422024-02-08T19:44:00.000-05:002024-02-08T19:44:42.728-05:00Smaller Bites – Connecting the Dots: Joe Biden, Obama, Anita Dunn, SKDK, Susan Rice & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Anita
Dunn</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgodXivqD0OsL_vmgcw4coENYoDnsGxVK0YvPKj8dmRA07zFG52j75j5o1QggJtyVZyXx4up9FuaWe8QqZ0tw2jQPU8fB0i327XbeMMzCNHayQcmpaJ_dkh8BcFS2mKsPAFJxTYmMzh64NJohc_oLIdd3jmzeQi9Vq4JwgG12dOmxolq-Z_x6C-cNuEptw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="191" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgodXivqD0OsL_vmgcw4coENYoDnsGxVK0YvPKj8dmRA07zFG52j75j5o1QggJtyVZyXx4up9FuaWe8QqZ0tw2jQPU8fB0i327XbeMMzCNHayQcmpaJ_dkh8BcFS2mKsPAFJxTYmMzh64NJohc_oLIdd3jmzeQi9Vq4JwgG12dOmxolq-Z_x6C-cNuEptw=w245-h291" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn" style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn</a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Anita Dunn</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">née</span></a> Babbitt;
born January 8, 1958) </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_strategist" title="Political strategist"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration-line: none;">political strategist</span></a> serving as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Advisor_to_the_President_of_the_United_States" title="Senior Advisor to the President of the United States"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration-line: none;">senior advisor</span></a> to
U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Biden</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, having originally held the post from January 20,
2021, to August 12, 2021,<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-5"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</span></a></sup> and
returning May 5, 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Previously,
she served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director" title="White House Communications Director"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">acting White House Communications Director</span></a> in
the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Obama White House</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Additionally, she served as managing
director at </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKDK" title="SKDK"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration-line: none;">SKDK</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, a strategic
communications firm in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C."><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Washington, D.C.</span></a>,<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-7"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</span></a></sup> and
an advisor to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Joe_Biden" title="Presidential transition of Joe Biden"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Biden presidential transition</span></a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Dunn#cite_note-biden-8"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</span></a></sup> Dunn
has worked on six <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic</span></a> presidential campaigns over a
period of 40 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk158302522"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Anita-B-Dunn/151420.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anita B. Dunn</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the senior
advisor to U.S. President <b>Joe Biden</b>, a managing director for <b>SKDKnickerbocker</b>,
produced an ad campaign for the <b>Keystone XL pipeline</b>, <b>William
W. Bradley’s</b> chief of staff and a communications director for
the <b>Barack Obama administration</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/TransCanada-Corporation/5014662.muckety">TransCanada
Corporation</a> is a <b>SKDKnickerbocker</b> client and the
proposed builder for the <b>Keystone XL pipeline</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/SKDKnickerbocker/5095100.muckety">SKDKnickerbocker</a> is
a media consultant for the <b>Peter G. Peterson Foundation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Peter-G-Peterson/1268.muckety">Peter G. Peterson</a> is
the founder for the <b>Peter G. Peterson Foundation</b> and was the
chairman for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Peter-G-Peterson-Foundation/5024980.muckety">Peter
G. Peterson Foundation</a> was a funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-W-Bradley/2199.muckety">William W. Bradley</a> is
an advisory board member for the <b>Peter G. Peterson Foundation</b>, a
trustee at the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>
and <b>Anita B. Dunn</b> was his chief of staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Endowment-for-International-Peace/5000360.muckety">Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace</a> <b>(think tank)</b> was a
funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b> and the
<b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the founder
& chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b> and was the
chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b> and the
<b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Susan-E-Rice/84161.muckety">Susan E. Rice</a> was
a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>,
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, the
White House national security adviser, former U.S. ambassador to UN for
the <b>Barack Obama administration</b> and is a stockholder in the <b>TransCanada
Corporation</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/TransCanada-Corporation/5014662.muckety">TransCanada
Corporation</a> is a <b>SKDKnickerbocker</b> client and the
proposed builder for the <b>Keystone XL pipeline</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Anita-B-Dunn/151420.muckety">Anita B. Dunn</a> is
a managing director for <b>SKDKnickerbocker</b>, produced an ad campaign
for the <b>Keystone XL pipeline</b>, the senior advisor to U.S.
President <b>Joe Biden</b>, was <b>William W. Bradley’s</b> chief of staff
and a communications director for the <b>Barack Obama administration</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Planned
Parenthood Hires Crisis Communication Firm Featuring Anita Dunn (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Anita Dunn</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
JULY 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/07/planned-parenthood-hires-crisis.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/07/planned-parenthood-hires-crisis.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Let’s
connect the dots and see where Susan Rice fits in the George Soros Network with
Past Research (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Susan Rice</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SATURDAY,
AUGUST 8, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2020/08/lets-connect-dots-and-see-where-susan.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2020/08/lets-connect-dots-and-see-where-susan.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-19534603135873537542024-01-31T22:52:00.000-05:002024-01-31T22:52:44.668-05:00FAA creates 'secret code words' for blacks to soar over whites (Connecting the Dots: FAA, United Airlines, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking)<p><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">FAA creates 'secret code words' for blacks to soar over
whites (</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Connecting the Dots: FAA, United Airlines, Sidley Austin
LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">)</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">'We no longer focus on excellence, we focus on wokeness'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">WND<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">By Bob Unruh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Published January 31, 2024 at 10:40am</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiE-0rOOX9Yf0NoAEG1NHByjYoWQPrj3cxcFDc4v_CjJX2qJN8Ek1awNjtjjJ13Z-s5DMOWRLcaDjY7nXCstQIyc6ZG6bf6ZcGcClNjxM1qa9Xtou0PgZNnjPurvoHirC_m7RgZkMHlNOseFJXOlxyPIwRdbchsyuobftlsz5GvYnFnH-UTwXz6fGPpxuQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="600" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiE-0rOOX9Yf0NoAEG1NHByjYoWQPrj3cxcFDc4v_CjJX2qJN8Ek1awNjtjjJ13Z-s5DMOWRLcaDjY7nXCstQIyc6ZG6bf6ZcGcClNjxM1qa9Xtou0PgZNnjPurvoHirC_m7RgZkMHlNOseFJXOlxyPIwRdbchsyuobftlsz5GvYnFnH-UTwXz6fGPpxuQ=w574-h344" width="574" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.wnd.com/2024/01/faa-creates-secret-code-words-blacks-soar-whites/">https://www.wnd.com/2024/01/faa-creates-secret-code-words-blacks-soar-whites/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Members
of a special caucus among </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">FAA</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> workers that is designated for
blacks have been given "secret code words" to use on resumes to skip
to the head of the line when positions open up for advancement, according to a
revealing report in <a href="https://revolver.news/2024/01/faa-created-secret-code-words-for-blacks-so-they-could-one-up-whites-and-asians/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Revolver.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
report cites a social media posting that reveals insider communications
involving the National Black Caucus of </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Federal Aviation</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Employees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Those
instructions, addressed to “WSC Brothers and Sisters, explain, “It has been
confirmed, there will NOT be a selection panel for the open bid on February
10th. Instead, FAA Human Resources will scan in resumes and the computer will
group resumes based on key words (aka, ‘Buzz Words’). These buzzwords will flag
your resume, thereby giving you the advantage over thousands of resumes that
may flood the system.<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">”A
list of these buzzwords are attached to this email. This list is being provided
to you through one of our members in HR. I encouraged you to keep a lid of this
attachment and focus on YOUR resume.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
warns against allowing “the entire country” to catch “wind of this attachment.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
it asks that this all be confidential “between yourselves and the NBCFAE.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Revolver
explained, “It’s no secret that the U.S. airline industry is currently plagued
with scandal, fear, and a lot of turbulence. Much of the turmoil is linked to
their obsessive focus on the left’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
agenda. DEI prioritizes factors like skin color, gender identity, and sexual
orientation over actual skills and talent in their hiring process.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
report continued, “There’s this shocking new report about the FAA. Apparently,
they’ve got this ‘secret word code’ for black aviation students’ resumes. The
goal is to push these resumes to the front, possibly skipping over other folks
who might actually be far more qualified.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
social media report noted, “In another instance of the signals to go to the
front of the line was to say the high school class you received your lowest
grades in was ‘Science.’ Yes, they literally shot you to the front of the line
if you said your worst grades were in Science.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
report also cited a New York Times investigation that found “safety lapses and
near misses” were surging, from doubled from 987 to 1,732.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">”We
no longer focus on excellence; instead, we focus on wokeness. The aggressive
substitution of merit in favor of diversity has led to a so-called competency
crisis, jeopardizing not only our ability to generate innovative technology
but, in a more dire sense, our ability to simply maintain the proper
functioning of various complex systems vital to our existence as a first-world
civilization.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
fact, <a href="https://www.wnd.com/2024/01/rethink-flying-united-airlines/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">WND columnist Dennis Prager</span></a> explained
just this week travelers should avoid </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">United Airlines</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">over its pledge to
have 50% of its flight deck personnel from a “diverse" group of people
including “people of color.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6obdBGR85cjFbIr96oZUqMAspB49T_z4L5WBauLDEsOrX171iN0n9lhdl2TQ2hQ5PEz7Eu0d_hrRtN8TH6b9P3JF-CHeGp4SOYruBmujMbyoyKf1LddtXXRXFxEQMlBmOxoUELofB4yYVU6NabTrCJ_kfOcMAIDb5I1L9S1Vwuc0u_qwYXvRjXg5oOEk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6obdBGR85cjFbIr96oZUqMAspB49T_z4L5WBauLDEsOrX171iN0n9lhdl2TQ2hQ5PEz7Eu0d_hrRtN8TH6b9P3JF-CHeGp4SOYruBmujMbyoyKf1LddtXXRXFxEQMlBmOxoUELofB4yYVU6NabTrCJ_kfOcMAIDb5I1L9S1Vwuc0u_qwYXvRjXg5oOEk=w574-h360" width="574" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">(Image by Ralf Ruppert from Pixabay)</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">”The
bottom line is clear: It will no longer be merit alone that determines who half
of United's pilots-in-training will be; it will be race and sex (or ‘gender,’
as the Left prefers to call it). Despite the New York Times and the rest of the
Left defending United, there is no other honest conclusion to draw,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">”As
one who flies about 100 times a year, often on United, this worries me. Until
now, I rarely worried about safety issues. I have certainly never feared
flying,” he explained. “But this is troubling enough that, although I will
probably have flown a million miles on United by the end of 2024 and I am at
the second-highest level available to United Airlines flyers (Premier
Platinum), I will now do my best to avoid flying United. I am also giving up my
United Visa card.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
explained, “It is important for me to note that until now I could not care less
if my pilot was black, white, male or female. I have flown on planes with black
pilots and female pilots, and I slept equally well on board. Those of us who
oppose United's affirmative action do not do so for race- or sex-based reasons.
To cite a medical example, people of every color sought Dr. Ben Carson if they
needed one of the country's best neurosurgeons for their child. But if people
know that a hospital was hiring surgeons using affirmative action criteria,
they might well think twice before undergoing surgery with a minority surgeon.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Connecting the Dots: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the founder & chairman
for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cynthia-L-Quarterman/194532.muckety">Cynthia L.
Quarterman</a> is a senior fellow at the <b>Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank)</b> and was an administrator of the Pipeline
and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration for the <a name="_Hlk157621127"><b>U.S. Department of Transportation</b>.<o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621127;"></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Federal-Aviation-Administration/5006827.muckety">Federal
Aviation Administration</a> <b>(FAA)</b> is a division of the <b>U.S.
Department of Transportation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Federal-Aviation-Agency/5064994.muckety">Federal
Aviation Agency</a> was the predecessor to the <b>Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Najeeb-Halaby/185546.muckety">Najeeb Halaby</a> was <b>Queen
Noor</b>’s mother and a director at the <b>Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Queen-Noor/2419.muckety">Queen Noor</a> is <b>Najeeb
Halaby’s</b> daughter, the <b>Jordan</b> queen dowager, a
trustee at the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b> and a director
at <b>Refugees International</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157621942"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>Aspen Institute (think
tank)</b>, the <b>Refugees International</b> and the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"></span><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George Soros</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for the <b>Foundation to
Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157621942;"></span>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, <b>John F.
Kerry’s</b> brother and a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <a name="_Hlk157622729"><b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Christopher-P-Lu/152936.muckety">Christopher P. Lu</a> was
a litigation associate at <b>Sidley Austin LLP,</b> the<b> </b>White
House cabinet secretary for the <b>Barack Obama administration</b> and is married
to <b>Kathryn B. Thomson</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kathryn-B-Thomson/97133.muckety">Kathryn B.
Thomson</a> was a partner at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>, <b>Ray H.
LaHood’s</b> counselor, is married to <b>Christopher P. Lu</b> and the
chief counsel for the <b>Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Newton-N-Minow/14089.muckety">Newton N. Minow</a> is
a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b> and a member of
the <b>Commercial Club of Chicago</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/R-Eden-Martin/9864.muckety">R. Eden Martin</a> is
counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b> and the president of the <b>Commercial
Club of Chicago</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Richard-M-Daley/5135.muckety">Richard M. Daley</a> is
a member of the <b>Commercial Club of Chicago</b> and was a director
at the <b>World Business Chicago</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-M-Daley/1711.muckety">William M. Daley</a> is
a member of the <b>Commercial Club of Chicago</b>, was a director at
the <b>World Business Chicago</b>, the chief of staff for the <b>Barack
Obama administration</b> and a director at the <b>Boeing Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Rahm-I-Emanuel/1289.muckety">Rahm I. Emanuel</a> is
a member of the <b>Commercial Club of Chicago</b>, the chairman for <b>World
Business Chicago</b> and was the White House chief of staff for the <b>Barack
Obama administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Glenn-F-Tilton/8211.muckety">Glenn F. Tilton</a> is
a member of the <b>Commercial Club of Chicago</b>, a director at <b>World
Business Chicago</b> and was the chairman for the <b>United
Continental Holdings, Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Oscar-Munoz/15578.muckety">Oscar Munoz</a> is
a director at <b>World Business Chicago</b> and the president &
CEO for the <b>United Continental Holdings, Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/United-Airlines/5001942.muckety">United Airlines</a> is
a subsidiary of <b>United Continental Holdings, Inc</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Thomas-R-Pickering/2492.muckety">Thomas R.
Pickering</a> is was a SVP, consultant for the <b>Boeing Company</b> and
is a distinguished fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and the <b>Center
for American Progress</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b> and a supporter for
the <b>Center for American Progress</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Tom-Daschle/4400.muckety">Tom Daschle</a> is a
director at the <b>Center for American Progress</b>, married to <b>Linda
H. Daschle</b> and a senior policy adviser at <b>DLA Piper</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Linda-H-Daschle/23305.muckety">Linda H. Daschle</a> is
married to <b>Tom Daschle</b> and was the deputy administrator for
the <b>Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Federal-Aviation-Administration/5006827.muckety">Federal
Aviation Administration</a> <b>(FAA)</b> is a division of the <b>U.S.
Department of Transportation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ray-H-LaHood/1307.muckety">Ray H. LaHood</a> was the
secretary at the <b>U.S. Department of Transportation</b> for
the <b>Barack Obama administration,</b> <b>Kathryn B. Thomson</b> was
his counselor and is a senior policy adviser for <b>DLA Piper</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kathryn-B-Thomson/97133.muckety">Kathryn B.
Thomson</a> was <b>Ray H. LaHood’s</b> counselor, a partner at <b>Sidley
Austin LLP</b>, is married to <b>Christopher P. Lu</b> and the chief
counsel for the <b>Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Buttigieg
on paternity leave since mid-August amid supply chain crunch, infrastructure
debate (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the U.S. Department of
Transportation</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
OCTOBER 18, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/10/buttigieg-on-paternity-leave-since-mid.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/10/buttigieg-on-paternity-leave-since-mid.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Operations
‘Resuming Gradually’ After All Flights Grounded Across US: Federal Agency
(Connecting the Dots: FAA, United Airlines, American Airlines, World Business
Chicago, Commercial Club of Chicago, Obama, Sidley Austin, Boeing & Soros
Funding, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the FAA</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 11, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/01/operations-resuming-gradually-after-all.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/01/operations-resuming-gradually-after-all.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-2842347938037137702024-01-30T20:36:00.000-05:002024-01-30T20:36:02.411-05:00Biden to Attend Return of Troops Killed in Jordan (Connecting the Dots: U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Joe Biden, David Rubenstein, Jordan, Iran & Soros Funding, All Networking)<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Biden to Attend Return of Troops Killed in
Jordan (<span style="color: #660033;">Connecting the Dots: U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD), Joe Biden, David Rubenstein,</span></span></b><span style="color: #660033;"> </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Jordan, Iran & Soros Funding, All
Networking</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Newsmax Wires<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:56 PM EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-to-attend-return-of-troops-killed-in-jordan/2024/01/30/id/1151563/">https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-to-attend-return-of-troops-killed-in-jordan/2024/01/30/id/1151563/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">President Joe Biden</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">will be present at
Dover Air Force Base for the return of the remains of three U.S. service
members killed in a drone attack in </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jordan</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, White House
spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Biden
made the decision after meeting with family members Tuesday, Kirby said. Biden
"expressed to them how proud we all are of their service, how we mourn and
feel the sorrow over their loss, and made sure that those families knew that
not only was that service and sacrifice are going to be honored and respected
but that they would continue to get the support that they need as they work
through what no family wants to have to go."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sgt.
William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Ga..; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24,
of Waycross, Ga.; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Ga.,
died in Jordan Sunday when "a one way unmanned aerial system (OWUAS)
impacted their container housing units," according to an official
statement released by the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Department of Defense</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
addition to the three deaths, at least 34 others were wounded in the drone
attack that officials say was carried out by </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Iran</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">-backed militants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kirby,
the spokesman, sparked outrage Monday when he told the press he didn’t
"have anything on [the president’s] schedule to speak to" regarding
whether Biden would attend the body transfer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Richard-L-Armitage/4339.muckety">Richard L.
Armitage</a> was the assistant secretary for the <a name="_Hlk157528302"><b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b> </a>and is a
director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Harold-Brown/2055.muckety">Harold Brown</a> was
the secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b> and is
an honorary director for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Frank-C-Carlucci/2049.muckety">Frank C. Carlucci</a> was
the secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b> and is
an honorary director for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Henry-E-Catto/1865.muckety">Henry E. Catto</a> was
the assistant secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and the chair emeritus for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Edwin-Dorn/152367.muckety">Edwin Dorn</a> was
the undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>,
and a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Eric-S-Edelman/193686.muckety">Eric S. Edelman</a> was
the undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Jacques-S-Gansler/152388.muckety">Jacques S.
Gansler</a> was the undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD)</b> and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Stephen-J-Hadley/7350.muckety">Stephen J. Hadley</a> was
the undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Paul-G-Kaminski/2111.muckety">Paul G. Kaminski</a> was
the undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Zalmay-Khalilzad/153705.muckety">Zalmay Khalilzad</a> was
the assistant deputy undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD)</b> and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Franklin-D-Kramer/30601.muckety">Franklin D.
Kramer</a> was the assistant secretary for the <b>U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD)</b> and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Judith-A-Miller/79879.muckety">Judith A. Miller</a> was
the general counsel for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Philip-A-Odeen/6161.muckety">Philip A. Odeen</a> was
the deputy assistant secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense
(DoD)</b> and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sean-OKeefe/6422.muckety">Sean O'Keefe</a> was
the comptroller & CFO for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Walter-B-Slocombe/8091.muckety">Walter B. Slocombe</a> was
the undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-R-Schlesinger/1876.muckety">James R.
Schlesinger</a> was the secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD)</b> and is an honorary director at the <b>Atlantic Council
of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-H-Taft-IV/12862.muckety">William H. Taft
IV</a> was the general counsel for the <b>U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD)</b> and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Togo-D-West-Jr/9278.muckety">Togo D. West Jr.</a> was
the general counsel for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Dov-S-Zakheim/23137.muckety">Dov S. Zakheim</a> was
the undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>
and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-J-Perry/1706.muckety">William J. Perry</a> was
the secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b> and is
an honorary director for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Robert-S-McNamara/1408.muckety">Robert S. McNamara</a> was
the secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</b>, an
honorary director for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>, and an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-L-Jones-Jr/105811.muckety">James L. Jones
Jr.</a> was the commander, U.S. European Command for the <b>U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD)</b>, the supreme allied commander – Europe for <b>NATO</b>
and is a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Chas-W-Freeman-Jr/152346.muckety">Chas. W. Freeman
Jr.</a> was the assistant secretary for the <b>U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD)</b>, National Intelligence Council chairman nominee for
the <b>Barack Obama administration</b> and is a director at the <b>Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the founder
& chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations </b>and the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Charles-W-Duncan-Jr/207.muckety">Charles W. Duncan
Jr.</a> was an honorary trustee at the<b> Brookings Institution
(think tank)</b> and the deputy secretary for the <b>U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-A-Owens/1684.muckety">William A. Owens</a> was
an honorary trustee at the<b> Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and
the senior military assistant to the secretary for the <b>U.S. Department
of Defense (DoD)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/David-M-Rubenstein/1824.muckety">David M.
Rubenstein</a> is the co-chairman for the <b>Brookings Institution
(think tank)</b>,<b> a regent at the Smithsonian Institution</b>,<b> Spent
Thanksgiving with Joe Biden </b>and was a benefactor at the <b>Aspen
Institute (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Joseph-R-Biden-Jr/881.muckety">Joseph R. Biden Jr.</a> is
a regent at the <b>Smithsonian Institution</b>, <b>Spent Thanksgiving with
David Rubenstein</b> and the president for the <b>Joe Biden Administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the<b> Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b> and the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Thomas-R-Pickering/2492.muckety">Thomas R.
Pickering</a> is a distinguished fellow at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>, a lifetime trustee at the <b>Aspen Institute
(think tank)</b> and was a U.S. ambassador for <b>Jordan</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Queen-Noor/2419.muckety">Queen Noor</a> is a
trustee at the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b> and the queen dowager
of <b>Jordan</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Princess-Firyal/15611.muckety">Princess Firyal</a> is
the princess for <b>Jordan</b> and an overseer at the <b>International
Rescue Committee</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>International Rescue Committee</b> and the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Stephen-Hess/97034.muckety">Stephen Hess</a> is
a senior fellow emeritus at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>
and is an advisory board member for the <b>Joan Shorenstein
Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/E-J-Dionne/13024.muckety">E.J. Dionne</a> is
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and an
advisory board member for the <b>Joan Shorenstein Center on the
Press, Politics and Public Policy</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Hushang-Ansary/96852.muckety">Hushang Ansary</a> is
an advisory board member for the <b>Joan Shorenstein Center on the
Press, Politics and Public Policy</b> and was the minister of economic affairs
for <b>Iran</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">U.S.
Marine Dies in Afghanistan on New Year's Day (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
JANUARY 5, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/01/us-marine-dies-in-afghanistan-on-new.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/01/us-marine-dies-in-afghanistan-on-new.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Smithsonian
Admits to Destruction of Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons in Early 1900′s (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the Smithsonian Institution</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/12/smithsonian-admits-to-destruction-of.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/12/smithsonian-admits-to-destruction-of.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jordan Expels Syrian Ambassador, Claims He 'Repeatedly
Insulted Jordan' (</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Past Research on Jordan</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/jordan-expels-syrian-ambassador-claims.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/jordan-expels-syrian-ambassador-claims.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ambassador Power: Strive for Guarantee That Iran Nuke
Program Is 'Peaceful' (</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Past Research on Iran</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/ambassador-power-strive-for-guarantee.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/ambassador-power-strive-for-guarantee.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-34829595182339267522024-01-29T20:52:00.000-05:002024-01-29T20:52:00.962-05:00Drone That Killed US Troops in Jordan Mistaken for US Craft: Initial Report (Connecting the Dots: Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Kamala D. Harris, Madeleine Albright, U.S. Central Command, Lloyd Austin, Raytheon, The Center for a New American Security, Navy, Army, Marines, U.S. Department of Defense & Soros Funding, All Networking. Connect… Connect… Connect… Control… Control… Control)<p><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Drone That Killed US Troops in Jordan Mistaken for US
Craft: Initial Report (</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Connecting the Dots: Joe Biden,
Hunter Biden, Kamala D. Harris, Madeleine Albright, U.S. Central Command, Lloyd
Austin, Raytheon, The Center for a New American Security, Navy, Army, Marines, U.S.
Department of Defense & Soros Funding, All Networking. Connect… Connect…
Connect… Control… Control… Control</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;">)</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monday, 29 January 2024 04:12 PM EST<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/jordan-drone-attack-attack-confusion/2024/01/29/id/1151439/">https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/jordan-drone-attack-attack-confusion/2024/01/29/id/1151439/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">U.S.
forces may have mistaken an enemy drone for an American one and let it pass
unchallenged into a desert base in Jordan where it killed three U.S. troops and
wounded dozens more, officials said Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Details
of the Sunday attack emerged as President </span><a name="_Hlk157442413"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Joe
Biden</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">faced a difficult balancing act, blaming
Iran and looking to strike back in a forceful way without causing any further
escalation of the Gaza conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
the enemy drone was flying in at a low altitude, a U.S. drone was returning to
the small installation known as Tower 22, according to a preliminary report
cited by two officials, who were not authorized to comment and insisted on
anonymity,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
a result, there was no effort to shoot down the enemy drone that hit the
outpost. One of the trailers where troops sleep sustained the brunt of the
strike, while surrounding trailers got limited damage from the blast and flying
debris.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Aside
from the soldiers killed, the Pentagon said more than 40 troops were wounded in
the attack, most with cuts, bruises, brain injuries and similar wounds. Eight
were medically evacuated, including three who were going to Landstuhl Regional
Medical Center in Germany. The other five, who suffered minor brain injuries,
were expected to return to duty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
preliminary conclusion was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Asked
if the failure to shoot down the enemy drone was “human error," Pentagon
spokeswoman Sabrina Singh responded that the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">U.S. Central Command</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was still
assessing the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Pentagon identified those killed in the attack as Sgt. William Jerome Rivers,
46, of Carrollton, Ga.; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Ga., and
Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Ga.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
three U.S. Army Reserve soldiers were assigned to the 718th Engineer Company,
926th Engineer Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade in Fort Moore, Georgia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
explanation for how the enemy drone evaded U.S. air defenses came as the White
House said Monday it’s not looking for war with Iran even as Biden vows
retaliatory action. The Democratic administration believes Tehran was behind
the strike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Biden
met with national security advisers in the White House Situation Room to
discuss the latest developments and potential retaliation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“There’s
no easy answer here,” said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. “And
that’s why the president is meeting with his national security team weighing
the options before him.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
brazen attack, which the Biden administration blames on Iranian-based proxies,
adds another layer of complexity to an already tense Mideast situation as the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Biden
administration</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">tries
to keep the Israel-Hamas war from expanding into a broader regional conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
president and I will not tolerate attacks on U.S. forces, and we will take all
necessary actions to defend the U.S. and our troops,” </span><a name="_Hlk157434633"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Defense Secretary </span></b></a><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Lloyd Austin</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">said as he met at
the Pentagon with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
drone attack was one of dozens on </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">U.S. troops</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">in the Middle East
since Hamas launched attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, igniting the war in Gaza. But
it’s the first in which American service members have been killed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Biden
promised on Sunday to “hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a
manner (of) our choosing” but said the U.S. wasn’t seeking to get into another
conflict in the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kirby
also made clear that American patience has worn thin after more than two months
of attacks by Iranian proxies on U.S. troops in Iraq, Syria and Jordan and on </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">U.S.
Navy</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The proxy groups — including Yemen’s Houthi
rebels and Iraq based Kataeb Hezbollah — say the attacks are in response to
Israel’s ongoing military operations in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“We
are not looking for a war with Iran," Kirby told reporters. “That said,
this was a very serious attack. It had lethal consequences. We will respond,
and we respond appropriately.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Iran
on Monday denied it was behind the Jordan strike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“These
claims are made with specific political goals to reverse the realities of the
region,” Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency quoted foreign ministry spokesman
Nasser Kanaani as saying. Iran regularly denies involvement in attacks linked
back to it through the militias it arms across the wider Mideast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kirby
said that U.S. officials are still working through determining which militant
group was behind the attack. He noted that Iran has longed equipped and trained
the militias.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Republicans
have laid blame on Biden for doing too little to deter Iranian militias, which
have carried out approximately 165 attacks on U.S. troops in the region since
the start of the war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Republican
presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday called the attack “yet another
horrific and tragic consequence of Joe Biden’s weakness and surrender.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
attack hit a U.S. military desert outpost in the far reaches of northeastern
Jordan known as Tower 22. The installation sits near the demilitarized zone on
the border between Jordan and Syria along a sandy, bulldozed berm marking the
DMZ’s southern edge. The Iraqi border is only 10 kilometers (6 miles) away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
base began as a Jordanian outpost watching the border, then saw an increased
U.S. presence after American forces entered Syria in late 2015. The small
installation includes U.S. engineering, aviation, logistics and security
troops, with about 350 </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">U.S. Army</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Air
Force</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">personnel
deployed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Iraq’s
government condemned the drone strike. Spokesman Bassem al-Awadi said in a
statement that Iraq was “monitoring with a great concern the alarming security
developments in the region” and called for “an end to the cycle of violence.”
The statement said that Iraq is ready to participate in diplomatic efforts to
prevent further escalation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">An
umbrella group for Iran-backed factions known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq
has claimed dozens of attacks against bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and
Syria since the Israel-Hamas war began. On Sunday, the group claimed three
drone attacks against sites in Syria, including near the border with Jordan,
and one inside of “occupied Palestine” but so far hasn’t claimed the attack in
Jordan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John
Bolton, who served as national security adviser to Trump, said Iran hasn't paid
a price for the havoc that its proxies have unleashed in the region. He
suggested the Biden administration could send a strong message to Tehran with
strikes on Iranian vessels in the Red Sea, Iranian air defenses along the Iraqi
border, and bases that have been used to train and supply militant groups for
years<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“So
until Iran bears a cost, you’re not going to reestablish deterrence, you’re not
going to put the belligerence on a downward slope.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
attack came as U.S. officials were seeing signs of progress in negotiations to
broker a deal between Israel and Hamas to release the more than 100 remaining
hostages being held in Gaza in exchange for an extended pause in fighting.
While contours of a deal under consideration would not end the war, Americans
believed that it could lay the groundwork for a durable resolution to the
conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Top
U.S., Israeli, Egypt and Qatari officials held talks on Sunday in France about
an emerging framework for a hostage deal. Israel said “significant gaps” remain
but called the talks constructive and said they would continue in the week
ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lloyd Austin<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#Private_sector">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#Private_sector</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Private sector<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Immediately
after retiring as CENTCOM Commander, Austin joined the <a name="_Hlk157434570">board
of </a></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_Technologies" title="Raytheon Technologies"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Raytheon Technologies</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, a military contractor, in April 2016.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-contractorquestions-49"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[49]</span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-auto-50"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[50]</span></a></sup> As
of October 2020, his Raytheon stock holdings were worth roughly $500,000
and his compensation, including stock, totaled $2.7 million.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-contractorquestions-49"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[49]</span></a></sup> On
September 18, 2017, he was appointed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor" title="Nucor"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Nucor</span></a>'s board of directors.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-51"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[51]</span></a></sup> On
May 29, 2018, Austin was appointed as an independent director on the board
of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenet_Healthcare" title="Tenet Healthcare"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Tenet
Healthcare</span></a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-auto3-52"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">[52]</span></a></sup> He
also operates a consulting firm and has been a partner at Pine Island Capital,
an investment company with which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Secretary of State</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Blinken" title="Antony Blinken"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Antony Blinken</span></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Flournoy" title="Michèle Flournoy"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">Michèle
Flournoy</span></a> are affiliated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Secretary
of Defense (2021–present)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#Secretary_of_Defense_(2021%E2%80%93present)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#Secretary_of_Defense_(2021%E2%80%93present)</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Austin
took office on January 22, 2021, after being sworn in by a </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Defense
Department</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">official,
and was sworn in ceremonially by Vice President </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Kamala
Harris</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">on
January 25, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
The Dots</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Joseph-R-Biden-Jr/881.muckety">Joseph R. Biden Jr.</a> is
the president for the <a name="_Hlk157434149"><b>Joe Biden Administration</b>
</a>and <b>R. Hunter Biden’s</b> father.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/R-Hunter-Biden/26290.muckety">R. Hunter Biden</a> is <b>Joseph
R. Biden Jr’s</b> son, a director at the <b>Center for National
Policy </b>and a director at the <b>Truman National Security Project</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157442432"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kamala-D-Harris/93977.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kamala D. Harris</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is an
advisory board member for the<b> Center for National Policy</b>, an
advisory board member for the <b>Truman National Security Project</b> and
the Vice President for the <b>Joe Biden Administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Madeleine-K-Albright/1907.muckety">Madeleine K.
Albright</a> was the president of the <b>Center for National Policy</b>,
an advisory board member for the <b>Truman National Security Project</b>
and a director at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157434587"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Raytheon-Company/5001588.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Raytheon Company</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a contributor
for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157435368"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Lloyd-J-Austin-III/215806.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lloyd J. Austin III</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a board
of <b>Raytheon Technologies AKA the Raytheon Company</b>, is the commander for
the <b>U.S. Central Command</b> and Defense Secretary for the <b>Joe Biden
Administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Central-Command/5055882.muckety">U.S. Central
Command</a> is a unified combatant command for the <b>U.S. Department
of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Chuck-Hagel/231.muckety">Chuck Hagel</a> was
the secretary at the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b> for the <b>Barack
Obama administration</b>, the chairman for the <b>Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank)</b> and a professor at the <b>Georgetown
University</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the founder & chairman
for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Madeleine-K-Albright/1907.muckety">Madeleine K.
Albright</a> was an honorary director at the <b>Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank)</b>, a professor at <b>Georgetown
University</b>, the president of the <b>Center for National Policy</b>, an
advisory board member for the <b>Truman National Security Project</b> and a
director at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/R-Hunter-Biden/26290.muckety">R. Hunter Biden</a> is
a director at the <b>Center for National Policy,</b> a director at the <b>Truman
National Security Project</b> and <b>Joseph R. Biden Jr’s</b> son.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kamala-D-Harris/93977.muckety">Kamala D. Harris</a> is
an advisory board member for the<b> Center for National Policy</b>, an
advisory board member for the <b>Truman National Security Project</b> and
the Vice President for the <b>Joe Biden Administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Madeleine-K-Albright/1907.muckety">Madeleine K.
Albright</a> was the president of the <b>Center for National Policy</b>,
an advisory board member for the <b>Truman National Security Project</b>
and a director at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Richard-J-Danzig/84150.muckety">Richard J. Danzig</a> is
the director & former chairman for the <b>Center for a New American
Security</b> and was the secretary for the <b>U.S. Navy</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Navy/5004240.muckety">U.S. Navy</a> was a
contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Dennis-C-Blair/22430.muckety">Dennis C. Blair</a> was
an admiral for the <b>U.S. Navy</b>, a director at the <b>Center for
a New American Security</b> and a national intelligence director for the <b>Barack
Obama administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Robert-O-Work/165109.muckety">Robert O. Work</a> was
the undersecretary for the <b>U.S. Navy</b>, the CEO for the <b>Center
for a New American Security</b> and is the deputy secretary for the <b>U.S.
Department of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Gary-Roughead/181363.muckety">Gary Roughead</a> is
a director at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b> and was
the <b>chief of naval operations </b>for the <b>U.S. Department
of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/John-P-White/30231.muckety">John P. White</a> is
an advisory board member for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>,
was a director at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>, and the
deputy secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Vikram-J-Singh/217522.muckety">Vikram J. Singh</a> was
a fellow at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b> and an assistant
secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-J-Perry/1706.muckety">William J. Perry</a> was
a director at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>, and the
secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Janine-Davidson/181381.muckety">Janine Davidson</a> is
a non-resident senior fellow at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>
and was the deputy assistant secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of
Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kurt-M-Campbell/21452.muckety">Kurt M. Campbell</a> is
the chairman & co-founder for the <b>Center for a New American
Security</b> and was a deputy assistant secretary for Asia for the <b>U.S.
Department of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Bob-Butler/215003.muckety">Bob Butler</a> is
a non-resident senior fellow at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>
and was a deputy assistant secretary for cyber policy for the <b>U.S.
Department of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Derek-H-Chollet/211870.muckety">Derek H. Chollet</a> was
a senior fellow at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>, a
special assistant to the president for the <b>Barack Obama administration</b>
and is the assistant secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Colin-H-Kahl/181325.muckety">Colin H. Kahl</a> is
a senior fellow at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b> and was a
deputy assistant secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Richard-L-Armitage/4339.muckety">Richard L.
Armitage</a> is a director at the <b>Center for a New American
Security</b> and was an assistant secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of
Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michele-A-Flournoy/151649.muckety">Michele A.
Flournoy</a> is the CEO for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>
and was the under secretary at the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b> for
the <b>Barack Obama administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/William-J-Lynn/91847.muckety">William J. Lynn</a> was
a director at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b> and the deputy
secretary at the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b> for the <b>Barack
Obama administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Wallace-Gregson-Jr/165750.muckety">Wallace Gregson
Jr.</a> was an advisory board member for the <b>Center for a New
American Security</b>, the assistant secretary for Asian & Pacific security
affairs at the <b>U.S. Department of Defense</b> for the <b>Barack
Obama administration</b> and a lieutenant general for the <b>U.S. Marine
Corps</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Army/5001881.muckety">U.S. Army</a> was a
contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/John-A-Nagl/169219.muckety">John A. Nagl</a> was
a lieutenant colonel for the <b>U.S. Army</b> and is an advisory board
member for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Dell-L-Dailey/153513.muckety">Dell L. Dailey</a> was
a lieutenant general for the <b>U.S. Army</b> and is an advisory board
member for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Army/5001881.muckety">U.S. Army</a> was a
contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Navy/5004240.muckety">U.S. Navy</a> was a
contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Air-Force/5002446.muckety">U.S. Air Force</a> was
a contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Coast-Guard/5004239.muckety">U.S. Coast Guard</a> was
a contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Marine-Corps/5003936.muckety">U.S. Marine
Corps</a> was a contributor for the <b>Center for a New American
Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Gregory-S-Newbold/91678.muckety">Gregory S.
Newbold</a> was a lieutenant general for the <b>U.S. Marine Corps</b>
and a director at the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Arnold-L-Punaro/24643.muckety">Arnold L. Punaro</a> was
a major general for the <b>U.S. Marine Corps</b> and is an advisory board
member for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <a href="http://www.muckety.com/John-R-Allen/198007.muckety">John R. Allen</a> was
a general for the <b>U.S. Marine Corps</b> and is a director at the <b>Center
for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Department-of-Defense/5001894.muckety">U.S.
Department of Defense</a> was a contributor for the <b>Center for a
New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Central-Command/5055882.muckety">U.S. Central
Command</a> is a unified combatant command for the <b>U.S. Department
of Defense</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Lloyd-J-Austin-III/215806.muckety">Lloyd J. Austin
III</a> is the commander for the <b>U.S. Central Command</b> and Defense
Secretary for the <b>Joe Biden Administration</b> and was board of <b>Raytheon
Technologies AKA the Raytheon Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Raytheon-Company/5001588.muckety">Raytheon Company</a> was
a contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Army/5001881.muckety">U.S. Army</a> was a
contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Navy/5004240.muckety">U.S. Navy</a> was a
contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Air-Force/5002446.muckety">U.S. Air Force</a> was
a contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Coast-Guard/5004239.muckety">U.S. Coast Guard</a> was
a contributor for the <b>Center for a New American Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Marine-Corps/5003936.muckety">U.S. Marine
Corps</a> was a contributor for the <b>Center for a New American
Security</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Madeleine-K-Albright/1907.muckety">Madeleine K.
Albright</a> was a director at the <b>Center for a New American
Security</b>, the president of the <b>Center for National Policy</b> and an
advisory board member for the <b>Truman National Security Project</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/R-Hunter-Biden/26290.muckety">R. Hunter Biden</a> is
a director at the <b>Center for National Policy,</b> a director at the <b>Truman
National Security Project</b> and <b>Joseph R. Biden Jr’s</b> son.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kamala-D-Harris/93977.muckety">Kamala D. Harris</a> is
an advisory board member for the<b> Center for National Policy</b>, an
advisory board member for the <b>Truman National Security Project</b> and
the Vice President for the <b>Joe Biden Administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Joe
Biden: Ban ‘Civilian Ownership’ Of ‘Assault Weapons’ (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on Joe Biden</span>)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
JUNE 19, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/06/joe-biden-ban-civilian-ownership-of.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/06/joe-biden-ban-civilian-ownership-of.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Pentagon
Labels YouTube/Twitter Hacking 'Cyber Vandalism' (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on Lloyd Austin</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 14, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/01/pentagon-labels-youtubetwitter-hacking.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/01/pentagon-labels-youtubetwitter-hacking.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Stephen
King Calls for Trump to Be ‘Removed’ from Office (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the Raytheon Company</span>) <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
AUGUST 13, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/08/stephen-king-calls-for-trump-to-be.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/08/stephen-king-calls-for-trump-to-be.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Witch
Hunt By Navy Brass Against Decorated Chaplain for Expressing Traditional
Marriage View (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the Center for a
New American Security</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
MARCH 24, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/03/witch-hunt-by-navy-brass-against.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/03/witch-hunt-by-navy-brass-against.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-46276649065945858762024-01-28T00:00:00.000-05:002024-01-28T00:00:14.601-05:00 Smaller Bites – Connecting the Dots: Cornell University & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Major
Donor Calls for Cornell University President’s to Resign for Allegedly
Promoting DEI</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘DEI
should never have been allowed to corrupt an institution that earned its
prestige for exemplary academics based on merit,’ Mr. Lindseth said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Aaron Pan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1/27/2024
Updated:1/27/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0IuYqtJH7rGk0OLkZSYzOYG5akRfuvCDKOmWWhFE8RmsAdkYfISZC1IPv5rOHZRqo9SMkl71LVrM6ZJLvDQh1vIpxQzug8Bdc80bHz53Nu7nh7zmExsO0yiLbcEXRN2qFv0eyEYz_wFiuZKjOHmFcPvRdB4xy6ZpV76kBspgVtJgz2cdstJFFynBbKMI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0IuYqtJH7rGk0OLkZSYzOYG5akRfuvCDKOmWWhFE8RmsAdkYfISZC1IPv5rOHZRqo9SMkl71LVrM6ZJLvDQh1vIpxQzug8Bdc80bHz53Nu7nh7zmExsO0yiLbcEXRN2qFv0eyEYz_wFiuZKjOHmFcPvRdB4xy6ZpV76kBspgVtJgz2cdstJFFynBbKMI=w539-h358" width="539" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">A
woman walks by a Cornell University sign on the Ivy League school's campus in
Ithaca, N.Y., on Jan. 14, 2022. (Ted Shaffrey /AP Photo)</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us/major-donor-calls-for-cornell-university-presidents-to-resign-for-allegedly-promoting-dei-5575054?utm_medium=app&c=share_pos2&pid=iOS_app_share&utm_source=iOS_app_share">https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us/major-donor-calls-for-cornell-university-presidents-to-resign-for-allegedly-promoting-dei-5575054?utm_medium=app&c=share_pos2&pid=iOS_app_share&utm_source=iOS_app_share</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
major alumnus donor is pushing </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cornell University</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to oust its
president for allegedly promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
initiatives that undermine education quality and academic freedom at the Ivy
League school.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
a letter dated Jan. 23 to Cornell’s chairman Kraig Kayser and board of
trustees, Jon A. Lindseth, a long-time donor and trustee emeritus, raised
concerns over DEI policies and its “harmful effects” on the school and demanded
Cornell fire president Martha Pollack and provost Michael Kotlikoff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Cornell
must abandon its misguided commitment to DEI because it has yielded not
excellence but disgrace,” he said. “Replace the President and the Provost.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“DEI
should never have been allowed to corrupt an institution that earned its
prestige for exemplary academics based on merit,” Mr. Lindseth said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the letter, Mr. Lindseth said he was concerned about the DEI initiatives that
have infiltrated all aspects of the university, creating a “toxic academic
environment.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Today,
the instruction Cornell offers is in DEI groupthink applied to every field of
study. The result is a moral decay, some call it ‘rot,’ that falls in line with
prevailing ideology and dishonors basic principles of justice and free speech,”
he noted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mr.
Lindseth listed multiple instances at Cornell that call DEI policies into
question, such as allegedly race-based hiring rather than academic merit,
rejecting qualified faculty candidates for not meeting DEI requirements, and
punishing faculty members “for expressing minority opinions on national events
and policy matters,” among others. He also accused the school of fostering “a
cancel culture on campus where bullying, intolerance, and petulant behavior
rule rather than academic rigor and honest debate.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“A
new campus ‘bias reporting system’ fosters a hostile Orwellian environment
among neighbors, classmates, and colleagues reporting on one another. The
elimination of grades and SATs has created a system in which equal outcomes
rather than proven merit has become the objective,” Mr. Lindseth said. ”This is
disastrous for a research university that is built upon academic achievement
and aims to educate and train some of our country’s leading scientists,
architects, and engineers.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Poor
Leadership<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
also pointed out that Cornell’s DEI policies are being promoted by its new
“Center For Racial Justice and Equitable Outcomes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mr.
Lindseth blamed Cornell’s poor leadership for allowing DEI to continue to hurt
his alma mater, adding that many alumni share the same opinion with him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Henry-Louis-Gates-Jr/590.muckety">Henry Louis
Gates Jr.</a> was a professor at <b>Cornell University</b> and an
honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for<b> </b>the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Andrew-H-Tisch/47.muckety">Andrew H. Tisch</a> is
a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and a
trustee at <b>Cornell University</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Abby-Joseph-Cohen/23007.muckety">Abby Joseph Cohen</a> was
a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and is a
trustee emeritus at <b>Cornell University.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Who
Really Controls Our Universities? (Connecting the Dots: Soros Funded Think
Tanks) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Cornell University</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 24, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/who-really-controls-our-universities.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/who-really-controls-our-universities.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-21109914087253183822024-01-26T23:19:00.000-05:002024-01-26T23:19:02.977-05:00 Smaller Bites – Connecting the Dots: Doctors Without Borders, The American Red Cross, The United Nations & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
Secret Network Helping Biden Fuel the Border Invasion | Ep 329</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Glenn
Beck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Premiered
Jan 24, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="370" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eE0fUTROkhw" width="445" youtube-src-id="eE0fUTROkhw"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Supreme Court just ruled the Biden administration can continue to dismantle
Texas border protections put in place to stem the flow of illegal crossings at
Eagle Pass. In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott released one of his
harshest rebukes of President Biden yet in a constitutional showdown. We are
beyond crisis-level numbers now thanks to a well-organized, globally funded
network that is aiding and abetting an illegal INVASION at the southern border.
The operation includes institutions like the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">United Nations</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, NGOs like </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Doctors
Without Borders</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">,
and the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Red Cross</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Glenn reveals the extent of the global network, the
institutions' detailed plans, and “migration maps” they hand out to residents
in South America. But where will the millions and millions of illegal migrants
we welcomed in live? In developments like Colony Ridge, Texas, as Glenn exposed
in the latest Blaze Originals documentary. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick tells Glenn
why he is holding Senate hearings to uncover more about Colony Ridge and why he
diverted more police resources to the community. Will Texas go to the mat with
the federal government if the feds won’t protect the border? “We will arrest,
detain, and jail anyone who is here illegally,” Patrick says. “We WILL hold the
line.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for <b>Doctors Without</b> <b>Borders</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the founder
& chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b> and was the
chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Suzanne-Nora-Johnson/1553.muckety">Suzanne Nora
Johnson</a> is a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>
and was a governor for the <a name="_Hlk115772042"><b>American Red Cross</b></a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cass-R-Sunstein/84075.muckety">Cass R. Sunstein</a> is
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and married
to <b>Samantha Power</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Samantha-Power/15690.muckety">Samantha Power</a> is
married to <b>Cass R. Sunstein</b> and the U.S. ambassador for the <b>United</b> <b>Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Donald-F-McHenry/368.muckety">Donald F. McHenry</a> was
a U.S. ambassador for the <b>United Nations</b> and is an honorary
trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Joan-E-Spero/749.muckety">Joan E. Spero</a> was
a U.S ambassador for economic & social affairs for the <b>United
Nations</b> and an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Afghanistan:
Crisis Update December 16th 2021 (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Doctors
Without Borders</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 22, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/12/afghanistan-crisis-update-december-16th.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/12/afghanistan-crisis-update-december-16th.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Be
Careful That Your Donations Don’t End Up In The Wrong Hands (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the American Red Cross</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 4, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/10/be-careful-that-your-donations-dont-end.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/10/be-careful-that-your-donations-dont-end.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">THE
NEW WORLD DISORDER (Connecting the Dots: The United Nations & Soros
Funding, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the
United Nations</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
JUNE 26, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Court of Justice opening statement on behalf of Israel (<span style="color: #660033;">Connecting the Dots: United Nations, Palestine (Hamas), International
Court of Justice, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking</span>)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Israel365News<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">No
weapon formed against you Shall succeed, And every tongue that contends with
you at law You shall defeat. Such is the lot of the servants of Hashem, Such
their triumph through Me —declares Hashem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ISAIAH
54:17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(THE
ISRAEL BIBLE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ZAHAVA
SCHWARTZ - GAZA WAR - JANUARY 14, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Proceedings
instituted by South Africa against the State of Israel, presented on Jan. 12,
2024.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Co-agent’s
opening statement</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Presented
on Jan. 12, 2024, by Tal Becker, legal adviser to the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs; previously legal counsel to the Permanent Mission of Israel to
the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">United Nations</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">from 2001-05 who
has served as vice chairman of the Legal Committee of the U.N. General
Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Madame
President, Distinguished Members of the Court,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
is an honor to appear before you again on behalf of the State of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
State of Israel is singularly aware of why the Genocide Convention, which has
been invoked in these proceedings, was adopted. Seared in our collective memory
is the systematic murder of six million Jews as part of a pre-meditated and
heinous program for their total annihilation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Given
the Jewish people’s history, it is not surprising that Israel was among the
first States to ratify the Genocide Convention, without reservation, and to
incorporate its provisions in its domestic legislation. For some, the promise
of “Never Again” for all peoples is a slogan; for Israel, it is the highest
moral obligation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Raphael
Lemkin, a Polish Jew who witnessed the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust, is
credited with coining the term Genocide. He helped the world recognize that the
existing legal lexicon was simply inadequate to capture the devasting evil that
the Nazi Holocaust unleashed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Applicant has now sought to invoke this term in the context of Israel’s conduct
in a war it did not start and did not want. A war in which Israel is defending
itself against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist
organizations whose brutality knows no bounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
civilian suffering in this war, like in all wars, is tragic. It is
heartbreaking. The harsh realities of the current hostilities are made
especially agonizing for civilians given Hamas’s reprehensible strategy of
seeking to maximize civilian harm to both Israelis and Palestinians, even as
Israel seeks to minimize it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But,
as this Court has already made clear, the Genocide Convention was not designed
to address the brutal impact of intensive hostilities on the civilian
population, even when the use of force raises “very serious issues of
international law” and involves “enormous suffering” and “continuing loss of
life”. The Convention was set apart to address a malevolent crime of the most
exceptional severity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
live at a time when words are cheap. In an age of social media and identity
politics, the temptation to reach for the most outrageous term, to vilify and
demonize, has become for many irresistible. But if there is one place where
words should still matter, where truth should still matter, it is surely a
court of law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Applicant has regrettably put before the Court a profoundly distorted factual
and legal picture. The entirety of its case hinges on a deliberately curated,
decontextualized and manipulative description of the reality of current
hostilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">South
Africa purports to come to this </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Court</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> in the lofty
position of a guardian of the interest of humanity. But in delegitimizing
Israel’s 75-year existence in its opening presentation, that broad commitment
to humanity rang hollow. And in its sweeping counter-factual description of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it seemed to erase both Jewish history and any Palestinian</span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">agency or
responsibility. Indeed, the Application delegitimization of Israel since its
very establishment in 1948 in its submissions, sounded barely distinguishable
from Hamas’s own rejectionist rhetoric.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
unsurprising, therefore, that in the Applicant’s telling, both Hamas’s
responsibility for the situation in Gaza and the very humanity of its Israeli
victims are removed from view.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The attempt to
weaponize the term genocide against Israel in the present context does more
than tell the Court a grossly distorted story, and it does more than empty the
word of its unique force and special meaning. It subverts the object and
purpose of the Convention itself—with ramifications for all States seeking to
defend themselves against those who demonstrate total disdain for life and for
the law.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmJcnnAK2GJ-oBFA_IZKwRBrwsaEhw8FrNM6F9c31yAxXbmXfj1oqCw_MchX4j3pzikbtAz9eT5pmNkWK3oV0Wg5iUedz-9vUyKY8Cvn6g0ggJQDGm8zp3AOcb0v7lZVjw-KbesW-HehFI1GTvuSzzmGg8H_RCUnXtCmUfJXmMEvqnAosZ7g8-BF4e9_Y" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmJcnnAK2GJ-oBFA_IZKwRBrwsaEhw8FrNM6F9c31yAxXbmXfj1oqCw_MchX4j3pzikbtAz9eT5pmNkWK3oV0Wg5iUedz-9vUyKY8Cvn6g0ggJQDGm8zp3AOcb0v7lZVjw-KbesW-HehFI1GTvuSzzmGg8H_RCUnXtCmUfJXmMEvqnAosZ7g8-BF4e9_Y=w537-h357" width="537" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Israeli
soldiers walking next to destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir
Oz, Nov. 21, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90. (source: JNS)</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Madame
President, Members of the Court,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On Saturday,
October 7, a Jewish religious holiday, thousands of Hamas and other militants
breached Israel’s sovereign territory by sea, land, and air, invading over
twenty Israeli communities, bases and the site of a music festival. What
proceeded, under the cover of thousands of rockets fired indiscriminately into
Israel, was the wholesale massacre, mutilation, rape and abduction of as many
citizens as the terrorists could find before Israel’s security forces repelled
them. Openly displaying elation, they tortured children in front of their
parents, and parents in front of their children, burned people, including
infants, alive, and systematically raped and mutilated scores of women, men and
children. All told, some 1,200 people were butchered that day, more than 5,500
maimed, and some 240 hostages abducted, including infants, entire families,
persons with disabilities and Holocaust survivors, some of whom have since been
executed; many of whom have been tortured, sexually abused and starved in
captivity. Representatives of the hostages’ families are in this Court room
today and we acknowledge their presence and their boundless suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We know of the
brutality of October 7 not only from the harrowing testimonies of the
survivors, the unmistakable proof of carnage and sadism left behind, and the
forensic evidence taken at the scene. We know it because the assailants proudly
filmed and broadcast their barbarism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The events of that
day are all but ignored in the Applicant’s submissions. But we are compelled to
share with the Court some fraction of its horror—the largest calculated mass
murder of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We do so not
because these acts—however sadistic and systematic—release Israel of its
obligations to uphold the law as it defends its citizens and territory. That is
unquestionable. We do so rather because it is impossible to understand the
armed conflict in Gaza, without appreciating the nature of the threat Israel is
facing, and the brutality and lawlessness of the armed force confronting it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the Volume of
materials submitted to Members of the Court access has been provided to a
portion of the raw footage for separate screening. But I am obliged to put
before the Court today some small fragment of the scenes of unfathomable
cruelty that took place in hundreds of locations on that horrible day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Johnny Siman Tov,
a wheat farmer, and his wife Tamar, an activist for women’s rights, lived in
Kibbutz Nir Oz. When the rocket fire started, they hid in the safe room with
their 4-year-old son, Omer, and their 6-year-old twins, Arbel and Shachar.
During their rampage, Hamas militants set fire to their house. Johnny texted
his sister Ranae: “They’re here. They’re burning us. We’re suffocating.” The
whole family was burned alive, to ashes, making DNA identification especially
difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A survivor of the
Nova music festival massacre testified to police to witnessing a Hamas militant
brutally raping a young woman, as another militant cut off her breast and toyed
with it. A second militant then raped her again, shooting her in the head while
still inside her.<a href="https://www.jns.org/international-court-of-justice-opening-statement-on-behalf-of-israel/#_ftn4">[4]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In one video
recorded by a home surveillance system, a Hamas militant throws a grenade into
a safe room where a father and his two sons have rushed to hide. The father is
killed; the two sons are injured and bleeding as a militant pulls them into the
living room. One child can be heard screaming to his brother, “Why am I alive?
I can’t see anything. They’re going to kill us”. The militant casually opens
the fridge, takes out a bottle and drinks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">20.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And then there is
this: In yet another recording, a Hamas militant called Mahmoud is heard
excitedly calling his parents from Kibbutz Mefalsim. “Open my WhatsApp,” he
says “Look how many I killed with my own hands. Your son killed Jews!” “I’m
talking to you from a Jewish woman’s phone. I killed her, and I killed her
husband. I killed 10 with my own hands!” “Dad, 10 with my own hands,” he shouts
with palpable joy. “Mom, your son is a hero,” he says.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">21.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As stated, none of
these atrocities absolve Israel of its obligations under the law. But they do
enable the Court to appreciate three core aspects of the present proceedings,
which the Applicant has obscured from view.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">22.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">First</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, that if there
have been acts that may be characterized as genocidal, then they have been
perpetrated against Israel. If there is a concern about the obligations of
States under the Genocide Convention, then it is in relation to their
responsibilities to act against Hamas’s proudly declared agenda of
annihilation, which is not a secret, and is not in doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">23.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
annihilationist language of Hamas’s Charter is repeated regularly by its
leaders, with the goal, in the words of one member Hamas’s political bureau, of
the “cleansing of </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Palestine</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> of the filth of the Jews.” It is expressed no less
chillingly in the words of senior Hamas member, Ghazi Hamad, to Lebanese
Television on October 24, 2023, who refers to the October 7 attacks, what Hamas
calls the Al-Aqsa Flood, as follows: <i>“The Al-Aqsa Flood”, he says “is
just the first time, and there will be a second, a third and a fourth.”</i> In
the continuation of this interview, Hamad is asked: “Does that mean the
annihilation of Israel”. “Yes, of course,” he answers. “The existence of Israel
is illogical”; and then says “Nobody should blame us for the things we do. On
October 7, October 10, October 1,000,0000—everything we do is justified”. Given
that on October 7, before any military response by Israel, South Africa issued
an official statement blaming Israel for the “recent
conflagration,”—essentially blaming Israel for the murder of its own
citizens—one wonders whether the Applicant agrees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">24.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Second</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, it is in
response to the slaughter of October 7—which Hamas openly vows to repeat—and to
the ongoing attacks against it from Gaza, that Israel has the inherent right to
take all legitimate measures to defend its citizens and secure the release of
the hostages. This right is also not in doubt. It has been acknowledged by
States across the world.<a href="https://www.jns.org/international-court-of-justice-opening-statement-on-behalf-of-israel/#_ftn11">[11]</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">25.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Astonishingly, the
Court has been requested to indicate a provisional measure calling on Israel to
suspend its military operations. But this amounts to an attempt to deny Israel
its ability to meet its legal obligations to the defense of its citizens, to
the hostages, and to over 110,000 internally displaced Israelis unable to
safely return to their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">26.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Applicant in
its submissions to the Court makes almost no mention of the ongoing
humanitarian suffering of Israel’s citizens at the hands of Hamas, and treats
the hostages still held in captivity, as barely afterthought. But is there a
reason these people [on your screen] are unworthy of protection?</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEy9-JGNm5cwOS4w_W_MgAcgZ_J_3o6pxlCaGoQEYOQARifXbnuDSsQ_Z5ASxIlkd5W1uDrUMeU9vMu-d9M2790_AxlKYfDtNZlWvzYfcFu_k3HIn33J44wu2eM_R7ZsPGmjT8LNCJJGsUDt0C5dIGRe3IOptOyQ-pWUuktmEWHaR1omrsn-r_JVjRC1A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEy9-JGNm5cwOS4w_W_MgAcgZ_J_3o6pxlCaGoQEYOQARifXbnuDSsQ_Z5ASxIlkd5W1uDrUMeU9vMu-d9M2790_AxlKYfDtNZlWvzYfcFu_k3HIn33J44wu2eM_R7ZsPGmjT8LNCJJGsUDt0C5dIGRe3IOptOyQ-pWUuktmEWHaR1omrsn-r_JVjRC1A=w488-h325" width="488" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Families
of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza who returned from talks in
Qatar hold a press conference outside the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, Jan. 7, 2024.
Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">27.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hamas is not party
to these proceedings. The Applicant, by its request, seeks to thwart Israel’s
inherent right to defend itself—to let Hamas not just get away with its murder,
literally, but render Israel defenseless as Hamas continues to commit it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">28.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yesterday, Counsel
for the Applicant made the astonishing claim that Israel was denied this right,
and as a matter of fact should not be able to protect itself from Hamas’
attacks. But allow me to draw attention to these words written by Professor
Lowe: “The source of the attack, whether a state or non-state actor, is
irrelevant to the existence of the right” to self-defense. “Force may be used
to avert a threat because no one, and no state, is obliged by law passively to
suffer the delivery of an attack”. Israel agrees with these words, as I suspect
would any sovereign State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">29.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If the claim of
the Applicant now is that in the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas,
Israel must be denied the ability to defend its citizens—then the absurd upshot
of South Africa’s argument is this: Under the guise of the allegation against
Israel of genocide, this Court is asked to call for an end to operations
against the ongoing attacks of an organization that pursues an <i>actual</i> genocidal
agenda. An organization that has violated every past ceasefire and used it to
rearm and plan new atrocities. An organization that declares its unequivocal
resolve to advance its genocidal plans. That is an unconscionable request, and
it is respectfully submitted that it cannot stand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">30.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Third, </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">the Court is
informed of the events of October 7 because, if there are any Provisional
Measures that should appropriately be indicated here, they are indeed with
respect to South Africa itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">31.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is a matter of
public record, that South Africa enjoys close relations with Hamas, despite its
formal recognition as a terrorist organization by numerous States across the
world. These relations have continued unabated <i>even</i> after the
October 7 atrocities. South Africa has long hosted and celebrated its ties with
Hamas figures, including a senior Hamas delegation that—incredibly—visited the
country for a “solidarity gathering” just weeks after the massacre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">32.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In justifying
instituting these proceedings, South Africa makes much of its obligations under
the Genocide Convention. It seems fitting, then, that it be instructed to
comply with those obligations itself; to end its own language of
de-legitimization of Israel’s existence; end its support for Hamas; and to use
its influence with this organization so that Hamas permanently ends its
campaign of genocidal terror and releases the hostages.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwmc9kcViL9wOmGOc6qhLW3UmmcDea4_jGiKddO-GFJTzN5Q2rUvAOtkdIkg2VdmqNFOkvBjS3yqE0cYomfEEmGi2hOLkOlrWAMy6pxKfBJaKXmqKfot7gWoS06e7tx_IraeN65chNG5lTh15v-iUMwneLI1gj1cHcchKEgE4yir-8qxEgY_zFOK_e9PI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwmc9kcViL9wOmGOc6qhLW3UmmcDea4_jGiKddO-GFJTzN5Q2rUvAOtkdIkg2VdmqNFOkvBjS3yqE0cYomfEEmGi2hOLkOlrWAMy6pxKfBJaKXmqKfot7gWoS06e7tx_IraeN65chNG5lTh15v-iUMwneLI1gj1cHcchKEgE4yir-8qxEgY_zFOK_e9PI=w527-h351" width="527" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">“Israeli
Apartheid Week” in Hartebeestpoort, South Africa. Source: Facebook. (source:
JNS)</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Madame
President, Members of the Court,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">33.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The hostilities
between Israel and Hamas have exacted a terrible toll on both Israelis and
Palestinians. But any genuine effort to understand the cause of this toll must
take account of the horrendous reality created by Hamas within the Gaza Strip.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">34.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When Israel
withdrew all its soldiers and civilians from Gaza in 2005 it left a coastal
area with the potential to become a political and economic success story.
Hamas’s violent take-over in 2007 changed all that. Over the past 16 years of
its rule, Hamas has smuggled countless weapons into Gaza and has diverted
billions in international aid, not to build schools, hospitals or shelters to
protect its population from the dangers of the attacks it launched against
Israel over many years, but rather to turn massive swathes of the civilian
infrastructure into perhaps the most sophisticated terrorist stronghold in the
history of urban warfare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">35.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Remarkably,
counsel for South Africa described the suffering in Gaza as “unparalleled and
unprecedented,” as if they are unaware of the utter devastation wrought in wars
that have raged just in recent years around the world. Sadly, the civilian
suffering in warfare is not unique to Gaza. What is actually “unparalleled and
unprecedented” is the degree to which Hamas has entrenched itself within the
civilian population and made Palestinian civilian suffering an integral part of
its strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">36.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hamas has
systematically and unlawfully embedded its military operations, militants and
assets throughout Gaza within and beneath densely populated civilian areas. It
has built an extensive warren of underground tunnels for its leaders and
fighters several hundred miles in length throughout the Strip, with thousands
of access points and terrorist hubs located in homes, mosques, U.N. facilities,
schools and perhaps most shockingly hospitals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">37.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is not an
occasional tactic. It is an integrated, preplanned, extensive and abhorrent
method of warfare. Purposely and methodically murdering civilians. Firing
rockets indiscriminately. Systematically using civilians, sensitive sites and
civilian objects as shields. Stealing and hoarding humanitarian
supplies—allowing those under its control to suffer, so that it can fuel its
fighters and terrorist campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">38.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The appalling
suffering of civilians—both Israeli and Palestinian—is first and foremost the
result of this despicable strategy; the horrible cost of Hamas not only failing
to protect its civilians but actively sacrificing them for its own propaganda
and military benefit. And if Hamas abandons this strategy, releases the
hostages and lays down its arms, the hostilities and suffering would end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnpv4EuXkD-1JppkmOhY-gg_d4ETB6WeYACdoSEit8AV2e2dER0CvCDLG3qmlxyrbyGo0XYghzppoLVNDkBAg_OBG46IKD4ctgAFUPT8Zri8-_BnyLB1dZ2cwBN9Y_F0NEMs3wr1FLMnB2IYMlsI8NgPppH1uUd_olKVPn-P2MYbftFyfS8BcWauH_QC0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnpv4EuXkD-1JppkmOhY-gg_d4ETB6WeYACdoSEit8AV2e2dER0CvCDLG3qmlxyrbyGo0XYghzppoLVNDkBAg_OBG46IKD4ctgAFUPT8Zri8-_BnyLB1dZ2cwBN9Y_F0NEMs3wr1FLMnB2IYMlsI8NgPppH1uUd_olKVPn-P2MYbftFyfS8BcWauH_QC0=w525-h349" width="525" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Iron
Dome aerial interceptions of Hamas rockets in southern Israel. Credit: Oren
Ravid/Shutterstock.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Madame
President, Members of the Court,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">39.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are many
distortions in the Applicant’s submission to the Court, but as shall be
demonstrated by Counsel, there is one that overshadows them all. In the
Applicant’s telling, it is almost as if there is no intensive armed conflict
taking place between two parties at all, no grave threat to Israel and its
citizens, only an Israeli assault against Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">40.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Court is told
of widespread damage to buildings, but it is not told, for example, how many
thousands of these buildings were destroyed because they were booby-trapped by
Hamas, how many became legitimate targets because of the strategy of using
civilian objects and protected sites for military purposes, how many buildings
were struck by over 2000 indiscriminate terrorist rockets that misfired and
landed in Gaza itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">41.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Court is told
of over 23,000 casualties, as the Applicant repeats, as many have, unverified
statistics provided by Hamas itself—hardly a reliable source.<a href="https://www.jns.org/international-court-of-justice-opening-statement-on-behalf-of-israel/#_ftn19">[19]</a> Every
civilian casualty in this conflict is a human tragedy that demands our
compassion. But the Court is not told how many thousands of casualties are in
fact militants, how many were killed by Hamas fire, how many were civilians
taking direct part in hostilities, and just how many are the tragic result of
legitimate and proportionate use of force against military targets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">42.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And the Court is
also told of the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, but it is not told of
Hamas’s practice of stealing and hoarding aid, it is not told of the extensive
Israeli efforts to mitigate civilian harm, of the humanitarian initiatives
being undertaken to enable the flow of supplies and provide medical attention
to the wounded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">43.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Applicant
purports to describe the reality in Gaza. But it is as if Hamas, and its total
contempt for civilian life, just do not exist as a direct cause of <i>that</i> reality.
Hamas is widely estimated to have over 30,000 fighters and is known to bring
minors no older than 15 or 16 into its ranks. They are coming for us. But, in
South Africa’s telling, they have all but disappeared. There are no explosives
in mosques and schools and children’s bedrooms, no ambulances used to transport
fighters, no tunnels and terrorist hubs under sensitive sites, no fighters
dressed as civilians, no commandeering of aid trucks, no firing from civilian
homes, U.N. facilities and even safe zones. There is only </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> acting in Gaza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">44.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Applicant is
essentially asking the Court to substitute the lens of armed conflict between a
State and a lawless terrorist organization, with the lens of a so-called
genocide of a State against a civilian population. But it is not offering the
Court a lens, it is offering it a blindfold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_i8uPvklYIbQSK6qdS1ihTb7TUHbmeDSqQNoxtZC_0PzxTZeNlCO4y26IUxpNiRT14KvPXFQYeWICi5YvmxMjS6Pq14tIiWY0t6zqIjRBa_YqrrN-b9rkTZoceEaMao3-NwdLDbWDtVQzGdpXnTnMh0DlPzLZGSkxb3OQzKpki_anBxisV7zB3prgKyg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_i8uPvklYIbQSK6qdS1ihTb7TUHbmeDSqQNoxtZC_0PzxTZeNlCO4y26IUxpNiRT14KvPXFQYeWICi5YvmxMjS6Pq14tIiWY0t6zqIjRBa_YqrrN-b9rkTZoceEaMao3-NwdLDbWDtVQzGdpXnTnMh0DlPzLZGSkxb3OQzKpki_anBxisV7zB3prgKyg=w521-h346" width="521" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">UNRWA
sacks filled with sand line a Hamas terror tunnel under Al-Azhar University in
Gaza City. Credit: TPS. (source: JNS)</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Madame
President, Members of the Court,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">45.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The nightmarish
environment created by Hamas has been concealed by the Applicant, but it is the
environment in which Israel is compelled to operate. Israel is committed, as it
must be, to comply with the law, but it does so in the face of Hamas’s utter contempt
for the law. It is committed, as it must be, to demonstrate humanity, but it
does so in the face of Hamas’s utter inhumanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">46.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As will be
presented by Counsel, these commitments are a matter of express government
policy, military directives and procedures. They are also an expression of
Israel’s core values. And, as shall also be shown, they are matched by genuine
measures on the ground to mitigate civilian harm under the unprecedented and
excruciating conditions of warfare created by Hamas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">47.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is plainly
inconceivable—under the terms set by this very Court—that a State conducting
itself in this way may be said to be engaged in Genocide, not even <i>prima
facie</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">48.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The key component
of genocide—the intention to destroy a people in whole or in part—is totally
lacking. What Israel seeks by operating in Gaza is not to destroy a people, but
to protect a people, its people, who are under attack on multiple fronts, and to
do so in accordance with the law, even as it faces a heartless enemy determined
to use that very commitment against it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">49.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As will be
detailed by Counsel, Israel’s lawful aims in Gaza have been clearly and
repeatedly articulated by its Prime Minister, its Defense Minister, and all
members of the War Cabinet. As the Prime Minister reiterated yet again just
this week “Israel is fighting Hamas terrorists, not the civilian population”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">50.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Israel aims to
ensure that Gaza can<i> </i>never again be used as a launch pad for
terrorism. As the Prime Minister reaffirmed, Israel seeks neither to
permanently occupy Gaza or to displace its civilian population. It wants to
create a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike, where both can live
in peace, thrive and prosper, and where the Palestinian people have all the
power to govern themselves, but not the capacity to threaten Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">51.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If there is a
threat to that vision—if there is a humanitarian threat to the Palestinian
civilians of Gaza—it stems primarily from the fact that they have lived under
the control of a genocidal terrorist organization that has total disregard for
their life and well-being. That organization, Hamas, and its sponsors, seek to
deny Israel, Palestinians, and Arab States across the region, the ability to
advance a common future of peace, co-existence, security, and prosperity.
Israel is in a war of defense against Hamas—not against the Palestinian
people—to ensure that they do not succeed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">52.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In these
circumstances, there can hardly be a charge more false or more malevolent than
the allegation against Israel of genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">53.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Applicant has,
regrettably, engaged in a transparent attempt to abuse the Convention’s
compulsory jurisdiction mechanism, and in particular, the Provisional Measures
phase of proceedings, to bring under the purview of the Court matters over
which, in truth, it lacks jurisdiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">54.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Madame President,
Members of the Court, the Genocide Convention was a solemn promise made to the
Jewish people, to all peoples, of “Never Again.” The Applicant invites the
Court to betray that promise. If the term genocide can be so diminished in the
way it advocates, if Provisional Measures can be triggered in the way it
suggests, the Convention becomes an aggressor’s charter. It will reward, indeed
encourage, the terrorists who hide behind civilians, at the expense of the
States seeking to defend against them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">55.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To maintain the
integrity of the Genocide Convention, to maintain its promise, and the Court’s
own role as its guardian, it is respectfully submitted that this Application
and Request should be dismissed for what they are—a libel, designed to deny
Israel the right to defend itself according to the law from the unprecedented
terrorist onslaught it continues to face, and to free the 136 hostages </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hamas</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> still holds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157179713"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Palestine/5042865.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Palestine</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (<b>Hamas</b>)
is a member of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/International-Court-of-Justice/5015040.muckety">International
Court of Justice</a> is an affiliate of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Andrew-Carnegie/164688.muckety">Andrew Carnegie</a> provided
the seed funding for the <b>International Court of Justice </b>and the
founder of the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the founder & chairman for
the <b>Open Society Foundations</b> and was the chairman for the<b> Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157179089"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank)</b> and the <b>Brookings Institution
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cass-R-Sunstein/84075.muckety">Cass R. Sunstein</a> is
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and married
to <b>Samantha Power</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Samantha-Power/15690.muckety">Samantha Power</a> is
married to <b>Cass R. Sunstein</b> and the U.S. ambassador for the <b>United</b> <b>Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Donald-F-McHenry/368.muckety">Donald F. McHenry</a> was
a U.S. ambassador for the <b>United Nations</b> and is an honorary
trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Joan-E-Spero/749.muckety">Joan E. Spero</a> was
a U.S ambassador for economic & social affairs for the <b>United
Nations</b> and an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, <b>John F.
Kerry’s</b> brother and a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sidley-Austin-LLP/5005633.muckety">Sidley Austin
LLP</a> is the lobby firm for <b>Israel</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Newton-N-Minow/14089.muckety">Newton N. Minow</a> is
a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b> and an honorary trustee at
the <b>Carnegie Corporation of New York</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157179844"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Andrew-Carnegie/164688.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Andrew Carnegie</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the
founder of the <b>Carnegie Corporation of New York</b>, provided the seed
funding for the <b>International Court of Justice</b> and the founder of
the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/International-Court-of-Justice/5015040.muckety">International
Court of Justice</a> is an affiliate of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Palestine/5042865.muckety">Palestine</a> (<b>Hamas</b>)
is a member of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157180961"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George Soros</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the
founder & chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b> and was the
chairman for the<b> Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b> and <b>Brookings Institution
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157180228"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Andrew-Carnegie/164688.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Andrew Carnegie</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the
founder of the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>,
provided the seed funding for the <b>International Court of Justice</b> and
the founder of the <b>Carnegie Corporation of New York</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk157180171"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Corporation-of-New-York/5000358.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carnegie Corporation of New York</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and the <b>Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Endowment-for-International-Peace/5000360.muckety">Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace</a> <b>(think tank)</b> was a
funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Warren-E-Buffett/1677.muckety">Warren E. Buffett</a> is
an adviser for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>, and an
advisory board member for <b>Everytown for Gun Safety</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Everytown-for-Gun-Safety/5101182.muckety">Everytown
for Gun Safety</a> is a “<b>Gun Safety, Gun Control</b>” group for <b>guns</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michael-R-Bloomberg/2387.muckety">Michael R.
Bloomberg</a> is the founder of <b>Everytown for Gun Safety</b>,
and <b>Marjorie B. Tiven’s</b> brother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Marjorie-B-Tiven/18092.muckety">Marjorie B. Tiven</a> is <b>Michael
R. Bloomberg’s</b> sister, a director at the <b>United Nations
Development Corporation</b> and was the New York City commissioner for
the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/International-Court-of-Justice/5015040.muckety">International
Court of Justice</a> is an affiliate of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Palestine/5042865.muckety">Palestine</a> (<b>Hamas</b>)
is a member of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Hisashi-Owada/2284.muckety">Hisashi Owada</a> was
the Japanese representative for the <b>United Nations</b>, is a judge for
the <b>International Court of Justice</b>, a director at the <b>United
Nations Foundation</b> and a director at the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ted-Turner/6436.muckety">Ted Turner</a> is
the chairman for the <b>United Nations Foundation</b>, the founder
of <b>CNN</b> and a co-chairman for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Endowment-for-International-Peace/5000360.muckety">Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace</a> <b>(think tank)</b> was a
funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Corporation-of-New-York/5000358.muckety">Carnegie
Corporation of New York</a> was a funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank)</b> and the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Andrew-Carnegie/164688.muckety">Andrew Carnegie</a> was
the founder of the <b>Carnegie Corporation of New York</b>, the founder of
the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b> and provided
the seed funding for the <b>International Court of Justice</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/International-Court-of-Justice/5015040.muckety">International
Court of Justice</a> is an affiliate of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Palestine/5042865.muckety">Palestine</a> <a name="_Hlk157181427">(<b>Hamas</b>) </a>is a member of the <b>United
Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kofi-A-Annan/4258.muckety">Kofi A. Annan</a> is
a secretary general for the <b>United Nations</b>, a director at the <b>United
Nations Foundation</b>, was a trustee at the <b>Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank)</b>, a trustee at the <b>Carnegie Corporation
of New York</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ted-Turner/6436.muckety">Ted Turner</a> is
the chairman for the <b>United Nations Foundation</b>, the founder
of <b>CNN</b> and a co-chairman for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Endowment-for-International-Peace/5000360.muckety">Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace</a> <b>(think tank)</b> was a
funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Corporation-of-New-York/5000358.muckety">Carnegie
Corporation of New York</a> was a funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank)</b> and the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b> and the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for the<b> Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, <b>John F.
Kerry’s</b> brother and a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <a name="_Hlk157181476"><b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sidley-Austin-LLP/5005633.muckety">Sidley Austin
LLP</a> is the lobby firm for <b>Israel</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Newton-N-Minow/14089.muckety">Newton N. Minow</a> is
a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b> and an honorary trustee at
the <b>Carnegie Corporation of New York</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Andrew-Carnegie/164688.muckety">Andrew Carnegie</a> was
the founder of the <b>Carnegie Corporation of New York</b>, provided the
seed funding for the <b>International Court of Justice</b> and the founder
of the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/International-Court-of-Justice/5015040.muckety">International
Court of Justice</a> is an affiliate of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Palestine/5042865.muckety">Palestine</a> is a
member of the <b>United Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Resources: Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">International
Court of Justice (EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CONNECTIONS) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the International Court of Justice (ICJ)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 22, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/12/international-court-of-justice.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/12/international-court-of-justice.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">MSNBC
Airs Palestinian Jihad Propaganda Map (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research
on Palestine (Hamas)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 20, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/10/msnbc-airs-palestinian-jihad-propaganda.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/10/msnbc-airs-palestinian-jihad-propaganda.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">THE
NEW WORLD DISORDER (Connecting the Dots: The United Nations & Soros
Funding, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the
United Nations</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
JUNE 26, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-new-world-disorder-connecting-dots.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-new-world-disorder-connecting-dots.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Cameron Kerry</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
JULY 21, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Report:
Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on Israel</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
MARCH 3, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/03/report-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/03/report-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-22824336926652397692024-01-21T14:56:00.000-05:002024-01-21T14:56:03.680-05:00Smaller Bites: Connecting the Dots: Sports Illustrated, Authentic Brands Group (ABG), BlackRock, Soros Fund Management & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Sports
Illustrated Cuts Entire Staff; Future Unclear</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Newsmax.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Sandy Fitzgerald<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friday, 19 January 2024 01:59 PM EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/sports-illustrated-layoffs-media/2024/01/19/id/1150253/">https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/sports-illustrated-layoffs-media/2024/01/19/id/1150253/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
entire staff of </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sports Illustrated</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was laid off Friday after </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Authentic</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, a licensing
group that bought the magazine five years ago, terminated its agreement with
The Arena Group to publish the magazine in print and digital forms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
agreement was struck three weeks after Arena missed a $2.8 million payment,
breaching the company's licensing deal with SI that began in 2019, when
Authentic bought the magazine for $110 million from Meredith, according to an
email obtained by <a href="https://frontofficesports.com/sports-illustrateds-publisher-lays-off-entire-staff-future-unclear/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Front
Office Sports</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Arena
informed the SI employees through an email that their jobs were being
terminated: "We were notified by </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Authentic Brands Group (ABG)</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">that the license
under which the Arena Group operates the Sports Illustrated (SI) brand and
SI-related properties has been officially revoked by ABG. As a result of this
license revocation, we will be laying off staff that work on the SI
brand."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
email said that "some employees will be terminated immediately, and paid
in lieu of the applicable notice period under the [the union contract]"
and that employees whose last working day was Friday "will be contacted by
the People team soon. Other employees will be expected to work through the end
of the notice period, and will receive additional information shortly."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Arena
did not respond to Front Office Sports when it was contacted about the plans
for the layoff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Sports Illustrated Guild wrote on <a href="https://twitter.com/si_union/status/1748390846058176659" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">X</span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/si_union/status/1748390846058176659" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> on</span></a> Friday:
"We have fought together as a union to maintain the standard of this
storied publication that we love, and to make sure our workers are treated
fairly for the value they bring to this company. It is a fight we will
continue."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Authentic's
license termination came weeks after 5-Hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava
introduced himself to Arena employees, which included those from Sports
Illustrated, as their new leader after his company, Simplify Inventions, bought
about 65% of Arena for $50 million in August.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sources
with knowledge of the system told Front Office Sports that Authentic has been
speaking with multiple parties about finding someone to take over Arena's role
with Sports Illustrated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It's not
clear if Authentic will find someone to operate the decades-old publication or
if it will allow Arena to negotiate the deal it currently has, but sources say
that the company wants to move the process along as fast as it can, and will "see
Sports Illustrated through a necessary evolution."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
Authentic bought Sports Illustrated in 2019, the Arena Group — operating as
Maven, before it changed its name two years later — paid Authentic $45 million
up front to begin a 10-year agreement for licensing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
news about the layoffs came about a month after <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/sports-illustrated-levinsohn-fired/2023/12/12/id/1145661/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sports Illustrated CEO Ross
Levinsohn, along with several company executives, were fired</span></a> amid
the backlash over the outlet's use of AI-generated content. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Meanwhile,
Inside sources told Front Office Sports that Authentic has been angry with
Arena in the past few years, with Sports Illustrated going through several
rounds of layoff and losing much of the publication's top talent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Arena
also on Thursday fired more than 100 employees throughout its organization, but
Bhargava, who was named as the company's interim CEO in December, stepped down
on Jan. 5, meaning someone else made the moves to cut costs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">According
to an SEC filing, he left the position to "avoid any conflicts of
interests" through his ownership of Bridge Media Networks, which is
reportedly in talks to make a "substantial investment" in
Arena. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Arena
execs, its board of directors, and Jason Frankl, of FTI Consulting, who was
appointed as Arena's chief business transformation officer when Bhargava
resigned, carried out the layoffs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"My
immediate focus is to collaboratively design a growth-oriented media company,
ensuring the financial stability necessary to cultivate and grow the brands we
cherish," Frankl said in a statement, calling the layoffs
"regrettably necessary."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sports
Illustrated</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sports Illustrated</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> (<i>SI</i>)</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports" title="Sports"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">sports</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">magazine</span></a> owned
by </span><a name="_Hlk156730335"></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Brands_Group" title="Authentic Brands Group"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156730335;"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Authentic Brands Group</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156730335;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156730335;"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> (ABG)</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156730335;"><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156730335;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and was first published in August 1954.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Authentic
Brands Group (ABG)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Brands_Group"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Brands_Group</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On
May 27, 2019, </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">ABG</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">announced
its acquisition of sports magazine<b> </b></span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sports Illustrated</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Corporation" title="Meredith Corporation"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Meredith Corporation</span></a> for US$110 million.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Brands_Group#cite_note-23"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[23]</span></a></sup> The
company stated it planned to leverage its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark" title="Trademark"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">trademarks</span></a> and
other non-core assets in new ventures. Meredith will continue to publish
the <i>Sports Illustrated</i> magazine and digital properties under
license for at least two years.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Brands_Group#cite_note-24"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[24]</span></a></sup> On
June 18, 2019, it was announced that rights to publish the <i>Sports
Illustrated</i> editorial operations would be licensed to The Maven under
a 10-year deal, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Levinsohn" title="Ross Levinsohn"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ross
Levinsohn</span></a> as CEO.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Brands_Group#cite_note-25"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[25]</span></a></sup> In
August 2019, </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock" title="BlackRock"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">BlackRock</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> became the largest shareholder in </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Authentic
Brands</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>(ABG)</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Keith-T-Anderson/13164.muckety">Keith T. Anderson</a> was
a co-founder for <b>BlackRock, Inc</b>. and a chief investment officer for
the <b>Soros Fund Management</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the founder of
the <b>Soros Fund Management</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sports
Illustrated tweet on Supreme Court case roils social media (Connecting the
Dots: Where Soros networking for control over Prayer & Guns overlap) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Sports Illustrated</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 22, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/06/sports-illustrated-tweet-on-supreme.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/06/sports-illustrated-tweet-on-supreme.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-12625065449435637882024-01-18T20:38:00.000-05:002024-01-18T20:38:06.646-05:00 Smaller Bites: Connecting the Dots: John Kerry, World Economic Forum, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">'Goons
pounce': Kerry loses cool at mention of his 'carbon footprint'</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WND
News Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">January
16, 2024 Bob Unruh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPY8oXomKFE4KxswnawgFiG8UlUI6fUFEqFQ9fnjLi2fZlH77DlPxzKXP4B4GqGs8GLyQJUTMX1LxA2TGVIvuhYObjt5f6yp6-CLig9zuklbBY8hKJ-6RfAfF7mTxQEzybyw36lcJSYLNq1SDy2lA8EtyPvRv8qGMfZcWffttubFFvH1KRBLmq4pvswr0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="600" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPY8oXomKFE4KxswnawgFiG8UlUI6fUFEqFQ9fnjLi2fZlH77DlPxzKXP4B4GqGs8GLyQJUTMX1LxA2TGVIvuhYObjt5f6yp6-CLig9zuklbBY8hKJ-6RfAfF7mTxQEzybyw36lcJSYLNq1SDy2lA8EtyPvRv8qGMfZcWffttubFFvH1KRBLmq4pvswr0=w515-h291" width="515" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">John
Kerry says asking about his own climate footprint is a ‘stupid question’ at
Davos, Switzerland, in January 2024. </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">(Video
screenshot)</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.wndnewscenter.org/goons-pounce-kerry-loses-cool-at-mention-of-his-carbon-footprint/"><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">https://www.wndnewscenter.org/goons-pounce-kerry-loses-cool-at-mention-of-his-carbon-footprint/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;"> <span lang="ES"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">John Kerry</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, the connected wealthy Democrat appointed by Joe
Biden to use fossil fuels to jet around the globe telling others to stop using
fossil fuels, appears to have lost his cool when he was confronted about the
“carbon footprint” he is generating with his world trips.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The </span><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-and-environment/2798678/john-kerry-heated-exchange-davos-wef-carbon-footprint/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Washington Examiner</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> described Kerry, Biden’s
global warming envoy, as appearing “to lose his temper.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
was approached by a reporter at the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">World Economic Forum</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">in Davos,
Switzerland, where he routinely travels to spout his talking points about
global warming, which was changed to climate change when the warming stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What’s
the carbon footprint of these events every single year that you come here? Do
you think it’s worth it? Peasants pay for your crimes?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Stupid
question,” Kerry muttered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
of Kerry’s entourage tried to physically block the reporter, prompting a
protest:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“You
can’t grab me. You can’t grab us. This is a free society, mate. We have freedom
of the press,” the reporter charged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
he continued, “Why do you think you’re more important. Your carbon footprint
doesn’t matter but everybody else around the world….”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kerry
threatened, “Just stay back. Nobody ever suggested that. Don’t make up stupid
questions.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
reporter, however, pointed out, the fact Kerry traveled to Davos for the WEF
and has done so for years is what “suggests that.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kerry’s
aide once against tried to physically block the report, and he protested again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/16/john-kerry-davos-carbon-footprint/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">The Daily Caller</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> reported Kerry “lashed out at
a reporter who asked him about his ‘carbon footprint,'” “snapping” at Rebel
News reporter Avi Yemini.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
report also suggested Kerry “snarled” at the reporter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">IMPORTANT
NOTE TO WND READERS: <i>For America’s ruling elites, nothing is more
precious, wonderful and life-giving to their great cause than the Jan. 6, 2021
“insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol. It’s irrelevant that the events didn’t come
remotely close to constituting an actual “insurrection,” or that both police
and over 200 undercover FBI assets provoked the riot – which Tucker Carlson
calls a “set-up.” Yet Vice President Kamala Harris still insists the minor riot
was just as horrific as the 9/11 terror attacks and Japanese surprise attack on
Pearl Harbor.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WHY
are the elites doing this?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
not just because convicting, imprisoning, torturing and destroying the lives of
hundreds of Trump supporters is meant to terrify and intimidate millions of
Americans into submission. And it’s not just because activist judges and
bureaucrats in over 30 states are absurdly trying to keep Trump off their
state’s election ballots by citing the 14th Amendment’s prohibition against
anyone who “engaged in insurrection” from holding elective office.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
because the elites’ destruction of America is so rapid, horrendous and obvious
that they feel compelled to turn their opponents into monsters – or lose power
at the next election. But that doesn’t mean just calling conservatives and
Christians “racists,” “white supremacists,” “radical extremists” and “domestic
terrorists” as they do continually. They know much more is needed.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Question:
What if, far from being horrified by a half-baked riot they absurdly claim is
worse than any domestic disturbance since the Civil War, the left actually
LOVES the idea of violence on the right – the worse the better – since it
perfectly serves their agenda? Increasingly, all the evidence strongly suggests
today’s power-mad leftist elites not only intend to intimidate and discredit
their political opponents by calling them terrorists, they mean to provoke
actual violence.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
secret strategies and shocking tactics of today’s ascendant far-left elites are
exposed as perhaps never before in the January issue of WND’s critically
acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, headlined </span></i><a href="https://superstore.wnd.com/whistleblower/"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">“INCITING VIOLENCE: DEMS’ SECRET STRATEGY FOR STAYING IN POWER.”</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety
http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety">Klaus
Kleinfeld</a> is a trustee at the World Economic Forum and a trustee
at <a name="_Hlk119524078">the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the<b> Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, <b>John F.
Kerry’s</b> brother and a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/John-F-Kerry/803.muckety">John F. Kerry</a> is <b>Cameron
F. Kerry’s</b> brother, married to <b>Teresa Heinz Kerry</b> and the
Special Envoy for Climate for the <b>Joe Biden Administration</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Teresa-Heinz-Kerry/1565.muckety">Teresa Heinz
Kerry</a> is married to <b>John F. Kerry</b> and an honorary
trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for the<b> Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b> and a member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy
Coalition</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Jack-Ma/208092.muckety">Jack Ma</a> is a
member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b> and a trustee at
the <b>World Economic Forum</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mukesh-Ambani/97499.muckety">Mukesh Ambani</a> is
a member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b> and a trustee at
the <b>World Economic Forum</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Marc-R-Benioff/25584.muckety">Marc R. Benioff</a> is
a member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b> and a trustee at
the <b>World Economic Forum</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Too
Late! At Davos, John Kerry Predicts ‘Worst Consequences’ of Climate Change Despite
Carbon Cutting Efforts (Connecting the Dots: The <a name="_Hlk156490235">World
Economic Forum</a>, Al Gore, John Kerry, Climate Change, FDA, USSR, Global
Green USA & Soros Funding, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on John Kerry</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">FRIDAY,
JANUARY 20, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/01/too-late-at-davos-john-kerry-predicts.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/01/too-late-at-davos-john-kerry-predicts.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Smaller
Bites – Klaus Schwab (Connecting the Dots: Klaus Schwab, the World Economic
Forum Trustees & Soros, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the World Economic Forum</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 16, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/11/smaller-bites-klaus-schwab-connecting.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/11/smaller-bites-klaus-schwab-connecting.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Cameron Kerry</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
JULY 21, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-70049901781314976562024-01-12T17:51:00.000-05:002024-01-12T17:51:24.712-05:00Smaller Bites: Connecting the Dots: Johns Hopkins, Joe Biden, David Rubenstein & Soros Funding, All Networking<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Johns
Hopkins DEI Official Forced to Apologize<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Newsmax.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Jim Morley | Friday, 12 January 2024 04:20 PM EST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/johns-hopkins-dei-sherita-golden/2024/01/12/id/1149403/">https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/johns-hopkins-dei-sherita-golden/2024/01/12/id/1149403/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Johns Hopkins</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hospital is under
fire after its Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity sent out a
letter labeling white people, Christians, men, English-speakers, and others as
"privileged."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
statement was bought to public attention in a post by the @EndWokeness X
account, which had gathered over <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1745161772057649648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1745161772057649648%7Ctwgr%5Eb1b5fbcefc15e7c4fcd1134a2d8a9d12db00f147%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fjohns-hopkins-dei-office-issues-privilege-list-company-newsletter-apologizes-backlash" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">32
million views as of Friday</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
an email sending out the hospital's monthly diversity digest
newsletter, "privilege" was chosen as the word of the month.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Johns
Hopkins Hospital Chief Diversity Officer Sherita Hill Golden
wrote: "Privilege is an unearned benefit given to people who are in a
specific social group. Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural
and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of
dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"In
the United States, privilege is granted to people who have membership in one or
more of these social identity groups: White people, able-bodied people,
heterosexuals, cisgender people, males, Christians, middle or owning class
people, middle-aged people, and English-speaking people."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Golden
released a new statement Thursday retracting the newsletter, saying its
purpose was to inform and not harm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The
newsletter included a definition of the word 'privilege' which, upon
reflection, I deeply regret," Golden wrote. "The intent of the
newsletter is to inform and support an inclusive community at Hopkins, but the
language of this definition clearly did not meet that goal. In fact, because it
was overly simplistic and poorly worded, it had the opposite effect of being
exclusionary and hurtful to members of our community."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
a statement to Deseret News, Johns Hopkins Medicine confirmed the accuracy of
both statements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The
January edition of the monthly newsletter from the Johns Hopkins Medicine
Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity used language that contradicts
the values of Johns Hopkins as an institution. Dr. Sherita Golden, Johns
Hopkins Medicine's Chief Diversity Officer, has sincerely acknowledged this
mistake and retracted the language used in the message," a spokesperson
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elon
Musk chimed in on X, writing, <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1745455765123649578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1745455765123649578%7Ctwgr%5Ef15b16132bf6e60ef9e046224245499de0d24ea8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deseret.com%2F2024%2F1%2F11%2F24034660%2Fjohns-hopkins-privilege-retraction-dei" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">"This
must end!"</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/David-H-Koch/2226.muckety">David H. Koch</a> is
an emeritus trustee at <b>Johns</b> <b>Hopkins University</b> and a
trustee at the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b> and the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/David-M-Rubenstein/1824.muckety">David M.
Rubenstein</a> was a benefactor for the <b>Aspen Institute (think
tank)</b>, <b>spent Thanksgiving with Joe Biden</b>, is a co-chairman for
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and a trustee at <b>Johns</b> <b>Hopkins
University</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Joe
Biden is spending Thanksgiving at the private equity billionaire David
Rubenstein's Nantucket mansion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kate
Duffy Nov 25, 2021, 3:43 AM PST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-thanksgiving-david-rubenstein-billionaire-nantucket-mansion-2021-11?op=1">https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-thanksgiving-david-rubenstein-billionaire-nantucket-mansion-2021-11?op=1</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">President
<b><span style="color: #660033;">Joe Biden</span></b><span style="color: #660033;">
</span>and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to spend <b><span style="color: #660033;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-pardons-first-thanksgiving-turkeys-peanut-butter-jelly-white-house-2021-11?r=US&IR=T"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration-line: none;">Thanksgiving</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033;"> </span>at a house owned by billionaire
businessman <b><span style="color: #660033;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/david-rubenstein-us-britain-recession-brexit-banana-2016-7?r=US&IR=T"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration-line: none;">David Rubenstein</span></a></span></b> on
the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts, the White House confirmed on
Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dr.
Ben Carson: President Should Be ‘Sworn in on a Stack of Bibles, Not a Koran’ (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Johns Hopkins University</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/09/dr-ben-carson-president-should-be-sworn.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/09/dr-ben-carson-president-should-be-sworn.html</a></span><br /><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-6055382406129608322024-01-12T14:36:00.000-05:002024-01-12T14:36:00.026-05:00EXCLUSIVE: Veterans Affairs Found Safety Signal for Pfizer COVID Vaccine, Never Disclosed It (Connecting the Dots: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Pfizer, FDA, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking)<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">EXCLUSIVE:
Veterans Affairs Found Safety Signal for Pfizer COVID Vaccine, Never Disclosed
It (<span style="color: #660033;">Connecting the Dots: The U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), Pfizer, FDA, Sidley Austin LLP & Soros Funding, All Networking</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Government
officials found a signal for heart inflammation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Epoch Times<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Zachary Stieber<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1/12/2024
Updated:1/12/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3V7KpdlC2A5dBGtzKCVTcRpoX07HAtMFFV2NfWvy9DtqsmMs-3jxwTZn9lOb_PlLcN4vCBLLXWcRRmnA5K1zcLAmFYi3pdAqd0-s2iWT6YpXPAGzsVGOKHexmIlWFurbPBLA-4ISuv8f9nn_2EolSbb8_4n0JiJEYke7HgmhN25foq5dzNZIpzQkKMzc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3V7KpdlC2A5dBGtzKCVTcRpoX07HAtMFFV2NfWvy9DtqsmMs-3jxwTZn9lOb_PlLcN4vCBLLXWcRRmnA5K1zcLAmFYi3pdAqd0-s2iWT6YpXPAGzsVGOKHexmIlWFurbPBLA-4ISuv8f9nn_2EolSbb8_4n0JiJEYke7HgmhN25foq5dzNZIpzQkKMzc=w510-h306" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">A
health care worker fills a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in a file
image. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/exclusive-veterans-affairs-found-safety-signal-for-pfizer-covid-vaccine-never-disclosed-it-5561709">https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/exclusive-veterans-affairs-found-safety-signal-for-pfizer-covid-vaccine-never-disclosed-it-5561709</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
federal agency detected early in the </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">COVID-19 vaccination</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">campaign a safety
signal for a serious problem for Pfizer’s shot, a document obtained by The
Epoch Times shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
</span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> detected a signal
for myocarditis and pericarditis for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, according to
the document, an email from May 13, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Myocarditis
is heart inflammation while pericarditis is inflammation of tissue around the
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Data
from the VA Center For Medication Safety showed “a signal for
myocarditis/pericarditis ... with </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Pfizer vaccine</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">following the 1st
dose,” Fran Cunningham, a VA official, wrote in the email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
was communicating with Dr. Tom Shimabukuro and Dr. Lauri Markowitz, two top
vaccine safety employees with the </span><a name="_Hlk155951292"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ms.
Cunningham and the VA did not respond to requests for comment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
discovery of the signal was never shared with the public by the VA or the CDC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Inquiries
sent to Drs. Shimabukuro and Markowitz were funneled to a CDC spokesperson, who
said that the VA later determined the signal “was not a true signal.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">VA
officials, according to a presentation obtained by The Epoch Times, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23932837-va-presentation" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">told</span></a>
a private meeting that included CDC officials in June 2021 that no signal had
been found in a surveillance system. No audio or transcript of the meeting has
been made public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
CDC also failed for months to convey a separate signal detected in its Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting System, according to <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/myocarditis-and-covid-19-vaccines-how-the-cdc-missed-a-safety-signal-and-hid-a-warning-5300341" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">previous
reporting by The Epoch Times</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This
is yet another agency that warned the CDC regarding the myocarditis signal and
affirmed that it was a ’real' signal using epidemiologic data,” Brian Hooker,
chief scientific officer with the nonprofit Children’s Health Defense, told The
Epoch Times via email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
CDC and VA had a strong responsibility to let the public know about the signal
but chose to bury it in order to avoid causing ‘vaccine hesitancy’ by showing
the actual risks of the COVID-19 vaccine,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
CDC throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has aggressively promoted COVID-19
vaccination. The VA was the first federal agency <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/first-federal-agency-to-mandate-covid-19-vaccine-3918989" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">to
require</span></a> workers to receive the COVID-19 shots, and <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/major-us-agency-to-keep-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-despite-white-house-announcement-5236080" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">kept</span></a>
its vaccine mandate in place after many other agencies rescinded theirs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Epoch Times obtained the email through the Freedom of Information Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
safety signal is a sign a vaccine might cause a health problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
CDC and other agencies have since acknowledged that all four COVID-19 vaccines
that have been or are available in the United States can cause myocarditis and
pericarditis, particularly in young males. The Pfizer and Moderna shots, which
both utilize modified messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, were the first to be
linked to the inflammation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
U.S. military, which is comprised of mostly young men, was among the first
entities to <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2781601" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">start
recording cases</span></a> of the post-vaccination inflammation. The CDC
started receiving reports shortly after the vaccines were rolled out in
December 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr.
Shimabukuro, in an email to CDC colleagues after receiving word from the VA,
said that there was an “increasing urgency” to deal with the post-vaccination
myocarditis. He suggested having VA officials join a private call to “exchange
information” and discuss the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two
additional emails, sent by CDC officials, were fully redacted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Barbara
Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information
Center, said the new emails show “both the VA and CDC knew there was an
alarming signal for heart inflammation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Yet
the public was not informed that this signal had been detected, an early
warning sign that turned out to be a very real causal association between
myocarditis/pericarditis and mRNA COVID shots,” Ms. Fisher told The Epoch Times
via email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mr.
Hooker, who has been researching vaccine safety for years, <a href="https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/61/114" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">found</span></a> by analyzing
reported cases that a signal for myocarditis emerged from CDC data in February
2021. Emails obtained by The Epoch Times <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/myocarditis-and-covid-19-vaccines-how-the-cdc-missed-a-safety-signal-and-hid-a-warning-5300341" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">showed</span></a>
Israel warned the CDC of cases by the end of that month. But the agency did not
raise the alarm publicly until <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/work-groups-vast/report-2021-05-24.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">May 2021</span></a>—by
which time millions of Americans had received COVID-19 vaccine doses—did not
say there was a likely association until later in 2021, and did not
definitively say the vaccines caused the condition <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/timeline-covid-19-vaccines-and-myocarditis-5317985" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">until
2022</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Long-Term
Studies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Early
on, officials repeatedly described most cases of the heart inflammation as mild
and said the patients healed quickly. As time has gone on, though, a number of
studies have undercut that position.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
CDC study <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/many-vaccinated-youth-who-suffered-heart-inflammation-had-abnormal-mri-results-months-later-cdc-study-4752842" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">found</span></a>
that, based on survey data, 54 percent of post-vaccination myocarditis patients
had an abnormal finding like swelling or scarring on followup cardiac MRIs.
Many of the patients had residual late gadolinium enhancement, which indicates
scarring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Abnormal
findings such as late gadolinium enhancement were also detected in imaging of
26 of 39 people who suffered heart inflammation at least five months after
diagnoses of heart inflammation following a Pfizer or Moderna shot, another
study, from Hong Kong, <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/some-vaccinated-children-have-heart-scars-after-myocarditis-long-term-study-5446348" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">showed</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And Australian
researchers <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/over-half-of-post-covid-vaccine-myocarditis-patients-still-had-symptoms-after-6-months-study-5555188" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported
recently</span></a> that more than half of people who suffered myocarditis were
still suffering from symptoms after six months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Multiple
patients <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/they-suffered-myocarditis-after-covid-19-vaccination-years-later-some-still-havent-recovered-5478652" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">told The
Epoch Times</span></a> that years after they suffered heart inflammation, they
were still experiencing symptoms such as chest pain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“I
have continued chest pain on the right side, and then I have neuropathic type
pains in my neck and shoulder areas,” said one of them, Dr. Adam Hirschfeld. “I
have it when I wake up, and it’s there when I go to sleep.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
an update in early 2023, the CDC <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/deaths-heart-failure-occurred-among-vaccinated-with-heart-inflammation-study-5031625" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">said</span></a>
that, according to surveys, a third of patients still suffered from at least
one symptom at least one year after diagnosis. The surveys are collected as
part of the agency’s MOVING project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since
that update, the CDC has collected additional information, an agency
spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email. The CDC is in the process of
analyzing the data and plans to submit an article summarizing the findings for
peer review and publication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Eric-K-Shinseki/6269.muckety">Eric K. Shinseki</a> is
the secretary at the <a name="_Hlk155949380"><b>U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) </b></a>for the <b>Barack Obama administration</b>
and was a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Togo-D-West-Jr/9278.muckety">Togo D. West Jr.</a> was
the secretary at the <b>U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) </b>and<b> </b>is
a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Robert-Jeffrey/152459.muckety">Robert Jeffrey</a> is
a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>
and was a board member for the <b>CDC Foundation</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> the founder &
chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/CDC-Foundation/5057052.muckety">CDC Foundation</a> is
a foundation for the <b>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Amy-Robbins-Towers/85964.muckety">Amy Robbins
Towers</a> is a board member for the <b>CDC Foundation</b>, a
director at the <b>Human Rights Watch</b> and was a director at the <b>Millennium
Promise</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Human Rights Watch</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the founder
& chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b>, was a benefactor
for the <b>Human Rights Watch</b> and the chairman for the <b>Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk155950819"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the <b>Human Rights Watch</b>,
the<b> Millennium Promise</b> and the <b>Brookings Institution (think
tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Constance-J-Horner/248.muckety">Constance J.
Horner</a> was a guest scholar at the <a name="_Hlk155950349"><b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b></a> and is a director at <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. (<b><span style="color: #660033;">COVID Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Suzanne-Nora-Johnson/1553.muckety">Suzanne Nora
Johnson</a> is a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>
and a director at <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. (<b><span style="color: #660033;">COVID
Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Amy-W-Schulman/86207.muckety">Amy W. Schulman</a> is
a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and the EVP
& general counsel for <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. (<b><span style="color: #660033;">COVID
Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sidley-Austin-LLP/5005633.muckety">Sidley Austin
LLP</a> was a lobby firm for <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. (<b><span style="color: #660033;">COVID Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <a name="_Hlk155951334"><b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>, <b>John F. Kerry’s</b> brother
and a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the
<b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mark-B-McClellan/105120.muckety">Mark B. McClellan</a> was
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and
a commissioner for the <b>U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">EXCLUSIVE--Liberty
Institute: Veterans Affairs Bans Christmas Cards to Troops over Religious
Content (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 25, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/exclusive-liberty-institute-veterans.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/exclusive-liberty-institute-veterans.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
CDC: A Truly Corrupt and Dangerous Organization (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
JANUARY 5, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-cdc-truly-corrupt-and-dangerous.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-cdc-truly-corrupt-and-dangerous.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">IG
Farben / Bayer / Pfizer / Israel (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on
the FDA & Pfizer</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/09/ig-farben-bayer-pfizer-israel.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/09/ig-farben-bayer-pfizer-israel.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Cameron Kerry</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
JULY 21, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html</a> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-58672305226651668152024-01-03T22:30:00.000-05:002024-01-03T22:30:29.056-05:00WEF Jane Goodall, advocates reducing the global population down to 450 million (Connecting the Dots: World Economic Forum, Jane Goodall, United Nations messenger of peace, Global Green USA, Green Cross International, Mikhail Gorbachev & Soros Funding, All Networking)<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">WEF
Jane Goodall, advocates reducing the global population down to 450 million (<span style="color: #660033;">Connecting the Dots: World Economic Forum, Jane Goodall, United
Nations messenger of peace, Global Green USA, Green Cross International, Mikhail
Gorbachev & Soros Funding, All Networking</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">YouTube<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">jackcarterog001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="333" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E5U7R73_9xQ" width="401" youtube-src-id="E5U7R73_9xQ"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mark-Malloch-Brown/206493.muckety">Mark
Malloch-Brown</a> was an adviser for the <b>World Economic Forum</b>,
a vice chairman for <b>Refugees International</b>, is a co-chair for
the <b>International Crisis Group</b> and a global board member for
the <b>Open Society Foundations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is a director
emeritus for <b>Refugees International</b>, a board member for the <b>International
Crisis Group</b>, the founder & chairman for the <b>Open Society
Foundations</b> and was the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote
Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Maria-Livanos-Cattaui/15513.muckety">Maria Livanos
Cattaui</a> is a board member for the <b>International Crisis Group</b>,
a global board member for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b> and was a
managing director for the <b>World Economic Forum</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Endowment-for-International-Peace/5000360.muckety">Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace</a> <b>(think tank)</b> was a
funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michael-Douglas/3415.muckety">Michael Douglas</a> is
a director at the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>, a friend
of <b>George Soros</b> and a messenger of peace for the <b>United
Nations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Jane-Goodall/14671.muckety">Jane Goodall</a> is
a <b>United Nations</b> messenger of peace and a council of advisor’s
member for <b>Global Green USA</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Global-Green-USA/5016252.muckety">Global Green USA</a> is
a US affiliate for <b>Green Cross International</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ted-Turner/6436.muckety">Ted Turner</a> is
the co-chairman for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b> and an
honorary board member for <b>Green Cross International</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mikhail-Gorbachev/27235.muckety">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> is
the founder of <b>Green Cross International</b>, was the general secretary
for the <b>Communist Party of the Soviet Union</b> and the president for
the <b>Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk155198925"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Global-Green-USA/5016252.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Global Green USA</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a US
affiliate for <b>Green Cross International</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Jane-Goodall/14671.muckety">Jane Goodall</a> is
a council of advisor’s member for <b>Global Green USA</b> and a <b>United
Nations</b> messenger of peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Patricia-E-Mitchell/2109.muckety">Patricia E.
Mitchell</a> is a board member for <b>Global Green USA</b> and the
vice chair for the <a name="_Hlk155198944"><b>Sundance Institute</b>. </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Global-Green-USA/5016252.muckety">Global Green USA</a> is
a US affiliate for <b>Green Cross International</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Robert-Redford/27311.muckety">Robert Redford</a> is
the founder & president for the <b>Sundance Institute</b> and an
honorary board member for <b>Green Cross International</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the</span> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sundance
Institute</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b> and is a member of
the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Jack-Ma/208092.muckety">Jack Ma</a> is a
member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b> and a trustee at
the <b>World Economic Forum</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mukesh-Ambani/97499.muckety">Mukesh Ambani</a> is
a member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b> and a trustee at
the <b>World Economic Forum</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Marc-R-Benioff/25584.muckety">Marc R. Benioff</a> is
a member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b> and a trustee at
the <b>World Economic Forum</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Vinod-Khosla/1656.muckety">Vinod Khosla</a> is
a member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b> and a partner
emeritus at <b>Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/L-John-Doerr/950.muckety">L. John Doerr</a> is
a member of the <b>Breakthrough Energy Coalition</b> and a general
partner at <b>Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Kleiner-Perkins-Caufield-Byers/5001073.muckety">Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers</a> was a donor for <b>The Climate
Project</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Albert-A-Gore-Jr/21.muckety">Albert A. Gore Jr.</a> was
a donor for <b>The Climate Project</b>, is a partner at <b>Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers</b>, a trustee at the <b>World Economic Forum</b>
and the chairman for the <a name="_Hlk155200081"><b>Climate Reality
Project</b>.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Climate Reality Project</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Smaller
Bites – Klaus Schwab (Connecting the Dots: Klaus Schwab, the World Economic
Forum Trustees & Soros, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the World Economic Forum</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 16, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/11/smaller-bites-klaus-schwab-connecting.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/11/smaller-bites-klaus-schwab-connecting.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jimmy
Carter dishes on Ted Turner and Jane Fonda (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on Ted Turner</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 16, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/jimmy-carter-dishes-on-ted-turner-and.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/jimmy-carter-dishes-on-ted-turner-and.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">China
Is Africa's New Colonial Overlord, Says Famed Primate Researcher Jane Goodall (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Jane Goodall</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 19, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/02/normal-0-false-false-false_19.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/02/normal-0-false-false-false_19.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Michael
Douglas Living at George Soros’ NY House (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on Michael Douglas</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
JULY 25, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/07/michael-douglas-living-at-george-soros.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/07/michael-douglas-living-at-george-soros.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Too
Late! At Davos, John Kerry Predicts ‘Worst Consequences’ of Climate Change
Despite Carbon Cutting Efforts (Connecting the Dots: The World Economic Forum,
Al Gore, John Kerry, Climate Change, FDA, USSR, Global Green USA & Soros
Funding, All Networking) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Albert
Gore</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">FRIDAY,
JANUARY 20, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/01/too-late-at-davos-john-kerry-predicts.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/01/too-late-at-davos-john-kerry-predicts.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-61138541516957349452023-12-27T16:57:00.002-05:002023-12-27T16:57:54.236-05:00ROUNDUP LAWSUIT (Connecting the Dots: Monsanto, Bayer, EPA, WHO, COVID, FDA, CDC & Soros Funding, All Networking)<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">ROUNDUP
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Jim-Yong-Kim/162375.muckety">Jim Yong Kim</a> was
a director, HIV-AIDS department for the <b>World Health Organization</b> <b>(WHO)</b>
and a guest at <b>George Soros’s</b> 2013 wedding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk154574943"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George Soros</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was <b>married in 2013</b> & <b>Jim
Yong Kim</b> was a guest, the chairman for the <b>Foundation to
Promote Open </b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Society</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and a supporter for the <b>Center
for American Progress</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the <b>Center for American Progress</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Jose-H-Villarreal/21332.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Jose-H-Villarreal/21332.muckety">Jose H.
Villarreal</a> is a director at the <b>Center for American Progress </b>and
a senior adviser at <b>Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Melody-C-Barnes/8623.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Melody-C-Barnes/8623.muckety">Melody C.
Barnes</a> was the EVP for the <b>Center for American Progress</b>,
the domestic policy council, director for the <b>Barack Obama
administration</b> and is <b>Barack Obama’s</b> golf partner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carol-M-Browner/20646.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Carol-M-Browner/20646.muckety">Carol M.
Browner</a> is a senior fellow, director at the <b>Center for
American Progress</b>, was the energy czar for the <b>Barack Obama
administration</b>, an administrator for the <b>U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)</b> and a director at the <b>Climate Reality
Project</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Lee-M-Thomas/25816.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Lee-M-Thomas/25816.muckety">Lee M.
Thomas</a> was an administrator for the <b>U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)</b> and a director at the <b>Climate Reality
Project</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Orin-S-Kramer/25817.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Orin-S-Kramer/25817.muckety">Orin S.
Kramer</a> was an administrator for the <b>U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)</b> and is a director at the <b>Climate Reality
Project</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk154576033"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Climate Reality Project</b> and the <b>Brookings Institution
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George Soros</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was
the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Vernon-E-Jordan-Jr/1647.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Vernon-E-Jordan-Jr/1647.muckety">Vernon
E. Jordan Jr.</a> is an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank) </b>and a senior counsel<b> for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Akin-Gump-Strauss-Hauer-Feld-LLP/5000053.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Akin-Gump-Strauss-Hauer-Feld-LLP/5000053.muckety">Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</a> is the lobby firm for <b>Monsanto
Company</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><u><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;">Bayer</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> owns <b>Monsanto</b>.<a href="http://www.muckety.com/Bayer-Corporation/5018810.muckety"><br />
Bayer Corporation</a> is a North American subsidiary of <b>Bayer AG</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety
http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety">Klaus
Kleinfeld</a> was a supervisory board member for <b>Bayer AG</b> and
is a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for the <b>Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Bayer-HealthCare/5033480.muckety">Bayer HealthCare</a> is
a subsidiary of <b>Bayer AG</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sidley-Austin-LLP/5005633.muckety">Sidley Austin
LLP</a> was the lobby firm for <b>Bayer HealthCare</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety">Michelle Obama</a> was
a lawyer at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety">Barack Obama</a> was
an intern at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety">Cameron F. Kerry</a> is
a senior counsel at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>, <b>John F. Kerry’s</b> brother
and a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sidley-Austin-LLP/5005633.muckety">Sidley Austin
LLP</a> was a lobby firm for <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. <b>(<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)</b> and <b>Johnson
& Johnson (<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Constance-J-Horner/248.muckety">Constance J.
Horner</a> is a director at <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. <b>(<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)</b> and was a guest
scholar at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Suzanne-Nora-Johnson/1553.muckety">Suzanne Nora
Johnson</a> is a director at <b>Pfizer Inc</b>.<b> (<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)</b> and a trustee at
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Amy-W-Schulman/86207.muckety">Amy W. Schulman</a> is
the EVP & general counsel for <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. <b>(<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)</b> and a trustee at
the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mark-B-McClellan/105120.muckety">Mark B. McClellan</a> was
a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, a
commissioner for the <b>U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)</b> and
is a director at <b>Johnson & Johnson (<span style="color: #660033;">Covid
Vaccine Manufacturer</span>).</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ann-Dibble-Jordan/55.muckety">Ann Dibble Jordan</a> was
a director at <b>Johnson & Johnson</b> <b>(<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)</b> and is an honorary
trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Charles-O-Prince-III/4482.muckety">Charles O.
Prince III</a> is a director at <b>Johnson & Johnson</b> <b>(<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)</b> and was a trustee
at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the
<b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for the <b>Foundation
to Promote Open Society</b> and is the founder & chairman for the <b>Open
Society Foundations</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Robert-Jeffrey/152459.muckety">Robert Jeffrey</a> is
a director at the <b>Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)</b>
and was a board member for the <b>CDC Foundation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/CDC-Foundation/5057052.muckety">CDC Foundation</a> is
a foundation for the <b>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Donald-R-Hopkins/30160.muckety">Donald R. Hopkins</a>
was a board member for the <b>CDC Foundation</b> and is the VP, health
programs for the <b>Carter Center</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Jimmy-Carter/745.muckety">Jimmy Carter</a> was
a co-founder & trustee at the <b>Carter Center</b> and an honorary
co-chairman for the <a name="_Hlk154576989"><b>Millennium Promise</b>. </a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for the
<b>Millennium Promise</b> and the <b>Human Rights Watch</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the<b> Foundation to Promote Open Society</b> and a benefactor for
the <b>Human Rights Watch</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Amy-Robbins-Towers/85964.muckety">Amy Robbins
Towers</a> was a director at the <b>Millennium Promise</b>, is a
director at the <b>Human Rights Watch</b>, a board member for the <b>CDC
Foundation</b> and married to <b>Larry Robbins</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Larry-Robbins/194764.muckety">Larry Robbins</a> was
married to <b>Amy Robbins Towers</b> and is a director at the <b>Robin
Hood Foundation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Robin Hood Foundation</b>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman
for the<b> Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Emma-Bloomberg/22462.muckety">Emma Bloomberg</a> was
the chief of staff for the <b>Robin Hood Foundation</b>, <b>Michael
R. Bloomberg’s</b> daughter and is a director at the <b>Bloomberg
Family Foundation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michael-R-Bloomberg/2387.muckety">Michael R.
Bloomberg</a> was a donor for the <b>Robin Hood Foundation</b>, is <b>Emma
Bloomberg’s</b> father and the founder of the <b>Bloomberg Family
Foundation</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Bloomberg-Family-Foundation/5059667.muckety">Bloomberg
Family Foundation</a> was a funder for the <b>CDC Foundation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/CDC-Foundation/5057052.muckety">CDC Foundation</a> is
a foundation for the <b>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Obama's
New EPA Chief: Climate Change 'Most Significant Public Health Threat Of Our
Time' (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 12, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/obamas-new-epa-chief-climate-change.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/obamas-new-epa-chief-climate-change.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">World
Health Organisation: Bacon As Bad As Asbestos, Tobacco, Plutonium <a name="_Hlk154575583">(<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on </span></a><span style="color: #660033;">the World Health Organization (WHO)</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 27, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/10/world-health-organisation-bacon-as-bad.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/10/world-health-organisation-bacon-as-bad.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Monsanto
and Bayer CropScience in deals to share technology (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on Monsanto</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
OCTOBER 21, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/10/monsanto-and-bayer-cropscience-in-deals.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/10/monsanto-and-bayer-cropscience-in-deals.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Heroin
(Epidemic) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Bayer AG</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
JUNE 18, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/06/heroin-epidemic_18.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/06/heroin-epidemic_18.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Cameron Kerry,
the FDA, Pfizer Inc. & Johnson & Johnson</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
JULY 21, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
CDC: A Truly Corrupt and Dangerous Organization (<span style="color: #660033;">Past
Research on the CDC</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TUESDAY,
JANUARY 5, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-cdc-truly-corrupt-and-dangerous.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-cdc-truly-corrupt-and-dangerous.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-21206236247855231832023-12-20T13:21:00.000-05:002023-12-20T13:21:27.460-05:00Smaller Bites: Connecting the Dots: The Comcast Corporation, The Center for American Progress & Soros Funding, All Networking<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Xfinity
data breach, Comcast hack affects nearly 36 million customers: What to know<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gabe
Hauari<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">USA
TODAY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Published
8:45 a.m. ET Dec. 20, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9tI25b75TjQy3qgq_0YAZTk0Kl0E1NrE8QRvoeok8ZRQuZ1ubn5bKjh5NQppGjo7DEnFXww0m4PqMbuu8BtByF_j-F41B8nv_EH1LbtGPIThngLYVAcEoDSGiAYHL4frd0d3z0epjmuVbAyTksI2ySgIt-Mc9CvrKWIjDiPSMbC1cxbBd5aM_z-EO9sw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="660" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9tI25b75TjQy3qgq_0YAZTk0Kl0E1NrE8QRvoeok8ZRQuZ1ubn5bKjh5NQppGjo7DEnFXww0m4PqMbuu8BtByF_j-F41B8nv_EH1LbtGPIThngLYVAcEoDSGiAYHL4frd0d3z0epjmuVbAyTksI2ySgIt-Mc9CvrKWIjDiPSMbC1cxbBd5aM_z-EO9sw=w442-h295" width="442" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Comcast-owned
Xfinity has experienced a data breach Impacting nearly 36 million customers.
Jeff Fusco, AP Images For Comcast</span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/12/20/xfinity-data-breach-comcast-hack/71982101007/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/12/20/xfinity-data-breach-comcast-hack/71982101007/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A <a href="https://apps.web.maine.gov/online/aeviewer/ME/40/49e711c6-e27c-4340-867c-9a529ab3ca2c.shtml"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">data breach at Xfinity</span></a> has
given hackers access to the personal information of nearly all of the company's
customers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/11/02/disney-buys-hulu/71418723007/"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration-line: none;">Comcast</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, the parent
company of Xfinity, sent a <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231218979935/en/Notice-To-Customers-of-Data-Security-Incident"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">notice to customers</span></a> Monday
saying there was "unauthorized access to its internal systems" as a
result of a vulnerability in software from cloud computing company Citrix,
which is used by Xfinity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Xfinity
said it began notifying customers of the data breach Monday through a variety
of channels, including the Xfinity website, email and news media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
company said the unauthorized users had access to its internal systems between
Oct. 16-19 and they discovered the "suspicious activity" during a
routine cybersecurity exercise on Oct. 25.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Xfinity
says it notified federal law enforcement and initiated an investigation
"into the nature and scope of the incident." The company said they
determined on Nov. 16 that information was likely acquired.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Comcast-Corporation/5003733.muckety">Comcast
Corporation</a> was a funder for the <b>Center for American Progress</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Open-Society-Foundations/5003575.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Open Society Foundations</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the<b> Center for American Progress</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the founder
& chairman for the <b>Open Society Foundations</b>, was the chairman
for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b> and a supporter for
the <b>Center for American Progress</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Center for American Progress</b> and the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Judith-Rodin/893.muckety">Judith Rodin</a> was
an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and
is a director at the <b>Comcast Corporation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Corporate
Backlash: Comcast Executives Push Employees To Protest Trump’s Popular
Immigration Reform (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Comcast</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 4, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/02/corporate-backlash-comcast-executives.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/02/corporate-backlash-comcast-executives.html</a></span><br /><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-58016346130351490672023-12-19T23:14:00.000-05:002023-12-19T23:14:07.375-05:00Bayer (Connecting the Dots: Bayer, Sidley Austin LLP, Pfizer Inc. (Covid Vaccine Manufacturer), FDA, Johnson & Johnson (Covid Vaccine Manufacturer), Vaccine Injuries & Soros Funding, All Networking)<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Bayer
(Connecting the Dots: Bayer, Sidley Austin LLP, Pfizer Inc. (<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer), FDA, Johnson & Johnson
(Covid Vaccine Manufacturer),</span></span></b><span style="color: #660033;"> </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Vaccine
Injuries & Soros Funding, All Networking</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Bayer
AG<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMKKO9dHnZSJepmG8tFz3e0TOG13exd7F9dR_HNGTMIL-fDR9FK92lZGkBDDErAKTvzL3zkkbKvelD9rY9Xv7U0BcQpFRjd_CVBdEG3rL0bfMpuSgKEWbbUW_3wVbHmEbtNUNVEYpUasTu1YoGuZMsZpVZfwMGN1XPOw_oAzxdpXbRe7A5Ur0RiWXjjWI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMKKO9dHnZSJepmG8tFz3e0TOG13exd7F9dR_HNGTMIL-fDR9FK92lZGkBDDErAKTvzL3zkkbKvelD9rY9Xv7U0BcQpFRjd_CVBdEG3rL0bfMpuSgKEWbbUW_3wVbHmEbtNUNVEYpUasTu1YoGuZMsZpVZfwMGN1XPOw_oAzxdpXbRe7A5Ur0RiWXjjWI=w281-h281" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#Heroin" style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#Heroin</a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bayer AG</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">/ˈbaɪ.ər/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, commonly pronounced </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">/ˈbeɪər/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#cite_note-3"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> German: </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">[ˈbaɪɐ]</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">) is a
German </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_corporation" title="Multinational corporation"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">multinational</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">pharmaceutical</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology" title="Biotechnology"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">biotechnology</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> company and is one of the
largest </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_companies" title="Pharmaceutical companies"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">pharmaceutical
companies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_biomedical_companies_by_revenue" title="List of largest biomedical companies by revenue"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">biomedical companies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> in the world. Headquartered in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverkusen" title="Leverkusen"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Leverkusen</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, Bayer's areas of business include </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">pharmaceuticals</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, consumer
healthcare products, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_chemicals" title="Agricultural chemicals"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">agricultural chemicals</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, seeds and
biotechnology products. The company is a component of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_Stoxx_50" title="Euro Stoxx 50"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">EURO STOXX 50</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> stock market index.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#cite_note-4"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bayer
was founded in 1863 in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmen" title="Barmen"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Barmen</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> as a partnership between dye
salesman </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Bayer" title="Friedrich Bayer"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Friedrich Bayer</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (1825–1880)
and dyer Friedrich Weskott (1821–1876). As was common in this era, the company
was established as a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye" title="Dye"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">dyestuffs</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> producer.
The versatility of aniline chemistry led Bayer to expand its business into
other areas, and in 1899, Bayer launched the compound acetylsalicylic acid
under the trademarked name </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin" title="Aspirin"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Aspirin</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">. In 1904, Bayer received a trademark for
the "Bayer Cross" logo, which was subsequently stamped onto each
aspirin tablet, creating an iconic product that is still sold by Bayer. Other
commonly known products initially commercialized by Bayer include </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">heroin</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenobarbitol" title="Phenobarbitol"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">phenobarbital</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethanes" title="Polyurethanes"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">polyurethanes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarbonates" title="Polycarbonates"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">polycarbonates</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
1925, Bayer merged with five other German companies to form </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben" title="IG Farben"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">IG Farben</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, creating the world's largest chemical
and pharmaceutical company. Following </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">World War II</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Control_Council" title="Allied Control Council"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Allied Control Council</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> seized IG
Farben's assets</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#cite_note-seized-5"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">[a]</span></sup></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#cite_note-autogenerated1-6"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> because of its role in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi" title="Nazi"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Nazi</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> war
effort and involvement in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">the Holocaust</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, including using slave labour from
concentration camps and humans for dangerous medical testing, and production
of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B" title="Zyklon B"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Zyklon B</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, a chemical used in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp" title="Extermination camp"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">gas chambers</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#cite_note-7"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> In 1951, IG Farben was split into
its constituent companies, and Bayer was reincorporated as Farbenfabriken Bayer
AG. Bayer played a key role in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder" title="Wirtschaftswunder"><i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">Wirtschaftswunder</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> in
post-war </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">West Germany</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, quickly
regaining its position as one of the world's largest chemical and
pharmaceutical corporations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Bayer-HealthCare/5033480.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bayer HealthCare</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a
subsidiary of <b>Bayer AG</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sidley-Austin-LLP/5005633.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sidley Austin LLP</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the
lobby firm for <b>Bayer HealthCare</b> and a lobby firm for <b>Pfizer
Inc</b>. (<b><span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Michelle Obama</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a lawyer
at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Barack Obama</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was an
intern at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cameron F. Kerry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a
senior counsel for <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>, <b>John F. Kerry’s</b> brother
and a fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk153887442"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George Soros</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote
Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk153887525"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Paul-M-Achleitner/217437.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paul M. Achleitner</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a trustee
at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and a supervisory board
member for <b>Bayer AG</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety
http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Klaus Kleinfeld</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a supervisory board member for <b>Bayer AG</b>
and is a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mark-B-McClellan/105120.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark B. McClellan</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a senior fellow at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b> and a commissioner for the <b>U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Constance-J-Horner/248.muckety">Constance J.
Horner</a> was a guest scholar at the <b>Brookings Institution (think
tank)</b> and is a director at <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. (<b><span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Suzanne-Nora-Johnson/1553.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Suzanne Nora
Johnson</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is
a director at <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. (<b><span style="color: #660033;">Covid
Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>) and a trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Amy-W-Schulman/86207.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amy W. Schulman</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is the EVP
& general counsel for <b>Pfizer Inc</b>. (<b><span style="color: #660033;">Covid
Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>) and a trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation
to Promote Open Society</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder for the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George
Soros</span></b></a><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was
the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mark-B-McClellan/105120.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark B. McClellan</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a senior
fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, a commissioner
for the <b>U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)</b> and is a director
at <b>Johnson & Johnson</b> <a name="_Hlk153887213">(<b><span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>). <o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Ann-Dibble-Jordan/55.muckety">Ann Dibble Jordan</a> was
a director at <a name="_Hlk153908766"><b>Johnson & Johnson (<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)</b>,</a> is married
to <b>Vernon E. Jordan Jr</b>. and an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Vernon-E-Jordan-Jr/1647.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Vernon E. Jordan
Jr.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is
an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>,<b> </b>a
senior counsel for <b>Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</b> and
<b>Valerie B. Jarrett’s</b> great uncle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Akin-Gump-Strauss-Hauer-Feld-LLP/5000053.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a lobby firm for the <a name="_Hlk153907883"><b>Johnson & Johnson</b> (<b><span style="color: #660033;">Covid
Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>) </a>and is a lobby firm for <b>Pfizer Inc</b>.
(<b><span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span></b>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/James-F-Collins/91693.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">James F. Collins</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a senior
advisor at <b>Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP</b>, and is a
senior associate at the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk153887456"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Carnegie-Endowment-for-International-Peace/5000360.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b>(think
tank)</b> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was
a funder for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Margaret-A-Hamburg/94327.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Margaret A.
Hamburg</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was
a VP for the <b>Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank)</b> and a
commissioner for the <b>U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Donald-Kennedy/2238.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Donald Kennedy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a
commissioner for the <b>U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)</b> and a
trustee at the <b>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Foundation
to Promote Open Society</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder for the <b>Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank)</b> and the <b>Brookings Institution
(think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">George
Soros</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was
the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Paul-M-Achleitner/217437.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paul M. Achleitner</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a trustee
at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and a supervisory board
member for <b>Bayer AG</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety
http://www.muckety.com/Klaus-Kleinfeld/4579.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Klaus Kleinfeld</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a supervisory
board member for <b>Bayer AG</b> and is a trustee at the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Mark-B-McClellan/105120.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark B. McClellan</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a senior
fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b> and a
commissioner for the <b>U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Cameron-F-Kerry/101392.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cameron F. Kerry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a
fellow at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>, <b>John F.
Kerry’s</b> brother and a senior counsel for <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Michelle-Obama/4613.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Michelle Obama</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a lawyer
at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Barack-Obama/91.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Barack Obama</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was an
intern at <b>Sidley Austin LLP</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Sidley-Austin-LLP/5005633.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sidley Austin LLP</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the
lobby firm for <b>Bayer HealthCare</b> and a lobby firm for <b>Pfizer
Inc</b>. <a name="_Hlk153907714">(<b><span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine
Manufacturer</span></b>).</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Bayer-HealthCare/5033480.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bayer HealthCare</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a
subsidiary of <b>Bayer AG</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Valerie-B-Jarrett/4675.muckety"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Valerie B. Jarrett</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the
senior adviser for the <b>Barack Obama administration</b>, a friend
of <b>Michelle Obama</b> and <b>Vernon E. Jordan Jr</b>’s great niece. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Voices
For A Cure<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/100093845190560/videos/216134241390240/">https://www.facebook.com/100093845190560/videos/216134241390240/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Heroin
(Epidemic) (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Bayer</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
JUNE 18, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/06/heroin-epidemic_18.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/06/heroin-epidemic_18.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">IG
Farben / Bayer / Pfizer / Israel (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on
Bayer, FDA & Pfizer</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/09/ig-farben-bayer-pfizer-israel.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/09/ig-farben-bayer-pfizer-israel.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Johnson's
Baby Powder and Ovarian Cancer (Past Research on Johnson & Johnson (<span style="color: #660033;">Covid Vaccine Manufacturer</span>)).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SUNDAY,
APRIL 10, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/04/johnsons-baby-powder-and-ovarian-cancer.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/04/johnsons-baby-powder-and-ovarian-cancer.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-63043339507048349082023-12-15T16:11:00.003-05:002023-12-15T16:11:33.196-05:00Smaller Bites: Connecting the Dots: NPR, The Department of Education, Harvard University, The Harvard Corporation & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Republicans'
Calls Growing to Defund Harvard</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Newsmax<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
Sandy Fitzgerald<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>|<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thursday, 14 December 2023 09:06 AM EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/harvard-claudine-gay-antisemitism/2023/12/14/id/1145909/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/harvard-claudine-gay-antisemitism/2023/12/14/id/1145909/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Republicans
are calling for </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Harvard University</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> to be defunded of billions of dollars it
receives through tax breaks and federal payments after statements made by its
president, Claudine Gay, concerning antisemitic speech on campus while she was
being questioned during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing last
week. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"We
must defund the rot in America's higher education," Rep. Elise Stefanik,
R-N.Y., the committee member questioning Gay during the hearing, told </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/14/news/end-antisemitic-harvards-federal-cash-tax-breaks-critics/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">the New York Post</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">. "It is
unacceptable and un-American that any taxpayer dollars are going to
universities propping up their promulgation of antisemitism by supporting
professors, students, and staff, many who have openly called for the genocide
of Jews."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
added that House Republicans "will use every tool at our disposal to
ensure that schools that protect and encourage antisemitism are cut off from
any and all federal funds."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
university is under investigation by the federal </span><a name="_Hlk153538025"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Department
of Education</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153538025;"><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153538025;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to determine if it has violated the civil
rights of its Jewish students, who come under Title VI protection in the
federal Civil Rights Act. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvard's
highest governing board, <a name="_Hlk153538202">the </a></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153538202;"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Harvard Corporation</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153538202;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, this week said Gay will stay in office
and rejected calls for her removal after her congressional testimony, saying
that she "is the right leader to help our community heal and to address
the very serious societal issues we are facing," according to </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218514457/harvard-president-claudine-gay-antisemitism" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660033; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">NPR</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
calls for Gay to resign or be fired came after her testimony included saying
that calls for the genocide of Jewish people did not automatically breach
Harvard's code of conduct. She has apologized for her statements. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rep.
Eli Crane, R-Ariz., after Gay was permitted to stay on, told the Post that he
plans to introduce a bill making Harvard and other schools face financial
consequences if they are shown to foster antisemitism on campuses after the
Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The
American higher ed system is a racket, forcing taxpayers to first subsidize
schools before roping them into paying student loans they didn’t choose to take
on," he said in a statement to the Post. "The schools make out like
bandits, indoctrinating our youth with hate and delusion, all while taxpayers
fund the whole thing. My bill starts to combat this scheme."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Federal
government funding to Harvard hit a record $676 million this year in direct
payments, along with a $25 million COVID rescue fund payment, according to the
school's statement for fiscal year 2023. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvard
also gets 64% of research funding from federal departments, with the largest
amount allocated from the Department of Health and Human Services. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">More
federal cash comes in through tuition payments from students, with an
undisclosed amount of the $1.33 billion in tuition payments coming from federal
student loans and Pell grants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvard's
tax-exempt status, however, results in its largest source of money, as
donations are tax-deductible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
also allows the school to benefit by not being required to pay taxes on certain
transactions, allowing it to build an endowment to total just under $51
billion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tax
breaks are also in place that allow Harvard's money management to trade bonds,
property, and shares without being charged capital gains or corporation taxes,
or taxes on dividends and interest payments. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvard
in 2023 brought in $186 million more than it spent and drew $2.46 billion from
its endowment. The endowment tax was just 1.4%, while an individual taxpayer
would face a 37% tax. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
1.4% tax came as a result of tax reforms during former President Donald Trump's
administration, with the levy being imposed on endowments in colleges with at
least 500 students who pay tuition, and with net assets of at least $500,000
per student. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvard
has 23,000 students, meaning its endowment comes to $3 million in net assets
per student.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Other
Republicans who have called for defunding Harvard and other universities over
antisemitism include Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Florida governor and
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Any
university or college that peddles blatant antisemitism, especially after
Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli civilians, women, and children, has no place
molding the minds of future generations, never mind receiving millions of
taxpayer funds to do so," Scott said in October when he introduced
legislation to defund universities that "fund or facilitate events that
promote violent antisemitism.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">DeSantis,
a graduate of Harvard Law School, called on the government to "get smart
about how we deal with these universities. We can’t keep funding universities
that are creating this type of toxic environment and toxic ideology.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a benefactor for
the <b>NPR</b> and the chairman for the <b>Foundation to Promote Open
Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">was a funder for
the<b> NPR</b>, the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b> and the <b>Brookings
Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Shirley-M-Hufstedler/2465.muckety">Shirley M.
Hufstedler</a> was a lifetime trustee at the <b>Aspen Institute
(think tank)</b> and the secretary for the <b>U.S. Department of Education</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Henry-Louis-Gates-Jr/590.muckety">Henry Louis
Gates Jr.</a> is a trustee at the <b>Aspen Institute (think tank)</b>
and a professor at <b>Harvard University</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a name="_Hlk153538155"></a><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Harvard-Corporation/5000861.muckety"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153538155;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvard Corporation</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153538155;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153538155;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">is the governing
board for the <b>Harvard University</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Lawrence-H-Summers/969.muckety">Lawrence H.
Summers</a> was a professor; former president of <b>Harvard
University</b> and a trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Henry-Louis-Gates-Jr/590.muckety">Henry Louis
Gates Jr.</a> is a professor at <b>Harvard University</b> and was
an honorary trustee at the <b>Brookings Institution (think tank)</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Harvard
hosting Satanic 'Black Mass' (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on
Harvard University</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SATURDAY,
MAY 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/harvard-hosting-satanic-black-mass.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/harvard-hosting-satanic-black-mass.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Who
Really Controls Our Universities? (Connecting the Dots: Soros Funded Think
Tanks) <a name="_Hlk153537405">(<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on
Harvard University</span>)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 24, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/who-really-controls-our-universities.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/08/who-really-controls-our-universities.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Poll:
Black & White Ferguson Residents Agree - Media Made Things Worse (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the NPR</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 17, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/09/poll-black-white-ferguson-residents.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/09/poll-black-white-ferguson-residents.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why
These High School Girls Don’t Want a Transgender Student in Their Locker Room (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the U.S. Department of Education</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MONDAY,
DECEMBER 21, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-these-high-school-girls-dont-want.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-these-high-school-girls-dont-want.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hidden
Agenda Norman Dodd 1 of 6 (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on the Harvard
Corporation</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">SATURDAY,
JANUARY 21, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/01/hidden-agenda-norman-dodd-1-of-6.html">https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/01/hidden-agenda-norman-dodd-1-of-6.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271022348837921425.post-41599712789396265192023-12-07T00:00:00.004-05:002023-12-07T00:00:54.992-05:00Smaller Bites: Connecting the Dots: Norman Lear, His Wife Lyn Davis Lear & Soros Funding, All Networking<p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Television
Producer-Writer <a name="_Hlk152788639">Norman Lear </a>Dies at 101</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxVgShIZAADXUUtLxN_lySqkkU9SSSCpQa8BEkNTwlHfrd_RCKW3wZ81pc4sjnWRM3f2Am1c4KGXtR23YbOFLrezf0LownlxxrCvHWYHDOtg76TsbQ_LcXb7q0elyKq1pUw3v7iC7HuvN4Df0JDfI9oF_XQv-Wd2MenYPWJFVnqNNVGBm9E09MBpj0QfA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxVgShIZAADXUUtLxN_lySqkkU9SSSCpQa8BEkNTwlHfrd_RCKW3wZ81pc4sjnWRM3f2Am1c4KGXtR23YbOFLrezf0LownlxxrCvHWYHDOtg76TsbQ_LcXb7q0elyKq1pUw3v7iC7HuvN4Df0JDfI9oF_XQv-Wd2MenYPWJFVnqNNVGBm9E09MBpj0QfA=w432-h360" width="432" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">(Matt
Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Newsmax.com</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wednesday,
06 December 2023 08:42 AM EST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/norman-lear-obit/2023/12/06/id/1144939/">https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/norman-lear-obit/2023/12/06/id/1144939/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Television
producer-writer </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Norman Lear</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, whose groundbreaking hit comedy shows such as
"All in the Family" and "Maude" addressed social issues
like race and abortion that had rarely been seen on U.S. television, died
Wednesday at the age of 101, according to media reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lear,
one of the most influential people in television, died at his Los Angeles home
of natural causes, his publicist told Variety.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lear,
who won six Emmy awards for his work in television, was known for his
campaigning for liberal causes, including voting rights, and worked well into
his 90s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
2017, he rebooted his 1970s TV series "One Day at a Time" to focus on
a Cuban American family, and in 2020 he earned his sixth Emmy for a live
special broadcast of "All in the Family" and "Good Times."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
February 2021, Lear received the Carol Burnett Award, a lifetime achievement
award, at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony for his contributions to television.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
addition to "All in the Family" and "Maude," Lear dominated
American TV screens in the 1970s and '80s with the situation-comedy shows
"Sanford and Son," "The Jeffersons," and the soap-opera
spoof "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." At one point in the 1970s Lear
had eight shows on the air with an estimated 120 million viewers, Time magazine
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By
drawing material from social themes of the time, Lear's shows made network
executives nervous because they had a depth and air of controversy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"For
him to say that he didn't have an impact on not only television but society is
... a little too humble," said Rob Reiner, who had a co-starring role on
"All in the Family" before becoming a film director.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lear
and production partner Bud Yorkin put "All in the Family" on the air
in January 1971 and the show would go on to win four Emmys for best comedy in
its nine seasons. It was based on a British show, "Til Death Do Us
Part," and gave U.S. television one of its most memorable and
controversial characters - Archie Bunker.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carroll
O'Connor portrayed Archie as a crude, loud, blue-collar New Yorker who spouted
racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic comments. He was cast against a
scatter-brained wife he called "Dingbat," a liberal daughter and an
even more liberal son-in-law he referred to as "Meathead" and played
by Reiner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"All
in the Family" was the top-rated show on U.S. television for five straight
years, according to CBS, and TV Guide ranked it fourth on its list of
television's all-time greatest shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Born
on July 27, 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut, Norman Milton Lear's most lasting
creation was partly based on fact. Many of the harsh words that came out of
Archie's mouth had first been spoken by Lear's own father, Herman Lear, who
went to prison for selling fake bonds, and frequently told his wife to
"stifle" herself and called his son "the laziest white kid I
ever saw."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"I
grew up in a family that lived at the top of its lungs and the ends of its
nerves," Lear told Esquire magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
critics said the Archie Bunker character put a laughing face on bigotry but
Lear said it only pointed to the complexity of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
with Bunker, the character was like none previously seen on U.S. television.
Maude was on her fourth husband, protested marijuana laws and had an abortion
before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the procedure nationwide. Her husband
battled alcoholism, had two nervous breakdowns and attempted suicide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Black
characters in U.S. television in the '70s were mostly limited to minor roles
until Lear made them the focus of some of his shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"The
Jeffersons" was another spin-off of "All in the Family" and
featured an upwardly mobile Black couple who moved to Manhattan's glitzy upper
eastside neighborhood. The show's lead character George was often rude and
loud. Lear's other hits included "Sanford and Son" a sitcom about a
Black junkyard owner in a Los Angeles neighborhood, and "Good Times,"
a protrayal of a working-class Black family in a Chicago housing project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Other
Lear-produced hits included "Diff'rent Strokes," "Fernwood 2
Night," and the "All in the Family" spin-off "Archie
Bunker's Place." But Lear also had flops such as "All That
Glitters," "Sunday Dinner" and another "All in the
Family" spin-off, "Gloria."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lear,
who grew up in Connecticut, dropped out of college in World War Two to join the
Army and flew 52 combat missions. He went to Los Angeles in 1950 with the
intention of being a publicist but began writing for TV stars such as Danny
Thomas, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin and Andy Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lear
shifted focus in 1981 and founded the liberal activist group </span><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">People
for the American Way</span></b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
boost voting rights and fight right-wing extremism. He also established the
Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School
of Communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
2001, he and a partner purchased an original copy of the U.S. Declaration of
Independence and sent it on a three-year tour of U.S. schools, libraries and
events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lear
is survived by his third wife, Lyn, and his six children. (Writing and
reporting by Bill Trott; Additional reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Diane
Craft)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Connecting
the Dots: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Norman-Lear/24059.muckety">Norman Lear</a> was a
director at <b>People for the American Way</b>, married to <b>Lyn
Davis Lear</b> and the president of the <b>Lear Family Foundation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Lear-Family-Foundation/5096082.muckety">Lear
Family Foundation</a> was a funder for <b>People for the American Way</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Foundation-to-Promote-Open-Society/5095776.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">Foundation to Promote Open Society</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was a funder
for <b>People for the American Way</b> and the <b>Sundance Institute</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color: #660033; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety" title="blocked::http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety"><span style="color: #660033;">George Soros</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> was the chairman for
the <b>Foundation to Promote Open Society</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.muckety.com/Lyn-Davis-Lear/23982.muckety">Lyn Davis Lear</a> is
a trustee at the <b>Sundance Institute</b>, a director at the <b>Lear
Family Foundation</b> and married to <b>Norman Lear</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Resources:
Past Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Norman
Lear: Donald Trump is America’s ‘Middle Finger’ to Establishment (<span style="color: #660033;">Past Research on Narman Lear</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 22, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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