The Deep State Will Face Justice Soon! Right?

“The check’s in the mail” is a promise that payment’s been sent even if it hasn’t.  It’s a stalling tactic to avoid pressure from creditors, from those expecting payment.

That’s the scam our government is running on the American people today, a ruse to tamp down expectations of justice.  We all know that the FBI used an unverifiable document, the Steele dossier, to get a warrant to spy on Trump using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).  This dossier was used to start a counterintelligence operation to plant spies in Trump’s campaign, to get a special counsel to impeach the president.

We’re repeatedly told by reliable sources that these crimes won’t go unpunished — “justice is coming,” “buckle up!,” “tick tock,” “BOOM!”  The DOJ is about to drop the hammer on the bad guys.  Yet after two years of this drama, not a single indictment or prosecution

Now we’re awaiting the much anticipated I.G. report on (FISA) abuse that’s going to blow Spygate wide open.  Or not.

So far, the I.G. is batting zero on justice.  The I.G. report on Hillary Clinton’s email investigation showed pervasive bias for Hillary, talk of an insurance policy should she lose, that Hillary should win “100 million to 0.”  Yet in the end, Horowitz pulled a Comey, said the investigators’ hatred for Donald Trump, their loyalty to Hillary Clinton, didn’t impact their findings in any way.  Huh? 

But the attempted coup has been exposed, and one by one, the Deep State cronies are going down: James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Bill Priestap, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Jim Baker, Andrew McCabe, to name a few who have retired, been fired, or been demoted.

So our message to any future insurgents who stage a coup but fail in their efforts to illegally remove a sitting president and overthrow the United States government is, “Be forewarned: treason could cost you your job.”  Oh, the humanity!

Well, at least former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is paying a high price for lying and leaking.  He collected over a half-million dollars on his GoFundMe site, ostensibly for his legal defense.  He’ll still get his government pension, has filed suit against the FBI and DOJ for firing him, wrote the ubiquitous political book trashing Trump, and has now landed a consultant gig with CNN.  By damn, that’ll teach him.

Sean Hannity tells us every night that Spygate will explode with declassification, with the I.G. report, or with Durham’s investigation.  Sean’s Fox team of experts agree: the traitors are shaking in their boots because they know what’s coming. 

Really?  Because I don’t see a single traitor twitching, much less shaking.  In fact, they’ve stepped up their sedition, increased their efforts to usurp the president.  If they’re scared, they’re doing a bang-up job of hiding it.  

Today, treason and our two-tier justice system are casually discussed as inescapable facts of today’s political landscape.  Heads up for those desperately trying to put the blindfold back on Lady Justice.  If a layered legal system is what we have, it has nothing to do with justice — that’s anarchy.  And these smug criminals not only revel in their immunity, but rub our noses in it.

Take for example when Hillary Clinton literally laughed out loud at a question about her email investigation — had to wipe her eyes, she laughed so hard.  She laughed at us, at America, for being so clueless as to think she’d ever answer to our laws.  

And she’s still laughing, because she’s right: she’s untouchable.  The consensus is that even though we know that the first email investigation was rigged by the FBI to clear Hillary, no one will reopen the case.

“While she [Hillary] may never face justice in a court of law, perhaps losing the presidency is a more prescient and proper punishment.”

Well, of course, losing a presidential election is far more devastating than wasting away in a prison cell.

Then we have that pathetic excuse for a human being, James Comey, gloating over the I.G. report that issued a verbal slap on the wrist for his infractions. 

Comey: “And to all those who’ve spent two years talking about me ‘going to jail’ or being a ‘liar and a leaker’ — ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president.”

But no worries: Comey will pay when the FISA abuse report comes out. 

Or not: Washington insiders are now foreshadowing immunity for the entire cabal, saying that, “sadly,” these lawbreakers probably won’t be prosecuted.  That’s not sad; it’s terrifying.  If we can’t indict and prosecute these clowns who have conspired to overthrow our government, who have committed the most egregious political crime in history, then stick a fork in our Republic.  We’re done.

But what can we do?   Actually, this whole strung out Spygate nightmare is an exercise to ensure we do nothing.  Washington isn’t a swamp; it’s a sewer, and the rats that inhabit it are never going to allow their comrades to be indicted. 

So why would our government strive to calm the masses rather than prosecute the traitors?  Because if the real bad guys are locked up, there would be a cataclysmic backlash from the  three families of the Washington mafia.  The media would squeal like stuck pigs.  Those are their guys, after all.  Congress would lash out, threaten mutiny; they hardly have clean hands.  And the Deep State would gnash their teeth and fight like a wounded animal as they would metaphorically die should justice prevail.

But such resistance is not a reason to avoid justice; it’s the reason to pursue it.  What the media, Congress, and the Deep State have in common is, they’re all just people.  And if people hold authority over the law, we have tyranny.

Then a sailor, Kristian Saucier, who takes a picture on a submarine goes to prison while a Washington power broker, Hillary Clinton, who intentionally exposes America’s most closely guarded secrets goes to the Hamptons.

Or a respected general, Michael Flynn, who served honorably for 30 years might be forced to plead guilty to a crime he didn’t commit while a connected insider, James Comey, who publicly lied under oath, bragged about leaking classified information, goes on a book tour. 

That’s why our Founding Fathers setup “a government of laws, and not of men,” as John Adams put it.

President Trump has kept many of his promises, but there’s one still hanging out there.  In the second presidential debate, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had the following exchange

Clinton: You know, it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.

Trump: Because you’d be in jail. 

That’s the promise you must keep, Mr. President.  Otherwise, all your accomplishments, the economy, our strong military, our embassy in Jerusalem, the border wall, all will taken away when the next lawless Hillary steals an election or the next attempt to overthrow our government succeeds.

Oh, I know: cut the drama, it’s happening, really.  The bad guys are going down, justice is coming, the guilty will pay, and the check’s in the mail.

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

“The check’s in the mail” is a promise that payment’s been sent even if it hasn’t.  It’s a stalling tactic to avoid pressure from creditors, from those expecting payment.

That’s the scam our government is running on the American people today, a ruse to tamp down expectations of justice.  We all know that the FBI used an unverifiable document, the Steele dossier, to get a warrant to spy on Trump using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).  This dossier was used to start a counterintelligence operation to plant spies in Trump’s campaign, to get a special counsel to impeach the president.

We’re repeatedly told by reliable sources that these crimes won’t go unpunished — “justice is coming,” “buckle up!,” “tick tock,” “BOOM!”  The DOJ is about to drop the hammer on the bad guys.  Yet after two years of this drama, not a single indictment or prosecution

Now we’re awaiting the much anticipated I.G. report on (FISA) abuse that’s going to blow Spygate wide open.  Or not.

So far, the I.G. is batting zero on justice.  The I.G. report on Hillary Clinton’s email investigation showed pervasive bias for Hillary, talk of an insurance policy should she lose, that Hillary should win “100 million to 0.”  Yet in the end, Horowitz pulled a Comey, said the investigators’ hatred for Donald Trump, their loyalty to Hillary Clinton, didn’t impact their findings in any way.  Huh? 

But the attempted coup has been exposed, and one by one, the Deep State cronies are going down: James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Bill Priestap, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Jim Baker, Andrew McCabe, to name a few who have retired, been fired, or been demoted.

So our message to any future insurgents who stage a coup but fail in their efforts to illegally remove a sitting president and overthrow the United States government is, “Be forewarned: treason could cost you your job.”  Oh, the humanity!

Well, at least former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is paying a high price for lying and leaking.  He collected over a half-million dollars on his GoFundMe site, ostensibly for his legal defense.  He’ll still get his government pension, has filed suit against the FBI and DOJ for firing him, wrote the ubiquitous political book trashing Trump, and has now landed a consultant gig with CNN.  By damn, that’ll teach him.

Sean Hannity tells us every night that Spygate will explode with declassification, with the I.G. report, or with Durham’s investigation.  Sean’s Fox team of experts agree: the traitors are shaking in their boots because they know what’s coming. 

Really?  Because I don’t see a single traitor twitching, much less shaking.  In fact, they’ve stepped up their sedition, increased their efforts to usurp the president.  If they’re scared, they’re doing a bang-up job of hiding it.  

Today, treason and our two-tier justice system are casually discussed as inescapable facts of today’s political landscape.  Heads up for those desperately trying to put the blindfold back on Lady Justice.  If a layered legal system is what we have, it has nothing to do with justice — that’s anarchy.  And these smug criminals not only revel in their immunity, but rub our noses in it.

Take for example when Hillary Clinton literally laughed out loud at a question about her email investigation — had to wipe her eyes, she laughed so hard.  She laughed at us, at America, for being so clueless as to think she’d ever answer to our laws.  

And she’s still laughing, because she’s right: she’s untouchable.  The consensus is that even though we know that the first email investigation was rigged by the FBI to clear Hillary, no one will reopen the case.

“While she [Hillary] may never face justice in a court of law, perhaps losing the presidency is a more prescient and proper punishment.”

Well, of course, losing a presidential election is far more devastating than wasting away in a prison cell.

Then we have that pathetic excuse for a human being, James Comey, gloating over the I.G. report that issued a verbal slap on the wrist for his infractions. 

Comey: “And to all those who’ve spent two years talking about me ‘going to jail’ or being a ‘liar and a leaker’ — ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president.”

But no worries: Comey will pay when the FISA abuse report comes out. 

Or not: Washington insiders are now foreshadowing immunity for the entire cabal, saying that, “sadly,” these lawbreakers probably won’t be prosecuted.  That’s not sad; it’s terrifying.  If we can’t indict and prosecute these clowns who have conspired to overthrow our government, who have committed the most egregious political crime in history, then stick a fork in our Republic.  We’re done.

But what can we do?   Actually, this whole strung out Spygate nightmare is an exercise to ensure we do nothing.  Washington isn’t a swamp; it’s a sewer, and the rats that inhabit it are never going to allow their comrades to be indicted. 

So why would our government strive to calm the masses rather than prosecute the traitors?  Because if the real bad guys are locked up, there would be a cataclysmic backlash from the  three families of the Washington mafia.  The media would squeal like stuck pigs.  Those are their guys, after all.  Congress would lash out, threaten mutiny; they hardly have clean hands.  And the Deep State would gnash their teeth and fight like a wounded animal as they would metaphorically die should justice prevail.

But such resistance is not a reason to avoid justice; it’s the reason to pursue it.  What the media, Congress, and the Deep State have in common is, they’re all just people.  And if people hold authority over the law, we have tyranny.

Then a sailor, Kristian Saucier, who takes a picture on a submarine goes to prison while a Washington power broker, Hillary Clinton, who intentionally exposes America’s most closely guarded secrets goes to the Hamptons.

Or a respected general, Michael Flynn, who served honorably for 30 years might be forced to plead guilty to a crime he didn’t commit while a connected insider, James Comey, who publicly lied under oath, bragged about leaking classified information, goes on a book tour. 

That’s why our Founding Fathers setup “a government of laws, and not of men,” as John Adams put it.

President Trump has kept many of his promises, but there’s one still hanging out there.  In the second presidential debate, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had the following exchange

Clinton: You know, it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.

Trump: Because you’d be in jail. 

That’s the promise you must keep, Mr. President.  Otherwise, all your accomplishments, the economy, our strong military, our embassy in Jerusalem, the border wall, all will taken away when the next lawless Hillary steals an election or the next attempt to overthrow our government succeeds.

Oh, I know: cut the drama, it’s happening, really.  The bad guys are going down, justice is coming, the guilty will pay, and the check’s in the mail.

Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

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Democrats Pounce To Politicize Hurricane Dorian, Use It To Attack Trump

As Hurricane Dorian swirled through the Caribbean and approached Florida, Democrats were raging a storm of their own to attack President Donald Trump. Many Democrats attacked Trump for using a slice of Federal Emergency Management Agency funding to support the construction of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. “Our fellow Americans in Puerto…

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Illegal Migrant in Kate Steinle Killing Escapes Guilty Verdict for Gun Possession

The 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday overturned the conviction against Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate because the judge failed to instruct the jury on his defense that he only momentarily possessed the gun.

The Associated Press also reported further comments:

Tony Serra, the attorney who is representing Garcia-Zarate on federal charges of gun possession and being in the country illegally, said his client is in custody and faces a Jan. 13 [federal] trial.

He said the state reversal means the [federal] district attorney will have the option of re-trying Garcia-Zarate on those charges.

“That kind of error causes reversals all the time. Then the prosecution has the prerogative of going again,” Serra said. “The state case is a heavier case because it’s a homicide and a gun. … It’s going to be a big potential decision on what they’re going to do.”

In November 2017, Trump denounced the not-guilty verdict on the murder charge against Zarate.

The legal process is not completed. Garcia-Zarate faces federal charges for illegal possession of a gun.

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Trey Gowdy: I’ll Apologize to Comey ‘When It Snows in Hell’

Friday on Fox News Channel, network contributor and former Rep. Trey Gowdy criticized former FBI director James Comey for claiming he is owed apologies.

Gowdy said, “I’m certainly not going to apologize to anyone who violated FBI and Department of Justice policies, who violated an employment agreement, who shared sensitive information about an ongoing investigation, who sent classified information to an unauthorized person, and then had amnesia when the FBI came to his home to try to retrieve government property.”

When asked a second time if he plans on apologizing to Comey, Gowdy said, “What temperature is it in Hell right now? Is it snowing? When it snows in hell, you let me know.”

He added, “Why would I apologize to somebody who has been dinged on both of the major investigations by a guy like Michael Horowitz, who is hardly a Republican!”

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Delingpole: St Greta of Thunberg – Her Gospel Is Pure Propaganda; Her Cause Is Evil

St Greta of Thunberg – Patron Saint of the Age of Stupid – has made landfall in the New World, there to preach to the unbelievers her gospel of imminent climate doom.

“The war on nature must end,” she has declared, to anyone who is listening.

Though St Greta has become a figure of huge influence in Europe – feted by Popes, presidents and prime ministers, lauded with uncritical coverage in the mainstream media, put forward for a Nobel Peace Prize – it seems likely that in the United States she will get a more mixed reception.

While the left will most certainly try to shoehorn her into their Green New Deal campaign, the right may be less convinced.

That’s because, unlike a worrying number of their counterparts across the pond, US conservatives understand St Greta’s environmental scare narrative for what it is: a hoax.

Especially, it’s an anti-American hoax.  As Rupert Darwall describes in some detail in his book Green Tyranny (listen to the podcast interview here) the global warming scare was cooked up largely by European leftists (the Swedes and Germans being the worst offenders) with the purpose of destroying Western Industrial Civilization – US Industrial Civilization in particular.

To understand how utterly specious St Greta’s gospel of apocalypse is, a good place to start is this excellent video by Tony Heller.

Heller has a nice line in dry sarcasm:

“Greta will go to the UN next week and read a speech which was carefully prepared for her by some of the world’s leading propagandists.”

And he has the measure of Greta’s propaganda litany:

“She will say that children of her generation face a terrible future of heat, famine, disease and every other imaginable natural disaster. Basically, she will describe a life which is the exact opposite of the charmed life that she is living. And her prophecies of doom will be described by the press as a magnet for hope. Her message of hope will be that if we simply lower carbon dioxide levels to those of the pre-industrial era everything will be fine…”

Did the world’s children really have it easier in the era before catastrophic man-made carbon emissions ruined everything?

Heller points out that just over a century ago, New York was in the grip of a polio epidemic. Are we really to believe that the children of tomorrow are going to be looking back enviously at their early 20th century forebears and wishing: “If only I could be crippled with polio, like kids were in the good old days!”

Heller writes:

The polio epidemic spread all over the country. This 1916 photo was taken in Billings, Montana. (At least the children didn’t have to face an extra 0.0001 mole fraction CO2 in the atmosphere.)

Two years after the 1916 New York polio outbreak came the worst pandemic in history – the Spanish flu outbreak which killed as many as 40 million people, most of them young.

Greta – and those behind her – need to get a sense of historical perspective.

They also a better grasp of climatology.

In the US most of the hottest days in the last 100 years occurred during the early part of the 20th century.

For example:

Yet how often do you hear these climate facts from the alarmist mainstream media?

It has become a trope of the climate alarmist Establishment and its various useful idiots that to attack Greta Thunberg is somehow cruel or immoral or unfair; that the people who do so are motivated by misogyny or the bitterness of old age or all those payments they are getting from Big Oil…

The problem with Greta Thunberg is not that she’s a 16 year old girl with pigtails.

The problem with Greta Thunberg is not that she’s a school drop out.

The problem with Greta Thunberg is not she’s autistic.

There are hundreds of thousands of other kids around the world with some or all of these features – and none is being criticised for having them.

No, the problem with Greta Thunberg is that no matter how brave or inspirational or articulate or touchingly young and fresh-faced or triumphant-over-mental-adversity she may be, the “facts” she regurgitates on behalf of her controllers are lies, propaganda and fake news – and the cause she represents is downright evil.

Strip away all the fluffy invocations of nature and the plight of future generations and the alleged crisis facing mother earth and what you find underneath is pure totalitarianism.

It’s no secret conspiracy. I wrote a book about it nearly ten years ago – Watermelons – and I can assure you there is nothing secret about the green movement’s totalitarian masterplan for anyone prepared to do a little background reading. Rather this is a conspiracy in plain sight.

And it’s a very dangerous conspiracy. If the green totalitarians get their way, standards of living will plummet, energy prices will become even less affordable than they are now, freedoms will become more constricted, more wildlife will be obliterated and more landscapes ruined by bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes, more money will be concentrated in the hand of a liberal-left oligarchy – none of it contributing the slightest material improvement to the state of the planet.

Greta Thunberg is currently the most prominent representative of that totalitarian movement.

Like it or not, cruel or no, that  makes her the face of evil.

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Report: Amazon Kept a List of Mean Comments from NYC Politicians During HQ2 Fight

A recent report from the Wall Street Journal alleges that e-commerce giant Amazon kept a “burn book” of mean comments made by New York City politicians about the e-commerce giant during the conflict over the HQ2 project planned for the Big Apple.

In an article titled: “The Missing Piece of Amazon’s New York Debacle: It Kept a Burn Book,” the Wall Street Journal outlines how e-commerce giant Amazon kept a private dossier which cataloged in intense detail the insults it received from New York politicians and labor leaders over the proposed construction of the firm’s HQ2 in New York City.

The WSJ writes:

 

In a private dossier kept at the time, whose existence has gone previously unreported, Amazon executives cataloged in minute detail the insults they saw coming from New York politicians and labor leaders, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

By late January, Amazon executives had been pummeled at two public hearings. The burn book, which was kept in a Microsoft Word document called “NY Negative Statements,” had separate sections for a half-dozen politicians and officials who had gone from thorns in the company’s side to formidable opponents of a deal that now looked to be in jeopardy.

The document recorded how opponents mocked the helipad Amazon planned to build, pushed the Twitter hashtag #scamazon, and brought up the company’s work for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a sore spot among some Amazon employees. It was an eight-page, bullet-pointed, Calibri font testimony to Amazon’s sensitivities.

The WSJ notes that Amazon kept close records of comments made a number of individuals, from Senators to councilmen:

One of the first entries in Amazon’s burn book went to state Sen. Mike Gianaris, another Democrat whose district included the planned campus. He and Mr. Van Bramer had signed a letter in 2017 expressing general support for the project, but a year on were having concerns.

The tax subsidies—up to $3 billion in total from the city and state—struck them as excessive. Some residents in their districts worried the campus would lead to rising rents and labor leaders were concerned about the company’s union stances. Also worrying the two men, the districts they represented were shifting leftward, and wooing a giant company could hurt them with progressive groups.

 

The WSJ notes that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) attempted to fix issues between Amazon and labor leaders but ultimately, the deal fell through:

 

Mr. Cuomo kept calling contacts at the company after the Valentine’s Day breakup. He suggested alternative sites in the city and asked whether Amazon’s separate expansion in west Midtown, which will eventually bring 5,000 jobs, could somehow be rebranded as a second headquarters, according to people familiar with the conversations. A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo said he called the company but didn’t suggest alternative sites.

He wasn’t in the burn book, but it didn’t make any difference.

Read the full article in the Wall Street Journal here.

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Communist China Plans Largest Military Parade in Its History for 70th Anniversary

China plans to hold the largest military parade in its history to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1. The parade will reportedly showcase some of China’s most advanced weapons.

AFP on Wednesday relayed assurances from Chinese officials that the parade will not be belligerent in tone, saying:

“We have to point out that this military parade won’t be targeted at any countries or districts and any specific incidents,” said General Cai Zhijun, a member of the Chinese Army General Staff, at a press conference in Beijing Thursday.

Cai said that the size of the military parade was not a sign of aggression and the Chinese army was “committed to safeguarding world peace and regional stability.”

China’s state-run Global Times quoted the State Council Information Office promising the parade would be an even bigger show than the one held in 2015 to commemorate “the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan,” which is China’s preferred name for its slice of World War II. The 2015 parade featured 12,000 troops, 500 armored vehicles, and flyovers by more than 200 aircraft.

The State Council Information Office also made soothing noises about how the upcoming display of military power is not meant to intimidate anyone in particular, saying:

Some advanced weapons will make their maiden appearances in the equipment formation of the parade, demonstrating the Chinese national defense’s level of development. All equipment that will be on display in the parade is domestically made. 

The military parade is not aimed at any specific country or region, the office said at the Thursday press conference. 

A ceremony to award highest state honors to 36 national heroes will be held to celebrate the 70th anniversary on October 1. 

China will also award souvenir medals to people who have made contributions to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.

Commemorative coins and stamps for the 70th anniversary will also be released. An online exhibition will be arranged for netizens to appreciate China’s achievements over the last 70 years.

Those who sacrificed for their country will not be forgotten in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the PRC’s founding. Local authorities will visit veterans, old Party members and the families of martyrs.

The Global Times also touted a show featuring performers from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan who “love the motherland and uphold the ‘one country, two systems’ principle and support the reunification of China.” 

According to the South China Morning Post, Chinese leaders are poring over a list of dozens of weapons that could be showcased at the parade, with a preference for large and impressive-looking hardware that would add to the patriotic spectacle of the parade. 

The final choices will “depend in some part on relations with the U.S.,” which severely undermines those Chinese assurances that the parade will be a peaceable upbeat affair with no belligerent undertones.

“If the relationship with the U.S. improves in the coming months, then [Communist Party leader Xi Jinping] is likely to go for a less aggressive show of force in the parade,” said a “military insider” quoted by the SCMP.

“There is a lot of hi-tech equipment that has been put into service by the PLA but only a small number will be shown in the parade. It is unlikely that cutting-edge weapons, especially those strategic items such as the hypersonic glide vehicles or electromagnetic rail guns, will be on offer so as not to upset countries like the US and some of our neighbors,” another military source told the SCMP.

One weapon reportedly being considered for the parade is the DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile, allegedly capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads to targets in the United States. Chinese leaders would see its inclusion in the parade as a rebuke to the United States for installing the advanced THAAD missile defense system in South Korea. 

THAAD is intended as a shield against North Korean aggression, but the Chinese constantly protest its deployment and regard it as a threat to their security because its powerful sensor systems can see into Chinese territory.

Other possible inclusions include the JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile, which is also nuclear-capable; the long-range H-6N bomber; and the Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter jet, which is in active service and has flown over military parades before.

“We are good at organizing military parades – we’ve staged over a dozen big military parades in Tienanmen Square over the years,” chirped People’s Liberation Army Ground Force commander Gen. Han Weiguo, choosing one of the most unfortunate ways he could possibly have boasted about Communist Chinese parade discipline.

“Some of my foreign friends asked me how could we command so many soldiers and weapons in a parade. And I told them it’s a secret,” said General Han. “We test our soldiers’ responses and discipline through their performance in the parades, which are part of our combat readiness requirements.”

Although some Chinese military sources said rehearsals for the parade have already begun at various bases, others said practice marches will begin in earnest once the cold weather in Beijing clears up.

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White House Issues Scathing Statement on Comey, Says He is a ‘Proven Liar and Leaker’

The White House has issued a scathing statement about disgraced FBI head James Comey, amid the Inspector General releasing a report saying he “set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees” by mishandling his memos, including classified information.

The statement began by asserting that “James Comey is a proven liar and leaker.”

 

“The Inspector General’s report shows Comey violated the most basic obligations of confidentiality that he owed to the United States Government and to the American people, “in order to achieve a personally desired outcome.” Because Comey shamefully leaked information to the press—in blatant violation of FBI policies—the Nation was forced to endure the baseless politically motivated, two-year witch hunt.  Comey disgraced himself and his office to further a personal political agenda, and this report further confirms that fact,” the statement continued.

Despite the Inspector General determining that Comey violated FBI policies pertaining to retention, handling and dissemination of FBI records and information, Attorney General William Barr declined to prosecute him.

President Trump also responded to the report on Twitter, saying that Comey should be ashamed of himself.

“Perhaps never in the history of our Country has someone been more thoroughly disgraced and excoriated than James Comey in the just released Inspector General’s Report. He should be ashamed of himself!” Trump said in a tweet.

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Rasmussen: Majority of Likely Voters Agree Journalists Deserve Scrutiny, Criticism

A new poll from Rasmussen Reports reveals most Americans believe that journalists are more liberal than they are, and deserve scrutiny, despite the fervent objections from The New York Times. There’s even more bad news for the liberal media: the majority also agreed President Trump’s attacks on the press were “appropriate.”

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Venezuela: Socialist Thugs Terrorize Civilians into Signing Anti-Trump Petition

A “motorized force” of socialist thugs drove around the state of Miranda, Venezuela, on Monday, forcing civilians to sign a petition demanding President Donald Trump and the United States cease efforts to remove Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime from power.

State propaganda outlet VTV reported that the group turned up at Bolivar Square in the Mirandan capital of Guaicaipuro demanding that people sign their #NoMásTrump (#NoMoreTrump) campaign. After patrolling seven of the city’s various parishes, the thugs reportedly obtained 1,400 more signatures.

“Today we are defending the peace of Venezuela, we brought all our signatures to ratify once again the commitment we have with the revolutionary process and the legacy of Commander Hugo Chavez,” said Elio Amundaray, a representative of the National Motorized Union of Venezuela. “It is not a time for distractions, the goal is one and it is the peace of Venezuela and we are willing to defend the country.”

According to the director of the Commission of Integral Defense of the Nation in the Guaicaipuro municipality, Ruben Díaz, the motorists were engaged in a “highly patriotic activity,” having received political and military training in anticipation “for any attempt of threat on the part of the North American empire with its economic sanctions and the blockade.”

Such groups and militias are regularly employed by the socialist regime to intimidate and harass opposition as well as coerce vulnerable communities into providing their support. As noted by U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet in her recent report on the country’s human rights crisis, “pro-government armed civilian groups, known as colectivos, have contributed to the deteriorating situation by exercising social control and helping repress demonstrations.”

The #NoMásTrump campaign was announced by Maduro this month as an attempt to deter Washington from imposing additional rounds of economic sanctions against the regime, an indication that they are proving increasingly effective.

“The global protest against Trump and his blockade that makes the people of Venezuela suffer,” Maduro declared at the time. “One slogan: #NoMoreTrump. Enough of making Venezuela suffer. Get your hands off Venezuela, Donald Trump! Venezuela has the right to a future where its self-determination is respected and it has the right to build its own economic and social models.”

The crux of the campaign is a petition for which the regime hopes to receive 13 million signatures, just under half of the Venezuelan dwindling population, that will be delivered to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at next month’s General Assembly in New York.

Although there are some fears that the sanctions may be affecting the Venezuelan people, who are already suffering under the pressure of one of the world’s most severe economic and humanitarian crises, the sanctions are primarily aimed at squeezing the regime’s access to financial resources to the point of their removal.

It is therefore highly unlikely that Maduro will obtain his goal of 13 million signatures, as many Venezuelans actively support the sanctions in the hope that they will help remove the socialists from power. However, there is every chance that Maduro will simply lie or fiddle the numbers, as he has consistently done in recent years by manipulating and rigging election results in favor of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).

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