Reader’s Links for September 14, 2022

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  1. MyPillow guy Mike Lindell says the FBI surrounded him at a Hardee’s restaurant and seized his phone: “They told me not to tell anybody.”
    Breaking911 – September 13, 2022
    https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1569862225443127297

    Mike Lindell says the FBI stopped him today at a Hardees in Minnesota:
    “Cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us, and behind us and I said those are either bad guys or the FBI. Well, it turns out they were the FBI.”
    Citizen Free Press – September 13, 2022
    https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1569825291199217667

  7. For those of us who find themselves losing their butts and growing their guts. No, it’s not a geopolitical commentary, but maybe wise advice for stressful times. 10 min:

  8. Explosive data from the Department of Defence DMED database of 1.4 M active duty DOD servicemen shows shocking increases in medical conditions from mRNA vaccines after the military demanded injections for all service members. The data obtained by three courageous DOD whistleblowers and shared by attorney Tom Rena and Senator Ron Johnson showed the following 487% spike in breast cancer, 551% spike in Guillain-Barré syndrome, 269% spike in myocardial infarction, 468% spike in pulmonary embolism, 291% spike in Bell’s Palsy, 437% spike in ovarian disfunction, 279% spike in miscarriages, 680% spike in multiple sclerosis, 664 % spike in malignant neoplasms plus other condition increases.

  9. europravda – Religion cannot be used to justify the evil of war, says Bergoglio

    He made the remark to the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church and other faith leaders at a conference in Kazakhstan.

    • BBC – Ukraine war: EU moves to cut peak electricity use by 5%

      […]She called for electricity consumption to be cut at peak hours by at least 5%.

      But plans for a cap on the price of natural gas, a key Russian export to the EU, were put on hold.

      The plan outlined in Strasbourg targets “excess revenues” with proposals to skim the profits of low-carbon electricity producers and implement a de facto windfall tax on the oil, gas and coal sectors.

      Ms von der Leyen said that “making ends meet” was “becoming a source of anxiety for millions of businesses and households”.

      “In these times, it is wrong to receive extraordinary record revenues and profits benefiting from war and on the back of our consumers,” she argued.

      […]’Russia’s industry is in tatters’

      […]”Russia’s financial sector is on life-support,” she asserted, with nearly 1,000 international companies having left the country.

      “The Russian military is taking chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix their military hardware because they ran out of semiconductors. Russia’s industry is in tatters.”

      […]Putin will fail and Europe will prevail”.

      […]She also announced plans to set up a European hydrogen bank to promote investment of up to €3bn in that fuel as a green alternative to fossil fuels.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62899940

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      ctv-Energy crisis: EU chief wants to tap excess producer profits

      A top European Union official unveiled a plan Wednesday to cap the revenue of electricity producers that are making extraordinary profits because of the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine and climate change, saying the proposal could raise US$140 billion to help people hit by spiraling energy prices.

      […]”Russia keeps actively manipulating our energy market,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France. “So, this market is not functioning anymore.”

      […]. But with economies still recovering from the pandemic, money must be found outside of national budgets to provide more help to millions struggling to pay their electricity bills. That’s why the commission wants to tap the profits of power producers using oil, gas and coal as well as renewables and nuclear power. It estimates that some companies are making five times their usual profits.

      “These companies are making revenues they never accounted for, they never even dreamt of,” von der Leyen said. “In these times, it is wrong to receive extraordinary record revenues and profits benefiting from war and on the back of consumers.”

      […]“The next winters — not just this one — the next winters will be difficult, make no mistake about that,” commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans told reporters after the plan was unveiled. “But I am confident that these measures will bring progress.”

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      europravda – State of the Union: Six takeaways from Ursula von der Leyen’s keynote speech

      1. ‘Sanctions are here to stay’
      Von der Leyen began her speech by praising Ukraine’s resistance against Russia’s invasion, describing the country as a “nation of heroes” and vowing the EU’s solidarity will “remain unshakable.”

      […]”Today, courage has a name, and that name is Ukraine,” von der Leyen said, adding she will travel to Kyiv later in the day. “Putin will fail and Europe will prevail.”

      […]

      2. ‘We have to decouple’

      As expected, the energy crisis featured high on von der Leyen’s to-do list.

      “Russia keeps actively manipulating our energy market. I mean, they prefer to flare the gas instead of sending it to Europe according to the contracts,” she said.

      The Commission chief officially presented three key proposals to curb electricity bills: an EU-wide plan to introduce mandatory electricity savings, a uniform price cap on the excess revenues made by inframarginal power plants (that is, those who don’t use gas, such as renewables, nuclear, hydropower and lignite), and a windfall tax to partially capture the huge profits reaped by fossil fuel companies.

      […]

      3. ‘We must make nature our first ally’

      Von der Leyen’s diagnosis of the energy crisis has one root cause: the EU’s heavy dependency on fossil fuels.

      The bloc, she said, should now strive to speed up the transition away from all imported fuels and develop homegrown and self-reliant systems of green technology,

      […]The president talked of hydrogen as a “game changer” for the continent

      […]”We’ve all seen to what extent the Green Deal is important. Summer 2022 will remain in people’s memoires,”

      […]At international level, the president said she will push for a stronger defence of biodiversity at the upcoming UN conference in Montreal, as well as in the COP27 in Egypt.

      4. ‘A new reality of higher public debt’

      […]

      5. ‘We must also eradicate corruption at home’

      One of the most compelling segments of von der Leyen’s speech came in its second half, when the president spoke about the threats faced by democracies in the 21st century.

      First, she warned about the “foreign autocrats” funding entities inside the EU to spread “disinformation” and “toxic lies,” such as a Chinese centre in Amsterdam that dismissed the mass internment of Uyghurs as “rumours.”

      […]“We will not allow any autocracy’s Trojan horses to attack our democracies from within,” she told MEPs.

      […]Von der Leyen then looked inwards and reflected on the “vices that corrode” the EU from within. The bloc has struggled to address democratic backsliding in several member states, most notably Poland and Hungary.

      […]

      6. ‘A rethink of our foreign policy agenda’

      https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/09/14/state-of-the-european-union-six-takeaways-from-ursula-von-der-leyens-keynote-speech

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    • FRENCH PM Elisabeth Borne

      "Gas prices for 2023 are announced to be five times higher than for 2021. And electricity prices in 2023 are expected to be ten times higher than in 2021"

    • europravda – Energy crisis: Brussels unveils measures to capture energy profits but delays price cap on gas

    • europravda – Energy proposals could be ‘democratic problem’, as MEPs react to von der Leyen speech

      European People’s Party President Manfred Weber took issue with the European Parliament not being consulted on plans for a one-time levy on energy companies.

    • DEUTSCHE PRAVDA -Why we should be putting solar panels on our fields and lakes

      On our way to an emissions-neutral future the use of solar energy is crucial. The problem: the space for photovoltaic systems is getting tight.

      We need land for food, for housing, to preserve biodiversity. So where to go with the solar cells?

      We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate.

      But it doesn’t need to be this way.

      Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means.

      We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change.

      Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

    • Serpent Eggs

      “In the Western Ukraine,[*] the serpent eggs hatched: children of Nazi collaborators who had imbibed hatred towards the Russians with their mothers’ milk. Their fathers had formed a network under Reinhard Gehlen, the German spymaster. In 1945, as Germany was defeated, Gehlen swore allegiance to the US and delivered his networks to the CIA.

      They continued their guerrilla war against the Soviets until 1956. Their cruelty was legendary, for they aimed to terrify the population into full compliance to their command. Notoriously, they strangled the Ukrainians suspected of being friendly to Russians with their bare hands.”

      https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/24/the-brown-revolution-in-ukraine/

      [*]Not only western Ukraine. The Nazi diaspora, children and grandchildren hatchlings, like Chrystia Freeland. Those in Europe kept a low profile for a while, but here’s von der Leyen – a toxic, spitting snake

  11. Defender Children’s Health Defense

    REMDESIVER DEATHS LAWSUIT Filed in Fresno, CA.

    With Children’s Health Defense’s support a lawsuit was filed to 3 hospitals on behalf of 14 families who lost loved ones at the hands of healthcare providers who used Remdesiver to treat Covid-19.

    Three complaints filed were taken place at Clovis Community Medical Center, Community Regional Medical Center and St. Agnes Medical Center.

  12. Daily Recap Podcast: 9-13-22 Vaccine Declared “Ethically Unjustifiable,” 1000s of Ballots Found in MI, and Trump and Special Master Threatened with Assassination
    By Brian Lupo
    Published September 14, 2022 at 7:30am
    51 Comments

    Check out “The Daily Recap” podcast if you’d like to listen to your news, whether on your drive in to work or while you’re going about your day.

    We will be covering some of the biggest stories on The Gateway Pundit each and every weekday, as well as a twice-weekly podcast on Wednesdays and Friday nights.

    In this episode, the Trump special master was threatened with assassination…by a “MAGA Republican,” I’m sure, right??? Also, COVID Vaccines are declared “ethically unjustifiable” by major top universities, and Brian Stetler goes to Harvard (thereby destroying any credibility Harvard had left!)

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    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/daily-recap-podcast-9-13-22-vaccine-declared-ethically-unjustifiable-1000s-ballots-found-mi-trump-special-master-threatened-assassination/

  13. We Are Officially Living in a Weaponized Police State” -President Trump Responds to FBI Raid on “The Pillow Guy” Mike Lindell
    By Jim Hoft
    Published September 14, 2022 at 7:45am
    558 Comments

    You know when you plot a paramilitary raid on the Pillow Guy, you’re on the wrong side.

    The Stasi-FBI targeted My Pillow CEO and founder Mike Lindell on Tuesday and seized his phone.

    Lindell is the latest victim in the DOJ-FBI’s war on Trump supporters and working Americans.

    Via Lance Migliaccio:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/officially-living-weaponized-police-state-president-trump-responds-fbi-raid-pillow-guy-mike-lindell/

  14. Schizophrenic Homeless Drug Dealers Are On A RAMPAGE Taking Over The Streets Of San Francisco — This Is What Democrat-Run Cities Look Like Across The U.S.
    By Alicia Powe
    Published September 14, 2022 at 8:15am
    144 Comments

    Mentally ill criminals are wreaking havoc across the streets of progressive cities as policies instituted by Democrat lawmakers, designed to end the rule of law, take effect.

    The majority of homeless drug dealers and drug addicts are moving to the Democrat-run city to receive welfare, sell drugs, and get away with violent crimes while surrounded by police. Defund the police measures and bail reform have crippled law enforcement officials’ ability to fight crime while policies enacted during the covid pandemic allow criminals a get-out-of-jail pass.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/schizophrenic-homeless-drug-dealers-rampage-taking-streets-san-francisco-democrat-run-cities-look-like-across-u-s/

  15. General Don Bolduc Wins New Hampshire Primary for US Senate Despite $4.1 Million in Attack Ads Linked to Mitch McConnell – Trump Posts Congrats (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft
    Published September 14, 2022 at 8:33am
    123 Comments

    Army General Don Buldoc won his primary for US Senate last night despite $4.1 million in attacks against him linked to Mitch McConnell.

    His opponent Chuck Morse, the moderate candidate backed by Mitch McConnell tweeted his congratulations at 2:50 AM.

    It was another ugly race where GOP elites spent a fortune smearing the populist and conservative candidate in the race

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/general-don-bolduc-wins-new-hampshire-primary-us-senate-despite-4-1-million-attack-ads-linked-mitch-mcconnell-video/

  16. Democrat Senate Candidate: “We Have to KILL” – “Extremist” Republican Movement (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft
    Published September 14, 2022 at 9:14am
    222 Comments

    To the communist left, loving your country, protecting its borders, bringing jobs back to our shores, banning late-term abortions before birth, honoring your forefathers, promoting safe streets, and believing in American exceptionalism is “extremist” and “dangerous.”

    Democrat Senate Candidate Tim Ryan from Ohio this week told MSNBC the country needs to “KILL” the “extremist” Republican movement.

    Imagine for one second, that this came out of the mouth of a Republican candidate.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/democrat-senate-candidate-kill-extremist-republican-movement-video/

  17. Rogue FBI Uses “Identity Theft” and “Conspiracy to Commit Identity Theft” to Justify Mike Lindell Search Warrant
    By Brian Lupo
    Published September 14, 2022 at 9:32am
    131 Comments

    This is not the America we used to know, folks. It’s almost as if they are deliberately tearing it down to give new meaning to “MAGA” in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Last week, Steve Bannon broke the news that numerous search warrants/raids and subpoenas were being issued. Harmeet Dhillon confirmed it on Tucker Carlson that same night.

    Yesterday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Mike Lindell was raided by the FBI and they seized his phone. We learned from his podcast on FrankSpeech that the FBI was likely tracking him all day as they arrested him far from his home on a hunting trip. Agents surrounded his car in a Hardee’s drive-thru and demanded he hand over his phone. Mike pleaded that he uses his phone to run five companies, all major corporations, including MyPillow and MyStore. He told agents he
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/rogue-fbi-uses-identity-theft-conspiracy-commit-identity-theft-justify-mike-lindell-search-warrant/

  18. Could California Gas Car Ban Happen at the Federal Level? Buttigieg Wants It to Happen ‘Quickly’
    By Elizabeth Stauffer, The Western Journal
    Published September 14, 2022 at 9:45am
    95 Comments

    Late last month, California’s Air Resources Board approved a regulation that will ban the sale of new gas-powered automobiles by 2035. No gas-powered vehicles with a model year of 2035 or beyond will be sold in the state, under the measure.

    However, residents will still be allowed to purchase and drive used vehicles with gas engines under Resolution 22-12.

    Naturally, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg likes the idea of an electric vehicle mandate — a lot. Buttigieg appeared on “The Issue Is” podcast Friday on KTTV-TV in Los Angeles. He expressed serious interest in rolling out a similar plan at the federal level.

    https://www.westernjournal.com/california-gas-car-ban-happen-federal-level-buttigieg-wants-happen-quickly/

  19. Could California Gas Car Ban Happen at the Federal Level? Buttigieg Wants It to Happen ‘Quickly’
    By Elizabeth Stauffer, The Western Journal
    Published September 14, 2022 at 9:45am
    112 Comments

    Late last month, California’s Air Resources Board approved a regulation that will ban the sale of new gas-powered automobiles by 2035. No gas-powered vehicles with a model year of 2035 or beyond will be sold in the state, under the measure.

    However, residents will still be allowed to purchase and drive used vehicles with gas engines under Resolution 22-12.

    Naturally, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg likes the idea of an electric vehicle mandate — a lot. Buttigieg appeared on “The Issue Is” podcast Friday on KTTV-TV in Los Angeles. He expressed serious interest in rolling out a similar plan at the federal level.

    https://www.westernjournal.com/california-gas-car-ban-happen-federal-level-buttigieg-wants-happen-quickly/

  20. (Richard: This is a must read if you want to understand what is happening. Pay close attention to the closing paragraphs.)

    Two pings on the new, “speaking” Durham filing in the Danchenko case
    Ears to hear.

    On 2 September 2022, Special Counsel John Durham entered a motion under seal in the federal case against Igor Danchenko – source for the Steele dossier – for making false statements to the FBI.

    The motion, regarding admissibility of evidence, was filed under seal because it contained classified information. The motion was unsealed 13 September with redactions in the Exhibits. Margot Cleveland previewed earlier at The Federalist the presumption that if the motion were unsealed, we’d be able to

    https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/two-pings-on-the-new-speaking-durham-filing-in-the-danchenko-case/

  21. Note: this article is not the newest, but, in light of the recent weaponization of government institutions, it takes on renewed relevance:

    Buried deep within the massive infrastructure legislation recently signed by President Joe Biden is a little-noticed “safety” measure that will take effect in five years. Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a “vehicle kill switch.”

    As has become standard for legislative mandates passed by Congress, this measure is disturbingly short on details. What we do know is that the “safety” device must “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.”

    Everything about this mandatory measure should set off red flares.

    First, use of the word “passively” suggests the system will always be on and constantly monitoring the vehicle. Secondly, the system must connect to the vehicle’s operational controls, so as to disable the vehicle either before driving or during, when impairment is detected. Thirdly, it will be an “open” system, or at least one with a backdoor, meaning authorized (or unauthorized) third-parties can remotely access the system’s data at any time.

    https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/barr-bidens-infrastructure-bill-contains-backdoor-kill-switch-for-cars/

  23. Note: the upshot of this article is that among other things, Trump’s lawyer’s communications have been siezed by the DOJ:

    News of dozens of subpoenas being sent by the DOJ to Trump supporters broke on Friday and was finally confirmed on Monday. The subpoenas, which were ostensibly tied to investigations surrounding January 6th, targeted over 40 people. Two more phones were seized from Trump associates as well, including his in-house counsel.

    It marked another move in what appears to be a highly politicized investigation targeting the political enemies of Joe Biden for nothing more than wrong-speak. Backing that assertion up was Tucker Carlson, who obtained some of the subpoenas and provided some of the disturbing demands within them.

    https://thinkcivics.com/tucker-carlson-obtains-doj-subpoena-targeting-trump-associate-details-disturbing-demands/

  24. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) shows not only that the effectiveness of the Pfizer Covid vaccine becomes negative (meaning the vaccinated are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated) within five months but that the vaccine destroys any protection a person has from natural immunity.

    The study is a large observational study that looks at 887,193 children aged 5 to 11 years in North Carolina, of whom 273,157 (30.8%) received at least one dose of Pfizer vaccine between November 1st 2021 and June 3rd 2022. The study includes 193,346 SARS-CoV-2 infections reported between March 11th 2020 and June 3rd 2022.

    The researchers used a form of statistical modelling with adjustments for confounding factors (such as underlying conditions) to calculate estimates of vaccine effectiveness over time and against the different Covid variants.

    https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/12/covid-vaccine-destroys-natural-immunity-nejm-study-shows/

  25. Conservative commentator Candace Owens has claimed that staff at a Nashville hospital refused to allow her to leave with her healthy new-born daughter until they had taken blood from the baby.

    Owens, 32, who gave birth to her second child, Louise on July 13 said medical staff at the Saint Thomas Hospital gave her “24 hours of torture” after she declined to take antibiotics and contraction-inducing drugs as she went into labor.

    “I had been very vocal about not wanting to be loaded up with unnecessary drugs during labor,” she said.

    “The doctor wanted me to take antibiotics.

    “Because I declined, they wanted me to stay in the hospital for 48 hours – and big coincidence, that’s the maximum amount that insurance will cover.”

    https://patriotfetch.com/2022/09/torturous-hospital-threatened-to-call-child-services-on-candace-owens-for-refusing-this/

  26. White House Senior Adviser Anita Dunn has yet to divest holdings worth tens of millions in she and her husband’s investment portfolio, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.

    Dunn disclosed between $16.8 million and $48.2 million in stocks, bonds and call options in a 2021 financial disclosure first reported on Aug. 12 by CNBC. But the longtime Democratic operative is “still in the process” of divesting her portfolio, a White House official told the Examiner, after a White House spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation Aug. 16 she will do so to avoid any conflicts of interest.

    The former consultant at the public affairs firm SKDK is “taking all necessary steps” to divest her portfolio and “has the appropriate recusals in place,” the official told the Examiner. A White House spokesman told the DCNF prior that Dunn has recused herself from working with her former consulting clients.

    Dunn disclosed in the 93 page filing that she and her husband, former White House Counsel Bob Bauer under then-President Barack Obama, own bonds issued by Amazon, Visa, Apple and Wells Fargo. The pair also own a wide range of individual stocks, such as up to $15,000 each in shares of Pfizer, Coca-Cola, General Dynamics and CVS.

    https://newrightnetwork.com/2022/09/top-biden-adviser-has-not-yet-divested-multimillion-dollar-investment-portfolio-report.html

  28. NYT – Durham Inquiry Appears to Wind Down as Grand Jury Expires

    When John Durham was assigned by the Justice Department in 2019 to examine the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, President Donald Trump and his supporters expressed a belief that the inquiry would prove that a “deep state” conspiracy including top Obama-era officials had worked to sabotage him.

    Now Durham appears to be winding down his three-year inquiry without anything close to the results Trump was seeking. The grand jury that Durham has recently used to hear evidence has expired, and while he could convene another, there are currently no plans to do so, three people familiar with the matter said.

    Durham and his team are working to complete a final report by the end of the year, they said, and one of the lead prosecutors on his team is leaving for a job with a prominent law firm.

    Over the course of his inquiry, Durham has developed cases against two people accused of lying to the FBI in relation to outside efforts to investigate purported Trump-Russia ties, but he has not charged any conspiracy or put any high-level officials on trial. The recent developments suggest that the chances of any more indictments are remote.

    After Durham’s team completes its report, it will be up to Attorney General Merrick Garland to decide whether to make its findings public. The report will be Durham’s opportunity to present any evidence or conclusions that challenge the Justice Department’s basis for opening the investigation in 2016 into the links between Trump and Russia.

    The Justice Department declined to comment.

    Durham and his team used a grand jury in Washington to indict Michael Sussmann, a prominent cybersecurity lawyer with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign. Sussman was indicted last year on a charge of making a false statement to the FBI at a meeting in which he shared a tip about potential connections between computers associated with Trump and a Kremlin-linked Russian bank.

    Sussmann was acquitted of that charge at trial in May.

    A grand jury based in the Eastern District of Virginia last year indicted a Russia analyst who had worked with Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was the author of a dossier of rumors and unproven assertions about Trump. The dossier played no role in the FBI’s decision to begin examining the ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. It was used in an application to obtain a warrant to surveil a Trump campaign associate.

    The analyst, Igor Danchenko, who is accused of lying to federal investigators, goes on trial next month in Alexandria, Virginia.

    In the third case, Durham’s team negotiated a plea deal with an FBI lawyer whom an inspector general had accused of doctoring an email used in preparation for a wiretap renewal application. The plea deal resulted in no prison time.

    Trump and his allies have long hoped that Durham would prosecute former FBI and intelligence officials responsible for the Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane. Trump has described the investigation as a witch hunt and accused the FBI of spying on his presidential campaign.

    Last month, in the days after the FBI obtained a search warrant to seize boxes of classified and other government documents he was keeping at his resort in Florida, Trump used social media to amplify the unsubstantiated idea that Durham had uncovered a vast political conspiracy by the Obama administration and the intelligence community to damage him.

    At the same time, the former president seemed to acknowledge a lowering of expectations, from indictments to a report.

    “The public is waiting ‘with bated breath’ for the Durham Report, which should reveal corruption at a level never seen before in our country,” Trump wrote.

    In May 2019, Durham was selected by the attorney general at the time, William Barr, to review the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, an investigation that was eventually completed by Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed to oversee it. The Mueller report scrutinized numerous links between Trump campaign associates and Russia, but did not find a criminal conspiracy.

    Durham’s review eventually evolved into a criminal investigation, allowing him to issue grand jury subpoenas to gather documents and interview witnesses. Shortly before the 2020 election, Barr made him a special counsel, permitting him to stay in place even after Trump left office.

    Garland has met with the Durham team a handful of times, and a top official in the deputy attorney general’s office regularly checks in with Durham on the investigation’s progress.

    Early this year, Justice Department leadership asked Durham to issue a report on his findings in May. That timing slipped, and now Durham is aiming to submit his report to Garland after the election, the people familiar with the matter said.

    The assignment Barr gave to Durham faced difficulties from the beginning.

    To begin with, the Justice Department’s independent inspector general, Michael Horowitz, was already conducting an exhaustive review of Crossfire Hurricane.

    In late 2019, Horowitz delivered a report that uncovered significant problems with the FBI’s applications for wiretap orders targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser with numerous ties to Russia. But it also concluded that the investigation as a whole had a proper legal basis, and that there was no evidence that “political bias or improper motivation” had led the FBI to open it.

    Durham issued an unusual public statement saying without explanation that he disagreed with the inspector general report’s conclusion that Crossfire Hurricane had been properly opened. Horowitz later told Congress that Durham had told him he thought it should have been opened as a “preliminary” investigation rather than a “full” one.

    Horowitz’s investigation also discovered an FBI lawyer’s doctoring of the email used in preparation for a wiretap renewal application. He referred the matter for prosecution, and Durham’s team negotiated the resulting plea deal.

    In an initial period, Durham seemed to be searching for signs of political bias among the FBI officials Horowitz had already scrutinized and hunting for wrongdoing among intelligence agencies outside Horowitz’s jurisdiction. But those efforts did not result in charges.

    In 2020, a top prosecutor and longtime confidant of Durham at the U.S. attorney’s office in Connecticut abruptly quit the team.

    Although the charges Durham brought against both Sussmann and Danchenko last fall were narrow, Durham used the indictments to argue that the FBI was deliberately ignoring information that cut against the idea that Trump and his associates had improperly worked with Russia.

    Durham’s team argued in court that Clinton campaign associates had misled people into thinking that Trump or his campaign associates had colluded with Russia, although it did not charge such a conspiracy. Durham accused Danchenko of lying to the FBI in ways that made the Steele dossier seem more credible than it was.

    Horowitz’s report, however, showed that the FBI had not opened the Russia investigation on the basis of the Steele dossier — contrary to claims by Trump’s supporters.

    The coming trial of Danchenko will give Durham another opportunity to scrutinize aspects of the FBI’s Russia investigation.

    Andrew DeFilippis, a prosecutor who played a key role in the Sussmann case, has notified the court that he will not take part in the trial of Danchenko. DeFilippis has told colleagues that he is leaving for a job at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell.

    Reached at his desk at the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan last week, DeFilippis declined to comment.

    https://news.yahoo.com/durham-inquiry-appears-wind-down-122137208.html

  29. Wow, Tone Deaf and Blind” Harris Faulkner Weighs in on Joe Biden’s $80K Electric Car Promo and Spin-Drive (VIDEO)
    By Jim Hoft
    Published September 14, 2022 at 10:45am
    285 Comments

    Joe Biden and the Democrats on Tuesday celebrated the $740 billion Green New Deal absurdly named the “Inflation Reduction Act” at the White House.

    Biden celebrated his Inflation Reduction Act hours after a disappointing August inflation report.

    Inflation rose by 0.1% in August to 8.3% despite the decrease in the record high gas prices.

    • 44% of hospitalisations boosted

      CDC Says 44% of People Hospitalized With COVID Had Third Dose or Booster

      Almost half the people who were hospitalized with COVID-19 last spring had been fully vaccinated and received a third dose or booster shot

    • Characteristics and Clinical Ocular Manifestations in Patients with Acute Corneal Graft Rejection after Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Systematic Review

      Abstract
      This study aimed to determine the characteristics and clinical ocular manifestations of acute corneal graft rejection after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination.

      We conducted an online search of the PubMed and EMBASE databases.

      Data on recipients’ characteristics, corneal transplantation types, interval between vaccination and allograft rejection, clinical manifestations, and graft rejection medication were extracted.

      Thirteen articles on 21 patients (23 eyes) with acute corneal graft rejection after COVID-19 vaccination, published between April and December 2021, were included.

      The median (interquartile range) age at the onset of rejection was 68 (27–83) years. Types of transplantation included penetrating keratoplasty (12 eyes),

      Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (six eyes), Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (four eyes), and living-related conjunctival-limbal allograft (one eye).

      The interval between vaccination and rejection ranged from 1 day to 6 weeks.

      Corneal edema was the leading clinical manifestation (20 eyes), followed by keratic precipitates (14 eyes) and conjunctival or ciliary injection (14 eyes).

      Medications included frequently applied topical corticosteroids (12 eyes), followed by a combination of topical and oral corticosteroids (four eyes). In addition, the clinical characteristics of corneal allograft rejection after COVID-19 vaccination were identified.

      Corneal transplant recipients may require further vaccination, necessitating appropriate management and treatment.

      MORE :

      https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/15/4500/htm

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9369681/

    • European Countries Ban COVID Vaccines for Kids Under 12 While America Pushes It, with Jesse Kelly

      Megyn Kelly is joined by Jesse Kelly, host of “I’m Right” on TheFirst, to discuss pushing the new Omicron vaccine booster with no testing on humans, many European country’s bans on the COVID vaccine for kids under 12, the cost of lockdowns, and more.

  32. Joe Allen Discusses Biden’s Executive Order for Additional Funding for Transhumanist Experiments
    Bannons War Room – September 14, 2022
    https://rumble.com/v1k2ool-joe-allen-discusses-bidens-executive-order-for-additional-funding-for-trans.html

    Biden signs executive order designed to unleash transhumanist hell on America and the world
    Leo Hohmann – September 12, 2022
    https://leohohmann.com/2022/09/13/biden-signs-executive-order-designed-to-unleash-transhumanist-hell-on-america-and-the-world/#more-11051

  33. Joe Biden and the Democrats destroy everything they touch.

    The Biden Regime is looking to pay $80 per barrel to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

    Biden waged a war on domestic oil production as soon as he was sworn into office.

    On his first day in office, Joe Biden killed off 42,100 jobs by ending construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the end of construction of the Trump border wall.

    The national average for a gallon of gas is $3.841 – nearly $2 a gallon increase since he took over.

    The Biden regime also shut down more pipelines last winter as gas prices were surging.

    After waging a war on domestic production, Joe Biden (possibly illegally) released millions of barrels of oil from US Strategic Oil Reserves.

    Biden released millions of barrels in these reserves but the beneficiaries were Asian countries and Europe.

    Now Joe Biden wants to fill the Strategic Reserves with $80 per barrel oil.

    Just two years ago the Democrats blocked President Trump from filling the Strategic Oil Reserves at $24 per barrel.

    The Democrats cost the US BILLIONS in

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/biden-pay-80-per-barrel-fill-strategic-oil-reserve-two-years-democrats-blocked-trump-filling-reserve-24-per-barrel/

  35. Report: Putin’s Car Attacked in Attempted Assassination Plot – Weeks After Putin Ally’s Daughter Was Killed in Car Bombing!
    By Jim Hoft
    Published September 14, 2022 at 4:06pm
    35 Comments

    The Sun is reporting Wednesday that Vladimir Putin’s car was hit in an attempted assassination plot.

    Putin allegedly escaped to safety.

    According to reports, there were several arrests made after the incident.

    In late August a car bomb killed the daughter of a Putin ally in a car bombing outside of Moscow.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/report-putins-car-attacked-attempted-assassination-plot/