Wednesday, September 05, 2018
Judicial Watch: Justice Department Discloses No FISA Court Hearings Held on Carter Page Warrants - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch: Justice Department Discloses No FISA Court Hearings Held on Carter Page Warrants - Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch today announced that in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Justice Department (DOJ) admitted in a court filing last night that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.
In the filing the Justice Department finally revealed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Page FISA spy warrants, first issued in 2016 and subsequently renewed three times:
In the filing the Justice Department finally revealed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Page FISA spy warrants, first issued in 2016 and subsequently renewed three times:
Here’s How Clinton’s Campaign Helped Turn Flint’s Lead Problem Into An Actual Crisis | The Daily Caller
Here’s How Clinton’s Campaign Helped Turn Flint’s Lead Problem Into An Actual Crisis | The Daily Caller
...Toxicology experts worry the reporting blew the problem out of proportion, especially as data showed Flint’s lead levels were not exceptionally high...
- Toxicology experts worry media coverage of Flint’s water problems painted an inaccurate portrait of the issue
- Hillary Clinton’s decision to use Flint as a campaign talking point might have contributed to the over-the-top coverage
- Data shows Flint’s lead levels were not dangerously high relative to other communities
"Reports painting Flint’s lead problems as a crisis skyrocketed after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the town as a primary campaign talking point during her run for president, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis.
...Toxicology experts worry the reporting blew the problem out of proportion, especially as data showed Flint’s lead levels were not exceptionally high...
“Every single American should be outraged,” Clinton said.
Reports on the lead in the town’s water exploded following Clinton’s debate.
Reports on the lead in the town’s water exploded following Clinton’s debate.
...“The numbers in Flint didn’t compute. They were being horribly exaggerated,” Hernán Gómez, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, and medical toxicologist at Hurley Medical Center, told TheDCNF.
Blood lead levels (BLL) are no higher in Flint than in other cities across Michigan, said Gómez, who describes himself as a political moderate without an ideological ax to grind.
Blood lead levels (BLL) are no higher in Flint than in other cities across Michigan, said Gómez, who describes himself as a political moderate without an ideological ax to grind.
“We have no evidence that permanent brain damage has occurred,” making it unfair and inaccurate “to paint the Flint situation” in a way that suggests lead is poisoning children, he added..."
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University encourages students to report feeling ‘belittled, disrespected’ to bias team - The College Fix
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"...The Michigan-based public university encourages students to report when they feel “belittled, disrespected or isolated” to the school’s bias response team, which promises to review the matter, according to its website.
“...If anyone in the Grand Valley community feels belittled, disrespected, or isolated based on their identity, there is a mechanism to report the incident,” the university’s website states.
..Several years ago, The College Fix reported on two professors who voiced conservative viewpoints at Grand Valley State who were subsequently reported to the school’s bias response team by students in their class during the fall 2015 semester.
- In one case, a professor stated they believed there are only two genders and did not want to use pronouns such as Ze and Zir.
- In the second case, a professor said he believed children deserved to be raised by a mother and father, a statement that — after it was reported to campus administrators — prompted the department chair to have a “conversation with the faculty member about the incident,” a campus spokesperson told The College Fix at the time.
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Nike Value Takes a Knee as Colin Kaepernick Becomes Face of Brand… | The Last Refuge
Nike Value Takes a Knee as Colin Kaepernick Becomes Face of Brand… | The Last Refuge
"Nike shares fall Tuesday after the company revealed failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be the modern face of the brand.
It will get much worse; much worse.
Not only is Nike...
The Kaepernick-Nike product offerings could likely include: hoodies, masks, helmets, gloves and a full line-up of ‘Colin’s Riot Gear‘ for the most discerning combatants amid the social justice community.
"Nike shares fall Tuesday after the company revealed failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be the modern face of the brand.
It will get much worse; much worse.
... The financial loss is actually much more significant, and only beginning.
There is another problem.
Not only is Nike...- branding themselves based on severe political ideology; and not only is
- Nike selecting a failed athlete to express that image; and not only has this decision
- removed well over half of their potential customer base; but
- Nike has also decided to go much further.
Essentially an apparel line for the Antifa audience.
From an investment perspective, this means Nike is putting massive amounts of money into a product offering that automatically has removed the top tier purchasers of their products. In essence, Nike has made the fatal mistake in consumer product marketing.
Nike has decided to go from broad-based consumer appeal, to a very niche appeal for the most hard-core political activists who might also wear sporting apparel.
Here is an example of their target audience.
Occupy Wall Street / Antifa : “Believe in Something, Even if it Means Sacrificing Everything”…
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The handwritten notes exposing what Fusion GPS told DOJ about Trump | TheHill
The handwritten notes exposing what Fusion GPS told DOJ about Trump | TheHill:
A memory stick quietly exchanged in a coffee shop.
An admission of a “Hail Mary” leak.
An unmistakable effort to push the Russia investigation closer to Donald Trump’s inner circle with uncorroborated tales.
Those are just some of the highlights from the day that Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson — paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to find dirt on her GOP rival — met secretly with a top Justice Department official, right after Trump won the 2016 election.
An admission of a “Hail Mary” leak.
An unmistakable effort to push the Russia investigation closer to Donald Trump’s inner circle with uncorroborated tales.
Those are just some of the highlights from the day that Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson — paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to find dirt on her GOP rival — met secretly with a top Justice Department official, right after Trump won the 2016 election.
The same politicians and outlets mourning Sen. John McCain's death previously lambasted him. Bush and Obama supporters both attacked him viciously.
Opinion: Op-Ed and Commentary - USATODAY.com
"Hypocrisy, they say, is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
If so, then much tribute was paid this weekend.
I am speaking, of course, of the funeral for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and the concomitant speechifying by politicians and pundits.
...McCain's funeral puts hypocrisy on display
...As someone said on Twitter, they came not to praise McCain, but to bury Trump.
And yet, despite solemn encomia to civility, honor, and integrity from the likes of Barack Obama and Henry Kissinger, amplified by the press’s Greek chorus, the notion that we used to live in some golden age of civility and bipartisanship exemplified by the career of Sen. McCain is belied by, among other things, the career of John McCain.
Now that he’s dead, McCain is a Good Republican.
But when he was alive, and a threat to other people’s power, he was treated as a racist, a warmonger, and potentially unstable.
He was vilified by the press, and by some of the very politicians who were speaking on his behalf.
...What’s all this about?
It’s certainly not about civility, or decency, or bipartisanship.
As David French wrote: “The contrast between the outpouring of love for McCain in his last days and the astonishing vitriol directed at him in 2000 and 2008 demonstrates once again how disingenuous, low, and cheap American politics were well before Trump came on the scene.”
And at this point, I suspect the voters are onto the game."
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"Hypocrisy, they say, is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
If so, then much tribute was paid this weekend.
I am speaking, of course, of the funeral for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and the concomitant speechifying by politicians and pundits.
...McCain's funeral puts hypocrisy on display
...As someone said on Twitter, they came not to praise McCain, but to bury Trump.
Now that he’s dead, McCain is a Good Republican.
But when he was alive, and a threat to other people’s power, he was treated as a racist, a warmonger, and potentially unstable.
He was vilified by the press, and by some of the very politicians who were speaking on his behalf.
...What’s all this about?
It’s certainly not about civility, or decency, or bipartisanship.
As David French wrote: “The contrast between the outpouring of love for McCain in his last days and the astonishing vitriol directed at him in 2000 and 2008 demonstrates once again how disingenuous, low, and cheap American politics were well before Trump came on the scene.”
And at this point, I suspect the voters are onto the game."
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History for September 5
History for September 5 - On-This-Day.com
Jesse James 1847, Bob Newhart 1929 - Actor, comedian (The Bob Newhart Show), William Devane 1939 - Actor
Raquel Welch 1940 - Actress, Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946, Michael Keaton 1951 - Actor ("Batman")
1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities.
1881 - The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan.
Tuesday, September 04, 2018
College suppresses study when 1 group goes ‘nuts’
College suppresses study when 1 group goes ‘nuts’:
The Federalist translates: “The reason trans activists went nuts is that the study reinforces what plenty of parents, public health experts, and doctors have been saying: Transgenderism looks a lot like a dangerous fad. It’s telling that their response was to demand suppressing the results. It’s also telling that Brown chose to prioritize the unreasonable demands of a tiny minority above the potential well-being of children and the process of scientific inquiry.”
Millennials aren’t taking offence. They’re hunting for victims | Spectator USA
Millennials aren’t taking offence. They’re hunting for victims | Spectator USA"...To refresh your memory, the American magazine the Nation printed a formal apology for running a harmless 14-line poem by a white writer about homelessness.
The poet’s sins: using the word ‘cripple’ and adopting a voice lightly evoking what I gather we’re now to call ‘AAVE’: African-American Vernacular English.
Facebookers were incensed, comments huffy.
The poet apologised, too.
I decried this ritual progressive self-abasement as cowardly and undignified.
But it’s worth taking a second look at that story as a prime example of screaming emotional fraudulence in the public sphere.
Employing today’s prescribed lexicon, those apologies regretted the ‘pain’, ‘harm’, and ‘offence’ this sad-ass little poem had caused to stricken communities.
But let’s get real.
None of those poetry readers felt any pain.
(Remember pain, actual pain? Drop a brick on your foot in sandals. Yeah. That’s ‘pain’.)
No one suffered any harm — either tangible or psychic.
Why, I wager that those irate chiders in the peanut gallery were no more genuinely offended than the magazine editors doing damage control were genuinely sorry.
What is the real emotional experience of pouncing on minor infractions of rules right-on activists seem to be making up as they go along, and which only proliferate and grow more exacting the more cravenly the rest of us obey the last ones?
(The latest: ‘stay in your lane’, or ‘white writers shalt not use AAVE’.)
Nothing short of exhilaration.
Crusaders relish locating another paper dragon to slay.
In the guise of suffering and woundedness, the overriding emotion in call-out culture is a sensation of triumph..."
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John Elway claims Kaepernick had an NFL contract offer but turned it down
John Elway claims Kaepernick had an NFL contract offer but turned it down"...According to Broncos General Manager John Elway, Kaepernick actually had an offer for a quarterback job in hand but he turned it down...
Read on.Denver Broncos general manager John Elway said Thursday that free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick had an opportunity to sign with the team.According to NFL Network’s James Palmer, Elway said, “Colin had his chance to be here. We offered him a contract.”In 2016, Elway told reporters that the Broncos had made an offer to Kaepernick. According to CSN Bay Area’s Mindi Bach, the contract would have paid Kaepernick $7 million per season over two seasons.Since parting ways with the San Francisco 49ers at the end of the 2016 season, Kaepernick has gone unsigned..."
LBJ'S Democratic Plantation - American Greatness
LBJ'S Democratic Plantation - American Greatness:
Here is a man who, according to a memo filed by FBI agent William Branigan, seems to have been in the Ku Klux Klan. This memo was only revealed in recent months, with the release of the JFK Files. Progressive media—even progressive historians—largely have ignored it, trying to pretend it does not exist. Branigan cites a source with direct knowledge, even though he does not name his source. As one blogger notes, no one with even a cursory knowledge of LBJ’s background could regard his involvement with the KKK as a shock or a surprise.
NIKE MAKES SUBSTANTIAL IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN
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"NIKE MAKES SUBSTANTIAL IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN:
Colin Kaepernick Named Face of Nike’s 30th Anniversary of ‘Just Do It’ Campaign.
They may have also helped sell quite a few more copies of Clay Travis’ new book, due out later this month, whose title derives from a famous quote by the man who has sold warehouses full of Air Jordans for Nike since the mid-‘80s: Republicans Buy Sneakers Too.
As Travis notes on Twitter,
“Nike is also the official shoe of the NFL.
You talk about a major ‘Fuck you,’ to the league on the week the NFL season starts. Holy crap.”
Posted--by Ed Driscoll
"NIKE MAKES SUBSTANTIAL IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN:
Colin Kaepernick Named Face of Nike’s 30th Anniversary of ‘Just Do It’ Campaign.
They may have also helped sell quite a few more copies of Clay Travis’ new book, due out later this month, whose title derives from a famous quote by the man who has sold warehouses full of Air Jordans for Nike since the mid-‘80s: Republicans Buy Sneakers Too.As Travis notes on Twitter,
“Nike is also the official shoe of the NFL.
You talk about a major ‘Fuck you,’ to the league on the week the NFL season starts. Holy crap.”
Posted--by Ed Driscoll
Union lockout could disrupt projects throughout Southeast Michigan
Union lockout could disrupt projects throughout Southeast Michigan
"More than 40 road construction companies plan to lock out hundreds of workers who operate heavy equipment on Tuesday as a summer-long labor dispute comes to a boil and could disrupt road projects throughout Southeast Michigan.
Contractors in the Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association have voted to implement a "defensive lockout" of members of Operating Engineers Local 324 after the union has "refused" to negotiate a new contract, said Mike Nystrom, executive vice president of the road-builders trade group.
"The only reason for this lockout is to bring the Operating Engineers to the table and come to a resolution on a fair and equitable contract," Nystrom told Crain's.
"And the only way this lockout ends is with the Operating Engineers ratifying a industry-proposed contract."
The Operating Engineers Local 324 said major road construction projects on Interstate 75, I-96 and I-696 could be affected by its members being locked out.
...MITA's members offered the Operating Engineers workers pay increases of $2 per hour each year in the first three years of a new five-year contract, and $1 per hour raises in the fourth and fifth years. The base wage for unionize heavy equipment operators is $27.97 per hour; fringe benefits amount to another $27.70 in hourly compensation.
"We added 2.7 percent per year — and they won't even meet," Nystrom said.
"I think there's a lot of folks out there that think that's a pretty good deal."...
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"More than 40 road construction companies plan to lock out hundreds of workers who operate heavy equipment on Tuesday as a summer-long labor dispute comes to a boil and could disrupt road projects throughout Southeast Michigan.
Contractors in the Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association have voted to implement a "defensive lockout" of members of Operating Engineers Local 324 after the union has "refused" to negotiate a new contract, said Mike Nystrom, executive vice president of the road-builders trade group."The only reason for this lockout is to bring the Operating Engineers to the table and come to a resolution on a fair and equitable contract," Nystrom told Crain's.
"And the only way this lockout ends is with the Operating Engineers ratifying a industry-proposed contract."
The Operating Engineers Local 324 said major road construction projects on Interstate 75, I-96 and I-696 could be affected by its members being locked out.
...MITA's members offered the Operating Engineers workers pay increases of $2 per hour each year in the first three years of a new five-year contract, and $1 per hour raises in the fourth and fifth years. The base wage for unionize heavy equipment operators is $27.97 per hour; fringe benefits amount to another $27.70 in hourly compensation.
"We added 2.7 percent per year — and they won't even meet," Nystrom said.
"I think there's a lot of folks out there that think that's a pretty good deal."...
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Single-Payer Health Care: The More Coloradans Knew, the Less They Liked It
Single-Payer Health Care: The More Coloradans Knew, the Less They Liked It:
In January, just 50 percent of voters said they intended to oppose the measure. By November, 79 percent of voters opposed it—and rejected it at the ballot box.
The more voters learned about the plan, the less they liked it.
The ColoradoCare campaign sought to deflect criticism by providing few details about the plan. It wrote the proposed amendment in the vaguest possible language. Fortunately, it still had to provide some specifics outlining the plan’s legal structure—and when it did, support plummeted.
In January, just 50 percent of voters said they intended to oppose the measure. By November, 79 percent of voters opposed it—and rejected it at the ballot box.The more voters learned about the plan, the less they liked it.
The ColoradoCare campaign sought to deflect criticism by providing few details about the plan. It wrote the proposed amendment in the vaguest possible language. Fortunately, it still had to provide some specifics outlining the plan’s legal structure—and when it did, support plummeted.
Clarice Feldman--Two Funerals and a Missing Cardinal
Two Funerals and a Missing Cardinal
"The Mueller investigation continues without hitting paydirt and further diminishing the reputation of the special counsel and Clintonite team.
This warrant provided the means to spy on the president and his campaign.
We learned this week that the warrant, which triggered this partisan witch hunt, was signed by the FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) without any hearing whatsoever.
We already know that it was based on lies scrounged up by a Hillary Clinton-paid former newsman and passed on by corruptocrats in the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice...
In particular, he disinvited Sarah Palin, his running mate in his unsuccessful run for the presidency, and the family made this gesture public.
To my mind, without her, his campaign would have been an even bigger failure.
Pope Francis was under attack for failing to act on countless documented cases of sex abuse within the Catholic Church.
The Vatican's ex-ambassador to Washington, Archbishop Carlo Viganò, fired the first salvo, detailing the misconduct of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl and calling on the pope to resign.
Ricochet had the best wrap-up of the crisis in the church and the Lavender Mafia flourishing under Pope Francis....
...There are calls for Cardinal Wuerl to resign and he appears to have gone missing, with rumors that he was spirited out of the country to avoid prosecution.
Certainly all this turmoil in our justice system and the Church is unsettling.
But it's a useful reminder that in all hierarchies, sooner or later, the mission of the organization becomes the protection of the hierarchy, not the stated mission, and every now and then, a thorough housecleaning is in order..."
"The Mueller investigation continues without hitting paydirt and further diminishing the reputation of the special counsel and Clintonite team.
- I expect the president to shortly (maybe even this week) declassify the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant on Carter Page.
This warrant provided the means to spy on the president and his campaign.
We learned this week that the warrant, which triggered this partisan witch hunt, was signed by the FISC (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) without any hearing whatsoever. We already know that it was based on lies scrounged up by a Hillary Clinton-paid former newsman and passed on by corruptocrats in the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice...
- The Maverick's five-day funeral rites were reportedly planned in every detail by the departed and reflected his bitter, vindictive streak.
In particular, he disinvited Sarah Palin, his running mate in his unsuccessful run for the presidency, and the family made this gesture public.
To my mind, without her, his campaign would have been an even bigger failure.
- And then there's the missing cardinal to make the crazy week even weirder.
Pope Francis was under attack for failing to act on countless documented cases of sex abuse within the Catholic Church.
The Vatican's ex-ambassador to Washington, Archbishop Carlo Viganò, fired the first salvo, detailing the misconduct of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl and calling on the pope to resign.
Ricochet had the best wrap-up of the crisis in the church and the Lavender Mafia flourishing under Pope Francis....
...There are calls for Cardinal Wuerl to resign and he appears to have gone missing, with rumors that he was spirited out of the country to avoid prosecution.
Certainly all this turmoil in our justice system and the Church is unsettling.
But it's a useful reminder that in all hierarchies, sooner or later, the mission of the organization becomes the protection of the hierarchy, not the stated mission, and every now and then, a thorough housecleaning is in order..."
Iranian rial hits record low at 128,000 to the dollar- ...
Iranian rial hits record low at 128,000 to the dollar- ...:
"The Iranian rial hit a record low against the U.S. dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the reimposition of sanctions by the United States.
...The currency has been volatile for months because of a weak economy, financial difficulties at local banks and heavy demand for dollars among Iranians who fear the pullout of Washington from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and renewed U.S. sanctions could shrink Iran's exports of oil and other goods.
A set of U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's oil industry is due to take effect in November.
Last week, Iran's parliament sacked the minister of economic affairs and finance, the latest in a continuing shakeup of top economic personnel.
In early August Iranian lawmakers voted out the minister of labour and in July President Hassan Rouhani replaced the head of the central bank.
Protests linked to the tough economic situation in Iran erupted last December, spreading to more than 80 cities and towns and resulting in 25 deaths.
Sporadic protests, led by truck drivers, farmers and merchants in Tehran's bazaar, have continued since then and have occasionally resulted in violent confrontations with security forces."
"The Iranian rial hit a record low against the U.S. dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the reimposition of sanctions by the United States.
...The currency has been volatile for months because of a weak economy, financial difficulties at local banks and heavy demand for dollars among Iranians who fear the pullout of Washington from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and renewed U.S. sanctions could shrink Iran's exports of oil and other goods.
A set of U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's oil industry is due to take effect in November.
Last week, Iran's parliament sacked the minister of economic affairs and finance, the latest in a continuing shakeup of top economic personnel.
In early August Iranian lawmakers voted out the minister of labour and in July President Hassan Rouhani replaced the head of the central bank.
Protests linked to the tough economic situation in Iran erupted last December, spreading to more than 80 cities and towns and resulting in 25 deaths.
Sporadic protests, led by truck drivers, farmers and merchants in Tehran's bazaar, have continued since then and have occasionally resulted in violent confrontations with security forces."
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