Saturday • April 27 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVII
Manchester, N.H.
Mark Wauck, Meaning in History: John Durham Brings Home The Bacon
I think we can say definitively that the wait has been worth it. John Durham has not let us down. I’m speaking, of course, of Hillary campaign manager Robbie Mook’s testimony—obviously, under oath—at the Sussmann trial that the Alfa Bank Hoax was cleared for use by Hillary personally and was discussed within her inner circle: with John Podesta, Jake Sullivan, and Jennifer Palmieri. Maybe someday we’ll learn how Durham pulled this off—getting this Clinton insider to turn on Hillary. It’s a real coup.
Nothing else really matters. Will Sussmann be convicted? In the big scheme of things it doesn’t really matter. Take a poll and ask people whether they know who Michael Sussmann is and what he’s on trial for. I can’t believe you’d find more than a tiny minority who would be aware. Nobody’s thinking about him—not in the big scheme. The same goes for some of the other big fish, like Marc Elias. Yeah, everything we’ve learned about them is a big deal—for the inside baseball type people. It’s just not a big deal for most people.
But the situation is totally different with regard to Hillary. This story coming out of a trial that’s under a reporting blackout by the MSM will have legs.
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The entire bill simply stated that “The school board of a school district or the chief executive officer of a chartered public school or public academy shall not adopt, enforce, or implement a policy that requires students or members of the public to wear a facial covering for any purpose while on the school’s property unless the facial covering is necessary for a specific extracurricular or instructional purpose, or is required by some other section of the law.”
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Washington Times (subscribers only): EXCLUSIVE: Agent misconduct revealed to be recurring theme at FBI; attempts at fixes fall short
FBI agents have a long-standing pattern of breaking rules on investigations, and the bureau’s efforts to solve them did not eliminate the problems, according to more than six years of internal reviews obtained by The Washington Times.
The previously undisclosed data covering 2013 to 2019 documents more than 1,600 instances of broken rules on cases involving investigations that do not require warrants, the use of informants and undercover agents, and sensitive matters involving people engaged in politics, government, the news media and religious groups.
Mike German, a fellow for the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program, said the rule-breaking detailed in the audits is “the tip of the iceberg.” Mr. German, a former undercover FBI agent who left the bureau in 2004, authored the 2019 book “Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy.”
He said the problem is likely far worse than the public knows.
Yes, FBI transgressions are likely far worse than the public knows, but not nearly as bad as what the public already imagines.
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Hans Mahncke and Stephen McIntyre: Handwritten Notes From 2017 Show FBI Agents Mislead DOJ On The Trump-Russia Investigation
The notes reveal a pattern of repeated lies and omissions by FBI leadership to DOJ officials that concealed the dramatic deterioration of the predicate for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. As the predication deteriorated, so too was the purported justification for Comey’s public reveal of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
The significance of the FBI’s lies was accentuated this week at Sussmann’s trial when Scott Hellman, an FBI cyber analyst, testified that he knew right away in September 2016 that Sussmann’s data did not suggest any covert communications between Trump and Russia. Hellman added that he wondered if the person who put together the data was suffering from a mental disability.
Hellman’s testimony is the clearest evidence yet that the FBI knew from the start that one of the two major components of the Trump Russia collusion narrative – the Alfa Bank data – was false. As the March 6 notes show, they concealed this fact from their DOJ superiors.
The other major component of the investigation was the Steele dossier. The FBI knew from a January 2017 interview of Igor Danchenko, Christopher Steele’s “Primary Sub-Source” through whom all the allegations in the Steele dossier were originated or channeled, that the dossier too was false.
Danchenko’s most shocking revelation to the FBI was that he had never met Sergei Millian, the attributed source for the Steele dossier’s most inflammatory claims, including the allegation that there was a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between Trump and the Kremlin, that Russia passed hacked Democratic National Committee emails to WikiLeaks, as well as the infamous Moscow pee tape story.
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Breitbart: Former FBI Counsel Testifies: Michael Sussmann Said Not Working for Any Client
Former FBI general counsel James A. Baker testified Thursday that former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann told him that he was not working for a client when conveying claims Donald Trump was colluding with Russia.
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Already, in pre-trial motions, Durham had revealed the existence of a text message from Sussmann to Baker asking for an urgent meeting, and adding: “I’m coming on my own – not on behalf of a client or company – want to help the Bureau.”
On Thursday, Baker authenticated that message and added additional testimony, which corroborated testimony from earlier witnesses from the FBI, who all said that they believed or had been told that Sussmann was operating on his own.
Sussmann was allegedly working for the Clinton campaign at the time, and allegedly concealed that knowledge.
As the New York Post notes, the result of Sussmann’s alleged lie was that the FBI considered him a trusted confidential source, which in turn meant that the FBI did not further investigate to determine the source of Sussmann’s information.
John Haughey of the Epoch Times also noted that Sussmann’s alleged lie meant that others within the FBI were more inclined to regard him as a credible source.
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Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths: URGENT: The most powerful evidence yet that mRNA vaccines hurt long-term immunity to Covid after infection
Unvaccinated people are much more likely to develop broad antibody immunity after Covid infections than people who have received mRNA shots, a new study shows.
The gap remains large whether people had mild, moderate, or severe Covid infections, the study showed - undercutting a crucial argument that vaccine advocates have made to defend the shots.
The research draws on data from Moderna’s 30,000-person clinical trial for its mRNA shots. It may help explain why so many Americans now suffer multiple Covid infections, sometimes within months.
Researchers already knew that many vaccinated people do not gain antibodies to the entire coronavirus after they are infected with Covid.
Unvaccinated people nearly always gain antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein, which covers the virus’s core of RNA, as well as its spike protein, which allows the virus to attack our cells. Vaccinated people often lack those anti-nucleocapsid antibodies and only have spike protein antibodies.
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Vaccine advocates claim the lack of nucleocapsid antibodies may occur because the mRNA shots prime people to fight off the Covid infections more quickly and have lower viral loads. In this view, the narrow immune response is a feature, not a bug - vaccinated people are less seriously infected and so do not need to generate anti-nucleocapsid antibodies.
This study essentially demolishes that theory.
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Moderna quietly posted the paper a month ago as a pre-print, but it has received little attention despite its import.
The researchers examined the development of anti-nucleocapsid antibodies in people who had been part of Moderna’s clinical trial and were infected with Covid. As they expected, the scientists found that the vaccinated people were far less likely to develop the anti-nucleocapsid antibodies. Only 40 percent of people who received the shots had antibodies, compared to 93 percent of those who did not.
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Mark Wauck, Meaning in History: Wheels Starting To Come Off?
Signs continue to come in that the US led war on Russia is turning out to be a typical Neocon disaster, and that the scramble for an off ramp is increasing in intensity. For starters, and beyond the surrender in Azovstal (which is turning out to involve many more Ukro-Nazis that previously thought), the Russian advance in the Donbass appears to be gaining momentun, with Ukrainian troops surrendering in increasing numbers and some units refusing to fight. This is a function of large numbers of poorly trained and inexperienced personnel being pushed to the front without adequate support and weaponry. The Russians have concentrated on supply lines to good effect.
Regarding that off ramp … there may not be one.
Following Ukraine losses western regimes now try to negotiate with Russia.... but the train has already left the station ...( Via @Alexey_Pushkov on Telegram) pic.twitter.com/Uw9GKjqQM5
— Johan de Meulemeester🐬 (@johandemeuleme1) May 19, 2022
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Jeff Carlson 1) Elias says he was worried about FBI involvement but the actions of Fusion GPS - the firm that Elias testified he personally hired - tells a very different story. 2) In June 2016, Steele began to reach out to the FBI through Michael Gaeta, an FBI agent and assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Gaeta was also Steele's FBI handler.
On July 5, 2016, Gaeta traveled to London and met with Steele at the offices of Steele’s firm. 3) After nearly a month, it seems that Steele and Simpson decided to pursue a new channel into the FBI, through then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr.
Steele had already been in contact with Bruce Ohr via email in early 2016. 4) Ohr testified that Steele relayed information from his dossier at this meeting and claimed that “a former head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service" said they "had Donald Trump over a barrel.” 5) Steele also referenced Deripaska’s business dealings with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and foreign policy adviser Carter Page’s meetings in Moscow.
Ohr noted that Steele told him he had been in contact with the FBI but now had additional reports. 6) Immediately following Ohr’s meeting with Steele, Ohr reached out to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and the two met in McCabe’s office in early August.
Also present - Lisa Page.
Ohr testified he wanted the FBI to have the information and be aware of his meeting w/Steele. 7) On Aug. 22, Ohr had a meeting with Simpson.
"I knew that Chris Steele was working for Glenn Simpson, and that Glenn might have additional information.”
Ohr testified that Simpson mentioned Sergei Millian, Michael Cohen, Carter Page, and Paul Manafort during their meeting. 8) On Sept. 23, 2016, Ohr again met with Steele:
“Steele was in Washington, D.C., again, and he reached out to me, and, again, we met for breakfast, and he provided some additional information.” 9) These meetings w/Ohr worked.
The FBI had reached out to Steele in late September, asking him for the information in his possession.
The team working on “Crossfire Hurricane” received documents and a briefing from Steele shortly thereafter. 10) In either late September or early October, Ohr had a meeting w/Strzok, Lisa Page, and two or three DOJ career officials from the criminal division: Bruce Swartz, Zainab Ahmad, and Andrew Weissman.
(Ohr testified he was unsure whether Weismann was at this or a later meeting). 11) Sometime prior to the election, Simpson gave parts of the dossier to Mother Jones reporter David Corn - who was friends w/FBI's James Baker.
Corn provided these copies to Baker:
"some of the parts that David Corn gave us were parts that we did not have from another source" 12) Baker said of Corn: “Even though he was my friend, I was also an FBI official. He knew that. And so he wanted to somehow get that into the hands of the FBI.” 13) All of these data points are aside from Sussmann's direct push of the fabricated Alfa Bank info to FBI's Baker.
Elias claims he was worried about FBI involvement.
But Fusion GPS, the firm Elias hired, worked diligently to push Steele’s info into the FBI.
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For more on Spygate see these articles by Margot Cleveland.
Epoch Times: Indiana House Owner Fatally Shoots 2 Intruders, Holds 2 More at Gunpoint Until Police Arrive
A homeowner in northeastern Indiana woke up to the sound of his dog barking early on Monday and got face-to-face with a group of burglars who demanded money and other belongings from him, according to reports.
The unidentified homeowner said the night was really dark and he was able to grab his shotgun. He opened fire at the intruders, fatally shooting two of the thieves.
The deceased pair has since been identified as Rameica Moore, 36, of Fort Wayne, and Dylan Morefield, 22, of Churubusco, according to court records cited by news agency WPTA.
A third individual, identified as 42-year-old Tabitha Johnson, surrendered and was escorted out of the residence by the homeowner. A fourth person, identified as 42-year-old Shaun Kruse, was waiting outside of the house in DeKalb County as a lookout man.
Kruse was then forced to dial 911 after the homeowner confronted him with Johnson at gunpoint.
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Michael Smith, Unlicensed Punditry: When Democrats Say "White", They Mean "Western"
It is pretty damn racist to assume skin color equates to a certain political affinity.
Biden claimed, "If you don't vote for me, you ain't black."
You just have to understand that when Democrats say "white", they mean "Western", as in Western civilization and Western culture.
They hate Western civilization because it is not culture, race or status dependent. When anyone and everyone can participate and succeed, it makes generation of class conflict far more difficult.
This is why they continue to try to destroy it.
That's why the obsessive focus on race, on something we are powerless to change, is visually obvious and easy to use to separate people.
I get that white, Christian men of European descent are out of favor these days - along with Western civilization - but the combination of those things ended slavery, invented the automobile (credited to Karl Benz in 1885) and in less than a century took mankind from riding horses to walking on the moon. Mankind went from candles to total electrification in even less time.
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Sitting State Representative Michael Yakubovich has announced that he is running for State Senate in District 16. The incumbent Senator is Democrat Kevin Cavanaugh, and the district includes Hooksett, Candia, Raymond, Goffstown, and ward 1 in Manchester. The campaign will hold a sold-out kickoff event at the Taphouse Grille in Hooksett on Thursday evening.
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Nick Arama, RedState: Twitter Exec Steps in it Big Time With Remarks About Musk in Latest Project Veritas Video
Project Veritas dropped a video from a senior Twitter engineer on Monday that was damning — showing bias and censorship on the platform. The engineer, Siru Murugesan, said that the employees were “super left, left, left, left, left,” “Commie as f**k,” and admitted that they were censoring the right more than the left.
However, that wasn’t the only video that they dropped. They released another one capturing a Twitter executive, Alex Martinez — who they identify as a “lead client partner” — saying that they believe in something that’s “good for the planet” and not just to “give people free speech.”
Twitter executive calling Elon Musk mentally handicapped, "special" and saying he has "aspergers."
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 18, 2022
This Twitter exec goes on to say that Twitter is "not here to give people free speech" @elonmusk is going to want to see this one too…pic.twitter.com/dQZamaLiC8
Martinez’s remarks are a great window into the psychology of the leftists who have been in control of Twitter. He says that Elon Musk is going to have a hard time responding if he’s asked why he’s taking down the disinformation policies Twitter has in place. Martinez mocked Musk, mimicking what he thought he might reply: “Uh, because people should make their own decisions.” Then countered: “But people don’t know how to make a rational decision if you don’t put out the correct things that are supposed to be out in the public.” How pretentious is that? We can’t decide unless they tell us what to think?
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