Reader’s Links for August 8th, 2022

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This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

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  1. Some California residents are questioning whether they want to continue to be part of the woketopia created by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

    This week, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously for a proposed referendum that asks “whether secession should be considered as a possibility,” according to the Associated Press.

    https://www.tampafp.com/a-massive-california-county-weighs-whether-secession-should-be-on-the-table/

  2. Despite the best efforts of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP lawmakers in the Legislature, some public school officials in Florida indicate they will continue to go woke, and work to indoctrinate children.

    According to Breitbart News, Tom Edwards, vice chairman of the Sarasota County School Board, boasted of that situation with some measure of pride at a public meeting this week.

    “I just wanted to give a little reassurance that here in the state of Florida, there are school board members that are woke. We’re here!” Edwards told attendees of a “Support Our Schools” forum.

    “And we’re working. We have your back. You need to know we have your backs,” Edwards continued. “And we’re working in the best strategic spot because we’re on the inside. We are working from the inside.”

    “But I’m not the only one in the state of Florida,” he added. “And I need to tell you so you feel a little better. There are coalitions forming to protect you.”

    https://www.tampafp.com/sarasota-school-board-member-openly-brags-about-being-woke-and-working-from-the-inside/

  3. Note: this one goes under ‘rules for thee but not for me’ – until this judge

    That Panhandle territory is now represented by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.

    State Circuit Court Judge John Cooper on Friday ordered Jones removed from the ballot because she had not complied with a new state law that mandated her to be a registered Democrat for at least a year before she could qualify as a congressional candidate, Florida Politics reported.

    Peggy Schiller, Jones’ primary opponent, had challenged her status as a candidate based on the law.

    “I don’t think I can come to any conclusion other than this,” Cooper said. “Jones was not a registered member of the Democratic Party almost two months during this period.”

    https://www.tampafp.com/rebekah-jones-concocter-of-covid-falsehoods-about-gov-desantis-booted-from-ballot/

  4. My old German Shehperd is coming to the end of his days. A few years ago he suffered a stroke in the middle of his spine rendering his hind legs weak. His architecture is flawed. He’s too big, too long, the product of flawed breeding. But never have I had a pet so loyal.

    Despite his frailty he still stands at attention if I so much as twitch. I originally got him to act as a buffer between my young family and any bear we stumbled across at our cottage land. Deep forest stuff. Maybe he would buy us a minute to get away from that startled female and her cubs as we rounded a corner somewhere in the tangled precambrian bush.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield

    And you may say how ridiculous, what are the odds? Well surprise, it actually happened, but in a different way. When he was only one year old we were sitting on the cottage porch. It was five in the morning. The sun just a rumour. The family asleep. I was finishing my coffee, after which I would walk down the hundred-foot hill to the lake to catch a fish off the dock. I was about to ready my tackle when suddenly he jumped up, his pointy radar ears perked.

    Never before had I heard such a growl out of this pup. It so deep, dark, menacing and violent that it sent a shiver up my spine. Only in this moment did I realize what he was, what he was capable of, and how I was glad he was on my side. I shone my powerful flashlight beam through the porch screen. Down through the trees near the shore I made out the lumbering form. I knew, had I told him to go, that he would have jumped through the screen in a flash. Lucky for me I had him. I may have caught more than a fish that morning had I gone down.

    All animals understand violence. These days we hear our favourite pundits like Jordan Peterson and Neil Oliver express their thoughts of protest and rebellion couched in the pillows of non-violence. Understandably so. It is a crime to incite violence. Violence to the peaceful is ugly. Violence to the violent, however, is sexy. They get off on it. Violent response to their own violent overtures is a gift to them, excusing and raising their continued assaults.

    The difference between a dog and a human, in terms of violence, is nuance. The dog gives warning with growls and barks. The human elevates violence to an art form. Recall that famous ancient text, for example, The Art of War. And even though there are many people whose people have suffered violence throughout their histories, they still forget that it can happen again.

    Google the word “violence” and look what pops up. Given the last two years, how ironic it is that one of the most violent organizations in our world today offers its take. It provides a comprehensive, expert overview of the subject. Is it any surprise? How much of what is written can you relate to? How much has become the public policy of your own government?

    https://www.google.com/search?q=violence&oq=violence&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i433i512j0i512j0i131i433i512j0i433i512j0i512j46i512j0i512.4759j1j4&client=ms-android-bell-ca&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&si=AC1wQDCwN61-ebmuwbQCO5QCrgOvEq5bkWeIzJ5JczItzAKNdSwAmd296wj13VFdx-ly6LGO5p9RM9CaSwa9sGkiTz-SaCOn7iRv6_W3Rr1nmqsFHg6kpcM%3D&ictx=1&ved=2ahUKEwixqaj-_7b5AhXzg4kEHbCMCVEQyNoBKAB6BAgREAc

    The concept of violence holds the heart of the tyrant who is unwilling to hold it in his own soft, clean hands. Concepts work with polite society even if they break bones in the street. Degrees of separation between any Dear Leader and his police, military, and bureaucracy allows him to pass the buck when the street tries to hold him to account. Everyone is “…just doin’ their job…”.

    I write this after listening and watching recent examples of violence. Violence against Dutch farmers by Dutch police. Violence against a child whose father tries to hold the injecting pharmacy to account. Other quieter violences posing as regulation. For how long passive people remain passive is anyone’s guess. Conscience is a great moderator. The question becomes: what straw lends conscience an alternative right, and when? The straw of the lost father, son, wife or daughter? At what trespass, if any, does the Holy Ghost of conscience provide licence?

    Here is the state being passively aggressive:

    https://youtu.be/gy-LYScqCvU

      • I’m sorry to read about your loyal friend. It brings back memories of my dog Brandy. He was a German Shepherd. He never left my side. No one could go near my carriage without him sitting up in attention. He had the patience of a saint. He even allowed me to dress him up in my dresses. Loved that dog.
        Passive aggressive video – Did they find the virus in the luggage? Or did they help spread the virus with those dirty blue gloves?

        Violence – That reminds me of the book “Watchers” by Dean Koontz
        It’s not my type of book but a friend recommended the book. Then I recommended it to another friend. The friend that I recommended it to said it was too violent. I forgot about the violent parts. It was the Mickey Mouse mirror that I remembered. Thank you for your post.

        • Thank you for reading, EB. Yes, shepherds are wonderful dogs, but have an added responsibility for the owners, I think, because of their protective nature. I haven’t read “Watchers”. Maybe some day when the world is a calmer place (lol).

    • He is right, we are closer to falling then I like but all of the signs say we are not going to fall. The fight will be hard and probably will occasionally bloody but we will not fall.

    • “When government fears the people, there is liberty. when the people fear the government, here is tyranny.”
      Thomas Jefferson

      How much money has the Canadian government spent to terrorize Canadians into compliance – – humanity vs. Transhumanism

    • zero hedge – Hopkins: The “Unvaccinated” Question (Revisited)

      […]

      […]No, this new official ideology, the New Normal — which is still very much in effect in places like Germany, China, Canada, Australia, New York, California, etc. — is nakedly, undeniably, purely ideological. It is based, not on facts, but belief. It is a belief system, as is every other ideology. It is essentially no different than an official religion … one which demonizes and persecutes all other religions, and non-religions, and all other belief systems.

      According to this new official belief system, those of us who maintain different beliefs, and refuse to convert to the new official beliefs (or pretend to convert to the new official beliefs), are dangerous, foreign elements in society. And thus, from now on, in New Normal Germany, we will be forced to wear a visible symbol of our different beliefs (our “otherness”) in public, so that the authorities and the Good German masses will be able to identify us.

      […]

      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hopkins-unvaccinated-question-revisited

      https://consentfactory.org/2022/08/06/the-unvaccinated-question-revisited/

    • Microsoft – Decentralized identity explained

      This video explains in short what decentralized identity is and how it can replace usernames and passwords to verify you are who you say you are quickly and easily.

    • reuters – Flush with cash, Pfizer buys Global Blood Therapeutics in $5.4 bln deal

      Pfizer Inc on Monday agreed to pay $5.4 billion in cash for sickle cell disease drugmaker Global Blood Therapeutics (GBT.O), as it looks to capitalize on a surge in revenue from its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment.

      Pfizer will pay $68.50 per GBT share, which represents a 7.3% premium to its Friday closing price. The deal is at a more than 40% premium where GBT was trading before the Wall Street Journal reported that Pfizer was in advanced talks to buy it on Thursday.

      Pfizer’s 2021 revenue of $81.3 billion was nearly double the mark from the previous year, due to COVID-19 vaccine sales. With the addition of its COVID-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid, Pfizer is expected to generate around $100 billion in revenue this year, but sales from both products are expected to decline going forward.

      Pfizer has been on the lookout for acquisitions that could bring in billions in annual sales by the end of the decade.

      “We have very deliberately taken a strategy of diversification in our M&A deals,” Aamir Malik, Pfizer’s top dealmaker, said in an interview. He said the company was focused on improving growth for the second half of the decade, rather than large deals that generate value through cost cuts.

      “We think that there are opportunities across all therapeutic areas that we’re active in,” Malik said, noting that the company was also agnostic about size for future deals.

      In May, Pfizer struck an $11.6 billion deal for migraine drug maker Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding (BHVN.N) and recently also completed a $6.7 billion deal to buy Arena Pharmaceuticals.

      With the acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics, Pfizer adds sickle cell disease treatment Oxbryta, which was approved in 2019 and is expected to top $260 million in sales this year. It will also pick up two pipeline assets – GBT601 and inclacumab – targeting the same disease.

      Pfizer said if they are all approved, it believes GBT’s drugs could generate more than $3 billion in sales annually at their peak.

      Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated 70,000 to 100,000 people in the United States.

      GBT Chief Executive Officer Ted Love said that Pfizer’s resources and multinational infrastructure will allow the company to launch Oxbryta in additional markets and boost its uptake.

      “We really have no infrastructure outside of that (U.S. and western Europe) and it takes time and money to build out those infrastructures and Pfizer already has all of it,” Love said.

      Shares of Global Blood rose 4.5% following the deal announcement.

      https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-buy-global-blood-therapeutics-54-bln-deal-2022-08-08/
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      Pfizer spends billions on another takeover

      Pfizer is boosting its pipeline with a $5.4 billion deal for blood disorder drugmaker Global Blood Therapeutics, the latest in a series of acquisitions to combat a potential slowdown in COVID products demand as cases fall.

    • BioNTech reports strong first half, expects demand to grow

      BERLIN (AP) — BioNTech, which teamed with Pfizer to develop a powerful COVID-19 vaccine, has reported higher revenue and net profit in the first half of the year and expects demand to grow as it releases updated vaccines to target new OMICRON strains.

      The German pharmaceutical company said Monday that revenue hit about 9.57 billion euros ($9.76 billion) in the first six months of 2022, up from nearly 7.36 billion euros in the same period a year earlier. But revenue dropped to about 3.2 billion euros in the second quarter from 5.31 billion euros in April through June of last year.

      BioNTech said the dynamic nature of the pandemic has led to changes in orders and revenue but that it expects a strong end to the year. It said it plans to release revamped vaccines tailored to the latest OMICRON VARIANTS as early as October, which could lead to A FALL BOOSTER CAMPAIGN .

      “With our initiatives around variant-adapted COVID-19 vaccine candidates, we expect an uptake in demand in our key markets in the fourth quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory approval,” Jens Holstein, chief financial officer of BioNTech, said in a press release.

      Moderna, another major COVID-19 vaccine producer, also is working on updated versions of its shots to release this fall.

      BioNTech expects to report revenue of 13 billion to 17 billion euros from COVID-19 vaccines this year.

      The German company’s net profit also was higher for the first half of the year compared with the same period of 2021 — 5.37 billion euros vs. 3.92 billion euros — and lower for the second quarter — 1.67 billion euros vs. 2.79 billion euros.

      For partner Pfizer, sales of COVID-19 vaccine and treatment in the second quarter propelled the pharmaceutical giant to the largest quarterly sales in its history. It said last month that it earned $9.9 billion from April through June.

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/biontech-reports-strong-first-half-130306939.html
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      BioNTech to ship Omicron vaccines from October

      BioNTech expects to begin deliveries oftwo Omicron-adapted vaccinesas soon as October, which will help spur demand in the fourth-quarter, the German biotech firm said as it reaffirmed its vaccine-revenue forecast for the year.

    • Workers wearing masks facing backlash from “freedom” rally

      Staff wearing masks in a workplace has brought some unwanted attention from a “freedom” rally Twitter thread.

  5. Contaminated: The Fentanyl Crisis in St. Louis – A Tragic Result of Open Borders Policies — KMOV Documentary
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 8, 2022 at 7:45am
    123 Comments

    How many Americans have known someone who died from heroin or fentanyl overdose in the last 15 years?

    In November the CDC announced that over 100,000 Americans died from overdose in 2021. This was another new record and followed Dr. Fauci’s devastating lockdowns and Joe Biden’s open border policies.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/contaminated-fentanyl-crisis-st-louis-tragic-result-open-borders-policies-kmov-documentary/

  6. the gateway pundit –Police Investigates 12-Year-Old Girl’s Death After She Suddenly Collapses While Running

    The coroner has asked the police in New Zealand to look into the death of a 12-year-old girl who collapsed while running in an Auckland park on Thursday, as reported by Stuff.

    The identity of the young girl was not released, but she was a Grade 8 student at Baradene College of the Sacred Heart in Auckland.

    Multiple reports said the incident took place after school hours, and the girl passed away later that evening at the hospital.

    According to the police, preliminary investigations indicate the child experienced a “some sort of medical event” while running.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/12-year-old-girl-suddenly-dies-new-zealand-collapses-running/

    12-year-old girl dies after suffering ‘medical event’ during run

    […]

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300656105/12yearold-girl-dies-after-suffering-medical-event-during-run

  7. Two Georgia Counties FOR a Hand Recount Suddenly Change Course
    By Brian Lupo
    Published August 8, 2022 at 9:57am
    117 Comments
    It is extremely important to understand the state of affairs and levels of corruption in Georgia’s elections. Before we can get into the two Georgia counties who have disregarded the will of their constituents and instead sided with questionable legal representation, we must first get an overview of Georgia’s election history since 2020:

    We have enough credible evidence, mostly sourced through Open Records Requests and public information, to warrant a thorough investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia. There will be much more on this coming in the following days from The Gateway Pundit. However, we cannot get even a simple examination of physical paper ballots.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/contaminated-fentanyl-crisis-st-louis-tragic-result-open-borders-policies-kmov-documentary/

  8. TDemocrats Just Hired 87,000 More IRS Employees to Harass, Attack Americans — Here’s a List of the Conservative Groups the Obama IRS Targeted in 2012
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 8, 2022 at 9:09am
    305 Comments

    On March 26, 2014, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform. Koskinen told Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) during the hearing that Lois Lerner’s emails were archived and it would take a long time to retrieve them.

    In June 2014 the IRS told Congress Lois Lerner’s emails were lost in a computer crash.

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    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/democrats-just-hired-87000-irs-agents-harass-attack-americans-list-conservative-groups-obama-targeted-2012/

    • Democrat’s Inflation Bill Will Add Agents to an Already Armed IRS – Only China Wins
      By Joe Hoft
      Published August 8, 2022 at 1:05pm
      48 Comments
      The Democrats couldn’t be doing more to destroy the US or aid China if they tried. Their latest inflation bill passed over the weekend will continue the destruction of the US while aiding and abetting China.

      The Democrats cheered as they passed another bill that will destroy the US while helping China. Kamala Harris was the deciding vote in the measure to get it past the Senate over the weekend.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/democrats-inflation-bill-will-add-agents-already-armed-irs-china-wins/

  9. Q Here Are The Winners And Losers In The ‘Inflation Reduction Act’
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    MONDAY, AUG 08, 2022 – 09:39 AM
    As Democrats pat themselves on the back after the Senate finally passed their massive tax, climate, and healthcare bill – the “Inflation Reduction Act” which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called “one of the most significant pieces of legislation passed in a decade,” Bloomberg has compiled a list of winners and losers.

    WINNERS:

    The Wealthy

    Not only did none of the billions in tax increases Democrats threatened high-earners with last year make it into the final version of the bill, their plans to ‘tax the 1%’ turned out to be nothing more than a big virtue signal.

    Private equity fund managers

    As we noted on Friday, the landmark bill only passed after AZ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema insisted on keeping the carried-interest loophole that allows investment managers (like her former bosses) to shield the majority of their income from higher taxes.

    The private equity industry was able to gain an additional win shortly before the final passage of the bill when a handful of Democrats broke with their party to vote on a Republican amendment that created a carveout for private equity-owned companies in the corporate minimum tax. -Bloomberg

    Speaking of…

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/here-are-winners-and-losers-inflation-reduction-act

  10. More Worrying Than Chernobyl’: Fighting Rages At Europe’s Biggest Nuclear Power Plant
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    MONDAY, AUG 08, 2022 – 10:25 AM
    Via Common Dreams,

    The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) raised grave concerns on Saturday about the shelling the previous day at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, saying the action showed the risk of a nuclear disaster.

    IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said he was “extremely concerned” by the attacks on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. These strikes threaten “the very real risk of a nuclear disaster that could threaten public health and the environment in Ukraine and beyond,” Grossi said.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/more-worrying-chernobyl-fighting-rages-europes-biggest-nuclear-power-plant

  11. QChina Extends Taiwan Drills Past Sunday Deadline, Says Training Under “Real War Conditions”
    Tyler Durden’s Photo
    BY TYLER DURDEN
    MONDAY, AUG 08, 2022 – 07:30 AM
    China’s military drills in six zones surrounding Taiwan were scheduled to wind down and end on Sunday, but on Monday Beijing announced it is extending the threatening military drills which Taipei officials have slammed as a “blockade” and simulation for future invasion. The drills were originally set for four days, but have now been extended into this new week.

    Not only have the drills launched in the wake of the last Tuesday into Wednesday visit to the self-ruled island of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disrupted surrounding air traffic and shipping lanes key to global trade, but they’ve upped tensions with Washington, given the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group was ordered to stay in waters near Taiwan for longer than planned.

    The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theatre Command confirmed Monday that it is “continuing joint training under real war conditions, focused on organizing joint anti-submarine warfare and naval strikes.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-extends-taiwan-drills-past-sunday-deadline-says-training-under-real-war

  12. Wanting payback and doing the right thing don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

    There’s plenty of debate about who the best GOP candidate for 2024 would be and whether Donald Trump should make another bid for the presidency.

    But there’s one argument that has not been heavily touched on that would make Trump ideal, should he manage to get back into the White House. It’s the simple fact that he has an ax to grind with the political establishment that betrayed him during his first term — and is willing to go further than other Republicans to break down the corruption in D.C.

    If many of President Trump’s supporters believe he didn’t go far enough during his first term, that critique would likely be assuaged in a second term. If the bad personnel choices and attempts to work as a gentleman with swamp creatures was good for anything, it at least served to teach President Trump (and Americans) two things:

    First, it revealed who the true patriots in government are (they’re few and far between) and who the traitors are. Second, it taught us that attempting to get along and play nicely with the establishment doesn’t work — the only way forward is to treat them as ruthlessly as they treat honest constitutionalists.

    The Axios article relates:

    After Trump’s Senate acquittal, he gave [former aide John] McEntee an

    These lessons, of course, were learned the hard way. President Trump was willing to cooperate with the establishment with key Cabinet picks like John Kelly, John Bolton, and Bill Barr. But the constant opposition from his own Cabinet against the platform he ran on was a rude awakening to the 45th president.

    Even more of an awakening was the shock that came when many of those in power — ostensibly Trump’s allies — failed to do anything in light of strong evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Former Vice President Mike Pence is one of the biggest names who comes to mind, and since 2020 Trump has soured on the man whose name was once beside his own on the presidential ticket.

    Of course, by the time of the 2020 controversy, Trump was already learning of the necessity of filling the executive branch not with establishment-friendly picks, but with individuals loyal to his platform and (more importantly) to the Constitution and the country.

    Per an Axios report, Trump’s closest advisors already have a plan to gut the bureaucracy by assigning executive branch employees who influence policy to a classification titled “Schedule F,” which would take away legal protections from thousands of

    government employees and allow for their firing.

    The Axios article relates:

    After Trump’s Senate acquittal, he gave [former aide John] McEntee an astonishing promotion to run the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. McEntee had no experience running any kind of personnel operation, much less such a significant post in the U.S. government. But Trump did not care.

    He gave McEntee his blessing to start ridding the federal government of his enemies and replacing them with Trump people. McEntee was to ignore the “RINOs” who would try to dissuade him. He was to press ahead with urgency and ruthlessness.

    https://thenewamerican.com/trump-wants-revenge-thats-why-hes-the-man-for-2024/

  13. America Is Already Under Foreign Occupation
    by Luis Miguel August 4, 2022

    One of the most extreme scenarios constitutionalists often envision, the one we hope would unite Americans against a common enemy, is the prospect of a military invasion by a foreign power. We think of enemy troops marching through the streets á la Red Dawn, partly in alarm and partly enthused at the opportunity to exercise the Second Amendment against a threat from abroad.

    But while imagining such dramatic scenarios can be an entertaining mental exercise, it misses the mark to believe that America’s enemies would bet their plans for the nation’s destruction on such a daring military operation which, given the logistics that would be inherent in the attempted invasion of a country as large, wealthy, and powerful as the United States, would certainly be doomed to failure.

    The reality is that international forces don’t need to launch a military invasion because they already have America under foreign occupation — and the beauty of it, for them, is that most Americans don’t even realize it.

    It can be heart-wrenching to have to accept that the world you thought you knew isn’t really the one that exists. But the truth is the truth, and while conservatives may speak often about “losing our country” and “stopping the communist takeover of America,” these dark eventualities came to pass long ago.

    America has been sold to the highest bidders by a corrupt, kleptocratic political class. The “selling out” has occurred in various ways and to several different buyers.

    For one, the United States government, like the governments of many countries, is run by an international oligarchy that has no allegiance to any nation, including America. The oligarchs themselves largely belong to the world’s most wealthy, elite families whose fortunes have in

    https://thenewamerican.com/america-is-already-under-foreign-occupation/

  14. US: The New Real Hoaxes?
    by Pete Hoekstra

    Recently former US President Donald Trump challenged the award of Pulitzer Prizes to the New York Times and the Washington Post for their investigative reporting on alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.

    The investigative reporting by these two organizations was so thorough and groundbreaking it turned up things that were not even there.

    You have to hand it to them for this so-called “great reporting”: the Pulitzer Committee sure did.

    We now know, of course, the grand conspiracy pushed by these papers is nothing more than thoroughly debunked disinformation. For having refused to rescind these awards, the Pulitzer Committee should receive its own Pulitzer — for fraud.

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18778/us-real-hoaxes

  15. twitter @disclosetv

    JUST IN – U.S. to send $4.5 billion more to Ukraine for budget needs

    https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1556673372330795010

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    JUST IN – Biden admin announces $1 billion weapons package for Ukraine.

    PIC :

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZp1oIVXgAA3tZ9?format=png&name=large

    https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1556686000352645120

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    reuters Exclusive: U.S. to send $4.5 billion more to Ukraine for budget needs

    Aug 8 (Reuters) – The United States will provide an additional $4.5 billion to Ukraine’s government, bringing its total budgetary support since Russia’s February invasion to $8.5 billion, the U.S. Agency for International Development said on Monday.

    The funding, coordinated with the U.S. Treasury Department through the World Bank, will go to the Ukraine government in tranches, beginning with a $3 billion disbursement in August, USAID, the Agency for International Development, said.

    It follows previous transfers of $1.7 billion in July and $1.3 billion in June, USAID said. Washington has also provided billions of dollars in military support, and plans a new $1 billion weapons package shortly.

    The U.S. funds are to help the Ukrainian government maintain essential functions, including social and financial assistance for the growing poor population, children with disabilities, and millions of internally displaced persons, as the war drags on.

    Ukrainian officials estimate the country faces a $5 billion-a-month fiscal shortfall – or 2.5% of pre-war gross domestic product – due to the cost of the war and declining tax revenues. Economists say that will swell Ukraine’s annual deficit to 25% of GDP, compared with 3.5% before the conflict.

    The World Bank estimates that 55% of Ukrainians will be living in poverty by the end of 2023 as a result of the war and the large numbers of displaced persons, compared with 2.5% before the start of the war.

    USAID said U.S. budget support has enabled the Ukrainian government to keep gas and electricity flowing to hospitals, schools and other critical infrastructure and deliver urgently needed humanitarian supplies to citizens.

    The funds have also paid for healthcare workers, teachers and other civil servants.

    USAID said robust safeguards had been put in place by the World Bank, along with USAID-funded, third-party watchdogs embedded within the Ukrainian government to make sure the funds are directed where they are meant to go.

    “The United States remains committed to supporting Ukraine and its people in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war,” USAID said in a statement.

    The injection of fresh cash for Ukraine comes as the war, which Russia calls “a special military operation,” stretches into a sixth month, with millions of Ukrainians displaced and authorities warning of likely gas shortages in winter.

    USAID is an independent federal agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-us-send-45-billion-more-ukraine-budget-needs-2022-08-08/

    • zero hedge —CBS Censors Own Documentary After Ukraine Outraged: ‘30% Of US Weapons Gone Missing’

      CBS has censored its own documentary investigative reporting after an avalanche of pushback from supporters of Ukraine and its military. The segment highlighted that tons of weaponry shipped from the United States to the country’s military has gone missing, and sounded the alarm as billions in dollars more have been pledged by the Biden administration.

      “CBS partially retracted a documentary in which it said that shipments of weapons to Ukraine from the US had been going missing,” Insider reports Monday. “CBS tweeted on Monday that it had removed a video promoting the documentary that included a months-old quote saying most aid was not making it to Ukraine’s front lines.” Below is the deleted tweet, with the offending line of “30% of it [US-supplied arms and munitions] reaches its final destination.”

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      Don’t worry, CBSNews , I saved it.

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      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cbs-censors-own-documentary-after-ukraine-outraged-30-us-weapons-gone-missing

    • CBC – Canada’s top soldier declines to say if Canadian troops are operating in Ukraine

      Eyre declined to confirm reports that Canadian soldiers are on the ground in Ukraine operating in a training capacity. ‘We’re never going to talk about discreet or sensitive special operations,’ he said.

  16. Russia Strikes US-Backed Fighters In Syria Near American Base

    Russia announced on Friday that it conducted an airstrike against a group of US-backed militants in Syria near al-Tanf, a US military base located in the south of the country.

    Russia said it targeted Liwa Shuhada al-Qaryatayn (ShQ), a group that has fought against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Moscow said the Russian Aerospace Forces “identified and destroyed” a group of ShQ militants.

    “This terrorist group is based in the Al-Tanf zone, supplied and trained by instructors from the US Army Special Operations Forces,” the Russian Defense Ministry said. “Operating from the desert, the Liwa Shuhada al-Qaryatayn militants carried out acts of sabotage against the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in Syria.”

    The Pentagon confirmed that the strikes took place in comments to Newsweek, but didn’t provide any details. US Central Command told Newsweek that “CENTCOM is aware of the strike, but does not have information to provide to you on this.”

    The US was said to cut off support for ShQ in 2017. In 2018, the group was said to be relocating from the southern area near al-Tanf to northern Syria.

    The strikes mark the second time that Russia has targeted US-backed fighters near al-Tanf. Back in June, Russia targeted Maghawir al-Thawra, formerly known as the New Syrian Army. Russia notified the US before launching the strikes on Maghawir al-Thawra, which targeted buildings the group was using at al-Tanf.

    The notification came through a deconfliction line that the two powers have been operating for years to reduce the chance of a miscalculation in Syria.

    US officials told CNN in June that they didn’t believe Russia’s reasoning for the initial strike and that Moscow was instead trying to “send a message” that it can conduct such an operation without retaliation. Either way, these incidents highlight the danger of the US military presence in Syria, where it maintains an occupation force of about 1,000 troops.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-strikes-us-backed-fighters-syria-near-american-base

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    The Russian Defense Ministry published a video that it said was targeting an armed group trained by the United States in Syria’s Al-Tanf.

    • Ambassador in Belgrade announces deployment of Russian military base in Serbia

      Ambassador Botan-Kharchenko described the creation of a Russian military base in Serbia as a sovereign matter for Belgrade.

      Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko spoke about the creation of a Russian military base in Serbia. He told SM News about this.

      The diplomat stressed that the deployment of Russian bases in Serbia is a sovereign matter of this country. Moreover, this is a matter of Russia itself. “As for the joint humanitarian center, it exists and operates for crisis response in the event of a humanitarian catastrophe,” he added.

      Botan-Kharchenko also noted that Serbia is a friendly country and that Belgrade “fundamentally rejects sanctions against Russia.” At the same time, he also took aim at the political component of the gas supply agreement at the most advantageous price. The Ambassador stressed that Russia ensures energy stability in Serbia. In addition, countries continue military-technical cooperation, as a result of which favorable conditions are created for the quality of what is being supplied.

      Earlier, Serbian Interior Minister Alexander Vulin announced that his country refuses to enter into conflict with Russia and become “NATO infantry”. He advised his Western colleagues to apologize to the country for the hostilities.

      https://eprimefeed.com/economy/ambassador-in-belgrade-announces-deployment-of-russian-military-base-in-serbia/152103/

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      https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/153511-russia_serbia/

  17. IRS: Gestapo in the Making
    The police powers of the 87,000 new taxmen.

    Mon Aug 8, 2022Robert Spencer43 comments

    Inflation is skyrocketing. Gas prices, despite Old Joe Biden’s crowing about minor reductions, are still substantially higher than they were before his presidency was inflicted upon us. America’s global standing is drastically diminished by Biden’s handlers’ catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, due to the lack of preparedness of a politicized military distracted by wokeism. The Southern border is essentially nonexistent, and due to that as well as to the arrival of tens of thousands of unvetted Afghan migrants, there is an unknowable number of criminals and terrorists in the country who would have been kept out by remotely sane immigration policies. Amid all this and much more, Biden’s handlers are tackling the real problem facing America today: they’re expanding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/irs-gestapo-making-robert-spencer/

  18. For many Canadians, Pope Francis’s recent apology for the treatment of some indigenous persons by those representing the Catholic Church was not enough. Murray Sinclair, the lawyer who chaired Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission declared: “It was more than the work of a few bad actors — this was a concerted institutional effort to remove children from their families and cultures, all in the name of Christian supremacy,” reported the Washington Post.

    That opinion appears to be the default of the entire commission. The American Conservative’s Declan Leary observed in an article at The Lamp earlier this year that “the commission seems to oppose evangelism as a matter of principle.”

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    apology for the treatment of some indigenous persons by those representing the Catholic Church was not enough. Murray Sinclair, the lawyer who chaired Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission declared: “It was more than the work of a few bad actors — this was a concerted institutional effort to remove children from their families and cultures, all in the name of Christian supremacy,” reported the Washington Post.

    That opinion appears to be the default of the entire commission. The American Conservative’s Declan Leary observed in an article at The Lamp earlier this year that “the commission seems to oppose evangelism as a matter of principle.”

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/apologizing-for-the-gospel/

  19. Apologizing for the Gospel
    Liberals demand not only that Christians apologize for individual evils, but the very message of Christianity itself.

    apology for the treatment of some indigenous persons by those representing the Catholic Church was not enough. Murray Sinclair, the lawyer who chaired Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission declared: “It was more than the work of a few bad actors — this was a concerted institutional effort to remove children from their families and cultures, all in the name of Christian supremacy,” reported the Washington Post.

    That opinion appears to be the default of the entire commission. The American Conservative’s Declan Leary observed in an article at The Lamp earlier this year that “the commission seems to oppose evangelism as a matter of principle.”

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/apologizing-for-the-gospel/

  20. Biden Sniffs Woman’s Hair, Gets Touchy-Feely with Girls as He Visits Families Impacted by Kentucky Floods (VIDEO)
    By Cristina Laila
    Published August 8, 2022 at 2:20pm
    275 Comments
    Biden just can’t help himself.

    Joe Biden was eager to fondle girls and sniff hair after being cooped up for two weeks in Covid isolation at the White House.

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    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/biden-sniffs-womans-hair-gets-touchy-feely-girls-visits-families-impacted-kentucky-floods-video/

  21. Sal Greco, a veteran police officer with 14 years of service to the NYPD, and an unblemished record, has been fired from the police force as a result of a months long departmental review that was conjured up by the mainstream media and liberal politicians earlier this year.

    Greco is a longtime friend of Trump advisor Roger Stone and was in Washington DC with Stone on January 5th and 6th. Neither Officer Greco or Mr. Stone were involved in any of the illegal activities that took place on January 6th, they did not attend the speech at the Ellipse or march on the capitol. Both remained in a hotel suite at the Willard.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/exclusive-cop-fired-nypd-friends-roger-stone-filing-25m-lawsuit/

  22. More Than 60% of Voters Are Concerned with Cheating in The Midterm Elections
    By Joe Hoft
    Published August 8, 2022 at 2:05pm
    155 Comments

    What a mess our elections are. Thanks to Democrat corruption in the 2020 Election steal, most Americans, nearly two-thirds, are concerned about cheating in this November’s election. They should be.

    In the 2020 Election, we saw individuals prevented from reviewing the counting process in major cities like Philadelphia, Las Vegas, and Detroit. Dilbert creator Scott Adams shared a month after the election how the election was over at that point.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/60-voters-concerned-cheating-midterm-elections/

  23. The MSM Suddenly Decides Elections Can Be Stolen… But Only by Republicans
    BY MATT MARGOLIS AUG 08, 2022 11:41 AM ET
    The mainstream media gladly colluded with Democrats to insist that the 2020 election was the safest, fairest, and most secure election in the history of the world, the universe, and all dimensions in the multiverse. If you dare suggest that Biden stole the 2020 election, you are immediately declared a fringe conspiracy theorist and banned on social media.

    But it looks like the media is starting to change its tune on the theory that our elections are secure and can’t be stolen. There’s just a tiny caveat: only Republicans can steal elections.

    Bloomberg sought to find out which states are “most vulnerable to political election interference” and “what it means for elections this fall and in 2024, when the White House will once again be at stake.” I’ll save you all the details because the criteria were ridiculously biased. But, according to the exposé, reporters Ryan Teague Beckwith and Bill Allison looked at all the states, scrutinized election laws, consulted with experts, and while they claim the 2022 vote “should be fine” because election integrity laws in various states have stalled, Beckwith and Allison nevertheless insist that the 2024 vote could potentially be “stolen” should Trump loyalists win gubernatorial elections Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin, and possibly Pennsylvania.

    Why? Because these Trump loyalists questioned the results of the 2020 election and would probably steal the

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/08/08/the-msm-suddenly-decides-elections-can-be-stolen-but-only-by-republicans-n1619144

    • zero hedge –Donald Trump Announces Mar-A-Lago “Raided, Under Siege, And Occupied” By The FBI

      Moments ago, Donald Trump – who is still banned by Twitter – published a statement on Truth Social in which he said that his Florida home, Mar A Lago is “currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents”, an assault which according to Trump “could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries.” He is probably right. He also claims the Fed’s presence was unannounced and the reason was politically motivated.

      His full statement posted on his Truth Social account is below:

      Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

      These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.

      The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and so much more, it just never ends. It is political targeting at the highest level!

      Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. She even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House.

      I stood up to America’s bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people, and truly delivered for our Country, like we have never seen before. The establishment hated it. Now, as they watch my endorsed candidates win big victories, and see my dominance in all polls, they are trying to stop me, and the Republican Party, once more. The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt must be exposed and stopped.

      I will continue to fight for the Great American People!

      Local reporters confirmed the raid, saying the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. “They just left,” although it isn’t clear what the search was about.

      MORE :

      https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/donald-trump-says-mar-lago-raided-under-siege-fbi

    • QBREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO HOME RAIDED BY JOE BIDEN’S FBI — BREAK INTO HIS SAFE!
      By Jim Hoft
      Published August 8, 2022 at 6:00pm
      3104 Comments

      The FBI agents broke into his personal safe.

      Below is the statement from President Trump:

      TRENDING: BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO HOME RAIDED BY JOE BIDEN’S FBI — BREAK INTO HIS SAFE!

      These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.

      The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2 and so much more, it just never ends. It is political targeting at the highest level!

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      Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. She even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House. I stood up to America’s bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people, and truly delivered for our Country, like we have never seen before. The establishment hated it. Now, as they watch my endorsed candidates win big victories, and see my dominance in all polls, they are trying to stop me, and the Republican Party, once more. The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt must be exposed and stopped.

      I will continue to fight for the Great American People!

      And just like that — The US turns into a banana republic.

      President Trump’s spokesperson just posted this on Trump Truth.

      Jim Hoft
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      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/breaking-mar-lago-raided-fbi/

    • As we slip deeper into Third World Country actions stop and consider how all of the Western Nations are throwing away the freedom our ancestors fought as and died to give to us.

      We must remember our ancestors and fight to ensure our decendents enjoy the freedom we use to have. We must prove we are as good as they were.

    • This is some Third World Bullsh*t! Let Me Say it Again – THIS IS SOME THIRD WORLD BULLSH*T!” – Dan Bongino Weighs in on FBI Raid on Trump’s Home! (VIDEO)
      By Jim Hoft
      Published August 8, 2022 at 6:44pm
      264 Comments
      On Monday night Joe Biden’s FBI raided President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.

      President Trump released a statement moments ago.

      “After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” President Trump said in a statement.
      It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections,” he added.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/third-world-bullshit-let-say-third-world-bullshit-dan-bongino-weighs-fbi-raid-trumps-home-video/

    • DID THE FBI LOCK IT DOWN? — NO PHOTOS Released Online from Palm Beach, Florida or Mar-a-Lago …TGP Editor Joe Hoft Will Be Reporting Live Soon!
      By Jim Hoft
      Published August 8, 2022 at 7:17pm
      160 Comments

      THEY LOCKED DOWN THE ISLAND!

      The FBI raided President Donald Trump’s home tonight at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FLORIDA.

      QNO PHOTOS WERE RELEASED FROM MAR-A-LAGO OR PALM BEACH, FLORIDA TONIGHT.

      NOTHING!

      TRENDING: BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO HOME RAIDED BY JOE BIDEN’S FBI — BREAK INTO HIS SAFE!

      NOTHING ON TWITTER- NOTHING IN THE LOCAL NEWS!

      WHAT IS GOING ON?

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      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/fbi-locked-no-photos-released-online-palm-beach-florida-mar-lago-tgp-editor-joe-hoft-will-reporting-live-soon/

    • sky news australia – ‘The country is enraged’: Conservatives slam FBI’s Trump raid

    • “Give me a break”: Trump raided as Biden flounders is ‘no coincidence’: Eric Bolling

      Eric Bolling reacts to the news of an unannounced surprise raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago by the FBI.

    • MSNBC – Secret Service Facilitated FBI Access To Mar-a-Lago, Did Not Take Part In Search

      … the FBI notified the Secret Service that a warrant would be executed at Mar-a-lago, and that Secret Service facilitated access to the Florida Trump property as fellow federal agents but did not take part in investigation or search.

    • CNN – ‘Drastic and serious’: Ex- FBI official on FBI search at Mar-a-Lago

      Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reacts to the FBI executing a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents, that may have been brought to Florida, three people familiar with the situation say.

    • sky news australia – ‘Unprecedented’: Dept of Justice to face ‘scrutiny’ for FBI raid on Trump’s house

      Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says the FBI raiding former US president Donald Trump’s home is “unprecedented at very many levels”.

      “Knowing a little bit about how the Department of Justice works, knowing a little bit about Merrick Garland, this is not the type of thing it would have undertaken lightly,” he told Sky News Australia.

      “They know the political pressure they’re going to come under because of this, they know the scrutiny they’re going to come under because of this.

      “If they didn’t think they didn’t have it 100 per cent rock solid, I don’t think they’d be doing this.”

    • MSNBC – What The FBI Needed To Have On Trump To Raid Mar-a-Lago

      Former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence Frank Figliguzzi details what the FBI needed to prove to obtain a search warrant to raid Mar-a-Lago, what the search may mean, and the next steps in the investigation.

    • CNBC – This raid points to how serious this case is, says former FBI agent

      Former FBI agent and NBC Contributor Clint Watts joins Shep Smith to discuss the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s home at Mar-A-Lago.

    • CNBC – This investigation has to provide admissible evidence and that takes time, says fmr. deputy AG

      Former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer joins Shep Smith discuss what the FBI may have been looking for when it raided Trump’s Florida home, Mar-A-Lago.

    • 18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally

      (a)Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

      (b)Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

      (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title V, §?552(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1566; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §?330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

      https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2071

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      NEW YORK TIMES – Live Updates: F.B.I. Searches Trump’s Private Residence in Florida

      The former president called the search an “assault” and complained that authorities had broken into a safe. The news appeared to come as a surprise to top aides at the White House.

      The search appears to be focused on materials Trump took from the White House.
      Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account signaling a major escalation in the various investigations into the final stages of his presidency.

      The search, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, when he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents,
      according to a person familiar with their contents.

      Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action to retrieve them. The case was referred to the Justice Department by the archives early this year.

      The search marked the latest remarkable turn in the long-running investigations into Mr. Trump’s actions before, during and after his presidency — and even as he weighs announcing another candidacy for the White House.

      It came as the Justice Department has stepped up its separate inquiry into Mr. Trump’s efforts to remain in office after his defeat at the polls in the 2020 election and as the former president also faces an accelerating criminal inquiry in Georgia and civil actions in New York.

      Mr. Trump has long cast the F.B.I. as a tool of Democrats who have been out to get him, and the search set off a furious reaction among his supporters in the Republican Party and on the far right of American politics. Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader in the House, suggested that he intended to investigate Attorney General Merrick B. Garland if Republicans took control of the House in November.

      The F.B.I. would have needed to convince a judge that it had probable cause that a crime had been committed, and that agents might find evidence at Mar-a-Lago, to get a search warrant. Proceeding with a search on a former president’s home would almost surely have required sign-off from top officials at the bureau and the Justice Department.

      The search, however, does not mean prosecutors have determined that Mr. Trump committed a crime.

      An F.B.I. representative declined to comment, as did Justice Department officials. The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, was appointed by Mr. Trump.

      Mr. Trump was in the New York area at the time of the search. “Another day in paradise,” he said Monday night during on a telephone rally for Sarah Palin, who is running for a congressional seat from Alaska.

      Eric Trump, one of his sons, told Fox News that he was the one who informed his father that the search was taking place, and he said the search warrant was related to presidential documents.

      Mr. Trump, who campaigned for president in 2016 criticizing Hillary Clinton’s practice of maintaining a private email server for government-related messages while she was secretary of state, was known throughout his term to rip up official material that was intended to be held for presidential archives. One person familiar with his habits said that included classified material that was shredded in his bedroom and elsewhere.

      The search was at least in part for whether any records remained at the club, a person familiar with it said. It took place on Monday morning, the person said, although Mr. Trump said agents were still there many hours later.

      “After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Mr. Trump said, maintaining it was an effort to stop him from running for president in 2024. “Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries.”

      “They even broke into my safe!” he wrote.

      Mr. Trump did not share any details about what the F.B.I. agents said they were searching for.

      Aides to President Biden said they were stunned by the development and learned of it from Twitter.

      The search came as the Justice Department has also been stepping up questioning of former Trump aides who had been witnesses to discussions and planning in the White House of Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss.

      Mr. Trump has been the focus of questions asked by federal prosecutors in connection with a scheme to send “fake” electors to Congress for the certification of the Electoral College. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol also continues its work and is interviewing witnesses this week.

      The law governing the preservation of White House materials, the Presidential Records Act, lacks teeth, but criminal statutes can come into play, especially in the case of classified material.

      Criminal codes, which carry jail time, can be used to prosecute anyone who “willfully injures or commits any depredation against any property of the United States” and anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys” government documents.

      Samuel R. Berger, a national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, pleaded guilty in 2015 to a misdemeanor charge for removing classified material from a government archive. In 2007, Donald Keyser, an Asia expert and former senior State Department official, was sentenced to prison after he confessed to keeping more than 3,000 sensitive documents — ranging from the classified to the top secret — in his basement.

      In 1999, the C.I.A. announced it had suspended the security clearance of its former director, John M. Deutch, after concluding that he had improperly handled national secrets on a desktop computer at his home.

      In January of this year, the archives retrieved 15 boxes that Mr. Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago from the White House residence when his term ended. The boxes included material subject to the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all documents and records pertaining to official business be turned over to the archives.

      The items in the boxes included documents, mementos, gifts and letters. The archives did not describe the classified material it found other than to say that it was “classified national security information.”

      Because the National Archives “identified classified information in the boxes,” the agency “has been in communication with the Department of Justice,” David S. Ferriero, the national archivist, told Congress at the time.

      Federal prosecutors subsequently began a grand jury investigation, according to two people briefed on the matter. Prosecutors issued a subpoena earlier this year to the archives to obtain the boxes of classified documents, according to the two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

      The authorities also made interview requests to people who worked in the White House in the final days of Mr. Trump’s presidency, according to one of the people.

      In the spring, a small coterie of federal agents visited Mar-a-Lago in search of some documents, according to a person familiar with the meeting. At least one of the agents was involved in counterintelligence, according to the person.

      The question of how Mr. Trump has handled sensitive material and documents he received as president loomed throughout his time in the White House, and beyond.

      He was known to rip up pieces of official paper that he was handed, forcing officials to tape them back together. And an upcoming book by a New York Times reporter reveals that staff members would find clumps of torn-up paper clogging a toilet, and believed he had thrown them in.

      The question of how Mr. Trump handled classified material is complicated because as president he had the authority to declassify any government information. It is unclear whether Mr. Trump, before leaving office, had declassified materials the archives discovered in the boxes. Under federal law, he no longer maintains the ability to declassify documents after leaving office.

      While in office, he invoked the power to declassify information several times as his administration publicly released materials that helped him politically, particularly on issues like the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia.

      Toward the end of the administration, Mr. Trump ripped pictures that intrigued him out of the President’s Daily Brief — a compendium of often classified information about potential national security threats — but it is unclear whether he took them to the residence with him. In one prominent example of how he dealt with classified material, Mr. Trump in 2019 took a highly classified spy satellite image of an Iranian missile launch site, declassified it and then released the photo on Twitter.

      Earlier this year, Kash Patel, a former Defense Department senior official and Trump loyalist whom Mr. Trump named as one of his representatives to engage with the National Archives, suggested to the right-wing website Breitbart that Mr. Trump had declassified the documents before leaving the White House and that the proper markings simply had not been adjusted.

      “Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,” he said, according to Breitbart.

      Local television crews showed supporters of Mr. Trump gathering near Mar-a-Lago, some of them being aggressive toward reporters.

      Mr. Trump made clear in his statement that he sees potential political value in the search, something some of his advisers echoed, depending on what any investigation produces.

      His political team began sending fund-raising solicitations about the search late on Monday evening.

      https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid#trump-fbi-mar-a-lago

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    • MSNBC -Classified Documents At Heart Of FBI Search Of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

      Jackie Alemany, political reporter for the Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about the FBI executing a search warrant on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, reportedly in connection with an investigation of classified material Donald Trump removed from the White House.

  24. T125History Repeats Itself: Democrats Are Using Tactics of the Marxists of 1917 in Russia – Their Final Assault on America Begins… Tonight
    By Jim Hoft
    Published August 8, 2022 at 6:51pm
    125 Comments

    Once again we are republishing this analysis by John L Kachelman, Jr.
    We first published this piece back in October 2020 before the election.

    Historical Discovery…

    An election in 1917 forecast the election in 2020! Here are the elements from 103 years ago!

    TRENDING: BREAKING

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/history-repeats-democrats-using-tactics-marxists-1917-russia-final-assault-america-begins-tonight/

  25. REPORT: Trump-Endorsed Joe Kent Has HIS OWN BALLOT Rejected After Wildly Delayed Election Count In Washington Primary Election
    By Jordan Conradson
    Published August 8, 2022 at 6:31pm
    51 Comments

    Serious concerns have arisen over the US House race for District 3, where Trump-Endorsed Joe Kent is within striking distance of Never Trumper Jamie Herrera Beutler, and they’re still counting the ballots.

    The Primary election was last Tuesday, and The Gateway Pundit reported on the election integrity issues and voter fraud concerns across the state and in Kent’s race. Washington’s all mail-in ballot system is a joke.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/report-trump-endorsed-joe-kent-ballot-rejected-wildly-delayed-election-count-washington-primary-election/

  26. CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Georgia Ballot Mule on Camera Inserting HUGE Stack of 30+ Ballots into Georgia Dropbox!!
    By Brian Lupo
    Published August 8, 2022 at 5:12pm
    369 Comments
    you haven’t yet seen the incredible documentary by filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza titled 2000Mules yet, you are doing yourself an injustice as an American citizen. And if you have seen it and haven’t shared it with those who believe “the Big Lie”, you’re doing them an injustice.

    In this “Big Lie” shattering documentary using data from TrueTheVote (TTV), it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of votes were potentially harvested in the swing states investigated by TTV (GA, PA, MI, WI, AZ). TTV bought cell phone data for the key swing states and began sifting through the anonymous “pings” to find individual patterns. By tracking the device IDs using very conservative parameters, TTV was able to determine there were thousands of mules accounting for hundreds of thousands of ballots in key swing states.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/caught-video-georgia-ballot-mule-camera-inserting-huge-stack-30-ballots-georgia-dropbox/

  27. Fourteen young Canadian docs die after getting the shot.

    Normally would be ~0 over 30 years.
    This is a list of just the docs my doctor friend in Canada heard about passively.
    In the past 30 years, he’s never heard of a single death like this.
    Not one. Now there are at least 14.

    Steve Kirsch
    Aug 7

    […]Canadian docs will keep believing the “safe and effective” narrative because that’s what they are trained to do: trust the authorities

    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/fourteen-young-canadian-docs-die

  28. DAILY MAIL ‘I’m a boy!’: Child, 4, born a female announces transition with a blue gender reveal cannon at Vancouver Pride Parade – with his grandmother by his side

    Charlie Danger Lloyd, four, has wanted to be a boy since the age of two, according to his mother Alaina Bourrel, 27

    The child’s mother said the moment was inspired by Charlie’s previous gender reveal before his birth

    ‘He wasn’t your typical little girl. He would play with other boys and the parents would say he was more of a boy than their own children,’ Bourrel said

    Since starting his transition four months ago, Charlie has only been wearing clothes for boys and has also had his hair short

    His parents say his confidence has surged
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    A four-year-old child born a female officially announced his transition to being a boy with a blue gender reveal cannon at Vancouver’s Pride Parade – with his grandmother by his side.

    Charlie Danger Lloyd, of British Columbia, Canada, was born female but now identifies as a male after expressing his desire to be a different gender from a young age, his mother Alaina Bourrel, 27, confirmed.

    Video shared on social media shows the moment when Charlie, who uses he/him pronouns, pops a confetti canon with blue smoke coming out of it to celebrate his decision in July.

    ‘Once they closed the road, Charlie strutted out with Grammy and they faced the sidelines and after a short struggle, the cannon exploded with blue smoke and biodegradable confetti, ‘ the four-year-old’s mother, Alaina told the South West News Service.

    ‘Charlie jumped with joy as the crowd cheered him on. He couldn’t believe the love and support he was shown from the bystanders.’ Charlie ecstatically runs into his mother’s arms at the end of the video.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11092637/Child-4-born-female-announces-transition-blue-cannon-Vancouver-Pride-Parade.html