[Aljazeera] Inside the Sackler dynasty and the company, Purdue Pharma, that allegedly fuelled the US opioid epidemic.
Purdue Pharma introduced the opioid painkiller OxyContin in the 1990s and promoted it aggressively as non-addictive.
United States government lawyers argued that the company’s owners, the Sacklers, knew how their medication was being abused widely, but doubled down on production — and profits. Recently a lawsuit was settled for $6bn.
Barry Meier, the author of Pain Killer (soon to be a Netflix series), started writing about the opioid epidemic 20 years ago when it was killing about 20,000 people yearly. He tells host Steve Clemons how corporate greed and government dithering have led that number to exceed 100,000 deaths last year alone.
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More than ever drug usage is everywhere. July first marijuana is legal in Maryland. Maryland officers given drug test kits to practice with in June. So any drug in your system I understand will show up on their display. Label on retail product advises you don't operate a motor vehicle after use. So within a hour a code is displayed showing use. In the real world you are DUI but I was told the officers will not enforce the results. We have to wait and see. My problem is the usage is now all ages. No second hand smoke warnings. These people are everywhere and accidents seem to have increased. We are now experiencing Obama's new normal. Side note using marijuana as a pain killer must be told to anesthesiologist. Why?, they have to use more to work. Think if other drugs might have been used. Should the item be illegal would you admit use and then arrested later (I guess patient confidentiality comes in here).
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News stories about opioids are idiotic unless & until fentanyl is mentioned along with the fact that Mexico and China supply megadeath doses of it to the USA.
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United States government lawyers argued that the company’s owners, the Sacklers, knew how their medication was being abused widely, but doubled down on production — and profits. Recently a lawsuit was settled for $6bn.
They must know about Biden doubling down on fentanyl production and profits as well but somehow that's not as sensational a scandal. We don't see any charges being filed by the DoJ. Doubt if we'll ever see any of the indignant TV documentaries about it either.
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about 110k overdose deaths in USA in 2022
about 80k of them opioid related
can't find comparable number but it seems at least half the 2022 opioid deaths were fentanyl
unfortunately, I think we now have a situation where people needing pain management face multiple delays in getting opioids even when that is the obvious best path
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[Breitbart[ Body mass index (BMI) categorization is a "racist" measuring system, according to the American Medical Association (AMA), who called for using "alternative measures" to diagnose obesity instead.
In a press release from last week, the AMA announced its decision to adopt a new policy to clarify the role of BMI — a simple metric comparing height and weight for the purpose of inferring one’s total body fat — as a measure in medicine.
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One of the problems with BMI is that it only considers weight and height.
Consider someone who is 235 pounds, and 6'2" tall.
His BMI is 30.2, which is "obese".
Yet, those are the measures of Arnold Schwarzenegger - when he was competing for the Mr. Universe title. Look at his picture on his Wikipedia entry and tell me he looks "obese".
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[SPREAKER] Journalist and Author Richard Poe joins me for a dive into a portion of American history underserved in today's media environment -- the effect of Great Britain on US policy and its perception worldwide.
[BLAZE] During a new episode of his show, Tucker Carlson declared that the nation's "medical establishment has beclowned itself for all time."
"Ep. 6 Bobby Kennedy is winning," the tweet containing Carlson's new episode reads.
Carlson opened the program by claiming that there has never been a presidential candidate the media loathed more than Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Carlson said that "Trump got a gentle scalp massage by comparison when he announced."
Carlson described an imaginary scenario in which an airplane cabin is filling with smoke but nobody is talking about it. When someone mentions the smoke to a flight attendant, she replies, "Shut up racist!" adding, "That's a dangerous Russian conspiracy theory. Stop spreading misinformation or I'll call TSA and have you arrested when we land."
After laying out that scenario, Carlson suggested that it serves as a parallel to modern American society. He said that while people can sense that there is "something very bad going on," leaders will not acknowledge it and insist that nothing is amiss.
BLUF: Carlson said the media is attacking Kennedy over his willingness to “notice the obvious” and ask questions.
“Bobby Kennedy asks a lot of questions like that. He notices things,” Carlson continued. “Kennedy pays attention to the world around him and he wonders why it’s changing. He’s an outdoorsman … a fly fisherman, he’s interested in how nature works. He’s curious. Not so long ago, these qualities were considered essential to the practice of science. All scientific discovery comes from observation, empiricism, patient watching. Without the willingness to put aside your pre-assumptions and assess, with honesty, the things you see and touch and smell — the changes taking place right in front of your face — you can’t do science. You can’t create art either or journalism or theology.”
“You have to be willing to notice the obvious and when they tell you you’re not allowed to notice the obvious, you should be concerned,” he continued.
Two seatmates, a lawyer and a priest speculate on the pilots' emergency parachutes. When the lawyer suggests they seize the two chutes and jump, the priest asks, "But what about the children?"
The lawyer replies, "Fuck the children."
The priest replies, "Do you think we have time?"
a parallel to modern American society
We are naive children, abandoned by law and faith.
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If you go to the linked video, click on Watch On Twitter, you can see the current views count for yourself.
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06/23/2023 16:58 Comments ||
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Thank you, I did but I am not reading the stats correctly. I know that he a high number of views for the first one - I thought it was 100M. I don’t see evidence of those type of numbers within Twitter. I watch the videos on other platforms. I am sure that the high number is an aggregation. It will be interesting to see where his regular audience settles in at.
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In which a 2nd Amendment-focussed writer for Bearing Arms makes his point but misses the bigger picture — and we get more Black Bloc names for Rantburg’s archives.
What happens when former hookersprostitutes sex workers ...the oldest profession was legal (though not always unregulated) for thousands and perhaps even millions of years. That never has made it something most people want their daughters doing... , who are BLM supporters, subscribe to Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... ideologies, and practice the Mandalorian religion
...sorry — fan groups are not real religions, but excuses to cover what they were going to do anyway for considerably less savoury reasons — especially when they admit openly they aren’t actually believers...
start teaching firearms classes for free? They get busted on something. A duo of advocates for firearm ownership for all, "anyone who is not a white supremacist,"
...which to them is not about skin colour or actual beliefs, but not being the right kind of leftwing radical...
opened up a business in 2021 because "it was really really hard for me to get a rifle for home defense.
That’s “home defense”, sometimes actively defended during street riots far from home, and sometimes resulting in felony convictions, but do go on...
Up here [upstate New York in Ontario County], if the stores don’t like the look of ya, they’ll just give you the runaround."
I had a chance to chat with the Director General and Treasurer of Red Right Hand Rifle Syndicate, LLC, the DBA of parent company Stea Rosie Rifle Syndicate LLC, from Victor, New York. Their story is pretty interesting. The business and partners, according to them, were subject to a New York State Police bust, they were victimized further when responding officers allegedly fabricated evidence, and were subjected to signing documents under duress.
Keenan Fisher and Theresa Krenzer are the Director General and Treasurer of Red Right Hand Rifle Syndicate, LLC, respectively. Due to past instances of threatened violence, doxing, and having had, as Fisher said, "the FBI showed up at my house and said they had a duty to inform [me] my name was on a neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... hitlist," pseudonyms were going to be used to respect their privacy. However after discussing this with the pair further, we decided that light is the best disinfectant, and we’re using their legal names. Fisher and Krenzer provided many evidentiary documents to corroborate their story, and everything seems to be authentic. Their case is sealed in the State of New York.
Why would I be covering self-described former sex workers
...Antifa/BLM, former sex workers — the only thing left to be utterly typical is pedophilia or transexuality, and a violent criminal background...
that could find themselves in editorials based on philosophical differences that the stereotypical gun owner might have with them? It was Fisher and Krenzer’s attitudes when we spoke that impressed me most. I asked them, "Why did you reach out to me? There are plenty of ’gun writers’ out there." Fisher said, "Honestly, and I checked out a lot of the articles you wrote and you’re definitely a Second Amendment is for everybody kind of guy," with Krenzer adding, "Yeah. You’re not exclusionary." In the end, take it or leave it, the story they had to tell is one worth repeating.
Krenzer talked a bit more about the inception of their business and business model:
Like a big problem [is] for people [who] don’t have cars. So how are they supposed to go and buy a firearm? Towards the end, before we were shut down, we were planning on starting to offer rides [to people], because how is somebody supposed to go and buy a firearm and then bring it home? If they’re stuck using the bus, you can’t legally do that. So it really makes it hard for people to get things for self-defense because [they] can’t [take] it on public transportation.
Fisher capped off her remarks by saying, "Yeah, no matter who you are, you should be able to defend yourself in your home, to have the tools necessary." They further explained that they offered up free training to members of what they referred to as "the community," and when asked who "the community" is, they said, "anyone who is not a white supremacist."
There’s two sides to every story, and admittedly, I have not gone out to interview the ATF or New York State Police for this piece. It’s through the opinion — and other documents — of the judge presiding over the grand jury indictment, that Fisher and Krenzer’s claims have teeth.
Krenzer and Fisher said that the ATF had started "messing" with them as soon as they opened up shop. A colleague of theirs said that by offering free training to members of the community is what fouled them up at first. Their friend said they should have charged people for training, which would go against their credo of getting access to Second Amendment related activities to those who can’t necessarily afford them.
Fisher was being accused of training a militia. This theme of "training a militia" is something that we’re now seeing rather widespread in the Union as a new attack on training. Keeping someone from giving away free training in firearms, if they wish to, is a First Amendment violation as well as a Second Amendment one.
On January 6, 2022 a letter from the ATF was sent to the New York State Police. The topic of the letter related to a series of ATF compliance inspections of the Red Right Hand Rifle Syndicate, LLC’s gun shop. In the letter an agent described his visit and reported to the State Police a number of items he alleged were against New York law for them to be in possession of. The ATF further cried that the sky was falling over the free training they were offering, being in fear that they were raising a militia. He also was worried about any association they had with the Socialist Rifle Association; the agent found SRA brochures in their place of business. The two page letter with 37 pages of exhibits is worthy of its own reporting.
According to the FFL issued to "Stea Rosie Rifle Syndicate LLC," the parent company of Red Right Hand Rifle Syndicate, they were in possession of a valid "08-Importer of Firearms Other Than Destructive Devices" license. Many of the claims made in the letter to the State Police, and other allegations further after the raid, would be nullified by the fact they had this type of license.
Krenzer’s commitment to community is something that she continually pressed in our conversation. Fisher told me that there’s a misconception about their politics and that they don’t hold to any specific political identity. When talking about their bylaws, Krenzer told me:
It’s against our, it’s against our bylaws, to join a political party or endorse a politician. And you’re supposed to focus on your community and ignore people’s political differences. Because we’re all human. Every time we’ve gone to, we went to the Syracuse gun show, we participated there, we went to the Hamburg Gun Show, we were very active. We never had advertising, we were very open about what we were doing. And we will get some looks at the gun shows. But a lot of times people will come up and like...try to be like, "Oh, you’re Antifa?" And we be like, "Yeah." But we also, you know, we believe in workers rights, and all these other things. And then those people start to be like, "Wait, you, you believe in gun rights? Do you think everybody should?" And it’s kind of funny, because then they start warming up to us. And asking us more questions along the day, especially the other shops...like we’ve made so many friends with the other gun shops.
Fisher summed up his experience with others in the gun community, "They’ll get nervous about the logo [which is a kitsch Russian Communist design] and then realize we’re just people." Krenzer punctuated their experience on the optics, "Yeah, we’re just shock value. We’re there for the shock value. Attention — retention — whores."
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I am stuck in a hard place on forming an opinion. They are definitely stupid people and I am not a fan of ANTIFA. I do support the 1st and 2nd Amendment, yet I would want to have more info about the violations before giving them sympathy. If I had the ATF info, would I trust it? I am told that the FBI might still be OK in the hinterlands. I can’t say the same for the ATF. In the end, I’ll chalk this up as a Red on Red engagement.
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Like a big problem [is] for people [who] don’t have cars. So how are they supposed to go and buy a firearm?
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Gun Deserts is the funniest idea that I have heard in a while - other than the Babylon Bee making fun of Schiff’s bug eyes.
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Recently in Montana a gunstore was raided by 20 AR-15 armed and armor wearing IRS agents. They took 20 boxes with 60 files per box of purchase records containing the names, addresses, social security numbers, and fingerprints. They also took the security camera tapes. The owner has no idea why.
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P.S. The search warrant was for financial records which the 4473 forms are not.
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[American Greatness] Ukraine’s vaunted counteroffensive is not going well. In the months leading up to its launch, proponents said it would be "decisive." Former American general David Petraeus predicted "the Ukrainians [would] achieve significant breakthroughs and accomplish much more than most analysts are predicting." But, instead, the front lines have barely budged, and Ukraine has lost enormous numbers of men and equipment.
This debacle provides important lessons for the United States and students of warfare more generally.
NATO DOCTRINE RUNS INTO REALITY
Ukraine is using new tactics, equipment, and operational plans for its shock brigades after months of intensive training by NATO. NATO built these units in its own image, prioritizing offense, maneuver, and combined arms tactics.
Unfortunately, what looks good on paper does not always work in the field.
Extensive minefields, drone-sighted artillery, and entrenched defenders mean Ukrainian forces can barely advance into "no man’s land." They are being stopped at the skirmish line and have gotten nowhere close to the second and third echelons of Russian defenders. Dozens of Leopard II tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles—NATO’s state-of-the-art land warfare equipment—have been blown up and set on fire by mines, kamikaze drones, and artillery during the stalled offensive.
In spite of much bragging in recent months about its superior training, equipment, and operational art, the NATO-trained brigades have not performed particularly well. Well-choreographed combined arms tactics were supposed to provide a significant advantage, but they neglected mine-clearance and air defense. Thus, Russian attack helicopters have had a field day blowing up Ukrainian armor at leisure. Judging by the barely avoided friendly-fire incident shown here, the Ukrainians are not maneuvering their equipment with a lot of panache, even when they’re not under helicopter attack. A lot is going wrong.
While NATO devoted a lot of energy and money to training, it has little recent experience with this kind of warfare. NATO training was based on an elaborate theory of how conventional wars would go, but experience is necessary to refine and modify such doctrines. It is telling that the one brigade making any significant advances during the counteroffensive was not one of the new ones, but rather one made up of veteran Ukrainian soldiers using ex-Soviet equipment.
Finally, as with the initial stages of the Russian invasion, the Ukrainians have neglected the principle of mass. Their brigades are advancing here and there, but the only way something could conceivably be achieved is by massing a dozen or more brigades in a narrow and vulnerable part of the front.
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....Lesseee.....'The End Of The Aircraft Carrier', no...."The End Of The Tank', no...."The End Of Gun-Armed Fighters' - one of MY favorites, but still, no....ah, here we are! 'The End Of Offensive Warfare'!
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10-1 kill ratio favoring Russians. Ukrainian hospitals full. No air cover. Russians have communications untouched. Artillery, minefields, dragons teeth, trenchers and well trained and supplied Russian troops. NATO used game simulation to sell this effort to the Ukrainians. Real world behaves differently.
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10-1 kill ratio favoring Russians. You keep saying that but where is your proof? Citing Russian propaganda is less than useless. The real numbers will only come out after the war is over.
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10-1 kill ratio favoring Russians. You keep saying that but where is your proof? Citing Russian propaganda is less than useless. The real numbers will only come out after the war is over.
Not even Russian military correspondents are claiming that kill ratio.
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Seems that NATO also has its share of parquet generals. They "neglected mine clearing and air defense" and now they're all surprised and butt hurt that the offensive is not going well. Inspires about as much confidence as the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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Heaven help us if we ever get into a real war.
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Tis not the kill ratio you are looking for, but it is a g-d damn awful lot of bodies. 10-1. 5-1. 2-1. *shrugs* Does the ratio matter? Let's call the ratio a spanking. No matter the ration, you can now rent scooters and bikes to navigate the cemeteries to find your buried loved ones.
#16
Like that guy said, "You can observe a lot just by talking to people."
One of the maddening things about this war is the difficulty of figuring out what exactly is going on. It's like we are putting together a jigsaw puzzle with real pieces, missing pieces and a whole bunch of fake piece all dumped in the box together. Maddening, but part of the game.
Essentially, what we have seen so far is WWI on steroids with one side sitting in their trenches being shelled by the other. My guess is that casualties figures range from roughly equal for both sides to in favor of the Russians by some small integer multiplier. The Russians currently seem more focused on reducing the Ukrainian forces rather than going for territory.
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I feel we will get to a point where there will be such a critical mass of lies (not just Ukraine, but everything) that gravity itself will cease to function.
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If we are at the end of Offensive Warfare, will we still have Inoffensive Warfare?
#21
'Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1947) is a retired U.S. Army colonel and government official, and an author, consultant, and television commentator.' One source but also others but I have found it makes no difference.
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Many others as well, Alexander Mercouris, Alex Christoforou, Emil Cosman is Romanian living in USA and has colorful way of expressing himself. I should not forget Scot Ritter.
#27
I find reports from both sides unverifiable and self-serving, even if partially true. That said, I don't talk to a lot of people, so my skepticism may just be asshole cynicism. My Mom agrees in a general sense, so I did talk to someone
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my skepticism may just be asshole cynicism
That is my default position nowadays. Everyone is trying to sell you something. Whether they do it by peddling the whole truth minus some very important details a la the Russians or they go full Ukrainian and just make shit up like the Ghost of Kiev, it is still an information operation. Any news report is less a data dump and more a sales pitch for a time-share condo.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On the eve of the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) published for the first time in Russian a complete translation of the “hunger plan”, which was developed by the leaders of Nazi Germany in the first half of 1941.
Until today, Hitler's "plan of famine" and the extermination of the Soviet people was published only twice in excerpts and with censorship in Russian.
In the West we have been long familiar with this, just as we have been with Joseph Stalin’s Holodomor, a similar plan to reduce by starvation to the point of genocide the population of the Ukraine.
The essence of the famine plan, the main author of which was Herbert Backe, is that it was planned to provide the inhabitants and the army of Germany with food at the expense of the death of the civilian population of the Soviet Union.
Continued on Page 49
Text taken from the dzen.ru page of Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots.
Vlasovites is a reference to Soviet turncoat Andrey Vlasov, who defected to the German side in 1941.
[DZEN] Associations of fugitive national traitors, acting to the tune of the Kyiv regime, act according to the precepts of the "Russian Liberation Army" of General Vlasov. Thus, the Legion "Freedom of Russia" , recognized as a terrorist, depicts on its symbols the same colors as the ROA - a white-blue-white flag.
The traitors from the "Russian Volunteer Corps" who attacked the territory of Russia use similar slogans in their ideology as the Vlasovites: both of these formations turned to the "Russian people" allegedly in the struggle for the Motherland.
In the "Appeal to the Citizens of Ukraine", national traitors from the "Congress of People's Deputies" established in the West** declare the need for a joint war between Russian collaborators with Ukraine against the Russian Federation.
Vlasov's Prague Manifesto of the "Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia" proclaimed the same thing, which stated that assistance from Germany was "the only real opportunity to organize an armed struggle" against the Soviet authorities.
Created in November last year on the basis of the "Congress" **, the "International Anti-Authoritarian Union" (IAAS) set the goal of fighting "authoritarianism" and "imperialism" in Russia together with other separatists who position themselves as representatives of certain regions of the Russian Federation.
In turn, the Vlasovites also covered up their cooperation with Hitler with slogans about "the overthrow of tyranny" and "the liberation of the peoples of Russia."
It is obvious that the national traitors who went over to the side of the Kyiv regime in their activities use methods and principles similar to those used by the Vlasovites.
[Gateway] Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming questioned John Durham yesterday, using her time to point out the rotting corruption at the FBI.
She excoriated the Democrats and their deep state allies for using a lie to try to destroy Trump’s candidacy and then his presidency, noting that they knew it was a lie and didn’t care, as long as it was effective.
She then asked Durham if he believed the country could survive a two-tiered justice system.
Nothing — and I repeat, nothing — that the FBI did was designed to show that Donald J. Trump was a Russian asset. That wasn’t the purpose of the entire charade. How do I know this is true? Because they told us so. The very people who cooked this up, and the ones who ran this entire operation: Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, Clinesmith, Steele, the DNC, Perkins Coie.
It was never their purpose to prove Russian collusion, and in fact, from the very beginning, they knew that no such thing actually existed. They knew that the entire Russian collusion narrative was fabricated by the Clinton campaign to deflect attention from her mishandling of classified materials and destruction of official emails. They didn’t need to prove Russian collusion. They just had to keep the investigation alive.
And how has this corruption and rot manifested itself in our everyday lives? In our national culture? In our ability to solve the problems we are facing? It has destroyed some of the key foundations of this country, a foundation built on equal protection, on the belief that justice is blind, on the belief that you will be held accountable if you commit a fraud of the magnitude of what we have been discussing here today, on the belief that due process, justice, and constitutional rights are more than mere words. It has left a smoldering hot volcanic mess where the soul of this country used to be — all because a few people in the FBI decided they wanted to destroy a political candidate and ultimately a president and anyone associated with him...
Mr. Durham, here is my question: How long do you think that this country will survive with a two-tiered justice system that seeks to persecute people based on their political beliefs?
This was Durham’s response:
I don’t think that things can go too much further with the view that law enforcement, particularly the FBI or Department of Justice, runs a two-tiered system of justice. The nation can’t stand under those circumstances.
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Given the 2 tier US Court/Justice system we now see and live in.
Maybe more people will understand why the Elite, LSD's and DC Swamp are Wagging the Dog so much regarding Firearms and other Constitutional Rights that keep them from total control for now.
History repeatedly teaches us Multi-Tier Justice and Class systems usually become Violent Elite Ruling systems that will resort to mass executions and slave labor camps.
#8
The house can defund specific line items but not the agency. They can defund the new HQ or Wray’s salary. They will discuss both and then remove the funding for paper towels so that all those bastards have to use the stupid blowers that everyone hates. That will bring them to their knees and fulfill the fondest wish of building maintenance.
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Fearsome GOPe response:
"Play h-h-h-hardball (voice cracks) That's not who we are. Sob! Please don't hurt me..."
Sniffles and wipes away a tear. Squares up limp shoulders:
"Cinnamon, what Sunday show am I booked for this week?
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[American Thinker] Psychological projection is the stock in trade of our American ruling class. You can see this in the way the D.C. Deep State always treated President Trump as a totally illegitimate bum; especially as regards their most precious possession, classified material. Recall the furor when Trump revealed some Israeli information to the Russian foreign minister, in a bid to get help from them in the Middle East.
Such top-secret horse trading goes on all the time, yet since Trump is a bum, he cannot be allowed the traditional power with respect to classified documents that all Presidents have, as in Navy v. Egan.
Secrets are only for the bureaucrats to leak as they please with no consequences, like the Flynn/Kislyak phone call, or to simply ignore when it involves their friends, such as Hillary’s email scandal.
Neither James Comey nor the guy, John Huber, finally appointed by Jeff Sessions to look into the Hillary emails, even bothered to convene a grand jury. The whole fake Huber investigation is particularly galling. After Trump demanded action for years, all his DoJ did was appoint a guy who stayed in Utah and reviewed a few files.
But Donald Trump, no secrets for him. As soon as he left office, Joe Biden cancelled the usual classified briefings all former Presidents get. Then the hunt was on to nail him for having classified/declassified documents; something all former Presidents routinely possess.
Biden’s DoJ had no trouble getting a grand jury for Trump, barely a year after he left office, and it was in the wrong venue, risking a dismissal of the whole case right away. Even Andrew McCarthy figured out this was all wrong. If somebody was unhappy with Trump procrastinating the work of cleaning up his archives and wanted to go to court, the proper venue was Florida, not D.C.
Somebody high up in the Deep State must have conceived a plan and needed a craven Swamp Creature like Judge Beryl Howell of the D.C. District to approve the dirty work. And is the National Archives (NARA) really the instigating party here, or were they just the cat’s paw for that somebody in the Deep State?
Everyone has already heard a lot about the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and the Espionage Act, but bear with me. Under the PRA, the NARA already works with a White House in sorting out what is and is not a Presidential record while a President is in office; so the day he leaves the White House, the stuff that goes with him is presumably not a Presidential record, but personal/business/political etc.
Among the redacted pictures are those that display private information, such as Social Security, banking, and credit card numbers.
Explicit photos of Hunter’s sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie Biden, the widow of the late Beau Biden, are also sealed from public view.
[Republic Brief] Republican Rep. Jim Jordan and CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash collided, and it was not pretty.
The two got into a fight over the indictment of former President Donald Trump on Sunday, which led to the incident.
"The indictment does say, as I mentioned, the documents included U.S. defense, nuclear capabilities, potential U.S. vulnerabilities to a military attack. They were kept in unsecure areas, like a bathroom, a ballroom, a bedroom," the host said to start the interview.
"And the indictment says that Donald Trump lied to lawyers, his own lawyers, which resulted in false statements to the FBI, so that he could keep those documents. Is all of that, any of that acceptable to you?" she said.
"Dana, the standard is clear. The standard is Navy v. Egan, a 1988 case, unanimous decision from the courts, from the court, that — Justice Blackmun wrote the opinion. And it said the president’s ability to classify and control access to national security information flows from the Constitution. He decides. He alone decides. He said he declassified this material. He can put it wherever he wants. He can handle it however he wants. That’s the law," Jordan said.
"That’s the standard. And Jack Smith can do all this 37 different counts and whatever he wants to do, but that doesn’t change the standard. The standard that the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, said was that he can classify and he can control access. He has the sole authority," he said.
"In this indictment, he states on at least one occasion that he did not declassify the information. When he’s showing a document to somebody who doesn’t have a security clearance, I might add, he says explicitly that it is classified. He didn’t declassify it," the host said.
"Dana, he has said time and time again he’s declassified all this material," Jordan said.
"This is — this is the most political thing I have ever seen. They have been out to get President — they’re going to — they’re indicting President Trump on Tuesday for having material that he declassified that was protected by the Secret Service," the representative said as he rebuffed attempts by the host to interrupt him.
"And the people who are doing it is the administration, the Justice Department from his opponent in the upcoming presidential election," the representative said.
"This is as political as it gets. And, frankly, Dana, it’s part of a pattern. We have seen it time and time again with the president over the last seven years. They try one thing. Then they try another. They have continued to go after him. And I think anyone with common sense can see that," he said.
"OK, this is a very detailed indictment. A couple of things that you just said," the host said. "Number one, the Secret Service, they are charged with protecting the president. They didn’t even know, according to the indictment, that those documents were there. So, that — that wasn’t their job."
"Number two, do you have evidence that the president, when he was president, now former president, actually declassified these documents before he took them?" she said.
"I go on the president’s word, and he said he did. And the Supreme Court said that’s what counts. So, we can have all the — all the things Jack Smith wants to say, but everyone sees this for the political operation it is. The standard is the standard. I didn’t set the standard. The Constitution and Supreme Court did. And they did it in a unanimous fashion, and it was an opinion written by Justice Blackmun," the representative said.
"So that’s the standard. That’s the fact. Jack Smith can write whatever he wants. But this is a — this is so political. In 2016 — I mean, every election, we have now seen this, Dana. 2016, it was a dossier that they used. They knew it was false. They used it to go get a warrant to spy on his campaign. 2018, it was the Mueller investigation," he said as she continued to attempt to interrupt him.
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Trump court issues are a dog and pony show to disrract us from Hunter, the crimes by the Biden family, Clinton's, Obama's and collection of other DC Elites.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Adam Schiff was left in wide-eyed shock after the House of Representatives voted to censure him for lying to the American people about Trump/Russia collusion.
"How could they do this to me?" said Schiff, his eyes as wide as saucers. "Sending me a formal letter of disapproval is a brazen attack on our holy democracy! I never thought this would happen! Putin has struck again! I have proof!"
Sources close to Schiff confirmed the representative is still holding his head high in spite of the black mark on his record, and in spite of the abnormally large size of his head and comically small width of his neck. "We will strike back against this shameful censure by the Nazi MAGA Republicans in the house," said a goggle-eyed Schiff. "They won't get away with this. Our eyes are wide open. Very wide open."
Republicans are celebrating the measure, saying this will help discourage politicians from misusing intelligence resources to deceive the American people again — or at least do a good job of serving up some red meat for their reelection campaigns.
UPDATE: Sources have confirmed that Congressman Schiff is not actually wide-eyed in shock; that's just his face.
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They are a national treasure. I am sure he will claim a disability.
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Probably start losing his hair, too. Other than the skin pony-tail behind his neck.
[PJMedia] Let’s talk about real hate crimes. Paleostinians committed over 5,300 terrorist attacks on Israelis in 2022. Since that’s Islamic Death Eater terrorism, don’t expect leftists to care.
Many governments and activists around the world would love you to believe that Paleostinians rightfully own much of Israel and that they are abused and disenfranchised by Israelis. In reality, Israel is legitimate and legal, the so-called "Paleostinians" have repeatedly refused their own state, and Paleostinian turbans committed 5,326 terrorist attacks on Israel in 2022, per the Israeli prime minister’s office.
From the UK Guardian:
In 2022, Israelis suffered from over 5,000 Paleostinian terror attacks, including car-rammings, shootings, stabbings and bombings targeting innocent men, women and kiddies on the streets of Israel. This is the reality on the ground. On 10 February, for example, a Paleostinian drove his car into a crowded bus stop, killing three people, including two brothers aged six and eight. Just imagine you or your loved ones falling victim to such abhorrent terror on your way to work. This is precisely why Israel’s counter-terrorism apparatus exists, because without it I dread to think how many more zeros would be added to that 5,000 total.
Israel has shown its desire for peace with the Paleostinians throughout the years, including several attempts to sign peace agreements in 1993, 2000, 2008 and 2014 and we continue to reach out for peace. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... violence is rife.
Paleostinians regularly celebrate turbans killed by Israelis while engaged in or because of terrorist activities as "deaders." Indeed, a top Paleostinian Authority official just called a jihadi who was responsible for the murder of five people "the DNA of all the Paleostinian nationalists," per JihadWatch.
The Paleostinians are proud of their terrorism and their determination to wipe Israel off the map. They even indoctrinate children into believing terrorism against Israel is praiseworthy and necessary.
A nation of "Paleostine" has never existed, the current "Paleostinians" are a conglomeration of other peoples (they are more accurately called "Arabs"), and the Paleostinian Authority is largely controlled by terrorists. The Arabs originally (early 1900s) enjoyed more concessions from the British and refused an offer of much of the land of what is now legitimately and legally Israel. (Israel, of course, did exist as a nation previously in history—anyone who has read the Bible knows that.) The Arabs — or, as they now call themselves, "Paleostinians" — have repeatedly refused offers of their own state while carrying out, as noted above, thousands of terrorist attacks annually.
Israelis (Jewish, Christian, and Arab) are the victims, and the Paleostinians are the victimizers. Anyone who tells you differently is either ignorant or lying.
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[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Adam Schiff was left in wide-eyed shock after the House of Representatives voted to censure him for lying to the American people about Trump/Russia collusion.
