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Started 5/9/22 by WALTER784; 48808 views.
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From: WALTER784
Mar-3
A metal detectorist is suing the FBI, claiming he alerted them to 7 tons of Civil War-era gold and they took it away in a secret overnight dig
BYMICHAEL RUBINKAM AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 19, 2023
Treasure hunter Dennis Parada, owner of Finders Keepers, talks about the FBI's 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold in an interview at his office in Clearfield, Penn. on Jan. 6, 2023.
The court-ordered release of a trove of government photos, videos, maps and other documents involving the FBI’s secretive search for Civil War-era gold has a treasure hunter more convinced than ever of a coverup — and just as determined to prove it.
Dennis Parada waged a legal battle to force the FBI to turn over records of its excavation in Dents Run, Pennsylvania, where local lore says an 1863 shipment of Union gold disappeared on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. The FBI, which went to Dents Run after sophisticated testing suggested tons of gold might be buried there, has long insisted the dig came up empty.
Parada and his advisers, who have spent countless hours poring over the newly released government records, believe otherwise. They accuse the FBI of distorting key evidence and improperly withholding records in an apparent effort to conceal the recovery of a historic, extremely valuable gold cache. The FBI defends its handling of the materials.
Parada’s dispute with the FBI is playing out in federal court, where a judge overseeing the case must decide whether the FBI will have to release its operational plan for the gold dig and other records it wants to keep secret. The judge could also order the FBI to keep looking for additional materials to turn over to the treasure hunter.
“We feel we were double-crossed and lied to,” Parada said in an interview at his cramped, wood-paneled office, where huge drill bits and high-end metal detectors compete for space with rusty miners’ picks, Civil War-era cannon parts and other odds and ends he’s dug up over the years.
“The truth will come out,” said Parada, co-founder of the treasure-hunting outfit Finders Keepers. Solving the mystery is not his only goal — he had hoped to earn a finder’s fee from the potential recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold.
An FBI spokesperson declined to answer questions about the agency’s gold dig records or respond to the coverup allegations, citing the ongoing litigation. Last year, the FBI released a statement publicly acknowledging for the first time that it had been looking for gold in Dents Run. The statement said the FBI did not find any, adding the agency “continues to unequivocally reject any claims or speculation to the contrary.”
There is little evidence in the historical record to suggest that an Army detachment lost a gold shipment in the Pennsylvania wilderness — possibly the result of an ambush by Confederate sympathizers — but the legend has inspired generations of treasure hunters, Parada among them.
He and his son spent years looking for the fabled gold of Dents Run, eventually guiding the FBI to a remote woodland site 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh where they say their instruments identified a large quantity of metal. The FBI brought in a geophysical consulting firm whose sensitive equipment detected a 7- to 9-ton mass suggestive of gold.
Armed with a warrant, a team of FBI agents came in March 2018 to dig up the hillside. An FBI videographer was on hand to document it, at one point interviewing a Philadelphia-based agent on the FBI’s art-crime team who explained why the FBI was in the woods of one of Pennsylvania’s most sparsely populated counties.
“We’ve identified through our investigation a site that we believe has U.S. property, which includes a significant sum of base metal which is valuable … particularly gold, maybe silver,” the agent said on the video, his face blurred by the FBI to protect his privacy.
Calling it a “155-year-old cold case,” he said the FBI had corroborated Parada’s information about the location of the reputed gold through “scientific testing.” He stressed the test results did not prove the presence of gold. Only a dig would help law enforcement “get to the bottom of this story once and for all,” the agent said.
Parada obtained the video and other FBI records through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, hoping they would help answer lingering questions about what took place at Dents Run five years ago. Parada was mostly kept away from the dig site while the FBI did its work.
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From: WALTER784
Mar-7
Canadian Justice Sides with Trudeau and Rules War Act Can Be Used to Quash Anti-Government Protests – Seizing Bank Accounts, Imprisoning Peaceful Protest Leaders Approved
By Jim Hoft
Feb. 17, 2023 9:38 pm
And just like that – we lost Canada.
An “independent” public inquiry into the Trudeau government’s decision to invoke the never-before-used Emergencies Act to quash a trucker’s protest in 2022 was deemed acceptable use of government force.
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Thousands of Canadians used their God-given right to redress the tyrannical Trudeau regime policies on forced experimental vaccines on Canadian workers back in 2022.
Trudeau and his regime later jailed the protest leaders, froze protester bank accounts, and outed individuals who donated to the protests against government tyranny.
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Justice Paul Rouleau ruled it was acceptable for Trudeau to use government police to quash the protests and force the workers to take their vaccines.
Global News reported:
Justice Paul Rouleau, who released his 2,000-page final report on Friday, found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government met the “very high threshold” for invoking the Emergencies Act after failures by police and politicians to address the protests.
Invoking the Emergencies Act is a “drastic move, but it is not a dictatorial one” Rouleau wrote.
“When the decision was made to invoke the (Emergencies Act) on February 14, (2022) … there existed a national emergency arising from threats to the security of Canada. That necessitated the taking of special temporary measures,” Rouleau told reporters in Ottawa Friday.
Rouleau added that he didn’t reach the decision lightly and did so “with reluctance,” and that reasonable people could come to a different conclusion based on the 36-days of testimony and thousands of documents submitted to the commission.
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From: WALTER784
Mar-12
PFIZER PAYS THIRD-PARTY ROYALTIES TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Yesterday, on the Sunday morning program with five-time Emmy Award winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson, our founder and CEO, Adam Andrzejewski, discussed the culture of secrecy at The National Institutes of Health (NIH).
We uncovered that since 2010 the NIH hid $1.4 billion in third-party royalties paid by companies like Pfizer that enriched the agency, its leaders, and its scientists.
WATCH: FULL MEASURE WITH SHARYL ATTKISSON "CONFLICTS OF INTEREST"
HERE’S THE FULL BREAKDOWN ON OUR EFFORT TO FOLLOW THE THIRD-PARTY ROYALTIES AT NIH
In September 2020, our auditors at OpenTheBooks filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) for the third-party royalty database at NIH. Since 2005, there had been no sunshine on the royalty database.
NIH ignored our request.
So, we partnered with Judicial Watch and filed a federal lawsuit.
Together, we forced NIH to produce 3,000 pages of third-party royalty transactions.
However, NIH continued to redact the NAME of the payor (think pharmaceutical company), the AMOUNT paid to the individual scientists, and the INVENTION (license/patent number).
U.S. Senator Rand Paul had Dr. Anthony Fauci in the hot-seat during hearings but couldn't crack the royalties open either.
Now, it's time for the special select committees in the U.S. House to investigate.
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast published and includes additional details from our interview. Listen here.
Why are we fighting so hard? Because transparency changes everything.
Thank you for your stalwart support and engagement.
Together, we are making an impact!
Fighting for Transparency,
Courtenay Lyons
Development Director, OpenTheBooks.com
Thomas W. Smith
Chairman, OpenTheBooks.com
PFIZER PAYS THIRD-PARTY ROYALTIES TO NIH (mailchi.mp)
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From: WALTER784
Mar-17
'Why isn't he being prosecuted?' Trump rages at Mark Zuckerberg amid claims group linked to Facebook boss gave $2 million to Georgia elections board - and says Democrats are 'trying to steal a SECOND election'
Former President Donald Trump accused Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of cheating in the 2020 US elections and has called for his prosecution
Trump's anger partly stems from allegations that a group linked to Zuckerberg gave $2m to a Georgia elections board, potentially violating state law
Zuckerberg's money was largely distributed through a nonpartisan foundation but the money went disproportionately to Democratic-leaning counties
By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 06:51 GMT, 27 February 2023 | UPDATED: 12:27 GMT, 27 February 2023
The former president laid out the allegations against the Meta CEO on his Truth Social platform on Sunday while sharing an article about the controversial donation.
'He [Zuckerberg] cheated on the Election(s). The whole system is RIGGED. Why isn't he being prosecuted? The Democrats only know how to cheat. America isn't going to take it much longer!' he wrote.
He then went on to repeat his false claims that the 2020 vote was rigged against him and raised concerns it could happen again.
'Crooked Democrat Prosecutors, many of them Racists in Reverse, are trying to steal a second Presidential Election. They did it in 2020, and we're not going to let them do it again in 2024. MAGA!!!', Trump then wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Writing on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump laid out the allegations against Zuckerberg clearly
Trump then went on to repeat his false claims that the 2020 vote was rigged against him.
Donald Trump called for Mark Zuckerberg (pictured together at the White House in 2019) to be prosecuted after reports a group linked to him gave $2 million to the Georgie elections board
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From: WALTER784
Mar-18
Why are the liberal news media NOT covering this bombshell news breaking story?
Chinese Communist Party-Linked Company Funneled Over $1 Million To Biden Family Members, House Republicans Say
By: Brandon Drey - DailyWire.com
Mar 17, 2023
House Republicans pushed a memo Wednesday alleging an energy company linked to the Chinese Communist Party previously funneled more than $1 million in payments to at least three family members of President Joe Biden.
Investigations from the House Oversight Committee claim a recent subpoena of bank records from John Robinson Walker, a Biden family associate, and his company Robinson Walker, LLC used his business to transfer money from the Chinese State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy, to Biden family members, including the Hunter Biden (son), James Biden (brother), Hallie Biden (daughter-in-law), and a fourth “unknown Biden” from 2015 to 2017.
According to the New York Post bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, he and the president’s brother James earned at least $4.8 million from the CEFC China Energy between 2017 and 2018.
“The Committee is concerned about the national security implications of a President’s or Vice President’s immediate family members receiving millions of dollars from foreign nationals or companies without any oversight,” the memo reads from the office of committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY). “Current financial disclosure laws and regulations do not require non-dependent family members to provide any information to the public.”
Comer’s office published the memo amid the chairman making rounds in the media circuit, saying the new evidence of influence peddling runs deep into President Biden’s family tree.
“At the end of this, I think we’re gonna see there are probably six or seven Biden family members that were involved in various business schemes around the world,” Comer told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night.
According to the memo, less than two months after then-Vice President Biden left office under the Obama administration in 2017, the Chinese state energy company wired $3 million to Robinson Walker, LLC. However, Walker’s business allegedly only had a balance of $159,000 at the time of the transfer.
Following the wire, the committee memo says Walker’s company transferred on March 1, 2017, $1,065,000 to European Energy and Infrastructure Group (EEIG) in Abu Dhabi, which is affiliated with James Gilliar, a business partner of Hunter Biden that has been previously involved in other foreign transactions dealing with the Biden family. Gilliar’s affiliated company allegedly received roughly the same $1,065,000 on March 2, 2017.
Less than a week later, Biden family members and their companies began receiving incremental payments over a period of approximately three months, the memo claims.
On November 5, 2015, the memo says that Walker’s LLC received nearly $180,000 from an unknown company with an overseas bank account. It adds that Walker transferred $59,900 from the business account to his personal checking account the next day, which went to a bank account for “Robert Biden” three days later.
Committee members say the new evidence involving Walker’s company and Biden family financial records raises concerns about the timing of the Chinese energy company wiring $3 million after Biden left office in 2017.
It is unclear if Biden family members provided services to the Chinese energy company, however, the questions of why an unknown holder for the “Biden” bank account received $70 million in payments or Hallie Biden received nearly $25,000 from the LLC while she worked as a school counselor remains.
Hallie Biden is the widow of the president’s late son Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015. She began dating Hunter Biden from around 2016 to 2019.
“The American people deserve transparency into the extent of the Biden family’s influence peddling, and we intend to deliver legislation that will preclude family members from capitalizing on their relatives’ public office,” the memo reads.
White House spokesman Ian Sams dismissed the committee’s findings as an “attack” on the president’s family members.
“After a disgusting attack lamenting that the President’s deceased son Beau was never prosecuted while he was alive, Congressman Comer has now decided to go after Bea
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From: WALTER784
Mar-18
Identity Revealed of 'New' Biden Family Member Who Got Cash from China
By Johnathan Jones
March 16, 2023 at 12:21pm
Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky revealed on Thursday that President Joe Biden’s former daughter-in-law Hallie Biden received tens of thousands of dollars from a Chinese energy firm in 2017.
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee has been looking into the family’s business affairs since his party took a House majority in January.
In a conversation with The New York Post, Comer revealed that a previously anonymous Biden family member who received the payments is the wife of President Joe Biden’s late son Beau, who died in 2015.
Hallie was involved in a romantic relationship with Hunter Biden for several years after her husband’s death. She dated her husband’s brother from 2016 until 2019 — during a time when he is alleged to have raked in money for the family overseas.
During the time of the relationship, she was reportedly paid $35,000 in 2017 over the course of two transactions in relation to Chinese State Energy HK Limited, which is connected to CEFC China Energy.
The information was discovered after the committee used a subpoena to obtain the Biden family’s financial records.
The Post, citing information provided by Comer, reported Hallie was paid by Biden family business associate John “Rob” Walker.
Biden had dinner at Hallie’s home last Friday in Delaware, The Post reported.
CEFC China Energy is the same company Joe Biden is alleged to have received 10 percent from as “the big guy” in the Post’s initial reporting of potential influence peddling it first reported before the 2020 election.
In a news release Thursday, Comer outlined the House Oversight Committee’s findings about the latest in the Biden family’s scandalous business relationships in a memo.
“Notably, on March 1, 2017, less than two months after Vice President Joe Biden left public office, State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to Rob Walker’s company. The next day, the company wired $1,065,000 to a company associated with James Gilliar, another Biden family associate,” the release stated.
“Afterwards, the Biden family received approximately $1,065,000 in payments over a three-month period in different bank accounts,” the statement continued. “From the bank records, it appears that the Biden family received approximately one-third of the money obtained from the China wire.”
While Hallie was reportedly the recipient of some cash from the deal, there is allegedly another mystery “Biden” who benefited from the family’s overseas business deals who is unidentified in bank records.
“Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and an unknown ‘Biden’ — and their companies collectively received $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to Rob Walker,” the committee’s statement said.
Comer said in the committee news release that its use of subpoenas had found the information about Hallie Biden after Democrats alleged nothing would be discovered but normal transactions.
“Democrats described our subpoena as providing nothing more than records for Papa John’s and Starbucks, but they failed to mention the records we’ve received documenting the Biden family’s business schemes,” the Republican said.
He concluded, “Most of this money came as a result of a wire from a Chinese energy company and went not only to Hunter and James Biden, but also to Hallie Biden and an unknown ‘Biden.’ It is unclear what services were provided to obtain this exorbitant amount of money.”
Identity Revealed of 'New' Biden Family Member Who Got Cash from China (westernjournal.com)
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