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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Gotta WATCH: Trump plays EPIC video defending his response to coronavirus during briefing, lays out timeline of his response… – The Right Scoop

WATCH: Trump plays EPIC video defending his response to coronavirus during briefing, lays out timeline of his response… – The Right Scoop
"Trump defended his response today to the coronavirus in order to fight negative reporting from the ‘Fake News Media’ in two different ways.

First, he layed out the timeline of his response:

"That video was epic.

It not only showed members of the media doing what they accuse Trump of doing in downplaying the coronavirus threat, he played a New York Times reporter defending his response as well.

He also included clips of bipartisan governors praising Trump’s efforts in responding to their needs.
Believe it or not, CNN actually stuck with the video until the portion with the New York Times reporter was complete.

But they cut away before the governors could be heard praising Trump’s response, of course:

Immediately a couple of White House reporters accused Trump of airing a campaign video:

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl asked Trump who produced the video, and Trump replied it was produced by a group in the White House. There was nothing on the video suggesting it was a campaign video which was obvious to most of us watching. But reporters, looking for another way to attack Trump, are trying to paint it that way.

The media is also calling it a ‘propaganda’ video:

I’ll end the post with this video of Trump responding to a CBS News reporter accusing him of not doing enough to prepare the country for the outbreak during the month of February:

AM Fruitcake

History for April 14

History for April 14 - On-This-Day.com
Christian Huygens 1629, Antole France 1844, Anne Mansfield Sullivan 1866 - "The Miracle Worker", famous for teaching Helen Keller to read, write and speak

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee 1889 - Historian, author, Frank Serpico 1934, Loretta Lynn 1935 - Country singer, first woman to earn the CMA's Entertainer of the Year award

1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.

1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived.

Monday, April 13, 2020

Bombshell reveals FBI knew anti-Trump Steele dossier was part of a 'Russian disinformation campaign' - TheBlaze

Bombshell reveals FBI knew anti-Trump Steele dossier was part of a 'Russian disinformation campaign' - TheBlaze:

Image result for flickr commons images Michael Horowitz

Newly declassified footnotes in Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's watchdog report reveal the FBI received evidence that the anti-Trump intelligence dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, was corrupted by fake intelligence as part of a Russian Intelligence Service disinformation campaign.
The footnotes were declassified on Friday. They indicate the FBI moved forward with obtaining FISA surveillance warrants against Trump campaign aide Carter Page — including numerous renewals — while knowing their central evidence, the Steele dossier, was faulty.

The way we were-----Artie Shaw - Beguin The Beguine ( Cole Porter )

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Still unanswered!-----Did COVID-19 Originate in a Chinese Lab? And Why Is It Crazy to Ask?

Did COVID-19 Originate in a Chinese Lab? And Why Is It Crazy to Ask?
"...nothing about the current global pandemic feels right.

We've seen viral outbreaks before, SARS and H1N1 and the like, but nothing like this.
The whole world didn't grind to a halt over SARS.
The last time a pandemic hit the world this hard was over a century ago, and it's a very different world than it was in 1918.
The average American has access to a lot more information.
We also have a lot more access to misinformation, if not outright disinformation.
So it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction...
..That's what Tucker Carlson asked on his show yesterday:

On February 6, scientists from the South China University of Technology uploaded a paper on the origins of the Coronavirus.
At the time, the official death toll in China from the epidemic was 564.

The paper made a number of notable observations and claims that are worth knowing about...

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Y'know how we tend to say that cops aren't gonna follow an illegal government order to confiscate our guns--Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Andrew Turnbull
"Y'know how we tend to say that cops aren't gonna follow an illegal government order to confiscate our guns?
Not so sure anymore.

If they'll go Gestapo over a lone ocean-going paddleboarder (CA),
a bunch of cars watching a sunset (also CA),
if they'll patrol beaches with choppers to make sure no one is on wide, vast stretches of beach (FL),
a dad having a catch with his six-year-old daughter in an empty park (CO),
people not wearing nonmandatory masks on a city bus (PA),
a married couple who live in the same house and are sitting next to each rather than six feet apart downtown having lunch (also PA, I think),
and a guy defiantly riding his bike alone (where TEN COPS thought it was a good idea to use TEN COPS to make the bicyclist submit in PR), for just seven examples...

...I'm not so sure there aren't enough of them around the country with a serious streak of totalitarianism coursing through their veins just itching to break it out...

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CBP Chief: Imagine The Coronavirus Pandemic If The Border Crisis Was Never Addressed | The Daily Caller

CBP Chief: Imagine The Coronavirus Pandemic If The Border Crisis Was Never Addressed | The Daily Caller:

Image result for flickr commons images Mark Morgan

The head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) credited President Donald Trump for addressing 2019’s border crisis, an action he said has helped mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among the agency and the United States.
Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of CBP, on Friday spoke about his agency’s work amid the coronavirus pandemic, including agents’ work to bust the flow of transnational criminal activity and illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Morgan also noted that CBP is much better positioned to handle the pandemic than it was at the height of the border crisis last year.

Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"To people who think "it could never happen today", let me assure you "it" already has.
Woodrow Wilson created a national paranoia much like we are seeing today during this "pandemic".
...He was responsible for the creation of the Committee on Public Information, the passage of the Espionage Act and the creation and deployment of the American Protective League.
The Committee on Public Information created an atmosphere of hatred, paranoia and fear.

Businesses spied on their employees.
Parents spied on their children and children on their parents.
Neighbors spied on neighbors.

All of these activities were directed, encouraged, and rewarded by the Committee.

The CPI was simply a plan to control, manipulate and censor all news coverage, on a scale never seen in U.S. history.
Sound familiar?
Reports abound about citizens ratting out their neighbors for walking their dogs, standing too close or not cowering in their homes by going to a park.
...History is a teacher.
A harsh one at times, especially when she is ignored and the homework comes due."
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Important read!!-----Everything You Need to Know About China and Its Handling of COVID-19

Everything You Need to Know About China and Its Handling of COVID-19
"...It’s a country that doesn’t buy into the rule of law, which, again, is pretty different from our European counterparts.
And it is, unlike the Soviet Union, an economic powerhouse that has trading relations with pretty much every other country on the planet, including the United States.
...There’s pretty good evidence that the Chinese government basically was telling even groups like the World Health Organization that it’s not person-to-person transmittable in mid-January, when we think they may well have known better.

...And then, of course, in China there’s no free press.
...There’s a reason why a lot of past incidents of the flu have come out of China, it’s because of this kind of wet market.
...If this continues globally with these shutdowns, that means China has no export markets for its trade and that means unemployment, which more than anything else will lead to a lot of unrest, demonstrations, and anti-government movements.
...In the past we’ve had stories about the Chinese drywall in Florida emitting noxious fumes, about Chinese baby milk powder in China that was adulterated with plastic beads that destroyed babies’ kidneys.
...Cheng: We are seeing the Chinese trying to influence other countries. For example, what we talked about earlier, with the medical equipment that they are sending out.
They are labeling it as aid even though in many cases, such as Italy, it’s actually items that the Italians have purchased.
They are describing it as support for countries in medical need.
More worrisome is their effort to, again, deflect criticism on the United States.
So it is not an accident that the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson tweeted out the charge that, “Hey, maybe this came from the U.S., and maybe specifically from the U.S. military.”
You should recognize, your listeners should recognize, Twitter’s actually not allowed in China. So the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, by using Twitter to send this message out, was using a platform that the Chinese themselves aren’t able to access.
This was a very deliberate effort to influence global perceptions.
...That’s part of what political warfare is about.
Shaping and molding perceptions of China and of China’s adversaries and doing so through media, through public opinion, through public statements, through aid, through economic activities.
...At one point its officials were suggesting in a tweet that the U.S. could have been behind COVID-19.
Is that an idea Chinese communists are promoting still within China?
Cheng: Absolutely.

So we see in China discussions about the American military going to China for world military games, which did occur, and the U.S. team won, I think, something like seven metals, none gold. So the Chinese spin on this is not, “Wow, the Americans didn’t do well,” it’s, “The Americans didn’t do well because they came here to spread disease.”...

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Lunch video-----Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD Crushes Dr. Fauci Exposes Birx, Clintons, B...

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Devin Nunes Expects More Criminal Referrals Stemming From Latest FISA Revelations | The Daily Caller

Devin Nunes Expects More Criminal Referrals Stemming From Latest FISA Revelations | The Daily Caller:

Image result for flickr commons images Devin Nunes

California Rep. Devin Nunes said Saturday that he expects to file more criminal referrals based on new revelations from the Justice Department inspector general’s investigation of the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign.
Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, has already filed eight criminal referrals related to the U.S. government’s investigation of the Trump campaign. He said in an interview on “Fox & Friends” that he anticipates filing additional referrals based on information in a series of footnotes from the IG’s report that was revealed on Friday.

@AlexBerenson is an excellent resource!--Read the comments!-----Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Jeffrey Batchelor

"I suggested in another thread that what is needed to maintain sheltering compliance are progress reports on actual studies with hypotheses shared publicly.

People of America are distrustful of central authority, but will comply if they are in agreement with the aims of the authorities.

Consequently, we need to see what they see.

Below, Brit recommends someone to follow for more analysis of the data we do have.

Anyone have a source to share on the progress of the studies that are on-going?"

Image may contain: 1 person, possible text that says 'Brit Hume @brithume If you're skeptical of the experts and suspicious of the computer modeling on Covid 19, the person to follow is former NY Timesman @AlexBerenson. He is doing the same sort of data analysis that the late Michael Crichton did on climate alarmism. 9:58 AM 4/7/20 Twitter for iPad'

#1 Movie This Week 1961-----The Absent Minded Professor Promo (BYUtv)

Steele Dossier: Crossfire Hurricane was Completely Shady | National Review

Steele Dossier: Crossfire Hurricane was Completely Shady | National Review:
"At the height of the Russia-collusion hysteria, anyone who theorized that Crossfire Hurricane had been sparked by the Steele dossier — a document paid for by the political party running against target of the investigation — would be rigorously fact-checked.
Mainstream reporters covering the story would authoritatively inform their audience that it was evidence gleaned from a conversation with then-20-something former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos that had triggered the investigation.
They knew, of course, that if the FBI had relied principally on the dossier, the investigation would look transparently and problematically partisan.
The Papadopoulos conversations, on the other hand, sounded pretty damning, even though journalists didn’t know exactly what they entailed.
Well, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz recently told the Senate that those FISA warrants used to spy on the Trump campaign were “entirely” predicated on information from that dossier.
And we now know that virtually every one of those applications to spy on American citizens was rife with errors, misleading information, and “fraudulent” evidence.
...We now learn from a new CBS News report that the Papadopoulos evidence was also misrepresented in applications.
Two weeks before Election Day, in the midst of a contentious presidential campaign, the Obama administration’s DOJ filled out surveillance warrant applications without including contradicting evidence — and then left out that evidence again on three subsequent renewals.
Just another mishap.
Papadopoulos, you’ll remember, supposedly linked the Trump administration to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s email system.
As it turns out, Papadopoulos explicitly denied to an FBI source that the campaign was involved in the hack, and goes out of his way to call the idea “illegal.”
According to CBS:
CHS: You don’t think anyone from the Trump campaign had anything to do with the f***ing over the, at the DNC?
Papadopoulos: No
CHS: Really?
Papadopoulos: No. I know that for a fact.
CHS: How do you know that for a fact?
Papadopoulos: ‘Cause I go, I’ve been working with them for the last nine months. That’s (unintelligible) And all of this stuff has been happening, what, the last four months?
The FBI source then pressed Papadopoulos on whether someone on the Trump campaign might have been secretly involved.
CHS: But you don’t think anyone would have done it, like under, undercover or anything like that?
Papadopoulos: No, I don’t think so. . . .There’s absolutely no reason. . . . First of all, it’s illegal, you know, to do that s***.
...So the drunken brag about the hack was enough evidence to spy on the American citizen in the midst of a presidential campaign, but the potential contradicting evidence sounded too mechanical to mention in a warrant application?...
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#1 This day 1975-----Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom (1974) With Lyrics!

Critics: Why are Michigan's restrictions different than other states'?

Lansing — ...Kuszmaul is among a group of business owners and Republican lawmakers who argue Whitmer's Thursday executive order to stem the spread of COVID-19 goes too far, imposing restrictions that other states are avoiding.

While saying he understands the urgent need to combat the virus, Kuszmaul added, "A lot of these functions can be done safely. They can be done with zero contact. Not minimal. Zero."

"My business in particular is on the edge of not being solvent," said Kuszmaul, who's owned D & B Plants, a wholesale grower, for 37 years. "It's pretty scary."

...Two sentences in Whitmer's new order help set the state apart, according to critics. The sentences define who qualifies as "critical infrastructure workers," those eligible to keep leaving their homes to go to their jobs.

Whitmer's order specifically cites guidance on "critical infrastructure workers" issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on March 19.

"This order does not adopt any subsequent guidance document released by this same agency," the new order says.

The federal agency issued new guidance on March 28, adding more workers, including landscapers who provide "necessary" services and individuals performing housing construction related to combating "the nation’s existing housing supply shortage."

The newer guidance includes employees supporting the 2020 Census, clergy for "essential" support and workers supporting the operation of firearm retailers and shooting ranges.

...The governors of Ohio and Indiana included the new guidance when they issued their extended stay-at-home orders.

Whitmer's office didn't immediately respond to a question about why the new guidance wasn't allowed in Michigan.

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New Yorkers "too scared"?

VA Governor Signs Universal Background Checks, Gun Rationing Bill

Image result for flickr commons images Governor Ralph Northam

VA Governor Signs Universal Background Checks, Gun Rationing Bill:

Governor Ralph Northam (D) signed legislation Saturday creating universal background checks in Virginia and limiting law-abiding Virginians to one handgun purchase per month.