Monday, August 3, 2020

Coronavirus Shock Claim: Refugee Scientist Says Virus Came from Army Lab





Coronavirus Shock Claim: Refugee
Scientist Says Virus Came from Army Lab


Andy Wong


By Stephen Green • Aug 03, 2020


Hong Kong-based virologist Yan Li-Meng, currently in hiding at an undisclosed location, claims that the COVID-19 coronavirus came from a People’s Liberation Army lab, and not from a Wuhan wet market as Beijing has claimed.


Speaking on a live stream interview on Taiwan’s News Agency Lude Press, she said, “At that time, I clearly assessed that the virus came from a Chinese Communist Party military lab. The Wuhan wet market was just used as a decoy.”


“I knew that once I spoke up, I could disappear at any time, just like all the brave protesters in Hong Kong. I could disappear at any time, even my name would no longer exist,” Yan said according to a translation.

Yan has been in hiding in the U.S. after fleeing Hong Kong in April. She last made waves in July after an interview with Fox News:


Yan told Fox News in an exclusive interview that she believes the Chinese government knew about the novel coronavirus well before it claimed it did. She says her supervisors, renowned as some of the top experts in the field, also ignored research she was doing at the onset of the pandemic that she believes could have saved lives.

She adds that they likely had an obligation to tell the world, given their status as a World Health Organization reference laboratory specializing in influenza viruses and pandemics, especially as the virus began spreading in the early days of 2020.


“The reason I came to the U.S. is because I deliver the message of the truth of COVID,” she said then, but today’s report is the first time Yan has claimed the coronavirus originated in a Communist China army lab.

Beijing’s Communist regime hasn’t exactly been making friends of late, going so far as to sic their impressive hacking community on coronavirus research labs last month in a state-sponsored effort to steal their work.

“The China government refused to let overseas experts, including ones in Hong Kong, do research in China,” she told Fox News. “So I turned to my friends to get more information.”

There have long been rumors that the novel coronavirus might have begun as a bio-weapon, but Yan’s statement is the first time the claim has come from anyone who might have insider knowledge.

Back in February during the initial global phase of the coronavirus pandemic, Defense One reported that the PLA was “largely MIA” in fighting the outbreak.


At a moment when hospitals across China are posting cries for supplies on social media, the anemic response by the People’s Liberation Army calls into question some of its most lauded capabilities: powerful logistics and mass military-civil contingency response mobilization.


Defense One also reminded readers that “governments often mobilize military units” during a major crisis, and yet…


…the first group of PLA medical units began to arrive in Wuhan only on Jan. 24, nearly a month after the virus began to spread. They arrived in relatively small numbers: three medical teams were reported to have been sent from Shanghai, Chongqing and Xi’an, totaling 450 personnel. The subsequent lack of any major following deployment was striking, especially as needs ranged from supply to construction, such that regime officials even turned to making false claims of building hospitals in record time.


If you’re getting a little paranoid — and in 2020, who isn’t? — you might be thinking the PLA kept their hands off the virus during the outbreak because they had their hands dirty with it during its development.

We may never know the truth about the origins of the novel coronavirus, whether it was an army lab, bat soup, or something else.

But if people choose to believe the worst about Chinese Communist strongman Xi Jinping’s regime, he’ll have no one to blame but himself.

Finally, here is the 35-minute livestream, although it is in Chinese and there are no subtitles.






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Spain's embattled ex-King Juan Carlos to leave country





Spain's embattled ex-King
Juan Carlos to leave country


Juan Carlos is under investigation in Spain, as well as in Switzerland


BBC News • August 3, 2020


Spain's former king Juan Carlos will leave the country, the royal palace has announced, weeks after he was linked to an inquiry into alleged corruption.

Juan Carlos, 82, made the announcement in a letter to his son, Felipe, to whom he handed power six years ago.

He said he would be available if prosecutors needed to interview him.

In June, Spain's Supreme Court opened an investigation into the alleged involvement of Juan Carlos in a high-speed rail contract in Saudi Arabia.

It was not immediately clear when the former monarch would leave Spain and where he would reside.

It is a humiliating exit for a king who had seemed set to go down in history as the leader who skillfully guided Spain from dictatorship to democracy after the death of General Franco in 1975, BBC Europe correspondent Nick Beake says.

• Spain's monarchy shaken by ex-king's Swiss fortune
• Spain ex-king probed over Saudi rail deal
• King Felipe renounces father's inheritance



Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014 after nearly 40 years as king following a corruption investigation involving his daughter's husband and a controversial elephant hunting trip the monarch took during Spain's financial crisis.


What did the letter say?

In the letter, the former monarch wrote that he was making the decision "in the face of the public repercussions that certain past events in my private life are generating" and in the hope of allowing his son to carry out his functions as king with "tranquillity".

"Guided by the conviction to best serve the people of Spain, its institutions, and you as king, I inform you of my decision at this time to leave Spain.

"A decision I make with deep emotion but with great serenity," the letter said.


King Felipe VI (right) has been trying to distance himself from his father Juan Carlos


The statement from the Zarzuela palace said that King Felipe VI had conveyed "his heartfelt respect and gratitude" to his father for this decision.

In March, King Felipe VI renounced the inheritance of his father. The royal palace also said at the time that Juan Carlos would stop receiving an annual grant of €194,000 ($228,000; £174,520).


What is the corruption investigation about?

Spain's Supreme Court has said it aims to establish Juan Carlos's connection with the Saudi project after his abdication in June 2014. At that point he lost his immunity from prosecution.

Spanish firms won a €6.7bn (£6bn) deal to build a Mecca-Medina rail link.

The probe involves Swiss banks too.

Spanish anti-corruption officials suspect that the former king kept some undeclared funds in Switzerland, and a Swiss investigation is under way.

The Spanish government has said that "justice is equal for all" and it would "not interfere" in the inquiry.

King Juan Carlos

• Born in Rome, Italy, in 1938
• Ascends the throne on 22 November 1975, two days after the death of fascist dictator Gen Francisco Franco
• Juan Carlos was widely admired for steering Spain to democracy during a difficult period
• But towards the end of his 39-year reign he drew growing criticism
• Abdicates on 18 June 2014 in favour of his son Felipe





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Tracy Morgan Shocks Hollywood by Voicing Support for President Trump


Well, this was a shocker…

Tracy Morgan, who’s best known for his work on SNL and 30 Rock, was actually calling for people to stop blaming President Trump for COVID-19 deaths.

Comedian Tracy Morgan said people criticizing President Trump for his response to the outbreak of the coronavirus should instead focus on supporting one another during the time of crisis.
“The struggle is real,” Morgan said Wednesday on the Today show. “People want to criticize the president, but imagine being a president of a country and have your country got sick. So, it’s difficult for him. We’ve all got to pull together as people, now.”
Morgan continued, “Now is not the time for blame and all these other things and anger. It’s here now. We just got to be together. We’ve got to all stay safe. Nobody wants to transmit it, nobody wants to attract it, nobody wants to get it. So, let’s just stay safe and do the protocol that we have to do.”
Democrats have slammed Trump for downplaying the threat of the virus before it arrived in America and for a lack of leadership they say Trump has displayed since its arrival. [Washington Examiner]
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What an amazing message of unity!

More actors in Hollywood should take notes from Morgan, then maybe Americans wouldn’t despise them as much.


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Carolinas prepare for Tropical Storm Isaias

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 9:22 AM PT — Monday, August 3, 2020
The National Hurricane Center has predicted Tropical Storm Isaias will strengthen into a hurricane again when it approaches the Carolinas.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) declared a state of emergency in preparation for the storm, which is expected to hit the state either Monday night or Tuesday morning.
Residents have been ordered to evacuate inland where they could stay in a hotel or at an emergency shelter. Cooper assured there would be different sheltering options available for those who tested positive for COVID-19.
“Just because it’s now categorized as a tropical storm doesn’t change its potential threat,” he stated. “I’ve declared a state of emergency and we have received federal emergency declaration for 25 counties so far.”


 A hurricane warning has been issued for parts of the Carolinas and a tropical storm warning has been extended as far north as Rhode Island.







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The Captive Mind and America’s Resegregation


Idol smashing and cancel culture are part of a 

broad ideological project to dominate society.

By Andrew A. Michta - paywall at WSJ

A worker in New York cleans up a vandalized statue of President George Washington on June 29.
Photo: jason szenes/Shutterstock
Czesław Miłosz, a future Nobel Prize-winning poet who had just defected from Poland, began work in 1951 on a book called “The Captive Mind.” Even as Stalinist totalitarianism tightened its grip on Eastern Europe, many Western European intellectuals lauded the brave new world of Soviet communism as a model for overcoming “bourgeois forces,” which in their view had caused World War II. Living in Paris, Miłosz wrote his book, which was published in 1953, to warn the West of what happens to the human mind and soul in a totalitarian system. 

Miłosz knew from experience, having lived through the Communist takeover, how totalitarianism strips men and women of their liberty, transforming them into “affirmative cogs” in service of the state and obliterating what had taken centuries of Western political development to achieve. Totalitarianism not only enslaved people physically but crippled their spirit. It did so by replacing ordinary human language, in which words signify things in the outside world, with ideologically sanctioned language, in which words signify the dominant party’s ever-changing ideas of what is and is not true.

Since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, nationwide protests, which quickly turned to riots, have been hijacked by the neo-Marxist left, morphing into an all-out assault on American cities and institutions. This assault is underpinned by an audacious attempt to rewrite history that turns specific past events into weapons not only to overpower political opponents but also to recast all of American history as a litany of racial transgressions. 

The radicals have turned race into a lens through which to view the country’s history, and not simply because they are obsessed with race. They have done so because it allows them to identify and separate those groups that deserve affirmation, in their view, and those that do not. What is taking place is the resegregation of America, the endpoint of which will be the rejection of everything the civil-rights movement stood for. 

What is driving the radical protesters and rioters—who are enabled and manipulated by the “digital intelligentsia” in the press and an expanding segment of the political and business classes—is contempt for the freedom of anyone who fails to comport with their image of a just society. In authoritarian systems those in power seek to proscribe certain forms of political speech and social activity. Totalitarians claim unconditional authority to reach deep into each person’s conscience. They prescribe an interpretation of the world and dictate the language with which citizens are permitted to express that interpretation. Authoritarian regimes leave largely untouched the private civic sphere of human activity; totalitarians destroy traditional value systems and reorder the culture. That is why they are harder to overthrow. 

The ill-named progressivism that has inspired shrill demands to dismantle police forces and destroy statues is only a small manifestation of a massive project aimed at the re-education of the American population. The goal of this project is to negate the story of the American republic and replace it with a tale anchored exclusively in race categories and narratives of oppression. The nature of this exercise, with its sledgehammer rhetoric that obliterates complexities in favor of one-dimensional “correct” interpretations, is as close to Marxist agitprop as one can get. 

Why do American elites, who might be expected to favor preserving the nation that has elevated them, support the effort to dismantle it? Their thinking seems to be that the radicals destroying monuments and issuing wholesale denunciations of America’s past are wreaking destruction on ordinary Americans and their history, not on the elites and their ideology. Today’s elites as a rule do not believe they have any obligation to serve the public, only to rule it, and so they express little or no disapproval of college students toppling statues on federal land or looters raiding supermarkets. To criticize them would open elites to the charges of “populism” and “racism.” 

Yet the elites are playing a dangerous game. Such “canceling”—of historical and living figures alike—increasingly mirrors what happened under communism in the Soviet bloc, where the accusation of being out of step with the party was enough to end one’s career and nullify one’s reputation. 

This is about more than statues and history. Those who control the symbols of political discourse can dominate the culture and control the collective consciousness. If you doubt this, ask yourself why there has been so little backlash from ordinary, nonelite Americans. Our sense of self has been progressively deconstructed. We feel in our bones the wrongness of the violence being visited on the nation but lack the language to speak against it. 

The resegregation of American society is fundamentally undemocratic and un-American. It envisions a social hierarchy based on DNA. It is also incompatible with individual freedom and constitutional government. Hence the drive to overhaul the U.S. Constitution, rewrite textbooks, and restructure museums by race and sex quotas.
Democracy cannot survive in a society in which winners and losers are adjudicated arbitrarily according to criteria beyond individual control. Any society built around the principle of skin color will become a caste system in which accident, not merit, will allocate value and benefit. Civil society will be buried once and for all. 

The current radical trends carry the seeds of violence unseen in the U.S. since the Civil War. The activists ascendant in American cities insist on the dominance of their ideological precepts, brooking no alternative. Such absolutism forces Americans away from the realm of political compromise into one of unrelenting axiology, with one side claiming a monopoly on virtue and decency while the other is expected to accept its status as perpetually evil, and thus assume a permanent penitent stance for all its real and imagined misdeeds across history. 

Only when the state creates a space for an unbiased debate over history can a discussion truly take place unhindered by ideology and dogma. Only then can a society move toward a consensus on a shared understanding of its past and how its collective memory should be shaped. The U.S. is roiled by spasms of violence and intolerance today because government at all levels—public education systems, states that allow universities to promulgate speech codes and “safe spaces,” court decisions that define constitutionally protected speech as, in effect, everything but political speech—has abdicated its duty to protect the public space. Children are rampaging through the cities because the adults have left the room.

America is in the throes of a destructive ideological experiment, subjected to a sweeping and increasingly state-sanctioned reordering of its collective memory, with the increasingly totalitarian left given free rein to dominate public discourse. Miłosz, who died in 2004, would see an American mind bloated by a steady diet of identity politics and group grievance served up by ideologues in schools nationwide. These ideologues have nearly succeeded in remaking our politics and culture; they are reinforced by a media in thrall to groupthink, by credentialed bureaucrats, and by politicians shaped in the monochrome factories of intellectual uniformity that are America’s institutions of higher learning. 

American society is faced with a stark binary choice. Either we push back against the unrelenting assault of the neo-Marxist narrative, or we yield to the totalitarian impulse now in full view in our politics. It is no longer enough to wait for the next election, or to pin our hopes on a “silent majority” that will eventually stop the madness. There may be no such majority. If there is, its members may no longer be able to articulate what they see unfolding around them. It is hard to call things by their proper names in a society whose elites insist on calling looters and arsonists “protesters,” national monuments “symbols of racism,” and the victims of looting and arson the beneficiaries of “white privilege.” The challenge is massive, but it starts with the simple act of calling things by their proper names. 

Mr. Michta is dean of the College of International and Security Studies at 
the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

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Government Teachers’ Unions Unveil New COVID-19 Demand: Pay Us For Doing Nothing


The pandemic has left everyone with lots of give and take. In educating our children, however, don't let teachers' unions take from our children to give to themselves.


As the Wuhan virus pandemic persists and wild rhetoric along with it, teachers unions are threatening to strike if schools reopen, but they’re also pushing to limit online teaching. These unions have long incentivized all the wrong things in education, but demanding teachers be paid to do virtually nothing is a new low. As a New York Times headline announced this week, teachers are “Wary of Returning to Class, and Online Instruction Too.”

Public school teachers around the country are fighting for schools to remain closed longer, to implement more expensive safety measures, and to limit teachers’ responsibilities with online learning, the article explains. These same teachers are threatening job walkouts if they don’t get their way and protesting at state capitols and on social media.

The second-largest teachers’ union in the country this week permitted its state and local chapters to strike if their school districts don’t take satisfactory precautions, such as revamping ventilation systems and instituting mask mandates, before the kids come back to school.

While teachers’ unions play politics, parents are trying to make game-time decisions amid constant uncertainty. Whether getting back to work themselves is a factor in their education strategies, parents need better options for their kids, who were so grossly underserved in the spring. After schools started shutting their doors in March and parents began reeling, rearranging their lives to accommodate at-home instruction, countless young people across the country fell behind.

One Bronx mother, whose 18-year-old son has autism, said in just a month he backslid by a year. “We all know there’s a pandemic. It’s affecting everyone,” she said. “You can’t just keep saying you’re scared. We’re all scared.”

Keeping Kids Home from School Is Anti-Science

Meanwhile, as President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos push for in-person instruction, partisan educators and unions are resisting, even in states that have control of the virus. Many teachers are griping that they don’t have enough funding and guidance, and that the government is prioritizing the economy over health.

According to available data, however, public safety and the economy aren’t in conflict when it comes to schools. Kids just aren’t getting coronavirus. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of the nearly 150,000 Wuhan virus cases in the United States from Feb. 12 to April 2, only about 2,500 were in kids. That’s a mere 1.7 percent of all infected, which is itself a minority of the country.

Further, child COVID-19 hospitalization rates have been far lower than adults’, and deaths uncommon. The American Academy of Pediatrics notes that since states began reporting, children have accounted for 0 to 0.8 percent of COVID-19 deaths, with 20 states reporting zero child fatalities. The seasonal flu endangers children more, and we never shut down schools over the flu. Further, studies show kids are rarely spreading the virus to adults.

Teachers’ Unions Want to Have Their Cake and Eat It Too

The Times article observes: “Some critics see teachers’ unions as trying to have it both ways: Reluctant to return to classrooms, but also resistant in some districts to providing a full day of remote school via tools like live video.” The unions, however, retort that educators extended themselves far beyond the terms of their emergency labor agreements when students went remote in the spring, “answer[ing] emails and text messages from students and parents late into the night.”

To repeat the frustration from the Bronx mother, however, which is still apt: The pandemic is “affecting everyone.” Remote learning was no picnic for parents either, who without training took on the brunt of their kids’ instruction. It’s worth noting that while teachers and students were locked home, essential workers in a variety of sectors risked virus exposure and adapted to employment changes.

In Miami, the teachers’ emergency agreement required them to spend at least three hours daily interacting with students over email or calls. According to parents, that was insufficient. Now teachers will be expected to structure their instruction more like a regular school day with live video classes, although many oppose that model.

According to the Times, “many teachers have expressed anxiety about how they and their homes would look on camera during live teaching,” an absurd objection. Parents likely won’t be too keen on their kids missing a school year all because the camera adds 10 pounds.

Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of the United Teachers Los Angeles union, says that while she sees the benefits of live video classes, they aren’t feasible because kids won’t be engaged and “will turn off to that.” According to Myart-Cruz, the union’s priorities involve making sure students have access to remote mental health counseling services and that educators are reimbursed for work-from-home costs, such as improved WiFi.
Counseling services are important, as the pandemic has taken a marked toll on mental health, but it’s unclear why educators are more concerned with home-office compensation than with getting students back into the classroom — which, again, is backed by science.

Kids Shouldn’t Be Pawns in Partisan Games

New York City, for example, the country’s biggest district, had previously announced plans to reopen classrooms part-time. Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers in the Big Apple, helped district officials devise a plan for students to attend in-person classes one to three times weekly. After Trump’s push for schools to reopen, however, Mulgrew then decided in-person instruction is not safe, and in a town hall last week, he backpedaled from the strategy to the surprise of city officials.

The Times article notes that “teachers’ unions are playing a powerful role in determining the shape of public education as the pandemic continues to rage.” It’s true. While parents and their kids scuttle to figure out a fall game plan, changing course every time new guidelines and school memos circulate, teachers unions are holding children’s educational futures hostage to squeeze every last perk they can out of this crisis. As Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, said, “I feel like we are treating kids as pawns in this game.”

The pandemic has left everyone with tough decisions, less-than-ideal circumstances, and lots of give and take. In educating our children, however, don’t let teachers’ unions take from our children to give to themselves.

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Clinton Sycophant Test Runs an Excuse for Biden Not Debating



Joe Biden has been issuing pronouncements from his basement. But what he hasn’t been doing lately is giving any kind of long form interviews.

That says a lot, and leads one to say again, how could he possibly survive in a series of debates? Right now, he’s committed to three debates and President Donald Trump wants more, knowing it will expose Biden. 

So it sounds like Democrats are testing out an excuse for that. It’s definitely the most shameless excuse ever.

Because, according to former Clintonista and CNN commentator Joe Lockhart, President Donald Trump would lie and Biden would have to spend all his time correcting him, he shouldn’t bother to debate him. Listen to this ridiculous spin as they try to justify this.
Trump “spins these conspiracy theories out there. And, up till now, most of those theories are broadcast by Fox News and, you know, on his Twitter feed.” 

Wait a second. Who has been spinning conspiracy theories about the president for the last four years, even hiring a foreign national to spread Russian disinformation to undermine the president in a huge hoax that has damaged the country? Hint: not Trump. 

How hilarious is this excuse?

Now, let’s just remind everyone that it’s Joe Biden who previously had to drop out of a prior run for President when he was caught lying about his background and plagiarizing. And if anything it would be Trump who would have to spend all his time calling out Biden’s lies. 

But the whole claim is just silly. If Biden spent the time calling out Trump lies, wouldn’t that make him look good? Of course it would. So that’s why the whole excuse is just silly. 
What he’s really admitting is Biden can’t stand up in a bruising debate. But if he can’t do that, then he could never stand up to being President. 

What Lockhart knows is what the rest of us who have been seeing Biden deteriorate over the months in videos already know and acknowledge: there’s a huge problem. If Americans see that on national stage, it’s over for Democrats. 

Lockhart says he knows what Republicans would say if Democrats refuse to debate, but that it’s worth it not to. They admit the bar is so low for Biden and Lockhart still doesn’t want to do it. That just shows how far gone that Biden must be at this point. This is even worse than an excuse using the virus. 

The spin has begun. Expect more to jump aboard with this silly narrative.

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Megyn Kelly Lays Out What the BLM Is All About, And She’s Not Shy About It



The Washington Examiner’s Byron York made an observation on how much the far left has moved the needle in just a few years. That when Colin Kaepernick started his far left protest in the NFL against America by kneeling, he got a lot of deserved backlash and only one person knelt with him at the time. Now, as York observed, all the players but for one knelt in the NBA.


Now, the person who stands suddenly is required to explain himself, as though standing for the national anthem is now somehow objectionable.
York is right.

But he got a little pushback from Megyn Kelly on what that all ultimately means.


“Won what?” Kelly opined. “A visual display that is based on misinformation re: police & the USA, past & present? Americans will figure out that BLM is an org that wants to dismantle the nuclear family, the justice system & the police syst so critical to protecting Black lives, esp women & kids.”

So many things to unpack.

Of course the display is based on misinformation about police and the USA, past and present.

But that’s part of the problem. The media never calls out the misperceptions, such as that “hands up, don’t shoot” about Michael Brown that kicked off the BLM and the Ferguson riots was a lie, it never happened and has been debunked. That Brown tried to take Officer Darren Wilson’s gun. That misperception continues to be stoked to cause division. And that’s just the start of the misinformation.

Yes, many Americans do already know what the BLM is about and they have known for years since they started. More and more have figured it out and the violence that is an adjunct to BLM actions is now hugely unpopular. 

But the problem is that Democrats wouldn’t say anything about it. Not only wouldn’t they condemn the violence that has occurred, they wouldn’t even acknowledge it has occurred. Plus they’re acceding to all of the BLM agenda, pushing Democrats further left, acceding to insanity like defunding or abolishing the police as crime and violence shoots off into the stratosphere.

But it’s clear from the description that Kelly gets it, that she’s taken a look at their own mission statement, gets how radical they are, that she isn’t afraid to call them what they are. More, please.

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What Did Obama Know?


When ODNI James Clapper walked into the oval office on January 4, 2017, with “tech cuts” (transcript excerpts) from the Flynn/Kislyak phone call, essentially Clapper infected the White House with a paper record that the Obama administration was aware of the FBI investigating the incoming administration.  Re-creating plausible deniability was the primary motive behind the January 5th meeting and the subsequent Susan Rice memo.


Why is it important to understand the duality of purpose for the appointment of the special counsel run by the figure-head (in name only) of Robert Mueller?…
…Because from the outset the seventeen Lawfare lawyers who formed the resistance unit operation took control over the DOJ.
That was a large purpose of their installation. The Mueller resistance unit controlled everything, including every impediment to congress.
Despite the fact they should have been aware of this, many individual Senators and congressional representatives now claim they had no idea of this purpose. Setting aside their willful blindness; all that stuff is in the rear-view and only leads to anger in a debate that needs to look forward; the issue now becomes putting indisputable evidence, an actionable trigger, in front of them and forcing public confrontation. Action. Nothing else matters; drive action.
At the same time, USAO John Durham [and S.P. XXXXX ] are facing ‘irrefutable’ evidence that holds two purposes: (1) undeniable evidence of a very specific cover-up operation that came, purposefully, from the agenda of the resistance unit to throw a blanket over the most serious abuse of power in modern history; and (2) evidence that ‘we the people’ know.
It might seem odd at first, but knowledge that we know, and possess the evidence to prove beyond doubt, is an insurance policy in the quest for truth and justice. This includes evidence that cannot be ignored even if they disappear the delivery mechanism. The truth has no agenda, and in this case the truth is a weapon.



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Jason Miller -vs- Insufferable Chris Wallace


While we are not necessarily a fan of Jason Miller, this is the time to put all factions aside and focus on winning the election.  That said, Miller pushes back accurately and effectively against the intentional and manipulative media spin by swamp guardian Chris Wallace.




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In what universe is this Robbery Prevention?


If you live in Minneapolis, you might want to reconsider that. Because your city government’s idea of robbery prevention is heavy on the “robbery” and light on “prevention.”

If you live in Minneapolis, you might want to reconsider that.  Because your city government’s idea of robbery prevention is heavy on the “robbery” and light on “prevention.”

I guess this shouldn’t be a shock since Minneapolis wants to get rid of their police department.

After a rash of robberies and carjackings in the Third Precinct, city “leaders” sent out a letter to precinct residents telling them “We want those who live and work here to be safe!”

And their idea of maintaining your safety is with these helpful robbery prevention tips that, interestingly enough, don’t sound very “preventy” to me.


In what universe is this Robbery "Prevention?"


“Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet.”

“Do not argue or fight with the criminal. Do as they say.”

In what universe could this be construed as robbery prevention?  How is giving the robber everything he wants “preventing” robbery?  Seems to me a cooperative population will only further embolden criminals to commit more robberies.  Wouldn’t you say?

Why not just tell their victimized citizenry, “In order to prevent being robbed, voluntarily turn over your valuables. That way it isn’t a ‘robbery’ but a voluntary transfer of goods.”

“Have keys already in your hand as you approach your car” … that way the criminal can more easily take them from you and make his getaway in your own vehicle.

“When you call 911” … which of course you can’t do because you helpfully gave your cell phone to the person who just robbed you.

Yeah, great robbery “prevention” suggestions there, you morons.

You know what would be a great robbery prevention idea?

Instead of dismantling the Minneapolis Police Department, increase the number of police in high crime precincts.

But no! They won’t do that. They’ve already committed to abolishing law enforcement.

Isn’t this always the way Democrats operate?  First they implement a “plan” that causes a huge problem.  Then, instead of correcting the problem by reversing course, they suggest a “solution” that will only make the problem worse.

And when anyone points that out to them, their response is “But we can’t go back! We’ve made so much progress!”

There’s a reason crime is on the rise in Minneapolis, and it isn’t because residents aren’t cooperating enough with the criminals.  It’s because Minneapolis city leaders have put criminals and lawlessness before law and order.

The blame can be placed squarely at the feet of the same city leaders who are now telling you that surrendering to criminals is a form of robbery “prevention.”

I guess they figure that since the city itself has surrendered to the criminals, you should too.

But don’t worry, Minneapolis residents.  Your city council members are safe from these robbers and carjackers who are terrorizing you.  They, unlike you, have private security paid for by the very taxpayers who are now being told to surrender to the criminals calling the shots on the streets in Minneapolis.

The most hilarious part of this letter is how it ends:

“To Protect With Courage
To Serve With Compassion”

Courage?  Really?

Near as I can figure, the only people who are feeling courageous right about now are those who want to commit crime against Minneapolis residents.

And the only “Compassion” these city leaders have is for the criminals.

Law abiding residents? Meh.  You guys are on your own.

Here are my helpful robbery “prevention” tips for you folks living in Minneapolis.

Buy a gun.

And move the hell out of Minneapolis because the criminals won.

Oh, and here’s one final helpful tip:

Don’t ever vote Democrat again.


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The utter failue of left leaning politics

 

 

 

 

Portland records deadliest month in 30 years: report:

 https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-records-deadliest-month-30-years-report

 

Murders rise while the Democrats dither 

 

 

At least 15 people were killed in Portland during the month of July, which was the highest number of deadly shootings or stabbings in a single month since the 1980s, according to authorities.
Police Chief Chuck Lovell addressed last month's violence which ended on Friday following a 150-round shooting at an apartment building in the city. So far this year, 24 people in Portland have died in homicides.
“That’s very concerning to know that that many people have been killed in such a short period of time,” Lovell said on Thursday, according to Portland's KATU. “These numbers were not acceptable.”

 To solve the recent crimes, Lovell said the police bureau pulled officers from an “already diminished patrol” unit to help work on follow-up investigations.
“Our job, number one for us, is public safety and preservation of life. So we are, we’re going to resource some more people to the detective division to help follow up and do some investigation on those,” Lovell said. “It’s incumbent upon us as public safety professionals and police officers to go out and still do that work.”
He remarked how the bureau was forced to cut its Gun Violence Reduction Team at the direction of the City Council, which has made their job more difficult.
The 34-member team was broken up on July 1 following budget cuts to police units that reportedly targeted a disproportionate number of Black people in traffic stops, according to The Oregonian. It was the first month without the unit in more than a decade.
“What was really lost was the follow-up piece, picking up video, contacting people,” Lovell said.

 Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty pushed to disband the Gun Violence Reduction Team, which was called a gang enforcement unit at the time, according to the station. She did so following a 2018 city audit which found that African Americans made up 59 percent of the unit's traffic stops in 2016.
“I don’t think it’s a staffing issue, and no matter how often they say they’re overworked and underpaid, the reality is that Portland police have for a long time decided what they will investigate and what they won’t,” Hardesty said.
Shootings have also increased in July compared to the same time last year. There were a total of 63 shootings last month compared to 28 in July 2019, according to the Police Bureau.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-records-deadliest-month-30-years-report


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Biden Campaign Says He Is So Close To A VP Pick He Can Smell Her



WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden's campaign announced that he would be making his pick for Vice President soon, adding that the former Vice President had recently stated, "I'm so close I can smell her."

Biden's staff says Joe has been pacing the halls of capitol buildings, congress, and the Senate sniffing the air like a starve-crazed bloodhound in search of the perfect female candidate. "He's huffing longer, deeper inhalations," said his campaign manager Greg Schultz. "That means he's getting really close."

Biden's staff says at the rate he is sniffing, he'll definitely have a VP pick by the first week of August.

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