Pelosi on Coronavirus: “This is an Opportunity, Every Crisis Is”

Never let a crisis go to waste, right?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday admitted during a press conference that the Coronavirus pandemic is an “opportunity” to usher in a Socialist agenda with more freebies (for illegal aliens).

“This is an opportunity, every crisis is,” Pelosi said.

WATCH:

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1265749423138758657

The Democrats are using the Coronavirus to shred the Constitution.

Churches and small businesses have been forced to close their doors while Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Costco stay open.

Pelosi and the Dems are using the Coronavirus as a vehicle to usher in federal ballot harvesting and mail-in voting for the 2020 election.

The House used the Coronavirus as an excuse to hold its first ‘proxy vote’ since Congress first met in 1789 and GOP leader Kevin McCarthy sued to stop the constitutional abomination.

Hillary Clinton even admitted recently that the Democrats are using the Coronavirus to advance their Socialist agenda.

“It needs to be part of a much larger system and eventually and quickly I hope gets us to universal healthcare so I can only say amen to everything you’re saying,” Hillary said. “This would be a terrible crisis to waste.”

This is a radical Marxist revolution under the guise of ‘keeping people safe during a pandemic.’

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/pelosi-coronavirus-opportunity-every-crisis-video/

FNC’s Andrew Napolitano: I’ll ‘Defend to the Death’ Twitter’s Right to Fact Check Trump

Appearing Wednesday on the Fox News Channel, network senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said he will “defend to the death” Twitter’s right to fact check President Donald Trump.

A partial transcript is as follows:

SANDRA SMITH: There’s so many questions. You look out into the social media atmosphere about this debate over social media, and Twitter now fact-checking the president. Can they do this?

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: The short answer is yes, the longer answer is that the president is right about the bias in social media and the president is also understandably not happy about his being fact-checked. I mean, nobody would. But Twitter is privately owned and publicly held. It’s not owned by the government. And so the First Amendment, which guarantees the freedom of speech and of the press, since it only regulates the government, does not regulate Twitter. So stated differently, Twitter can take down, modify, or correct any user it wants, including the president of the United States.

As for his threat to regulate or put Twitter out of business, that, of course, would require legislation, which is somewhat unlikely between now and November. There also would be illegal issues if the effort were aimed at silencing someone that has the freedom of speech. I don’t like what they say. But I’ll defend to the death their right to say it. Under a Supreme Court decision that the president likes called Citizens United, Twitter has freedom of speech just like you and I and the president himself.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/05/27/fncs-andrew-napolitano-ill-defend-to-the-death-twitters-right-to-fact-check-trump/

Trump Offers To "Mediate" India & China's "Raging Border Dispute" Amid Military Build-Up

No doubt a huge surprise for both Beijing and New Delhi, locked in an escalating border dispute which in the past days has witnessed a troop build-up in multiple disputed border regions, given the historic difficulty of competing claims along the world’s longest unmarked border, President Trump on Wednesday morning offered to "mediate or arbitrate" between the two Asian powers.

He tweeted he is "ready, willing and able" to ease the tensions which are fast being militarized in a situation that FP recently noted could explode into major conflict between two nuclear armed powers.

"We have informed both India and China that the United States is ready, willing and able to mediate or arbitrate their now raging border dispute," Trump said in the early morning tweet.

The surprise offer, more than likely to be rejected considering Washington's own boiling tensions with Beijing over a host of issues - the latest including Hong Kong - comes on the heels of a top American diplomat for South Asia making provocative remarks siding with India on the contested border issue.

Outgoing State Department official Alice Wells made the provocative statements a week ago at an Atlantic Council event, saying, “There’s a method here to Chinese operations and it is that constant aggression, the constant attempt to shift the norms, to shift what is the status quo.”

Wells added: “That has to be resisted whether it’s in the South China Sea… or whether it’s in India’s own backyard.”

Trump's offer also comes after a new White House report laying out a broad strategy on China, accused Beijing of "provocative and coercive military and paramilitary activities" in the region, including Sino-Indian border areas.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-makes-unexpected-offer-mediate-india-chinas-raging-border-dispute-amid-military

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I think you mean 'moran' fren

NSA’s Social Network Mapping is More Vast, Omnipresent and Horrifying Than Snowden Revealed

This is shocking, and represents an ongoing existential threat to American citizens.

Most people know by now about the surveillance abuses perpetrated by the NSA earlier this century, but a new book about Edward Snowden suggests that the metadata collection programs introduced to us through previous whistleblowers and disclosures are part of a “live, ever-updating social graph of the US” that is ongoing and far vaster than we previously imagined.

The revelations come from journalist Barton Gellman, who described the content of his new book Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State for Wired. The article, entitled “Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network,” catalogs Gellman’s attempts to reveal more details about the programs Snowden first disclosed to the world.

What he found shocked him, and represents an ongoing existential threat to American citizens, he says.

Gellman says that originally he wanted to understand more about the logistics of the NSA phone records. The Snowden archive hints at but does not explain the details of the agency’s project pipelines.

The main thoroughfare of data collection, ‘Stellarwind’, was a domestic surveillance program launched by Vice President Dick Cheney only weeks after 9/11. He mandated that all operatives and subordinates conceal the program from FISA Court judges and Congress, stamping it with the most covert of government classifications, ECI, which stands for, “exceptionally controlled information.”

Stellarwind facilitated ‘Mainway’, the NSA’s prized social network mapping tool which conscripted telephone data companies like AT&T and Verizon into secretive–and financially lucrative–data collection contracts negotiated by Special Source Operations.

But even this was just the tip of the iceberg.

The Mainway program codified two important, but (until now), obfuscated surveillance and data mining objectives: contact chaining and precomputation.

https://themindunleashed.com/2020/05/nsas-social-network-mapping-is-more-vast-omnipresent-and-horrifying-than-snowden-revealed.html

'This one is a stretch': Jamie Foxx defends Jimmy Fallon over resurfaced 'blackface' skit

Foxx called on the outrage mob to 'let this one go'

Actor and comedian Jamie Foxx came to the defense of "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, after Fallon took heat over an old "Saturday Night Live" skit and was accused of donning "blackface."

But Foxx says the unearthed sketch from 20 years ago wasn't even blackface, and told Fallon's critics to "let this one go."

What are the details?

Social media lit up this week after a clip from 2000 resurfaced showing Fallon wearing dark make-up during a segment where he played Chris Rock, but the online reactions were mixed. While some people expressed outrage at the footage, others called for people to calm down and defended Fallon against "cancel culture."

Foxx was one of the big names who stood of for Fallon. According to Us Weekly, Foxx commented on an E! News Instagram post covering the controversy, "He was doing an impression of Chris Rock. It wasn't black face. We comedians, I know it's a tough time right now. But this one is a stretch."

Foxx added, "On a show called 'In Living Color,' we played every race. Let this one go. We got bigger fish to fry…#changecourse."

After his name began trending on social media sites on Tuesday, Fallon was quick to apologize, tweeting, "In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface. There is no excuse for this. I am very sorry for making this unquestionably offensive decision and thank all of you for holding me accountable."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/this-one-is-a-stretch-jamie-foxx-defends-jimmy-fallon-over-resurfaced-blackface-skit

Former CDU politician receives €550,000 annually from taxpayers for migrant hotel

The city of Cologne’s municipal government is coming under fire for spending increasing amounts of taxpayer money on keeping migrants in hotels. This is happening even while there are many vacant rooms in existing reception centres. And one of the city’s ex-politicians is making quite a lot of money off the arrangement.

The situation came about because the city has signed long-term leases for hotel rooms for periods of several years in order to reserve them for migrants — leases which must be paid regardless of whether anyone is using the rooms, according to a report by Junge Freiheit. The city is currently paying more than a million euros annually for 90 hotel rooms.

The woman behind many of these leases is Andrea Horitzky, an ex-member of the Executive Board for the Cologne branch of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. In 2018, the German newspaper Express reported that Horitzky owns a hotel in the city which she converted into housing for migrants. She did this in 2017, while still a member of the CDU’s executive board — at a time when the party’s official position was that migrants should not be put up in hotels. Horitzky told neither the public nor her party of her plan to create migrant housing; she resigned her position when it was exposed in the media.

Nevertheless, Horitzky still received permission from the city to make the conversion, which she did in October 2017. Her hotel can now accommodate up to 43 migrants, and the city signed a seven-year lease with her to maintain it as migrant housing. As a result, Horitzky now has a steady source of income from this arrangement: the city of Cologne pays her 35 euros per day per migrant out of taxpayer funds (according to Express, Horitzky had asked for more, but 35 euros is the maximum allowed by the city). Horitzky now receives 549,325 euros annually from the city — which is paid regardless of whether the rooms are occupied or not.

“This is symbolic both for Cologne and for Ms. Reker [Cologne’s Mayor], and unfortunately also for the CDU in Cologne: corruption and migrant madness go hand-in-hand,” said Sven W. Tritschler, a representative for the Right-wing Alternative for Germany party in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament.

Cologne has been the site of many horrific incidents involving migrants in recent years, most notoriously when hundreds of German women were sexually assaulted and harassed by migrants on New Year’s Eve in 2015. Only three migrants were ever convicted for the offences, as previously reported by Voice of Europe.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/former-cdu-politician-receiving-500000-euros-a-year-to-house-migrants-at-her-hotel/

YOUR “IMMUNITY PASSPORT” FUTURE BEGINS TO MATERIALIZE AS AIRLINES CALL FOR DIGITAL ID TRACKING SYSTEMS

The world’s largest airline trade group has called for immunity passports, thermal screening, masks, and physical distancing to be a part of the industry’s strategy for returning to “normal” operations.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 299 airlines, recently issued their publication, Biosecurity for Air Transport A Roadmap for Restarting Aviation, which outlines their strategy to open up air travel as governments begin to lift travel restrictions.

Under a section titled, “The passenger experience” and “Temporary biosecurity measures,” the IATA describes their vision of post-COVID-19 flights. The organization calls for contact tracing, a controversial method of tracking the civilian population to track the spread of COVID-19.

“We foresee the need to collect more detailed passenger contact information which can be used for tracing purposes,” the report states. “Where possible, the data should be collected in electronic form, and in advance of the passenger arriving at the airport including through eVisa and electronic travel authorization platforms.”

Interestingly, this call for pre-boarding check-in using “electronic travel authorization platforms” coincides with the recent announcement of the Covi-Pass and the Health Pass from Clear, both of which call for a digital ID system using biometrics and storing travel, health, and identification data.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2020/05/27/your-immunity-passport-future-begins-to-materialize-as-airlines-call-for-digital-id-tracking-systems/

How To Sue Your Governor

Over the past month of advocating for civil disobedience against the corona ban, I’ve received many requests on how a person goes about suing the government.

A wonderful and fitting article about being civilly disobedient ran at the American Institute for Economic Research entitled “Why Aren’t Americans Suing Their Way Out Of Lockdown?”

That article, by Robert E. Wright, presents a legal framework for why more lawsuits should take place. Below, I’m going to offer a framework for HOW to make that happen. If the courts were inundated with 30 million lawsuits tomorrow, it would be a great thing. I once had the joy of suing the government in a manner similar to this one. Alternately, if even just one key test case is brought before the courts successfully, as Wright describes in his piece, it could have a tremendous impact that ripples through the country.

I’m not deluding myself into thinking that the government judiciary will free America from government tyranny, but once in a while they require a tyrant to explain himself, allow a citizen to redress grievances, and occasionally act as a tool to help right wrongs.

If you think you have been harmed by the corona bans, below are some first steps that can be taken to help set that lawsuit into motion.

Step 1: Decide: Pro Se, Public Interest & Pro Bono, Or Your Own Private Attorney

“Pro se” means you represent yourself. A lot of people have a lot of fun doing that. You learn a lot about the process. Though I think it’s a great education, I’m not convinced it is right for this pressing, emergency topic.

If you decide you’d like to do this pro se, the rest of the article is irrelevant, so please get to work on that and Godspeed. May you have the greatest of success. For the rest of you, I’ll continue.

Public interest lawyers seek cases that have a benefit that goes beyond just one person. They tend to seek a grave government injustice that needs overturning. Sometimes they work free of charge to their client, or “pro bono.” I believe on this topic, there are many lawyers out there who will take a case pro bono if asked.

Many more attorneys will take this case for money. There may be a lower level of philosophical commitment in that situation and a higher level of economic commitment.

I would suggest starting by seeking a pro bono attorney and keeping track of the paid attorneys you encounter along the way with a noted interest in your specific case, in case you decide to reach back out to them and fund the case yourself.

Step 2: Keep Organized

Simple spreadsheets are good for this. Pads of paper are useful, but not great, because URLs can be long. You’ll want columns for the lawyer name, URL, phone number, dates you’ve reached out, and responses. Everything you learn during your search should end up in your spreadsheet, because having everything in one place will make the succeeding steps easier.

Step 3: Identify Potential Lawyers

During this next step, you are aiming to find a broad selection of lawyers. Like brainstorming, you are adding anyone who might take the case to your list, regardless of whatever downsides there might be to working with them. The longer the list made in this step, the better.

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https://www.activistpost.com/2020/05/how-to-sue-your-governor.html