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[Federalist] YET ANOTHER CLINTON COVER-UP?
Why would the government engage in a massive cover-up in late 1996, involving multiple agencies, including the FBI, CIA, and National Transportation Safety Board, to disguise the fact that the U.S. military had accidentally shot down a civilian airliner? Probably for the same reason that multiple government agencies, like the FBI and DOJ, would torpedo an investigation into egregious violations of law by a secretary of state running highly classified national security information over an illegal personal server: to ensure that a Clinton won an upcoming presidential election.
EERIE SIMILARITIES TO CLINTON SERVER CASE
The political and investigative similarities between the TWA 800 and Hillary Clinton server cases, as well as the anti-Trump investigation, are eerie and deeply disturbing. In light of everything that we have learned that senior officials in our law enforcement and intelligence agencies are willing to do to protect a favored political candidate through the incessantly texting lovers, FBI agent Strzok and FBI attorney Page, the damning DOJ inspector general’s report on the handling of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, and Comey’s smug, self-righteous testimony, we need to face this truth: conspiracies of the most egregious sort can and do occur among the powerful governing elite of our country.
Certainly if the FBI were willing to whitewash intelligence information abuses that would send any other American to prison for many years, all to benefit Hillary Clinton, and if multiple agencies were willing to collude to mount an utterly fabricated counterintelligence operation against a U.S. presidential candidate to benefit that same Hillary Clinton, they would be willing to tank an investigation of an accident that would benefit her husband, Bill Clinton.
The FBI must be torn out, root and branch, and reconstituted under new management, a new name, and with new safeguards to ensure these sorts of abuses of its power and resources do not continue. Before that can occur, however, the agency’s sins must be exposed to the light. The families of 230 victims of an horrific disaster deserve as much. Mr. President, re-open the investigation into the cause of the TWA 800 crash.
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Was 'Operation Global Yankee' (July 1996) an exercise designed to prevent a 9/11 style attack? Was this an exercise gone horribly wrong ?
Perhaps the Clinton's do have the Intelligence Community by the nads. A compelling chronology and geographic location if nothing more:
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, carried out on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Wikipedia
#3
I knew a pilot who flew TWA 800 prior to his retirement. He thought there more to the crash than was being reported. He said the aircraft was a safe, very robust and stable aircraft.
[Townhall] Over 2,500 medical students and healthcare professionals at over 30 leading medical centers held events on Monday urging the public to treat "gun violence" as a public health crisis, The Mercury News reported.
The events were part of Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE), a non-partisan action co-founded by Stanford’s Professor of Medicine Dr. Dean Winslow, a Republican, and fourth year medical student Sarabeth Spitzer, a Democrat. Winslow is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and flight surgeon who was deployed six times to Iraq and Afghanistan.
At Stanford, healthcare professionals spoke about the health risk associated with guns, the gun epidemic and trauma care. At the University of California San Francisco, two panels discussed California's firearms laws and recommended ways to talk to patients about firearm access, safety, and risk.
According to Spain, it's difficult for medical professionals to get involved in the gun debate because of the political nature surrounding firearms.
"If this were any other public health problem, we wouldn’t stand for it. But it’s such a hot button political topic that we lose the ability to talk about it," Spain told The Mercury News. "We’ve been a little slow. We’re politically adverse. Our mission is education and research. This is advocacy."
Medical associations and groups have become involved in the gun control debate. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association are just a few who have thrown their hat into the arena.
#2
"Department of Counterinsurgency!
Your Second Amendment emergency?
Try treating with ointment
Or make an appointment
For matters of medical urgency."
#3
"I think it's the big one," sez Sanford
To the gatekeeping bastard that answered.
Fred reckons the seconds,
Elizabeth beckons...
"Press '6' for main menu," sez Stanford.
#12
Their real concern is all the gunshot wounds they see in their emergency rooms due to gangs shooting illegally acquired handguns at all in the vicinity, but that is the result of a two-fold law enforcement problem: international narco-gangs having sneaked their people into America illegally to take over the local immigrant gangs, and the police and courts not being permitted to act seriously against such miscreants.
A gun ban addresses the effect of illegal handgun onership by gangsters, not the cause, and targets the law-abiding who are not in either the perpetrating population or the victim population.
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TW, I am not an expert, but I'm told by some that claim to be that a lot of the shooting around the Madison area is "respect" and "revenge" related, though drug conflicts are well represented too.
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Maybe the NRA could initiate advocacy group - Better Hospital and Doctors - BHAD - pronounced BAD.
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Thanks, and ouch. I even quoted that, didn't I? Pretty familiar with the flight surgeons' gig. I blame sleeplessness! And maybe an overactive subconscious (the only FS I knew well was of a completely different mindset than Doc Winslow).
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Dunno those newlines are coming from (noticed that before). Limerick reflex? I'll watch it.
Physicians against Preventable Accidents
Butchers Improving the Community's Health
Physicians and Medical Professionals against Handgun Ownership
Quacks United to Ethically End Recidivism
Meh. Like DORK.
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trailing wife, I could be wrong but if this is the Stanford in the heart of Silicon Valley they aren't likely to see a lot of gang violence. Nearby Oakland and San Jose have gangs but they also have fine hospitals that would be much closer. East Palo Alto used to have gangs but I think they've been gentrified out of business.
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as an ex-ass't hospital administrator, I have learned that most docs are idiot-savants and you have to take the savant part on faith.
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a lot of the shooting around the Madison area is "respect" and "revenge" related,
james, they could easily be the same people. Gang culture is notorious for such nonsense.
if this is the Stanford in the heart of Silicon Valley they aren't likely to see a lot of gang violence.
But they’ll know of it, rjschwarz. Philosophy doesn’t require actual experence, and is often hindered by it. ;-)
and you have to take the savant part on faith.
The problem with to many specialists looking outside their area of expertise — but deep understanding in one area does not necessarily translate to deep understanding in an unrelated area.
[BBC] The founder and former head of the Blackwater private security firm, Erik Prince, has said he believes private security contractors are key to ending the war in Afghanistan.
Speaking to BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur, Mr Prince said he had produced a plan that would see troops replaced with private military contractors who would work alongside Afghan forces under a special envoy that reported directly to the US president.
The role of defence contractors in warfare sparked international debate after the killings in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square in 2007.
Since the US-led invasion in 2001, Afghanistan has never been as insecure as it is now, with the Taliban controlling more territory than at any point since their removal of their regime 17 years ago.
Mr Prince is now executive director at the Frontier Services Group.
[SultanKnish] Two million people arrived in Germany in 2015 and 1.8 million people next year in 2016.
Jawed came to Germany in 2015, while Abdul had arrived the year after in 2016. Both Jawed and Abdul were Afghan Muslim migrants. Both applied for asylum and had their asylum applications rejected.
Abdul Mobin Dawodzai was recently sentenced to eight years in prison for stabbing to death Mia Valentin, a 15-year-old girl, to death. Jawed went to Amsterdam and stabbed two American tourists at the central station.
Abdul was angry that Mia broke up with him. Jawed was angry about insults to Islam and Mohammed.
...In March, Hussein Khavari, an Afghan refugee who had fled to Germany in 2015, was sent to prison for raping and murdering Maria Ladenburger, a 19-year-old German student. But Hussein wasn’t fleeing Afghanistan; he was fleeing Greece, where he had thrown a 20-year-old female student off a cliff after robbing her. The Greeks sentenced him to a decade in prison, but Hussein fled to Germany instead.
Like Abdul, Hussein claimed to be a minor when he was actually in his twenties. (He may not have even actually been from Afghanistan.)
Afghans, it’s been noted, stand out for their rate of violence, even among other Muslim migrants.
...Angela Merkel, Germany’s open borders leader, had briefly ramped up Afghan deportations in response to public outrage, until a massive bombing in Kabul last year led to yet another change in policy.
...The thousands of Taliban fighters who, according to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), had entered Germany and applied for asylum, could conveniently no longer be deported.
Earlier this year, a German court sentenced Abdol Moghadas, an Afghan refugee, to four years in prison for his role in the death of Pfc. Christian Jacob Chandler: an American soldier serving in Afghanistan.
Abdol was one of Germany’s many Taliban fighters.
...Why have so many Taliban gone to Germany? One answer might lie in the covert relationship between the Taliban and German intelligence. It was Germany who had pioneered diplomatic talks with the Taliban, and who had welcomed Taliban leaders onto German soil.
...When there are no borders, when deportations are a toothless affair, when the rights of migrants matter more than those of the native population, then Islamic terrorism truly has no borders.
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I wouldn't classify individuals like Dawodzai and Khavari as terrorists.
They acted in accordance with Afghan Muslim notions of legality and decency.
Dawodzai punished his girl who had been breaking the law, who was openly defying the law.
Khavari took what was his in the subjugated enemy nation.
This is a clash of legal consensuses and a clash of cultural consensuses which has a far bigger impact on Europe than occasional spectacular terror attacks.
[PIPES] Europe's mainstream media has reached a point of distorted frenzy about what it calls the "far-right" and "neo-Nazis." I know. I have just experienced this first hand. Allow me, please, to tell my tale.
Ezra Levant of Canada is a brilliant conservative and an eloquent critic of the Left. He's indefatigable and successful; Rebel Media, which he founded in February 2015, has over one million YouTube subscribers. Of his many concerns, such as "ethical oil," Levant most worries about the threat of Islamism.
Our common outlook means we often cooperate, and he recently invited me to join a Rebel Media cruise on the Danube River in June 2019, which I accepted. It makes roughly equidistant daily trips, beginning with two towns in Germany (Regensburg, Passau), then four in Austria (Linz, Melk, Dürnstein, Vienna), one in Slovakia (Bratislava), and one in Hungary (Budapest).
Of course, the cruise has a political element as well. The talent includes British journalist Katie Hopkins and activist Tommy Robinson; and, as the brochureexplains, "we'll also meet with local political leaders of democratic political groups who are working to preserve western civilization and values" – the Alternative für Deutschland party, Sebastian Kurz' government in Austria, and Viktor Orbán's in Hungary.
h/t Instapundit
That saying comes from the Greek playwright Aeschylus. It's particularly apt in the case of the allegations leveled against Brett Kavanaugh during the confirmation hearings for his nomination as a justice of the US Supreme Court. They've proved to be nothing less than a war on him by the Democratic Party, acting as a spokesperson for every left-wing and progressive group in this country.
I think the allegations raised by Prof. Ford are absolute nonsense. Quite apart from their vagueness and lack of detail, they're overwhelmingly at odds with everything else we've learned about Mr. Kavanaugh during months of investigations. What's more, the way in which they've been handled is profoundly suspect. Far from her claimed desire for anonymity, she appears to have contacted news media months ago, and also scrubbed her social media accounts at the same time of material that shows her to be a far-left-wing activist.
I think Karl Denninger puts the situation in its proper perspective.
There are several possibilities:
...Now add into the mix this: The alleged "victim" has more animus and thus reason to lie as a consequence of her political orientation and advocacy than did the Duke LaCrosse stripper. That may have simply been a matter of not getting a "respectful enough" tip for her dancing gig.
...Oh, and both the accuser and Feinswine are known to want to derail Kavanaugh by any means possible -- Feinswine has specifically so-stated, yet she sat on the very thing that could have done so for two months. This implies that she knows the claim is false because otherwise she would have been best served in her interests, which she has publicly stated, by immediately both releasing it and forcing an investigation -- in July.
I have a message for virtue-signaling men who've rushed to embrace #MeToo operatives hurling uncorroborated sexual assault allegations into the chaotic court of public opinion.
Stuff it.
Your blanket "Believe Women" bloviations are moral and intellectual abominations that insult every human being of sound mind and soul.
A certain class of never Trump-harumphers are leading the charge on behalf of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's memory-addled partisan accuser Christine Blasey Ford -- who cannot recall the year she was allegedly traumatized, where it happened, who threw the party that paralyzed her for nearly four decades, how many were in attendance during her claimed assault, how she got there or how she left.
...That is a dumb and dangerous default. The costly toll of "believing women," instead of believing evidence, can be seen in the hundreds and hundreds of cases recorded by the University of Michigan Law School's National Registry of Exonerations involving innocent men falsely accused of rape and rape/murders.
It's not about women, or me, it's about "the struggle"
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I think you ought to have a provable case based on facts before you bring forth allegations that may damage a person's character. If you don't, you should be subject to laws concerning reporting a false crime as well as civil liability.
[PJ] In his homily during the daily Mass at the Vatican Tuesday, Pope Francis likened himself to the suffering Christ who was crucified because "the people were deceived by the powerful."
Speaking from Casa Santa Marta in Vatican City, "the Dictator Pope"* went on to say that his response to the "Great Accuser" would (continue to) be "silence and prayer."
According to the Vatican News Service, "the Pope encouraged pastors to imitate Jesus in being near to people" rather than the powerful or ideologues who "poison souls."
While most Christians would say Christ's authority comes from God the Father, Pope Francis argued that it comes from the people because "he spent most of his time on the road, touching, embracing, listening and looking at the people in the eye."
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.
Was 'Operation Global Yankee' (July 1996) an exercise designed to prevent a 9/11 style attack? Was this an exercise gone horribly wrong ?
[PJ] In his homily during the daily Mass at the Vatican Tuesday, Pope Francis likened himself to the suffering Christ who was crucified because "the people were deceived by the powerful."
