[Daily Caller] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said this week that Democrats and the media are likely to be "frightened" by the information contained in Trump-Russia documents that Republicans are asking President Trump to declassify.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Center for Security Policy on Thursday, Nunes said that Trump is close to declassifying portions of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant granted against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
On July 21, the Justice Department released heavily redacted versions of four FISA warrants granted against Page from Oct. 2016 through June 2017. (RELATED: DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Applications)
The unredacted portions showed that the FBI relied heavily on the infamous Steele dossier to obtain the warrants. Republicans have accused the FBI of abusing the FISA process by citing the dossier even though it was unverified and financed by Democrats as part of an opposition research project.
Before that release, Nunes and other Republicans on the House Intelligence panel sent a letter to Trump calling on him to declassify and release 21 pages of the fourth and final FISA warrant.
[Breitbart] Pope Francis’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low, according to a new CNN poll showing that fewer than 50 percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of the pontiff.
Fewer than half of Americans (48 percent) now say they have a favorable view of the pope, CNN reported, which represents a significant drop since January 2017, when the pontiff enjoyed a two-thirds approval rating. In December 2013, the year he was elected, Francis’spopularity was higher still, with 72 percent of Americans giving the pope a favorable rating.
Early in his pontificate, Francis stressed the themes of mercy, poverty, and evangelization, which gradually gave way to emphasis on more politically charged issues such as global warming and immigration.
More recently, however, the pope has come under fire for refusing to answer allegations that he was aware of the serial homosexual predation of U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and yet elevated him to a position of prominence, allowing McCarrick to influence the naming of American bishops.
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A big thumbs down here for the leftist and the lavender mafia that put him there. A thorough public house-cleaning and prosecutions is the only way they can bring their morality back
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He is more concerned with banning plastic straws and protecting the Lavender Mafia, and progressivism goals, than he is with saving souls and getting rid of the homosexual abusers and paedophiles in the Catholic Church.
Bergoglio has got to go. Do the Catholics have any way to "impeach" a sitting pope?
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Previous marriage of Joseph. the siblings weren’t cousins, but Joseph’s children from a previous marriage, making them the step-siblings of Jesus. Joseph isn’t mentioned outside of the birth of Jesus, causing some to believe that he was much older than Mary and died before Jesus’ public ministry. It is conjecture, but some apocryphal works, such as the Protoevangelium of James, the Gospel of Peter, and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, all seem to indicate a tradition of belief that Jesus’ brothers and sisters were the children of Joseph. Even this Baptist knows that.
That's a cure for your ignorance.
But this isn't the place to argue Protestant Vs Catholic thats been a divide since the 1500's. Its to argue against a corrupt Pope.
[PJ] In the wake of newly released text messages between fired FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova said he believes "the walls are closing in" on Obama-era FBI and Department of Justice Department officials.
Damning new texts obtained by Fox News this week show former FBI lovebirds Strzok and Page talking about government employees "leaking like mad" and media outlets competing for scoops in the run-up to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
"The walls are closing in, but they're not closing in on the president. They're closing in on the FBI and the Department of Justice under President Obama," diGenova said on Fox News' "Hannity" Thursday night.
He explained that the new Strzok-Page texts exposed a strategy to "illegally and criminally" release Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant information, including releasing the name of a U.S. citizen caught up in the surveillance abuse.
"By mentioning Carter Page, they have now created massive civil liability for everybody involved in revealing Carter Page's name," diGenova declared. He cited the names of former FBI counterintelligence director Bill Priestap, former FBI director James Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, and former FBI general counsel James Baker as people who are particularly vulnerable to civil liability.
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I hope your optimism is restored Besoeker. We have an unelected body of DOJ and FBI officials, an opposing Dem candidate, and the DNC trying to change the outcome of the 2016 presidential elected by lying and creating phony documents.
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#3 I'm waiting for the discovery of the dead people John.
Hope your unfinished thought is only that.
The Clintons are adept at putting people between themselves and those who end up dead. It has always been a bit of a surprise to me how they have been able to amass power around themselves so that others end up doing their dirty work. I suppose it is a matter of using compromising info, money, threats, extortion and the promises of power--all the things the DS thrives upon.
I'd be happy with a good draining of the swamp to discourage others from repeating the evil and criminality. Maybe I'm in a Pollyanna mood today but I've got a feeling this coming week and the run-up to the midterms will be "revealing" and result in good changes.
[Mises Institute] Arguably one of the rights that has seen less government encroachment in the US ‐ in contrast to other activities such as commerce ‐ gun rights are now witnessing unprecedented attacks at the state level and even from politically-connected corporate entities.
Although gun control laws are not created equally in terms of overall impact, gun confiscation holds a special place in the halls of political repression. A trip down memory lane will give us a refresher of how gun confiscation has helped consolidate government power.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In August, United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... envoy to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Martin Griffiths announced to the world and the Security Council that consultations between the legitimate Yemeni government and the putschists would be held in the first week of September in Geneva to pave the way for a political solution and end the armed conflict that has been ongoing since 2014.
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[Breitbart] This week during a student town hall at Emory University, former President Jimmy Carter said he would change "all" of the policies of President Donald Trump.
When asked what he would do if he became president of the United States again, Carter said, "If I were foolish enough to feel I could be president again and I got to be president, I think the first thing I would do would be to change all of the policies that President Trump has initiated since he has been in office."
He continued, "I pray for him fairly regularly."
Carter explained, "If he answered my prayers, he’d have to change a lot of things."
He added, "I hope he will do well if he finishes out his first term."
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Oh - so we should look forward to the reimplementation of long gas lines, massive inflation, unemployment and 20% interest rates? Can you give away the Panama Canal a second time? Wanna fuck up another hostage rescue? Just shut the fuck up already.
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That's pretty much what Trump is doing to Obama and what the next president will do as well. That's the problem. All of the power has been delegated by Congress to the administrative state. What this Congress should be doing is rolling back that authority.
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Fuck You Jimmy Carter. We already suffered once under your wrongheaded and stupid policies. Remember what you did? Double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, gas lines and rationing, and the decimation of American military power, including the failure in Iran.
You were an absolute failure, so Shut The Fuck Up.
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Jimmy Carter said he would change "all" of the policies of President Donald Trump.
So he would deviate from the Carter/Clinton administration's 1994 North Korea policy and order a military strike on North Korea's nuclear infrastructure?
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One of my pet theories is that if jimmuh had won reelection in 1980 the Soviet Union would still be in business and all of those Eastern European countries would still be behind the Iron Curtain.
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The Bradley was originally supposed to be a light weight air transportable troop carrier that was supposed to replace the M-113. As time went on mission creep loaded so much stuff on it was wearing out tracks. The latest effort is to get the weight down and reduce maintenance as well as make it air transportable in one piece.
[Wash Examiner] A prototype of a censored search engine that links users' queries to their personal phone numbers is the result of a collaboration between Google and China.
This technology would make it easier for the Communist Party of China to monitor people and what they are searching, the Intercept reported Friday.
Dragonfly, the code name for the new search engine, was designed for Android devices.
The search engine would remove information that the Chinese government deems sensitive, like content regarding political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and protests, in something called a censorship blacklist.
The blacklist includes the terms "human rights," "student protest," and "Nobel Prize," among other terms in Mandarin, the language the majority of Chinese people speak.
Sources familiar with the Google project told Intercept that by linking searches to phone numbers, people seeking information banned by the Chinese government could be at risk for interrogation or detention.
"This is very problematic from a privacy point of view, because it would allow far more detailed tracking and profiling of people’s behavior," Cynthia Wong, a senior internet researcher with Human Rights Watch, said. "Linking searches to a phone number would make it much harder for people to avoid the kind of overreaching government surveillance that is pervasive in China."
Several human rights groups criticized the move in an open letter, saying it would result in Google "directly contributing to ... human rights violations."
The technology could also be used to increase China’s ability to manipulate information provided to the public, such as altering weather and air pollution data.
As of Saturday morning, Google has not yet commented on the project or concerns it has brought up with human rights groups and activists.
Recently, many conservative voices and social media users in the U.S. have complained that search engines are exhibiting bias toward liberal voices and media outlets in search results.
For generations, parents taught children "You can't believe everything you read."
Now they ought to teach their offspring they can't trust everything they search on the internet because Google -- run by anti-conservative, anti-Trump elites -- is manipulating search results to advance a political agenda. The problem with this is that Google has been doing the same thing with a large number of leftist beliefs for at least ten years, Only since the 2016 elections has it been considered a problem.
In a damning new video obtained and released by Breitbart this week, Google's top executives, including its founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are heard lamenting the victory of Donald Trump following the 2016 presidential election. Brin kicks off their weekly company meeting by saying the meeting is "probably not the most joyous TGIF we've had" and that "most people here are pretty upset and pretty sad."
Clearly he doesn't speak for the roughly 63 million Americans who voted for Trump.
Notwithstanding, in the video, co-founder Brin describes Trump's supporters as fascists and extremists and vows to thwart the rise of populism. He adds that he is "deeply offended" by the Trump's victory and that the election conflicts with many of Google's values. Google's CFO, also saddened by Trump's win, promises that America's most highly trafficked search engine will "use the great strength and resources and reach we have to continue to advance really important values." It is their product, which they have and should have the unfettered right to do as they wish
Perhaps this could explain why a Google News search on Trump churns out mostly negative stories about the president and his administration. In fact, a media research study conducted PJ Media found that 96 percent of the top 100 search returns on President Trump are from left-wing media outlets. Conservative outlets that would provide voters with a more balanced and positive analysis of the Trump administration are -- surprise! -- virtually invisible. They're not invisible. They are far down the search list. Not censored. Not blocked. Leftist groups know how to manipulate Google to their advantage. Conservative groups do not.
How is that possible when every major media outlet on all sides of the political spectrum is covering the Trump administration round the clock?
You don't need an Ivy League degree to see foul play. There's no foul play here. Nothing illegal, nor demanding government attention.
But that's not all. A newly released email by another Google executive following the 2016 election reveals a get-out-the-vote effort directed toward Latino voters to benefit Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Add to it that during the election, Google was accused of burying information from search queries damaging to its candidate of choice, Hillary Clinton. Google doesn't bury search results. Leftists know how to game Google.
And then there's the boycott of the recent congressional hearing on foreign election interference and digital media bias against conservatives last week. Facebook and Twitter participated. Google did not.
Perhaps America's top search engine is scrambling to contain the public relations mess it has created -- or it's busy mounting a legal defense.
With the Department of Justice investigating all of the above, that's probably not a bad idea.
Adriana Cohen is a syndicated columnist with the Boston Herald. Follow her on Twitter @AdrianaCohen16.
Google reportedly builds a prototype for censored Chinese engine that links users' searches to their phone numbers and blacklists terms including 'human rights' and 'Nobel Prize'
Coming soon to your neighborhood. If you don't want Iran to have bomb, why do you want other powers to have true 1984 control over peoples' lives? As they say, it will come home to roost.
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] Pope Francis’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low, according to a new CNN poll showing that fewer than 50 percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of the pontiff.
[Mises Institute] Arguably one of the rights that has seen less government encroachment in the US ‐ in contrast to other activities such as commerce ‐ gun rights are now witnessing unprecedented attacks at the state level and even from politically-connected corporate entities.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In August, 
[Breitbart] This week during a student town hall at Emory University, former President Jimmy Carter said he would change "all" of the policies of President Donald Trump.
[Wash Examiner] A prototype of a censored search engine that links users' queries to their personal phone numbers is the result of a collaboration between Google and China.
