Biden Appears To Mix Up Pennsylvania Dem Candidates While Yelling In Wilkes Barre

Michael GinsbergAug 30, 2022 5:21 PM

President Joe Biden mixed up Pennsylvania Democrats John Fetterman and Josh Shapiro during a Tuesday rally in which he urged attendees to vote for both candidates.

“Folks, do me a favor. Presumptuous of me to say that, but think about doing me a favor,” Biden told the crowd at Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. “Please, please elect the Attorney General to the Senate.Elect that big ol’ boy to be governor.”

Although Biden intended to endorse Shapiro, the state attorney general, and Fetterman, the lieutenant governor, for governor and senator respectively, he appeared to transpose the two offices. Fetterman stands at 6 feet 9 inches tall and weighed 270 pounds as recently as 2018. If elected, he would become the tallest senator and second-tallest congressman in U.S. history.

Shapiro leads state Sen. Doug Mastriano by six points in the RealClearPolitics average, while Fetterman leads Dr. Mehmet Oz by eight.

Although Shapiro attended the rally, Fetterman became the latest swing-state Democratic nominee to avoid appearing with Biden. Ohio Senate nominee Tim Ryan, Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, and Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams have all prominently snubbed Biden.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/30/joe-biden-mixes-up-josh-shapiro-john-fetterman-pennsylvania/

Fettermen looks like Frankenstein, but he’s a “big ol Boy”

'6 Ways From Sunday' Alert: Yet ANOTHER NEW PROBE Into Trump's Declassified Docs

Victoria Taft

On Monday, the Department of Justice filed a notice that it — oopsie! — took confidential communications between former President Donald Trump and his attorneys when the Biden FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022. And then, in the next paragraph, the DOJ issued a pronouncement that the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) would also be initiating an “assessment” of the other confiscated documents ripped from Trump’s home — documents Trump claims he’d declassified before he left office.

The Biden Administration U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida said about Trump’s privileged documents that they’d “identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privilegedinformation, completed its review of those materials, and is in the process of following the procedures” that are in the affidavit for a search warrant “to address potential privilege disputes, if any.”

With Monday’s notice, theDOJ bypassed the judge now weighing a special master and announced that the DNI would go through all the documents in a “national assessment” to determine if they think it was okay for Trump to have the documents as a former president. That’s not their job. If you think that sounds like another investigation into Trump, you win a Joe Biden bicycle helmet.

It’s unclear if the DOJ can initiate an intelligence agency investigation into documents already declassified.The president has the sole authority to declassify. Second-guessing by the DNI seems a bit over the top, to say the least. These moves appear intended to mire the former president in yet another time-sucking, expensive legal goose chase to empty his bank accounts before the next two elections. It looks like a show of naked partisanship by the nation’s top law enforcement agency under Merrick Garland and his DNI counterpart.

The players are all former Obama Administration aparatchiks who may have an interest in recovering documents that are embarrassing or worse, regarding their time at the White House. We don’t need a backwards crystal ball to know that he’s using the force of his office to keep Trump out of the White House again with another made-up “scandal.”

That’s why a new poll from the Trafalgar group shows that 77% of Republicans and 54% of Independents don’t see upstanding G-men doing their jobs for God and country in the Trump raid; they see political hacks.

To obtain the raid on Trump’s mansion, Biden was asked to go to the Wayback Machine and remove Trump’s privilege to retain documents. This was after months of negotiations with the 45th president. Similar negotiations with President Obama were resolved after several years. Bill Clinton literally kept nuclear codes in his sock drawer, and guess what? There was no raid on his sock drawer. There was no piercing of his executive privilege by George W. Bush.

Apparently the Left is now going after the very office of the presidency, having destroyed all of America’s other foundational institutions. And there it is.

The Biden Administration took a National Archives dispute with the last president (which happens with all presidents), elevated it to the White House to blow up the previous president’s privileges (which have been enjoyed by all presidents), parlayed that to a grand jury, and got its subpoena ham sandwich. The Feds then waited until its hand-picked anti-Trump magistrate — not a federal judge — was on the bench and Trump wasn’t home and got the okay for a search warrant for presidential records. Then they dispatched the phalanx of 30 gunned-up FBI raiders, who rifled through the family’s personal items for nine hours to get every document Trump ever touched during his four years in office, trying to find something — anything — on the 45th president. With the documents in their possession, the Feds declined to wait for an actual Article III judge to weigh in on a federal special master to go through the items. They went right ahead and culled through them,lateraled them over to their buddy the DNI, and we now have the intelligence community — which is meant to go after terrorists— playing Monday-morning quarterback on the 45th President of the United States.

There are no coincidences. Ronald Reagan once said, “Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”

https://pjmedia.com/uncategorized/victoria-taft/2022/08/30/6-ways-from-sunday-alert-yet-another-new-probe-into-trumps-declassified-docs-n1625078

Kim Jong Ill? Chubby Dictator Kim Jong Un Allegedly Snags a Case of the Bat Stew Flu

Kevin Downey Jr.

North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un has reportedly come down with a blistering case of the Hong Kong Fluey.

FACT-O-RAMA! COVID feeds on the obese.

His somewhat cute, though reportedly demonic, sister, Kim Yo Jong, appeared on North Korean TV and remarked that her brother was “seriously ill with a high fever.”

Rumorhas it that Kim Yo Jong would reportedly replace her “Divine Leader” brother if he were to conk. This can only be bad news for the rest of the world since daddy’s little girl is considered by some to be the toughest cookie yet in a family with a proven history of savagery.

NOT A FACT-O-RAMA! Kim Jong Un declared “victory” over the Chinese virus on Aug. 10, claiming that North Korea lost only 74 people since April, calling it an “unprecedented miracle.” Never mind that North Korea is “widely documented” as undercounting COVID-19, not to mention that they have a decrepit healthcare system and widespread malnutrition.

Kim Jong Un disappeared for a while in 2020 after surgery, leaving the world crossing their fingers wondering if he had cashed in his chips. He soon emerged and went back to fulfilling his duties as a lunatic tyrant.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/08/30/kim-jong-ill-chubby-dictator-kim-jong-un-allegedly-snags-a-case-of-the-bat-stew-flu-n1625303

DOJ Files Response to Trump Motion for Special Master Review, Supported by Lawfare Crew Filing Amicus Brief to Bolster DOJ Position. Part 1 of 2

August 31, 2022 | Sundance |

The DOJ has filed a response to the motion by President Trump for the court to appoint a special master to review the seized material from the DOJ/FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. [Court pdf Here] Additionally, the outside government Lawfare group has filed an amicus brief supporting the DOJ-NSD position [Amici court pdf Here]

Essentially the position of the DOJ boils down to… They have already reviewed the material. Yes, there was attorney-client privilege material seized; but they swear the internal team segregated the legally confidential material and the DOJ investigators & prosecutors didn’t see it – double pinkie swear, yer honor.

Additionally, in a nice lawfare maneuver, the DOJ claims President Trump never formally evoked ‘executive privilege‘ on any material at Mar-a-Lago; therefore, despite his position as a former President, he was/is legally considered an ordinary citizen for the purpose of raiding his home to seize material the government considers vital to national security.

To compliment the created DOJ narrative for media consumption; and to assist the media effort for direct distribution of the DOJ position; Main Justice released a picture as an example of the documents seized. The DOJ literally staged and created this photo for media to use, then released it in the court filing. Slick lawfare:

The cover sheets are essentially non sequitur as they do not necessarily describe or affirm the nature of the documented material underneath. “HCS-P/SI/TK” looks all officially looming; however, it doesn’t necessarily mean any of the information is classified as HCS (HUMINT Control System, or human intelligence), SI (special intelligence), or TK (talent keyhole), or SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information), aka the silos.

One word or paragraph could be considered ‘special intelligence’. Example “FISA” or “FISC”. You might remember our prior discussions that every document that contains the designation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, FISA or FISC, literally those words or abbreviations, is considered classified special intelligence.

Example (as above): Someone might write “the Carter Page FISA application” on a government document. That document is now considered ‘special intelligence‘. That’s how each silo inside the agencies of government keep a cloud over information.

It was not that long ago when the classification rules stated you could not ever publicly use the words “FISA Court,” without running afoul of the rules governing classified special intelligence. Yes, that’s correct, until about three years ago it was a violation of law to even discuss what took place in the FISA court process.

As a result, take the cover letter designations with a grain of salt. The covers are essentially useless for the purpose of understanding what material might be underneath. However, for the purpose of creating an optic, which helps drive a narrative, the oh-so super special cover values are priceless.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/31/doj-files-response-to-trump-motion-for-special-master-review-supported-by-lawfare-crew-filing-amicus-brief-to-bolster-doj-position/#more-237203

Here we go again into the pit of gov agencies

>>17470114

DOJ Files Response to Trump Motion for Special Master Review…to Bolster DOJ Position

Part 2 of 2

Moving beyond the filings, the DOJ narrative engineering is particularly noteworthy. By framing the material seized in such a manner as most people will never understand what the designations mean, Main Justice lays the foundation for the media to obfuscate, portray and define the potential of the evidence.

This is lawfare narrative engineering at its best. It is also very easy to see what comes next because this is a rodeo very familiar to those who watched the media push the DOJ and FBI manufactured stories around the Trump-Russia and Trump/Russia-obstructioncases before.

Just like the examples from 2016 (FBI leaks), 2017 (FBI/DOJ leaks), 2018 (Weissmann/Mueller leaks) and throughout the impeachment constructs (Nadler/Schiff committee leaks), this coordinated Main Justice effort is all done via public consumption of misleading articles produced by allied media working to promote the political interests of the DOJ.

As a result, screaming headlines of “Trump Held National Security Documents“,… and “Intelligence Community now Conducting Risk Assessments“…. and “ODNI Now Launching an Investigation of Classified Documents Found in Mar-a-Lago“…. etc are sure to follow.

Today the focus of media will be pushing the “Top Secret Classified Documents Detailed in DOJ Filing” aspect, hence the photograph becomes a key part of the narrative engineering value. However, within a few media cycles, the narrative will switch to The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, briefing congress on the documents.

DNI Avril Haines will be the next phase, triggered to assist the emphasis of Main Justice and Lawfare. All of this is coordinated and planned in advance. None of the timing or sequencing is accidental. The best reference was the prior deployment of the same process throughout 2018 (DOJ Weissmann/Mueller) leading up to the midterm election.

Last point. As to the actual nature of the material in the photograph staged by the DOJ for media use, many of the documents you see in the picture are transcripts from the 2018 House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) investigation and witness testimony. Again, the cover sheets are a moot point. You might remember Representative Doug Collins releasing the witness transcripts (Bruce Ohr, etc) to the public.

Even though those House Intel and House Judiciary transcripts were released to the public, the cover sheets designate how the agencies view the testimony therein. Something can be a public record and still labeled “special intelligence,” that’s just the nature of this ridiculous classification system – or what I call the silo value.

It is likely that Mary McCord is working closely with Norm Eisen (red tie), and perhaps even Barry Berk (blue tie) on these collective efforts. It’s just how they roll.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/31/doj-files-response-to-trump-motion-for-special-master-review-supported-by-lawfare-crew-filing-amicus-brief-to-bolster-doj-position/#more-237203

>>17470114

Here are the two docs mentioned

Suspicious Timing, AG Merrick GarlandSends Memo to DOJ and FBI Employees Reminding Them Not to Talk to Congress

August 31, 2022 | Sundance | 97 Comments

Absent of anything else going on, this memo would seem innocuous. However, when you consider that at least 20 FBI whistleblowers from the FBI have approached both the house and senate in the past several weeks, this memo takes on a new meaning.

According to the memo sent internally by AG Merrick Garland, he is reminding everyone in the DOJ/FBI about the restrictions against talking to congress. [

The internal citations take you to Justice Manual, Section 1, Title 800: “Congressional and White House Relations” [LINK]

1-8.200 “Except as provided in this chapter, no Department employee may communicate with Senators, Representatives, congressional committees, or congressional staff without advance coordination, consultation, and approval by the Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA). All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt.” [LINK]

Make of the timing what you will; however, if you have followed the political corruption within Main Justice and the FBI, the intent of the memo seems pretty clear. A warning to those who might consider trying to escape the clutches of a comprehensively corrupt institution. Or as Senator Chuck Grassley recently stated:

“If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law. Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, simply put, based on the allegations that I’ve received from numerous whistleblowers, you have systemic and existential problems within your agencies.” (LINK)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/31/suspicious-timing-ag-merrick-garland-sends-memo-to-doj-and-fbi-employees-reminding-them-not-to-talk-to-congress/

I think this letter by Garland is going to get more whistleblowers simply because he’s trying take their lawful away, whats your take?

Greg Gutfeld Crowned ‘King of Late-Night’ as Ratings Topping Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon

Paul Bois30 Aug 2022

There’s a new king in town and he goes by the name Greg Gutfeld. His late-night show has outpaced ratings of network funnymen Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon.

With August set to close, Gutfeld will make history by becoming the first cable program that is the “most-watched” late-night show, beating out broadcast competitors at CBS, NBC, and ABC.

According to Fox News, Gutfeld’s Gutfeld! averaged “2.19 million viewers to defeat CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which averaged 2.15 viewers,” marking the first month since January 2017 that the left-wing comedian did not finish at Number 1 in late-night television between broadcast and cable. In the month of August, Gutfeld! also outpaced ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.

Even CNN’s most-watched show Anderson Cooper 360 fell behind King Gutfeld, pulling in a meager average of 950,000 nightly views.

On the demographics front, Gutfeld! also pulled in an average of 358,000 in the much-coveted 25-54 age bracket, outpacing Tucker Carlson Tonight, Hannity, and The Five.

Greg Gutfeld celebrated the historic ratings win on social media.

Gutfeld got his start in late-night television with his Fox News show Red Eye, which regularly featured Andrew Breitbart as a guest WATCH:

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/30/greg-gutfeld-crowned-king-of-late-night-as-ratings-outpace-colbert-kimmel-fallon/

31 Aug, 2022 09:54

Ukrainian officials accused of stealing trainloads of aid

The allegation comes amid mass raids by the SBU and anti-corruption agency in Zaporozhye Region

Ukrainian officials in the eastern Zaporozhye Region are being investigated for allegedly stealing massive amounts of humanitarian aid sent to them. They are accused of looting hundreds of freight cars’ worth of goods.

Raids at offices and addresses associated with the suspected embezzlers were reported on Tuesday.Agents of the SBU, Ukraine’s successor to the KGB, and the anti-corruption agency NABU conducted the operations, according to a statement by the agencies.

The region is mostly controlled by Russian forces, but its capital Zaporozhye and some of the surrounding areas are under Kiev’s control. The raids targeted the Kiev-appointed administration and members of the city council, according to the SBU and NABU. The agencies also reported confiscating what they believe to be narcotics and illegal firearms while searching the premises.

While the official statement offered few details, a more comprehensive account of the ongoing probe came from Ukrainian public figure Evgeny Shevchenko, who is widely described by the local media as an unpaid agent for the NABU. The agency had previously confirmed working with him.

According to his post on Facebook, the suspected grifters made off with “almost all humanitarian aid” sent to the region, selling the goods through local retail chains.The total volume of what was stolen amounts to 22 sea transport containers, 389 freight train cars and 220 trucks, Shevchenko claimed.

The activist named several senior officials in Zaporozhye Region as suspects and shamed them for posing as Ukrainian patriots while profiting at the expense of the country.

Shevchenko is a controversial figure in Ukraine. He emerged from the radical wing of the so-called Maidan protests of 2013-2014 and made a name for himself as an associate of militia commander and former MP Konstantin Grishin, who prefers to be called by his nom de guerre Semyon Semenchenko.

Last year, Shevchenko and Semenchenko were arrested on allegations of involvement with an illegal militia. The arrests came after Shevchenko had accused the office of President Vladimir Zelensky of derailing an intelligence operation aimed at luring a group of Russian security contractors to Ukraine and detaining them.

Shevchenko believes that his arrest and that of Semenchenko were an act of revenge by Zelensky’s chief-of-staff, Andrey Ermak. In his post about the raids in Zaporozhye Region, he linked the suspects with the president and the head of his office, pointing out that the officials targeted had been appointed by Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/russia/561876-sbu-nabu-humanitarian-aid/

31 Aug, 2022 06:37

UN inspectors head to Zaporozhye NPP

The IAEA experts plan to stay at the plant for “a few days,” the watchdog’s chief has said

A delegation of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has left the Ukrainian capital for the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on Wednesday in order to assess the state of the facility amid fighting between Russia and Kiev’s forces.

Before heading off, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told reporters that the inspectors intend to spend “a few days” at the plant and will report back afterwards.

On Tuesday, however, the pro-Russian local authorities said that the IAEA mission in Energodar – the city where the NPP is located, and which is in the part of Zaporozhye Region controlled by Moscow’s forces – is expected to last one day.

“The program of the visit is designed to last one day. They will have to review the plant’s operations in one day… So far it has been stated that [the purpose of the mission] is ‘to familiarize with the plant operations’. We see that as a vague concept,” Evgeny Balitsky, the head of the pro-Russian military-civilian administration, told Interfax news agency.

He went on to say that the delegation is supposed to enter the territory controlled by Russian forces via Vasilyevka, a town east of the NPP and not far from the frontline. According to Balitsky, the experts could inspect two working reactors, the spent fuel storage area, and the cooling system. He also said the authorities intend to show the experts the damage caused by Ukrainian artillery attacks.

“We are ready to show where the shells hit. We’re ready to show shell fragments; the Soviet-made [shells] fired by [MLRS] Grad and Uragan differ very much from those from the M777 howitzer. [We’re ready] to show the drones, who produced them, where and how they fell,” he added.

Earlier, Grossi said the goal of the mission is to find out what is happening at the plant, assess its integrity, speak to both Russian and Ukrainian staff, and establish a permanent presence on the ground.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of attacking the plant, which has been under Russian control since March, while warning that the shelling could trigger a disaster that would eclipse the Chernobyl incident. Recently, the local authorities also claimed that Ukraine tried to torpedo the IAEA mission to the plant by shelling the city of Energodar. Kiev insists, however, that it is Russia’s forces who are shelling the nuclear power plant while stationing military hardware there.

https://www.rt.com/russia/561858-iaea-ukraine-nuclear-mission-zaporozhye/

31 Aug, 2022 02:44

Iran tries to ‘steal’ US sea drone

The US 5th Fleet shared footage of an Iranian ship allegedly attempting to make off with the high tech equipment

The US Navy said it stopped an Iranian vessel from capturing an American sea drone operating in the Persian Gulf, deploying a patrol ship and attack helicopters to thwart the attempt.

The Navy’s 5th Fleet issued a statement on the run-in on Tuesday, saying that an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) support ship, the Shahid Baziar, was spotted towing a US Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel “in an attempt to detain it” on August 29. The fleet shared video footage purporting to show the Baziar pulling the drone behind it.

A US coastal patrol ship, the USS Thunderbolt, was in the area when the Iranian ship was seen and was dispatched “immediately” to respond, as was a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, the Navy said. The IRGC vessel then disconnected its tow line from the drone and left the area after some four hours, ending the incident.

“[The IRGC Navy’s] actions were flagrant, unwarranted and inconsistent with the behavior of a professional maritime force,”said Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, who commands the 5th Fleet. “US naval forces remain vigilant and will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows while promoting rules-based international order throughout the region.”

According to fleet spokesman Commander Timothy Hawkins, who was reached by the Associated Press, the Thunderbolt attempted to radio the Iranian ship to inform its crew the drone was American, though he did not say whether the Iranians responded.

While theNavy noted the sea drone “does not store sensitive or classified information,” it nonetheless said it is US government property, equipped with “sensors, radars and cameras for navigation and data collection.”

The Iranian government has not yet acknowledged the incident, which would mark the first time Tehran attempted to target the 5th Fleet’s drone task force, a new unit launched last year during a time of rising tensions with Iran.

https://www.rt.com/news/561854-iran-us-sea-drone/

31 Aug, 2022 11:48

EU member opposes endless sanctions against Russia

Luxembourg says the bloc’s leaders should consider a diplomatic resolution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict

The EU cannot just keep introducing sanction after sanction against Russia, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister JeanAsselborn(kek) said during an informal summit of the bloc’s foreign affairs ministers in Prague on Wednesday.

He noted that sooner or later the EU would have to return to diplomacy, although he admitted that the time for that had yet to come.

“We are trying to make sure that the already adopted [sanctions] are implemented. You cannot constantly [impose] sanctions, sanctions, sanctions. At some point, you need to think about how we can get back on the path of diplomacy. I know that this is not on the table right now,” the minister said. (Why not?)

He added that the EU would eventually have to find a way to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict, noting how sanctions against Moscow are hurting the bloc itself. He pointed to the fact that Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has halted gas deliveries to France and that Germany has “a huge problem.”

On Tuesday, the Russian energy giant cut off gas supplies to French utilities company Engie after it failed to pay for July gas deliveries in full. On Wednesday, Gazprom suspended the flow of gas to Europe via theNord Stream 1 pipeline, which runs to Germany, for three days due to maintenance.

The minister’s statements come as Luxembourg, along with countries such as Austria, France and Germany, have taken a stance against introducing a blanket visa ban for all Russian citizens, which had been proposed by a number of EU states, such as Poland, Estonia and the Czech Republic.

Asselborn has argued that such a measure would create “a new iron curtain in Europe”and insisted that ordinary Russian citizens must not be targeted by EU sanctions. “We all agreed from the start that this was Putin’s war,” he said.

The issue of restricting travel for Russian citizens had become the key topic of the Prague summit, while Moscow has called such “irrational” actions as being against the interests of EU member states. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has vowed that Moscow would retaliate against any such measures in a way that protects Russian citizens.

“Brussels and individual European governments have repeatedly shown an absolute lack of sense … when it comes to anti-Russian impulses,” Peskov said on Tuesday, noting that EU policies directed against Russia tended to benefit the US at the expense of their own people.

https://www.rt.com/news/561885-eu-russia-sanctions-luxembourg/

Ukraine is being used by NWO for the great reset, even if the war is finished; they will then say, it will take years for the EU to get back to normal. That way they can slowly starve people and pursue the Green house imaginary problem.