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Nineteen Years. Never Forget.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NoMoreBS comment from 9/10: 'Can Ciaramella be linked to the newly identified Brennan intel cell working off the books against Trump?'
[DOMI GOOD] FORMER CIA OFFICER: Anti-Trump CIA "Whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella Was Hand-Picked by John Brennan for White House Job (VIDEO)

As the sham impeachment inquiry continues on Capitol Hill today, new details emerged on One America News on the whistleblower Eric Ciaramella who started the entire process.

One America’s Jack Posobiec sat down with a former CIA officer Brad Johnson the president of IntelReform.org.

Johnson offered a compelling argument on how Eric Ciaramella was handpicked by former CIA Director John Brennan for his job spying on the Trump Administration in the White House.

Video interview at link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More importantly, will anybody do anything about it?
Posted by: gorb || 09/11/2020 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Brennan needs a bullet.
Posted by: H-T-A || 09/11/2020 2:06 Comments || Top||

#3  The 'food chain' was likely; the Vindman bros. to Ciaramella, Cairamella to Brennan, Brennan to the Clintons.

BTW, the term "off the books" could be interpreted as a highly sensitive 'compartmented program.'

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2020 6:54 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ What a bunch of "saps".
Posted by: Clem || 09/11/2020 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Certainly what I meant B, but based on open source reporting and inferential analysis alone, not any access. Those days are long past.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/11/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Sadly, long past for me as well. Bet you cant tell I miss it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Most old cold warriors miss some of it, certainly the clarity of good guys and bad guys, They kept their mutts in check and the little twerps rarely got out of line without permission. Now half the threats are our own people it seems, or at least fellow travellers bought and paid for, often with our own money.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/11/2020 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  What would we "pay" to bring back the Fulda Gap?
Posted by: Clem || 09/11/2020 13:55 Comments || Top||

#9  China. Now there's China.

Except half the Deep State's prob'y in cahoots with them ...
Posted by: Fat Bob Clunk5773 || 09/11/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#10  We have gone from a place in the business where you wondered who CAN'T you trust, to today wondering who CAN you trust. Toxic and corrosive when you have to repress opinions because they might be career ending.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/11/2020 15:57 Comments || Top||


Dave Daubenmire: 'Ain't it bout time somebody done something?'
[News with Views] Years ago, here in the Columbus, Ohio area there was a radio personality who often went on a verbal tirade and at the end of it he always lamented:

"Ain’t It Bout Time Somebody Done Something?"

I have been thinking about him a lot lately as it appears to be more likely everyday that no one is going to do anything about the machinations of the Deep State. As I hunt and peck on my computer today, we are 54 days away from the 2020 election and not one member of the Deep State has been brought to justice.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think it is past time for some perp walks? With all the talk about the investigations that were going on behind the scenes many Americans were excited about the prospect of some high-ranking, very recognizable dignitaries making some very public perp walks. It is looking less likely every day. To this day, Benedict Arnold is famous because of his crimes. How can anyone ever have any confidence in our Federal institutions if no one heads to the gallows?

Literally...to the gallows. Some Deep State officials should forfeit their lives for the crap they have pulled over the past several years. The swamp is deep, and although the corruption did not all the sudden begin recently, the exposing of the corruption has never been more publicly visible.

You do remember the idea of pitchforks and torches, don’t you? The idea of vigilante justice that occurred when those whose job it was to keep things honest failed to do their jobs? The good ole boys in town would round up a citizen’s posse and go make sure some of the varmint’s in government were held accountable for their malfeasance in office. "We the People" often required an angry mob to re-establish justice.

Are we there yet, or are we just too dignified for that today? What are we to do when the corruption in government is so deep that there is no longer any real justice? Currently, we have a legal system, but not a justice system. How long will we wait for corrupt government officials to prosecute their corrupt government buddies? Like pond scum, the swamp creatures cover for each other.

Treason has occurred under our watch. Real treason, from domestic enemies within our own government. Domestic enemies are more dangerous than foreign ones because they look so much like the people they claim to be working against. Domestic treason is still punishable by death.

I did some research I would like to share with you. These are actual Federal codes designed to keep our politicians honest. Read through some of these and see if you think that there are some Donkeys and Elephants who are guilty of violating them. Consider also, those domestic terrorists in the streets in Portland and other cities who are intent on overthrowing America. The Law can be found here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is it just me, or does anyone else think it is past time for some perp walks?

It's not just you.

This was a coup. Take back our country. Starting on Nov. 3.
Posted by: Waldemar Elminerong1793 || 09/11/2020 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it just me, or does anyone else think it is past time for some perp walks?

I remember reading that one of the things that doomed the Weimar Republic was it's Deep State. Most of the bureaucrats were holdovers from the old regime under the Kaiser and were quietly (and not so quietly at times) contemptuous of the new adventure into parliamentary democracy. They were a subversive element that was not necessarily pro-Nazi, or pro-Socialist (they largely hated them!), but certainly were termites that hollowed out the supports of democracy.

This behavior should have been spotted and the rot excised there. It should be rooted out here and now in our republic.
Posted by: magpie || 09/11/2020 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile, the torture of Michael Flynn continues.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 3:33 Comments || Top||

#4  And Bill Barr is a deep state shepard minding his flock.
Posted by: Clem || 09/11/2020 3:52 Comments || Top||

#5  The longer the "investigations" drag on with nothing happening (no formal indictments or perp walks), the less chance that anything will ever happen.

The Clinton 'home brew' servers and mishandling of thousands of classified documents is yet another example of 'running the clock out' by our multi-tiered justice system.

"Ain't It Bout Time Somebody Done Something"...sorry we passed the mile marker a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2020 6:43 Comments || Top||

#6  This whole thing is beyond frustration. One could find a growing number of American citizens who would help with the cause of justice. The tree of liberty needs watering every now and then.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/11/2020 7:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Did you think the Deep State denizens, with all their power, would be so easy to defeat?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/11/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Our country began its current nose-dive when we stopped hanging congresscritters for corruption. The ONLY way we'll return to those "good old days" is to get back to it. Unfortunately, the longer it takes, the more likely it will require blood in the streets -- by the hogshead.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 09/11/2020 15:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Sometimes I think its time for some lamp-post decorating.
Not quite to the point of advocating it... but if certain people started decorating lampposts I wouldn't object too strongly.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/11/2020 18:45 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
America Has Exceeded Anyone's Wildest Dreams
[FrontPage] In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. For black people, the socioeconomic progress achieved during my lifetime, which started in 1936, exceeded anyone's wildest dreams. In 1936, most black people lived in gross material poverty and racial discrimination. Such poverty and discrimination is all but nonexistent today. Government data, assembled by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, shows that "the average American family ... identified as poor by the Census Bureau, lives in an air-conditioned, centrally heated house or apartment ... They have a car or truck. (Indeed, 43% of poor families own two or more cars.)" The household "has at least one widescreen TV connected to cable, satellite, or a streaming service, a computer or tablet with internet connection, and a smartphone. (Some 82% of poor families have one or more smartphones." On top of this, blacks today have the same constitutional guarantees as everyone else, which is not to say that every vestige of racial discrimination has been eliminated.

The poverty we have today is spiritual poverty. Spiritual poverty is an absence of what traditionally has been known as various human virtues. Much of that spiritual poverty is a result of public and private policy that rewards inferiority and irresponsibility. Chief among the policies that reward inferiority and irresponsibility is the welfare state. When some people know they can have children out of wedlock, drop out of school and refuse employment and suffer little consequence and social sanction, one should not be surprised to see the growth of such behavior. Today's out-of-wedlock births among blacks is over 70%, but in the 1930s, it was 11%. During the same period, out-of-wedlock births among whites was 3%; today, it is over 30%. It is fashionable and politically correct to blame today's 21% black poverty on racial discrimination. That is nonsense. Why? The poverty rate among black husband-and-wife families has been in the single digits for more than two decades. Can anyone produce evidence that racists discriminate against black female-headed families but not black husband-and-wife families?

For most people, education is one of the steppingstones out of poverty, and it has been a steppingstone for many black people. Today, decent education is just about impossible at many big-city public schools where violence, disorder, disrespect and assaults on teachers are routine. The kind of disrespectful and violent behavior observed in many predominantly black schools is entirely new. Some have suggested that such disorder is part of black culture, but that is an insulting lie. Black people can be thankful that double standards, and public and private policies rewarding inferiority and irresponsibility, were not broadly accepted during the 1920s, '30s, '40s and '50s. There would not have been the kind of intellectual excellence and spiritual courage that created the world's most successful civil rights movement.

Many whites are ashamed, saddened and guilt-ridden by our history of slavery, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. They see that justice and compensation for that ugly history is to hold their fellow black Americans accountable to the kind of standards and conduct they would never accept from whites. That behavior and conduct is relatively new. Meet with black people in their 70s or older, even liberal politicians such as Charles Rangel (age 90), and Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (85), Alcee Hastings (83) and Maxine Waters (82). Ask them whether their parents would have tolerated their assaulting and cursing of teachers or any other adult. I bet you the rent money their parents and other parents of that era would not have accepted the grossly disrespectful behavior seen today among many black youngsters who use foul language and racial epithets at one another. These older blacks will tell you that, had they behaved that way, they would have felt serious pain in their hind parts. If blacks of yesteryear would not accept such self-destructive behavior, why should today's blacks accept it?

Black people have made tremendous gains over the years that came as a result of hard work, sacrifice and a no-nonsense approach to life. Recovering those virtues can provide solutions to many of today's problems.
Posted by: 746 || 09/11/2020 02:31 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is why the Left seeks to destroy real history. Then their objective failures have nothing to compare to. Fascinating, given how many failures after failures are out there of their design. The old 'the right people' lie is their only response. There are never the 'right people' when you centralize and concentrate power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/11/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  That's because they're persistent - they believe in never-ending struggle. You like to rest on your laurels.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Dinesh DiSousa summed up the situation perfectly. The inner city is the modern equivalent of a southern plantation. Instead of having the residents pick cotton they now provide votes to the segregationist Democratic party and in return are given basic food and shelter.
Posted by: Lumpy Slomoting3095 || 09/11/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  the average American family ... identified as poor by the Census Bureau,...

Used to be, the feds classed you as "poor" if you were in the bottom 15%. I don't know if this is still true, but I suspect it is since having a constant supply of poor people is handy for activists and grifters wanting to uplift the downtrodden.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/11/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||


The Legacy of Mark Bingham Lingers 19 Years after His Heroic Death on 9/11
[MetroSource] Entrepreneur, rugby player, gay man: Mark Bingham was known to friends, family and co-workers as a lot of things in his short life. Today, he’s remembered across the globe as a gay hero of 9/11.

Bingham was one of those who decided to put their lives on the line to prevent hijacked United Flight 93 from colliding with its intended target, which many believe was either the Capitol Building or the White House in Washington, D.C.

The 31-year-old Bingham and fellow passengers Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett and Jeremy Glick assessed the situation and decided to storm the cockpit of the plane, where they hoped to retake control of the flight or at least prevent it from being used as a missile.

The world now knows that because they took action, the plane roared from the sky into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where ceremonies were held today to commemorate their loss and once again pay tribute to their courage.

Mark Bingham is remembered with particular fondness by the gay community, not only because of his selfless act of bravery in the face of odds that were at best dire. He exemplifies the gay man so many aspire to be: compassionate, wise, clever, and imposing enough to make a difference in a physical altercation.

Having broken bones as a high school soccer player, he was no stranger to pain. Later, he’d push through an endless string of injuries to help take the University of California Berkeley to two national championships.

Those who knew him well readily tell the curious that Mark was an intense fellow who actually relished strategies for plowing through a field of adversaries — although during a match, he was just as likely to pick someone up, pat him on the back and tell him he’s doing a great job.

By the end of the ’90s, Bingham was partnered and had opened his own high-tech PR agency, the Bingham Group. It was not a life someone would have been happy to walk away from. He could have done nothing and hoped for the best.

What he did do was call his Mom once United Airlines 93 was hijacked. "Hi Mom, this is Mark Bingham," he said with atypical formality. "I just wanted to say I love you. I am on a flight from Newark to San Francisco, and there are three guys on board who’ve taken over the plane and they say they have a bomb."

What we don’t know is what Mark, Todd, Tom and Jeremy did that saved hundreds of lives, only that the hijackers died without success, taking the passengers and crew of Flight 93 along with them.

A year after his death, a biennial international rugby union competition predominantly for gay and bisexual men, was established in his memory. The Mark Kendall Bingham Memorial Tournament has since become known worldwide simply as The Bingham Cup.
Posted by: Beavis || 09/11/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


China-Japan-Koreas
The Chinese Penetration of Israeli Media
Begin-Sadat center via JPost
Not long ago, the Israeli paper Makor Rishon published a comprehensive cover story on a Chinese individual who goes by the name Itzik HaSini ("Itzik the Chinese"). His original name is Xi Xiaoqi, and he works in the Hebrew Department of China Radio International (CRI), which was established in September 2009. The station, which operates websites and makes videos as well as producing radio broadcasts, went on the air in 1940 as a tool to promote Communist Party of China (CPC) ideology. It has expanded dramatically over the years and is now active in over 60 languages.

The interview with Itzik, along with other statements provided by CRI representatives that are dutifully passed along without critical comment by the Israeli media, raises the concern that those media are inappropriately providing a platform for the Chinese Communist party (CPC). The concern is not that the messages are being broadcast to the Israeli public but that they are being disseminated without comment—in other words, that the Israeli media, which should be providing independent news reporting, are simply repeating Chinese messages verbatim, without interpretation or analysis. This undermines the essential role to be played in a democracy by an independent and critical media.

In the article, Itzik explains why CRI has a Hebrew department: to produce videos "that tell Israelis about China and about life there... [and improve] China’s image through content that presents the country in a positive way". When he is asked whether this endeavor amounts to propaganda, he replies by pointing out the difference between the reality of what happens in Israel and global public perceptions of it. According to Itzik, China is battling a similar gap between reality and perception. He then explicitly draws an analogy between allegations of Israeli treatment of Palestinians and Chinese treatment of various populations.

Instead of confronting Itzik with the significant differences between those situations and the reasons why it is a false analogy, the Makor Rishon reporter shifts the conversation to matters of copyright violation in China. In doing so, he falls for a standard Chinese interview tactic. It is commonplace for Chinese officials and representatives, when asked about their country, to make comparisons with other countries and thereby divert the discussion.

...China’s international radio station has reason to congratulate itself on its successful penetration of the Israeli mainstream media. It has established itself as a key source on everything related to China and can depend on the local media to swallow its messages without challenge or complaint.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 06:09 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
The Victorian government has effectively become an elected dictatorship.

"The Victorian government has effectively become an elected dictatorship. The Victorian government is currently sending the police into family homes to arrest anyone posting Facebook messages encouraging others to protest against lockdowns."https://t.co/obhefBZJw4

— Caldron Pool (@CaldronPool) September 10, 2020


Zimmermann: It's Time to Resist the Tyranny of the Ruling Classes

Enacted by the Western Australian Parliament, the Iron Ore Processing Agreement Amendment Act provides the State Premier and his Attorney General exemption from the criminal law and civil liabilities. The Act bans any matter being taken to court so that, in theory, it would ban even actions in the Australian High Court. It explicitly terminates legal proceedings in relation to coronavirus measures which were currently underway in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the Supreme Court of Queensland, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal Court of Australia.

In addition, the WA Act prohibits freedom of information by preventing citizens from obtaining the proper information about what the State Government is doing to hold it accountable. Finally, the Act gives the Premier the arbitrary power to impose legislation without reference to Parliament. In essence, this an unconstitutional exercise of power that completely violates the most basic elements of the rule of law and democratic government, including separation of powers, natural justice and due process of law.

Perhaps even more disturbing is the Prime Minister's refusal to criticise the arbitrary behaviour of these Premiers, in keeping with his strong belief in "national leadership unity". ’Daniel Andrews has my full support ... I will give him every support he needs, Scott Morrison said. Offering support to the oppressive measures of the Victorian government is, according to him, ’the only thing that matters to the federal government.
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/11/2020 00:34 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Police state or state of the police? One makes the other possible.
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/11/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||


#3  And if your modern incarnations of the ancient Roman dictators had worked 10% as hard to push vitamin D and HCQ as they did opposing the HCQ and pushing masks (of which there are no supporting studies of the type they demand for HCQ) this bug would be a non-factor by now.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/11/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#4  But Mandarins are gonna Mandarin.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/11/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 If HCQ is so great, how do you explain Brazil?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 09/11/2020 14:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Brazil has no worries. They are going to employ the new Russian vaccine.
Posted by: Clem || 09/11/2020 14:33 Comments || Top||

#7  I would guess they're not using it prophylactically enough. That study that came out of Brazil where they were waiting until late in the disease and then they'd give patients a fatal dose is bad enough.

They Chinese may be using their bureaucracy against them the same way they're using our bureaucracy against us because of Trump.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/11/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Kenosha Riots Ravaged the Black Community
[PJMedia] After police shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Black Lives Matter activists took to the streets, engaging in acts of vandalism, looting, and arson at night. According to a new report on the extent of the damage, the riots disproportionately harmed minority-owned businesses, ravaging the very black community the activists meant to defend.

“While Kenosha’s population is 79.5% white and 11.5% Black, according to census data, locals say the Uptown neighborhood is one of the city’s most diverse areas, with a majority of minority-owned businesses,” The Wall Street Journal‘s Erin Ailworth reported. The riots damaged or destroyed at least 56 businesses and the mayor estimated a grand total of $50 million in damage.

“I always think that people have the right to protest—to peacefully protest—but this goes beyond that,” Abel Alejo, owner of the La Estrella Supermarket and an immigrant from Mexico, told the Journal. “They were destroying the neighborhoods that they want to protect.”

Clyde McLemore, the founder of the Lake County chapter of Black Lives Matter, warned that the riots detracted from his organization’s message. He said he urged BLM protesters to obey the city’s curfew and he does not think they perpetrated any of the destruction.

“We’re not into doing anything to damage our community,” McLemore said. “It waters down our message.”

Jan Michalski, the Kenosha alderman who represents Uptown, told the Journal that the riots “put us a generation back. After the unrest and rioting, half the buildings in the Uptown area are either badly damaged or completely unusable.”

Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian requested $30 million in state funding to help cover the property damage and other destruction, which his office attributed to “violent demonstrators and rioters, led largely by people from outside the city.”

‘Like a Scene Out of Hell’: Armed BLM Rioters Loot, Pillage, and Burn Kenosha Following Police Shooting

While the rioters and their allies in antifa and Black Lives Matter justify looting and arson by claiming that businesses have insurance, not every business does have insurance and many insurance plans do not cover the entire extent of the damage. Even when insurance does cover the damage, such claims often increase insurance premiums in the area, driving up the cost of business.

Insurance also cannot address the psychological damage of looting, arson, and wanton destruction. Business owners put years of care and effort into their establishments, and rioters set a torch to all their hard work. Residents see their neighborhoods on fire. Some observers described the riot-plagued Kenosha as “a scene out of hell,” for good reason.

As Brad Polumbo wrote over at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), “the destruction in Kenosha and its disproportionate impact on urban, minority communities reminds us of a timeless lesson: Property rights are the fundamental basis of a market economy. Yet, despite how critics often portray them, property rights are not simply a matter of protecting the wealthy and big corporations. The protection of private property is what ensures immigrants, minorities, and poor people are not derailed on their climb up the economic ladder in pursuit of the American dream.”

“Callous disregard of property rights creates long-term instability that scares away business investment and reduces economic opportunity. Often, this manifests itself in the form of lower property values, higher insurance rates passed on to consumers,reduced tax revenue, and fewer jobs in an area,” Polumbo added. “You don’t have to just take my word for it. Studies examining the long-term economic impact of the 1960s Civil Rights Era riots and the 1990s Los Angeles Rodney King riots document these exact effects.”

Kenosha is not the only city where riots inspired by the Black Lives Matter message have disproportionately harmed minority communities. The riots also disproportionately hit the black community in Minneapolis and Chicago. The riots have destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. At least 26 Americans have died in the riots, most of them black.

For these and other reasons, many black leaders have denounced the official Black Lives Matter movement, the founders of which have described themselves as “trained Marxists.” Over 100 black pastors recently condemned the Black Lives Matter movement and urged Nike to distance itself from it.

McLemore’s stance against post-curfew activities is admirable, but it seems the broader movement encourages this kind of violence, excusing it as “peaceful protest.” Left-leaning journalists and Democratic politicians like Joe Biden have long carried water for the riots by overlooking the very real violence. As President Trump said, Biden “has given moral aid and comfort” to the rioters by calling their wanton destruction “peaceful protests.” While Biden has sporadically condemned the violence, he has singled out “right-wing militias” without mentioning antifa or Black Lives Matter.

The riots are causing concrete harm to America’s black communities, harm that cannot easily be excused by pointing to insurance. It is utterly shameful that many on the Left have excused or downplayed the violence plaguing minority communities in the name of Black Lives Matter.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 04:35 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Nice. No wonder Trump's going to get almost a third of the votes of black American men.
Posted by: Glainter Uleper5548 || 09/11/2020 5:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Re: #1, Don't get cocky kid.

Should have the Gomer Pyle pic...Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/11/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 It's who count the votes ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#4  According to a new report on the extent of the damage, the riots disproportionately harmed minority-owned businesses, ravaging the very black community the activists meant to defend.
No. The rioting, arson, and looting had nothing to do with defending the black community.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/11/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Gotta wonder if it is intentional since BLATIFAM is a white supremacy organization.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/11/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#6  What Deacon (#4) said. My belief is that the harm to the black community was the rioters' goal all along. Democrats don't benefit one bit from black success and prosperity; in fact, their survival depends on blacks remaining dependent on government handouts, and all their policies are aimed at keeping blacks "shoeless and clueless."
Posted by: Dave D. || 09/11/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||


Murder of Trump Supporters Is Fine From "Moral Perspective"
[VictoryGirls] Murder of a Trump supporter is absolutely fine.according to Erik Loomis, a history professor.

"Michael Reinoehl is the guy who killed the fascist in Portland last week. He admitted it and said he was scared the cops would kill him. Well, now the cops have killed him.

I am extremely anti-conspiracy theory. But it’s not a conspiracy theory at this point in time to wonder if the cops simply murdered him. The police is shot through with fascists from stem to stern. They were openly working with the fascists in Portland, as they were in Kenosha which led to dead protestors."

Oh my.... where to begin? First of all, Erik Loomis is a HISTORY professor at the University of Rhode Island. Secondly, he essentially asserts that anyone who supports President Trump is a fascist. Third, Loomis is supporting a guy who literally targeted a Trump supporter and shot him in cold blood. In a response to a comment on his blog post — Loomis wrote:

""Erik, he shot and killed a guy," referring to Reinoehl.

Loomis responded by saying, "He killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective." He further added that "tactically, that’s a different story. But you could say the same thing about John Brown.""

We are supposed to feel sorry for Reinoehl?? No. As Lisa wrote, this is a guy who has been protesting for weeks, endangered his children, and declared he was sure and certain his cold blood murder of Danielson was fine.

The Portland riots are now at the 100 days mark. The Portland mayor has snuck out of his condo building lest he encounter any more of those looting thugs, the Portland PD is being targeted by all of Reihoehl’s pals, a facial recognition ban was passed...to protect the looters, what was once a lively downtown area is a disaster... and here we have a history professor claiming an unarmed Trump supporter is a fascist and essentially deserved to be shot.

When the pushback happened, he doubled down in a second blog post.

"Fears about CANCEL CULTURE are always projections from right-wingers who want to fire, if not imprison, liberals and left-wing professors for speaking out for justice. And thus of course, they are trying to cancel me. In the blog post about the police killing the guy who shot the fascist in Portland, we had a bit of a debate over the use of violence in protest movements. This means that like the NRA, I am not objectively pro-murder, at least according to the fascists at Campus Reform and bought and sold man of the Koch Brothers Jonathan Turley."

Defensive much? In his original post Loomis literally stated that Reinoehl was a victim of police brutality, why? Because all police departments are riddled with fascists. Therefore, that somehow justifies the killing of Trump supporters he has labeled as fascists? Good to know.

Needless to say, he isn’t a fan of Jonathan Turley, and definitely didn’t appreciate Turley calling him out. Turley specifically shows how Loomis gets John Brown completely wrong, and then lays out the following for consideration.

"Loomis’ rhetoric and views are strikingly similar to those in the "bible" of the Antifa movement: Rutgers Professor Mark Bray’s Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. As I stated in my Senate testimony, Antifa bears strong resemblance to groups that emerged during earlier periods of attacks on free speech. Simply replacing anti-communism with anti-fascism does not materially change the same anti-free speech purpose of these movements. The purpose of governmental or non-government threats are the same in seeking to not only silence opponents, but to deter others from joining them. The absolutism of their goals is used to justify any means to achieve them. Specifically, Antifa’s categorical rejection of opposing views as worthy of protection is strikingly similar to the view of anti-Communists during the Red Scare. Antifa followers refuse to recognize the views of opponents as legitimate or "a difference of opinion." Their goal is not co-existence but, as stated in the Antifa Handbook, "to end their politics.""
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#1  "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction" some DWEM.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 3:49 Comments || Top||

#2  So he's saying it's OK to murder Erik Loomis? I mean he's wanting a state that has everything inside it and nothing against it...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/11/2020 5:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Erik Loomis, a history professor. Erik "Looney" Loomis and his ilk must live in some kind of weird bubble insulated from society and reinforced by others with this mind set. Another case of TDS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/11/2020 7:29 Comments || Top||

#4  By that same logic.......sleep tight, Erik.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/11/2020 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  the way he throws around the term 'fascist' tells me he has no idea what it means, which is par for the course for a professor of history.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 09/11/2020 8:29 Comments || Top||

#6  So, lessee if I have this right: there's no moral offense in murdering someone who disagrees with your political views?

OK, I'll keep that in mind...
Posted by: Dave D. || 09/11/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||

#7  An example of where and how the Nazis found highly educated (or at least they had credentials claiming that!) who could parse the difference between Jews, half-Jews, and "lesser fraction" Jews when sending human beings to the Death Camps. This reminds me of a program reenacting (on the History Channel ??) Wansee Conference...
Posted by: magpie || 09/11/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#8  This is just one more reason that once we get through taking the government back, we need to take the education system back, from PhD to Kindergarten. Government unions and "tenure" are the first that need to go.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 09/11/2020 16:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Wonder if the shooter was ever a student of this POS.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/11/2020 18:01 Comments || Top||


The ugly privilege of rich white 'protesters'
[NYPOST] Boy, are they awfully . . . pale for members of the "New Afrikan Black Panther Party": We’re talking, of course, of the eight "comrades" arrested last week for rioting at a demo planned by the NABPP and its allied "Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement."

Not just white, but, in several examples, highly privileged: Clara Kraebber, 20, is a wealthy Upper East Sider (with a second home in posh Litchfield County, Conn.) whose mom is an architect and dad a child psychiatrist who teaches at Columbia.

Elliot Rucka, 20, of Portland, Ore., is the son of a famed comic-book writer and best-selling author. Claire Severine, 27, seems to be a signed model and actress who has lived in Canada and Ireland. Etkar Surette, 27, summered in Austria as a child. Frank Fuhrmeister, 30, is a freelance art director who’s done work for Pepsi, Samsung and Glenlivet.

We’re not sure even the late satirist Tom Wolfe could top these portraits of poor little white kids trashing regular folks’ workplaces in the name of social justice.

"Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground!" the group chanted as it moved up Lafayette Street on Friday, smashing windows and racking up what police say is at least $100,000 in damages during a three-hour rampage.

It sure looks like these young people are just getting high by smashing stuff in the name of a good cause — relishing both the violence and a smug "moral superiority."

They are cosplay revolutionaries, undermining the very movements they claim to represent.

Vandalism isn’t going to get new laws passed; it’s not going to "tear down the system," either.

What it will do is win a lot more support for President Trump than for policing reform. Indeed, their comrades, who’ve kept the tragic farce going all these weeks in Portand, might as well be the Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
Committee To Re-Elect the President.

In this, we’re on the same page as those marching: Rich white kids, quit your privileged posturing and grow the hell up.

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#1 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 4:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Spelling ain't everything but it beats "kindnes"
Posted by: Thor Shaising6431 || 09/11/2020 5:29 Comments || Top||

#3  These must be the "Useful Idiots" Vladimir Lenin talked about. Please replace "Useful" with "Useless." FIFY Vlad.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/11/2020 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  They are cosplay revolutionaries, undermining the very movements they claim to represent.

Self-immolation is a protest move.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/11/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Carter Page's Book Shows How The Left Will Ruin Patriots To Get Power
[The Federalist] The media contacts began in July 2016. First, it was the Wall Street Journal. The Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, and CNN soon followed. The questions posed — all similar — perplexed Carter Page.

No, he hadn’t met with Igor Sechin or Igor Divyekin while in Russia. No, Page hadn’t suggested the new administration would lift sanctions if then-candidate Donald Trump won the presidency.

It was not until years later that Page, who had served as a volunteer advisor on the Trump campaign, began to unravel the truth about these calls. In his recently released book, "Abuse and Power: How an Innocent American was Framed in an Attempted Coup Against the President," Page shares his saga with readers. In an interview last week with the author, Page punctuated the finer points of the plot against Trump that ensnared him.

"I reminded Schiff and the Democrats," Page continued, "that a month after the election, it was Swiss company Glencore that bought that stake in 2016. Glencore, I further reminded Schiff and the Democrats, was founded by the late Marc Rich, the uber Clinton donor and beneficiary of an unusual pardon while an international fugitive." Democrats "might want to take a look closer to home," Page concluded.
Hat tip to whomever posted that very appropriate graphic.
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#1  I shall for Besoeker's comment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 3:52 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ I shall wait for Besoeker's comment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 3:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Page explained. At the time, Page welcomed Halper’s friendship. Even though Page had been warned “by a man from a research firm with deep ties to the intelligence agencies” that he was “being set up” by “the Clinton campaign . . . [and] London-based investigators,” Page did not begin to suspect Halper until mid-December 2017.

Carter Page, a top tier USNA grad, former USN intelligence officer and FBI/CIA source-stringer had no idea he's being recruited (ensnared) as a political campaign operative. Page was shocked, shocked to discover his handlers had no interest in Democratic campaign misdeeds.

'Shocking' also is the inconvenient truth that the FBI dropped all FISA interest in Page following his exit from the Trump Campaign Team.

I believe someone here predicted months ago that Page would be writing a book (cover story). Well, here it is.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/11/2020 6:30 Comments || Top||

#4  You're welcome, B - I posted the graphic. But I thought what happened to Page stank. Are you suggesting he's the stinker, and he went along with the Dems?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/11/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||


By fostering crime, de Blasio has deepened the 'two New Yorks' divide
[NYPOST] In his 2014 inauguration speech, Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
pledged, using a Dickensian theme, to "take dead aim at the tale of two cities." But he also recognized that "our city government’s first responsibility is to keep our neighborhoods safe."Nearly seven years later, economic inequality under Hizzoner hasn’t changed. But the unequal distribution of serious violent mostly peaceful crimes has worsened. There remain two distinct New Yorks, and as crime ticks up, the difference between them is growing more pronounced.

Through Aug. 30, the city’s 290 murders and 1,004 shooting incidents represent year-to-date increases of 33.6 percent and 87 percent, respectively. Manhattan has seen 52 murders and 135 shootings this year. About half of those shootings took place in just three of the borough’s 22 precincts — all in Harlem.

In those precincts, killings are up more than 100 percent, year to date. By contrast, precincts covering the West Village, Upper East Side and Upper West Side have seen just two murders and three shootings combined.

In Brooklyn, where murders are up 72 percent — more than double the citywide increase of 33.6 percent — we see a similar disparity. Just four precincts — covering East Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York and Crown Heights — account for more than 57 percent of the borough’s 114 homicides and just under half of its 441 shooting incidents through Aug. 30. Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard...
the precincts serving Park Slope, Kensington, Brooklyn Heights and Greenpoint have seen a combined total of just three murders and 15 shootings.

Of the 16 precincts in Queens, just two — serving the Rockaways and Jamaica — account for a third of its 150 shootings. Forest Hills and Douglaston, however, have seen no murders and only one shooting all year.

In the Bronx precinct serving Highbridge, 10 murders and 34 shootings have occurred — more gunfire than the entire borough of Staten Island has seen this year. In tony Riverdale, those numbers are just one and six, respectively.

Of 20 precincts compared in this article, the 10 high-crime precincts have seen 105 murders and 369 shootings, while the 10 low-crime ones have seen just six murders and 25 shootings.

De Blasio’s campaign speeches obscured how the risk of victimization by criminals was unequally distributed across the city. He insisted that the representative victim of New York’s two cities was "a black teenager" feeling the need to slide off "his hoodie on the way home from high school, hoping this will be a day when the police let him pass without incident." If the crime data are any guide, that teenager is more likely to be worried about walking past local gang members without incident. And the gang members are probably less worried about the police than they’ve been in some time.



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#1  Part of the plan.
Posted by: George Elmineter5380 || 09/11/2020 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Not plan. Just "people", top & bottom, doing what comes natural.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/11/2020 3:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Wilhelm is about as negligent as Grandma Killer Cuomo.
Posted by: Clem || 09/11/2020 3:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Turn out the lights on the way out.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/11/2020 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Got to remember thousands of souls stayed in Rome long after the original Vandals destroyed it. Rome was once the first city to reach a million in population.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/11/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#6  And didn't many Romans just get up and leave their property because of taxes?
Posted by: Clem || 09/11/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Not much different in the countryside. Locals came to rationalize it was cheaper to pay the barbarian* than the Roman tax farmer.

* who had been recruited by the same Roman government to fill out the legions as auxiliary in the frontier regions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/11/2020 10:37 Comments || Top||



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