[NTK] MSNBC’s Ben Collins suggested that person responsible for the mail-bomb scare that has targeted top officials in the Democratic Party, as well as CNN and actor Robert De Niro, probably reads the conservative news website the Drudge Report on Thursday.
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle began the segment with Collins by highlighting an image of the device sent to former CIA Director John Brennan. On the device, there appears to be an image of a parody ISIS flag that has been circulating on the internet since 2014 as a meme.
Ruhle asked Collins to walk her through what this all means for the ongoing investigation.
Collins noted that the image basically appears to be an ISIS flag. "But instead of the Arabic script, there’s like fake naked ladies on there, and it says ’get ’er done’ on it," he said.
"What does that mean?" Ruhle asked.
"It’s a Larry the Cable Guy joke. It’s like, not that sophisticated. This is not a smart thing, it’s a troll is what this is," Collins responded. "It’s meant to sort of symbolize that he’s on one [political] side. This is from a conservative meme parody website from 2014."
Collins added that this is a very obscure meme that didn’t get a lot of traction.
Ruhle asked Collins about the group that created the meme and what they represent.
"It’s just some guy really. It’s a guy in Scottsdale, Arizona who made a meme in 2014. It’s been around conservative web forums, not like young people [forums]," Collins said. "I’m talking like people who follow the Drudge Report and Fox News and stuff like that. It’s that sort of circle."
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I don't know. It's an 11th hour stunt, who likes that kind of thing? The devices were not live or functional which suggests a leftist understanding of the Law. They were sent to what amount to left wing celebs, Clinton and Obama CAN'T be elected again. Not to mention, who the Hell cares what DeNiro is ranting about now.
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Darth have even money this is a false flag operation by the democrats to try to make the Republicans look like the bad guys and divert attention away from Antifa's antics and the blue wave that is going to be nary a ripple on Election Day.
#14
Probably a PsyOp, it is an open question as to the "Why?" and the "Who?". Left -OR- Right-wing crazy try to "scare" people? Machiavellian trying to boost the Democrat's turnout? Foreign Actors trying to sow chaos? Looney Tunes™ Whacko?
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Looking at the pictures of the van makes this all suspect. Look at the decals of Trump. All are brand new. No old stickers, very fresh, very suspect. Like he wanted to get caught... Smells of a false flag.
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Trump Supporters, at least according to MSNBC:
[Wash Times] Roughly one year after U.S. Attorney John Huber was appointed to investigate whether accusations that the FBI and Justice Department abused their powers during the 2016 election season merit prosecution, his work remains shrouded in mystery.
Likely witnesses tell The Washington Times that they haven’t heard from him, though they are eager to tell what they know.
Nor has Mr. Huber kept congressional overseers in the loop on his activities.
"I would just like to know what he’s doing," Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, told The Times. "I’ll take anything. All I know is that we haven’t heard a single thing about what he’s doing."
Mr. Jordan, a member of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees, said those panels have not received any reports or updates from Mr. Huber since his appointment. He and Rep. Mark Meadows, North Carolina Republican, sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week asking for an update.
Mr. Meadows told The Times it is imperative that Mr. Huber appear before Congress to detail what he has been doing.
"I have not seen a lot of evidence that Mr. Huber has done anything other than be appointed by Jeff Sessions," he said. "It’s been portrayed that he’s making great progress, but I’m not sure there is a whole lot to show for it other than rhetoric right now. I’m not aware of any substantial work that he’s doing."
Mr. Sessions secretly picked Mr. Huber last fall to dig into whether the FBI misused its power when it obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. He also is supposed to be reviewing whether the FBI mishandled investigations into 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Sessions didn’t reveal the appointment until the spring, when he was under pressure to name a special counsel to investigate those issues. He said there was no need for such a step because the department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, was already looking into the matters. He also revealed that Mr. Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was performing his own evaluation.
The benefit of Mr. Huber, the Justice Department said, is that as a U.S. attorney he could use grand jury subpoena powers to obtain documents and witness statements that the inspector general might not.
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#4
The government would create a cabinet post with a large bureacracy to oversee a one-person parade.
A Department of Agriculture bureaucrat was down in the dumps with his head hung somewhere down around his jockey shorts. One of his co-workers asked: "Why so glum and down-in-the-dumps?"
He replied, "I don't know what I'm going to do! My farmer died."
[Breitbart] Former CIA Director John Brennan accused President Donald Trump of encouraging "physical violence" Thursday after a series of apparent explosive devices were sent to prominent Democratic figures.
"Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror. Your inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful," Brennan wrote on Twitter in response to President Trump’s tweet in which he linked false reporting to increasing levels of anger among Americans. "Clean up your act....try to act Presidential. The American people deserve much better. BTW, your critics will not be intimidated into silence." Brennan unhinged = Status Quo
#4
Darth Vader (Obama, not our Darth Vader) militarized deep state by paying the big $$$. Big annual bonuses from the Treasury to his Lieutenants that he set up throughout Deep State was substantial. He allowed them to make millions on book sales such as FBI head Comey and Hillary to set up her money laundering Foundation.
The black hole galaxy had never seen such gravy before.
The wee people decided to send in the Don and Princess Ivanka to say, "You're FIRED!". The top level Clingons are trying to fight the Jedi, but Junior and his co-hort Jared and the rest of the Jedi are winning the battles along with Skywalker Don.
Yesterday the Don invested 3 Million more of his own treasure to win the next decisive victory, the mid terms, in order to destroy Deep State.
May the Force be with you.
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid. It's the same with dead people. Except they keep voting for Democrats
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AlmostAnonymous5839, you are thinking of half of the Dunning-Kruger effect. As described by Wikipedia:
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.
As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the cognitive bias of illusory superiority results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."
#11
You flatter me, dear Skidmark. I just sometimes recognize what I don’t know, which gives me the happy excuse to look it up and share the results. :-)
As you may know, Greg Hicks was at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli during the Benghazi attack demonstrating courage and integrity both during and after the attack. Greg writes:
Dear Friends:
My friend and former CIA Chief of Station Sam Faddis wrote and published the article (link below) in 'And Magazine', a forum for fact-based, civil discourse. Please review it. If you find it compelling, please share it. For those of you in media, please bring Facebook's censorship of fact-based reporting to your audience's attention.
[OpsLens] I received information two days ago, which I trusted but have been waiting for corroboration. This information also validates my thesis about de-policing in America (at least, in Seattle) in all its manifestations, including: officers refraining from proactive patrol tasks; superiors ordering officers not to enforce laws; and politically motivated leaders otherwise thwarting the police officers’ public safety mission.
This morning on KVI Radio, host Kirby Wilbur provided that corroboration. He announced the same information I’d gotten. He reported that the Seattle Police Department (SPD) is "imploding" as it relates to retaining (not to mention recruiting) police officers. Officers are not only choosing to retire sooner than they’d planned (like I did) but officers are also fleeing the city for more welcoming employment conditions. It’s tough enough with so many people in our communities standing against cops these days. But it’s devastating when an officers’ own city leaders are among the most vocal anti-cop opponents.
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An open invitation for the return of Vigilance Committees. And tar & feathers for the enlightened city leaders. Enjoy your return to the 1870's, Seattle!
#10
Let's see. If I'm a cop, going out on patrol, I am going to deal with the scum of the earth. Any one of them could be armed and out to kill me. However, if I am forced to shoot one of them, I am likely to be subjected to lawsuits, harrassment, and death threats. I may not come home to my family if I don't react quickly enough. Yet I will be judged by people who weren't there, and many of whom have an agenda.
The mayor won't help - she has to please the voters. The press won't help - they need to sell their stories.
I can't see why there are ANY police officers left in Seattle, Baltimore, Detroit, and many other Democratic run cities.
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Over 10, Ride in the patrol car, respond to calls for service and take copius reports, never traffic stop any minority, eat only at stations, and always look for disability opportunites involving non-arrest related injuries on duty. 20 and a 90% pension. Go home every EOW... Starting out, not so much...
#12
First they will ask for Feds to help police or national guard. The problem is they will be restricted even more. Lower qualifications. Criminal record? no problem. Yes, #3 Vigilance Committees. Funding for prison systems declining. This can only get worse. I suppose they could call in a UN peace keeping force.
#1
Robert E Lee Is a Good Man. His fight was for his state. Most learned there was a war when there were troops marching into their towns.
He changed commission for his State as this is what the Constitution stated.
America was ill informed of the pending war, but at that time, it was on your doorstep before it was even preventable.
Thanks Democrats for trying to make another one. We are not biting.
But we will "Grab that ballot" anyway.
I have seen this movie before and you are the bad guy and Americans like the good guy.
#3
Hey Stanley - We don't want Robert E. Lee getting lonely under the bus where you've thrown him. Why don't you go ahead and throw Douglas MacArthur under there with him - for pedophilia with his 15 year old Filipina mistress, Elizabeth "Dimples" Cooper - http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kQD0wB_yK-Y/U65TsgPZhOI/AAAAAAAAJQc/hWCfdKx1AtY/s1600/4par.jpg
One Korda reviewer wrote: ”His place in history is unique: a Caesar without his ambition; a Frederick without his tyranny; a Napoleon without his selfishness; and a Washington without his reward.”
Another one of those fascinating things about General Robert E. Lee is that the only insignia of rank he ever wore was the three stars of a Colonel. This was the final rank he achieved before resigning as an officer in the American Army.
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By Stanley A. McChrystal, retired United States Army general.
As told to Rolling Stone Mag?
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Lee is an honored American for what he did after the war in helping reunite the nation. He encouraged his soldiers to stop fighting and to become Americans again.
NEW YORK (AP) ‐ As stocks hit record after record in the past decade, investors didn’t much care if a stock was cheap or expensive. What mattered most was: Is it growing quickly?
If the answer was yes, the stock was in high demand, almost regardless of the price. Investors were ravenous for companies able to add customers and deliver fat growth. So they were willing to pay premium prices for an Amazon or a Netflix. Left behind were stocks in more staid industries, even if they looked like better bargains by several measures.
Suddenly, though, the siren song of high growth has gone dissonant. As markets tumbled in recent weeks, the stocks that were soaring the highest have fallen the fastest. Worries about interest rates and global trade are raising concerns about the companies’ future growth. Plus, high-growth stocks had further to fall given how much more expensive they had grown versus the rest of the market by various measures.
So far this month, high-growth stocks in the Russell 3000 index have sunk 9 percent, versus 6.5 percent for their lower-priced counterparts known as "value" stocks, as of Wednesday. It’s the biggest such monthly gap in performance since November 2016.
Reader Caution, Quartz reporting.
[Quartz] Omar and Mohammed are cousins from Damascus, and they’ve traveled a long way to get here.
The two men, both in their early 20s, fled their native Syria to avoid military conscription. They embarked upon the same journey as millions of other refugees, first arriving in Turkey and then taking a boat to the shores of Greece. But unlike many other refugees, they got lucky. They were resettled in Nancy, France, in 2017, as part of the European Union’s migrant relocation and resettlement scheme.
Today, they’re members of a volunteer civil service program, similar to that of AmeriCorps in the US, created by the French government with the goal of helping young refugees between the ages of 16 and 25 become integrated into French society. It’s a creative solution to an issue that’s plagued many European countries in recent years: In the aftermath of an unprecedented wave of refugee resettlement in Europe, what can be done to strengthen ties between refugees and their communities?
A civic way to help the most vulnerable
At the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, an estimated 42,500 people were leaving their native countries every day because of war, persecution, and oppression. That year, over 1 million migrants and asylum seekers arrived in Europe. The subsequent political backlash against refugees has brought anti-immigrant politicians to power in countries like Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland.
France is no exception. In 2017, far-right leader Marine Le Pen made it to the runoff of the presidential election partly because of her anti-immigration views (paywall). That same year, 100,755 people requested asylum or legal protection (link in French) from the French government. Of those, 31,964 were granted asylum or subsidiary protection status‐21% more than in 2016 (pdf).
[WarOnTheRocks] In an eerie twist on life imitating art, recent news coverage suggests just such a reality could have come to pass. The publication of Michael Beschloss’ new book, Presidents of War, shined light on declassified documents describing the efforts that President Lyndon Johnson’s senior military officers undertook without presidential authorization in early 1968 to prepare for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
How close did the United States actually get to deploying nuclear weapons in Vietnam in 1968? Who initiated this plan, codenamed "Fracture Jaw," and when did the president become aware of it? What can today’s leaders learn from this incident, and what implications does this episode have for command and control of nuclear weapons during wartime and the so-called "nuclear taboo" that purportedly dissuades their use?
The story these documents tell is not altogether new. By the mid-2000s, Nina Tannenwald and documents declassified by the State Department had already revealed that Johnson shut down the military’s 1968 contingency planning for the employment of tactical nuclear weapons in the Vietnam war. The most recently declassified documents, however, convey just how far this planning had advanced at Pacific Command before press disclosures in Washington brought the full scope and scale of Fracture Jaw to the attention of a furious president and a beleaguered White House.
In one sense, the story is reassuring. Johnson halted the deployment of these weapons at a moment in Vietnam when he would have faced considerable pressure from his theater commanders to use them. But it is also an alarming tale because tactical nuclear weapons planning got underway absent advance knowledge of ‐ let alone authorization from ‐ the commander-in-chief. As the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review calls for an expansion of America’s low-yield tactical nuclear options, policymakers and operational planners would benefit from understanding the importance of coordinating their contingency planning across civilian and military authorities to preserve the integrity of the command and control infrastructure and avoid the missteps of Fracture Jaw. Continues.
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There is planning for and there is planning to. Many times, the first is presumed to be the second. One thing the military is supposed to do is immense amounts of planning for, in case they're told by higher to do it. It would be interesting to know which side the planning reported is on.
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According to my research, at least one SF team in Viet Nam was trained to employ tactical nuclear weapons. If I remember correctly, it was attached directly to CCN headquarters.
Al
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Not close enough.
Every generation needs a reminder, else they breed deniers.
[American Thinker] The herald of middle-American radicalism, Samuel Francis, famously described America's two parties as the evil party and the stupid party. Under our secular savior, Donald Trump, the political division in America is changing: there is no more stupid party, and the evil party is consuming itself. Vilfredo Pareto's classification of political elites as "Foxes and Lions" ‐ the quick and cunning versus the strong and stalwart ‐ now largely describes our two parties. The pure foxes among Republicans have mostly been silenced or have left the party; it now consists mainly of a protective pride of lions led by a dominant male more cunning than any fox. The Democrats' elites consist almost exclusively of foxes, and they are beset by a spreading plague of rabies.
Just in time to drive this division home with a sledgehammer and a ten-inch nail, the border crisis has exploded into America's consciousness.
On the heels of the now 14,000-strong human wave set to flood across our southern border in the coming weeks is another human army ‐ and then another, and likely many more. Faced with the prospect of paying human-smugglers $5,000-$10,000 to transport them to the American border, poor residents of Central American countries have come to realize that mass migrations are safer and cheaper. The invaders know they have allies on this side of our border. Most Democrat lawmakers remain silent; they are not proposing a solution because they don't see the invasion as a problem ‐ to them, it is a feature of our immigration laws, not a bug. Racialism is the new creed and currency of the left, so anything that swells the numbers of minorities in the United States is assumed by Democrat leaders to be a net benefit to the Democratic Party. With the advent of invading armies, the democrats could not be more mistaken.
First, notice what was not said as the army approached Mexico and Mexican authorities pledged to prevent it from entering their country. Whether this was possible was an open question ‐ but what was never questioned was the right of Mexico to stop them. Every leftist in Congress and in corporate media silently affirmed the right of the Mexican government to stop the army. The Democrats' immigration message is finally crystal-clear: other nations have a right to control their borders, but we do not, even in the face of foreign invasion. That is a politically untenable position.
#1
Wishful thinking.
I can easily find quite a lot of people who believe the risks of D immigration policy are outweighed by the risks of R policies. The latter are almost always described in generic terms--favor the rich, pollute, get us into wars, oppress the "different", and most horrible of all, restrict abortion.
Don't underestimate the thrill of moral superiority some people get when voting D.
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It must be remembered that Al Ahram is a sock puppet of the Egyptian government, which clearly is not willing to be seen being friends with the uppity Zionist entity, though they are willing to take everything Israel is willing to share.
[AlAhram] Egypt quickly intervened late last week to prevent a military escalation in Gazoo after several rockets were fired by an unknown group towards nearby Israeli settlements.
As usual, Israel responded with a wide-scale bombing campaign that hit 25 alleged "Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, targets", killing one Paleostinian and injuring several others.
The deputy director of Egyptian Intelligence was dispatched to Gazoo to meet with Hamas leaders who wisely distanced themselves from that act, and confirmed their commitment to the understandings mediated by Egypt to maintain a shaky truce in Gazoo.
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On a weekly basis, Paleostinians have been demonstrating peacefully along the ugly wall built by Israel along Gazoo’s border, without fear of the merciless Israeli killing machine.
I think it's an Egyption "Onion"
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new intifada in the making is the alt F 6 macro for any western newspaper
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If Hamas wanted to stop "rogue" rocketry, they could and would
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almost, but not quite, a government bureaucrat
Sort of like here, then?
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As we toast Megyn Kelly on her departure from NBC and sip our Trump Schadenfreude (which tastes like Diet Coke with a slightly stronger New York accent) let us also enjoy watching NBC pay $69 million or so in exit fees to the 21st century's version of Pink Lady and Jeff.
Kelly was a lawyer who joined Fox News as a reporter and worked her way to an anchor post. They promoted her to prime-time. She was doing fine until the first Republican presidential debate in August 2015.
She picked a fight with Donald John Trump. He ate her up and spit her out like a wad of gum. The transcript shows she broke a rule. A lawyer never asks a question in court that she does not know the answer to. More at the link
#2
It's probably a minority opinion, but walking away with $69 million makes me think she did this on purpose to get out of a job she clearly didn't like at all. That's serious retirement money, even if split amongst ten of us after taxes.
#3
She was tanking and NBC wanted to dump her. She is a multimillionaire as the result. I used to watch her at Fox and then quit watching her about the time all the shenanigans began. Kelly struck me as a climber who would do about anything to get ahead.
I never quite understood why these self-important newsreaders got paid so much. So many just present talking points from an agenda which is given to them.
Reward failure and punish success. Not usually a good strategy. However, why not? it's not like the company executives believe in fiduciary responsibility. It's other peoples' money not theirs. Same as their politics.
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.
