[The Hill] One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history ‐ the unmasking of the CIA’s arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year ‐ has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel.
Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey, fired FBI director. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr. Julian Assange, grand master of WikiLeaks. And American attorney Adam Waldman, who has a Forrest Gump-like penchant for showing up in major cases of intrigue.
Each played a role in the early days of the Trump administration to try to get Assange to agree to "risk mitigation" ‐ essentially, limiting some classified CIA information he might release in the future.
The effort resulted in the drafting of a limited immunity deal that might have temporarily freed the WikiLeaks founder from a London embassy where he has been exiled for years, according to interviews and a trove of internal DOJ documents turned over to Senate investigators. Read the draft immunity deal proffer that the Justice Department was considering for Assange here.
[Wash Examiner] Facing a new wave of potentially dangerous threats, called for by a top Democratic lawmaker, legal and gun experts are calling on top Trump aides to get their concealed carry permit and back it up with a pistol.
"There are simply not enough police in D.C. or Virginia or Maryland to protect all Trump officials at their homes and when they go out to restaurants. Getting a concealed handgun permit would be helpful to protect themselves and their family," said John R. Lott Jr., president of the influential Crime Prevention Research Center.
"High level officials in the Trump administration, especially if their faces are likely to be recognized by many in the public as a result of appearances on TV, might want to consider applying for a license to carry a concealed weapon in the District of Columbia, and/or other states they frequent, in view of the call by Rep. Maxine Waters for the public to ’absolutely harass’ these officials in public places, and other recent events indicating the increased danger they are in," added public interest law professor John Banzhaf.
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The Libtards are mistakenly thinking quiet from conservatives means acquiescence. Thinking peacefulness means cowardice. Conservatives, especially conservative men don't give a rats ass what you say/shout to us. Go after our wives and children and prepare for shock and awe. We're almost there.
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Witi DC leftist Pñliticians ordering stakking and harrassment of the right this is exactly why we have a second amendment.
Because Ryan and Sessïons (and DC alphabet agencies ïn general) are doing nothing, for the first time since Geoqge Washington a Continental Army needs to be raised to defend and protect actual citizens of the US.
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There's a picture of Mad Maxine over at Breitbart right now that is match for the pic of Goebbels that shows up here from time to time. Someone should go grab it. The juxtaposition would be entertaining.
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Mad Max, the fire breathing super bitch, apes Joseph Goebbels.
Is this the picture of which you post?
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That's the one. Coincidental resemblance of posture? I think not...
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And now a picture of her on Drudge with Mugabe sunglasses...
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[Breitbart] Purchases of new homes in the U.S. soared 6.7 percent in May to an annualized pace of 698,000.
Economists had forecast a gain of just 1 percent and an annual pace of 667,000, up from 646,000 in April. The April figure was revised down from 662,000.
The biggest boost came in the South, America’s largest region. Sales there rose 17.9 percent, hitting an annualized pace of 409,000, the highest in 11 years.
Home buyers found cheaper homes in May, with the median sales price falling by 3.3 percent compared with a year ago. That fall in home prices came despite complaints from home builders that tariffs were driving up their costs.
Residential construction is strong. The number of homes sold but not yet started rose to a six-month high, indicating that housing will continue to contribute to economic growth in the months ahead.
Demand for housing is likely getting a boost from the strong labor market and lower taxes. Higher interest rates, however, are expected to make buying a home more expensive.
Sales were unchanged in the Midwest, while sales in the West and the Northeast declined.
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Much better that land title costs rise from increased wealth creation being absorbed into Land title than Central bank inflation (welfare state for Landowners).
[USA Today] The other day, author Tom Ricks asked whether we’re heading toward a civil war. "I don’t believe we’re to Kansas of the 1850s yet. But we seem to be lurching ... in that direction," he wrote.
Ricks was commenting on "What Democratic rage would look like," a Bloomberg opinion column that quotes political scientist Thomas Schaller as saying, "I think we're at the beginning of a soft civil war. ... I don't know if the country gets out of it whole."
That sounds pretty serious. The column by Francis Wilkinson presents a catalog of things Democrats are mad about ‐ from the existence of the electoral college to Trump’s "propaganda apparatus" ‐ and predicts that if Democrats lose the midterm elections, there will be hell to pay. (And Republicans, you know, could make a similar list of their own complaints.)
"I don't know exactly what that would look like," Wilkinson writes. "But liberals have a great deal of cultural, academic and economic heft, stretching from Hollywood to Harvard. Just this week, someHollywood powerhouses flirted with leveraging their clout against the Trumpist Fox News. There are endless variations on such a power play. If Democrats opt to use their power more aggressively ‐ breaking rules ‐ Schaller's soft civil war hardly seems unlikely."
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...not just guns. Who raises the food? Who creates the energy that modern life is dependent upon? Through what 'color' territory do the rail lines, pipelines and highway traverse to get the the urban enclaves?
Metro areas like South Florida have weathered weeks without fundamentals due to hurricanes, but only on the expectation that someone was coming to the rescue. What happens when everyone else is dealing with the man made disaster and has nothing to spare?
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saw a link - neo-neocon? Comparing today's festivities with the early stages of the Red Guard.
reminds me I must visit the LuckyGunner site again soon.
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...I'm going to suggest we may yet have a ways to go before Fort Sumter, but it is on the distant horizon, a faint pillar of smoke that will become a fire in the night.
Every single incident that goes unpunished (and that is the word that needs to be used) builds upon the others, and encourages the next set of morons to go past that. One thing we aren't at all far from is a serious injury or death.
And we're going to be told it's our fault.
Mike
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Is America headed toward a civil war?
I don't think so. So far the right wing response was, amazingly, restrained. Once the restraint ends, then - how shall I put it: American left are bullies not revolutionary fighters.
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Sometimes I wonder if the left thinks they'll have a black army full of gangbangers on their side and have been protecting and cultivating them for that event.
It think they'll be surprised out how unwilling the black community would be to fight FOR the liberal cause (as opposed to fighting for territory or a black cause) and how, even if well armed, untrained they are compared to the average conservative 2A fan.
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Someone wrote out an example of how during massive civil unrest, unrestrained riots could be essentially shut down by a few teams in trucks. They have driver and security, armed with carbines. In the bed there are two marksmen, armed with DMR style AR's. The bed has sandbags set up for protection. The rioters tend to clump at intersections so they can attack vehicles. Truck pulls up a few hundred yards away, driver and security hop out and drop the bed gate, the two marksmen then fire one magazine worth at the rioters as slow aimed fire. Then they yank the gate up and depart. It's brutal but would be very effective. Few gangers can hit anything 30 feet away with rifles or pistols, much less 300-400 yards away.
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Silentbrick, serious question, why lower the gate and have the shooters get out? Why couldn't they steady their weapons on the gate? Or lower it from inside and fire from the prone position.
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Sorry, I didn't explain it very well, Marksmen remain in truck bed, with firing ports through the sandbags, driver and security get out and watch. Marksmen finish their mag, the driver/security pair close the tailgate and get back in and drive off.
Of the four people, only two get out, driver and security. Only 2 people are generally visible at any time as well.
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LOL, I pity you Herb. I'm not going to be doing much beyond protecting my family if CWII starts. As for how the left fights, how good does movies and and writing books do when your city has no power, no water and no truck driver willing to attempt to break through a siege to bring the stuff to you?
And how buff as infantry do you have to be to shoot up power sub stations or pick off truck drivers trying to bring in food to cities? The second civil war isn't going to be much infantry fighting each other under the roar of artillery, it's going to be siege warfare. Doesn't take to pick off fat assed pols and reporters either. There's plenty of young folks who are willing to do the heavy lifting. Grow a brain cell herb, or did you melt them all already?
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No cause for alarm. It appears Herb's unfortunate comment has been archived for further study. I'm afraid we'll just have to finish the evening without him. Normal programming has now resumed.
[Business Insider] President Donald Trump has faced intense, sustained backlash to his immigration policies even after a partial reversal of course.
But even as Trump's officials are shouted out of restaurants and called fascists to their faces, Trump's polling numbers have been steady ‐ even rising ‐ over the past several weeks.
A Gallup poll and the RealClearPolitics average of polls both put Trump around a 45% approval rating, with that number rising steadily throughout June. That's just one point lower than Barack Obama was at this point in his presidency.
Over the same period, Trump's border practices drove mainstream news anchors to tears and sparked round-the-clock coverage of family separations. Besides Trump's policy of separating families at the border, which he reversed amid the scrutiny, analysts say his overall immigration policy looks a lot like Obama's.
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Don't you love how they use 'Controversies' to describe orchestrated propaganda campaigns by political enemies? If an enemy flings mud and poo at you it's a 'Controversy' because...?
[DAWN] THERE have been numerous successes in the long fight against militancy and the country is undeniably more stable and secure than it was just a few years ago. But two events in recent days have indicated that past and present achievements will not automatically guarantee continuing and future success in the long war.
The killing of several faceless myrmidons in South Wazoo, who according to security officials allegedly returned to Pakistain from Afghanistan along with other recently returning refugees, has underlined the difficult of fully securing a region where a major military operation was carried out nearly a decade ago.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... the banned TTP in exile quickly identifying and seemingly arriving at a consensus for a new leader, Noor Wali Mehsud, has underlined that the mere elimination of a senior bully boy leader will not necessarily lead to an unravelling of the group.
Indeed, the Pak security and intelligence apparatus will need to be on the highest alert in the days and weeks ahead. New bully boy leaderships often need to demonstrate a willingness and ability to launch terrorist attacks and the case of the current TTP head may be no different.
The upcoming general election and what is expected to be frenetic campaigning in the final weeks ahead of the election will surely be the target of bully boys.
The challenge for the state to hold elections in a climate relatively free from the threat of bully boy violence will be immense. But the accumulated experience of a decade of regularly scheduled elections, counter-insurgency campaigns and counterterrorism operations ought to help the state in providing stability and security.
It is hoped that the ECP and the caretaker governments will work closely and effectively with political parties to coordinate election-related activities. Mutual cooperation is in everyone’s interest.
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[Rudaw] The recent killing of an estimated 22 Iraqi Shiite paramilitaries in Syria in an Arclight airstrike, possibly carried out by Israel, comes as both Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... are reiterating their aim to bring all Iraqi Shiite paramilitaries fully under state command and control. The reminder of the presence of Iraqi Hashd forces in Syria could therefore constitute a slap in the face for their respective efforts.
While Baghdad did condemn the attack near the Iraqi border, arguing no force engaged in battle against the Islamic State
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