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Ford Foundation, with Biden campaign ties, funds leftist agitators on U.S. streets

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Last Sunday, the site of the Republican National Convention in Charlotte witnessed a night of violence leading to at least five arrests. Since Friday, Black Lives Matter activists terrorized the Queen City, including beating police officers, in an effort to intimidate GOP attendees and business owners.

By contrast, the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee brought only a small gathering of peaceful activists, who declared: "We decided that it would make sense for us to make the emphasis of our action the one point of unity that deals with police crimes."

Here we have a real "tale of two cities." To understand the disparity of these two convention host cities separated by only a week, let's examine some financiers of organizations fomenting the riots now taking place across the country.

Big Money, Connections to Top Democrats

Claiming to be America's second-largest private foundation, the Ford Foundation has poured almost $2 billion into groups active in "disrupting systems to advance social justice," according to its grant database.

The Ford Foundation boasts key members of the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign as alumni executives. Harris's sister and ex-campaign chairwoman Maya Harris served as the Ford foundation's vice president alongside Biden's now senior advisor, Cristóbal Alex, who served as its program director during the Obama presidency.

Comment: Ford Foundation is the financial hand within the protest glove, enabling the desecration of cities and communities with planned chaos and funded violence.

The RAIR Foundation also investigated, finding evidence that members of the Clinton organization were working in parallel:
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A super PAC founded by Clinton aides invited the thugs who harassed Senator Rand Paul and his wife after the Republican National Convention at the White House on August 27, 2020.
Other prominent Republicans exiting the RNC were also confronted by a leftist rage mob organized by the Party Majority PAC, as well as the Revolutionary Communist Party's front group "Refuse Fascism," whose cult-like leader Bob Avakian endorsed Joe Biden earlier this month, and a Democratic Socialists of America-aligned group called Shut Down DC.

Party Majority PAC

An individual holding a sign that says "Good Trouble" with the hashtag #ThePeoplesHouse is highlighted in the featured photo. If one checks out the hashtag, one is led to a website, where an invitation to a protest the White House is prominently featured.

Attendees were told to meet at the ACLU, according to the invitation. A corresponding ActBlue solicitation for "air horns" was connected to the invitation. The "contribution," according to the invitation, "will benefit Party Majority PAC."
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The Party Majority PAC was founded by Mike Lux and Adam Parkhomenko according to a 2017 article posted at NBC News. Mike Lux, the co-founder of the group, has been a card-carrying Democratic Socialists of America member. NBC News described him as "a former aide to President Bill Clinton who has helped build a series of progressive organizations over the last two decades." Those organizations include the Soros-funded groups: Ballot Initiative Strategy Center and the Center for American Progress.

The Party Majority PAC "will fill in holes to make sure activists on the ground have the resources they need to be successful, working with existing organizations both new and old to ensure resources are used effectively," Mike Lux was quoted as saying.


Parkhomenko, on the other hand, "served as director of grass-roots engagement on Clinton's presidential campaign and is currently a paid adviser to Clinton..." Parkhomenko has been hired for Hillary Clinton's "Onward Together" group, which works very much like George Soros' Open Society Foundations in giving grants to subversive organizations.

Ironically, a trending hashtag during the last night of the Republican National Convention was #DrownOutTrump, which also appears to be associated with #ThePeoplesHouse protest.

It is almost as if Twitter is aligned with the hard left activist groups.

Notice the signs are the same as the one that was being held over Senator Rand Paul in the photo above.


Revolutionary Communist Party

Refuse Fascism, a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party, was also in attendance. Their invitation is too idiotic to post, but can be read here. While the mainstream media interviews and posts images of Marxist agitators, they do not bother to explain their radical connections.

The Joe Biden-endorsing leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party is Bob Avakian, seen below praising Mao Zedong, as he sits with his comrade Marxist Cornel West.


The Refuse Fascism signs are distinctive and can be easily picked out of a crowd.
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Imagine if the mainstream media actually reported in these connections?

Media Response

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Senator Rand Paul and his wife by the violent leftist mob that gathered during the Republican National Convention, the mainstream media was silent. After being forced to report on the story that was blasting through social media, the media tried a new tactic. Instead of reporting what Americans could plainly see with their own eyes, the headlines were that Senator Rand Paul "claimed" to be attacked, or "said" he was attacked.

This nuance diminishes the actual attack on the Senator and his wife and was not lost on prominent social media users.




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It's Not Happening: the Mainstream Media Is the Enabler of American Dysfunction

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Has anyone seen anywhere in the mainstream media a serious discussion of Israel's possible role in the Beirut bombing? I am not suggesting an evidence-free indictment of Israel but rather just a review of Israel's possible motive and a consideration of its capability to carry out such an attack without having to directly do it itself with one of its bombs or missiles. Given the Jewish state's unrelenting hostility towards Hezbollah and its repeated violations of Lebanese territory and airspace, it would seem to me that it would at least merit a sentence or two in the New York Times or Washington Post.

Or how about the Jeffrey Epstein case, another one involving Israel? There is considerable evidence to suggest that Epstein just might have been using underage girls as sex bait for powerful men so they could be blackmailed into cooperating with Mossad. It might have meant having a Bill Clinton as a presidential spouse if voting had gone the other way in 2016 and Bill would have had to be answerable to Benjamin Netanyahu. I haven't seen anything about that in the newspapers of record or on FOX, MSNBC, CBS or CNN.

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Trump promises visit to Kenosha in wake of violent protests

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© APPresident Trump gives thumb up while walking to Air Force One upon departure at Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
President Trump will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to support residents in the protest- and violence-torn town, a spokesman said Saturday night.

He will meet with law enforcement and survey damage from recent riots, the spokesman, Judd Deere, told reporters on board Air Force One, as the president returned from a trip to Louisiana, where he surveyed damage from Hurricane Laura.

"It's a great state, Wisconsin, a great state, and they should not have to put up with what they went through," Trump said earlier Saturday, speaking of the days of mayhem that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake last Sunday. "It was not a good sight," Trump had said of Blake's wounding. "I didn't like the sight of it, certainly."

"We were finally able to get the go-ahead from local authorities to send in the National Guard," Trump told reporters Saturday as he met with officials to discuss the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. "The governor let us do what we had to do and we cleaned it out."

Trump still would not weigh in on Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who allegedly shot and killed two rioters in the street fighting that followed Blake's shooting.

Comment: The president is visiting the hot spots of protests and riots to assess the situations and gather hands-on information, unlike Biden who remains a downstairs candidate spouting phony sanctimony from his basement.
While Trump has decried violent protests in Kenosha, he has yet to weigh in on the police shooting of Blake, who was reportedly paralyzed from the waist down in the incident. Nor has he offered an opinion on the case against Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, who was charged on Thursday with first-degree murder and attempted homicide for shooting two protesters to death and injuring a third during a street confrontation.

Trump has promised to issue a comment about the teen's case within the next few days once the investigation is complete.
"Well, you know, that's under investigation right now and they'll be reporting back to me over the next 24 hours, 48 hours maybe, max, and we'll have a comment about it. Right now we're looking at it very, very carefully."
Supporters have said Rittenhouse acted in self-defense while being attacked by protesters, while critics have painted the teen vigilante as a cold-blooded murderer, with some such as left-wing Twitter 'pundit' Rob Gill going so far as to call for mob justice if the teenager is acquitted.



Hiliter

Sudanese leaders and rebel groups agree peace deal

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© AFPSudanese paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo
A peace agreement between Sudanese leaders and a coalition of rebel groups was formalised at a ceremony in neighbouring South Sudan on Monday.

Both civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and the military's General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan attended the ceremony in Juba, where negotiations have been held over the past year.

The document was initialed by Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, known as Hemeti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary - an umbrella organization of rebel groups from various Sudanese conflict zones - who rose through the ranks as a leader of the Janjaweed militias accused of genocide in Darfur.

It was not fully signed as two key groups had not added their signatures.

An AFP correspondent said that the SRF had raised their fists in celebration after inking the deal.

The signatories to the deal included a faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), the Sudan Liberation Movement-Transitional Council, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), and a faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N). However, an SLM faction led by Abdelwahid Nour and a wing of the SPLM-N headed by Abdelaziz al-Hilu refused to take part.

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'We have a somewhat authoritarian system': Lukashenko wants new constitution less reliant on president

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© Sputnik/Viktor TolochkoParticipants of the protest on Independence Avenue in Minsk.
According to the president, the Belarusian opposition often mentions reforming the country's political system, but "nobody talks about what changes they actually want," he said.

Lukashenko also rejected calls to return to the 1994 Constitution, maintaining that the nation should move "forward," instead of looking back. Once a draft is finished, the document will be made public for open discussion, enabling Belarusians to "express their opinion" about the proposed changes.

Belarus needs a political system that is not tied to the head of state, according to President Alexander Lukashenko, who is currently experiencing the most substantial challenge to his reign since he first took power in 1994. Lukashenko's statement comes as the country begins work on a third version of the constitution, rejecting the opposition's idea to return to the original from 26 years ago.

Speaking to Chairman of the Supreme Court Valentin Sukalo, Lukashenko claimed that the country's political system is "somewhat authoritarian," and asked that the new constitution moves away from a reliance on the head of state to "make sure that the system that is not tied to an individual," including himself.

Snakes in Suits

Russia now also to blame for US protests & Covid-19 disinformation - latest conspiracy from former intel head turned CNN analyst

James Clapper
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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went on CNN to accuse Russia of interfering in US affairs including the Covid-19 pandemic, Portland and Kenosha protests, and election meddling while giving no real evidence.

Clapper, who has previously said Russians are "typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever," was more than happy to push more xenophobic Russia conspiracy theories during a Monday CNN interview when prompted by anchor Alisyn Camerota.

After bringing up violent protests in cities like Portland, Oregon, and Kenosha, Wisconsin - both of which have seen shooting deaths occur during demonstrations and riots - Camerota asked Clapper if he sees "evidence as we saw in 2016 that some of this unrest, some of this online ginning up of discord, you see Russian fingerprints?"

"Absolutely," Clapper replied without hesitation, before also blaming Russians for spreading "disinformation" in regards to the Covid-19 pandemic, including how it "disproportionately" affects minorities.

Comment: Clapper's recent statements defy description. You'd think after the Mueller report (at the very least) that he would just lay low and try and enjoy retirement or something - but he's still at it; telling lie after lie after lie about Russia like only a true psychopath could.

May he see justice soon for all of his highly destructive rhetoric.

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Attention

The US is doomed

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The fatal trouble with the US is that it has a chronic political disease. But none of the political class, including "populist" President Donald Trump, have a diagnosis to offer. And any remedial action always requires accurate diagnosis.

What we have instead are all sorts of quack, or at best inaccurate, assessments, which never lead to remedial action, but rather to a compounding of problems because the problems are left unaddressed and neglected and ultimately allowed to fester.
The basic problem is that the United States has devolved into a hyper militarized oligarchic state. The vast, growing social inequality in the nation, and its grotesque waste of economic resources on militarism are but two manifestations of this state. That is the outcome of decades of US corporate capitalism. All Western states tend to share similar deformities, but the American version of the disease is at its most virulent and moribund.
The next problem is that there is no informed public debate, awareness or political leadership to diagnose the disease and how to cure it.

We just witnessed the two ruling political parties hold their national conventions to nominate presidential candidates. For the Democrats and Joe Biden, the "problem" is all about getting rid of incumbent White House occupant Donald Trump.

Stop

Appeals court rejects Flynn's effort to dismiss charges

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A federal appeals court rejected Michael Flynn's effort to force a judge to immediately dismiss the charges against him, overturning an earlier decision that would have allowed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to drop its case against the former national security adviser.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-2 against Flynn's petition for it to step in and force a district judge to grant the Justice Department's motion to drop charges without holding a hearing on the issue.

The circuit court also denied Flynn's argument that the judge overseeing his case be forced to recuse himself. The former three-star general's legal team had argued that Judge Emmet Sullivan acted improperly by appointing outside counsel to argue against the DOJ's sudden decision to drop its case and by asking the full circuit court to revisit the earlier decision by a three-judge panel.

Comment: That this case against Flynn should even still be on-going is a testament to how politicized and ridiculous Washington's anti-Trump fervor is. See also:


No Entry

France accuses UK of stalling in post-Brexit trade talks

Jean-Yves Le Drian, Heiko Maas
© AP/Michel EulerFrench foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, left, and German foreign minister Heiko Maas
France has accused the UK Government of deliberately stalling post-Brexit trade deal negotiations and having unreasonable expectations.

The 27-nation EU and the UK remain deadlocked in their talks on future trade ties after a transitional divorce period ends on December 31.

It has raised concerns that no agreement will be in place in time and that tariffs and other impediments to trade will have to be enacted at the start of next year.

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Best of the Web: The Totalitarian Future Globalists Want For The Entire World Is Being Revealed

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All over the Western world ever since 9/11 there have been incremental steps towards what many liberty advocates would call a "police state"; a system in which governments are no longer restricted by the boundaries of civil liberties and are given the power to do just about anything they want in the name of public safety. The use of "the law" as a tool for injecting tyranny into a culture is the first tactic of all totalitarians.

The idea is that by simply writing government criminality into the law books, that criminality somehow becomes justified by virtue of legal recognition. It's all very circular. Whenever government abuse of the people is initiated, it's always initiated in the name of what's "best for society as a whole". To save society, the individuals that make up a society must be sublimated or destroyed. This mentality is the complete opposite of what the Founding Fathers in America fought and died for, but as Thomas Jefferson once said:
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
In countries like Australia, which claim to value Western democratic principles of liberty and rule by the people, the perception is that civil rights are codified into the legal framework just as they are in the US. However, there are some glaring differences and issues; specifically, Australian citizens (like many European citizens) have absolutely no means to compel their government or the elites that influence their government to limit themselves. It is these nations, in which the populations have been mostly disarmed and pacified, that any agenda for tyranny will first be established. But we will get to that in a moment...