Year: 2021

  • Key Russiagate Investigator: No Closure Without Accountability, Indictments

    Key Russiagate Investigator: No Closure Without Accountability, Indictments

    The House Intelligence Committee staff investigator who led the Russia inquiry that exposed malfeasance at the FBI and the DOJ related to the surveillance of Trump 2016 campaign associates told the Epoch Times on March 15 that there would be no closure until the responsible officials are indicted and prosecuted.

    “For me, closure is synonymous with accountability,” Kash Patel, who led the House Russia inquiry in 2017 and 2018 before moving on to senior roles at the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of Defense.

    “So we either have that accountability in the form of the only place that can give it, which is a Department of Justice indictment, or we don’t. And I do think it’s that binary.”

    Special counsel John Durham is reportedly continuing a criminal inquiry into the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Durham has handed down one indictment to date, which has resulted in the conviction of former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith. Patel believes that falls far short of the scope of wrongdoing he and his colleagues uncovered.

    “We got 14 individuals fired, resigned early or retired early, as a result of our investigation on House Intel, because of the malfeasance we showed they committed,” he continued. “So there’s some measure of accountability from a congressional standpoint, because that’s what congressional oversight is supposed to do. But for the American public, and, quite frankly, me, there’s no accountability unless you can exact the same punishments over those that committed this conduct internally as they do to others externally.”

    Patel’s work on the House Intelligence Committee culminated in the release of the report on Russian active measures in March 2018. Two months prior to the report’s release, the committee Republicans voted to release the so-called Nunes memo, which summarized the findings about the FBI’s use of the infamous Steele dossier to secure warrants to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser.

    Patel’s team discovered that the Clinton 2016 presidential campaign ultimately paid for the dossier and that the FBI failed to disclose that fact to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The bureau also failed to disclose the overt bias of the dossier’s author, former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, who was, according to an associate, “desperate” that then-candidate Trump not be elected president.

    Considering the amount of money that changed hands and the number of players involved, including top officials at the FBI and DOJ, Patel finds it hard to believe that Clinesmith, the convicted FBI attorney, was a lone wolf.

    “For someone who worked at DOJ, part of the reason I left was the lack of internal accountability for when prosecutors breach the public trust that they’ve been bestowed. The most common example is a Brady violation—exculpatory evidence,” Patel said.

    “We found that time and again in the Russiagate investigation that the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court was not told of exculpatory evidence as it related to multiple individuals involved in that FISA package,” Patel said, referring to the FISA warrants secured against former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. “It’s unfortunate and I hope there’s more, but I don’t know.”

    Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told Congress last year that he would not have signed the FISA applications on Carter Page if he knew what he knows now. The Department of Justice Office Inspector General found 17 significant errors and omissions in the Page FISA applications, implicating every official involved in the process.

    The Crossfire Hurricane investigation evolved into the special counsel probe headed by Robert Mueller, who after 22 months found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Patel arrived at the same conclusion long before Mueller. Every one of the nearly 60 witnesses his team interviewed said they had no evidence of collusion, conspiracy, or coordination.

    Patel said he has a number of people in mind, both in the private and public sectors, who he would bring charges against if he were in the Department of Justice. Whether anyone faces charges is ultimately up to Durham, he said.

    “I hope he does, because it’s the one thing that really separates us from almost the rest of the world … our ability to hold even our own officials at the highest levels accountable when they break the law,” Patel said. “And I’m hoping we get there.”
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/key-russiagate-investigator-no-closure-without-accountability-indictments_3739916.html?utm_source=pushengage

    Comment: One of the most insightful interviews I have watched related to RussiaGate and Kash Patel does an excellent job of laying it out in a clear and concise manner. That is not to say, that more needs to be released to the American public. Never-the-less, very informative.

  • Her name was Marcella

    Her name was Marcella

    Not long after the creation of the much beloved Raggedy Ann, Gruelle’s only child and 13 year old daughter Marcella died a painful death after receiving a routine small pox vaccination at school, which was given without parental consent.

    Reports indicate that after the initial inoculation Marcella had, “… lost her appetite, and became feverish and fatigued.” Amazingly, more inoculations were given despite her negative reaction from the first jab.  Predictably Marcella’s health continued to decline to the point where she lost all muscle control, “becoming listless and lifeless like a rag doll.”

    While all this was going on at school, her parents knew nothing about it and had never ever given their consent for any vaccinations.

    Marcella died a slow and agonizing death. The Gruelle’s were convinced beyond any doubt that the vaccination was the culprit behind the death of their only child, even though school authorities and vaccination proponents insisted Marcella had died from a preexisting heart defect.

    Whatever happened to the Smallpox Vaccine? “Routine smallpox vaccination in the United States ended in 1972. Officials are hesitant to resume the immunizations because the vaccine is the most reactive of all and has been linked to serious side effects, including death.” ~ Reuters, November 29, 2001.

    We are from the government and we come help you live your life as we see fit”

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1372391477402165249

    “We are from the government and we come help you live your life as we see fit”

    I never said which Government or Cabal

    When you think of the Ten Commandments

    I know what comes to your mind as does to mine

    the Laws of God

    what follows is not God’s Laws

    Written in ancient languages scripts:

    Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs

    A message comprising ten guides is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages

    Known as the Georgia guide stones

    what better way to reach a goal of 500,000,000
    then to sterilize the population world wide

    Looking at current events from

    behind enemy lines

    Marlena Pavlos-Hackney

    State police arrested her around 5:45 a.m. this AM

    don’t know how many know

    Marlena Pavlos-Hackney

    was 13 years of age when she escaped COMMUNIST POLAND

    never asking for a handout of any kind

    Marlena built a business

    providing jobs for others so thier lives could be better

    she’s now been hauled off to Lansing about a 100 mile

    where she will be used as an example her crime?

    Standing up to TYRANNY

    Ohh there is a 2-party system alright

    Good & evil

  • QUIZ: Are Diamonds Really a Girl’s Best Friend?

    QUIZ: Are Diamonds Really a Girl’s Best Friend?

    The answer to that question will always be “yes” 😉

    However, there are plenty of other precious and semi-precious gemstones that are beautiful in their own way. How much do you know about them?

    Take the quiz below and share your results!

    [HDquiz quiz = “1669”]
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  • Putin Challenges Biden…

    Putin Challenges Biden…

    Putin Challenges Biden to a Battle He Knows Biden Can’t Accept

    Yesterday, I wrote how Joe Biden’s likely puffed up comments about Vladimir Putin may have led to an international incident.

    During an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Biden agreed that Putin was a “killer” and he claimed that in 2011 when he met with Putin that he told Putin he was soulless.

    Now, we doubted Biden’s story because it sounded like it was much like some of his other stories about Corn Pop, being arrested in South Africa, and marching for civil rights. Also because it wasn’t consistent with what he was saying in 2012 when he mocked Mitt Romney for saying we should be concerned about Russia.

    But in response, the Russians recalled their ambassador and said they were reconsidering relations with the United States, that the relations were “under threat of collapse.” So basically Biden triggered an international incident and a “pissing contest” with Putin with his puffery.

    There’s a difference between demonstrating strength and throwing out pissing contests. The problem with pissing contests is that sometimes it requires you to ante up and if you can’t back it up, you shouldn’t throw it out there.

    Now Putin has responded to Biden.

    First, he wished him “good health” a couple of times, the way Michael Corleone wished his brother Fredo good health.

    Then he spoke about Biden agreeing that he was a “killer” in the interview, Putin’s response was Biden was projecting, “He who calls names, is called that himself.”

    But Putin then showed he’s pretty aware of Biden’s cognitive issues and responded to the gauntlet that Biden threw down, challenging him to an open and live debate.

    https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1372596105272307721?s=20
    https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1372631922476732416?s=20

    Putin challenged Biden to an open discussion, on one condition, that it be live, online, without any lags, in direct discussion, saying it could be interesting for Russians, Americans, and other people. That of course is his way of saying, yes, I know your issues. He said he could do it as early as Friday because he wanted to go away for the weekend.

    The White House’s response? Joe Biden is “quite busy.” Having thrown the gauntlet down, he then responds weakly. He started a pissing contest that there was no way he couldn’t finish and then backed away. Today, he also called Kamala Harris “President Harris,” as my colleague Sister Toldjah wrote earlier. Not a good thing to show weakness to foreign leaders like Putin, it gives them more ideas that they can get away with things. People remember the strength that John Kennedy showed during the Missile Crisis. What they don’t remember is that it was effectively Kennedy’s weakness that precipitated it, to begin with, because Nikita Khrushchev judged him to be weak at their meeting.
    By: Nick Arama – March 18, 2021 https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/18/putin-challenges-biden-to-a-battle-he-knows-biden-cant-accept-n345856

    Excerpts from an earlier report:

    Joe Biden’s comments may just have sparked an international incident.

    In an interview with George Stephanopoulos that aired this morning on “Good Morning America,” Biden referred to Vladmir Putin as a “killer” and then claimed that he told Putin in 2011 to his face that he was soulless, a claim that we observed in a earlier story to likely be one of Joe’s exaggerated stories that didn’t sound like it had a lot of truth in it. Sounded like his effort to throw down with Corn Pop with the chain. The reality was he was attacking Mitt Romney in 2012 for saying that we should be concerned about Russia.

    On top of that, the U.S. intelligence community also released a report today claiming that Putin was behind an influence operation in the 2020 election aimed at hurting Biden and helping Trump. The Kremlin has denied it.

    Can we say shades of the same bull Democrats tried in 2016 once again?
    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/17/biden-comments-may-have-sparked-international-incident-russia-withdraws-its-ambassador-n345284

    Comment: Biden appears to be working on a Nobel Peace Prize /s

    See Also: Faces

  • Biden Overstepped Constitutional Authority When He Revoked Keystone

    Biden Overstepped Constitutional Authority When He Revoked Keystone

    Biden Overstepped Constitutional Authority When He Revoked Keystone Pipeline Permit, Multiple States Allege In Lawsuit

    • A group of 21 Republican state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s administration over its decision to nix the Keystone Pipeline.
    • “This Administration has sought to leverage its power regarding U.S. foreign policy to unilaterally contradict Congress’s stated domestic policy regarding one of the most significant energy projects in a generation: the Keystone XL Pipeline,” the lawsuit said.
    • Congress never granted the president the authority to revoke the pipeline’s permit, which is a regulation of interstate and international commerce, according to the lawsuit.

    A group of 21 Republican state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s administration over its decision to nix the Keystone XL Pipeline.

    The states, led by Montana and Texas, accused President Joe Biden of overstepping his constitutional authority when he revoked the Keystone XL Pipeline’s federal permit on Jan. 20 hours after entering office, in the lawsuit filed Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

    “The power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce belongs to Congress – not the President,” Montana Attorney General Knudsen said in a statement Wednesday. “This is another example of Joe Biden overstepping his constitutional role to the detriment of Montanans.”

    “There is not even a perceived environmental benefit to his actions – his attempt to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline is an empty virtue signal to his wealthy coastal elite donors,” Knudsen said. “It shows Biden’s contempt for rural communities in Montana and other states along the pipeline’s path that would benefit from and support the project.”

    Congress never granted the president the authority to revoke the pipeline’s permit, which is a regulation of interstate and international commerce, according to the lawsuit. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the sole power to regulate interstate and international commerce.

    Further, Biden violated the rules previously set by Congress on what actions the executive branch may take regarding the Keystone pipeline, the lawsuit said.

    Biden had stated that keeping the pipeline’s permit would not be consistent with his “economic and climate imperatives,” which include solving the world’s climate crisis. The complaint Wednesday argued that he couldn’t alter U.S. domestic policy with the intention of conducting foreign policy.

    “The President has certain prerogatives to act on behalf of the United States in foreign affairs,” the lawsuit said. “But as far as domestic law is concerned, the President must work with and abide by the limits set by Congress—whether he likes them or not.”

    “This Administration has sought to leverage its power regarding U.S. foreign policy to unilaterally contradict Congress’s stated domestic policy regarding one of the most significant energy projects in a generation: the Keystone XL Pipeline,” the lawsuit said.

    Former President Donald Trump’s March 2019 executive order approving the pipeline permit was constitutional because it fell in line with the “repeatedly expressed preferences” of Congress, according to Wednesday’s complaint.

    The lawsuit also noted the damages incurred by Biden’s decision to nix the pipeline’s permit. The project was estimated to generate $55.6 million in property taxes across 27 counties in just three states and to create more than 42,000 jobs. (RELATED: Trade Unions That Endorsed Biden Are Mad He Kept His Campaign Promise To Kill Keystone)

    The project is an extension of an existing TC Energy pipeline that already transports crude oil from Canada to the U.S., according to The Wall Street Journal. The extension would carry crude directly from Alberta, Canada to Steele City, Nebraska where it would connect to existing pipeline that stretches to the Gulf of Mexico.

    The part of the pipeline extension that crosses the U.S.-Canada border is mostly completed, the lawsuit said.

    Montana, Texas, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming were listed as plaintiffs on the suit.

    Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas were all listed as defendants.

    On Feb. 10, 14 attorneys general, including many listed in Wednesday’s lawsuit, sent a letter “with alarm” to the Biden administration, urging the president to reconsider his decision to effectively kill the pipeline. The letter warned that the states had been reviewing all available legal options to protect their residents.

    “Your decision will result in devastating damage to many of our states and local communities,” the attorneys general wrote in the letter to Biden. “Even those states outside the path of the Keystone XL pipeline—indeed all Americans—will suffer serious, detrimental consequences.”

    Republican Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led the coalition, which included the top legal officers from Georgia, Missouri, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas. Montana’s portion of the proposed pipeline would have been 285 miles long and was expected to generate more than 4,000 jobs.

    John Kerry, the White House climate czar, recently said workers who lose their jobs due to the administration’s climate policies can find jobs making solar panels. The letter said the Biden administration’s insistence that laid off pipeline workers would be given green jobs in the future was a “cold promise.”

    Several prominent trade unions, which endorsed Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, strongly condemned the executive order. The unions ignored requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation asking why they supported Biden despite his campaign promise to nix the job-creating pipeline.

    “Well, I wish he hadn’t done that on the first day,” Richard Trumka, the president of the powerful AFL-CIO, told Axios. “Because the Laborer’s International was right, it did and will cost us jobs in the process.”

    The Teamsters, the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), the International Union of Operating Engineers and the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters signed the Keystone Pipeline’s labor agreement in August. The agreement promised the creation of 42,000 “family-sustaining jobs” in the U.S. and $2 billion in total earnings for the all-union workforce.

    LIUNA estimated that Biden’s executive action would kill thousands of union jobs. LIUNA General President Terry O’Sullivan called the action “insulting and disappointing.” (RELATED: AFL-CIO Head Appears Uncomfortable In Axios Interview About Biden And Keystone XL)

    Meanwhile, twelve states sued the Biden administration over its climate policies on March 8. One day later, two states sued the administration over its immigration policies.

    A group of Republican attorneys general threatened additional legal action against the Biden administration in a letter to Department of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Tuesday. The 21 attorneys general demanded clarity on Biden’s position regarding state tax policy.

    Comment: Every State – It’s a Republic, if you can keep it – take every Executive Order, executed by this Beijing Biden dictatorship and start filing lawsuits in opposition. Stabilize, your economy – follow the lead of DeSantis.

  • Biden Admin Halts…

    Biden Admin Halts…

    Biden Admin Halts Navy Operations, Orders Sailors to Undergo ‘Chilling’ Stand-Down Training

    IMAGE: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

    There has been much coverage of the Pretender Administration ordering a military “stand-down” for training on extremism within the branches. The following is written by  by an active duty military member who has about 20 years of service. The service has been deployed overseas in the war on terrorism multiple times. The piece describes the Navy’s “extremism stand-down,” what it includes, and what it leaves out. 

    Recently, my Navy unit held an “extremism stand-down” training that was required of all Department of Defense personnel, as mandated by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin here. According to Vice Admiral John B. Nowell, Jr, the purpose of the training was “to ensure service members and civilian personnel clearly understand the damaging effects of extremism and begin developing more effective, sustainable ways to eliminate the corrosive impacts extremist activity can have on our Force.”

    That aim, of course, is laudable. Our Navy is diverse, and we are strong, not because of the diversity, but because of the unity we have as Americans regardless of race. When I go to sea or deploy on land, I know that the mission depends on those around me: good men and women of all races committed to defending our nation. Ultimately, they have my back too, and my life depends on them. Any attack on one is an attack on all. Right up to this point, I am 100 percent with the Navy brass’ goal.

    But that’s not actually what the training says. The training we received this month was rushed through in the wake of the Washington, D.C., riot. The course, which was given in a PowerPoint deck, included a slide defining “extremism.” One would expect a broad, catch-all phrase that makes it clear that any radical activity undermining our nation or promoting criminal activity would not be tolerable.

    But that would be wrong. Extremism was narrowly defined as “supremacist” beliefs only. That’s it. Nothing else. Nothing about anarchism, nothing about any group that might be found on the left. Everyone in the room – of every race, incidentally – had a collective hush as the chilling effect of this clearly biased definition dawned on our team. As one person on our team put it, “Why does the DoD only care about one kind of extremism? Why do they refuse to talk about antifa? Why is it extremist to attack a Capitol police officer, but not extremist to attack a Portland police officer?”

    We were further lectured that “supremacists” were seeking to join the military to gain skills and proficiency with weapons. But, of course, we know that inner-city gangs have been trying this for years, and yet there was no discussion of this. Nor was there any mention of antifa, which explicitly and often openly promotes violent activities. It seems odd that in 2020, when we saw 1,000 riots with varying levels of violence, our training would be centered on the one riot connected to the right and ignore the 999 connected to the left.

    Throughout the presentation, the drumbeat was consistent, constant…and chilling. This was a shot across the bow to the right, and deafening silence for the left. As true Americans, committed to our fellow servicemen and women, we should reject all extremism unequivocally from any source. My concern is that this blatantly political training is not only bad, it’s counter-productive. Extremists feed on paranoia, and the Department of Defense just fed them a healthy dose of it.

    What do they think these people will do? Quit? Because some admiral made them sit through three hours of lectures? Hardly. They’ll go underground. And they’ll continue to fester. And so too will the left. Only no one will be watching out for them, because the brass’ silence speaks volumes.

    For myself, the author’s description of the training is not shocking. Frankly, it is exactly what I expected. 

  • Faces

    Faces

    Steve Mcqueen was an avid fly fisherman

    his words

    ” I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city in the world ”

    winter camping

    really hasn’t changed it still gets cold

    I want one
    I’d be stylin while in town
    1957 Minnisota
    eye still workin
    1960
    cooking in the rain 1954

    letters from camp

    1950
    1953

    open carry family 1934

    I fully understand

    ” make due with what you have and be damn happy you have it ”

    At first glance I thought I was seeing lot lizards setting up shop outside a shell station

    that wasn’t very nice of me

    let me explain

    who the hell camps on the cement?

    it’s a RV lot at Salton Sea …. California

    While I was looking at equipment used why back when it’s then it occured to me

    these are the people who the governors killed in nursing homes

    South Dakota has been denied a fireworks for the 4th at the Mount Rushmore

    I wouldn’t be surprized if these Anti-American communistbastards close the parks

    would this not make a great roll up window shade?

    People should view camping as practice

    for living outside

  • Welcome to Thursday Conversation

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    Sometimes being a word geek can provide humor. To whit…


  • 1776

    1776

    The Constitution is the Lifeblood of the American Patriot

    Liberty is her child

    &

    she is your Birthright

    Defend with your last breath

    for without Freedom

    this Constitutional Republic

    shall forever suffocate beneath the dregs of Tyranny

    Let’s put things into perspective

    Joe biden went from

    stealing a man’s wife

    to stealing speeches

    to stealing money

    to stealing an election

    I have done things that haunt my nights

    so you can sleep in peace

    I have been away far away from family & friends

    so that yours can be safe

    I have sacrificed a lot in my life

    so that you live free

    I have done these things because I sworn an Oath to my country and her people

    I will live by this Oath until I die

    joe biden you are not my President

    I had a few other items weighing on my mind

    then outta the blue

    it was like WHAMMO!

    a question came to mind

    God dude

    ” chance ”

    God dude

    why you takin me through troubled waters?

    ” because your enemies cannot swim”

    fair enough God

    never dout

    there’s always music playin in my head

    I had a pig and his name was Sam
    Sunday he was bacon, on Monday he was ham

    Grinding my Ka-bar in the barn
    While my donkey runs the farm

    Got a steer and his name was Jake
    Tuesday he was burgers on Wednesday he was steak

    Grinding my ka-bar in the barn
    while my donkey runs the farm

    bare with me ’cause this may sound sick
    Gotta strip out some baby chicks

    Me and my donkey gonna take a little trip
    The Colonel’s in need of some Crispy strips

    lo righty lo righty lo righty lo
    lefty right a lo, here we go

    Got two roosters named larry and Lee
    One’s going to Church’s the other KFC

    Grinding my ka-bar in the barn
    While my donkey runs the farm

    Got some lamb and a couple of sheep
    Gotta have gyros and mutton ain’t cheap

    I still grind my ax in the barn
    while my donkey runs the farm…