Month: November 2022

The sudden collapse of a crypto exchange linked to the Democratic Party in the US, has revealed that FTX presently suffers from $10-$50 billion in liabilities and virtually no assets. And among those liabilities, are “investments” made by Ukraine’s leadership clique.

The company FTX, in its bankruptcy filing appears to have held tens-of-billions in American “military aid” to Ukraine. Instead of using the alleged funds to fight Russia, the money was instead invested in the FTX Ponzi scheme.

From the bankruptcy filing it is clear that this money has now disappeared.

“Instead of using US military aid to fight Russia, Ukraine ‘invested’ part or all of it, into FTX, and right now, it looks like all the money’s gone,” said Hal Turner, a well-known American radio host.

The crypto money from unsuspecting clients was used to fund the Democratic Party in the United States, but it now new evidence has surfaced suggesting that the funds may have been stolen.

The CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, was one of the top donors to the Democrats, with only George Soros outperforming his largesse. Recently, he also shared a podium with inveterate globalists Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.

According to Turner, it seems that Ukraine was receiving money from the US, and then sent it to FTX, and FTX sent it to the same Democrats, who had originally voted to send it to Ukraine.  “At this hour, it appears to some observers to be pure, criminal, money-laundering, and a criminal conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws,” said Turner.

Reuters exclusively reported that the founder and CEO FTX transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to the trading company Alameda Research, which is run by his girlfriend Caroline Ellison.

Sam Bankman-Fried was born in 1992 on the campus of Stanford University into a family of academics. Born and raised to an upper-middle-class Jewish family in California, he is the son of Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman, both professors at Stanford Law School. His aunt Linda P. Fried is the current dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. His brother, Gabe Bankman-Fried, is a former Wall Street trader and the director of the non-profit Guarding Against Pandemics.

He was the second-largest individual donor to Democratic causes in the 2021–2022 election cycle with total donations of $39,8 million, only behind Soros. Of this, $27 million was given to Protect our Future PAC, bankrolled by Bankman-Fried.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are currently looking into whether FTX.com mishandled customer funds. Bankman-Fried is also being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for potential violations of securities rules.

Look under the hood of any money laundering operation or financial crime of size and you’ll find Ukraine, it seems. https://t.co/N8mec9LOL6

— Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 (@witte_sergei) November 12, 2022

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/11/14/us-aid-to-ukraine-allegedly-invested-in-crypto-ftx-scheme/

Communal violence erupted in the Majhavali village of the Baniyather in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, according to reports, after some schoolgirls were teased by men from another community. So far, the police have registered a case against 14 people, including 13 identified suspects, and arrested six of them.

Akram, Rihan, Mohammad Sajid, Maharwan, Aslam, Shanu, Sher Mohammad, Shahnawaz, Nadeem, Nizamuddin, Shamshad, Mushabbar, and Mohammad Zaid have been identified as the ones named in the FIR. In the ensuing brawl and stone pelting, five people were hurt, including two women.

During this some people started abusing the girls present in the school. They were peeping through the windows and doing acts like sneaking. On protesting it, stone pelting and firing started by a community to the people of other community.
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— Ashwini Shrivastava (@AshwiniSahaya) November 14, 2022

The stone pelting started after Hindus in the village protested against some Muslim harassing Hindu schoolgirls. Vishal, a local inhabitant, works at RP Singh Public School in Majhawali. On Sunday, from 12.30 PM to 1.30 PM, there was a general knowledge competition at the school. At 11.30 AM, youngsters from the Muslim community were passing obscene remarks at the girl students who were heading to school.

Vishal urged the youngsters to vacate the school gate when he noticed this. There was a verbal argument between Vishal and the mob that was passing lewd remarks against the girls. Vishal then returned to his village with his brother Vivek. The youths from the other community then encircled him and began hitting him. Vivek anyhow escaped the scene and notified his family about the occurrence. Following this, his father Ghanshyam, mother Indravati, grandmother Kishanvati, and neighbour Anshu Giri arrived at the spot and tried to save Vishal.

The offenders then attacked these five people, including both women, by viciously hitting them. Meanwhile, additional villagers arrived on the scene, and the offenders began pelting stones.

Soon, the altercation took the form of communal violence where the persons involved in the harassment of school girls started stone pelting and were joined by other members of their community, as per reports.

Following reports of violence in the village, ASP Shreeshchandra, CO Dinesh Kumar, Thana Baniyather Incharge Mukesh Kumar reached the spot along with the police force and PAC. When the attackers and stone-pelters saw the police, they began to flee, but the police apprehended six persons on the spot.

The assault and stone pelting injured residents including Anshu Giri, Vishal, his father Ghanshyam, his mother Indravati, and grandmother Kishanvati. The injured were taken to the CHC by police for treatment. Police filed an FIR based on Vishal’s complaint, identifying 13 persons and keeping one anonymous. Following the incident, PAC was deployed in the area to ensure law and order.

थाना बनियाठेर क्षेत्रान्तर्गत दो पक्षों के मध्य कहासुनी व मारपीट होने तथा 06 लोगों की गिरफ्तारी के संबंध में अपर पुलिस अधीक्षक सम्भल की बाइट।#UPPolice pic.twitter.com/VdzsqRzyex

— SAMBHAL POLICE (@sambhalpolice) November 13, 2022

In a tweet, Sambhal ASP stated that the violence had been brought to the notice of the police and that six persons had been arrested thus far. He stated that the police are working to bring the perpetrators to justice.

https://www.opindia.com/2022/11/uttar-pradesh-sajid-aslam-11-others-booked-for-harassing-hindu-schoolgirls-assaulting-the-employee-who-tried-to-stop-them/

Some 32 percent of German companies are already having to resort to reduced working hours and redundancies. Meanwhile, more and more firms are being forced to file for bankruptcy due to inflation and unaffordable input costs.

In October, the number of insolvency applications filed by companies rose by 18.4 percent compared to the previous month, according to the Federal Statistical Office.

The construction sector had the highest number of bankruptcy cases, with 198, a 4.2 percent increase compared to last year. The sector is characterized by bottlenecks in supply, rising prices, and projects increasingly halted due to the crisis. In trade, including the maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, 167 bankruptcy proceedings were registered, up 18 percent from a year ago.

Economic experts predict a recession by 2023, which will be greatly influenced by micro-enterprises and the self-employed. In October, sentiment among small entrepreneurs and the self-employed deteriorated significantly again, while concerns about their livelihoods are growing, according to an analysis by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. The confidence index fell from minus 20.9 points in September to minus 25.0 points, a negative record.

“The economic slowdown is hitting self-employed and micro-enterprises particularly hard, and existential concerns have markedly increased. In particular, the outlook for micro-enterprises in retail trade and construction is gloomy,” said Klaus Wohlrabe, head of Ifo surveys.

EU officials are also raising the alarm, signaling that economic worries are a continent-wide concern.

“Even the European Commission expects a recession by the end of 2022, although they expect the economy to grow modestly by 0.3 percent in 2023. The European economy is at a turning point,” said Paolo Gentiloni, the EU’s economic commissioner, citing high uncertainty, high energy prices, a decline in the purchasing power of private households, a weaker global environment, and tighter financing conditions.

The trouble facing German small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is illustrated by a survey by DZ-Bank, which shows that the rapid rise in electricity and gas prices is currently the biggest concern for companies, with costs rising at all levels.

The analysis shows that the energy crisis is particularly affecting medium-sized enterprises in the food industry; a significant proportion of SMEs are active in this sector, which is one of the largest consumers of energy. Bakers, dairy and sugar manufacturers, and even beverage producers, among others, need significant heat and energy for production, which are mostly produced using gas. The food industry is therefore one of the largest industrial consumers of gas, with a correspondingly high cost burden.

However, medium-sized chemical companies are also in a difficult position, as gas is not only used to generate heat for production but is also used directly as a raw material for the production of many products.

https://rmx.news/germany/german-economy-faces-bankruptcy-wave-as-energy-prices-skyrocket/

In the Saxon city of Riesa, a police officer shot a Libyan man after he attacked him with two knives. The 43-year-old foreigner had previously been on the rampage in his flat. A neighbour made an emergency call.

The police patrol that rushed to the scene tried to talk to the man. “However, the man refused to open the door and refused any police contact,” a police spokesperson said. The man then threatened with both knives as he stood at the window, saying he would use them against the officers if they entered his flat.

Shortly before an alarmed special unit arrived at the scene, the Libyan came out of his flat and attacked a police officer with the stabbing weapons. The officer then drew his pistol and shot the migrant. The injured man was taken to a hospital in Leipzig. The police are now investigating whether the shooting was justified.

There have been more knife attacks committed by migrants on police officers recently. And in some cases the officers made use of the firearm.

https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2022/messerattacke-polizist-schiesst-libyer-nieder/

The United Nations is one of the most sacred political cows in the liberal media. This is especially true when they convene the global elites on the perils of “climate change.” The latest confab in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, began with the usual appeal to fear and panic from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, formerly known as the Socialist Party prime minister of Portugal.

“Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible,” Guterres warned. “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.” If that AC/DC song echo wasn’t strong enough, he added, “It is either a climate solidarity pact, or a collective suicide pact.”

Journalists consider anyone who questions this my-way-or-hell viewpoint as not only a “denier” of science but an enemy of the people. Their standard practice is to sound like U.N. publicists.

NPR’s comically titled newscast “All Things Considered” ran a U.N.-boosting story on Nov. 7 that they headlined “U.N. climate conference opens with alarming warnings about the global climate.” There was no dissent allowed from the “highway to climate hell” talk.

Anchor Elissa Nadworny helpfully asked reporter Ruth Sherlock what the U.N. hoped to accomplish. Sherlock touted “developing” countries demanding “loss and damage” money, insisting “wealthier countries that are responsible for most of the carbon dioxide emissions should pay reparations to emerge economies.”

Conservatives are calling this the “Sharm el-Sheikh-down.”

The only dissenting note on NPR, naturally, was from the left of the U.N. establishment, from Greta Thunberg-style extremists who want to ban capitalism. Nadworny asked about Egypt hosting this conference since they do not typically tolerate much dissent.

NPR was proud to push the U.N. leader’s warnings, but they didn’t quote from this protester sign photographed in Egypt: “Climate change denial deserves the death penalty.” Let’s hope that’s just one doomsday crank. But the authoritarians at the U.N. need the doomsday sound because they want a climate crackdown more severe than the COVID shutdowns.

In 2021, the U.N. Environment Programme complained, “Overall emissions reductions in 2020 likely reduced the annual increase of the atmospheric concentrations of long-lived greenhouse gases, but this effect was too small to be distinguished from natural variability.” Now they demand we reduce emissions by 45% by 2030. So imagine an ongoing crackdown worse than COVID shutdowns.

You can’t even debate the timing of their panic. The U.N. summit has a Climate Clock warning we only have six years and 253 days to avert certain doom.

Democrats in the midterms slammed Republicans who question the climate doom as “extremists.” The liberal media never questions whether the international climate consensus is extreme. They define that as the sensible governing center, with Greta Thunberg — Time’s 2019 Person of the Year — goading for more. Authoritarian extremism is painted as idealism.

Every democratic nation on Earth has to attempt to translate these demands into policy that doesn’t cause a voter revolt. The result is a whole lot of verbal deference to globalist demands, followed by policies that “fall short.” The media yelled at Team Trump for pulling out of the Paris Agreement. What they wanted was an insincere endorsement of environmental extremism, and then a policy that was far less severe than what the U.N. wanted.

For decades now, our so-called democracy-defending media has clamped down on any dissent from the climate cops. There can be no two sides — or it’s stacked as reason versus unreason, science versus quackdom, and humanity versus inhumanity.

When they complain the “Biden agenda” will be stopped, this is one crucial part of it. Democracy and climate are at odds.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/democracy-dies-in-climate-panic/

Germany has focused entirely on renewable energies and is promoting wind turbines throughout the country. However, the operators do not reveal how high the utilisation of their turbines actually are. It has now been calculated and the result has led to a depressing conclusion.

Some 28 000 larger wind turbines are in operation in Germany and no one knows how many of them are profitable. Germany’s wind farm operators hide the data “like a state secret”, reported the NZZ. Therefore, the Swiss daily examined and calculated the utilisation with the help of a simulation for 18 000 of these plants. To do this, it “evaluated hourly weather data over a period of ten years”.

The result is sobering, in some cases even shocking.

Wind power can only survive with subsidies

Without a certain capacity utilisation, a turbine is not economically viable. According to the head of the Stuttgart Chair of Wind Energy, Po Wen Cheng, this requires a utilisation rate of about 30 percent. According to research by the NZZ, just 15 percent of the turbines have a utilisation rate of more than 30 percent. If one also takes into account that wind turbines are often shut down due to noise and environmental protection regulations, the percentage is probably even lower.

In just under a quarter of the wind turbines studied, the capacity is less than 20 percent. “Such plants are only viable thanks to the German subsidy system, which also rewards poor locations.” On average in Germany, the capacity utilisation of wind turbines is just 24 per cent.

There is no wind where industries are

The situation becomes even more alarming when one considers how the wind turbines are distributed geographically. Most electricity is needed where German industry is located. The problem is that the wind is not oriented towards the locations of industry. It blows mainly in the north, which is why the majority – 83 percent – of the wind turbines that are well utilised are located there.

However, industry is mainly located in the Ruhr area and in the southernmost federal states – Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The electricity gap is also greatest in these regions. But the south in particular has very little wind, which is why the poorly utilised wind turbines are primarily located there. While in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northerly federal state, the utilisation of wind turbines averages 31 percent, in the wind-poor Baden-Württenberg it is only 17 percent.

That is why huge power lines are now being built to transport the electricity to where it is actually needed, reported the NZZ.

Investors are not interested

This does not bode well for the future, and it does not bode well for Germany’s energy policy. By the end of 2023, all federal states are to reserve two percent of their land for wind power – despite these enormous differences. The NZZ doubted that investors would be found for this. Especially in the south, where electricity is needed most urgently, hardly anyone wants to invest which is not surprising.

Germany as a business location is currently hitting the wall at full throttle, as all new figures reveal almost daily. A single current figure makes it clear how far Europe’s economic engine has already fallen far behind: one single US state (out of a total of 50) has meanwhile overtaken Germany. According to the Pleitticker.de portal, California now has a larger GDP than Germany.

Taking into account the latest growth numbers, California currently already has a lead of $72 billion over Germany. However, the figures for 2022 will not be published until next year.

In 2021, Germany’s gross domestic product lead ($4.22 trillion, compared to California’s at $3.357 trillion) was reported to have been the smallest in history – and even that marginal difference has since melted away, if current numbers are to be believed. “If California were a sovereign state, it would overtake Germany as the fourth largest economy in the world,” commented the portal. With around 39 million inhabitants, California has less than half the population of Germany.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/11/14/how-inefficient-germany-is-wind-power/

National police headquarters’ investigators, in cooperation with the British authorities, have arrested a convicted sex offender ( aged 37) in the United Kingdom.

The Syrian Hakam A. from Neunkirchen-Wiebelskirchen had been sentenced to eight years in prison for rape and multiple sexual abuse of a child in March 2022. His victim, a girl, was ten years old at the time of the first offences.

He appealed against the sentence, initially remained at large and eventually went into hiding.

On November 10, he was finally caught in the UK.

Whether he will serve his sentence in the UK or Germany will be decided in the next few weeks. The investigations are ongoing.

https://www.bild.de/regional/saarland/saarland-news/in-grossbritannien-verurteilter-sexualstraftaeter-gefasst-81912920.bild.html?t_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fm.bild.de%2F

By Monica Showalter

Most of us don’t know much about Tiffany Trump, President Trump’s only daughter by actress Marla Maples. She’s not a political animal, and she’s stayed out of politics generally. Much of what we do hear of her makes us feel pity, given that people cannot separate her from her father. But as when we do see her, as we did when she spoke with that gorgeous deep voice at the GOP convention in 2020, the reaction is ‘wow.’

Here are a few tweets of her wedding pictures, which happened at Trump’s castle at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Saturday:

The beautiful Tiffany trump on her wedding day 🧡🧡🧡 pic.twitter.com/QDjUAPvyPZ

— 🇺🇸Natalie🇺🇸 (@badd_blondie) November 12, 2022

Tiffany Trump is married at Mar-A-Lago
Congratulations to the lovely bride and her proud Father! pic.twitter.com/xXbgHis6IZ

— Giordano Bruno (@GioBruno1600) November 13, 2022

Daughter of Marla Maples, Tiffany Trump 29 married Michael Boulos 25 on Saturday at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Tiff & her beau began dating in 2018 after meeting at Lindsay Lohan's club in Mykonos, Greece. May you find happiness together. pic.twitter.com/TAvEkiOUaK

— Freddie Saxon (@WordsmithSaxon) November 13, 2022

She’s just so … beautiful. Her traditional wedding gown by Lebanese designer Elie Saab is a stunner, demure, utterly feminine, beautifying.

Is it not the most beautiful wedding gown of any prominent person ever seen? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more beautiful one.

It’s such a far cry from the sleazy nightclub lounge singer gowns seen on a lot of celebs and their imitators in recent years. It’s nothing like the strapless Barbie gowns seen on countless brides that render the look utterly generic. It isn’t some calculated beauty queen number. Nor is it the corporate “power gown” look seen as it was on the likes of Meghan Markle, anxious to show us all how prestigious she was. 

It was just beautiful. It was unique, its own classic fashion, and Tiffany was a beautiful bride in those pictures. One can only hope that she’s as beautiful on the inside as out and her marriage to Michael Boulos, who is the son of a wealthy Lebanese Christian businessman, is a long-lasting and happy one. The wedding would have benefited from a church ceremony, but we don’t actually know that they didn’t have one off camera. What we saw was simply a new vision of ‘beautiful bride’ at a beautiful family wedding.

It was a nice diversion for the public from the ongoing political turmoil, but don’t look to the left to take a break from its usual ugliness.

I saw tweets on Twitter with disgusting comments like these:

Too bad Tiffany and Barron have to be associated with the other tRumps. #tRumpCrimeFamily pic.twitter.com/08J0Dd2FP6

— tRUMP Virus! 🐀 (@BidenVaccine) November 13, 2022

I know we're are all having a laugh over Tiffany Trump's wedding, but those crazy kids are in love; I could tell when they staged engagement pic at the White House. I mean name me one couple that met at Lindsey Lohan's night club in Greece that hasn't gone the distance.

— NoelCaslerComedy🌙 (@caslernoel) November 12, 2022

Tiffany Trump's wedding tonight has all the hallmarks of a season finale.

— NoelCaslerComedy🌙 (@caslernoel) November 12, 2022

Who else would love to see Trump get arrested during Tiffany's wedding tonight?

— Mayo 🌻 (@MayoIsSpicyy) November 12, 2022

Today is Tiffany Trump’s wedding and her father ordered the best catering that his money can buy! pic.twitter.com/spHSNS85gG

— Gabe Sanchez  (@iamgabesanchez) November 12, 2022

dems just won the senate in the middle of tiffany trump’s wedding it literally could not have gone better than this

— regretfully, alise (@AliseNavidad) November 13, 2022

Today is Tiffany Trump’s wedding day. Every time Donald says ‘FAKE NEWS’ or ‘the election was stolen’ during his father of the bride speech, everyone has to drink.

— Hamish Mitchell (@H_MitchellPhoto) November 12, 2022

I just looked at my invitation to Tiffany Trump's wedding and it doesn't specify the time.

Does anyone know? I don't want to be late. pic.twitter.com/ejzgSZPKJV

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) November 12, 2022

I can’t imagine the embarrassment that Tiffany Trump will undergo at her wedding when her father’s speech goes off the rails and the crowd erupts in chants of “Lock Her Up” and/or “White Power.”

— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) November 12, 2022

These people are gross.

There’s not a thing they won’t politicize, uglify, or spew cynicism about. One can only hope that any of the Trumps don’t see this sort of thing. I suppose it’s naive to think it doesn’t happen a lot in the political world. But it was a beautiful wedding, with a beautiful bride, and all they could produce from it were the deposits of their ugly little minds. Well, lucky us, now we know what’s in them.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/tiffany_trumps_beautiful_wedding__and_the_lefts_ugly_response.html