stillnessinthestorm--2020-06-22--Why ‘Obamagate’ Could Become The Biggest Political Scandal In History, Part 2

It is with this understanding that we need to look at the evidence being declassified in the Michael Flynn case , where we see the involvement of a host of players , including FBI director James Comey , Assistant Director Andrew McCabe , agents Peter Strzok , Bill Priestap , Lisa Page , and other top players from the Department of Justice , the other intelligence agencies , and Barack Obama himself .
These players don ’ t get together regularly in a ‘ Deep State ’ meeting to discuss a ‘ Deep State ’ agenda .
Rather , these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most part legally , until such time as they are needed to do something .
The instructions from their superior , for the most part , have at least an appearance of being legitimate .
Orders given to subordinates are couched in an established narrative that suggests the legality or at least the ‘ necessity for the greater good ’ of following the orders .
Since the Deep State knows that their actions should generally have a believable supporting narrative and an arguably ‘ legal ’ predicate , you can understand how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ painstaking , detailed process .
One piece of evidence may be ambivalent , which is why it is important to piece together all the small signs of impropriety in order to establish a pattern of intentional deception .
In my opinion , the indiscretions that were committed in the Michael Flynn case indicate to me that there was quite a bit of desperation to derail Michael Flynn ’ s role in the Trump administration , and a lot of people had a hand in trying to make this happen .
Fact : A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ established The FBI opened a counterintelligence probe of Flynn in August 2016 , supposedly on the grounds that he might be a clandestine Russian agent .
That is what they have said , but they have never cited any evidence that would materially substantiate their alleged suspicions .
Flynn is a retired three-star Army general and decorated combat commander , who had by then written a book that identified Russia as a committed global adversary of the United States .
Pure suspicion , the product of one ’ s mind , is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on any U.S. citizen , let alone an Army general that has served the country for over 30 years .
Now remember that Flynn was unceremoniously dumped by Barack Obama two years earlier as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency .
It seems more reasonable to me that they were investigating Flynn on this pretext in order to keep a close eye on him , trying to find something on him that they could use on him later in case they needed to .
So little incriminating evidence was found that could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s then-director , James Comey , authorized closing the investigation dubbed “ Crossfire Razor ” in December 2016 , and the paperwork to do so was completed on Jan. 4 , 2017 .
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In my opinion , this alone should demonstrate that there was a rather urgent ulterior motive to find something incriminating on Flynn , even if they had to invent it .
When Strzok kept Crossfire Razor open on January 4th , 2017 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ transition who was designated to become the president ’ s national security adviser .
Strzok also knew that Flynn had had communications in December with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak , which has been cited as a reason to be suspicious of Flynn .
However the government was already monitoring Kislyak , so they knew what had been said in those conversations and recordings showed that Flynn did nothing inappropriate .
There was no grounds to reopen or continue the counterintelligence investigation or to begin a criminal investigation .
This other notion that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with violating the Logan Act , a moribund , unconstitutional prohibition against freelance diplomacy , seems rather absurd .
In the DOJ ’ s 150-year history , the Logan Act has never been charged .
No one has ever been convicted for violating it ; there has been no case since 1852 .
So we know that by early January of 2016 Comey had already considered the Flynn matter closed .
What could have transpired between January 4th , the day Strzok lobbied to keep the Flynn case open , and January 24th @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all proper protocols and send FBI agents into the White House to interview Michael Flynn ?
And not just any FBI agents , by the way .
The lead interviewer was none other than Peter Strzok .
If you ’ re like me , you look at this and think that it was Peter Strzok who asked James Comey to send him in to interview General Flynn .
Or , to take it a step further , some higher authority told James Comey that Strzok was going in to interview General Flynn , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bypass the normal channels , avoid telling Flynn that he was the subject of an investigation , and make Flynn feel that he didn ’ t need his lawyer present .
If we watch the following clip of James Comey from a December 2018 interview talking about the way he sent the agents to the White House , a few things about it make more sense under the circumstances suggested here .
Now let ’ s first acknowledge that Comey is pretty good at calmly and coolly creating a narrative that holds together @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of coolness or swagger can help answer the question : why indeed would he risk his reputation and knowingly breach protocol which would undoubtedly bring the righteous scorn of the incoming administration ?
Under the circumstances , there was no apparent urgency to be interviewing Flynn , especially since Comey himself had previously considered the matter closed , and no new and compelling evidence had arisen since then .
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The only thing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ told to do this post-haste from a higher authority , and Comey ’ s role would be to put out whatever fires needed to be put out as a consequence .
Under these conditions , the interesting freudian slip that Comey makes in the interview about sending the agents into the White House the way he did becomes very telling : In fact , the way things are done here indeed suggest that the investigation was disorganized and , frankly , desperate .
It almost seems as though Peter Strzok took things into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before he felt it was too late .
But how could Strzok , Comey ’ s subordinate , have the power to do this ?
This is where it gets interesting .
There is compelling evidence here that Peter Strzok has secretly been working for the CIA , and may continue to be in their employ to this day : Those who have researched into the Deep State generally agree that , unlike the other institutions it has sought to influence , the Deep State is essentially run through the CIA .
That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a logical through-line .
You can read more about the CIA ’ s role in the Deep State here .
Now if Peter Strzok is getting his marching orders from the CIA , it would be likely that then-CIA Director John Brennan ordered Strzok to get something on Flynn , as a matter of great urgency .
Brennan would know full well what Michael Flynn would find out and the information that he would have access to if he became the National Security advisor .
We will go more deeply into this later @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Corruption in the Department of Justice Fact : The FBI then sought to trap Flynn in a lie The recent release on April 29th , 2020 of a handwritten note likely written by former FBI head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap goes a long way to revealing why Strzok kept the case open .
It has Priestap asking whether the goal of interviewing Flynn was “ truth/admission or to get him to lie , so we can prosecute him or get him fired ?
” Preventing him , with prejudice , from becoming the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tied up endlessly in defending himself in court , if not getting jail time , appears to have been the focused goal .
By and large , they succeeded in their mission .
Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI .
He resigned from his position at the White House on February 17th .
Then he was forced to cooperate with the Mueller investigation , where he had to meet with the DOJ lawyers of the Mueller team a total of 19 times .
19 times !
For what ?
That seems a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Especially if we examine the actual content of the ‘ lies , ’ according to the charging documents : • “ On or about Dec. 29 , 2016 , FLYNN did not ask the Government of Russia ’ s Ambassador to the United States…to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against Russia that same day ; and FLYNN did not recall the Russian Ambassador subsequently telling him that Russia had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dec. 22 , 2016 , FLYNN did not ask the Russian Ambassador to delay the vote on or defeat a pending United Nations Security Council resolution ; and that the Russia Ambassador subsequently never described to FLYNN Russia ’ s response to his request.
” What have these ‘ lies ’ got to do with Flynn being suspected of being an agent of Russia ?
What do they have to do with Russian collusion in the 2016 election ?
Absolutely nothing .
Why would the Mueller investigation have to interview Flynn 19 times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ examination of the interview with Peter Strzok shows that Flynn ’ s statements were equivocal .
That creates significant questions about whether inaccuracies in his description of the Kislyak discussions were honest failures of recollection , not lies .
The interview happened about a month after the Kislyak communications .
In the interim , Flynn had hundreds of conversations with foreign counterparts .
It would have been a challenge for anyone to remember the words of a conversation under those circumstances ; and , in their legerdemain , the FBI strategically refused to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recordings or showing a transcript .
Strzok went out of his way to deceive Flynn about the purpose of the interview , at which he hoped to trip him up .
It is rote for FBI “ 302 ” reports — used to summarize witness interviews — to start by recounting that interviewing agents advised the subject of the nature of the interview .
But they did not do that with Flynn .
He was discouraged from consulting counsel and from reporting the FBI ’ s request to speak with him to his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given the customary advice of rights — the FBI , after officials acknowledged among themselves that they owed it to Flynn to advise him that a false statement could be grounds for prosecution , willfully withheld this admonition from him .
Speaking of the “ 302 ” report , written by the agent accompanying Peter Strzok : the “ 302 ” used in the prosecution of Michael Flynn was not the original , but rather was edited–by Peter Strzok himself .
Text messages between Strzok and his lover/accomplice FBI lawyer Lisa Page from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Michael Flynn fired his legal team on June 6 , 2019 and hired attorney Sidney Powell a week later did it eventually come to light that the original “ 302 ” was never made available to the defense .
Through Powell ’ s work , there are a lot of signs that shows that Flynn ’ s previous lawyers did not do their job properly .
Powell has consistently requested the original 302 , only to finally hear from the DOJ that the FBI ‘ lost and destroyed ’ the original 302 !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it abundantly clear that Michael Flynn actually did nothing wrong , and the edits done by Peter Strzok were clear attempts to fuel the incrimination of an innocent man ?
All roads point to that , Let ’ s be clear .
An organization like the FBI can not and would never ‘ accidentally ’ lose and destroy valuable information .
Every time we hear that an organization like the FBI has ‘ lost , ’ ‘ misplaced , ’ or ‘ accidentally destroyed ’ important self-incriminating evidence , it doesn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ written all over it .
The main problem is , most people don ’ t have the time or patience to look deeply enough into the evidence to draw the obvious conclusions they provide .
And coverups will continued to work up until there is a sufficient desire on the part of the general public to investigate the facts in detail and piece together the evidence in a way to build their own narrative about what is going on behind the scenes .
For those who maintain the validity of the mainstream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commit any crimes before , during or after the transition of the Trump administration into the White House , I would ask you this simple question : does the mainstream media ever say ‘ you don ’ t have to trust us , look at the evidence yourself and draw your own conclusions ’ ?
The answer is no .
They do not .
By and large they try to assure you that THEY can be trusted , and you shouldn ’ t bother to do all that investigative work yourself .
After @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ sources ’ and well-connected ‘ officials.
’ You may have noticed that more and more you are not told who these people actually are .
Up until the rise of the internet and social media , this has been an easy game for them to play .
The mainstream media has long had domain over ‘ normal ’ perception , and have made the general public comfortable with that perception , because it is the same perception they have had since their childhood .
This always gave them some kind of tacit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ( a CIA term designed to dissuade people from looking deeper ) all attempts to investigate what is going on behind the scenes .
The mainstream media is the greatest tool the Deep State has used in the coverup of high-level crimes .
Note that CIA involvement in mainstream media is now well documented and incontestable , as discussed here and here .
With the rise of the internet , it is a lot easier to proliferate facts and important details .
This is helping us realize that , by and large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all the important details in making their case .
With respect to Michael Flynn , they keep pounding away at the fact that he admitted to lying .
And then they ridiculed the idea that he was withdrawing his guilty plea as though it was some sort of legal ploy .
But note–they never provide the real reasons that Flynn has withdrawn his guilty plea .
They don ’ t talk about the serious failings of his original legal defense team , the withholding of exculpatory information by the original DOJ prosecutors and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Judge Emmet Sullivan that continues to this day .
Each one of these aspects of the Michael Flynn case is rife with evidence of malfeasance worthy of its own deep investigative article .
And that ’ s just the Michael Flynn case .
The same can be said about the cases of Carter Page , George Papadopoulos , and Paul Manafort .
All three of them were surveilled as a consequence of FISA warrants that are being shown to have been obtained illegally and without a reasonable predicate .
And then illegal FISA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ iceberg in terms of the use of Russia as the tried-and-true ‘ Boogey Man ’ to get a majority of the public against Donald Trump and his administration , as a means to find a way to get him out of office .
This is not at all to say that Russia is truly a harmless ally .
Not at all .
But that is the subject of a far different discussion .
What is being said here is that the proposition that “ Donald Trump was colluding with Russia ” was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been trying to substantiate since before the 2016 election .
And again , logic would dictate that the only reason they would ever devote so much time , money and human resources to this deception is because they saw it as the only way they would be able to continue to hide their serious criminal activities .
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The ‘ official ’ story Comey told the House Intelligence Committee was that he alerted CIA Director John Brennan as soon as he learned about the Flynn calls .
Regardless , what is said to have happened in this meeting is that President Obama was briefed by Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about Michael Flynn .
The story is that they were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , though that seems to be a smoke screen now as we know the intel agencies had recordings of those phone calls all along and there was nothing incriminating within them .
What makes more sense is that Brennan and Clapper were trying to impress upon Obama the urgency of preventing Michael Flynn from becoming Trump ’ s National Security Advisor .
At the end of the meeting , the president asked FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to stay behind .
Joining them were Vice President Joe Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yates recounted during a 2017 interview with special counsel Robert Mueller ’ s team that Obama began by saying “ he had learned of the information about Flynn ” and his conversations with Kislyak regarding the sanctions on Russia .
This was very surprising to Yates , who as the Justice Department ’ s No .
2 official oversaw the FBI but had not been told about it .
She was obviously on a ‘ need-to-know ’ basis about this matter from some higher authority .
One can only speculate what exactly was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is where James Comey may have been told that the Flynn investigation needed to remain open and Comey had to redouble his agency ’ s efforts to find something on Flynn .
Surely if these sorts of maneuvers were being discussed they would have to all agree on a ‘ cover ’ story to explain what this meeting was all about , convened as it was only 15 days before president-elect Donald Trump was to take office .
Just the fact that the outgoing administration is focused on this matter rather than tending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would most benefit the American people would raise eyebrows .
It seems almost the result of paranoia that Susan Rice would send an email to herself only a few hours after Donald trump ’ s inauguration iterating the story that was made for public consumption , if in fact news about this meeting ever came out .
Rice insists in an email to herself that things are being done ‘ by the book.
’ She repeats that phrase 3 times in this short email .
As they say in Shakespeare ’ s Macbeth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too much.
” If we refer back to the gold mine of hidden information that keeps on giving , the text messages between Peter Strzok and his accomplice/lover Lisa Page , we find out that the official story that Barack Obama ‘ is not asking about , initiating , or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective ’ as a matter of course is severely put into question .
In a Sept. 2 , 2016 text exchange , Page writes that she was preparing talking points because “ potus wants to know everything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who don ’ t know , ‘ POTUS ’ is an acronym for ‘ President of the United States ’ .
What They Might Be Trying To Hide Again , I would love to dive more deeply into the nature of the crimes that will hopefully get revealed as “ Obamagate ” unfolds through the current Senate Judiciary Committee hearings and the investigative work being done by prosecutor John Durham and others , but I ’ m unfortunately past my time limit and length limit for one article .
As I ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of searching for the truth behind a well-constructed wall of deception .
It is a slow and difficult process , and there is little money available to pay journalists whose sole objective is to find the truth , while there is a virtually unlimited supply of money for those willing to participate in the skillful suppression and obfuscation of the truth .
Let me just say for now that the ultimate goal of the Deep State is the creation of a global authority , in which those at the top of the Deep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the rulers of the planet , very much aligned with the doctrine of the “ divine right of kings.
” What is different in this day and age is that information , and not brute force , is the true measure of power .
In order to accomplish total control over the world , it has been necessary to slowly build a comprehensive and weaponized surveillance grid throughout the world .
The surveillance grid in China , built on the back of American technology that has been strategically leaked to China by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supposed Chinese ‘ hack ’ of Hillary Clinton ’ s private server which contained classified information as one example ) seems to be the model that the Deep State was looking to proliferate worldwide , both technologically and politically .
Now getting this done in the United States would probably be the biggest challenge , but through the Obama administration a lot of progress was made in building the domestic surveillance infrastructure and actually putting it into practice .
In an article I wrote entitled ‘ The Hidden Reason The ‘ Russia Collusion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I provide evidence that a surveillance system secretly referred to as The ‘ Hammer , ’ designed by software design genius Dennis Montgomery for foreign surveillance , was weaponized and turned against the American people .
The following is from the article , which I would call a must-read if you want to get to the heart of ‘ Obamagate ’ : It should not come as any surprise that James Comey sat on the voluminous whistleblower testimony he received from Montgomery and to this day this information has not been officially acknowledged @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the information has only come out through the work of brave investigative journalists that my article gets much of its information from whose sole motivation is to reveal the truth .
I would like to reiterate what those journalists have said , and what all those whose sole objective is to uncover the truth have said : You don ’ t have to trust me .
In fact you shouldn ’ t .
Please do your own research .
Follow the facts where they lead you to .
Be a relentless seeker of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of people do that , all this deception will no longer have a place to hide .

The Michael Flynn Case
It is with this understanding that we need to look at the evidence being declassified in the Michael Flynn case, where we see the involvement of a host of players, including FBI director James Comey, Assistant Director Andrew McCabe, agents Peter Strzok, Bill Priestap, Lisa Page, and other top players from the Department of Justice, the other intelligence agencies, and Barack Obama himself. These players don’t get together regularly in a ‘Deep State’ meeting to discuss a ‘Deep State’ agenda. Rather, these players go about their jobs, for the most part legally, until such time as they are needed to do something. The instructions from their superior, for the most part, have at least an appearance of being legitimate. Orders given to subordinates are couched in an established narrative that suggests the legality or at least the ‘necessity for the greater good’ of following the orders.
Since the Deep State knows that their actions should generally have a believable supporting narrative and an arguably ‘legal’ predicate, you can understand how uncovering the criminality is somewhat of a painstaking, detailed process. One piece of evidence may be ambivalent, which is why it is important to piece together all the small signs of impropriety in order to establish a pattern of intentional deception. In my opinion, the indiscretions that were committed in the Michael Flynn case indicate to me that there was quite a bit of desperation to derail Michael Flynn’s role in the Trump administration, and a lot of people had a hand in trying to make this happen.
Fact: A clear predicate to investigate Flynn was never established
The FBI opened a counterintelligence probe of Flynn in August 2016, supposedly on the grounds that he might be a clandestine Russian agent. That is what they have said, but they have never cited any evidence that would materially substantiate their alleged suspicions. Flynn is a retired three-star Army general and decorated combat commander, who had by then written a book that identified Russia as a committed global adversary of the United States. Pure suspicion, the product of one’s mind, is not a sufficient predicate to open an investigation on any U.S. citizen, let alone an Army general that has served the country for over 30 years.
Now remember that Flynn was unceremoniously dumped by Barack Obama two years earlier as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. It seems more reasonable to me that they were investigating Flynn on this pretext in order to keep a close eye on him, trying to find something on him that they could use on him later in case they needed to. So little incriminating evidence was found that could be used against Flynn that the FBI’s then-director, James Comey, authorized closing the investigation dubbed “Crossfire Razor” in December 2016, and the paperwork to do so was completed on Jan. 4, 2017.
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Fact: FBI Agent Peter Strzok overruled and kept the Flynn Investigation open
Court documents released on April 30th, 2020 revealed that FBI agent Peter Strzok sent the following text message to the investigating agent on that same day, Jan. 4, 2017:
“Hey if you haven’t closed RAZOR, don’t do so yet. Pls keep it open for now.”
The internal FBI documents detailed a pattern showing multiple efforts to uncover criminal activity by Flynn, as outlined in this Washington Times article:
FBI officials reached out to another agency, likely the CIA, to conduct a similar search of its records for possible ties between Flynn and Russia. Just like the FBI, that agency found “no derogatory information” on Flynn. The FBI also used at least one confidential human source to monitor Flynn during the investigation. But leads offered by the informant also failed to turn up criminal activity, the memo said. Based on the lack of evidence, the FBI closed the investigation but noted it would consider reopening it if new information was uncovered. Yet, Mr. Strzok, the case supervisor, pushed to keep it open, according to the memo. In another text to an unknown person, he noted that the FBI’s leadership was involved and they still “need to decide what to do with him [with respect to] the [Redacted].”
In my opinion, this alone should demonstrate that there was a rather urgent ulterior motive to find something incriminating on Flynn, even if they had to invent it.
When Strzok kept Crossfire Razor open on January 4th, 2017, Flynn was an official in the Trump transition who was designated to become the president’s national security adviser. Strzok also knew that Flynn had had communications in December with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which has been cited as a reason to be suspicious of Flynn. However the government was already monitoring Kislyak, so they knew what had been said in those conversations and recordings showed that Flynn did nothing inappropriate. There was no grounds to reopen or continue the counterintelligence investigation or to begin a criminal investigation.
This other notion that the DOJ was looking to charge Flynn criminally with violating the Logan Act, a moribund, unconstitutional prohibition against freelance diplomacy, seems rather absurd. In the DOJ’s 150-year history, the Logan Act has never been charged. No one has ever been convicted for violating it; there has been no case since 1852.
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Fact: James Comey Knowingly Broke Protocols To Interview Flynn
So we know that by early January of 2016 Comey had already considered the Flynn matter closed. What could have transpired between January 4th, the day Strzok lobbied to keep the Flynn case open, and January 24th, when James Comey deciding to bypass all proper protocols and send FBI agents into the White House to interview Michael Flynn? And not just any FBI agents, by the way. The lead interviewer was none other than Peter Strzok.
If you’re like me, you look at this and think that it was Peter Strzok who asked James Comey to send him in to interview General Flynn. Or, to take it a step further, some higher authority told James Comey that Strzok was going in to interview General Flynn, and furthermore got Comey to agree to bypass the normal channels, avoid telling Flynn that he was the subject of an investigation, and make Flynn feel that he didn’t need his lawyer present.
If we watch the following clip of James Comey from a December 2018 interview talking about the way he sent the agents to the White House, a few things about it make more sense under the circumstances suggested here.
Now let’s first acknowledge that Comey is pretty good at calmly and coolly creating a narrative that holds together pretty well. Yet, no amount of coolness or swagger can help answer the question: why indeed would he risk his reputation and knowingly breach protocol which would undoubtedly bring the righteous scorn of the incoming administration? Under the circumstances, there was no apparent urgency to be interviewing Flynn, especially since Comey himself had previously considered the matter closed, and no new and compelling evidence had arisen since then.
The only thing that makes sense is that Comey was told to do this post-haste from a higher authority, and Comey’s role would be to put out whatever fires needed to be put out as a consequence. Under these conditions, the interesting freudian slip that Comey makes in the interview about sending the agents into the White House the way he did becomes very telling:
“Something we, I probably wouldn’t have done or gotten away with in a more organized investigation, (pause) a more organized administration.”
In fact, the way things are done here indeed suggest that the investigation was disorganized and, frankly, desperate. It almost seems as though Peter Strzok took things into his own hands and forced this interview before he felt it was too late.
But how could Strzok, Comey’s subordinate, have the power to do this?
This is where it gets interesting. There is compelling evidence here that Peter Strzok has secretly been working for the CIA, and may continue to be in their employ to this day:
Peter Strzok worked 24 years for the CIA. His job title was Chief of their Counterespionage Group. The FBI never had such a unit. A joint CIA/FBI position was created by Congress in 1996. Strzok was “a senior FBI official” by being the CIA’s Chief of Counterespionage.
Those who have researched into the Deep State generally agree that, unlike the other institutions it has sought to influence, the Deep State is essentially run through the CIA. That gives the sequence of events here has a logical through-line. You can read more about the CIA’s role in the Deep State here.
Now if Peter Strzok is getting his marching orders from the CIA, it would be likely that then-CIA Director John Brennan ordered Strzok to get something on Flynn, as a matter of great urgency. Brennan would know full well what Michael Flynn would find out and the information that he would have access to if he became the National Security advisor. We will go more deeply into this later.
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Fact: The FBI then sought to trap Flynn in a lie
The recent release on April 29th, 2020 of a handwritten note likely written by former FBI head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap goes a long way to revealing why Strzok kept the case open. It has Priestap asking whether the goal of interviewing Flynn was “truth/admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Preventing him, with prejudice, from becoming the National Security advisor, and keeping him tied up endlessly in defending himself in court, if not getting jail time, appears to have been the focused goal. By and large, they succeeded in their mission. Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI. He resigned from his position at the White House on February 17th.
Then he was forced to cooperate with the Mueller investigation, where he had to meet with the DOJ lawyers of the Mueller team a total of 19 times. 19 times! For what? That seems a little excessive, doesn’t it? Especially if we examine the actual content of the ‘lies,’ according to the charging documents:
“On or about Dec. 29, 2016, FLYNN did not ask the Government of Russia’s Ambassador to the United States…to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against Russia that same day; and FLYNN did not recall the Russian Ambassador subsequently telling him that Russia had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request.”
“On or about Dec. 22, 2016, FLYNN did not ask the Russian Ambassador to delay the vote on or defeat a pending United Nations Security Council resolution; and that the Russia Ambassador subsequently never described to FLYNN Russia’s response to his request.”
What have these ‘lies’ got to do with Flynn being suspected of being an agent of Russia? What do they have to do with Russian collusion in the 2016 election? Absolutely nothing. Why would the Mueller investigation have to interview Flynn 19 times? Think logically.
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Furthermore, an examination of the interview with Peter Strzok shows that Flynn’s statements were equivocal. That creates significant questions about whether inaccuracies in his description of the Kislyak discussions were honest failures of recollection, not lies. The interview happened about a month after the Kislyak communications. In the interim, Flynn had hundreds of conversations with foreign counterparts. It would have been a challenge for anyone to remember the words of a conversation under those circumstances; and, in their legerdemain, the FBI strategically refused to refresh Flynn’s recollection by playing recordings or showing a transcript.
Strzok went out of his way to deceive Flynn about the purpose of the interview, at which he hoped to trip him up. It is rote for FBI “302” reports — used to summarize witness interviews — to start by recounting that interviewing agents advised the subject of the nature of the interview. But they did not do that with Flynn. He was discouraged from consulting counsel and from reporting the FBI’s request to speak with him to his White House chain-of-command. He was not given the customary advice of rights — the FBI, after officials acknowledged among themselves that they owed it to Flynn to advise him that a false statement could be grounds for prosecution, willfully withheld this admonition from him.
Speaking of the “302” report, written by the agent accompanying Peter Strzok: the “302” used in the prosecution of Michael Flynn was not the original, but rather was edited–by Peter Strzok himself. Text messages between Strzok and his lover/accomplice FBI lawyer Lisa Page from February 2017 reveal this.
“Lisa, you didn’t see it before my edits that went into what I sent to you. I was trying to completely re-write the thing so as to save [redacted] voice and 2) get it out to you for general review and comment in anticipation of needing it soon… [I’m] trying not to completely re-write [it].”
Only after Michael Flynn fired his legal team on June 6, 2019 and hired attorney Sidney Powell a week later did it eventually come to light that the original “302” was never made available to the defense. Through Powell’s work, there are a lot of signs that shows that Flynn’s previous lawyers did not do their job properly. Powell has consistently requested the original 302, only to finally hear from the DOJ that the FBI ‘lost and destroyed’ the original 302!
Would the original “302” makes it abundantly clear that Michael Flynn actually did nothing wrong, and the edits done by Peter Strzok were clear attempts to fuel the incrimination of an innocent man? All roads point to that, Let’s be clear. An organization like the FBI cannot and would never ‘accidentally’ lose and destroy valuable information. Every time we hear that an organization like the FBI has ‘lost,’ ‘misplaced,’ or ‘accidentally destroyed’ important self-incriminating evidence, it doesn’t take a genius to see ‘coverup’ written all over it. The main problem is, most people don’t have the time or patience to look deeply enough into the evidence to draw the obvious conclusions they provide. And coverups will continued to work up until there is a sufficient desire on the part of the general public to investigate the facts in detail and piece together the evidence in a way to build their own narrative about what is going on behind the scenes.
The Evidence Is Overwhelming
For those who maintain the validity of the mainstream narrative that the Obama Administration did not commit any crimes before, during or after the transition of the Trump administration into the White House, I would ask you this simple question: does the mainstream media ever say ‘you don’t have to trust us, look at the evidence yourself and draw your own conclusions’? The answer is no. They do not. By and large they try to assure you that THEY can be trusted, and you shouldn’t bother to do all that investigative work yourself. After all, their information comes from trusted ‘sources’ and well-connected ‘officials.’ You may have noticed that more and more you are not told who these people actually are.
Up until the rise of the internet and social media, this has been an easy game for them to play. The mainstream media has long had domain over ‘normal’ perception, and have made the general public comfortable with that perception, because it is the same perception they have had since their childhood. This always gave them some kind of tacit authority to ridicule as ‘conspiracy theory’ (a CIA term designed to dissuade people from looking deeper) all attempts to investigate what is going on behind the scenes. The mainstream media is the greatest tool the Deep State has used in the coverup of high-level crimes. Note that CIA involvement in mainstream media is now well documented and incontestable, as discussed here and here.
With the rise of the internet, it is a lot easier to proliferate facts and important details. This is helping us realize that, by and large, the mainstream media do not provide all the important details in making their case. With respect to Michael Flynn, they keep pounding away at the fact that he admitted to lying. And then they ridiculed the idea that he was withdrawing his guilty plea as though it was some sort of legal ploy. But note–they never provide the real reasons that Flynn has withdrawn his guilty plea. They don’t talk about the serious failings of his original legal defense team, the withholding of exculpatory information by the original DOJ prosecutors and the FBI, the serious overreach of Judge Emmet Sullivan that continues to this day. Each one of these aspects of the Michael Flynn case is rife with evidence of malfeasance worthy of its own deep investigative article.
And that’s just the Michael Flynn case. The same can be said about the cases of Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Paul Manafort. All three of them were surveilled as a consequence of FISA warrants that are being shown to have been obtained illegally and without a reasonable predicate.
And then illegal FISA warrants are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the use of Russia as the tried-and-true ‘Boogey Man’ to get a majority of the public against Donald Trump and his administration, as a means to find a way to get him out of office. This is not at all to say that Russia is truly a harmless ally. Not at all. But that is the subject of a far different discussion. What is being said here is that the proposition that “Donald Trump was colluding with Russia” was a completely fabricated premise that the Deep State have been trying to substantiate since before the 2016 election. And again, logic would dictate that the only reason they would ever devote so much time, money and human resources to this deception is because they saw it as the only way they would be able to continue to hide their serious criminal activities.
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The Oval Office Meeting
As a for-instance, there was an extraordinary meeting in the Oval Office on January 5th, just one day after Peter Strzok made the move to keep the Flynn investigation open, possibly on orders from CIA Director John Brennan as we discussed above. The ‘official’ story Comey told the House Intelligence Committee was that he alerted CIA Director John Brennan as soon as he learned about the Flynn calls. Regardless, what is said to have happened in this meeting is that President Obama was briefed by Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about Michael Flynn. The story is that they were concerned about Flynn’s phone calls, though that seems to be a smoke screen now as we know the intel agencies had recordings of those phone calls all along and there was nothing incriminating within them. What makes more sense is that Brennan and Clapper were trying to impress upon Obama the urgency of preventing Michael Flynn from becoming Trump’s National Security Advisor.
At the end of the meeting, the president asked FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to stay behind. Joining them were Vice President Joe Biden and National Security Adviser Susan Rice. Yates recounted during a 2017 interview with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that Obama began by saying “he had learned of the information about Flynn” and his conversations with Kislyak regarding the sanctions on Russia.
This was very surprising to Yates, who as the Justice Department’s No. 2 official oversaw the FBI but had not been told about it. She was obviously on a ‘need-to-know’ basis about this matter from some higher authority. One can only speculate what exactly was said during this meeting, but here is where James Comey may have been told that the Flynn investigation needed to remain open and Comey had to redouble his agency’s efforts to find something on Flynn.
Surely if these sorts of maneuvers were being discussed they would have to all agree on a ‘cover’ story to explain what this meeting was all about, convened as it was only 15 days before president-elect Donald Trump was to take office. Just the fact that the outgoing administration is focused on this matter rather than tending to the transition in a way that would most benefit the American people would raise eyebrows. It seems almost the result of paranoia that Susan Rice would send an email to herself only a few hours after Donald trump’s inauguration iterating the story that was made for public consumption, if in fact news about this meeting ever came out.
Rice insists in an email to herself that things are being done ‘by the book.’ She repeats that phrase 3 times in this short email. As they say in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, “Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”
If we refer back to the gold mine of hidden information that keeps on giving, the text messages between Peter Strzok and his accomplice/lover Lisa Page, we find out that the official story that Barack Obama ‘is not asking about, initiating, or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective’ as a matter of course is severely put into question. In a Sept. 2, 2016 text exchange, Page writes that she was preparing talking points because “potus wants to know everything we’re doing.” For those who don’t know, ‘POTUS’ is an acronym for ‘President of the United States’.
What They Might Be Trying To Hide
Again, I would love to dive more deeply into the nature of the crimes that will hopefully get revealed as “Obamagate” unfolds through the current Senate Judiciary Committee hearings and the investigative work being done by prosecutor John Durham and others, but I’m unfortunately past my time limit and length limit for one article. As I’ve said before, this is the nature of searching for the truth behind a well-constructed wall of deception. It is a slow and difficult process, and there is little money available to pay journalists whose sole objective is to find the truth, while there is a virtually unlimited supply of money for those willing to participate in the skillful suppression and obfuscation of the truth.
Let me just say for now that the ultimate goal of the Deep State is the creation of a global authority, in which those at the top of the Deep State pyramid simply continue to appoint themselves as the rulers of the planet, very much aligned with the doctrine of the “divine right of kings.” What is different in this day and age is that information, and not brute force, is the true measure of power. In order to accomplish total control over the world, it has been necessary to slowly build a comprehensive and weaponized surveillance grid throughout the world. The surveillance grid in China, built on the back of American technology that has been strategically leaked to China by Deep State American actors (think the supposed Chinese ‘hack’ of Hillary Clinton’s private server which contained classified information as one example) seems to be the model that the Deep State was looking to proliferate worldwide, both technologically and politically.
Now getting this done in the United States would probably be the biggest challenge, but through the Obama administration a lot of progress was made in building the domestic surveillance infrastructure and actually putting it into practice. In an article I wrote entitled ‘The Hidden Reason The ‘Russia Collusion’ Investigation Ever Got Started,‘ I provide evidence that a surveillance system secretly referred to as The ‘Hammer,’ designed by software design genius Dennis Montgomery for foreign surveillance, was weaponized and turned against the American people. The following is from the article, which I would call a must-read if you want to get to the heart of ‘Obamagate’:
Montgomery eventually discovered that his surveillance system was being used against the American people. And so on August 19th, 2015, Montgomery turned whistleblower and alerted FBI Director James Comey’s office in 2015 that President Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had turned the super-surveillance system that Montgomery designed for foreign surveillance into a domestic surveillance system. Montgomery asserts that Obama, Brennan, and Clapper used ‘The Hammer’ in a diabolically intrusive manner in order to spy on the American people and collect massive amounts of surveillance data for “leverage” and “blackmail.”
It should not come as any surprise that James Comey sat on the voluminous whistleblower testimony he received from Montgomery and to this day this information has not been officially acknowledged. As indicated in the article, the information has only come out through the work of brave investigative journalists that my article gets much of its information from whose sole motivation is to reveal the truth.
I would like to reiterate what those journalists have said, and what all those whose sole objective is to uncover the truth have said: You don’t have to trust me. In fact you shouldn’t. Please do your own research. Follow the facts where they lead you to. Be a relentless seeker of the truth. Once a critical mass of people do that, all this deception will no longer have a place to hide.


stillnessinthestorm--2020-06-22--Loneliness: A Health Problem That Could Be Deadlier Than Obesity, Study Says

( ) Loneliness can reliably be linked to a significant increase in the risk of early mortality , according to a study at Brigham Young University .
Head author , Julianne Holt-Lunstad , notes that “ substantial evidence now indicates that individuals lacking social connections ( both objective and subjective social isolation ) are at risk for premature mortality.
” Related Black Woman EDUCATES Woke Liberals in Streets of Seattle On Dems Historical Racism ( VIDEO ) Holt-Lunstad believes the risks associated with loneliness are already greater than such established dangers as obesity : Furthermore , she warns that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ epidemic proportions by 2030 unless action is taken.
” Why Are We So Isolated From Each Other ?
From the long view , it can be said that Western civilization as a whole has fostered a gradual disintegration of our physical and social ties .
With an emphasis on individual goals and an almost fanatical regard for personal achievement , the traditional institutions of family and community and their capacity to provide their members with a sense of belonging and shared purpose have become significantly fragmented .
The family unit has gone from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and immediate units , sometimes involving single parents whose necessities make it very difficult to create a stable home environment for their children .
Add to that the fact that more and more people are not even building families , and our society has more people living alone than at any other time in history .
This includes the elderly , who are less likely to find a ‘ fit ’ living within their children ’ s families than ever before .
The decline of the ‘ community ’ is perhaps as significant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In Western-style communities , people work as a collection of individual units interacting by specific functions rather than as an interrelated whole with a significant shared identity .
Naturally , attempts are made today to join or build ‘ communities ’ all the time , but like the Meetup model , they are founded on the gathering of select people with similar interests and purposes , rather than a shared embrace of all people within a certain geographical area .
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I believe the rise in prominence of social media has in part been fuelled by the sense of alienation we have long felt within our modern society .
I don ’ t believe social media is the root cause of our loneliness , as some speculate , but rather a symptom of this much longer-standing social problem .
Connecting via chats and web pages is just something that we have gotten into the habit of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accessible .
But like any quick fix , it does not end up fulfilling our deeper needs , either individually or as a society .
If we see that our society has been slowly disintegrating over hundreds of years , then it becomes incumbent upon us as a society ( if we can still even identify ourselves with our ‘ society ’ ) to take measures to remedy this situation .
What those measures might be , though , given how things seem to be trending , is a matter of great conjecture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to first acknowledge that Western society ’ s emphasis on the individual is not necessarily a bad thing .
In fact , I believe that the development of personal integrity , creativity , and autonomy is a critical step in the evolution of human consciousness .
Learning how to be alone with oneself is a part of that process .
In his work entitled Pensées , French philosopher Blaise Pascal observed that “ All of humanity ’ s problems stem from man ’ s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one can be perfectly content in isolation .
This can be greatly facilitated by the practice of meditation and other such methods that give us a direct perception of our energetic connectedness not only with other people , but with all things .
In this higher state , the damaging emotional impact of loneliness and social isolation are not experienced .
Still , the life of the yogi remains for the few .
The rest of us , it seems , have come to this planet to interact , share , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into this dense physical world to get better at virtual relationships .
At this stage , we have perhaps gotten a bit too accustomed to social isolation for our own good .
Holt-Lunstad notes that “ although living alone can offer conveniences and advantages for an individual , this meta-analysis indicates that physical health is not among them.
” She also cites another study that “ has demonstrated higher survival rates for those who are more socially connected.
” And then there is the seminal 75-Year Harvard University study , where “ it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supportive relationships , men in the study were not happy.
” The message is becoming clear : we need to come together .
We are perhaps at a larger turning point in our development than most of us realize .
It seems that we have reached the extreme edge of the exploration of individualism , and we are readying to move into greater balance with a collective identity .
This is not a return to traditional ways , but rather a synthesis of our growth as individuals with the shared experience we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the next stage of our evolution .
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My Master ’ s thesis on “ The Anatomy of Self-Overcoming in Nietzsche ” was only the beginning of my journey of exploration into consciousness .
I have since lived and taught in Korea , studied yoga in India , written a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conversation ” , built a film and theater production company ( pandorasboxoffice.ca ) , and started a family .
While I endeavor to foster positive change in the world through my works , I hold fast to CE ’ s maxim ‘ Change starts within ’ .
I am humbled and grateful to have joined the CE team as of April 2018 as a contributing writer .
You can reach me at richard @ collective-evolution.com Stillness in the Storm Editor : Why did we post this ?
The news is important to all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to know new things about the world , which leads to the development of more life goals that lead to life wisdom .
The news also serves as a social connection tool , as we tend to relate to those who know about and believe the things we do .
With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand , the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper .
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( ) Loneliness can reliably be linked to a significant increase in the risk of early mortality, according to a study at Brigham Young University. Head author, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, notes that “substantial evidence now indicates that individuals lacking social connections (both objective and subjective social isolation) are at risk for premature mortality.”
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Source – Collective Evolution
by , May 25th, 2020
Holt-Lunstad believes the risks associated with loneliness are already greater than such established dangers as obesity:
Several decades ago scientists who observed widespread dietary and behavior changes raised warnings about obesity and related health problems. The present obesity epidemic had been predicted. Obesity now receives constant coverage in the media and in public health policy. The current status of research on the risks of loneliness and social isolation is similar to that of research on obesity 3 decades ago… Current evidence indicates that heightened risk for mortality from a lack of social relationships is greater than that from obesity.
Furthermore, she warns that “researchers have predicted that loneliness will reach epidemic proportions by 2030 unless action is taken.”
Why Are We So Isolated From Each Other?
From the long view, it can be said that Western civilization as a whole has fostered a gradual disintegration of our physical and social ties. With an emphasis on individual goals and an almost fanatical regard for personal achievement, the traditional institutions of family and community and their capacity to provide their members with a sense of belonging and shared purpose have become significantly fragmented.
The family unit has gone from large generations-linked mutual support systems to small and immediate units, sometimes involving single parents whose necessities make it very difficult to create a stable home environment for their children. Add to that the fact that more and more people are not even building families, and our society has more people living alone than at any other time in history. This includes the elderly, who are less likely to find a ‘fit’ living within their children’s families than ever before.
The decline of the ‘community’ is perhaps as significant as the disintegration of the family unit. In Western-style communities, people work as a collection of individual units interacting by specific functions rather than as an interrelated whole with a significant shared identity. Naturally, attempts are made today to join or build ‘communities’ all the time, but like the Meetup model, they are founded on the gathering of select people with similar interests and purposes, rather than a shared embrace of all people within a certain geographical area.
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The Rise of Social Media
I believe the rise in prominence of social media has in part been fuelled by the sense of alienation we have long felt within our modern society. I don’t believe social media is the root cause of our loneliness, as some speculate, but rather a symptom of this much longer-standing social problem. Connecting via chats and web pages is just something that we have gotten into the habit of reaching for since it is so immediately accessible. But like any quick fix, it does not end up fulfilling our deeper needs, either individually or as a society.
If we see that our society has been slowly disintegrating over hundreds of years, then it becomes incumbent upon us as a society (if we can still even identify ourselves with our ‘society’) to take measures to remedy this situation. What those measures might be, though, given how things seem to be trending, is a matter of great conjecture.
On Being Alone
One approach is to first acknowledge that Western society’s emphasis on the individual is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I believe that the development of personal integrity, creativity, and autonomy is a critical step in the evolution of human consciousness. Learning how to be alone with oneself is a part of that process. In his work entitled Pensées, French philosopher Blaise Pascal observed that “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
As evidenced by Eastern gurus and mystics, one can be perfectly content in isolation. This can be greatly facilitated by the practice of meditation and other such methods that give us a direct perception of our energetic connectedness not only with other people, but with all things. In this higher state, the damaging emotional impact of loneliness and social isolation are not experienced.
Our Next Step
Still, the life of the yogi remains for the few. The rest of us, it seems, have come to this planet to interact, share, and love. And we have not incarnated into this dense physical world to get better at virtual relationships. At this stage, we have perhaps gotten a bit too accustomed to social isolation for our own good.
Holt-Lunstad notes that “although living alone can offer conveniences and advantages for an individual, this meta-analysis indicates that physical health is not among them.” She also cites another study that “has demonstrated higher survival rates for those who are more socially connected.” And then there is the seminal 75-Year Harvard University study, where “it was universally clear that without loving and supportive relationships, men in the study were not happy.” The message is becoming clear: we need to come together.
We are perhaps at a larger turning point in our development than most of us realize. It seems that we have reached the extreme edge of the exploration of individualism, and we are readying to move into greater balance with a collective identity. This is not a return to traditional ways, but rather a synthesis of our growth as individuals with the shared experience we are now hungering for. This synthesis signifies the next stage of our evolution.
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About The Author
My Master’s thesis on “The Anatomy of Self-Overcoming in Nietzsche” was only the beginning of my journey of exploration into consciousness. I have since lived and taught in Korea, studied yoga in India, written a book entitled “Parables for the New Conversation”, built a film and theater production company (pandorasboxoffice.ca), and started a family. While I endeavor to foster positive change in the world through my works, I hold fast to CE’s maxim ‘Change starts within’. I am humbled and grateful to have joined the CE team as of April 2018 as a contributing writer. You can reach me at richard@collective-evolution.com
Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
The news is important to all people because it is where we come to know new things about the world, which leads to the development of more life goals that lead to life wisdom. The news also serves as a social connection tool, as we tend to relate to those who know about and believe the things we do. With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand, the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper.
– Justin
Not sure how to make sense of this? Want to learn how to discern like a pro? Read this essential guide to discernment, analysis of claims, and understanding the truth in a world of deception: 4 Key Steps of Discernment – Advanced Truth-Seeking Tools.
Stillness in the Storm Editor’s note: Did you find a spelling error or grammatical mistake? Send an email to corrections@stillnessinthestorm.com, with the error and suggested correction, along with the headline and url. Do you think this article needs an update? Or do you just have some feedback? Send us an email at sitsshow@gmail.com. Thank you for reading.
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stillnessinthestorm--2020-06-22--Another Shooting in Lawless CHAZ, Streamer Has Phone Stolen By Goon Demanding He Erase Evidence

( Cassandra Fairbanks ) Multiple shootings have been reported in the lawless “ CHAZ ” area of Seattle just days after two people were shot there , one of them fatal .
A man who was filming had his phone taken by one of the CHAZ “ protesters ” who was demanding that he delete his footage .
The idiot thief did not realize that it was livestreaming and continued to film from the stolen phone , also broadcasting his face .
From the sound of the livestream footage coming from the scene , there may be multiple people shot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for medics .
At least one person is in serious condition , according to a spokesperson from Harborview Medical Center ’ s Emergency Department .
Ironically , the Seattle Protest Network seemed to complain about the lack of police response to the violence .
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Following Saturday ’ s shooting in the zone , the Seattle Police Department was prevented from being able to reach the victim due to the “ protesters.
” They also shared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went there .
Police Officers Guild President Michael Solan blasted Seattle ’ s leadership on Saturday for enabling the conditions that are making it unsafe for police officers to do their job in the city .
“ And again , we ’ re left wondering , what ’ s next ?
” he asked .
“ And , now our elected officials have removed our ability to have less lethal chemical munitions that are effective for us to disburse unruly , violent crowds to protect those police facilities , let alone ourselves.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ area of Seattle ’ s Capitol Hill neighborhood earlier this month .
They have been allowed to continue their game with the blessing of Mayor Jenny Durkan .
She has compared the chaos to a “ block party.
” The brother of Saturday ’ s CHAZ shooting victim Lorenzo Anderson has claimed that the “ protesters ” hid his sibling from him as he laid dying inside a tent .
The shooting inside the Seattle “ autonomous zone ” took place on Saturday morning .
Two people were struck by the gunfire , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ My little brother was in a tent .
They hid my little brother from me for the longest — I thought my little brother was at a hospital , ” he said .
“ I didn ’ t see where they had my little brother at until about 9 o ’ clock this morning .
The table was covered in blood.
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(Cassandra Fairbanks) Multiple shootings have been reported in the lawless “CHAZ” area of Seattle just days after two people were shot there, one of them fatal.
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by Cassandra Fairbanks, June 22nd, 2020
A man who was filming had his phone taken by one of the CHAZ “protesters” who was demanding that he delete his footage. The idiot thief did not realize that it was livestreaming and continued to film from the stolen phone, also broadcasting his face.
From the sound of the livestream footage coming from the scene, there may be multiple people shot, as the CHAZ inhabitants were calling for medics. At least one person is in serious condition, according to a spokesperson from Harborview Medical Center’s Emergency Department.
BREAKING: 2nd CHAZ shootout caught on video tonight. Via @ShawnGui_ pic.twitter.com/uebpjVkUe9 — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 22, 2020
Another shooting in Seattle protest zone reported tonight Watch last 20 mins of this Twitch stream which caught it Then a guy comes up and steals the streamer’s phone https://t.co/s58g6p9wMK — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) June 22, 2020
Ironically, the Seattle Protest Network seemed to complain about the lack of police response to the violence.
11:53PM – We're hearing fireworks now in the area of the CHOP ZONE. Over an hour after multiple shooting incidents, there has been no police response in the area. No visible presence from @SeattlePD at all. — Seattle Protest Network (@SEAProtestNet) June 22, 2020
Following Saturday’s shooting in the zone, the Seattle Police Department was prevented from being able to reach the victim due to the “protesters.” They also shared of video of what happened when they went there.
Police Officers Guild President Michael Solan blasted Seattle’s leadership on Saturday for enabling the conditions that are making it unsafe for police officers to do their job in the city.
“Early this morning, that violence was raw and real where one of our community members lost their life, and police are still not allowed into that area and were prevented to providing that police service to the area to locate victims and/or render aid. [It’s] very troubling what’s going on,” Solan said on Fox News.
“And again, we’re left wondering, what’s next?” he asked. “And, now our elected officials have removed our ability to have less lethal chemical munitions that are effective for us to disburse unruly, violent crowds to protect those police facilities, let alone ourselves.”
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Rioters took over a six square block area of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood earlier this month. They have been allowed to continue their game with the blessing of Mayor Jenny Durkan. She has compared the chaos to a “block party.”
The brother of Saturday’s CHAZ shooting victim Lorenzo Anderson has claimed that the “protesters” hid his sibling from him as he laid dying inside a tent.
The shooting inside the Seattle “autonomous zone” took place on Saturday morning. Two people were struck by the gunfire, which left 19-year-old Anderson dead.
This is the fight that immediately preceded the shooting in the #CHAZ/#CHOP. Witnesses said there was heavy drinking throughout the night, then a conflict escalated into gunfire. The autonomous zone has failed. Time to reinstate law and order.pic.twitter.com/I0kOFgQvjF — Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) June 21, 2020
“My little brother was in a tent. They hid my little brother from me for the longest — I thought my little brother was at a hospital,” he said. “I didn’t see where they had my little brother at until about 9 o’clock this morning. The table was covered in blood.”
About The Author
Cassandra Fairbanks
Cassandra Fairbanks is a former leftist who came out in support of Donald Trump in 2016. She has been published in the International Business Times, RT, Sputnik, The Independent and countless other publications.
Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
The news is important to all people because it is where we come to know new things about the world, which leads to the development of more life goals that lead to life wisdom. The news also serves as a social connection tool, as we tend to relate to those who know about and believe the things we do. With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand, the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper.
– Justin
Not sure how to make sense of this? Want to learn how to discern like a pro? Read this essential guide to discernment, analysis of claims, and understanding the truth in a world of deception: 4 Key Steps of Discernment – Advanced Truth-Seeking Tools.
Stillness in the Storm Editor’s note: Did you find a spelling error or grammatical mistake? Send an email to corrections@stillnessinthestorm.com, with the error and suggested correction, along with the headline and url. Do you think this article needs an update? Or do you just have some feedback? Send us an email at sitsshow@gmail.com. Thank you for reading.
Source:
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stillnessinthestorm--2020-06-22--BIDENGATE: New Audio Released of Joe Biden and Former Ukrainian President Poroshenko Discussing the

BIDENGATE: New Audio Released of Joe Biden and Former Ukrainian President Poroshenko Discussing the Onyshchenko Problem — Who Was Later Poisoned

( Jim Hoft ) A shocking audio tape was released by Creative Destruction Media in May .
The audio revealed the phone call between then Vice President Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Poroshenko .
In the call Joe Biden pressures the president to fire former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin .
Related Former Secret Service Agent Exposes Hillary Clinton — Best Selling Author of Crisis of Character ( Video ) The men discuss the firing of then State Prosecutor Shokin in order to prevent an investigation into Biden ’ s son , Hunter Biden , and other criminal actions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s son Hunter at the time and his work at Burisma Holdings .
Poroshenko : ( 7:10 mark ) I have some good news… Yesterday I went and seat with the general prosecutor ’ s office .
Poroshenko : … .
I especially asked him to resign… as his position as a state prosecutor… He promised to give me statement of his resignation… One hour he gave me statement of his presentation .
Joe Biden : ( 10:20 mark ) I am prepared to a public signing for a commitment for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suggesting you want it or don ’ t want it .
I am suggesting that is what I am prepared to do .
Again it won ’ t be finalized… Let me when you and I finished speaking let me huddle with my team… I agree with you there is a sense of urgency here .
Joe Biden — ( 14:30 minute mark ) Congratulations in getting the new Prosecutor General .
I know there ’ s a lot more to that .
I really think that ’ s good .
It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to repair the damage of Shokin .
I ’ m a man of my word .
Now that the new prosecutor general is in place we ’ re ready to move forward to signing the one billion dollar loan guarantee .
And I don ’ t know how you want to go about that… I ’ ll leave it to you to how you want it done and where you want it done .
The audio was included in this Ukrainian press conference .
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(Jim Hoft) A shocking audio tape was released by Creative Destruction Media in May. The audio revealed the phone call between then Vice President Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Poroshenko. In the call Joe Biden pressures the president to fire former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
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by Jim Hoft, June 22nd, 2020
The men discuss the firing of then State Prosecutor Shokin in order to prevent an investigation into Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and other criminal actions.
Victor Shokin was investigating Joe Biden’s son Hunter at the time and his work at Burisma Holdings.
Poroshenko tells Joe Biden he complied and fired Shokin.
Creative Destruction Media posted the call and transcript.
Transcribed from the Video——-
Poroshenko: (7:10 mark) I have some good news… Yesterday I went and seat with the general prosecutor’s office. Joe Biden: Yes. Poroshenko: …. I especially asked him to resign… as his position as a state prosecutor… He promised to give me statement of his resignation… One hour he gave me statement of his presentation. Joe Biden: Great!…. Joe Biden: (10:20 mark) I am prepared to a public signing for a commitment for a billion dollars. Again I am not suggesting you want it or don’t want it. I am suggesting that is what I am prepared to do. Again it won’t be finalized… Let me when you and I finished speaking let me huddle with my team… I agree with you there is a sense of urgency here. Joe Biden — (14:30 minute mark) Congratulations in getting the new Prosecutor General. I know there’s a lot more to that. I really think that’s good. It is going to be critical that he works to repair the damage of Shokin. I’m a man of my word. Now that the new prosecutor general is in place we’re ready to move forward to signing the one billion dollar loan guarantee. And I don’t know how you want to go about that… I’ll leave it to you to how you want it done and where you want it done.
The audio was included in this Ukrainian press conference.
Which brings us to today–
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CD Media reports–
More audio tapes were released today in Ukraine where Joe Biden talks with corrupt former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The two discuss destroying Ukrainian oligarch Alexander Onyshchenko, who released corruption evidence against Poroshenko in 2016. Onyshchenko fled the country that year.
Onyshchenko was later poisoned.
According to CD Media:
Onyshchenko was arrested on an Interpol warrant by Ukrainian authorities in late 2019 in Germany as he was traveling to the United States to testify against Biden during the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Read the rest here at CD Media.
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Jim Hoft is the founder of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.
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stillnessinthestorm--2020-06-22--What Spike? Hospitalization Data Show No Indication of a Second Wave – AIER

( Stephen C. Miller ) Are we on the verge of a second wave of coronavirus infections ?
Is there a spike in infections in states that reopened first ?
Related Editors of The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine : Pharmaceutical Companies are so Financially Powerful They Pressure us to Accept Papers The only way to answer that question is to watch as the data roll in .
Arguably the best data to look at to see if a second wave is beginning are the hospitalization numbers .
The media frequently reports the biggest and most dramatic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The number of cases has been reported regularly since the early days of the pandemic , and yet we know that the number of cases can be misleading .
As more people are tested and re-tested for the virus , more results will come back positive , with the current number of confirmed cases exceeding 2 million in the U.S .
But if we know anything , it is that increases in the number of confirmed cases do not accurately convey how quickly and widely the virus is spreading .
Antibody tests and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cities suggest that the number of infections is likely much higher than the number of confirmed cases .
But on the other side , some of the confirmed cases are double-counted in some states partly because both antibody and active virus tests are being counted separately but then combined in the total number of cases .
While the antibody tests have been criticized for their false positive rate , another criticism has been that the antibody studies can underreport infection rates because they are not sensitive enough to detect a past mild infection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing is focused on people who are the sickest and who face the greatest exposure , it seems reasonable to conclude that the true number of U.S. infections is substantially higher than the reported figure .
But an attempt to estimate the true number of infections would be little better than a guess .
And this presents a problem with the daily updates .
To say that a particular state or city is seeing a “ spike ” in cases is to say that recently they have had an uptick in positive test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more testing and more ways of testing , or it could be a hint of growth in the infection rate .
Better Data are Available Rather than focus on test results , i.e .
“ cases , ” it would make more sense to focus on how the virus affects society and our institutions , particularly the strain the virus puts on health care facilities and health care providers .
An obvious measure , tracked since the beginning of the pandemic , is the number of deaths .
As I and others at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deaths is hard to interpret without important context .
The coronavirus is obviously deadly , but how deadly it is seems to depend greatly on how it enters a population and the characteristics of that population .
The virus has been far deadlier in New York than it has been in California , and has been most deadly in U.S. long-term care facilities .
Among children , the coronavirus is considerably less deadly than seasonal influenza .
Nonetheless , deaths tell us something important about the virus ’ s impact on society .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are rightly emphasized in pandemic reporting .
When it comes to seeing how things are going now , whether the pandemic is growing worse or fading , deaths are a lagging indicator .
They do not begin to spike until infections have already been accelerating rapidly for many days , and they do not decline until well after the virus ’ s spread has slowed .
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Overall , the past two weeks have had lower death totals than have been seen in the two months prior .
But if a second wave were coming soon , we would not see the deaths from it yet .
Here is another look from the Washington Post .
In addition to deaths , more attention has shifted to measuring coronavirus-related hospitalizations .
Frustratingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back as far as numbers on confirmed cases or deaths , but in most states there are hospitalization figures going back over two months .
The hospital data are measured two ways , the first being a cumulative measure , similar to the way confirmed cases and deaths are measured .
The number can only go up as more hospitalizations are added to the total .
From that number , the daily number of hospitalizations can be plotted ; however that number is very noisy because the numbers are submitted at the state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do not seem to reflect the true numbers per day .
In other words , the hospitalization numbers seem to come in in clumps .
They can be reported as weekly totals or weekly averages , as well .
But a weakness of the cumulative data is that they do not tell us much about the burden on hospitals and health care workers .
The total number of coronavirus hospitalizations increased dramatically , from zero to nearly 60,000 in a month nationally , and stayed high for weeks afterward .
The chart below @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been fairly steady , and overall there is far less strain on the health care system than there was in mid-April .
The northeastern U.S. was hit hardest , but most states are either seeing declining or flat trends in hospitalizations , with a few notable exceptions such as North Carolina , Texas , and Arizona .
But in those states the number of hospitalizations is still relatively low , a fraction of the totals that New York and New Jersey were seeing in April .
Claims that Alabama , Georgia , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not supported by the hospitalization numbers despite media reports to the contrary .
There are some parts of the country still in the midst of the first wave of coronavirus infections , states that had very low numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in April , but are now beginning to see the virus spread more quickly .
But those states are unlikely to see the kind of spread Northeastern states did , and there is hope the virus can be far less deadly going forward if policies can be implemented to better-protect the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in long-term care facilities .
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The views and opinions expressed are those of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Troy University .
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(Stephen C. Miller) Are we on the verge of a second wave of coronavirus infections? Is there a spike in infections in states that reopened first?
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Source – American Institute For Economic Research
by Stephen C. Miller, June 16th, 2020
The only way to answer that question is to watch as the data roll in. Arguably the best data to look at to see if a second wave is beginning are the hospitalization numbers. The media frequently reports the biggest and most dramatic numbers, often devoid of context. The number of cases has been reported regularly since the early days of the pandemic, and yet we know that the number of cases can be misleading.
As more people are tested and re-tested for the virus, more results will come back positive, with the current number of confirmed cases exceeding 2 million in the U.S. But if we know anything, it is that increases in the number of confirmed cases do not accurately convey how quickly and widely the virus is spreading. Antibody tests and even the examination of sewage in some cities suggest that the number of infections is likely much higher than the number of confirmed cases.
But on the other side, some of the confirmed cases are double-counted in some states partly because both antibody and active virus tests are being counted separately but then combined in the total number of cases. While the antibody tests have been criticized for their false positive rate, another criticism has been that the antibody studies can underreport infection rates because they are not sensitive enough to detect a past mild infection.
Overall, because the bulk of testing is focused on people who are the sickest and who face the greatest exposure, it seems reasonable to conclude that the true number of U.S. infections is substantially higher than the reported figure. But an attempt to estimate the true number of infections would be little better than a guess.
And this presents a problem with the daily updates. To say that a particular state or city is seeing a “spike” in cases is to say that recently they have had an uptick in positive test results. That could be due to more testing and more ways of testing, or it could be a hint of growth in the infection rate.
Better Data are Available
Rather than focus on test results, i.e. “cases,” it would make more sense to focus on how the virus affects society and our institutions, particularly the strain the virus puts on health care facilities and health care providers. An obvious measure, tracked since the beginning of the pandemic, is the number of deaths. As I and others at AIER have noted, the number of deaths is hard to interpret without important context.
The coronavirus is obviously deadly, but how deadly it is seems to depend greatly on how it enters a population and the characteristics of that population. The virus has been far deadlier in New York than it has been in California, and has been most deadly in U.S. long-term care facilities. Among children, the coronavirus is considerably less deadly than seasonal influenza.
Nonetheless, deaths tell us something important about the virus’s impact on society. They profoundly affect entire social networks and are rightly emphasized in pandemic reporting.
When it comes to seeing how things are going now, whether the pandemic is growing worse or fading, deaths are a lagging indicator. They do not begin to spike until infections have already been accelerating rapidly for many days, and they do not decline until well after the virus’s spread has slowed.
The chart below shows that overall, deaths are clearly declining, although there is a weekly cycle where Sundays seem to result in relatively low death counts and Tuesdays and Wednesdays usually have the highest reported numbers. Overall, the past two weeks have had lower death totals than have been seen in the two months prior. But if a second wave were coming soon, we would not see the deaths from it yet.
Here is another look from the Washington Post.
In addition to deaths, more attention has shifted to measuring coronavirus-related hospitalizations. Frustratingly, these data tend not to go back as far as numbers on confirmed cases or deaths, but in most states there are hospitalization figures going back over two months. The hospital data are measured two ways, the first being a cumulative measure, similar to the way confirmed cases and deaths are measured.
The number can only go up as more hospitalizations are added to the total. From that number, the daily number of hospitalizations can be plotted; however that number is very noisy because the numbers are submitted at the state level in a variety of ways and do not seem to reflect the true numbers per day.
In other words, the hospitalization numbers seem to come in in clumps. They can be reported as weekly totals or weekly averages, as well. But a weakness of the cumulative data is that they do not tell us much about the burden on hospitals and health care workers. The total number of coronavirus hospitalizations increased dramatically, from zero to nearly 60,000 in a month nationally, and stayed high for weeks afterward. The chart below shows that the decrease in hospitalization has been fairly steady, and overall there is far less strain on the health care system than there was in mid-April.
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The northeastern U.S. was hit hardest, but most states are either seeing declining or flat trends in hospitalizations, with a few notable exceptions such as North Carolina, Texas, and Arizona. But in those states the number of hospitalizations is still relatively low, a fraction of the totals that New York and New Jersey were seeing in April. Claims that Alabama, Georgia, and Florida are emerging “hotspots” are not supported by the hospitalization numbers despite media reports to the contrary.
There are some parts of the country still in the midst of the first wave of coronavirus infections, states that had very low numbers of hospitalizations and deaths in April, but are now beginning to see the virus spread more quickly. But those states are unlikely to see the kind of spread Northeastern states did, and there is hope the virus can be far less deadly going forward if policies can be implemented to better-protect the elderly and vulnerable, especially those living in long-term care facilities.
About The Author
Stephen C. Miller
Stephen C. Miller is the Adams Bibby Chair of Free Enterprise and an Associate Professor of Economics in the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University. He is also an AIER Summer Fellow alumnus and Voting Member of AIER. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not imply endorsement by Troy University.
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The news is important to all people because it is where we come to know new things about the world, which leads to the development of more life goals that lead to life wisdom. The news also serves as a social connection tool, as we tend to relate to those who know about and believe the things we do. With the power of an open truth-seeking mind in hand, the individual can grow wise and the collective can prosper.
– Justin
Not sure how to make sense of this? Want to learn how to discern like a pro? Read this essential guide to discernment, analysis of claims, and understanding the truth in a world of deception: 4 Key Steps of Discernment – Advanced Truth-Seeking Tools.
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