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Clinton IT Aide Who Defied Subpoena Says He Created A Cryptic Gmail Account And Sent It Nearly All Of Hillary’s Emails

Via The Daily Caller

Virtually every single one of Hillary Clinton’s emails were sent, potentially secretly, to a cryptically named Gmail address, according to a new Senate report.

The finding, which has not been previously reported, means that Clinton’s emails, including classified ones and ones which were later deleted, likely existed on Google’s U.S.-based servers. The FBI said in the report that it knew this — and of the suspicious explanation for it — but did not alert other intelligence agencies or the public, according to the report.

The FBI says that the suspicious Gmail address was set up by an IT aide, Paul Combetta, who worked for a company that managed Clinton’s server. Combetta is the same IT aide who used BleachBit to permanently erase copies of Clinton’s emails after they were subpoenaed by the House, misled the FBI about it, and was given immunity from prosecution, all while asking for basic computing advice on Reddit.

Combetta refused to cooperate with the Department of Justice Inspector General and with the authors of the Senate report about his use of the cryptic email address. He previously pleaded the Fifth before Congress in September 2016 about his deletion of emails.

Combetta worked for Platte River Networks, a technology company in Colorado that began managing Clinton’s email server when she decided to house it more professionally than the homemade server in her basement.

Charles McCullough, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, and his investigator Frank Rucker discovered that every one of Clinton’s emails except four were secretly copied to the cryptically named email address, CarterHeavyIndustries@gmail.com, according to the report.

Read the entire article HERE.

A Hidden Political Agenda? Mainstream Media Suddenly Full Of Stories About Imminent Recession

Via Zero Hedge

All of a sudden, it seems like the mainstream media just can’t stop talking about “the coming recession”.

If you go to Google News and type in the word “recession”, you will literally get dozens of articles from the last couple of days with “recession” in the headline. And of course it is true that there are signs of global economic trouble all around us, and I have been documenting them on my website all throughout 2019. So we don’t want to criticize the mainstream media when they actually decide to tell the truth, because a recession is definitely coming, but could it be possible that there is also a hidden political agenda at work?

The economy is generally regarded to be one of the bright spots for President Trump, and political operatives on the left clearly understand that a major economic downturn now would spell almost certain doom for Trump’s chances of winning the 2020 election. And when mainstream reporters talk about the possibility of a recession as we approach the next election, many of them almost seem gleeful as they describe how it could hurt Trump politically. Ultimately, when things start to really get bad it is inevitable that the mainstream media will place the blame directly at the feet of Trump. It is easy to imagine a narrative along the lines of “Trump’s handling of the economy has plunged the nation into a recession” being relentlessly pounded into the heads of American voters over the next year. And if the end result is Trump being voted out of office, more than 90 percent of those that work for the big news companies will be just fine with that.

This week, we have seen an absolute explosion in the number of stories about the possibility of an imminent recession.

Read the entire article HERE.

Pete Buttigieg Ate Practically Everything At The Iowa State Fair

Via Eater

In the span of four hours, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg put down a root beer float, a pork chop on a stick, a fried bacon ball BLT, fried Oreos, and more — then washed it all down with chocolate milk

By waiting until Tuesday afternoon to speak, Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the first openly gay presidential candidate, had the run of the fair, taking full advantage of the nearly 200 food stands as he walked around. “I’m a little grumpy there was no lunch,” said Buttigieg. “Now I’m realizing there was no need.”

Read the entire article HERE.

In Search of White Supremacy

Via American Greatness

In the wake of another series of mass shootings, we begin our regularly scheduled programming searching for the systemic culprits: “white supremacists” who, we are reliably informed, prowl the halls of our institutions pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing as we speak. They hide in plain sight, the experts warn, and are represented among such notables as the president of the United States on down to heavily armed lunatics in makeshift rural bunkers.

The “white supremacist terrorists and the white supremacist policymakers,” Charles Blow huffs, “live on parallel planes, both aiming in the same direction, both with the same goal: To maintain and ensure white dominance and white supremacy.” They are united in their rage at immigrants, whose “numbers are ascendant,” writes Blow, “through both immigration and higher birthrates,” thus threatening the “accelerated displacement of white people from a numerical majority.”

Of course, a certain National Review writer had no problem reaching across the aisle in keeping with the modus operandi of Vichy conservatives who exist, apparently, to somehow prove they were right to oppose the most consequential conservative president in a generation. For them, apparently, it is: il n’y a pas d’ennemi à gauche—there is no enemy to the left. The main enemy—the preferred enemy—is always to their right.

Such “conservatives” reliably operate as the shadow of the American Left, ever just a few ideological paces behind their establishment counterparts, helping the slow learners to catch up with their betters.

The National Review writer—we’re not naming him anymore, mainly out of contempt, but his identity isn’t hard to discern—calls for “legal, rhetorical, financial, and cultural” war on white nationalism, and he echoes Blow, condemning words like “invasion” to describe immigration. Even though it is, in fact, an invasion.

This writer also denounced the use of terms such as “replacement” to describe the “imagined fate of white America”—though his bedfellows Bill Kristol and Bret Stephens unironically have called for mass deportations of whites, and the replacing of “lazy” white people with “new Americans.” Kevin Williamson says that the truth about white “dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die.”

“These are strong words, but they are fundamentally true and important to say” about these Americans, the writer argued in defense of Williamson. Don’t you dare say a bad word about foreigners, however, because no matter how “fundamentally true and important” those words may be, we must now, he insists, “reject the public language and rhetoric that excites and inspires racist radicals”—but only those racist radicals of a particular flavor. Forget about those racists who hate white people.

Read the entire article HERE.

“White Supremacy”—the “Devil Term” Invented to Dispossess Americans

Via The Unz Review

Founding stock Americans are now perilously close to becoming a powerless minority ruled over by aliens who cherish a carefully cultivated resentment—not to say hatred—towards us. If nothing is done to change the trajectory in which our society is moving, it is hard to see how our children can avoid outright physical persecution.

The hostile elites who rule over us, of course, paint a different picture. Even as they triumphantly celebrate America’s growing racial diversity, they are incredulous any whites could imagine their group is being replaced: that is a “conspiracy theory,” perhaps a symptom of mental illness. Nonwhites are, indeed, growing in numbers and power, but somehow, simultaneously, whites are not losing out in any way. Indeed, we enjoy enormous unearned privilege. The real danger to America is white supremacy, a “sinister ideology” (Donald Trump), a “depraved evil” (Ted Cruz) now said to be on the rise.

The two side in America’s looming struggle now live in such different mental universes that communication between them has become almost impossible. One reason for this mutual incomprehension is language. Popular political discourse is filled with expressions meant not to communicate, but to manipulate.

Read the entire article HERE.

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