White House Chief Of Staff Warns Of Potential Lawsuit Against Tech Giants

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Monday suggested that the Trump administration would bring a lawsuit against the social media companies that have recently restricted and blocked news reports about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Meadows said that the online platforms try to censor conservatives and suggested that if the story about Joe and Hunter Biden was about President Donald Trump and his family, tech companies would have not blocked the story.

“They have two standards: one for one campaign, one for the other. But I do believe that additional lawsuits will be filed perhaps as early as today to go after that,” Meadows said.

“Listen, it’s not just the campaigns,” he added. “They’re now starting to censor, actually, reporters. That’s a dangerous place for them to go when they’re the arbiter of what they deem to be the truth.”

The Chief of Staff’s comments come in the wake of a report by the New York Post alleging to have obtained emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. Many Democrats have claimed the story is an effort to discredit Joe Biden and an attempt by Russia to help elect Trump. So far, neither of the Bidens have denied the authenticity of the emails.

The threat of a lawsuit was also prompted by the actions Twitter took to lock Trump’s reelection campaign account last Thursday for trying to share the New York Post story.

Meadows said he has not received any intelligence suggesting that the Russians were involved in the emails being extracted from Hunter Biden’s laptop as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has alleged.

“All of this narrative that is out there that would suggest that it’s not real, that’s the disinformation. You know, Adam Schiff came on and said, ‘Oh, this is Russia, Russia, Russia,’ and again, I can tell you this is Adam Schiff once again trying to spin a story that’s not accurate.” Meadows said,

“I talked to director Ratcliffe over the weekend and I said, ‘Listen, if this is a Russian disinformation campaign, we need to make sure the American people know that.’ His response to me is that he had no knowledge of that.”

Schiff, who is the chairman of the House intelligence committee, has repeatedly asserted, without evidence, that the Trump 2016 campaign colluded with Russia and now is claiming that Trump is working with Russia to hurt Biden’s campaign.

“We know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin,” the California Democrat said on CNN last week, claiming that “the Kremlin has an obvious interest in denigrating Joe Biden,” and that “they want Donald Trump to win.”

When Schiff was asked about specific intelligence about the Kremlin’s involvement with disinformation about Biden, the Representative was unable to provide any evidence, saying that the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe was not “forthcoming” with intelligence.

“And frankly, we haven’t got much from the intelligence community very recently, which concerns me,” added Schiff.

Meanwhile, Ratcliffe told Fox News on Monday that there is no intelligence to suggest the Hunter Biden email scandal is led by Russia.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/white-house-chief-staff-warns-potential-lawsuit-against-tech-giants

Gulf Cartel Removes Bodies After Mexican Border City Shootout

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Local shootouts between rival factions of the Gulf Cartel in recent weeks have not left bodies behind at their scenes. Gunmen are increasingly removing corpses and disposing them in makeshift graves.

During a recent shootout last week in the eastern side of Reynosa, not far from an international port of entry, gunmen clashed and at least two members of Los Metros faction died. Tamaulipas state authorities did not take part in the initial shootout, by the time authorities arrived. Investigators found wrecked vehicles and traces of blood but no bodies.

Breitbart Texas was able to obtain photographs from citizen journalists that captured the moment when Gulf Cartel gunmen arrived at the scene to collect bodies.

The photographs show cartel members dragging the body of one of their fallen gunmen to a nearby vehicle. They then placed the gunman inside the trunk and fled the scene.

The vehicle was previously linked to multiple carjackings in the local area.

For several weeks, gunmen from the Matamoros factions (Escorpiones and Ciclones) of the Gulf Cartel have been using Rio Bravo as a launchpad to carry out incursions into Reynosa–only to fall back before authorities arrive. This strategy led to shootouts in eastern Reynosa and industrial parks.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/10/19/graphic-exclusive-gulf-cartel-removes-bodies-after-mexican-border-city-shootout/

U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Arrests York Shooting Suspect

Harrisburg, PA – Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Anthony Eugene Faison - a 21-year old York man.

On June 12, 2020, the York City Police Department investigated the non-fatal shooting of a man in the 400 block of Park Street. As a result of that investigation, detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging Faison with Criminal Attempt Homicide and lesser included offenses. Attempts to find him were unsuccessful and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Fugitive Task Force was asked to apprehend him.

Today at about 7 a.m., members of the task force arrested Faison without incident in the 600 block of Country Club Road, Red Lion. He was turned over to the York County Sheriff’s Office Central Booking Unit for arraignment.

United States Marshal Pane stated, “It’s the Marshals Services’ duty to ensure that those charged with violent crimes have their day in court. It is my sincere hope that the community will find some measure of comfort knowing this suspect will face justice.”

The USMS Fugitive Task Force in the Middle District of Pennsylvania is comprised of 20 state, county and local police agencies, including: the York City Police Department; the Pennsylvania State Police; the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; the York County Sheriff’s Office; the York County District Attorney’s Office; the Northern York County Regional Police Department; and, the Spring Garden Township Police Department - all of whom participated in this fugitive investigation.

Additional information about the U.S. Marshals Service can be found at http://www.usmarshals.gov.

https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/chron/2020/101920a.htm

Bruce Springsteen & other celebs are being whiny teenagers, threatening to run away if Trump wins. If only they would

Liberal celebrities are once again promising to flee the US if Donald Trump wins reelection. But why wait? Instead of threatening us as if it really matters, Bruce Springsteen and others should just hit the road.

One of the more annoying aspects of the 2016 presidential election was the constant yapping from celebrities about leaving the country if the former host of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ was elected president over their precious and not-at-all flawed pick, Hillary Clinton.

Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, Snoop Dogg, Miley Cyrus… one after another doled out their empty promises, thinking they could hold Americans’ votes hostage simply by threatening to become expats.

Well, it’s that time of year again, folks, and we’ve already got celebrities doubling down on that winning strategy once more. Two of the biggest names to threaten us with the possibility of vacating the US are Bruce Springsteen and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee.

“If Trump is re-elected – which he will not be; I’m predicting right now he’s gonna lose – if by some happenstance he should be, I’ll see you on the next plane [to Australia],” Springsteen recently told the Daily Telegraph.

Springsteen might want to start booking that ticket, because he tried predicting the election in 2016 as well and, like most liberals unwilling to accept that anyone could vote for someone besides Clinton, he was wrong.

Tommy Lee also recently whined about a potential Trump reelection, saying he may be moving to Greece – where he was born when his father was in the military – if it happens.

Asked by the Big Issue what he would do if Trump beat Joe Biden, the drummer replied, “Dude, I swear to God if that happens then I’m coming over to visit the UK – I’m out of here. I’ll go back to my motherland, go back to Greece and get a house on one of the islands.”

Ironically, in another part of the rambling interview, Lee says we need to “stop voting for celebrities and get someone real to run the US.” So these “celebrities” aren’t good enough to run for office, but they should be the ones telling us who to vote for and threaten leaving the country if we happen to disagree?

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/503951-springsteen-australia-trump-us/

The Two Undersides to Geo-Politics

At the explicit level, today’s geo-political struggle is about the U.S. maintaining its primacy of power – with financial power being a subset to this political power. Carl Schmitt, whose thoughts had such influence on Leo Strauss and U.S. thinking generally, advocated that those who have power should ‘use it, or lose it’. The prime object of politics therefore being to preserve one’s ‘social existence’.

But at the underside, Tech de-coupling from China is one implicit aspect to such a strategy (camouflaged beneath the catch-phrase of recovering ‘stolen’ U.S. jobs and intellectual property): The prize that America truly seeks is to seize for itself over the coming decades, all global standards in leading-edge technology, and to deny them to China.

Such standards might seem obscure, but they are a crucial element of modern technology. If the cold war was dominated by a race to build the most nuclear weapons, today’s contest between the U.S. and China — as well as vis à vis the EU — will at least partly be played out through a struggle to control the bureaucratic rule-setting that lies behind the most important industries of the age. And those standards are up for grabs.

China has long been strategically positioning itself to fight this ‘war’ of tech standards (i.e. China Standards 2035, a blueprint for cyber and data governance).

The same argument is true for supply-chains which are now at the centre of a tug-of-war that has major implications for geopolitics. Dis-entangling the rhizome of supply chains built-up through decades of globalism is difficult and onerous: The multinational companies which sell into the Chinese market may have little choice but to try to stay put. However, if de-coupling as a key U.S. foreign policy persists, then products ranging from computer servers, to Apple iPhones, could end up having two separate supply chains — one for the Chinese market, and one for much of the rest of the world. It will be more costly and less efficient, but this is the way that politics is pushing (at least for now).

So where are we in this de-coupling struggle? Until now, it is a mixed bag. The U.S. has focussed on de-coupling in certain leading-edge technologies (that also have dual civil-defence potential). But Washington and Beijing have stayed clear of financial de-coupling (so far) – as Wall Street does not want to lose a $5 trillion two-way financial trade.

Some years back, when travelling across Europe, passengers commonly had to exit one train on reaching the frontier, and cross to a different train and carriages, beyond the border. This still exists. The railways were operating on entirely different gauge rail tracks. We have not reached that point in Tech. But the future is likely to become more complex – and costly – should Europe, the U.S. and China adopt different protocols for 5G. The latter, with its low latency, enables diverse strands of data to be mined, and modelled, in near real time (a game-changing factor for missile targeting and aerial defence systems, where every millisecond counts).

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/19/the-two-undersides-to-geo-politics/

O’Keefe Strikes Again! Google Program Manager Confirms Election Interference in Favor of Joe Biden

James O’Keefe strikes again!

Project Veritas on Monday evening released undercover video of a Google program manager confirming election interference in favor of Joe Biden.

“When you type in Donald Trump it’s all negative and when you type in Joe Biden it’s all positive,” Project Veritas said to Google program manager Ritesh Lakhkar.

Ritesh Lakhkar responded and said, “It’s skewed by owners and drivers of the algorithm.”

“If Trump wins, there will be riots…if the left wins, they will be ecstatic,” Lakhkar said. “I disagree with the corporations playing God and taking away freedom of speech on both sides, basically.

“When Trump won the first time, people were crying in the corridors of Google,” he said. “There were like group therapy sessions for employees organized by HR.

Recall, over the summer Congressman Jim Jordan asked Google CEO if they were actively helping Joe Biden win the 2020 election.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to give Jim Jordan a “yes” or “no” answer during his appearance before the House Anti-Trust committee

Congressman Jim Jordan asked Sundar Pichai several times if he can assure the American people that Google won’t tailor its features to help Joe Biden win the election.

Sundar Pichai didn’t say “no,” he just went into his carefully crafted talking points in an effort to sound neutral.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/okeefe-strikes-google-program-manager-confirms-election-interference-favor-joe-biden-video/