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Falun Gong celebrates outside ex-PRC consulate in Houston
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Posted by: 3dc || 07/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Fifth Column
Still watching FauxNews?
[ZH] Fox News abruptly cut away from Friday's White House press briefing after Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany played a video of the ongoing riots in Portland, Oregon.

"We were not expecting that video," said Fox host Harris Faulkner, adding "Our management here at Fox News has decided we will pull away from that at this time."

Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Our management here at Fox News has decided we will pull away from that at this time."

Any chance they'll explain why?
Posted by: gorb || 07/25/2020 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  That video was industrial strength truth. Saw lady telling cops that she hopes he will die, kids chanting “f- ck the police. It was something that EVERYONE should see. Then the Kaleigh Macanany Video of press conference was shut down by Fox News. It was shocking. WTF?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/25/2020 1:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Fox hasn't been conservative in a long, long time.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/25/2020 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Sexual harassment and/or racist comment allegations against Tucker Carlson in 5...4...3....
Posted by: Clem || 07/25/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#5  The only news channel I can stand to listen to (rarely watch, hdmi plumbing issues) is Fox Business.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/25/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Fox host Harris Faulkner, adding "Our management here at Fox News has decided we will pull away from that at this time."

I've been catching Newsmax lately. Pete Hegseth grew up just east of our cabin (Forest Lake). He's on a fraud talk show (1130 am) here about once a week. The screening hostess refuses to take questions to him or Rep Emmer...

Pathetic
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/25/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Faux news. Thought about 90-95% of it was fake news. About 6 corporations control the MSM as I understand it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/25/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#8  I'll watch Tucker and Hannity, maybe Laura for a little bit, but that's it. What finally sealed it for me is the constant non-stop 24/7 Chink Virus Covid-19 panic pr0n coverage.
Posted by: Raj || 07/25/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Pretty much same here, but I run out of gas once Hannity comes on (and Ingrahm) as it's just the same old stuff. But Tucker is a for-sure.

And, is that all Fox people do is write/promote books? Hannity, Gutfeld...might be one or two more. Come on....
Posted by: Clem || 07/25/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Fox News is like the Wall Street Journal used to be. Conservative Opinion mixed with liberal news reporting.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/25/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Probably have to watch BitChute/LiveLeak to see anything raw and newsworthy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/25/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Jockeying for the coveted 'left on in the waiting room/airport lobby' slot.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/25/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#13  The drift leftward is obvious and this incident merely pinpointed a moment that makes that drift apparent. My wife just shared a friends Facebook posting that claimed the entire Portland insurrection was only 4 blocks square and peaceful in response to brutal federal law enforcement tactics. The revolutionary minds behind this sedition want to control what the uninformed Americans see through social media and the MSM to frame the idea of peaceful exercise of the first amendment finally being crushed by fascism directed by Trump the evil dictator. The entire election strategy of the democrat party is about voting against Trump and chaos and a return to the soft comfort of peaceful tranquility under Obamaworld part 3. Of course, what follows will be the workers paradise of East Germany.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/25/2020 13:12 Comments || Top||

#14  Very true. Since Vietnam I have had a negative opinion of news.I have found a positive blogger that I would suggest you give a visit. I regularly refer people here and more recently to https://www.facebook.com/turleytalks. Dr. Steve Turley very positive and a great speaker.
Posted by: Dale || 07/25/2020 15:31 Comments || Top||

#15  To be honest, I get most of my news from Rantburg and Instapundit. I don't watch network news, subscribe to a newspaper, or any magazines.
I believe I am probably better informed overall than much of the American public.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/25/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 07/25/2020 18:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ilhan Omar criticized for mailer that names solely Jewish donors
[Jpost] Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
has come under fire for a campaign mailer that names three donors to her Democratic primary opponent, and they are all Jewish.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has come under fire for a campaign mailer that names three donors to her Democratic primary opponent, and they are all Jewish."Can We Trust Antone Melton-Meaux’s Money?" said the mailer obtained by Vice News, which posted a story on Thursday.

The flyer features quotes that have appeared in national media from people outside the Minnesota congressional district who are giving to Melton-Meaux, Omar’s challenger in the Democratic primary on Aug. 11. It also cites others.

Among those mentioned are billionaires Seth Klarman, a hedge fund executive, and Jonathan Gray, president of the Blackstone Group private equity firm. Those quoted include Stanley Weinstein, a retired real estate executive from Miami Beach, and someone named Michael of Scarsdale, New York.

Rabbi Avi Olitzky of St. Louis Park, a Minneapolis suburb, who has defended Omar against previous claims that she is anti-Semitic, told Vice News he was "beyond dismayed."

"Most disappointing were the presence of tropes that we’d personally discussed as hurtful, as offensive, and that I received a commitment not only would it not happen again but education would take place to learn more as to why it’s a problem," said Olitzky, who had met with Omar last year after she was criticized for a number of statements in which she imputed undue influence to pro-Israel groups. She apologized for some but not all of her remarks.

Omar is leading in the only known poll by double digits, but Melton-Meaux has outraised the incumbent: $3.2 million to less than $500,000 in the last quarter. The challenger, a lawyer, is drawing support from pro-Israel donors. Omar is one of two representatives in Congress who back the boycott Israel movement; the other is Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  First of all Rabbi Avi Olitzky is a complete ass hat. But with the national and local media covering for her, so what? The slut of allah with continue unexposed.
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/25/2020 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, she gets $$$ from a Jew (Soros) too.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||


Trump, GOP ally vow Confederate base names won't change
[Al Ahram] President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
and a top Senate Republican are pushing Congress to preserve the names of military bases that honor Confederate generals, even though the House and Senate have overwhelmingly approved bills that rename them.

Trump said in a tweet Friday that he had spoken to Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, ``who has informed me that he WILL NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases and Forts, places from which we won two World Wars (and more!).?

Like him, Inhofe "is not a believer in 'Cancel Culture,' " Trump said.

Inhofe, a staunch conservative and close Trump ally, also opposes the name change, even though he led Senate approval of the defense bill that would mandate name changes at Fort Bragg, Fort Benning and other Army posts named for Confederate generals.

Inhofe told The Oklahoman newspaper that he spoke with Trump on Thursday about the base names, adding: "We're going to see to it that provision doesn't survive the bill. I'm not going to say how at this point."

Defense policy bills approved by both the House and Senate would change the names of 10 Army posts that honor Confederate leaders. The two versions must be reconciled, but both bills were approved by veto-proof margins this week.

Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fools. Bragg was probably more effective to the Union cause than any of the many other competent rebel generals like Longstreet or Joe Johnston. A model of political influence in selection over competency.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/25/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I think it's a dumb place to expend political capital, but I do understand the existing names are beloved by many.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/25/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 Aren't the experience is that the more you concede, the more they want?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Use an Adult Democratic Process instead of this petulant whinging. State Legislature where the base resides petitions Congress to change the name... see, isn't that simple? The State's representatives in both houses of Congress then propose a bill. But that is too ... Adult.
Posted by: magpie || 07/25/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||


Meet Steele Dossier's 'Primary Subsource': Fabulist Russian at Democrat Think Tank Whose Boozy Past the FBI Ignored
Brookings Institute : Hive
[RCI via AOSHQ] The mysterious "Primary Subsource" that Christopher Steele has long hidden behind to defend his discredited Trump-Russia dossier is former Brookings Institution analyst -- Igor "Iggy" Danchenko, a Russian national whose past includes criminal convictions and other personal baggage ignored by the FBI in vetting him and the information he fed to Steele, according to congressional sources and records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Agents continued to use the dossier as grounds to investigate President Trump and put his advisers under counter-espionage surveillance.

The 42-year-old Danchenko, who was hired by Steele in 2016 to deploy a network of sources to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia for the Hillary Clinton campaign, was arrested, jailed and convicted years earlier on multiple public drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges in the Washington area and ordered to undergo substance-abuse and mental-health counseling, according to criminal records.
Related: Conservative Treehouse commenters dig into Igor Danchencko’s background.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Frank G || 07/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ignored? More likely paid him extra.

But I'm sure Wray and Barr will get to the bottom of it.

Snark off.
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/25/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||


Rep. Louie Gohmert introduces resolution to ban Democratic Party!
[Twitter]
Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert- Texas

Posted by: 3dc || 07/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Heh. Do I smell popcorn?
Posted by: gorb || 07/25/2020 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Not the Bee !?! Popcorn Time! With lotsa butter.
Posted by: magpie || 07/25/2020 2:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Theater, but I'm going to enjoy this.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/25/2020 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Theater, but I'm going to enjoy this.

The point of the theater is to entertain, but like everything the leftists touch, it's gotten away from that goal...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/25/2020 8:58 Comments || Top||

#5  ROLOL. A backfire on the left's "cancel culture." Score one for Rep. Louie Gohmert.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/25/2020 9:54 Comments || Top||

#6  The only thing that could make it better is if Louie gets Kennedy (R-LA) to write it. Kinda like Kurt Schlicter but with sarcasm.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/25/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Any ideas for the new name? Treason R US?
Posted by: Tiny Hapsburg2635 || 07/25/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Any ideas for the new name?

We're Here To Help (Ourselves) To Your Stuff.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/25/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ Mob Rule Party? Riot Club (The First Rule is to never call it the Riot Club!)?
Posted by: magpie || 07/25/2020 14:08 Comments || Top||

#10  I love Louie Gomert !
Posted by: Heriberto Omeng1566 || 07/25/2020 14:26 Comments || Top||


Adam Schiff runs interference for the Chinese Communist Party, says that US efforts to stop Chinese spying is an “escalation.”
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 07/25/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  See the source image

Dem gang of 8 Congressional intelligence members. (Thought Feinstein was a member of this group also.--as she has Chinese connections).

Yikes!
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/25/2020 10:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I would have thought Feinstein the ringleader of this cast of characters.
Posted by: Clem || 07/25/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Surprising that China hasn't made more of a stink.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/25/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  ^China has a few problems of its own. Like the covid - you really believe they stomped it out? The 3 gorges dam - even if it doesn't break, they have to evacuate millions of people. It's unsuccessful clash with India. The covid induced breaks in supply chains. The hostility of all their neighbors. The fact that Japan pays firms to relocate from China.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Is there a Democrat who isn't loyal to China?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/25/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Is there a Democrat who isn't loyal to China?

Ilhan - China is not Islamic.

AOC - she doesn't know there is China.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2020 14:25 Comments || Top||

#7  ^LOL. Of course, AOC doesn't know that Nebraska and Kansas exist either.

I'd like to know, to an order of magnitude, how much money the CCP is pumping into our elections. From the CCP's perspective Trump is an existential threat.
Posted by: Matt || 07/25/2020 14:30 Comments || Top||

#8  I'd like to know, to an order of magnitude, how much money the CCP is pumping into our elections.

Lots. What you think all these billionaires donating to BLM/DNC are donating their own money?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#9  "I'm Xi Jinping, and I approved this message."
Posted by: Matt || 07/25/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||

#10  @ #6 - But, g(r)om, AOC does know about Chinese restaurants. Remember she said we were all racists because we weren't 'patroning' [sic] them.

Posted by: Clem || 07/25/2020 15:49 Comments || Top||

#11  ^Touche!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2020 15:54 Comments || Top||

#12  I'd like to know, to an order of magnitude, how much money the CCP is pumping into our elections. From the CCP's perspective Trump is an existential threat.

CCP and the Mexican drug cartels both have money and both have a stake in getting rid of Trump.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/25/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||



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