Puppet Masters

AG Barr personally gave the order to clear WH area of protesters

Zachary Halachak
Washington Examiner
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 06:31 UTC

Attorney General William Barr reportedly made the call to clear protesters near the White House before President Trump spoke Monday.

The Washington Post reported that Barr gave the direct order for law enforcement to push protesters away from the streets around Lafayette Square before Trump addressed the demonstrations from the Rose Garden.

Smoke canisters exploded and rubber bullets were fired during the dispersion, during which Barr was spotted on camera overseeing the law enforcement operation from behind security near the White House. After the crowds were cleared, the Secret Service maintained a clear path so that Trump could walk from the White House to the historic St. John's Episcopal Church, where he was photographed holding up a Bible, a move that was criticized by the bishop and by some lawmakers.

According to two law enforcement officials, a decision to extend the perimeter around Lafayette Square by one block was made late Sunday evening or early on Monday with the goal of enforcing it Monday afternoon. When Barr saw that the protest-free area had not been extended, he then demanded it.

Comment: Relentlessly, media's false claims continued:

These actions were further proof that Orange Man Bad is literally the worst, restoring rule of law is criminal, and standing in front of a church holding a Bible is an assault on the American conscience. They focused on how the Park Police had cleared the area ahead of the city-wide curfew declared by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.

United States Park Police acting Chief Gregory T. Monahan exploded the entire false narrative:
On Monday, June 1, the USPP worked with the United States Secret Service to have temporary fencing installed inside Lafayette Park. At approximately 6:33 pm, violent protestors on H Street NW began throwing projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids. The protestors also climbed onto a historic building at the north end of Lafayette Park that was destroyed by arson days prior. Intelligence had revealed calls for violence against the police, and officers found caches of glass bottles, baseball bats and metal poles hidden along the street.

To curtail the violence that was underway, the USPP, following established policy, issued three warnings over a loudspeaker to alert demonstrators on H Street to evacuate the area. Horse mounted patrol, Civil Disturbance Units and additional personnel were used to clear the area. As many of the protestors became more combative, continued to throw projectiles, and attempted to grab officers' weapons, officers then employed the use of smoke canisters and pepper balls. No tear gas was used by USPP officers or other assisting law enforcement partners to close the area at Lafayette Park. Subsequently, the fence was installed.
The false story spread internationally despite its lack of evidence. Here are just a few of the uncountable examples:

Reuters published a video it claimed showed U.S. Park Police using tear gas. The video did not show any such thing.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter tweeted out an NPR piece headlined "Park Police Tear Gas Peaceful Protesters To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op."

PBS Yamiche Alcindor reported erroneously that she was "still processing that I saw peaceful protesters teargassed outside the White House so Pres Trump could walk to St. John's Episcopal Church."

The Washington Post ran an article falsely headlined, "Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op," authored by Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, and Rebecca Tan. Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson claimed Tan "was tear-gassed in reporting this story." Gender and family issues reporter Samantha Schmidt retweeted that claim, adding, "There were five of us Post reporters — all young women — near Lafayette Square when federal officers started spraying gas and rubber bullets."

The New York Times falsely headlined its article, "Tear Gas Clears Path for Trump to Visit Church."

Garrett Haake claimed, "Tear gas was definitely used, and park police can't 🤷🏼‍♂️that." Asked what made him sure about his claim, he cited his "experience. the burning sensation it caused in my lungs, & my retired marine security."

MSNBC falsely reported, "Trump Visits Church After Police Clear Protesters With Tear Gas."

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reported the doubly false "Police use tear gas, push back peaceful protesters for Trump church visit."

The Washington Post's dramatic Philip Rucker falsely claimed in a tweet that "Military police fire tear gas at peaceful protesters to clear street in front of St. John's."

Peter Baker of the New York Times falsely reported on the security threats and how they were removed, saying, "police and troops have moved against peaceful protesters with tear gas and flash bangs." Here the New York Times falsely claimed the protesters were peaceful and that tear gas was used against them:

Brett LoGiurato, the senior editor of Wharton Press peddled the tear gas lie and instructed his political allies to censor the news:

Maggie Haberman of the New York Times also peddled the lies about tear gas and peaceful protesters.

NPR hit a trifecta by falsely reporting about tear gas, falsely reporting about peaceful protesting, and as a bonus downplaying the arson against the church:

And Trump's take on the incident went unheeded:

"They didn't use tear gas," Trump claimed, contradicting multiple media reports which appears to show a massive police contingent evicting protesters and journalists alike from the president's route just moments before his "surprise" walk to the church. "Now, when I went, I didn't say 'Oh, move them out.' I didn't know who was there," he added, insisting that he merely wanted to visit the church after it "went through trauma."

Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who accompanied the president, claims he did not even know they were heading for a photo op. "I thought I was going to do two things: to see some damage and to talk to the troops."

The church stunt drew anger from all sides, with critics accusing Trump of using the Bible as a political prop, and assaulting peaceful protesters so he could pose for photos.

The stunt even prompted disturbing comparisons online between Trump and Adolf Hitler, with people posting photos of the two holding a Bible in a similar fashion - only to find the picture of the Nazi leader was fake.

More than enough evidence and justification that MSM just copies each other to reinforce any message they choose, facts not necessary.

See also: CNN reporter lambasted online after finger-wagging at Trump and officials for no masks at church

NYC Mayor de Blasio's demarcation: Mass protests acceptable, religious observances are not

Graham Piro
The Washington Free Beacon
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 05:30 UTC

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio (D.) told a reporter for a Jewish newspaper that "400 years of American racism" justify his decision to permit mass protests but not prayer services.

"Four hundred years of American racism, I'm sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services," de Blasio told Hamodia's Reuvain Borchardt.

Comment: In times of crisis some people take to the streets and some seek refuge for the soul. It is likely these two options need to be in balance - a fundamental disregard by de Blasio, whether consciously or not.

Ex-President Bush goes 'woke' with rant about 'systemic racism'

RT
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:03 UTC

Former President George W Bush earned establishment praise by addressing the current turmoil with platitudes about institutional racism, oppression and empathy, but some weren't quite willing to absolve the invader of Iraq.

Saying he and his wife were "anguished" over the "suffocation" of African-American George Floyd in Minnesota last week, and the "injustice and fear that suffocate our country," Bush talked about "systemic racism" and "doctrine and habits of racial superiority."

"We can only see the reality of America's need by seeing it through the eyes of the threatened, oppressed, and disenfranchised," Bush wrote.

Comment: The USA is an experiment at best with gigantic flaws and waning execution of its principles. It has been made to drift off-course and in doing so, began a process that negates everything foundational to its existence. We blame government and a myriad of self-serving actors, but the initial responsibility was offered to and accepted by 'the people' as our inheritance and security. We the People have LET this happen. The blame is both on us and through us. Sadly it takes tragedy, destruction, and tyranny - up close and personal - to jog our memories and revive our resolve. We decide how much or how little.

Unbelievable: The CDC has lost all credibility

Rep. Andy Biggs, Rep Ken Buck
Washington Examiner
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC

Why hasn't the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost all credibility? Any individual or institution that had been so often wrong would have lost public trust long ago. For instance, since people of every political persuasion have determined that media sources lack credibility, polls indicate that journalists are not regarded as particularly trustworthy.

A third of the country is showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression due to the severity of lockdown measures imposed by governors. More than 40 million workers are now unemployed. It is estimated that half of cancer patients and 80% of brain surgery patients have seen delays in crucial appointments. Schools remain closed, impeding education opportunities and hindering the return to work of parents.

Nobel laureate Michael Levitt noted that the lockdowns have caused damage:

"Social damage — domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism — has been extreme. ... And then, you have those who were not treated for other conditions. The real virus was the panic virus. For reasons that were not clear to me, I think the leaders panicked and the people panicked."

While the federal government did not mandate policies to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the CDC, together with career bureaucrats Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, influenced the direction of the policies of state and local jurisdictions. The results: draconian guidelines and hysterical warnings based on horrifically bad models and science.

Comment: See also:

UK opposition to Russia's return proves that Trump is right on the G7/G8 being past sell-by date

Neil Clark
RT
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:05 UTC

President Donald Trump has called the make-up of the G7, a club of wealthy developed nations, 'very outdated' and, right on cue, up pop the UK and Canadian governments to prove him right.

If you point one finger at someone, you have three pointing back at yourself. The truth of that old adage was proved once again with the news that the UK (along with Canada) is strongly opposing any plans to allow Russia back into the G7.

A Downing Street spokesman said that, while it was up to Donald Trump whether he invited Vladimir Putin to the next summit, which is to be hosted by the US, "Russia should not be readmitted to the G7 unless it ceases the aggressive and destabilising activity that threatens the safety of UK citizens and its allies."

Where does one even begin when faced with such incredible hypocrisy? "Aggressive and destabilising activity"? That describes very accurately what the UK got up to in the Balkans in the late 1990s, and later in Iraq, Libya and Syria.

China warns the UK to 'step back from the brink' after Bojo offers 3 million Hong Kong citizens refuge in Britain

Business Insider
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:00 UTC

Xi Jinping

Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that he will have "no choice" but to offer UK visas to millions of Hong Kong residents if China pushes ahead with its plans for new national security legislation which critics fear would remove existing freedoms in the semi-autonomous region.

Writing in the Times of London newspaper on Wednesday, the prime minister warned that the new legislation would "dramatically erode" the island's autonomy, which currently enjoys judicial and political independence from mainland China.

The prime minister suggested that in response he would offer a 12-month extendable visa to all citizens on the island who are eligible to apply for a British National Overseas passport, some 3 million. It goes significantly further than the UK government's suggestion last week that it would extend visa rights to 300,000 holders of BNO passports, rather than all those eligible.

Comment: The relentlessly hypocritical UK claims to be concerned for citizens of Hong Kong all the while it removes and restricts the freedoms of its own citizens through tyrannical 'emergency' laws it justified only a few months ago with the coronavirus farce - a virus that even its own Chief Medic declared harmless for the majority. Perhaps it could concentrate on its own issues with liberty and rescind those laws first? It's likely that's of more concern to UK voters.

This deliberately antagonistic announcement is all the more delusional because successive UK governments have overseen soaring poverty and a crashing economy so how it would propose to support the arrival of millions - even a few thousand - to its crumbling country makes the prospect rather unlikely.

See also:

The 10 most important questions Rod Rosenstein needs to answer

John Solomon
Just the News
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:46 UTC

From an alleged plot to remove the president from office to Robert Mueller's appointment, the former deputy attorney general is going to face some intense interrogation Wednesday by senators.

Two years ago, then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein chafed when asked whether congressional Republicans might have legitimate reason to suspect the factual underpinnings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants that targeted Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in the Russia probe.

Seeming a bit perturbed, Rosenstein launched into a mini-lecture on how much care and work went into FISA applications at the FBI and Justice Department.

"There's a lot of talk about FISA applications. Many people I've seen talk about it seem not to recognize that a FISA application is actually a warrant, just like a search warrant. In order to get a FISA warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career law enforcement officer who swears the information is true ... And if it is wrong, that person is going to face consequences," Rosenstein asserted.

Comment:

Lest it be thought that Rosenstein's focus was merely on Trump:

Zuckerberg won't censor Trump, but don't mistake Facebook for a bastion of free speech

Helen Buyniski
RT
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 17:59 UTC

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken heat over refusing to hide a post from US President Donald Trump that Twitter claimed "glorified violence." But his reasons are more about placating power than defending free speech.

Zuckerberg's decision to leave up a Trump post condemning the riots in Minneapolis that warned "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" upset Facebook employees, a few of whom even threatened to appeal to the company's newly-appointed oversight board - notoriously larded with anti-Trump voices.

But the CEO's reasoning - "people should be able to see this for themselves, because ultimately accountability for those in positions of power can only happen when their speech is scrutinized out in the open" - had little in common with the fiery rhetoric of free speech activism. In fact, it was so mind-numbingly obvious it would likely have gone unremarked-upon in any other era. How, indeed, are Americans supposed to hold their leaders accountable if they don't know what those leaders are saying?

America masterminded 'color revolutions' around the world. Now the very same techniques are being used at home

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 17:48 UTC

Peaceful protests degenerating into riots and arson, followed by violence, clashes with police and political demands for regime change: today's America, or what happened in Ukraine, North Africa and Serbia - or both?

How Americans view the events of the past week greatly depends on their political persuasion, media preferences and to large extent even ethnic identity. This is hardly the first death of an African-American man at the hands of police, nor the first time a peaceful protest turned violent and resulted in a city on fire. It is, however, the first Black Lives Matter protest that spread all over - and quickly gained an openly political, partisan dimension.

That ought to be baffling. The four officers involved in George Floyd's death were fired almost immediately, rather than suspended with pay pending investigation. One of them was charged with murder just days later. Conservatives and liberals alike agreed that Floyd was murdered and that the men responsible should face justice. Yet the riots started, and spread, anyway.

Washington's escalating anti-China rage

Stephen Lendman
stephenlendman.org
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

China's political, economic, industrial, technological, and military development poses the greatest threat to US hegemonic aims.

Its growing prominence on the world stage comes at a time of US decline.

The harder the US tries to reverse things by hardline policies, notably its endless wars by hot and other means, the further behind it falls.

In his book titled "The World in Crisis," historian Gabriel Kolko said US decline "began after the Korean War, was continued in relation to Cuba, and was greatly accelerated in Vietnam - but (Bush/Cheney did) much to exacerbate it further."

Obama/Biden followed the same counterproductive pattern. Do does Trump/Pence.

Historian Immanuel Wallerstein believed US decline began in the 1970s, accelerating post-9/11, adding:

"The economic, political and military factors that contributed to US hegemony are the same (ones) inexorably produc(ing) (its) decline."

'Political scientist Chalmers Johnson noted that the counterproductive path followed by the US is same dynamic that doomed past empires.

He cited "isolation, overstretch, the uniting of local and global forces opposed to imperialism, and in the end bankruptcy," combined with growing homeland authoritarianism and loss of personal freedoms.

Comment: See also:

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Dementia13

.. .. Hey, Los Alamos-stein-etes! Did you really nuke Larry's twin towers?

Jibrish

IMO, this is not how you 'pay back' the 'elites'. It makes the rest of them more jumpy and gives them an excuse to do even stupider draconian...

beherenow

Bring on the comets...please.

Unkl Brws

This article is irrelevant. Hunter Biden was scheduled to be executed through hanging on Friday Oct. 15 at GITMO. Wake Up SOTT.net! [Link]

rbeltz48

Puppet Masters

AG Barr personally gave the order to clear WH area of protesters

NYC Mayor de Blasio's demarcation: Mass protests acceptable, religious observances are not

Ex-President Bush goes 'woke' with rant about 'systemic racism'

Unbelievable: The CDC has lost all credibility

UK opposition to Russia's return proves that Trump is right on the G7/G8 being past sell-by date

China warns the UK to 'step back from the brink' after Bojo offers 3 million Hong Kong citizens refuge in Britain

The 10 most important questions Rod Rosenstein needs to answer

Zuckerberg won't censor Trump, but don't mistake Facebook for a bastion of free speech

America masterminded 'color revolutions' around the world. Now the very same techniques are being used at home

Washington's escalating anti-China rage

Latest News

Picture of the Day

Quote of the Day

Recent Comments

Quantum Quirk

Contact Us