As the Minutes Pass It’s Clear John Brennan Is In a World of Trouble – Friday’s ‘Interview’ Must Have Been Devastating

John Brennan claims he’s not the subject of a criminal investigation and John Durham told him so. However, it’s more likely Brennan committed perjury numerous times in their eight hour get-together on Friday.

As we reported yesterday, John Brennan is the king of corrupt spin. It looks like all things related to the Trump – Russia collusion fairy tale go back to Brennan. The interactions between the US and foreign entities most likely involved the CIA and lead back to Brennan. It’s all Brennan. This is why it’s puzzling when you hear the word on the street that Brennan is not the subject of the Durham investigation.

But note that the above comes from Brennan’s spokesman (yesterday we mistakenly stated attorneys). This does not come from the Durham team. We have heard little to nothing from the Durham team.

We noted yesterday Adam Housley’s tweets like Durham never said publicly that John Brennan is not the subject of a criminal investigation:

Brennan’s team is more likely similar to Baghdad Bob than the truth:

Brennan is claiming this is all politics. Of course he is. What else can Brennan do – admit he spied on the Presidential candidate from the opposing party, lied before Congress and the American people, put in place faulty information that led to a Special Counsel based on lies from the Hillary Clinton campaign and attempted a coup of the Trump Presidency?

Of course, Brennan is a target. Many believe Brennan is the mastermind.

We know that the fact that the Durham team is now interviewing Brennan indicates they are near the end of their investigation.

Brennan is at the top. An investigation like this starts at the bottom and works its way up. By the time Durham interviews Brennan, the underlings have been thoroughly reviewed and hopefully all facts have been laid out.

Some participants are likely talking. We reported in an interview on the Howie Carr show in April with former US Attorney Joe DiGenova that Obama FBI General Counsel James Baker was singing like a bird.

DiGenova discussed the Durham investigation and said that Durham was building a conspiracy case and anyone who lied to the court will be indicted for obstruction of justice charges:

The bottom line is this, it’s unfolding and what’s happening is, what Durham is actually doing is he’s painting a picture and not everyone of these acts is going to be a specific separate crime. But they are going to be, what’s called overt acts in a conspiracy. One to defraud the United States government. One to deny the civil rights of Trump and Flynn and Page and a bunch of other people.

At the 8:55 mark diGenova droped another bomb when discussing the notes that were released that show the government was actively working to frame General Flynn:

DiGenova: You know Baker is now working with Durham. James Baker the former General Counsel.

Carr: He’s flipped?

DiGenova: Who was a target, is now understandably cooperating because he was looking at a boat load of criminal charges. Once these notes were discovered, and by the way, these were the notes that [FBI Director] Chris Wray and Dana Boente did not want turned over.

John Brennan does not likely know all who talked to Durham or what was said. If he does he may be engaged in more crimes.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/minutes-pass-clear-john-brennan-world-trouble-fridays-interview-must-devastating/

Lukashenko makes dramatic landing at Minsk residence carrying ASSAULT RIFLE & in tactical gear, as protesters line streets

Just when you thought things in Belarus couldn't get anymore surreal, they did. As crowds of protestors gathered near his residence in Minsk on Sunday evening, a defiant Alexander Lukashenko landed by helicopter, ready for action.

The bizarre footage, posted by a Telegram channel close to Lukashenko’s press service, shows the President dressed in a tactical vest and carrying an AK assault rifle. It appears that Lukashenko - in power for 26 years - is channelling Salvador Allende, the former Chilean President deposed in a 1973 CIA-backed coup.

In one video, Lukashenko is first seen flying over Minsk while speaking into a telephone, apparently giving instructions. He then disembarks from the chopper, accompanied by a young man who resembles his 15-year-old son, Nikolay (better known as 'Kolya').

Several other armed men can be seen in another video, which shows Lukashenko casually strolling toward his residence with the gun in his hand. He asks them, "There isn't anybody out there, is there?"

Footage from inside the helicopter has also emerged online. It shows the president ordering the pilot to fly closer to a street, apparently to have a better look at the anti-government protesters below. Lukashenko’s weapon can be seen resting by his side during the flight.

Earlier in the evening, protesters came close to Lukashenko’s residence chanting the slogan "Go Away!" They were met by OMON riot police and turned back to the center of the city some time later.

At one point, a helicopter was seen flying over the protesters. Some, on social media, claimed Lukashenko was fleeing the city, but it now seems the opposite was the case.

Belarus has seen a wave of mass anti-government protests, triggered by the results of the August 9 presidential election, which the opposition believes was falsified. While Lukashenko received more than 80 percent of the votes according to official figures, his critics accuse him of rigging the vote. The crisis has sparked mass demonstrations and strikes across the country in recent weeks.

The election result has been also challenged by several Western countries including the United States and the collective European Union, which has refused to accept the outcome and has supported the protests.

https://www.rt.com/russia/498791-belarus-lukashenko-assault-rifle/

UK care homes were ‘PUSHED’ to admit Covid-positive and untested patients at height of the outbreak, new survey shows

UK care home staff was “under constant pressure” from the NHS to take in coronavirus-positive and untested patients, while nurses were instructed not to resuscitate them, a new study has revealed.

In a study whose key findings were first published by the Independent, the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) surveyed nurses and managers working in 163 care homes across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

The staff at 70 care homes, 43 percent of those surveyed, said that they received patients discharged from hospitals who were not tested for Covid-19 during March and April, when the outbreak first hit the country and peaked. A fifth of care homes said they received patients who tested positive.

The study revealed that in some cases, seriously ill patents were brought into care homes from the hospitals even when the homes warned that they were incapable of looking after them. One nurse reported “constant pressure to admit people who were Covid-positive.” Another similarly said that “the acute sector pushed us to take untested admission.”

The two weeks of daily deaths during an outbreak were possibly the two worst weeks of my 35-year nursing career.

The staff reported that hospitals instructed them to change the status of all residents to “do not resuscitate.” One nurse said that such guidelines would “automatically” apply to all suspected or confirmed Covid-19 patients. Some of the surveyed nurses said that they refused to comply and challenged the instructions as “unethical.”

https://www.rt.com/uk/498767-uk-care-homes-survey/

Rioters calling themselves heroes take to Portland's streets with 'bloody' guillotine, flaming American flags: 'Get in the f***ing streets!'

It just gets worse and worse

Rioters converged on the streets of Portland, Oregon, on Saturday night pushing a guillotine and burning American flags.

The Portland Police Department said that at least 250 people marched through the Portland's suburbs on their way to the Penumbra Kelly Building.

Rioters strode through residential streets with a teddy bear set up in a guillotine, burning American flags, and demanding sleeping residents afford them shelter and protection.

One man can be heard demanding, "Get in the f***ing streets!'

Another woman cried, "What are you doing to protect your neighbors, people in their houses? … There are safety in numbers! We protect you every night by being out here. Please come and protect us! Make sure you are offering us refuge! We are tired and yet we are still out here! We are simply asking for one night, one hour!"

Protesters call on people to let them into their houses and give them refuge as the movement progresses #Portland… https://t.co/6o8ksqW0Kk

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@Brendan Gutenschwager)1598157678.0

Journalist Brendan Gutenschwager tweeted videos of the riots, captioning one, "The protesters have brought out a guillotine to the streets."

He later shared a second video, writing, "Protesters wheel a guillotine into the street in front of the police bureau."

It didn't end there: The rioters then began burning American flags in the streets.

"Protesters cheer as they burn American flags at the guillotine outside the police bureau," he wrote.

The protesters have brought out a guillotine to the streets #Portland #PortlandProtest https://t.co/Swc8ryJV8Z

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@Brendan Gutenschwager)1598160390.0

Protesters cheer as they burn American flags at the guillotine outside the police bureau #PortlandProtest #Portland https://t.co/R9I6dobNiv

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@Brendan Gutenschwager)1598164471.0

What else?

When the violent group arrived at their building destination, which houses public safety offices, it pulled out weapons and projectiles to use against law enforcement officials such as rocks, frozen bottles of water, and laser pointers.

In a statement, the Portland Police Department said, "Many participants in the march carried hardened shields, helmets, armor, gas masks, and wore all-black clothing. At least one participant targeted the Portland Police Air Support Unit airplane with a green laser. This is extremely dangerous and could cause disorientation for the pilot, in addition to permanent eye damage."

At least one police officer suffered injuries after being struck in the head with a glass bottle.

Police declared the demonstration a riot shortly before midnight local time.

The department added, "Between 45 and 50 officers had to be pulled from precincts to assist in the protest response. For most of the duration of this event, there were between 120 and 140 calls holding in the City of Portland. Calls included shots fired, assaults, alarms, threats, and suspicious circumstances."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/violent-rioters-portland-guillotine-burn-american-flags

L.A. to Close Hollywood Boulevard to Install LGBT-Themed ‘All Black Lives Matter’ Mural

The Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services will close part of the Hollywood Boulevard next week in order to install a permanent street mural with the slogan “All Black Lives Matter” written in the colors of the LGBT rainbow.

“Today, after years and years of violence against our Black and queer communities, we are creating the first memorialized space in Los Angeles dedicated to transgender people of color,” said O’Farrell on announcing the project. “As the site of the first nationally recognized Gay Pride Parade in the nation, Hollywood must be and will be the safe space designated for this landmark distinction.”

The installation will require closing a portion of the street Monday through Friday when the work is expected to be completed. It is the result of a partnership with Democratic Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Black LGBTQ+ Activists for Change, and other local community activists.

The mural is more or less a permanent replica of the artwork produced back in June when a joint Black Lives Matter and LGBT march saw hundreds of volunteers paint the words “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER” between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive.

City to make Hollywood Blvd. All Black Lives Matter street painting permanent https://t.co/8VZS2d2wmf pic.twitter.com/sJcEnoNagd

— Q13 FOX Seattle (@Q13FOX) August 23, 2020

“The installation of the ‘All Black Lives Matter’ commemorative sign on Hollywood Boulevard was extremely emotional for me as a Black trans man,” said Luckie Alexander, the mural’s artist. “This is something that will let our Black LGBTQ+ community, especially our Black trans siblings, know they are seen, valid, and valued.”

This is merely one of the thousands of initiatives imposed on cities, communities, and organizations in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests triggered by the death of George Floyd. Meanwhile, members of the movement continue to engage in violence across the country, particularly in the city of Portland, where there has been almost constant violence and civil unrest for the past three months.

“Businesses are leaving,” Portland Business Alliance CEO told KATU, citing “irreparable damage” Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters have caused.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/08/23/hollywood-boulevard-to-install-lgbt-themed-all-black-lives-matter-mural/

Nine Arrested During ‘Give ‘Em Hell’ Anti-Cop Protest in Denver

Anti-police protesters clashed with officers outside the Denver Police Department’s (DPD) headquarters on Saturday.

Police deployed chemical agents to control the group before multiple individuals were arrested, according to CBS Denver.

“Protesters at the ‘Give ‘Em Hell’ event are calling for police to be abolished,” the report said.

Some of the rioters broke windows and set two fires which were quickly extinguished.

A flyer reportedly circulating on Reddit advertised the event and encouraged protesters to “Bring Your Gear,” according to KDVR.

The flyer read:

Our City Has Failed. Jared Polis, Michael Hancock, Murphy Robinson, Amanda Sandoval, Kevin Flynn, Jolon Clark, Debbie Ortega, Stacie Gilmore, Kendra Black, Robin Kniech, Amanda Sawyer, Paul Kushmann…

Have Refused to Address Our Demands to Abolish DPD. City Council Just Blocked a Bill to Allow Denver Residents to Vote to Replace the Police with a Peace Force.

At one point during the event, a van pulled up and handed out shields to the group, according to reporter Marc Sallinger:

A protest in front of Denver Police headquarters is small but has escalated quickly. About 50 protesters are here right now, many with shields and helmets. A van pulled up and passed out shields to protesters. Protesters are at a standoff with a SWAT team now #9News pic.twitter.com/XlzmcenfG9

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) August 23, 2020

In a subsequent tweet, Sallinger shared video of a resident confronting a rioter who smashed a window with a small axe:

Someone with a hand axe broke a window at a building across from DPD headquarters. A resident who says she lives in the building came down and yelled at them to stop. “This is not productive” #9News pic.twitter.com/ErgOZttBFT

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) August 23, 2020

Sallinger also caught the moment protesters fired fireworks at officers:

Protesters are firing fireworks at police officers. The fireworks are exploding behind the police barrier and around the officers dressed in riot gear. Officers have fired what I believe is some sort of non-lethal weapon with an irritant #9News pic.twitter.com/D8NHFWIoFu

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) August 23, 2020

A rioter broke the window of a Quizno’s restaurant:

People are breaking every window they see. Someone came out of Quiznos with a drink in hand and said, “I needed a coke” #9News pic.twitter.com/q5r6niZq0O

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) August 23, 2020

Journalist Evan Kruegel shared video of the protesters trying to tear down a chainlink fence protecting the state Capitol building:

Agitators are now trying to rip down a fence surrounding the state Capitol building @KDVR pic.twitter.com/XbHlOkes0q

— Evan Kruegel (@EvanKruegel) August 23, 2020

Nine people were arrested following the riot and one officer was injured, but it was unclear how serious the injuries were, according to 9News.

In addition, the outlet estimated that the group numbered about 75 to 100 people.

Around midnight, Sallinger tweeted video footage of the Quizno’s restaurant owners cleaning up the broken glass:

The owners of the Quiznos arrived to clean up. The restaurant is owned by a family. The whole family is out here cleaning up the damage now. They’ve owned it for 12 years, never seen anything like this. “I don’t even know where to start,” he told me #9News pic.twitter.com/AU7q4AtBOe

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) August 23, 2020

Sunday morning, Sallinger tweeted photos of the aftermath which included “Defund the Police” graffiti:

This is what some of the damage looks like this morning on the streets around Denver Police headquarters. Lots of broken windows and graffiti left from last night #9News pic.twitter.com/WQbaRSLFbB

— Marc Sallinger (@MarcSallinger) August 23, 2020

The flyer for the protest “calls out government officials for vetoing a bill that would have allowed Denver residents to vote on defunding the police and putting a Peace Force in place,” the KDVR article stated.

“The demonstration says the city has failed and refused to address their demands about defunding the DPD,” it concluded.

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/08/23/video-nine-arrested-during-give-em-hell-anti-cop-protest-denver/

FBI Agents Pushed For A FISA To Investigate Foreign Government Targeting Hillary Clinton

The FBI investigated a foreign government’s efforts to influence Hillary Clinton in 2015, going as far as seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act order.

But FBI documents released Sunday show that the bureau opted against a FISA. Instead, an FBI agent provided a defensive briefing to Clinton’s personal lawyers in October 2015.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, who released the documents, said the records are evidence of a double standard at the FBI. The bureau obtained FISA warrants against a Trump aide and planted an FBI agent in a defensive briefing for Donald Trump and Michael Flynn in August 2016.

FBI agents in 2015 sought authorization to surveil foreign government operatives who sought to influence Hillary Clinton, but ultimately settled for a defensive briefing given to lawyers for the Democratic presidential candidate, according to documents released on Sunday.

One FBI agent involved in the investigation asked then-FBI Director James Comey in an April 2015 email for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant, according to the documents, published by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham.

A FISA order was not granted in the investigation. Instead, an FBI special agent provided a defensive briefing to Clinton’s personal lawyers in October 2015.

Graham, a Republican, said that the documents are evidence of a double standard in how the FBI conducted investigations of foreign meddling regarding the Clinton and Trump campaigns.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/23/hillary-clinton-fisa-fbi-lindsey-graham/

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“To me, this underscores the need for us to push this FISA. By the time we get it signed and go up, we

would only be up a few weeks before she announces, at best,” reads the email.

The unidentified FBI employee said that waiting to obtain a FISA until after Clinton began her campaign “puts us even further behind the curve on the intel necessary for this operation.”

An FBI special-agent-in-charge emailed Comey on April 14, 2015, to make him aware of the foreign government’s activities.

“In short, [redacted] has identified attempts by the [foreign government] to influence the U.S. presidential election, U.S. presidential candidates, and U.S. politicians through illegal campaign contributions,” the agent wrote.

“The FISA application has remained in limbo for the last four months, even though subsequent investigative activity by [field office] provided additional probable cause for the FISA application,” the agent wrote.

The agent said they were told that the decision to put a hold on the FISA application originated “on the seventh floor,” a reference to the FBI’s executive offices.

The agent lamented that investigators “have not received a clear answer as to why we are not being allowed to use one of the only tools available against a target — FISA collection — in spite of clear legal justification.”

The agent lobbied for the FISA warrant, saying that the investigation was “superficially connected to political candidates” and that the surveillance order “does not target the candidate(s).”

The FBI opened its counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016. In the following weeks, investigators opened investigations on four separate Trump campaign associates: Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort.

Other declassified documents show that FBI officials sent a top investigator, Joseph Pientka, into a routine defensive briefing on Aug. 16, 2016 attended by Donald Trump and Flynn. FBI officials wanted to use Pientka to collect any useful information he could on Flynn.

Pientka also took part in a briefing of Hillary Clinton on Aug. 27, 2016, though the newly released documents do not show that he was tasked with collecting evidence for any investigation of the Democrat.

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From Climate Change to Coronavirus, We Are All Victims of Deep State Hysteria

If you want to know why the world is in such a mess, don’t blame the feckless politicians, blame the paranoid, credulous, insidiously leftist Deep State.

This certainly seems to be true where the United Kingdom is concerned, as I’ve learned from two damning pieces — one by an anonymous Civil Service insider at Lockdown Sceptics; the other one in The Critic, titled ‘The BLM Takeover of Whitehall.’

Both are simultaneously depressing and illuminating. No matter how useless Boris Johnson and his ministers are, you realise, their doctrinaire leftist Civil Servants are both far more inept and far more dangerous.

Here’s a flavour of the Black Lives Matter article:

But just like U.S. federal administrators in Washington (according to City Journal), the mandarins in Whitehall have become partisans of “Critical Race Theory” and its radical tenets about “systemic racism”, “white privilege”, and “white fragility”. They have adopted this left-wing ideology, promoted it, and are now institutionalising it throughout the Civil Service, root and branch, using new internal organisations such as “Project Race” and the “Race Ambassadors Network”. Your taxes have paid for these views: it’s about time you saw in the press what you were getting for your money.

And here is what for me is the killer paragraph by the Covid Civil Servant writing at Lockdown Sceptics.

Lack of numeracy and scientific understanding

There are few among our political elite and the supporting SCS who have STEM degrees and the consequence of this narrow pool is a failure to understand basic concepts, e.g. they believe “the science is settled” when it comes to climate change, and that they’re “following the science” regarding Covid-19. What they fail to appreciate is that science is rarely settled. By its nature, it is about investigating and challenging assumptions, collecting and evaluating evidence to test hypotheses, and seeking to avoid bias and misrepresentation of results. The current narrative regarding testing and ‘cases’ is a classic example of this lack of numeracy and statistical knowledge. If you test more you are likely to find more occurrences and they may be actual positives or false positives.

Yes, exactly. This gels perfectly with a conversation I had recently with ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist’ Bjorn Lomborg — in which we agreed that the climate change scare was effectively a dry run for the Chinese coronavirus scare.

Of course, both problems are “real” to a degree. Climate does change, potentially causing disruption. Covid-19 is potentially fatal. But neither problem, on the evidence we have now accumulated, has done anywhere near as much damage as the “solutions”.

Take Victoria, Australia, which — as this article by James Bolt at Spiked! illustrates — has used Chinese coronavirus as a justification for effectively imposing martial law on its citizens:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/08/23/climate-change-coronavirus-we-are-victims-of-deep-state-hysteria/

Salvini Threatens Legal Action Against Italian Govt for Aiding Illegal Migration

Populist Italian Senator Matteo Salvini has announced he is considering launching a legal complaint against the leftist coalition government for aiding illegal migration.

Salvini said on Friday that lawyers of his party, the League (Lega), are investigating filing charges of facilitating illegal migration against senior members of the coalition government of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party (PD).

The former Italian interior minister also gave praise to Giacomo Tranchida, the PD mayor of the city of Trapani in Sicily, who earlier this week banned the docking of the ship Aurelia which is being used to quarantine migrants in case they have the Chinese coronavirus, Il Giornale reports.

Italian Island Overwhelmed as Migrant Boats Arrive Every Hour on Average https://t.co/qXNMhvBz4E

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 27, 2020

Tranchida expressed annoyance that the vessel had been sent to the city when it was originally destined for a town in Calabria, noting that another quarantine vessel, the Azzura, was already off the coast of the town and has 700 migrants aboard.

“It is not yet understood, in the post-quarantine phase, where the government intends to transfer the migrants of the ship Azzura after negative results to the test,” Tranchida said on Facebook, adding that he thought the government was running out of ideas.

Ugo Cappellacci, a member of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and a former president of Sardinia, said he is also looking to pursue legal action against the leftist government.

Cappellacci said the coalition government had not done enough to stop the spread of coronavirus in Sardinia from illegal migrants complained of not having viral tests at airports.

Italian Senate Lifts Salvini Parliamentary Immunity over Alleged Migrant ‘Kidnapping’ https://t.co/O41ab6bO7c

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 1, 2020

He said he has instructed lawyers to pursue both criminal and civil charges, noting the potential economic harm from the consequences of the spread of the virus on the region’s tourism industry.

Italy has seen a surge in new migrant arrivals in recent weeks, particularly in Sicily and the island of Lampedusa, which has been overwhelmed.

Earlier this week, Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio announced that Italy could not take in more illegal migrants and would be working to deport any and all illegals that come into the country.

Salvini Slams Italian Leftist Govt for Illegal Migrant Surge https://t.co/WJt4BA2W2j

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 28, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/08/23/salvini-threatens-legal-action-against-italian-govt-for-aiding-illegal-migration/

At Least 25 Per Cent of ‘Child Migrants’ in Kent Are Actually Adults

At least 25 per cent of illegal boat migrants claiming to be minors are in fact over the age of 18, Kent Country Council (KCC) has revealed.

Over the past five years, over 400 of the 1,668 boat migrants who told immigration officials that they were children after crossing the English Channel from France in small rubber boats were later revealed to be adults.

A source at Kent County Council (KCC) told The Telegraph: “Following age assessment around 25 per cent are assessed as being 18 or over. They will then almost definitely appeal this through the courts and KCC pays all of the legal fees.”

The true figure is likely higher, as it is British policy not to challenge migrants’ alleged age unless they look over 25, and, unlike in some other European countries, tests such as dental checks are not conducted to verify their likely age range.

Adult migrants have often tried to fraudulently claim they were minors in order to bolster their chances of being granted asylum status in the United Kingdom.

An unnamed social worker told The Telegraph that many of the problems are arising from a lack of resources and staff, saying: “Norfolk, for example, are offering £32 per hour for social workers to work with the UASC, Southend Borough Council are only paying £28 for the same role. They will be required to drive to Dover to pick these young people up. Those who claim to be under 18 (as most do) will have to have an age assessment done, this can take months.”

“But age assessment social workers are like hens’ teeth. So the local authorities will normally go with the age declared.

“I find it appalling that these arrivals are being scattered across the UK without any criminal/terrorist/ID checks being done. They are now just being handed over to other local authorities,” the social worker warned.

UK Council at Capacity in Ability to Care for Alleged ‘Child Migrants’ https://t.co/Bf7hfTUoli

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 19, 2020

The revelations come after a Sudanese migrant, Abdulfatah Hamdallah, who drowned in the English Channel last week was later revealed to be 28-years-old, contradicting widespread reports that he was 16.

With the massive influx of illegal boat migrants this year, the local council of Kent has been overwhelmed by the number claiming to be under the age of 18. The council said on Tuesday that it has reached its capacity in its ability to care for supposedly minor migrants.

There are currently 602 alleged child migrants being cared for in the county, coming at a cost to the local taxpayers of £200,000 per month. An additional 950 migrants between the ages of 18 and 25 are also being cared for in the county on the taxpayer’s dime.

The KCC has shipped 111 supposed unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASCs) to other councils throughout the country since the start of June.

Report: ‘Child Migrant’ Who Drowned in Channel Actually a 28-year-old Man https://t.co/RfI2K6PZCs

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 21, 2020

The practice of illegal migrants gaming the British immigration system by claiming to be children has been longstanding. For example, an Afghani migrant, Haris Stanikzai, who claimed to be just 16-years-old in 2016 was later revealed to be 22 after pictures from a dating website showed him with a full beard.

In another infamous example, a migrant estimated to be 38-years-old was brought to Britain from the Calais Jungle migrant camp with hundreds of other dubious-looking “child migrants”.

Pro-migration activists had initially claimed that he was serving as an adult language interpreter for non-English speaking migrants after his photo was published, but this turned out to be false, and he was indeed supposed to be a child.

Some of these adult migrants ultimately end up in schools with local children.

Second Pupil Removed from ‘30-Year-Old Asylum Seeker’ School https://t.co/uKM3sCHYRm

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 8, 2018

In 2016, The Telegraph reported that immigration officials typically take the word of migrants as to their age unless they appeared to be clearly over the age of 25.

Then chairman of the Local Government Association’s asylum, refugee, and migration task group said: “In a supermarket if a person doesn’t look over the age of 25, the shop worker will ask for ID before selling them alcohol. But in the case of border control, it works the other way around. They are told to err on the side of trusting that the person is telling the truth unless they look over 25.”

More fears over real age of 'child migrants' arriving from Calais https://t.co/PmjsmTkmeb pic.twitter.com/wpx7tAQALu

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) October 19, 2016

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/08/23/at-least-25-per-cent-of-alleged-child-migrants-are-adults-report/

Barack Obama: Joe Biden Goals ‘Not that Different’ from Bernie Sanders

Former President Barack Obama said in a recent interview that former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had the same goals, despite appearing ideologically different.

“If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’s goals, they’re not that different, from a forty-thousand-foot level,” Obama said. “They both want to make sure everybody has health care. They want to make sure everybody can get a job that pays a living wage. They want to make sure every child gets a good education.”

Obama discussed his former vice president’s campaign during an interview with The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos at the former president’s home in Martha’s Vineyard this Summer.

Obama’s comments challenge the Biden campaign’s efforts to combat the argument from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign that Biden is just as much as a leftist socialist as Sanders.

Obama acknowledged that the current climate of the Democrat party had swung left as part of a calculated appeal to their political coalitions.

“What I think the moment has done is to change some of those calculations, not because necessarily Joe’s changed, but because circumstances have changed,” he said.

Obama notably did not encourage Biden to run for president in 2016 and was even skeptical of him running in 2020, according to several reports.

The more left-wing of the Democrat party continues struggling with Biden’s attempt to reach out to moderates.

Supporters of Sanders criticized the Democrat National Convention for hosting Republicans like John Kasich (R-OH) and other aging establishment moderates to speak rather than rising stars in the more leftist wing of the party.

After the primary, Obama worked to unify the party, acknowledging in his endorsement of Biden in April that the Democrat campaign would be different.

“To meet the moment, the Democratic Party will have to be bold,” he said, adding that his 2008 campaign would look different if it was run today.

“The world is different,” he continued. “There’s too much unfinished business for us to just look backwards. We have to look to the future.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/23/barack-obama-joe-biden-goals-not-that-different-bernie-sanders/

Tennessee: Parents Asked to Sign Form Indicating That They Will Not Eavesdrop on Kids’ Online Lessons

A Tennessee school district is under fire for asking parents to sign a form agreeing not to eavesdrop on kids' virtual classes over concerns they could overhear confidential information.

After significant pushback, Rutherford County Schools is allowing parents to tune in with permission from the teacher but they can't record the classes.

"It's ridiculous. It's so hypocritical because they've been data mining our children for years, compliments of common core," Laurie Cardoza-Moore, founder of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, said on "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday.

"What are they trying to hide? What is the problem? Why won't they let us sit in?" the homeschool mom of five asked.

"Obviously, because they are teaching our children propaganda that they should not be teaching," she said. "They are trying to socialize our children."

She added: "We have had a major problem in education, not just here in Tennessee, but across the country where they are indoctrinating our children with propaganda."

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/77798/tennessee-parents-asked-to-sign-form-indicating-that-they-will-not-eavesdrop-on-kids-online.html

From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out

Mayhem in Melbourne

On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: “People are entitled to think there is an ‘agenda to destroy western society.’”

The gist of an August 13th article on the Melbourne lockdown is captured in the title: “Australian Police Go FULL NAZI, Smashing in Windows of Civilian Cars Just Because Passengers Wouldn’t Give Details About Where They Were Going.”

Another article with an arresting title was by Guy Burchell in the August 7th Australian National Review: “Melbourne Cops May Now Enter Homes Without a Warrant, After 11 People Die of COVID — Australia, This Is Madness, Not Democracy.” Burchell wrote that only 147 people had lost their lives to coronavirus in Victoria (the Australian state of which Melbourne is the capital), a very low death rate compared to other countries. The ramped up lockdown measures were triggered by an uptick in cases due to ramped up testing and 11 additional deaths, all of them in nursing homes (where lockdown measures would actually have little effect). The new rules include a six week curfew from 8 PM to 5 AM, with residents allowed to leave home outside those curfew hours only to shop for food and essential items (one household member only), and for caregiving, work and exercise (limited to one hour).

“But the piece de resistance,” writes Burchell, “has to be that now police officers can enter homes with neither a warrant nor permission. This is an astonishing violation of civil liberties…. Deaths of this kind are not normally cause for government action, let alone the effective house arrest of an entire city.” He quoted Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews, who told Victorians, “there is literally no reason for you to leave your home and if you were to leave your home and not be found there, you will have a very difficult time convincing Victoria police that you have a lawful reason.” Burchell commented:

[U]nder this new regime you can’t even remain in your house unmolested by the cops, they can just pop ‘round anytime to make sure you haven’t had Bruce and Sheila from next door round for a couple of drinks. All over a disease that is simply not that fatal….

Last year more than 310,000 Australians were hospitalised with flu and over 900 died. By all metrics that makes flu a worse threat than COVID-19 but police weren’t granted Stasi-like powers during the flu season. Millions of people weren’t confined to their homes and threatened with AUS$5,000 fines for not having a good reason for being out of their homes.

At an August 19th press conference, Australia’s second most senior medical officer said the government would be discussing measures such as banning restaurants, international travel, public transport, and withholding government programs through “No Jab No Pay” in order to coerce vaccine resisters.

An August 13 article on LifeSiteNews quoted Father Glen Tattersall, a Catholic parish priest in Melbourne, who said the draconian provisions “simply cannot be justified on a scientific basis”:

We have a curfew from 8 pm to 5 am, rigorously enforced including by the use of police helicopters and search lights. Is the virus a vampire that just comes out at night? Or the wearing of masks: they must be worn everywhere outside, even in a park where you are nowhere near any other person. Why? Does the virus leap hundreds of metres through the air? This is all about inducing mass fear, and humiliating the populace by demanding external compliance.

https://ellenbrown.com/2020/08/22/from-lockdown-to-police-state-the-great-reset-rolls-out/

https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/22/are-you-ready-for-the-no-one-could-have-known-routine/