[YouTube] Ep. 1250 This Is Just The Beginning of the Spying Scandal - The Dan Bongino Show: In this episode, I address the disturbing new evidence that emerged showing that the spying scandal on Mike Flynn and the Trump team was more widespread than previously believed.
In the absence of 'unmasking requests' and an obvious problem with chronology, Dan makes a very good case for potential FIVE EYES bilateral intelligence production on Mike Flynn being passed to our Intelligence Community. Here is a 2017 CNN article he cites as a tipper or evidence.
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Here are the numbers for "FISA Section 702" inquiries from 2012-2016 -- per J.E.Dyer "These are the queries that enabled desk jockeys at the federal agencies and the NSC staff to view USPI [US person information] – without having to record a formal unmasking request."
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Damn! I should have known it was the Bee-- but on the other hand, things are getting awfully hard to satirize as our politics becomes more and more absurd.
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^ Put a $1 in Autobartender's G-String in the O-Club, DD
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Next up, Cher and Barbra Streisand sing Chuck Schumer's and Dianne Feinstein's Paean to Our New Red Chinese Masters...
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Not a surprise from the CommunistNewsNetwork. They're formally coming out of the closet?
[Times of Israel] Not only was US president Franklin Roosevelt perfunctory about rescuing Jews from the Nazis, but he obstructed rescue opportunities that would have cost him little or nothing, according to Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff.
FDR’s role in preventing the rescue of European Jewry is detailed in a new book called, "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust."
Published in September through The Jewish Publication Society, Medoff’s book includes new archival materials about the relationship between Roosevelt and Rabbi Stephen Wise, who the author sees as a sycophantic Jewish leader used by Roosevelt to "keep the Jews quiet."
Wrote Medoff, "Franklin Roosevelt took advantage of Wise’s adoration of his policies and leadership to manipulate Wise through flattery and intermittent access to the White House." In return for visits to the White House and Roosevelt calling him by his first name, Wise undermined Jewish activists who demanded the administration let more Jewish refugees into the US.
According to Medoff, Roosevelt’s policies toward European Jews were motivated by sentiments similar to those that spurred him to intern 120,000 Japanese Americans in detention camps as potential spies.
"Roosevelt used almost identical language in recommending that the Jews and the Japanese be forcibly ’spread thin’ around the country," Medoff told The Times of Israel. "I was struck by the similarity between the language FDR used regarding the Japanese, and that which he used in private concerning Jews — that they can’t be trusted, they won’t ever become fully loyal Americans, they’ll try to dominate wherever they go."
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It wasn't just FDR, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes floated a plan for settlement in Alaska. The locals were hostile, they all weren't FDR Democrats.
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I liked the idea of giving the Jews a homeland in Baja California. Similar weather to Israel, less hostile neighborhood, and any Mexicans in the area would have seen a remarkable improvement in their standard of living.
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I can attest to second and third hand family knowledge of both of these things via my Dad, whose father knew a famous historian who knew of the aforementioned antisemitism in the Roosevelt administration, and in addition...
...my Dad had a good friend who was on the St. Louis, but jumped off and swam to shore when it was near Havana, but never saw his family again.
#9
I did a research paper on FDR in eleventh grade (1978), and was forced to the same conclusion. I attempted to soften it by citing a politician’s perceived need not to trigger voter prejudices by importing Jews in noticeable numbers and the general prejudices of his class, but despite his willingness to use several clever Jews for specific tasks in his administration, his attitude was clear.
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Weird... growing up, I was under the impression he was Jewish, dunno why, possibly because of his Roosevelt name? Even more stupid, I never thought that of Teddy R.
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Funny how the Democrat heroes are garbage people. Looking at you Wilson, Clinton, and Obama.
Carter was a terrible president, and wrong on nearly every issue but at least he wasn't such a terrible person as these.
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^ Naval Academy grad. Nuclear engineer. Small businessman.
Those formative experiences have a way of building character that being an academic, a lifelong ambitious pol + hound-dog or a self-mythologizing "community organizer" never will.
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Well, the first Jews arrived in New York in 1654, coming from Brazil after the Portugese took it back from the Dutch. I think it was still New Amsterdam at the time.
[American Thinker] When the coronavirus landed on our shores, communist China came with it.
We have become part of a mass scale human experiment in government control and it turned out that stripping away our freedom wasn’t all that difficult. Under the guise of concern for our health and well-being, tyrants came out of the woodwork. Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our lives are being destroyed as the left solidifies and expands their oppressive powers. We’ve been herded around like cattle, threatened, isolated, confined, silenced, and arrested. You name it, it’s happening.
You tell me if what follows sounds like the United States, or China.
We’ve been told who can work and who can’t, with language that separates us according to who is and who isn’t "essential" as the almighty State supersedes individual rights and the family unit.
We’ve been physically and verbally harassed, threatened, fined, detained, arrested, jailed, and/or placed in forced quarantine. Business licenses have been revoked. Going to work without the permission of the government is now a crime. So is going to the park or a beach. Children playing together is also in defiance of the government. So is placing flags on the graves of veterans. The list of infractions goes on and on and on and on. Examples read like the manifesto of a demented madman.
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If lots of the usual suspects think this "dry run" was a great success, boy are they in for a surprise when things run hot and wet...
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I have noticed the public is on the ragged edge. Especially women. They wholeheartedly complied and actively enforced government edit. All bets off with nice weather and police also mostly unwilling to enforce edits. Blue states in for a long term nightmare.
[American Thinker] California's far-left state legislature has found the coronavirus a useful crisis indeed and isn't letting it go to waste.
Now they've decided that the coronavirus merits repealing a 1996 popular-will law, Proposition 209, which prohibits affirmative action in college admissions, state hiring, and state contracts. Way back in 1996, California's voters of all colors had decided the idea had run its course and passed Proposition 209 to get rid of it.
Today, the legislative elites claim that disparent COVID-19 caseloads among black and Latino groups compared to others is proof the practice needs to be brought back. State assembly bill ACA-5, is a bid to bring back strict racial bean counting in contracting, public hiring and college admissions by altering the state's constitution. To heck with what the voters thought.
Asian-Americans are seeing right through it, and as with other measures, know who's really targeted.
Asian-Americans have launched a change.org petition to try to persuade the state's legislative overlords to not pass this measure and at last count, they've got 26,000 signatures.
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Cali voters will keep getting it "good and hard" until they decide to vote differently. Cali GOPe is so awful they probably won't notice a difference...
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If it was passed by the voters in an initiative, can the legislature override it (legitimate question, I'm not familiar with the law in California)?
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Nope - public vote
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[Conservative Woman] A LOT of attention has been given to Professor Neil Ferguson’s dubious track record on epidemics and his equally dubious judgment in meeting his lover on at least two occasions during the lockdown introduced on his own advice.
On closer examination, there are two especially significant elements crying out for independent investigation: the quality and reliability of Ferguson’s computer model, and the political affiliations of his lover.
...Which leads us neatly to the second facet of the affair – the actual ‘affair’ and the politically radical lover. Professor Ferguson, 51, is said to be estranged from his wife Kim, with whom he has a 17-year-old son. He is reported to have used the match-finding website OkCupid a year ago to meet Antonia Staats, 38, currently married and living with her husband and two children. Ms Staats is a Left-wing campaigner who works for the US-based online network Avaaz, an organisation that promotes global activism on, among other things, climate change. The Guardian has called Avaaz the globe’s largest and most powerful online activist network, and it has a world-wide following of around 10million people. It is loosely connected with Bill Gates, through the World Economic Forum, which also lists Al Gore and Christine Lagarde on its board. Staats works as a senior campaigner on climate change for the group, and is said to be sympathetic towards the aims of Extinction Rebellion. Indirectly, on the surface at least, this ties Ferguson to climate change, a cause that the lockdown has served very well by managing to shut down the world economy.
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If you wanna criticize Ferguson, criticize him for using a program he doesn't understand (based on equations written in 1927). Though, in fairness, he's no worse than the rest of his field. Not, over who he's sleeping with.
#2
Yes, yes. Had a leftie lecture me about how Andrew Gillum's drunk / drugged escapade with a male escort in a Miami hotel was "his private life" and had no bearing on his suitability for public life. What's next? I have to sponsor olive oil parties in my living room? No. Thanks.
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And before someone embarrasses himself, don't even bother bringing up Alan Turing.
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The issue is not that he had an affair — reportedly he has been separated and she is in an open marriage — but that the proponent of national quarantine deliberately broke quarantine multiple times... that she is a Parlour Pink is just icing on the cake.
[Babylon Bee] LANSING, MI—A breaking news report just revealed that there is a dangerous, psychotic, deranged fascist at large at the Michigan state capital and also some peaceful protesters with guns.
"This violent maniac has not been apprehended yet," said one source, "but we know that she is surrounded by armed guards and is considered extremely dangerous."
The potentially deadly psycho was seen going around the capital building completely uncontested, causing many to worry for their safety. Also, there were some protesters who gathered peacefully and exercised their 2nd Amendment rights to carry their firearms in a demonstration for their liberties.
But it's the fascist that is worrying experts.
It is unknown what the unhinged extremist wants, though she was screaming, "Power! Unlimited power!" and cackling toward the heavens throughout the day.
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We've had a lot of destructive protestors without guns, aka rioting, looting, vandalism. Usually tied to something the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises stir up every now and then to increase ratings and demonize non-party members.
Notice however, the cops usually don't start slamming heads on the armed types. It avoids a Lexington Commons event for everyone.
[Sidney Powell.com] Regarding the decision of the Department of Justice to dismiss charges against General Flynn, in your recent call with your alumni, you expressed great concern: "there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk."
Here is some help—if truth and precedent represent your true concern. Your statement is entirely false. However, it does explain the damage to the Rule of Law throughout your administration.
This last shot - note the delicious use of ironic quote marks - is the kind of bitch-slapping that Zero-Soetoro desperately needs:
Finally, the “leaked” comments from your alumni call further evinces your obsession with destroying a distinguished veteran of the United States Army who has defended the Constitution and this country “from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” with the highest honor for thirty-three years. He and many others will continue to do so.
1 As a “constitutional lawyer,” surely you recall that perjury (or false statements) also requires intent to deceive. In Bronston v. United States, 409 U.S. 352 (1973), the Supreme Court reversed a conviction of perjury. In Bronston, the defendant’s answer was a truthful statement, but not directly responsive to the question and ultimately misled federal authorities. The Court determined: “A jury should not be permitted to engage in conjecture whether an unresponsive answer, true and complete on its face, was intended to mislead or divert the examiner; the state of mind of the witness is relevant only to the extent that it bears on whether “he does not believe [his answer] to be true.”
To hold otherwise would be to inject a new and confusing element into the adversary testimonial system we know.” Id. at 359. The FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn specifically noted that his answers were true or he believed his answers to be true—completely defeating criminal intent. Furthermore, General Flynn knew and remarked they had transcripts of his conversations.
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Did the old heart good to read Sidney Powell's memorandum. She is a patriot. The best solution is to declassify everything related to these crooks and traitors for the American people to see and then charge them. If this den of crooks is not cleaned out, the corruption and sedition will dog us into the future.
It's Kurt
[Townhall] Grandpa Badfinger just let slip that he has a secret weapon for November. No, his secret weapon is not the utter hypocrisy of a Dem base that is eagerly going all in on a senile old weirdo who, when he says "#MeToo," means that he too treated women like inanimate objects as did his pals Teddy Glug-Glug Kennedy, Bill Cohiba Clinton and Harvey Sex Toad Weinstein. Their hypocrisy can't be a secret weapon because their hypocrisy is no secret.
No, Gropey J's secret weapon is – get this – "Republicans for Biden."
h/t Instapundit
[Star Tribune] - When it arrived in the industrial towns of central Mexico, the sand-swept sprawl of northern Nigeria and the mazes of metal shanties in India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, COVID-19 went by another name.
People called it a "rich man’s disease."
Pandemics throughout history have been associated with the underprivileged, but in many developing countries the coronavirus was a high-class import — carried in by travelers returning from business trips in China, studies in Europe, ski vacations in the Rockies.
With infections initially concentrated in better neighborhoods, many working-class people believed the disease wouldn’t touch them. The governor of Mexico’s Puebla state, Luis Miguel Barbosa, said: "If you’re rich, you’re at risk. ... The poor, we’re immune."
By now it is clear that COVID-19 disproportionately harms the hungry and those with pre-existing illnesses and substandard health care.
Historians say it may be remembered as the first pandemic that spread, to a significant extent, from the affluent to the lowly. It hopscotched around the world aboard commercial and private jets, quickly appearing in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and the U.S.
In Mexico, some of the earliest cases were detected in prominent business leaders who had traveled in private jets to Vail, Colo., for a ski vacation. They included a top banking official, the chief executive of the company that makes Jose Cuervo tequila and the chairman of Mexico’s stock exchange, Jaime Ruiz Sacristan, who died from the virus in mid-April.
Stories of callous behavior by elites have spread with the virus. A Bollywood singer refused to self-isolate upon returning from London, then attended three parties, forcing hundreds of families to go into quarantine. The daughter of a politician in Malaysia flouted a lockdown but got off with a $184 fine.
In March and April, South Korea saw a new wave of infections among privileged offspring returning from universities abroad. One student who had a fever reportedly swallowed 20 acetaminophen pills to evade detection by airport temperature scans; another broke quarantine multiple times to go to Starbucks in Seoul.
In Nigeria — where two in five survive on $1 a day or less — some of the first 19 patients were political figures, including the president’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari. Some were believed to have been infected while traveling in Europe or Egypt. Kingsley Ndoh, an assistant professor of global health at the University of Washington, said, "It was seen as a ’big man’s disease,’ so there was this low risk perception. And then community spread started taking root."
After Kyari died of the illness, Nigeria’s health minister said the virus was no longer just "something for big men and women." But the message was undermined when hundreds violated social distancing policies to attend Kyari’s funeral — many not wearing masks.
h/t Hot Air
[538] - ...Most people understand immunity to mean that once a person has been exposed to a disease, they can’t get it again. It’s an easy concept to grasp, and some people have hoped that widespread immunity could be the way out of this pandemic: If enough of the population becomes immune to the disease, the spread would be stopped, since the virus would run out of new, susceptible targets. The "herd" of immune people would protect everyone.
But getting to herd immunity without a vaccine isn’t as simple as the idea itself. A number of variables can affect when herd immunity is reached — and what it costs to get there — and they vary depending on the disease. How infectious is the disease? How deadly is it? And how long do people stay immune once they’ve gotten it? Adjusting any of these variables can drastically change the outcome of this equation. You can probably sense where this is heading ...
...If everyone in a population is immune to the infection, it can’t spread. But we can prevent a disease’s spread even without everyone being immune. If enough people are immune, the infection is unlikely to spread to big swaths of vulnerable people because those who are immune, the "herd," protect them. The more people who are immune, the more likely it is that infectious people will only come into contact with people who cannot be infected, ending the spread. This creates a societal barrier between the infectious and the vulnerable.
The moment when herd immunity kicks in depends on how contagious the pathogen is, which is measured by what experts call the basic reproduction number, or R0 (pronounced "R naught"). The R0 is simply the average number of people an infectious person will spread the disease to in a population where no one is immune, so an R0 of 3 would mean an infected person spreads the disease to, on average, three other people while they’re contagious.
...The higher the R0, the higher the proportion of the population that needs to be immune to stop its spread. This is known as the herd immunity threshold, and the formula for finding it is actually pretty straightforward: 1 — 1/R0. For a really contagious disease like measles, which has an R0 between 12 and 18, 93 to 95 percent of the population needs to be immune to stop the spread (this is why the U.S. has had recent measles outbreaks when vaccination rates dropped even slightly).
...For COVID-19, we’re still not certain what the R0 is, so we don’t yet know what the herd immunity threshold is. For now, it’s estimated to be anywhere from 70 to 90 percent. But here’s the problem: To reach even the lower end of that range naturally in the U.S. — imagine giving up on any interventions and just letting the disease run its course — 230 million Americans would eventually become infected and, depending on the fatality rate (more on that later), millions could die. What most "anti-lockers" refuse to acknowledge is that the numbers on herd immunity (sans vaccine) are just as much bull (pulled from their proponents' ass) as the Ferguson model.
...How long are we immune once we’ve had it?
..."The presence of antibodies, everybody thinks that means immunity, but I study HIV and there’s a huge antibody response to HIV, and it’s never able to neutralize that virus," Bauer said.
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There's two things we do know about COVID
1 if you're under 65 your risk is extremely low
2 if you have low Vitamin d your risk of an over-reaction is raised.
Maybe the government has low political vitamin D?
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Golly gee, my folks grew up without TB or polio vaccines. Society survived. They missed the 1918 flu but their parents made it through. We'll watch how the plasma transfusions are doing now.
That said we've seen the concept in action and fail. For generations our children avoid certain diseases we haunted with. However vaccines then and now protected the bulk of the population. Parents got some anti-vac mentality focusing on the 1 percent that may have a bad reaction. They choose to use the herd for protection. Then the previous administration decided to increase the population without an Ellis Island program. That's when those long ago diseases reappeared and many American kids got to experience the curse of those previously suppressed diseases. The herd changed.
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Forever quarantine is a quasi-religious cult like gerbil worming.
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No one is in favor of a forever quarantine. The problem is we have politicians who are terrified of being held responsible for new illnesses after any "reopening".
We also have the left and right preferring to make tribal signals rather than think, discuss, and compromise.
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No one is in favor of a forever quarantine
I don't buy that. At least one commenter here is all in on ForeverQ.
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gerbil worming.
Darn Murc I almost churgled morning's coffee out the nose!
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Hey! The article has a new model, and you can play with the input variables!
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However, This simulator makes a lot of simplifying assumptions about how disease spreads in the population.
And - So let’s go back to that 70 percent herd immunity threshold. If the fatality rate is around 0.5 percent and 70 percent of Americans have to get sick before their immunity starts protecting others, that means more than 1.1 million people would die.
What if the fatality rate is around 0.25%? 550,000 dead? Over what time period? Does the disease slow down in the summer, before the dreaded 'second wave'? Would hospitals still be 'overwhelmed'? How about if it takes the third wave to get to herd immunity? We'll have answers, as TW noted elsewhere, in 6-12 months, or so.
Help me remember - how long did it take to get to herd immunity for SARS? To develop a SARS vaccine? An AIDS vaccine?
Just for reference, the CDC total death count, YTD, as of May 15, is 857,948, and that's 101% of the "expected" deaths. I guess increased COVID deaths are compensated by lower vehicular fatalities.
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"we don’t yet know what the herd immunity threshold is."
Herd immunity might not save us, but it might already have saved us, we don't really know would be more accurate if a bit lengthy title.
#12
We know that initial tests had a high degree of false positives - hence the (touching - it touched > 3000 people in Sweden) belief in masses of asymptomatic infected and coming herd immunity.
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The response to 2nd and 3rd wave will be different.
They won’t be putting people into nursing homes; there will be more masks/gloves/wipes available; more tests and the drug cocktail to catch it more quickly.
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.
[Times of Israel] Not only was US president Franklin Roosevelt perfunctory about rescuing Jews from the Nazis, but he obstructed rescue opportunities that would have cost him little or nothing, according to Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff.
[American Thinker] California's far-left state legislature has found the coronavirus a useful crisis indeed and isn't letting it go to waste.
