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A rare conservative Hollywood actor James Woods announced he will be suing the DNC for colluding with Twitter to ruin his acting career. Pass the Popcorn...
#3
Last night I watched Greta go 'high and to the right' on the 51 intelligence community "professionals" ("people she knows and likes") who signed the anti-Trump....Russia, Russia, Russia letter.
Does she think 51 is a magic number, or the 'end of the internet' of IC big shots ?
Here is a tip Greta, ask some of the intelligence community professionals whose names DO NOT APPEAR among the 51 if they were approached, and who led the effort.
I cannot believe whomever originated the letter only solicited 51 persons, and all 51 said...'oh fok yes, where do I sign?' Was there a briefing? Did they all meet at Waffle House ?
#5
It's all academic until somebody goes to jail. MSM will not report any of this.
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#6
until somebody goes to jail
Weak tea. Make them flee for asylum in commie countries or find a lamp post.
That will focus attention.
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#7
Listening to James Woods was painful. Listening to someone who has had their life destroyed simply for thinking they still had the right to participate in society, and then to hear their intentions to fight back knowing all along they have no chance ... NO CHANCE. The death of our nation played out before our eyes and ears. At this point we can only destroy and rebuild.
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#8
The comments he made about discovering that before any actor was selected, a screening of their social media behavior and blacklisting if they followed him was shocking.
#9
James is more relevant, liked and marketable than he has ever been. In the old world he was a Great Value version of Michael Douglas. He icting on a bigger stage and winning
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51 is a magic number 51 intelligence community
[Forbes] Many of the videos attacked specific U.S. politicians before the midterm elections and pushed divisive social issues, without clear labels disclosing they were coming from state-controlled media.
TikTok accounts run by the propaganda arm of the Chinese government have accumulated millions of followers and tens of millions of views, many of them on videos editorializing about U.S. politics without clear disclosure that they were posted by a foreign government.
The accounts are managed by MediaLinks TV, a registered foreign agent and Washington D.C.-based outpost of the main Chinese Communist Party television news outlet, China Central Television. The largest of them are @Pandaorama, which features cute videos about Chinese culture, @The…Optimist, which posts about sustainability, and @NewsTokss, which features coverage of U.S. national and international news.
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[GatewayPundit] Kari Lake responded today to Obama-Judge John Tuchi’s decision to sanction her and Mark Finchem at the request of Maricopa County for daring to bring a lawsuit against the unreliable and corrupt voting machines.
John Tuchi is the same Federal Judge who recently ruled that Maricopa County was justified in discriminating against TGP reporter Jordan Conradson and preventing him his First Amendment rights and access to the County’s press room after another election disaster in the County.
The Gateway Pundit reported on the decision to sanction Lake’s lawyers yesterday in an apparent effort to discredit and discourage any election challenges after the State certifies the corrupt Midterm next Monday.
The Judge even admitted that this order was intended to "send a message" to those who file what he considers "baseless" lawsuits in the future.
Kari Lake and her attorneys argued that the voting machines are "potentially unsecure, lack adequate audit capacity, fail to meet minimum statutory requirements, and deprive voters of the right to have their votes counted and reported in an accurate, auditable, legal, and transparent process."
However, as we saw on Election Day in the Midterm Election, voting machine failures and tabulation issues led to massive and unprecedented voter disenfranchisement at the polls.
The election was an uncertifiable disaster on Election Day when voting machines and printers suddenly stopped working at over 30% of voting centers the moment the polls opened. Republican voters were forced to wait in extremely long lines, turned away from the polls, or told to deposit their ballots in the questionable "box 3" for misread ballots.
These issues were present ALL DAY at some locations.
Because of this, despite having had only 17% of the turnout on election day, Democrats outperformed Republicans in multiple counties, which is unlikely and impossible.
[Breitbart] While social media giants are known for acting quickly and without hesitation to censor certain information being posted during election season — such as the bombshell news story about Hunter Biden’s infamous "laptop from hell" — Facebook reportedly failed to block ads containing death threats to election workers ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
Facebook failed to block 75 percent of ads "explicitly calling for violence against and killing of US election workers" ahead of the midterm elections, according to an investigation by Global Witness and the New York University Tandon School of Engineering’s Cybersecurity for Democracy (C4D) team.
"The ads contained ten real-life examples of death threats issued against election workers and included statements that people would be killed, hanged or executed, and that children would be molested," the report said.
Global Witness explained that it submitted the content as ads in both English and Spanish and that Facebook approved nine of the ten ads in English and six of the ten ads in Spanish.
"Once Facebook approved the ads for publishing, Global Witness and C4D removed the ads before they would be displayed on the platform in order to avoid spreading hateful and violent speech," the report added.
#2
During my days of hunting down Jihadi pages on FB, it was curious to see how certain instances went down. I had great success against AQIS (19 pages alone in 2016) but had zero success against Paleo hate pages urging the killing of Jews. Of all the attempts and communications, not one of the Paleo pages was taken down. All these things point to task and design.
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#3
Would they have censored Ray Epps? I think we all no the answer to that.
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[LegalInsurrection] 11th Circuit: "The district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction in this case."
In a sweeping decision today, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s civil lawsuit seeking court supervision of the DOJ/FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... ’s review of documents seized in the Mar-a-Lago raid was invalid, the district court never should have exercised jurisdiction, with the implication that the Special Master process was unauthorized.
The decision points to a massive gap in citizens’ rights. So long that the government lawfully convinces a magistrate judge — in an ex parte proceeeding in which the target has no role — that probable cause exists for a search warrant, the target cannot challenge the government’s possession of documents and property seized within the scope of the warrant. There are some rare exceptions where property is urgently needed by the target, but the types of records seized in Trump’s case did not fall under those exceptions. The only remedy is to move to keep the records out of evidence if there is a criminal prosecution — but during the investigative stage, tough luck.
Here, of course, the search warrant was massively overly broad. And allowed the feds to sweep up a wide range of documents, basically anything in the vicinity of the documents marked classified. Tax, medical, and other records were swept up for review by the feds.
Here’s some key excerpts, but understand, you have almost no rights in the face of federal government-obtained search warrants, unless and until you are prosecuted.
From the Opinion:
This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation. The answer is no.
Former President Donald J. Trump brought a civil action seeking an injunction against the government after it executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago residence. He argues that a courtmandated special master review process is necessary because the government’s Privilege Review Team protocols were inadequate, because various seized documents are protected by executive or attorney-client privilege, because he could have declassified documents or designated them as personal rather than presidential records, and—if all that fails—because the government’s appeal was procedurally deficient. The government disagrees with each contention.
These disputes ignore one fundamental question—whether the district court had the power to hear the case. After all: "Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. They possess only that power authorized by Constitution and statute, which is not to be expanded by judicial decree." Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 511 U.S. 375, 377 (1994) (citation omitted).
This case was such an expansion. Exercises of equitable jurisdiction—which the district court invoked here—should be "exceptional" and "anomalous." Hunsucker v. Phinney, 497 F.2d 29, 32 (5th Cir. 1974).1 Our precedents have limited this jurisdiction with a four-factor test. Richey v. Smith, 515 F.2d 1239, 1243—44 (5th Cir. 1975). Plaintiff’s jurisdictional arguments fail all four factors.
In considering these arguments, we are faced with a choice: apply our usual test; drastically expand the availability of equitable jurisdiction for every subject of a search warrant; or carve out an unprecedented exception in our law for former presidents. We choose the first option. So the case must be dismissed.
The case is over for all pracitcal purposes:
... Now, with the benefit of oral argument, we conclude that the district court lacked jurisdiction to consider Plaintiff’s initial motion or to issue any orders in response to it....
As for records that may otherwise be "sensitive," it cannot be that prosecutors reading unprivileged documents seized pursuant to a lawful warrant constitutes an irreparable injury for purposes of asserting equitable jurisdiction. Here too, Plaintiff’s argument would apply to nearly every subject of a search warrant. The district court’s unsupported conclusion that government possession of seized evidence creates an "unquantifiable" risk of public disclosure is not enough to show that Plaintiff faces irreparable harm....
The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so. Either approach would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’ involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations. Accordingly, we agree with the government that the district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction, and that dismissal of the entire proceeding is required.
The district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction in this case. For that reason, we VACATE the September 5 order on appeal and REMAND with instructions for the district court to DISMISS the underlying civil action.
#4
He doesn’t retire to Scotland because they are more liberal than New York and the DA in NYC is currently demanding to run Trump’s empire. I am pretty sure that declaring that Trump has no further options is wishful thinking
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#6
As they continue to win, retain the power of lawful government and escape consequences both political and legal, their boldness increases. The mythic creation of "white supremacist conspiracy" and "sedition" is setting the prerequisite context for the ruthless crackdown once they finally trigger civil unrest by their tyrannical abuse of power. The Covid interregnum and emergency powers neutered reaction for far too long, and now, after two iterations of voter fraud, they have become overtly smug about dynastic, imperial status for the new world order aristocracy they believe they have established.
#7
There's an unroll with snarky comments on Twitchy. You'll need to click through to twitter for the screen grabs that Taibbi posted. Supposed to be a second episode, with Q&A, sometime today. Should be lit.
[Wired] Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol.
The FBI’s biggest-ever investigation included the biggest-ever haul of phones from controversial geofence warrants, court records show. A filing in the case of one of the January 6 suspects, David Rhine, shows that Google initially identified 5,723 devices as being in or near the US Capitol during the riot. Only around 900 people have so far been charged with offenses relating to the siege.
The filing suggests that dozens of phones that were in airplane mode during the riot, or otherwise out of cell service, were caught up in the trawl. Nor could users erase their digital trails later. In fact, 37 people who attempted to delete their location data following the attacks were singled out by the FBI for greater scrutiny.
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No thought given by the Bureau to the future impacts on discovery involving criminal activity here or OCONUS. They were just going for the 'big win' and hoping no one would find out about their 'sources and methods.'
Global Tracking Systems (GTS) like GEOFENSE have been around for decades.
Real criminals and terrorists use burner phones (throw aways). If they don't now, they certainly will in the future. What a bunch of dumb asses.
The gov't and FBI will likely get away with the use of GEOFENCE. Federal judges and the courts will NOT want to open up the can of worms (beyond GEOFENCE) that GOOGLE cooperation with the gov't and intelligence community likely represents. Insert 'National Security Concerns' here.
The potential revelation that GOOGLE, FB, and the former Twitter platforms, and others, are actually US gov't funded tools would be very bad for business.....both here, and abroad.
How can anyone now assume otherwise? I mean it is a 'Police State' for non-Democrats right ?
#2
I imagine if they want to claim they detected your phone in the target area, it does not matter where you actually were during the time frame in question.
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#3
How many FBI phones turned up in this dragnet?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
12/03/2022 11:31 Comments ||
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How many FBI phones turned up in this dragnet?
Geeze. The block of phone numbers assigned to the gummint don't even register in the data searches. Can you say "Area Code 000 kids? I knew ya could..."
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#5
1st rule of Protest Club
Never bring your Smart Phone to the event.
Remember to activate away from home.
Remove battery when not in use or within miles of home or work.
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.
[Breitbart] While social media giants are known for acting quickly and without hesitation to censor certain information being posted during election season — such as the bombshell news story about Hunter Biden’s infamous "laptop from hell" — Facebook reportedly failed to block ads containing death threats to election workers ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
[Wired] 
No thought given by the Bureau to the future impacts on discovery involving criminal activity here or OCONUS. They were just going for the 'big win' and hoping no one would find out about their 'sources and methods.'
