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Blowback: Protesters hang blow-dryers & hair curlers in tree near Nancy Pelosi's home, demanding same freedom

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Protesters have assembled at the home of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, stringing up blow-dryers and curlers from a tree while demanding salons reopen after the lawmaker was caught flouting Covid-19 rules for a hair appointment.

A crowd was seen outside Pelosi's San Francisco home on Thursday, protesting after the Democrat was spotted getting her hair done at a salon shuttered under coronavirus restrictions earlier this week.

Videos shared on social media showed demonstrators - described by a local reporter as "angry salon customers" - hanging blow-dryers and hair curlers from a tree near Pelosi's home, as well as a number of impromptu speeches delivered by protesters, who blasted the Speaker's Monday salon visit as hypocritical and demanded she "get back to work."

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German 'Novichok poisoning' claims over Navalny will prompt familiar circus of sanctions & Russia demonisation. But who benefits?

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© REUTERS / Shamil ZhumatovFILE PHOTO: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny
The bizarre events surrounding Alexey Navalny, who lies stricken in a coma in Berlin, will bring forth more Cold War-style calls to isolate Russia, at the cost of further consolidating relations between Moscow and Beijing.

Ever since the man - always wrongly billed as "the Russian Opposition leader," when in fact he polls 2% of the vote, and the actual opposition leader is a Communist who still has mass support - took ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow, the securocratic lobby in western countries has been primed.

Today, with the statement from the German government that Navalny is yet another victim of 'Novichok'-class chemical agents, active measures are already underway.

Comment: More on the Navalny nothing-burger:


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Best of the Web: Pedogate 2020: Documentary Explores Possible Links Between 'American Elite', Satanic Symbolism and Pedophilia

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Part 3 of an ongoing documentary series - 'Pedgogate 2020', created and published by 'Mouthy Buddha' - was released on August 24th. We're publishing it here along with Part 1 (released April 14th this year) and Part 2 (released on June 1st).

So-called investigative reporting on 'pedophilia in high places' rarely meets the threshold of 'reasonable speculation' - whatever about generating reliable and factual information. However, we find this particular series useful because the creator is cautious about his claims, aware that this avenue of research is a veritable 'hall of mirrors', and is proactively reporting his more solid findings to law enforcement.

We did some investigation into 'Pizzagate' when it surfaced in 2016, and while we could not establish anything conclusive, we're satisfied that there is substance to the core premise that certain disturbing characters in the Washington DC area can and do call on 'friends in very high places'.

Furthermore, the general claim that politicians and other VIPs from among 'the elites' are themselves sometimes pedophiles, pederasts, and serial child sex abusers is well-established by the historical context of criminal investigations (and, occasionally, successful prosecutions) into child sex crimes in a whole host of countries going back decades.

The ambiguous nature of these 'networks' - part-informal, part-organized - makes proving or at least reasonably suggesting criminality difficult at best. They are at once both 'hidden in plain sight' and 'plausibly deniable', helped by the apparent but recurring impression that the long arm of the law invariably falls on their side.

The content in these videos is not graphic, but the subject matter is nevertheless distressing, so steel yourself before viewing. Finally, take the content creator's advice and DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SEARCH FOR TERMS he looked into. You may only end up incriminating yourself.

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Trump seemed to suggest North Carolina residents should vote by absentee ballot and in person — WH's response

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© Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump in North Carolina
President Donald Trump seemed to suggest that North Carolina residents should attempt to vote twice in order to ensure the integrity of the state's absentee ballot system.

The White House now says the president was not specifically urging North Carolina voters to break election law.

White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere told Daily Caller this morning:
"No one has fought harder for an election system that is fair and free from fraud and abuse than President Trump. This idea that he is encouraging people to vote twice is yet another example of the media taking him out of context and ignoring the facts."
A second White House official not cleared to address the issue further told Daily Caller that
"we have been hearing for months by Democrats and the media that our system is perfect and can handle this mass mail-in vote concept."

"All the President is saying is that if you get your ballot — solicited or unsolicited — by mail, fill it out, and mail it back in but on election day go verify that it has been received and counted. If it has not then you should be able to vote in person."
The president echoed this line in a series of tweets Thursday morning:

Comment: A Trump campaign official, Tim Murtaugh, remarked:
"It's amazing that the media can go from insisting that voter fraud doesn't exist to screaming about it when President Trump points out the giant holes in the Democrats' voting schemes."



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WSJ: US government debt to exceed size of economy for first time since WWII

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© Anthony T. Pope/CC BY-SA 4.0/WikimediaUS Capitol Building
The federal government's pandemic response is expected to push the national debt past the size of the entire US economy.

According to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. government debt will surpass
"the size of the economy in the government's 2021 fiscal year, a milestone not hit since World War II that has been brought into reach by a giant fiscal response to the coronavirus pandemic."
  • "The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that federal debt held by the public is projected to reach or exceed 100% of U.S. gross domestic product" the report continued, "the broadest measure of U.S. economic output, in the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1."
  • However, the significant upswing in borrowing has not yet generated "angst among investors or hampering the U.S.'s ability to borrow more," the Journal reported.
Investors have gobbled up U.S. Treasury assets, drawn to their relative safety. Moreover, interest rates are expected to remain low, suggesting the government still has plenty of room to borrow.

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Florida Governor says 'No more lockdowns' at press conference with Trump's new coronavirus adviser

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© AP/Wilfredo LeeFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
At a press conference earlier this week that included President Trump's new coronavirus adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that his state will "never do any of these lockdowns again" - a lead other states could follow after months of peddling 'pandemic' fear:

Gov. DeSantis has been advocating for a "full spectrum" approach in dealing with the crisis while being hit hard by critics for appearing to side with Trump too much.


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Appeals court rules NSA's bulk phone data collection illegal

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A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program that collected data on Americans' telephone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional.

A three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the program, which was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden and officially ended in 2015, violated U.S. surveillance laws and potentially the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

Despite their conclusion about the surveillance program, the judges upheld the convictions of four Somali immigrants who brought a legal challenge against it on appeal. Wednesday's ruling came seven years after the four were convicted in 2013 of sending money to the terrorist group al-Shabaab.

Snowden, who was cited repeatedly in the court's decision, revealed the surveillance program's existence just months after their trial in 2013. Under the program, the NSA collects and analyzes bulk data provided by telecommunications companies.

That information included details on Americans' phone calls — such as the numbers they were calling and the duration of calls — but not the content. Congress passed a law ending the program in 2015.

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French justice minister supports call to US: freedom for Assange

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© UnknownJustice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti • Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange
Robin Des Lois, a French organization that works for the rights of prison inmates around the world, today sent a letter to President Trump asking him to drop charges against Julian Assange based on his revelations of U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan.

Freedom for Assange is supported by the French Justice Minister, but not by the French President.

The letter, signed by the group's lawyer Emmanuel Ludot, said:
"The Association Robin des Lois believes those charges are quite old and are related to a past of the United States, whose face has radically changed since then. Over the last 4 years, thanks to your administration, acts of war have ceased. It may be time for you and the U.S. authorities to drop the charges against Assange.

"In these electoral times, it would be a political decision hailed by the whole world."
He enclosed the petition in a letter to U.S. Ambassador in Paris, Jamie McCourt.

The American action in the UK to extradite Assange to the U.S. goes to court again Sept. 7th.

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Kremlin rejects Navalny poisoning accusations, sanctions talk

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© REUTERS/Christian Mang; Global Look Press/Zamir UsmanovAn ambulance that allegedly transported Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen at Charite Mitte Hospital Complex where he will receive medical treatment in Berlin, Germany August 22, 2020.
The Kremlin on Thursday rejected accusations that Russia had been responsible for the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and said it saw no grounds for sanctions to be imposed against Moscow over the case.

The Kremlin was speaking a day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Navalny had been poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him.

Navalny, 44, is an outspoken opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin and has specialised in high-impact investigations into official corruption. He was airlifted to Germany last month after collapsing on a domestic Russian flight after drinking a cup of tea that his allies said was poisoned.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow rejected any suggestion that Russia had been behind the attack on Navalny and warned other countries against jumping to hasty conclusions.

"There are no grounds to accuse the Russian state. And we are not inclined to accept any accusations in this respect," Peskov told reporters.

Peskov said there was therefore no reason to discuss sanctions against Moscow.

Comment: According to the Omsk doctor who treated Navalny (before he was shipped off to Germany, before multiple agencies tested his blood finding nothing, and before one government-associated lab "identified" novichok in his sample), if Navalny was poisoned with the alleged Soviet novichok, others around him would have been affected too. He reiterated that no traces of toxic substances were found in his kidneys, liver, lungs.

But NATO and EU leaders are calling on Russia to conduct a full and transparent investigation into the alleged poisoning. Biden (via whoever writes his tweets) jumped on the idiot train with this:

Yes, hold the Putin regime accountable for whatever we say they did (truth about the matter in question be damned).

That said, once more Russia is backed into a corner and put on the defensive because of western-created narratives brought to you by their intelligence services. Paul Robinson, for example, argues that it is now in Russia's best interest to conduct such an investigation. Regardless of the Russian government's guilt or innocence, those against Putin (both outside and within Russia) will use any continued denials that Navalny wasn't poisoned, and any refusals to investigate, as evidence of guilt. If Navalny was poisoned, and it was either some rogue element of the Russian system, or some private individual or group, Robinson writes:
Either option must be highly disturbing to the authorities. No state wants private individuals to be going around attacking each other with high grade poisons. Again, therefore, this explanation requires a strong government response.

Regardless of which explanation is correct, Russia's leaders have a serious problem. On the one hand, they face the prospect of being blamed for trying to kill a prominent critic. And on the other hand, if they themselves are not responsible, they find themselves having to deal with unknown people poisoning citizens of their country with military grade nerve agents. Either way, only very firm and visible action to get to the bottom of the case can help the Kremlin dig itself out of the hole it now finds itself in.
Or, more likely, as with the Skripals, he was never poisoned with novichok in the first place, and the blood samples were contaminated by military/intelligence agencies who got their hands on the samples for "testing". But in this case, again as with the Skripals, it becomes almost impossible to defend yourself against such accusations because the culprits have "catapulted the propaganda" and already determined the narrative.

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Pelosi used shuttered San Francisco hair salon for blow-out, owner calls it 'slap in the face'

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© Reuters / Erin Scott; FOX
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News had learned.

In security footage obtained by Fox News, and timestamped Monday at 3:08 p.m. Pacific Time, the California powerhouse is seen walking through eSalon in San Francisco with wet hair, and without a mask over her mouth or nose.

The stylist doing her hair can be seen following her wearing a black face mask.

Comment: The inevitable Twitter response:



Rules for thee, but not for me. This comes at the same time as the mayor of Philadelphia was seen dining indoors while city's restaurants can only serve outside. They know there's no danger, they just want to make everyone else suffer while they enjoy their special privileges. Hypocrites, the lot of them.


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Of course, Nancy didn't take responsibility; she blamed the salon owner for "setting her up". She even had the gall to demand an apology.


The salon owner's response, on Tucker:

Though her stylist says Kious has been operating 'illegally' since April:
In a statement released by his lawyers, DeNardo claimed that Kious "made several vitriolic and incendiary comments about Speaker Pelosi," before authorizing the appointment.

After the session, DeNardo said that Kious released the footage to Fox News to "set up" Pelosi, as she blamed the speaker for the closure of her business. "It appears Ms. Kious is furthering a set-up of Speaker Pelosi for her own vain aspirations," the statement read.
Unsurprisingly, network evening news (ABC, NBC, CBS) didn't cover the controversy until Pelosi claimed she was set up.

Here's Sara Carter on Pelosi's behavior:
Pelosi is the kind of person that gets what she wants. She doesn't care if other people suffer because of her rules. Look at how little she cares about her own state of California and her beautiful historic city of San Francisco. It's a city that is now mired in poverty, feces and homelessness.

Look at how she fights against a border wall but has an enormous wall surrounding her palatial estate in the city. Look at her hypocrisy and then the answer is pretty clear: she is Marxist light (meaning she talks a big we should all be equal game) but doesn't believe it one bit. She's a limousine liberal and our country is full of them.
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