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Accidental Racism, Tiny Helpless Murder Victims, & Hot Collateral Cheese
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FBI Opened Probe Into AG Sessions Day After Comey Firing on Thin Evidence
Newly declassified documents show the FBI opened a criminal probe into then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in May 2017 for potential false statements to Congress about Russian contacts, even though Sessions had already sent a letter clarifying his earlier testimony weeks earlier.
The investigation, codenamed MARCH TOLL, was opened one day after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. According to the FBI’s opening memo, the case was first opened at the Washington Field Office at the direction of headquarters and was solely predicated on a March 20, 2017 letter from Democrat Senators Patrick Leahy and Al Franken. The file also notes that Comey had notified then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on April 28 that the case would be opened.
The senators claimed Sessions may have committed perjury during his confirmation hearing when he said he “did not have communications with the Russians.”
Sessions had already sent a March 6 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee clarifying that he met the Russian ambassador twice during the campaign season but maintained his answer was truthful because the question focused on a continuing exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. The FBI did not act on the Democrats’ letter until the day after Comey’s firing and did not even add Sessions’ supplementary testimony to the file until May 23.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team later closed the investigation in 2018, concluding it could not prove Sessions was “willfully untruthful.”
Ashe in America: You would think that opening a criminal probe into a sitting US Attorney General would be a big deal with a high bar to clear. This one happened the day after the FBI Director was fired.
The FBI should have been somewhat discombobulated on the day after their director was fired, right? These guys weren’t discombobulated at all – they were executing a plan. And they undertook the extraordinary step of opening a criminal probe on the sitting Attorney General.
I don’t care who the white hats and black hats are, the fact that this is considered “justice” or “legitimate” is enough to be done with all of it. It’s spy games and mobster shit at every level of government.
Organized crime under color of law.
All the way down.
Syria Brokers Secret Deal With Trump to Turn Over Secret Nuclear Site; Putin Hosts Syrian President, Signs Deal to Restore Russian Military Presence on Syrian Coast
The Trump administration secretly brokered an agreement among Syria, Israel and the IAEA to secure nuclear material at Syria’s clandestine “Site 99,” which was connected to the Assad regime’s covert Al-Kibar nuclear program. Axios reports the deal followed Israeli concerns that Syria’s new government was attempting to access the material; the IAEA is expected to remove it, though that operation has not yet been completed.
At the same time, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has maintained ties with Vladimir Putin after two visits to Moscow. A new agreement will return Syrian civil control over Hmeimem air base and the commercial berth at Tartus while converting the military facilities into **joint Russian-Syrian training centers**, effectively reorganizing rather than eliminating Russia’s strategic presence on the Mediterranean. ([AP News][2])
Together, the developments show Syria’s new government balancing both powers: cooperating quietly with Trump and Israel over one of the country’s most sensitive nuclear sites while simultaneously preserving a military relationship with Moscow.
GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: This is a fascinating development.
This was actually mentioned in a Q post.
First, Q mentions a secret nuclear facility in northern Syria.
Q then starts talking about the Uranium One scandal, noting how the nuclear material is all traceable, and postulating what would happen if the material ended up in Syria.
Q then mentions the film, The Sum of All Fears, asking if we all remember from which country in the film did the nuclear material originate.
Here is the plot summary courtesy of Wikipedia.
The answer to Q’s question is Israel.
Q then immediately asks what would happen if Russia or any other country were found to be supply Iran or Syria with illegal nuclear material. (He then answers WAR.)
Q then brings it back to Uranium One:
> “What does U1 provide?”
> “Define cover.”
> “Why did we strike Syria?”
> “Why did we really strike Syria?”
> “Define cover.”
With the benefit of hindsight, my interpretation of this post is that Israel was secretly providing nuclear material to this secret nuclear facility in northern Syria—which the Syria government says it didn’t even know about (remember: Assad lost control of northern Syria in 2012 and never got it back).
From the article:
The purpose was likely to provide material to build a nuclear weapon (or the threat of a nuclear weapon) and then blame it all on Russia and Iran. That would explain the nature of the Uranium One disclosure.
The fact that the U1 scandal involved Hillary Clinton speaks to the genius of our adversary. MAGA and MAGA-adjacent folks despise Hillary, so any story highlighting her corruption is going to become an important piece of lore in the MAGA zeitgeist. But the real target of the psyop is Russia and Iran. Many in MAGA would likely be willing to trade a geopolitical relationship with Putin in exchange for severe justice against HRC.
“Define cover,” likely refers to the U1 cover story that was used to deflect attention away from Israel and toward Russia and Iran.
This all may be a stretch, but I don’t think it’s a stretch at all. In fact I think it’s the reason that Israel is threatening to bomb Iran again—to divert attention away from Israel and whatever corruption they all involved in all of this.
And the real signal is that the day before this deal between Trump and Syria is revealed, Syria signed a historic deal with Russia that will ensure the Russian military has a strong presence in the region for the time being.
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Globalist Media Answers Their Own Question With Back-To-Back Observations on Racism and the Decline of the West
The Atlantic is examining why France’s increasingly diverse population has failed to stop the rise of the National Rally, acknowledging that immigration, demographic change and concerns over assimilation have helped fuel a political backlash often attributed to racism and xenophobia.
At the same time, Politico examines the West’s collapsing fertility rates, aging populations and shrinking workforces, arguing that immigration is increasingly viewed as an economic necessity.
Taken together, the stories suggest establishment media are beginning to acknowledge both sides of a problem they have often treated separately: Western governments are using immigration to compensate for collapsing birth rates, while voters increasingly reject the social and political consequences of doing so.
Burning Bright: While I usually don’t like to focus in on specific editorials or media outlets when it comes to macro observations, this one-two punch from The Atlantic and Politico, two of the world’s premiere narrative dissemination outlets for the collectivist message, offers us an ironically honest diagnosis both of the actual problems afflicting the west and the false ones they’ve attempted to paper over them.
In the first feature, The Atlantic observes that the World Cup, fresh in the collective mind of the world and the west, and no doubt a grand branding opportunity for globalism in the first place has not only failed to increase collectivist sentiment in the west, but has either accelerated the move back toward nationalism or else failed to arrest that move.
While this specific editorial focuses on what the writer and his cohorts perceive as a surge in racism disguised as French Nationalism, he does accurately surmise that, no matter how many colors you dress an African son of migrants in, the people of France do not see him as inherently French, which is not necessarily to say that they do not think he belongs in France.
And that is the honest conversation regarding race, immigration and most importantly, culture that the Media Protectorate does not wish to have, because they cannot abide the results of such a conversation, wherein the line of demarcation between western citizens and western peoples threatens to become starker still.
In other words, it is not so much that the famous African, but also French athletes the media points out are hated by the French (they are not,) but rather that the media is learning (as these athletes are no doubt learning) that they are in no way considered ‘French.’
The second story, this one from Politico seems to adopt a less alarmist and most resigned tone when describing plummeting birth rates in Spain (i.e., among the Spanish,) as a not so subtle salve over the open, festering wound that is unchecked mass migration into that nation, as if to claim the latter not only accounts for the former but is entirely necessary because of it.
But this is an inversion.
Unchecked foreign migration from ethnic groups that have nothing in common with the domestic population is not only failing to stop the slow decline of the west, but is its prime accelerant; after all, how many Spanish and French nationals (which is to say, how many Spanish and French PEOPLES) are currently on the take from government subsidies in a way that would make growing a large family fiscally possible while maintaining some semblance of quality of life standards?
Conversely, how many African, Middle Eastern and Central Asian migrants are all too willing to eschew the living standards of western peoples in order to get ON the take of their governments, and for a generation or three hence?
This audience has long known that the problem of unchecked migration (both legal and otherwise) into the west has been the endgame of a Hegelian death loop the globalist machine has trapped us in.
What the media and their globalist scions in the west are beginning to recognize, however, and with mounting dread is the fact that they have themselves been recognized, and by FAR more eyes, hearts and minds in the west than they once believed.
And so, where are we going in the years ahead as this house of collectivist cards begins to sway?
While I do not wish for open warfare or rebellion, I believe, by hook or by crook, the restoration of the west as we knew it, and as we would know it again, will be as sudden as its decline was slow.
And the machine is beginning to see it.
It is possible, if not likely that we are set to depart an era defined by nationalities and back toward one defined by peoples, and whether that is a good thing or a bad thing probably depends on whether or not you feel you have more in common with your neighbors than not.
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Heat Wave in Europe Threatens Italian Bank That Holds Cheese as Collateral For Loans; $5 Billion Cheese Economy in Danger
Extreme heat in Italy is threatening the production and aging of Parmigiano Reggiano, putting pressure on an industry worth roughly $5 billion and creating an unusual financial risk for banks that accept wheels of the cheese as collateral for loans. Producers can borrow against cheese that must age for months or years before it can be sold, tying the value of billions of dollars in inventory directly to agricultural and storage conditions.
Higher temperatures can reduce cows’ milk production and complicate the tightly controlled aging process required for authentic Parmigiano Reggiano. That means prolonged heat could squeeze production, raise costs and potentially reduce the value of the cheese inventories backing loans — turning Europe’s heat wave into a problem not just for farmers and cheesemakers, but for the financial institutions financing one of Italy’s most valuable food industries.
This is a pretty incredible and hilarious revelation. A bank for cheesemakers, by cheesemakers. (Like the Italian FUBU)
The region in Italy where this bank is located and serves (Emilia Romagna) is pretty interesting.
It is the region directly north of Tuscany, where the world’s oldest university can be found (Bologna). The cheese industry alone here is a $5 billion industry, and the region is considered one of the most wealthy and prosperous in all of Europe. (It’s also considered one of the iconic places in Europe to see when traveling.)
To that point, this region is known for luxury automobiles, being the home of Ferrari (Romagna), Lamborghini (Bologna), and Maserati (Bologna).
I can personally attest to Rimini, which is probably the coolest beach town I’ve ever visited. Nearby is San Marino, which is a sovereign country and the third-smallest nation in Europe (after the Vatican and Monaco).
I just can’t believe that despite having all this fabulous wealth and prosperity, these jokers couldn’t be bothered to install an air conditioning system in the warehouse where they store over $300 million in fine cheese. Talk about your all-time oversights. How did nobody think of this?
Trump Signs Vaccine EO as Fauci Texts Reveal Miscarriage Concerns
President Trump signed an executive order Monday directing federal health officials to develop what the White House calls “Gold Standard” childhood vaccine recommendations, emphasizing individualized risk-benefit analysis, informed consent and continued review of vaccine safety and necessity.
The order follows earlier Trump administration moves to overhaul the childhood vaccination schedule and calls for recommendations based on what it describes as transparent, evidence-based science.
The order came as Republican lawmakers released previously undisclosed 2021 text messages from Anthony Fauci discussing COVID vaccination during pregnancy. The messages show Fauci raising a concern that a second vaccine dose could trigger an immune response capable of causing a miscarriage in a pregnant woman.
Pregnant women were not publicly warned that federal officials were concerned about miscarriage as a potential COVID-vaccine adverse effect. Instead, CDC’s public messaging said available evidence did not show an increased risk of miscarriage following COVID vaccination and recommended vaccination during pregnancy.
Ashe in America: Publicly, federal health officials told pregnant women it was safe to get “vaccinated.” They told pregnant American women – all of them – that it was not only safe and effective, but that it was necessary for them to get vaccinated.
They told all the women in America carrying the next generation of Americans that the available data showed no increased miscarriage risk. Their media partners dutifully reported it in an effort to coerce pregnant women to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
As soon as in the first trimester.
They all recommended vaccination – don’t let anyone gaslight you about this. They silenced dissent, first through social incentives and then through government force. When the carrots didn’t work, they brought the sticks. Ask the America’s Frontline Doctors and so many others who were brave, and then character-assassinated.
It was just that important… for public health or whatever. We’re all in this together.
Here is what they said publicly, released from Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI):
Feb. 3, 2021 – NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci: “[FDA] have found thus far and we have to be careful but thus far no red flags about that, about pregnant women.”
Aug. 11, 2021 – CDC’s Sascha Ellington: “We are not seeing a signal of safety concerns of the vaccine in pregnancy … This vaccine can prevent Covid-19, and so that’s the primary benefit.”
Aug. 30, 2021 – NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci: “Well, are the vaccines safe?” … “10s and 10s and 10s of thousands of women who have been followed by the CDC, who have been vaccinated when they were pregnant, there’s no indication whatsoever that there’s any increase of any adverse issues in a pregnant woman who was vaccinated compared to a pregnant woman who wasn’t vaccinated … it’s pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated.”
Sept. 29, 2021 – CDC Director Rochelle Walensky: “CDC strongly recommends COVID-19 vaccination either before or during pregnancy because the benefits of vaccination outweigh known or potential risks,” the agency said in a health alert … Walensky told a White House COVID-19 briefing that studies show COVID-19 vaccines are safe for pregnant women.
Feb. 1, 2022 – Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy: “It’s all the more important for you to get vaccinated if you are pregnant or if you are trying to become pregnant … The data points show that the vaccines are safe during these various stages before and during pregnancy … They found generally that anytime during your pregnancy is actually fine [to get the vaccine], and that’s why the recommendation is just to get it.”
Jan. 12, 2022 – Dr. James A Thorp, OB/GYN and maternal-fetal medicine specialist published an open letter to the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology with a critique of the Shimabukuro et al June 17, 2021 paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. He argued that because 700 of the 827 pregnant women in the study received their COVID-19 injection in the third trimester (after 28 weeks), those 700 should be excluded from the denominator used to calculate a 12.6% (104/827) spontaneous abortion rate (defined as occurring before 20 weeks). The actual spontaneous abortion rate would then be 82% (104/127).
Katie Pavlich, a journalist with News Nation, quote-posted Senator Johnson’s release and shared the topline results from that New England Journal of Medicine study, which showed a 12-14% first trimester-vaccination miscarriage rate. She shared this quote:
“The authors claimed a miscarriage rate of 12.6%, but the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester. This is consistent with the 81% miscarriage rate noted in the Pfizer 5.3.6 post-market data. These figures mirror the effects of chemical abortion drugs such as RU-486.”
Take a good look at that timeline. Now consider this:
Privately, Fauci was consulted about vaccine-related miscarriage, theorized it was due to the vaccine, and recommended against a second dose. Healthcare for the herd was apparently different than it was for “the science” and the people he cared about.
Nine days after he sent this message, he told the public, “no red flags about that, about pregnant women.” They didn’t study it and protect the public health of women and their unborn babies. They buried it and lied to women and many babies died.
Trust the science.
The 82% number is alarming, and I ranted about it last night on Culture of Change, but they knew the 12-14% number in January 2021. And they lied to pregnant American women in February 2021.
12-14% is highly unacceptable all by itself.
Re-read that bulleted list of quotes above.
We’re talking about pregnant women. They withheld critical information from pregnant women during a public health crisis that measurably resulted in a lot of their babies dying.
Knowingly and willingly.
Monsters.
There must be justice.
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Bribe to Drive? New Whistleblower Complaint Implicates Local Officials in Coordinated Scheme
A former Kentucky driver’s-license clerk alleges that employees at a Louisville licensing center accepted at least $200 under the table to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants who were otherwise ineligible under state law. The whistleblower, Melissa Moorman, claims the operation occurred multiple times a day for at least two years and involved employees bypassing required Homeland Security checks, using fraudulent documents and, in some cases, accessing her credentials without permission.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says its own review uncovered irregularities and resulted in 1,985 credentials being revoked, and that it referred the matter to law enforcement. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman says state and federal authorities had already been investigating the potential fraud before the whistleblower’s allegations became public. The investigation includes Kentucky State Police, the attorney general’s office and US attorneys.
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@Ashe, et al.
"How long O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, before You bring judgment, and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth (a reference to the evils)?"
"Rest a little while longer...", (was the response they (we) are given.) (Rev.6:10-11)
"The Lord is not late in fulfilling His promise, as some regard lateness, but is patient toward you, not willing that anyone should perish, but that all would come to a changing of their thinking toward Him." (2Peter 3:9)
If I were a pregnant woman who received the COVID-19 vaccines and then miscarried...I would be looking for a lawyer...a lot of people need to be sued...may be the closest we will ever get to justice. Very sad business!