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Did James Kallstrom, a specialist in #FBI-FBI electronic surveillance, Trump’s “top fun boy”, a close associate of Giuliani & Co, pull the “Clinton emails & Weiner sexting show”, his last act of rage and revenge (the details to be investigated!); & then died, the ultimate cover?
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Was the now-tainted McGonigal a source who told the New York Times that fateful October that Russia was not trying to help Trump win the election … ?!
The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016 inquirer.com/opinion/commen…
The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016 inquirer.com/opinion/commen…
Michael Novakhov retweeted:
The Investigations of #Trump will inevitably lead to the investigation of the #FBI. Their antagonisms are just a cover, a complex plot . INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS, and the Trumpistas among them especially. Reform or abolish the FBI, before they produce their next #Trumpushka!
#FBI #NYT #Trump #McGonigal #Elections2016
The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016 thenewsandtimes.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-ny…
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How did 650,000 emails land in the Abedin – Weiner laptop?
Were they deliberately dumped there?
By whom and how?
Was this issue adequately investigated?
Or was it conveniently ignored?
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Did the girl who engaged Anthony Weiner in sexting (by her own admission), & those behind her(!) use his email address to dump the potentially and supposedly classified emails into his and Abedin laptop?
Did the FBI play any part in it?
Ask the girl’s “protective” father.
Did the girl who engaged Anthony Weiner in sexting (by her own admission), & those behind her(!) use his email address to dump the potentially and supposedly classified emails into his and Abedin laptop?
Did the FBI play any part in it?
Ask the girl’s “protective” father.
“FBI bias did affect the election, and the bias was, in a sense, pro-Clinton. But the bias didn’t help Clinton. It destroyed her.”
FBI ignored Anthony Weiner’s laptop and it may have cost Hillary Clinton the election. slate.com/news-and-polit…
“…the [IG] report finds no evidence that the three-week delay was a conspiracy to hurt Clinton. It was a product of [FBI] neglect.”
#DOJ: this “neglect” was CRIMINAL!
#FBI ignored Anthony Weiner’s laptop and it may have cost Hillary Clinton the election. slate.com/news-and-polit…
#DOJ: this “neglect” was CRIMINAL!
#FBI ignored Anthony Weiner’s laptop and it may have cost Hillary Clinton the election. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Michael Novakhov retweeted:
Unconstitutional Federal Government Actions have Poisoned our Entire Judicial System #corruption #doj #fbi #immigration #justice #SupremeCourt @cliffordribner cliffordribner.com/?p=347802&wpwa…
“The FBI officials who feared Trump’s election … didn’t hand the election to her. They may have taken it away from her.”
MN: And it might have been exactly the plan!
MN: And it might have been exactly the plan!
FBI ignored Anthony Weiner’s laptop and it may have cost Hillary Clinton the election. slate.com/news-and-polit…
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“Huma Abedin backed up emails to Anthony Weiner’s laptop | Daily Mail Online”
Or so clams the Daily Mail!
“Agents were focused on how Abedin’s and Clinton’s messages ended up on a laptop used by Weiner … Abedin was unsure how her emails could have ended up on the laptop …”
Clinton aide Huma Abedin was interviewed by the FBI last winter … – WP
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Did James Kallstrom, a specialist in #FBI-FBI electronic surveillance, Trump’s “top fun boy”, a close associate of Giuliani & Co, pull the “Clinton emails & Weiner sexting show”?
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2023-01-31T12:39:57Z
Exxon Mobil logo and stock graph are seen through a magnifier displayed in this illustration taken September 4, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) posted a $56 billion profit for 2022, the company said on Tuesday, taking home about $6.3 million per hour last year, and setting not only a company record but a historic high for the Western oil industry.
Oil majors are expected to break their own annual records on high prices and soaring demand, pushing their combined take to near $200 billion. The scale has renewed criticism of the oil industry and sparked calls for more countries to levy windfall profit taxes on the companies.
Exxon’s results far exceeded the then-record $45.2 billion net profit it reported in 2008, when oil hit $142 per barrel, 30% above last year’s average price. Deep cost cuts during the pandemic helped supercharge last year’s earnings.
“Overall earnings and cashflow were up pretty significantly year on year,” Exxon Chief Financial Officer Kathryn Mikells told Reuters. “So that came really from a combination of strong markets, strong throughput, strong production, and really good cost control.”
Exxon said it incurred a $1.3 billion hit to its fourth-quarter earnings from a European Union windfall tax that began in the final quarter and from asset impairments. The company is suing the EU, arguing that the levy exceeds its legal authority.
Excluding charges, profit for the full year was $59.1 billion. Production was up by about 100,000 barrels of oil and gas per day over a year ago to 3.8 million bpd. Adjusted per share profit of $3.40 beat consensus of $3.29 per share, according to Refinitiv data.
Shares were down 1.5% in pre-market trading to $111.88.
The results may set up another confrontation with the White House. President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday blasted oil firms for pouring cash into shareholder payouts rather than production.
Exxon boasted that its cash flow from operations soared to $76.8 billion last year, up from $48.1 billion in 2021.
Windfall profit taxes are “unlawful and bad policy,” countered Mikells. Slapping new taxes on oil earnings “has the opposite effect of what you are trying to achieve,” she said, adding that it would discourage new oil and gas production.
Exxon posted $14 billion in fourth-quarter profit excluding charges, 60% more than the same period last year but down almost 25% from the previous quarter as oil prices eased and some operations suffered from cold-weather-related outages.
Exxon’s spending on new oil and gas projects bounced back last year to $22.7 billion, up 37% from the prior year. The company increased outlays on discoveries in Guyana, in the top U.S. shale field, and on fuel refining and chemicals.
“The counter-cyclical investments we made before and during the pandemic provided the energy and products people needed as economies began recovering,” Exxon Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods said in a statement.
Its results come ahead of what are expected to be strong earnings from Shell plc on Thursday and from BP plc and TotalEnergies next week.
2023-01-31T12:33:19Z
Distraught relatives thronged hospitals in Pakistan’s Peshawar on Tuesday to look for their kin a day after a suicide bombing ripped through a crowded mosque in a heavily fortified area of the city, killing 100 people, mostly policemen.
The attack, in the Police Lines district, was the deadliest in a decade to hit this restive, northwestern city near the Afghan border and comes amid a surge in violence against the police. No group has claimed responsibility.
“My son, my child,” cried an elderly woman walking alongside an ambulance carrying coffins, as rescue workers stretchered wounded people to a hospital emergency unit.
At least 170 people were wounded in the blast, which demolished the upper storey of the mosque as hundreds of worshippers performed noon prayers.
Riaz Mahsud, a senior local government official, said the casualty toll was likely to rise as workers searched through the debris just over 24 hours later.
“So far, 100 bodies have been brought to Lady Reading Hospital,” spokesman for the largest medical facility in the city, Mohammad Asim, said in a statement.
Authorities say they do not know how the bomber managed to breach the military and police checkpoints leading into the Police Lines district, a colonial-era, self-contained encampment in the city centre that is home to middle- and lower-ranking police personnel and their families.
Given the security concerns in Peshawar, the mosque was recently built to allow police to pray without leaving the area. Defence minister Khawaja Asif said the bomber was in the first row in the prayer hall when he struck.
The attack is the deadliest in Peshawar since twin suicide bombings at All Saints Church killed scores of worshippers in September 2013, in what is the deadliest attack on Pakistan’s Christian minority.
Peshawar sits on the edge of the Pashtun tribal lands, a region mired in violence for the past two decades. The most active militant group in the area is the Pakistani Taliban, also called Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella group for Sunni and sectarian Islamist factions opposed to the government in Islamabad.
The TTP denied responsibility for Monday’s bombing, though it has stepped up attacks since withdrawing from a peace deal with the government last year.
The bombing took place a day before an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission arrives in Islamabad for talks on a stalled $7 billion bailout.
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Rescue workers clear the rubble as they search for victims, after a suicide blast in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
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Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of Pakistan Asim Munir and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visit an injured, after a suicide blast in a mosque, at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan January 30, 2023. Prime Minister’s Office/Handout via REUTERS
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A woman reacts as she searches for her relatives, after a suicide blast in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
2023-01-31T12:33:33Z
General Motors Co (GM.N) on Tuesday reported a higher quarterly net income for the fourth quarter, and forecast stronger-than-expected earnings in 2023, sending its shares up over 5% in premarket trading.
The company expects its core auto operations to perform at a consistently strong level in 2023, with full-year net income attributable to stockholders of $8.7 billion-$10.1 billion, adjusted EBIT of $10.5 billion-$12.5 billion, and diluted and adjusted earnings per share of $6.00-$7.00. Analysts had expected $5.73 a share, according to Refinitiv IBES data.
For the full year, GM’s profit dropped to $9.9 billion from $10 billion in 2021. EBIT-adjusted income of $14.5 billion was a record, up slightly from $14.3 billion a year earlier.
The company expects adjusted automotive free cash flow of $5.0 billion to $7.0 billion in 2023, with net automotive cash from operating activities of $16.0 billion to $20.0 billion.
In the fourth quarter, GM earned $2.0 billion, up from $1.7 billion the previous year. EBIT-adjusted income of $3.8 billion topped the year-earlier $2.8 billion, as higher prices and increased sales volume in North America more than offset higher costs.
GM’s average vehicle selling price in North America hit a record $51,000 in 2022, as the company focused production on more expensive, higher-margin vehicles.
Diluted adjusted earnings per share of $2.12 in the quarter compared with $1.99 a year earlier. Analysts had predicted $1.69.
GM said capital spending will range between $11 billion and $13 billion in 2023, up from $9 billion in 2022.
Ahead of the earnings release, the automaker said it would invest $650 million in Lithium Americas and jointly develop a lithium mine in Nevada that it says is the largest known source of the key battery material in the United States.
The company expects revenue from electric vehicles to reach $50 billion in 2025 — about 22% of total revenue — with pre-tax margins in the low to mid-single digits.
GM reaffirmed plans to build a fourth battery plant in the U.S., but did not say when.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The closely watched $2.5 billion share sale launched by Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani, was fully subscribed on Tuesday, bucking expectations after a turbulent week in which the conglomerate’s shares plunged in a tussle with a U.S. short-seller.
Before trading closed on Tuesday, over 100% of shares in the Indian group’s flagship Adani Enterprises was subscribed, according to Bombay Stock Exchange. While some Adani-linked shares went up, three were still down between 5% to 10%.
The share sale and its success were seen as a crucial test of investor confidence in Adani, whose sprawling empire shed tens of billions of dollars within a week after Hindenburg Research accused the conglomerate of stock market manipulation and fraud.
Adani, 60, has since slid on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index from being the world’s third richest person to the 11th, as his net worth shrank more than $30 billion to an estimated $84 billion.
Hindenburg, which said it was betting against the Adani Group, accused it of “pulling the largest con in corporate history”. It said it judged the seven key Adani listed companies to have an “85% downside, purely on a fundamental basis owing to sky-high valuations.”
The short-selling firm said its report followed a two-year investigation. Most of the allegations involved concerns about the group’s debt levels, activities of top executives, use of offshore shell companies to artificially boost share prices and past investigations into fraud. It listed 88 questions for the group to answer.
On Sunday, the Adani Group dismissed Hindenburg’s allegations and issued a 413-page report that rejected its questions, saying none of them were “based on independent or journalistic fact finding.” Adani’s response included documents and data tables and said the group has made all necessary regulatory disclosures and has abided by local laws.
Hindenburg responded by saying Adani had answered only 26 of its 88 questions and failed to address many of the issues it raised.
The share sale, which began Friday, had seen mostly poor demand until Tuesday. Other Adani stocks were still down, so “it’s a mixed reaction,” said Brian Freitas, a New Zealand-based analyst with Periscope Analytics who has researched the Adani Group. The share price of Adani Enterprises, which stood at 2,948 rupees ($36) on Tuesday evening, was still below the initial price band of 3,112 rupees to 3,279 rupees.
Freitas said the report was unlikely to have a long-term effect on the Indian market, but could continue to cast a shadow over Adani stocks until the matter is put to rest. “Indian investors are well versed with their market – foreign investors look at global markets, so if there is an issue of corporate governance in a country, they might look at it more closely,” Freitas added.
Late on Monday, Abu Dhabi-based conglomerated International Holding Co. said it will make a $381 million investment into Adani Enterprises. The company, whose chairman is the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, had invested $2 billion last year in some of Adani’s subsidiaries.
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Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.
Initial Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Korniyenko, at a conference with the users of the European Parliament, emphasized that the international neighborhood should urgently and decisively reply to Russian terrorism.
The lawmaker posted the report on Facebook, in accordance to Ukrinform.
“We are glad to welcome MEPs to the money of invincibility — below in Kyiv, Ukraine. Currently I experienced a assembly with Timmy Dooley and Billy Kelleher in the Verkhovna Rada. We go on our cooperation with the EU and its reps. We talked about Ukraine. About terror. About missiles released by the Russian Federation. About cruelty. About individuals who are to blame for this. About duty for the crimes dedicated. The Ukrainian facet believes that the international neighborhood ought to urgently and decisively respond to Russian terrorism. We hope for a rate-up of the in depth international isolation of Russia, swift introduction and rigid implementation of all sanctions, and a important raise in political, economic, economical, army-complex, and humanitarian aid for Ukraine,” claimed Korniyenko.
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According to the legislator, Ukraine, like no other, is intrigued in setting up peace and ending the unprovoked war of destruction unleashed by Russia.
“In order for peace to be definitely sustainable, it need to be based mostly on crystal clear conditions, in individual, the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity in just internationally recognized borders and the avoidance of further escalation, which is probable only if the Kremlin’s war equipment is ruined,” the 1st Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada pressured.
In this context, Korniyenko recalled the Peace Method set ahead by President Volodymyr Zelensky, which is not only aimed at setting up peace in Ukraine, but also has a global dimension, particularly the restoration of regard for the UN Constitution and the entire world order. “We assume that the EU, provided its job and likely in the modern day environment, will turn into a permanent participant in the implementation of all 10 details and aid the main states and other contributors in advancing them,” he mentioned.
He also educated that during the conference he experienced the possibility to personally praise the approval of the European Parliament’s resolution supporting the establishment of the Distinctive Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
“It is important to achieve an arrangement as before long as feasible on a mutually satisfactory prosecution mechanism for the crime of Russian aggression in Ukraine,” Korniyenko emphasized.
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In addition, he pointed out that the President, Verkhovna Rada, and Governing administration of Ukraine “are united close to the marketing of European integration reforms in the region and are identified to move towards EU membership even with the war, as quickly as probable.”
“We are planning to present the success of Ukraine’s implementation of all seven recommendations of the European Commission at the Ukraine-EU Summit, and we assume a beneficial assessment of our endeavours by the EU,” mentioned the lawmaker.
He also thanked the EU as a whole and every single EU place for the help currently supplied to Ukraine, and emphasised the need to have for this support to be much more systematic.
“We need to have a money coordination platform that will unite attempts to rebuild our country in the publish-war period of time. Consolidation is demanded. We have formulated a transparent prepare of priority actions in reconstruction — this is what Ukraine actually needs to survive,” Korniyenko included.
As noted, a team of eight users of the European Parliament is viewing Ukraine from January 30 to February 2 in opposition to the track record of the make-up of Russian troops in close proximity to the Ukrainian border.
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