November 15, 2024
Commie Editor of Scientific American Resigns
Timothy Birdnow
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American went on a tirade, insulting much of America, on social medoa on election night and has been forced to resign.
Laura Helmuth had such choice comments as:
and
Also
This not only shows her utter disdain for the average American it also shows she is a radical who was using Scientific American as yet another tool of propaganda.
After an explosive backlash on the Sci-Am boards, she deleted all the critical messages and then posted up a ridiculous article in the magazine about dealing with "the very real" stress of Trump Derangement Syndrome Election Grief (Good Grief!)
Sci-Am claims she chose to resign (right!) but she did so only after making a spectacle of herself.
She is par for the course in our modern times - a radical activist who somehow worms her way into a position of authority and then corrupts a once venerable institution.
Helmuth (To paraphrase Rick Moranis in Spacceballs "I'll bet she gives great helmuth")has a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from UC Berkeley (is any of that a surprise - "cognitive neuroscience is pretty much a pseudoscience and what it has given us are ridiculous claims that conservatives are fearful and despotic based on junk science like the study I rebutted a few years ago) and anything from Berkeley is red and infected. She went on to U.C. Santa Cruz’s science communication program, then from there as an editor at leftist Smithsonian magazine, leftist Slate, Science magazine, and the leftist Washington Post. None of her previous employment suggests anything but a radical in a lab coat.
I'm glad she's gone but we need to be much more proactive. The Left would guarantee a right-winger would never work again and we should return the favor, seeing to it people like this are blackballed. What always happens when these radicals cross the line is they simply keep their heads low for a while then emerge with another important job, usually better than the last. Our people wither away. It's time we start holding grudges.
Now is the time to push Sci-Am to find a real editor, one who will have scientific objectivity, at a minimum. I favor Steven Milloy, for instance, or Mark Morano.
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American went on a tirade, insulting much of America, on social medoa on election night and has been forced to resign.
Laura Helmuth had such choice comments as:
"Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f–k them to the moon and back,”
and
"I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f–king fascists.”
Also
"Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist. The moral arc of the universe isn’t going to bend itself,”
This not only shows her utter disdain for the average American it also shows she is a radical who was using Scientific American as yet another tool of propaganda.
After an explosive backlash on the Sci-Am boards, she deleted all the critical messages and then posted up a ridiculous article in the magazine about dealing with "the very real" stress of Trump Derangement Syndrome Election Grief (Good Grief!)
Sci-Am claims she chose to resign (right!) but she did so only after making a spectacle of herself.
She is par for the course in our modern times - a radical activist who somehow worms her way into a position of authority and then corrupts a once venerable institution.
Helmuth (To paraphrase Rick Moranis in Spacceballs "I'll bet she gives great helmuth")has a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from UC Berkeley (is any of that a surprise - "cognitive neuroscience is pretty much a pseudoscience and what it has given us are ridiculous claims that conservatives are fearful and despotic based on junk science like the study I rebutted a few years ago) and anything from Berkeley is red and infected. She went on to U.C. Santa Cruz’s science communication program, then from there as an editor at leftist Smithsonian magazine, leftist Slate, Science magazine, and the leftist Washington Post. None of her previous employment suggests anything but a radical in a lab coat.
I'm glad she's gone but we need to be much more proactive. The Left would guarantee a right-winger would never work again and we should return the favor, seeing to it people like this are blackballed. What always happens when these radicals cross the line is they simply keep their heads low for a while then emerge with another important job, usually better than the last. Our people wither away. It's time we start holding grudges.
Now is the time to push Sci-Am to find a real editor, one who will have scientific objectivity, at a minimum. I favor Steven Milloy, for instance, or Mark Morano.
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House Fails to Pass Bill to Defund Pro-Hamas NGO"s
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone who expects anything out of the next GOP House and Squeeker Mike "Mikerophallus" Johnson should ponder this bit of news.
House rejects bill enabling punishment of non-profits supporting ‘terrorism’
Johnson and the Republicans control the House and yet cannot get so basic a law passed? OF COURSE NGO's who give aid and comfort to Hamas or any other terrorist organization should be punished by law!
Yet the king of genital dwarfism couldn't even get that done.
Why didn't they? Because and I quote:
Democrats went on to howl about how Trump will use this to go after pro-abortion groups or to target other groups with which he does not agree.
The irony is apparently lost on them; it was Biden who unleashed the dogs of war on Conservative groups and prosecuted them to the fullest exttent of the law, while Trump was qaute solicitious to obey the law when he was president.
The point is Mike Johnson couldn't get so reasonable and logical a bill through; why do we think he will move any of Trump's agenda forward?
Another question; why didn't Johnson see to it this bill was brought up for a vote BEFORE the election? It's failure would have rebounded against the Democrats. But he waited until after the election, thus allowing Democrats cover.
As GOP control of the House will remain razor-thin it seems unlikely Mr. Johnson will be able to move anything even if he tries (and I'm not sure he will try very hard). It was so unnecessary; the GOP failed to expand only because of it's weak and vacillating leadership.
Couple that with the Senate under John "Mini-Me" Thune and we are assured of four years of nothing out of them. Trump is going to have to act via exective order, as he did in his first term, despite his startling electoral victory.
Many Conservative pundits are saying Johnson and Thune are going to be too frightened to not go along with Trump. I say nonsense; Trump can only embrarrass them, and they will happily fire back. They are the co-heads of a coequal branch of government.
No, right now the RINO wing still controls our government by and large and it will be Trump who is forced to genuflect, not Johnson and Thune. And this is by design, in accordance with the plans of Mitch McConnell and the ghost of John Boehner (who has become a major adviser to Mike Johnson). The GOP in Congress doesn't really want to win, they prefer a balance of power so nobody dare throw them out or move against their own agendas.
Hate to dump cold water on our parade but I think this failure speaks volumes.
Anyone who expects anything out of the next GOP House and Squeeker Mike "Mikerophallus" Johnson should ponder this bit of news.
House rejects bill enabling punishment of non-profits supporting ‘terrorism’
Johnson and the Republicans control the House and yet cannot get so basic a law passed? OF COURSE NGO's who give aid and comfort to Hamas or any other terrorist organization should be punished by law!
Yet the king of genital dwarfism couldn't even get that done.
Why didn't they? Because and I quote:
"Fears Trump could use bill to target ‘enemies’ by deeming groups ‘terrorist-supporting’ to withhold tax-exempt status"
More from the article:
The bill, called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, joined two measures together – one allowing the treasury department to withhold tax-exempt status from any non-profit it decides is a "terrorist-supporting organization” and another, less controversial measure, which would offer tax relief to Americans imprisoned unjustly abroad or held by terrorist groups.
Providing material support to US-designated terrorist groups is already illegal.
Critics of the bill argued that Republicans cynically pushed to fast-track the bill by merging the measure targeting non-profits with the provision offering tax relief to Americans imprisoned abroad, and described it as a gift to Trump, who made retaliation against "enemies” within the US a centerpiece of his campaign.
"This bill authorizes Donald Trump to recklessly impose a death penalty on any non-profit in America that happens to be on his enemies list,” said the Texas Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett before the bill was taken to a vote. "With this bill, he can destroy the very life of civil society in this country, one group after another, even though the group involved that he targets as a terrorist supporting group has not violated a single law.
More from the article:
The bill, called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, joined two measures together – one allowing the treasury department to withhold tax-exempt status from any non-profit it decides is a "terrorist-supporting organization” and another, less controversial measure, which would offer tax relief to Americans imprisoned unjustly abroad or held by terrorist groups.
Providing material support to US-designated terrorist groups is already illegal.
Critics of the bill argued that Republicans cynically pushed to fast-track the bill by merging the measure targeting non-profits with the provision offering tax relief to Americans imprisoned abroad, and described it as a gift to Trump, who made retaliation against "enemies” within the US a centerpiece of his campaign.
"This bill authorizes Donald Trump to recklessly impose a death penalty on any non-profit in America that happens to be on his enemies list,” said the Texas Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett before the bill was taken to a vote. "With this bill, he can destroy the very life of civil society in this country, one group after another, even though the group involved that he targets as a terrorist supporting group has not violated a single law.
Democrats went on to howl about how Trump will use this to go after pro-abortion groups or to target other groups with which he does not agree.
The irony is apparently lost on them; it was Biden who unleashed the dogs of war on Conservative groups and prosecuted them to the fullest exttent of the law, while Trump was qaute solicitious to obey the law when he was president.
The point is Mike Johnson couldn't get so reasonable and logical a bill through; why do we think he will move any of Trump's agenda forward?
Another question; why didn't Johnson see to it this bill was brought up for a vote BEFORE the election? It's failure would have rebounded against the Democrats. But he waited until after the election, thus allowing Democrats cover.
As GOP control of the House will remain razor-thin it seems unlikely Mr. Johnson will be able to move anything even if he tries (and I'm not sure he will try very hard). It was so unnecessary; the GOP failed to expand only because of it's weak and vacillating leadership.
Couple that with the Senate under John "Mini-Me" Thune and we are assured of four years of nothing out of them. Trump is going to have to act via exective order, as he did in his first term, despite his startling electoral victory.
Many Conservative pundits are saying Johnson and Thune are going to be too frightened to not go along with Trump. I say nonsense; Trump can only embrarrass them, and they will happily fire back. They are the co-heads of a coequal branch of government.
No, right now the RINO wing still controls our government by and large and it will be Trump who is forced to genuflect, not Johnson and Thune. And this is by design, in accordance with the plans of Mitch McConnell and the ghost of John Boehner (who has become a major adviser to Mike Johnson). The GOP in Congress doesn't really want to win, they prefer a balance of power so nobody dare throw them out or move against their own agendas.
Hate to dump cold water on our parade but I think this failure speaks volumes.
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Alaska STILL Counting Voteson Ranked Choice
Timothy Birdnow
So, Ranked Choice is losing in Alaska but by a whisker as the vote continues to be counted.
Now, why is it taking so long to count the vote? The population of Alaska is a scant 733 THOUSAND souls and no doubt many of them don't vote. Yet here we are over a week out from the election and they STILL don't have them counted! Something stinks about that.
Apparently 35,000 ballots remain uncounted.
Rank Choice (pew!), er, Ranked Choice is a scheme adopted by Alaska and other states to choose people from a list where you rank your preferences. So someone who loses the total vote but wins more runner up slots can wind up in power. It is rightly seen as a tool to allow Democrats to win more offices as freqUENTLY THE RUNNER UP WILL BE A Democrat (since most of the time they are also on the ballot) and while the people who vote Republican may not be doctrinaire MAGA types but they will fill out the ballot while Democrats simply won't list a ranking.
Ranked choice also complicates the vote tabulation, as is seen right here, and allows more time for the Left to manufacture votes.
Here are some reasons why Conservatives should worry about ranked choice.
So, Ranked Choice is losing in Alaska but by a whisker as the vote continues to be counted.
Now, why is it taking so long to count the vote? The population of Alaska is a scant 733 THOUSAND souls and no doubt many of them don't vote. Yet here we are over a week out from the election and they STILL don't have them counted! Something stinks about that.
Apparently 35,000 ballots remain uncounted.
Rank Choice (pew!), er, Ranked Choice is a scheme adopted by Alaska and other states to choose people from a list where you rank your preferences. So someone who loses the total vote but wins more runner up slots can wind up in power. It is rightly seen as a tool to allow Democrats to win more offices as freqUENTLY THE RUNNER UP WILL BE A Democrat (since most of the time they are also on the ballot) and while the people who vote Republican may not be doctrinaire MAGA types but they will fill out the ballot while Democrats simply won't list a ranking.
Ranked choice also complicates the vote tabulation, as is seen right here, and allows more time for the Left to manufacture votes.
Here are some reasons why Conservatives should worry about ranked choice.
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The Pennsylvania Hustle
Timothy Birdnow
The Bucks County Commissioner who is acttively working to steal the election for Bob Casey in Pennsylvania admitted she was breaking the law by counting bad ballots and in fact was quite proud of herself for doing so.
Diane Marseglia was caught on tape admitting they were keeping ballots that did not comport with Pennsylvania law.
This should get the whole recount business stopped, but of course the courts have to rule on this evidence and they will be reluctant to do so.
Election after election Philadelphia tampers with the vote and nothing is ever done. This woman needs to be put in jail.
Hornswaggler, er, Marseglia actually endorsed Harris before the election and promised to deliver the country for her in a gross violation of ethics.
There has to be a day of accounting for these people.
The Bucks County Commissioner who is acttively working to steal the election for Bob Casey in Pennsylvania admitted she was breaking the law by counting bad ballots and in fact was quite proud of herself for doing so.
Diane Marseglia was caught on tape admitting they were keeping ballots that did not comport with Pennsylvania law.
This should get the whole recount business stopped, but of course the courts have to rule on this evidence and they will be reluctant to do so.
Election after election Philadelphia tampers with the vote and nothing is ever done. This woman needs to be put in jail.
Hornswaggler, er, Marseglia actually endorsed Harris before the election and promised to deliver the country for her in a gross violation of ethics.
There has to be a day of accounting for these people.
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American Stasi
Timothy Birdnow
The FBI, in a case of pure Stasi tactics, made a six a.m. raid on the home of the head of Polymarkets in what appears to be retribution for that company predicting a Harris loss.
CEO Shayne Coplan had his New York City home raided by the jackbooted thugs who took his computers and phone.
Why? Probably looking for contact with Donald Trump's people.
Speculation is that ostensibly this was done because Polymarkets - an offshore company - allowed U.S. citizens to bet on it's site in violation of the law. But when did this lawless regime give a flying frig about the law?
There has been no comment from the FBI or DOJ.
The point is this bears a striking resemblence to raids made against Trumpers - be it the raid on Guilliani's home, or on Roger Stone's home, or on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (where they seemed more interested in a panty raid than in actually seeking evidence for some crime). This has become a common tactic of the FBI, under the thumb of Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland.
This Newsweek Article from last year shows that many groups associated with Trump were targeted by the FBI. Also, the FBI appears to have run a purge on Conservative and Trump-supporting agents and employees.
The FBI is now more akin to the East German Stasi than to the honorable law enforcement agency we used to believe it had been.
The FBI, in a case of pure Stasi tactics, made a six a.m. raid on the home of the head of Polymarkets in what appears to be retribution for that company predicting a Harris loss.
CEO Shayne Coplan had his New York City home raided by the jackbooted thugs who took his computers and phone.
Why? Probably looking for contact with Donald Trump's people.
Speculation is that ostensibly this was done because Polymarkets - an offshore company - allowed U.S. citizens to bet on it's site in violation of the law. But when did this lawless regime give a flying frig about the law?
There has been no comment from the FBI or DOJ.
The point is this bears a striking resemblence to raids made against Trumpers - be it the raid on Guilliani's home, or on Roger Stone's home, or on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (where they seemed more interested in a panty raid than in actually seeking evidence for some crime). This has become a common tactic of the FBI, under the thumb of Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland.
This Newsweek Article from last year shows that many groups associated with Trump were targeted by the FBI. Also, the FBI appears to have run a purge on Conservative and Trump-supporting agents and employees.
The FBI is now more akin to the East German Stasi than to the honorable law enforcement agency we used to believe it had been.
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Chicago Mayor "Trump Will Deport Black People"
Timothy Birdnow
Oh for crying out loud!
Chicago Mayor Johnson labels Trump a ‘threat’ to ‘black families’ in vow to shield illegal aliens from deportation
If the U.S. didn't deport black people during the eugenics era how can this dimwit think that would happen now? This fool doesn't understand the meaning of the word CITIZEN - or legal.
Yes, blacks will be deported IF THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS just as will be Hispanics, whites, and Asians.
What kills me is he does know how ridiculous this is, I am sure, but thinks so little of his black constituents that he tries to pull this on them and expects them to swallow it.
We might be better off just deporting HIM.
Texas and Florida need to start loading Chicago with busloads of illegals and make Johnson explain to Chicagoans the benefits of being a sanctuary city then.
Oh for crying out loud!
Chicago Mayor Johnson labels Trump a ‘threat’ to ‘black families’ in vow to shield illegal aliens from deportation
"The president-elect, former President Trump, his threat is not just toward new arrivals and undocumented families. His threats are also against black families," he stated. "We're going to stand up and protect undocumented individuals."
If the U.S. didn't deport black people during the eugenics era how can this dimwit think that would happen now? This fool doesn't understand the meaning of the word CITIZEN - or legal.
Yes, blacks will be deported IF THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS just as will be Hispanics, whites, and Asians.
What kills me is he does know how ridiculous this is, I am sure, but thinks so little of his black constituents that he tries to pull this on them and expects them to swallow it.
We might be better off just deporting HIM.
Texas and Florida need to start loading Chicago with busloads of illegals and make Johnson explain to Chicagoans the benefits of being a sanctuary city then.
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Casey's Trainwreck
Timothy Birdnow
Tthe sore loser Democrats are about to try the big steal in Pennsylvania as they have triggered a recount in the Senate race lost by Bob Casey.
As is usual the Republican Dave McCormick was ahead and a sudden surge made this into a "photo finish" and now the incumbent Casey - who has refused to concede - has "found" enough votes to send this to a recount. This is par for the course with the Democrats; they cannot accept losing, especially when it's an old incombent.
The GOP will face a daunting challenge as the Pa. courts were packed by Democrats and if this is litigated (something the sore loser Casey is vowing to do) the GOP will likely lose in court. The only way they will get a fair shake, in my opinion, is if this is appealed to the Feds, who generally won't take wsuch cases as elections clearly fall within the purview of the states.
That might well steal this seat.
Tthe sore loser Democrats are about to try the big steal in Pennsylvania as they have triggered a recount in the Senate race lost by Bob Casey.
As is usual the Republican Dave McCormick was ahead and a sudden surge made this into a "photo finish" and now the incumbent Casey - who has refused to concede - has "found" enough votes to send this to a recount. This is par for the course with the Democrats; they cannot accept losing, especially when it's an old incombent.
The GOP will face a daunting challenge as the Pa. courts were packed by Democrats and if this is litigated (something the sore loser Casey is vowing to do) the GOP will likely lose in court. The only way they will get a fair shake, in my opinion, is if this is appealed to the Feds, who generally won't take wsuch cases as elections clearly fall within the purview of the states.
That might well steal this seat.
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November 14, 2024
Light Blogging
Timothy Birdnow
Light blogging today and tomorrow. I've been very busy here of late and it will give you all time to catch up with older posts.
Thanks for your patience!
Light blogging today and tomorrow. I've been very busy here of late and it will give you all time to catch up with older posts.
Thanks for your patience!
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Gaetz Gets 'Em
Timothy Birdnow
Trump has chosen the firebrand Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General.
I hope Trump knows what he is doing.
First, while I love Gaetz a lot of folks hate him, and his path to confirmation will be very difficult. I get the temptation; the GOP RINO wing were talking about kicking him out of the party just a short time ago, This is, of course, a shot across the bow of Mike Johnson, whom Gaetz tried to remove as Speaker. It's Trump's way of marking a bulls-eye on the timid and feckless and duplicitous Squeeker Johnson. It also sayss to the Democrats there is a new sheriff in town.
BUt it's all for naught if the Senate doens't confirm him. I suspect they won't.
And while he's from Florida and his seat will probably be replaced by a Republican it's no sure thing, and with the razor-thin margin in the House I'm not sure how good an idea that may be. The seat has to be filled by special election; the governor cannot appoint anyone as with the Senate.
Democrats are GREAT at winning those special elections.
I also think it sets a bad precedent in that it is keeping just another guy from inside the beltway rather than looking outside of washington for new blood. There is plenty; I favor Andrew Bailey, my home-state Attorney General (Missouri) for the position. He has no ties to D.C. It's hard to spend a lot of time in D.C., making friends with people, then distance yourself from them in the execution of your duties, maybe prosecuting them (and plenty of them need prosecuting). The AG should be an outside and should always REMAIN an outsider. The Old Boys Club is a big part of our problem.
But Gaetz IS a fighter and should do a good job of it, although I would prefer someone with some prosecutorial experience; we don't need the DOJ losing a bunch of cases because Gaetz screws up.
Another point; Trump MAY be tossing up Gaetz as a throwaway, knowing his pick will be rejected no matter what. He can then move on to candidate two, his real first choice. But I doubt it; time is precious and I believe Trump knows that. He can ill-afford to not have his man at the helm.
At any rate let us hope Gaetz gets 'em!
Trump has chosen the firebrand Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General.
I hope Trump knows what he is doing.
First, while I love Gaetz a lot of folks hate him, and his path to confirmation will be very difficult. I get the temptation; the GOP RINO wing were talking about kicking him out of the party just a short time ago, This is, of course, a shot across the bow of Mike Johnson, whom Gaetz tried to remove as Speaker. It's Trump's way of marking a bulls-eye on the timid and feckless and duplicitous Squeeker Johnson. It also sayss to the Democrats there is a new sheriff in town.
BUt it's all for naught if the Senate doens't confirm him. I suspect they won't.
And while he's from Florida and his seat will probably be replaced by a Republican it's no sure thing, and with the razor-thin margin in the House I'm not sure how good an idea that may be. The seat has to be filled by special election; the governor cannot appoint anyone as with the Senate.
Democrats are GREAT at winning those special elections.
I also think it sets a bad precedent in that it is keeping just another guy from inside the beltway rather than looking outside of washington for new blood. There is plenty; I favor Andrew Bailey, my home-state Attorney General (Missouri) for the position. He has no ties to D.C. It's hard to spend a lot of time in D.C., making friends with people, then distance yourself from them in the execution of your duties, maybe prosecuting them (and plenty of them need prosecuting). The AG should be an outside and should always REMAIN an outsider. The Old Boys Club is a big part of our problem.
But Gaetz IS a fighter and should do a good job of it, although I would prefer someone with some prosecutorial experience; we don't need the DOJ losing a bunch of cases because Gaetz screws up.
Another point; Trump MAY be tossing up Gaetz as a throwaway, knowing his pick will be rejected no matter what. He can then move on to candidate two, his real first choice. But I doubt it; time is precious and I believe Trump knows that. He can ill-afford to not have his man at the helm.
At any rate let us hope Gaetz gets 'em!
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ossessing an electric skateboard with a lithium-ion battery means you're safe to roll over surfaces for quite a long time.
Ramaswamy to Help Run D.O.G.E.
Timothy Birdnow
Vivek Ramaswamy is going to head up D.O.G.E., the Department of Government Efficiency, along with Elon Musk. Ron Paul may also join them, it is rumored.
The two (and hopefully three) billionaires will hopefully take a buzz saw to multiple government agencies, and could save us billions, perhaps trillions over time. This is well past due.
We should call these guys the Roto Rooter men; they are going to unclog the drains and let all the poop wash away!
Hat tip; Dana Mathewson
Vivek Ramaswamy is going to head up D.O.G.E., the Department of Government Efficiency, along with Elon Musk. Ron Paul may also join them, it is rumored.
The two (and hopefully three) billionaires will hopefully take a buzz saw to multiple government agencies, and could save us billions, perhaps trillions over time. This is well past due.
We should call these guys the Roto Rooter men; they are going to unclog the drains and let all the poop wash away!
Hat tip; Dana Mathewson
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November 13, 2024
Judge: Musk did not Run an Illegal Lottery
Timothy Birdnow
Elon Musk did not run an illegal lottery according to a PA. judge who allowed it to continue.
So yet another case of lawfare failing when confronted by actual jurists.
Elon Musk did not run an illegal lottery according to a PA. judge who allowed it to continue.
So yet another case of lawfare failing when confronted by actual jurists.
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Revelation 12
Timothy Birdnow
While surfing Google results for news aggregates I found this little tidbit that appeared in The Atlantic back in April.
I didn't see this sort of thing anywhere before the election, but the author is crowing about how Conservative websites/blogs were seeing their traffic collapse.
Needless to say they blamed it on Trump, but what it actually tells us is that Google and the other gatekeepers had shadow-banned conservative sites.
I know this is true. Our own Aviary is pretty much disappeared from search results when it used to be easy to find, and as a result our traffic dropped down in a major way some years back. The Gateway Pundit was huge and now you struggle to find it and THAT was because Google decided to simply disappear it.
So what does that tell us? It tells us that the mandarins of information have purposely suppressed conservvative thought to tamper with the election, that's what it tells us.
The next Attorney General needs to file a number of anti-trust lawsuits - against Google,against Meta, against network news. They have colluded, and with the aid of our government, to strangle free speech.
That is why small blogs like the Aviary largely no longer exist; just a few die-hards keep at it. You cannot profit from it, certainly; advertisers aren't going to pay for a platform nobody can find.
I had a friend who worked in radio and his wife took a sales job with the tiny station he worked at in North Carolina. She quit after a couple of weeks, largely because you couldn't pick up the station outisid of a few miles from the transmission tower. Nobody advertises on a station they can't even tune in. And that is what happened to most conservative blogs.
I stay at it because it's good for my emotiional health; I like to get my thoughts out. It's like a diary to some. But it doesn't pay anything (I never monetized it and now never will) and it takes a lot of time and effort. Few are stalwart enough to hang in with this, especially since I know that Ihave no audience, just a few loyal readers (like Bill and MIke).
But it wasn't always so. My blog posts were linked up by a lot of writers, and in fact it made it into a number of books written by different authors over the years. We hadn't made it big but we teetered on the edge. Now it's the equivalent of a Facebook page, only without even the readers that those attract. I wonder sometimes why I bother with this.
We had a good online ranking until Google suppressed us. Now I think we are rating at well under the two million mark. In other words we aren't even gnat-like.
We used to have some illustrious readers too. I am certain Rush Limbaugh was a fan, for instance. He lifted my phrase "the Max Headroom President" when speaking about Obama the day I said it here, and nobody said that as a web search showed. He also mentioned a number of articles in the exact same order I mentioned over global warming once, and some of these articles were quite obscure. I know Rush knew about me; he had me in his stack of stuff when I wrote for American Thinker on a couple of occasions.
But now I doubt anyone even remembers me or the old Birdblog, or the Aviary.
Sometimes I consider turning this into a satire site like the Babylon Bee, or making it a literary magazine featuring my own writing. I may wind up doing that yet.
So I may have an ax to grind, but I'd like to grind it in the skull of that "don't be evil" corporation that has decided my website should be banished to oblivion. But the point is control of the means of disseminating information is the key to political power and the Left has always understood that and has largely controlled it - first with newspapers, then with radio and then television and now with their dominance of the internet. They don't so much defeat us as simply silence us so we can't compete. Like Barack Obama, they clear the field of any competition using dirty tactics. We have to fight fire with fire.
I hope Trump understands this. The only we we can make permanent changes is to break the power of their tongues. I am mindful of the Book of Revelation where the Woman and her newborn child are carried away by a flood from the mouth of the dragon; that SO fits the current situation where the dragon of liberalism is drowning us with a flood of lies. Well, how do you fight a dragon like an alligator? You first grab their mouths and hold them shut. The leftist media are nothing more than crocodiles and if we let them open their mouths they will clamp down on us and we will be dragged to their meat locker after a crazy death roll.
Another analogy; the King Cobra is lethal but the Mongoose usually kills it. We are the Mongeese (Mongooses?) We can kill the poisonous viper, but we have to be quick.
So whoever heads up the DOJ needs to go after the liars who are strangling us.
While surfing Google results for news aggregates I found this little tidbit that appeared in The Atlantic back in April.
I didn't see this sort of thing anywhere before the election, but the author is crowing about how Conservative websites/blogs were seeing their traffic collapse.
Needless to say they blamed it on Trump, but what it actually tells us is that Google and the other gatekeepers had shadow-banned conservative sites.
I know this is true. Our own Aviary is pretty much disappeared from search results when it used to be easy to find, and as a result our traffic dropped down in a major way some years back. The Gateway Pundit was huge and now you struggle to find it and THAT was because Google decided to simply disappear it.
So what does that tell us? It tells us that the mandarins of information have purposely suppressed conservvative thought to tamper with the election, that's what it tells us.
The next Attorney General needs to file a number of anti-trust lawsuits - against Google,against Meta, against network news. They have colluded, and with the aid of our government, to strangle free speech.
That is why small blogs like the Aviary largely no longer exist; just a few die-hards keep at it. You cannot profit from it, certainly; advertisers aren't going to pay for a platform nobody can find.
I had a friend who worked in radio and his wife took a sales job with the tiny station he worked at in North Carolina. She quit after a couple of weeks, largely because you couldn't pick up the station outisid of a few miles from the transmission tower. Nobody advertises on a station they can't even tune in. And that is what happened to most conservative blogs.
I stay at it because it's good for my emotiional health; I like to get my thoughts out. It's like a diary to some. But it doesn't pay anything (I never monetized it and now never will) and it takes a lot of time and effort. Few are stalwart enough to hang in with this, especially since I know that Ihave no audience, just a few loyal readers (like Bill and MIke).
But it wasn't always so. My blog posts were linked up by a lot of writers, and in fact it made it into a number of books written by different authors over the years. We hadn't made it big but we teetered on the edge. Now it's the equivalent of a Facebook page, only without even the readers that those attract. I wonder sometimes why I bother with this.
We had a good online ranking until Google suppressed us. Now I think we are rating at well under the two million mark. In other words we aren't even gnat-like.
We used to have some illustrious readers too. I am certain Rush Limbaugh was a fan, for instance. He lifted my phrase "the Max Headroom President" when speaking about Obama the day I said it here, and nobody said that as a web search showed. He also mentioned a number of articles in the exact same order I mentioned over global warming once, and some of these articles were quite obscure. I know Rush knew about me; he had me in his stack of stuff when I wrote for American Thinker on a couple of occasions.
But now I doubt anyone even remembers me or the old Birdblog, or the Aviary.
Sometimes I consider turning this into a satire site like the Babylon Bee, or making it a literary magazine featuring my own writing. I may wind up doing that yet.
So I may have an ax to grind, but I'd like to grind it in the skull of that "don't be evil" corporation that has decided my website should be banished to oblivion. But the point is control of the means of disseminating information is the key to political power and the Left has always understood that and has largely controlled it - first with newspapers, then with radio and then television and now with their dominance of the internet. They don't so much defeat us as simply silence us so we can't compete. Like Barack Obama, they clear the field of any competition using dirty tactics. We have to fight fire with fire.
I hope Trump understands this. The only we we can make permanent changes is to break the power of their tongues. I am mindful of the Book of Revelation where the Woman and her newborn child are carried away by a flood from the mouth of the dragon; that SO fits the current situation where the dragon of liberalism is drowning us with a flood of lies. Well, how do you fight a dragon like an alligator? You first grab their mouths and hold them shut. The leftist media are nothing more than crocodiles and if we let them open their mouths they will clamp down on us and we will be dragged to their meat locker after a crazy death roll.
Another analogy; the King Cobra is lethal but the Mongoose usually kills it. We are the Mongeese (Mongooses?) We can kill the poisonous viper, but we have to be quick.
So whoever heads up the DOJ needs to go after the liars who are strangling us.
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Climate Apocalypse in Ten Years (Again)
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It's the end of the world as we know it.
"BREAKING: senior IPCC scientists say exceeding the Paris 1.5°C limit is now inevitable, imminent, and may well have already occured as unsurvivable 2°C by 2034-2038 looms"
I find it fascinating that we get these predictions every time there is a U.N. Climate conference sullies our news cycle. And it's always ten years away. They've been saying this since the '80's.
This whole scam reminds me of the Salem Wtich panic. There were witches under every bed and behind every tree, but after killing a bunch of innocents sanity returned. Sadly sanity has not returned.
This is much like Orson Well's War of the Worlds scare, only it has lasted over forty years now.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
"BREAKING: senior IPCC scientists say exceeding the Paris 1.5°C limit is now inevitable, imminent, and may well have already occured as unsurvivable 2°C by 2034-2038 looms"
I find it fascinating that we get these predictions every time there is a U.N. Climate conference sullies our news cycle. And it's always ten years away. They've been saying this since the '80's.
This whole scam reminds me of the Salem Wtich panic. There were witches under every bed and behind every tree, but after killing a bunch of innocents sanity returned. Sadly sanity has not returned.
This is much like Orson Well's War of the Worlds scare, only it has lasted over forty years now.
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Mexico Threatens Trade War
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Bring it on!
Mexico Threatens Trade War with Trump
Exports to Mexico from the U.S. were $362.0 billion; imports were $493.1 billion. Who loses a trade war?
And there are lots of countries willing to take on the roll of Mexico as a cheap labor market for companies, those companies that don't move back to the U.S. under Trump. We can just as easily get goods from Guatemala or South America or whatnot.
FDI - Foreign Direct Assisstance - to Mexico in 2023 amounted to $38.3 billion . How is Mexico going to fare without that nice little chunk of change?
I dare the narco-state of Mexico to go to war with us over trade; they will get creamed. It is America that funds Mexico. The remissions from Mexican expatriates working here alone keeps the Mexican junta in power. That will change if we squeeze these remissions.
Good luck with that trade war!
Bring it on!
Mexico Threatens Trade War with Trump
Exports to Mexico from the U.S. were $362.0 billion; imports were $493.1 billion. Who loses a trade war?
And there are lots of countries willing to take on the roll of Mexico as a cheap labor market for companies, those companies that don't move back to the U.S. under Trump. We can just as easily get goods from Guatemala or South America or whatnot.
FDI - Foreign Direct Assisstance - to Mexico in 2023 amounted to $38.3 billion . How is Mexico going to fare without that nice little chunk of change?
I dare the narco-state of Mexico to go to war with us over trade; they will get creamed. It is America that funds Mexico. The remissions from Mexican expatriates working here alone keeps the Mexican junta in power. That will change if we squeeze these remissions.
Good luck with that trade war!
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Same Old Tune; It's John Thune
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Looks like it's McConnell's mini-me to head up the Senate.
Republicans choose John Thune as next Senate majority leader
He is the worst possible choice for the senate leadership (well, worst of the candidates under consideration). This shows McConnell is going nowhere; he's planning on pulling the strings from behind the scenes rather than as the leader, and probably will continue to do so even after he leaves the Senate.
We can't be rid of McConnell soon enough, in my view.
Cornyne would have sucked but been better than Thune, and Scott would have been mediocre but better than Cornyne.
The Republicans should have picked up ten seats in this election; the Democrats were defending a bunch of them. But they barely took control of the Senate and in the next election it will be the GOP with a lot of seats to defend. Election after election the GOP has underperformed in the Senate, and that under the tutelage of Mitch McConnell, who preferred losing a seat to the Democrats to allowing a Conservative to sit in "his" Senate. His record of failure justified a drastic break from the status quo, yet here we are with the GOP majority choosing his flunky and thus continuing the McConnell doctrine, the path of the eternal loser.
We may well lose the Senate in the next election and that will be because we didn't win as we should have in the Senate. (I would add we underperformed in the House too and I place blame for that on Mike Johnson and his predecessors, who never stood up to the bullies in the Democratic Party and in the media.)
Insanity, in the words of Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The American People did their part,electing Trump. But congress has failed us and did not succeed not because the American People didn't support them properly but because they didn't support US properly, preferring to dance with the Devil for the good life in D.C. It's hard to have enthusiasm for a party that takes you for granted and whose nose is as brown as one of those discontinued M and M's that often led to the trashing of hotel rooms by rock stars upon their discovery in the candy mix. They were obviously more interested in their own fortunes and corporate desires than in the public interest and so they have struggled. Most of us know we need Congress, but many of us are unmotivated to get out the vote for a bunch of weenies and losers.
So John Thunne is just another in a long line of men with hollow chests (and double chins) to lead the Republicans into the glorious land of surrender. We deserve better.
Trump showed the way. He showed that if you fight and remain firm and do not cower you will win. This is at odds with the GOP consultant class, which argues you should be everything to everybody and hold no principles. Trump blew that notion away.
Political opinions in the nation are not set in stone, and they change all the time. You have to LEAD and the public will follow. The GOP has spent decades leading from behind, then wonder why they cannot beat the damned Bolshevik Democrats. It's not that they can't; it's that they refuse to try. McConnell and his ilk were quite happy with a Senate that was neck-and-neck so that the voters dared not turn out the RINO wing out of fear of losing the seat (just look at Kari Lake in Arizona, who could have won had McConnell lifted a finger to win that seat). McConnell's fundamental strategy is predicated on a balance of power between the two parties, and he is happy to lose a few elections to maintain his grip on the GOP. That is a loser's strategy; it benefits no-one except the Party insiders. America has been in serious decline since McConnell assumed power in the Senate and it will continue under Thune unless Thune is so afraid of Trump he obeys Trump's orders. But even then he'll probably work behind the scenes to sabotage Trump.
BTW we need the vote for Majority Leader to be public and not secret. Why make it secret? Are Senators so cowardly as to be unwilling to put themselves out there? It's not the PARTY'S decision or the Senate's; it belongs to the voters who put these people in power. They REPRESENT us; they do not rule over us. They owe us the vote tally so we know who to punish and who to reward.
Thune had nothing but bad things to say about Trump until he saw which way the wind was blowing, I might add.
"What former President Trump did to undermine faith in our election system and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power is inexcusable,”
Senator John Thune
Senator John Thune
Looks like it's McConnell's mini-me to head up the Senate.
Republicans choose John Thune as next Senate majority leader
He is the worst possible choice for the senate leadership (well, worst of the candidates under consideration). This shows McConnell is going nowhere; he's planning on pulling the strings from behind the scenes rather than as the leader, and probably will continue to do so even after he leaves the Senate.
We can't be rid of McConnell soon enough, in my view.
Cornyne would have sucked but been better than Thune, and Scott would have been mediocre but better than Cornyne.
The Republicans should have picked up ten seats in this election; the Democrats were defending a bunch of them. But they barely took control of the Senate and in the next election it will be the GOP with a lot of seats to defend. Election after election the GOP has underperformed in the Senate, and that under the tutelage of Mitch McConnell, who preferred losing a seat to the Democrats to allowing a Conservative to sit in "his" Senate. His record of failure justified a drastic break from the status quo, yet here we are with the GOP majority choosing his flunky and thus continuing the McConnell doctrine, the path of the eternal loser.
We may well lose the Senate in the next election and that will be because we didn't win as we should have in the Senate. (I would add we underperformed in the House too and I place blame for that on Mike Johnson and his predecessors, who never stood up to the bullies in the Democratic Party and in the media.)
Insanity, in the words of Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The American People did their part,electing Trump. But congress has failed us and did not succeed not because the American People didn't support them properly but because they didn't support US properly, preferring to dance with the Devil for the good life in D.C. It's hard to have enthusiasm for a party that takes you for granted and whose nose is as brown as one of those discontinued M and M's that often led to the trashing of hotel rooms by rock stars upon their discovery in the candy mix. They were obviously more interested in their own fortunes and corporate desires than in the public interest and so they have struggled. Most of us know we need Congress, but many of us are unmotivated to get out the vote for a bunch of weenies and losers.
So John Thunne is just another in a long line of men with hollow chests (and double chins) to lead the Republicans into the glorious land of surrender. We deserve better.
Trump showed the way. He showed that if you fight and remain firm and do not cower you will win. This is at odds with the GOP consultant class, which argues you should be everything to everybody and hold no principles. Trump blew that notion away.
Political opinions in the nation are not set in stone, and they change all the time. You have to LEAD and the public will follow. The GOP has spent decades leading from behind, then wonder why they cannot beat the damned Bolshevik Democrats. It's not that they can't; it's that they refuse to try. McConnell and his ilk were quite happy with a Senate that was neck-and-neck so that the voters dared not turn out the RINO wing out of fear of losing the seat (just look at Kari Lake in Arizona, who could have won had McConnell lifted a finger to win that seat). McConnell's fundamental strategy is predicated on a balance of power between the two parties, and he is happy to lose a few elections to maintain his grip on the GOP. That is a loser's strategy; it benefits no-one except the Party insiders. America has been in serious decline since McConnell assumed power in the Senate and it will continue under Thune unless Thune is so afraid of Trump he obeys Trump's orders. But even then he'll probably work behind the scenes to sabotage Trump.
BTW we need the vote for Majority Leader to be public and not secret. Why make it secret? Are Senators so cowardly as to be unwilling to put themselves out there? It's not the PARTY'S decision or the Senate's; it belongs to the voters who put these people in power. They REPRESENT us; they do not rule over us. They owe us the vote tally so we know who to punish and who to reward.
Thune had nothing but bad things to say about Trump until he saw which way the wind was blowing, I might add.
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Lara Trump for Senate?
Timothy Birdnow
Rumor has it Lara Trump may replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate.
That would be awesome, although I hate losing Lara from the Republican National Committee where she did so steallar a job in this last election.
Sorry, no link except a tweet on X.
Rumor has it Lara Trump may replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate.
That would be awesome, although I hate losing Lara from the Republican National Committee where she did so steallar a job in this last election.
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The Braggin James Gang Pursues Bannon
Timothy Birdnow
Steve Bannon, freshly released after four months in prison for refusing to honor a Congressional subpeona (much like multiple Demcorats have done, folks such as Eric Holder or Alejandro Mayorkas or James Comey who defied Congressional subpoena's and suffered nary a consequence while Bannon went to prison for Walking While MAGA) is now facing charges from Alvin Bragg and Letitia James in New York over his foundation that was taking donations for a border wall. Apparently a hundred grand was spent on expenses and Bragg is claiming this is fraud because Bannon said all money would go to the construction of the wall.
Steve Bannon blasts 'lawfare' as he faces New York trial after federal prison stint
According to the article:
There was an attempt to charge Bannon with this very same "crime" by Federal prosecutors who dropped the case (much like happened with Donald Trump, whose "hush money" case was dropped as not a crime by Feds.)
Bannon's attorneys asked for a postponement of the trial to allow time for his team to line up experts to rebut the Proseccution's claims of wrongdoing. The judge is considering the motion.
This is nothing but the most onerous forms of lawfare, an attempt to destroy and imprison a political rival. We need to start digging into Ms. James and Mr. Bragg's own dealings; no doubt there are skeletons that can be de-closeted and it's high time we start taking such action. As ye sow so shall ye reap...
Well, we now hold the winning hand and we'll lay our cards down with "read 'em and weep, creep!" Reap this!
Steve Bannon, freshly released after four months in prison for refusing to honor a Congressional subpeona (much like multiple Demcorats have done, folks such as Eric Holder or Alejandro Mayorkas or James Comey who defied Congressional subpoena's and suffered nary a consequence while Bannon went to prison for Walking While MAGA) is now facing charges from Alvin Bragg and Letitia James in New York over his foundation that was taking donations for a border wall. Apparently a hundred grand was spent on expenses and Bragg is claiming this is fraud because Bannon said all money would go to the construction of the wall.
Steve Bannon blasts 'lawfare' as he faces New York trial after federal prison stint
According to the article:
"The longtime Trump ally's latest trial is set to start Dec. 9 — but could be postponed after a hearing Monday — at the same Manhattan courthouse where the past-and-next president was convicted in his hush money case. Separately, a judge Tuesday delayed a key ruling in the hush money case for at least a week as prosecutors ponder how to proceed in light of Trump's impending presidency."
There was an attempt to charge Bannon with this very same "crime" by Federal prosecutors who dropped the case (much like happened with Donald Trump, whose "hush money" case was dropped as not a crime by Feds.)
Bannon's attorneys asked for a postponement of the trial to allow time for his team to line up experts to rebut the Proseccution's claims of wrongdoing. The judge is considering the motion.
This is nothing but the most onerous forms of lawfare, an attempt to destroy and imprison a political rival. We need to start digging into Ms. James and Mr. Bragg's own dealings; no doubt there are skeletons that can be de-closeted and it's high time we start taking such action. As ye sow so shall ye reap...
Well, we now hold the winning hand and we'll lay our cards down with "read 'em and weep, creep!" Reap this!
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Afghanistan at COP 29
Timothy Birdnow
The Taliban (tally me banana) is trying to push it's snout into the international relief for "climate change". They sent their little piglet to Azerbaijan to attend the U.N. Climate talks in Baku. And of course he asked for money.
So there you have it; it's always about the Benjamins. Do note it's not about the worthless Afghani, the offical monopoly money of the Taliban.
BTW What does Afghanistan have to offer to reduce carbon dioxide output? They are essentially in the Middle Ages and don't produce greenhouse gases in any meaningful way. I suppose they reduce emissions by making women cower under Burkha's and thus not breath their "unclean" air on everyone, and of course they just kill off the surplus population so as to reduce human emissions.
If this were run on business principles nations like Afghanistan would not have a seat at the table as they are not part of the "problem", a problem that is in fact all hot air. But if they don't produce emissions what right have they to decide on policies that impact other countries that rely on industry that produce emissions? This is rather like letting Afghanistan set educational policies for the rest of the world; they can't teach their own young but can tell us how to teach outs?
We live in an Alice-in-Wonderland world.
The Taliban (tally me banana) is trying to push it's snout into the international relief for "climate change". They sent their little piglet to Azerbaijan to attend the U.N. Climate talks in Baku. And of course he asked for money.
"Khalis said Afghanistan has prepared national action plans to deal with climate change and will be updating its climate goals within the next few months. He said the country has great potential for wind and solar power but needs international(aid) to develop it."
So there you have it; it's always about the Benjamins. Do note it's not about the worthless Afghani, the offical monopoly money of the Taliban.
BTW What does Afghanistan have to offer to reduce carbon dioxide output? They are essentially in the Middle Ages and don't produce greenhouse gases in any meaningful way. I suppose they reduce emissions by making women cower under Burkha's and thus not breath their "unclean" air on everyone, and of course they just kill off the surplus population so as to reduce human emissions.
If this were run on business principles nations like Afghanistan would not have a seat at the table as they are not part of the "problem", a problem that is in fact all hot air. But if they don't produce emissions what right have they to decide on policies that impact other countries that rely on industry that produce emissions? This is rather like letting Afghanistan set educational policies for the rest of the world; they can't teach their own young but can tell us how to teach outs?
We live in an Alice-in-Wonderland world.
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The Fall Guy
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This is good news but I want to know who he was working with and if others were involved in this. I strongly suspect this guy was not acting alone.
Man Charged in Leak of Classified Documents About Israeli Military Plans
You know full well this guy was acting in concert with people in the Administration. What we need to find out is who.
FTA:
"A C.I.A. official has been charged with disclosing classified documents that appeared to show Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack earlier this year, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter.
The official, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. He was arrested by the F.B.I. on Tuesday in Cambodia and brought to federal court in Guam to face charges.
The documents were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes images and information collected by U.S. spy satellites. It conducts work in support of clandestine and military operations.
Mr. Rahman, who worked abroad for the C.I.A., was set to appear in Guam on Thursday.
The information in the documents is highly classified and details interpretations of satellite imagery that shed light on a possible strike by Israel on Iran. They began circulating last month on the Telegram app. U.S. officials have previously said that they did not know from where the documents had been taken, and that they were looking for the original source of the leak."
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So how did this guy get a top secret clearance in the first place?
When I graduated from college I and my fellow Russian classmates (I studied Russian and history in college and had a certificate in Russian Scientific translation, although I fell one class short of getting the Russian degree and the Eastern Area Studies certificate because the professor who taught the philosophy of Mrxism/Leninism was on sabbatical) tried and failed to get jobs with the CIA and NSA. One girl, who had been an Army brat, was denied an NSA job solely because she had a distant cousin in East Germany and her father had been stationed in West Germany. They feared she could be a security risk. (I would add she was a BABE; I should have asked her out!) At any rate most of my classmates were denied such jobs because of niggling reasons that might suggest a security risk. Yet here we have a guy named Asif Rahman, who undoubtedly could be connected to Middle Eastern interests, getting so sensitive a security clearance. And this is nothing new; John Brennan actually voted for the Commmunist Party USA in an electiona nd disclosed that on his security clearance application and wound up becoming head of the CIA!
Times have really changed in our national intelligence.
And now we are going to probably see this guy quickly charged and convicted and disappear into the bowels of the penal system - and perhaps hang himself in his jail cell, or be struck by a bolt of lightning. But I suspect this will be the last we hear of him.
At a minimum he had to have contacts to deal with. You don't just one day decide to committ treason and pick up the phone and call Tehran with an offer. You have to know how to do it, who to call, and how to avoid detection. There are co-conspirators - Iranians at a minimum but I suspect people in the current Administration who wanted to hamstring Israel and thwart a possible attack on Iran by Israel.
My prediction is this story will vanish and so will that noodle Mr. Rahman. We'll probably hear he hanged himself, or was shanked by prisoners. But I imagine that will be covered up. Yes, the incoming Administration may well try to get this out, but I suspect the current crop of conniving convicts we call national security people will act switftly. They can't have this guy spilling his story to Newsmax or The Gateway Pundit.
This is good news but I want to know who he was working with and if others were involved in this. I strongly suspect this guy was not acting alone.
Man Charged in Leak of Classified Documents About Israeli Military Plans
You know full well this guy was acting in concert with people in the Administration. What we need to find out is who.
FTA:
"A C.I.A. official has been charged with disclosing classified documents that appeared to show Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack earlier this year, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter.
The official, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. He was arrested by the F.B.I. on Tuesday in Cambodia and brought to federal court in Guam to face charges.
The documents were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes images and information collected by U.S. spy satellites. It conducts work in support of clandestine and military operations.
Mr. Rahman, who worked abroad for the C.I.A., was set to appear in Guam on Thursday.
The information in the documents is highly classified and details interpretations of satellite imagery that shed light on a possible strike by Israel on Iran. They began circulating last month on the Telegram app. U.S. officials have previously said that they did not know from where the documents had been taken, and that they were looking for the original source of the leak."
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So how did this guy get a top secret clearance in the first place?
When I graduated from college I and my fellow Russian classmates (I studied Russian and history in college and had a certificate in Russian Scientific translation, although I fell one class short of getting the Russian degree and the Eastern Area Studies certificate because the professor who taught the philosophy of Mrxism/Leninism was on sabbatical) tried and failed to get jobs with the CIA and NSA. One girl, who had been an Army brat, was denied an NSA job solely because she had a distant cousin in East Germany and her father had been stationed in West Germany. They feared she could be a security risk. (I would add she was a BABE; I should have asked her out!) At any rate most of my classmates were denied such jobs because of niggling reasons that might suggest a security risk. Yet here we have a guy named Asif Rahman, who undoubtedly could be connected to Middle Eastern interests, getting so sensitive a security clearance. And this is nothing new; John Brennan actually voted for the Commmunist Party USA in an electiona nd disclosed that on his security clearance application and wound up becoming head of the CIA!
Times have really changed in our national intelligence.
And now we are going to probably see this guy quickly charged and convicted and disappear into the bowels of the penal system - and perhaps hang himself in his jail cell, or be struck by a bolt of lightning. But I suspect this will be the last we hear of him.
At a minimum he had to have contacts to deal with. You don't just one day decide to committ treason and pick up the phone and call Tehran with an offer. You have to know how to do it, who to call, and how to avoid detection. There are co-conspirators - Iranians at a minimum but I suspect people in the current Administration who wanted to hamstring Israel and thwart a possible attack on Iran by Israel.
My prediction is this story will vanish and so will that noodle Mr. Rahman. We'll probably hear he hanged himself, or was shanked by prisoners. But I imagine that will be covered up. Yes, the incoming Administration may well try to get this out, but I suspect the current crop of conniving convicts we call national security people will act switftly. They can't have this guy spilling his story to Newsmax or The Gateway Pundit.
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Great Scott!
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Rick Scottis out for Majority Leader.
He wasn't good but he beat the heck out of the two other losers contenders.
So we'll wind up with a McConnell clone and the Senate will continue to act as an anchor weighing down the GOP.
Rick Scottis out for Majority Leader.
He wasn't good but he beat the heck out of the two other losers contenders.
So we'll wind up with a McConnell clone and the Senate will continue to act as an anchor weighing down the GOP.
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