[RedState] An April 1st piece, the Washington Examiner seems to hint at two people who are under close scrutiny by U.S. Attorney John Durham as he closes in on completing his assessment of the predicate for the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.
Those two people include former CIA Head John Brennan and FBI "confidential human source" (read: informant) Stefan Halper, who has spent the last several years as an academic at Cambridge University.
According to Sidney Powell, attorney for Ret. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is currently appealing his case that he lied to investigators, her client was "set up" because he was preparing to audit the intelligence community as national security advisor to President Donald Trump before he was charged.
Speaking to the the Vicki McKenna Show on 1310 WIBA Madison on Tuesday, Powell said her client "threatened to expose wrongdoing by top intelligence officials in the Obama administration."
"He was going to audit the intel agencies because he knew about the billions Brennan and company were running off books," Powell said, referring to former CIA Director John Brennan.
The Examiner compares Powell’s statements to those made by investigative journalist Lee Smith last November when he told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that he hoped Flynn’s reputation could be saved and that he could ultimately get back to the work he had undertaken to expose the corruption of officials in the Obama administration.
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What was done to this man is beyond criminal It was because he knew what a fraud the Brennan/Clapper/Comey team was and how on their watch the intelligence/law enforcement elites of our nation were weaponized against political opponents. This infection has ruined confidence in a way never seen before. Bastards!
[Alt-Martket.com] It's sad to say with such finality, but a universal fact of existence is that most of the people you meet in this life are fundamentally and functionally ignorant. Not necessarily stupid, but certainly ignorant. Ignorance comes not from a lack of intelligence, but from a denial of knowledge and truth. That is to say, ignorance takes hold when people decide to act as though they know and understand a thing, even if they do not. Ignorance prevails when a society or nation chooses to value the appearance of expertise, to value the theater of overconfidence, and to cheer for the bluster of morons rather than admit that they have unanswered questions on subjects they do not yet grasp. For nothing is worse for the self absorbed than to acknowledge that they do not know.
Entire nations have fallen throughout history because of this terrible weakness...
By extension, such ignorance is not just an inherent disease but also an easily exploitable disease. When we refuse to think critically and examine our surroundings thoroughly, we become like grazing gazelles oblivious to the predators encircling us in the tall grass. And, just as there are predatory individuals that hide amongst us, there are are also predatory oligarchs that camouflage themselves as benevolent politicos and financial professionals standing above us. Normal predators we fear, establishment predators we invite into our homes as protectors, saviors, and partners.
The disease of ignorance leaves us vulnerable to many other plagues, including literal plagues like the Ebola virus. When we take the establishment at its word concerning the threat of Ebola outbreak, we make ourselves vulnerable. When people assume that the worst could never happen to them, history shows us that it inevitably does.
The recent discovery of an Ebola infected patient in Dallas, Texas has led to reasonable concern from the general population, but mainstream media efforts along with CDC and White House spin have subdued any practical response by the citizenry. The constant droning voice of the establishment claims there is nothing to be worried about; that even if there was an outbreak in the U.S., it would be quickly squashed by highly prepared medical response teams.
First and foremost, the existence of just one Ebola infected person within America's borders indicates a likelihood of others, or the possibility of others in the near future unless policies and procedures are changed. As far as I can tell, the government has no intention of introducing rational fail-safes such as requiring mandatory quarantine for those seeking to reenter the U.S. from known outbreak regions, shutting down unrestricted travel into the country from countries with Ebola, training hospitals properly in the identification of the disease, or committing mass resources to quelling Ebola in hot zones before it reaches our shores, at least not in time to make a difference.
Secondly, the establishment also has no intention of giving the general public accurate information as to the behavior and dangers of Ebola. Those I have spoken with in the medical field including some who work within major city hospitals have related to me that the CDC has not been honest in its assessment of the probability of outbreak. For example, the CDC is consistently reminding the public that Ebola is not an "airborn" disease, and this is technically true as far as the science indicates. However, they forget to mention that it is indeed a "droplet born" disease, meaning, it can travel through the air carried in an infected cough or sneeze. The tight quarters of an airplane make for a perfect petri dish, with droplets and particulates passing back and forth through the same space and oxygen for hours at a time. The spread of Ebola is nowhere near as containable as the CDC claims.
[American Thinker] The mass hysteria over COVID-19 in the U.S. is driven in large measure by misleading statistics and bad math about the disease’s body count.
Now that New York has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, we are now regularly inundated on cable TV news with the latest pandemic statistics from the city. The statistics grow gloomier by the hour.
These figures have frightened people into submission as state and local governments across America enact repressive measures they say are necessary to contain the virus or slow its proliferation.
After doing everything in their power to oust President Donald Trump, journalists and others are now calling him a weakling for supposedly not doing enough, while they demand an unprecedented nationwide crackdown.
The problem starts with the fact that the highly influential statistics from the Big Apple paint a false picture of what is actually happening.
In New York City, the death of anyone who dies who tests positive for COVID-19 is counted as a coronavirus death. This is the case even if the coronavirus failed to play a significant role in the person’s passing or illness.
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Disperse the population. Close the contaminated polls and voting machines. Everyone votes absentee, mail-in ballot. Use the media to attack Trump on a daily basis. The urban crisis must continue through October.
#2
If, say, four weeks from now the economy is still in free-fall and lots of folks don't have any way to buy food and pay rent, we may see a more kinetic kind of urban crisis.
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Point of order, a lot of the TV studios are in NYC, a lot of them are butthole lickers, and their purpose in life is to sell themselves as personalities via catchy topics.
FWIW none of this is personal and no harm is meant to anyone and I don't give a flying hoot about being proven right. We're all fallible, none is has a monopoly on truth. But I know data and data quality, and it's simply impossible to ignore any longer the "data fiasco" (UK Pathology Prof. Dr. John Lee's term) that is occurring here as our authorities continue to confuse "with" and "from." Wise, experienced pathology and epidemiology experts across the medically advanced world - from Stanford to Yale to Harvard to Oxford to other U.K. and also German universities - are speaking out. Please give them a respectful hearing.
BLUF:
[American Thinker] Everyone is still working and schools are in session. How did they do this?
I have been in and out of South Korea several times over the last number of years, and I do have a contact friend there who openly said the following without any fear, "This is not a deadly virus. Even though everyone is saying that, that’s because they aren’t able to get a handle on it."
So how is it that the South Koreans got a handle on this virus without stopping the economy or shutting down the country? South Korea has a crowded population of some 52 million people crammed into a geographical location about the size of Indiana, a perfect situation for a pandemic to spread ‐ but it didn't. And yes, when I flew in and out of Korea, it was also very apparent they took communicable diseases seriously, particularly at airports. Health is a very much part of their daily routine.
My contact friend went on to point out, "Yes, I feel very blessed to be living here in South Korea during this time. There are several factors, I think, that have made South Korea so successful in how they’ve handled it. They started screening for fevers, wearing masks, putting out hand sanitizer everywhere, and just trying to make the public aware of what was happening. They were also very proactive, in testing and separating anyone who tested positive for the virus, whether they were showing symptoms or not. Because as you are correct, the majority of the cases are quite mild. It’s just very contagious. So South Korea ended up turning some factory warehouses and training areas into large quarantine centers for anyone who had mild symptoms or no symptoms, but still tested positive for the virus. That saved our hospitals only for the small percentage that were actually seriously sick."
Those who tested negative for the virus went back to school and work. Those who tested positive for the virus with little or mild symptoms were quarantined. This allowed them to devote their energies to those who succumbed to the virus with much more serious conditions at hospitals with far less chaos. The other very important practice they did was to quarantine the elderly to stay at home to keep them from getting it in the first place. This, too, prevented hospitals from being flooded with such cases that also drive up the fatality rate quickly. In this way, they had enough beds and hospital equipment to be able to help those whose symptoms developed into something far more serious. Since this virus has a pretty big kick to it in certain people, you have to facilitate scenarios that help hospitals handle better those who succumb to it. Emphasis added.
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South Korea has a few other cultural advantages like general intelligence, ability to follow directions, a sense of community, and possibly the authorities actually enforcing their directives.
In America we release convicted criminals back into society, does anyone really think they will be arrested and jailed for going to a beach or a party?
[Smith & Wesson Forums] Montecalvo, Lombardy, Italy. As I sit here in my involuntary isolation, it was just reported that overnight 743 more people died and 5.249 new cases have been reported. This brings the total cases of infection to 69,176 and the body count to 6,820. We take relief in knowing that 8,326 people have recovered so far. (Numbers as of 3/24,8:30pm in Italy.)
Most towns here in Italy, from the upper reaches of the Alps to theancient shores of Sicilia and Sardenia, while not deserted, are closerto being ghost towns than the bustling centers of tourism, business and daily life they were just a few weeks ago.
Stores and shops have been shuttered. Restaurants and coffee shops nolonger serve customers. Schools, universities, sporting arenas...even our museums and theaters...all closed. Even the Vatican City has closed its gates and armed patrols monitor the 20 foot tall walls that protect it!
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[RedState] An April 1st piece, the Washington Examiner seems to hint at two people who are under close scrutiny by U.S. Attorney John Durham as he closes in on completing his assessment of the predicate for the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.
[Alt-Martket.com] It's sad to say with such finality, but a universal fact of existence is that most of the people you meet in this life are fundamentally and functionally ignorant. Not necessarily stupid, but certainly ignorant. Ignorance comes not from a lack of intelligence, but from a denial of knowledge and truth. That is to say, ignorance takes hold when people decide to act as though they know and understand a thing, even if they do not. Ignorance prevails when a society or nation chooses to value the appearance of expertise, to value the theater of overconfidence, and to cheer for the bluster of morons rather than admit that they have unanswered questions on subjects they do not yet grasp. For nothing is worse for the self absorbed than to acknowledge that they do not know.
[American Thinker] The mass hysteria over COVID-19 in the U.S. is driven in large measure by misleading statistics and bad math about the disease’s body count.
