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Turkey?
My wife said nothing would make her happier than a diamond necklace.
So I bought her nothing.
The CEO of a hardware company calls in his top ad man and tells him, "We need a new TV spot for our B&Q Nails line."
A week later, the ad man comes back with a videotape and pops it into the VCR in the CEO's office. The commercial starts and the CEO sees Jesus being nailed to the cross while a voice over says, "B&Q nails: they get the job done." The CEO is irritated and says, "That is completely unacceptable! We are NOT using that!"
A week passes, and the ad man returns with another tape. The new tape shows Jesus hanging on the cross in the background, and in the foreground a centurion turns to the camera and says, "B&Q nails: they hold anything!" The CEO is furious and yells, "JESUS IS NOT GETTING NAILED TO THE CROSS WITH B&Q NAILS, PERIOD!"
Another week goes by, and the ad man comes back with a third tape. This time Jesus sprints down the street with a group of centurions in pursuit. As he passes the camera one of the centurions turns and says, "We should have used B&Q nails!"
Two friends are walking their dogs, a Dalmatian and a Chihuahua, when they smell something delicious coming from a nearby restaurant.
The guy with the Dalmatian says, "Let's get something to eat."
But the guy with the Chihuahua says, "We can't go in there, we have dogs with us."
So the first guy says, "Just follow my lead." He puts on a pair of sunglasses and walks into the restaurant.
"Sorry," says the owner, "no pets allowed."
"But this is my seeing-eye dog," the guy with the Dalmatian says.
"A Dalmatian?"
"Yes, they're using them now."
The owner says, "Very well, then, come on in."
The guy with the Chihuahua repeats the process and gets the same response from the owner: "Sorry, pal, no pets allowed."
"But this is my seeing-eye dog," says the second guy.
"A Chihuahua?" asks the incredulous owner.
"A Chihuahua?!," says the man in the dark glasses. "They gave me a Chihuahua?!"
With American Football teams changing their names thanks to this Black Lives Matter bullshit, when the Southern California Apaches get forced to change theirs I'd like to suggest something totally inoffensive:
The California Wildfires.
I got a phone call when I was in the pub,
"If you don't get home in ten minutes I'm giving the dog your dinner. "
So I went home.
I love that dog.
We slowed the spread. We flattened the curve. We understand the virus. We have effective treatments. The rest of the world is opened up again. Why are we still on lockdown? - Dr. David Samadi, MD
https://archive.vn/sXpkU
When Turkey's 'Hero' Beheaded 800 Christians for Refusing Islam by Raymond Ibrahim
Lessons from the Martyrs of Otranto.
The ritual decapitation of 800 Christians who refused Islam 539 years ago—and whose commemoration was last Friday, August 14—sheds much light on contemporary questions concerning the ongoing conflict between Islam and the West.
Background: When he sacked Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman Sultan Muhammad II was only 21-years-old—meaning he still had many good decades of jihading before him. He continued expanding into the Balkans, and, in his bid to feed his horses on the altar of Saint Peter's basilica—Muslim prophecies held that "we will conquer Constantinople before we conquer Rome"—he invaded Italy and captured Otranto in 1480. More than half of its 22,000 inhabitants were massacred, 5,000 hauled off in chains.
To demonstrate his "magnanimity," Sultan Muhammad offered freedom to 800 chained Christian captives, on condition that they all embrace Islam. Instead, they unanimously chose to act on the words of one of their numbers: "My brothers, we have fought to save our city; now it is time to battle for our souls!"
Outraged that his invitation was spurned, on August 14, Muhammad ordered the ritual decapitation of these 800 unfortunates on a hilltop (subsequently named "Martyr's Hill"). Their archbishop was slowly sawed in half to jeers and triumphant cries of "Allah Akbar!" (The skeletal remains of some of these defiant Christians were preserved and can still be seen in the Cathedral of Otranto.)
Now consider how this event relates to current realities:
First, whenever Islamic individuals or organizations engage in violence against non-Muslims—and cite Islam as their motivation—we are instantly told the exact opposite, that they are mere criminals and psychopaths, and that their actions have "nothing to do with the reality of Islam."
Yet it was not just run-of-the-mill "Muslims" who committed atrocities atop Martyr's Hill, but the virtual leader of Sunni Islam, the sultan himself, who further always kept a pack of Muslim ulema—clerics, scholars, and muftis—to guide and confirm his decisions vis-à-vis infidels (including massacring those who reject Islam).
Incidentally, Muhammad II is a hero for Turkey and its president, Erdoğan, who recently transformed the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, partly to honor the murderous sultan.
Nor was Otranto an aberration. Over the course of nearly 14 centuries, Islam's official leaders and spokesmen—from sultans and caliphs to ulema and sheikhs—always spoke and acted just like the Islamic State (or rather vice-versa).
Also interesting to reflect on is how even then, over half a millennium ago, Western nations preferred to engage in denial and wishful thinking than come to grips with reality or aid their beleaguered coreligionists. Soon after the Otranto massacre, Pope Sixtus IV chided an indifferent West accordingly:
Let them not think that they are protected against invasion, those who are at a distance from the theatre of war! They, too, will bow the neck beneath the yoke, and be mowed down by the sword, unless they come forward to meet the invader. The Turks have sworn the extinction of Christianity. A truce to sophistries! It is the moment not to talk, but to act and fight!
Such laments were not uncommon. Nearly a century later, in 1565, as a massive Islamic armament was sailing over to besiege the tiny island of Malta, Pope Pius IV, who was trying to raise an army, complained that the king of Spain "has withdrawn into the woods and France, England and Scotland [are] ruled by women and boys."
Finally and not unlike today, whereas the mass of Western people were ignorant of Islam's doings, a minority were always keenly aware, including from a historical perspective. Consider Sebastian Brant's (b.1457) Ship of Fools, a satirical poem on the gradual nature of Islam's advances vis-à-vis a "sleeping" Christendom:
Our faith was strong in the Orient/It ruled in all of Asia/In Moorish lands and Africa/But now [since the seventh century] for us these lands are gone . . ./We perish sleeping one and all/The wolf has come into the stall/And steals the Holy Church's sheep/The while the shepherd lies asleep/Four sisters of our Church you find/They're of the patriarchic kind/Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch/But they've been forfeited and sacked/And soon the head [Rome] will be attacked.
As the poem's continuity suggests, learned Europeans saw the Ottoman scourge as the latest in a continuum of Islamic terror: for whereas the Arabs were "the first troops of locusts" that appeared "about the year 630," to quote a contemporary English clergyman, "the Turks, a brood of vipers, [are] worse than their parent . . . the Saracens, their mother."
Similarly, today's jihadi organizations—the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Boko Harem, Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Shabaab et al—are the latest "brood of vipers" to be hatched by the perennial jihad.
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Jacked?
You know you're an ugly cunt when it comes to a group picture and they hand you the camera.
Curiously, Kamala Harris just unfollowed Joe Biden on Twitter.
After they met about her being his VP.
He probably left a bad taste in her mouth.
Professor of archeology, expert in the occult, and obtainer of rare antiquities, Dr. Henry Jones Jr. has been suspended indefinitely from Marshall College after multiple photos have surfaced of him wearing Nazi uniforms.
"We're shocked and horrified by Dr. Jones's association with the Nazi Party," said Dr. Joan Snakes, Professor of Anthropology and Prius owner, who first exposed the photos.
"The amount of time he apparently spends with Nazis is alarming. It seems like every time we turn around, he's wearing a Nazi uniform, riding Nazi motorcycles, or entering Nazi submarines!"
When asked for comments, Dr. Jones responded, "Nazis? I hate those guys."
"I thought he'd be able to slip out of this one by the skin of his hat," says longtime friend Marcus Brody. "He's had close calls before, but the walls are really closing in on him now."
Tensions escalated when it came to light Dr. Jones once collected a signed autograph from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Marshall College, which has a large Jewish student population – including notable graduates George Spielberg and Steven Lucas – has taken a strict stance against images of hate on campus.
"Could there be a perfectly acceptable explanation for why Dr. Jones so frequently finds himself with the Nazi party? Maybe. But we don't want to hear it!" Dr. Snakes continues, "If we want to create a safe and hate-free environment here on campus, we must act swiftly, without explanation, nuance, or grace."
The suspension is immediate, with many doubting Jones will ever return.
After learning it was his colleague that exposed him, Jones moaned, "Snakes… Why did it have to be Snakes?"
Abby's roommate had a blind date.
"How did it go?" Abby asked her.
"Terrible!", she answered. "He showed up in a 1950 Rolls Royce."
"Wow!" remarked Abby. "That's a very expensive car. He must be very rich. What's so bad about that?"
"He was the original owner."
You know you've still got it when you're walking across the beach with your missus and there's a couple of young girls waving at you while your missus isn't looking.
There's no way that I was ever gonna swim out that far to save them though.
"All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." - Lincoln
https://heartiste.org/diversity-proximity-war-the-reference-list/
The Spies Who Hijacked America by Steven P. Schrage, PhD.
As a doctoral candidate at Cambridge working under "FBI Informant" Stefan Halper, I had a front-row seat for Russiagate Global scandals now labeled Russiagate, Spygate, and what President Trump calls "Obamagate" shook the political world, but hit me closer to home. I'm the reason the so-called FBI "spy" at the center of Spygate, Stefan Halper, met Carter Page, the alleged "Russian Asset" in Russiagate's Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
On May 19, 2018, this realization blindsided me in London as I was about to fly out for my wedding. The New York Times, NBC News and other sources had outed my PhD supervisor, Stefan Halper, as a spy known to the UK's MI6 intelligence service as "The Walrus."
It didn't seem real. Could a former professor I once trusted as a mentor have betrayed his word, profession, and country to start these disasters? I had moved to England to pursue an academic career and leave DC's politics behind, only to have my PhD supervisor throw me back into the most outrageous political firestorms I could imagine. Just my luck. Then an even worse question began nagging at me. Did I unintentionally light the match that started it all?
As I started to piece together what happened over the next few months, I realized something. The stories that The New York Times, Washington Post, and others were pushing didn't add up. Many seemed planted to cover up or advance the agendas of several individuals whose tentacles secretly ran through these scandals, and who each had longstanding ties to intelligence services like the FBI, CIA, and MI6. I call these individuals the Cambridge Four.
Strangely, all four were linked through that sleepy British academic town thousands of miles from the alleged "ground zeroes" of Russiagate's conspiracies, Moscow and DC. In addition to the central "Spygate" figure Halper, they include the central source of "Russiagate's" fake conspiracy theories, Christopher Steele; former MI6 Director Sir Richard Dearlove; and Halper's and Dearlove's partner in a Cambridge Intelligence Seminar linked to titillating — but false — tales of a "Russian spy" seducing Trump's top national security advisor. My years of work with Halper provided an inside view of how their four networks interconnected.
The more I dug up new pieces of this puzzle, the more I saw how these individuals' seemingly separate acts might fit together in an absurd picture of how these scandals really started.
Armed with first-hand knowledge and evidence, I quietly sought to help federal investigators uncover these scandals' mysteries. It wasn't my first rodeo. After witnessing the plane that hit the Pentagon on 9/11, I led G8 and State Department international crime and terrorism efforts with Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI, and intelligence officials and had worked for decades in White House, Congressional, and presidential campaign roles.
This helped me keep a stiff upper lip when I was falsely accused in 2019 by the House Intelligence Committee's Ranking Republican and others on television as being part of a secret anti-Trump cabal. As much as I wanted to defend myself, I knew our best shot of exposing the real forces behind these scandals was for me to remain publicly silent and not let those under investigation know what I knew or was willing to say.
Yet a few weeks ago, I asked to speak to the DOJ lead investigator John Durham to give his team a heads up. I would continue to offer help, but my time for waiting for government to act was over. Recently, I had discovered and flagged for Durham disturbing recordings. One involved one of the Cambridge Four, Halper, and raised serious questions about the origins of what has been called the "kill shot" against Trump's first national security advisor, General Michael Flynn.
On January 12, 2017 a felony leak about phone calls between the Russian Ambassador and General Flynn was published by The Washington Post. This led to Flynn's downfall and reignited the Trump-Russia investigations still tearing our nation apart. 48 hours before the leak was published, my former supervisor Halper eerily laid out what was about to happen to Flynn, something he had no independent reason to know. Halper described how Flynn's "so called enemies" would make Flynn "blow up…he's really fucked."
The next legal hearing on Flynn's prosecution is this Tuesday. Yet for four years government officials have withheld key materials and blocked individuals like Halper from testifying about the real genesis of these scandals and the felony leak on Flynn. While I once worked in Republican politics, I know Americans of every affiliation believe citizens deserve a fair trial without the government concealing evidence.
The remaining mysteries of Russiagate are too important to be turned into a game of political football, or buried until after the election when unsubstantiated allegations could be dug up to sabotage Vice President Biden if he is elected president — as I believe was done to President Trump.
Nor should they be used as a cynical, last-minute Republican "October Surprise" to disrupt the election. Nothing excuses foreign meddling in U.S. elections. Yet it is hypocritical and absurd to use that as an excuse to hide abuses by U.S. intelligence, law enforcement, and political officials against our own citizens.
I know the consequences of my speaking out. America is now in a political "UnCivil War" where individuals—even at outlets like The New York Times and Washington Post that profess objective journalism—are personally attacked if their facts don't fit entrenched narratives.
Key politicians and intelligence figures would like the facts surrounding Russiagate's origins classified and buried for decades, as with past U.S./MI6 intelligence scandals. I can't let that happen. After all, I inadvertently helped jump-start it. Even if this story is hidden now, it will ultimately impact Trump, Biden, the 2020 election, and our country for years.
There is far too much to tell in a single article. In the next several weeks I plan to reveal what I know, including: the comedy of errors leading to a Cambridge Four member meeting and targeting the FBI's main surveillance excuse Carter Page; the information given to an FBI source in August 2016 should have immediately ended their investigation alleging Page was a master spy linking top Trump officials to Putin; how a secret anti-Trump source sought one of the world's most powerful positions that could undermine the president; and how official statements by FBI's Crossfire Hurricane officials to the DOJ Inspector General were factually inaccurate or wildly inconsistent with other evidence, raising the question of if those officials risked criminal prosecution to conceal their acts.
This is not a position I ever sought. As I worked with government investigators it seemed inconceivable that key facts could be covered up until now. Yet with both Flynn's hearing and the election approaching, whatever the consequences, everyone impacted deserves to know the truth.
Conspiracy of Dunces
People who convince themselves that they're really smart often do the dumbest things. I've fallen prey to this dynamic myself in the past. Yet perhaps no one in history is a better example of this than the Cambridge Four. Their story is both a tragedy and a farce—think Jason Bourne meets Austin Powers — with larger-than-life characters that might be equally at home in a Saturday Night Live skit or a John Le Carré spy thriller. Yet the damage they did is deadly serious.
The Cambridge Four's most mythical, larger-than-life character — both literally and figuratively — is my former advisor, Halper. Codenamed "the Walrus," in person he appears well over 300 pounds, and carries himself with grandiose airs, evoking fictional anti-heroes like Ignatius O'Reilly of Confederacy of Dunces or Shakespeare's Falstaff.
At first, I was drawn to and respected him for his bold books opposing brain-dead Republican orthodoxies on the Iraq War and China policy. It seemed his real-world government experience eerily mirrored my own. I had yet to discover his checkered past, including: his reported role in organizing ex-CIA operatives to steal Jimmy Carter's 1980 debate materials; 1990's crack cocaine arrest; and FBI firing in 2011 for "mercurial" behavior, demanding more "compensation" and "questionable allegiance to [intelligence] targets."
By the time I organized a major 2016 conference to serve as a capstone of my years of research at Harvard and Cambridge — ironically focused on the national security risks of U.S. presidential campaigns — Halper was a gregarious, opinionated eccentric who struggled to use Cambridge's basic internet system without help.
He appeared slightly more "mercurial" and rattled after losing his politics professorship in the months before my conference. Yet the idea that any competent FBI or government official would rely on him as a linchpin for world-changing Trump-Russia conspiracy investigations was and is preposterous.
Halper might have faded into retirement — and Spygate likely never would have happened — without my driving forward with the 2016 conference, one that Halper, again ironically, had repeatedly urged me to cancel. An all-star cast of international academics and officials would be there, headlined by Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton's confidante Madeleine Albright.
But after a 20-something Cambridge administrative official smugly told me "there's no way Trump can win" and cut our travel funding, it sent me on a mad scramble. I had to find someone, anyone, to fly over on a last-minute economy ticket to represent the Trump campaign. This is the only reason Spygate's "FBI Spy" Halper and Russiagate's "Russian Spy" Carter Page ever met, with consequences still shaking politics today. For most of the conference, Halper couldn't be bothered with Page, about whom he made snarky comments about behind Page's back, while focusing on Albright. That all changed when another one of the Cambridge Four arrived.
Sir Richard Dearlove is a former director of MI6 and Halper's long-time collaborator. He arrived at the last minute from a billionaire's Rocky Mountain soiree called the Allen Conference, whose other attendees reportedly included Oprah, Obama confidants, and Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein. Dearlove was under the cloud of an official UK investigation into the Iraq war rationale, called the Chilcot Report that were serious even by the Walrus's or Weinstein's standards, given the geopolitical consequences.
Among other things, it involved Dearlove's MI6 allegedly withholding the fact that a key piece of "intelligence" George W. Bush used to launch the attacks – the idea that chemical munitions were kept in "glass beads or spheres" – suspiciously mirrored an erroneous factoid from the plot of the 1996 WMD-heist movie The Rock, starring Nicholas Cage.
At my conference's last session, Dearlove went far off the script I had discussed with his assistant, lambasting Trump as a national security threat in front of a Trump advisor, and our official guest, Page. My jaw hit the floor in embarrassment, but that, and his discussion with Dearlove, seemed to cause Halper to do a 180-degree shift. Suddenly, he seemed desperately interested in isolating, cornering, and ingratiating himself to Page and promoting himself to the Trump campaign.
Dearlove's former MI6 agent and the third Cambridge Four member, Christopher Steele, is now as famous as his old boss. According to multiple reports, Steele had been hired by a Clinton campaign contractor a few weeks earlier to compile the infamous "Steele Dossier." Steele filled his "intelligence" reports with obviously non-intelligent assertions, including that Trump-Russia conspiracies were run out of Russia's Miami consulate — a consulate an average high schooler with internet access could instantly show did not exist.
Similarly, Steele's famous allegations that notorious germaphobe Trump paid prostitutes to urinate while Putin recorded him seemed like a teenage boy's dream after watching too many Austin Powers movies — and with recent news revealing Steele's highly suspect sub-source, Igor Dyachenko, his story appears just about as based on reality.
The Cambridge's Four's final member, Christopher Andrew, seemed the least likely to become involved. He initially called some of Halper's Russia conspiracy theories "absurd." Yet by early 2017 he published an articlethat helped legitimize false allegations against Trump's team and even implicated his own student.
I call them — Halper, Steele, Dearlove, and Andrew — the Cambridge Four because of parallels to another British spy story of yore, perhaps the most notorious intelligence scandal in history. That earlier "Cambridge Five" spy ring, including infamous names like Kim Philby and Guy Burgess, became the basisfor John LeCarré's famous spy thriller and film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The Five were Cold War Soviet spies who escaped virtually unpunished after embarrassed British and American officials essentially covered up the extent of their betrayals. One, Anthony Blunt, was even knighted and served as art curator to the Queen.
These Cambridge men undermined democracy and the U.S.-UK relationship, while making fools of politicians, the media, and officials linked to the FBI, CIA and MI6 for years. The same can be said of our new Cambridge Four.
I have no indication that any of the Cambridge Four were ever on Russia's payroll or were actual spies for Russia, like their Cambridge Five namesakes. Yet the Cambridge Four, and their media and political enablers, did a miraculous job in pushing fake Trump-Russia conspiracy stories that undermined America's democratically-elected government and sparked investigations still ripping us apart today. In this regard, the Cambridge Four were probably the most effective tools for Russia's disinformation campaign to divide America that Putin could have ever dreamed of.
Flynn's Tag Team Take Down
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the Cambridge Four's roles — or is more urgent given Flynn's legal hearing August 11 — than the takedown of Trump's national security advisor. Starting in 2016, Halper made odd requests for me to brief him and others on Trump's team. He even had me research Trump, allegedly as part of my thesis work, even though my thesis was focused on past, not present, presidents.
In these discussions I stressed that Flynn was indispensable. He was perhaps the only campaign advisor who both had Trump's personal trust and the deep intelligence experience necessary to expose hidden problems in the intelligence community. At one point, I even recall telling Halper that taking Flynn out would be like "beheading" Trump's team. I had no idea I had been unintentionally aiding a spy preparing the guillotine and helping lead Flynn to exactly such a beheading.
Whether and to what degree the Cambridge Four's individual acts were formally coordinated can likely only be proven by testimony under oath and reviewing phone records, emails, and documents — things government officials seem to have blocked the Cambridge Four and Halper's FBI handler, Steve Somma, from for four years. Yet it would seem odd if four, interconnected individuals linked to a town thousands of miles from Moscow or DC, randomly took acts that fit together so perfectly to take down Flynn.
My conference ended on July 12, 2016 with a closing session where Halper, Dearlove, and Page had their strange interactions. Almost immediately after that, the sparks of international intelligence interest surrounding Trump-Russia connections caught fire. Seven days after the conference, Steele provided a new report for the Clinton Campaign. In it, for the first time, Steele made Page central to his Trump-Russia conspiracies.
Eleven days after that, the Crossfire Hurricane investigation officially launched, allegedly due to a tip (based on a casual London wine bar conversation two months earlier) by an Australian diplomat named Alexander Downer linked to the Clinton Foundation and to the Cambridge Four through the tight-knit London/Cambridge Five Eyes intelligence community (involving the CIA, FBI, and MI6). Current CIA Director Gina Haspel was the CIA station chief in London when Downer reportedly broke typical protocol by giving his tip directly to that Embassy's team.
Halper's long-time FBI handler Steve Somma, who personally saved Halper's FBI career after Halper's firing in 2011, was quickly reassigned to Crossfire Hurricane despite Somma telling the DOJ's Inspector General that he "lacked a basic understanding of simple [campaign] issues." Shortly after his reassignment, Somma claimed he "couldn't believe [their] luck" as he "kind of stumbled upon" Halper's ties to Crossfire Hurricane's top targets, including from his recently meeting Page at my conference.
Halper quickly agreed to highly questionable, if not illegal, FBI requests to secretly record his own party's presidential campaign advisers. Two business days after Somma held his meetings with Halper, the Crossfire Razor investigation of Flynn launched on August 16.
In the weeks after my Summer 2016 conference, Halper and Dearlove quit an academic entity, the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar (CIS), they'd put together with Andrew. After these resignations, rumors circulated that Trump's national security advisor, General Michael Flynn, was seduced by a young blonde "Russian spy" in Cambridge years earlier. This "seduction" allegedly occurred after three of the Cambridge Four — Halper, Dearlove, and Andrew — hosted Flynn for CIS events in 2014. I attended part of their program and found nothing untoward, just typical academic fare. Neither apparently did any of the Cambridge Four find anything wrong, until years later after two of them crossed paths with Page at my conference.
Steele's role pushing anti-Flynn stories was revealed in his dossier and the testimony of an aide to Republican Senator John McCain. Steele met the aide in London during the fall of 2016, telling him that "Flynn had an extramarital affair with a Russian woman in the U.K." and using details mirroring the other Cambridge Four stories. The Washington Post also reports Steele and Dearlove discussed how his anti-Trump work might integrate with UK government actions from at least "early fall" 2016.
Yet by winter 2016, these efforts were imploding. After Trump's election, FBI agents texted about "a lot of scared MFers" at headquarters who needed to "[s]tart looking for new jobs fellas." Yet doubling down on questionable investigations might have been some of the FBI Keystone Cops' only escape route.
Before the election, Halper and the FBI made several wired-up spying attempts: secretly recording and questioning Page and Papadopoulos to try and catch them in statements supporting Steele's Trump-Russia conspiracies. Their clown car operation backfired spectacularly, often contradicting Steele. Halper at one point awkwardly put a phone down as if to record Papadopoulos while spewing questions about Russia. On an FBI recording, Halper apparently admitted he was "three sheets to the wind" drunk.
The supposedly "confidential" source Halper seemingly made a public, last-ditch attempt to try and legitimize allegations of a Russian conspiracy at Cambridge through a December 16 Financial Times newspaper article. Halper claimed he and Dearlove quit the seminar that hosted Flynn due to "unacceptable Russian influence." Halper's partner Andrew initially called Halper's assertions "absurd." Another professor added that "Cambridge is a wonderful place for conspiracy theories, but the idea there is a Machiavellian plot here is ridiculous…it's real Reds under the Bed stuff—the whole thing is ludicrous."
But Andrew later seemed to flip, giving legs to his Cambridge Four comrades' smears by authoring an 2017 article implying their falsely accused "Russian spy" behaved seductively towards Flynn. That this fake "spy" was a new mother — and Andrew's own student mentee for years — made this more disturbing.
Despite Halper's article, a few weeks later these efforts were dead. A memo to terminate the Flynn investigation was on its way to FBI director on January 4, finding "no derogatory evidence." Flynn would soon lead the NSC, where he would be empowered to expose the Cambridge Four and could bring them to their own career guillotines. They would likely be joined by Director Comey, McCabe, and FBI officials whom Democrats had widely derided earlier for botching the Hillary Clinton email investigation before they staked what remained of their credibility to Steele's falsehoods. Then everything changed.
A General, a Walrus, and a "Kill Shot"
McCabe's FBI subordinate Peter Strzok — who earlier texted that the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation was like an "insurance policy" in case of Trump's election which "[w]e'll stop" and he could "SMELL the Trump support" at a Walmart — intervened on January 4 to pull the memo terminating Flynn's investigation.
The next day, January 5, Strzok attended an Oval Office Meeting with President Obama, National Security Adviser Rice, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and FBI Director Comey. Among the topics were intercepted calls between Flynn and Russia's Ambassador discussing sanctions. Strzok's notes indicate Vice President Biden suggested that Flynn somehow violated a 216-year-old, possibly unconstitutional, and never successfully prosecuted, law called the Logan Act.
All of this — White House discussions, the taping of Flynn, Flynn-Russia conversations — were highly classified. They were never supposed to go public. If no one commits a felony by leaking them, this whole situation likely disappears. It is hard to believe anyone in Trump's White House, or even in the last days of Obama's presidency, would try to prosecute Flynn for a "Logan Act" violation of a possibly unconstitutional law he probably didn't even violate, and that hasn't been successfully prosecuted in its over two centuries of existence.
If this law — created to stop private citizens from intervening in foreign affairs — applied to incoming presidential teams, likely Joe Biden, Susan Rice, and most of the incoming international teams of Presidents Obama, Bush, Reagan, and Clinton would be guilty. Under our Constitution, it is the job of presidential campaigns to announce how they will change policy. So, unless someone commits the leak against Flynn, this all would be resolved internally. It is never transformed into a public Russia-Trump conspiracy tearing our country apart. But as we all now know, and history recorded, that is not what happened.
Five days after that the January 5 Oval Office meeting, I met Halper in Virginia. I didn't think much about that meeting until Durham's team requested I review my records. Because Halper had seemed increasingly erratic in our dealings, making it difficult to advance my doctoral work, I requested to start recording our conversations back in 2015 to document his guidance.
When I listened to my January 10, 2017 recording a few weeks ago, I expected to find boring academic discussions. Instead I found something else.
In the recording Halper laid out what was about to happen to Flynn, something he had no independent reason to know. "I don't think Flynn's going to be around long," he said, adding, "the way these things work" was that "opponents… so-called enemies" of Flynn would be "looking for ways of exerting pressure…that's how it builds."
Flynn, he said, would be "squeezed pretty hard," and Flynn's "reaction to that is to blow up and get angry. He's really fucked. I don't where he goes from there. But that is his reaction. That's why he's so unsuitable."
Those still defending the Crossfire Hurricane investigation will say there is no smoking gun here. There is no confession that individuals lied to ensnare Flynn, leaked classified information, or illegally undermined and sabotaged America's government.
As someone experienced in crime and terrorism efforts, I can assure you of a hard truth: there almost never is. That is why we have jury trials, congressional investigations, and adversarial processes to uncover the truth.
That is why the most disturbing thing is that the Cambridge Four, their FBI/intelligence handlers, and others have been hidden from critical public and government inquiries for over four years. Context (including my background and materials) is vital, as is the chance for Halper, myself, Carter Page, and others involved to publicly testify, defend themselves, and answer questions. Yet for now, the context I can add makes this more troubling.
Halper would not have independently known Flynn, Trump's most trusted security advisor, was about to go down. Halper knew the Cambridge Four's Flynn affair allegations were, at best, unsubstantiated speculations, if not intentional lies. The FBI sought to close Flynn's investigation and had mounting evidence undermining Steele's Page and Papadopoulos allegations.
Even if Halper knew about Flynn's "Logan Act violation" calls, it wouldn't have mattered. Trump's Administration would not prosecute this. It was, as Obama's Acting Attorney General Sally Yates even admitted, "certainly unlikely" Obama's Administration would either — it would expose their Crossfire investigation and spark bipartisan ridicule over a legally and politically suspect "Logan Act" prosecution in Obama's last 10 days.
Halper was often unhinged and "mercurial," as FBI described him in his 2011 firing. Months earlier he exploded screaming to block my long-planned outreach to the Trump campaign, likely fearing I would expose him and the Cambridge Four. Now Halper's efforts were collapsing like a house of cards, likely leading to the Cambridge Four's actual exposure, possibly even prosecution, once Flynn came to power. He should have been at wits' end. Yet in the recording he was as eerily calm, almost cocky, as I've ever heard him.
One of the remaining tasks of investigators is determining the precise source of the leaks about Flynn to the Washington Post. These leaks were a critical inflection point. They revived the Trump-Russia investigations that were about to die and stopped Flynn before he could expose the fabrications and incompetence behind it all.
This is not a classic whistleblowing situation, wherein the confidentiality of the leaker should ideally remain sacrosanct in light of an important, socially-beneficial disclosure. This is the opposite: a leak seemingly manufactured with the intent of creating a media firestorm around a figure the FBI had already investigated, to no effect. The FBI's key "confidential" source was already naming himself in a major global newspaper as he openly pushed Russia conspiracy theories.
Fairness demands individuals have a chance to testify under oath and defend themselves, yet members of the Cambridge Four, once again, have links that should be explored. It is demonstrably true that Halper knew Ignatius for decades, and he also bragged to me Ignatius was his press contact. Ignatius' Post colleague, Robert Costa, was also Halper's former student, and has described Halper as a "friend" he "had dinner with on many occasions."
When Halper was outed as an FBI informant in 2018, Ignatius quickly filed a story calling Halper a "bit player" and a "middle man," in what may have been an attempt to turn attention away from his long-time source. It is also worth noting that Flynn's lawyer, Sydney Powell, has accused Pentagon official James Baker of making the leak — a charge a Pentagon official denied — and of coordinating with Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, on what she called a "kill shot" on Flynn.
Baker leads the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA), which reported paying Halper $411,575 while he surveilled Trump's team. ONA claims this enormous sum —more than the annual salary of the President of the United States — was paid to Halper for fairly normal, largely publicly-sourced, reports to this office. I always found it strange that Halper profusely thanked me for introducing him to Carter Page, even after Page was accused of being a "Russian spy." The disclosure that some of these payments started around the time Halper met Page, provided me with a theory on why he was so grateful.
According to a former Washington Post reporter, numerous sources were checked before the January 12, 2017 Ignatius story was published. While Flynn's lawyer Powell suggested Baker leaked to Ignatius, it might be safer for Halper, rather than highly monitored government officials like Baker or Clapper, to provide information to his long-time media contact Ignatius, former student Costa, or one of their Post colleagues. Halper's confidential FBI source role could be used to hide him from Congressional or public scrutiny. Halper's FBI handler Somma could be hidden by a DOJ policy shielding lower-level employees, while foreign members of the Cambridge Four can selectively dodge U.S. investigations.
This exactly corresponds to what has happened so far.
My former supervisor, using his booming voice and bold ideas, likes to be the center of attention. Yet for two years his allies with powerful intelligence, political, and media ties seem to have done the impossible. They made this massive figure almost completely disappear.
The Mueller and DOJ IG investigations of these scandals relied in large part on input from DOJ and FBI officials linked to potential abuses — including the FBI's Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Lisa Page and DOJ's Andrew Weisman. When Congress grilled long-time FBI leader Mueller about why he didn't interview "Steven Schrage" or others who might expose DOJ or FBI improprieties, he stammered: "[i]n those areas, I am going to stay away from…I stand by that which is in the report and not so necessarily with that, which is - which is not in the report."
Given Mueller's stated preference to "stay away" from those with information that might implicate members of his team and the DOJ IG's reliance on DOJ insiders, it's not surprising that people like me who were in a position to expose the Russiagate narrative were not interviewed.
What is surprising for anyone valuing journalistic standards, is that those under government investigation for abuses of power have so easily avoided hard questions. Some have even been given media contractsto spin their own actions. Imagine if Nixon's allies appointed the Watergate burglars to investigate themselves, then placed them in nightly news positions where they could attack anyone questioning them. Politics shouldn't destroy our principles.
There is too much to fully detail here, but further revelations – and they are forthcoming – will make these moves even more damning. How Cambridge Four members and Carter Page came together is a comedy of errors rivaling Dumb and Dumber. An FBI source had information that should have stopped Carter Page's invasive surveillance in August 2016 before it started. A covert anti-Trump operative sought to be appointed to one of the world's most powerful positions that could be used to undermine the president.
Evidence suggests undisclosed famous officials, including Republicans, tried to cover up their links to Steele's smears. The IG report contains statements by Crossfire officials that appear factual inaccurate, inherently inconsistent, or highly improbable, raising questions about whether they risked prosecution to conceal their acts.
"I don't remember." That should be the official, trademarked motto of the government officials involved in these events. It is what former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates responded under oath this past Wednesday.
She had been asked if Vice President Biden raised the Logan Act in their Oval Office discussion of Flynn on January 5, 2017, seven days before the felony leak on Flynn's alleged "Logan Act" violation was published. Flynn's appeals hearing is on Tuesday, and Vice President Biden and President Trump are on the ballot in less than 90 days. These issues should be beyond politics. They should have been dealt with before now. They would have, if Washington insiders could "remember" things, like how to provide legally-mandated documents under our Constitution or their duties to the public.
This is also beyond the pervasive, often subconscious, partisanship that now blinds us. The intelligence leak claiming Russia supported Bernie Sanders over Vice President Biden in 2020's critical Nevada Democratic caucuses, shows how our national security powers could just as easily be deployed against Democrats as against Republicans.
In my work after 9/11, I saw how those national security powers combined with unaccountable government officials could do things George Orwell never dreamed over. Russia and foreign interference in elections should be taken seriously. Yet pushing the threat of Russia—now a country with a GDP the CIA publicly estimates is far closer to Indonesia's than our own—like we are in the middle of a 1950's Red Scare push by Senator Joseph McCarthy, should not be used as a political weapon to cover up or excuse our own government officials' abuses.
For years, political and intelligence officials have concealed key documents — and even my former supervisor the Walrus — in ways that have divided America and derailed our government's work. If Biden, Trump, or members of their teams grossly abused national security powers to upend democracy, we deserve to know as soon as possible before the election.
This should not be turned into an "October surprise" or later used to throw any new presidential administration into chaos.Allowing politicians and national security officials to cover up or even profit from abuses of power, puts us on course for even greater disasters. America can't afford another government and media strike out, after four years of too much denial, incompetence, and coverup.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shipments-20000-fake-ids-china-seized-feds-ahead-election
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/07/07/these-18-corporations-gave-money-to-black-lives-matter-group/
https://nationalfile.com/media-blackout-black-man-intentionally-swerved-suv-into-white-boys-no-hate-crime-charges/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/10/paper-chicago-prosecutor-kim-foxx-has-dropped-25183-felony-cases/
https://vdare.com/posts/23-year-old-white-woman-boasted-of-black-baby-daddy-on-facebook-then-he-shot-her-in-the-head
https://therightscoop.com/new-unemployment-claims-fall-below-one-million-for-the-first-time-since-march/
https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/04/metoostem-founder-fabricated-account-native-american-scientist-died-coronavirus/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437107-harris-i-believe-biden-accusers#.XzL8x1qo1ot.twitter
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-5369326
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gallup-poll-media-distrust-us-political-divide
https://dailyheadlines.com/activist-who-fought-to-defund-police-and-remove-police-from-schools-is-shot-dead-in-chicago/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/covid-and-the-death-of-common-sense.php
https://www.scarymommy.com/operation-underground-railroad-saving-kids-sex-trafficking/
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/august/breaking-the-satanic-temple-raffles-free-abortion-admits-that-aborting-unborn-babies-is-a-satanic-ritual
https://nypost.com/2020/08/08/nyc-councilman-credits-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19-recovery/
98%?
Beirut explosion just shows how badly Covid is affecting the world.
Even the terrorists are working from home.
My ex just called and asked if she can sleep at my place because a stalker has been coming to her house at night.
So nice of her to save me the gas money.
Fred came home from University in tears.
"Mum, am I adopted?"
"No of course not", replied his mother. Why would you think such a thing?
Fred showed her his genealogy DNA test results. No match for any of his relatives, and strong matches for a family who lived the other side of the city.
Perturbed, his mother called her husband. "Honey, Fred has done a DNA test, and... and... I don't know how to say this... he may not be our son."
"Well, obviously!" he replied.
"What do you mean?"
"You remember, that first night in hospital when the baby did nothing but scream and cry and scream and cry. On and on. And you asked me to change him."
My Nan has been trying frantically to get my Grandfather tickets to see Elvis for his birthday.
Silly cow doesn't even realize he's been dead years. I'm pretty sure Elvis has passed away too.
Why do archaeologists get all the girls?
Because they have the best dating techniques.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. – Hemingway
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/here-are-top-highlights-ghislaine-maxwells-unsealed-court-records
Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: If We Don't Act, 2% of the People Are About To Control the Other 98% by Michael Flynn
I was once told if we're not careful, 2 percent of the passionate will control 98 percent of the indifferent 100 percent of the time.
The more I've thought about this phrase, the more I believe it. There is now a small group of passionate people working hard to destroy our American way of life. Treason and treachery are rampant and our rule of law and those law enforcement professionals who uphold our laws are under the gun more than at any time in our nation's history. These passionate 2 percent appear to be winning.
Despite there being countless good people trying to come to grips with everything else on their plates, our silent majority (the indifferent) can no longer be silent.
If the United States wants to survive the onslaught of socialism, if we are to continue to enjoy self-government and the liberty of our hard-fought freedoms, we have to understand there are two opposing forces: One is the "children of light" and the other is the "children of darkness."
As I recently wrote, the art and exercise of self-governance require active participation by every American. I wasn't kidding! And voting is only part of that active participation. Time and again, the silent majority have been overwhelmed by the "audacity and resolve" of small, well-organized, passionate groups. It's now time for us, the silent majority (the indifferent), to demonstrate both.
The trials of our current times, like warfare, are immense and consequences severe and these seem inconquerable.
As a policewoman from Virginia told me, "People don't feel safe in their homes and our police force is so demoralized we cannot function as we should. In my 23 years with my department, I have never seen morale so low."
Another woman from Mississippi told me that we need our leaders to "drop a forceful hammer. People are losing patience. It simply must be stopped! Laws MUST be enforced … no one is above the law."
Don't fret. Through smart, positive actions of resolute citizen-patriots, we can prevail. Always keep in mind that our enemy (these dark forces) invariably have difficulties of which we are ignorant.
For most Americans, these forces appear to be strong. I sense they are desperate. I also sense that only a slight push on our part is all that is required to defeat these forces. How should that push come?
Prayers help and prayers matter, but action is also a remedy. Our law enforcement professionals, from the dispatcher to the detective and from the cop to the commissioner, are a line of defense against the corrupt and the criminal. It is how we remain (for now) in a state of relatively peaceful existence.
We must support them with all our being. They are not the enemy; they bring light to the darkness of night through their bravery and determination to do their jobs without fanfare and with tremendous sacrifice.
The silent majority (the indifferent) tend to go the way of those leading them. We are not map- or mind-readers; we are humans fraught with all the hopes and fears that flesh is heir to. We must not become lost in this battle. We must resoundingly follow our God-given common sense.
Seek the truth, fight for it in everything that is displayed before you. Don't trust the fake news or false prophets; trust your instincts and your common sense. Those with a conscience know the difference between right and wrong, and those with courage will always choose the harder right over the easier wrong.
I believe the attacks being presented to us today are part of a well-orchestrated and well-funded effort that uses racism as its sword to aggravate our battlefield dispositions. This weapon is used to leverage and legitimize violence and crime, not to seek or serve the truth.
The dark forces' weapons formed against us serve one purpose: to promote radical social change through power and control. Socialism and the creation of a socialist society are their ultimate goals.
They are also intent on driving God out of our families, our schools and our courts. They are even seeking the very removal of God from our churches, essentially hoping to remove God from our everyday lives.
Remember, we will only remain united as "one nation under God."
And yes, there is a "resistance movement" by the forces of darkness. However, we must also resist these onslaughts and instead take an optimistic view of our situation. Like war, optimism can be pervasive and helps to subdue any rising sense of fear.
We must, however, be deliberate about our optimism. Otherwise, we may get lost in discouragement and despair of any failings we encounter. We must be tenacious in the ultimate end we wish to gain. That end is to remain an unwavering constitutional republic based on a set of Judeo-Christian values and principles. We must not fear these and instead embrace each.
Our path requires course corrections. To move our experiment in democracy forward, we should fight and reject the tired and failed political paths and instead pursue a more correct path that shines a bright light on liberty, a path with greater and greater control of our livelihoods instead of being controlled by fewer and fewer of the too-long-in-power politicians. They have discarded us like old trash.
Our will, our individual liberties and freedoms, remain powerful forces and must be understood and applied smartly. We must not be overly stubborn. Following the Constitution as our guide and adapting to change as we have throughout history, we learn more about what freedoms humans desire.
At times, however, we have to fall back on what got us here. We cannot afford to lose our God-given human rights and the strong inner desire for freedom to choose and to breathe the fresh air of liberty. We must stand up and speak out to challenge our so-called "leaders" of government. We put them in charge; we can remove them as well.
It is through our rights and privileges as American citizens that we challenge the political class and leverage our election process so "we the people" can decide who will govern.
We must not allow a small percentage of the powerful to overtake our position on America's battlefield. We, as free-thinking and acting individuals, must control how we will live and not allow a few passionate others to change our way of life.
To the silent and currently indifferent majority: Wake up. America is at risk of being lost in the dustbin of history to socialism. The very heart and soul of America is at stake.
In war, as in life, most failure comes from inaction. We face a pivotal moment that can change the course of history of our nation.
We the people must challenge every politician at every level.
We also must stand and support our law enforcement professionals: They are the pointy end of the spear defending us against anarchy.
Now is the time to act.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/31/president-trump-takes-on-the-permanent-war-lobby-over-germany/
https://themindunleashed.com/2020/08/records-of-prince-andrews-location-on-night-of-molestation-destroyed-by-police.html
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6176839302001#sp=show-clips
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/08/01/watch-tucker-shreds-dr-fauci-for-being-a-total-fraud-n2573545
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/77632/both-parties-approve-a-bill-that-includes-red-flag-gun-confiscation-orders-for-military.html
https://theduran.com/george-soros-revealed-to-have-funded-das-who-now-oppose-police-in-american-cities/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jim-jordan-presses-dr-fauci-covid-19-protest-hypocrisy
https://news.gallup.com/poll/316448/congress-approval-drops-trump-steady.aspx
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dewine-asks-pharmacy-board-to-halt-rule-banning-hydroxychloroquine-from-being-sold-as-coronavirus-treatment/UHKZP2PV7FHJPO2YPFV5TJFA44/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-300-domestic-terror-investigations-antifa
https://summit.news/2020/07/31/netherlands-refuses-to-mandate-face-masks-sweden-says-they-are-pointless/
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucsb-teaching-assistant-says-he-would-assassinate-jesus-if-he-had-a-time-machine/
https://vdare.com/posts/his-name-is-officer-johnathan-shoop-while-trying-to-make-routine-traffic-stop-white-police-officer-murdered-by-black-lives-matter-supporter
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/kansas-should-go-f-itself
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/reminder-that-lebron-james-is-a-ccp-shill-who-chose-to-side-with-communists-rather-than-his-own-country/
https://freebeacon.com/media/nyt-quietly-scrubs-chinese-propaganda/
I accidentally swallowed a bunch of Scrabble tiles.
My next trip to the bathroom could spell disaster.
In Arkansas, Senator Tom Cotton has caused controversy by describing slavery as 'a necessary evil'.
Come election day, I doubt many black folks in Arkansas will be picking Cotton.
MINAS TIRITH—Orcs marched on Minas Tirith this morning in a mostly peaceful protest.
The rioters marched for peace, justice, and love in a calm, peaceful, orderly gathering outside the city walls. The mostly peaceful protesters launched peaceful siege projectiles at the city and sent Nazguls to maul Gondorian soldiers in a demonstration of their love and tolerance.
"Everything is very calm, very peaceful here," said a reporter from Gondor News Network. "It's very tranquil." Just then, an Oliphaunt charged right at him and flattened him into lembas bread.
Gondor's government was criticized for "police brutality" when, after a long period of inaction, Rohan's armies finally charged in to break things up.
"We were just peacefully protesting - Gondor had no right to peacefully protest back," said one Orc. "Two of their agents were even having a contest to see how many of us they could kill - and they were killing the majestic, endangered Oliphaunts! I'm literally shaking right now."
What's black with eight legs and often found in the shower?
Prison rape.
My son and I were sat in the city centre, waiting for my wife to come out of this high-end shoestore, and we were absolutely bored to tears.
Then all the sudden, the entire Royal Ballet came out of nowhere and put on a completely impromptu dance performance!
We were still absolutely bored to tears.
"While the rest of us were sleeping, or in the case of so many of our Senators taking payoffs from Google, a tiny number of left-wing corporations took virtually complete control of all news and information in this country." - Carlson
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/facebook-censors-viral-video-of-doctors-capitol-hill-coronavirus-press-conference/
It's Official: Social Justice Warriors ARE Mentally Ill by Lance Weston
A fascinating new study has been published in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science that makes sense of disparate findings on Leftists that I have been reporting for some time: [Pathogen Disgust Predicts Stigmatization of Individuals with Mental Health Conditions, by Eugene Dawydiak et al., Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2020]. It implies that poor mental health—and the Leftist views that are associated with this—spreads like pathogens, infecting people with worldviews that make them less likely to have children and less likely to defend Western civilization from barbarism.
I reported a few weeks ago that young, politically Leftist people—lovingly known as "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs)—suffer from relatively high levels of mental illness. In fact, according to data from the Pew Research Center, 45.9% of white "Liberals" aged between 18 and 29 have been diagnosed with a mental illness, compared to 20% of comparable "Conservatives." And among white female "Liberals" in this age-range, 56% have been diagnosed with a mental illness.
According to psychologist T.E. Joiner, there is sound evidence that conditions such as depression are contagious. If you spend a lot of time with someone suffering from depression, then you will tend to adopt their nihilistic thought patterns—that life is pointless and it's futile doing anything—and become depressed yourself. And you will also be less likely to have children [Contagious depression, by T. E. Joiner, Journal of Personal and Social Psychology, 1994].
Also, I've reported studies which found that ways of thinking that would potentially destroy a society emanate from genetic mutants, who have consequent mental problems, including depression.
But now it appears these ways of thinking can spread through society, influencing even relatively normal people to hold destructive world views and so, in effect, go mad themselves.
By contrast, conservatives are more likely to be mentally healthy, to see life as eternally important, and are more likely to want and to have children.
If all of this is true, then it would make sense that we would have evolved to react to people who are mentally ill as if they carried some virulent pathogen which could infect us. This is because there really is in a sense in which the mentally ill can spread mental illness to otherwise healthy people and, in doing so, subvert the fitness of the entire society by making people think that it is pointless fighting for the survival of their people, and thus of their genes—because ethnic groups, as Australian geneticist Frank Salter has pointed out, are extended genetic families [On Genetic Interests, by Frank Salter, 2006]. It's pointless having children, according to this dark worldview, because their lives will be pointless as well.
This is what the new study in Evolutionary Psychological Science—Pathogen Disgust Predicts Stigmatization of Individuals with Mental Health Conditions—has found.
According to the study, whose lead author, Eugene Dawydiak is based at Scotland's Glasgow University, it has long been hypothesized that we stigmatize people who are noticeably unhealthy, such as those who are obese, due our adaptations towards disease-avoidance. But this had still to be clearly proven.
In an attempt to prove it, the team looked at how scores on a psychological instrument that measures the strength of your disgust response—the Three Domains Disgust Scale—was associated with the extent to which people stigmatized three mental health conditions: schizophrenia, skin-picking disorder, and sexual sadism. Scores on "disgust" and "stigmatization" were found to be positively correlated.
In other words, we stigmatize the mentally ill because we are disgusted by them--and "disgust" is an evolutionary means of avoiding disease. This would, therefore, be consistent with the evidence that mental illness—which correlates such as Leftist views associated with reduced evolutionary fitness—acts like a contagious illness, which can be caught just like Covid-19, and which has devastating consequences for the people who catch it in terms of their ability to enjoy life or to have children.
When the mental health conditions were analyzed separately, there were positive correlations for sexual sadism and skin-picking but not for schizophrenia; so disgust-sensitivity is not clearly associated with stigmatizing schizophrenics.
This is interesting, because, although depression has been shown to be contagious, I am not aware of any evidence that schizophrenia is contagious.
This is perhaps because schizophrenia has been demonstrated to be extremely strongly genetic; it is approximately 0.8 heritable [Is Schizophrenia Inherited? by Scott Frothingham, Healthline, May 23, 2019]. Depression, by contrast, is about 0.4 heritable for women and 0.3 heritable for men [How Heritable is Depression? by Kayt Sukel, Gene Sight, 2019].That means it is much more influenced by environmental factors, including who you associate with.
In the authors' article summary, they qualify that:
These results potentially implicate overgeneralization of infectious disease avoidance in the stigmatization of individuals with mental health conditions.
But, based on the evidence of the contagiousness of certain kinds of mental illness, of which the authors do not show awareness, their qualification is open to question.
Thus it could be reasonably be argued that their results do not display evidence of an "overgeneralization of infectious disease avoidance" at all. Instead, their results are indeed consistent with certain kinds of mental illness operating like infectious diseases and humans, therefore, being evolved to respond to those with these mental health conditions as if they, indeed, were carrying an infectious disease.
Which, it could be reasonably argued, they are.
So, the authors' results are not, as they argue, an example of the "Smoke Detector Principle"—where we are prone to "false positives" because over-detection is far safer than even the possibility of under-detection. Instead, the results indicate an adaptive response to contagious, serious mental illness which, if allowed to spread, can subvert the normal functioning of the entire society.
We see this with the power that SJW agitators currently have to shut down free debate a.k.a. science. These SJWs, with their depressed and thus nihilistic worldview, are literally carriers of a form of psychological plague--a plague that is far more destructive than Covid-19.
https://nationalfile.com/scamdemic-bill-gates-confronted-about-widespread-vaccine-side-effects/
https://freewestmedia.com/2020/07/23/somali-rapist-a-repeat-offender-sentenced-for-rape-of-9-year-old-swedish-girl/
https://rightwingtribune.com/2020/07/23/anti-trump-super-pac/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nadler-calls-antifa-violence-myth-stunning-example-dc-disconnect
https://newspunch.com/black-community-elder-shot-to-death-execution-style-hours-after-pro-trump-interview/
https://the-dailystar.com/ocala-florida-decapitated-corpse-found-on-judges-doorstep-after-bail-hearing/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-are-we-even-contemplating-canceling-aristotle/
https://nypost.com/2020/07/25/these-are-the-innocuous-words-progressives-want-to-ban/
https://thepostmillennial.com/radio-host-dunks-on-trump-by-claiming-seattle-riots-are-peaceful-then-rioters-torched-his-apartment-building
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-sides-with-trump-says-students-need-to-go-back-to-school
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mike-rowe-explains-reality-going-win-against-covid-fearmongering
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/07/27/exclusive-atlanta-protesters-embedded-nails-into-fireworks-fbi-document-states/
https://nypost.com/2020/07/28/barr-destroys-nadler-in-another-house-democrat-testimony-disaster-goodwin/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/exclusive-new-evidence-suggests-china-lied-source-coronavirus-not-man-made/
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/massive-protest-in-south-africa-after-brutal-murder-and-rape-of-white-family/
Unrecognizable?
I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high.
She looked surprised.
I've been suffering from depression and making a lot of visits to McDonald's.
I don't eat there.
I just look at the customers to feel better about myself.
A dangerous, far-right extremist has suggested that we treat people of all races equally, shocked and horrified sources confirmed Friday.
The hateful bigot has been canceled for his controversial comments that people should be treated with respect no matter their skin color.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character," said the dangerous, alt-right extremist, according to sources. "I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls."
The offensive comments were platformed at large protests and marches, and everyone associated with the problematic racist has also been canceled.
"I mean, this is literally Nazism," said one progressive Twitter user. "He might as well have grown out a little mustache and invaded Russia. We are scouring his old Facebook photos for swastikas and racial slurs as we speak. I'm sure there's a ton of hateful stuff there."
To reduce waste, our city has told food truck operators that they must donate all unsold items each night.
I applaud the effort, but given how little space the trucks have in the first place, it seems like there's really not much room for waste to begin with. So, I've gotta ask...
How much food would a food truck chuck if a food truck could chuck food?
"I'm the number everybody hates", said 13.
"No way, I am the number everybody hates", replied 666.
"lol", 2020 chuckled.
Anyone who wants reparations based on history will have to gerrymander history very carefully. Otherwise, practically everybody would owe reparations to practically everybody else. - Sowell
https://www.wnd.com/2020/06/since-appeasement-ever-worked/
When the world became unrecognizable in less than a decade by Simon Black
In the year 1520, exactly 500 years ago, a German scholar named Johan Schoner completed a map of the world that was widely considered to be humanity's most advanced understanding of geography at that time.
There's scarcely any American continent. Instead he drew some amorphous blobs to mark Brazil and the 'West Indies'. And there's a very narrow body of water where the Pacific Ocean is supposed to be, separating Brazil and India.
Obviously we know this is totally wrong. But it was science's best understanding of the world in 1520.
Then, in 1529, a Venetian named Giovanni Ramusio created an updated map based on the various explorations and discoveries throughout the 1520s.
Ramusio's map shows the eastern coastline of North and South America, from Newfoundland to the tip of Argentina, and the west coast from Peru through Mexico, with incredible precision and accuracy.
Even by today's standards, Ramusio's map looks right. You can see the outline of Florida and North Carolina, the prominence of Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, etc. almost to the same standard as a modern day map in 2020.
The difference between the two maps is extraordinary. In less than a decade, humanity's knowledge of the world grew from an almost 'Dark Ages' mentality, to that of our modern world.
Their world literally became unrecognizable in less than a decade.
And this newfound scientific understanding ushered in a new era of commerce and wealth that had never been seen before.
It's amazing when you think about it – how quickly the world can radically change… sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. We've seen plenty of examples in our own lifetimes.
In 1995 hardly anyone had even heard of the Internet. By 2005 it became so ubiquitous that we couldn't imagine our lives without it.
In 2000 hardly anyone had a mobile phone. By 2010 nearly everyone had one.
At the start of 2007, no one had ever seen a touch-screen smart phone – Steve Jobs would unveil the first ever iPhone in January of that year.
And in less than a decade, our entire species has become completely zombified, swiping and scrolling our lives away while we walk, eat, and drive without ever looking up.
Just like the world maps in the 1520s, each of these trends represents a radical shift in the way we live, work, and engage with one another.
We're living through another one right now… a powerful, dangerous social trend that's being driven by anger and ignorance.
Think about it: 5 years ago around this time, things still felt pretty normal.
There was always political bickering and ideological conflict… but discourse was pretty civil. No one advocated for violence or called someone else a racist simply for having a different opinion.
Then all of a sudden, in late 2015, people started becoming completely unglued.
At first the madness was isolated– ultra-liberal universities, pockets of social media. We saw crybully students in California and on the east coast physically blocking certain speakers from setting foot on campus – anyone whose opinions they found 'offensive'.
Like most movements, this one started slowly… but quickly gathered momentum.
Suddenly it became acceptable to expect everyone else to conform to your whiny sensitivities.
Terms like "safe space" entered the lexicon, and 'social justice warriors'' started demanding that we avoid using certain everyday words and pronouns to ensure that no one would be offended.
At the same time, socialists came out of hiding and quickly became mainstream. Some of the most popular politicians in the world now are card-carrying socialists.
These people despise wealth. They hate profit. They're mistrustful of private property. They believe that many private industries should be owned and controlled by the government.
Five years after it all started, these movements– social, economic, etc. have all merged together… and become violent.
Thugs now roam the streets of major cities, physically assaulting anyone they deem an enemy of their movement.
It's ironic that these criminals call themselves 'anti-fascists' or 'antifa' given how similar their tactics are to Hitler's 'Brownshirts' in 1920s Germany.
At one recent protest in California, a conservative politician was threatened by an antifa thug who said, "I just want you dead," and "You're racist… I can tell by looking at you."
Protestors, meanwhile, held up signs like "Can't have capitalism without racism!"
This is now considered acceptable, mainstream thinking – and not just in the Land of the Free. It's all over the world.
This trend is a major force, like a runaway freight train. And every day they're more emboldened, so it's picking up speed.
One might simply hope that it all goes away… that, someday soon, people come to their senses and sanity is restored.
But as we used to say in the military, hope is not a course of action. And given a broader view of history, it's unlikely that this trend goes gentle into that good night. In fact it's far more likely to accelerate.
And just like other major trends, this one also stands to fundamentally transform the way we live, work, and do business.
Think about it – this movement, which grows stronger by the day, wants to seize private property, nationalize entire industries, raise taxes to sky-high levels, bankrupt the Treasury with unaffordable entitlements, label all white males as 'racist,' and physically assault intellectual dissenters.
It's fair to say this might have a bit of an impact.
Never forget that we're talking about people who are irrational and prone to violence.
So, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to start thinking about a Plan B.
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https://truepundit.com/deadly-cover-up-fauci-approved-hydroxychloroquine-15-years-ago-to-cure-coronaviruses-nobody-needed-to-die/
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/canada-loses-track-of-35000-migrants-who-were-set-for-deportation
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2020/07/10-theses-about-cancel-culturewhat-we.html
https://www.silverdoctors.com/headlines/world-news/us-uncovers-massive-nationwide-weapons-trafficking-ring-run-by-the-ccp-to-arm-blm-terrorists-with-powerful-weapons-of-war/
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/twitter-is-so-busted-screenshots-leak-showing-massive-censorship-operation/
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https://news.0censor.com/black-lives-matter-leader-warns-whites-give-us-your-homes-or-suffer-the-consequences-two
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In the 1850s, railroads changed the landscape of McHenry County. Now it just might happen again.
Discussions on bringing a high-speed passenger rail service between Chicago and Rockford appear to be moving off the back burner and heating up.
The Rail Alliance Initiative for Northern Illinois hosted a meeting Jan. 15 in Rockford attended by two Amtrak officials. One of the two potential routes being bandied about would use Union Pacific Railroad tracks to travel through Huntley and Belvidere to connect outbound passengers from Chicago farther west through Freeport, Galena and Dubuque.
Derrick James, senior manager of governmental affairs in Amtrak's Chicago office, told the packed house that 56 Amtrak trains are dispatched each day across Illinois. That equates to a sixth of all Amtrak passenger trains in the country. And true to its history, Chicago is the busiest station.
An estimated 3.4 million Amtrak passengers pass through Chicago each year, James said.
The most popular train, which runs from Chicago through Normal and Springfield to St. Louis, moves at 75 mph – with plans to reach 110 mph soon. The dilemma facing McHenry County is similar to that which plagues interstate highways. Every curb cut and ramp slows traffic. We need to look no further than Route 47 through Huntley.
James said the goal is to transport passengers from Chicago to Rockford in less than 90 minutes – similar to the Hiawatha service between Chicago and Milwaukee.
An estimated 100-yard track connection – linking Milwaukee Road track with that owned by Union Pacific at the Big Timber station in Elgin – could extend Metra service from Chicago to Huntley right now. But that would require money Metra has been reticent to spend.
The Midwest High Speed Rail Association is advocating for a "fast track initiative" that would create a network of reliable passenger trains branching out from Chicago and traveling in excess of 200 mph.
It estimates that $233 million will be needed to extend service beyond Elgin to Marengo, Huntley, Belvidere and Rockford by rebuilding the Union Pacific tracks and connecting them with the Metra Milwaukee West tracks at the Big Timber Road station.
If he had to guess, James said a single stop between Chicago and Rockford would make the most sense for Amtrak. That could give Belvidere the edge over Huntley. Of course, that's assuming a future line uses the Union Pacific tracks rather than the Canadian National-owned line out of Elgin.
The project would use existing rail – the old Black Hawk line, formerly owned by the now-bankrupt Illinois Central, on which Amtrak offered passenger service in the 1980s. When the Illinois Legislature discontinued funding, the service ended. Folks from Freeport to Galena and into Iowa have pined for it ever since.
In 2007, Amtrak, at the state's request, conducted a feasibility study to reinstate the Black Hawk route to Rockford and Dubuque.
At that time, the estimated cost bandied about ranged from $32 million to $55 million.
It is hard telling what they would be now. Even though no additional rights of way would be required, the rail would need to be upgraded in order to carry both freight and passenger trains.
James said it costs about $47 million a year to run all of the Amtrak routes in the state. However, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said his agency, technically the National Railroad Passenger Corp., generates four times more money for the state than that – about $300 million a year in wages and procurement.
"That is a high return on investment," he said.
But will local politicians succeed in passing the first capital-spending bill in 10 years? And is there the political chutzpah to provide sustaining money, at least in the short term, until service gains a toehold?
James noted that taxpayers provide less than 10 cents of every dollar used to run Amtrak. Passenger fares carry most of the freight and will continue to do so in the future.
James said Amtrak received a federal operating subsidy of $900 million in 2004, which fell to $168 million in 2018. In two to three years, he anticipates Amtrak will break even, buoyed by increased ridership.
• Kurt Begalka is administrator of the McHenry County Historical Society and Museum. He can be reached at 815-923-2267.


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Kaisercraft Dies & Stamps, Rose, 1.75" x .75" to 3.5" x 1.75"


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Q: Add domain to subfolder with Nginx I have many projects like, /var/www/html/test, /var/www/html/test1 etc.
Just wanna to attach my domain to one of these folders.
OS is Debian. Here is my sites-available config
server {
    server_name example.me;

    root /var/www/html/example.me;
    index index.html index.php;

    # set expiration of assets to MAX for caching
    location ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)(\?[0-9]+)?$ {
            expires max;
            log_not_found off;
    }

    location / {
            # Check if a file or directory index file exists, else route it to index.php.
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    }

    location ~* \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            include fastcgi.conf;
    }

}
I hope any help me with this one thx a lot.

A: The following will make your test folder available at example.me.

*

*Change your root /var/www/html/example.me; to root /var/www/html/test;

*Copy or symlink your site configuration file to sites-enabled

*Restart nginx

Repeat the same process with test1 in a different site config file and with the correct server_name and root.

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My career in teaching began in 1990. For the majority of my teaching career, I have been honored to teach 7th and 8th Grade English and Reading. My current role is serving as a Middle School Reading Specialist. I coach teachers and students in addition to presenting at workshops that focus on literacy and integrating technology. I was honored to present at the Tennessee Educational Technology Conference and share Buncee during my presentation.
My goal has always been to instill a love of our language and create lifelong readers and writers. Without a doubt, my proudest moments in my career occur when I encounter former students and their first instinct upon seeing me is to say, "Ms. Hughes! I read!" A few years ago, a student even said, "Ms. Hughes, how did you get us to love grammar as much as you do?" Those are proud moments…when your students share your passion for what you teach.
WHY DID YOU WANT TO BECOME A BUNCEE AMBASSADOR?
I love being a part of something special and Buncee is "something special." I love being a Buncee Ambassador because Buncee is an awesome tool for both teachers and students. Buncee offers a way for people like me, who lack the gift of creativity, to produce designs that engage and spark interest. I love being surprised by my own creations, and I love watching my students amaze themselves by what they are able to create. My colleagues are beginning to experiment with it as well, and I'm already receiving messages from them saying, "I love Buncee!"
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE BUNCEES?
This was my first Buncee an embedded video, twirly arrows, lots of stickers, and an animated Buncee character doing a jig!
This one was my first attempt at a Buncee hyperdoc. I created it around one of Roald Dahl's best little short stories, and I really like the way it turned out.
I borrowed ideas from the Buncee Gallery to create this Buncee announcement. Love the animations in it!