Stu Cvrk
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Remember the Notre Dame cathedral fire and the legacy media’s pointed lack of context about the rise in anti-Christian attacks in France? Check this out.
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When fire ravaged the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris last Apr, many Americans were surprised to hear speculation that the blaze might be tied to a wave of anti-Christian attacks in France & across Europe. It wasn’t — but a wave of anti-Christian attacks? That was news to many.
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As Richard Bernstein reports for RealClearInvestigations, the violence is all too real & at record levels. And those raising alarms have to contend not just with what they call rising Christianophobia but the near-silence of politicians & major media outlets in the face of it.
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Anti-Christian attacks have quadrupled since 2008: The French police in 2018 recorded 129 thefts and 877 acts of vandalism at Catholic sites – mostly churches and cemeteries – and there has been no respite this year.
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The Conference of French Bishops reported 228 “violent anti-Christian acts” in France in the first three months of 2019 alone, taking place in every region of the country – 45 in the Southwest, 20 in the area along the English Channel, 24 in Brittany.
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The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians, based in Vienna, documented 275 anti-Christian incidents in Europe in 2017, up from 250 the year before.
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Read the rest here:
Chances of legacy media follow-up on this story? Zip, zero, nada. It is axiomatic that the legacy media are the enemy.
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Next, we learn that much of the Russian dossier was “made up.” Surely not, Democrats!
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Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday he believes the public will soon see that much of the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was “made up.”
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According to a NY Times report, FBI officials questioned one of Steele’s sources and “came to suspect that the man might have added his own interpretations to reports from his own sources that he passed on to Mr. Steele, calling into question the reliability of the info.”
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Steele was interviewed as part of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s probe of how the FBI used the unverified dossier, including its role in obtaining a surveillance warrant against then-Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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“The fact remains that they used that garbage that was paid for by a political campaign before a court,” said Nunes, adding that there is info that is “equally as bad or worse” that has not been made public about Steele’s work.
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More here:
Don’t you just wonder what Steele disclosed to DoJ questioners – especially given the rumors that he figured out that he was being set up as the “fall guy” for the whole #Spygate affair?
Stu Cvrk
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Still more on Epstein came out later in the week. There is very likely MUCH more about him than we’ve been led to believe by the lying legacy media and Democrats:
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[T]he bits of information about multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of an underage sex-trafficking ring are utterly bizarre, pointing to something perhaps even bigger and worse going on. [There are] at least ten big questions.
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One: How did Jeffrey Epstein make his fortune in the first place? One claim is a massive Ponzi scheme.
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Two: Could Epstein really have been connected to some sort of intelligence service?
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Three: Why did the office Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance try to keep Epstein from being registered as a top-level sex offender?
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Four: After Epstein was labeled a “Level 3 sex offender” — meaning the worst — Epstein was required by law to check in with the NYPD every 90 days. He never checked in at all over an eight-year span. How did that not generate any consequences?
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Five: How did his private island off Saint Thomas get the nickname “Pedophile Island” and how does a rumor like that not get law enforcement to start snooping around?
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Six: Bill Clinton’s public statement about his interactions with Epstein was laughably inaccurate, contracted by contemporaneous media accounts, never mind FAA flight logs.
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Seven: Doesn’t this [sentence in a Vanity Fair article] seem to bury the lede, as they say in journalism? “Trump said that Pecker had told him that the pictures of Clinton that Epstein had from his island were worse.”
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Another leaker undermining POTUS policy objectives could get nailed:
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Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan is at the center of a federal investigation into the leak of confidential government information in late June.
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that forced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to call off a nationwide operation, three senior administration officials told the Washington Examiner.
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Following the publishing of sensitive leaked law enforcement information on June 21, then-acting ICE Director Mark Morgan’s team followed department protocol and reported the incident to the ICE Joint Intake Center so they could investigate.
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JIC is an agency office that handles internal investigations of personnel misconduct, sexual abuse, staff neglect, or violations of responsibilities that may have contributed to such incidents.
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McAleenan was named by three senior administration officials and two former officials as the orchestrator of the leak, charging he wanted to sabotage ICE’s monthslong plan to find and arrest around 2,000 people who had been denied asylum and not left the country.
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McAleenan opposed the plan because of its potential to remove a parent from a household with children in it.
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Three officials have claimed McAleenan ordered Morgan on two occasions in the two weeks leading up to the planned June 23 operation to not carry it out, orders that would have contradicted the White House’s support and approval.
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Morgan contacted the White House following McAleenan’s warning to try to carry it out, according to three current and two former senior administration officials.
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This is rank insubordination; the guy should be fired posthaste. Period.
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Former CIA director Mikey Hayden and card-carrying NeverTrumper popped off again, demonstrating his Deep State credentials:
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Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden is back in the news after suffering a stroke earlier this year. Mediaite’s John Ziegler spoke to the retired general and asked him about the Mueller investigation and, of course, President Trump’s policies.
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[Ziegler’s summary:] Hayden is very worried about the resignation of the UK ambassador to the United States and the fact that Trump consistently treats our closest allies like enemies and some of our worst enemies like allies.
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The Mueller report was even worse for Trump than he had anticipated and he eagerly looks forward to what Robert Mueller will say in his congressional testimonies next week.
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He ominously concludes that the damage that Trump has done to our institutions so far can be survived, but that the United States, at least as we know it, may not be able to endure two terms of him as president.
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[The reality as pointed out in the rest of the article:] This truly is ridiculous. The UK amb to the U.S. should have resigned. It’s in principle fine for him to insult the president of the country where he serves, but if those memos are leaked he also should be in trouble.
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You can’t expect Trump to have serious, thoughtful and frank conversations with a guy who doesn’t respect him.
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As for the Mueller report, that’s possibly even more insane. The Mueller report was one big disappointment for Trump-haters everywhere. Lastly, to imply that Trump — all by himself — will somehow destroy America is downright fantastical.
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The U.S. may very well have the strongest foundation of any nation on earth. This system survived a civil war, Jim Crow, and the civil rights clash in the second half of the 20th century.
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I It’s crazy to suggest that it can’t survive one single president you happen to hate.
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Lunacy on display! Either TDS is incurable and intensifies over time, or the likes of Hayden are getting desperate as the DoJ posse led by AG Barr and US Attorney John Durham approaches!
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Although there are a ton of other stories from which to choose, we’ll end this week’s summary with a little Democrat internecine warfare. Makes me smile BIGLY!
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Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) unloaded on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-N.Y.) on Wednesday for “using the race card” after Ocasio-Cortez accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of being racially insensitive.
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Clay, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, fumed at Ocasio-Cortez and the group of progressive lawmakers that includes Reps. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Ayanna Pressley (Mass.).
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“It shows you how weak their argument is when they have to resort and direct racist accusations toward Speaker Pelosi … it’s very disappointing to me,” Clay said.
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The Missouri Democrat also described Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti and the progressive group Justice Democrats as “juvenile” and “ignorant.”
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The Justice Democrats have endorsed a progressive primary challenger against Clay and other centrist Democrats.
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Chakrabarti last week sent out a tweet comparing centrist Democrats to “new Southern Democrats” that “certainly seem hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s.”
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“It shows you how ignorant and little history [Chakrabarti] knows, how ignorant he is to American history. How dare he,” Clay said.
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Love watching the Democrat Party disintegrate, don’t you?