Personally I can’t wait to see Julie Kelly and her reporting on the matter for the last 2 years being vindicated. Her reporting has been accurate, despite those who say otherwise with no proof, just their own opinion.
Damage control and CYA will be all the rage among the left and their media.
House Democrats could’ve handed the January 6 Tapes to any news org they wanted. News orgs could’ve demanded the full trove. Neither happened—too late to save the collapsing narrative https://t.co/smH6UdUIys
Now unban and republish all the videos of antifa changing into Maga gear around the Capitol building before it was rushed like this one pic.twitter.com/mSTyRzdsIT
And there’s that never charged fed Ray Epps directing the destruction…
It was that’s why they have tried to hide it this whole time…but we have all the footage because they cannot censor everything…🎥🎬 pic.twitter.com/UO9krItS5r
Reminder that Joe Biden's DOJ designated all surveillance video as "highly sensitive" government material back in March 2021 subject to strict protective orders. Even defendants and their lawyers have a tough time accessing it and digital platform was delayed for months. pic.twitter.com/HeyAQ7fopT
WHO DO YOU THINK HELPED KEEP THIS FOOTAGE UNDER SEAL FOR 2 YEARS?
You think suddenly the DC judges will grow a conscience or at least fulfill their sworn duty to protect the rights of these defendants? Give me a tiny break.
Is someone continuing to wage an unconventional war on America? Suspicious rail crashes, fires at numerous food production facilities, chickens that aren’t laying eggs, and now….
Fires are a common problem in factories but at what point do we ask are fires like this intentional or a fact of life in a crumbling nation? https://t.co/Kkz7e6Vfj0
“The CDC Advisory Committee has officially added the COVID vaccine to the immunization schedule, including children as young as six months:
COVID-19 row: A new row has been added with the columns for age 6 months–18 years highlighted in yellow to indicate the recommended age for COVID-19 vaccination. The overlying text “2- or 3-dose primary series and booster (See Notes)” has also been added.”
“The CDC cannot mandate vaccines. But schools often use these requirements for the vaccine schedules:
COVID-19: A new section was added to provide additional details on the use of COVID-19 vaccines. The routine vaccination section describes the recommendations for primary series in the general population, and the special situations section describes the recommendations for primary series in persons who are moderately or severely immunocompromised. For booster dose vaccination in all populations, and guidance for Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine recipients, hyperlinks are included referring health care providers to the latest guidance. In addition, hyperlinks to the current COVID-19 vaccination schedules, use of COVID-19 preexposure prophylaxis in persons who are moderately or severely immunocompromised, as well as Emergency Use Authorization indications for COVID-19 vaccines, have been added.”
“What is going on with baby formula manufacturing these days? Another recall has been issued due to fears of two batches being contaminated with Cronobacter sakazakii.
Reckitt Benckiser is voluntarily recalling 145,000 cans of baby formula. It is two batches of Prosobee 12.9 oz Simply Plant-Based Infant Formula. The company made the announcement on Sunday.
Reckitt, a producer of nutrition products, announced today that, out of an abundance of caution, it has chosen to voluntarily recall two (2) select batches of ProSobee 12.9 oz. Simply Plant-Based Infant Formula due to a possibility of cross-contamination with Cronobacter sakazakii. All products distributed went through extensive testing and tested negative for the bacteria.
ProSobee Simply Plant-Based Infant Formula in 12.9 oz containers was manufactured between August 2022 and September 2022. The products were distributed through retail stores nationwide in the U.S., Guam, and Puerto Rico. The batches in question can be identified by the number on the bottom of the can. Recalled product batches are ZL2HZF and ZL2HZZ both with a UPC Code of 300871214415 and a “Use By Date” of “1 Mar 2024.” The recall involves approximately 145,000 cans.
The company noted that no illnesses or adverse events have been reported. So, why the recall? Reckitt blames a third party.
We are committed to the highest level of quality and safety and it is for this reason that we have taken this extraordinary measure. The batches in question tested negative for Cronobacter and other bacteria and this is an isolated situation. After a thorough investigation, we have identified the root cause, which was linked to material from a third party. We have taken all appropriate corrective actions, including no longer sourcing this material from the supplier.
Cronobacter bacteria can cause severe, life-threatening infections (sepsis) or meningitis (an inflammation of the membranes that protect the brain and spine). Symptoms of sepsis and meningitis may include poor feeding, irritability, temperature changes, jaundice (yellow skin and whites of the eyes), grunting breaths and abnormal movements. Cronobacter infection may also cause bowel damage and may spread through the blood to other parts of the body.
Sounds scary, especially since we are talking about infant consumers. I’d love for someone to explain why all of a sudden there is an infant formula safety crisis in this country and in the formula manufactured by Reckitt, a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in England. Almost all of the outbreaks reported in the United States have been linked to powdered baby formulas. They don’t undergo the same high temperatures used to kill germs in other foods. Manufacturers claim it is impossible to eliminate all bacteria from formulas.
We all remember when Biden’s America began to look like a third-world country last year. Abbott, a major formula producer, was shut down by the FDA and issued recalls of its products manufactured at its Michigan plant, which added to a supply chain crisis exacerbated by the pandemic. Parents scrambled to find formulas to purchase among empty store shelves. The Biden administration, as usual, was asleep at the wheel and didn’t even acknowledge the crisis until it was well underway. By then it was too late to stop the panic. The crisis still hasn’t been fully resolved.”
Here’s an update on those disgusting pedophiles who adopted a special needs kid in order to pimp him out.
Two felony counts of human trafficking for sexual servitude have since been tacked on to the 17 other child sex crimes Zachary is already accused of committing against his special-needs adopted sons. pic.twitter.com/coxZXV0FGo
"he needs to get me out," Zachary texted, pleading for his criminal defense lawyer to "work [out] a deal."
"tell DA that I want an ankle monitor, and if required, a low bond," demanded Zachary, who was told that the judge would "laugh him" out of the courtroom. pic.twitter.com/Rrf4VbeEhI
Isn’t it great when propping up their false narrative creates strange bedfellows?
My old employer, Rolling Stone, won a National Magazine Award once for investigating the same topic — U.S. information operations. Now the magazine won’t touch any story that they can’t pin entirely on Republicans. A “counterculture” mag is protecting FBI, DHS, DOD. https://t.co/AHJeoLtlYn
Years late, the Washington Post did this story on the firm New Knowledge faking a Russian influence operation in Alabama. Good for them. But where’s the follow-up? New Knowledge was also the Senate Intel Committee’s expert on Russian bots, so: (1/2) https://t.co/ZHVPrD8TF6
Thank the weak and pathetic foreign policy of Joe Biden.
“UN Inspectors Find Weapons-Grade Uranium at Iran Nuke Site
Times of London: “Inspectors from the United Nations have found traces of uranium enriched to near-weapons grade at a site connected to Iran’s nuclear programme.”
“While the Biden State Department conducted lengthy negotiations in hopes of cutting a nuclear deal with Tehran, the regime has been raising its uranium stockpile. “Uranium enriched to 60% levels of purity swelled during nuclear talks,” Bloomberg reported while breaking the story.
Bloomberg added:
International atomic monitors in Iran have detected uranium enriched to levels just below nuclear weapons-grade, risking an escalation over Tehran’s expanding program.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is trying to clarify how Iran accumulated uranium enriched to 84% purity — the highest level found by inspectors in the country to date, and a concentration just 6% below what’s needed for a weapon
The development was reported by Bloomberg on Sunday, citing two senior diplomats. Iran had previously told the IAEA that its centrifuges were configured to enrich uranium to a 60% level of purity. (…)
Inspectors need to determine whether Iran intentionally produced the material, or whether the concentration was an unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes. It’s the second time this month that monitors have detected suspicious enrichment-related activities.
Uranium enriched to 60% levels of purity swelled during nuclear talks.
In an interview on Jan. 23 the US’s envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, said Tehran was “only a handful of weeks away from having enough weapons grade uranium” but taking the further step of developing an actual weapon is “a different matter” and so far the US had no evidence of it.
Western diplomatic sources backed the revelations made by the UN nuclear watchdog. “Iran has taken a major step towards acquiring a nuclear weapon, it emerged on Sunday, as diplomats revealed that it has enriched uranium to levels just short of the threshold for a bomb,” the British newspaper Telegraph reported Tuesday.”
“he Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government—the so-called New Church Committee—is being cast by Democrats and most of the mainstream media as a batshit-crazy witch hunt: “the tinfoil hat” committee. The good news, however, is that the Democrats are not boycotting the committee. Nor can any of them be kicked off of it by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the way Nancy Pelosi removed some Republicans from the Jan. 6 investigation. This rule change was forced upon McCarthy by MAGA lawmakers, the so-called Freedom Caucus, who extracted concessions from him in 15 rounds of voting on his confirmation. Indeed, even the creation of the Subcommittee on Weaponization was a concession to these holdouts.
Democrats on the subcommittee, and progressives more broadly, should press to make the committee live up to, and even surpass, its namesake. The original eponymous Church Committee, for its chair Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, documented widespread infiltration and sabotage of left-wing social movements by the FBI and other government agencies, including the CIA, which illegally targeted the domestic left in Operations Chaos, Merrimack, and Resistance.
The Church Committee was triggered by the theft and release of a huge cache of FBI documents detailing its counterintelligence program (known by the clunky acronym COINTELPRO). Beginning in 1956, this FBI campaign of surveillance, infiltration, disruption, and entrapment targeted, first, the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party, then the civil-rights movement, and then the New Left and at least left-leaning trade unions like the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America.
Although most on the left have greeted the New Church Committee with hostility, recent news might change that. Days before the subcommittee’s first hearing, news broke that the FBI had targeted the Denver-area Black Lives Matter movement. A podcast called the Alphabet Boys obtained audio and video recordings of an FBI informant and provocateur who infiltrated the group during the nationwide unrest following George Floyd’s murder.
In 2020, Mickey Windecker showed up in Denver smoking cigars, driving a hearse loaded with guns, and talking ultra-radical claptrap about having served with Marxist Kurdish guerrillas in Syria. Despite his preposterous persona, Windecker managed to entrap one BLM activist into pleading guilty on weapons charges. He also worked to inflame peaceful demonstrations by “encouraging people to break windows and leading marches directly into police traps.”
Windecker and his FBI handlers even attempted to recruit BLM activists into an assassination plot against Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. Ultimately unsuccessful, this scheme shows the outrageous lengths to which the bureau will go to manufacture threats. It is reasonable to assume this was not the only recent FBI infiltration of a left political movement.
“The FBI has used both real and concocted threats to expand its budgets.”
The bureau has a history of targeting figures and groups it sees as real political threats: Dr. Martin Luther King, for example. But it also has a well-documented history of fabricating political enemies where none exist. Throughout its history, the FBI has used both real and concocted threats to expand its budgets, powers, and prerogatives.
During the War on Terror, it subjected American Muslims to a multibillion-dollar campaign of infiltration and frameups. A 2013 study found that more than half of all post-9/11 terrorism prosecutions involved FBI entrapment using paid informants who bamboozled often young, socially marginalized Muslims into fake plots. Some of these traps even targeted people with documented intellectual disabilities. In 2017, a 16-year veteran of the bureau named Terry Albury exposed these abuses and was rewarded for his honesty with four years in federal prison.
Despite the FBI’s history of wanton abuse, many of my left-wing friends refuse to consider evidence of federal infiltration of MAGA-aligned organizations. My friends, alas, engage in historically inaccurate deductive reasoning: The FBI is right-wing, they assume; therefore, it would never move against right-wing groups. But it has, and it does.
The historical record is clear. While the vast majority of the FBI’s subversion campaigns have targeted the left, the FBI has also moved against apolitical and culturally conservative groups; indeed, many persecuted Muslim-American organizations fit that description. It has also spied on and harassed and built compromising dossiers on mainstream politicians. And despite having many agents with right-wing politics, the bureau has kept tabs on, infiltrated, and occasionally repressed neo-Nazis and the Klan.”
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This should be something the left and right could agree on and implement some much needed reforms. But the left is too TDS riddled to be logical at this point. That’s a shame, because we finally see their point.
I’m not sure how dumping thousands of hours of video to a biased and controversial host will change anyone’s mind. Of the thousands of hours of video, he’ll selectively edit a few minutes here and there to support his narrative.
However, what little credibility Carlson had is now gone. Discovery in the Dominion libel suit has revealed that Carlson along with other FOX hosts knew the Biden win was legitimate and that Powell and Rudi were unreliable yet they had them on their show and even pushed the same lie. When a FOX reporter fact checked a Carlson guest, Carlson lost his temper and demanded the reporter delete the tweet as it would affect the FOX share price.
I’m not sure why McCartney thought this was a good idea. The conclusion for their poor mid term performance was that it was due to the general aversion of independents to Trump supported candidates, election denial and the Jan 6th riot yet he continues to help push the propaganda.
In the end, Jan 6 was not a fed op. Trump called the rally, Trump said to march to the capitol, people pushed over barriers and trespassed. They chased the cops, they broke into reps’ offices, they stole documents, they photographed documents, etc. You can’t alleviate responsibility just because federal police were working undercover during the demonstration, as they always are. At any time the participants could have left especially as criminal acts were being committed.
The first video (about 20 secs long) seems to be two clips put together. We can see a guy pulling people into the building. Then we see a woman complaining a person was pushing people in the building – was she referring to the guy pulling people in? Was he pulling people in for safety reasons? One person trips and falls and we’d have serious injuries. As for the ear piece – half my students walk around with earbuds. These earpieces look like the cheaper type that have a wire to the phone. My daughter has one which she wears when we face time. I have one at home I used to teach online. You don’t have to be a cop to have them – it’s not the 1990s.
The guy breaking the window is infamous by now. Not sure if this video tells anything new. Again ear pieces don’t tell us anything. Could be Proud Boys or Antifa or just some guy bragging to his wife, etc
Whoever was changing in the bush wasn’t changing on Jan 6th in Washington – the deciduous tree leaves are still there and still green.
The video of the fence being pushed down shows several people pushing the fence down. They couldn’t all have been undercover. Again a responsible citizen wouldn’t join in even if a cop starts it. As for the female cop who fell, she was pushed – not attacked but also not tripping over herself.
A cop telling protesters to move along and keep marching is normal. You don’t want protesters congregating where you (the police) are not prepared or don’t expect them to stop. I’ve gone on union marches in Toronto and police were constantly telling us to keep moving – a slow march holds up traffic, they really don’t want to talk or confront protesters walking by, so just keep moving til you get to the legislature.
Modern Anglo-American capitalism is focused on quarterly returns. With such short term vision, infrastructure will suffer. Its been over 40 years since the American business elite adopted this attitude, probably enough time for things to start falling apart.
Even the problems with formula or e coli on vegetables is due to short cuts to safety just for short term profits.
Compare this to the EU Rhine model and/or social democracy where high taxes, corporations, and gov’t work together to ensure the infrastructure remains up to date. Similar to being cheap on your home repairs eventually it will catch up on you.
Olberman’s point as I understand it is the videos may contain details on how to avoid security for any future attempts. Perhaps the tweet is correct and it will reveal Olberman hasn’t been entirely truthful. However, we do know already that Carlson knowingly lied about the election results so why trust him with all the footage.
The Federalist article tweeted about Schiff is from Dec 2021 – a bit old. And it’s about editing not doctoring messages between Meadows and Jordan. Not sure why video footage of the riot will expose anything about Schiff’s editing of text messages.
I don’t think the Left is too riddled with TDS to ignore the FBI’s long history of abusing Americans. I do think Republicans and Democrats will play political games with the committee so it only reveals what will be political advantageous. The Left is not the Democratic party. However, the Left is extremely amused at the right’s sudden concern for the FBI’s century-long abuse of rights and liberties.
Wandering Views 
It’s coming, and soon folks won’t be able to hide the truth anymore.
We also now know there are 41,000 hours of video from Jan 6, not the 14,000 hours Dems have alleged.
And now Tucker and Fox have it all. 🙂
Some of you will need to sit down, because the narrative you bought from the Dems and media is about to blow up. 🙂
Over the next few weeks much is going to come out that they have hidden from you.
The left and their head liar are of course outraged that Tucker has it. So double bonus. 🙂
Personally I can’t wait to see Julie Kelly and her reporting on the matter for the last 2 years being vindicated. Her reporting has been accurate, despite those who say otherwise with no proof, just their own opinion.
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Damage control and CYA will be all the rage among the left and their media.
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The truth will set you free HRW. New video is already out.
This is a fed op, and here are Capital Police/feds directing folks into the building and assisting in and orchestrating the destruction.
And look, it’s that pesky Antifa again.
And there’s that never charged fed Ray Epps directing the destruction…
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They can no longer hide the truth. 🙂
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So is this standard procedure for police too?
Is hiding the truth standard procedure now as well?
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Is someone continuing to wage an unconventional war on America? Suspicious rail crashes, fires at numerous food production facilities, chickens that aren’t laying eggs, and now….
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Don’t do it.
“CDC Adds COVID Vaccine to Immunization Schedule for Children Starting at Six Months
Schools use the recommendations to dictate their vaccine requirements.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/cdc-adds-covid-vaccine-to-immunization-schedule-for-children-starting-at-six-months/
“The CDC Advisory Committee has officially added the COVID vaccine to the immunization schedule, including children as young as six months:
COVID-19 row: A new row has been added with the columns for age 6 months–18 years highlighted in yellow to indicate the recommended age for COVID-19 vaccination. The overlying text “2- or 3-dose primary series and booster (See Notes)” has also been added.”
“The CDC cannot mandate vaccines. But schools often use these requirements for the vaccine schedules:
COVID-19: A new section was added to provide additional details on the use of COVID-19 vaccines. The routine vaccination section describes the recommendations for primary series in the general population, and the special situations section describes the recommendations for primary series in persons who are moderately or severely immunocompromised. For booster dose vaccination in all populations, and guidance for Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine recipients, hyperlinks are included referring health care providers to the latest guidance. In addition, hyperlinks to the current COVID-19 vaccination schedules, use of COVID-19 preexposure prophylaxis in persons who are moderately or severely immunocompromised, as well as Emergency Use Authorization indications for COVID-19 vaccines, have been added.”
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before….
“Baby formula recalled due to possible contamination”
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/02/21/baby-formula-recalled-due-to-possible-contamination-n532118
“What is going on with baby formula manufacturing these days? Another recall has been issued due to fears of two batches being contaminated with Cronobacter sakazakii.
Reckitt Benckiser is voluntarily recalling 145,000 cans of baby formula. It is two batches of Prosobee 12.9 oz Simply Plant-Based Infant Formula. The company made the announcement on Sunday.
Reckitt, a producer of nutrition products, announced today that, out of an abundance of caution, it has chosen to voluntarily recall two (2) select batches of ProSobee 12.9 oz. Simply Plant-Based Infant Formula due to a possibility of cross-contamination with Cronobacter sakazakii. All products distributed went through extensive testing and tested negative for the bacteria.
ProSobee Simply Plant-Based Infant Formula in 12.9 oz containers was manufactured between August 2022 and September 2022. The products were distributed through retail stores nationwide in the U.S., Guam, and Puerto Rico. The batches in question can be identified by the number on the bottom of the can. Recalled product batches are ZL2HZF and ZL2HZZ both with a UPC Code of 300871214415 and a “Use By Date” of “1 Mar 2024.” The recall involves approximately 145,000 cans.
The company noted that no illnesses or adverse events have been reported. So, why the recall? Reckitt blames a third party.
We are committed to the highest level of quality and safety and it is for this reason that we have taken this extraordinary measure. The batches in question tested negative for Cronobacter and other bacteria and this is an isolated situation. After a thorough investigation, we have identified the root cause, which was linked to material from a third party. We have taken all appropriate corrective actions, including no longer sourcing this material from the supplier.
Cronobacter bacteria can cause severe, life-threatening infections (sepsis) or meningitis (an inflammation of the membranes that protect the brain and spine). Symptoms of sepsis and meningitis may include poor feeding, irritability, temperature changes, jaundice (yellow skin and whites of the eyes), grunting breaths and abnormal movements. Cronobacter infection may also cause bowel damage and may spread through the blood to other parts of the body.
Sounds scary, especially since we are talking about infant consumers. I’d love for someone to explain why all of a sudden there is an infant formula safety crisis in this country and in the formula manufactured by Reckitt, a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in England. Almost all of the outbreaks reported in the United States have been linked to powdered baby formulas. They don’t undergo the same high temperatures used to kill germs in other foods. Manufacturers claim it is impossible to eliminate all bacteria from formulas.
We all remember when Biden’s America began to look like a third-world country last year. Abbott, a major formula producer, was shut down by the FDA and issued recalls of its products manufactured at its Michigan plant, which added to a supply chain crisis exacerbated by the pandemic. Parents scrambled to find formulas to purchase among empty store shelves. The Biden administration, as usual, was asleep at the wheel and didn’t even acknowledge the crisis until it was well underway. By then it was too late to stop the panic. The crisis still hasn’t been fully resolved.”
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Here’s an update on those disgusting pedophiles who adopted a special needs kid in order to pimp him out.
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Isn’t it great when propping up their false narrative creates strange bedfellows?
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Tic toc idiot. 🙂
Rage! Because it’s all you have left. 🙂
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Schifty knows the jig is up, and he’s gonna be exposed as the lying fraud he is. 🙂
But muh narrative…. 🙂
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Thank the weak and pathetic foreign policy of Joe Biden.
“UN Inspectors Find Weapons-Grade Uranium at Iran Nuke Site
Times of London: “Inspectors from the United Nations have found traces of uranium enriched to near-weapons grade at a site connected to Iran’s nuclear programme.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/un-inspectors-find-weapons-grade-uranium-at-iran-nuke-site/
“While the Biden State Department conducted lengthy negotiations in hopes of cutting a nuclear deal with Tehran, the regime has been raising its uranium stockpile. “Uranium enriched to 60% levels of purity swelled during nuclear talks,” Bloomberg reported while breaking the story.
Bloomberg added:
International atomic monitors in Iran have detected uranium enriched to levels just below nuclear weapons-grade, risking an escalation over Tehran’s expanding program.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is trying to clarify how Iran accumulated uranium enriched to 84% purity — the highest level found by inspectors in the country to date, and a concentration just 6% below what’s needed for a weapon
The development was reported by Bloomberg on Sunday, citing two senior diplomats. Iran had previously told the IAEA that its centrifuges were configured to enrich uranium to a 60% level of purity. (…)
Inspectors need to determine whether Iran intentionally produced the material, or whether the concentration was an unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes. It’s the second time this month that monitors have detected suspicious enrichment-related activities.
Uranium enriched to 60% levels of purity swelled during nuclear talks.
In an interview on Jan. 23 the US’s envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, said Tehran was “only a handful of weeks away from having enough weapons grade uranium” but taking the further step of developing an actual weapon is “a different matter” and so far the US had no evidence of it.
Western diplomatic sources backed the revelations made by the UN nuclear watchdog. “Iran has taken a major step towards acquiring a nuclear weapon, it emerged on Sunday, as diplomats revealed that it has enriched uranium to levels just short of the threshold for a bomb,” the British newspaper Telegraph reported Tuesday.”
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No. They’re too deep in to the lies to back out now. 🙂
“Will the Left Stand Up to the Deep State?”
https://compactmag.com/article/will-the-left-stand-up-to-the-deep-state
“he Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government—the so-called New Church Committee—is being cast by Democrats and most of the mainstream media as a batshit-crazy witch hunt: “the tinfoil hat” committee. The good news, however, is that the Democrats are not boycotting the committee. Nor can any of them be kicked off of it by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the way Nancy Pelosi removed some Republicans from the Jan. 6 investigation. This rule change was forced upon McCarthy by MAGA lawmakers, the so-called Freedom Caucus, who extracted concessions from him in 15 rounds of voting on his confirmation. Indeed, even the creation of the Subcommittee on Weaponization was a concession to these holdouts.
Democrats on the subcommittee, and progressives more broadly, should press to make the committee live up to, and even surpass, its namesake. The original eponymous Church Committee, for its chair Sen. Frank Church of Idaho, documented widespread infiltration and sabotage of left-wing social movements by the FBI and other government agencies, including the CIA, which illegally targeted the domestic left in Operations Chaos, Merrimack, and Resistance.
The Church Committee was triggered by the theft and release of a huge cache of FBI documents detailing its counterintelligence program (known by the clunky acronym COINTELPRO). Beginning in 1956, this FBI campaign of surveillance, infiltration, disruption, and entrapment targeted, first, the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party, then the civil-rights movement, and then the New Left and at least left-leaning trade unions like the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America.
Although most on the left have greeted the New Church Committee with hostility, recent news might change that. Days before the subcommittee’s first hearing, news broke that the FBI had targeted the Denver-area Black Lives Matter movement. A podcast called the Alphabet Boys obtained audio and video recordings of an FBI informant and provocateur who infiltrated the group during the nationwide unrest following George Floyd’s murder.
In 2020, Mickey Windecker showed up in Denver smoking cigars, driving a hearse loaded with guns, and talking ultra-radical claptrap about having served with Marxist Kurdish guerrillas in Syria. Despite his preposterous persona, Windecker managed to entrap one BLM activist into pleading guilty on weapons charges. He also worked to inflame peaceful demonstrations by “encouraging people to break windows and leading marches directly into police traps.”
Windecker and his FBI handlers even attempted to recruit BLM activists into an assassination plot against Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. Ultimately unsuccessful, this scheme shows the outrageous lengths to which the bureau will go to manufacture threats. It is reasonable to assume this was not the only recent FBI infiltration of a left political movement.
“The FBI has used both real and concocted threats to expand its budgets.”
The bureau has a history of targeting figures and groups it sees as real political threats: Dr. Martin Luther King, for example. But it also has a well-documented history of fabricating political enemies where none exist. Throughout its history, the FBI has used both real and concocted threats to expand its budgets, powers, and prerogatives.
During the War on Terror, it subjected American Muslims to a multibillion-dollar campaign of infiltration and frameups. A 2013 study found that more than half of all post-9/11 terrorism prosecutions involved FBI entrapment using paid informants who bamboozled often young, socially marginalized Muslims into fake plots. Some of these traps even targeted people with documented intellectual disabilities. In 2017, a 16-year veteran of the bureau named Terry Albury exposed these abuses and was rewarded for his honesty with four years in federal prison.
Despite the FBI’s history of wanton abuse, many of my left-wing friends refuse to consider evidence of federal infiltration of MAGA-aligned organizations. My friends, alas, engage in historically inaccurate deductive reasoning: The FBI is right-wing, they assume; therefore, it would never move against right-wing groups. But it has, and it does.
The historical record is clear. While the vast majority of the FBI’s subversion campaigns have targeted the left, the FBI has also moved against apolitical and culturally conservative groups; indeed, many persecuted Muslim-American organizations fit that description. It has also spied on and harassed and built compromising dossiers on mainstream politicians. And despite having many agents with right-wing politics, the bureau has kept tabs on, infiltrated, and occasionally repressed neo-Nazis and the Klan.”
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This should be something the left and right could agree on and implement some much needed reforms. But the left is too TDS riddled to be logical at this point. That’s a shame, because we finally see their point.
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I’m not sure how dumping thousands of hours of video to a biased and controversial host will change anyone’s mind. Of the thousands of hours of video, he’ll selectively edit a few minutes here and there to support his narrative.
However, what little credibility Carlson had is now gone. Discovery in the Dominion libel suit has revealed that Carlson along with other FOX hosts knew the Biden win was legitimate and that Powell and Rudi were unreliable yet they had them on their show and even pushed the same lie. When a FOX reporter fact checked a Carlson guest, Carlson lost his temper and demanded the reporter delete the tweet as it would affect the FOX share price.
I’m not sure why McCartney thought this was a good idea. The conclusion for their poor mid term performance was that it was due to the general aversion of independents to Trump supported candidates, election denial and the Jan 6th riot yet he continues to help push the propaganda.
In the end, Jan 6 was not a fed op. Trump called the rally, Trump said to march to the capitol, people pushed over barriers and trespassed. They chased the cops, they broke into reps’ offices, they stole documents, they photographed documents, etc. You can’t alleviate responsibility just because federal police were working undercover during the demonstration, as they always are. At any time the participants could have left especially as criminal acts were being committed.
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The first video (about 20 secs long) seems to be two clips put together. We can see a guy pulling people into the building. Then we see a woman complaining a person was pushing people in the building – was she referring to the guy pulling people in? Was he pulling people in for safety reasons? One person trips and falls and we’d have serious injuries. As for the ear piece – half my students walk around with earbuds. These earpieces look like the cheaper type that have a wire to the phone. My daughter has one which she wears when we face time. I have one at home I used to teach online. You don’t have to be a cop to have them – it’s not the 1990s.
The guy breaking the window is infamous by now. Not sure if this video tells anything new. Again ear pieces don’t tell us anything. Could be Proud Boys or Antifa or just some guy bragging to his wife, etc
Whoever was changing in the bush wasn’t changing on Jan 6th in Washington – the deciduous tree leaves are still there and still green.
The video of the fence being pushed down shows several people pushing the fence down. They couldn’t all have been undercover. Again a responsible citizen wouldn’t join in even if a cop starts it. As for the female cop who fell, she was pushed – not attacked but also not tripping over herself.
A cop telling protesters to move along and keep marching is normal. You don’t want protesters congregating where you (the police) are not prepared or don’t expect them to stop. I’ve gone on union marches in Toronto and police were constantly telling us to keep moving – a slow march holds up traffic, they really don’t want to talk or confront protesters walking by, so just keep moving til you get to the legislature.
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Modern Anglo-American capitalism is focused on quarterly returns. With such short term vision, infrastructure will suffer. Its been over 40 years since the American business elite adopted this attitude, probably enough time for things to start falling apart.
Even the problems with formula or e coli on vegetables is due to short cuts to safety just for short term profits.
Compare this to the EU Rhine model and/or social democracy where high taxes, corporations, and gov’t work together to ensure the infrastructure remains up to date. Similar to being cheap on your home repairs eventually it will catch up on you.
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Olberman’s point as I understand it is the videos may contain details on how to avoid security for any future attempts. Perhaps the tweet is correct and it will reveal Olberman hasn’t been entirely truthful. However, we do know already that Carlson knowingly lied about the election results so why trust him with all the footage.
The Federalist article tweeted about Schiff is from Dec 2021 – a bit old. And it’s about editing not doctoring messages between Meadows and Jordan. Not sure why video footage of the riot will expose anything about Schiff’s editing of text messages.
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I don’t think the Left is too riddled with TDS to ignore the FBI’s long history of abusing Americans. I do think Republicans and Democrats will play political games with the committee so it only reveals what will be political advantageous. The Left is not the Democratic party. However, the Left is extremely amused at the right’s sudden concern for the FBI’s century-long abuse of rights and liberties.
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