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The time has come to cease affording the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team generous benefit of the doubt. A steady stream of unflattering revelations, beginning with a report by the Justice Department's inspector general into egregious FISA abuses last December, has relentlessly pounded the reputation of my former agency. Now, further irrefutable proof emerges that a small cabal of FBI headquarters decision-makers was hellbent on undoing a presidency. ... one thing is clear. Michael Flynn got railroaded. ... FBI notes illustrate a concerted effort by former FBI Director James Comey's team to set Flynn up. ... clearly initialed by then-FBI Assistant...

Researchers from the University of Washington announce a major revision to their COVID-19 predictions in light of recent developments.

A top conservative radio host says he will refuse to get vaccinated for the coronavirus if a vaccine becomes available. Dr. Michael Savage, whose show Savage Nation is broadcast on more than 400 terrestrial radio stations, tweeted on Sunday night that he has never taken a flu shot, and he does not plan to get vaccinated if a coronavirus vaccination is developed. "Covid vaccine!" Savage tweeted. "I will refuse to take it! It will be ineffective and dangerous. There are now 20 known mutations. I have never taken a flu shot, and I will refuse to take a COVID VACCINE....

That is interesting, but does not surprise me.

Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) criticized President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force press conferences. She called them “daily shows that the president put on.” Pelosi said, “I was hoping they would spend more time on the crisis than the daily shows that the president put on. But the fact is we need to allocate resources for that. And to do that, a new appropriations bill must be prepared in the House, and we must have the information to act upon.” She added, “So the fact that they say we are too busy to come...

Germany’s state premiers will agree on measures to further ease coronavirus restrictions in a teleconference with Chancellor Angela Merkel scheduled for Wednesday ... Smaller shops are already back to business in Europe’s largest economy ... There is mounting pressure from business groups and some regional governments who are anxious to move faster on restarting economic life.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Navy veteran and House Armed Services Committee member, will introduce a bill on Tuesday to prevent the Chinese government from making “predatory” investments in American companies during the coronavirus pandemic. Banks said in a statement: Our job is to ensure the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t profit off a pandemic of their own making. President Trump won an election vowing to stop China from taking advantage of Americans. I am glad to be working with him now to stop Chinese predation. The Restricting Predatory Acquisition During COVID-19 Act would expand the scope of the Committee on Foreign...

Why are our governments not following the science and publishing the data? This is undoubtedly a bad plague. But unlike in 1918, it attacks younger and healthier people in remarkably low numbers. There are certainly a lot of people at high risk, but the difference between shutting down everyone and shielding the vulnerable is the difference between a recession and an economic Hiroshima, a functioning health care system and a furloughed health system, a food crisis and a “mere” cut in jobs, wages, and 401Ks. ... It is simply indefensible that our government, which is sitting on more data than...

Mexico's president on Monday urged Washington to investigate "all" officials, including members of elite U.S. law enforcement agencies, with ties to a former Mexican security minister accused of taking bribes from a top drug gang. The arrest of ex-Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna in Dallas late last year sent shockwaves across Mexico, where he had spearheaded a militarized assault on powerful drug gangs beginning under former President Felipe Calderon in 2006. Garcia Luna was subsequently indicted on charges of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel, the gang once led by drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman....

Israeli air strikes in Syria tonight near Aleppo. Syria says missiles were aimed at a military storage facility and a scientific research center.... Israel's High Court expected to rule by the end of the week on whether an indicted member of Parliament can form a government and on the legality of the deal between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party and former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz's Blue and White Party on a national unity government..... Peru's opposition leader Keiko Fujimori released from prison today...... Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro appointing a new federal police chief today...... The...

Pulitzer Center Named Education Partner for The New York Times Magazine’s ‘The 1619 Project’ August 16, 2019 | General news BY JEFF BARRUS The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce that it has been selected as the education partner for “The 1619 Project,” The New York Times Magazine’s exploration of the legacy of black Americans starting with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in 1619. As part of this partnership, the Center’s education team will produce original curricular materials for teachers and bring project contributors, including author Nikole Hannah-Jones, to schools and universities across the country. “The 1619 Project”...

Many have claimed the Justinianic Plague (c. 541-750 CE) killed half of the population of Roman Empire. Now, historical research and mathematical modeling challenge the death rate and severity of this first plague pandemic... White and Mordechai focused their efforts on the city of Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, which had a comparatively well-described outbreak in 542 CE. Some primary sources claim plague killed up to 300,000 people in the city, which had a population of some 500,000 people at the time. Other sources suggest the plague killed half the empire's population. Until recently, many scholars accepted this image...

Firearms Licensing Requirements in Canada. Rob Corbett 22 hrs Let me lay this out for you and anyone else who also likely isn’t as informed as they would like to be. Firstly, let me say this. I’ve been a firearms instructor for 14 years, a police officer and supervisor for 8. A correctional officer for 6 and an RCMP firearms verification expert since 2012. Part of being a firearms verification expert means it’s my job to be able to testify to court what classification different firearms are, and their points of origin and import. With that being said I will...

Sacrificial rituals featuring human heart extraction were a prevalent religious practice throughout ancient Mesoamerican societies. Intended as a means of appeasing and honoring certain deities, sacrifices served as acts of power and intimidation as well as demonstrations of devotion and gratitude. Human sacrifices were highly structured, complex rituals performed by elite members of society, and the ceremonies included a myriad of procedures imbued with symbolic significance... In the study, "Open Chests and Broken Hearts: Ritual Sequences and Meanings of Human Heart Sacrifice in Mesoamerica," published in Current Anthropology, Tiesler and Olivier conduct an anatomical analysis of skeletal evidence and compare...

A day after San Diego residents were required to wear face coverings in public, a man went grocery shopping while wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood, according to a report. The hooded creep was seen roaming the aisles of a Von supermarket in the San Diego County city of Santee on Saturday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Store clerks repeatedly asked the man to remove the hood or leave the premises. A supervisor approached him at the checkout line and asked him again to take off the hood or leave, company spokeswoman Melissa Hill told the newspaper. The man finally...

This is Tucker going on about the Wu-Flu and its fallout

Darwin accidentally grabs wrong wallet when trying check out. https://twitter.com/i/status/1257388293399949314

A lot of conservatives insisted on treating Marianne Williamson like a goofy joke. Yes, she's ridiculous. And, like the rest of the Oprah machine, she's a creepy evil character who uses cultish New Age talk to disguise what she really is. After dropping out and endorsing Bernie Sanders, she continued spending campaign cash while stiffing small business campaign vendors. Unlike many of the other 2020 candidates, Williamson seems to be leaving some creditors high and dry while living large, burning through what remains of her campaign cash. In January, February and March, Williamson spent roughly $490,000 — $1,930 in charges...

When Scarborough was a Republican congressman for Florida, his intern, Lori Klausutis, was found dead in his Florida district office. There is no proof that Scarborough had anything to do with it. Klausutis, 28, was found behind a desk by two people visiting the congressman’s district office in July of 2001. An autopsy report found that she had been feeling unwell, and heart problems caused her to fall on her desk and hit her head. The medical examiner did not find signs of foul play. Scarborough announced his resignation months prior to her death, just five months into his fourth...

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. is preparing to file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday night if the company fails to rework its debt and can’t get lenders to extend a grace period on a missed payment. The rental-car company has been talking to some of its creditors about how to ease its burden without going through bankruptcy, but negotiations have been a struggle and the company is preparing to file for Chapter 11 court protection, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Hertz could file this evening, though Tuesday would be more likely if a deal isn’t reached. The...