Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Analysis concludes Antifa provoked shooting of Ashli Babbitt at Capitol

 

Article by Art Moore in World Net Daily
 

Analysis concludes Antifa provoked shooting of Ashli Babbitt at Capitol

'The ones who were agitating the crowd were not Trump supporters'

An analysis of videos of the death of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt at the U.S. Capitol indicates Antifa activists provoked the fatal gunshot from a police officer.

Japanese investigator Misako Ganaha explained in a video interview with Epoch Times reporter Joshua Philipp on his "Crossroads" program that she analyzed two lengthy videos, affording two different angles of the incident near the House chamber.

One of the videos was posted by a "Jayden X," who was later identified as Antifa organizer John Sullivan of Utah.

D.C. police said the unnamed officer who shot Babbitt, a 35-year-old San Diego resident, was a plainclothes Capitol Police officer.

Ganaha pointed out to that just prior to the shooting, two men who had been agitating the crowd broke the glass on a set of doors.

Immediately after the glass was broken, a shot was fired as Babbitt attempted to go through the doors.

One of the men who broke the glass can be seen going down a stairway and changing into clothing he had stored in a backback.

Ganaha, who lives in Okinawa, Japan, said it was clear to her that the two men were not Trump supporters.

She said she's seen the same Marxist "agitate and divide" tactics employed by leftists in her home country.

Clearly there were Trump supporters inside the Capitol building, she said, but "the ones who were leading the crowd, or agitating the crowd, were not Trump supporters," she said.

"I think they had a plan."

An important part of the tactic, she said, is for somone in collaboration with the agitators to serve as a "witness" to mainstream media, which tells the story "without analyzing."

Media simply repeats what the witness says, explained Ganaha, "so the world does not know the truth."

"The world is watching and we should know what the truth is," she told Phillip. "And, then we can move on to what to think or what to decide, what to talk, what do next.

"We just need the truth."

Sullivan, who posted one of the videos, told media that Antifa had organized an event at the same time and location as the pro-Trump rally.

He insisted in a video he posted Friday to Periscope that he was inside the Capitol building only "to record."

"I was there to let people see that situation in the best possible way," claimed Sullivan, the founder of a group called Insurgence USA.

He asserted in an interview with Fox 13 in Salt Lake City that his video disproves those who claim Antifa members dressed as Trump supporters invaded the Capitol.

He said he was detained and questioned by the FBI but was not charged with any crime. In June, Sullivan was arrested for organizing a protest in Provo, Utah, where a person was shot.

On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged the FBI and DHS to place everyone who invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6 on the no-fly list as "insurrectionists.".


 

 https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/analysis-concludes-antifa-provoked-shooting-ashli-babbitt-capitol/


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VP Mike Pence Rejects Speaker Pelosi Request for 25th Amendment Against President Trump


Vice President Mike Pence has rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s demand that cabinet members of the Trump administration invoke the 25th Amendment:

Speaker Pelosi will now move forward with article of impeachment in the house tomorrow.


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Free Speech Is Not Dead, But It Is On Life Support

 

Article by Kira Davis in RedState
 

Free Speech Is Not Dead, But It Is On Life Support

What we have seen in the last few days on social media has been chilling. The most shocking realization (at least for me) has not been that Big Tech has so obviously been colluding with the Democrat party over the last four years in preparation for this very moment. What is most shocking is that so many of our friends, family and loved ones see the silencing of half the country as perfectly justified.

“Kira, you’re being hysterical. Only those who promoted rioting and violence are being deplatformed.”

Oh, sweet, naive friend. In liberal-land only those who “deserve” punishment are the ones getting it. Because the “good guys” would never unjustly paint an entire swath of people with one big paintbrush.

If you’re reading this and you trust me as a friend and someone who is reasonably intelligent, I pray you will believe me when I tell you this is not at all how it works. I have made my name in this business on being a reasonable and logical voice for unity. I get salty from time to time (I am a woman, after all) but anyone who knows me and enjoys my podcast Just Listen To Yourself knows that I am constantly calling for treating others who think or vote differently than us with grace. I believe critical thinking skills can help us feel confident in our arguments (left or right) and that confidence makes it easier to see those “others” not as enemies but as neighbors.

When we grasp the concept of tolerance we can actually foster healthy and sometimes even productive arguments with each other. The only time I’ve mentioned violence is to condemn it.

What I’m saying is – I’m hardly controversial.

And yet, my public pages are being shadow-banned. It took me 10 years to amass a mere 55K followers on Twitter as a “blue check” account and in just three days I lost over 5000. This is not happening to liberal blue checks. Jake Tapper smarmily suggested today that the conservatives complaining about losing followers are childish. That was disingenuous at best, willfully ignorant at worst. Tapper knows that the follower count isn’t about popularity, it is about reach. When your reach is squashed your message is squashed. His snobbery is noted.

Trump has been deplatformed even as he is still the sitting President. Rand Paul and Ron Paul have both been locked out of their Facebook pages, even thought they’ve only called for unity and reason. Neither has posted even a whisper of supporting violence. In fact, they’ve only condemned it. And yet they have been muzzled.

Conservative sites are scrambling to figure out how to appease the algorithms and the Big Tech bosses while still serving their audiences.

Side note: We ask that you bear with us while we work through this. We have not abandoned our commitment to telling the truth, but we are also aware that if we don’t survive the opening days of this injustice we will not be here to advocate for you in the future. We’re trying to work it out and we will, I promise. Bear with us.

And of course there’s Parler. These are terrifying times that have many conservatives shouting about the death of free speech.

I have never in my entire career faced this type of censorship and indeed it is terrifying. If two or three companies can cut you off from your entire base, what else can they do? If they’re doing it to me, how long before they do it to one of my friends who think it’s fine as long as it’s just those “right wing nut jobs”? It seems naive to believe this won’t eventually bite every single American in the ass.

I disagree with some of my fellow conservatives that free speech is dead, but it is most certainly on life support.

I’ve been saying very partisan things on Twitter the past few days and while my reach has been shadow banned and suppressed, I have not been suspended. I’m still allowed to say I think the Democrat party sucks. Many conservatives are still around the platform for now.

Locals. Other places like Odyssey for video content are partisan-free and censorship free. We’re not going to replace Google’s massive reach overnight, but alternatives to Twitter and Facebook will continue to pop up and those seeking a place to express themselves freely will flock. The free market is still an incredibly powerful force, even as certain dark elements of our society keep trying to put zip ties around its hands.

As more and more people are trapped under the weight of Big Tech overreach, more and more alternatives will pop up. The server issue is a larger one but we put a man on the moon and remain the only nation on earth to do so. We have the minds within this nation right now to solve the problem of a receding internet.

And despite the mess of this past election we still have our votes. It is terribly naive of the left to forget that 75 million people voted for Trump. Many say, “well, 81 million voted for Biden” as if that means anything for the future. When Obama was president the left made the egregious error of believing half the country was crushed forever. That’s how we got Trump.

The next guy wont be nearly as warm and fuzzy as Trump if we allow this attitude to fester. 75 million people aren’t rioters or weirdos. Nearly all of Trump voters are simply normal Americans. It would be a terribly grave error to suppose they will never have a significant say again. They will. 2016 was a lesson that the left is trying not to repeat by simply censoring the right out of existence, but they cannot see that they are just recreating the situation. They haven’t learned a thing.

We still have this Constitution for those willing to wield it. Trump was furiously appointing federal judges over the last four years and those people will be deciding the very important free speech lawsuits that are about to begin overwhelming our justice system.

No, free speech is not dead, but if we walk away from it now it will be quite soon. It needs resuscitating and the life-saving efforts may take a while to kick in, but they will kick in. If we can tolerate the tumult that is about to befall us, we can revive it.

But it will take all of us. It will take grace (I realize some of you may be in short supply of that these days and I know I’ve had to check myself a few times this week). It will take a bit of extra legwork to reconnect in other spaces. It will take a lifestyle change in some cases. It will take teamwork, but Americans have always responded to roadblocks by beating a new path.

The path to free speech has veered. It’s time to beat a new one.

https://redstate.com/kiradavis/2021/01/12/kira-davis-free-speech-not-dead-but-on-life-support-n308731




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Uganda Takes On Tech Cartels Before Election


Warning: This Is Not The Babylon Bee This Is Twitters Actual Response. 


Other leftwingers who say stuff online in front of everybody! 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ 





 

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Coming up:PRESIDENT Donald Trump visits US - Mexico border wall in first appearance since Capitol riots

 President Donald Trump will today visit the US/Mexico border wall, where he will deliver some remarks. It will be the first time Mr Trump makes a public appearance since the Capitol riots.

 

 


 

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Casino mogul and political donor Sheldon Adelson dead at 87

 

Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, whose gambling and hotel businesses turned him into a major political power broker in the US and Israel, has died.

He was 87.

The founder of the Las Vegas Sands casino company, Mr Adelson was known for his support of conservative causes and Israel.

 

 

He was a significant backer of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

His death was caused by complications related to his treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the Las Vegas Sands company said in a statement.

In a statement, former US president George W Bush said he mourned the passing of a "friend".

"He was an American patriot, a generous benefactor of charitable causes, and a strong supporter of Israel," Mr Bush said. "He will be missed by many - none more than his beloved family.
 
 sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Mr Adelson and his Israeli-born second wife Miriam "contributed endlessly to strengthening the Jewish people and the Jewish state".

"He was a wonderful friend to us personally and an incredible champion of the Jewish people, the Jewish state and the alliance between Israel and America," he said.

 

 

Sheldon Adelson life

Born in 1933, Mr Adelson was raised in Boston, the son of Jewish immigrants, whose father worked as a cab driver.

He started working at a young age, selling newspapers on street corners as a teenager.

A college dropout, who founded dozens of businesses, he launched the career for which he became known as the organiser of a successful computer business conference in the 1970s.

Looking for more space to host visitors for the event, he later entered the hospitality business, buying the Sands hotel.

 

 

He was credited with fusing together the convention, hotel and gaming industries, as he built lavish complexes in Las Vegas, Singapore and Macau that at his death made him ranked among the 30 richest men in the world, with a net worth of more than $30bn.

Power broker

Mr Adelson put that wealth to work for causes he supported, including medical research, Jewish youth groups, universities and others.

Mr Adelson had his hand in media, as the founder of the free Israel Hayom paper in Tel Aviv and the owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which he purchased in 2015.


 

 

Mr Adelson's influence was credited, in part, for pushing Mr Trump to establish the American embassy in Jerusalem and for leading him to withdraw from a nuclear weapons treaty with Iran negotiated by Mr Obama.

Mr Trump said Mr Adelson had "tirelessly advocated for the relocation of the United States embassy to Jerusalem, the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and the pursuit of peace between Israel and its neighbours".

"Sheldon lived the true American dream," he said. "His ingenuity, genius, and creativity earned him immense wealth, but his character and philanthropic generosity his great name."

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55631570 

 


 

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Just build your own … derp-derp-derpity-derp

When Parler can lose every single vendor they depend on to be a viable business – all in the span of 24 hours – this is no longer just about social media censorship.

Just build your own … derp-derp-derpity-derp

posted by Dianny at Patriot Retort

Thanks to a well-coordinated attack from all sides, Parler has been taken down. I wonder if the “Just build your own alternative to Twitter” people are rethinking their myopic viewpoint.

Probably not.

If we’ve learned anything over the last several days, it’s that David French and the rest of the Cruise Ship “conservatives” who scoffed at us for years for raising the alarm about Big Tech were flat-out wrong.

“They’re a private company,” they sneered. “They can do what they want. If you don’t like how Twitter runs its business, just build your own social media platform.”

They really thought it was that simple.

Well, Parler did exactly what these myopic prats suggested. And how did that work out?

First Google and Apple removed Parler from their app stores.

Then Amazon booted Parler off its web hosting service.

Then every vendor that worked with Parler – from the lawyers to payment processing services – dropped them as well.

JuSt bUiLd yOuR oWn LaW FiRm.

In a May 2019 column at Human Events, Will Chamberlain argued that platform access should be treated as a civil right.

Because you know what? Private property rights are great. But that does not mean that we, as a society, had to let private restaurant owners and private hotel managers turn away customers because they were black. We didn’t have to accept a world in which black people had to defecate on the side of the road because they weren’t allowed to use a privately-owned restroom.

We, as a society, do not have to allow private companies to violate Americans’ civil rights.

It probably doesn’t come as a surprise that those “Just build your own social media company” people scoffed Will’s column back in 2019.

I wonder if David French would have told the black people holding sit-ins at lunch counters “Just build your own lunch counter!”

Nothing was done to stop the Big Tech crackdown so many knew was coming.

Thanks to what happened to Parler, we know that Big Tech has no qualms about working together to completely squeeze out a company that took this useless “Just build your own social media platform” advice.

Now the problem with Big Tech goes far beyond censorship.

What happened to Parler was a coordinated hit-job to destroy a competitor.

JuSt bUiLd yOuR oWn.

That’s not letting the Free Market work.

There’s nothing Free Marketish about Tech companies colluding to destroy a competitor. Nothing at all.

And as I said on Saturday, Washington politicians are using Big Tech as their proxy to limit Freedom of Speech. Democrat members of Congress spent the weekend openly urging Apple, Google and Amazon to shut down Parler. And when Parler started getting squeezed, these elected Representatives cheered.

Aren’t you glad Senate Republicans held hearings? Wasn’t it helpful?

I mean, aside from providing video clips of these big talking Republicans smacking down Jack Dorsey or that Cylon Mark Zuckerberg that they could post on Twitter and Facebook, what the hell was the point of those stupid hearings?

Hahahahahaha!

Tough talk, Senator Day Late and Dollar Short.

At this point, Federal action has gone from unlikely to impossible. The Democrats now control both Houses of Congress and the White House. And since Big Tech is doing the Democrats’ dirty work, why would Democrats lift a finger to restrain them?

But individual states can and should act.

As Will Chamberlain said in his 2019 Human Events column:

Notice – I said *both* state and federal laws. It will be a very serious challenge to get a federal law passed protecting this civil right, given the current composition of Congress. But states with heavily Republican legislatures can pass laws that protect their state’s citizens from de-platforming.

And if they do so, Facebook, Twitter, and Google will have to comply if they want to keep doing business in that state.

What happened to Parler this weekend should chill you to the bone whether you use social media or not.

This is no longer about social media platforms.

When Parler can lose every single vendor they depend on to be a viable business – all in the span of 24 hours – this is no longer just about social media censorship.

This is about Big Tech, corporations, elected officials (with an assist from the media) working together to prevent certain Americans from participating, not just in free speech, but the Free Market as well.

And as they squeeze their political enemies out, what do these myopic “just build your own” idiots expect us to do?

Build our own country?


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Republicans Have a Choice to Make Post Trump, They’d Best Choose Wisely



Sometimes a take so bad comes across the wire that it’s worth using as a jumping off point for a bigger thought. That happened today in the form of an editorial put out by the Washington Examiner. In it, Tiana Lowe explains that Kevin McCarthy should be booted as House Minority Leader, not to be replaced with a more effective figure that Republican voters can get behind, but to be pave the way for Liz Cheney.

Yes, there are apparently people still out there that believe Liz Cheney represents the future of the party.

Make no mistake: Anyone who promulgated President Trump’s lie that the election was stolen from him is unfit to serve as the House minority leader. The experiment of Trumpism proved a political failure, with the Republican Party losing its control of the White House and both chambers of Congress while achieving few legislative gains. If the GOP wants to score a comeback, its divorce from Trumpism must mean much more than a mere divorce from Trump. McCarthy must go, at a minimum, from House leadership.

Luckily for Republicans, they have an obvious candidate to replace him in Liz Cheney.

As House Republican Conference chairwoman, the Wyoming congresswoman is already the third-highest ranking member of House Republican leadership. Despite her foreign policy hawkishness resulting in some intraparty quibbles, Cheney navigated the Trump era without either debasing herself with the stench of unquestioning Trumpism or alienating herself politically a la Mitt Romney. Despite her short tenure in Congress, Cheney has already proved that her political instincts are those the party needs.

I’m struggling to think of a worse person Republicans could get behind if they hope to keep any semblence of a coalition together going into 2022. Liz Cheney is the very epitome of a beltway Republican. Her foreign policy views alone are enough to send most GOP voters screaming with their hands up when confronted with the idea of Cheney rising further through the ranks. Her last name has certainly delivered some perks so far, but take the mantle of leader of the Republicans in the House will be a bridge too far for most.

Besides, the idea that Republican voters care about whether Cheney “debased” herself during the Trump era by showing him support is misguided at best. My sense is that most Republicans are open to the idea of Trump no longer being the center of the party. What they aren’t open to is a return to the ineffective, disastrous political leadership of the Bush era. And while Cheney represents an evolution of that, she’s still firmly within that mold. This is a person who is still insisting we propagate a 20 year old war in Afghanistan, not because she can actually articulate a good reason to still be there, but because she’s so doggedly married to a foreign policy philosophy that has spread ruin across the globe.

Most of the Republican voter base moved on from such over a decade ago. They lost their taste for badly justified wars that never seem to accomplish anything of real value while costing their country large amounts of blood and treasure. That’s not to say the GOP is firmly isolationist now, but they are certainly much more pragmatic in their views on the use of force over seas. The days of feigning patriotism as an excuse for every conflict are long over. To be fair, Lowe recognizes that Cheney’s foreign policy views are kryptonite to most Republicans, but that’s not some small thing you can just brush aside. It’s the very genesis of why Cheney is not fit to lead.

But it’s not just foreign policy that’s at issue with Cheney. It’s also that she represents the same old views domestically, always willing to be fiscally irresponsible as long as it enriches some corporation that donates enough. Tax cuts, though they can be a good tool, form the solution to every problem. Meanwhile, normal Americans suffer, just as they have during the COVID crisis while Washington shovels money to big business.

Lastly, Cheney simply doesn’t have the demeanor to co-lead a post-Trump party. You can offer voters an alternative to Trump, but that alternative better be someone will to get in the ring and throw some punches in a way that rallies GOP voters. That’s not who Cheney is. She’s a walking Republican cliche, and that’s simply not where the party is going.

I’ll summarize my thoughts this way. The Republican party has a choice to make after Trump leaves office. They can choose to learn from the last four years, improve on the good, and offer up a new generation of top leadership that understands what the party’s voters actually want. Conversely, they can offer up Liz Cheney and others like her. If they do the latter, they can kiss any chance of a resurgence in 2022 and beyond goodbye.


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German Banking Giant Deutsche Bank Cuts Ties with President Trump

 

Article by Kurt Zindulka in Breitbart
 

German Banking Giant Deutsche Bank Cuts Ties with President Trump

Deutsche Bank AG has reportedly decided to cut ties with President Donald Trump as well as his private companies following the unrest at Capitol Hill last week.

The German lender has been joined by the New York-based Signature Bank, which also announced that it would be ending its business relationship with the President.

Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday that two insiders within Deutsche Bank — who remained anonymous ostensibly due to banking regulations — confirmed that the German banking giant would no longer conduct any further business with President Trump or his company.

There will still be some relationship between the bank and the President, however, as he reportedly owes Deutsche Bank some $340 million in outstanding loans. The bank has served as a lender for President Trump since the 1990s and has lent some $2 billion during their business relationship.

The day after the events at the Capitol, the head of Deutsche Bank Americas, Christiana Riley wrote on LinkedIn: “Yesterday was a dark day for America and our democracy.”

“We are proud of our Constitution and stand by those who seek to uphold it to ensure that the will of the people is upheld and a peaceful transition of power takes place,” she added.

Ahead of the presidential election, Reuters reported that the bank was “eager” to sever ties with the president, after being caught up in the Russia collusion narrative for years and being forced to testify in congressional hearings during the probe.

Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren — who serves on the Senate’s banking committee — said in November that she planned on continuing investigating the bank into the upcoming administration.

“You bet I’m going to continue to fight for accountability and strong enforcement of our banking laws, especially for giant institutions like Deutsche Bank,” she said.

 

 

On Monday, New York lender Signature Bank said that it would be closing two of President Trump’s personal accounts which hold some $5.3 million.

The bank also called for the president to resign before the end of his term, saying in a statement: “We believe the appropriate action would be the resignation of the president of the United States, which is in the best interests of our nation and the American people.”

“We have never before commented on any political matter and hope to never do so again,” the bank added.

According to UK’s Daily Telegraph, a spokesman for Deutsche Bank also said that it will refuse to do any business with members of Congress who backed the president in his fight against the certification of the electoral college vote.

The move by the two banks comes after the announcement from the online payment processor Stripe that it would be blacklisting the Trump campaign from its services, preventing the movement from accepting donations via credit card.

Nine big tech companies have also banned or restricted the President of the United States from operating on their platforms, including Twitter, Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Pinterest, Shopify, Reddit, TikTok, Twitch, and Discord.

 

 

 https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/12/deutsche-bank-cuts-ties-president-trump-following-capitol-hill/






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Pelosi's Guilt by Association Logic Authoritarian, Dangerous


The Queen of Dementia
 
Article by Michael Reagan in NewsMax
 

Pelosi's Guilt by Association Logic Authoritarian, Dangerous

The Legal Dictionary defines guilt by association as: "The idea that an individual is guilty of a crime simply because of his association with the person who actually committed it."

The dictionary traces the origin back to the mid-1500s.

The modern left defines guilt by association as anyone who supports President Trump.

Due to last week’s unrest there is now a GPS addition to the rule.

Anyone who supports Trump and was in or near the Capitol when the riot broke out is also guilty.

Guilt by association is different from being an accessory to a crime.

An accessory to a crime is someone that actively assists another in the commission of a crime. Police states under the misrule of Stalin and Hitler were great advocates of guilt by association.

Friends, relatives and even neighbors of an accused person were all rounded up and sent to the concentration camps to make sure no one escaped the authoritarian net.

Our modern left is enthusiastically using guilt by association to come after Trump, Trump supporters and Republicans in the wake of the Capitol riots hoping the public will mistakenly assume the accused are accessories.

That makes the exclusion and punishment (no camps, yet) appear to be just and the result of an identifiable offense.

That appears to be what Nancy Pelosi is hoping as she begins what RedState calls an "Insane gambit to expel GOP House members."

This is in addition to the warp speed impeachment she has going on a parallel track.

Pelosi is using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to power the expel movement, "Pelosi is now looking at the 14th Amendment as a way to expel Republican members of the House for supposedly taking part in an 'insurrection.'"

The relevant part of the Amendment reads: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress [who] shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

Pelosi either doesn’t know that the 14th Amendment was passed to grant citizenship to former slaves freed by the war Democrats caused. The "insurrection" referred to is the Civil War.

Her pretzel logic (an offense to pretzels everywhere) is that since President Trump questioned the ballot counting in the recent election, and Trump hosted a rally for supporters, and some of those supporters lost their mind and stormed the Capitol (the "Insurrection"), then any Republican member of the House who also expressed doubts about the fairness of the election is guilty of supporting an "insurrection."

In the interest of brevity, we will overlook the fact that if this had been a real "insurrection" the mob wouldn’t have given the Capitol back.Instead we will observe this is the latest effort by the left to turn a political disagreement into a crime.

And it’s not just politicians like Pelosi. Fellow corporate travelers like Citibank are now "pausing contributions" to House members who objected to the vote.

Something Citibank and the rest did not do in 2016 when Democrats objected.

Pelosi’s lunatic constitutional revenge fantasy is a literal dog whistle to corporations, academics, government at all levels and the media to actively go after Trump supporters by denying them jobs, reputations and access to the financial system.

This is authoritarian and its dangerous.

https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/insurrection-mob-riot/2021/01/12/id/1005192/






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