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Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation

Via The Federalist

Susan Rice’s bizarre Inauguration Day email about that meeting helps explain the campaign of leaks, lies, and obstruction that followed.

Information released in the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case it brought against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn confirms the significance of a January 5, 2017, meeting at the Obama White House. It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration.

“President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice wrote in an unusual email to herself about the meeting that was also attended by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, and Vice President Joe Biden.

A clearer picture is emerging of the drastic steps that were taken to accomplish Obama’s goal in the following weeks and months. Shortly thereafter, high-level operatives began intensely leaking selective information supporting a supposed Russia-Trump conspiracy theory, the incoming National Security Advisor was ambushed, and the incoming Attorney General was forced to recuse himself from oversight of investigations of President Trump. At each major point in the operation, explosive media leaks were a key strategy in the operation to take down Trump.

Not only was information on Russia not fully shared with the incoming Trump team, as Obama directs, the leaks and ambushes made the transition chaotic, scared quality individuals away from working in the administration, made effective governance almost impossible, and materially damaged national security. When Comey was finally fired on May 9, in part for his duplicitousness regarding his handling of the Russia collusion theory, he orchestrated the launch of a Special Counsel probe that continued his efforts for another two years. That probe ended with Mueller finding no evidence of any American colluding with Russia to steal the 2016 election, much less Trump or anyone connected to him.

An analysis of the timeline from early 2017 shows a clear pattern of behavior from the federal officials running the collusion operation against the Trump campaign. It also shows how essential media leaks were to their strategy to sideline key law enforcement and intelligence officials and cripple the ability of the incoming Trump administration to run the country.

Here’s a timeline of the key moments and news articles of the efforts, per Obama’s direction, to prevent the Trump administration from learning about the FBI’s operation against it.

Read the entire article HERE.

These Are The Most Outrageous Coronavirus Restrictions

Via The Daily Caller

As parts of the U.S. slowly but surely reopen, many states are still imposing strict restrictions on their citizenry, restrictions that are often not grounded in science or data.

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered beaches in his state closed, despite evidence that shows the virus is extremely low risk for outdoor transmission. A study of 318 outbreaks in China found a total of two cases that occurred as a result of outdoor transmission. Studies have also shown that the virus cannot survive in the sunlight, with the White House coronavirus task force preparing for a “summer respite” from the virus. Yet, Northam is far from the only governor to ignore the science when it comes to regulating outdoor activities.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom attempted to close all beaches and state parks, before relenting following a massive backlash that included large protests and threats of disobedience. Police even arrested a solo paddleboarder in Malibu. Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker also closed outdoor activities in his state, including golfing, before backing down following threats from golf course owners in the state to reopen without his permission. Other largely safe and isolated outdoor activities such as boating have been banned throughout the country, but are beginning to come back. Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced last week that golfing and boating would be allowed to come back in his state.

Some of the harshest coronavirus restrictions came from Michigan, where Gov. Gretchen Whitmer cracked down on the sale of fruit and vegetable seeds at local grocery stores. She also prohibited the sale of other items deemed “non-essential,” including furniture, meaning that stores that were allowed to continue to operate had to tape off certain sections of their stores that contained items deemed non-essential. Whitmer’s stringent orders even went as far as to prohibit people from traveling within the state to visit friends and family. Following mass protests and national backlash, Whitmer reversed many of these orders, although her state remains under a stay at home order until the end of the month.

Read the entire article HERE.

Tennessee Police Arrest Citizen Who Escaped Forced COVID-19 Detention Camp…

Via The Conservative Treehouse

Comrades, some readers might not be aware the Ministry of COVID compliance has set up quarantine camps, detention facilities in various areas.  Formerly free citizens who test positive for COVID-19 are forcibly taken to the quarantine camps and held under guard.

Last week one of the non-compliant captives demanded his freedom; he climbed the fence and escaped detention.  After a manhunt in Tennessee the subversive citizen was recaptured, arrested and brought back to the detention facility….  Alarmed yet?

TENNESSEE – A coronavirus patient was arrested Thursday after prosecutors said he jumped a fence and fled the Nashville Fairgrounds, where health officials are using enforceable quarantines in an attempt to control an outbreak at an emergency homeless shelter.

This appears to be the first case in Nashville of police making an arrest to enforce coronavirus restrictions enacted by the local government.

[…] According to an arrest affidavit, a 39-year-old man was taken to the Nashville Fairgrounds on Monday and placed under quarantine by the Metro Nashville Public Health Department because he tested positive for the coronavirus.

Health officials told the man he could not leave until he was cleared, but on Thursday he jumped a fence and headed north on Nolensville Road, the affidavit states. He was stopped and arrested by Metro Nashville Parks police by a city cemetery nearly two miles from where he had been quarantined. Metro Parks has charged the man with a single count of escape from a penal institution. (read more)

As you can see from this example, the Tennessee Ministry of COVID Compliance cares about the health of its compliant citizens.  Authorities empowered by the Ministry will actively hunt down subversive citizens and forcibly detain them in the ongoing effort to build a new society where compliance will always provide the security you seek.

If wrong-thoughts or requests for arbitrary freedom continue to be expressed, it may become necessary for the Ministry to take enhanced enforcement action.  Please do not put the Ministry in the position of having to make such decisions. Compliance is in your best interest and re-education facilities are costly to maintain.

Relax comrades, the Ministry is sensitive to your previous rights as we initiate our new, safer, society.  The COVID Compliance Ministry appreciates good citizens who voluntarily participate in the rules of our new society. We will continue to reward good citizenship status with enhanced tax credits and social benefits allowing greater access to a safe COVID Compliant Society. A safer society; where the odds will always be in our favor.

A rogue citizen could put a compliant society at risk of infection. They may not just carry biologics they could carry a more alarming virus of wrong-thought against the interests of the state. Rogue citizens would be subversive to our new society.

Social Distancing or House Arrest…. Details, comrades,… details.

Check out all of the epic work by subversives like Sundance and the CTH folks HERE.

Swastika Mask Protest Of Nazi Gov. Gavin Newsom In San Diego Grocery Triggers Snitches

Via Just The News

The coronavirus pandemic and alt-right provocation collided in San Diego this week as sheriff’s deputies responded to an individual in a local grocery store wearing a face mask adorned with a Nazi swastika.

A press release distributed on Friday by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department stated that on Thursday evening, deputies from the county’s Santee station responded to a call from a Food 4 Less store. When they arrived, they encountered “a man wearing a mask with a swastika symbol on it.”

“When deputies asked for the symbol to be removed, the man complied. Sheriff’s Investigators will continue to look into the matter,” the press release states.

A video of the incident uploaded to the platform BitChute—a website known for its relatively hands-off approach to content regulation known for hosting far-right outlets such as InfoWars—depicts two individuals, one of whom is apparently pushing a baby in a stroller, shopping in the store. At one point a store clerk approaches the pair, telling the cameraman he “can’t have a swastika on your mask” as it’s “basically a hate crime.”

Deputies eventually show up and inform the couple that the store is allowed to set its own mask policy. “In a private store, they can make their own rules. They can enforce whatever they want,” one deputy says.

Reached via phone on Saturday, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said the deputies would not have arrested the man simply because he failed to remove the mask.  “I don’t think that they would have arrested him because it’s free speech. But I don’t know any of the circumstances of the incident,” the spokesman said.

In the video, one deputy says the shoppers may be arrested for trespassing if they fail to follow store policy, though that warning was not specifically tied to the Nazi symbol on the mask.

On the video uploaded to BitChute, the cameraman wrote that he and his wife were “peacefully protesting all the crazy lockdown rules that have been and are continuing to be enforced here in San Diego, California.”

“These crazy rules are destroying any quality of life we had left. Now we are unemployed and literally have nothing better to do and no where else we are allowed to be,” he said.

Read the entire article HERE.

Florida Republican Slams “Snitch Site” Aimed At Reporting Small Businesses

Via The Gateway Pundit

Anthony Sabatini, a freshmen lawmaker in Central Florida, circulated a letter from his office and took to his social media accounts to slam the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), for publishing a website that allows Floridians to report businesses for “violating social distancing guidelines.”  Our sources say that the DBPR’s development of the site was a “rogue” action that conflicts with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ wish to reopen the state of Florida and get the economy back to historic highs ahead of President Trump’s re-election in 2020.

Sabatini rightfully worries that the website could remain active after the COVID-19 pandemic relents, serving as a “snitch site” that could be weaponized to hurt small businesses in the Sunshine State.

Speaking exclusively to TGP, Sabatini, who also serves in the Florida National Guard and has been viewed as one of the strictest constitutionalist members of the Florida House, called it “typical of government bureaucrats”. During this crisis, Sabatini has been on the front-lines of the legislative fight, but also the emergency response from Florida’s National Guard units.

“Bureaucrats always use a crisis to expand their power and reach — instead of finding ways to help small businesses. They would rather find ways to control and punish them.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Fearing Chinese Censors, Paramount Changes ‘World War Z’

Via The Wrap

When executives at Paramount viewed the latest cut of the $175 million Brad Pitt zombie film “World War Z,” they were not concerned by the violence or its reengineered ending. They were worried about a minor plot point that involved a sensitive topic: China.

In the offending scene, characters debate the geographic origin of an outbreak that caused a zombie apocalypse and point to China, a Paramount executive told TheWrap.

Normally the detail would not have merited discussion at the top echelons of the studio. But given the fast-rising prominence of the Chinese market, state censorship and the quotas for U.S. releases, the studio advised the movie producers to drop the reference to China and cite a different country as a possible source of the pandemic, an executive with knowledge of the film told TheWrap.

The change was made in recent days in the hopes of landing a deal for one of Paramount’s biggest summer movies to play in China, the world’s fastest-growing film market.

“It’s not a huge plot point,” an individual with knowledge of the studio’s plans told TheWrap. “But it’s safe to say [they’re] going to want a release there.”

China passed Japan as the largest international source of box office revenue in 2012, contributing $2.7 billion, a 36 percent increase over the previous year. And some analysts say the Asian giant will pass the United States in standalone box office revenue by 2020.

While China has loosened its restrictions on the number of foreign films that can screen in the country, its film board continues to wield a great deal of influence, causing unprecedented changes in plots, release strategies, casting and other elements of Hollywood production.

Marvel Studios announced on Friday it would release an alternate version of “Iron Man 3” in China featuring China’s leading movie star Fan Bingbing, as well as offer specially prepared bonus footage made exclusively for the Chinese audience.

Read the entire article HERE.

Joe Biden Sold Out America to China While Working for Hollywood

Via The Sons Of Liberty

Outside the JW Marriot in Los Angeles, Rev. Eddie Perez Romero was being handcuffed by the LAPD.

Rev. Romero was holding up a “Free China” sign outside a Chinese Ministry of Commerce conference. Inside was the LAPD’s boss Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, along with Governor Jerry Brown, and Vice President Joe Biden, who were palling around with China’s future dictator, Xi Jinping.

“My hope is that Vice President Joseph Biden, Governor Jerry Brown and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will rise above any pandering spirit, but as true statesmen, intentionally blur the artificial line between the economy and human rights,” Rev. Romero said.

Biden though had a very different agenda on his mind.

It was 2012 and Joe was thinking about his future. A year earlier his best friend, Senator Chris Dodd, had left the Senate to run the MPAA. The MPAA was Hollywood’s trade association and the movie industry, reading its own writing on the wall, wanted into China, and was willing to sell its soul to make a deal.

Biden wanted Hollywood cash for a future presidential campaign.

Dodd had been one of the sleaziest figures in the Senate, even by the low standards of the era, eager to do favors for any well-heeled industry from finance to entertainment. His friendship with Biden gave him a direct pipeline into the Obama administration. And Dodd gave Biden a pipeline into Hollywood.

“Joe was our champion inside the White House,” Dodd later said.

Two years later, in 2014, Biden began an address to the MPAA by joking, “there have been the rumors all those years when Chris and I served in the Senate that although I was chairman, he controlled me.”

“We’ve just given new life to those rumors,” he continued, describing how he had left a meeting with Obama and Chancellor Merkel, telling Obama that he had to address the MPAA.

“There is no question that you’ve got the right guy with the right influence,” Biden concluded.

And that’s exactly what Biden had been proving in Los Angeles as he surrounded Xi with Hollywood tycoons, especially Jeffrey Katzenberg, a major donor to his 2020 campaign, and cut a deal with the Chinese thug to increase the quota of Hollywood movies allowed in by the Chinese Communist regime.

“Some of you were there. Literally when by end of that lunch we had a handshake,” Biden boasted to the MPAA. “The next year the number of blockbuster foreign films showing in China has increased by over half and our share of the box office revenue has doubled — or your share of the box office revenue has doubled.”

“Keep me in mind for Chris’ assistant later,” he joked.

Biden understandably lost track of the difference between “your share” and “our share” because Hollywood has been a reliable fundraising machine for Biden. What was good for Hollywood was also good for Biden. Katzenberg got Oriental Dream Works, a $330-million joint venture with the PRC, and eventually hosted Biden’s first Southern California fundraiser which brought in $700K.

2012 was a big year for the adulterous nuptials of Hollywood and the Chinese Communist Party.

A few months after the meeting between Biden and Xi, China’s Wanda Group bought AMC Theaters for $2.6 billion. The Wanda Group, run by a billionaire Communist oligarch with close ties to regime officials, is working on a Communist theme park, and its investors allegedly include Xi’s sister. Beyond just owning the theaters, Wanda owns the Legendary Group which has a hand in a long list of movies from Spike Lee’s BlacKKKlansman, to Pokemon, along with the King Kong and Jurassic Park sequels.

The only reason Hollywood movies can play in China is because the Communist leadership directly profits from them and controls what goes into them, either directly through ownership, or by forcing the industry to submit scripts for the approval of its Communist censors. HUAC would be superfluous today. The big studios who make up the MPAA are all working for the Communists. And they’re proud of it.

Read the entire article HERE.

Wrong, Bill Gates: We little people do have a choice — we can ignore the fear-mongering

By Todd Herman/MyNorthwest.com

Bill Gates: You chose your role in the marketing of the virus panic. You are the billionaire so smart that, for every human being on the planet, you have determined we have “no choice.” Our lives cannot return to normal until you, or, another party have “largely vaccinated the entire, global population.”

Wrong, Bill. We do have a choice: We can consult history, compare the actual data to your fear-words and pretense that the globe has never seen anything like this virus, and we can ask ourselves whether it’s the coronavirus or the panic you and your media partners push that has caused many people to accept the push from the WHO, the CDC, The Clinton Foundation, Jay Inslee, Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo, to name a few, that we become a super surveillance state with a centrally commanded, hobbled economy, dictatorial rules and watchers making sure we wear our masks and stay off the beaches.

Those of us who sense in the fear-mongering around the virus the highly-concentrated panic pushing the same people and entities merchandised around global: Ice age, warming, climate change, climate emergency, and can ask ourselves if we are willing to become hovel-living crawl-abouts begging for the permission to earn because of a virus that, in the United States this year, has killed half as many people as pneumonia.

We can start, Bill, by questioning you and the people surrounding you.

The great irony in all of this, Bill, is the technology you helped make a globally available tool, still — despite the efforts Silicon Valley and the media have undertaken to hide it, just as your designed when you rehearsed “controlling ‘misinformation’” during your pandemic drills — is the technology that allows us to see for ourselves just how much hyperbole you are pushing.

We can watch you selling panic, we can stand as witness to you contending that it’s somehow unique that people can carry a virus that may infect others — a fact of human existence, Bill — and we can pay close attention as all of your precious “models” are exposed as failures, like the failure of Common Core Math, the previous program you funded to experiment on society.

This morning, on my radio show, informed by data the mainstream media refuses to examine, and common sense, I addressed you directly about this, Bill, because I do have a choice and I will not be directed by you, the WHO, the CDC or any of the panic-pushers into swallowing your vision for my future.

Below is just some of the data, analysis and news I consulted for the show…

Read the entire article HERE.

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