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Justice: Trump pardons former NatSec Adviser Michael Flynn

Tim Pearce
The Daily Wire
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:39 UTC
Michael Flynn
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Michael Flynn
President Trump pardoned his former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, on Wednesday, ending Flynn's three-year prosecution for allegedly lying to the FBI.

Trump announced the pardon on Twitter on Wednesday.

"It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to @GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!" Trump tweeted.

In December of 2017, Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during a January interview with two agents, including former FBI special agent Peter Strzok, before reversing course in January of 2020 after replacing his legal team with attorney Sydney Powell. The Justice Department filed to have the charges against Flynn dropped later that year in May. The judge presiding over Flynn's case has refused the department's motion, however, keeping the case open.

Attorney General William Barr tapped U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Jeff Jensen, to work with DOJ prosecutor Brandon Van Grack to review the federal government's materials in Flynn's case in February. Several months later, Jensen recommended to Barr that the Justice Department drop its case against Flynn over exculpatory evidence that undercut the department's case against the former national security adviser. Barr accepted Jensen's recommendation.

Comment: Powell also appeared on Lou Dobbs to comment:
Sidney Powell: It is really bittersweet. Because if the Justice Department had worked properly we would not have had to have gotten this pardon. But we certainly appreciate President Trump giving it to General Flynn because this has gone on far too long. We now know Judge Sullivan was just a political ploy. He made a political game out of all of this. And it's just one of the most egregious injustices I've witnessed in American history.


Lou Dobbs: It's been a four-year persecution after a frame-up by the FBI.
Naturally, Democrats are having a conniption fit:






"Dealings with the Russians"? Give us a break. It's the liars like Schiff who should be in prison.



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New Senate documents 'confirm' disturbing Biden family links to China

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:05 UTC
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Joe and Hunter Biden
With Joe Biden's 'irregularity-filled' election win all but assured (unless the Trump campaign can pull off several upset legal victories), we now turn our attention back to the Biden family's ties to Russia and China - a narrative which the MSM will attempt to suffocate out of existence - particularly if Republicans (and their investigative committees) lose the Senate after January's runoff in Georgia.

In a supplemental release to a late September Senate report into Hunter Biden's international business dealings, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) outlined additional information regarding troubling connections between Hunter Biden's business associates and the Russian government, as well as 'millions of dollars' transferred from a CCP-linked Chinese entity to a Biden business associate who allegedly leveraged his relationship with the former Vice President's family, according to the Washington Examiner.

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Aren't they cute? AOC and Ilhan Omar are trying to block Biden nominating his former chief of staff to the Budget office

Alexi McCammond
Axios
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC
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Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar are boosting a petition against Joe Biden nominating his former chief of staff to a new role in his administration, calling Bruce Reed a "deficit hawk" and criticizing his past support for Social Security and Medicare cuts.

Why it matters: Progressives are mounting their pressure campaign after the president-elect did not include any of their favored candidates in his first slate of Cabinet nominees, and they are serious about installing some of their allies, blocking anyone who doesn't pass their smell test — and making noise if they are not heard.

Driving the news: Some progressives have privately said the order of Biden's announcements was important to send an early signal the incoming administration took them seriously. So far, they're suspicious of some of the people being named or rumored for jobs — but happy with John Kerry, Janet Yellen, Alejandro Mayorkas and Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Comment: Good luck with that. The Progressive Dems have served their purpose in stirring up trouble around the country, but they're delusional if they thing they can move the old-guard core of the party according to their whims.

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Wayne Dupree: Hey, Joe Biden, rejoining the Paris accord just because you hate Trump is stupid. Put America's interests first


RT
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:19 UTC
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A smoke-filled sky filter orange light around surfers as the Thomas Fire continues to grow and threaten communities from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara on December 12, 2017 in Carpinteria, California.
The international climate change agreement struck in the French capital in 2015 is not right for our country. It will harm the economy, put jobs at risk, and end with us facing blackouts like those California recently suffered.

The problem with liberals is that they can't accept the idea that they might be wrong, especially when it comes to the Paris accord on climate change.

During one of the presidential debates, President Trump made the statement that CO2 emissions were at their lowest levels in 67 years. The Washington Post fact-checked his earlier comments on the Paris agreement and said they required "more context." The Post said something like, "while it's true that CO2 emissions are at their lowest level, it was not the result of federal regulations, but was the result of market forces." Basically, in the opinion of the Post, if the Fed isn't regulating and forcing something to happen, then it doesn't count.

Comment: Misinformed readers will be relieved to know that emissions don't effect climate and instead greater drivers, such as our Sun, are what .influence our planet's climatic cycles:

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Columnist scorched for saying UK Home Sec Priti Patel isn't a bully because she's 'barely 5ft tall'


RT
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:16 UTC
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Telegraph writer Allison Pearson has raised eyebrows online after bizarrely arguing in a column that allegations of bullying against UK Home Secretary Priti Patel are unlikely to be true because she is too short to be a bully.

"It does beggar belief that a woman who is barely more than 5ft tall managed to terrorise all those 6ft 3in public school mandarins," Pearson oddly wrote in an article published on Tuesday about the complaints from the cabinet minister's office.


Comment: Or perhaps the more glaring point is that she was able to terrorize them, and what does that say about her?


Patel's critics were quick to point out that bullying doesn't "only consist of a larger person bullying a smaller person," and such a take made it seem that Pearson had "never really left the school playground."

Comment: Priti Patel has proven herself to fit rather well into the current pathological parliamentary milieu:


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Trump tells allies he plans to pardon Michael Flynn

John Bowden
The Hill
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 08:49 UTC
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Former Natl. Security Advisor, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn • US President Donald Trump
President Trump has told close allies he plans to pardon his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Axios reported Tuesday.

Several unnamed sources with knowledge of the president's thinking confirmed to Axios that a possible Flynn pardon would come as part of a series of pardons he plans to issue in his remaining days in office. White House representatives did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.

Fox News reporter Kevin Corke later confirmed the report.
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Tony Blinken fails up

Michael F. Brown
The Electronic Intifada
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
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Biden nominee for secretary of state Tony Blinken • Former Sec. of State John Kerry
State Department • Washington DC • 2016
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Tony Blinken, his long-time foreign policy and national security adviser, to be his secretary of state.

Blinken and Biden both supported the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, perhaps the most catastrophic policy decision since the US war on Vietnam.

The New York Times - whose bogus reporting on "weapons of mass destruction" paved the way for the Iraq war - is describing Blinken as "a centrist with a streak of interventionism." That perfectly encapsulates the kind of respectable Ivy League warmongering that passes for foreign policy "expertise" in Washington.

Blinken has been involved in other disasters: He supported the 2011 US war on Libya, which through (as usual) a series of unanticipated consequences turned the country into a failed state with open slave markets.

He then played a key role in pushing the Obama administration to arm rebel groups in Syria as part of an effort to bring about regime change, fueling a proxy war that displaced millions of people. Many of those US-supplied weapons ended up in the hands of al-Qaida.

Too often Democrats fail up rather than face career consequences for their deadly decisions. Medea Benjamin, a cofounder of Codepink, rightly notes there seem only to be "rewards" for "supporting the worst foreign policy disaster in modern history" in Iraq.

Comment: See also:

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Boat

Russian destroyer issues warning to American ship USS John McCain for violating border


Sputnik
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 06:42 UTC
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US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain
The incident occurred in the Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence. The American side has not addressed the situation so far.
"The large anti-submarine ship of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Vinogradov stopped the US Navy destroyer John McCain, which was violating the Russian border in the Peter the Great Gulf", an official statement issued by the MoD says. "Admiral Vinogradov, which was tracking the US destroyer, warned the foreign vessel, through an international communications channel, of the inadmissibility of such actions and of the potential of resorting to ramming to force the violator out of territorial waters".
According to the authorities, the American ship was at least two kilometres past the border. After the warning was issued, the USS John McCain returned to neutral waters.

Following the incident, the Russian Navy dispatched the corvette Sovershenny ("Perfect") to the area.

Comment: US responded to the Russian warning with: 'We don't recognize your border'
The American 7th Fleet announced that Washington does not recognize the Russian maritime borders in the Gulf of Peter the Great in the Sea of ​​Japan near the city of Vladivostok, after a U.S. destroyer violated these borders today.

The command of the American 7th Fleet said in a statement that the destroyer John McCain was carrying out an operation to ensure freedom of navigation in the Peter the Great Bay.
"By implementing this process to ensure freedom of navigation, the United States has demonstrated that these waters are not the territorial sea of ​​Russia, and that the United States does not agree with Russia's statement that the Peter the Great Bay is a historic bay, according to international law."
The statement claimed that the system, according to which the bay is considered part of Russian territorial waters, was declared by the authorities of the Soviet Union in 1984.

It is reported that the area of ​​responsibility of the U.S. Seventh Fleet includes the western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean.


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Green Light

Biden announces he will immediately move to give citizenship to millions of illegal aliens

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Manchin/Biden
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Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) • Former VP Joe Biden
Joe Biden announced during an NBC News interview that aired on Tuesday evening that he will immediately move to give citizenship to millions of illegal aliens once he gets into office in two months.
"I'm going to make a commitment in the first 100 days, I will send an immigration bill to the United States Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in America. I will also be moving to do away with some of the I think very damaging executive orders that have significantly impacted on making the climate worse and making us less healthy."
Biden has already pledged to dramatically increase the number of refugees that he admits into the U.S. from 15,000 under President Donald Trump to 125,000. Biden has also pledged to end the Trump administration's travel ban on nations that are considered to be hot beds of terrorism.

Whether Biden is able to grant citizenship to millions of people who are unlawfully in the U.S. depends on who controls the Senate, which could be decided in January as Georgia has two runoff elections.
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America's economy cannot survive another lockdown, and the cult of 'The Reset' knows it

Brandon Smith
Birch Gold Group
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Schwab
© 2020 World Economic Forum
The U.S. economy has been on the verge of collapse for at least a decade, ever since the crash of 2008 and the subsequent explosion in fiat stimulus from the Federal Reserve. While the mainstream media has always claimed that central bankers "saved" us from another Great Depression, what they actually did was set us up for a far worse scenario — a stagflationary implosion of our society.

Here is the primary problem: By injecting trillions of bailout dollars into the system, the Federal Reserve prevented the economy from going through its natural purging cycle. This cycle would have been painful for many, but survivable, and it would have removed large amounts of excess debt, parasitic corporations that produce little or nothing of use, as well as numerous toxic assets with no legitimate value. For a real free market to function, weak or corrupt elements must be allowed to fail and die. Instead, central banks around the world and most prominently the Fed kept all of those destructive elements on life support.

This has created what amounts to a "zombie economy:" a system that needs constant outside support (stimulus) in order to continue moving forward. In the process of keeping zombie corporations and other parts of the body alive, healthy parts of the economy, like the small business sector, get devoured.

The zombie economy is, however, highly fragile. All it takes is one or two major shocks to bring it down, and the moment this happens the whole facade will disintegrate, leaving the public in panic and disarray. This is what is happening right now in 2020, and it will get much worse in 2021.
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