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Coincidence? NTI Predicted Likelihood of Monkeypox Outbreak in Their November 2021 Report

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Ryan DeLarme,
May 22nd, 2022

Back in November 2021, globalist security organization NTI.org partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a “tabletop exercise” on reducing high-consequence biological threats. 

After the event, NTI (the Nuclear Threat Initiative) released a report, claiming that the exercise examined “gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures—exploring opportunities to improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events”.

In a post-pandemic world this doesn’t seem too surprising, but what has a lot of folks scratching their heads is that on Page 10 of the 2021 NTI report the discussion moves to a possible Monkeypox outbreak. This event, having taken place half a year before the current international outbreak of the virus, somehow accidentally predicted, almost to the day, when the actual Monkeypox virus started making headlines.

Why does this feel familiar?

Some of our readers might recall “Event 201”, where Bill and Melinda Gates met with the CIA, the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg / John Hopkins, the UN Foundation, and more in December of 2019. This who’s who list of high-profile individuals and globalist organizations attended the event to discuss a hypothetical scenario where a Coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe. How surprised they must have been months later when that exact scenario began to take place.

Fast-forward to today, we have a fresh new disease being germ-gamed by Bill Gates and fellow elites, this time it is a Monkeypox virus. Already we are seeing the crisis theater fearporn and case counts on Twitter.

The daily mail put out a graphic Friday, showing confirmed cases in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the US.

 Among the monkeypox wargame exercise participants: Dr. George Gao, Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Chris Elias, President, Global Development Division, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Dr. Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Global Head Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health R&D; Dr. Beth Cameron, Senior Director, Office of Global Health Security and Biodefense, U.S. National Security Council; Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust; Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations; Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference; and Dr. Ernest J. Moniz, Co-Chair and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

On Friday, the World Health Organization confirmed around 80 cases of monkeypox with recent outbreaks reported in 11 countries, according to its statement. The outbreaks are ‘unusual’ because they are occurring in nations where the virus is not ‘endemic,’ the WHO added.

The NTI wargaming document can be read in full below:

Shortly after the first confirmed case of monkeypox was discovered in the United States, the U.S. government ordered millions of doses of a vaccine for the disease. Bavarian Nordic, the biotech company that produces the vaccine, has announced a $119 million order placed by the U.S., with the option to buy $180 million more if it wants. The vaccine — which protects against smallpox and monkeypox — was produced with U.S. support.

Bavarian Nordic received FDA approval for its vaccine in September of 2019, just two months before COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns were implemented across the world.

Besides the series of wild coincidences, there’s another aspect of this story worth considering. The disease no longer occurs in the natural world, so where did it come from? There are smallpox vials stored in labs by a handful of countries, including the United States and Russia.

Dr. Peter Marks of the FDA offered his assessment  on the day of the vaccine’s approval:

“Therefore, although naturally occurring smallpox disease is no longer a global threat, the intentional release of this highly contagious virus could have a devastating effect… Today’s approval reflects the U.S. government’s commitment to preparedness through support for the development of safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics, and other medical countermeasures.”

OpEd: Alt-Right Incels at “Daily Stormer” Celebrate Buffalo Massacre, Call for More Attacks

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Ryan DeLarme,
May 21st, 2022

Another cell of “Alt-right” extremists is making the rounds in the wake of the tragic shooting that took place in Buffalo, New York last weekend. Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, the webmaster of the neonazi website “Daily Stormer” publically praised the cowardly shooter and called for more violence.

As usual, the absurd remarks are being used by the establishment media to conflate Donald Trump and Republicans with racism and sexism in the run-up to Midterms.

On the Poast social media platform, “Weev” stated “Violence works. Terrorism works.”, and “They have launched open war against us, and occasionally there are a few heroes that are willing to respond in kind. I support anyone that kills Democrats.”

In numerous articles on the “Daily Stormer”, and on their “Gamer Uprising” forum, posters have been celebrating the attack, and calling for more violence. In Weev’s own header for the social media site, he describes himself as a “professional jew hater” despite the fact that his own mother outed him in 2018 as being of Jewish Descent.

The question on the minds of most conservatives is whether this individual is just mentally unwell or if he is being used to drum up anti-right sentiment.

The Gateway Pundit lays out their case:

Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer is a convicted computer hacker, who was sent to prison after being caught stealing and doxxing over 100,000 iPad users.

Mysteriously, “Weev” was suddenly released by Obama’s Justice Department, after serving only 13 months of a 41-month sentence. As soon as he left federal prison, Auernheimer immediately started to praise convicted Oklahoma City terrorist Timothy McVeigh, and he publicly called for statues to be erected of terrorists who attacked the United States government.

“Weev”then fled to Ukraine, where he suddenly had someone tattoo a swastika on his chest, and started “Sieg Heiling”, while attempting to align himself with Donald Trump, during Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign.

This is all eerily reminiscent of Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer suddenly doing “Sieg Heil”s and praising President Trump right around the same time.

It has long been considered common knowledge on right wing message boards that Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer cut some sort of a deal with the feds, to get out of jail early in order to infiltrate, disrupt and neutralize the right-wing.

The shooter, 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron, was an avid reader, and a huge fan of the “Daily Stormer” but still claimed to be “Authoritarian left”.

Gendron promoted and praised the site by name in his “manifesto”, while describing himself as a Neo-Nazi, a white supremacist, and an incel. All of these buzzwords are constantly being bandied about on the “Daily Stormer” and on their forum.

A couple of things don’t add up. 

First of all, in his post where “weev” praises the shooter, he says “I support anyone who kills democrats”, assuming that because they were black all of the victims must have been democrats, which is absurd. This type of thinking is in line with the “great narrative” perpetuated by the establishment and is simply not true. In fact, the only confirmed democrat in this equation was the shooter himself.

Secondly, “weev” suddenly becoming a Trump supporter overnight while remaining decidedly antisemitic doesn’t make any sense, as Donald Trump was perhaps the most vocally pro-Israel president that the nation has ever seen.

And there are other aspects of this that seem all too convenient.

For example, The “Daily Stormer” was registered in Russia, during the fake “Russia” hoax on Trump. Some conservatives believe that this was done in order to conflate Trump and conservatism with Russia, during the 2016 election. Unfortunately, there is no proof of these claims. Gendron also had shared a lot of “Daily Stormer” memes on a Discord channel which has long been considered an FBI “honeypot” on 4chan. 

Weev ingratiated himself to Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, editor of a site called “Total Fascism“, which later became the “Daily Stormer”. Anglin allowed “Weev” to become the webmaster of the site, despite his ethnicity and his early release from federal prison.

Andrew Anglin. Neo-Nazi and incel. Editor of the “Daily Stormer”.

The “Daily Stormer” was registered in Russia, during the fake “Russia” hoax on Trump. 

“Weev” and Anglin recently switched the site’s domain to a registrar in Communist China, but the CCP dumped them after the Buffalo shooting. It seems that promoting terrorism is a bit much for even the Chinese Communist Party to stomach, at least publicly.

The site is now only accessible on the Tor network, which is part of the Deep Web, or “Dark Net”, where drugs and child pornography are routinely trafficked.

For most of the existence of the site, Anglin advocated Neo-Nazism and called for the extermination of Jews, and the ethnic cleansing of all non-whites. As soon as “Weev” became involved, the site took an even darker turn, if that is possible, in which they started calling for the kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of women and teenage girls, in addition to committing terrorism against all minorities.

Alt-Right watch, on multiple occasions, has documented how the “Daily Stormer” started promoting the “Incel” movement in the past.

The incel, or “involuntary celibate” movement is composed of losers who hate and demean women because they lack proper hygiene and basic social skills. Most of them are addicted to pornography, so they do not have the courage to approach women without coming across as creepy.

Due to being constantly rejected by normal women, the incels become bitter and lash out at women, often threatening to rape them. Some, like Elliot Rodger, who is often praised on the “Daily Stormer”, murdered two people, all because of his inability to approach women.

In one recent article, Andrew Anglin celebrated the stabbing death of a 13-year-old Florida cheerleader, Trystin Bailey, in 2021. While the rest of the world reeled back in horror at this gruesome, cowardly murder, “Weev” and Andrew Anglin celebrated it.

If all of this activity were confined to the Dark Web, that would be one thing. However, the incel movement that “Weev” and Andrew Anglin started, is beginning to become popular, even among young influencers on the right, who should know better.

The “Daily Stormer” is promoting and endorsing Donald Trump again, in order to, once again, conflate support for Trump with racism, terrorism, and hatred and violence against women. The exact same people did the exact same thing during the first year of President Trump’s term when they encouraged the attack on Charlottesville.

Basically, these yahoos are the quintessential example of how many on the left view all Republicans, as a caricature of hate and ignorance. Every good social engineer needs a group of “baddies” to use as an example while painting the entire party with the same brush, no room for nuance, just purely black and white.

In my 5 years covering politics, I have never witnessed anyone from the right espousing these kinds of views. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve met plenty of racists on both sides of the aisle, but no one who openly calls for racial cleansing, rape, and murder. The type of right-wingers I’m used to seeing (though we don’t always see eye-to-eye, as with my friends on the left) are typically hard-working, family-oriented people, and to see this type of social engineering is heartbreaking. Not all liberals wanted to burn down their cities, and not all conservatives are racist murders. There is nuance in all things and understanding this is going to be essential for this nation to heal.

‘Forever Emergency’: How the Government Seamlessly Transitions Between Terror Threats

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Ben Bartee
May 20th, 2022

Bill Gates has a brand-new supranational terror bureaucracy planned, the cutely-dubbed “GERM Team” – “Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization Team.”

(How many billing hours did it take the PR firm to come up with that snazzy acronym?)

In a recent Wall St. Journal op-ed, Gates justified the need for the GERM Team on the grounds of “national security” to combat “terror threats.”

Gates and his corporate media minions have repeatedly extorted public funding for similar ventures in other contexts under using the threat of bioterrorism.

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We’ve previously discussed the phenomenon of the security state’s permanent emergency. In this paradigm, the government continuously consolidates and redoubles its power and social control using real or drummed-up security threats.

It gets as much mileage as possible out of one emergency before introducing another emergency to justify even greater expansions of its power and social control. The process then repeats ad infinitum.

None of the newly acquired powers are ever rolled back once the “emergency” that justified their initial creation subsides. Rather, they accrue over time, transforming from “temporary” measures to permanent ones by default.

The corporate state continuously invents new justifications for the existence and expansion of its power. It uses new powers and new funding schemes to generate the next threat in a self-perpetuating loop.

One emergency fuels the next. Via Vanity Fair:

“The bioterror attacks of 2001, in which letters dusted with anthrax spores were sent through the U.S. mail, coupled with the first SARS coronavirus outbreak in China the following year, would bring money for the study of lethal natural pathogens pouring into federal agencies. In 2003, the NIAID got an eye-popping $1.7 billion for research to defend against bioterrorism.”

They leveraged the public’s post-9/11 anxieties over Islamic terror – fueled in large part by 24/7 corporate media fearmongering – into billions of dollars in “bioterror” research.

Fauci, in turn, as we now know, funneled that NIAID government money into gain-of-function research (and perjured himself to Congress over it, a demonstrable crime he has yet to be punished for), which likely resulted in the next major terror campaign of our lifetime: COVID-19.

  • Terror attack —–>
  • Biomedical state gets funding to fight “bioterror” ——>
  • Biomedical state uses awarded funding to engineer next bioterror attack —–>
  • Biomedical state gets more funding ———–>

And so on, forever. Until someone or something stops the cycle. In the meantime, the bureaucracies – CDC, NIH, FBI, Homeland Security, et al – balloon continuously.

The pandemic birthed whole new unprecedented power grabs by the state and the seizure of more civil liberties. The public got incrementally more fearful, less assertive, and more sheep-like.

One abuse of power facilitates and births another, and the gravy train runs full steam ahead — more private-public “research” partnerships, more national security agencies, more intelligence funding, more surveillance, and more crackdowns on civil liberties.

Follow the money, follow the social control, follow the motive

There is good reason, of course, why prosecutors in criminal cases love to have a motive – it lends credibility to the theory of the crime.

Groups of people, like individuals, do things for reasons — personal and group gain being chief among them.

Somehow, though, in the context of traumatic large-scale catastrophes, the public is rhetorically forbidden from inquiring into motive. The corporate media establishes the official narrative and any deviations are labeled “conspiracy theories” and summarily dismissed.

Corporate media then warns the peasants to “not do their own research” that might contradict the official story.

Noam Chomsky describes the narrative-engineering phenomenon as “manufacturing consent.”

The single, most obvious forbidden question: Cui bono? Who benefits?

The biomedical national security state has expanded its tentacles far and wide. We recently debunked the corporate media’s gaslighting denial of the existence of biolabs in Ukraine studying weaponized pathogens.

Relevant questions emerge:

  • What would the outcome be if the engineered pathogens currently kept in various Ukrainian biolabs leaked into circulation, and potentially triggered another global pandemic or other catastrophic fallout?
  • To make sure such a catastrophe never occurred again, would the biomedical state demand less funding to combat “bioterrorism,” or more?
  • Would the propagandized NPC public clamor for more medical research to “prevent” pandemics (i.e., the ostensible purpose of gain of function research), or less?
  • Would Merck or Pfizer’s stock go up, or down? Would their political influence wax or wane accordingly?
  • Would the leak or intentional release of a virus or other pathogen engineered in a US government-controlled Ukrainian biolab serve as a cautionary tale about the dangers of fiddling with Mother Nature as self-appointed Gods, or would it be used as further justification to conduct such gain-of-function research?
  • What new civil liberties restrictions would such a Russian bioterror attack or threat be used to justify at home?
  • What new government-funded bureaucracies like Bill Gates’ GERM would then be clamored for?
  • What new permanent, ritual social control measures would we be subjected to, in the vein of the post-9/11 shoe removal in airports or forced masking that we now take for granted?

The answers to such hypotheticals lie in the real past.

Problem ————> Reaction ————–> Solution

No law of the universe says that our money must be repurposed by the publicly-funded biomedical terror complex to fund our own enslavement.

Let’s starve the beast, starting with cutting off the funding for GERM Team and Homeland Security and any of these “national security”/”public health” machinations.

Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter. Please support his independent operations however you can.

FreightWaves CEO Says “Supply Chains Are Never Returning To Normal”

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Ryan DeLarme
May 20th, 2022

The current worldwide supply chain problems are not likely to be stabilizing any time soon, at least not according to FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller.

In a recent article published by Fuller on the Freight Waves website, the CEO makes a compelling case as to why it could take upwards of a decade for things to “return to normal”, and that is assuming world events don’t continue to spiral into chaos.

In the article, Fuller lays out a series of challenges he sees that suggest “continuing challenges for decades to come”. Among those challenges, he lists that:

 

  • Supply chains will remain under constant threat of disruption for the next decade 
  • Supply chains operate best when the world is peaceful and stable 
  • A smoothly running supply chain requires “buffer stock,” which is challenging with declining population demographics 
  • There is a conflict between environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals and supply chains optimized for cost and speed. If we prioritize ESG, we will need to contend with supply chain risks 
  • Supply chain technology will become the big venture capital category winner as companies continue to make investments in technologies that can help them mitigate their supply chain challenges 

 

To be sure, we live in a world faced with the imminent possibility of tightening supplies, higher energy costs, heightened geopolitical risk, and strained transportation networks. Fuller seems to believe that advanced supply chain technologies will become “mission-critical” for many more companies.

In the article, Fuller explains how supply chains benefit from times of peace:

 

“Since the end of the Cold War, global supply chains have benefited from peaceful trade between developed and developing countries. Many poorer and less developed countries that were previously ruled by Communist or autocratic regimes took advantage of new markets in the developed world and used global trade to move beyond subsistence economies to prosperous ones. Some of these countries developed into capitalistic and democratic countries, while other governments exploited the free market system to solely benefit those already in power, and became wealthy and powerful enough to threaten the very system that enabled their ascension.The Eastern European countries that were formerly part of the Soviet bloc are examples of the countries that embraced capitalism and shifted toward democracy, while China did the opposite.”

 

The arbitrage (that is the capitalisation of risk-opportunities in financial markets)  between the developed and developing countries has been massive. The cost of producing goods in countries with cheap labor, lax environmental and labor regulations, and little regard for sustainable natural resources has enabled the world to enjoy unprecedented prosperity and peace, albeit at the expense of the planet and the oppressed.

According to Fuller, labor is key in supply chains. But cheap labor is becoming scarcer, particularly in Asia. This is largely due to aging populations – the average age continues to increase and there are fewer people working in these manufacturing jobs.

On top of that, ESG requirements hamper the stability of supply chains. ESG stands for “Environmental, Social, and Governance”, and refers to an approach to evaluating the extent to which a corporation works on behalf of social goals that go beyond the role of a corporation to maximize profits on behalf of the corporation’s shareholders. Typically, the social goals advocated within an ESG perspective include working to achieve a certain set of environmental goals, as well as a set of goals having to do with supporting certain social movements, and the third set of goals having to do with whether the corporation is governed in a way that is consistent with the goals of the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement.

These ESG requirements at least appear to be rooted in compassion, but according to fuller they are having a disastrous effect on the global supply chain.

 

“Companies have instituted ESG requirements that require disclosures and monitoring of how and where products have been sourced. This pressure means that goods that are produced in factories that don’t match Western standards for environmental controls and human rights may not be available to Western consumers. The factories that do produce goods that match Western standards will often be more expensive and therefore there will be less buffer stock in the system.  

The same ESG standards also create challenges for commodity producers, as the cost of adhering to environmental and social disclosures makes it more expensive and less productive. It also discourages investment in the production of environmentally sensitive commodities – most obviously in energy. 

Environmental concerns and regulations that have prevented exploration and production and killed pipeline projects are largely the reason that the world currently lacks sufficient energy resources to buffer against the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war. “

 

So then what recourse is left? Are we forced to remain dependent on cheap labor and pollution? Well, according to Fuller what he calls “Supply chain technology” will be the big winner going forward.

“Companies will look closer to home for product sourcing. They will prioritize production in countries that are far more stable and friendly to the United States. The Freedom Trade movement will drive supply chain professionals to prioritize production and sourcing in the Americas. 

Latin America will become a big winner, as it benefits greatly from having direct land transportation networks with North America and seas that are well protected by the U.S. Navy. 

The American South and Midwest will also see an acceleration in manufacturing and production, as they can offer predictable and resilient sourcing, without the geopolitical risks of foreign suppliers or the labor unions of the Rust Belt.

Automation, including robotics, will become more important. Nearshoring manufacturers will try to offset higher production costs with robotics and other automated production systems.

Supply chain market intelligence systems, a data category that monitors developments around supply and demand, will be critical for supply chain professionals who are trying to navigate increasingly complex and opaque markets. Materials and product supplies are no longer guaranteed, so the need for constantly refreshed data models that track the balance of supply and demand will be critical to the success of companies. 

FreightWaves SONAR provides near real-time market intelligence information, which has seen explosive growth in recent months as shippers have realized that supply chains are not returning to normal and the need for high-frequency data is increasingly critical for success. Historical models no longer work – as the world becomes far less predictable, peaceful, and safe – and supply chains are far more exposed to supply and demand shocks.”

Techno Fog: Day 2 of the Michael Sussmann Trial

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Via Techno Fog’s SubStack:

Day 2 of the Michael Sussmann trial started with some housekeeping. Here are the rulings of note:

  1. Robby Mook, who has a scheduled vacation in Spain, will testify on Friday. He’s a defense witness.
  2. Evidence of Steele’s meetings with Sussmann and Fusion GPS in July 2016, and his tasking to conduct research on Alfa Bank, according to the judge, “can come in.” The judge observed they are “relevant to Mr. Sussmann’s activities for the campaign and his attorney-client relationship, as far as it went, with the campaign as it relates to Alfa-Bank.”

Onto the witnesses. We start with the short testimony of Deborah Fine.

Fine began working for the Hillary Clinton Campaign (aka Hillary for America) as “one of several deputy general counsels” in May 2016. She answered to Marc Elias, the campaign’s general counsel.

After being presented with calendar entries confirming her daily calls with Fusion GPS, she testified that she worked with them as “part of my work for the campaign.” In fact, she regularly interacted with Glenn Simpson and co-founder Peter Fritsch. Fine conceded that Fusion GPS were seemingly free to conduct research on their own, stating she “personally didn’t direct them” to accomplish specific tasks.

On cross-examination, she admitted she didn’t know if Marc Elias spoke to anyone else at the Clinton Campaign about the activities of Fusion GPS. She was out of the loop regarding efforts to bring the Alfa Bank allegations to the NY Times or to the FBI.

Testimony of Laura Seago

Laura Seago worked with Fusion GPS back in 2016, where she reported directly to Fritsch and Simpson. She has been granted immunity by the Special Counsel for her testimony. She understood Marc Elias to be the Fusion GPS contact for the Clinton Campaign.

Seago stated she was present at a summer 2016 meeting with “Mr. Elias, my colleague Peter Fritsch from Fusion GPS, Mr. Sussmann, and Mr. Sussmann’s client Rodney Joffe.” As to the nature of that meeting:

“The general purpose, to the best of my recollection, was to discuss allegations of communications between the Trump organization and Alfa-Bank.”

Once the Alfa Bank allegations were developed, Seago met with journalist Franklin Foer (who would write the October 31, 2016 Alfa Bank article in Slate). The purpose of that meeting was to discuss “the allegations of communication between the Trump Organization and Alfa-Bank.”

They sold Foer on the Alfa Bank data at that meeting, telling him there were “highly credible computer scientists who seemed to think that these allegations were credible.” These “credible computer scientists” would ultimately be cited in Foer’s article. She admitted that Fusion GPS did nothing to validate the DNS records – something she said was “beyond my capabilities.”

Seago was walked through a number of e-mails she had with Joffe and other members of Fusion GPS. Some of these were privileged (the Joffe e-mails) so the Special Counsel was unable to discuss with Seago the contents. However, she did know about the contents of the Joffe e-mails generally:

Finally, she admitted to understanding whose interests were served by planting the Alfa Bank story.

Now we get to Marc Elias.

Elias meets weekly with Fusion GPS at his office. Typically Peter Fritsch and Glenn Simpson would be in attendance. Generally, those meetings involved discussions of Elias’s “needs” and Fusion GPS’s “work” – which included what Elias described as the “unusual connections” the Trump Campaign had with Russia. They would also report to Elias on their findings related to Trump during the election.

Notably, Elias mentioned Jake Sullivan as someone at the Clinton Campaign who knew about the Trump/Russia research (though there is uncertainty as to whether Sullivan knew about Fusion’s activities). Elias would give the campaign these updates.

A brief aside: Jake Sullivan’s wife is Margaret Goodlander – who serves as counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland. We understand that she has not recused herself from anything having to do with the Special Counsel’s investigation. We further understand that Goodlander is keeping close tabs on Durham’s investigation. We’ll report on that down the road…

Anyway, Elias also testified that the Clinton Campaign paid them (Perkins Coie) a “flat fee” for their legal services. Why is this important? Because it explains why Sussmann would block the bill the Clinton Campaign (see tweet below). (“Block billing” is having a multi-hour entry with a generalized description. Example: “6.5 hours on a confidential project.) For flat-fee work, attorneys are generally allowed block billing because the client isn’t paying the hourly rate.

Read Techno Fog’s full article here.