DNC Honors Corrupt, Deep-State Swamp-Dwellers on Second Night

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DNC Honors Corrupt, Deep-State Swamp-Dwellers on Second Night

For the second day of the Democratic National Convention, Democrats once again put much of the emphasis on courting potential disaffected ex-Republicans or so-called moderates.

While the first night of the convention featured RINO politicians such as former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the emphasis on the second night was in former swamp-dwellers such as former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former envoy Brett McGurk.

Both were Obama holdovers who were relieved of their roles in dramatic fashion during the Trump presidency.

Yates, who was involved at some level with the conspiracy to undermine the Trump administration with claims of Russian collusion, including a Jan. 5 meeting with top White House officials, was fired as acting attorney general less than two weeks into the Trump presidency for insubordination.

Yet the DNC celebrated her for refusing to uphold Trump’s executive order restricting flights from terrorist harboring Islamic nations.

Both Yates and the night’s emcee, Tracee Ellis Ross, also falsely claimed that the order was “unconstitutional” and “unlawful” although the Supreme Court, following lengthy legal challenges and politically motivated injunctions, ruled otherwise.

“Speaking at a political convention is something I never expted to be doing, but the future of our democracy is at stake,” said Yates, who was once floated as being under consideration for vice president.

“I was fired for refusing to defend President Trump’s shameful and unlawful travel ban,” she claimed. “That was the start of his relentless attacks on our nation’s institutions.”

Yates went on, with no apparent self-awareness, to accuse the Trump administration of turning the Justice Department into a political arm of the White House.

“From the moment President Trump took office he’s used his position to benefit himself,” she claimed. “… He’s trampled the rule of law trying to weaponize our Justice Department.”

McGurk, meanwhile, who resigned after disapproving of Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria and let the mercenary Kurds fend for themselves in the war against ISIS.

Accused Trump of telling the armed forces to “simply abandon” the quasi-allied resistance force, and he claimed that Trump “made decisions without any thought.”

Appropriately, the same montage featured former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, the official mascot of the corrupt, partisan deep-state, who figured prominently into the House impeachment proceedings last year.

The attack also prominently featured two Trump-bashing ex-secretaries of State: John Kerry and Colin Powell.

Kerry, conjuring memories of his own failed presidential run, blatantly misled with false claims about a Democrat conspiracy theory linking Russia to alleged bounties on US troops.

The longtime Massachusetts senator quipped that “When this president goes overseas it isn’t a goodwill mission, it’s a blooper reel.”

The architect of the failed Iran nuclear deal undone during the Trump administration also claimed his successor’s policy was “incoherent.”

“Before Donald Trump, we used to talk about American exceptionalism,” he said. ‘The only thing exceptional about the incoherent Trump foreign policy is it has made our nation more isolated than ever before.”

Powell, a former Republican who left the party prior to Trump’s run, focused more on what he claimed were the integrity and values of Biden Democrats.

“Our country needs a commander in chief who takes care of our troops in the same way he would his own family,” Powell said of Biden, who has long worked with governments such as China, Ukraine and several Central American countries to broker sweetheart deals that would allow his own family to profit at the expense of national policy.

Capping it all off in the spliced-together, pre-recorded convention was a tribute to Biden’s longtime friendship with RINO NeverTrumper John McCain, the late Arizona senator who made one of his final votes a symbolic rejection of a measure that would repeal Obamacare.

The speech was framed in such a way as to tout Biden’s bipartisan spirit, but in fact it underscored the sort of cronyism that Trump arrived to rid politics of.

McCain got his start, following his stint as a Vietnam prisoner of war, by serving as a personal page to Biden, then a young Delaware senator.

“The son of a gun never carried my bags,” Biden reminisced in one clip. “He was supposed to carry my bags dammit, but he never carried my bags.”

AOC Snubbed as DNC Hypes ‘Next Gen’ Leaders

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AOC Snubbed as DNC Hypes ‘Next Gen’ Leaders

When the Democratic National Convention schedule was announced last week, many were intrigued by the announcement that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez of New York would be given only a minute to speak.

That mystery became clear when “AOC” was given the honor of seconding the nomination for runner-up Bernie Sanders as her platform.

She offered her support to Sanders with “fidelity and gratitude to a mass people’s movement working to establish social and human rights” while referring to “the unsustainable brutality” of the US economy.

Ocasio–Cortez was not shy on her race-baiting, even suggesting that America was guilty of colonialism.

The indignity seemed to reflect tensions between the freshman “Squad” member and the party establishment.

Some seemed to pick up on that fact.

To add insult to injury, the evening’s keynote speech featured a number of other recently elected politicians who, like AOC, became involved during the 2018 midterm election.

Those legislators and municipal leaders were led by failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams who accused President Donald Trump of “cowardice” while touting the call to serve.

“In a democracy, we do not elect saviors,” she said. “We cast our ballots for those who struggle and pledge to serve.”

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her son, Jack—the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy — also spoke.

“In this election our future is on the ballot,” Jack said. “For my generation, it will define the rest of our lives.”

Twitter-Censored Laura Loomer Wins Primary for Fla. Congressional Race

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Twitter-Censored Laura Loomer Wins Primary for Fla. Congressional Race

(Headline USA) A conservative social media provocateur who has been banned on Facebook and Twitter won her Republican primary on Tuesday and will challenge Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel for Congress in November.

Laura Loomer also won praise from President Donald Trump early Wednesday, who tweeted that she has a “great chance.”

According to a USA Today report, Loomer was joined at her victory party by political strategist Roger Stone, British writer Milo Yiannopoulos and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.

“Lois Frankel doesn’t know it yet, but she is going to get Laura Loomered,” said Stone, who called her the “Joan of Arc of the conservative movement.”

Loomer faces an uphill battle, as Democrats outnumber Republicans by 40 percent in the district, which is occupied by a well-known incumbent.

Frankel has been a political fixture for decades in the Palm Beach County district, which is firmly Democratic.

Loomer has been a guest on Fox News and alt-right programs after gaining followers by ambushing journalists and politicians in stunts posted online.

Her campaign advisor is Karen Giorno, a political strategist who worked for Gov. Rick Scott and Trump’s 2016 campaign in Florida.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

Bill Clinton: Trump Determined to ‘Deny Responsibility and Shift the Blame’

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Bill Clinton: Trump Determined to ‘Deny Responsibility and Shift the Blame’

During his brief address at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton wisely dodged matters of nominee Joe Biden‘s integrity, as many of the first night’s leaders emphasized.

Instead, Clinton attacked President Donald Trump for his alleged economic failures, despite his historic gains followed by a still robust economy during the coronavirus pandemic and Democratic-led economic shutdowns.

“Donald Trump says we’re leading the world,” Clinton said. “Well, we are the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate tripled.”

Following a theme, Clinton joined the echo chamber in claiming that the Obama–Biden administration had led the economic recovery following the 2008 crash and recession.

While Obama presided over mild economic growth, he also called on Americans to accept double-digit unemployment as the “new normal.”

Ironically, Clinton, a notorious deflector, accused Trump of doing the same, attacking the president’s “determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame.”

Clinton, whose extracurricular activities in the Oval Office got him impeached, accused Trump of unpresidential conduct for his practice of monitoring television and tweeting during the workday.

“Denying, distracting and demeaning works great if you’re trying to entertain or enflame,” Clinton said. “But in a real crisis it collapses like a house of cards.”

Clinton’s speech notably came as a British newspaper revealed new pictures that showed him receiving a massage from a 22-year-old Jeffrey Epstein on a 2002 trip to Africa via Epstein’s “Lolita Express.”

On Eve of Bill Clinton’s DNC Speech, Photos Leak of 2002 Massage w/ Epstein Victim

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On Eve of Bill Clinton’s DNC Speech, Photos Leak of 2002 Massage w/ Epstein Victim

On the eve of his address at the Democratic National Convention, 42nd President Bill Clinton made headlines for a much more scandalous reason.

The British newspaper Daily Mail revealed photographs from 2002 of Clinton receiving a neck massage from a then 22-year-old Chauntae Davies, still wearing his wedding band.

Davies has since been identified as one of the many sex-slave victims of millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Appropriately, Juanita Broaddrick, another of Clinton’s sex-abuse victims, tweeted out the story, which was ignored by much of the media.

Fox News reported that the massage came while Epstein’s plane, the “Lolita Express” was refueling in Portugal en route to Africa during one of Clinton’s many flights.

After he complained of having a stiff neck, Epstein’s consort and alleged accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, suggested Davies, a massage therapist, assist the former president, who was traveling on a humanitarian mission for his charity Clinton Foundation.

“Would you mind giving it a crack?” Clinton reportedly asked.

Davies has come forward saying she was raped by Epstein but described Clinton as a “charming and funny” client.

“Although the image looks bizarre, President Clinton was a perfect gentleman during the trip and I saw absolutely no foul play involving him,” she insisted.

Davies explained that it began as a joke after Clinton fell asleep in his chair.

“Ghislaine chimed in to be funny and said that I could give him a massage,” she said. “Everyone had a little chuckle, but Ghislaine in her prim British accent insisted and said I was good.”

Maxwell is facing charges in New York after being arrested last month.

Epstein died in prison last year, which officials attributed to suicide.

Intel Report on Russia Hoax Links Manafort to Kremlin Spy; Still Inconclusive

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Intel Report on Russia Hoax Links Manafort to Kremlin Spy; Still Inconclusive

(Headline USA) The Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a “grave” counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detailed in a report how associates of the Republican candidate had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin’s help.

It is the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, describes how Russia launched an aggressive, wide-ranging effort to interfere in the election on Donald Trump’s behalf.

However, the 966-page report also touches on the role that deep-state intelligence officials played in facilitating many of those contacts as part of their bid to entrap Trump officials in a sting operation.

Only by creating a plausible reason for concern would members of the FBI, CIA, State Department and other agencies that viewed the Trump presidency as an existential threat be allowed to eavesdrop and gather further intelligence via the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on the campaign.

In doing so, they foisted Trump advisers such as Carter Page and George Papadopoulos into the seedy underworld of globalist spy networks where they encountered liaisons like Joseph Mifsud and Stefan Halper, both university professors working in Europe who were recruited as paid intelligence sources to collude in the framing of the campaign.

After the FBI was able to provide sufficient justification for its “Crossfire Hurricane” operation, it recruited notorious dossier author Christopher Steele and later—after Steele was discredited as being personally biased—used back-door channels to access Steele’s reports, which drew from unreliable Kremlin-linked sources to make salacious, now-debunked claims about then-candidate Donald Trump.

The new report, however, claims Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails that were hacked by Russian military intelligence officers.

The conclusions mark the culmination of a bipartisan probe that spanned more than three years and produced what the committee called “the most comprehensive description to date of Russia’s activities and the threat they posed.”

The report was released as two other Senate committees, the Judiciary and Homeland Security panels, conduct their own reviews of the Russia probe with an eye toward uncovering what they say was FBI misconduct during the early days of the investigation.

A prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William Barr, who regards the Russia hoax prior investigative efforts with skepticism, disclosed his first criminal charge on Friday against a former FBI lawyer who plans to plead guilty to altering a government email.

Among the accusations outlined in Tuesday’s report is the committee’s description of the close professional relationship between former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the committee describes without equivocation as a Russian intelligence officer.

“Taken as a whole, Manafort’s high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik, represented a grave counterintelligence threat,” the report says.

The report said Manafort shared internal Trump campaign polling data with Kilimnik and that there is “some evidence” that Kilimnik may have been connected to the Kremlin’s operation to hack and leak Democratic emails, though it does not describe that evidence.

The claims that the Kremlin was behind the hack remain in dispute. The FBI relied up the highly partisan cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to conduct the forensic analysis of the servers, and that the servers themselves had been destroyed, prohibiting any further analysis.

However, many—including Wikileaks founder Julian Assange—have hinted that it might have been a leak from within the DNC. A key former Bernie Sanders supporter Seth Rich, who was shot and killed in July 2016 outside his apartment in an apparent robbery although no personal effects were taken.

The report says that “two pieces of information” raise the possibility of Manafort’s potential connection to those operations, but what follows next in the document is blacked out.

Both men were charged in Mueller’s investigation, but neither was accused of any tie to the hacking.

A Manafort lawyer, Kevin Downing, said Tuesday that there is information that was sealed at the request of Mueller’s team “that completely refutes whatever the intelligence committee is trying to surmise.” He added: “It just looks like complete conjecture.”

The report purposely does not come to a final conclusion, as the other reports did, about whether there is enough evidence that Trump’s campaign coordinated or colluded with Russia to sway the election.

A group of Republicans on the panel submitted “additional views” to the report saying that it should state more explicitly that Trump’s campaign did not coordinate with Russia.

But Democrats on the panel submitted their own views, arguing that the report clearly shows such cooperation.

Mueller concluded in a report issued last year that Russia interfered in the election through hacking and a covert social media campaign, but he did not charge any Trump associates with conspiring with Russians.

The Senate investigation also delved into areas of great interest to Trump that were not explored by Mueller. Those include the FBI’s reliance on a dossier of opposition research compiled by a former British spy whose work was financed by Democrats.

Much of the work was done under the direction of retiring Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, and ranking minority member Mark Warner, D-Va.

Burr recently resigned the leadership post, though, following a recent insider trading scandal in which he was revealed to have bought and sold stocks likely to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic after receiving an intelligence briefing—but before it became public knowledge.

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, the committee’s acting chairman, said in a statement that the committee was troubled that the FBI had been willing to use the dossier “without verifying its methodology or sourcing” as it applied for secret surveillance warrants against a former Trump campaign adviser.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Expired Solar Panels Are Toxic Trash and There’s No Plan to Deal w/ Them

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Expired Solar Panels Are Toxic Trash and There’s No Plan to Deal w/ Them

The U.S. climate change lobby has massively undermined its own efforts to produce clean and renewable energy with respect to solar panels.

Solar panels are heavily government-subsidized tools in the purported fight against global warming and environmental degradation.

But they’re also extremely toxic—and there’s currently no plan whatsoever to deal with the millions of tons of panels that are reaching the end of their life cycles.

Despite their “renewable” marketing, the bulky, complex electronic panels are either going to landfills or they’re exported to foreign countries where progressive “clean energy” regulations don’t apply.

The problem is also getting exponentially worse as activist groups and state governments are forcing solar energy mandates onto the public, leading to an explosion of commercial and consumer production. A federal “Green New Deal” would be a nightmare scenario.

According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, more than 78 million tons of expired solar panels will have accumulated by 2050 when current clean energy proposals are scheduled to reach completion.

For perspective, that’s equivalent to 780 fully loaded Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of toxic trash, each weighing 100,000 metric tons and more than 1,000 feet long.

Another 6 million metric tons of annual solar “e-waste” is expected at the time and no one seems to know what to do, if they’re even interested in talking about it.

“We need to face the fact that solar panels do fail over time, and there’s a lot of them out there,” said Sam Vanderhoof, CEO of Recycle PV Solar, in a recent interview.

“And what do we do when they start to fail? It’s not right throwing that responsibility on the consumer, and that’s where we’re at right now,” he said.

Recycle PV Solar is one of the only companies in the U.S. that’s dedicated to recycling photovoltaic solar panel cells, or PV cells.

Recycling expired panels is part of the earth-saving mythology of solar energy, where sunlight is magically harnessed into electricity and clean fuel without concern for environmental side-effects or unintended economic consequences.

In reality, standard electronics recycling methods don’t work for solar panels, yet they continue to be mass-produced without a viable recycling strategy. Even the most valuable, and toxic, elements of PV cells are wasted, including silver and silicon.

“If we don’t mandate recycling, many of the modules will go to landfill,” said Arizona State University solar researcher Meng Tao, who recently authored a review paper on recycling silicon solar panels, which comprise 95 percent of the solar market.

PV panels also contain lead and aluminum, which are known environmental hazards and groundwater poisons when they leach into surrounding landfill ecologies.

Most solar manufacturers claim their panels will last for about 25 years, and since panels were first mass-deployed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the deluge of worthless, toxic panels is only beginning.

The big problem is cost. It’s too expensive to recycle them, while all the political payoffs, crony government contracts and taxpayer-subsidized benefits are frontloaded.

“We believe the big blind spot in the U.S. for recycling is that the cost far exceeds the revenue,” Meng said. “It’s on the order of a 10-to-1 ratio.”

Federal Court Sides w/ Christian Photographer Against Discriminatory City Ordinance

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Federal Court Sides w/ Christian Photographer Against Discriminatory City Ordinance

A federal district court halted the enforcement of a Louisville city ordinance that would have forced a wedding photographer to promote same-sex weddings on her platforms.

Chelsey Nelson sued Louisville city officials in November, arguing that the city’s ordinance violated the First Amendment. The ordinance would have forced her to service same-sex weddings because she photographs weddings between one man and one woman regularly.

Nelson explained on her website that the reason she does not photograph same-sex weddings is because she  “can’t photograph anything that conflicts with my religious conviction that marriage is a covenant relationship before God between one man and one woman,” according to court records.

But Nelson was told by the city that such “communication” is akin to sexual discrimination.

The U.S. District Court of the Western District of Kentucky, however, dismissed the city’s argument and said that because Nelson has the right to control what her art does and does not support.

“Just as gay and lesbian Americans ‘cannot be treated as social outcasts or as inferior in dignity and worth,’ neither can Americans ‘with a deep faith that requires them to do things passing legislative majorities might find unseemly or uncouth,’” the court ruled.

“And under our Constitution, the government can’t force them to march for, or salute in favor of, or create an artistic expression that celebrates, a marriage that their conscience doesn’t condone,” it continued. “America is wide enough for those who applaud same-sex marriage and those who refuse to.”

The court also said that Nelson is likely to win her case if the city tries to appeal. The Justice Department said the same back in February when it filed a statement of interest with Nelson’s lawsuit.

“Forcing a photographer, against her conscience, to express her support for a wedding that her faith opposes violates the Constitution,” the DOJ said in a statement.

Senate Intel Committee Finds No Russian Collusion, ‘Deeply Troubling’ FBI Actions

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Senate Intel Committee Finds No Russian Collusion, ‘Deeply Troubling’ FBI Actions

The Senate Intelligence Committee announced on Tuesday a conclusion that will shock nobody outside of certain DC neighborhoods: that there was no Russian collusion by former President Donald Trump leading up to and during the 2016 election, according to a Red State report.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R.-Fla, the chair of the Intel Committee, tweeted that it “found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government” while discovering “deeply troubling actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the ‘Steele Dossier’ without verifying its methodology or sourcing.”

A bipartisan group of Senators produced the report, writing nearly 1000 pages and interviewing over 200 people over the course of over four years.

Despite the Intelligence Committee’s findings, leftists from the administrations of former liberal Presidents insisted that collusion nevertheless occurred.

According to former CIA Director and Obama administration hack John Brennan, Rubio is “dead wrong,” and should “read the report” that he helped write.

He also suggests that “the report shows extensive evidence of collusion between between the Trump campaign & the Russians.”

As expected, the report revealed that FBI agents committed a wide array of violations when conducting the investigation, including devising various plots to trick Michael Flynn into lying.

According to the report, a note written by FBI supervisor Bill Priestap was recovered, plotting to trick Flynn into pleading guilty under the unconstitutional Logan Act.

“What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired? If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ & have them decide. Or, if he initially lies, then we present him & he admits it, document for DOJ, & let them decide how to address it,” Priestap suggested.

NC City to Charge Tax for Students to Use ‘Learning Centers’ for Online Instruction

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NC City to Charge Tax for Students to Use ‘Learning Centers’ for Online Instruction

Public schools in Durham, North Carolina will stay closed this fall, but the school district will open six “learning centers,” where the virus will apparently not spread, WRAL reported.

Durham Public Schools will charge parents an additional $140 per week, plus a $35 registration fee, to supervise their children while they stare into their computers for online instruction.

Children of DPS employees will pay a reduce rate of $105 while students receiving free or low-cost lunches will pay $70.

The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law submitted a request for records to determine why the school district decided to offer reduced rates to public school teachers, even though they did not experience pay cuts or job losses during the pandemic, NCILC reported in a press release.

Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said Durham Public Schools renamed schools “learning centers” in an attempt to extract more money from citizens.

“Charging a tax on families who wish to access public learning center resources inside public schools is unconstitutional,” Berger said.

“Durham, and any other jurisdiction charging this illegal tax, is preventing underprivileged families from accessing public school resources,” he added. “They need to repeal their unconstitutional school tax immediately.”

Berger said the state’s Constitution requires “a general and uniform system of free public schools…wherein equal opportunities shall be provided for all students.”

DPS Superintendent Pascal Mubeng said the school district made the right decision to protect students by keeping them out of schools and instead placing them in learning centers.

“Opening our school year remotely is the right decision to protect our students and staff from COVID-19,” he said.

“However, there are many families in Durham who need additional support during the school day,” he continued. “It will take a community effort to support each of these children, but DPS is doing its part.”

Instructors at the learning centers will feed students, provide social-emotional programs, and coach them through their internet-based coursework.

Students will be required to stay six feet away from their fellow classmates, cover their smiles with facemasks, sit in isolated pods without physical contact, and be subject to so-called wellness screenings.

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