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November 12, 2021
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Judge Orders DOJ to Stop Extracting Data from James O’Keefe’s Phone . . . A federal court on Nov. 11 ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to stop extracting and reviewing data from phones belonging to Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe. The order from Judge Analisa Torres of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York comes after O’Keefe filed a motion Nov. 10 for appointment of a special master—a designation
often used for people doing purely investigative work.
O’Keefe’s home in Westchester County, New York, was raided early Nov. 6 by the FBI. He later confirmed the raid. “Banging on my door, I went to my door to answer the door and there were 10 FBI agents with a battering ram, white blinding lights. They turned me around, handcuffed me, and threw me against the hallway,” O’Keefe told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Nov. 8. “I was partially clothed in front of my neighbors. They confiscated my phone. They raided my apartment.”
The Project Veritas founder had previously announced in a statement Nov. 5 that current and former Project Veritas employees’ homes were searched by FBI agents. Epoch Times
Soviet Playbook in the USA. (Probably the title of my next book)
This reminds me of my own bizarre experience with the FBI's Counter-terrorism Taskforce, being handcuffed and searched for explosives by agents in hazmat suites. Those of you who have finished reading my book, Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan
to Defeat America, will see similarities. If you think the FBI and DOJ are out of control now -- entrapping people like my former boss, former DIA Director General Flynn, surveilling innocent Americans, based on Russian-disinformation Dossier, and designating parents as "domestic terrorists," -- think what's coming, once Socialists take control in America. You think it can't happen to you? Neither did I. Socialism = Totalitarian Regime.
Doesn't matter which country it's practiced, because socialism equals government control, abuse of power.
Biden's nominee and my former compatriot Comrade Saule Omarova and apparatchiks like her will see to it.
Thus Spake Omarova . . . On the very day that voters across the country rejected the Democratic Party's turn to the left, the White House officially nominated Soviet-born, Marxist, Professor Omarova to be comptroller of the currency. The comptroller is the nation's chief banking regulator, supervising some 1,200 financial institutions of all shapes and sizes. What's striking is that immigrants from the former Soviet Union and its
satellites tend to be viscerally anti-communist and anti-socialist: Having lived under totalitarian regimes, they are especially attuned to infringements of personal and economic liberty and are mindful of human-rights abuses conducted in the name of "People's Republics." Professor Omarova didn't get the memo. Washington Free Beacon.
Trump's attacks on McConnell seen as prelude to 2024 White House bid . . . Former President Trump is refusing to let his feud with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) die, instead amplifying it in what Republican strategists suspect is an effort to rev up the GOP base ahead of a 2024 campaign for president. More than anyone else in politics, McConnell, the Senate minority leader, is emblematic of the Republican establishment in Washington, and
Trump’s repeated salvos against McConnell appear designed to make it clear to GOP base voters that Trump — despite his four years in the White House — would be the true outsider candidate in a 2024 primary. Trump has signaled his interest in running again for president in other ways, including supporting the work of the Make America Great Again Action super PAC, which held its first fundraising event at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
In 2007 video, Joe Biden obliterates his 2021 policies on border, war exit . . . Joe Biden told voters 14 years ago that the U.S. needed to beef up border protection, and warned that U.S. arms left behind in a war zone would be used against future generations of American and that any drawdown of forces would have to take place over the span of one year, according to video footage unearthed by Just the News. If "you leave those billions of
dollars of weapons behind" in a hasty U.S. retreat from Iraq, "I promise they're going to be used against your grandchild and mine some day," warned the Biden of yesteryear. Biden made the comments during a town hall meeting on Aug. 12, 2007 while campaigning for president in Winterset, Iowa, against his future boss Barack Obama.
While discussing elements of U.S. border strategy, the 2007-vintage Biden sounded unlike the 2021 President Biden, who has drawn widespread condemnation for lax border enforcement policies that have brought unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens into the United States. "It matters how you control your borders, not just for immigration, but it matters for drugs, terror, a whole range of other things," Biden 2007 said. Just the News
Biden and China’s Xi to Hold Virtual Summit on Monday . . . President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping plan to hold a virtual summit on Monday, people familiar with the matter said, as the two leading world economies pledge to work together on climate change but differences remain over Taiwan and other fronts. The leaders have spoken twice since Mr. Biden took office in January, the last time in September, though the summit is
expected to resemble a more formal bilateral meeting with staff involvement. One person closely tracking the negotiations and in contact with U.S. officials said climate, trade and nuclear nonproliferation—all areas the U.S. wants to work on with Beijing—as well as Taiwan and cybersecurity are among the issues that could be discussed. Wall Street Journal
‘A dangerous man’: the messy politics of Fed chair nominations . . . Joe Biden is poised to decide whether to reappoint Jay Powell to a second term as Federal Reserve chair — or replace him — after weeks of uncertainty within his own Democratic party. The US president is cutting it fine: with Powell’s tenure as head of the US central bank ending in February and Biden’s choice still needing to be confirmed by the Senate, investors are
getting nervous. This year the process has been particularly fraught, amid spiralling inflationary pressures and a trading scandal that has pummelled the Fed’s reputation since September.
Some Democrats are pushing to retain the experienced Powell, while others such as Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren — who has called him a “dangerous man” over his laissez-faire position on financial regulation — are pushing for a switch. Fed governor Lael Brainard has emerged as the leading alternative. While this year’s drama has been unusual, the selection of a Fed chair is rarely uncontroversial. The president has to preserve the Fed’s independence while finding an
economically like-minded central bank chief, and also carefully weigh the financial market impact and political viability of their choice. Financial Times
White House doubles down on support for Saule Omarova amid cascading controversies surrounding nominee . . . The White House says it still stands behind Saule Omarova as its nominee to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, despite impassioned attacks against her from Republicans and concerns from key Democrats. "Saule Omarova is eminently qualified and was nominated for this role because of her lifetime of work on financial
regulation, including in the private sector, in government and as a leading academic in the field. The White House continues to strongly support her historic nomination," the White House said in a statement to FOX Business this week. If she is confirmed, Omarova will head a branch of the Treasury
Saule Omarova, a Cornell University law professor, has raised eyebrows for comments she has made, which include saying the banking industry is the "quintessential a------ industry," as well as calling for an end to banking "as we know it" by "the complete migration of demand deposit accounts to the Federal Reserve."
Omarova made headlines again this week when footage reemerged in which she seemed to support energy industries going "bankrupt" for the sake of tackling climate change. Department that polices more than 1,000 banks. Fox Business
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Biden admin warns Russia over troop buildup, regional aggression . . . The Biden administration said Wednesday it fears Russian forces may be on the verge of entering Ukraine to “rehash” the chaos that resulted in Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, warning the Kremlin that the U.S. and its allies are committed to helping Ukraine defend itself. The sharp messaging comes days after President Biden dispatched CIA
Director William Burns to Moscow for talks with Russian officials in part over its ongoing troop buildup along the Ukrainian border. U.S. officials have yet to specify how they would respond if Russia invades Ukraine. Moscow says it is only responding to a U.S. and NATO buildup of military forces on Russia’s western border. Washington Times
Russian journalist’s affidavit denies involvement in Steele dossier . . . A Russian woman whom Igor Danchenko claims provided him with critical anti-Trump dossier allegations has signed a sworn affidavit declaring she never spoke to her childhood friend about any such reports. The statement under oath from Olga Galkina, a Russian journalist and public relations adviser, casts further doubt about the reliability of Mr. Danchenko, a Russian-born
U.S. resident. Ms. Galkina would be subjecting herself to a perjury charge if her court affidavit were untrue. “I did not provide Mr. Danchenko (or anyone else) with any information mentioned in the Dossier,” Ms. Galkina’s affidavit states. She is the second person to rebut Mr. Danchenko’s claim that they were his source. Washington Times
Andrew McCarthy: Durham indictments – don't be fooled, here's where this case is likely headed . . . There is a great deal of extravagant commentary in right-leaning media regarding Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. Trump supporters, in particular, are exuberant at the prospect that Durham, at long last, has cracked the case and is poised to prove a sweeping conspiracy between the Clinton
campaign and Obama administration officials to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and his presidency.
Those harboring this fantasy are going to be sorely disappointed.
As I argued in my 2019 book, "Ball of Collusion," the Obama administration put the government’s law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus in the service of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and, later, Trump’s Democratic party opposition. In that endeavor, several highly irregular investigative activities took place. Fox
News
‘Not messing around’: China’s rapid military advances stoke fear, catch Pentagon by surprise . . . Pentagon officials are keenly aware of the dangers posed by China‘s cutting-edge weapons and its rapidly expanding military prowess across a host of domains. But perhaps of even greater concern are capabilities Beijing has kept partially hidden from the rest of the world, raising questions about whether the U.S. and its allies truly have a
grasp on what tools the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has at its disposal. Top military officials told The Washington Times this month that no nation in history has consistently stayed ahead of U.S. estimates as well as China has done recently. Even the Soviet Union, during the height of the Cold War, did not surprise American intelligence and Pentagon analysts in quite the same way, military officials said, fueling fears that Beijing could catch the U.S. and its allies off guard in a
future conflict. Washington Times
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Iran: Nothing to discuss with US except for lifting sanctions . . . “ I stress that there is no such thing as nuclear negotiations because a complete agreement over the nuclear issue was reached in 2015 between Iran and the P5-1,” said Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri Kani to Network One TV on Wednesday. “The main topic of discussion in upcoming negotiations on Nov. 20,” he said, “involved the illegal sanctions
imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran. DEBKAfile
China’s Communist Party delivered Xi Jinping a breakthrough on Thursday that will help secure his political future — by rewriting history . . . Senior party officials in a closed-door meeting in Beijing approved a decision reassessing the party’s 100-year history and enshrining Mr. Xi in the party’s official firmament of era-defining leaders. The move, signaled in an official summary of the meeting, elevated Mr. Xi to a stature alongside Mao
Zedong, the founder of the country’s Communist rule, and Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of its economic takeoff. Under Mr. Xi’s leadership, China has “made historic achievements and undergone a historic transformation,” said an official summary, or communiqué, from the meeting, hailing what the party described as successes in the economy, foreign policy, fighting pollution and containing Covid. Under Mao, Deng and now Mr. Xi, the communiqué said, China had “achieved the tremendous
transformation from standing up and growing prosperous to becoming strong.” New York Times
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FDA recalls 2.2 million at-home coronavirus tests due to false positives . . . The FDA announced this week that the recall of more than 2.2 million at-home COVID-19 tests by digital diagnostics firm Ellume is being classified as a class 1 recall, which is the most serious type due to the potential for "serious adverse health consequences or death."Ellume's at-home test detects proteins from the SARS-CoV-2 virus through a less invasive nasal
swab than the one that health providers normally use. The recall is due to a "manufacturing issue" that was first identified by the company last month and could lead to a false-positive result. The FDA said Wednesday that it has received 35 reports of false-positive test results, but noted that negative test results are still reliable and not affected by the manufacturing issue. A spokesperson for Ellume said Thursday that the company has already corrected the manufacturing issue.
Fox Business
Virginia pharmacy gave incorrect COVID-19 vaccine dose to younger kids . . . More than 100 children in the 5-11-year-old age group mistakenly received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine formulated for those 12 years and older at a pharmacy in Loudon County, Virginia. The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) believes that 112 children were affected on Nov. 3-4 at Ted Pharmacy in Aldie, receiving a lower dose than recommended. "On Nov. 5,
state and federal authorities ordered the pharmacy to discontinue administering the vaccine, and VDH subsequently collected all COVID-19 vaccines at the pharmacy," the agency told Fox News in a statement. "Officials instructed the pharmacy to notify parents about next steps, including the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding whether patients should restart the vaccine series or receive a correct second dose. VDH is also working to contact parents and
ensure they understand the guidance on next steps." Fox News
What a mess.
NIH knew Wuhan lab enhanced bat coronavirus years earlier than officials testified, grantee says . . . A taxpayer-funded nonprofit is contradicting the National Institutes of Health on when it notified the agency that China's Wuhan Institute of Virology unintentionally enhanced a bat coronavirus, raising the possibility that top public health officials made false statements to Congress. EcoHealth Alliance spokesperson Robert Kessler
shared a screenshot from its account on the NIH eRA Commons website for grantees, showing it submitted its "year four" report April 13, 2018. Just the News
Biden will need informers to enforce vaccine mandate . . . The whistleblowers will be in action once the vaccine mandate kicks in for businesses. Which of your coworkers are going to turn your company in? To enforce President Joe Biden’s forthcoming COVID-19 mandate, the U.S. Labor Department is going to need a lot of help. Its Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t have nearly enough workplace safety inspectors to do the
job. So the government will rely upon a corps of informers to identify violations of the order: Employees who will presumably be concerned enough to turn in their own employers if their co-workers go unvaccinated or fail to undergo weekly tests to show they’re virus-free. White House Dossier
Schools Change Mask Policies as Children Get Covid-19 Shots . . . More school districts are loosening mask and quarantine requirements as Covid-19 vaccines roll out for younger children and cases have dropped from the summer’s Delta surge. Florida’s Miami-Dade County Public Schools system said Tuesday it would allow all parents to opt out of having their children, including elementary-school students, wear masks in school. That widened a
decision last week that applied to parents of high-schoolers and middle schoolers. A Charleston, S.C., school-district mandate requiring students, staff and visitors to wear masks indoors expired Wednesday after the school board decided not to extend it. And Ohio last month said students exposed to Covid-19 can now stay in school rather than quarantine if they wear a mask for up to 14 days—or fewer if they don’t have symptoms and test negative after day 5 to 7. Wall Street Journal
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Bidenflation going gangbusters . . .
Inflation hasn’t been this bad since the Bush administration – that is, the George H.W. Bush administration. You can’t buy stuff. And when you can, it’s more expensive. Meantime, the administration has chosen this moment to emphasize phasing out fossil fuels. Climate Czar John Kerry no doubt will be able to afford to heat his palaces this winter no matter how high natural gas prices rise. But a lot of Americans are stuck in a bad place.
U.S. inflation hit a three-decade high in October—rising at a 6.2% annual rate—as pandemic-related supply shortages and continued strength in consumer demand continued to push up prices. The Labor Department said the consumer-price index, which measures what consumers pay for goods and services, increased at the fastest annual pace since 1990. Inflation also topped 5% for the fifth straight month. White House Dossier
Oil prices near $100 following Putin’s quiet deal with Saudi prince . . . Brent crude futures hit $84.91 the barrel on Wednesday, Nov. 10, with US West Texas Intermediate crude futures catching up at $84.10 – in the face of President Joe Biden’s appeal to the OPEC oil cartel to step up production so as to lower prices. Some administration officials believe the administration may be forced to tap the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to meet
the demands of economic growth and keep American homes warm this winter. They are likening the zooming crisis to that of 48 years ago when Saudi Arabia led the oil=producing Arab nations in a global oil embargo during the 1973 war against Israel. In some ways, the current price surge is more acute even than the old Arab embargo, since it also covers super-chilled natural gas known as LNG. DEBKAfile
Turns out the Biden spending bill does raise taxes on the middle class . . . A study by a nonpartisan group found that the $1.75 trillion social spending bill would raise taxes slightly. But the study could easily be underestimating things. The point is, President Biden has no idea if it will raise your taxes. But he is guaranteeing it won’t. Provisions included in a draft version of President Biden’s social spending bill would violate
his pledge that tax hikes will only affect Americans earning $400,000 or more, according to an analysis released Thursday by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. “Taking into account all major tax provisions, roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of middle-income households would pay more in taxes in 2022,” according to the Tax Policy Center. White House Dossier
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Kyle Rittenhouse’s mom blasts Biden, claims he ‘defamed’ her son . . . The mother of Kyle Rittenhouse claimed President Joe Biden “defamed” her son when he tweeted a video suggesting the Illinois teen is a white supremacist.
“When I saw that I was shocked, I was angry,” Wendy Rittenhouse told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night. “President Biden don’t know my son whatsoever, and he’s not a white supremacist. He’s not a racist. And [Biden] did that for the votes,” the mother fumed. “And I was so angry for a while at him and what he did to my son, he defamed him,” she added. Biden, at the time a presidential candidate in September 2020, had tweeted “there’s no other way to put it: the President of
the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.” New York Post
Texas moms petition school board to remove 90 ‘pornographic books’ . . . More than 1,500 parents have signed a petition by Texas mothers calling their school board to remove 90 “pornographic books” from children’s library shelves in the Keller Independent School District. The petitioners also demand parental involvement in the process for reviewing the titles that include Ashley Hope Pérez’s “Out of Darkness” (2015) – a book the
Lake Travis ISD previously pulled from two Austin middle schools in September – and L.C. Rosen’s “Jack of Hearts” (2018) due to their graphic descriptions of sex acts. “This is not an issue of censorship or speaking out against the LGBT community, but about keeping pornographic materials out of our schools,” Christine Molloy, a mother of three, told The Washington Times on Wednesday. Washington Times
BLM leader threatens ‘riots, fire, bloodshed’ in NYC if Eric Adams gets tough on crime . . . A Black Lives Matter leader vowed there’ll be “riots,” “fire” and “bloodshed” if Mayor-elect Eric Adams follows through with his promise to bring back plainclothes anti-crime cops to battle New York’s surge in violent crimes. New York BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome debated the plan for a return to tougher policing with Adams during a contentious
sit-down at Brooklyn Borough Hall Wednesday that was livestreamed on Instagram. Although Adams found common ground with the activists on plans to fight poverty in the black community, the former NYPD captain said he’ll be reinstating a revamped version of the undercover anti-crime unit that was disbanded at the height of widespread police protests last year.
“If they think they are going back to the old ways of policing then we’re going to take to the streets again,” New York BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome said outside Borough Hall after the meeting. New York Post
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Roads And Bridges Are Divisive . . .
Throughout the ages, roads and bridges connected people to other people. Why even Texazistan's Highway 6 was renowned in its unique ability to run BOTH ways.
Comrades, that was then, Pete Booty-Judge is now --- and beyond. That highways were deliberately built to separate whites from blacks, and that the overpasses were built too low so that busses with black and Latino children wouldn't make it to the beach is NOT a conspiracy theory. Only the Republicans and the rest of the right-wingers can be conspiracy theoreticians. Just like a person of color can never be racist, a progressive person can never be a proponent of conspiracy
theories.
No matter what gobbledygook he makes up to accuse the other side, it becomes a simple and undeniable truth, just like Peter Booty-Judge said. Likewise, any accusations coming from the other side, no matter how well-documented, automatically become conspiracy theories. Of course, the class enemy may claim that it's easier to simply build shorter buses for minority students, but that would be - correct! - that would be a conspiracy theory. It's clear as day that it's better to blow
up and rebuild hundreds of overpasses in New York State with the hands of the union workers whose children will pay this bill when they grow up. People's Cube
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