Sunday, October 20th open thread: ‘Rainbow in the Dark’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Dio performing “Rainbow in the Dark” live in 1983:
Inspector General report on FISA abuses delayed again
Let me show you my shocked face. The Inspector General report on the alleged FISA abuses which led to the Russia investigation, which was supposed to come out in May before being delayed until September and beyond, was finally due to be released at the end of this week but, alas, it has been delayed again.
And according to this story the delay has to do with some infighting over what is going to be redacted. There is always an excuse and this is just the latest one. The only question I have at this point is, what is going to be the excuse the deep state uses at the end of the month when we learn about another delay?
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
ABC caught pretending gun range video was Syria bombing the Kurds
It has been interesting to watch the anti-war Democrats of the Obama era morph into war-mongers since Donald Trump became the President in 2016. The latest example of this came in the wake of the President’s announcement he was pulling a few dozen troops out of Syria.
In an effort to show how wrong Donald Trump was in pulling out of Syria, ABC ran a piece about how Syria was attacking the Kurds because the United States had abandoned them. The story was completed by a video in the background showing the devastating bombing. Or at least that was what ABC wanted its viewers to believe because it turns out that video was not from Syria at all, in fact the video turned out to be two years old and it was taken at a gun range in Kentucky. ABC has removed the video and apologized, here is more:
ABC News on Monday removed a video which the network presented as Turkish military forces attacking Kurdish fighters in northern Syria — amid reports that the footage may, in fact, be from a U.S. gun demonstration.
The footage, which ABC News purported was of an attack on the border town of Tal Abyad, was aired Sunday on World NewsTonight and Good Morning America on Monday morning. However, a comparison by Gizmodo shows the video was captured at Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky back in 2017.
“[I]t’s clear that the videos are the same,” said the website.
[W]e’ve taken down video that aired on World News Tonight Sunday and Good Morning America this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error,” a press representative for the network said.
First of all, this was not an “error” and in the second place it did not “appear to be from Syria.” The truth is that this was done on purpose and the network wanted it to appear as if this was from Syria. This video is two years old and ABC had it hanging around their studios, they had to have known it was not new video and it was not being fed from Syria but they used it anyway because they had propaganda to present to the American people.
This shows you how low the left will go to promote its agenda, they have no scruples and this is a prime example of why so many people no longer trust the mainstream media.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Sunday, October 13th open thread: ‘The Sentinel’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Judas Priest performing “The Sentinel” from 1984.
Hunter Biden’s company paid Joe Biden $900,000 in lobbying fees
Well, well well…it seems as if good ole Uncle Joe was not being entirely truthful when he said he never talked business with his son before he used his influence to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.
According to this story Hunter Biden’s company paid Joe Biden $900,000 in lobbying fees for CONSULTANT SERVICES, here is more:
Derkach publicized the documents at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency Wednesday as he said the records, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.”
“This was the transfer of Burisma Group’s funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company. Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services,” Derkach said.
“Using political and economic levelers of influencing Ukrainian authorities and manipulating the issue of providing financial aid to Ukraine, Joe Biden actively assisted closing criminal cases into the activity of former Ukrainian Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky, who is the founder and owner of Burisma Group,” he said.
“Biden’s fifth visit to Kyiv on December 7-8, 2015 was devoted to making a decision on the resignation of [then Ukrainian Prosecutor General] Viktor Shokin over the case of Zlochevsky and Burisma. Loan guarantees worth $1 billion that the United States was to give to Ukraine was the point of pressure. Biden himself admitted exerting pressure in his speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in January 2018, calling Shokin ‘son of a bitch who was fired’,” Derkach said.
Once again it looks as if a Joe Biden Presidential bid will go down in scandal and would think that the Democrats would have checked with himbefore opening an impeachment inquiry to make sure nothing like this was going on. But then again they probably already knew and were willing to throw the former Vice-President under the bus if it meant the possibility of taking down Donald Trump and I am not so sure the Democratic establishment wanted him as the nominee anyway.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
When Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion investigation failed to yield the results the Democrats had so longed for they moved on to another scandal, this one between the President and Ukraine and it again supposedly involves Donald Trump colluding with a foreign government to help him win an election.
Washington is now in the grips of impeachment frenzy and all the while there is still an ongoing investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation and the abuse of the alleged FISA warrants which is getting little attention. And now it is being reported that investigation is expanding.
Here is more:
John Durham, the U.S. attorney reviewing the origins of the 2016 counterintelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign, is probing a wider timeline than previously known, according to multiple senior administration officials.
Fox News previously reported that Durham would be reviewing the days leading up to the 2016 election and through the inauguration.
However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.
That is a very interesting turn of events because we learned yesterday that Robert Mueller lied to the Congress about why he was in Washington in 2017. According to the report he was interested in becoming director of the FBI after James Comey was fired but he told the Congress under oath he was not there looking for a job. And then after he did not get the job he ends up as Special Counsel investigating the President. Things that make you go hmm…
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
