May 06, 2019
Jury Convicts Opiod Maker
Timothy Birdnow
A jury in Boston has convicted a drug company owner in the opioid witch hunt.
According to the BBC:
So he tried to increase sales of his legal narcotic by paying doctors to prescribe it. That is standard operating procedure for most drug manufacturers for all of their products. It's SOP for other products, too; do you ever wonder why the big name brands hold so much shelf space? They pay grocers to give them that space - and keep the smaller competitors out. That's the reason why you rarely see home-town products anymore. Take St. Louis; we had a bunch of home-town products -- Malls barbeque sauce, Reverino and Freschi pasta, Vess soda, etc. You can't find them anymore because the big brands have simply purchased them out of existence. It's the way business is done. these days.
The article continues:
Well, gee; they're disappointed. I guess so; they likely followed the law in all ways but still wound up being convicted. America has become a vindictive society. We always have to find someone to blame, some place to point a finger. That the government was in no small way involved in the opioid epidemic by changing guidelines and promoting pain killers based on dubious science - which the government controls through their monopoly on research, seems not to matter All you have to do is file in the right jurisdiction and you can open the doors for big, big money lawsuits. That is what this verdict will accomplish.
And it makes our Progressive friends feel good to punish somebody making money. They always like that.
Punish drug makers and people will stop making drugs. What are you going to do then? And if you've ever been in REAL pain and needed a strong pain killer you know ibuprofin isn't going to do it. But now many people in chronic pain are going to suffer for the greed of the trial lawyers and the incompetence of government.
Enjoy!
A jury in Boston has convicted a drug company owner in the opioid witch hunt.
According to the BBC:
The founder of Insys Therapeutics John Kapoor has become the first pharmaceutical boss to be convicted in a case linked to the US opioid crisis.
A Boston jury found Kapoor and four colleagues conspired to bribe doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers, often to patients who didn't need them.
The former billionaire was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy for his role in a scheme which also misled insurers.
A Boston jury found Kapoor and four colleagues conspired to bribe doctors to prescribe addictive painkillers, often to patients who didn't need them.
The former billionaire was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy for his role in a scheme which also misled insurers.
So he tried to increase sales of his legal narcotic by paying doctors to prescribe it. That is standard operating procedure for most drug manufacturers for all of their products. It's SOP for other products, too; do you ever wonder why the big name brands hold so much shelf space? They pay grocers to give them that space - and keep the smaller competitors out. That's the reason why you rarely see home-town products anymore. Take St. Louis; we had a bunch of home-town products -- Malls barbeque sauce, Reverino and Freschi pasta, Vess soda, etc. You can't find them anymore because the big brands have simply purchased them out of existence. It's the way business is done. these days.
The article continues:
Kapoor and his co-defendants - Michael Gurry, Richard Simon, Sunrise Lee and Joseph Rowan - face up to 20 years in prison.
A statement from Kapoor's lawyer said he was "disappointed" with the verdict. The men had denied the charges and have indicated that they plan to appeal.
A statement from Kapoor's lawyer said he was "disappointed" with the verdict. The men had denied the charges and have indicated that they plan to appeal.
Well, gee; they're disappointed. I guess so; they likely followed the law in all ways but still wound up being convicted. America has become a vindictive society. We always have to find someone to blame, some place to point a finger. That the government was in no small way involved in the opioid epidemic by changing guidelines and promoting pain killers based on dubious science - which the government controls through their monopoly on research, seems not to matter All you have to do is file in the right jurisdiction and you can open the doors for big, big money lawsuits. That is what this verdict will accomplish.
And it makes our Progressive friends feel good to punish somebody making money. They always like that.
Punish drug makers and people will stop making drugs. What are you going to do then? And if you've ever been in REAL pain and needed a strong pain killer you know ibuprofin isn't going to do it. But now many people in chronic pain are going to suffer for the greed of the trial lawyers and the incompetence of government.
Enjoy!
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May 05, 2019
Biden; the Ghost Whisperer
Timothy Birdnow
Warner Todd Houston makes the following point:
Liar Joe Biden Says 'Margaret Thatcher' Called Him to Warn About Trump-- Senile moron doesn't know Thatcher's been dead for decades
Biden says Margaret Thatcher warned him about Donald Trump.
Warner Todd Houston makes the following point:
Liar Joe Biden Says 'Margaret Thatcher' Called Him to Warn About Trump-- Senile moron doesn't know Thatcher's been dead for decades
Biden says Margaret Thatcher warned him about Donald Trump.
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A Comedy Tonight!
Dana Mathewson
Clarice Feldman nails it!
Clarice Feldman nails it!
Long article but worth the read.
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The best he ever did
Dana Mathewson
From Urgent Agenda:
From Urgent Agenda:
The whole town's talkin' about the Barr guy. And, of course, most of the town hates him. It's just the way Washington is. Quote of the day from Matthew Continetti in the Washington Free Beacon:
I can't think of a better illustration of our partisan divide than the reactions to Attorney General William Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Democrats are furious at Barr's defense of his rollout of the Mueller report and his assertions of executive power. Some Democrats want Barr to resign, others want him to be impeached, and Nancy Pelosi says he's guilty of lying to Congress. Republicans have found a hero.
Barr is the new Dick Cheney: a stocky, bespectacled, confrontational, blunt, intelligent, unapologetically conservative, experienced, and high-powered official who believes in and fights for the office of the president. Just as Democrats loathed Cheney as a bugaboo manipulating President George W. Bush to further the interests of Halliburton, they attack Barr as a dishonest factotum of President Trump's. The qualities that drove Democrats batty over Cheney—his inscrutability, his cleverness, his asperity, and above all his success—make them incensed about Barr. These happen to be qualities Republicans find appealing.
What's behind conservative support for Cheney and Barr is their lack of embarrassment. Most Washingtonians, no matter their party, find it important to be held in esteem by the city's tastemakers, who are overwhelmingly liberal. Not these two. The classic Cheney moment was his 2004 exchange with Pat Leahy on the Senate floor. Cheney complained that Leahy had called him a war profiteer. Leahy responded that Cheney had said he was a bad Catholic. So Cheney ended the conversation by telling Leahy to perform a physically impossible four-letter act. "You'd be surprised at how many people liked that," Cheney recollected in a 2010 interview. "It's sort of the best thing I ever did." He's selling himself short.
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The Hypocrisy of CNN
Timothy Birdnow
Check this out; CNN wrote over 20 articles on the Covington boys - you know, the kids who were falsely accused of racism for standing while MAGA - while they have said zip, zilch, the big easter egg, over Muslim kids chanting abotu severing infidel heads - in Philly..
The Daily Caller dishes:
Strange how some kids waiting for a bus and trying to be left alone are guilty of heinous crimes when they are white but kids waxing eloquent about sawing off infidel hatracks is somehow o.k.?
And they wonder why we say the media is biased...
Hat tip: Warner Todd Houston
Check this out; CNN wrote over 20 articles on the Covington boys - you know, the kids who were falsely accused of racism for standing while MAGA - while they have said zip, zilch, the big easter egg, over Muslim kids chanting abotu severing infidel heads - in Philly..
The Daily Caller dishes:
CNN covered the January controversy surrounding Nick Sandmann and his fellow Covington Catholic School students 23 times, yet thus far hasn’t covered footage of children at a Philadelphia Islamic center reading poetry about chopping off heads.
Video from last month of kids at the Philadelphia Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center showed them reading about chopping off heads and subjecting the enemies of Allah to "eternal torture.â€
The irony was pointed out via Twitter by The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra.
CNN wrote 23 articles on Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann
CNN has *not* reported on the kids in Philadelphia who were allegedly singing about chopping people’s heads off. pic.twitter.com/Jdeuz1ImKh
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 5, 2019
Video from last month of kids at the Philadelphia Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center showed them reading about chopping off heads and subjecting the enemies of Allah to "eternal torture.â€
The irony was pointed out via Twitter by The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra.
CNN wrote 23 articles on Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann
CNN has *not* reported on the kids in Philadelphia who were allegedly singing about chopping people’s heads off. pic.twitter.com/Jdeuz1ImKh
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 5, 2019
Strange how some kids waiting for a bus and trying to be left alone are guilty of heinous crimes when they are white but kids waxing eloquent about sawing off infidel hatracks is somehow o.k.?
And they wonder why we say the media is biased...
Hat tip: Warner Todd Houston
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AG was Obama's Wing Man but now it's bad when Trump's AG does it
Warner Todd Houston makes a brilliant observation:
Democrats are such baldfaced liars. They are all upset that U.S. Attorney Gen. William Barr might be making sure his boss, President Trump, does not get unfairly treated and they claim he is "acting like Trump's personal attorney, not the nation's top lawman." And yet, they wholly ignore that Obama's AG, Eric Holder, outright said he was Obama's "wingman," AND that their saint, President John Kennedy, actually hired HIS OWN BROTHER as the U.S. Attny. Gen.!
Democrats are such baldfaced liars. They are all upset that U.S. Attorney Gen. William Barr might be making sure his boss, President Trump, does not get unfairly treated and they claim he is "acting like Trump's personal attorney, not the nation's top lawman." And yet, they wholly ignore that Obama's AG, Eric Holder, outright said he was Obama's "wingman," AND that their saint, President John Kennedy, actually hired HIS OWN BROTHER as the U.S. Attny. Gen.!
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Veiled Reality?
Craig Willms
During my daily glance at ScienceDaily . com I came across this fascinating article about people who had profound mystical experiences, including those induced by psychedelic drugs, having positive mental health benefits. The thing I found most amazing was out the thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with "God" or "ultimate reality", researchers reported that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic.
Speculation arises that over the thousands of years human use of natural psychedelics likely formed the basis of many of the world's religions.
It suggests to me that there may be a veil over our reality that is lifted by psychedelics and extreme mystical experiences, revealing a consciousness normally hidden from us. In the very least it's interesting to ponder. Read the article
During my daily glance at ScienceDaily . com I came across this fascinating article about people who had profound mystical experiences, including those induced by psychedelic drugs, having positive mental health benefits. The thing I found most amazing was out the thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with "God" or "ultimate reality", researchers reported that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic.
Speculation arises that over the thousands of years human use of natural psychedelics likely formed the basis of many of the world's religions.
It suggests to me that there may be a veil over our reality that is lifted by psychedelics and extreme mystical experiences, revealing a consciousness normally hidden from us. In the very least it's interesting to ponder. Read the article
Experiences of 'ultimate reality' or 'God' confer lasting benefits to mental health: The encounter experiences, whether spontaneous or originated by a psychedelic, resulted in similar positive impact |
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Repatriate Officer Noor
Dana Mathewson
They should reduce Noor's sentence... if he agrees to go back to Somalia and
tell everybody America's a hellhole of crime and that they all should stay home.
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They should reduce Noor's sentence... if he agrees to go back to Somalia and
tell everybody America's a hellhole of crime and that they all should stay home.
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May 04, 2019
Minneapolis Settles Big Time
Dana Mathewson
Minneapolis pays up
Powerline has the dirt:
Read the rest.
Minneapolis pays up
Powerline has the dirt:
Justine’s family filed a civil lawsuit against former Minneapolis
Police Officer Mohamed Noor, Minneapolis Police Officer Matthew
Harrity, the Minneapolis Police Chief and the City of Minneapolis in
federal court here this past July. On Thursday evening the city settled
the case for $20 million, $2 million of which the family will donate to
a Minneapolis Foundation fund to "fight gun violence in the city,†as
the Star Tribune puts ithere.
[...]
The civil case has been stayed on the motion of the city while the criminal case against Noor was pending. It was settled at a previously scheduled mediation. Now that the case has been settled when the stay might have been lifted — I don’t know whether it would have continued pending appeal — I think one can reasonably infer the city did not want Bob to conduct discovery in this case. At his own press conference following the settlement, Bob alluded to the policies that had allowed Noor to make it onto the force in the first place.
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The civil case has been stayed on the motion of the city while the criminal case against Noor was pending. It was settled at a previously scheduled mediation. Now that the case has been settled when the stay might have been lifted — I don’t know whether it would have continued pending appeal — I think one can reasonably infer the city did not want Bob to conduct discovery in this case. At his own press conference following the settlement, Bob alluded to the policies that had allowed Noor to make it onto the force in the first place.
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Stray Cat Strut
Timothy Birdnow
A stray cat who lost his legs to infection has been given prosthetics by an engineering class who fashioned them with a 3D printer.
According to Physorg:
Better living through Science - even for a stray cat!
A stray cat who lost his legs to infection has been given prosthetics by an engineering class who fashioned them with a 3D printer.
According to Physorg:
Community Cat shelter vice president Sarah Close says Chicago Animal Care and Control found the stray with infected legs last September and turned him over to the Whitewater, Wisconsin- based shelter.
A veterinarian amputated part of the male cat's back legs, and the shelter named him Sgt. Stubbs. Community Cat officials then asked a freshman engineering class for help.
The students made prosthetics with a 3D printer and extra straps to keep them on. Stubbs received the legs and tried them out Thursday evening.
A veterinarian amputated part of the male cat's back legs, and the shelter named him Sgt. Stubbs. Community Cat officials then asked a freshman engineering class for help.
The students made prosthetics with a 3D printer and extra straps to keep them on. Stubbs received the legs and tried them out Thursday evening.
Better living through Science - even for a stray cat!
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Unborn Babies feel Pain
Timothy Birdnow
In a major development that strikes a huge blow to claims by pro-abortionists that a fetus feels no pain, researchers have discovered that the sense of touch is developed by the prenatal brain.
According to Medical Express:
Get that? If embryos develop the sense of touch before being born it means that pre-born babies can indeed feel pain - and that makes abortion an act of torture, cruel and unusual punishment.
Pro-life people have argued that fetuses feel pain; they point out ultrasound show fetuses trying to get away from the abortionists forceps, for example. Pro-aborts dismiss this as purely involuntary spasms. But this research should demolish the claims by the abortion lobby that abortion is painless. If mice develop a sense of touch in the womb, it seems likely that humans do so too. And if they can feel touch, they almost certainly can feel pain.
In a major development that strikes a huge blow to claims by pro-abortionists that a fetus feels no pain, researchers have discovered that the sense of touch is developed by the prenatal brain.
According to Medical Express:
The development of a sense of touch has been studied by scientists for many years, but how it develops is still unclear. Prior research has shown that once it has developed, it exists as a sort of map imprinted on the cerebral cortex. Some have suggested that a basic map is created in the brain before birth and data points for it are added as newborns develop—sensory input from various body parts is simply added to the map. But now, that view might have to change, as the team in Spain reports evidence that suggests the map is already in place by the time a baby is born.
In their efforts, the researchers used mice to better understand how the sense of touch might develop because mice have what are known as cortical barrels—regions within the cortical layer that are visibly darker when stained. Prior research has shown that the map outlining the sense of touch in mice can actually be seen under a microscope by studying the cortical barrels. Prior research has also shown that brain function such as recognizing and responding to sensory information arises due to electrical signals that stimulate growth of neurons. Thus, to learn more about the development of the sense of touch in mice (at least concerning its whiskers) the researchers studied brain slices at various stages of development to monitor cortical barrel development, and also studied brain waves that have previously been identified as those associated with sensory processing.
In looking at their results, the researchers found that the sensory map created to process the sense of touch was built while the mice were still embryos. And it developed due to signals sent to the cerebral cortex by the thalamus, which also plays a major role in relaying synaptic information throughout the life of the mouse. The researchers suggest that it is likely the same process occurs in humans because "the organization of the cortex is conserved evolutionarily between species."
In their efforts, the researchers used mice to better understand how the sense of touch might develop because mice have what are known as cortical barrels—regions within the cortical layer that are visibly darker when stained. Prior research has shown that the map outlining the sense of touch in mice can actually be seen under a microscope by studying the cortical barrels. Prior research has also shown that brain function such as recognizing and responding to sensory information arises due to electrical signals that stimulate growth of neurons. Thus, to learn more about the development of the sense of touch in mice (at least concerning its whiskers) the researchers studied brain slices at various stages of development to monitor cortical barrel development, and also studied brain waves that have previously been identified as those associated with sensory processing.
In looking at their results, the researchers found that the sensory map created to process the sense of touch was built while the mice were still embryos. And it developed due to signals sent to the cerebral cortex by the thalamus, which also plays a major role in relaying synaptic information throughout the life of the mouse. The researchers suggest that it is likely the same process occurs in humans because "the organization of the cortex is conserved evolutionarily between species."
Get that? If embryos develop the sense of touch before being born it means that pre-born babies can indeed feel pain - and that makes abortion an act of torture, cruel and unusual punishment.
Pro-life people have argued that fetuses feel pain; they point out ultrasound show fetuses trying to get away from the abortionists forceps, for example. Pro-aborts dismiss this as purely involuntary spasms. But this research should demolish the claims by the abortion lobby that abortion is painless. If mice develop a sense of touch in the womb, it seems likely that humans do so too. And if they can feel touch, they almost certainly can feel pain.
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Norks Test Missiles
Timothy Birdnow
North Korea conducted a test of several short range ballistic missiles recently, firing them over the Sea of Japan, as a threat to America and our allies.
Itar Tass has the story:
This is the first ballistic missile test since 2017 and should not be ignored.
I think there is another aspect to this; with the acrimony over the failure of the Mueller probe and the subsequent temper tantrum by the Democrats, Kim Jong-ub is stirring the pot, embarassing the Trump Administration at a time when he needs relative quiet on this front. Not onliy is Trump dealing with Democrat cry-babies, but he is also dealing with the situation in Venezuela. Essentially Kim has opened a new front against the Trump Administration.
This is what happens when domestic politics turns so virulent. The attempt to paralyze the Trump team by the Democrats and their media allies is threatening our interests and the interests of our allies. Kim just sent us a message - now we have to send him a message. And no matter how the current administration replies, the "loyal opposition" in the House of Representatives will scream bloody murder. Kim is laughing all the way.
The media has been a collection of traitors for some time, but now the Democratic Party, unwilling to accept the results of the last Presidential election, has turned traitor along with them.
Meanwhile, the Russians are moving their fleet into the Sea of Japan. Last year we had a military encounter with the Russians over disputed territorial waters in the region. Russia's presence at this moment suggests a warning to the U.S.
This situation is serious as a heart attack; North Korea is a threat to our allies Japan and South Korea and is imperilng America herself (as well as Australia and India.) If Kim thinks he can get away with it he may well attack Japan or bomb Seoul, then we will find ourselves in a world war. And all the while the Democrats are more concerned with removing Trump, the legally elected President, from office in vengence for Hillary losing.
I fear the entire Democratic Party is going to wind up in Antenora...
North Korea conducted a test of several short range ballistic missiles recently, firing them over the Sea of Japan, as a threat to America and our allies.
Itar Tass has the story:
Yonhap News Agency earlier reported citing South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff that the DPRK fired several short-range projectiles towards the Sea of Japan, which flew from 70 to 200 kilometers.
"One way or another, any [missile] tests in these circumstances have a political rather than a military-technical aspect," Kosachev wrote on Facebook. He stressed that these missile launches had been carried out "in the run-up to the visit by US Special Representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, to Japan and South Korea scheduled for next week."
"The signal is quite unambiguous. Pyongyang demonstrates that it is necessary to conduct negotiations with it, not with anyone else, and the pressure or intimidation scenario will not work.
"One way or another, any [missile] tests in these circumstances have a political rather than a military-technical aspect," Kosachev wrote on Facebook. He stressed that these missile launches had been carried out "in the run-up to the visit by US Special Representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, to Japan and South Korea scheduled for next week."
"The signal is quite unambiguous. Pyongyang demonstrates that it is necessary to conduct negotiations with it, not with anyone else, and the pressure or intimidation scenario will not work.
This is the first ballistic missile test since 2017 and should not be ignored.
I think there is another aspect to this; with the acrimony over the failure of the Mueller probe and the subsequent temper tantrum by the Democrats, Kim Jong-ub is stirring the pot, embarassing the Trump Administration at a time when he needs relative quiet on this front. Not onliy is Trump dealing with Democrat cry-babies, but he is also dealing with the situation in Venezuela. Essentially Kim has opened a new front against the Trump Administration.
This is what happens when domestic politics turns so virulent. The attempt to paralyze the Trump team by the Democrats and their media allies is threatening our interests and the interests of our allies. Kim just sent us a message - now we have to send him a message. And no matter how the current administration replies, the "loyal opposition" in the House of Representatives will scream bloody murder. Kim is laughing all the way.
The media has been a collection of traitors for some time, but now the Democratic Party, unwilling to accept the results of the last Presidential election, has turned traitor along with them.
Meanwhile, the Russians are moving their fleet into the Sea of Japan. Last year we had a military encounter with the Russians over disputed territorial waters in the region. Russia's presence at this moment suggests a warning to the U.S.
This situation is serious as a heart attack; North Korea is a threat to our allies Japan and South Korea and is imperilng America herself (as well as Australia and India.) If Kim thinks he can get away with it he may well attack Japan or bomb Seoul, then we will find ourselves in a world war. And all the while the Democrats are more concerned with removing Trump, the legally elected President, from office in vengence for Hillary losing.
I fear the entire Democratic Party is going to wind up in Antenora...
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Scott Johnson's Notes on the Noor case
Dana Mathewson
This
is, in my estimation, a case that never should have been, because it's
a murder that never should have happened. But then, most murders never
should have happened.
If you are still following this -- and I am -- you will find these interesting, I hope https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/05/notes-on-the-noor-trial.php
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Hillary, DNC Colluded with Ukraine
Timothy Birdnow
It wasn't Trump doing the colluding; it was Hillary and the DNC.
According to the Hill via Fox News, the Ukrainian Embassy claims the DNC reached out to them for dirt on Donald Trump in 2016.
From the article:
Well, well, well; the truth is that Hillary and company were colluding with Russia's enemy Ukraine. This should come as no surprise; Hillary and the Clinton Foundation have had a profitable and close relationship with the Ukrainians, who feared Trump would dissolve NATO, or at least defund it, leaving them at the mercy of Putin. They had a vested interest in Hillary winning the election, and donated money to the Clinton Foundation to help matters.
As far back as 2017 Politico admitted that Ukraine gave Hillary big bucks. From the article:
And the Clinton Global Initiative were given $29 million dollars by Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk. The Mueller probe ignored this, while investigating a donation to Trump by the Ukrainians of a about a hundred and fifty grand.
There was collusion and foreign influence in the 2015 election, but not on the Trump side. Bill Barr will hopefully expose this.
It wasn't Trump doing the colluding; it was Hillary and the DNC.
According to the Hill via Fox News, the Ukrainian Embassy claims the DNC reached out to them for dirt on Donald Trump in 2016.
From the article:
Ukraine's embassy wrote that a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider reached out in 2016 seeking dirt on President Trump's team, according to a bombshell new report Thursday that further fueled Republican allegations that Democrats were the ones improperly colluding with foreign agents during the campaign.
Ambassador Valeriy Chaly said DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa pushed for Ukraine's then-President Petro Poroshenko to mention Paul Manafort's ties to Ukraine publicly during a visit to the U.S., and sought detailed financial information on his dealings in the country, The Hill reported. At the time, Manafort was Trump's campaign chairman.
"The Embassy got to know Ms. Chalupa because of her engagement with Ukrainian and other diasporas in Washington D.C., and not in her DNC capacity. We’ve learned about her DNC involvement later," Chaly said in a statement released by the Ukrainian embassy. "We were surprised to see Alexandra’s interest in Mr. Paul Manafort’s case. It was her own cause. The Embassy representatives unambiguously refused to get involved in any way, as we were convinced that this is a strictly U.S. domestic matter."
Chaly continued: "All ideas floated by Alexandra were related to approaching a Member of Congress with a purpose to initiate hearings on Paul Manafort or letting an investigative journalist ask President Poroshenko a question about Mr. Manafort during his public talk in Washington, D.C."
[...]
President Trump told Fox News' "Hannity" in a wide-ranging interview last week that Attorney General Bill Barr was handling the "incredible" and "big" new revelations that Ukrainian actors apparently leaked damaging information about Manafort to help Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Last month, Ukraine Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko opened a probe into the so-called "black ledger" files that led to Manafort's abrupt departure from the Trump campaign. The investigation commenced after an unearthed audio recording showed that a senior Ukrainian anticorruption official apparently admitted to leaking Manafort's financial information in 2016 -- including his ties to pro-Russian actors in Ukraine -- to benefit Clinton.
Ukrainian law enforcement officials said earlier this month they had a slew of evidence of collusion and wrongdoing by Democrats and were trying to share the information with U.S. officials in the Justice Department.
Ambassador Valeriy Chaly said DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa pushed for Ukraine's then-President Petro Poroshenko to mention Paul Manafort's ties to Ukraine publicly during a visit to the U.S., and sought detailed financial information on his dealings in the country, The Hill reported. At the time, Manafort was Trump's campaign chairman.
"The Embassy got to know Ms. Chalupa because of her engagement with Ukrainian and other diasporas in Washington D.C., and not in her DNC capacity. We’ve learned about her DNC involvement later," Chaly said in a statement released by the Ukrainian embassy. "We were surprised to see Alexandra’s interest in Mr. Paul Manafort’s case. It was her own cause. The Embassy representatives unambiguously refused to get involved in any way, as we were convinced that this is a strictly U.S. domestic matter."
Chaly continued: "All ideas floated by Alexandra were related to approaching a Member of Congress with a purpose to initiate hearings on Paul Manafort or letting an investigative journalist ask President Poroshenko a question about Mr. Manafort during his public talk in Washington, D.C."
[...]
President Trump told Fox News' "Hannity" in a wide-ranging interview last week that Attorney General Bill Barr was handling the "incredible" and "big" new revelations that Ukrainian actors apparently leaked damaging information about Manafort to help Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Last month, Ukraine Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko opened a probe into the so-called "black ledger" files that led to Manafort's abrupt departure from the Trump campaign. The investigation commenced after an unearthed audio recording showed that a senior Ukrainian anticorruption official apparently admitted to leaking Manafort's financial information in 2016 -- including his ties to pro-Russian actors in Ukraine -- to benefit Clinton.
Ukrainian law enforcement officials said earlier this month they had a slew of evidence of collusion and wrongdoing by Democrats and were trying to share the information with U.S. officials in the Justice Department.
Well, well, well; the truth is that Hillary and company were colluding with Russia's enemy Ukraine. This should come as no surprise; Hillary and the Clinton Foundation have had a profitable and close relationship with the Ukrainians, who feared Trump would dissolve NATO, or at least defund it, leaving them at the mercy of Putin. They had a vested interest in Hillary winning the election, and donated money to the Clinton Foundation to help matters.
As far back as 2017 Politico admitted that Ukraine gave Hillary big bucks. From the article:
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
And the Clinton Global Initiative were given $29 million dollars by Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk. The Mueller probe ignored this, while investigating a donation to Trump by the Ukrainians of a about a hundred and fifty grand.
There was collusion and foreign influence in the 2015 election, but not on the Trump side. Bill Barr will hopefully expose this.
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Facebook Bias
Conservative Treehouse posted this on Facebook:
Yesterday, Facebook banned what they call "dangerous individuals" including outspoken right wing activists Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones.
Who did they not ban? Three huge terrorist organizations: The Muslim Brotherhood, HAMAS and Antifa.
Facebook still swears they aren't biased
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A Christian Nation
Warner Todd Houston passed this quote along:
"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."
--John Quincy Adams
"In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."
--John Quincy Adams
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May 02, 2019
Race, Politics, and a Shooting in Ladue
Timothy Birdnow.
We've got a weird case here in St. Louis gearing up. A veteran woman cop in the wealthy suburb of Ladue shot a black woman shoplifter outside a local grocery store. She has just been indicted (to her utter shock, as photos attest) and may well do hard time in prison. She is arguing she thought she had the taser and not the service pistol. Of course, since it was a black shopflifter Black Lives Matter is pushing hard for her prosecution. And, as with the Mike Brown Ferguson affair, local racial politics has a huge amount to do with it. St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger was recently indicted on corruption charges. Stenger ran against the black CE just before the Ferguson riots and defeated him on corruption charges, and the black politicians have never forgotten that. I think this woman cop is going to be nailed hard on this shooting as payback.
The Riverfront Times tells the story:
St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell was elected from the Ferguson city council as a Black Lives Mater advocate funded in part by none other than George Soros. Bell has every reason to seek to throw the book at Officer Crews.
Bell has already stated, well:
So Bell wants a Star Chamber to go after County police.
There is more to this story than meets the eye. I'll try to keep everyone posted.
We've got a weird case here in St. Louis gearing up. A veteran woman cop in the wealthy suburb of Ladue shot a black woman shoplifter outside a local grocery store. She has just been indicted (to her utter shock, as photos attest) and may well do hard time in prison. She is arguing she thought she had the taser and not the service pistol. Of course, since it was a black shopflifter Black Lives Matter is pushing hard for her prosecution. And, as with the Mike Brown Ferguson affair, local racial politics has a huge amount to do with it. St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger was recently indicted on corruption charges. Stenger ran against the black CE just before the Ferguson riots and defeated him on corruption charges, and the black politicians have never forgotten that. I think this woman cop is going to be nailed hard on this shooting as payback.
The Riverfront Times tells the story:
St. Louis County Police said the Ladue officer, who has been on the force for thirteen years, responded to reports of a shoplifting and disturbance involving two suspects. She stopped one of the suspects, a 33-year-old woman, moments after she ran out of the store. The woman told the officer she had suffered some kind of injury.
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That's about the time the Ladue officer, Crews, came onto the scene. Noble says she spoke to the woman and called an ambulance. But when Crews went to arrest her, the officer managed to get only one cuff on the alleged shoplifter before the woman scuffled with her and scrambled away.
At that point, Noble says, Crews had every right to use her Taser. Instead, the officer mistakenly drew her gun and fired in the heat of the moment, he says.
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That's about the time the Ladue officer, Crews, came onto the scene. Noble says she spoke to the woman and called an ambulance. But when Crews went to arrest her, the officer managed to get only one cuff on the alleged shoplifter before the woman scuffled with her and scrambled away.
At that point, Noble says, Crews had every right to use her Taser. Instead, the officer mistakenly drew her gun and fired in the heat of the moment, he says.
St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell was elected from the Ferguson city council as a Black Lives Mater advocate funded in part by none other than George Soros. Bell has every reason to seek to throw the book at Officer Crews.
Bell has already stated, well:
In the future, Bell plans to form a standalone unit in the prosecutor's office that will investigate officer-involved shootings and report only to him.
So Bell wants a Star Chamber to go after County police.
There is more to this story than meets the eye. I'll try to keep everyone posted.
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What to do about Venezuela?
Timothy Birdnow
In the discussion of what to do about Venezuela, many on the Right are arguing for a hand-off approach. I get it, but remember, we have always supported the Monroe Doctrine, which says foreign powers have to keep their hands off countries in the Americas or fall afoul of the United States.
Russia and Cuba are both down there in Venezuela, propping up the Maduro government.
Fox News host and staunch Conservative ucker Carlson asked this question:
Um, Germany, Japan, the entire Eastern Block. How about something closer to home? We stopped the Communists from taking over El Salvador. We kicked the communist Allende out of Chile' and it is now one of the most prosperous and stable countries in South America. We stopped the Communists from taking over Iran (yes, we eventually ended up with the Ayatollahs, but had Iran become a part of the Soviet sphere they would have likely won the Cold War.) We arrested the dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega, and Panama is none the worse for it. In fact, they've had a democratic republic since. Oh, and we intervened in Panama at her inception, encouraging Panama to secede from Columbia at the beginning.
Our intervention in Nicaragua went well too. Sadly, Barack Hussein Obama allowed the Sandanistas to return to power. But they have never held the kind of iron grip on Nicaragua they had prior to our intervention.
No, I think we have had plenty of good, positive foreign interventions. The primary problem has been a. we so often try to take places in the throes of civil war and democratize them and b. we try to impose western liberal ideas on places that cannot and will not accept them - like the Middle East. You don't create a liberal democracy in the Middle East; these people cannot accept that. They have no tradition of it. But we can do a lot of good otherwise.
I'm not saying that we necessarily should, but the fact that Russian soldiers are in Venezuela and openly defying us requires forceful response. They have to know that we are not going to allow them to violate the Monroe Doctrine.
That said, the Russians are giving payback to the U.S. for sticking our noses in the Eastern Block countries. We've encouraged the expansion of NATO right into the Russians' back yards. We have moved into Georgia, on their southern flank. We are in Syrian, Iraq, and Afghanistan, We have the encircled, far more effectively than ever we encircled the Soviets. We should not be surprised that they are responding in this manner.
But we must deal with them. That is the nature of international politics. You don't prevent wars by ignoring this sort of thing.
And what good are we doing the Venezuelan people by failing to act? A military dictatorship would be preferable at this point. They may be thugs, as the saying goes, but their our thugs, or at least not unfriendly thugs. It won't be any worse than the Maduro Marxists. Meanwhile, what do we get out of it? Fewer refugees, no more subversion of other Latin American countries, an eventual stabilization of oil prices, and kicking foreign powers out of the hemisphere. Oh, and it could well drive a nail in the coffin of the Cuban Communists, to boot.
In the discussion of what to do about Venezuela, many on the Right are arguing for a hand-off approach. I get it, but remember, we have always supported the Monroe Doctrine, which says foreign powers have to keep their hands off countries in the Americas or fall afoul of the United States.
Russia and Cuba are both down there in Venezuela, propping up the Maduro government.
Fox News host and staunch Conservative ucker Carlson asked this question:
"Before the bombers take off, let’s just answer a few quick questions, starting with the most obvious: When was the last time we successfully meddled in the political life of another country? Has it ever worked? How are those democracies we set up in Iraq and Libya and Syria and Afghanistan?â€
Um, Germany, Japan, the entire Eastern Block. How about something closer to home? We stopped the Communists from taking over El Salvador. We kicked the communist Allende out of Chile' and it is now one of the most prosperous and stable countries in South America. We stopped the Communists from taking over Iran (yes, we eventually ended up with the Ayatollahs, but had Iran become a part of the Soviet sphere they would have likely won the Cold War.) We arrested the dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega, and Panama is none the worse for it. In fact, they've had a democratic republic since. Oh, and we intervened in Panama at her inception, encouraging Panama to secede from Columbia at the beginning.
Our intervention in Nicaragua went well too. Sadly, Barack Hussein Obama allowed the Sandanistas to return to power. But they have never held the kind of iron grip on Nicaragua they had prior to our intervention.
No, I think we have had plenty of good, positive foreign interventions. The primary problem has been a. we so often try to take places in the throes of civil war and democratize them and b. we try to impose western liberal ideas on places that cannot and will not accept them - like the Middle East. You don't create a liberal democracy in the Middle East; these people cannot accept that. They have no tradition of it. But we can do a lot of good otherwise.
I'm not saying that we necessarily should, but the fact that Russian soldiers are in Venezuela and openly defying us requires forceful response. They have to know that we are not going to allow them to violate the Monroe Doctrine.
That said, the Russians are giving payback to the U.S. for sticking our noses in the Eastern Block countries. We've encouraged the expansion of NATO right into the Russians' back yards. We have moved into Georgia, on their southern flank. We are in Syrian, Iraq, and Afghanistan, We have the encircled, far more effectively than ever we encircled the Soviets. We should not be surprised that they are responding in this manner.
But we must deal with them. That is the nature of international politics. You don't prevent wars by ignoring this sort of thing.
And what good are we doing the Venezuelan people by failing to act? A military dictatorship would be preferable at this point. They may be thugs, as the saying goes, but their our thugs, or at least not unfriendly thugs. It won't be any worse than the Maduro Marxists. Meanwhile, what do we get out of it? Fewer refugees, no more subversion of other Latin American countries, an eventual stabilization of oil prices, and kicking foreign powers out of the hemisphere. Oh, and it could well drive a nail in the coffin of the Cuban Communists, to boot.
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Pope Francis the Heretic
Timothy Birdnow
Yet another charge of heresy against Pope Francis I.
Breitbart gives us the story:
There have been a number of similar accusations against the Peronista Pontiff in recent years, but this has some big guns as signiatures.
The fact is, Pope Francis is primarily concerned with leftist "social Justice" issues. He has never been a primary advocate of Liberation Theology, but has clearly been a fellow traveler and in fact brought it back after Pope John Paul II suppressed it as heretical, rightly so as KGB agents plainly state it was a creation of the Soviet secret police to foster a "fortress America" by subverting Latin America.
Francis has been very chummy with Liberation Theology. And, as has been pointed out Liberation Theology is in no small way connected to the pedophilia scandal in the Church.
This Pope increasingly appears to be an anti-Pope, an heretic who is leading Catholicism and all Christianity (face it, guys; the Catholic Church is still the leader of Christendom, like it or not) down the primrose path, that broad and easy pathway that leads to destruction.
Yet another charge of heresy against Pope Francis I.
Breitbart gives us the story:
The 20-page letter lays out its intentions in the very first line: "first, to accuse Pope Francis of the canonical delict of heresy, and second, to request that you [the bishops] take the steps necessary to deal with the grave situation of a heretical pope.â€
The letter writers base their accusation on the pope’s alleged embrace of positions contrary to the Catholic faith as well as his overt support for prelates who have shown disrespect for the Church’s faith and morals.
Much of the material offered as evidence of heresy comes from Amoris Laetitia, and deals with sexual ethics and sacramental theology, while a large section of the letter is devoted to showing the pope’s misconduct by "praising clerics and laity who advance these heresies, or by naming them to influential posts, or by protecting clerics of this kind from punishment or demotion when they have committed gravely immoral and criminal acts.â€
Among the clerics and prelates promoted or defended by Francis who have allegedly shown disrespect for Catholic teaching, the letter mentions Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, Cardinal Blase Cupich, former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Bishop Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta, Bishop Juan Barros, and Father James Martin, SJ.
"We take this measure as a last resort to respond to the accumulating harm caused by Pope Francis’s words and actions over several years, which have given rise to one of the worst crises in the history of the Catholic Church,†the letter declares.
The text follows the 2017 "Filial Correction of Pope Francis,†which claimed that the Francis had "effectively upheld 7 heretical positions about marriage, the moral life, and the reception of the sacraments, and has caused these heretical opinions to spread in the Catholic Church.â€
The letter writers base their accusation on the pope’s alleged embrace of positions contrary to the Catholic faith as well as his overt support for prelates who have shown disrespect for the Church’s faith and morals.
Much of the material offered as evidence of heresy comes from Amoris Laetitia, and deals with sexual ethics and sacramental theology, while a large section of the letter is devoted to showing the pope’s misconduct by "praising clerics and laity who advance these heresies, or by naming them to influential posts, or by protecting clerics of this kind from punishment or demotion when they have committed gravely immoral and criminal acts.â€
Among the clerics and prelates promoted or defended by Francis who have allegedly shown disrespect for Catholic teaching, the letter mentions Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, Cardinal Blase Cupich, former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Bishop Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta, Bishop Juan Barros, and Father James Martin, SJ.
"We take this measure as a last resort to respond to the accumulating harm caused by Pope Francis’s words and actions over several years, which have given rise to one of the worst crises in the history of the Catholic Church,†the letter declares.
The text follows the 2017 "Filial Correction of Pope Francis,†which claimed that the Francis had "effectively upheld 7 heretical positions about marriage, the moral life, and the reception of the sacraments, and has caused these heretical opinions to spread in the Catholic Church.â€
There have been a number of similar accusations against the Peronista Pontiff in recent years, but this has some big guns as signiatures.
The fact is, Pope Francis is primarily concerned with leftist "social Justice" issues. He has never been a primary advocate of Liberation Theology, but has clearly been a fellow traveler and in fact brought it back after Pope John Paul II suppressed it as heretical, rightly so as KGB agents plainly state it was a creation of the Soviet secret police to foster a "fortress America" by subverting Latin America.
Francis has been very chummy with Liberation Theology. And, as has been pointed out Liberation Theology is in no small way connected to the pedophilia scandal in the Church.
This Pope increasingly appears to be an anti-Pope, an heretic who is leading Catholicism and all Christianity (face it, guys; the Catholic Church is still the leader of Christendom, like it or not) down the primrose path, that broad and easy pathway that leads to destruction.
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Birth of the "Smollett Defense
Timothy Birdnow
A Cook County judge has gone off on District Attorney Kim Foxx for creating the "Smollett Defense".
Red State has the story.
Foxx has opened a can of worms. If a celebrity can get off then an average person has the same right.
A Cook County judge has gone off on District Attorney Kim Foxx for creating the "Smollett Defense".
Red State has the story.
Foxx has opened a can of worms. If a celebrity can get off then an average person has the same right.
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