© J. Scott Applewhite/APFormer FBI Director James Comey
A newly declassified document reveals FBI officials circulated sensational claims that President Trump "worked with" Russia in 2016 and that his campaign was offered "financial compensation" to drop US sanctions, but didn't disclose that the claims came from an opposition researcher for the Democrats.
The claims were made by former British spy Christopher Steele and detailed by the FBI in a classified annex to an intelligence community assessment on Russia's role in the 2016 election.
CBS News first reported Thursday that the document was partially declassified by intelligence director John Ratcliffe.
Steele was paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to find dirt on Trump. He leaned on a network of sources to compile a dossier of allegations including unverified rumors.
An investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller later found no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia including on the distribution of hacked Democratic emails.
Comment: Yet more evidence that the whole "Russiagate" circus was a sham from beginning to end. But don't expect any of what's being revealed to make it through the hystericized numbskulls who continue to bleat "Orange Man Bad!!".
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One of the leaders of the Portland version has also already been
accused of sexual assault and threatened to commit suicide after admitting that they are a "serial abuser."
The Portland militants began setting up their "autonomous zone" late Wednesday evening using barbed wire fences.
Apparently, walls and fences are no longer racist.
Comment: Update: June 11, 2020
Portland's police-free 'autonomous zone' fails and is abandoned:
© Sergio Olmos/ReutersPortland Protest
It was the 14th consecutive night of anti-racism and police brutality protests in Portland in the aftermath of George Floyd's death at the hands of the Minneapolis police department.
Thousands of people thronged the city's parks, bridges and streets with various forms of protest, including a skateboard march.
Since the protests began, Portland has selected a new police chief and Mayor Ted Wheeler has vowed to redirect at least $7 million of police funding to help communities of color.
UPDATE: 11/6/2020
Trump: Democrats' unable to maintain law & order in Seattle:
© A person stands at the abandoned police department's East Precinct as the protesters established what they call an autonomous zone in Seattle, Washington, US Reuters/ Lindsey WassonA person stands at the abandoned police department's East Precinct as the protesters established what they call an autonomous zone in Seattle, Washington.
Calling for "LAW & ORDER" in his standard all-caps style on Wednesday night, Trump decried the situation in Seattle following days of heated protests over police brutality, blaming its Democratic leadership for losing control of the city.
Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before. Take back your city NOW. If you don't do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stopped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2020
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Matthew Ehret
The DuranThu, 11 Jun 2020 18:57 UTC
© Fox News
Tucker Carlson delivered another scathing review of the state of affairs in the United States, with liberal governments actually showing themselves as more and more culpable in the deaths of people
precisely because of the coronavirus lockdowns, which were touted as life-saving. His monologue, a ten-minute, absolutely packed commentary, delivered the strongest blow yet to the latest coup attempt in progress. However, he is not saying anything we did not already sense or know. For example:
We sense that this pandemic is far, far less than advertised. While the numbers of cases continue to grow worldwide,
the fatality rate is very low, more analogous to a bad flu year but only in some locales. As of June 11th, 2020 the John Hopkins COVID tracking site gives these selected statistics:
James David Banker
QuilletteTue, 18 Dec 2018 17:34 UTC
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart," wrote James Baldwin, "for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." This observation has been confirmed many times throughout history.
However, China's Cultural Revolution offers perhaps the starkest illustration of just how dangerous the "pure in heart" can be. The ideological justification for the revolution was to purge the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the nation more broadly, of impure elements hidden in its midst: capitalists, counter-revolutionaries, and "representatives of the bourgeoisie."
To that end, Mao Zedong activated China's youth — unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind — to lead the struggle for purity. Christened the "Red Guards," they were placed at the vanguard of a revolution that was, in truth, a cynical effort by Mao to reassert his waning power in the Party. Nevertheless, it set in motion a self-destructive force of almost unimaginable depravity.The Cultural Revolution commenced in spirit when Mao published a letter indicting a number of Party leaders on May 16, 1966. But it was a seemingly minor event nine days later that ignited the revolution in effect: a young philosophy professor at Peking University named Nie Yuanzi placed a "big-character poster" (a handwritten propaganda sheet featuring large Chinese characters) on a public bulletin board denouncing the university president and others in the administration as bourgeois revisionists. Mao immediately endorsed her protest, which set off a chain reaction of student revolt that swept through China.
Helen Buyniski
RTWed, 10 Jun 2020 16:23 UTC
© AFP / Stephen Maturen
As the massive anti-police-brutality protests sweeping the US are diverted into calls to "defund the police" and to replace them with community-based enforcers, Americans would be wise to keep an eye on "who benefits."
There's no question US police departments have become too militarized, too much like occupying armies, when the cities they patrol truly need engagement and accountability. Police in some areas pose more of a threat to residents than criminals, seizing a bigger chunk of Americans' assets via civil asset forfeiture in 2014 than were stolen by burglars that same year. Certainly outfitting cops with military surplus equipment, sending them to Israel to learn chokeholds like the one that killed George Floyd, and then deploying them in American schools to keep the kids safe is not a workable model.Most people concerned with the police brutality problem would support demilitarizing the cops, retraining them, even holding them accountable to the many laws already on the books. Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed George Floyd, had already racked up a number of brutality complaints and been involved in several shootings.
In a functioning system, he would not have been on the street on Memorial Day.
Heather Cherone & Paris Schutz
WTTW NewsTue, 09 Jun 2020 23:22 UTC
© (Hugo Balta / WTTW News)A chaotic scene in Chicago on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
As unrest
swept the city Sunday, aldermen pleaded with Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help them protect their communities from roving bands of criminals clashing with police and looting businesses.
WTTW News obtained a recording of an online conference call held by the mayor's office to brief all 50 aldermen on the city's response to the unrest touched off by the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.
While one alderman wept,
others grew angry with the mayor, demanding to know what her strategy was to stop the violence that began in earnest late Saturday.The call provides a snapshot into the city's response as of midday on Sunday to the most widespread and damaging unrest since the uprising after the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the police riots after the Democratic National Convention in 1968.
The recording begins with Ald. Michelle Harris (8th Ward) wondering how she could convince businesses like Walmart and CVS to rebuild on the South Side after the destruction.
"It's like, what are we going to have left in our community?" Harris asks her colleagues before answering herself. "Nothing."
Tom Schuba, Sam Charles & Matthew Hendrickson
Chicago Sun-TimesMon, 08 Jun 2020 21:21 UTC
"We've never seen anything like it, at all," said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
© Chicago Sun-Times
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m.
A West Side high school student murdered two hours later.
A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m.
A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood.
While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd's murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab's data doesn't go back further than 1961.
Comment: And that was after
the deadliest ever Memorial Weekend in Chicago, just the weekend before this record deadly weekend.
It's as if the riots/woke outrage empowered Blacks to kill more Blacks?
In any event, mayhem is spreading/intensifying from Democrat-controlled plantations/cities.
Seraphim Hanisch
The DuranTue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
© Fox News
The effect this movement and
its supporters have had on an already
weakened and dispirited American populace is dangerous, despite the polled prevalence of common sense.
The "Defund the Police" drive is really a drive to replace the present police force with a new one, one that has partisan alignment, much as such forces in Third World nations have.
Tucker analyzes all of this. This report is particularly good because all of the relevant information is in one place.
Graham Dockery
RTMon, 08 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC
© Reuters/Patrick T. FallonA demonstrator holds a placard depicting George Floyd during a protest in Los Angeles, California, June 3, 2020.
A UCLA professor has been placed on leave
after refusing to give black students preferential grades in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing. The college said his Martin Luther King-inspired attitude to race was "troubling."Floyd's death in Minneapolis and the two weeks of civil unrest that followed have given American activists a fresh platform to
air all manner of ethnic grievances, from demanding that whites renounce their supposed "privilege," to calling for multi-trillion dollar reparation payments for slavery. For one group of students at the University of California Los Angeles' Anderson School of Management,
it was an opportunity to dodge an end-of-year examination. Last week, a group of minority students emailed Professor Gordon Klein, asking him
to let black students sit out this week's exams in light of recent events.
Comment: It seems anyone with common sense and values, that predate the current fixated mindset, is in potential jeopardy. The 'wokers' have no idea where this will lead, the destruction they cause, nor the consequences of living in constant reaction. Stuck in this rut, what else is going on around them that remains unnoticed?
Matt London
Fox NewsSat, 06 Jun 2020 16:30 UTC
Establishment power move: Swamp creature Mitt Romney at a BLM protest
Veteran correspondent
Lara Logan, who has
done extensive reporting on the Antifa movement, warned that the far-left extremist group is going all out to capitalize on national unrest, as Attorney General Bill Barr confirmed Antifa's role in instigating recent violence and destruction.
"There's a difference between hijacking something and exploiting it and fueling it, and that's really the concern here," said Logan on
Fox and Friends on Friday.
"They've been planning this not just for a few months but for decades, and this is sort of the culmination," she argued. "It's almost like this is the super bowl of their efforts."Barr said on Thursday that there is
evidence that Antifa and other groups are exacerbating violent riots that have erupted in American cities in the aftermath of the police-involved death of George Floyd last week in Minneapolis.
"We have evidence that [A]ntifa and other similar extremist groups, as well as actors of a variety of different political persuasions have been involved in instigating and participating in the violent activity," Barr said at a Justice Department news conference.
Comment: Logan's video reports appear to be unavailable for viewing outside the US, but we have a couple of segments of her interviews with Fox News over the last week. In the first two, she shares her observations of the tactics and organizing of the far-left militias on the ground during the riots:
In this third interview, she goes into more detail about Antifa's organization and ideology (her response begins at 01:05):
Ms. Logan's work is complemented by Millie Weaver, who has shown
here that climate change activists are networked with Black Lives Matter activists and other far-left revolutionary activists.
Without suggesting that either of these reporters have an agenda, it should be noted that their 'law enforcement and intelligence sources' - who have provided them with such evidence as video footage of Zoom conversations held between activists coordinating the riots/protests - likely know much more than they are telling them.
Specifically, that these groups and this 'revolutionary movement' are
backed by US intelligence. What the 'deep state' has exported abroad for so long - color revolution - is now being applied 'back home'.
The Establishment undoubtedly believes that they have these useful idiots agitating to 'destroy America and start anew' on a leash, and can reign them in once November's presidential election 'goes right' for them.
But they are likely in for a surprise or two...
Comment: Yet more evidence that the whole "Russiagate" circus was a sham from beginning to end. But don't expect any of what's being revealed to make it through the hystericized numbskulls who continue to bleat "Orange Man Bad!!".