[Townhall] I mean, we shouldn’t be too shocked about this I guess, given the scale of the anti-Trump operation executed by the Obama administration. Then-President Obama had to have known. If not, then he wasn’t in control of the executive. Katie touched upon this earlier this week, noting that new documents from the Department of Justice in their motion to dismiss their case against ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was the victim of an FBI plot to entrap him on perjury charges. Flynn has been vindicated, and more light is being shed on the scope of this whole operation.
The deep state does exist. They’re malicious. They’re ruthless. Just look at the mindset of Andrew McCabe and James Comey, who were determined to ensnare Flynn, department policy, and constitutional rights be damned. It’s chilling. And now we’re seeing how Obama was the starting quarterback for how to ensure the incoming Trump administration would be saddled with the Trump-Russia collusion allegations. It was coordinated chaos. Here’s what Katie wrote about what the new DOJ revealed regarding this angle:
Newly released documents from the Department of Justice show President Obama informed former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates of a phone call between former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016. He did so in the Oval Office.
"Yates first learned of the December 2016 calls between [LTG Michael] Flynn and [Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey] Kislyak on January 5, 2017, while in the Oval Office. Yates, along with then FBI-Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, were at the White House to brief members of the Obama Administration on the classified Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian Activities in Recent U.S Elections. President Obama was joined by his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, and others from the National Security Council," the document states.
"After the briefing, Obama dismissed the group but asked Yates and Comey to stay behind. Obama started by saying he had 'learned of the information about Flynn' and his conversation with Kislyak about sanctions. Obama specified he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information. At that point, Yates had no idea what the President was talking about, but figured it out based on the conversation. Yates recalled Comey mentioning the Logan Act, but can't recall if he specified there was an 'investigation,'" it continues.
That January 5 meeting appears to be critical, as Obama also gave his marching orders. Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist has a lengthy post detailing the meeting, the ensuing timelines, and how all the stars aligned to what Barry wanted. He wanted to make sure the incoming Trump administration didn’t find out about the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russian collusion. With that mindset, Obama officials soon weaponized the Russia collusion nonsense to inflict damage on the new Trump White House. Remember, Obama and most of the Democratic establishment thought Hillary was going to win. Obama administration officials thought so as well, as did the intelligence apparatus probably. They thought this could be swept under the rug once Hillary was sworn-in, washed away as if it never happened. Well, that plan got punched in the mouth. It was scrambling time (via The Federalist) [emphasis mine]:
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.....we shouldn’t be too shocked about this I guess
Certainly not. It would be terribly naive to assume Soetoro was not breifed extensively on this topic. Doubtful he was the architect, his chronic indolence would have not permitted it. Soetoro and importantly, his justice department and fawning media were required for legal cover.
Soetoro's knowledge and complicity has been assumed in this forum for a few years now.
Gaylord being Gaylord once the heat gets too close he'll stutter and splutter and offer her up if it means saving his neck
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ValJar who lives with the Obama’s even now that. A Secret Service protected compound in D where she has not only physical security but electronic security because of her proximity to the retired President. I agree her fingerprint are on most things Obama, especially the Iran deal, and the spying abuses detailed recently and going back toat least 2012 hint at what she may have done to aid her allies here and abroad.
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POWELL: So, then [Obama, Biden and Susan Rice] dispatch Comey the very next morning to brief President Trump only on the salacious aspects of the dossier on January 6 to set the news hook for BuzzFeed and CNN to run with the dossier they knew was a lie.
Then Peter Strzok is watching a CNN report on that and texts about he and Priestap sitting there watching it and using it as a pretext to go interview some people. So the whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, Clapper, Brennan, and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama.
BARTIROMO: So, you think this goes all the way up to the top, to President Obama?
[ZeroHedge] As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases explodes across Africa, the creeping involvement of the WHO has made some leaders suspicious of the NGO. Tanzanian President John Magufuli was growing suspicious of the organization, so he reportedly decided to investigate whether the organization was as trustworthy and reliable as it claimed to be.
He played what the local press described as "a trick" on the organization: He sent the WHO samples of a goat, a papaya and a quail for testing.
The scientific process:
1) Propose a hypothesis and devise a method to test it.
2) Run the test and report the results.
3) Draw conclusions and act.
All three samples reportedly tested positive. When the president heard the news, he reportedly confronted the WHO, then kicked the organization out of the country. Though, to be sure, the WHO has yet to comment on the situation.
That would suggest one of two conclusions: either the strain of SARS-CoV-2 running amok in Tanzania is much, much more infectious than scientists understand, or the WHO has been reporting incorrect results either on purpose (as an attempt to bolster its credibility in the face of President Trump's attacks) or via error (yet another indication that the WHO truly is "badly brokem" - as Vox described it back in 2015).
Most rational people would probably accept the latter scenario as the most accurate one.
Of course, Magufuli has garnered plenty of controversy himself over the past few weeks. He recently requested stockpiles of an 'herbal tea' that has been falsely branded as a COVID-19 cure, and has launched investigations impacting domestic labs and even frontline medical workers as he's claimed the number of positive tests in his country is too high. The reality is that Tanzania doesn't have much of a outbreak: It has recorded only 503 cases and 21 deaths. Though its mortality rate of 4% would suggest that the true number of cases likely numbers in the thousands...
The unreliability of COVID-19 tests manufactured in China has been a major problem for the US, and for Europe, as countries and states have been forced to discard PPE purchased in China - often after purchasing it at inflated prices - because only one-third of the masks actually work, and many of the tests have been found to produce positive and negative results more or less at random.
But we'd love to hear Bill Gates regale us with "data-based arguments" about why the WHO is indispensable to the international effort to combat the coronavirus.
[Epoch Times video] As the world is gripped by the ongoing pandemic, many questions remain about the origin of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus—commonly known as the novel coronavirus.
[Communities Digital News] WASHINGTON, DC — The release of the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance dossier from major western intelligence agencies makes clear that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at the Wuhan Virological Institute. That it was allowed to spread to Western Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and around the world deliberately. There is prima facie evidence. For many weeks China did not allow travel from Wuhan and Hubei province to other cities in China. Yet, they sent flights to Western Europe, the United States, and cities outside of China around the world.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens traveled to and from Wuhan from abroad during this time. Thus seeding the infection throughout the world.
Xi Jinping and the CCP are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic
This was weeks or even months after the Chinese government and the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party knew it was a highly communicable and dangerous virus. That had escaped from their own biowarfare lab in Wuhan. After being genetically altered on two of its receptors. To make it more transmissible to humans.
That ought to be at least partly a result of cultural hygiene practices and standard social distance, it seems to me. In cultures where hand washing and disposable tissues covering coughs and sneezes are the norm, and cultures where people stand farther apart while conversing, asymptomatic transmission ought to be more difficult.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the German intelligence agency BND found, according to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel.
During a conversation on Jan. 21, Xi reportedly asked Tedros not to announce that the virus could be transmitted between humans and to delay any declaration of a coronavirus pandemic.
It took until the end of January before the WHO declared that the coronavirus outbreak needed to receive international attention. Because of China’s delay, the world wasted four to six weeks it could have used better to counter the virus from spreading, the BND concluded.
Germany’s Robert Koch Institute also said that China failed to reveal all relevant information at the outset of the epidemic, leading it to turn to the BND for advice, according to a report in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung quoted by CNA.
In a response to the German media reports, Chinese diplomats said the opposite was true, arguing that the communist country’s handling of the virus saved time that was then wasted by other governments.
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(WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Infogalactic:
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ge'ez: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ) (born 1965) is an Ethiopian academic, public health authority and politician who has served in the government of Ethiopia as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2012. Previously he was Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012.
As Minister of Health, Tedros was able to form a close relationship with most global health key players including former American president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .
He was also member of several academic and global health think tanks including the Aspen Institute [1] and Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Tedros was named as one of the 50 people who will change the world in 2012 by the UK Wired Magazine.
They were only eight years off.
He stressed (during his candidacy for WHO DG charger) that he will bring a fresh perspective to the WHO ...
That's for sure.
So, as you can see, everything is just fine. Go back to sleep now.
[Voice of Europe] As people have sought to place the responsibility for the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, many culprits have been found. Some, including national leaders such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and US President Donald Trump, have pointed to mass immigration, which eased the virus’ spread, and globalisation, which has hampered the ability of many countries to produce needed medical supplies themselves. But the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Theresa May, says it is in fact nationalism that is to blame.
In an editorial she published in The Times on Wednesday entitled "Nationalism is No Ally in This Battle without Borders," May unequivocally pointed her finger at populist nationalism while praising international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO).
"Against a backdrop of populist politics in many countries, the search for political solutions to economic and social challenges has become a competition of absolutes," May wrote. "A polarised politics has taken hold. It views the world through a prism of winners and losers and sees compromise and co-operation as signs of weakness."
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Brain dead. If you had nationalism, you would have compartmentalized yourselves. Enough so as to shut down and go domestic for your critical needs instead of being dependent upon the source of the scourge.
[Fox] Historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson told "The Story" Friday that Democratic governors of states like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Illinois are creating an "untenable situation" by being slow to lift lockdowns instituted to counter coronavirus.
"We don’t think more people will die because of the lockdown versus exposure to the virus," Hanson said, mimicking the thought process of some Democratic governors, "We have to be absolutely certain that nobody gets the virus and dies."
As a result, he said, residents of those states are prevented from paying into the system with tax money, which is needed to fund entitlement programs.
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And it seems to me the blue states would just take any bailout money and extend their lockdown, not pay anything off or fix their pension fund shenanigans.
Long, full of useful information. Herewith a taste:
[Spectator] It is data, not modeling, that we need now.
We know everything about Sars-CoV-2 and nothing about it. We can read every one of the (on average) 29,903 letters in its genome and know exactly how its 15 genes are transcribed into instructions to make which proteins. But we cannot figure out how it is spreading in enough detail to tell which parts of the lockdown of society are necessary and which are futile. Several months into the crisis we are still groping through a fog of ignorance and making mistakes. There is no such thing as ‘the science’.
This is not surprising or shameful; ignorance is the natural state of things. Every new disease is different and its epidemiology becomes clear only gradually and in retrospect. Is COVID-19 transmitted mainly by breath or by touching? Do children pass it on without getting sick? Why is it so much worse in Britain than Japan? Why are obese people especially at risk? How many people have had it? Are ventilators useless after all? Why is it not exploding in India and Africa? Will there be a second wave? We do not begin to have answers to these questions.
As a result, we don’t really know what works. It is possible that washing your hands, not shaking hands with others, not gathering in large crowds, and wearing a face mask in public, but no more than this, might have been enough, as Sweden seems to suggest. Forcibly shutting schools and stores and aggressively policing sunbathers in parks may have added little in terms of reducing the rate of spread.
Yet it is not obvious why testing would make a difference, especially to the death rate. Testing does not cure the disease. Germany’s strange achievement of a consistently low case fatality rate seems baffling — until you think through where most early cases were found: in hospitals. By doing a lot more testing, countries like Germany might have partly kept the virus from spreading within the healthcare system. Germany, Japan and Hong Kong had different and more effective protocols in place from day one to prevent the virus spreading within care homes and hospitals.
There is one vital fact that emerges from the fog. Countries that did a lot of testing from the start have fared much better than countries that did little testing. This is true not just of many Asian countries, such as South Korea (though Japan is an exception), but within Europe too. Up to the middle of last month, Iceland, Lithuania, Estonia and Germany had done many more tests per million people and recorded many fewer deaths per million people than Belgium, Britain, Italy and Sweden. As Max Roser of the website Our World In Data puts it: ‘The countries with the highest death rates got there by having the lowest testing rates.’
The horrible truth is that it now looks like in many of the early cases, the disease was probably caught in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries. That is where the virus kept returning, in the lungs of sick people, and that is where the next person often caught it, including plenty of healthcare workers. Many of these may not have realized they had it, or thought they had a mild cold. They then gave it to yet more elderly patients who were in hospital for other reasons, some of whom were sent back to care homes when the National Health Service made space on the wards for the expected wave of coronavirus patients.
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150 years from now: With what we now know about phenotypes, why did anybody listen to Fauci or Birx?
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None of Ridley's (otherwise intriguing, logical, welcome) analysts addresses why what ought to be America's COVID epicenter, San Francisco, has a death rate similar to that of Israel (1:30,000 pop.) - even though SF with almost 200,000 Chinese did no testing at all in the 3+ months when the disease was being spread by literally tens of 000s of traveler's arriving in SF on direct flights from Wuhan etc.
#4
As has been often said previously, if there were outbreaks in, for example, Butte, Montana, or Wabash, Indiana, or Bangor, Maine, but not NYC, LA, Bah-ston, or Hoboken, would we have shut this country down like we did? Would NYC, etc., stand for a lock-down if "only" in Butte?
Having said that, now we know why Pelosi was so eager to celebrate the Year of the Rat in SF, lol.
[Whatafinger] HUD secretary and member of the White House coronavirus task force, Dr. Ben Carson, weighs in on unemployment rate hitting record high on ’Fox and Friends.’
[The Hill] HBO's Bill Maher on Friday night questioned the timing of Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden while arguing that Democrats backed themselves into a corner with their calls to "believe all women" amid the "Me Too" movement.
The progressive commentator weighed in as Reade's allegation that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, when she was a Senate staffer, continues to generate coverage following her on-camera interview with former NBC News and Fox News journalist Megyn Kelly this week.
"You waited 27 years. You think it couldn't wait a few more months? That's what I'd like to ask Ms. Reade. Why now?" Maher said during a segment on his show Friday night. "I'm not saying why not 27 years ago. I understand it can take victims years to come forward. I'm saying, why not before Super Tuesday? Why not last fall when we still had a dozen other candidates to choose from? Why wait until Biden is our only hope against Trump and then take him down?"
Maher also mocked The New York Times for its recommendation that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) investigate the claims against Biden.
"The New York Times is calling for the DNC to establish a truth panel on this. Truth panel, huh? Which part? Putin’s reverence for animals or how intoxicating he is to women?" the host continued, citing past reported remarks from Reade about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
[JonathanTurley] Former President Barack Obama is being quoted from a private call that the "rule of law is at risk" after the Justice Department moved to dismiss the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Obama reportedly told members of the Obama Alumni Association that "There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free." Without doubting the exhaustive search referenced by President Obama,
Ouch!
he might have tried calling one "alum": former Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder moved to dismiss such a case based on prosecutorial errors in front of the very same judge, Judge Emmet Sullivan. [Notably, CNN covered the statements this morning without noting the clearly false claim over the lack of any precedent for the Flynn motion]
The new material shows that Obama was following the investigation of Flynn who he previously dismissed from a high-level position and personally intervened with President Donald Trump to seek to block his appointment as National Security Adviser.
The Obama statement is curious on various levels. First, the exhaustive search may have been hampered by the fact that Flynn was never charged with perjury. He was charged with a single count of false statements to a federal investigator under 18 U.S.C. 1001. I have previously wrote that the Justice Department should move to dismiss the case due to recently disclosed evidence and thus I was supportive of the decision of Attorney General Bill Barr.
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The only Harvard Law Review editor - who attained his post not through merit and grades but via affirmative action i.e. a popularity contest - to never have written a single article. Because he's too stupid and lazy to write anything of consequence on his own.
if you don't even bother looking, you'll never find it
forever a contemptible, mealy-mouthed ****sucker
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It's rather touching listening to him pine for the good old days when a politician stayed bought, a fight stayed fixed, and the railroaded stayed behind bars.
#6
Politics have nothing to do with justice in Obama's mind. He is a believer that if you go against him, you should be jailed.
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"There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free."
Unless Mexico gets their request into Fast and Furious.
Whoa mister, 'scot-free'?, isn't that a bit, you know, racist. Maybe throw him in the Paddy Wagon?
*Chris Farley Voice*
Remember..remember when Obama talked up his Irish roots in Ireland, and went to a pub, and said, "I've never had Guinness. Tastes good; tastes so much better than it does in the states."
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I watched CBS report on this last night. All they did was play the recording as if it was Gospel. There was no opportunity for any Republican, for anybody in the Trump administration, for anybody on Flynn's legal team to tell their side of the story. It was a totally one-side pile of steer manure. The result is people believe Obama who is one of the smoothest damn liars ever to open his mouth.
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[Jpost] Hezbollah went from a guerrilla group to a terror superpower
Twenty years after the last IDF soldier left southern Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the hostility between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah has only intensified.
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HotAir via Instapundit
One of the weirdest quirks of coronavirus politics is that the group that’s most adamantly opposed to continuing lockdowns is also the group that’s grouchiest about wearing masks. There’s a certain dopey consistency to both positions: Lockdowns are an intrusion on the liberty of business owners and consumers, mask mandates (whether public or private) are an intrusion on the liberty of the individual. It's sad when ideology suppresses common sense.
But refusing to take basic minimal precautions against infection is exactly the sort of thing that makes lockdown supporters wary of opening back up. If we can’t have ubiquitous testing, and we can’t have a bureaucracy to conduct contact tracing, the least we can do to raise the comfort level of Americans who are reluctant to risk their health by crowding into retail spaces is wear masks to protect each other. But we know that coronavirus crisis is a hoax by Bill Gates & Neil Ferguson.
In many cases I don’t think the libertarian argument against masks is even being made in good faith. What’s driving the opposition isn’t fear of "social control" or denialism about the threat from the disease but a certain whiny rejectionism about the new normal created by the pandemic. I don’t like this reality and I resent being inconvenienced in any way by it and I want it to end *right now.*
But refusing to take basic minimal precautions against infection is exactly the sort of thing that makes lockdown supporters wary of opening back up. If we can’t have ubiquitous testing, and we can’t have a bureaucracy to conduct contact tracing, the least we can do to raise the comfort level of Americans who are reluctant to risk their health by crowding into retail spaces is wear masks to protect each other. Masks can substitute for herd immunity until a vaccine comes along. Ooops, forgot, vaccine is a plot by [fill in your pet peeve] to take over the world and convert all [fill in] to [fill in].
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I've noticed that mask wearing has picked up locally. Apparently a bunch of people have noticed friends a relatives kicking the bucket. Now if they could only figure out that leaving your nose outside your mask is not a good idea.
#3
whiny rejectionism about the new normal created by the pandemic
I definitely reject the idea that this pandemic has created a new normal, whiny rejectionist that I am. Both the Asian flu (157-58) and Hong Kong flu (1968) killed over a million, worldwide. Neither created "a new normal".
Talk to me about a new normal when the death toll tops a million. Or the 30-40 million from AIDS.
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They were telling us all Winter and into spring that masks didn't work well enough to be worth the effort.
Now I'm supposed to take the magic numbers of some geek as gospel? I don't think so. They're required in stores here so I'll put up with it but it's not gonna be willingly.
#5
(a) AC they were afraid there wouldn't be enough (special masks) for med personnel - yea, I know.
(b) Figure it out yourself. If you breath through fabric, would - at least - some aerosol viruses stick and not get through?
[Breitbart] The bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, has reiterated in comments loaded with political overtones church teaching that a person cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion because it would be a "contradiction in terms."
"Just saw a headline in a Catholic newspaper with the phrase ’pro-abortion Catholic.’ Sorry. That’s a contradiction in terms," wrote Bishop Thomas J. Tobin on Twitter this week. "You can’t be a Catholic, at least not an authentic one, and be ’pro-abortion.’ Or ’pro-choice.’ It’s the same thing."
Even though the assertion might seem noncontroversial to a casual observer, as the Catholic church’s position on abortion is well known, the bishop’s comments provoked a number of angry responses, presumably from Catholics who intend to vote for the pro-abortion Democrat ticket in this November’s elections.
Every election year brings with it hot debates among Catholics about the moral permissibility of voting for a candidate who promotes legal abortion. With Joe Biden the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democrats, the disputes are expected to rage as never before; Biden describes himself as a Catholic and yet vigorously supports abortion-on-demand.
Among important demographic groups, Catholics — while not comprising a monolithic voting "bloc"— make up nearly 25 percent of U.S. voters and in 2016 played a key role in sending Donald Trump to the White House, with the abortion issue looming large in voters’ minds.
Catholics voted for Donald Trump in 2016 by a larger margin than for any other Republican candidate in the five elections of the new millennium, according to a Pew Research Center study, and Catholic Democrats rightly fear that the margin could be even greater in 2020.
Catholic Democrats already came out swinging at New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan last week for having engaged in a conference call with President Trump on the topic of Catholic education, with the ultra-liberal National Catholic Reporter (NCR) lashing out at Dolan for "capitulating" to the Republican Party.
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they have a remedy for this, i'd suggest going after some high-profile 'Catholics' like Nancy & Lurch
is it about the faith or is it about the money?
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Priests. All week long they eat meat. But on Friday they have Nun...
Sgt. Stadanko
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I could not have predicted that the main theological controversy of the age would come down to the unhappy circumstance of actually having to believe in a number of irreducible precepts. At least the Catholics still argue a might, the Church of England apparently only believes in a well dressed get together of a Sunday morning.
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.
[Townhall] I mean, we shouldn’t be too shocked about this I guess, given the scale of the anti-Trump operation executed by the Obama administration. Then-President Obama had to have known. If not, then he wasn’t in control of the executive. Katie touched upon this earlier this week, noting that new documents from the Department of Justice in their motion to dismiss their case against ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was the victim of an FBI plot to entrap him on perjury charges. Flynn has been vindicated, and more light is being shed on the scope of this whole operation. 
[Communities Digital News] WASHINGTON, DC — The release of the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance dossier from major western intelligence agencies makes clear that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at the Wuhan Virological Institute. That it was allowed to spread to Western Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and around the world deliberately. There is prima facie evidence. For many weeks China did not allow travel from Wuhan and Hubei province to other cities in China. Yet, they sent flights to Western Europe, the United States, and cities outside of China around the world.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the German intelligence agency BND found, according to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel.
[Voice of Europe] As people have sought to place the responsibility for the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, many culprits have been found. Some, including national leaders such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and US President Donald Trump, have pointed to mass immigration, which eased the virus’ spread, and globalisation, which has hampered the ability of many countries to produce needed medical supplies themselves. But the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Theresa May, says it is in fact nationalism that is to blame.
[Fox] Historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson told "The Story" Friday that Democratic governors of states like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Illinois are creating an "untenable situation" by being slow to lift lockdowns instituted to counter coronavirus.
[The Hill] HBO's Bill Maher on Friday night questioned the timing of Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden while arguing that Democrats backed themselves into a corner with their calls to "believe all women" amid the "Me Too" movement.
[JonathanTurley] Former President Barack Obama is being quoted from a private call that the "rule of law is at risk" after the Justice Department moved to dismiss the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Obama reportedly told members of the Obama Alumni Association that "There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free." Without doubting the exhaustive search referenced by President Obama, 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[Breitbart] The bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, has reiterated in comments loaded with political overtones church teaching that a person cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion because it would be a "contradiction in terms."
