[American Prosperity] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims they did nothing wrong in testing Pegasus software created by an Israeli company that allows it to track a user’s mobile phone. An FBI spokesperson told The Washington Post they have never used it during investigations.
FBI’S STATEMENT ON TESTING SPYWARE TECHNOLOGY
According to a statement released by the FBI, they often work with emerging technology companies to learn more about the legal use of such software, help fight crime, and protect American citizens and our civil liberties.
The FBI claims it routinely tests technical solutions and problems in case a dangerous or sophisticated piece of software falls into the hands of criminals. However, they say the spyware in question was not operational and did not support any specific FBI investigations. Instead, the license obtained by the software company was limited to evaluation and product testing purposes only.
According to reports, the Pegasus software’s misuse has gotten the company NSO in trouble and landed it in the middle of some high-profile invasion of privacy and human rights abuse cases. Certain governments have allegedly used the product to spy on journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents.
Pegasus software was also recently used to hack into the mobile phones of individuals working at the State Department.
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Pegasus-like tools and mass surveillance is rather indispensable nowadays. It's just that I'd rather it be in the hands of a Right wing administration, used to crush the Left than in crazy marxist/corrupt/liberal, rubber gloved hands of fascists. 'Nuff said.
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Claiming innocence for wrong doing seems to be very common in the Biden (SD) junta.
Once again I'll say I am sure it is a small rouge politically planted element in the agency and a majority of the staff and agency see their careers being are threatened if they don't toe the line. Hence the leaks we see.
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i guess a right wing administration might go so far as mean tweets against lying lefties. Lefties on the other hand ban righties from the internet and doz them and even hold them in jail for a year without charges against them..
Obviously then we should fear those nasty righties.
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As we have seen, the safeguards to protect citizens built into the Patriot Act (and it's incarnations) and the FISA process are broken, have been seriously abused and need to be fixed or scrapped. Maybe the problem is that this act and the process is secretive and extra-constitutional--a tempting invitation for over-reach by tyrants.
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[REGNUM] The results of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are being discussed in Russia mostly in enthusiastic tones. This is understandable only on the basis of considerations of state propaganda and against the backdrop of joint opposition to the collective West. Vague statements and the sad reality of the state of bilateral foreign economic relations speak of Russia's significant lag, which makes it a junior partner and raw material appendage not only for the West, but also for the East.
[Right & Free] Kazakhstan's former head of counter-intelligence and anti-terrorism, Karim Masimov, has been arrested on charges of attempting to overthrow the Kazakhstani government. Authorities say security forces killed 26 demonstrators during the two week period of civil unrest, but independent sources estimate a total closer to 160 deaths.
A U.S. funded BSL-3 laboratory in Kazakhstan that studies viral strains, including COVID-19, is reported to have fallen into the hands of protestors during the uprising. Kazakhstani officials have denied reports that the controversial $102 million dollar laboratory was compromised — however, Russian media outlets reported a potential leak of deadly pathogens — similar to what some think may have occurred in 2019 at China’s virology laboratory in Wuhan, which set off a global pandemic.
Several Kazakhstani government offices, an airport and multiple buildings of interest were overtaken temporarily by government-opposed demonstrators during the two week incursion. Official Russian news agencies pointed out multiple social media reports claiming the Level-3 lab was overtaken by unidentified individuals near the deadly viral laboratory, including some seen wearing chemical protection suits.
Reports cited well-coordinated armed groups alongside protesters. Photos have emerged of weapons seized in the riots, and nearly 6,000 individuals have been detained - many being foreign nationals. It is not clear at this time where the alleged foreign provocateurs are from.
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If you think Covid-19 is novel, wait til you get Covid-20. Brought to you by Dr. Tony Fauci and the good folks at the NIH. Hey, you paid for it. Enjoy!
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COVID today
COVID tomorrow
COVID FOREVER
"Brandon loves me / this I know / for St. Fauci tells me so..."
In Ottawa, attempts by agents provocateurs to provoke violence at the Freedom Rally have gone nowhere. So last night, "anti-hate" buffoon Bernie Farber, friend to censors everywhere, was reduced to hate-hoaxing for Justin by circulating "anti-semitic flyers" sent to him by a "friend" "in Ottawa". Inevitably, within moments, they were revealed to be from something entirely different in Florida some weeks ago. So Bernie explained that his imaginary friend in Ottawa had seen actual hate flyers in Ottawa but had accidentally emailed him a similar flyer from America or something... These days Farber disgraces even himself.
Meanwhile, the Ottawa police have begun arresting citizens trying to deliver food to the truckers. There is no basis in Canadian law for the actions these goon coppers are taking, but the attitude of their dreadful police chief is: hey, the law is whatever I say it is. So he has ordered the arrest of citizens for "mischief". By mischief, he means bringing sustenance or heat to protesters passing the night in temperatures of twenty below.
~Many parts of the western world are in a very dark place right now, but none more so than Canada. Its unseen prime minister, who came into office promising "sunny ways", can no longer appear in public and sweepingly, tweetingly declares that he doesn't need to because the sort of chaps you run into out there are rubes who don't even know they're Islamophobes, transphobes, thisaphobes, thataphobes, too dumb even to be aware they're working for Putin.
As Tucker and I used to joke five years back, across the developed world the elite rise up against the masses: it's like an anti-1848, prefiguring the post-democratic era that the 2020s will usher in. The present showdown between the Bollywood Bridesmaid and the truckers who deliver his quinoa has made it about as explicit as you can get. The good humour in the face of elite contempt is impressive. Here are a couple of typical "angry" "hate-filled" "white supremacists":
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The truckers should start to put pictures of the nurenberg trials on some of their trucks with the caption "Just following orders didn't protect them, illegal orders are illegel."
[DCH] In acts of absurd desperation, we now see the White House and deep state propaganda rag mouthpiece publishers (WashPost, NYT, CNN, etc.) pushing aggressively to start a war with Russia.
Creating a "greater emergency" (i.e. international war) will allow the Biden regime to further terrorize the America people in all sorts malicious ways. In also creates a cover story for Biden's disastrous economic failures that are already plunging millions of Americans into food scarcity, joblessness and homelessness.
With an outbreak of (engineered) war with Russia, Biden's handlers could probably manage to declare a domestic state of emergency and roll out martial law across the USA as a "wartime" police state action.
From there, they plan to attempt nationwide gun confiscation, economic collapse and the total destruction of US military readiness in anticipation of enabling a communist China invasion of the USA.
1. Suspend the mid-term elections and stay in power as long as they can maintain the “emergency.”
2. Attempt nationwide gun confiscation from the American people.
3. Label anybody opposed to the Biden regime as “terrorists” or “sympathizers” with Russia.
4. Further attack the supply chain and cause mass famine and food riots, while blaming Russia for everything.
5. Achieve the desired collapse of the US dollar as the final act of looting of productive American workers.
[PJ] The left seems obsessed with bending over backward to make it easy for minorities to get hammered.
As PJ Media’s own Chris Queen reported earlier, the Biden administration is coughing up mad stacks to help "underserved communities" get zonked on hard drugs.
The feds are spending $30 million to help vulnerable populations get whacked, and that includes the LGBT alphabet soup peeps as well. All this to supposedly "help" drug users not OD. Making it easy to shoot or smoke serious drugs seems akin to having a suicide prevention meeting at a gun range.
Biden isn’t the only commie helping the downtrodden trash their lives. Former New York City pinko mayor Bill De Blasio opened two "shooting galleries" in the city, one in east Harlem and one in Washington Heights — both of which are minority neighborhoods. East Harlem is largely Spanish and Washington Heights is mostly black. The galleries allow a "safe" place for addicts to inject heroin. I remember when Democrats wanted to help people get off drugs and get their lives back.
Let’s not forget the vaccine-pushing apparatchiks also offered free weed and beer to convince people to get the vaccine, which is almost as dumb as offering people French fries and donuts to get the vax, even though COVID-19 is a chubby-chaser that feasts on fat people.
P.S. I hope I’m never THAT desperate for a free Budweiser.
Are drug kits a good idea? Not unless you’re looking to kill black, Hispanic, and gay people.
But Democrats aren’t interested in saving lives. Our southern border, much like Antifa, is a "myth."
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They should just confiscate Hunter's stash o' crack pipes and hand those out since redistribution is all the rage now.
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Throw open the borders to drugs and human trafficking and people get whacked and whacked out.
All according to plan thanks to loony Open Society ideas. No wonder people are pissed.
The view from Germany. Original article title: Donald Trump 'laying the groundwork' for another presidential run.
[DW] The former US president is riling up crowds at his rallies and has raised enormous funds. He hasn't yet made his intentions official but experts say if he runs again, he could win again.
At a recent rally in Texas, Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... talked about Crooked Hillary Clinton
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"The 2020 election was rigged and everyone knows it," Trump asserted, even though all such claims have been thoroughly disproved."
A resolution has been introduced by Rep. Finchem in Arizona which would basically decertify Arizona's 2020 election results. Similiar efforts are ongoing in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. A judge from the second highest court in Pennsylvania has ruled the 2020 election results unconstitutional. So no, the claims of a fraudulent election have not been disproved except in the derranged minds of the MSM and Dem Party (one and the same).
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I read that as the conventional wisdom being concerned that there is a serious probability that they’re going to have to deal with Donald Trump in the White House again, and this time he won’t hold back.
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^ But... I do hope people still keep faith and vote.
'...And He changeth the times and the seasons; He removeth kings and setteth up kings. He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding;' - [Daniel, OT ]
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the claims of a fraudulent election have not been disproved
No, but fraud can not affect the results of the election anymore, not since Jan 6. No court will take a case - since there is no Constitutional recourse the issue is moot.
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Meh, I'd rather have the more effective fighter DeSantis in office than Trump, but I'd settle for Trump over anyone else but him.
My ideal would be Desantis as President, and Trump as Speaker of the House. IMHO Speaker would suit Trump's style a lot better, and allow him to effectively beat the crap out of the bureaucracy by pushing congressional actions and investigations and passing laws stripping authority from the bureacrats.
Plus it would be a hoot to see him holding disciplinary power over "The Squad", and hearing their lamentations as they are driven down.
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Oh and the bonus for Speaker Trump? McConnel would be forced to deal with him instead of the other way around. Especially with a President DeSantis in the Whitehouse backing him up.
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#6 Glenmore, According to our Constution, the legislative branches of State governments have plenary power to decertify electors in an elections. The courts or executive branches are out of the picture.
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I think we are looking at 3 terms or more of GOP Presidents if they don't screw it up. That's what we got after Carter and Biden is both worth and seen as illegitimate. So saying that I'd Like a Biden/Desantes term followed by two Desantes/? terms.
I must say though that I really like Chealing Chomotle4158's idea of Trump as Speaker of the House (putting him 3rd in line for the Executive so the Dems wouldn't dare mess about with impeaching)
He'd quickly devolve into Tweeter of the House, picking entertaining but ultimately pointless fights with left-wing attention whores like Bucktooth and Tlaib-an.
Need more action and results from Le Grand Orange.
There are not many of them left, but imagine a 100-year-old survivor of Iwo Jima. He has seen in his lifetime the fall of Nazism, fascism, Japanese Imperialism and the Soviet Union.
He also remembered that after the war, America was the greatest land of all. Factories hummed. Each city had a specialty. Akron made tires. Detroit made cars. Pittsburgh made steel. Toledo made glass.
Most of that is gone now. Globalism shipped American jobs to Mexico and overseas in exchange for cheap stuff. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Red China swept in. Its plan to rule the world was stealth. It paid off the politicians and lured in the CEOs. It has racked up a $4 trillion trade surplus from the United States.
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Just as the confounding of languages destroyed the tower of Babel? I know COVID came at aright time for my government. Anarchy sponsored by Sorôs threatened establishments everywhere, and something... for whatever reason... gave us all the ability to crush it.
It's unfortunate that the baton was in the hands of the Dems by the time in the US.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Right & Free] Kazakhstan's former head of counter-intelligence and anti-terrorism, Karim Masimov, has been arrested on charges of attempting to overthrow the Kazakhstani government. Authorities say security forces killed 26 demonstrators during the two week period of civil unrest, but independent sources estimate a total closer to 160 deaths.
[PJ] The left seems obsessed with bending over backward to make it easy for minorities to get hammered.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
