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As a reminder to the evil creatures that harm children, your judgement from God & Jesus is momentous
May each and everyone on this planet that harms children in any way, receive the divine Wrath of God today!
Most Relevant Verses
Matthew 19:13-14
Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Mark 10:13-16
And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”read more.
Luke 18:15-17
And they were bringing even their babies to Him so that He would touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they began rebuking them. But Jesus called for them, saying, “Permit the children to come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”
Matthew 18:2-5
And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.read more.
Mark 9:36-37
Taking a child, He set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them, “Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.”
Luke 9:47-48
But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, took a child and stood him by His side, and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you, this is the one who is great.”
Matthew 18:10
Verse Concepts
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 18:14
Verse Concepts
So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Children,-With-Jesus
May she gain another 100 pounds before the election
31 May, 2022 10:43
EU country calls for ‘pause’ in anti-Russia sanctions
(How do that not understand these sanctions are only hurting the EU? Are they stupid or something?)
Belgium’s PM has urged the bloc to assess the impact of existing measures before engaging in further discussions
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has welcomed the EU agreement on a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow but called for a “pause” until the impact of the measures is known.
Earlier on Tuesday, EU Council President Charles Michel confirmed that the bloc’s member states had agreed in principle a sixth round of anti-Russia sanctions, which include a partial embargo on Russian oil. The sanctions are being imposed in response to Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine.
Speaking to journalists ahead of day two of the EU summit in Brussels, De Croo said the impact of oil sanctions would be “enormous” and thus “a pause” is needed.
“For Belgium, this package is a big step forward, let’s stop there for now and see its impact,” the prime minister said.
He added that themain priority now is to find the best way “to keep energy prices under control.”
Kek, good luck with that!
Meanwhile, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on Tuesday called on the EU to discuss a gas embargo as part of the next package of sanctions. However, she made clear that she did not anticipate that the bloc would go for such measures any time soon. European Commission data shows the European Union receives 40% of its gas from Russia.
“I think that gas has to be in the seventh package but I am realistic as well. I don’t think it will be there,” she told journalists.
Accordingly, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said that gas would “not be discussed in the next sanctions package.”
The sixth package of measures, which is expected to be approved on Wednesday, excludes Sber, Russia’s largest bank, from the SWIFT financial messaging system. It also bans three more Russian broadcasters from the EU, and imposes further individual sanctions on Russian citizens, according to media reports.
EU leaders have indicated that Russian pipeline oil will have to be banned at some point in the future.
President Vladimir Putin has accused European leaders of committing economic “suicide” by attempting to give up Russian energy.
Moscow considers the sanctions “unlawful” and “unjustified,” and has been retaliating with its own countermeasures. It has insisted that payments for natural gas supplies must be made in rubles.
https://www.rt.com/russia/556377-belgium-sanctions-pause-impact/
31 May, 2022 10:51
Top US general suggests how Ukraine conflict should end
Peace talks between Moscow and Kiev would be a “logical choice,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff chair says
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine would be a “logical choice” to end the conflict, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday.
In an interview with Fox News, Milley was asked about likely outcomes of the fighting between Moscow and Kiev.
“Now you’ve got a very significant operational fight going on in the Donbass between the Ukrainian and the Russian militaries. How that shapes up in the next few weeks will probably in large part shape the outcomes of what will happen,” he said.
According to the general, the conflict “could end up as a grind and go on and on; [it could end up in] a stalemate; it could end up with one side or the other having a decisive victory; it could end up in a peace negotiation.”
Milley later insisted that “a negotiated outcome is a logical choice, but both sides have to come to that conclusion on their own.”
“There's always a possibility of escalation. And we have to closely manage the escalation… and prevent this thing from expanding into something much more horrific than it already is,” he warned.
The general was also asked to comment on his recent statement that it was up to Kiev to decide how to eventually settle its differences with Moscow.
“This is a war between Ukraine and Russia. How this ends on the battlefield is going to be determined by President (Volodymyr) Zelensky and President (Vladimir) Putin,” he said.
Washington has been actively backing Kiev during the conflict, supplying it with weapons, funds and intelligence. Earlier the month, US President Joe Biden approved a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine.
Moscow says US assistance to Kiev has only escalated and prolonged the fighting. Last month, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war waged by the US-led NATO alliance against Russia.
Milley isn’t the only notable Western figure to call for a negotiated solution to the Ukraine conflict in recent days, amid a steady Russian advancement in the Donbass and claims by Ukrainian officials that the situation on the ground is “extremely bad” for Kiev.
On Monday, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the bloc should increase deliveries of weapons to Ukraine and apply even more sanctions against Russia to help Kiev gain the upper hand in future peace talks with Moscow. Just over a month ago, Borrell was insisting that “this war must be won on the battlefield” by Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/news/556376-ukraine-negotiations-milley-us/
31 May, 2022 07:09
EU reaches agreement on Russian oil
A sixth package of sanctions allows some members to maintain imports, but will affect some 75% of the bloc’s Russian crude
After weeks of deliberation, EU member states have agreed in principle on a sixth round of anti-Russia sanctions, the bloc’s leadership announced after a meeting on Monday. Hungary and Bulgaria will keep buying Russian oil, but most other import routes will be blocked.
EU Council President Charles Michel said the watered-down embargo will affect about 75% of Russian oil imports, with the percentage growing to 90% by the end of the year.
Hungary, which had previously blocked the sanctions, was exempted from the trade restrictions, its Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. “Hungarian families can sleep well,” he wrote on social media.
The Bulgarian government said it has also been given a waiver until 2024. Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said his country needs a grace period to switch refineries from Russian crude to other sources.
Slovakia and the Czech Republic, which are connected to the same pipeline as Hungary, will also be able to buy Russian oil, at least for some time.
The EU is seeking to remove Russia as a supplier of energy. Hungary opposed the proposal from Brussels to cut all oil imports from the country, saying it could not replace the fuel immediately. The landlocked country obtains roughly 60% of its crude from Russia via the Soviet-era Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, and there is no easy way of importing oil by sea.
The proposed restrictions required the approval of all 27 EU nations, so Hungary’s position had effectively vetoed the sanctions since they were first drafted in early May. The latest version provides for a temporary exemption in respect of Russian pipeline oil, instead targeting sea deliveries. Michel said the restrictions would be formally passed on Wednesday. EU leaders have indicated that Russian pipeline oil will have to be banned at some point in the future.
The oil embargo is intended to hurt the Russian economy in retaliation for the country’s military action against Ukraine. Russian producers could, however, divert their exports to other nations that do not support the US-led sanctions campaign, like India or China. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, used this rationale when she explained the absence of a European embargo in an interview with US media.
“If we immediately cut – as of today – off the oil, he might be able to take the oil that he does not sell to the European Union to the world market, where the prices will increase, and sell it for more, and fill his war chest,” she told MSNBC last week.
The latest package of measures also excludes Sber, Russia’s largest bank, from the SWIFT financial messaging system. It also bans three more Russian broadcasters from the EU, and imposes further individual sanctions on Russian citizens, according to media reports.
https://www.rt.com/news/556364-russian-oil-embargo-eu/
31 May, 2022 10:10
Russian gas embargo not on the table – Austria
Other EU member states also admit the next round of sanctions will not include the fuel
The EU will not discuss a ban on Russian natural gas imports as part of the next round of Ukraine-related sanctions against Moscow, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer disclosed on Tuesday.
“The gas embargo will not be a topic, [German Chancellor] Olaf Scholz has made this clear as well,” Nehammer told reporters on the sidelines of the second day of the EU summit in Brussels. On Monday, the EU agreed a partial ban on Russian crude as part of the sixth round of sanctions.
“Russian oil is much easier to compensate [for]… gas is completely different, which is why a gas embargo will not be an issue in the next sanctions package,” Nehammer explained.
Estonia and Belgium both share Austria’s view on a potential embargo of Russian gas deliveries to the bloc. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas admitted to reporters upon his arrival at the summit on Tuesday that imposing more sanctions on Russia will be difficult, as EU citizens have been affected.
“I think gas has to be in the seventh package but I have to be realistic and I don’t think it will be there,” she said, as quoted by Euronews.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo hailed the EU oil embargo against Russia as “a big step forward,” but said he believedthe bloc “should pause it by now,” as banning Russian gas is “way more complicated.”
The EU relies heavily on gas imports from Russia but has sought to reduce its dependence after Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine. Russian energy giant Gazprom stopped gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria, Finland and the Netherlands after the countries failed to comply with Russia’s demand that supplies must be paid for in rubles.
https://www.rt.com/business/556374-eu-no-russian-gas-embargo/
30 May, 2022 13:20
Europol alarmed over fate of western arms in Ukraine
The EU’s law enforcement chief told German media that the weapons could end up in the hands of criminals(they are already in the hands of criminals, what are they stupid?)
Europol head, Catherine De Bolle, has warned that weapons currently being delivered to Ukraine could eventually end up in the hands of criminals operating on the continent.
In her interview with Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper published on Saturday, De Bolle said that one of the things which were of concern to her organization was the “whereabouts of the weapons that are currently being delivered to Ukraine.” She explained that when the conflict ends, Europol wants to “prevent a situation akin to that of 30 years ago in the Balkan war.”
“The weapons from that war are still being used by criminal groups today,” she said.
De Bolle noted that one of Europol’s key priorities now was to “find a way in which we will deal with the situation after a possible end to the war.” According to her, Europol “will be assembling an international task force that will address this issue.”
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Europe is currently seeing anunprecedented level of violence on the streets, akin to the situation seen so far only in Latin American countries. De Bolle also said that corruption in the EU is on a “scale larger than we had assumed.” More than half of the criminal organizations Europol is observing use the services of corrupt officials in one way or another to facilitate their illegal business, the agency’s chief revealed.
As for the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, another major area of concern to Europol,besides the weapons, is the travel of “known terrorists and extremist individuals prepared to use violence” in the war zone, according to De Bolle.
She said that while “Europol’s Counterterrorism Center is monitoring the phenomenon very closely,” the situation is “highly dynamic and fragmented.” The EU’s law enforcement agency has so far been unable to pinpoint the total number of such people as individual European countries are providing Europol with diverging data, De Bolle acknowledged.
According to the official’s assessment, the people who are going to fight in Ukraine “do not represent a homogeneous group,” but rather adhere to different ideologies. She also noted that Europol is seeing some of these fighters return to their home countries “disillusioned,” having seen firsthand the “brutality of the war.”
While Europol has seen a rise in cyberattacks in various EU member states since Russia started its offensive in Ukraine in late February, a large-scale attack affecting all 27 nations, that the agency had expected, has not materialized, De Bolle told journalists.
Since Moscow launched its military operation against its neighbor, a number of EU member states, as well as the UK and the US have been actively supplying weapons to Kiev.
During the first month of the conflict, Ukraine’s Western backers mostly provided the country with portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, more recently, the focus has shifted toward heavy weapons.
Earlier this month, US President Joe Biden signed the Lend-Lease Act into law, with the aim of speeding up sending military equipment to Ukraine.
On May 21, Biden also approved legislation that earmarked an additional $40 billion in assistance to Kiev.
Russia insists that the shipment of Western weapons only serves to prolong the conflict. Moreover, the Kremlin has also repeatedly warned that the weapons supplied to Ukrainian forces could eventually fall into the hands of terrorists and criminals elsewhere. Of particular concern, according to Russian official, are the supplies of man-portable anti-aircraft missiles to Kiev, which could potentially be used by terrorists to target civil aircraft.
https://www.rt.com/news/556330-europol-concerned-ukraine-weapons-criminals/
29 May, 2022 14:51
Japan warns Ukrainians against adult entertainment jobs
Some Ukrainians have been “working at certain types of establishments they’re not allowed to,” according to the justice minister
Ukrainian refugees who have fled to Japan from the conflict with Russia have been warned that their visas don’t allow them to work in adult entertainment establishments, according to Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa.
“There have been cases in which evacuees [from Ukraine] have been reported to be working at certain types of establishments they are not allowed” to work at, Furukawa explained, following a Cabinet meeting on Friday.
These ‘establishments’ include hostess clubs, bars and other adult entertainment venues in Japan, the minister clarified. The Immigration Services Agency has already sent written notifications to Ukrainian refugees informing them that their visas don’t allow them to take jobs that are covered by the adult entertainment law, he said.
The evacuees are allowed to switch their visa status to be able to stay in Japan for a year, but even residential status won’t make jobs in the adult entertainment sector available for them.
Some 14 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian military operation in the country in late February, according to UN estimates. Over 1,000 of them have ended up in Japan. Furukawa has also expressed concerns that Ukrainian women could become victims of human trafficking, with such reports coming from other countries.
Earlier this month, a researcher for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) revealed that onlinesearches for sex workers from Ukraine spiked by 600% around the globeafter the outbreak of the conflict.
(Ukrainians have no real world skills for a decent profession)
https://www.rt.com/news/556295-japan-ukraine-refugees-adult/
Justin Trudeau Moves to Ban Purchase and Sale of Handguns in Canada
Chris Tomlinson31 May 2022
(I think the EU and US got into Ukraine war to cover for Trudeau. There was a lot of pressure on him for the assault of truckers and citizens. Now he’s back to his shitty tyrany)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced a new bill to parliament that would stop the import, purchase and sale of handguns as well as prevent their transfer across Canada, in his government’s latest move to restrict firearms.
Prime Minister Trudeau announced the new piece of legislation on Monday afternoon at a press conference in Ottawa alongside Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicinom who introduced the new bill to parliament.
“It will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada. In other words, we’re capping the market for handguns,” Prime Minister Trudeau said and added, “As we see gun violence continue to rise, it is our duty to keep taking action,” broadcaster CBC reports.
While Trudeau claimed that the vast majority of Canadian gun owners are responsible, he added, “But other than using firearms for sport shooting and for hunting, there is no reason anyone in Canada should need guns in their everyday lives.”
Trudeau also claimed that previously the government had considered working with provinces that wanted to ban handguns entirely but claimed the proposals were scrapped after talks with law enforcement officials and other experts.
The bill also includes other plans to combat illegal gun smuggling and move to implement a “red flag” law that will allow law enforcement in Canada to force gun owners to relinquish their firearms if they are considered a danger to themselves or others.
All magazines for rifles and other long guns will also be permanently altered so that they are unable to hold more than five rounds at a time and larger capacity magazines will be made illegal to sell or transfer to another party.
The bill is the second major gun restriction introduced by the Trudeau government in recent years and comes after theTrudeau government banned 1,500 different firearms in 2020, including rifles described as “assault rifles” by former Public Safety Minister Bill Blair.
“These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time,” Trudeau said in 2020 and added, “There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/05/31/trudeau-introduces-bill-to-stop-purchase-and-sale-of-handguns/
NYT: Lia Thomas has ‘Biological Advantage’ over Female Athletes
Two doctors have told the New York Times that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has a “biological advantage” over her opponents.
Thomas, a biological male who competes against collegiate female athletes, made national headlines after he won the women’s 500-yard freestyle in March.
Mayo Clinic doctor Michael J. Joyner, who studies the physiology of male and female athletes, recognizes the competitive advantages transgender athletes like Thomas hold over their female counterparts. (Fuck everyone knows this but NYT has to pretend they need to be told by doctors)
Although prepubescent girls develop faster than young boys, any competitive advantage is destroyed at the onset of puberty. “You see the divergence immediately as the testosterone surges into the boys,” Joyner told The New York Times.
After puberty, “there are dramatic differences in performances” between men and women, according to Joyner.
“There are social aspects to sport, but physiology and biology underpin it,” Joyner continued. “Testosterone is the 800-pound gorilla.”
Elite male swimmers set records 10 to 12 percent faster than elite female swimmers, on average, according to the Times.
The outlet noted that Thomas “rose substantially in national rankings” when he entered women’s meets. For example, instead of a 32nd place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle when competing against men, Thomas finished in eighth place swimming competitively against women. Similarly, he ranked 65th in the men’s 500-yard freestyle but won the championship competing against women.
Even though Thomas took one year of hormone-suppressing therapy to deflate testosterone levels, as required by the NCAA, his biological advantage is not inherently gone.
Dr. Ross Tucker, a sports physiologist, said that Thomas is “the manifestation of the scientific evidence.” “The reduction in testosterone did not remove her biological advantage.”
Most scientists recognize the performance differences between men and women as “near immutable.”
As the Times reported:
Most scientists(All scientists), however, view performance differences between elite male and female athletes as near immutable. The Israeli physicist Ira S. Hammerman in 2010 examined 82 events across six sports and found women’s world record times were 10 percent slower than those of men’s records.
Dr. Carole Hooven, a Harvard lecturer and co-director of undergraduate studies in human evolutionary biology, said that far-left activists are confusing the distinction between “sex” and “gender.”
“Activists conflate sex and gender in a way that is really confusing,” Hooven told the Times. “There is a large performance gap between healthy normal populations of males and females, and that is driven by testosterone.”
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/05/30/nyt-lia-thomas-has-biological-advantage-over-female-athletes/
Voter Fraud Leads to Reversed Result in California Local Government Election
Joel B. Pollak31 May 2022
Yes, finally a victory!
An election to the Compton, California city council has been overturned due to the discovery of election fraud in a close race in which the winning candidate has been charged with voter fraud and bribery.
Compton City Council member Isaac Galvin, who appeared to win his seat by the slimmest possible margin of one vote, was arrested last year, along with five other people, and charged with conspiracy to commit election fraud.
He will be replaced by his challenger, Andre Spicer, after a judge ruled Friday that four of the votes in the election were invalid because they were cast by people who did not live in the district.
The Los Angeles Times reported Monday:
Two-term Councilman Isaac Galvan must be replaced by his challenger, Andre Spicer, after a judge determined that four of the votes cast in the election were submitted by people who did not live in the council district that the two men were vying to represent, according to a 10-page ruling issued Friday by Superior Court Judge Michelle Williams Court.
After a contentious primary, Galvan and Spicer advanced to a runoff in June 2021, which Galvan won, 855 to 854. With the four illegal ballots disqualified, Court ruled that Spicer was the rightful winner of the election by a tally of 854 to 851.
Prosecutors alleged that Galvan conspired with primary opponent Jace Dawson to direct voters from outside the council district to cast ballots for Galvan in the June runoff against Spicer. Galvan was also accused of trying to bribe an elections official with concert tickets, according to the criminal complaint. The official immediately reported the attempt, according to Dean Logan, the county’s top elections official.
Voter fraud is rare, but it does happen, and it can overturn election results in close races. (WTF is Pollard saying this? Oh yeah its Breitbart)
Spicer told NBC Los Angeles that he was relieved at the outcome, and that rumors of voter fraud had persisted in Compton for years before this case.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/31/voter-fraud-leads-to-reversed-result-in-california-local-government-election/
Even If The Jury Doesn’t Convict Sussmann, John Durham Has Won
The jury in the Michael Sussmann criminal case resumes deliberations today after the long Memorial Day weekend. While prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence over the last two weeks that Sussmann lied to then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in 2016, an acquittal by the D.C. jury still seems likely.
Judging the success of Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the investigation of President Trump and those associated with the Trump campaign and administration should not rest on the outcome of the Sussmann prosecution, however. In fact, even if the special counsel’s office scores a conviction in its false statement case against Sussmann, that would do little to right the scales of justice unbalanced by more than five years of the politically motivated abuse of power that began as Crossfire Hurricane and continued even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued his final report.
So, measuring Durham’s performance by the outcome in United States v. Sussmann would be a mistake. Also, especially in the case of an acquittal, it would ignore the valuable information exposed related to the broader Spygate scandal. Using that gauge as a measure, the special counsel’s office succeeded wildly.
Durham Proved the Collusion Hoax Was a Hillary Clinton Enterprise
On September 19, 2016, Sussmann provided Baker data and whitepapers purporting to show a secret communications network between the Russia-based Alfa Bank and Donald Trump. In indicting Sussmann for allegedly lying to Baker during this meeting, the special counsel’s office revealed in its 27-page speaking indictment “a scandal much deeper than merely Sussmann’s role in a second Russian hoax — a scandal that entangles the Clinton campaign, multiple internet companies, two federally-funded university researchers, and a complicit media.”
Since then, proof that the Clinton campaign held near-total responsibility for launching the Russia-collusion hoax mounted with nearly every legal filing. It eventually culminated during the Sussmann trial when former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified that Hillary Clinton personally “agreed with the decision” to feed the unverified—and quickly debunked—theory that Trump was communicating secretly with Russia through a back-door Alfa Bank channel.
Other trial evidence confirmed the Clinton campaign paid the law firm Perkins and Coie a flat fee of as much as $130,000 per month during the campaign, and authorized lead counsel Marc Elias to hire Fusion GPS for opposition research. Billing records then showed Sussmann charged his time for working the Alfa Bank hoax—including the time he spent meeting with the FBI’s General Counsel Baker—to the Clinton campaign. In fact, late last week, the jury in the Sussmann case learned that Sussmann even charged the Clinton campaign for two thumb drives purchased at Staples used for the Alfa Bank project.
While the Sussmann case focused on the Alfa Bank hoax, the detailed evidence presented over the course of that prosecution also confirmed the Clinton campaign paid for Fusion GPS to compile the Christopher Steele dossier. Given Mook’s testimony that he sought Clinton’s approval to push the Alfa Bank claims to the media, it is only reasonable to infer she likewise personally green-lighted the peddling of the claims contained in the Steele dossier.
But even if Clinton did not personally approve of peddling the lies contained in the Steele dossier, the Sussmann case established that her campaign paid for the lies—including those emanating from the Russian-national Igor Danchenko. And Special Counsel Durham’s indictment against Danchenko reveals that individuals hired by the Clinton campaign fed that Russian disinformation to U.S. media, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies.
A Court Ruling Requiring More Disclosures
Beyond exposing the Clinton campaign’s responsibility for the Russia-collusion hoax, Durham’s prosecution of Sussmann sets the stage for potentially even more damaging revelations about Clinton’s personal involvement in the scandal.
To date, the Clinton campaign has hidden behind claims of attorney-client privilege to prevent Durham from obtaining documents, communications, and testimony through the grand jury. The Clinton campaign claimed material prepared by, or communications between, Perkins and Coie attorneys, Fusion GPS employees, investigators, and other third parties are protected by attorney-client privilege. Prosecutors in the Sussmann case, however, succeeded in obtaining a court ruling that several documents withheld by Fusion GPS, based on the Clinton campaign’s claims of privilege, are not protected and must be given to prosecutors….
Very long article
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/31/even-if-the-jury-doesnt-convict-michael-sussmann-the-special-counsel-has-won/
John Durham Has Won Part 2 of 2
Killing the Alfa Bank Hoax For Good
No matter the verdict the jury returns in the Sussmann case, the special counsel’s prosecution also revealed that the Alfa Bank stories were hoaxes—and the scandalous way they were crafted and seeded to America.
Voters first learned of the supposed connection between Trump and the Russian-based Alfa Bank about one week before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when Slate reported that trusted cyber experts had discovered an “irregular pattern of server lookups” that suggested “a sustained relationship between a server registered to the Trump Organization and two servers registered to an entity called Alfa Bank.”
While the Slate article hedged somewhat by admitting “what the scientists amassed wasn’t a smoking gun,” and that the data “doesn’t absolutely preclude alternative explanations,” the headline, “Group of Computer Scientists Believes a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank,” captured the essence of the article—and what its author Franklin Foer, Fusion GPS, and the Clinton campaign wanted Americans to believe.
The Alfa Bank hoax did not end there, however, or even after Trump’s election. Sussmann continued to push the theory to the CIA in February 2017, following Trump’s inauguration. Soon thereafter, Daniel Jones, a former staffer for the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence, Ranking Member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and the president and CEO of The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP) continued the Alfa Bank witch-hunt.
According to a complaint filed with the Senate’s Ethics Committee, staff and members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, including T. Kirk McConnell, “requested and accepted” professional services from Jones and TDIP. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the Armed Services Committee, “via senior leadership staff acting in their official capacity, asked Mr. Jones to research and offer his insights into the alleged connections between Alfa Bank and Trump Organization servers,” and to “evaluate information it had received about DNS look-ups between Alfa Bank servers and Trump Organization servers.”…
Media Keeps the Lies Circulating
The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins re-upped the Alfa Bank tale in 2018, in a tome titled, “Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?” Filkins then resurrected the story for The New Yorker in October 2020, repeatingmany of the same allegations in “The Contested Afterlife of the Trump-Alfa Bank Story.”…
Court filings in the Sussmann case also revealed that the cyber researchers saw the Alfa Bank theory as flawed. They also showed another expert, Manos Antonakakis, who reviewed the Alfa Bank-Trump whitepapers, had congratulatedJoffe on crafting the paper to avoid the most glaring hole in the thesis.
The more devastating take-down of the Alfa Bank theory, however, came during Sussmann’s trial, when government cyber security experts testified of their review of the data, telling the jury they had quickly concluded the hypothesis made no sense. One agent noted it sounded “5150ish” at the time. He explained to the jury he meant that the individual positing the Alfa Bank-Trump connection sounded as if he “was suffering from some mental disability.”
Exposing Deep Intelligence Corruption
Beyond burying the Alfa Bank hoax as a crazy conspiracy theory, Durham’s investigation also exposed the scandalous way the theory permeated both the media and U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Joffe tasked two Georgia Tech cyber researchers, as well as employees at tech companies over which he had influence, with mining proprietary and sensitive government data for any connection between Trump and Russia to push the Russia collusion narrative. Joffe also held responsibility for providing the Alfa Bank data to Sussmann, who shared it with the Clinton campaign’s head lawyer, Elias, and Fusion GPS, with the group then plotting to push the tale to the media.
The evidence further showed that Sussmann then fed the Alfa Bank story to the FBI, lying to Baker at the time, prompting the FBI to launch an investigation into the supposed secret communication network. Meantime, Joffe provided a different FBI contact the same Alfa Bank “intel” while asking that agent to maintain his anonymity, thereby creating a problem of circular reporting. Special Counsel Durham also revealed that Joffe still risks prosecution.
As with Sussmann, whether Joffe ever faces charges or a conviction says nothing of the success of the Durham investigation. To date, the special counsel has succeeded in exposing Hillary Clinton’s role in the hoax—and that the Alfa Bank hoax was real and spectacularly scandalous.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/31/even-if-the-jury-doesnt-convict-michael-sussmann-the-special-counsel-has-won/
https://twitter.com/RealSLokhova/status/1531303268944691201?s=20&t=Qudzo2M9D9FqZCD_blAwUQ
Kash is right
Thats from a legal perspective, shes sayibg what was revealed in this case is major info that cannot be denied and lied to by the media. Maybe the media will go down before any of the criminals, that would be big. DS wouldnt have mouth pieces anymore
That article is so stupid. It makes me sick
I agree, citizens are getting impatient
Good reason never to eat hot dogs again
You right they are fucking themselves into oblivion. I hope this destroys NATO
Pientka Again
Testimony in the Sussmann trial repeatedly referenced a familiar name to followers of the Russiagate saga. Joe Pientka, a Supervisory Special agent at the FBI forwarded the information on the Alfa server received from Sussmann to Curtis Heide on September 19th, 2016. A week later, it was Pientka that the team was reaching out to asking to be connected to the source of the Alfa server allegations.
It was Pientka on September 21st, working at the FBI headquarters who seemed to be plugged into the FBI leadership writing to Heide, “People on 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this server.”
There is more to the story on Pientka. In looking at footnote 223 and 461, we see he received the “List of Trump associates” and also received the information from the former CHS that McCabe ordered to be shut down.
It is likely he would’ve heard about the additional CHS’s (Joffe, etc) bringing forward Alfa related allegations.
We learned last week that on this list was Sergei Millian.
Joe Pientka would later be briefed by the New York field office on October 12, 2016 that they were opening a counterintelligence investigation into Millian. This may have been influenced by Christopher Steele reporting to Bruce Ohr on September 23rd that Millian had “used” the server. We must now ask what information Pientka relayed to the NYFO related to Millian appearing on a very unusual and timely “list” just weeks prior.
Inexplicably, in an October 3, 2016 meeting Steele would inform Michael Gaeta that Sergei Millian was a source for the dossier. It remains unclear where that 302 would have circulated.
Pientka would then interview Bruce Ohr in December 2016, who informed him that Glenn Simpson had informed Ohr that Millian was a source for the dossier.
It is here that I recalled a phenomenal twitter thread by the great Undercover Huber who posed this simple question.
If Pientka had known for sure by December of 2016 that Millian was alleged to be a source of the dossier, why didn’t they inform the FISA court that they had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Millian - the supposed source? Pientka knew all about it.
We must now add the peculiarities around Millian appearing on this list of Trump associates. Questions must’ve been asked.
After ambushing General Flynn at the White House weeks later, Pientka immediately resigned from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Was he being pressured from the start? What does he know?
https://undeadfoia.substack.com/p/pientka-again?sd=fs&s=r