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Social media piles on the humiliation as Lincoln Project roasted for orchestrating viral hoax to smear Youngkin: 'Deranged hacks'

Joseph Wulfsohn
Fox News
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 17:50 UTC
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© REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
A small group of demonstrators dressed as "Unite the Right" rally-goers with tiki torches stand on a sidewalk as Republican candidate for governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin arrives on his bus for a campaign event at a Mexican restaurant in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. October 29, 2021.
The disgraced anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project is facing intense backlash for orchestrating the viral hoax involving tiki torch-holding individuals associating themselves with the Youngkin campaign.

Twitter was set ablaze after images of a group wearing white shirts, khakis, baseball caps and sunglasses stood alongside the campaign bus of Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin reportedly vocal expressing support for the Republican, according to local NBC affiliate anchor Elizabeth Holmes.

The imagery of the tiki torches was apparently meant to invoke the white nationalists who participated in the deadly events of Charlottesville in 2017.

The stunt was seized upon by the left, including staffers from Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe's campaign.

Comment: One might suppose this may also have something to do with McAuliffe's precipitous drop in Virginia polling:


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The freak-out over Tucker Carlson's January 6 documentary begins

Julie Kelly
American Greatness
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Trump supporter detained
© Reuters/Shannon Stapleton
Trump supporter detained at the US Capitol building, January 6, 2021
Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night played a brief trailer for his three-part documentary looking at the events of January 6. "Patriot Purge" will premiere on Fox Nation, the network's streaming service, on November 1.

Clips hint that the film compares the prosecution of Capitol protesters and anyone associated with the events of January 6 to the initial war on terror, a wholly legitimate comparison that my reporting confirms. For example, as I explained in April, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines issued a report earlier this year warning "domestic violent extremists" pose a heightened threat to the nation. Not one for subtlety, Haines included a sketch of the U.S. Capitol in the document; House Republicans at the time blasted Haines for working outside her legal authority — the intelligence community is supposed to hunt foreign terrorists, not MAGA-supporting meemaws — to target American citizens.

Comment: Running scared? Inconvenient truths? ADL begs Fox News to yank Tucker Carlson's Jan 6 documentary before it airs:
Jonathan Greenblatt
© AP
Jonathan Greenblatt
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is frantically pleading with Fox News to stop the release of Tucker Carlson's upcoming Patriot Purge documentary and hide it from public view.

In a letter written to Fox Corporation Executive Chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch, Greenblatt called Patriot Purge "dangerous misinformation," and desperately pleaded with Murdoch to "reconsider airing" the program because it has the potential to make people angry with our public officials and elected leaders.

In the letter, Greenblatt highlighted that the ADL is extremely worried about Carlson deviating from the current narrative being pushed by the federal government, establishment politicians, and corporate media outlets.

The documentary is expected to expose undercover federal involvement in the escalation of the January 6 protests, something that federal officials, aside from a select few elected officials, have been severely reluctant to discuss despite growing evidence indicating otherwise.


"Let's call this what it is: an abject, indisputable lie and a blatant attempt to rewrite history," Greenblatt wrote, adding that the organization remains "deeply concerned that the false narrative and wild conspiracy theories presented by Carlson will sow further division and has the potential to animate violence."

In his effort to persuade Fox News to conduct a cover-up of Carlson's documentary, Greenblatt wrote "you are giving license to yet another conspiracy theory: that January 6th was an inside job with the intention of rounding up and imprisoning conservatives."

Greenblatt appears to suggest that potentially exposing the misdeeds of the U.S. government constitutes "inflammatory rhetoric." He went further, appearing to claim that discussion of undercover federal involvement in January 6, or the abuse of American civil liberties, "is neither legitimate political discourse nor spirited debate."

Greenblatt wrote that "Carlson has the right to make outrageous claims - but freedom of speech is not freedom of reach," however it is unclear how honest, groundbreaking journalism violates the 1st amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

National File will monitor this situation closely and report any responses given to the ADL from Fox News.
Why would a Jewish lobbying organization be so concerned with a documentary about the 'insurrection' on Capitol Hill?

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Hillary, beware: Foundation whistleblowers reportedly interviewed by Special Counsel Durham

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Hillary Computer
© Reuters/Carlos Barria
Squinting Hillary Clinton
Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Lawrence W. Doyle and John F. Moynihan on 26 October revealed that they were interviewed by Special Counsel John Durham, who has been investigating the origins and handling of the Trump-Russia probe since 2019. Still, they provided no details about the reported conversation. What could they have discussed?

Doyle and Moynihan, independent expert forensic investigators, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in December 2018, alleging that the Clinton Foundation owes the US government between $400 million and $2.5 billion in taxes. According to them, the charity did not operate as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organisation but acted as nothing short of a foreign agent. The two Jesuit College alumni said that they had collected approximately 100 exhibits in excess of 6,000 pages to back their claims.

The two forensic investigators filed whistleblower submissions with the IRS over the charity's suspected misdeeds as early as in August 2017. After their request was finally denied by the IRS in February 2019, they filed a lawsuit with the US Tax Court.
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Several states sue Biden administration to halt federal vaccine mandate

Colton Salaz
Just the News
Sat, 30 Oct 2021 12:19 UTC
Eric Schmitt
© Jeff Roberson/AP
Missouri AG Eric Schmitt
A group of Republican attorneys general on Friday sued the Biden administration to challenge its vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

The suit led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt argues the Biden administration is violating the federal Procurement Act by instituting the vaccine mandate for contractors. The lawsuit reads:
"Far from increasing economy and efficiency in procurement, the contractor vaccine mandate will have deleterious effects on economy and inefficiency by causing the large-scale resignations of unvaccinated employees of federal contractors."
The lawsuit also argues Biden's executive order mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for all federal workers unconstitutional:
"Defendants, through their vaccine mandate, have exercised power far beyond what was delegated to the federal government by constitutional mandate or congressional action. Neither Article II of the U.S. Constitution nor any act of Congress authorizes defendants to implement their vaccine mandate. The power to impose vaccine mandates, to the extent that any such power exists, is a power reserved to the States."
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Leading intelligence agencies produced detailed reports on Afghanistan, none predicted Kabul's brisk collapse


Human Events
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:01 UTC
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Leading U.S. intelligence agencies failed to predict the brisk collapse of Kabul to the Taliban prior to the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, instead providing assessments of the power of the Afghan military and government.

The nearly two dozen assessments from four different agencies tracked Taliban advances beginning in spring of 2020 through July, predicting the group would continue to gain ground and that the government was unlikely to survive without American support, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The assessments differed, however, over how long the Afghan government and military could remain in power, none predicting the Taliban's rapid sweep of the capital city by mid-August.

Comment: Just goes to show the value of US "Intelligence".

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Eye 1

Biden admin says it will not halt firing employees seeking vax exemptions before a DC court ruling

Jon Brown
Fox News
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 09:00 UTC
Joe Biden
© Associated Press
President Joe Biden puts his face mask on after speaking about the COVID-19 relief package in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, March 15, 2021, in Washington.
A Washington, D.C., district court judge issued a minute order Thursday asking the Biden administration to agree that both civilian and active-duty military plaintiffs will not be terminated while they await a ruling after they sued the administration over religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines.

"None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending," read a minute order from District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly obtained by Fox News.

The Biden administration, which had until noon on Friday to respond, said in a filing that it would not agree to halt the discipline and termination of any employees in the process of seeking a religious exemption to the vaccine pending the court's ruling on the temporary restraining order (TRO) motion.

"It is Plaintiffs' burden to demonstrate impending irreparable harm...but Plaintiffs offer nothing beyond speculation to suggest that their religious exception requests will be denied and that they will be disciplined at all, much less on the first day that such discipline is theoretically possible," wrote the Biden administration in its filing Friday.

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Attention

Open letter to Catholics; cc to everyone else

Jon Rappoport
NoMoreFakeNews
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 01:17 UTC
Pope @ The Vatican
© Huffington Post
Vatican News: "Press conference on the flight back from his Apostolic Journey in Southern Africa."

Read these astounding words from Pope Francis:

"I would like to repeat what the Doctrine of the Church says about this: When we acknowledge international organisations and we recognise their capacity to give judgment, on a global scale - for example the international tribunal in The Hague, or the United Nations. If we consider ourselves humanity, when they make statements, our duty is to obey. It is true that not all things that appear just for the whole of humanity will also be so for our [Vatican] pockets, but we must obey international institutions. That is why the United Nations were created. That's why international courts were created."

Choose one of the following: The person making that statement is a) utterly naïve; b) a blind secular ideologue; c) surrendering his power and his Church to Earthly authority; d) combining his power and the power of his Church with elite Globalists; e) what?!?!

And don't sidestep these choices with, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

If those words of Jesus described His ultimate position, His surrender to the authorities and His Crucifixion would have no more meaning than a man paying his taxes, albeit with a great deal more pain.

I guess the days of a Pope concealing a broad secret agenda are over. Francis comes right out in the open, as if he were a city council member supporting the local shut down of a factory smokestack, in accordance with a UN climate-change policy.
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Brick Wall

The establishment is hiding mass resistance to vaccine mandates with the "Striketober" farce

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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It is perhaps a sign of the waning influence of the mainstream media that even though they have been incessantly pumping the concept of "Striketober" for the past month, the majority of Americans rarely mention it. What we do deal with on a regular basis, though, are the constant labor shortages across multiple sectors of the economy as well as the growing supply chain disruptions and stagflationary retail price hikes. The media notion of "labor regaining its power" is a background narrative that they are still struggling to plant in the public subconscious while the majority of people try to adapt to more serious concerns.

That said, the establishment doesn't really care if the propaganda takes hold, only that they have a useful cover for the very real collapse of the US economy. It's a kind of vicious perversion of the "fake it until you make it" strategy.

Striketober, like BLM, Antifa, and numerous other Marxist or Cultural Marxist movements has been created from thin air by a combination of news hype and globalist foundation funding. It's important to first recognize that none of these leftist organizations would have ever been formed had it not been for the ample support of institutions like the Ford Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Foundation. BLM, for example, was founded by openly Marxist leaders and got its start using millions of dollars in funding from the Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundation.

Many of the "workers unions" involved in various elements of Striktober also enjoy direct or indirect funding from globalist foundations. The Food Chain Workers Alliance, for example, receives funding from the Ford Foundation, and the National Domestic Workers Foundation gets ample money from the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.
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Eye 2

Cruelty: Queensland citizens will have unpaid Covid fines taken from bank accounts and seized homes

Sean Parnell
Brisbane Times
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:40 UTC
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© AFP via Getty
More than 2,755 fines were from individuals and businesses accused of breaking Covid-19 restrictions and the rest either still under investigation or pending payment
Queensland's public health response has continued to reap dividends, as staff at the State Penalties Enforcement Register deal with 3046 unpaid fines worth a total of $5.2 million.

The fines involve 2755 individuals and businesses accused of flouting the rules during the coronavirus pandemic. About 56.4 per cent of fines had been paid in full or were subject to a payment plan.

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Pocket Knife

'Resign in disgrace!': Republicans eviscerate AG Garland as they accuse him of sending FBI after parents protesting school boards


RT
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:29 UTC
Garland
© Tom Brenner/Reuters
Attorney General Merrick Garland
Republican lawmakers have savaged Attorney General Merrick Garland for doubling down on a memo pitting the federal government against parents criticizing school boards. The GOP accused Garland of waging "political retribution".

Garland testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, and Republicans on the committee were out for blood. The hearing took place several weeks after Garland authored a memo seemingly directing the Justice Department to sic the FBI and other federal agencies on parents protesting school boards over mask mandates, transgender policies, and the inclusion of 'Critical Race Theory' in curricula - according to the conservatives and the parents in question.

Garland has denied targeting parents, claiming that the effort is directed at the threats to school board members, not the First Amendment rights of the parents.

While Garland's memo doesn't implicitly mention "parents," it was issued after the National Association of School Boards (NASB) claimed in a letter to President Joe Biden that the protests of angry parents
"could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes," and should be handled like "domestic terrorism," using the Patriot Act.

Comment: Principles in absentia, Democratic leadership leaves gaping holes in structure and policy, gives no thought to consequence, offers changes on the fly and continues to ruin (not run) the country.
"There was no justification for some of the language included in the letter," the apology read.



Josh Hawley
© TASOS KATOPODIS/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
Senator Josh Hawley during questioning of US AG Merrick Garland
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has also demanded Garland's resignation over the matter.
"Merrick Garland mobilized the FBI to intimidate parents without legal basis and, we now know, premised on misinformation he didn't bother to verify. It was a dangerous abuse of authority that has badly compromised the Justice Dept's integrity and Garland's. He should resign."
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