Grassley, Comer to continue joint inquiry into FBI handling of significant, politically charged investigations
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an unclassified FBI-generated record describing an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive. Grassley acquired the record, an FD-1023, via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers.
“For the better part of a year, I’ve been pushing the Justice Department and FBI to provide details on its handling of very significant allegations from a trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme. While the FBI sought to obfuscate and redact, the American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic whistleblowers. What did the Justice Department and FBI do with the detailed information in the document? And why have they tried to conceal it from Congress and the American people for so long? The Justice Department and FBI have failed to come clean, but Chairman Comer and I intend to find out,” Grassley said.
“The FBI’s Biden Bribery Record tracks closely with the evidence uncovered by the Oversight Committee’s Biden family influence peddling investigation. In the FBI’s record, the Burisma executive claims that he didn’t pay the ‘big guy’ directly but that he used several bank accounts to conceal the money. That sounds an awful lot like how the Bidens conduct business: using multiple bank accounts to hide the source and total amount of the money,” House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer said. “At our hearing with IRS whistleblowers, they testified that they had never seen or heard of this record during the Biden criminal investigation, despite having potentially corroborating evidence. Given the misconduct and politicization at the Department of Justice, the American people must be able to read this record for themselves. I thank Senator Grassley for providing much needed transparency to the American people. We must hold the Department of Justice accountable for seeking to bury this record to protect the Bidens.”
Grassley first disclosed the FBI’s possession of significant and voluminous evidence of potential criminality involving the Biden family last year. He has since worked to unearth the FBI record, eventually partnering with Comer on a subpoena to compel its public disclosure. After delays, the FBI provided a highly redacted version of the document to select members of the House of Representatives, but it remained shielded from the public and omitted key details, including references to recordings. Following the FBI’s failure to fully comply with the congressional subpoena, Grassley received the legally protected disclosure with limited redactions to protect a trusted FBI source, handling agents, department whistleblowers and identifiers related to other ongoing investigations.
According to the FBI’s confidential human source, executives for Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, brought Hunter Biden on the board to “protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” At the time, Burisma was seeking to do business in the United States, but was facing a corruption investigation in Ukraine, led by then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Regarding that investigation’s impact on its ambitions in North America, Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said, “Don’t worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.” Zlochevsky reportedly stated that he had to pay $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden, an arrangement he described as ‘poluchili,’ which is Russian crime slang for being “forced or coerced to pay,” according to the document.
“Back-up”
Zlochevsky claimed to have many text messages and recordings that show that he was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired. Specifically, he claimed to have two recordings with Joe Biden and 15 recordings with Hunter Biden. Zlochevsky also retained two documents, presumably financial records, as evidence of the arrangement, but said he didn’t send any funds directly to the “Big Guy,” a term understood to be a reference to Joe Biden. References to the “Big Guy” surfaced in communications involving other Biden family business arrangements independent of the Burisma arrangement. Zlochevsky claimed it would take investigators 10 years to uncover the illicit payments to the Bidens, according to the document.
The meaning of the number 201 to the Jesuits. The numerology behind the Coronavirus “Epidemic” and their relation to the main figures behind the corrupted Big Pharma companies.
The history goes that supposedly, in 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Jesuits worldwide, and they only survived because Catherine The Great protected exactly 201 Jesuits who continued to practice their religious ways. Their numerology can be seen everywhere when it comes to their order itself and the current crisis:
“The Jesuit Order” = 201 (Reverse Ordinal)
“Ignatius of Loyola” = 201 (English Ordinal)
“Jorge Mario Bergoglio” = 201 (English Ordinal)
“The Holy Bible” = 201 (Reverse Ordinal)
When it comes to the bible and revelation, the first case of coronavirus was confirmed in the United States on January 21, or 1/21, like 121, in Seattle, Washington, where the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is located, who co-hosted Event 201.
“Revelation” = 121 (English Ordinal)
“Coronavirus Outbreak” = 121 (Reverse Full Reduction)
“Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” = 121 (Full Reduction)
“World Health Organization” = 121 (Reverse Full Reduction)
Everybody related to the crisis itself have Jesuit ties, some rather directly even:
stock here: its always good to look back at research done “before everyone had a horse in the race”. I think I found one of the smoking guns to support Robert Kennedy’s Assertion greater deleterious effects on Whites and Blacks, and less effects on Jews and Finns.
So now Bobby Kennedy is saying these cleavage sites works different on different races.
The coding-region variants in ACE2 and TMPRSS2 from ~ 81,000 human genomes across 8 populations. a Coding-region variants in the genes encoding angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2) across three human genome databases: (i) Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD v3), (ii) Exome Sequencing Project (ESP), and (iii) 1000 Genomes Project (1KGP). SARS-CoV-2 utilizes the host cell factors angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) for entry into cells and the host transmembrane serine protease TMPRSS2 for SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein priming, offering potential pathway for therapeutic development in treatment of COVID-19. b Distribution of 61 deleterious variants in the ACE2 coding region identified in gnomAD (v3). Polyphen2 > 0.96 and CADD scores > 20 as cutoff identify putative deleterious variants. The upper panel using 3 colors shows the functional domains of ACE2, and the height of the vertical line represents the number of populations that carry this variant. The lower heatmap shows the allele frequencies (color key) of a variant across different populations. c Distributions of 63 putative deleterious variants in the TMPRSS2 coding region using the same approach of b. AFR, African/African-American; AMI, Amish; AMR, Latino/Admixed American; ASJ, Ashkenazi Jewish; EAS, East Asian; FIN, Finnish; EUR, Non-Finnish European; SAS, South Asian; PNA, population not assigned
ACE2 polymorphism analysis across different populations
Here, we investigated genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 by examining DNA polymorphisms in ACE2 (OMIM 300335) and TMPRSS2 (OMIM 602060) genes. We assembled a total of 437 non-synonymous single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) in the protein-coding regions of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 (Fig. 1a) from three databases: (i) Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD v3: gnomad.broadinstitute.org, covering 9 geographical areas), (ii) Exome Sequencing Project (ESP: evs.gs.washington.edu/EVS/), and (iii) 1000 Genomes Project (1KGP, www.internationalgenome.org). We used ANNOVAR [9] to annotate all non-synonymous variants. By applying Polyphen2 and CADD (Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion) scores, we identified 63 potentially deleterious variants in ACE2 (61 in gnomAD) and 68 deleterious variants in TMPRSS2 (63 in gnomAD).
We found that the distribution of deleterious variants in ACE2 differs among 9 populations in gnomAD (v3). Specifically, 39% (24/61) and 54% (33/61) of deleterious variants in ACE2 occur in African/African-American (AFR) and Non-Finnish European (EUR) populations, respectively (Fig. 1b). Prevalence of deleterious variants among Latino/Admixed American (AMR), East Asian (EAS), Finnish (FIN), and South Asian (SAS) populations is 2–10%, while Amish (AMI) and Ashkenazi Jewish (ASJ) populations do not appear to carry such variants in ACE2 coding regions (Fig. 1b). Specifically, several variants, including p.Met383Thr, p.Pro389His, and p.Asp427Tyr, have been reported to slightly inhibit the interaction between ACE2 and the spike protein of SARS-CoV-1 [10], which caused the first global SARS-CoV-1 outbreak. Only AFR populations carry p.Met383Thr and p.Asp427Tyr variants, with allele frequencies of 0.003% and 0.01%, respectively (Fig. 1b). The p.Pro389His only occurs in the AMR populations, with an allele frequency of 0.015%. The p.Arg514Gly is a low allele frequency (0.003%) variant in AFR populations and is also somatically mutated in colon cancers and melanomas from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA: https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov). This ACE2 variant is located in the angiotensinogen (AGT)-ACE2 interaction surface, which is anticipated to influence the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) function. The RAS is critical for regulation of blood pressure, sodium, and fluid balance, and its dysfunction is associated with cardiovascular and kidney disorders [11]. Residues Arg708/710/716 are located in the dimeric interface of ACE2 (Fig. 2a), and they are essential for its cleavage by TMPRSS2; this processing is required for augmentation of SARS-S-driven entry into host cells [12]. The EUR population carries the p.Arg708Trp, p.Arg710Cys, p. Arg710His, and p.Arg716Cys variants with allele frequency of 0.01~0.006% (Fig. 1a), while the EAS and the AMR populations only carry p.Arg708Trp and p.Arg710His with allele frequency of 0.04% and 0.01% respectively. In addition to these four variants, p.Leu731Phe has the highest allele frequency in the AFR and EUR populations. We further inspected the expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) for ACE2 using the GTEx [13] and QTLbase [14] databases. We did not find any eQTLs for ACE2 from the GTEx, while we found one weak eQTL associated with ACE2 non-synonymous SNP (rs41303171) in the kidney from the QTLbase [14].
Structural view of the coding-region variants in ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and a proposed pharmacogenomics model of effective combination therapies for COVID-19. a Full-length structures of the sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter B(0)AT1 (SLC6A19, red)–ACE2 (blue) heterodimer in its homodimeric form complexed with the receptor binding domain (RBD, mint) of SARS-CoV-2 (PDB ID: 6M17). Highly deleterious variants are labeled as yellow spheres on ACE2. Insets depict mutations in residues 383 through 427 (top) and residues 708 through 731 (bottom). b Homology model of the catalytic chain (256–492) of TMPRSS2. Highly deleterious mutations are labeled as yellow spheres. c A proposed model of effective combination therapies (i.e., hydroxychloroquine, E-64D (a protease inhibitor), and camostat mesylate (an approved TMPRSS2 for treatment of chronic pancreatitis in Japan)) for COVID-19 by blocking ACE2 and TMPRSS2 across different populations with three genotypes. Relationship among spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2, ACE2, and TMPRSS2 were shown as a triangle, with each pair connecting by physical binding (double-headed arrow) or cleavage (single-headed arrow). We propose three hypotheses for COVID-19 therapeutic options: (i) for patients with wild-type or naïve expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2, hydroxychloroquine (or chloroquine, or E-64D) combined with camostat may offer more clinical benefit; (ii) for patients with polymorphisms or dysregulation on TMPRSS2, hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine monotherapy may offer more clinical benefit; and (iii) for patients with polymorphisms or dysregulation on ACE2, the patients who might have mild symptoms can recover in a short period. All three pharmacogenomics models for COVID-19 must be validated both experimentally and clinically before being used in patients
Altogether, these comparative genetic analyses suggest that ACE2 genomic variants may play important roles in susceptibilities to COVID-19 and its associated cardiovascular conditions by altering AGT-ACE2 pathway (i.e., p.Arg514Gly). In addition to differential polymorphisms which may explain susceptibility and even outcome in different ethnic populations, the fact that ACE2 is localized to Xp22.2 may help explain the observed male-associated risk. As such, even in the absence of variation in this gene, the monoallelic versus biallelic presence of this gene may impact the natural history and prognosis of COVID-19 in males.
TMPRSS2 polymorphism analysis across different populations
TMPRSS2 enzyme activity is important for coronavirus spread and pathogenesis in the infected host [15]. Our analysis indicates 4% (11/274) of non-synonymous variants of TMPRSS2 are stop-gained mutations and carried by AFR and EUR with low allele frequency (7.0 × 10−6~1.4 × 10−5). Meanwhile, 35% (22/63) and 59% (37/63) of deleterious variants in TMPRSS2 coding regions are carried by the AFR and EUR populations from gnomAD (v3), respectively (Fig. 1c). Each of the EAS, SAS, and FIN populations only carries 4 deleterious variants. We found 6 germline deleterious variants (p.Val160Met, p.Gly181Arg, p.Arg240Cys, p.Gly259Ser, p.Pro335Leu, and p.Gly432Ala) in the TMPRSS2 coding region, which are also identified as somatic mutations occurring in different cancer types from TCGA and COSMIC databases (https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic).
We further evaluated the eQTL profile of TMPRSS2 using the GTEx [13] and QTLbase databases [14] as well. We found two eQTLs associated with TMPRSS2 non-synonymous SNPs (rs12329760 (encoding p.Val160Met), p = 4.54 × 10−5; rs75603675, p = 0.009) in the kidney and bone, respectively, using the QTLbase database [14], while there are no known eQTLs associated with TMPRSS2 non-synonymous SNPs from GTEx [13]. Notably, all populations carry p.Val160Met variants with the highest allele frequency (~ 25%), especially for the EAS population at a 40% allele frequency. Asp435 is a key residue for catalytic substrate binding of TMPRSS2 (Fig. 2b). We found that the p.Asp435Tyr, which has low allele frequency, is carried by the EUR population only (Fig. 1c). These unique but prevalent polymorphisms in TMPRSS2 offer potential explanations for differential genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 as well as for risk factors, including those with cancer and the high-risk group of male patients. Because TMPRSS2 is located on 21q22.3, we could speculate that individuals with Down syndrome would be at high risk for COVID-19 infection. In addition, oncogenic roles of TMPRSS2 may be linked to poor outcomes with COVID-19 as well [16], which should be studied in the future. Using single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis, Schuler et al. showed that TMPRSS2 expression was highest in ciliated cells and type I alveolar epithelial cells (AT1) and increased with aging in humans and mice [17]. This observation suggests that developmental regulation of TMPRSS2 may link the relative protection of infants and children from COVID-19. Thus, it should be of great interest to investigate the age-related polymorphisms for TMPRSS2, such as using the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) cohort [18], in the future.
Host genetic factors guide personalized treatment of COVID-19
There are currently no approved effective medications against COVID-19. Several national and international research groups are working on the development of vaccines to prevent COVID-19, but effective vaccines not likely to be available for many months. Several potentially repurposable drugs (Fig. 2c), including melatonin [19], hydroxychloroquine, and chloroquine, are under investigation for treatment of COVID-19 [20]. A primary mechanism-of-action of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine is to inhibit virus entry by targeting the endosomal pathway [20]. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine is known to increase the pH of endosomes, which inhibits membrane fusion, a required mechanism for viral entry into the cell [21]. Additionally, inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 could be due to differential glycosylation of both ACE2 and the spike protein [21]. As shown in Fig. 1b, several variants identified in the AFR and AMR populations, including p.Met383Thr, p.Pro389His, and p.Asp427Tyr (the pathogenic variants in ACE2 slightly inhibit interaction with the S protein), may influence the clinical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. This may help explain why treatment of hydroxychloroquine was not significantly associated with difference in in-hospital mortality [22]. However, further pharmacogenomic studies that integrate drug response and genetic data from patients with COVID-19 are urgently needed.
In addition to the endosomal pathway, fusion of viral and host cellular membranes through S protein conformational changes is another way for coronavirus entry into the host cell [23]. This process can be blocked by a TMPRSS2 inhibitor (camostat mesylate, a drug approved in Japan) [5]. The mechanisms whereby TMPRSS2 promotes cellular entry of SARS-CoV-2 can be summarized by two aspects based on its proteolytic function (Fig. 2). The first is S protein cleavage at S1/S2 and S2’ sites, which might be the reason why SARS-CoV-2 entry into cells depends on TMPRSS2. The infection and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 depends on the presence of TMPRSS2, in the face of the cellular elevated pH environment [5, 24, 25]. The inhibitors of endosomal acidification such as CatB/L inhibitor E-64D and hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine may only work for TMPRSS2-absence patients who are infected by SARS-CoV-2, and may have less effect or no effect for the patients with wild-type of TMPRSS2 [5, 24]. Therefore, the EUR and AFR populations might be more sensitive to hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine by carrying missense variants and stop-gained variants on TMPRSS2 (Figs. 1c and and2c).2c). Yet, for patients who have wild-type of ACE2 and TMPRSS2, a combination of camostat with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine may have better clinical benefit. However, all discussed treatment strategies must be validated by randomized controlled trials before clinical use. The second mechanism is cleavage of ACE2 by TMPRSS2 at Arginine 697 to 716 [12], which enhances viral uptake. Thus, the EUR population with p.Arg708Trp, p.Arg710Cys, p.Arg710His, and p.Arg716Cys variants in ACE2 may have mild symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection as ACE2 loses the cleavage site by TMPRSS2 and changes the ACE2 dimer formation [26] (Fig. 2c).
Discussion and future directions: call for host genetics initiative for COVID-19
A few limitations merit consideration. Current analysis examined massive genomic data from general population, not COVID-19 patient-specific populations. All genetic associations identified in current study are urgently needed to be tested in COVID-19 patients in the near future. As the high-resolution protein structure of TMPRSS2 is not yet available, further functional observations and clinical validation are warranted for all abovementioned genetic and pharmacogenomics findings. We anticipate that large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are urgently needed to identify likely causal host genetic risk factors for severe COVID-19 outcomes using genetic data from patients with COVID-19; such knowledge will improve risk stratification of individuals exposed to or testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and allow for precision medicine interventions for COVID-19. A COVID-19 host genetics initiative is already underway to bring together the human genetics research community to generate, share, and analyze data in a search for the genetic determinants of COVID-19 susceptibility, severity, and outcomes [27]. The first COVID-19 GWAS identified the 3p21.31 gene cluster (including SLC6A20, LZTFL1, CCR9, FYCO1, CXCR6, and XCR1) as a genetic susceptibility locus in severe patients with COVID-19 and respiratory failure [28]. Yet, our study aims to look for SNPs associated with disease severity of COVID-19, but not disease susceptibility. In summary, systematic identification of the genetic determinants of COVID-19 susceptibility, severity, and clinical outcome, including both virus and host factors (e.g., ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphisms), could guide personalized treatment in the emerging COVID-19 pandemic and even explain current epidemiologic observations (i.e., males, elderly at high risk, and clinical comorbidities) and natural history.
This comprehensive comparative genetic analysis of approximately 81,000 human genomes suggested possible associations of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 DNA polymorphisms with COVID-19 susceptibility, severity, and clinical outcomes. We found that ACE2 polymorphisms were more likely to be associated with cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions by altering the angiotensinogen-ACE2 interactions, such as p.Arg514Gly in the African/African-American population. Unique but prevalent polymorphisms in TMPRSS2, including p.Val160Met (rs12329760), may provide potential explanations for differential genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 as well as for risk factors, including cancer and the high-risk group of male patients. We highlighted that polymorphisms in ACE2 or TMPRSS2 could guide personalized treatments (i.e., hydroxychloroquine and camostat) for COVID-19. In summary, this study suggested that ACE2 or TMPRSS2 DNA polymorphisms were likely associated with genetic susceptibility to COVID-19, which calls for a human genetics initiative for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
We thank all helpful discussions and critical comments regarding this manuscript from the COVID-19 Research Intervention Advisory Committee members at the Cleveland Clinic. SCE is the Alfred Lerner Memorial Chair of Innovative Research and CE is the Sondra J. and Stephen R. Hardis Endowed Chair of Cancer Genomic Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
F.C. conceived the study. Y.H., J.Z., and W.M. performed all experiments and data analysis. A.K., M.K.C, N.S., L.J., C.E., and S.E. discussed and interpreted all results. F.C., Y.H., C.E., and S.E. wrote and critically revised the manuscript with contributions from other co-authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number R00HL138272 and the National Institute of Aging under Award Number R01AG066707 to F.C. This work was supported, in part, by the VeloSano Pilot Program (Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute).
All population genetic data used in this study are free and available at three databases: (i) Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD v3: gnomad.broadinstitute.org, covering 9 geographical areas), (ii) Exome Sequencing Project (ESP: evs.gs.washington.edu/EVS/), and (iii) 1000 Genomes Project (1KGP, www.internationalgenome.org).
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So now Bobby Kennedy is saying these cleavage sites works different on different races.
In mid 2021, as I discovered the horrific experiment that was going on….they took the logistically insane method of sending their bad batches to very spread out states. The theory was that they were collecting data on how the specific batches affected people in different demographics, races, age, and even temperature. Shortly after publishing the undeniable data….Google banned my website on blogger, and then started erasing my history for 10 years. over the target! I had made a full backup a week or two back, I knew I was getting close to the real story and was therefore at risk.
I don’t have a firm opinion on whether “the furin cleavage site” makes effects of different races from COVID and also the Spike S protein of the Injections, in all their formulations.
I’ll add more when I get more. Research has been tough. But maybe this blood type meme will play out well.
According to the American Red Cross, the following statistics show the most common blood types in the U.S. based on the donor population:
African American: 47% O-positive, 24% A-positive, and 18% B-positive
Latin American: 53% O-positive, 29% A-positive, and 9% B-positive
Asian: 39% O-positive, 27% A-positive, and 25% B-positive
Caucasian: 37% O-positive, 33% A-positive, and 9% B-positive
The least common blood type in the U.S. is AB-negative, with less than 1% of the population having this type.
Statistics from the American Red Cross show that the following are the most rare forms of the major eight blood types in the U.S. based on the donor population:
African American: 0.3% AB-negative, 1% B-negative, and 2% A-negative
Latin American: 0.2% AB-negative, 1% B-negative, and 2% both A-negative and AB-positive
Asian: 0.1% AB-negative, 0.4% B-negative, and 0.5% A-negative
Caucasian: 1% AB-negative, 2% B-negative, and 3% AB-positive
—————————————————— I asked AI to help, and it appears that AI is becoming more woke….”The concept of race is a social construct” hmmmm
here it is
As of my last update in September 2021, there is no comprehensive chart that provides percentage breakdowns of blood types for different races, including the Ashkenazi Jewish population. Blood type distribution can vary widely based on geographical location, cultural background, and historical migrations. Additionally, the concept of “race” is complex and not based solely on genetic factors, so trying to associate specific blood type distributions with races can be misleading.
However, I can provide you with some general information about blood type distributions in different populations. Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate and may not be fully up-to-date:
ABO Blood Group System:
Blood Type O: This is usually the most common blood type worldwide.
Blood Type A: Common in populations of European, African, and Asian descent.
Blood Type B: Common in populations of Asian and African descent.
Blood Type AB: Relatively rare, and often more prevalent in mixed populations.
Rh Factor:
Rh-positive: This is the most common Rh factor in most populations.
Rh-negative: Relatively less common compared to Rh-positive, and its distribution can vary across different ethnic groups.
As for the Ashkenazi Jewish population, they are an ethnoreligious group with Ashkenazi Jews primarily having European ancestry. It’s important to note that their blood type distribution would likely resemble the blood type distribution of European populations.
For any specific and up-to-date data on blood type distributions in different populations, it’s best to refer to recent studies and medical databases. The distribution of blood types can also change over time due to various factors such as migration, intermixing of populations, and medical advances.
Remember, blood type information is essential for medical purposes, such as blood transfusions, but it should not be used to draw conclusions about a person’s race or ethnicity. The concept of race is a social construct and not a valid biological categorization. Genetic variation within and between populations is much more complex and nuanced than can be captured by broad racial categories.
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s nearly 2-year-old German shepherd Commander bit seven people in a four-month period after former first dog Major was ousted from the White House over similar aggressive behavior, according to internal Secret Service communications reviewed by The Post.
The shocking spate of incidents involving Commander — none of them previously reported — mirrors attacks involving Major, who the White House says was given to family friends after biting many Secret Service members in 2021.
In the most serious documented incident involving Commander, the White House physician’s office on Nov. 3, 2022, referred a bitten Secret Service uniformed officer to a local hospital for treatment after the dog clamped down on their arm and thigh, according to emails released under the Freedom of Information Act to conservative legal group Judicial Watch.
Records show Commander broke the skin of a different Secret Service member’s hand and arm weeks later after the president unleashed him outside the White House following a family movie night — and the following month, Commander bit the back of a security technician at Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home.
stock here. AI ChatGDP does a good job of writing first drafts of whatever you want, even basic research.
I tried Youbuild.AI and was hoping to get an executable file that did it all. Not quite, not close….but it did come up with a rational plan to obtain the data
an app that downloads that last weeks earthquake data from the USGS website and transfers the data into CVS format and make a separate worksheet with all the deep earthquakes over 300km, and all the large earthquake over 5.7 magnitude
Here is what I asked it, and below is what it generated.
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First, log into the USGS website and select the link entitled ‘Earthquake Data.’
Next, select the option to ‘Display Data’ and then click ‘Submit.’
Then select ‘Export Data’ dropdown menu and choose ‘CSV’ as the format.
Next, select ‘Last Week’ as the ‘Time’ option and click ‘Submit’.
Once the data is displayed, click ‘Download File.’
Once the data has been downloaded, open the CSV file.
Using a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, create a separate worksheet. new worksheet, use the data downloaded from the USGS website to create a table with the following columns: Magnitude, Depth, Region, and Time.
Next, use the filter function to filter out all earthquakes with a magnitude less than 5.7 and a depth greater than 300km.
Finally, save the worksheet as an Excel (.xlsx) or CSV file.
Your table is now ready to be used!
—————————————————- They give you a list of other apps that people have built. Looks like AI hates Trump.
stock here: This is as expected. Note that these are “clearances” aka Approval of Personal Pensions to the disabled. These are the ones that lived, there are many more that died.
I made this chart from all the data.
Check my source documents if you have the wherewithal to data crunch.
Are we seeing “Turbo Cancers”? Prior average 2800, new average 4000. Disabling Cancers, so I would say Turbo.
Psychiatric — went from 9000 to 24000. Keep in mind these are not just people seeking treatment, these are people newly disabled.
Neurological: Note how additional Vaccine Boosters all but stopped at beginning of 2022, but the disabilities continued “strong” and even accelerating.
This is the only category that just went up and did not skyrocket
stock here, this thing will write code for you. I haven’t tried it yet, but wanted to document it so I don’t lose it. I am putting together a set of free and almost free AI Resources.
stock here: Some reading material. He gets much of it correct. But here’s the thing, he wants Trump back in office.
The left uses Trump to create division and hatred, and uses the useful idiot liberals who then suck down all the leftist non-sense, or at least don’t campaign against it.
And here is this….Trump thinks that Zelensky is a “brave man” and that is pretty much all I need to know about the New Trump…..he still doesn’t understand the most important things. The war in Ukraine is for sure funding the commie leftist causes within the USA.
I know I will piss off alot of people by saying that Trump is not a good choice to run for President, he should step back and support the next well like candidate….someone who can swing some Libs too. I imagine JFK jr. would run as an independent but I think he know that would never work anyway.
Dan Bongino, who is an “adoring” Trump fan, is pandering the story that Trump will make better personnel decisions this time….and I don’t buy it. Christopher Wray, anyone? He is still there at the head of the Jan 6 abusing FBI.
Bottom line is — We do not need Trump, we simply need elections that are not corrupted.
I believed The Deep State was losing its power, but wanted a Republican back in the White House in 2024 to keep up the charade of democracy. I may have been wrong.
They probably want DJT to get the GOP nomination because they feel confident he’ll lose to the “Democratic” nominee. I’m afraid they still wield the majority of power in the USSA.
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When The (Bureaucratic) Deep State squeals about Donald Trump it may be real fear. That’s good for you and me!! I have my work cut out for me updating “America’s Shadow Government” as a result of this…
After brushing up on Trump’s actions I’ve seen enough evidence to vote for him for a third time. In 2016 Americans’ consensus was that we might need a bull in the China shop. He even got a few far-Left votes from the Hitlery haters but lost those in 2020). DJT OVER-DELIVERED.
Hopefully DJT reads “America’s Shadow Government” as he faces an uphill climb to convince American voters he’s for real. Civil liberties proponents better hope it doesn’t prove to be a Sisyphean climb.
The Deep State sure as hell isn’t our ally. Never has been never will be. I would be surprised if many DC bureaucrats wanted a weak military as the ChiComs, AND their sympathizers might.
How could they possibly with American and European defense contractors lining their pockets with blood money? I am referring to DC’s unelected bureaucrats (rats), not ordinary citizens who would prefer more spending on social services.
I would also imagine there are European concerns who would rather have the seat of power in Europe rather than in the US (or at least it’s a possibility). They may not care.
There must be infighting among global “ruling” elites much as there’s confusion among journalists attempting to suss out their relationships. In some instances that interconnectedness may protect us, but does not include the WHO’s “Pandemic” Treaty.*
One would hope these differences among “ruling” elites would be enough to keep us safe, but 9/11 and CoVid suggest otherwise. There doesn’t appear to be so much as a half-assed investigation into the CoVid-19 outbreak. All the public’s left with is the coincidental Event 201 pandemic exercise.
*[The Event 201 exercise conducted by Johns Hopkins, the World Economic Forum (private arm of the UN and WHO [in other words Amerika & the Chinese Communists]), and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation four months PRIOR TO the CoVid-19 outbreak demonstrated an alarming willingness to collaborate in order to reach elitists’ shared agenda.
If there was a natural outbreak of avian flu a few years following Event 201, and our authorities were better equipped to handle it, it would be another matter entirely, but that isn’t what happened. I don’t believe Fauci, Gates, and Schwab were framed. That’s wishful thinking more suitable for fairytales.
Any bets on how long it takes Melinda to remove her name from the foundation (hard to root against a Dallas gal)? I’d be anxious to disassociate from Bill Gates ASAFP. We shouldn’t assume everyone is evil, but I have some serious questions about her ex-husband (tech titan turned vaccine “expert” for Americans who trust government [CIA] media). Lord help us, surely young people are no longer using Facebook (or other social media) as their primary news aggregator. FB is crawling with spooks.]
It’s one cover up after another, and Lord knows what else we are NOT privy to. At least there’s enough dirt on 9/11 and JFK to keep our government under pressure. It’s why they have to censor, distort (spin) and outright lie constantly.
A few parts of this article seem a little redundant to me, but it may help to have sound bites to compliment “America’s Shadow Government”, and for sharing as well. I never intended for my manuscript to become a four hour read. Yikes.
I’ll also do a series of essays beginning with “SECTION NINE” that should clear up some confusion, then I’ll try to hew to chronological order on most subsequent articles when possible while attempting to steer clear of CoVid-19 AND 9/11 in the majority. However, referencing Event 201 was necessary to shed some light on my manuscript (to better clarify its moniker The Deep State). It’s tricky…
The Biden administration is 100% full speed Deep State (without Trump to gum up the works). The Deep State = Amerika = The United Socialist States of Amerika (red shadow government). The Deep State has modeled us after the CCP police state without many Americans realizing it (the CIA has always served The Deep State and is who most Americans receive their news “programming” from).
This is the simplest way to view our government without overcomplicating things.
If these “hostile to democracy” interests are able to cooperate with one another to reach common goals, surely Liberal and Conservative voters can figure out a way to get along and save our country. Most people seem worn out and less likely to argue, so now is as good a time as ever.
I’ll continue to update “America’s Shadow Government”.
It might not be a bad idea to review it occasionally if you learned something from it (I’ve added a ton over the last several weeks). At some point I’ll put it down, but not until it’s as accurate as possible. I’ll need to clear up any doubt regarding DJT and also to simplify my writing on The Deep State if necessary. The majority of information should still be spot on and worthwhile to read.
I will look for updates like today’s readers may miss, and share them as well.
Today’s was important as I have felt the confusion many voters have felt (Trump supporters and non-supporters alike). I’d love to hear Trump continually spell out, in as presidential a manner as possible, why he’s the right man to lead America out of darkness. Let’s go DJT!!!!
The point of my writing is to reach a significant minority of Liberals in order to reform our government nonviolently, not to create another rightwing feedback loop (those are a dime a dozen, but are also a critical part of our support networks). If you enjoy these essays, please share them with your Liberal friends and family.
Long term we miraculously need to get Trump re-elected. I don’t believe that’s possible without a significant minority of Liberals and Independents voting for him. We have a little over a year to reach what remains of the Left who also cherish our civil liberties. There’s bound to be a few.
Young Liberals will turn out in droves to vanquish Trump a second time and also to vote for student loan forgiveness. We must get out in front of the young AND dumb (lacking life experience) onslaught. Most of us were young and dumb once so this isn’t a personal attack.
Is there any reason Conservatives can’t offer student loan forgiveness (other than the fact most are Neo-Cons and RINOs who support Biden’s Deep State agenda)? The GOP must adopt a do whatever it takes to win mentality if Republicans are in fact for real. I haven’t seen anything in recent years to suggest that they are. All I see is them rolling over again and again. Shaking their fists but not taking action like bad Kabuki theater.
With Biden in office there is NO ONE to slow down The Deep State (who many suspect facilitated the John F. Kennedy assassination as well as the 9/11 attacks through its use of the CIA).
[“Heed Truman’s Call to Rein in the CIA” – Peter Fenn (link pending):
Peter Fenn’s article was written two years before Trump took office.
As you can see, The Deep State has turned a monster (the CIA) loose on the American people.]
If Trump is re-elected he must show more Deep State bureaucrats like James Comey (Blinken and Nuland) no mercy, and fire them as quickly as possible. Unelected appointees were very harmful to Donald Trump’s presidency as well as to we the people’s individual freedoms. They must be fired for the American experiment to survive and thrive. That’s something every American should want.
I will post another article in a few days regarding Trump’s non-renewal of The “Patriot” Act’s Section 215. It would be much better if he had said “for the people” rather than “for Russiagate” (himself). Maybe he did? I’ve also heard the “Biden” administration (Deep State) is pressuring the courts to rule in favor of free speech “controls” or “limitations”. I’ll do some research before I publish.
Additional mission objectives covered in “America’s Shadow Government” include Doctors, Hollywood, Law Enforcement, Military, NBA, and Writers standing up to what’s fast becoming the Amerikan (USSA) establishment. There is great strength in numbers.
I never planned on writing, but let’s hope these revelations and some elbow grease and duct tape can turn this ship around…
stock here: I created this image of a German Shepherd doing TIG Welding, note the cool gloved snout, very creative. But it needs a label. They are going to state that all the images of Hunter doing illegal and immoral stuff were AI generated….I see that coming for sure.
Are those colored squares at the bottom a form of labeling?
stock here: One of the End Goals is Tyranny. In UK they are
prosecuting 100s of people a month, and 28,000 total for breaking the lockdowns.
If the person objects to the fines (6000 to 10,000 GBP) then the Government will without notice before or after, “try their case in absensia” (without the defendant being present, sometimes not even being aware they are being tried, as in the letter never arrived).
stock — Well maybe he did more than just that….oh looks like he opened a line of credit, although there are no claims of wrong doing — it looks like a BS nothing burger to me
A US$55 million loan became the primary focus of federal prosecutors, which initially was discovered as a footnote in an April 2020 financial report. The team had taken out the credit line 16 months earlier without the knowledge and required approval of Snyder’s minority partners, Robert Rothman, Dwight Schar, and Frederick W. Smith, who owned 40% of the team collectively.[76]Bank of America officials repeatedly asked team executives for proof that the board had approved the loan, but team executives ignored all requests before the loan closed.[76] According to arbitration documents, the partners demanded that the NFL investigate the origin of Snyder’s loan, yet neither NFL commissioner Roger Goodell nor the NFL arbitrator investigated the allegations. Four days after the partners asked the NFL to seek proof that the loan was legally obtained, the NFL shut down arbitration proceedings.[76]
Dan Snyder is Jewish….maybe he didn’t cowtow to all the rules of the Tribe?
stock here: this is part of the 4th Turning, this is where we are at. Please take a good look Mary Jo White. Besides lambasting to mostly innocent, protecting the guilty, and aiding the Opioid Epidemic (those are her good points) she is just overall a horrible person.s
Following her departure as Chair of the SEC, White rejoined Debevoise & Plimpton in February 2017.[26] In that same year, White was a member of a National Football League‘s external expert advisory panel on domestic violence, reviewing allegations against Ezekiel Elliott. He was suspended for six games.[27]
In 2017, White was retained by the University of Rochester to investigate professor T. Florian Jaeger, by whom sixteen students had complained of being sexually harassed. White’s firm was hired to conduct an independent investigation but proceeded without any input from the plaintiffs from the case, due to their pending litigation.[28] White’s team broke confidentiality agreements with witnesses by making public names that they had promised would remain confidential.[29] Based on White’s legal opinion that no laws had been broken,[30] the University of Rochester argued that the case should be dismissed. The judge, however, sided with the plaintiffs in a 58-page ruling which “repeatedly knocked down specific rebuttals from the university” including White’s claims.[31] The case later settled with the plaintiffs with no-fault admitted for $9.4 million.[32]
In August 2018, White chaired the investigation related to Ohio State‘s football coach Urban Meyer‘s denials of knowing about domestic violence committed by one of his former assistant coaches, Zach Smith.[33]
In August 2019, White was retained by Les Wexner as a criminal defense attorney in matters to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.[34]
Throughout her career, White has represented members of the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma in litigation brought by victims of the opioid epidemic.[35] In 2006, White, along with Rudy Giuliani, pressured the Department of Justice not to pursue criminal charges against key executives in Purdue Pharma.[36] Mary Jo White’s advocacy meant that Purdue was able to aggressively continue to sell OxyContin across the United States.[36] White continued to represent Purdue Pharma after this, advocating for a settlement in bankruptcy court that would have absolved the Sackler Family of any criminal liability from their role in the opioid epidemic.[37] That settlement was overturned by the Southern District of New York in December 2021.[38]
My Call for a VLQ Very Large Quake expires today, Friday. After the dearth of quakes on Tuesday, the daily quantity went to the slightly high side around 30 on the USGS report. This of note though….never saw 3 quakes in the same area(but not the same spot) at exactly the same depth 156 km, and a 4th one at 161km).
Not my favorite podcast overall,, but occasionally good stuff. This one is highly recommended. They fall short of recognizing the Satanic and Psychopathic trends behind much of what ails us. We need more than a “resolution” we need a win.
stock here: well its fast, really fast. Somewhat trite, and I could improve these with a little work. AI is a useful tool to create your first draft. I used it to create a Cease and Desist letter, it looks pretty good.
AI loves some words like intertwined, might, light, bright
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In the heart of a garden, where life blooms bright, A sanctuary stands against the world’s dark plight,
With organic might, it shields and defends, From the World Economic Forum, their twisted trends.
Young Global Leaders, wrapped in a facade, Macron, Trudeau, steering a misguided charade,
But amidst the green foliage, their influence wanes, For truth and resilience the garden sustains.
Amidst the chaos where farmers and truckers face, The garden offers solace, a haven and embrace,
An abundant haven, where food and hope combine, Against the attacks on those who toil the land, they malign.
The world cries, “Fight carbon!” with misguided might, Yet the garden knows better, it reveals the light,
For carbon, the essence of life’s very core, Is the key to growth, the earth’s blessings to store.
So tend the garden with love, let its roots run deep, Protecting us from falsehoods, we shall keep,
In nature’s embrace, we’ll find our way, Amidst the chaos, hope’s seeds we’ll sow and lay.
Via research from the Flying Cuttlefish, ran across these resources to. We have covered Tom Hanks several times….and his wife knows it all, or at least most of it.
Unfortunately some of the YouTube resources were dead links as “account
Previous Pizzagate submissions regarding satanic pedophile Tom Hanks…I dug this image and song out.
One place mentioned in UK was “Bounce” where Hanks is known as a Ping Pong Champion (little boy over), and their galllery is now a 404, but they sure promote the Drag Queens…sheesh. Picture at top, and sure, this doesn’t look fishy….
Funny how offspring of Sigmund Freud end up in nefarious positions.
WOW! I was literally reading about this guy’s dad, Clement Freud before I saw this post!! I can fill in some blanks.
It has been some time, since I played table tennis, but according to the photos he doesn’t even can hold the paddle correctly. Can’t play forehand with that grip…
Going to SnapChat… Remember who else just went to work for Snapchat: Jennifer Stout. She is one of the infamous people called out by the FBI as the 7th floor Shadow Government that sorted through Hillary’s email, cleansing it for the FOIA requests. Business Insider Article She worked for Joe Biden in the late 90’s. Also, remember what Snapchat is used for: Teens to send nude pics to each other. Wouldn’t the CIA love to collect those!
Came across this videoYouTube that does a deep dive into Jeffrey Epstein’s flight manifests and just a few minutes in at 6:28, he mentions this Laybourne guy. His Wikipedia pagehttps://archive.fo/fzy9f mentions he’s a close colleague of Brazilian baby-farmer promoter Oprah Winfrey:
Kit Laybourne is a TV producer and educator. Laybourne was an executive producer of animation, documentary and interactive shows at Oxygen Network a company co-founded by his wife Geraldine and Oprah Winfrey. His major production credits[1] include Eureeka’s Castle and Gullah Gullah Island for Nickelodeon, Liquid Television for MTV, Braingames for HBO, and Media Probes for PBS. Most recently, he became Chief Creative Officer for The Whistle, a media company focusing on sports for kids.[2]
Kit’s community service has included Board positions with Earth Vision Trust and The Bank Street College of Education. He was on an Education Advisory Group with the Cooper-Hewett Museum and has been an Advisor to The Opportunity Agenda, an organization building the national will to expand opportunity in America. Kit and his wife, Geraldine Laybourne, are long time supporters of the Bard High School & Early College program in Newark, Queens and Manhattan.
Geraldine was also on Epstein’s flight manifest (see vid at 6:44). Here’s the page from the flight manifestPNG, which shows they went from JFK to MRY — which is the Monterey Regional Airport in California.
PLEASE HELP! We need to dig into this couple’s social media, and dig up pics of who else they may be hanging around with. Please archive and screencap everything BEFORE posting, and post links to the archives as well as the originals.
I haven’t watched the rest of the video yet — the fact the Laybournes have never come up in our Pedowood research made me want to get a submission together on this immediately. 🙂
Kit & Gerry Laybourne and Jeffrey Epstein both donated in 1995 to the Brooklyn Academy of Music/The Dance Theater of Harlem, (which has ties to Bill Cosby)
Dance Theatre of Harlem’s television credits include European and American airings of A Streetcar Named Desire, and an NBC special featuring Giselle, with Bill Cosby as host.
@vindicator@shewhomustbeobeyed@carmencita@asolo I have been aware of this for some time, and have been fleshing out some research. If you know my alt on CDAN, i did a lot of research on the history of nickelodeon.
there is a lot of smoke surrounding the laybourne family: She is an education psychologist, He is an animator. Together they are a perfect team for designing indoctrinating children’s tv
A. 2002 Monterey California “Billionaires Dinner”. This is the reason Kit and Gerry flew on Epstein’s plane. Both were guests/Epstein flew them to Monterey.
Photo Proof: (https://imgoat.com/uploads/74ad4786c3/203513.pngPNG (Note Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos, Stephen Pinker, etc) Gerry is not featured in the photo on epstein’s plane, but is in another photo at the dinner
B. Gerry Laybourne is the reason Nickelodeon gave Dan Schneider a show. When his show tested poorly, Laybourne picked it up anyway.
Dan Schneider: I didn’t have any big expectations for All That because, at the time, I knew almost nothing about the world of kids TV. Creating All That was a ton of fun and I gave it my best because I wanted it to be good and successful. But I just considered it a temp job. I was an actor. I never thought becoming a writer/producer would turn into a full-time thing for me.
Anyways, after we made the All That pilot, about six months went by and I didn’t hear much of anything from Brian or the network. At some point, I called Brian and asked him if the network was planning to pick up the show. He wasn’t sure. Then I heard that the pilot “hadn’t tested great.” You see, whenever you make a new TV pilot, the network tests the show with focus groups. So, for All That, they got a bunch of kids—boys, girls, different age groups—and they let them watch the show, and then moderators ask them questions, sort of like a group review. I actually still have the results from those tests. Basically, the people who ran the testing wrote a report—a summary—and they said that while kids might like some aspects of the show, overall, kids wouldn’t like All That. I think that’s why nothing happened for six months. The pilot only tested “so-so,” so the network was nervous about picking it up.
Then, if I recall correctly, I heard that the president of Nickelodeon (at the time), a woman named Geraldine Laybourne, watched the All That pilot and loved it. She said something like, “This show is great. Why haven’t we picked this up yet? Let’s make it.” Next thing I knew, we were back in Orlando, where we’d shot the pilot, and we were making a bunch of episodes of All That. It was a blast. I loved every minute of it.
C. Gerry and Kit applauded their children’s “comical” celebration of incest:
Emmy Laybourne took the stage with her younger brother, Sam. It was a benefit night at the Kitchen for the Center for Discovery, a camp for people with severe disabilities, and the audience wasn’t the usual alternative comedy crowd, but men in suits and women in cocktail dresses. A tape started playing a schmaltzy melody, and Ms. Laybourne, dressed in a sleeveless red top and long black skirt, began to sing lyrics she’d written: “We could walk on sandy beaches,” Emmy began innocently enough. “We could backpack through Europe,” Sam responded.
Soon brother and sister were chiming in on a disturbing chorus: “But we can’t make love–because we are related! It’s taboo for me and you!” They danced lasciviously with each other, then backed off guiltily.
In the audience were the Laybournes’ mother and father–Geraldine Laybourne, the former head of Nickelodeon and now potentate of the new women’s cable and Internet channel, Oxygen, and Kit Laybourne, the former head of the Colossal Pictures animation studio who is now developing programming for Oxygen.
The little duet kept going: “I used to watch you sleeping when you were a little child,” sang Emmy. “And I thought to myself as I saw you, so weak, so defenseless–man, it would be wild!” To which Sam replied: “I used to watch you bathing when you went through puberty. And I thought to myself as I saw you emerge from the water–why can’t she be with me?”
At the end of the number, the Laybourne parents applauded loudly for Emmy’s paean to incest. What parent wouldn’t be proud?
“She was born creative,” Geraldine Laybourne said after the show. “She really didn’t have a choice. This poor kid was tortured. She and Sam used to say, ‘Please, Mom, no more TV!’”
D. The Laybournes filmed neighborhood children getting covered in slime in their basement in the 1980’s….
She rearranged Nickelodeon with the force of a tornado, starting as a consultant at the network launch in 1979. After getting a master’s degree in elementary education at the University of Philadelphia, she formed an independent production studio and, with her husband, Kit, an independent filmmaker, was creating pilots for the network. The following year, Laybourne joined as a programming manager and was elevated to general manager in 1986. At the time, Nickelodeon was losing $10 million a year as a commercial-free channel with the lowest ratings in cable. It was the “spinach channel,” bitter tasting–but good for kids.
Guided by rigorous focus groups with children, Laybourne honed a philosophy for the network based on the mind-set that growing up is tough. But the network had little money for developing programs to help kids cope, so Laybourne bought cheap old shows and packaged them to look cool. She started accepting advertising and retooling the economics of production to make originals affordable. Game shows came first, with “Double Dare” debuting in 1986, shattering the myth that kids would only watch nimation. She produced the show with neighborhood kids in the basement of her New Jersey home.
A sense of community is still a part of their life. At their vacation house 45 minutes outside Telluride, the Laybournes built two oversized bunk beds in the living room, with curtains that can be drawn for privacy. (Their own bed is in another room, on rollers, railroad-style, so that they can sleep under the stars on the balcony at the end of the tracks.) Kit says weekend guests love the bunk beds: “There is something lewd about adults sleeping together in one room.”
This is just what I remember, I’ll check some of my stuff and see if I found anything else.
Edit: I believe that “safe spaces” were first pushed by nickelodeon, along with other progressive-facist concepts
Geraldine Laybourne, the educator who led Nickelodeon during its formative years, shares the story of her first visit to the set of Linda Ellerbee’s groundbreaking Nickelodeon news program. “Linda had posted a sign that said ‘Question Authority.’ I told her to take it down… and replace it with a sign that said ‘Question Everything.'”
When Nickelodeon was launched in 1990, the network issued a Declaration of Kids’ Rights that, in many ways, serves as the mantra that The Hooked Up Generation grew up with and that defines how they perceive their rights and entitlements.
Nickelodeon’s Declaration of Kids’ Rights June 7, 1990 In the course of history, it has become pretty clear that all people are born with certain inalienable rights; among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But these rights haven’t always applied to kids. And that stinks! Now, 200 years after the creation of America’s Bill of Rights, this declaration proclaims to the world that you have rights too:
You have the right to be seen, heard and respected as a citizen of the world.
You have the right to a world that’s peaceful and an environment that’s not spoiled.
You have the right to be treated with equality; regardless of race, religion, nationality, sex, personality, grades or size.
You have the right to make mistakes without someone making you feel like a jerkhead.
You have the right to be protected from harm, injustice and hatred.
You have the right to an education that prepares you to run the world when it’s your turn.
You have the right to your opinions and feelings, even if others don’t agree with them.
So there!
“When we first came up with the mission to connect with kids and connect kids with each other through the world of entertainment, we were less a cable TV network and more a philosophy,” Gerry Laybourne explains. “We had a wide range of TV including Linda’s news programs that covered topics like AIDS and the Gulf War, game shows like Double Dare, cartoons like Doug and Rugrats, live action shows like Clarissa and All That. We encouraged kids to try new things and supported them when they didn’t succeed.”
She produced the show with neighborhood kids in the basement of their New Jersey home.
WHAT? After reading about the incest skit her offspring put on we know the had and have a very loose perception of who has sex with whom. Shocking to say the least.
“There is something lewd about adults sleeping together in one room.”
WHAT does that mean? She is either turned off by it or turned on by it and is into orgies, or what. Or are they into Smaller People? Their Children have a twisted sick idea about incest and age of consent so what went on in their home? A free for all possibly, like ala Clement Freud and family?
The other day in Manhattan, Hillary Clinton supporters met for lunch at the home of the media executive Geraldine Laybourne. A group of 50, mostly women, was determined to generate excitement for Clinton’s campaign for president. They were frustrated to see her lagging again among younger voters, and their invited speaker was Kenyatta Cheese, a young Obama campaign veteran and internet impresario.
Herbert J. Allen Jr.’s male-dominated annual power powwow in Sun Valley, Idaho, is breaking with tradition. Not only are there more female executives on the corporate guest list this year than usual–a whopping six out of 104 or so–there will be a first-ever panel discussion led by and about women and business.
Allen’s famed, though secretive, annual confab, which runs July 7 to 12, is the 16th edition and has become a sort of high-powered male-bonding session for some of the world’s most influential investors, chief executives and media moguls including the likes of Warren Buffett, Paul Allen, Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, John Malone, Gerald Levin, Michael Eisner, David Geffen, Barry Diller, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Herbert Siegel and Philip Knight.
Allen–Wall Street’s mighty investment banker to the (media) stars–encourages his guests to bring their wives and kids along to the mountain retreat, billed as a family getaway with planned activities ranging from ice skating and kickball to fly-fishing and a rodeo.
While the family is at play, the moguls huddle to talk about changes in the industry.
But the number of top female executives on hand representing corporations in any given year has been few and far between–as they are in the industry in general. Last year, Mattel Inc. President and CEO Jill Barad became the first female CEO ever invited to make a company presentation.
This year, Barad is one of four women at the conference speaking on a panel titled “Women and Business,” along with Washington Post Chairwoman Katherine Graham, former Disney/ABC Cable Networks President Geraldine Laybourne, and fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg. ABC’s Prime Time Live co-host Diane Sawyer will moderate. (Pleasant T. Rowland, who just sold her doll company to Mattel in a $700-million deal engineered by Allen & Co., is the other female executive guest, though she will not be on the panel).
Graham, Laybourne and Von Furstenberg also have been executive guests at the conference before. Von Furstenberg runs in media circles as a close friend of Barry Diller. And it helps to be an Allen & Co. client. The investment bank is actively raising money for Laybourne, who recently started her own production company with her former lawyer–Lisa Hall, who left her practice–to serve the quickly converging Internet and television worlds.
Another new and seemingly politically correct addition is a panel called “Race in the Workplace: Past Practices/Future Challenges,” which Tom Brokaw, another Allen friend, will moderate. Panelists include Time Warner President Richard Parsons, Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson, Eastman Kodak’s George Fisher, Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald Graham, and Leslie Jones, a student at the Roberto C. Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta.
Seems like Geraldine has connections to many that we have researched before. David Geffen, Barry Diller, Edgar Bronfman Jr. and Diane von Furstenberg to name just a few.
Another connection between Laybournes and Bill Gates is the school Kit Laybourne sits on the board of: Bard High School. It’s a school for gifted rich kids started with money from the Gates Foundation. Their claim to fame is kids start college two years early (only two years of high school). There didn’t appear to be any pedo teacher scandals associated with the school(s) though.
BTW, I was getting a sinking feeling about what else might be going on at Sun Valley. Especially with Geffen and Diller there. When I read that they brought their children, I immediately thought of the swimming pool and the grandchildren in the Podesta emails. Creepy.
[–]ASolo3 points (+3|-0)4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)
My god this conference is a regular bacchanalian orgy and seems like the entire lot of mk-cultural engineers are in attendance. They must have had to put chastity belts on the entire dinner staff to preclude any pre-party rapes.
Just popping in here to say thanks for the pings I’ve been getting. I know I haven’t been responding, but I’ve been reading when notified and do appreciate being kept in the loop. Keep up the good work, everyone.
Lawrence E. Laybourne (though apparently Unitarian) is also affiliated with the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Episcopal Church and was appointed a “Member At Large of the general division of layman’s work of the Executive Council”
WESLEY LEE LAYBOURNE CIA Officer: Wesley Lee Laybourne, 69, a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer, died of cancer Jan. 12 at his home in Great Falls. Mr. Laybourne was born in New Richmond, Ind. He moved to the Washington area in 1941 and graduated from Western High School. During World War II, he was an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1951 and joined the CIA that year. His service included 10 years in Brazil. He received the Intelligence Medal of Merit. He retired in 1980. Later, he did consulting work with the Department of Defense. Mr. Laybourne was a member of the U.S. Professional Tennis Registry. In retirement, he was a teaching tennis pro. He was a member of River Bend Country Club and St. Thomas a Becket Catholic Church in Reston. Survivors include his wife, Margaret Dacey Laybourne of Great Falls; five children, Ann Loomis, Christopher Laybourne, Daniel Laybourne, Alison Hokamp and Timothy Laybourne, all of Sterling; a sister, Phyllis Hallman of Fairfax; and nine grandchildren.
Wesley Laybourne was the Acting Chief, Western Hemisphere, Cuban Operations Group
Laybourne sits on the Symantec Board,[7] Betaworks, and 9 Story, a Canadian production and distribution company. She serves as Chairman of the Board of Alloy Inc. and Katapult. Previously, she served on the boards of JC Penney, Electronic Arts, Move.com, Defy Media, and Kindercare.
Laybourne has been on the Board of Vassar College (since 1998). She is an advisor to Springboard, Vital Voices and Acumen Fund. Laybourne sat on the boards or advisory committees of The National Cable & Telecommunications Association, The National Council for Families and Television, New York Women in Film & Television (Advisory Board), and Cable Positive (Honorary Chair), and The White House Project.
Laybourne started the mentoring program, Global Women’s Mentoring Walks, which pairs established and emerging women professionals to engage in mentoring partnerships in communities across the globe.[8]
Gerry is a serial entrepreneur in media and technology. Currently she is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Kandu, a technology company for kids.
Kandu
I haven’t determined when Kandu was founded, but, this March 31, 2014 article contains some pertinent info and a mention of Gerry being a co-founder and that it is funded in-part by Betaworks.
Exceprt:
Kandu helps kids learn to code, but don’t call it an education app
What makes Kandu, an until-now stealth iPad app funded by Betaworks and operating in closed beta, different is that its makers don’t want you to think of it as an education app. With a team that includes an ex-President of MTV and an ex-President at Nickelodeon, Kandu is being pushed as pure entertainment, designed to compete against YouTube videos and Angry Birds for children’s precious time, not other learning apps.
Although the game doesn’t teach programming languages, it does show kids the fundamentals of object-oriented programming where different classes of actions and attributes are applied to images and concepts. A blue monster might explode when it comes into contact with a octopus. Or gameplay might end after a user drags a ball into a hoop. It also teaches kids how to organize all of these actions in a clean way, promoting best coding practices before even teaching a line of code, says Kandu CEO David Bennahum.
Again though, the educational benefits of the app are secondary to the team’s mission statement, which is to build a fun entertainment product tailored to children’s digital tablet-friendly consumption habits that also encourages self-expression and connectivity. At Nickelodeon, Kandu co-founder Gerry Laybourne put shows like “You Can’t Do That on Television” and “Double Dare” on TV, spending a great deal of time with kids and thinking about their consumption habits. Later she worked on Disney Imagineering to imagine “what an interactive world would be for kids.”
“Disney didn’t get it,” she said, adding that the company thought porting Mickey Mouse to a website was all it took to engage kids online. But with games, TV shows, and YouTube videos all attracting kids’ attention on their iPads, it takes more than talking Disney princesses to keep youngsters interested. According to Common Sense Media, 3/4 of all US children have access to a mobile device at home, and 10 percent of kids under two have used a smartphone or tablet. “They love these devices,” Laybourne says. The trick is “to convert that usage into actual creation.”
To determine how to make this creative “hacker”-style of building fun, they recruited young testers from anywhere they could, including public schools, nonprofits like Girls Who Code, and the team’s own family and friends. Board member Sara Levinson, ex-President of MTV, says she was riding in a cab one day and recruited the driver’s child to be part of the test group.
So far, Kandu has raised a $2.4 million seed round led by Betaworks. Other investors include ex-Discovery president and former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale and Akamai chairman George Conrades. It’s also in early talks to possibly raise a Series A round.
Operator of a digital entertainment platform designed to develop and create games. The company’s platform offers sandbox game where one can create life block by block, enabling users to create online games and applications without knowing how to code in an enhanced way.
Laybourne’s appointment follows 9 Story’s recent acquisition of the award winning studio Brown Bag Films and is part of the company’s strategy to become a first choice destination for creators and show runners.
Laybourne has made an investment in the private equity fund headed by her longtime business associate and media investor Strauss Zelnick that controls 9 Story. Laybourne is set to play an active role in guiding the company’s expansion of its TV programming and digital endeavors.
Alloy, Inc. (also known as Alloy Online) was founded in 1996 by James K. Johnson and Matthew Diamond as a holding company for Alloy, a teen-oriented magazine and website. By the time the company went public in May 1999, the website earned $15.5 million in monthly revenue and 1.3 million registered users. In January 2000, they purchased book publisher 17th Street Productions, renaming it Alloy Entertainment.[10]
Alloy’s additional early assets included Delia’s (acquired 2003, spun-off in 2005), CCS.com (acquired 2000, sold to Foot Locker in 2008), and Channel One News (acquired 2007, sold to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2014).[11]
Alloy Digital
In 2009, Alloy created a division called Alloy Digital Networks to hold its online properties.
Alloy was then made private through acquisition by an investment group led by Zelnick Media Capital in 2010, and was re-incorporated as Alloy Digital in 2011. Within the next two years, Alloy Digital acquired Smosh,[12] Themis Media (parent company of The Escapist and WarCry Network),[13] Generate LA-NY, and Clevver Media.[14] Zelnick also sold Alloy Entertainment to Warner Bros. Television in 2012.
Merger and investment
In October 2013, Alloy Digital and Break Media merged to become Defy Media. The deal was brokered by RBC Capital Markets, and the resulting entity was owned in part by Zelnick Media, ABS Capital Partners, and Lionsgate.[15]
Viacom purchased a stake of Defy Media in 2014, in exchange for ownership of GameTrailers, Addicting Games, and Shockwave.[16] In 2016, Defy settled a $70MM investment by Wellington Management Company, and Zelnick Media exited from investment in 2017.
Move.com
Gerry joined the Board of Directors for Move, Inc.(Owner of Move.com) (wiki)on or around June 27, 2006 and, according to Bloomberg, left on Dec 31, 2010 (See bottom for profile – much more info available; READ).
Its 43-year-old CEO, Matt Diamond, is one of the most influential executives in youth and pop culture marketing.
Alloy, since the late 1990s, has perhaps exerted more influence over the minds of American teenagers (and girls in particular) than any other commercial entity.
things it’s created: the TV shows Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants novels turned movies, and books like “The A-List,” “Private,” “The Clique.”
Alloy’s acquisition by Zelnick Media in 2010 (which put Geraldine Laybourne on Alloy’s board) and his plans to find the next Pretty Little Liars-another TV show that came out of Alloy.
The company’s current media brands include Channel One, the school TV program provider; gURL.com; Teen.com; Takkle (for high school sports); and Smosh.com.
[–]argosciv3 points (+3|-0)4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)
KinderCare sounds troubling
I also found this: Geraldine Laybourne is part of the “Dad’s and Daughter’s foundation” as part of the “See Jane” Initiative
the founder claims he started the foundation after seeing a billboard sexualizing young girls. Considering that’s Laybourne/Nickelodeon’s MO, she seems like an unlikely ally.
Archived and pinpointed mention of Laybourne + others:
Geena has already attracted some of the most influential and thoughtful leaders inentertainment and academia to endorse and advise the project – including Dr. Alvin Poussaint of Harvard University, former Nickelodeon head Geraldine Laybourne, Dustin Hoffman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Arianna Huffington, Rob Reiner, UCLA’s Dr.Barbara Nelson, PBS’ Linda Simensky, Girl Scouts of the USA’s Kathy Cloningerand Nickelodeon’s Brown Johnson.
[–]NOMOCHOMO4 points (+4|-0)4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)
Big find. (Warner-Amex owned/founded nickelodeon). Vivian Horner was VP and creator of the first show PINWHEEL. Her thoughts on privacy concerns of networked cable television…in the 1980’S
“From the Warner-Amex executive side the response is that some of us are unduly alarmed. Or that yes it can happen, but it won’t happen here. Their more learned responses, like that of Dr. Vivian Horner, vice president, have been reported as, “People don’t think of the telephone as an invasion of privacy Yet each call you make is recorded. When people get used to two-way cable as to the telephone. They will take it as a matter of fact.”
