GOP senator draws fire from all sides on Biden, Obama-era probes

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is coming under fire from all sides for his investigations into the Obama administration and the Bidens.

Months into his probes, Johnson is facing increasing public pushback from Democrats, the Biden campaign and aligned outside groups who believe he is trying to undercut presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and might inadvertently spread Russian disinformation in the process.

But he’s also taking criticism from high-profile conservatives who argue the probes are moving too slowly, while some fellow GOP senators appear worried about the appearance of the investigation just months before the election.

Johnson is now pushing back on some of his critics, accusing them of spreading false information about his investigations.

“This is exactly the same playbook they ran against President Trump,” Johnson said during an interview with “Justice & Drew,” a Minnesota-based radio show. “They’re doing the exact same thing to me and Sen. Grassley.”

Johnson is using his Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee gavel to run two investigations, at times in coordination with Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

Both probes are viewed as controversial but inherently distinct: One involves the Obama-era State Department, Obama-era Ukraine policy including work done by former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and any contact between the Obama administration and his associates or Burisma Holdings, where Hunter Biden was on the board.

The second is wide-ranging and broadly covers the transition process between the Obama and Trump administrations, but delves into everything from the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian election meddling and its offshoots to leaks from the early days of Trump’s presidency.

The tensions surrounding the probes are increasingly spilling over into the national spotlight as November draws near and the window for GOP investigations potentially comes to a close. Control of the Senate is up for grabs and political handicappers view Democrats as having momentum to win back the majority.

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt lacerated Johnson for not having subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan or former FBI agent Peter Stzrok — three of more than 30 individuals Johnson got the power to subpoena in June.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512124-gop-senator-draws-fire-from-all-sides-on-biden-obama-era-probes

ormer NFL Star Tim Tebow Sets Up Foundation To Help Fight Human Trafficking

Christian ex-NFL star Tim Tebow is publicly dedicating his charitable foundation to help stop human trafficking. Tim Tebow is no stranger when it comes to charitable actions and earlier this year he helped deliver food to the families of the Navajo Nation. They were in dire need due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tebow stated, “I don’t know if an evil that is much darker than people that are trafficked. That’s why we’re not leaving the fight, only getting deeper. And when a young girl has been trafficked over and over and over again, finally realizes that she’s valuable. Not because of her body, but she’s valuable because of her worth, her inherent God-given worth. That changes a life. But I would say just like anything, some of them hit you harder than others.”

Tebow recently had trouble with his content on social media when on July 27th, Twitter flagged a video he posted about the Bible as ‘insensitive content’.

In the video about the Bible, Tebow stated, “When we’re Bible believers and we look at the Bible and we see a lot of the heroes, a lot of times they truly were wounded deeply before they were ever used greatly. And so maybe you’re going through a time in your life where you feel like you’ve just been wounded greatly. It hasn’t been your year. It hasn’t been your day so you don’t feel like this is your time.”

Tebow continued, “But this could be your time for learning. It could be your time for growing. It could be your time for adapting. This could be the time that is a test for you, but tomorrow it gets to turn into a testimony because you never know what God is doing with your life. You never know what He is preparing you for. So many times in the Bible, when we look at the heroes, there are times in their life or if they stopped, if they quit, if they said, no, God, I’ve had enough, then they would have missed out on the most impactful, most influential times of their life.”

Click below to watch the video!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/watch-former-nfl-star-tim-tebow-sets-foundation-help-fight-human-trafficking-video/

UN Security Council rejects resolution to extend the arms embargo on Iran

The United States could now follow through on a threat to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on Iran using a provision in the nuclear deal, known as snapback.

NEW YORK/MOSCOW - The United States lost a bid to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran on Friday as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid "confrontation" over a US threat to trigger a return of all UN sanctions on Tehran.

Russia and China opposed extending the weapons ban, which is due to expire in October under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. Eleven members abstained, including France, Germany and Britain, while Washington and the Dominican Republic were the only yes votes.

"The Security Council's failure to act decisively in defense of international peace and security is inexcusable," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. "The Security Council rejected direct appeals to extend the arms embargo from numerous countries in the Middle East endangered by Iran's violence."

"Security Council failed to hold Iran accountable today. It enabled the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell deadly weapons and ignored the demands of countries in the Middle East. America will continue to work to correct this mistake." Pompeo tweeted.

"The United States will never abandon our friends in the region who expected more from the Security Council," he added. "We will continue to work to ensure that the theocratic terror regime does not have the freedom to purchase and sell weapons that threaten the heart of Europe, the Middle East and beyond."

The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) reacted to the results and said that it is serves to further empower the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism in a dangerous manner.

"Supplying arms to the Iranian regime threatens to further destabilize the region and is contrary to the security interests of the United States and our allies," the organization said in a statement.

"We appreciate the efforts of the Trump administration to extend the embargo," AIPAC added. "We also thank the overwhelming bipartisan majorities in Congress that expressed strong support for extending the embargo. Now, the US must explore additional options to ensure that Iran will not be allowed to further arm itself and its terrorist allies."

The conference of presidents of major Jewish organizations denounced the Security Council.

"Should the embargo end this fall, the rogue Iranian regime will likely rush to amass additional weapons for its own use and to supply its terrorist proxies," the umbrella organization said in their statement. "As a result, the security of American forces, as well as those of our allies, including Israel, will be at greater risk. This is an outrage that strengthens Iran in its quest for hegemony in the Middle East."

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/un-security-council-rejects-resolution-to-extend-the-arms-embargo-on-iran-638710

9/11 NYC Tribute Canceled Over COVID Concerns Despite De Blasio Allowing BLM Mural Without A Permit

The iconic memorial display in NYC that features two beams of light to honor the victims of 9/11 has been canceled over coronavirus concerns just weeks after Mayor Bill de Blasio allowed a Black Lives Matter mural to be painted outside Trump Tower.

The “Tribute in Light beam won’t shine for the first time in 18 years because health risks posed to the large crew required to oversee it “were far too great,” according to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.

The same concerns were completely absent when a similarly large crew was on hand to paint the giant Black Lives Matter mural, a process which De Blasio himself took part in for a photo-op.

The mural was also painted without permission from the city, with de Blasio allowing activists to skip the permit process.

As we previously highlighted, at a time when NYC is experiencing soaring shootings and violent crimes (partly thanks to de Blasio emptying the prisons), the BLM mural also required 27 cops working in shifts to protect it.

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum also scrapped the in-person reading of 9/11 victims’ names at the annual Ground Zero ceremony over coronavirus concerns.

Similar concerns were not expressed when tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters repeatedly marched through New York City in close proximity.

Twitter respondents expressed their disgust at the double standard.

“This is a slap in the face to America,” said one.

“No permit but yet arrest people for “vandalizing” what they vandalized in the first place!” added another.

“Remember you can’t get corona at a #BLM event but you can at a light show,” said another.

Could we just call it the George Floyd Lightshow or something? There’s gotta be a way around this,” joked another.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/911-nyc-tribute-canceled-over-covid-concerns-despite-de-blasio-allowing-blm-mural-without

Facemasks, Lies, Damn Lies, And Public Health Officials: "A Growing Body of Evidence"

A vile new mantra is on the lips of every public health official and politician in the global campaign to force universal masking on the general public: "there is a growing body of evidence". This propagandistic phrase is a vector designed to achieve five main goals:

Give the false impression that a balance of evidence now proves that masks reduce the transmission of COVID-19

Falsely assimilate commentary made in scientific venues with "evidence"

Hide the fact that a decade's worth of policy-grade evidence proves the opposite: that masks are ineffective with viral respiratory diseases

Hide the fact that there is now direct observational proof that cloth masks do not prevent exhalation of clouds of suspended aerosol particles; above, below and through the masks

Deter attention away from the considerable known harms and risks due to face masks, applied to entire populations

The said harms and risks include that a cloth mask becomes a culture medium for a large variety of bacterial pathogens, and a collector of viral pathogens; given the hot and humid environment and the constant source, where home fabrics are hydrophilic whereas medical masks are hydrophobic.

In short, I argue: op-eds are not "evidence", irrelevance does not help, and more bias does not remove bias. Their mantra of "a growing body of evidence" is a self-serving contrivance that impedes good science and threatens public safety.

I prove that there is no policy-grade evidence to support forced masking on the general population, and that all the latest-decade's policy-grade evidence points to the opposite: NOT recommending forced masking of the general population. Therefore, the politicians and health authorities are acting without legitimacy and recklessly.

The article is organized into the following sections:

Introduction

Competence to talk about face masks and COVID-19

Government responses have been a public-health and safety catastrophe

The "growing body of evidence" mantra needs to stop

So, what actually is the "growing body of evidence"?

https://www.sott.net/article/439705-Facemasks-Lies-Damn-Lies-And-Public-Health-Officials-A-Growing-Body-of-Evidence

Chicago Police Promise to Arrest Looters This Weekend—But Will They Be Prosecuted?

The city of Chicago is girding its loins, preparing for another weekend shopping spree by organized gangs of Black Lives Matter looters. Indeed, it’s “reparations,” don’t ya know.

New York Post:

Ariel Atkins told WBEZ that her group “100 percent” supports the violent looters who trashed chunks of the Windy City on Monday, again repeating her claim that it is “reparations.”

“The whole idea of criminality is based on racism anyway,” she told the NPR station.

“Because criminality is punishing people for things that they have needed to do to survive or just the way that society has affected them with white supremacist BS,” she said.

Her “group” is Black Lives Matter, so we can all expect media and Democrats by the dozens to issue apologies for ever thinking that this collection of criminals, thugs, and misfits was ever a legitimate protest group. And if you believe that apologies are forthcoming, I have a bridge over the Chicago River I can sell you.

Speaking of the Chicago River and the city’s series of drawbridges that connect to the city’s downtown, the mayor has decided to raise those bridges and keep them up in order to prevent looters from descending en masse into the central city.

Pro Publica:

Over the last week, for the second time in three months, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered most of the bridges up at night to limit access to the Loop, Gold Coast and surrounding areas after an outbreak of property destruction and unrest.

The move was among a number of measures the mayor announced to protect businesses and reassure residents. But it was the image of the bridges being raised that offered the clearest symbol of Chicago’s divisions.

The Chicago Police Department won’t be caught off-guard this time. They plan to flood the zone with a thousand police officers.

CBS2:

“We want to send a message,” Brown said outside the Chicago Water Tower on Michigan Avenue Thursday evening. “If you come downtown or to anyone of our retail corridors to loot, CPD is doing to arrest you. If someone is attempting to break a window to loot, CPD is going to arrest you. If you’re going in and out of stores in an attempt to loot, CPD is going to arrest you. If you are carrying or transporting merchandise from a store that has been looted, you will be stopped and arrested.”

Brown said police will deploy all tactics necessary to prevent and stop looting – such as deploying spike strips to puncture the tires of vehicle caravanning to an area to the purpose of looting. Two trucks could also be deployed to impound cars, and caravans of looters may be boxed in.

So the cops are going to do their job and arrest you if you loot. But it’s an open question whether you’ll ever go to trial or be prosecuted at all. That’s because of Chicago’s nitwit state’s attorney, Kim Foxx.

Foxx is one of George Soros’s crusading state’s attorneys who favors no bail, no trial, and no questions for all but the most violent criminals. She sees the looters like the BLM organizer sees them — taking what’s owed. During the first round of unrest in the spring, the cops arrested dozens of rioters, looters, arsonists, and disturbers of the peace and she promptly threw open the jail door and set them free.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/08/14/chicago-police-promise-to-arrest-looters-this-weekend-but-will-they-be-prosecuted-n792552

ShadowGate | The Documentary the Deep State Arrested Millie Weaver For Releasing

Infowars Reporter Millie Weaver Arrested on Secret Indictment! _ Spiro Skouras

Arrest video

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Video: POTUS Arrives in New York City to Visit Hospitalized Younger Brother

In June, US President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, was admitted to Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital in “serious condition”, where he spent over a week in the intensive-care unit. On Friday, the real estate developer, who was an executive in the family business, was again returned to the hospital.

US President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon following a news conference at the White House traveled to visit his younger brother Robert Trump who has been hospitalized in New York.

The president told reporters that his “wonderful brother” is “having a hard time” after Robert Trump was sent to New York Presbyterian Medical Center on the Upper East Side of Manhattan earlier in the day with an unspecified ailment.

“I have a wonderful brother. We’ve had a great relationship for a long time – for from Day One. It’s a long time ago. And he is in the hospital right now. Hopefully he’ll be all right, but he’s having a hard time,” the president said in response to a reporter's question about Robert Trump's heath.

Trump was seen in a video arriving at the New York hospital at around 4:15 p.m. EST. He left the medical campus approximately 45 minutes later, heading for his private country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to The New York Post.

Though his ailment has not yet been revealed, the 72-year-old businessman, who managed the Trump Organization's real estate holdings outside Manhattan, is said to be “very ill”.

On 7 July, the Daily Beast reported that the president’s younger brother spent at least 11 days in an intensive care unit at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was reported to be in “serious condition”. The illness has not been revealed. However, he was put in an ICU specializing in “compassionate care of patients who suffer from subarachnoid hemorrhage, acute ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, subdural hematomas, coma, tumors of the brain and spine, severe or prolonged seizures, neuro-infections, spinal cord injury among others,” according to reports.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202008151080175179-video-potus-arrives-in-new-york-city-to-visit-hospitalized-younger-brother/