Wikipedia and Google have the ability to destroy and sully a person’s reputation. Mike Lindell is the latest conservative under attack now.
Mike Lindell is the founder and CEO of My Pillow, a warrior and patriot for the truth, a warrior for Christianity and sobriety, and a warrior for President Trump. Lindell is therefore under attack. Ever since he supported President Trump he has been slandered and censored by Big Media and Big Tech.
This morning Lindell was on the War Room with Steve Bannon. Lindell shared how Google has been preventing him from sharing to the world his work labeled “Absolute Proof”. He discussed the actions Google was taking and then he discussed Wikipedia. Lindell shared at the 1:45 mark below:
Wikipedia took over my Wikipedia and now they can put anything they want out there to ruin my identity. What they are now, you’re right Steve they’re attacking the Lindell Recovery Network which was helping millions of addicts.
From my past of being an ex-addict, ex-crackhead amongst other things, and now they’re over here on Wikipedia and they can put up anything they want, …any story they want, anything they want. Because they can control it now and they can keep me from surpressing the truth and they can suppress it by not letting me buy my own name…
They’re their own boss. They’re a monster. They do what they want.”
People at Wikipedia have allowed individuals to slander the Gateway Pundit for years.
Every time a lie is taken down, a new one is posted up.
Most conservatives or staunch Trump supporters find their good name ruined by Wikipedia smear merchants.
Some time in late 2020, a sellside analyst penned the term "K-shaped recovery" meant to describe a pandemic-stricken world in which while some 11 million people have (still) lost their jobs from the February high…
… others were making millions, and in some cases, billions.
For better or worse, the "K-shaped recovery" term stuck and nowhere is it more applicable than in an article from Bloomberg today which shows that just the 15 top hedge fund managers on Wall Street raked in a combined $23 billion in 2020. Using the contextual parlance of our times, that’s "more than enough money, at going prices, to buy one GameStop, two AMC Entertainments and four Bed Bath & Beyonds. Not shares — those darlings of the r/wallstreetbets crowd -– but the entire companies."
And while the staggering sum would have been sufficient to make these 15 individuals into billionaires from what they earned last year alone, that’s a moot point since most of them were already billionaires.
As shown below, the biggest winner from the staggering market rally which soared from its March lows even as the broader economy sank, was Tiger Global’s Chase Coleman, who gained $3 billion personally in 2020. His fund returned 48% after building substantial stakes in Zoom, Peloton and JD.com, a portfolio almost perfectly positioned for the pandemic. And yes, Coleman was already a billionaire heading into 2020.
Coleman’s fund returned 48% last year, earning him substantial fees. The majority of his gains, though, were from his stake in the fund. One of Tiger Global’s most successful bets was on Sunrun Inc., turning a $340 million investment in the solar-energy company into $1.5 billion.
Other Tiger Cubs that traditionally favor tech stocks, such as Coatue Management, Viking Global and D1 Capital, also made Bloomberg’s list.
A new entrant to the list was Bill Ackman – who was also a billionaire heading into 2020 – who made $1.3 billion after shorting credit markets at the start of 2020 and then betting on the recovery following a tearful appearance on CNBC.
Amusingly, the last name on the list – Gabe Plotkin – has made the headlines in recent weeks after his hedge fund Melvin Capital lost 53% of its assets on the Reddit short squeeze. Then again, with $846 million in 2020 earnings alone, we are confident Gabe will be ok.
At the same time, several "usual suspects" were conspicuously absent, including Ray Dalio, whose Bridgewater had a forgettable 2020 as his Pure Alpha II fund lost money for a second straight year (following a catastrophic August when the fund was down 18.6%) and for just the second time in two decades. Quant fund Two Sigma, another perennial winner, also missed the cut as volatile markets largely favored human stock-pickers.
Other fund managers would have also made the list, but the Bloomberg ranking only includes those who continue to manage money for outside investors. That’s why Michael Platt, whose Bluecrest Capital Management returned 95% last year after it stopped managing outside money in 2015 (it since emerged that he was effectively frontrunning his outside clients), was excluded despite an estimated personal gain of $5 billion. Platt and others who manage money only for themselves face fewer restrictions than other asset managers, such as limits on leverage and risk.
The reason behind this unprecedented compensation is simple: their hedge funds generated staggering returns, with the lowest 2020 P&L at 14% for TCI and RenTec as usual leading the list with a whopping 76% return for its employees-only Medallion fund (its public facing funds had a much worse resulting in $5 billion in redemptions after a "terrible" year).
“CEOs at Fortune 500 companies can go for years with miserable performance and it doesn’t affect their compensation,” said Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. “But hedge fund compensation is more tightly related to performance.”
As Bloomberg notes, "that 15 people — all of them men — could earn so much so quickly starkly illustrates the widening rift between the ultra-rich and everyone else at a time of heightened unemployment and division over the scope of government response."
But as long as the peasants also got $600 "stimmies" all is well.
The historic gains by a handful of Wall Street tians demonstrates “the disconnect between the stock market and the real economy,” said finance professor Reena Aggarwal, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Financial Markets & Policy. While high volatility and low interest rates buoyed hedge funds, much of the population struggled “with worries about health, jobs, mortgage payments and student loans,” she said.
But that’s ok: as long as the government continues to provide guaranteed basic income "stimmies" of a few hundred bucks to the peasants to keep them placated, we doubt that anything will ever change and expect the gains for the "top 15" to be even bigger this year.
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Filmmaker Oliver Stone, who heavily promoted the JFK assassination conspiracy theory with his 1991 Oscar-winning movie “JFK,” now claims that his four-hour documentary on the same subject is being blocked from release in America due to fact-checks. Speaking with filmmaker Spike Lee for Variety’s “Directors on Directors” series, the Academy Award-winning director said he “can’t […]
..and then they came for the rest of us one by one…
I was in Washington D.C. on January 6th, 2021. In fact, having never received any memo or advanced notification of an insurrection, I brought my family. I was ill-prepared, not just for what “happened” there involving .0009% of the actual attendees, but for the fallout from it all.
As I said, I brought my family. A husband who had never even sought out a Trump rally or caravan and 3 young teens ages 17, 15, and 12. We live in New York and had about a 5-hour ride home- Terrified. We had just left what was supposed to be a historical moment and experience for our kids. On the way home, we were able to gather what happened afterward from what we could listen to live-streamed from my iPhone. What we left was not what was being described on any of the live-streams. We reached Maryland, and I finally had cell service (there was NO cell service in D.C. since that morning and the restaurants were all closed). I finally had a moment to get a quick video out on Facebook to let our friends and family know we had gotten out of D.C. and were safe. Looking back, I was visually shell-shocked in that video. The portrayal right away and demonization that this was a “white supremacist” event calling all Trump supporters domestic terrorists and treasonous was shocking. Us? My God. I love this Country. No one could really believe all of this, could they? When I got home that evening, I decided to recount what I saw and had experienced on a live feed on my Facebook page. This would be the first of many suspensions I would receive off of Facebook.
The next day my daughters (17, 15) returned to in-home remote learning as the schools in New York were still closed from the “holiday rise in COVID levels”. My 15-year-old was in class and a conversation was started about “What happened in D.C.”. I received a text from them in our family group chat about what a great conversation they had and how they were able to express the point of view of actually being there and what they experienced that was in such contrast to what the media focus was.
Not even an hour later, I received a call from the school nurse. My children would need to quarantine for being out of state. I explained the rule for out of state travel was 24+ hours, and I was only there 22 hours. I saved the parking receipt to prove it. I even recall mentioning to her what a messed up society we now live in, that I even had the forethought to think to do that. By that evening, all hell had broken loose on social media. My kids and I were depicted as the local “domestic terrorist white supremacist people we know who went to D.C.” We were targeted fully. The head of the local PTA was encouraging people to call the FBI. A local high school alumni of just 2 years who was politically involved in the previous Parkland Kids National Walkout Movement in our school posted on Facebook and other social media sites how she had “just found out that this person [ME] had brought her children to D.C.” and conveyed that I was literally so evil that I shouldn’t even bake cookies for the school children. I am adding the screenshot to show the complete ridiculousness of it all. But it was still far-reaching and hyper-local in a somewhat small New York town. The damage was done. And, of course, it spread on social media for my daughters.
It dragged on about 2 weeks, my daughters both refusing to return to the their school buildings. Why would they? They are racist Nazis now and everywhere they turn they are scorned and shunned. For going to D.C.- just for being there. For the crime of just being there, they need to be completely ostracized from society in its entirety. It is the only way this town can be cleansed of the evil we are now considered to be.
I had disputed my banning on Facebook and somehow got a mystery reduction in sentence. After 7 days of not expressing the abuse we were experiencing, I was let loose. I posted the phone calls we got, the screenshots, the postings and accusations and threats of FBI being called, and everything I could to express the onslaught we had experienced. I did end up filing a police report and a report at the school level for the bullying resulting from that in-class discussion.
I lasted about 4 more days on Facebook. I posted an article from a dot-gov website telling people to “load the cannons” and am currently still serving my 3rd Facebook banning/jail sentence for making threats for loading a cannon with a dot-gov website.
So, let’s not lose sight of “being in the middle of a pandemic.” Regardless of where your beliefs lie, the reality is young teenage girls need to be social. Kids in general need to be social with other kids their own ages. We are almost 1 year into these extended lock-downs, and most people, let alone young people, use social media as a primary means of communication. To stop the abuse and bullying my kids were receiving, I had to remove the mechanism. Facebook had already done it for me, but my daughters needed to be unplugged. And so we did; cutting off their last lifeline with anything in the “real world” of what was left in their new world almost 1 year into this pandemic. The isolation deepens.
There really are no words to describe what this experience has done, not just to us but more so to the people –the people who have allowed themselves to become monsters who would do this to other human beings. How can they dehumanize people they know in real life whom they used to sit next to at their kid’s marching band competitions and school performances? How can they demand that volunteerism and even baking skills be disallowed because they don’t have the same politics? Why are they so willing to destroy someone because they support a political candidate they disapprove of, or were taught to hate? Hate now cast onto my children and me so they can finally feel some satisfaction of destroying Trump by destroying anyone who supported him.
I really don’t understand what is happening to this country. We “lost”. Why are we the ones being attacked? Whatever happened to good sportsmanship? When one team loses on the field and shake hands and say, “good game, try again next time,”? No, the losing team now must be destroyed and eliminated from society. Scorched earth.
Who are the enemy and aggressors again? First, they came for Trump, and then they came for the rest of us. One by one.
Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen bombed an airport in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, just days after the Biden administration lifted the group’s terrorist designation.
The drone strike targeted Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia, an airport just 75 miles from the Yemeni border that is frequently targeted by the militant rebel group. The attack set one civilian plane on fire, according to the Saudis, who say they intercepted and destroyed two armed drones launched by the Houthis from across its southern border in Yemen.
Last Friday, the Biden administration removed the terror designation placed on the Houthis by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier this year. The Houthis, who control significant territory along Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen, have called for cooperation with terrorist group Hezbollah in future wars against Israel, and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in 2019 that Iran has sought ways to launch missiles at Israel from Houthi-controlled territory.
Biden’s State Department said it removed the designation because it undermined humanitarian efforts in Yemen. In a press briefing Wednesday, spokesman Ned Price said Wednesday’s bombing would not change the administration’s course on lifting the terror designation.
"We can ensure that we are not adding to the already substantial suffering of the Yemeni people," Price said, "while we continue to hold the Houthis to account."
Price did not say what actions would be taken to hold them accountable. The attack came as the Biden administration’s special envoy to Yemen, Timothy Lenderking, arrived in Riyadh to conduct several meetings with Yemeni and Saudi officials.
The Biden administration last week ended United States military support for Saudi Arabia’s fight against the Houthis. "There is no military solution when it comes to the conflict in Yemen," Price said.
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