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Did the FBI mislead the Senate Intel Committee on the Steele Dossier? The media is uninterested

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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© SalonFormer FBI Director James Comey • US President Donald Trump
I recently wrote a column concerning a pattern of willful blindness by the media as new evidence emerges of serious wrongdoing by the FBI in the origin and continuation of the Russian collusion investigation. The latest information comes from the Senate Intelligence Committee which released a declassified briefing report to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2018 on the Steele dossier's Primary Sub-source. It is hard to read the document linked below and not conclude that the FBI misled the Congress on the subject. This occurred after the FBI misled the FISA court, including the submission of falsified documents to continue the surveillance.

The statement that most stands out from the briefing is that the Primary Sub-source "did not cite any significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent he could identify it."

Keep in mind that this is a statement made in 2018. FBI agents had already warned that dossier author Christopher Steele may have been used by Russian intelligence to plant false information to disrupt the election. Indeed, Steele's allegations were quickly discredited by the FBI.
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Best of the Web: New Zealand acclaimed 'world leader' in handling Covid-19 as it announces enforced relocation of 'infected' to 'quarantine centers'

Julia Hollingsworth
CNN
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 18:44 UTC
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"Hi! I'm Jacinda! I'm really smiley and nice! Now hand over your daughter, we're taking her to a quarantine centre..."
New Zealand reported 13 new community coronavirus cases on Thursday as the country tackles a fresh outbreak that ended an enviable run of more than 100 days without any locally transmitted infections.

The new cluster, which now totals 17 cases, has prompted the country to put its most populous city under lockdown as authorities scramble to trace the source of the outbreak. New Zealand now has 36 active infections, including imported cases. In total, the country has reported 1,238 confirmed cases and 22 deaths.

Authorities are warning that the number of cases are likely to increase, raising the prospect that a three-day lockdown in Auckland could be extended and putting the date of the country's upcoming general election in doubt.

"As we all learned from our first experience with Covid, once you identify a cluster it grows before it slows," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said at a news conference Thursday. "We should expect that to be the case here."

New Zealand's outbreak is a dramatic turn of events for the country, which was heralded as a world leader in how it handled the outbreak. For months, life was largely back to normal, and the country went 102 days without a locally acquired case.


Comment: "Our measures are working because they give people freedoms," she says... as she TAKES AWAY ALL THOSE FREEDOMS.

Don't you just love how Ardern and her collaborators present their policy decisions as if those were the only 'obvious', 'scientific' options?

Sweden, hello!?!

This New Zealand govt is - like its Aussie and British counterparts - stark raving mad.

Who would have thought 'the Nazis' this time around would be, first and foremost, British liberals and their descendants, all joyfully goosestepping us towards the New World Order...

UPDATE: No surprise, the lockdown will be extended from 3 to 12 days. Because the "cluster" is now 30 people. Never mind that that's what viruses do, and there's no evidence the lockdowns had ANY positive effect - as noted above, the only evidence we have suggests they are responsible for a lot of unnecessary deaths.

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Too little, too late - but the open letter 'It's time to rethink our Russia policy' at least opens the free-speech gates in the US

Gordon M. Hahn
RT
Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:58 UTC
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A group of 103 international-relations scholars has called for change in America's course on Russia in an open letter titled 'It's time to rethink our Russia policy.' One is tempted to respond simply, "No sh*t."

More appropriately, such a call might have been a surprise, but it has been needed since about 1992.

It's not only the text that's comment-worthy; the group of signatories is of some interest, too. Some of the statement's backers possess a sound record of sincere support for a realist or at least reasonable American policy towards Russia. Indeed, at least one of them, Dmitry Simes, has been accused of being a Kremlin asset in the Soviet vigilante style of US media copiously on display during the Russiagate hysteria.

However, many are partly responsible for the sad state of US-Russian relations in having supported some of the worst aspects of America's Russia policy. Some are only narrowly or casually familiar with Russian politics, and many are compromised by the specific nature of their deep involvement in American politics.

Consequently, their collective statement has both weak and strong points. Most disappointingly, the latter do not go far enough. Therefore, it's unlikely their call for a new Russia policy will impart the necessary drive for a significant revamp of US policy and will have little demonstrable effect on US-Russian relations. It will have equally limited impact on the already hyper-cynical Russian elite's view of the American policymaking circle's own cynicism, biases, insufficient knowledge, and considerable Russophobia.

Its most positive effect may be in preventing the complete monopolization by the most jaundiced perception of Russia, gradually establishing a stranglehold on US discourse about Russia. But let's review the statement's actual content. Unfortunately, one has the sinking feeling, or at least fear, that the appearance of the letter in the midst of the US presidential election campaign reveals that the authors are issuing a subtle rebuke to President Donald Trump, for such a statement should have come during every previous US administration.

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Homeland Security chair Johnson subpoenas FBI in review of Russia probe origin

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:15 UTC
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© Alex Brandon/APFBI Director Christopher Wray
The subpoena demands that he produce 'all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation'

The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Monday subpoenaed the FBI and Director Christopher Wray as part of its broad review into the origins of the Russia investigation, Fox News has learned.

Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., issued the first subpoena as part of the panel's review to Wray.

The subpoena, obtained by Fox News, demands that he produce "all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

"This includes, but is not limited to, all records provided or made available to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice for its review," the subpoena states, referring to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's review of abuses related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

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New report reveals US Special Forces active in 22 African countries

Alan Macleod
Mint Press News
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Sidney Sale | DVIDSMauritanian Soldiers simulate a casualty during the Flintlock Exercise in partnership with US Special Forces in Nouakchott, Mauritania on Feb. 27, 2020
The US has roughly 6,000 military personnel scattered throughout the continent with military attachés outnumbering diplomats in many embassies across Africa.

A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light on the opaque world of the American military presence in Africa. Last year, elite U.S. Special Operations forces were active in 22 African countries. This accounts for 14 percent of all American commandos deployed overseas, the largest number for any region besides the Middle East. American troops had also seen combat in 13 African nations.

The U.S. is not formally at war with an African nation, and the continent is barely discussed in reference to American exploits around the globe. Therefore, when U.S. operatives die in Africa, as happened in Niger, Mali, and Somalia in 2018, the response from the public, and even from the media is often "why are American soldiers there in the first place?"

The presence of the U.S. military, especially commandos, is rarely publicly acknowledged, either by Washington or by African governments. What they are doing remains even more opaque. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) generally claims that special forces go no further than so-called "AAA" (advise, assist and accompany) missions. Yet in combat, the role between observer and participant can become distinctly blurry.
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Soros reveals how he's invested amid "Fed liquidity bubble"; says Trump "very dangerous"


ZeroHedge
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:25 UTC
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Billionaire financier and political puppeteer George Soros says he's no longer invested in financial markets - admitting to Italy's La Repubblica that we're caught in a bubble fueled by Fed liquidity, and that ever since he shared his methodology in his book, "Alchemy of Finance," he no longer has an advantage.


Comment: Having an advantage in Soros's mind, is being able to manipulate - and skim from - the wealth of entire nations. And you can be sure he does have some strategies in play right now.

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Soros explained that "two simple propositions" drove his investment strategy, according to MarketWatch.

"One is that in situations that have thinking participants the participants' view of the world is always incomplete and distorted. That is fallibility," he said, adding "The other is that these distorted views can influence the situation to which they relate and distorted views lead to inappropriate actions. That is reflexivity."
He went on to say the market, which he no longer participates in, is sustained by the expectation of more fiscal stimulus along with hopes Trump will announce a vaccine before November. -MarketWatch

Comment: A lot of extreme wishful thinking and bulls*** rehetoric on the part of the Soros - as if he cares a whit for the US Constitution! The jerk is a Globalist par excellance and would sooner have all nations fall under the thumb of transnational corporations and world governance - than have to deal with a country that is sovereign and actually working for its people.

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Lithuania, Latvia & Poland's ultimatum to Belarus: Let us mediate election talks between Lukashenko & opposition or face sanctions


RT
Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:25 UTC
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© Reuters / Jedrzej NowickiProtesters attend a rally against Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus, August 10, 2020
Three neighbours of Belarus have issued an ultimatum to President Alexander Lukashenko, facing street protests over "falsified" election results: embrace a Lithuania-led "democratic" initiative or face sanctions.

Lukashenko has served as Belarus's president since the office was created in 1994. However, an electoral victory on Sunday that would have seen him extend his rule by another five years has been declared a fraud by the opposition, and its veracity is doubted by Belarus' European neighbors.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda announced on Wednesday that his country, along with Poland and Latvia, are ready to mediate between Lukashenko and the opposition, provided the president stops his ongoing crackdown on protests, releases jailed demonstrators, and forms a national council to work with political and civil opponents.

Comment: See also: The Saker: A quick update on Belarus

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Rep. Ilhan Omar beats back Democratic primary challenge in Minnesota

Morgan Phillips
Fox News
Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:26 UTC
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Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a highly contentious primary Tuesday night, even after being outraised by her opponent, attorney Antone Melton-Meaux.
Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday defeated her Democratic primary challenger, attorney Antone Melton-Meaux, who garnered attention for outraising her during the campaign, the Associated Press projected.

The race has gotten attention in recent weeks: Melton-Meaux said he supported Omar's first run for Congress in 2018 but criticized her for the number of votes she's missed.

"She has been ineffective in Washington because she is divisive, and she's focused on her celebrity," Melton-Meaux told The Associated Press.

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Best of the Web: Sputnik V, world's first Covid-19 vaccine, launched - Putin's daughter among first to take it - Vaccine will NOT be mandatory in Russia


Reuters
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:02 UTC
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© REUTERS/Dado RuvicFILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020.
Russia has named its first approved COVID-19 vaccine 'Sputnik V' for foreign markets, a reference to the world's first satellite and what Moscow sees as its success at becoming the first country to approve a vaccine, a top official said on Tuesday.


Comment: It's also the Russians trolling the West!


Kirill Dmitriev, head of the country's RDIF sovereign wealth fund, said Russia had already received requests from more than 20 countries for 1 billion doses of its newly-registered COVID-19 vaccine.

He was speaking after President Vladimir Putin announced the approval after less than two months of human testing.

Comment: Has it indeed?!

The Russians are no doubt 'up to something', given that a vaccine against 'a' specific coronavirus is a technological impossibility, but their 'scheme' is also not 'dangerous' as the West is portraying it. At least, no more dangerous than 'just another flu jab'...

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Putin claims his own daughter was one of the first to be vaccinated with 'Sputnik V', and that Russia will not be mandating that citizens take it:
"As far as I know, a vaccine against the coronavirus infection has been registered this morning (in Russia) for the first time in the world," the President told members of the government. "I thank everyone who worked on the vaccine - it's a very important moment for the whole world."

Putin insisted that vaccination in Russia should only be carried out on a voluntary basis, with nobody forced to accept immunization. He also revealed that one of his daughters has already been vaccinated.

"I know that it works rather effectively, forms a stable immunity, and, I repeat, it passed all the necessary inspections," the president added. [...]

Putin asked Health Minister Mikhail Murashko to provide more detailed information about the plans for immunization. He said it is hoped that the Russian vaccine will go into general circulation by January, but in the meantime medical workers and teachers will be given priority.

"We will begin the stage-by-stage civilian use of the vaccine. First and foremost, we would like to offer vaccination to those who come into contact with infected persons at work. These are medical workers. And also those who are responsible for children's health - teachers," the minister said.

Last week, the health minister stated that initial clinical trials of the vaccine developed by the Gamelei Research Center in Moscow had been completed.


However, Vadim Tarasov, a top scientist at Moscow's Sechenov University, where the trials took place said [...] [t]he technology behind the Russian vaccine is based upon adenovirus, the common cold. [T]he vaccine proteins replicate those of Covid-19 and trigger "an immune response similar to that caused by the coronavirus itself," Tarasov revealed. [...]

Putin said that his daughter had a slight temperature after taking part in trials, but that it quickly went away. "One of my daughters got the vaccine. In this sense, she took part in the experiment. After the first vaccination, she had a temperature of 38, the next day, 37 and that was all."
British and American corporates are spitting mad that Russia has claimed 'first position'!
Top US health officials insist they're holding out for a "safe and effective" Covid-19 vaccine, hinting that Russia's shot is anything but - or even that it's a plot to 'goad the US into forcing early action on our vaccines.' [...]

The irony of US health officials criticizing the speed of Russia's vaccine development appeared lost on the pair. The Trump administration's own vaccine development program, called Operation Warp Speed, has been criticized even by the country's most fervent vaccine boosters for its "unsafe" timeline, which has contracted from an ambitious 18-month projected schedule to "maybe before the election."

The US and UK have both ordered millions of doses of a barely-tested, unproven vaccine developed by Oxford University in partnership with AstraZeneca, with HHS officials stating they hope to receive the first doses as early as October. While the shot has so far proven incapable of protecting monkeys from the virus, hope springs eternal. Another vaccine candidate, from newcomer Moderna, has triggered serious side effects in a large portion of test subjects but has nevertheless been hyped as a potential savior. The FDA hopes to approve a vaccine by December.
The Russians have countered by pointing out that it is in fact the Anglo-Americans who are rushing out dangerous new vaccines:
Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine against Covid-19, has already become subject to coordinated information attacks from nations that have political differences with Moscow.

That's according to the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) which bankrolled the research. Kirill Dmitriev claims that, whether inspired by commercial concerns or just malice, the politicized approach of a number of Western countries ultimately jeopardizes the health and safety of their own citizens.

In the development and trials of the vaccine, Russia used a proven platform that had been tested on thousands of people over the past six years, the RDIF chief stressed, during an online conference on Tuesday.

"Coordinated and carefully prepared information attacks on the Russian vaccine are trying to discredit and hide the correctness of the Russian approach to drug development," Dmitriev said. "A politicized approach to the Russian vaccine on the part of a number of Western countries endangers the lives of their citizens."

"Meanwhile, a number of countries are trying to prove, in the case of 30,000 to 40,000 patients, the safety of fundamentally new approaches towards creation of vaccines, which, in fact, need to be tested for several years," Dmitriev explained on Tuesday. "The fact is that none of these vaccines created with the use of new solutions has been registered anywhere in the world."

"They have not studied the long-term effects on the human body, including fertility," he added. "Thinking that such approaches are safe in the long term without carefully studying them, in particular their long-term consequences, is a dangerous illusion." [...]

However, Vadim Tarasov, a top scientist at Moscow's Sechenov University, where the trials took place, said the country had a head start as it has spent the past 20 years developing skills in this field and trying to understand how viruses transmit.
We couldn't believe it when Russia went full Covid-1984 along with the West back in February/March. In hindsight, their position makes more sense. Many if not most people, Russians included, have a profound fear of death, and 'the virus' spooked them to no end. So the Russian govt read the situation correctly and 'played doctor'. Now they have a 'Covid-19 vaccine' to further placate their population. Hopefully it's effectively a placebo. Time will tell whether its medical effects support or further debilitate people's immune systems...

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Flashback Kamala Harris' ancestors owned slaves, her father says

Brent Scher
The Washington Free Beacon
Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:30 UTC
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© Getty Images for ESSENCEKamala Harris speaks on stage at 2019 ESSENCE Festival.
Presidential hopeful's Jamaican father wrote about his slave-holding ancestor.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) is the descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica, according to her father's lengthy ancestral summary of his side of the family.

Donald Harris, a Stanford University economics professor, revealed in 2018 that his grandmother was a descendant of Hamilton Brown, the namesake of Brown's Town in northern Jamaica.

"My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown's Town)," he wrote in a post for Jamaica Global.

Comment: Any normal person would not care that Kamala Harris' ancestors had slaves because any normal person wouldn't judge a person by the actions of their ancestors who lived in a very different time. But to progressives this is likely a very serious issue, worthy of earning Harris a cancellation. The fact is, there are enough reasons to question the worthiness of Harris as a VP pick without worrying about the irrelevant facts of what her ancestors did.

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