Bongino pulls it all together.
[Rumble] In this episode, I discuss the deeply troubling statements by Attorney General Barr about the plot to take down President Trump. I decipher what I think he’s really saying, and why it’s important.
You may recall, NSA Director ADM Mike Rogers paid a visit to Trump Towers just prior to the 2016 election. The next day Trump moved his campaign team OUT of Trump towers. Roger's visit was a solo event, not sanctioned by Soetoro. There were numerous calls for Soeotoro to fire Rogers, he did not.
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Steele's London Orbis Bus Intelligence office was a 5 minute cab ride from MI6 at Vauxhaul. He moved it to the country (a few miles West of London I believe) a couple of years ago and has essentially gone to ground.
[Western Journal] A 4-year-old girl will live to see another Christmas because her dad was one of the "good guys with a gun" that Second Amendment opponents pretend is just a myth.
A home invasion that began at about 10 a.m. on Dec. 8 ended when the homeowner opened fire on four armed intruders in his home in Lacombe, Louisiana, WVUE-TV reported.
Two of the men — 25-year-old Renard Causey Jr. and 21-year-old Justin Hill — were shot dead, and the other two suspects were wounded.
The homeowner’s 4-year-old daughter also was injured in the crossfire but had surgery and is expected to make a full recovery, according to multiple reports.
The suspects might have pistol-whipped the homeowner before he opened fire, one of the homeowner’s relatives told WVUE.
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...B, I'm fascinated by the voices between the reporters and the local interviewed. One certainly sounds Louisiana. Is it me or does the site reporter (and talking head back at the studio) sound like a flat Midwestern accent?
[Al Ahram] A criminal court in Shebeen El-Kom, Menoufiya has sentenced a man convicted of murdering writer and critic Nafisa Qandil, the wife of renowned Egyptian poet Mohammed Afify Matar, to death.The verdict was made after the court received the country’s Grand Mufti’s approval. Courts in Egypt refer death penalty verdicts to the Grand Mufti, but his opinion is non-binding.
The 32-year-old defendant allegedly killed Qandil while she was alone in her home in Menoufiya’s Ashmun city after breaking in with the intention of robbing and killing her.
Police arrested the defendant five days after the incident. The defendant reportedly confessed his crime in detail, admitting to stealing money from the victim’s house and reenacting the crime.
Qandil studied Islamic Sharia (law) and was a writer at an Iraqi journal called al-Aqlam.
Her writings, such as an article titled Failaq al-Nesaa’ (Women’s Force) included antifeminist ideas arguing that equality between men and women is a flawed concept.
Her husband, Matar, was a prominent poet in the 1960s and has several published works, including a book of poems named Quartet of Joy, which has been translated to English.
He won several awards in the Middle East, including the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Award.
Matar was arrested early in the 1990s, during the tenure of late President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , after he was accused of being involved in an anti-government plot.
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[WUWT] Millions of Chinese residents have been left without heating in the middle of winter as cities ration electricity amid a blockade on Australian coal.
Australia provided 57 per cent of China‘s thermal coal imports in 2019, which is used to generate electricity in power stations.
But last month, Beijing blocked Australian coal imports, which has resulted in 80 ships carrying more than $1.1billion in blacklisted cargo being stranded off the Chinese coast.
Chinese coal prices were 500 yuan ($100) last month but increased 760 yuan ($153) per tonne on Wednesday, which has now resulted in restrictions on power use for millions of residents, according to South China Morning Post.
Some 57 million people live in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai, on China's east coast, and have been besieged by power shortages resulting in electricity being shut off.
The Zhejiang provincial government has now ordered offices to only use heating when the temperature drops below 3C and restaurant to only use air conditioning for diners, rather than staff, in the city of Wenzhou from December 11 to 20.
Small to medium sized factories have reportedly been ordered to halt production for one to two days after operating for two days between December 13 and 30.
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China sent a gift to Southern Australia in the form of a biological. India as well in Southern India with 200 admitted with unknown infection. You stand against China they respond. It is my understanding that since Vietnam Biological agents have been on the mind of Asian's. Just ship out on cargo. Not likely entire cargo would be treated for Biological agents. Even crews.
CHINA IS
4th in the world for Coal Reserves
#1 in Coal Production in the world
#1 in Coal Consumption in the world
It STILL has a Yearly Deficit of 611,766,418 short tons. Which in some cases exceeds the use 51 of the 130 Coal using countries. In some case 5 to 10 combined.
WONDERING OUT LOUD
With China's recent massive military build-up and strategic toe holds in South & Central America, Africa & around the Pacific for natural resources and growing land?
I wonder what their end game is?
Because I also see China’s population has exceeded its ability produce enough food items and has been steadily relying on imports the last 11+ years to feed its population.
China was already the world’s largest importer of soybeans and meats. Now it is in the top 3 as a importer of dairy, wine, and other food products and beverages.
[France24] The United Kingdom stood shut off from the continent on Monday after European countries cut transport ties over fears of a new coronavirus strain, sowing chaos for families, truckers and supermarkets just days before the Brexit cliff edge.
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, Israel and Canada were among those that shut off travel ties after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a highly infectious new strain of the virus was a danger to the country.
Johnson was due to chair an emergency response meeting on Monday to discuss international travel, in particular the flow of freight in and out of Britain. EU officials were also expected to hold talks on coordinating their response.
France shut its border to arrivals of people and trucks from the United Kingdom, closing off one of the most important trade arteries with mainland Europe, a step Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said was surprising.
"We're doing everything we can to get that restarted," Shapps told Sky. "They've said to us they want to restart the hauliers as quickly as possible."
[LI] While the Trump administration takes tough measures to limit Chinese state-run companies’ access to U.S. technology and market, the European Union is in the final stages of signing a major investment pact with Beijing by the end of 2020.
The White House on Friday added China’s leading chipmaker SMIC to the list of over 60 Chinese companies barred from doing business in America. The measure is part of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in November aimed at banning companies tied to China’s military from acquiring U.S. technology.
Beijing is "increasingly exploiting United States capital to resource and to enable the development and modernization of its military, intelligence, and other security apparatuses," the executive order said. The order, set to come into effect in early January, targets Chinese companies that pose a threat to U.S. national security.
China is pursuing a strategy of "Military-Civil Fusion," the White House believes. The communist regime is boosting "the size of the country’s military-industrial complex by compelling civilian Chinese companies to support its military and intelligence activities," the executive order added.
"The United States will use all countermeasures available, including actions to prevent (Chinese) companies and institutions from exploiting U.S. goods and technologies for malign purposes," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Friday.
[AlAhram] Spokespeople for Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have said that pork products are not part of their COVID-19 vaccines.
Pork-derived gelatin has been widely used as a stabilizer to ensure vaccines remain safe and effective during storage and transport. Some companies have worked for years to develop pork-free vaccines: Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has produced a pork-free meningitis vaccine, while Saudi- and Malaysia-based AJ Pharma is currently working on one of their own.
But demand, existing supply chains, cost and the shorter shelf life of vaccines not containing porcine gelatin means the ingredient is likely to continue to be used in a majority of vaccines for years, said Dr. Salman Waqar, general secretary of the British Islamic Medical Association.
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The largest U.S. defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, announced Sunday it has inked a deal to acquire rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4 billion. https://t.co/EiYD6Ptuhnpic.twitter.com/bRs4fd6H42
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Once Vulcan is flying and both Atlas and Delta stop, then the only engines they'll be selling are RS-25s for SLS and RL-10s for SLS and Vulcan upper stages.
At least it'll be a locked up market - SLS and Vulcan will build and fly no matter how long it takes, because there's no way the Feds will ever cancel them.
Mike
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Between this and Northrop buying Orbital ATK, we now have two SRB makers and four liquid fuel engine makers. Doesn't seem too unhealthy a situation, unless the Plugz administration sell all those firms to China...
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And anyone who thinks that any competition for SpaceX is a bad thing maybe needs to go back and take Critical Thinking 101 again. Maybe try to pass this time...
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[Right Scoop] Imagine a Fox News host trying to tell a female surgeon general how to do HER job. It would be field day. And if the host was white and the surgeon general black? Total pandemonium.
But that’s the equivalent to what happened on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. Rich white Karen host Margaret Brennan harangued Surgeon General Jerome Adams about vaccinating President Trump.
"The highest amount of hesitancy about taking the [vaccine] shot is from Republicans, 42 percent according to Kaiser," said Brennan, an elite member of the party whose most important Governor and most popular members of Congress have been scaring Americans about the vaccine for months because they thought Trump might get credit for it.
"Wouldn’t it help to persuade those Republicans, if the Republican President himself came out to try to persuade them to take the vaccine he says he is so proud he fast-tracked? Do you have plans to have President Trump get a shot in the arm on camera," Brennan imperiously demanded with full air of superiority.
Newsbusters sums up the next bit just right, writing that "as Dr. Adams was explaining why the President shouldn’t get the vaccination because he had received a monoclonal antibody treatment, and even though we’re still learning how long previous bouts with the virus leave a patient protected, Brennan began to yell at and over him."
Get her, Cuomo, Newsom, Wolf, Fauci and the rest of the hypocritical frauds outta here!
[NY Post] Dr. Deborah Birx traveled with family out of state over Thanksgiving weekend ‐ disregarding her own advice to stay home and not gather during the holidays, according to a report.
The White House coronavirus response coordinator was joined by three different generations of family at one of her vacation properties on Fenwick Island in Delaware on Nov. 27, just one day after the Thanksgiving holiday, the Associated Press reported.
The group ‐ which included her husband Paige Reffe, a daughter, son-in-law and two young grandchildren ‐ were from two separate households.
Birx ‐ who has a home in Washington D.C. and another in Potomac, Maryland ‐ defended the trip saying that she needed to take care of winterizing the property before a potential sale.
"I did not go to Delaware for the purpose of celebrating Thanksgiving," Birx said in a statement.
She argued the members of the trip belong to her "immediate household," though acknowledged that they live in separate homes.
Birx had urged people in the days leading up to Thanksgiving to keep gatherings to "your immediate household."
"I don't like it to be any number," Birx said on CNN's "New Day."
"Because you know, if you say it can be 10, and it's eight people from four different families, then that probably is not the same degree of safe as 10 people from your immediate household."
Birx said that at the time that every American is obligated to make sacrifices to stop the spread of the virus.
"I'm making the personal sacrifices not to infect my parents and my pregnant daughter, and there's a lot of people out there who know how to protect one another, and we just need to make sure we're all doing that," Birx said at the time.
But her trip came to light from a relative, who said they had concerns about her social distancing during the pandemic, the AP said.
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Kathleen Flynn, whose brother is married to Birx's daughter, said that the behavior makes her concerned for her own parents.
"She cavalierly violated her own guidance," Flynn said of Birx, whom she has never met.
One of the sources of friction has been Birx's visits to the Potomac home, where her elderly parents, daughter and grandchildren live.
Flynn's mother ‐ who is the kids' other grandmother ‐ regularly travels there to watch them before returning home to her 92-year-old husband, who has health complications.
But Flynn's father, Richard Flynn, said he trusted Birx to make the correct decisions.
"Dr. Birx is very conscientious and a very good doctor and scientist from everything I can see," he said.
Lawrence Gostin, a public health expert at Georgetown University's law school who knows Birx professionally, also said he's confident that she took it upon herself to take appropriate precautions for Thanksgiving travel ‐ but feared that her behavior may send the wrong message to Americans.
"It's extraordinarily important for the leaders of the coronavirus response to model the behavior that they recommend to the public," Gostin said.
"We lose faith in our public health officials if they are saying these are the rules but they don't apply to me."
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This little piggy went holiday' ing
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy had roast beef
This little piggy had none.
And THIS little piggy ...
Ran her mouth off to the media and threatened everyone else, AAALLL the way home!
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.
[Western Journal] A 4-year-old girl will live to see another Christmas because her dad was one of the "good guys with a gun" that Second Amendment opponents pretend is just a myth.
[France24] The United Kingdom stood shut off from the continent on Monday after European countries cut transport ties over fears of a new coronavirus strain, sowing chaos for families, truckers and supermarkets just days before the Brexit cliff edge.
[LI] While the Trump administration takes tough measures to limit Chinese state-run companies’ access to U.S. technology and market, the European Union is in the final stages of signing a major investment pact with Beijing by the end of 2020.
[Right Scoop] Imagine a Fox News host trying to tell a female surgeon general how to do HER job. It would be field day. And if the host was white and the surgeon general black? Total pandemonium.
