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Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:23 p.m. No.11041876   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2125 >>2359 >>2544 >>2576

Pollak: Joe Biden’s Disastrous Short List for Attorney General: Cuomo, Yates, Abrams, Bharara, Weissman

 

Former Vice President Joe Biden, leading in the polls, reportedly has a short list of candidates for U.S. Attorney General — and it includes several candidates who would each pose an immediate danger to Americans’ basic liberties.

 

Per @alaynatreene and @HansNichols, three names likely on Biden's shortlist for attorney general:

– Andrew Cuomo

– Sally Yates

– Stacey Abramshttps://t.co/75nyXWxYc5 pic.twitter.com/b0sQg0m4dd

 

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) October 11, 2020

 

The candidates reportedly include:

 

Andrew Cuomo: The Governor of New York is currently carrying out a crackdown on religious gatherings in New York City, focusing on the Jewish community. He has also relentlessly pursued gun control, while signing into law the most radical pro-abortion law in the United States. During the coronavirus pandemic, he forced nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients without even testing them, likely making the pandemic far worse than it otherwise might have been among New York’s elderly.

 

Sally Yates: The former Acting Attorney General was fired when she refused to implement President Donald Trump’s travel ban in 2017, arguing that it was unconstitutional — though it was later upheld in court. (She later admitted to the Senate she was not familiar with the relevant law.) She also played a role in the persecution (not “prosecution”) of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, attending an Oval Office meeting where the Logan Act was allegedly discussed as a way of continuing an investigation into Flynn after FBI agents had already determined he had done nothing wrong. Yates has persistently misrepresented the facts of that investigation — part of a pattern in which she substitutes her own political judgment for objective reality.

 

Stacey Abrams: Abrams is best known for refusing to accept the results of the 2018 election for governor in Georgia, blaming voter suppression. She is among the most polarizing, partisan figures in America, declaring earlier this year that people who go to Trump rallies “do not care about black lives.” As Attorney General, she would likely evoke the partisan, race-obsessed precedent of Eric Holder, who began his tenure in the Obama-Biden administration by pronouncing America a “nation of cowards” on race.

 

There are reportedly others, too:

 

Joe Biden’s AG short list (seriously):

 

– Cuomo

– Bharara

– Weissmann

 

And you thought DOJ was corrupt and weaponized before?

 

You ain’t seen nothing yet.

 

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 12, 2020

 

Preet Bharara: The former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York became a go-to anti-Trump legal pundit on cable news after Trump fired him in 2017, pushing for Trump to be prosecuted (or impeached) for obstruction of justice. The Wall Street Journal called Bharara’s office “rotten,” blaming him for “a pattern of troubling behavior and a problematic culture” that trampled the rights of defendants accused of insider trading, some of whom later had their convictions overturned on appeal.

 

Andrew Weissman: The partisan prosecutor who led Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team — after attending Hillary Clinton’s victory party on Election Night — Weissman has a history of abusing his power. He pursued Arthur Andersen in the Enron scandal — which had its conviction overturned after the company had largely been destroyed. He griped after Trump was acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial, and has a new book out criticizing Mueller for not being aggressive enough.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/12/pollak-joe-bidens-disastrous-short-list-for-attorney-general-cuomo-yates-abrams-bharara-weissman/

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:26 p.m. No.11041907   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1928 >>2125 >>2359 >>2544 >>2576

CDC First Said Not to Wear Masks, Then to Wear Masks, Then Masks Were Better than Vaccines – Now New Evidence Shows Masks Don’t Work

 

Six months ago Dr. Robert Redfield told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee that healthy people should not wear face masks.

 

Dr. Redfield even tweeted about it.

 

But like so much else coming from the completely ridiculous US medical elites they changed their mind a few weeks later.

 

A few weeks ago, Dr. Robert Redfield told the Senate Appropriations Committee that masks offer better protection from the COVID-19 China virus than a vaccine.

 

They changed their mind on that now too.

 

Does anyone else suspect they’re just making policy on the fly? What a bunch of quacks. We should not be listening to a thing these people say.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/cdc-first-said-not-wear-masks-wear-masks-masks-better-vaccines-now-new-evidence-shows-masks-dont-work/

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:27 p.m. No.11041916   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2125 >>2351 >>2359 >>2544 >>2576

NPR Questions Trump’s Virus Recovery, Mental Stability: ‘Not in the Right Sound Mind’

 

National Public Radio’s (NPR) weekend news programs questioned whether Trump has recovered from the coronavirus and whether his mental state might cause him to act recklessly.

 

On Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon spoke with left-wing Ron Elving, senior editor and correspondent at NPR who provided glowing reports on Barack Obama for eight years.

 

“Ron, there is a growing list of people concerned about the president’s health right now in all ways, isn’t there?” Simon said.

 

“Concerned – yes,” Elving said. “And it should be a concern for all of us.”

 

“But among those expressing worry this week was Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” Elving said. “She’s proposing a commission of health professionals and others to assess future presidents’ fitness.” Elving replied”

 

Also, Rick Bright, the former director of government work on a coronavirus vaccine, he told CNN this week that someone who’s undergone these therapies – the steroid, the cocktail of experimental drugs that the president has had – would normally still be in the hospital, Scott. He said if the president is, quote, ‘not in the right sound mind to make decisions rationally, then he could be very reckless for the country and the world.’

 

“And, you know, we shouldn’t let amazing events fatigue our outlook too much because it’s remarkable to hear a president set off an F-bomb on a broadcast show, talking about a volatile international situation,” Simon said, referring to Trump’s remarks on the Rush Limbaugh radio show on Friday where he warned Iran not to threaten the United States.

 

“And it raises questions about his health,” Simon said.

 

Elving said Trump’s planned rally in Florida on Monday night is also cause for concern.

 

“That’ll mean he’ll have to travel with other people, and we don’t know what kind of risk that poses for those other people,” Elving said.

 

The narrative about Trump’s health continued on Weekend Edition Sunday, when host LuLu Garcia-Navarro asked NPR national correspondent Mara Liasson about Trump’s Florida rally. Liasson said:

 

This will be the president’s first rally outside the White House since he contracted coronavirus. And the president’s health status is still unclear. His doctor issued a statement that said he is, quote, ‘no longer considered a transmission risk to others,’ but he did not say whether or not the president has tested negative.

 

“You’d think if he had, they would say that,” Liasson said. “He also said that the president’s, quote, ‘all symptoms’ have improved.”

 

“He didn’t say the president has no symptoms,” Liasson said. “So once again, raising more questions than it answers.”

 

Navarro described a rally of blacks, Latinos, Asians, and other minorities who support the president as an event that could mean more virus infections.

 

“And meanwhile, Trump did have that event at the White House yesterday,” Liasson said. “It was his first public appearance since returning there from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,” Navarro said.

 

“He spoke from the Blue Room balcony to a few hundred guests, maskless,” Navarro said.

 

“And earlier – let’s remind our listeners – [Trump] returned to the Oval Office, even though it was all but certain he was still contagious,” Navarro said.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/12/npr-questions-trumps-virus-recovery-mental-stability-not-in-the-right-sound-mind/

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:29 p.m. No.11041940   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2125 >>2359 >>2544 >>2576

Texas School Districts Are Ending Remote Learning – 40-70% of Students Were Failing

 

Texas School Boards have had enough of remote learning. The main complaint is that the children are for the most part failing in their schooling.

 

It’s being reported across Texas that School Districts are getting rid of remote learning. Many are like the Refugio School District:

 

 

The Refugio Independent School District announced Monday they will no longer provide remote learning as an alternative to face-to-face instruction. The change goes into effect Monday, Oct. 19.

 

The Refugio ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously to end virtual learning throughout the district in order to “improve instruction and academic outcomes” for students. Parents who do not want to send their child back to campus must notify the campus principal that the student will either be homeschooled or transferred to a district that offers virtual learning.

 

Texas schools are ending remote learing:

 

70% of remoter learners are failing to succeed:

 

Five more schools ended remote learning:

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/texas-school-districts-ending-remote-learning-40-70-students-failing/

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:32 p.m. No.11041980   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2125 >>2359 >>2544 >>2576

Australia Post hired $3000-a-day reputation manager as it wound back deliveries

 

Australia Post boss Christine Holgate hired a $3000-a-day "reputation management" firm while the organisation sought to justify winding back mail delivery services and win political influence during the coronavirus pandemic.

 

The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald can also reveal Ms Holgate, who earned more than $2.5 million in pay and bonuses as the publicly owned entity's chief executive, spent about $300,000 on corporate credit cards and chauffeur-driven cars over a 12-month period.

 

The bill for hiring leading public relations consultant Ross Thornton reached more than $119,000 for just 38 days between June and July, with the former adviser to James Hardie and AMP still engaged by Australia Post.

 

In written answers to the Senate dated June 23, Australia Post confirmed it had hired crisis-management firm Domestique, where Mr Thornton is a partner, to provide "communication planning" and "issues management advice services".

 

It followed an announcement that Labor and the Greens would seek to overturn temporary regulatory powers granted to Australia Post by the Morrison government to allow letters to be delivered in metropolitan areas every second day, rather than every day, remove the priority mail product and extend delivery time for intrastate letters to five days.

 

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/australia-post-hired-3000-a-day-reputation-manager-as-it-wound-back-deliveries-20201012-p564ef.html

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:45 p.m. No.11042144   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump campaign ad targeting mail-in voters, featuring Esper and Milley, raises ethics questions

 

The Pentagon’s top civilian and uniformed officials have each made public attempts to keep their organization out of 2020′s fraught election cycle, but a campaign advertisement circulating online has them front and center.

 

An ad targeting would-be mail-in voters, President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign features a photo of the president flanked by Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

 

Defense Department policy forbids service members from participating in any campaign activities or materials while in uniform, a point Esper reinforced earlier this year in a memo to the force.

 

"As citizens, we exercise our right to vote and participate in government,” he wrote. “However, as public servants who have taken an oath to defend these principles, we uphold DoD’s longstanding tradition of remaining apolitical as we carry out our official responsibilities.”

 

The static ad raises questions about the ethics of senior military officials appearing to campaign for the president.

 

Trump campaign representatives did not respond to a request for comment on the ad.

 

A spokeswoman for the Joint Staff, speaking on background, deferred to Milley’s recent comments on his apolitical role as an adviser to the president. Esper’s spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

 

The ad appeared in an online news story as recently as Monday, the same day NPR aired an exclusive interview with Milley, in which he went into detail about his apolitical view of his position.

 

“We don’t swear an oath of allegiance to an individual, a king, a queen, a president or anything else,” he said. “We don’t swear an oath of allegiance to a country, for that matter. We don’t swear an oath of allegiance to a flag, a tribe, a religion or any of that. We swear an oath to an idea, or a set of ideas and values, that are embedded in our Constitution.”

 

In June, Milley publicly apologized for his appearance in Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square to pose for photos in front of a church partially burned during protests.

 

“And we have established a very long 240-year tradition of an apolitical military that does not get involved in domestic politics,” Milley added. “And so I think that that’s an important principle to adhere to, to continue to adhere to and we will adhere to it.”

 

Two days after that photo opportunity, Esper briefed at the Pentagon, making his own bid to remain, though politically-appointed, the head of an apolitical organization.

 

“I’ve worked very hard to keep the department out of politics, which is very hard these days, as we move closer and closer to an election,” Esper told reporters then, acknowledging that the president’s policies are motivated by a desire to be re-elected. “And remaining apolitical means that there are times to speak up and times not to.”

 

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/10/12/trump-campaign-ad-targeting-mail-in-voters-featuring-esper-and-milley-raises-ethics-questions/

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:47 p.m. No.11042167   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2191 >>2198 >>2236 >>2359 >>2544 >>2550 >>2576

Feds to Portland: Take Your Fine and Shove It

 

Several months ago, an ambitious and radical Portland city commissioner tilted at the federal windmill by levying fines for the fence erected around the courthouse downtown that rioters have repeatedly attempted to burn down. The fence blocks bike lanes, which has drawn the ire of radical Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, head of the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) didn’t bother to respond—until now.

 

Feds (Shockingly!) Unresponsive to Portland’s $2000/Hour Fine for Fence Erected to Protect Courthouse

 

Last week, Portland City Council imposed fines on the federal government for the fence surrounding the federal courthouse, which has come under siege by protesters. Portland is collectively upset that the fence, which was erected to ward off violent protesters, is blocking their precious bike lanes. Today’s update: the fines have hit $584,000, with the feds so far unresponsive.

 

From last week’s article:

 

Need more proof that Portland City Commission lives in la-la land? Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has issued the maximum fine allowed—$500 every 15 minutes—to the federal government for the fence around the federal courthouse at the center of nightly riots, because the fence blocks bike lanes. Portland City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, who is in charge of PBOT, issued a statement announcing the fines, and it’s full-on crazy train.

 

https://twitter.com/ChloeEudalyPDX/status/1288163840186703872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1288163840186703872%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fnews-and-politics%2Fjeff-reynolds%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Ffeds-shockingly-unresponsive-to-portlands-2000-hour-fine-for-fence-erected-to-protect-courthouse-n759102

 

The fines have grown to over $3.7 million, as Portland continues to assess $48,000 a day to DHS. The Portland Tribune reported, rather snarkily:

 

The Department of Homeland Security has racked up millions of dollars in fines — on paper — from two city bureaus irked by the iron barricade wrapped around the city’s federal courthouse.

 

The feds have no intention of paying.

 

In fact, Homeland Security says the financial penalties imposed by the Portland Bureau of Transportation and Bureau of Environmental Services are unlawful, citing an argument straight from a civics textbook: the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

 

In letters to both bureaus, David A. Hess, an assistant director for the Federal Protective Service, pointed to the clause — which says that, in most cases, federal law trumps a conflicting state law.

 

“The Federal Government is absolutely immune from fines or penalties issued by local governments unless there is a clear waiver of sovereign immunity by Congress,” Hess wrote, according to copies of the letters obtained by Pamplin Media. “There has been no such waiver here.”

 

On top of the bike lane fines from PBOT, the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) has also levied fines on DHS for excess tear gas found in stormwater drains. Apparently nobody informed BES that, had Portland police been allowed to disperse the riots, there would have been no need for excess tear gas.

 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/10/12/feds-to-portland-take-your-fine-and-shove-it-n1040367

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:52 p.m. No.11042219   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2254 >>2359 >>2418 >>2544 >>2576

Facebook bans posts that deny or distort the Holocaust

 

Reversing past position, Mark Zuckerberg says his opinion and the social media giant’s policies have ‘evolved’ after an increase in anti-Semitic violence in the US

 

Facebook said Monday that it will be banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the Nazi genocide.

 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new policy in a post on Monday, in the latest attempt by the company to take action against conspiracy theories and misinformation ahead of the US presidential election next month.

 

Zuckerberg said that he believes the new policy strikes the “right balance” in drawing the lines between what is and isn’t acceptable speech.

 

“I’ve struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust,” he wrote. “My own thinking has evolved as I’ve seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate speech.”

 

Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

 

Facebook said Monday that it will be banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the Nazi genocide.

 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new policy in a post on Monday, in the latest attempt by the company to take action against conspiracy theories and misinformation ahead of the US presidential election next month.

 

Zuckerberg said that he believes the new policy strikes the “right balance” in drawing the lines between what is and isn’t acceptable speech.

 

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“I’ve struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust,” he wrote. “My own thinking has evolved as I’ve seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate speech.”

 

In a separate blog post, Monika Bickert, vice president of Facebook’s content policy, said that the company was “updating our hate speech policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.”

 

The move, Bickert said, “marks another step in our effort to fight hate on our services. Our decision is supported by the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust, especially among young people.”

 

Surveys have shown some younger Americans believe the Holocaust was a myth or has been exaggerated.

 

The Anti-Defamation League has reported that incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the US jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year. Tech companies began promising to take a firmer stand against accounts used to promote hate and violence after a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va., where a self-described white supremacist drove into a crowd of counterprotesters.

 

The decision comes amid a push by Holocaust survivors around the world over the summer who lent their voices to a campaign targeting Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove Holocaust denial posts from the social media site.

 

Coordinated by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the #NoDenyingIt campaign used Facebook itself to make the survivors’ entreaties to Zuckerberg heard, posting one video per day urging him to remove Holocaust-denying groups, pages and posts as hate speech.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/facebook-bans-posts-that-deny-or-distort-the-holocaust/

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:54 p.m. No.11042234   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2254 >>2359 >>2544 >>2576

IED Targeted US Military Convoy In Iraq Amid Ceasefire Announced By Resistance Groups

 

An improvised explosive device (IED) reportedly targeted a convoy carrying US-led international coalition equipment on the highway between Samawah and Diwaniyah. Minor injuries were reported.

 

The incident happened a day after Iraqi Resistance had announced temporary ceasefire against foreign forces noticing that it would not resume attacks if there is progress in U.S. troops withdrawal.

 

The number of attacks on U.S.-led coalition convoys has significantly increased during the last months, several attacks were carried out on U.S. military bases in Iraq. Washington threatened to leave its embassy in Baghdad and to conduct airstrikes targeting the objects of Shiite groups in Iraq.

 

Iranian-backed militias are the main suspects in attacks on foreign forces, but ISIS is also often behind these attacks.

 

https://southfront.org/ied-targeted-us-military-convoy-in-iraq-amid-ceasefire-announced-by-resistance-groups/

Anonymous ID: 14a975 Oct. 12, 2020, 2:58 p.m. No.11042280   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2359 >>2380 >>2544 >>2576

In Latest Teleblooper, Biden Calls For $15,000,000 Minimum Wage

 

If one is to believe the most recent polls, Joe Biden is on his way to the White House to become the 46th President of the United States. Except, according to Biden himself - the man whose finger would be on the button - he's "running as a proud Democrat for the Senate."

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/latest-teleblooper-biden-calls-15000000-minimum-wage