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Play nice!
your links for this and the last post be broke as hell
https://thegatewaypundit.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1f9b29171f5fb45edb2520ae&id=f0299ff86a&e=d43a186674
@ Gateway Pundit
Good morning. Bill Krystal a swamp creature? Why yes he is.
Steven Hsyes works for him and he was a speaker at a conference that I attended.
In a brief conversation I said to him that his boss needed to get under control.
He said nothing. Hey I am that way about the guy who signs my paycheck.
@ RIX:
Steven Hayes
@ RIX:
I’m jealous. I would have asked him how he could call a man who knowingly jailed 4 innocent people, 2 of whom died in prison, ‘an honorable man’.
forget where I saw it so no link, but looks like the Chinese are in town trying to work out some new trade deals.
Oh, guess where Strzok got his FBI start? Boston. The same FBI office where Mueller worked, where the agents let the Boston bombers slip thru their net, etc.I wonder if he was the agent who decided to ignore the Russian’s warnings about the Tsaraev brothers.
But it makes perfect sense that Mueller would want somebody from the Boston office to handle his frame-up, I mean investigation. Who knows more about railroaded people who didn’t commit a crime than the Boston FBI office?
Just ask former U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner. In 2003, she threatened to cite Mueller for contempt of court for his refusal to turn over exculpatory evidence when the wronged men sued. (She eventually awarded them $107 million.)
“The position the FBI is taking is chilling,” she informed Mueller. “This Court is not remotely satisfied.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2018/08/howie_carr_peter_strzok_drank_that_dirty_water
@ eaglesoars:
I keep having to put down Sidney Powell’s “Licensed to Lie” until my blood pressure returns to normal.
The MSM: We only report the news – we are not partisan.
Me: How many segments have you devoted to Assorama, whose “facts” are being called into question and who has been called a liar by just about everyone mentioned in her book?
The MSM: We don’t keep track but we’re sure it’s at least 2o?
Me: And how about Michael Wolfe, who had no attributable sources for his book?
The MSM: Probably about the same.
Me: So how many segments have you devoted to the researched, annotated and footnoted works by Sidney Powell in “Licensed to Lie” and Greg Jarrett in “The Russia Hoax”?
The MSM: WHO?
Nafta linky
https://pilotonline.com/business/consumer/article_599976db-fea0-540a-a95b-6e3e924fc1a0.html
See if that works. Later I’ll comment on the Canadian fustercluck of a miserable failure Trudeau. Also on his Minister of I’M SUPerior, Chrystia Freeland, the generational Ukrainian Nazi and her serial screw ups in not brokering a deal. Going behind Lighthizer’s back in Washington has consequences. Globalist power hungry scrunt selling out Canada.
So apparently a host of Lib MSM outlets – CNN, NBC, WaPo, AP, NYT, Buzzfeed and Poltico – filed a motion to unseal the names and addresses of the jurors in the Manafort trial. Ellis heard the motion and wisely denied it. (CNN must have had the news trucks all geared up for their ambush on the front lawn – of course, the rest of them would simply DOX them and let Antifa come after them)
But Jake Tapper’s tweet about the denial of the motion NEVER mentions that it was his own network that wanted this information, so of course the liberals are all believing that it was Fox or Breitbart that wanted this “to intimidate them.”
This is what Trump meant when he said your FakeNews is the enemy of the people, Tapper.
This is BIG. My guess is the FBI will appeal
U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta has ruled that the FBI cannot issue a Glomar response when it comes to whatever verification attempts they may have used for the contents of the infamous Christopher Steele dossier. In other words, the FBI can no longer hide behind the “we can neither confirm nor deny” response in order to stonewall records requests regarding how they may have tried to determine the validity of the synopsis of the dossier that raised concerns President Donald Trump might be compromised by Russia, pee tapes and all.
more at the link
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/major-crack-in-governments-defenses-we-may-finally-learn-how-the-fbi-handled-the-steele-dossier/
@ The Barbarian:
Judge Ellis said he has been threatened and he is now protected by U.S. Marshals.
The judge in Paul Manafort’s fraud trial said Friday he has received threats over the case.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III made the comments as the jury deliberated for the second day, and as he rejected a motion to release information about the jurors. He said he’s confident the jurors would be threatened as well if their information was public.
Ellis said that because of the threats against him, he travels with U.S. Marshals.
“The Marshals go where I go,” Ellis said.
oh, sorry, link
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/376623.php
@ The Barbarian:
somebody commenting at instapundit had a thought: what if they actually know at least one of the jurors – say an actual informant – and need a way to justify knowing the jurors
@ eaglesoars:
This would not surprise me. Nor, frankly, would I put it past ANYONE in the Liberal MSM to use an intermediary to slip the court clerk $10,000 to obtain the juror list.
Other than the obvious reasons they want this information – ambush interviews and DOXing – my guess is that they want to find their social media accounts.
The Barbarian wrote:
oh jeez. I never even thought of that one
Part of me hopes that lunatic Fauxahauntas is the Democratic nominee in 2020, another part is afraid the SJW’s and antifa types would give her the support she’d need to win.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/394176-elizabeth-warrens-batty-plan-to-nationalize-everything/
@ eaglesoars:
Krystal is an ass.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/08/17/che-strikes-again-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-attempts-to-explain-her-press-ban-makes-it-hilariously-worse/
@ Twitchy
You may have been wondering if this Osacio-Cortez woman is an idiot.
Ok, you were’t , but if you were this would remove all doubt.
HA! Netflix has cancelled Michele Wolf’s show. lasted about 3 months
eaglesoars wrote:
But she is so appealing. /
@ RIX:
I’m waiting for the Obama productions to crash and burn
https://pjmedia.com/trending/pro-trump-pentagon-analyst-was-stripped-of-his-security-clearance-by-obama-holdovers/
Don’t confuse this Baker (James H – still head of ONA) with the really bad news Baker (James A – former FBI General Counsel)
eaglesoars wrote:
A beautiful thought.
@ Aussie Infidel:
one of my senators wants to introduce an amendment to prevent Trump from ‘arbitrarily’ revoking anyone’s security clearance.
I’m thinking of sending him a copy of the Constitution but I don’t think he can read.
RIX wrote:
all the more so for its rarity
ok, bedtime, nite. I was totally useless today, I think I’ll get a head start on a do-over.
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/an-astounding-level-of-corruption/
eaglesoars wrote:
Those will never crash. Even if their only viewers are Barack, Michelle, and Valerie, Netflix will never cancel them no matter how much money they lose.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-former-cia-officials-sign-letter-against-trumps-security-clearance-decision/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=55696679
doriangrey wrote:
Depressingly, I agree with what you wrote. While those social media sites are corporations and not companies, they are every bit the monopolies that Microsoft was a decade or so ago when the left went after Internet Explorer as a monopoly. Only what the social media companies are doing is way more destructive and evil.
Overnight cartoon.
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/199008_image.jpg?itok=cU1OLggd
4_Sticks wrote:
The cartoon above relates to your post.
@ AZfederalist:
That should have said, “… while those social media sites are corporations and not governments … ”
/need an edit function
@ The Barbarian:
Exactly.
AZfederalist wrote:
Don’t be too hard on yourself. 🙂 We’re sort of war horses after battle by now. Can’t embed vids, edit, posters peel off and get lost in the shuffle. Yet we stay vigilant.
@ Bunk X:
Did you know that in Quebec they call a raccoon ‘raton laver’? i.e. The rat that washes itself.
@ yenta-fada:
Apparently Jack’S Twitter Empire decided to purge bots and anyone who had ever been suspended for any reason, justified or not. Do I care that I lost my 8th Twitter account that I used for innocuous political commentary and late night snark? Nope.
Do I care that the same thing happened to hundreds of others for political reasons? HELL YEAH.
@ yenta-fada:
In German, the literal translation is “Wash Bear.”
So what’s your point?
@ yenta-fada:
Staying vigilent doesn’t do dick.
@ Bunk X:
“Captain! The enemy is approaching! What should we do?”
“Stay vigilent.”
@ Bunk X:
@ Bunk X:
You are harshing my marsh-mellow. I think you are the bestest Bunk that ever existed on earth. So there.
@ yenta-fada:
Lotta stuff going on in meatworld that frustrates the hell out of me, and I didn’t mean to harsh your mellow. I’m just venting in arbitrary directions.
Nice to see you and some other familiar faces around here. I’ve been gone too long.
4_Sticks wrote:
The plan is coming together perfectly as more swamps in the CIA expose themselves to the cleansing light of day.
The swamp is both broad and deep and it’s denizens are emerging in what will be a knock down drag out fight to the finish!
@ Bunk X:
There’s always a light on in the rec room for you. 🙂
Feinstein delivered to the Chinese
The byline by a good Kiwi mate of mine Trevor Laudon
(a farmer / baker / counter intelligence supremo par excellence )
🙂
Enjoy
https://www.theepochtimes.com/feinsteins-ties-to-china-extend-beyond-chinese-spy_2616284.html
@ yenta-fada:
Good one.
@ yenta-fada:
*Possum sneaks in to the rec room. Takes a running and then flying leap at the light bulb and smashes it in his powerful jaws*
@ Possum:
I hope it wasn’t a CFL bulb
@ Aussie Infidel:
I wonder why they would think Trump is uniformed and cavalier about this? If he was he would have pulled the plug long ago. Brennan is an embarrassment to leadership anywhere. He was promoted by Obama because he was different? This deep state and resistance thing is real and it’s meant to slow Trump down whatever the outcome.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Well, SOMEBODY did. I remember reading that our entire network in China had been wiped out. Here’s some background. Get this. They’re blaming it on communication software they transported from the theater in the Middle East. It wasn’t secure enough to withstand Chinese hackers.
uh huh.
Over a span of the next two years (2010-2012), the Chinese government “systematically dismantled” the CIA’s network of spies. To play it down, it was originally reported as “more than a dozen” instead of almost three dozen assets killed by China. Since then, everyone has been wondering how they were able to do it.
.
.
The “throwaway” system was still encrypted, the agents explain and it allowed “remote communication between an intelligence officer and a source.” More importantly, it “also separated from the main communications system used with vetted sources, reducing the risk if an asset goes bad.”
They were supposed to be totally separate. If the interim system was breached, those using the main system should still be safe. If done correctly, there would be no way to “trace the communication back to the CIA.”
It was not done correctly. According to the sources, the “CIA’s interim system contained a technical error.” It was “architecturally” connected to “the CIA’s main covert communications platform.”
That isn’t a technical error.
https://conservativedailypost.com/cia-china-ops-wiped-out-by-botched-spy-contact-system/
@ eaglesoars:
Was it ‘architecturally connected’ in the Middle East theater where it was ported from? Then why wasn’t the entire network there blown?
Apparently this was in today’s NYT, which I don’t read so I’m relying on this report
White House lawyer Donald McGahn has spent 30 HOURS ‘cooperating extensively’ with Robert Mueller’s obstruction of justice probe into Trump ‘setting him up to take the fall’
Trump tweeted this is being done with his knowledge and permission
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6074353/White-House-lawyer-cooperating-Robert-Muellers-obstruction-justice-investigation-Trump.html
@ eaglesoars:
First Half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Sw_cK85eE
Second Half
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGNd6uYz0Mc
Of match #1 of the 2018 Bledesloe Cup series between the Aussie Wallabies and the Kiwi All Blacks
Enjoy
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
thank you! It’s so nice to watch real men in shorts.
As opposed to this –
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d5a34eea6704dc37c75811f90acc50c58c43e4f0d00f3db873e495acd07b28f7.jpg
@ eaglesoars:
Oh, to explain to non-USA people – that’s one of our NFL teams, the New Orleans Saints, who have modified their requirements for the cheerleading squad
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, isn’t that special?
@ Aussie Infidel:
got home from work early and have time to kill before everyone wakes up and wants waffles and bacon…thanks!
the waffles are made on my great-granmother’s griswold cast-iron waffle iron, its about a hundred years old. they don’t make em like that any more!
@ Aussie Infidel:
sloppy handling, all blacks.
That’s better, 3 tries in 15 minutes
The dummy from the #4!!!!! He looked like a back!
The wallabies have a lot to think about before Eden Park next week.
Guiliani on Maria Bartaromo: My payoff for representing the president is getting to depose John Brennon, this biggest fraud in this whole thing
eaglesoars wrote:
Sigh…. If only those interrogatories would somehow make it into the public sphere…
@ doriangrey:
Question #21: Mr Brennan, are you now, or have you ever been a cock-sucking Marxist/Socialist/Communist Camel Dick loving Treasonous Bastard?
Funny how the fbi/cia/NSA inc are lived by the left now.
coldwarrior wrote:
May that new found love (by the Grace of God) soon come to bite their asses clean off.
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/that-special-kind-of-stupid-where-you-say-please-wait-while-i-get-my-camera-out/
coldwarrior wrote:
Especially with the Wallabies Line outs. To lose 7 against the throw means that there is something serious wrong with the Aussie Lineout tactics. There is a great deal of work to do for the Wallabies before match 2 at Eden Park in Auckland. Given the Eden Park ‘hoodoo’ for visiting Aussie teams I don’t like the Wallabies’ chances. I really REALLY hope that the Wallabies score an upset at Eden Park so that the decided in Tokyo will be a stunner of a game of rugby.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Broady Retallick the #4 forward couldn’t believe his eyes when he sold a that ‘dummy’ to a world class back like that. His timing was perfect giving the Wallaby no time to change his pace. The 6’7″ 260lb Retallick with his gappy mouthguard, had a smile a mile wide as he scored. Forwards cherish tries like that whereas backs… it’s just a normal day at the office for them. The All Black forward pack ground down the Wallabies in a boring first half and then opened up in the second half after the damage had been done.
I wonder if this will be happening where I work?
coldwarrior wrote:
That where the All Blacks name came from when the Brits cast them as a team that All ran like Backs. It was contorted into the All Blacks because of that comment as well as them wearing all black uniforms.
🙂
I really feel for poor Bernard Foley the Wallaby 5/8 (#10) for getting suckered with a ‘dummy’ by a forward like that. You could see it in Foley’s body language when #4 Ritallick scored.
Worth watching if you’re interested in the events of 9/11/12 in Benghazi:
@ lobo91:
,Inmates on a hunger strike? That’s like putting a gun to your own head and saying “Stop or I’ll shoot!”
They will eat when they get hungry enough,
RIX wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK913I
HEH!
🙂
For CW. Chicago trauma docs
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We got a guy who was in the basement of one of the high-rise construction projects downtown. An industrial drill bit—about six feet long—fell from the fourth floor and hit him. It went in the top of his head and came out his cheek. Went through his hardhat and pinned him to the ground. They had to use a welding iron to cut the drill bit, because they couldn’t pull it out of the ground. That probably saved his life, because it heated the rod, and so it stopped bleeding. He actually made a pretty good recovery. He had some ongoing difficulty with word finding and a little weakness in his right arm, and that’s about it. But his brother was standing next to him in the basement when this happened and went into some sort of catatonic state and never came out of it. Two years later, he was still institutionalized. You talk about a visceral reaction to trauma
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Dead for us is called triple zeros: no pulse, no breathing, no blood pressure. We just had a guy come in who was triple zeros. One of my fellows took him in the OR, opened his chest, started internal CPR, squeezing his heart, cross-clamped his aorta to shunt the blood to keep it between his heart and his brain. Basically the iliac vein was torn in half by a bullet. She tied that off, got control of the bleeding, gave him back about 30 units of blood. She resurrected a dead man.
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I’d say twice a month I’ll have some kid come in with an injury to his penis or testicles, his knee, and his big toe. And he’s like, “Some guy shot me.” And I’ll look at him and go, “No, you put the gun down your pants, pulled the trigger accidentally, and shot yourself.”
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The one thing that always haunts you is when they come in and say, “Don’t let me die.”
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2018/What-Trauma-Docs-Know/
Did you know the conquistadores actually made it to…Kansas? Me neither. But they did. The lost city of Etzanoa has been found. Smack dab in Arkansas City, Kansas.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-kansas-lost-city-20180819-htmlstory.html#
@ eaglesoars:
The CIA must be getting punch-drunk from these blows. First in China when the CIA networks were rolled and by inference Russia as well.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/jerry-chun-shing-lee-cia-mole-china/550658/
Then we have the situation in Iran a coup[le of decades earlier when again the CIA networks were rolled up
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/12/world/fg-cia12
In both cases it was shoddy procedures and garbage OPSEC procedures that began the rot and caused so many agent deaths
In 2018 how confident that the new crop of OPSEC gurus at the CIA have learned their bloody lessons? Given the politicisation of most of the security agencies I’d hazard a guess that there another security penetration embarrassment brewing in the wings. Politics, faction fights, dodgy /lazy OPSEC procedures, and questionable staff selection procedures and clearance protocols seem to suggest that little has changed in the US security community.
🙁
@ eaglesoars:
For a little more background on the Iranian cases. The US seems to have a serious blindspot in retaining its objectivity and not projecting US secular norms onto cultures that are clearly not of the same mind.
http://providencemag.com/wp-content/uploads/Through-a-Glass-Darkly-Josh-Craddock.pdf
They US administrations seem to all refuse to admit that one can’t transport and establish democracy anywhere at will. Likewise the US attitude to foreign culture appears to be a massive blindspot. Too many US players can’t separate their own culture from their workday security objectivity when dealing with alien cultures.
When in Rome do as the Romans do ! Writ large.
Then you get the career ‘cultural aficionados’ who totally become subjective when dealing with alien cultures and suffer from Stockholm Syndrome cultural capture.
Neither loss of objectivity nor cultural capture can be good got security agencies if they want to be effective at doing their jobs.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
My point exactly. Funny