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'Maybe the Clintons won't get away with it after all':
Donald Trump retweets message after federal prosecutor John Durham's probe into the FBI's Russia investigation expanded to look into corruption allegations at the Clinton Foundation
Durham was put in charge of review into Russia probe by AG Bill Barr
But it is claimed that Durham's team is also looking at Clinton Foundation inquiry
Clinton probe, looking into alleged bribery and corruption at the charity, was contemporaneous with but separate to Russia inquiry into foreign interference
It suggests a broader scope to Durham's review which will worry Democrats
Trump joins other Republicans in hinting at a potential pre-election bombshell
By ROSS IBBETSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:09 EDT, 28 September 2020 | UPDATED: 06:16 EDT, 28 September 2020
Donald Trump said last night 'maybe the Clintons won't get away with it after all' after federal prosecutor John Durham's probe into the FBI's Russia investigation expanded to look into alleged corruption at the Clinton Foundation.
Durham, put in charge of the Russia-gate review by Attorney General William Barr, has sought evidence about federal investigations from around the same time which were looking into the Clinton Foundation, sources told The New York Times.
Durham's team has revealed that they are comparing the two investigations, as well as looking at whether the Russia inquiry investigators broke the law.
It was not clear whether Durham's officials were looking into similar allegations at the Clinton Foundation or to what extent it would feature in the conclusions of his inquiry.
Trump last night retweeted conservative commentator David J Harris Jr, who shared a link to an article about the latest developments, writing 'Maybe the Clintons won't get away it after all.'
Durham's approach is 'highly unusual,' sources told the Times, and the inclusion of the Clinton investigation suggests that his scope is much broader than previously thought.
The Russia probe - into foreign election interference - and the Clinton Foundation inquiry - into alleged bribery and corruption - differ substantively and have involved largely different investigators and prosecutors.
It comes amid fears by Trump's opponents that Durham's work is being weaponized politically.
Democrats last week called on the Justice Department's inspector general to look at whether Durham's inquiry was impartial after one of his top lieutenants resigned, reportedly over concerns that their findings would be dropped before election day.
More at Link:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8780525/Maybe-Clintons-wont-away-Trump-retweets-probe-Russia-gate-expands.html
QAnon Is Attracting Cops
Armed, empowered—and enthralled with a deadly conspiracy.
ALI BRELAND Reporter
Chances are, you already don’t trust the police. Polls show that most Americans don’t.
But what if the cop patrolling your neighborhood held bizarre and unsubstantiated views? What if there was a chance that officer in the patrol car idling down the block was watching videos about a conspiracy holding that a satanic cabal of high-profile liberal pedophiles is running the world’s most insidious sex ring. Or was swiping through memes popularizing a made-up plot about kidnapped children kept in underground tunnels so their blood can be harvested to help keep wealthy people alive? And what if they sincerely believed it all?
In a small, but growing number of places across the country, that’s just what is happening, as police officers have endorsed QAnon, the overarching conspiracy theory comprising these beliefs.
Nico Roche, an officer in Bellevue, Washington was put on administrative leave early this summer after it was found that he violated the department’s social media policies for, among other things, posting a picture of himself in riot gear labeled with the QAnon hashtag #WWG1WGA, an abbreviation of the popular Q slogan “Where We Go One, We Go All.”
Up until he retired from the New Haven Police Department in early September, Jason Bandy was perhaps the policing world’s most aggressive supporter of QAnon. Bandy, who owns a pre-workout vape business, sometimes wears basketball jerseys that show off the full-sleeve tattoos the cover both his arms and his neck while recording episodes of his podcast For The Love, which covers QAnon among a range of other conspiracies.
More at Link:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/police-officers-qanon/
Windows XP source code leaks online with bonus QAnon content
By Brendyn Lotz -SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Anybody who has wanted to take a closer look at Microsoft’s Windows XP can now do so thanks to a helpful 4chan user.
Last week the source code for a bunch of older operating systems from the annals of Microsoft were published online.
The operating systems include Windows 2000, Windows Embedded CE 3, CE 4, CE 5 and CE 7, Windows NT 3.5 and 4, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
The 42.9GB file also contains source code for MS-DOS and the Xbox’s operating system.
So, how real is this source code?
While Microsoft has not confirmed that the files are in fact its source code if that happens to be the case it could be a bit of a problem for Microsoft.
Windows XP is still in use and while Microsoft hasn’t supported the operating system since 2014, in rare circumstances (such as when Wanna Cryptor ransomware hit the web) it does issue software updates.
That’s not even taking into account the fact that Microsoft may recycle bits of its operating systems in newer platforms.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.htxt.co.za/2020/09/28/windows-xp-source-code-leaks-online-with-bonus-qanon-content/
QAnon Is Growing In South Africa
28 Sep 2020 by Jasmine Stone
Years down the line, future generations will look back at this moment in time very unkindly, and much of their judgement will have to do with the fact that despite having a world of information at our fingertips, we as a society still chose to believe utter nonsense like this.
The beliefs held by those who follow QAnon are laughably absurd, but let’s get the basics out of the way.
This from a great Guardian explainer on the topic:
“QAnon” is a baseless internet conspiracy theory whose followers believe that a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democrats, Hollywood celebrities and billionaires runs the world while engaging in pedophilia, human trafficking and the harvesting of a supposedly life-extending chemical from the blood of abused children.
QAnon followers believe that Donald Trump is waging a secret battle against this cabal and its “deep state” collaborators to expose the malefactors and send them all to Guantánamo Bay.
…Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, George Soros, Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Chrissy Teigen and Pope Francis are just some of the people whom QAnon followers have cast as villains in their alternative reality.
Those who follow QAnon really have gulped up all the Kool-Aid. Read the rest of that explainer here.
In amongst all of this, there’s also a very real South African connection to QAnon, which was the lead story of the Daily Maverick’s newspaper this weekend.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2020/09/28/qanon-is-growing-in-south-africa/
WW3: China shares terrifying video of rocket tests as Beijing flexes
military muscle
CHINA has conducted a sophisticated weapons test in a secluded desert which saw it fire long-range rockets at targets more than 40 miles away.
By LAURA O'CALLAGHAN
PUBLISHED: 10:26, Mon, Sep 28, 2020 | UPDATED: 10:51, Mon, Sep 28, 2020
The manoeuvre was a show of strength for the Communist Party-ruled country as it seeks to send a strong message to Taiwan and India amid rising tensions. State-controlled media, the Global Times, posted a video of the missile testing on Weibo, a Chinese social media app.
It showed a convoy of at least nine military vehicles arriving in the north west of the Gobi Desert, which spans across northern China and southern Mongolia.
Troops can be seen liaising with each other before the command to fire a rocket is sounded.
The weapon can be seen hitting its target before a cloud of dust erupts from the ground.
The footage also shows troops using a drone and weather radars.
And other soldiers were videoed moving the powerful long-range missiles into place for firing.
As chilling music plays in the background, four rockets are fired at the same time before the clip ends.
The Global Times said the operation was deemed a success as all weapons had hit their targets.
It said the drone was used by soldiers to examine their targets which were 43 miles away.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1340831/ww3-news-china-military-news-rocket-test-gobi-desert-Taiwan-dispute-india-border-tensions
What's behind the China-Taiwan divide?
BBC • September 28, 2020
The Chinese Government sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be part of the country again.
While some Taiwanese think this might happen in the future, others now feel that they already effectively have a separate nation whether or not independence is ever officially declared.
The dispute with China has left relations frayed with a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag the US into the fray.
What is the history and source of this tension?
The first known settlers in Taiwan are Austronesian tribal people thought to have come from modern day southern China.
The island first appears in Chinese records in AD239, when China sent an expeditionary force to explore - a fact Beijing uses to back its territorial claim.
After a brief spell as a Dutch colony (1624-1661) Taiwan was administered by China's Qing dynasty from 1683 to 1895.
Starting at the beginning of the 17th Century, significant numbers of migrants started arriving from China, often fleeing turmoil or hardship. Most were Hoklo Chinese from Fujian (Fukien) province or Hakka Chinese, largely from Guangdong. The descendants of these two migrations now make up by far the largest population group.
In 1895, following Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government had to cede Taiwan to Japan. After World War Two, the Republic of China - one of the victors - began ruling Taiwan with the consent of its allies the US and UK, after Japan surrendered and relinquished control of territory it had taken from China.
However in the next few years, a civil war broke out in China and the leader at the time Chiang Kai-shek's troops were beaten back by the Communist armies under Mao Zedong.
Chiang and the remnants of his Kuomintang (KMT) government fled to Taiwan in 1949. This group, referred to as Mainland Chinese and then making up 1.5m people, dominated Taiwan's politics for many years, even though they only account for 14% of the population.
Having inherited an effective dictatorship, facing resistance from local people resentful of authoritarian rule, and under pressure from a growing democracy movement, Chiang's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, began allowing a process of democratisation, which eventually led to the 2000 election of the island's first non-KMT president, Chen Shui-bian.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34729538
Might be a little different if you lived in Taiwan but then again, you might get off on the danger still…
George Pell to return to Rome for work with the Vatican months
after being cleared of child abuse allegations
By 9News Staff
8:19pm Sep 28, 2020
Cardinal George Pell is set to fly back to the Vatican, just months after being cleared of child abuse allegations against him.
Pell, who formerly worked for the Vatican as Pope Francis' finance minister, will return to Rome tomorrow according to CathNews, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference's information agency.
Pell, 79, was once regarded as the third highest-ranking Vatican official and was attempting to combat the Holy See's financial struggles when he returned to Australia in 2017 to clear himself of decades-old allegations of child sex abuse.
Instead, he became the most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse crimes.
He served more than a year in jail before the High Court acquitted him in April this year of molesting two choir boys in the late 1990s when he was archbishop of Melbourne.
The Cardinal's return to Rome comes just days after Pope Francis fired one of Pell's most fierce opponents in the Vatican, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, amid an ongoing financial scandal.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.9news.com.au/national/george-pell-to-return-to-the-vatican-rome-catholic-church-work-months-after-child-abuse-charges-cleared
Q DROP #4303
CIA's Use of Journalists and Clergy in Intelligence Operations
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 21 May 2020 - 10:53:12 AM
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/ciasuseofjournal00unit.pdf?
Logical thinking.
CIA coming back into the news [soon]?
Q
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
An agent provocateur (French for "inciting agent") is a person who commits or who acts to entice another person to commit an illegal or rash act or falsely implicate them in partaking in an illegal act, so as to ruin the reputation or entice legal action against the target or a group they belong to. They may target any group, such as a peaceful protest or demonstration, a union, a political party or a company.
In jurisdictions in which conspiracy is a serious crime in itself, it can be sufficient for the agent provocateur to entrap the target into discussing and planning an illegal act. It is not necessary for the illegal act to be carried out or even prepared.
Prevention of infiltration by agents provocateurs is part of the duty of demonstration marshals, also called stewards, deployed by organizers of large or controversial assemblies.[1][2][3]
History and etymology
While the practice is worldwide anciently, modern undercover operations were scaled up in France by Eugène François Vidocq in the early 19th century, and already included use of unlawful tactics against opponents. Later in the same century the police targets included union activists who came to fear plain-clothed policemen (agent de police in French). Hence, the French agent provocateur spread, just as is, to English and German. In accordance with French grammar, the plural form of the term is agents provocateurs.
Common usage
An agent provocateur may be a police officer or a secret agent of police who encourages suspects to carry out a crime under conditions where evidence can be obtained; or who suggests the commission of a crime to another, in hopes they will go along with the suggestion and be convicted of the crime.
A political organization or government may use agents provocateurs against political opponents. The provocateurs try to incite the opponent to do counter-productive or ineffective acts to foster public disdain or provide a pretext for aggression against the opponent.
Historically, labor spies, hired to infiltrate, monitor, disrupt, or subvert union activities, have used agent provocateur tactics.
Agent provocateur activities raise ethical and legal issues. In common law jurisdictions, the legal concept of entrapment may apply if the main impetus for the crime was the provocateur.
QAnon Goes to Washington Twenty-four followers of the grotesque
conspiracy theory are running for Congress in November.
Where does this end?
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
POLITICS 7:00 A.M.
Late 2017. Marjorie Taylor Greene,the 43-year-old founder of a CrossFit gym in a wealthy Atlanta suburb, hops onto Facebook Live, where she will discuss Moloch, the pagan idol of child sacrifice. Greene is wearing a black top, her blonde hair down. Filming before a blank wall, she looks tired but happy, in her element. “Okay, now,” she says in a pleasant drawl, “have you guys been following 4chan, Q, any of that stuff? Anybody? I’m going to watch for your comments here.” The anonymous persona Q, purportedly a government mole, had begun posting on the right-wing message board 4chan in late October, about a month before Greene’s livestream. Q’s posts formed the nucleus of a collective belief system that became known as QAnon, whose premise was this: Hollywood and the U.S. government were teeming with pedophiles and demon worshippers, whom Donald Trump was trying to bring to justice with the help of unlikely allies such as Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose investigation of the president was, in fact, a false-flag operation. To anyone who found this idea implausible, Q had posed a question: Why would a famous billionaire give up his charmed life to run for president? Was it, perhaps, because “he could not stomach the thought of mass murders occurring to satisfy Moloch?”
In her livestream, Greene vouches for Q. “He’s posted many things that seem to verify that he is the real deal,” she says. “It’s not just someone poking in the dark, messing with people.” She cites a suspect 2009 email, published by WikiLeaks, in which a State Department official expressed hope that a U.S.-brokered peace accord in Honduras was close to fruition. The official wrote, “With fingers crossed, the old rabbit’s foot out of the box in the attic, I will be sacrificing a chicken in the backyard to Moloch.” His email was forwarded to Hillary Clinton, then secretary of State. “If that’s not evidence that there’s Satan worship in our government,” Greene asks, “and if Hillary Clinton was not involved in it, then why would someone, someone that is involved in worshipping Satan, why would they tell Hillary that in an email? I mean, if someone told me that in an email, I would freak out.” She cites another WikiLeaks email, from 2015, in which the artist Marina Abramovic invited Clinton’s chief of staff, John Podesta, to a “Spirit Cooking Dinner.” (Podesta did not attend.)
Greene looks revved up, if unsurprised, by the allegations. As a contributor to a now-defunct website called American Truth Seekers, she had already raised questions about demonic behavior in the ranks of the elite, citing Georgetown hostess Sally Quinn’s habit of “hexing” her enemies, the Clintons’ presence at a voodoo ceremony during a 1975 trip to Haiti, alleged child sex abuse by a former mayor of Seattle, the Anthony Weiner scandal, and Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs. “There’s so much that goes on in our American culture that keeps us distracted,” she says. “So many Americans are blind, and when they hear these stories about pedophiles and they hear these stories about satanic worship, they don’t want to believe it’s true.”
Or … maybe they do. In August, Greene won the primary election in Georgia’s staunchly Republican 14th Congressional District, all but guaranteeing her a victory in November and a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives (when her Democratic opponent dropped out earlier this month, it made victory even more certain). You’d like to think it’s a fluke that a well-off mother of three with no political experience discovered a weird-ass message board, got engrossed in a lurid conspiracy theory, beat out eight rivals for a congressional seat, and became a far-right folk hero. But 81 so-called QAnon candidates ran for the Senate or the House this year, according to a master list maintained by Alex Kaplan of the liberal site Media Matters. With primary season over and a bunch of candidates culled, the list is now finalized: There will be 24 QAnon candidates on the federal ballot in November — 22 of them Republicans and two Democrats. And while Greene is by far the most prominent of them, and the likeliest to win, she looks less like an outlier than like the vanguard of a new faction in American politics, heralding an even worse partisan epistemological muddle than the one the country has become distressingly accustomed to over the past decade. As any Q disciple can tell you, there’s no such thing as a fluke.
MUCH MUCH MORE AT LINK:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/qanon-republican-party-congress.html
China holds simultaneous military drills in four seas, again
By Reuters Staff
SEPTEMBER 28, 20206:43 AMUPDATED 37 MINUTES AGO
BEIJING (Reuters) - China began five military exercises simultaneously along different parts of its coast on Monday, the second time in two months it will have such concurrent drills against a backdrop of rising regional tension.
Two of the exercises are being held near the Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea, one in the East China Sea, and one in further north in the Bohai Sea, the Maritime Safety Administration said in notices on its website.
In the southern part of the Yellow Sea, drills including live-fire exercises will be held from Monday to Wednesday, it said in another notice.
All ships are prohibited from entering the area, it said.
In a bid to train a combat-ready military force, China holds military drills periodically, but rarely do multiple exercises happen at the same time.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26J1KW
A Theory About Conspiracy Theories
In a new study, psychologists tried to get a handle on the personality types that might be prone to outlandish beliefs.
By Benedict Carey
Sept. 28, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
More than 1 in 3 Americans believe that the Chinese government engineered the coronavirus as a weapon, and another third are convinced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has exaggerated the threat of Covid-19 to undermine President Trump.
The numbers, from a survey released on Sept. 21 by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, may or may not taper off as communities begin to contain the virus.
But they underscore a moment when a particular brand of conspiracy theory is emerging in the mainstream: A belief that the “official story” is in fact a Big Lie, being told by powerful, shadowy interests.
At its extremes, these theories include cannibals and satanic pedophiles, (courtesy of the so-called QAnon theory, circulating online); lizard-people, disguised as corporate leaders and celebrities (rooted in alien abduction stories and science fiction); and, in this year of the plague, evil scientists and governments, all conspiring to use Covid-19 for their own dark purposes.
Estimates of how many Americans firmly believe at least one discredited conspiracy theory hover around 50 percent, but that may be low. (To paraphrase a popular bumper sticker: If you don’t think someone is plotting against you, you’re not paying attention.) Still, psychologists do not have a good handle on the types of people who are prone to buy into Big Lie theories, especially the horror-film versions.
In the most comprehensive analysis to date of people who are prone to conspiracy beliefs, a research team in Atlanta sketched out several personality profiles that appear to be distinct. One is familiar: the injustice collector, impulsive and overconfident, who is eager to expose naïveté in everyone but him- or herself. Another is less so: a more solitary, anxious figure, moody and detached, perhaps including many who are older and living alone. The analysis also found, at the extremes, an element of real pathology — of a “personality disorder,” in the jargon of psychiatry.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/health/psychology-conspiracy-theories.html
You are unaware?
There is 'conspiracy peddling' from both ends of the political spectrum
28/09/2020 | 15min
Editor-in-Chief of Stellar Magazine Sarrah Le Marquand says contrary to popular opinion, the far-Right and the far-Left share similarities which have been highlighted as tensions have risen during the pandemic.
The horseshoe theory, first floated by Jean-Pierre Faye, suggests the Right and Left of politics are not on opposite ends of a linear spectrum but instead almost touch as they meet at either end of a horseshoe-type bend.
Ms Le Marquand said this theory has provided an apt picture of the political discourse in Australia this year.
“One-eyed views and an inflated sense of entitlement characterise both ends of the political spectrum,” she said.
“The extreme Left thunder how offensive it is to suggest that they could possibly have anything in common with the supposedly violent bigots of the extreme Right.
“The extreme Right shudder at the very thought they could share any common ground with those supposedly pious fools of the extreme Left.”
She pointed out it was difficult to tell apart the "conspiracy peddling" far-Right from the far-Left Twitter brigade.
"As this troubled year limps into its final months, many will wonder what is the shape of things to come," she said.
"Well, that shape is a horseshoe – and unless we find a way to realise we have a lot more in common than we care to admit, we're doomed to keep going around and around in bitter partisan circles".
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6195128024001
Yet how does that Really make you feel?
September 28, 2020
Report: No Durham report before election
By Thomas Lifson
If this is true, the word “bitter” does not begin to describe my disappointment. This is the worst news I’ve seen in a long time. Maria Bartiromo, who has set the standard for reporting on the Russia hoax and associated matters, has excellent sources, and so I must regard her reporting yesterday morning that a report from the Durham investigation before the election is unlikely.
There is some wiggle room in the word “unlikely” and the sources involved are anonymous, so we are not completely without hope that voters will learn of the depth of corruption deployed against candidate and later President Trump by deep state hoaxsters and Democrats.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/report_no_durham_report_before_election.html
SEPTEMBER 28, 20205:17 AM UPDATED 14 MINUTES AGO
Turkey prepares second indictment of six Khashoggi
murder suspects
By Reuters Staff
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors have prepared a second indictment in connection with the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, naming six new Saudi nationals as suspects, broadcaster CNN Turk and other media said on Monday.
Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was last seen at the Saudi consulate on Oct. 2, 2018, where he had gone to obtain documents for his impending wedding. Turkish officials believe his body was dismembered and removed from the building, while his remains have not been found.
Twenty Saudi nationals are already on trial in an Istanbul court for Khashoggi’s killing. CNN Turk said the indictment against the six suspects, including two consulate workers and four other Saudi nationals, was sent to the court to be combined with the main case.
Two of the suspects, a vice consul and an attache, were facing life jail sentences for premeditated murder with monstrous intent, the broadcaster said.
The four others, who CNN Turk said had arrived in Istanbul on Oct. 10-11, 2018, more than a week after the killing, were charged with destroying, concealing or tampering with evidence, which carries a sentence of up to five years in jail.
The Istanbul prosecutor’s office did not immediately provide comment on the media reports.
A Saudi court this month jailed eight people for between seven and 20 years for the murder, four months after Khashoggi’s family forgave his killers and enabled earlier death sentences to be set aside.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi-turkey/turkey-prepares-second-indictment-of-six-khashoggi-murder-suspects-media
This is called 'watching the water' and your reaction to it tells most of us that you are new here, newfag.
Sit down, STFU and try to pay attention.
Mike Pompeo to protest against Vatican's deal with China during visit
Pope Francis reportedly declining to meet US secretary of state, who is critical of Catholic church renewing deal
Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent
Mon 28 Sep 2020 07.56 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/28/mike-pompeo-to-protest-against-vaticans-deal-with-china-during-visit
China - Vatican Secret Two Year Deal
Is the News Now
Major Main Stream Media isstillnot covering this story.
Article Links:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1202008.shtml
https://www.irishcatholic.com/pope-francis-considers-renewing-controversial-china-vatican-deal/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/vatican-officials-defend-accord-china-155226582.html
https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-the-catholic-connection
https://stanfordartsreview.com/2020/09/23/the-pope-and-xi-jinping-anger-trump/
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4015093
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-vaticans-deal-with-the-dragon/
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/09/22/china-seems-to-be-moving-closer-to-the-holy-see/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/22/vatican-and-china-prepare-to-renew-historic-deal-angering-us
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/09/22/secretary-mike-pompeo-enters-vatican-china-agreement-debate
https://catholic-sf.org/news/vatican-china-agreement-secretary-pompeo-enters-the-debate
https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/09/23/news/world/china-vatican-renew-deal-in-naming-bishops/771011/
https://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/32122-pompeo-vatican-china-agreement-endangers-church-s-moral-authority
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8758453/Vatican-China-prepare-renew-historic-deal-US-anger.html
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/much-displeasure-to-us-vatican-china-prepare-to-renew-historic-deal/videoshow/78250043.cms
https://www.ucanews.com/news/vatican-china-agreement-pompeo-enters-the-debate/89607
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-zen-church-is-losing-credibility-to-evangelize-china-32444
https://ricochet.com/803964/if-i-were-the-pope-id-deal-with-china-differently/
https://angelusnews.com/news/world/trumps-top-envoy-urges-vatican-to-challenge-china-on-religious-freedom/
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/pompeo-warns-pope-dont-renew-china-deal
https://www.inquisitr.com/6290274/mike-pompeo-pope-francis-china/
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/09/19/mike-pompeo-urges-vatican-call-out-china-religious-freedom-violations/
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/09/18/u-s-commission-urges-vatican-to-prioritize-religious-freedom-in-deal-with-china/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pope-francis-naive-in-deal-with-china-to-name-bishops-df8qjvhtx
http://www.heraldmalaysia.com/news/human-rights-concerns-raised-as-vatican-extends-agreement/55617/1
https://fsspx.news/en/news-events/news/vatican-gives-green-light-extending-agreement-china-60363
The California Republican Party endorsed three candidates who say
QAnon theories should be heard
BY LARA KORTE
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 05:00 AM
For years, the falsehoods of the QAnon movement lived on the fringes of the internet.
It was a collection of conspiracy theories aimed at exposing a supposed deep-state cabal of pedophiles. But in recent months, despite being baseless and untrue, the theories have made their way to mainstream social media platforms, gaining traction with some celebrities and a swath of congressional candidates.
In California, at least four Republicans candidates have expressed interest in QAnon ideas.
Three of them have been endorsed by the state party — Nikka Piterman and Alison Hayden, who are challenging Bay Area Democrats for Congress, and Erin Cruz, who is running against an incumbent Riverside Democrat. The candidates are running campaigns in strongly-held Democratic districts with incumbent opponents who have outraised them by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hayden, the Republican candidate in the 15th Congressional District, sees Q as a natural evolution of a distrust in powerful people and institutions that has been growing for decades.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article245907760.html
Who Will Win The First Presidential Debate? (Reader Poll)
Posted by William A. Jacobson
Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 9:00pm
The media will play the expectations game, but voters finally get an unfiltered view of Biden after months in the basement.
The first presidential debate, moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, is Tuesday night, September 29, 2020, starting at 9 p.m. Eastern.
We will have live coverage and follow up.
The debate is long-anticipated, and given Joe Biden’s hiding act as deliberate campaign strategy, the first time he may face tough questions from Wallace — and Trump. Expectations have been lowered so far for Biden that if he shows up and speaks coherent sentences, the media will declare it a victory. But the American people will get an unfiltered live view.
Trump has faced the hostile media with such intensity for so long, there seems less downside, but failing to get a decisive win could be portrayed as a loss.
So, what do you think?
Poll Open Until 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday.
Poll at Link:
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7! I suQ!
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 6:06 AM UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Five things to watch in the first Trump-Biden debate
By James Oliphant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden square off on Tuesday in their first presidential debate. With five weeks to go until the Nov. 3 general election, the stakes are high.
Here are five things to watch for during the 90-minute debate in Cleveland:
FLASHPOINTS
The televised match-up comes as Trump faces persistent questions, based on his statements about a rigged election, about whether he will accept the results should he lose. With millions at home watching, how will he respond if Biden pushes him to commit to a peaceful transfer of power?
Both candidates will scuffle over Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump is using his pick to rally his conservative voter base and distract from his record on the coronavirus and other matters, while Biden is warning of threats to health care and abortion rights.
BIDEN’S MOMENT
For Biden, the debate will serve as sort of a reintroduction. While he has held limited events in some states and given media interviews, the coronavirus pandemic has largely rendered him off stage for months.
That has allowed Biden to keep the focus where he wants it: on Trump and his performance in office. But on Tuesday, the Democratic nominee will have to make his own case for the presidency, while giving concise answers and avoiding some of the verbal mishaps that have plagued him throughout his political career.
With Biden leading in polls, a strong outing could place Trump in even worse shape. A weak one could reshape the race.
OWNING IT
Faced with alarming coronavirus statistics or unrest in the streets, Trump is quick to blame Democratic officials, activists, scientists – anybody but him. One of Biden’s goals will be making sure the public understands that Trump is the one in charge.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-debate/five-things-to-watch-in-the-first-trump-biden-debate-idUSKBN26J1HD?il=0
Donald Trump tears into the New York Times for 'made-up, phony'
story that he paid no income tax for 11 years, just $750 in 2016 and
2017 and reported huge losses across his business empire
The Times reported that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, and paid no income taxes in 11 of the 18 years looked at
That's despite receiving $427.4 million through 2018 from his reality television program The Apprentice and other endorsement and licensing deals
Trump was able to minimize his tax bill by reporting losses across his empire
He is said to have claimed $47.4 million in losses in 2018, despite claiming income of at least $434.9 million in a financial disclosure that year
Trump denied the report on Sunday, calling it 'total fake news'
He has previously blasted the long-running quest for his financial records as a 'continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country'
He is the only modern president who has refused to release his tax returns
By LAUREN FRUEN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and WIRES
PUBLISHED: 17:29 EDT, 27 September 2020
UPDATED: 08:22 EDT, 28 September 2020
Donald Trump on Sunday labeled The New York Times report that he paid just $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and then again in 2017 as 'phony and fake'.
Documents show the president paid no income tax in 11 of the 18 years studied, according to a report by the paper. He was able to minimize his tax bill by reporting heavy losses across his business empire, including at his golf courses.
That's despite receiving $427.4 million through 2018 from his reality television program and other endorsement deals. The president could also face mounting financial pressure in the years ahead. The tax records show he’s carrying a total of $421 million in loans and debt that are primarily due within four years.
Responding to the report Sunday evening Trump told reporters: 'It's totally fake news. Made up. Totally fake news.'
The president, who campaigned for office as a billionaire real estate mogul and successful businessman, said he has paid taxes, though he gave no specifics.
The Times reported Trump claimed $47.4 million in losses in 2018, despite claiming income of at least $434.9 million in a financial disclosure that year. The Times emphasized the documents reveal only what Trump told the government about his businesses, and did not disclose his true wealth.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8778969/Trumps-tax-return-data-shows-paid-750-federal-income-taxes-year-won-presidency.html
Trump's attempts to discredit Biden could come back to haunt him in
first debate
Analysis by Maeve Reston, CNN
Updated 8:03 AM ET, Mon September 28, 2020
(CNN)For months on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump has questioned Joe Biden's mental acuity and used his branding skills to cast his opponent as someone who isn't up for the job.
The wisdom of that strategy will be tested as the two men enter the debate arena Tuesday night.
Trump will meet the former vice president for their first one-on-one matchup in Cleveland, Ohio, in a precarious position five weeks before the election. He faces an imperative to rattle his opponent or force him into a mistake that shakes up the race at a time when he is trailing Biden by nine points in an average of national polls with ballots already being cast and newly on the defensive after a New York Times exposé showing he only paid $750 in federal income taxes the last time he ran for president and his first year in office.
In the lead up to the debate, Trump who has never proved to be a particularly agile debater has shown few signs of a coherent strategy to dramatically alter the course of the race. But these three consequential debates present his last chance to do so. To the chagrin of some of his advisers, Trump has managed to set perilously low expectations for Biden as travels around the country telling voters the former vice president has no idea "what's going on."
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/first-presidential-debate-tuesday/index.html
Please Anons go "Boooo!" and say "FAKE NEWS!"
because I have not been able to attend any rallies lately and I miss 'em!
kek
I guess 8 is enough… kek!