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Strzok interviews reveal FBI's long fall from grace

Adam Mill
American Greatness
Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:47 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFired FBI agent Peter Strzok
Can constitutional democracy continue to coexist with a lawless secret police that targets innocent people?

By his smartly dressed appearance, one would never know Peter Strzok wasn't still a senior FBI agent. He looked to be straight out of central casting as he began his Meet the Press interview on Sunday with this book-promoting slander, "I think it is clear, I believed at the time in 2016, and I continue to believe, that Donald Trump is compromised by the Russians. And when I say that, I mean that they hold leverage over him that makes him incapable of placing the national interests, the national security ahead of his own."

Nothing is more sleazy and corrupt than a current or former FBI agent implicitly claiming to have access to secret evidence of a target's guilt when the time to produce such evidence has long since passed.
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Black Cat

Pelosi losing it: House will use 'every arrow in our quiver' to stop Trump Supreme Court nominee

Rema Rahman
The Hill
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:18 UTC
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Sunday the House had its "options" when asked about the possibility of impeaching President Trump and Attorney General William Barr should the White House and Senate Republicans jam a Supreme Court nominee through the process during a lame duck session after Election Day.

"We have our options, we have arrows in our quiver that I'm not about to discuss right now," Pelosi told George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week. "But the fact is, we have a big challenge in our country. This president has threatened to not even accept the results of the election with statements that he and his henchmen have made. So right now, our main goal... would be to protect the integrity of the election as we protect the American people from the coronavirus."

Comment: Not included in this article (why?) is that Pelosi's remarks were in the context of possibly putting impeachment back on the table, in order to block a Trump Supreme Court appointment.

The White House slammed Pelosi's suggestion, as a "bizarre and dangerous" power grab.

"The Speaker threatened to impeach the President — again — for simply fulfilling his constitutional obligation," White House Deputy Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern told Fox News. "Numerous Democrats are threatening to pack the court and say things like 'nothing is off the table.' These are bizarre and dangerous power grabs by Democrats who will stop at nothing to erode the Constitution to enact their radical agenda."

He added: "President Trump will fulfill his constitutional duty to protect our God given rights and do his part to fill the seat."

The House of Representatives, in December, voted to adopt two articles of impeachment against the president — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Meanwhile, the Guardian sings backup to the Hill:
With control of every branch of government now in the balance, liberal groups are redoubling their efforts, pressuring Senate Democrats to deploy every tactic possible to stop Trump seating a third justice.

Ed Markey was perhaps the first member of the Senate to suggest retaliating by expanding the court.

"Mitch McConnell set the precedent," the Massachusetts Democrat said on Twitter. "No supreme court vacancies filled in an election year. If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress we must abolish the filibuster and expand the supreme court."

[...]

That sentiment is shared by Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee who many believed would nominate Ginsburg's replacement.

Speaking on MSNBC, Clinton urged Senate Democrats "to use every single possible maneuver that is available" to stop McConnell filling the vacancy. She called the Senate majority leader's commitment to confirming Trump's nominee a "monument of hypocrisy" that would result in "the greatest travesty".

"Let's go down fighting," she said. "Let's not give an inch."
Cue the propaganda pollsters:
A majority of voters say President Trump should not nominate a Supreme Court justice this year, according to a snap poll released Saturday by YouGov.

The poll came less than a day after the U.S. Supreme Court announced liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday evening of complications from pancreatic cancer.

The poll found that 51 percent of voters believe Trump should not nominate another justice this year, while 42 percent said he should move forward with a nominee. A slight majority, 48 percent, believe the Senate should not confirm a nominee this year. Forty-five percent said the upper chamber should.

Forty-nine percent of respondents said they believe Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would "do a better job" picking a Supreme Court nominee, while 40 percent said Trump would. Eleven percent of respondents were undecided.
Which the (far more reliable and respectable) Rasmussen Reports immediately decried:


Aaand as a finale, Slick Willie puts on his 'elder statesman' shtick, going down memory lane regarding Ginsburg's nomination and criticizing McConnell:



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Bandaid

CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash

Mike Stobbe
Associated Press
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:42 UTC
CDC Headquarters
© Getty Images/BloombergCDC Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia
U.S. health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention essentially returned to its previous testing guidance, getting rid of language posted last month that said people didn't need to get tested if they didn't feel sick. That change had set off a rash of criticism from health experts who couldn't fathom why the nation's top public health agency would say such a thing amid the pandemic.


Comment: Maybe because people who aren't sick aren't a problem? "It has become clear that asymptomatic spread is a negligible risk vector."


It was "not consistent with the basic principles of controlling an epidemic,"said Dr. Silvia Chiang, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at Brown University who applauded the change announced Friday.

The CDC now says anyone who has been within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes should get a test. In a statement, the agency called the changes a "clarification" that was needed "due to the significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission."

Agency officials declined additional comment.

Health officials were evasive about why they had made the change in August, and some outside observers speculated it was forced on the CDC by political appointees within the Trump administration.

Comment: Expect a new spikes in 'cases' as a result - with full media hype - but with no accompanying spike in actual illness or death.

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Judge blocks Trump's WeChat app ban, citing first amendment - Trump extends TikTok deadline

Todd Spangler
Variety
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:36 UTC
wechat
WeChat, the Chinese messaging app that was set to get effectively switched off for American users Sunday night, for now will still be available and operational in the U.S.

A federal judge in San Francisco issued a ruling early Sunday issuing a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's order to ban the WeChat app, which is owned by China internet giant Tencent.

Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California, said in her ruling that the plaintiffs in the case successfully argued the merits of their claim that the Commerce Department's Sept. 18 order — forcing Apple and Google to remove WeChat as of Sunday night — violates their First Amendment rights.

The WeChat users who filed the request for an emergency injunction "have shown serious questions going to the merits of the First Amendment claim," Beeler said in the decision, and therefore "the balance of hardships tips in the plaintiffs' favor."

The Trump administration has cited national-security concerns, postulating that Chinese government agents could demand access to data from WeChat on U.S. users. Beeler wrote that "while the general evidence about the threat to national security related to China (regarding technology and mobile technology) is considerable, the specific evidence about WeChat is modest."

Beeler added that the U.S. government had other options at its disposal to achieve its stated national security objectives, such as banning WeChat from use on government devices, which is a step that Australia has taken.
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Syringe

'Big, fat shots in the ass': Trump again suggests Biden is on energizing DRUGS


RT
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:47 UTC
Trump Biden
© REUTERS / Tom Brenner; Jonathan Ernst
Donald Trump has mercilessly taunted Joe Biden, telling supporters that his Democratic nemesis must be taking performance-enhancing substances and should undergo a drug test.

Trump reiterated previous casual accusations that Biden is too senile to be a good fit for the US president's office while talking to a crowd of supporters in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Using his nickname for his Democratic opponent, Trump said that "Sleepy Joe" is appearing conspicuously efficient during debates and public events.

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Bizarro Earth

England goes full-on barking mad: Breaking covid isolation to become illegal with fines up to £10,000

Lauren Chadwick
EuroNews
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:46 UTC
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© Matt Dunham/AP PhotoPeople sit outside on a street closed to traffic to try to reduce the spread of coronavirus in London, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020.
People in England will be required by law to self-isolate if they test positive for COVID-19, risking increased fines if they fail to do so, the UK government has announced.

The fines will start at £1,000 (€1,090) and could increase to up to £10,000 (€10,909).

The higher fines will be for repeat offences and "egregious breaches" such as preventing others from self-isolating, the UK government said in a statement.

It includes business owners who prevent staff from self-isolating by threatening redundancy if they do not come to work.

Comment: Notice the groundwork being laid for the 'second wave' of cases. In true Orwellian fashion, the population has been conditioned to fear a number that is meaningless. Cases do not equate to fatalities. Yet that connection has been successfully made in the public's mind. Therefore all that is needed is to ramp up the rate of testing using a completely useless technique, and viola!, cases are increasing.

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Bad Guys

Bill Gates sees 'best case' for end of fake pandemic in 2022.

Tyler Olson
Fox News
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:31 UTC
Bill Gates
© The Last American Vagabond
Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in an exclusive "Fox News Sunday" interview that he believes the United States will be able to get back to normal life around summer 2021 due to progress made on vaccines and he's "optimistic" the coronavirus pandemic "won't last indefinitely" -- although he also panned President Trump's handling of the health crisis and said the coronavirus caused "huge setbacks" in human progress in poorer countries.

Gates' interview with host Chris Wallace came as the tech titan's charitable foundation is giving $650 million to fight the disease, which is the largest commitment by any independent foundation. Gates told Wallace that much of that money is going toward ensuring that once vaccines are approved, they are able to be manufactured for poor countries as well as more developed countries like the United States.

Gates said that during the coronavirus pandemic, vaccination rates have dropped by 14% in developing countries, erasing 20 years of progress, and that for the first time in years "extreme poverty" is increasing, causing ill-effects on education, mental health, and other indicators that he said is "much greater than I expected."
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Bizarro Earth

At least Trump is honest about his political assassinations

Rachel Marsden
RT
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:12 UTC
Trump and Mattis
© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersDonald J. Trump and Jim Mattis
US President Donald Trump has said he had wanted to assassinate Syria's Bashar al-Assad after all, contradicting his own earlier claims. It wouldn't be Washington's first political killing - what's unusual is to boast about them.

Trump admitted to his plans for an Assad assassination on Fox News this week, saying that he had been held back by then Defense Secretary James Mattis. "I would have rather taken him out. I had him all set," Trump said of Assad. "Mattis didn't want to do it."

And when Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, was asked whether assassinations were a "legitimate tool of foreign policy", Kushner replied, "Different terminology could be used to describe, you know, different methods that you're going to take to try to retaliate to somebody for an action that they've taken."

Whether it's called murder, extrajudicial killing, or assassination, it's all the same thing - and it's technically illegal.

Comment: But in the world of realpolitik, was it a noble goal achieved by ignoble means?

What War Was Trump Trying to Stop by Killing Iranian General Soleimani?

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Briefcase

Assange lawyer says she saw Trump ally Rohrabacher offer to arrange pardon

Andrew MacAskill
Reuters
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 17:21 UTC
assange lawyer
© REUTERS/Henry NichollsJulian Assange's partner Stella Moris and Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson arrive at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court ahead of a hearing to decide whether Assange should be extradited to the United States, in London, Britain September 9, 2020.
A lawyer for Julian Assange told a London court on Friday that she was present when an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump offered to arrange a pardon for the WikiLeaks founder in return for information that would "benefit President Trump politically".

Australian-born Assange, 49, is fighting to avoid being sent to the United States, where he is charged with conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law over the release of confidential cables by WikiLeaks in 2010-2011.

His lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said in a witness statement to the court that she observed a meeting at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2017 between Assange and Republican then-U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher.

Comment: There's only one problem. Assange, being the true journalist he is, will never give up his sources.

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Attention

War crimes trials over Yemen?

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:09 UTC
Yemen War Crimes
© Corbett Report
Remember that whole Yemen thing? You know, that little genocide that Saudi Arabia has been perpetrating out in the Arabian peninsula? If you're like most people in the Western world, the answer is probably "no." After all, you've got racist pancake syrup characters and other pressing political matters to attend to.

But it turns out that there are prosecutors out there who do remember the Yemen thing. These prosecutors are armed with a raft of documents showing that US lawmakers ignored their government's own legal warnings about arming the Saudis during their siege of Yemen. And, if the latest reports are anything to go by, a number of congress critters are lawyering up in the fear that they may soon face war crimes charges for their role in the affair.

Now, perhaps you have absolutely no idea what has been taking place in Yemen over the last several years. If you're a newbie to the alternative media who's just waking up to the world of conspiracy realism as a result of this COVID scamdemic, you can surely be forgiven for not knowing the first thing about Yemen or the bloodbath that's happening there. After all, you're certainly not going to get up to speed on the situation from the one or two 30-second "news blast" updates that the MSM news have run on the issue over the last half decade.

But if you're a die-hard Corbett Reporteer, you have no such excuse. You see, I wrote a summary and review of the conflict in Yemen and how the entire Saudi-led, US-supported genocide there developed back in 2015. If you want all of the details, please go read it.

In summary, back during the phony baloney "Arab Spring," the US government actively supported a color revolution-style change in political leadership in Yemen. Obama even held the Yemen regime change operation up as a model for how Syria's President Assad should be ousted. But Obama and his gaggle of neolib R2P love bombers got more than they bargained for when the installation of the US-approved puppet (Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi) was rejected by a significant portion of the country and Yemen devolved into an intense civil war.
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