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  • California secession organizers say they've opened an embassy -- in Moscow

    12/20/2016 11:04:06 PM PST · by Repeal 16-17 · 98 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | December 20, 2016 | John Myers
    California gained an embassy in Russia last weekend, at least in the eyes of those who have promised to seek a statewide vote on secession, nicknamed "Calexit," in 2018. Louis Marinelli, a San Diego resident who is the leader of the group promoting an effort to turn the state into an independent country , organized the Moscow event that was publicized on social media. "We want to start laying the groundwork for a dialogue about an independent California joining the United Nations now," he said in an email Monday.
  • Wind and Solar Slaughtering India’s Iconic Bird

    02/17/2024 10:20:26 PM PST · by Red Badger · 14 replies
    Watts Up With That? ^ | February 14, 2024 | By Vijay Jayaraj
    By commissioning expensive and inefficient wind and solar electric generating facilities, India may have dug the grave of its own efforts to save the critically endangered great Indian bustard. Erected to avert a faux climate crisis, the so-called renewable machines and their attendant transmission lines are helping to drive one of Earth’s largest flying birds to the brink of extinction. Avian aficionados such as myself have long bemoaned prioritizing wind and solar technologies at the expense of endangered species. Yet, the relentless push for needless climate solutions seems to ignore this as “green energy” installations and avian fatalities increase in...
  • Former Old Dominion University Student Pleads Guilty to Swatting Conspiracy

    07/21/2020 6:29:11 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 14 replies
    justice.gov ^ | July 21, 2020 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia
    ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Vienna man pleaded guilty today to charges related to his role in a conspiracy that conducted multiple swatting events targeting journalists, a Virginia university, a historic Virginia church, and a former cabinet official.According to court documents, John William Kirby Kelley, 19, conspired with John Cameron Denton, a former leader of the Atomwaffen Division in Texas, and others to conduct “swatting” calls. Swatting is a harassment tactic that involves deceiving dispatchers into believing that a person or persons are in imminent danger of death or bodily harm and causing the dispatchers to send police and emergency...
  • U.S., Chinese Researchers Wanted to Engineer Virus Similar to Covid One Year before Pandemic Outbreak, Internal Docs Show

    01/24/2024 9:34:20 AM PST · by bitt · 7 replies
    national review ^ | 1/24/2024 | HALEY STRACK
    American scientists applied to engineer coronaviruses with remarkable similarities to SARS-CoV-2 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2018, just one year before the pandemic’s outbreak, according to newly released internal documents. The 2018 grant proposal and related documents — obtained by the watchdog group U.S. Right to Know through a Freedom of Information request — reveal that an American virologist working with the Wuhan lab planned to engineer a virus that resembles SARS-CoV-2 as part of a U.S.-China research collaboration called “DEFUSE.” The research project was to be led by EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City-based research nonprofit that...
  • Trump’s lawyers send cease-and-desist letter to Bannon

    01/03/2018 8:43:48 PM PST · by usafa92 · 80 replies
    Gazette via The Washington Compost ^ | 1/3/2018 | Carol Loennig
    Lawyers for President Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to Trump’s former senior strategist Stephen K. Bannon, arguing he had violated a non-disclosure agreement in speaking about his time on the campaign and in Trump’s most trusted inner circle. In a letter sent Wednesday night, Trump’s lawyers told Bannon his comments to author Michael Wolff in a soon-to-be-released tell-all book violate Bannon’s employment agreement with Trump in numerous ways and also defame the president.
  • Devin Nunes aide exchanged information with Lev Parnas about Ukraine campaign, documents reveal

    01/18/2020 10:10:18 AM PST · by hsmomx3 · 43 replies
    CNN ^ | 1-18-20 | By Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju
    (CNN)New documents released Friday evening by House Democrats show communications between indicted Rudy Guiliani associate Lev Parnas and an aide to the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee in which they arrange interviews with Ukrainian officials and apparent meetings at the Trump hotel in Washington, DC, including with Giuliani
  • As an FBI Official Is Sentenced for Working Directly With Russia, News Outlets Erase One Key Detail

    12/16/2023 5:54:24 AM PST · by george76 · 17 replies
    Red State. ^ | December 15, 2023 | Brad Slager
    a prominent FBI official, Charles McGonigal, was sentenced to a prison stint. He was convicted of conspiracy and bribery involving a Russian oligarch who is known for being an extremely close associate of Vladamir Putin. While this is being widely reported on today there is a very notable omission seen from the various major news outlets covering this sentencing. To set the stage correctly we need to flash back briefly over what we have been told over the past seven or so years. With the rise of Donald Trump in Republican circles, one of the earliest complaints leveled against him...
  • CDC director warns that Congo’s Ebola outbreak may not be containable

    11/07/2018 12:35:55 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 22 replies
    washington post ^ | 11/05/2018 | Lena H. Sun
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said Monday that the Ebola outbreak in conflict-ridden Congo has become so serious that international public health experts need to consider the possibility that it cannot be brought under control and instead will become entrenched. If that happened, it would be the first time since the deadly viral disease was first identified in 1976 that an Ebola outbreak led to the persistent presence of the disease. In all previous outbreaks, most of which took place in remote areas, the disease was contained before it spread widely. The current outbreak is entering...
  • Is this the smoking gun for the Covid lab leak? Blueprint for creating a 'SARS-CoV' virus with an altered spike protein in Wuhan was published in 2018, bombshell new records show

    12/20/2023 8:48:47 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 34 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12/20/2023 | ALEXA LARDIERI U.S. DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    A newly-uncovered trove of documents detailing plans to create a Covid-like virus in China months before the pandemic make the 'lab leak almost certain', experts say. The records - obtained now by FOIA requests - lay out a plan to 'engineer spike proteins' to infect human cells that would then be 'inserted into SARS-Covid backbones' at the infamous Wuhan virology lab from December 2018. Just a year later, in late 2019, the Covid-19 virus emerged with a uniquely adept ability to infect humans, going on to cause a global pandemic. The proposal was made by the now-notorious EcoHealth Alliance, a...
  • Ex-FBI official Charles McGonigal gets 50 months in prison for Russia oligarch work

    12/15/2023 3:21:34 PM PST · by bitt · 6 replies
    nypost ^ | 12/14/2023 | Ryan King and Kyle Schnitzer
    Former high-ranking FBI official Charles McGonigal started tearing up Thursday as he was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for colluding with a Russian oligarch to evade US sanctions. McGonigal, 55, was ordered to surrender by Feb. 26, 2024, made to serve three years of supervised release following his time behind bars, and was fined $40,000. After he exited the courthouse, McGonigal told onlookers, “Happy holidays.” McGonigal, who helmed the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York from 2016 to 2018, pleaded guilty to the charge back in August. “[McGonigal] well knew his actions violated those sanctions,” Manhattan federal judge...
  • In the name of ‘fake news,’ NewsGuard extorts sites to follow the government narrative By Social Links forLee Fang

    12/11/2023 2:43:57 AM PST · by george76 · 7 replies
    New York Post ^ | Dec. 10, 2023 | Lee Fang
    Half a century ago, George Orwell, writing on literary censorship, wrote that “unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.” That dynamic now broadly extends to an opaque network of government agencies and self-proclaimed anti-misinformation groups that have repressed online speech. There’s no official ban on discussing the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines or criticizing American involvement in the Ukraine-Russia war, but editors and journalists have realized that writing on such topics can come at a cost. News publishers have been demonetized and shadow-banned for reporting dissenting views and the bureaucratic means...
  • Biden got recurring $1,380 payment from Hunter’s firm starting in 2018

    12/04/2023 9:15:04 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 36 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/04/2023 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — President Biden received a recurring payment of $1,380 from his son Hunter’s law firm beginning in late 2018 shortly after a bank money laundering officer warned that the same account was receiving millions of dollars in Chinese government-linked funds without “any services rendered.” A bank order shows that Owasco PC set up a “monthly” transfer to then-former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., with a voided check for the future president included in the documentation, which was released Monday by the House Oversight Committee. A source told The Post that at least three recurring payments were made —...
  • Nazis, Muslims and the Jews-Did Nazis carry out the horrific Oct 7th massacre?

    12/01/2023 4:29:34 AM PST · by SJackson · 15 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | December 1, 2023 | Mordechai Nisan
    One of the most accurate aspects about Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is the use of the word Nazi to describe the terrorist enemy. No other label or historical parallel could capture the chilling ferocious madness – but not scope – of Palestinian butchery of Israelis. The Nazi vilification epithet has now become conventional Israeli discourse in public and media circles with the vivid revelation – in words and photos – of Palestinian savagery and barbarism by Hamas on October 7. Hamas terrorists, without an ounce of inhibition or remorse, shot youth in cold blood at the music festival...
  • Former Facebook Security Chief: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Lying About China

    11/12/2018 7:51:01 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12 Nov 2018 | Lucas Nolan
    Many have been critical of Google’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China, now a former Facebook executive has called out Google’s CEO for lying about the company’s motives. Facebook’s former security chief Alex Stamos took to Twitter recently to attack Google CEO Sundar Pichai for his comments defending the company’s decision to move into the China market with its censored search engine known as “Project Dragonfly,” Silicon Beat reports. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Pichai stated that Google was “committed to serving users in China” and compared Chinese censorship laws to the “right...
  • US And UK Military Contractors Created Sweeping Plan For Global Censorship In 2018, New Documents Show

    11/28/2023 3:16:28 PM PST · by Mount Athos · 6 replies
    Michael Shellenberger Substack ^ | NOV 28, 2023 | MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, ALEX GUTENTAG, AND MATT TAIBBI
    A whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance. They describe the activities of an “anti-disinformation” group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL, that officially began as the volunteer project of data scientists and defense and intelligence veterans but whose tactics over time appear to have been absorbed into multiple official projects, including those of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CTI League documents offer the missing link answers to key questions not addressed in the Twitter Files and Facebook Files....
  • No jail for Eric Clanton, the Antifa “ethics” professor who used a metal bike lock to assault seven innocent Trump supporters [flashback]

    11/23/2023 4:12:46 PM PST · by grundle · 19 replies
    Wordpress ^ | August 30, 2018 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
    This video shows a masked Antifa thug using a metal bike lock to smash the head of an innocent Trump supporter at Berkeley, California, in April 2017:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qKCl9NL1CgSome awesomely talented amateur sleuth observers at 4chan later identified the thug based on his partially visible face, his clothing, and several other things.Any one of these things by itself is pretty meaningless. But taken together, it is extremely likely that they identified the correct person.For specific details, see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.The police also did their own investigation, and when they searched the person’s house, they found clothing and...
  • Grassley and Johnson say DOJ must investigate Joe Biden’s funding of Hunter’s participation in escort ring tied to Russia

    07/10/2022 1:55:15 PM PDT · by Libloather · 29 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 7/07/22 | Jerry Dunleavy
    Two top Republican senators have demanded the Justice Department and FBI launch a full investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop, including the revelation unearthed on Hunter Biden’s laptop by the Washington Examiner that President Joe Biden apparently unwittingly financed his son’s participation in an escort ring tied to Russia. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent the Thursday letter citing the Washington Examiner’s reporting to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, who is handling the criminal investigation... The Republicans asked Garland and Wray to answer whether “the FBI investigating...
  • VIDEO: Compilation of Attacks on Nunes Memo FISA Abuse Revelations

    12/26/2019 9:10:13 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 4 replies
    YouTube ^ | December 26, 2019 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEO Now that the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has CONFIRMED the FISA abuse findings of the Nunes Memo, presented by Congressman Devin Nunes in early 2018, this is a good time to look back at those who attacked that memo. Apologies to Nunes are in order but so far none has apologized to him. Hello James Comey! Hello James Clapper! You were horribly WRONG and Nunes was RIGHT.
  • Exclusive — ‘We Caught Them Red-Handed’: DOJ Spied on GOP Staffers Probing the Origins of the Russia Collusion Hoax

    11/01/2023 9:12:05 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/01/2023 | KRISTINA WONG
    The Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained private communications and other personal records of multiple Republican House and Senate staffers who were investigating the department’s role in the origins of the Russia collusion hoax, according to former senior Trump administration official Kash Patel. A recently-revealed subpoena shows that the DOJ sought the records for not only Patel when he was an investigator for then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), but also those of Jason Foster, who was at the time chief investigative counsel to then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (I-IA) and was also looking into the DOJ’s role in the hoax.
  • FBI arrests alleged white supremacist accused of planning to bomb a Pueblo synagogue

    11/04/2019 1:02:01 PM PST · by rdl6989 · 29 replies
    CNN ^ | November 4, 2019 | David Shortell
    Federal authorities arrested a 27-year-old accused white supremacist who allegedly planned to bomb a synagogue in Colorado over the weekend. Richard Holzer had brought a knife and a mask to a motel room and was examining inert pipe bombs prepared by undercover agents moments before he was arrested late Friday night, according to a criminal complaint. He also said he paid a "witch doctor" $70 to put arsenic in the water pipes of the synagogue and "hex" the place last year, according to the complaint.