[Strategic Culture Foundation] William Binney is the former technical director of the U.S. National Security Agency who worked at the agency for 30 years. He is a respected independent critic of how American intelligence services abuse their powers to illegally spy on private communications of U.S. citizens and around the globe. Given his expert inside knowledge, it is worth paying attention to what Binney says.
In a media interview this week, he dismissed the so-called Russiagate scandal as a "fabrication" orchestrated by the American Central Intelligence Agency. Many other observers have come to the same conclusion about allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections with the objective of helping Donald Trump get elected.
But what is particularly valuable about Binney’s judgment is that he cites technical analysis disproving the Russiagate narrative. That narrative remains dominant among U.S. intelligence officials, politicians and pundits, especially those affiliated with the Democrat party, as well as large sections of Western media. The premise of the narrative is the allegation that a Russian state-backed cyber operation hacked into the database and emails of the Democrat party back in 2016. The information perceived as damaging to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was subsequently disseminated to the Wikileaks whistleblower site and other U.S. media outlets.
A mysterious cyber persona known as "Guccifer 2.0" claimed to be the alleged hacker. U.S. intelligence and news media have attributed Guccifer as a front for Russian cyber operations.
Notably, however, the Russian government has always categorically denied any involvement in alleged hacking or other interference in the 2016 U.S. election, or elections thereafter.
William Binney and other independent former U.S. intelligence experts say they can prove the Russiagate narrative is bogus. The proof relies on their forensic analysis of the data released by Guccifer. The analysis of timestamps demonstrates that the download of voluminous data could not have been physically possible based on known standard internet speeds. These independent experts conclude that the data from the Democrat party could not have been hacked, as Guccifer and Russiagaters claim. It could only have been obtained by a leak from inside the party, perhaps by a disgruntled staffer who downloaded the information on to a disc. That is the only feasible way such a huge amount of data could have been released. That means the "Russian hacker" claims are baseless.
Wikileaks, whose founder Julian Assange is currently imprisoned in Britain pending an extradition trial to the U.S. to face espionage charges, has consistently maintained that their source of files was not a hacker, nor did they collude with Russian intelligence. As a matter of principle, Wikileaks does not disclose the identity of its sources, but the organization has indicated it was an insider leak which provided the information on senior Democrat party corruption.
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Ref #2: Shortly after the tragic Seth Rich shooting, WikiLeaks and Assange issues sort of lost media attention. Strange, very strange. Or could it be just another coincidence ?
[American Thinker] Millie Weaver, widely known as Millennial Millie, a 29-year old conservative new media video and print journalist with a large following online, was arrested at her home in Ohio on Friday morning. Police officers apparently from a local SWAT team took Weaver to the Portage County Jail in Ravenna, Ohio where she is being held without bail until at least Monday for a "tentative status hearing." A short video captured on her cell phone as she was being taken away was posted online.
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Meanwhile, the Orange Man continues to reduce overseas troop strengths and seeks to avoid entanglement in foreign squabbles sometimes referred to as 'Endless Wars'. Could there possibly be some sort of connection between our current foreign policy and Deep State angst toward Trump ?
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What to think. I never heard of this person before her arrest. Bombshell documentary? Please. This is a publicity operation. She's in jail for taking and breaking her mom's iPhone? World shattering super-crimes.
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A "secret" grand jury said so! Really? Is there any other kind?
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[MAIL] Gold's Gym has become synonymous with the Hollywood Dream.
Set just a few hundred yards from the ocean in sun-kissed Venice Beach, Los Angeles, Gold's was the backdrop for Pumping Iron, the 1977 documentary which followed a young, unknown Austrian bodybuilder called Arnold Schwarzenegger as he prepared for the Mr Universe contest.
The film turned him into an overnight sensation. He would go on to become a global superstar, marry a member of the Kennedy clan, and become Governor of California.
Yet today Gold's sits amid post-apocalyptic scenes which have consumed much of LA, turning the City of Dreams into an urban nightmare from which people are fleeing in droves.
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Huh..remember the title but never saw it. My guess is that is shows the internal rot that was held under the covers for decades based on the preview.
Glad I live near beautiful Boise, ID. Flyover country and hope it stays that way.
[IsraelTimes] "There is a difference between Black Lives Matter and the Movement for Black Lives," is the argument that is often made. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... it seems that the only people making that argument are non-BLM members. Personally, I have never heard that argument coming from anyone from BLM or M4BL, and that’s probably because it isn’t true. Not only is the argument not true, the organizers of both entities make it clear that they are connected to every ’liberation’ group that is aligned with their values. The very concept of intersectionality is that our struggles for justice connect us to a larger, interdependent struggle against issues like white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... . There is no evidence to suggest that BLM chapters do not share M4BL’s goals, but there is plenty of evidence to suggest they are one and the same.
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Liberal US Jews voted for this. And now they are complaining about it.
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Is there any point at which we stop accommodating BLM? We're already kneeling for the nation anthem, re-writing American history, defunding police departments, and picking candidates solely on the basis of race. Making antisemitism official policy can't be far behind.
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Let me know when American Jews cease to give them 70% of their vote.
Until then, I can only assume they're fine with all this.
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Jewish people laughed and laughed as BLM used this exact same rhetoric against whites. Now the monster has turned on them and suddenly they're not laughing any more.
And calling them anti-Semitic doesn't work the way it did on whites. Blacks have no guilt about being the perpetrators of the Holocaust like whites do. All they know is the slumlords who made a mint off them.
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All they know is the stereotype of Jewish slumlords who made a mint off them, most of whom are not Jewish.
Fixed it for you, Elmung Hatrack5948. What they actually know is the Nation of Islam anti-Jewish propaganda that has added to all the previous layers of anti-Jewish propaganda going back to the Classical Greeks.
As it happens, in the early days of our marriage Mr. Wife and I bought several small properties and fixed them up for rentals, happily working evenings and weekends around our day jobs. Mr. Wife wanted to use the construction skills that had paid his way through college, and I thought it romantic to be his unskilled apprentice. We were members of the local real estate investors association for the better part of a decade, enjoying the speakers, networking, and the group discounts; I was the only Jew among the several hundred members, though Cincinnati has an active Jewish community that matches the national average of 1.5% of the population.
[Rasmussen] Likely Democrat nominee Joe Biden is expected to announce his vice presidential running mate any day now, and most voters think it’s likely that person will be president within the next four years if Biden is elected in November.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it’s likely Biden’s running mate will be president before the end of Biden’s four-year term if he wins this fall, with 39% who say it’s Very Likely. Thirty-five percent (35%) consider it unlikely that Biden’s vice presidential choice will be president before his four-year term ends, but that includes only 14% who think it’s Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Even 49% of Democrats think it’s likely Biden’s vice president will become president in the next four years, although that compares to 73% of Republicans and 57% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
[American Thinker] Many Americans seem to have understandably concluded that Joe Biden has dementia based on his very public displays of confusion, aphasia, and incoherence. But the question we should actually be asking is What is going on with Joe out of public view?
Like many Americans who have cared for parents with dementia, I witnessed my father’s decline firsthand and, sadly, Joe Biden is presenting exactly as my father did in the early stages -- right down to the vacant look in his eyes. While I am neither doctor nor expert, physicians and other medical professionals rely heavily on caregiver observations because they monitor the disease’s progression 24/7 over the long haul, and can add valuable input that is not always obvious at an appointment or measurable with a cognitive test. I am relying on my experience as my father’s caregiver, corroborated by medical professionals, health consultants, literature, research, and the shared experiences of others. Of course, not every dementia victim will experience every symptom, but the commonalities are significant.
As the disease grabs hold of one’s faculties, men like Biden and my father continue to view themselves as experienced executives -- in control, commanding, and coherent; holding court as the family patriarch; the old dude who’s seen it all. They don’t doubt their ability to express complex ideas with the right words. And so, they conduct business as usual and, for the most part, things go fine until they stammer over a word, get frustrated, then confused, and either babble their way out or shut down. It isn’t long before lost words, forgotten names, and elusive ideas are replaced by whatchamacallit, whosimajig, whatshername, and the thing.
These lapses can be easily hidden during the early stages. It’s not uncommon for loved ones, spouses in particular, to make excuses for the afflicted, cover up the messes, and run interference with others. In those embarrassing moments when a dementia patient fails to recognize someone he should know, the dutiful spouse (often in denial) will swoop down, rush to his side, and handle the mishap. Of course X remembers you. He’s just very tired from our trip. Can you excuse us for a second? She will answer the phone and put the caller on speaker to assist with answering questions her spouse might find confounding. She will accompany him everywhere and serve as backup if he starts to frazzle. But for those occasional "senior moments," he seems put together to the outside world.
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I used to date a social worker who said there are two broad classes of dementia patients: the placid and the belligerent. We know Joe ain't placid. But we don't hear any shrieking about how bad it would be to have him near the "football."
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But we don't hear any shrieking about how bad it would be to have him near the "football."
Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-16 05:24
...The little-g good news here is that even the person behind the Resolute desk cannot order a nuclear strike completely on his or her own - a second individual actually physically present(SecDef, NSA, possibly VPOTUS, CJCS, and likely SecState) MUST concur, or all the codes in the world won't do a bit of good. If Biden suddenly got it into his head to glass Jacksonville or Brazzaville it's not likely to happen, no more than it would be with DJT. And on reflection, this proves that the Democratic terrors of DJT suddenly deciding to nuke something are no more than unhinged fantasies or attempts to make political points among the unknowing because they know perfectly well how the system works.
My biggest concern along those lines is that when our enemies try us after Biden gets elected - and we know good and damned well that they will - that the stress and speed of such an event will overwhelm him, and we're faced with a President who simply cannot make a decision or worse, is simply crying in a corner. We have lots of contingencies in the event of losing POTUS, trust me on that. We don't have one in the event they have a nervous breakdown.
Mike
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We used to call this "senile" back when my grandmother was 90.
The question that worries me is who are the puppet masters pulling his strings and what do they have in store for us if he wins?
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#4 Edith Wilson Dr. Jill Biden, for one
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Frank,
I don't think it will ever get that far...because long before that, Vice President Harris will be leaking Biden's condition like a sieve and pushing hard behind the scenes for a 25th Amendment finding.
For Joe's own good, of course.
Mike
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[JPost] Iran’s regime has led the charge in opposing bilateral peaceful relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. It has been joined by Turkey, which threatened to sever relations with Abu Dhabi,
Oh noes!
and a few other voices, such as former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes, who played a role in the Obama administration.
The paucity of voices opposing the agreement have brought together an increasingly small chorus that is obsessively critical of Israel or which is aligned with the increasing extremism of Ankara and the regime in Tehran.
[Jerusalem Post] In the wake of the normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, there are rumors that several other states could be next to sign an agreement with Israel. While there are hurdles to normalizing relations with some states in the Middle East, there are others who view the UAE decision as a trial balloon, and will react positively based on how the next weeks and months play out between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi. What follows is a list of some examples of countries that reports suggest may be in line to normalize relations.
[IsraelTimes] Parties to the deal, including Netanyahu and Trump, secure a major victory, while the Paleostinians, Israeli opposition and some settlers are left in the dust.
Summary below, details at the link.
The treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a big deal.
The agreement, announced Thursday in a joint statement by Israel, the UAE and the White House, means that Israel will now have diplomatic and economic relations with a country that had previously not recognized it. In return for recognition and relations, Israel pledged to suspend its ambitions to annex parts of the West Bank.
The UAE is a Moslem kingdom in the Persian Gulf made up of seven smaller entities, called emirates, with huge oil and natural gas reserves. Its metropolis, Dubai, is a wealthy city known as a commercial center for the region. The country borders Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and is only dozens of miles across the water from Iran. It has a tiny Jewish community.
It becomes only the third Arab nation to establish official ties with the Jewish state, following deals with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
In addition to trade, tourism and other exchanges, the treaty means the two countries can collaborate on treatment for the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... and countering the influence of Iran, a shared nemesis.
That makes Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... a likely loser in this deal. The dealmakers are, of course, likely winners.
Here’s our analysis of who stands to benefit from this historic accord — and who has been dealt a surprise setback.
The Winners:
Benjamin Netanyahu
The United Arab Emirates
Donald Trump
Liberal Zionists
The Losers:
Liberal Zionists
The Palestinians
The Israeli opposition
The settlers (or at least some of them) and their American supporters
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From the link: Winner: Liberal Zionists
Liberal Zionism is built on the idea that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is Israel’s most pressing diplomatic concern. This accord does not do that.
Yet liberal Zionist groups are celebrating the agreement. After all, their long-term goal is an Israel at peace with its neighbors. This isn’t how they thought they would get there, but a treaty is still a treaty. J Street, the largest liberal Zionist organization, said in a statement that the pact is “just the latest evidence that dialogue and diplomacy, rather than unilateral action and belligerence, are the route to long-term security.”
The suspension of annexation is also at least a temporary win for liberal Zionists, who have been bemoaning that such a move would mean the end of efforts toward a Palestinian state alongside Israel. For them, this is a temporary reprieve from that threat. Loser: Liberal Zionists
Still, the accord is a major blow to the idea that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is Israel’s most pressing diplomatic concern. Liberal Zionists have warned that without sacrifices on the Palestinian issue, peace with other Arab countries is impossible.
Liberal Zionists have said, too, that continued West Bank occupation harms US-Israel relations. The UAE deal is a major blow to that idea. Occupation wasn’t an obstacle for the Trump administration, and apparently it’s not for the UAE, either.
Liberal Zionists have protested for more than a decade against Netanyahu and his policies. This is a major win for a man they desperately want to see lose.
The suspension of West Bank annexation isn’t a sure thing, either. Shortly after the treaty was announced, Netanyahu said he still hasn’t given up on annexing parts of the West Bank. So the one concession Netanyahu appeared to have made on their issue might not even last.
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The article lists one more winner, lord garth: The long view of Israeli history. I didn’t think it was important enough to mention, but I should have kept in mind the eagle eyes of our readers.
[IsraelTimes] Jerusalem worried about reports saying Iran’s foe may similarly seek nuclear weapons, but has so far remained silent as it works toward diplomatic relations with the fellow US ally
It’s obvious why Jerusalem has vowed to do everything in its power to prevent Iran, which continues to threaten the Jewish state with annihilation, from obtaining nuclear weapons. But what if Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... — the archenemy of Israel’s archenemy — were also interested in developing a nuclear weapons program?
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But what if Soddy Arabia — the archenemy of Israel’s archenemy
This is bull. Saudia is Israel’s archenemy. Real peace with Iran - once the regime is changed - is possible. Real peace with Arabs is a pipe-dream.
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...It is entirely likely that the Saudis have had access to nuclear weapons for many, many years now - they did pay for Pakistan's bombs on the condition, explicit or implied, that when they said the word warheads would be delivered. They have openly had nuclear capable aircraft for decades; more of an 'open secret' is their possession of Chinese IRBMs - officially armed with conventional warheads, but doing so would be a remarkable waste of money and resources even for the Saudis.
This may well be another of the Obama Administration's chickens coming home to roost - the Saudis have been burned once by a change in our policy, and they're not going to let it happen again.
Mike
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My understanding is that the Saudis financed the Pakistani nuclear project with the clear understanding that they could get working warheads as needed. See Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force.
[Breitbart] Duke University economist William Darity Jr. and his wife Kirsten Mullen have co-authored a report proposing $12 trillion in reparations for Americans whose ancestors were enslaved.
The plan, written for The Roosevelt Institute, calls for between $10 trillion and $12 trillion — approximately $800,000 per African-American household — to be paid.
"[The] US government—the culpable party—must pay the debt," the report proclaims. "Ultimately, respect for black Americans as people and as citizens—and acknowledgment, redress, and closure for the history and financial hardship they have endured—requires monetary compensation."
The proposal has been dismissed by conservative and libertarian-leaning experts, who say it would greatly hinder economic growth.
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the only reparation i would even be remotely open to discussing would be a one-way ticket to Liberia and a signed document renouncing their citizenship.
you're either part of the country or not. looters of the public coffers have too long been seen as part of the country.
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One-way ticket to Liberia + a flat-screen, a new pair of Jordans and a box of Happy Meals.
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I'll burn everything I own and disappear in the woods first.
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Two major problems with reparations: Who gets them, and who pays them?
Does Obama get reparations? His father was from Kenya. If any of his ancestors were slaves, they were slaves of Muslims in Africa.
Does my wife have to pay reparations? Her ancestors came to the US in the 1920s from the UK.
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The Great Society Social Spending on blacks and other minorities since the '60s far exceeds the $12 Trillion. Bills for the balance owed by the black/minority recipients will accompany your mail-in ballots
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[PJMedia] Jihadis continue to tell infidels what they wish to hear, and the latter continue to eat it up—to their own, often fatal, detriment.
This is one of the findings of a July 22, 2020 study titled "Prisons and Terrorism" in Western Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... (the second such publication of a decade-long project begun in 2010). Published by Kings College London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), it finds that "’False compliance’ seems to have become more widespread, especially among jihadist prisoners, though its true extent is unknown. This can be a major issue in relation to risk assessment and release arrangements."
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[Jewish World Review] I started my almost 30 year career at the Walt Disney Studios in 1970. Walt Disney himself had only been dead about three years and the studio was still pretty much the same as it had been when Walt was running things.
Walt was a patriot and he enjoyed making pictures that celebrated America's history and heroes from American Revolutionary Johnny Tremain to Davy Crockett to Pecos Bill and Casey Jones. Walt and his team also created entertainment that highlighted the family, stories such as Pollyanna, Swiss Family Robinson, Old Yeller, and Mary Poppins.
The studio grounds felt like a college campus, a college campus from the 1950s. When I walked through the halls of the animation building or around the lot people who passed by would look me in the eyes and smile. They'd say "hello" even if they didn't know me. That's the way it was then, friendly, family-like, and welcoming.
The Disney studio had the reputation of being the best animation studio in the world. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and so many other classics were produced at this magical place.
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They went from telling uplifting stories (which doesn't need a happy ending if you're a good writer) by excellent writers, to preaching by idiots selected purely on ideological lines.
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The guy who built it, earned it. The generations afterward, like so many other trust fund babies, squandered what made its wealth possible in the first place. They're living off the name. Time for the Mouse to die. Copyright back to 14 years with an additional 14 for the individual artist.
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It would be child abuse to deny your young kids access to the Disney classics, and the woke crowd of parents avidly buy the new propaganda crap whether their kids want to see it or not. So, yes, Disney ain't going away any time soon.
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You take away the bought and paid for infinite copyright protection and you'll hear the flak over target.
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People whine about the copyright thing all the time. It's only worth what the public will pay. If the public is willing to pay a lot why wouldn't you (as a corporation) consider it a valuable asset to protect by law / bribe / etc?
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The only reason we even have such insane copyright laws is so Mickey Mouse doesn't go into the public domain. He was created in 1932 or thereabouts, for chrissake.
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.
Ref #2: Shortly after the tragic Seth Rich shooting, WikiLeaks and Assange issues sort of lost media attention. Strange, very strange. Or could it be just another coincidence ? 
[American Thinker] Millie Weaver, widely known as Millennial Millie, a 29-year old conservative new media video and print journalist with a large following online, was arrested at her home in Ohio on Friday morning. Police officers apparently from a local SWAT team took Weaver to the Portage County Jail in Ravenna, Ohio where she is being held without bail until at least Monday for a "tentative status hearing." A short video captured on her cell phone as she was being taken away was posted online.
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
