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How the DOJ Protected Pedophiles and Got Away with Election Meddling In Alaska—Part 5 of the CMU Series

PLEASE NOTE : The authors have made this series available at FreeMartyG.com and FreeSchaeffer.com under the latest Creative Commons by-attribution commercial-use-permitted share-alike no-derivatives license .
This is part 5 .
Click here to read Inside the Black Sites Where Obama , Clinton , and Holder Buried Their Secrets—Part 1 of the CMU Series or click here to read The DOJ ’ s “ Torture Chamber ” In Indiana—Part 4 of the CMU Series .
“ What do you mean , you ‘ don ’ t have a plan‽ ’ ” Bill boomed .
In attack mode , he propelled his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ friend Les and me .
Bill was enraged .
And drunk .
His face flushed red beneath his flat-top haircut as the crowded room of my supporters fell silent .
Bill grabbed the knife from his belt and he put it to Les ’ neck .
“ I ’ ll slit your throat and bleed you out at my feet , you [ expletive deleted ] son of a [ expletive deleted ] !
It ’ s go time !
” I ’ ve thought a lot about that moment over the years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then what I know now .
Bill , it turned out , was a highly-motivated undercover FBI informant/provocateur on a mission—a political operation .
And he and his handlers , it seems , weren ’ t just after me .
The DOJ had altered the balance of power in the U.S. Senate with its “ Operation Polar Pen , ” based in my home state of Alaska .
Federal prosecutors from the DOJ ’ s “ Public Integrity Section ” used a trial in U.S. District Court about two years earlier to sideline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GOP senator whom I had endorsed from the podium at many grass-roots rallies packed with thousands of supporters .
The Democrats then enjoyed a filibuster-proof supermajority with exactly 60 votes in the Senate .
“ In nearly 25 years on the bench , ” fumed Judge Emmet G. Sullivan once some of the underlying details of the Stevens prosecution emerged , “ I ’ ve never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I ’ ve seen in this case.
” Sullivan appeared eager to distance himself from what had happened in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ His ritual tongue-lashing went on for about 14 minutes in front of a gallery packed with reporters and he took the [ nearly- ] unprecedented step of appointing an independent attorney to investigate the prosecutors .
He ’ d already held three of them in contempt of court .
By the time Eric Holder , the new attorney general , was personally all but forced to drop the charges , even he , the seemingly-shameless revolving-door bankster , came across as embarrassed .
Stevens , himself a former federal prosecutor , vowed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spearhead comprehensive reform legislation to ensure the DOJ divulges evidence indicating that a defendant is innocent—the type of evidence it unlawfully withheld in his case , and , later in mine .
Such a law would help rein in runaway federal prosecutors and serve as a serious check on the DOJ ’ s power .
The DOJ opposed it vehemently .
Important navigational/safety equipment called the terrain awareness warning system ( TAWS ) —equipment designed to prevent exactly such a crash and equipment that no right-thinking pilot would likely shut off in Alaska @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nick Marsh , a federal prosecutor from the Stevens case , was found hanging from a makeshift noose in his own basement about 6 weeks later .
He ’ d been positioned to take the likely and seemingly-inevitable fall for the Stevens case , though it ’ s possible he could ’ ve implicated higher-ups in the DOJ too .
I believe that Marsh worked on my case as well , but that the DOJ hid his involvement after Judge Sullivan hired an independent lawyer to look into prosecutorial misconduct against Stevens .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s basement .
Both his wrists were slit .
Authorities promptly ruled his death a suicide and closed their investigation into his death .
But his demise didn ’ t hide everything .
That ’ s Bill Allen , the billionaire former owner of VECO , a construction and oil-pipeline service company in Alaska ( and a different Bill than the one who held a knife to my friend Les ’ throat ) .
He was also the “ star witness ” against Stevens .
Allen testified that VECO completed about $ 250,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Girdwood , Alaska .
Prosecutors from the “ Public Integrity Section , ” including Marsh , as well as others from the U.S. attorney ’ s office in Anchorage who later worked on my case , like Joseph Bottini , presented fake accounting records and knowingly withheld evidence from Stevens ’ defense showing that the records were bogus .
Allen billed Stevens , his supposed friend , about $ 165,000 for the work , an apparent difference of $ 85,000 that the “ Public Integrity Section ” claimed was an unreported and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Allen , however , seems to have been no real friend to Stevens , and he ’ d actually overbilled him .
But the DOJ withheld Allen ’ s candid admission that the fair value of the work his company did on Stevens ’ home was closer to $ 80,000 .
And , as a general contractor in Alaska myself , I probably would ’ ve done the job on Stevens ’ s modest home for under $ 30,000 .
The prosecution also had Allen testify that a request Stevens sent him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he could comply with Senate ethics rules , was merely an effort to produce a phony paper trail and “ cover his ass.
” Allen , however , told the DOJ otherwise before he took the stand .
And if anyone was covering someone ’ s ass , then it seems the DOJ was doing so for Allen .
Unbeknownst to Stevens and his defense team , the Anchorage Police Department was investigating Allen for possible human trafficking , prostitution with a minor , and obtaining a false sworn statement from that minor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Allen was just the proverbial tip of the–iceberg too , at least if my grassroots experience canvassing Alaska door-to-door was worth anything .
Over and over again , folks raised concerns about the sexual exploitation of children by powerful people in moneyed positions of influence—like Allen and convicted-rapist Josef Boehm , the since-deceased owner of Alaska Industrial Hardware , one of the biggest suppliers of large-scale physical components for Alaska ’ s massive oil industry .
Inuit children and those from other native tribes seemed at particular risk .
Honest local law enforcers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ power brokers accountable .
Arrests were unheard-of .
Records reflect that prosecutors felt Allen would become “ unglued ” at the prospect of facing public pedophilia charges .
They used that leverage to motivate Allen to make the charges go away .
With Allen then testifying for Marsh and Bottini in contradiction of his own earlier statements about Stevens , the DOJ told the Anchorage police to put their investigation of Allen on ice .
To me , the DOJ ’ s “ Public Integrity Section ” accused Senator Stevens of a corrupt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the only corrupt quid pro quo was its own agreement to sell out Allen ’ s victims in exchange for his false testimony against Stevens .
And , then they didn ’ t want me telling stadiums full of people about their dirty deals .
Except for Judge Sullivan ’ s public admonishment after the Stevens jury returned a guilty finding and he lost his Senate seat , the DOJ basically got away with it .
With Marsh dead , the independent investigation Sullivan ordered was ultimately toothless .
“ Had things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ re ] elected .
Prosecutors actually determined the outcome of the balance of power in the U.S. Senate by their misconduct , ” said Joseph diGenova , former U.S. attorney for Washington , D.C. , in an interview with Washington Lawyer .
Most people , meanwhile , seem unaware that former-President Obama and the DNC can credit the filibuster-proof 60-vote supermajority they enjoyed in the Senate in 2009 to the gross prosecutorial misconduct and other abuses of power carried out by the supposed “ Public Integrity Section ” of the Justice Department @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many of those staff to key positions .
The DOJ wasn ’ t done in Alaska either .
A few months after the knife-wielding antics of Bill , the undercover FBI informant/provocateur , in front of a room of my supporters in Fairbanks , he managed to single-handedly derail the 2010 U.S. Senate campaign of my friend Joe Miller .
Surprising many , Miller had upset incumbent-GOP-rival Lisa Murkowski in that year ’ s primary , making him seem like a sure thing to take her place .
Beneath it all , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Public Integrity Section , ” seemed to have figured out an interesting aspect of Congressional mechanics : there were about 436,000 registered voters in Alaska in 2008 , and the state is largely ignored in national news and politics .
So , with relatively little effort and scrutiny , it was theoretically possible to snag two seats in the Senate and one in the House of Representatives , all with about the same amount of political elbow grease required to sway a local city mayor ’ s race elsewhere in America .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ his trial , Stevens , a 6+-term incumbent , lost to Democrat Mark Begich by less than 10,000 votes .
But , I wasn ’ t thinking about voter-to-senator ratios when Les , my white-haired 67ish-year-old friend , stumbled backwards away from Bill ’ s blade , all the way to the wall , and the uneasy quiet in the room was broken by my one-and-a-half-year-old son Seth crying in my arms .
At that point , Steven Gibson , a military policeman ( M.P . )
stationed at nearby Fort Wainwright , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authorities were trying to use Seth as a pretense to shoot me and claim “ self-defense , ” less than two years after the Stevens crash and Marsh ’ s death .
The feds had filed a bogus complaint against me with state social services , a common tactic to gain entry into a private home without establishing probable cause .
The state would later determine that the complaint was “ baseless.
” And in my case , it–seems something more nefarious was–afoot than–warrantless entry .
M.P .
Gibson later testified that a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whatever the problem was with Schaeffer Cox , if he was killed with [ social services ] attempting to take his son , then obviously anything that had to do with him wouldn ’ t matter anymore.
” “ Lead the charge and attack the government , or we ’ ll kill you guys ourselves to get you out of the way !
” Bill declared , reiterating an ultimatum that he ’ d issued to Les and me a minute or so earlier , purportedly on behalf of himself and his out-of-town @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ m [ expletive deleted ] around‽ Try me !
” Supposedly , Bill was faking it , at least that ’ s what he claimed later .
Supposedly , he wasn ’ t going to hurt anybody that night .
Supposedly , he was still in control of himself despite bringing a 12-pack of IPA and then drinking nearly 6 Heinekens in the roughly 90 minutes prior , as he later wrote .
By his own account , he “ knew ” that he would “ blow a DUI badly if it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But Bill ’ s foggy-goggle narrative aside , I know what really happened–and why he was really there .
He was on a mission , hell-bent to corner , terrify , and coerce me into uttering a hasty-but-nonetheless-admissible statement that his handlers could then quote out of context in order to make a federal conspiracy case against me .
You see , they desperately needed to justify their out-of-control “ investigation ” into my Second-Amendment rallies , where I endorsed GOP politicians like Stevens and Miller , and Alaska ’ s Congressman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were also trying to topple .
They had trawled their bogus dragnet through my life for years at taxpayer expense , trying to snare me in something , without ever uncovering anything criminal .
I was a well-known and peaceful Second-Amendment political organizer , and my family was put through hell , with the DOJ hoping that I ’ d verbally lash out and say I was going to hurt those responsible , which I never did .
Indeed , a panel of federal prosecutors had reviewed the evidence they ’ d gathered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not crossed the line between First-Amendment-protected speech and actionable offense .
But the politically-minded investigation-insearch-of-a-crime pressed forward anyways .
I had no idea how alone I wasn ’ t .
Thus , Bill and his handlers hadn ’ t been thrust innocently into a “ [ C ] onstitutional minefield , ” as he later indicated .
No , they ’ d defiantly stormed right into one .
But , as usually happens when the DOJ goes overboard , it took years for the truth to come out , for Judge Sullivan to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigator to submit his 525-page report , and finally for the DOJ “ task force ” targeting Republicans in Alaska to be defunded just days after Trump took office .
By then , it was too late for Stevens , Miller , and me .
I ’ ve since learned that this ( mis ) conduct wasn ’ t limited to “ Operation Polar Pen ” and Alaska .
In 2016 , for example , road-warrior GOP campaigner Aaron Schock ( R-IL ) left office in apparent disgrace like Stevens , and , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charges that were brought against Schock during an overzealous federal prosecution were eventually thrown out .
There ’ s also former-Congressman Steve Stockman ( R-TX ) .
He too apparently made the mistake of demanding accountability out of the DOJ , only to end up in its crosshairs .
Marty and I wish him the best of luck .
Now , I should also mention that Bill has his own version of these events in Alaska .
Clouded by alcohol and fueled by the kind of gung-ho juvenile aggression that can cause a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minutes and then pull a knife in a room full of NRA members , Bill ’ s book is littered with sentence fragments , like , “ [ Expletive ] .
Rolling Pin .
Whack.
” I ’ m not saying book is fake .
I ’ m saying Buzzfeed ’ s Jason Leopold says it ’ s real .
As a reminder , Leopold is the reporter who kept pushing a story about the Mueller investigation even after Mueller ’ s office refuted it publicly .
His journalistic career has been plagued @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So , maybe it ’ s not all that surprising that while Bill described himself as “ a self-taught bouncing specialist ” in his book , Leopold “ salute [ d ] Bill ” on its back cover , describing him as a mix between Richard North Patterson and Hunter S. Thompson ( noted author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , among other famous works ) .
That comparison , of course , seems unfair to the late Thompson .
Unlike Bill , he could drink while still writing in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t have the benefit of the colored underlines in Microsoft Word® to help him avoid publishing apostrophe-free gems like , “ First things first.
” Was Bill merely one pen stroke over the line when he wrote his book ?
No point mentioning those bats , I thought .
The poor bastard will see them soon enough .
And while Thompson wrote about being afraid of getting reported to “ some outback Nazi law-enforcement agency , ” Bill actually reported people in the outback of Alaska to the local FBI , like some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people with death threats .
Further , while Thompson was actually a journalist , and he wrote about being a journalist , Bill once handcuffed a journalist at a town-hall campaign event , causing MSNBC ’ s Keith Olbermann to name him the “ Worst Person in the World.
” That incident , it seems , was part of the DOJ ’ s efforts to turn Alaska blue .
Though , perhaps as one would expect , Bill and his handlers have never admitted it .
You see , Bill ran a military-surplus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservatives , complete with a big scary poster of Obama as the Joker from Batman in the front window .
He ’ d also been a Ron Paul delegate in 2008 and he headed a local crew of bail-bond bounty hunters .
All of this kept up appearances for Bill as an undercover operative and gave him the public stature to weasel his way into local GOP campaigns .
And weasel he did .
But , while Bill says he ’ s married to a woman he met at a strip-club bachelorette party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into his G-string , Bill went home at night and secretly obsessed over his “ other girl ” , Rachel Maddow .
As both an FBI informant/provocateur and the head of security for the 2010 Joe Miller for Senate campaign , however , Bill pounced in a room full of reporters , ostensibly trying to place the founding editor of The Alaska Dispatch under citizen ’ s arrest .
When the actual cops got there , they refused to take Bill ’ s quarry into official custody , and released him .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was game over for Miller ’ s campaign .
And Bill ’ s “ other girl ” publicly denounced him on her show .
“ The press incorrectly attributed my loss to the handcuffing incident – that was the cover for the massive fraud that was perpetuated here in Alaska .
During the wrongly-named “ recount ” process , we observed literally thousands of fraudulently cast ballots , more than the margin of Murkowski ’ s victory .
The evidence was overwhelming that her victory in 2010 was by fraud and illegality , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s staged hand-cuffing , ” says Miller now .
“ That being said , there is little question in my mind that Bill Fulton was assigned by the Deep State to my campaign to gather intel and compromise its operation , similar to what was carried out against Trump several years later .
Interestingly , two years before my 2010 race , Fulton appeared out-of-nowhere to assist my effort to remove Randy Ruedrich as head of the state GOP in 2008 .
I believe the feds had him attached to me even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alaska ’ s corrupt establishment .
It ’ s all about protecting power , the law be damned , ” he explains .
Yet , the Democrats didn ’ t win that election either .
Alaskan voters had lived through the Stevens prosecution and the plane crash .
They weren ’ t about to fall for the same trick twice , it seemed .
Surprising many out-of-staters , Lisa Murkowski won the general election by 5,200 votes with a write-in campaign , even though she lost the primary to Miller and her name @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I might have had similar luck with my trial at the local federal courthouse in Fairbanks , where people knew me and knew all too well what the DOJ had been doing with taxpayer resources .
Indeed , I ’ m likely still alive because a bystander from the area happened to notice SWAT teams staging themselves around the corner on the day of my arrest and warned me .
This caused them to have to spring their trap early—and with a neutral witness around .
According to Bill , the FBI was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ammunition that would penetrate body armor .
They were going to shoot to kill , it seems , as M.P .
Gibson warned me and later testified .
But with a witness around , they couldn ’ t shoot me in cold blood and then claim “ self-defense ” .
I thank God that bystander was there that day when 10 or so men carrying M-4 assault rifles , dressed in olive-green fatigues , surrounded me with their safeties off .
At the time of my arrest , on March 10th , 2011 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our newborn baby girl Bri , and I had been hiding in an attic for 21 days .
We were terrified of what Bill and his handlers were going to do .
We–were trying to flee the country to save our lives .
That day , a truck driver was supposed to take us into Canada and away from it all .
But there was no truck driver .
It was all a ploy by prosecutors .
They manufactured the threats , like Bill ’ s , and the would-be solution too .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the feds had likely spent on my case , the DOJ backed off once I was in custody .
They let the local district attorney ’ s office prosecute me , as I ’ m told the DOJ commonly does to avoid embarrassment when a case has been assessed as weak , or when federal prosecutors don ’ t want their methods to come under much scrutiny , or both .
With the help of my friend , a local attorney named Robert John , every single state charge was dismissed on Constitutional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of the woods .
And I never left custody .
The DOJ then brought the same charges in federal court .
It ’ s normal for federal judges to allow this circumvention of the 5th Amendment double-jeopardy clause .
Thus , federal prosecutors get another bite at the apple ; an opportunity to shore up their case after taking a test-run in state court , like a dress rehearsal .
And when the truth didn ’ t seem good enough for federal prosecutors Steve Skrocki and Joseph Bottini to make their case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ federal court either , they did what they often do , i.e .
the same things they did to Ted Stevens and Aaron Schock—they lied , withheld evidence , and fully leveraged their home-court advantage—knowing ahead of time they ’ d get away with it .
“ This has built up over years—the people at [ the DOJ ] have come to believe that they are immune , that nobody can touch them , and that judges will ignore their prosecutorial misconduct , ” warned former U.S. Attorney diGenova on the heels of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the definitive work on “ Operation Polar Pen , ” written by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell , is aptly entitled Licensed to Lie ( and it was a # 1 Bestseller on Amazon with a good rating ) .
Federal prosecutors have further come to believe that they can bury inconvenient defendants like me in the CMUs , and thereby stop the press from picking up on their out-of-control prosecutorial misconduct after the fact .
But first thing was first .
They ’ d have to convict me .
Now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his two violent confrontations with Les and me .
Those recordings show what Bill said and did—and what I didn ’ t .
They ’ d be devastating to the DOJ ’ s claim that I was planning to murder federal officials .
And , under the rules , federal prosecutors Steve Skrocki and Joseph Bottini were supposed to fork over those recordings to my defense counsel .
Instead , they claimed that the DOJ turned over all of the recordings to Bill and that he destroyed them—every single copy .
So , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did and didn ’ t say , and the court wouldn ’ t let me tell my jury my version of what was on those recordings .
After testifying to his own destruction of those recordings , Bill has since tweeted one of them .
He also claimed on the witness stand that the FBI hadn ’ t paid him , going so far as to include a doodle in his book of him denying he received compensation during my trial .
I ’ ve since learned , however , that the FBI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convicted .
“ It ’ s very troubling that [ the Justice Department ] would utilize records that [ it ] knows were false , ” Judge Sullivan remarked during a hearing for the Stevens case involving some of the same federal prosecutors .
Yet it was my word against theirs and a parade of government witnesses , some paid , some testifying under deals to avoid or to minimize their own charges , or both .
None of them seemed to have the slightest fear of perjury so long as they said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The court wouldn ’ t let me show my jury , proof that I was trying to flee to Canada because my family and I were terrified of what Bill and the DOJ were going to do .
That would ’ ve shown that my plans weren ’ t violent and that I was desperate to avoid confrontation .
The DOJ told the jury that I was lying , and the court went along with it .
The jury found me guilty having never heard the truth .
After the jury phase , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to lengthen my sentence , because , prosecutors then argued , I had obstructed justice by fleeing to Canada after all .
There ’ s more too .
Of course , it ’ s far too much to include here .
Again , a jury in Fairbanks , where I lived , might ’ ve seen through some of the smoke in mirrors .
But they moved my trial at the last minute , to Anchorage , some 360 miles ( 580 kilometers ) away .
The juror demographics there were much more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was like moving the trial from Washington , D.C. , to Wilmington , North Carolina—if the space between those two cities were filled with icy tundra , where run-of-the-mill car trouble could kill you .
The DOJ ’ s people and witnesses , like Bill , all had their airfare and lodging prepaid by the government .
Many of my witnesses could no longer afford to come .
Steven Cooper , the federal prosecutor from Fairbanks , still made it to Anchorage though—to testify in my defense .
He could ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to report Bill and his violent friends and asked for his advice on how to handle the situation .
But when Cooper took the stand , Skrocki and Bottini erupted in an incoherent fit of frantic objections .
They succeeded in keeping the truth from the jury then as well .
At some point during the Polar-Pen fiasco , then—Attorney-General Eric Holder took some criticism over these shenanigans and made an on-the-record statement basically reassuring the American public that he and his subordinates weren ’ t sparing Bill Allen for corrupt reasons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me .
He similarly abdicated responsibility to prosecute people from the financial sector in the wake of the global financial crisis .
But I ’ m no Wall Streeter , and the case against me for not harming anyone pressed on .
I was sentenced to over 25 years in prison .
In 2018 , however , some 7 years into my sentence , with my son , Seth , now age 9 and Bri , age 7 , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cleared me of the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ manufactured .
The appellate judges ruled that no rational jury could ’ ve found me guilty of them in the first place .
The remaining charges sound like something from a Mad Max/Road Warrior dystopian future .
They were summed up by the DOJ saying that if there was ever “ Stalinesque martial law , mass arrests , and purges , at some undetermined and unknown point in the future , [ I ] Schaeffer Cox , would be compelled to take up arms against the government , be sufficiently armed and equipped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government ’ or become a new government in the event of a ‘ government ’ collapse.
” I ’ m not making that up .
Though , for my own sake , and for that of my family , I wish that I were .
Obviously , it ’ s ridiculous .
It ’ s also how the DOJ can make up a thought crime in order to lock up any real-world pro—Second-Amendment political figure who tries to hold them accountable today .
Larry Pratt , executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of broad importance , because , “ When a government decides what we can eat , what we must buy and what we are allowed to think , we no longer have life.
” And I ’ m here to add , “ Just ask Ted Stevens.
” Click here to read Harvard Is Not God , Discredited Skeptics Say—Part 6 of the CMU Series .

Martin Gottesfeld and Francis Schaeffer Cox

PLEASE NOTE: The authors have made this series available at FreeMartyG.com and FreeSchaeffer.com under the latest Creative Commons by-attribution commercial-use-permitted share-alike no-derivatives license.
This is part 5. Click here to read Inside the Black Sites Where Obama, Clinton, and Holder Buried Their Secrets—Part 1 of the CMU Series or click here to read The DOJ’s “Torture Chamber” In Indiana—Part 4 of the CMU Series.
“What do you mean, you ‘don’t have a plan‽’” Bill boomed.
In attack mode, he propelled his 6-foot-tall frame over the countertop at my friend Les and me.
Bill was enraged. And drunk. His face flushed red beneath his flat-top haircut as the crowded room of my supporters fell silent.
Bill grabbed the knife from his belt and he put it to Les’ neck.
“I’ll slit your throat and bleed you out at my feet, you [expletive deleted] son of a [expletive deleted]! It’s go time!”
I’ve thought a lot about that moment over the years. But I didn’t know then what I know now.
Bill, it turned out, was a highly-motivated undercover FBI informant/provocateur on a mission—a political operation. And he and his handlers, it seems, weren’t just after me.
The DOJ had altered the balance of power in the U.S. Senate with its “Operation Polar Pen,” based in my home state of Alaska. Federal prosecutors from the DOJ’s “Public Integrity Section” used a trial in U.S. District Court about two years earlier to sideline elder-statesman Ted Stevens, a popular incumbent GOP senator whom I had endorsed from the podium at many grass-roots rallies packed with thousands of supporters. The Democrats then enjoyed a filibuster-proof supermajority with exactly 60 votes in the Senate.
“In nearly 25 years on the bench,” fumed Judge Emmet G. Sullivan once some of the underlying details of the Stevens prosecution emerged, “I’ve never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I’ve seen in this case.”
Sullivan appeared eager to distance himself from what had happened in his own courtroom in Washington, D.C. His ritual tongue-lashing went on for about 14 minutes in front of a gallery packed with reporters and he took the [nearly-]unprecedented step of appointing an independent attorney to investigate the prosecutors. He’d already held three of them in contempt of court.
By the time Eric Holder, the new attorney general, was personally all but forced to drop the charges, even he, the seemingly-shameless revolving-door bankster, came across as embarrassed.
Stevens, himself a former federal prosecutor, vowed to run for office again, and to spearhead comprehensive reform legislation to ensure the DOJ divulges evidence indicating that a defendant is innocent—the type of evidence it unlawfully withheld in his case, and, later in mine. Such a law would help rein in runaway federal prosecutors and serve as a serious check on the DOJ’s power. The DOJ opposed it vehemently.
Then, Stevens died in a mysterious plane crash.
Important navigational/safety equipment called the terrain awareness warning system (TAWS)—equipment designed to prevent exactly such a crash and equipment that no right-thinking pilot would likely shut off in Alaska —inexplicably was disabled prior to takeoff.
Nick Marsh, a federal prosecutor from the Stevens case, was found hanging from a makeshift noose in his own basement about 6 weeks later. He’d been positioned to take the likely and seemingly-inevitable fall for the Stevens case, though it’s possible he could’ve implicated higher-ups in the DOJ too.
I believe that Marsh worked on my case as well, but that the DOJ hid his involvement after Judge Sullivan hired an independent lawyer to look into prosecutorial misconduct against Stevens.
First responders found bloodstains across Marsh’s basement. Both his wrists were slit. Authorities promptly ruled his death a suicide and closed their investigation into his death. But his demise didn’t hide everything.
That’s Bill Allen, the billionaire former owner of VECO, a construction and oil-pipeline service company in Alaska (and a different Bill than the one who held a knife to my friend Les’ throat). He was also the “star witness” against Stevens.
Allen testified that VECO completed about $250,000 in renovations on Stevens’s home in Girdwood, Alaska. Prosecutors from the “Public Integrity Section,” including Marsh, as well as others from the U.S. attorney’s office in Anchorage who later worked on my case, like Joseph Bottini, presented fake accounting records and knowingly withheld evidence from Stevens’ defense showing that the records were bogus.
Allen billed Stevens, his supposed friend, about $165,000 for the work, an apparent difference of $85,000 that the “Public Integrity Section” claimed was an unreported and illegitimate gift meant to curry political favor.
Allen, however, seems to have been no real friend to Stevens, and he’d actually overbilled him. But the DOJ withheld Allen’s candid admission that the fair value of the work his company did on Stevens’ home was closer to $80,000. And, as a general contractor in Alaska myself, I probably would’ve done the job on Stevens’s modest home for under $30,000.
The prosecution also had Allen testify that a request Stevens sent him, asking explicitly for an invoice so he could comply with Senate ethics rules, was merely an effort to produce a phony paper trail and “cover his ass.” Allen, however, told the DOJ otherwise before he took the stand.
And if anyone was covering someone’s ass, then it seems the DOJ was doing so for Allen. Unbeknownst to Stevens and his defense team, the Anchorage Police Department was investigating Allen for possible human trafficking, prostitution with a minor, and obtaining a false sworn statement from that minor, thereby suborning perjury from her.
Allen was just the proverbial tip of the–iceberg too, at least if my grassroots experience canvassing Alaska door-to-door was worth anything. Over and over again, folks raised concerns about the sexual exploitation of children by powerful people in moneyed positions of influence—like Allen and convicted-rapist Josef Boehm, the since-deceased owner of Alaska Industrial Hardware, one of the biggest suppliers of large-scale physical components for Alaska’s massive oil industry. Inuit children and those from other native tribes seemed at particular risk. Honest local law enforcers felt stymied in their efforts to hold power brokers accountable. Arrests were unheard-of.
Records reflect that prosecutors felt Allen would become “unglued” at the prospect of facing public pedophilia charges. They used that leverage to motivate Allen to make the charges go away.
With Allen then testifying for Marsh and Bottini in contradiction of his own earlier statements about Stevens, the DOJ told the Anchorage police to put their investigation of Allen on ice. To me, the DOJ’s “Public Integrity Section” accused Senator Stevens of a corrupt quid pro quo, when, in–reality, the only corrupt quid pro quo was its own agreement to sell out Allen’s victims in exchange for his false testimony against Stevens. And, then they didn’t want me telling stadiums full of people about their dirty deals.
Except for Judge Sullivan’s public admonishment after the Stevens jury returned a guilty finding and he lost his Senate seat, the DOJ basically got away with it. With Marsh dead, the independent investigation Sullivan ordered was ultimately toothless.
“Had things been different, Stevens would have been [re]elected. Prosecutors actually determined the outcome of the balance of power in the U.S. Senate by their misconduct,” said Joseph diGenova, former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., in an interview with Washington Lawyer.
Most people, meanwhile, seem unaware that former-President Obama and the DNC can credit the filibuster-proof 60-vote supermajority they enjoyed in the Senate in 2009 to the gross prosecutorial misconduct and other abuses of power carried out by the supposed “Public Integrity Section” of the Justice Department and that the Obama administration later promoted many of those staff to key positions.
The DOJ wasn’t done in Alaska either.
A few months after the knife-wielding antics of Bill, the undercover FBI informant/provocateur, in front of a room of my supporters in Fairbanks, he managed to single-handedly derail the 2010 U.S. Senate campaign of my friend Joe Miller. Surprising many, Miller had upset incumbent-GOP-rival Lisa Murkowski in that year’s primary, making him seem like a sure thing to take her place.
Beneath it all, the DOJ, or more specifically, its “Public Integrity Section,” seemed to have figured out an interesting aspect of Congressional mechanics: there were about 436,000 registered voters in Alaska in 2008, and the state is largely ignored in national news and politics.
So, with relatively little effort and scrutiny, it was theoretically possible to snag two seats in the Senate and one in the House of Representatives, all with about the same amount of political elbow grease required to sway a local city mayor’s race elsewhere in America. It’s worth noting that after his trial, Stevens, a 6+-term incumbent, lost to Democrat Mark Begich by less than 10,000 votes.
But, I wasn’t thinking about voter-to-senator ratios when Les, my white-haired 67ish-year-old friend, stumbled backwards away from Bill’s blade, all the way to the wall, and the uneasy quiet in the room was broken by my one-and-a-half-year-old son Seth crying in my arms.
At that point, Steven Gibson, a military policeman (M.P.) stationed at nearby Fort Wainwright, hadn’t yet warned me that authorities were trying to use Seth as a pretense to shoot me and claim “self-defense,” less than two years after the Stevens crash and Marsh’s death.
The feds had filed a bogus complaint against me with state social services, a common tactic to gain entry into a private home without establishing probable cause. The state would later determine that the complaint was “baseless.” And in my case, it–seems something more nefarious was–afoot than–warrantless entry.
M.P. Gibson later testified that a deputy U.S. marshal told him, “Whatever the problem was with Schaeffer Cox, if he was killed with [social services] attempting to take his son, then obviously anything that had to do with him wouldn’t matter anymore.”
But I digress.
“Lead the charge and attack the government, or we’ll kill you guys ourselves to get you out of the way!” Bill declared, reiterating an ultimatum that he’d issued to Les and me a minute or so earlier, purportedly on behalf of himself and his out-of-town paramilitary buddies. “You think I’m [expletive deleted] around‽ Try me!”
Supposedly, Bill was faking it, at least that’s what he claimed later. Supposedly, he wasn’t going to hurt anybody that night. Supposedly, he was still in control of himself despite bringing a 12-pack of IPA and then drinking nearly 6 Heinekens in the roughly 90 minutes prior, as he later wrote. By his own account, he “knew” that he would “blow a DUI badly if it came down to it” that night.
But Bill’s foggy-goggle narrative aside, I know what really happened–and why he was really there. He was on a mission, hell-bent to corner, terrify, and coerce me into uttering a hasty-but-nonetheless-admissible statement that his handlers could then quote out of context in order to make a federal conspiracy case against me.
You see, they desperately needed to justify their out-of-control “investigation” into my Second-Amendment rallies, where I endorsed GOP politicians like Stevens and Miller, and Alaska’s Congressman Don Young, whom I know they were also trying to topple. They had trawled their bogus dragnet through my life for years at taxpayer expense, trying to snare me in something, without ever uncovering anything criminal. I was a well-known and peaceful Second-Amendment political organizer, and my family was put through hell, with the DOJ hoping that I’d verbally lash out and say I was going to hurt those responsible, which I never did.
Indeed, a panel of federal prosecutors had reviewed the evidence they’d gathered thus far and concluded that I had not crossed the line between First-Amendment-protected speech and actionable offense. But the politically-minded investigation-insearch-of-a-crime pressed forward anyways. I had no idea how alone I wasn’t.
Thus, Bill and his handlers hadn’t been thrust innocently into a “[C]onstitutional minefield,” as he later indicated. No, they’d defiantly stormed right into one. But, as usually happens when the DOJ goes overboard, it took years for the truth to come out, for Judge Sullivan to appoint an independent investigator, for that investigator to submit his 525-page report, and finally for the DOJ “task force” targeting Republicans in Alaska to be defunded just days after Trump took office.
By then, it was too late for Stevens, Miller, and me.
I’ve since learned that this (mis)conduct wasn’t limited to “Operation Polar Pen” and Alaska. In 2016, for example, road-warrior GOP campaigner Aaron Schock (R-IL) left office in apparent disgrace like Stevens, and, like Stevens again, over 100 felony charges that were brought against Schock during an overzealous federal prosecution were eventually thrown out. There’s also former-Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX). He too apparently made the mistake of demanding accountability out of the DOJ, only to end up in its crosshairs. Marty and I wish him the best of luck.
Now, I should also mention that Bill has his own version of these events in Alaska. Clouded by alcohol and fueled by the kind of gung-ho juvenile aggression that can cause a man to pound 18 beers in 90 minutes and then pull a knife in a room full of NRA members, Bill’s book is littered with sentence fragments, like, “[Expletive]. Rolling Pin. Whack.”
I’m not saying book is fake. I’m saying Buzzfeed’s Jason Leopold says it’s real. As a reminder, Leopold is the reporter who kept pushing a story about the Mueller investigation even after Mueller’s office refuted it publicly. His journalistic career has been plagued by numerous scandals over inaccuracies and plagiarism.
So, maybe it’s not all that surprising that while Bill described himself as “a self-taught bouncing specialist” in his book, Leopold “salute[d] Bill” on its back cover, describing him as a mix between Richard North Patterson and Hunter S. Thompson (noted author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, among other famous works).
That comparison, of course, seems unfair to the late Thompson. Unlike Bill, he could drink while still writing in complete sentences, and he didn’t have the benefit of the colored underlines in Microsoft Word® to help him avoid publishing apostrophe-free gems like, “First things first.”
Was Bill merely one pen stroke over the line when he wrote his book? No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.
And while Thompson wrote about being afraid of getting reported to “some outback Nazi law-enforcement agency,” Bill actually reported people in the outback of Alaska to the local FBI, like some sort of secret policeman, and strong-armed people with death threats.
Further, while Thompson was actually a journalist, and he wrote about being a journalist, Bill once handcuffed a journalist at a town-hall campaign event, causing MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann to name him the “Worst Person in the World.”
That incident, it seems, was part of the DOJ’s efforts to turn Alaska blue. Though, perhaps as one would expect, Bill and his handlers have never admitted it.
You see, Bill ran a military-surplus store in Anchorage that catered mostly to conservatives, complete with a big scary poster of Obama as the Joker from Batman in the front window. He’d also been a Ron Paul delegate in 2008 and he headed a local crew of bail-bond bounty hunters.
All of this kept up appearances for Bill as an undercover operative and gave him the public stature to weasel his way into local GOP campaigns. And weasel he did.
But, while Bill says he’s married to a woman he met at a strip-club bachelorette party, when her friends were stuffing dollars into his G-string, Bill went home at night and secretly obsessed over his “other girl”, Rachel Maddow.
As both an FBI informant/provocateur and the head of security for the 2010 Joe Miller for Senate campaign, however, Bill pounced in a room full of reporters, ostensibly trying to place the founding editor of The Alaska Dispatch under citizen’s arrest.
When the actual cops got there, they refused to take Bill’s quarry into official custody, and released him.
The fallout was immediate and intense. It was game over for Miller’s campaign. And Bill’s “other girl” publicly denounced him on her show.
“The press incorrectly attributed my loss to the handcuffing incident – that was the cover for the massive fraud that was perpetuated here in Alaska. During the wrongly-named “recount” process, we observed literally thousands of fraudulently cast ballots, more than the margin of Murkowski’s victory. The evidence was overwhelming that her victory in 2010 was by fraud and illegality, not due to federal informant Bill Fulton’s staged hand-cuffing,” says Miller now.
“That being said, there is little question in my mind that Bill Fulton was assigned by the Deep State to my campaign to gather intel and compromise its operation, similar to what was carried out against Trump several years later. Interestingly, two years before my 2010 race, Fulton appeared out-of-nowhere to assist my effort to remove Randy Ruedrich as head of the state GOP in 2008. I believe the feds had him attached to me even then, in an effort to protect Alaska’s corrupt establishment. It’s all about protecting power, the law be damned,” he explains.
Yet, the Democrats didn’t win that election either. Alaskan voters had lived through the Stevens prosecution and the plane crash. They weren’t about to fall for the same trick twice, it seemed. Surprising many out-of-staters, Lisa Murkowski won the general election by 5,200 votes with a write-in campaign, even though she lost the primary to Miller and her name wasn’t on the ballot.
I might have had similar luck with my trial at the local federal courthouse in Fairbanks, where people knew me and knew all too well what the DOJ had been doing with taxpayer resources.
Indeed, I’m likely still alive because a bystander from the area happened to notice SWAT teams staging themselves around the corner on the day of my arrest and warned me. This caused them to have to spring their trap early—and with a neutral witness around.
According to Bill, the FBI was sure to arm those SWAT teams with ammunition that would penetrate body armor. They were going to shoot to kill, it seems, as M.P. Gibson warned me and later testified.
But with a witness around, they couldn’t shoot me in cold blood and then claim “self-defense”.
I thank God that bystander was there that day when 10 or so men carrying M-4 assault rifles, dressed in olive-green fatigues, surrounded me with their safeties off.
At the time of my arrest, on March 10th, 2011, my wife, my son, our newborn baby girl Bri, and I had been hiding in an attic for 21 days. We were terrified of what Bill and his handlers were going to do. We–were trying to flee the country to save our lives.
That day, a truck driver was supposed to take us into Canada and away from it all.
But there was no truck driver. It was all a ploy by prosecutors. They manufactured the threats, like Bill’s, and the would-be solution too.
Despite the millions of federal tax dollars the feds had likely spent on my case, the DOJ backed off once I was in custody. They let the local district attorney’s office prosecute me, as I’m told the DOJ commonly does to avoid embarrassment when a case has been assessed as weak, or when federal prosecutors don’t want their methods to come under much scrutiny, or both.
With the help of my friend, a local attorney named Robert John, every single state charge was dismissed on Constitutional grounds.
But we weren’t out of the woods. And I never left custody.
The DOJ then brought the same charges in federal court. It’s normal for federal judges to allow this circumvention of the 5th Amendment double-jeopardy clause. Thus, federal prosecutors get another bite at the apple; an opportunity to shore up their case after taking a test-run in state court, like a dress rehearsal.
And when the truth didn’t seem good enough for federal prosecutors Steve Skrocki and Joseph Bottini to make their case against me in the much more prosecutor-friendly federal court either, they did what they often do, i.e. the same things they did to Ted Stevens and Aaron Schock—they lied, withheld evidence, and fully leveraged their home-court advantage—knowing ahead of time they’d get away with it.
“This has built up over years—the people at [the DOJ] have come to believe that they are immune, that nobody can touch them, and that judges will ignore their prosecutorial misconduct,” warned former U.S. Attorney diGenova on the heels of the Stevens case in 2009.
Indeed, the definitive work on “Operation Polar Pen,” written by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, is aptly entitled Licensed to Lie (and it was a #1 Bestseller on Amazon with a good rating).
Federal prosecutors have further come to believe that they can bury inconvenient defendants like me in the CMUs, and thereby stop the press from picking up on their out-of-control prosecutorial misconduct after the fact. But first thing was first. They’d have to convict me.
Now, Bill, it turned out, recorded his two violent confrontations with Les and me. Those recordings show what Bill said and did—and what I didn’t. They’d be devastating to the DOJ’s claim that I was planning to murder federal officials. And, under the rules, federal prosecutors Steve Skrocki and Joseph Bottini were supposed to fork over those recordings to my defense counsel.
Instead, they claimed that the DOJ turned over all of the recordings to Bill and that he destroyed them—every single copy. So, my jury never heard what I actually did and didn’t say, and the court wouldn’t let me tell my jury my version of what was on those recordings.
After testifying to his own destruction of those recordings, Bill has since tweeted one of them. He also claimed on the witness stand that the FBI hadn’t paid him, going so far as to include a doodle in his book of him denying he received compensation during my trial. I’ve since learned, however, that the FBI offered him $160,000 if I was convicted.
“It’s very troubling that [the Justice Department] would utilize records that [it] knows were false,” Judge Sullivan remarked during a hearing for the Stevens case involving some of the same federal prosecutors.
Yet it was my word against theirs and a parade of government witnesses, some paid, some testifying under deals to avoid or to minimize their own charges, or both. None of them seemed to have the slightest fear of perjury so long as they said what the prosecutors wanted to hear.
The court wouldn’t let me show my jury, proof that I was trying to flee to Canada because my family and I were terrified of what Bill and the DOJ were going to do. That would’ve shown that my plans weren’t violent and that I was desperate to avoid confrontation.
The DOJ told the jury that I was lying, and the court went along with it.
The jury found me guilty having never heard the truth.
After the jury phase, however, the DOJ asked the court to lengthen my sentence, because, prosecutors then argued, I had obstructed justice by fleeing to Canada after all.
There’s more too. Of course, it’s far too much to include here.
Again, a jury in Fairbanks, where I lived, might’ve seen through some of the smoke in mirrors. But they moved my trial at the last minute, to Anchorage, some 360 miles (580 kilometers) away. The juror demographics there were much more favorable to the DOJ.
Distance-wise, it was like moving the trial from Washington, D.C., to Wilmington, North Carolina—if the space between those two cities were filled with icy tundra, where run-of-the-mill car trouble could kill you. The DOJ’s people and witnesses, like Bill, all had their airfare and lodging prepaid by the government. Many of my witnesses could no longer afford to come.
Steven Cooper, the federal prosecutor from Fairbanks, still made it to Anchorage though—to testify in my defense. He could’ve told everybody how I went to him to report Bill and his violent friends and asked for his advice on how to handle the situation. But when Cooper took the stand, Skrocki and Bottini erupted in an incoherent fit of frantic objections. They succeeded in keeping the truth from the jury then as well.
At some point during the Polar-Pen fiasco, then—Attorney-General Eric Holder took some criticism over these shenanigans and made an on-the-record statement basically reassuring the American public that he and his subordinates weren’t sparing Bill Allen for corrupt reasons, while prosecuting political figures like Stevens and me. He similarly abdicated responsibility to prosecute people from the financial sector in the wake of the global financial crisis. But I’m no Wall Streeter, and the case against me for not harming anyone pressed on.
I was sentenced to over 25 years in prison.
In 2018, however, some 7 years into my sentence, with my son, Seth, now age 9 and Bri, age 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cleared me of the most serious felony charges that Skrocki and Bottini manufactured. The appellate judges ruled that no rational jury could’ve found me guilty of them in the first place.
The remaining charges sound like something from a Mad Max/Road Warrior dystopian future. They were summed up by the DOJ saying that if there was ever “Stalinesque martial law, mass arrests, and purges, at some undetermined and unknown point in the future, [ I ] Schaeffer Cox, would be compelled to take up arms against the government, be sufficiently armed and equipped to sustain a take-over of the ‘government’ or become a new government in the event of a ‘government’ collapse.”
I’m not making that up. Though, for my own sake, and for that of my family, I wish that I were.
Obviously, it’s ridiculous. It’s also how the DOJ can make up a thought crime in order to lock up any real-world pro—Second-Amendment political figure who tries to hold them accountable today.
Larry Pratt, executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America, wrote that my case is of broad importance, because, “When a government decides what we can eat, what we must buy and what we are allowed to think, we no longer have life.”
And I’m here to add, “Just ask Ted Stevens.”
Click here to read Harvard Is Not God, Discredited Skeptics Say—Part 6 of the CMU Series.


newswars--2020-03-02--Exclusive! Army Preparing for 3 Million Deaths from Coronavirus

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newswars--2020-03-02--VIDEO: Turkey Invades Europe as Islamists Use Children as Human Shields

Alex Jones breaks down the barbaric tactics of evil cowards using children as human shields for invading Europe .

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newswars--2020-03-02--Two stars merged to form massive white dwarf

A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs merged together according to an international team led by University of Warwick astronomers , and only narrowly avoided destruction .
They have discovered an unusual ultra-massive white dwarf around 150 light years from us with an atmospheric composition never seen before , the first time that a merged white dwarf has been identified using its atmospheric composition as a clue .
The discovery , published today ( 2 March ) in the journal Nature Astronomy , could raise new questions about the evolution of massive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of supernovae in our galaxy .
This star , named WDJ0551+4135 , was identified in a survey of data from the European Space Agency ’ s Gaia telescope .
The astronomers followed up with spectroscopy taken using the William Herschel Telescope , focusing on those white dwarfs identified as particularly massive—a feat made possible by the Gaia mission .
By breaking down the light emitted by the star , the astronomers were able to identify the chemical composition of its atmosphere and found that it had an unusually high level of carbon present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the University of Warwick Department of Physics , said : “ This star stood out as something we had never seen before .
You might expect to see an outer layer of hydrogen , sometimes mixed with helium , or just a mix of helium and carbon .
You don ’ t expect to see this combination of hydrogen and carbon at the same time as there should be a thick layer of helium in between that prohibits that .
When we looked at it , it didn ’ t make any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the astronomers turned detective to uncover the star ’ s true origins .
White dwarfs are the remains of stars like our own Sun that have burnt out all their fuel and shed their outer layers .
Most are relatively lightweight , around 0.6 times the mass of our Sun , but this one weighs in at 1.14 solar masses , nearly twice the average mass .
Despite being heavier than our Sun , it is compacted into two-thirds the diameter of Earth .
The age of the white dwarf is also a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Way faster than younger ones , and this object is moving faster than 99 % of the other nearby white dwarfs with the same cooling age , suggesting that this star is older than it looks .
Dr. Hollands adds : “ We have a composition that we can ’ t explain through normal stellar evolution , a mass twice the average for a white dwarf , and a kinematic age older than that inferred from cooling .
We ’ re pretty sure of how one star forms one white dwarf and it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only way you can explain it is if it was formed through a merger of two white dwarfs.
” The theory is that when one star in a binary system expands at the end of its life it will envelope its partner , drawing its orbit closer as the first star shrinks .
The same will happen when the other star expands .
Over billions of years , gravitational wave emission will shrink the orbit further , to the point that the stars merge together .
While white dwarf mergers have been predicted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ particularly unusual .
Most of the mergers in our galaxy will be between stars with different masses , whereas this merger appears to be between two similarly sized stars .
There is also a limit to how big the resulting white dwarf can be : at more than 1.4 solar masses it is thought that it would explode in a supernova though it may be possible for that these explosions can occur at slightly lower masses , so this star is useful in demonstrating how massive a white dwarf can get and still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cooling of the star , it is difficult to determine how old it is .
The white dwarf probably merged around 1.3 billion years ago but the two original white dwarfs may have existed for many billions of years prior .
It is one of only a handful of merged white dwarfs to be identified so far , and the only one via its composition .
Dr. Hollands adds : “ There aren ’ t that many white dwarfs this massive , although there are more than you would expect to see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ probably formed by mergers .
“ In the future we may be able to use a technique called asteroseismology to learn about the white dwarf ’ s core composition from its stellar pulsations , which would be an independent method confirming this star formed from a merger .
“ Maybe the most exciting aspect of this star is that it must have just about failed to explode as a supernova—these gargantuan explosions are really important in mapping the structure of the Universe , as they can be detected out to very large distances @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about what kind of stellar systems make it to the supernova stage .
Strange as it may sound , measuring the properties of this ‘ failed ’ supernova , and future look-alikes , is telling us a lot about the pathways to thermonuclear self-annihilation .
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A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs merged together according to an international team led by University of Warwick astronomers, and only narrowly avoided destruction.
They have discovered an unusual ultra-massive white dwarf around 150 light years from us with an atmospheric composition never seen before, the first time that a merged white dwarf has been identified using its atmospheric composition as a clue.
The discovery, published today (2 March) in the journal Nature Astronomy, could raise new questions about the evolution of massive white dwarf stars and on the number of supernovae in our galaxy.
This star, named WDJ0551+4135, was identified in a survey of data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope. The astronomers followed up with spectroscopy taken using the William Herschel Telescope, focusing on those white dwarfs identified as particularly massive—a feat made possible by the Gaia mission. By breaking down the light emitted by the star, the astronomers were able to identify the chemical composition of its atmosphere and found that it had an unusually high level of carbon present.
Lead author Dr. Mark Hollands, from the University of Warwick Department of Physics, said: “This star stood out as something we had never seen before. You might expect to see an outer layer of hydrogen, sometimes mixed with helium, or just a mix of helium and carbon. You don’t expect to see this combination of hydrogen and carbon at the same time as there should be a thick layer of helium in between that prohibits that. When we looked at it, it didn’t make any sense.”
To solve the puzzle, the astronomers turned detective to uncover the star’s true origins.
White dwarfs are the remains of stars like our own Sun that have burnt out all their fuel and shed their outer layers. Most are relatively lightweight, around 0.6 times the mass of our Sun, but this one weighs in at 1.14 solar masses, nearly twice the average mass. Despite being heavier than our Sun, it is compacted into two-thirds the diameter of Earth.
The age of the white dwarf is also a clue. Older stars orbit the Milky Way faster than younger ones, and this object is moving faster than 99% of the other nearby white dwarfs with the same cooling age, suggesting that this star is older than it looks.
Dr. Hollands adds: “We have a composition that we can’t explain through normal stellar evolution, a mass twice the average for a white dwarf, and a kinematic age older than that inferred from cooling. We’re pretty sure of how one star forms one white dwarf and it shouldn’t do this. The only way you can explain it is if it was formed through a merger of two white dwarfs.”
The theory is that when one star in a binary system expands at the end of its life it will envelope its partner, drawing its orbit closer as the first star shrinks. The same will happen when the other star expands. Over billions of years, gravitational wave emission will shrink the orbit further, to the point that the stars merge together.
While white dwarf mergers have been predicted to occur, this one would be particularly unusual. Most of the mergers in our galaxy will be between stars with different masses, whereas this merger appears to be between two similarly sized stars. There is also a limit to how big the resulting white dwarf can be: at more than 1.4 solar masses it is thought that it would explode in a supernova though it may be possible for that these explosions can occur at slightly lower masses, so this star is useful in demonstrating how massive a white dwarf can get and still survive.
Because the merging process restarts the cooling of the star, it is difficult to determine how old it is. The white dwarf probably merged around 1.3 billion years ago but the two original white dwarfs may have existed for many billions of years prior.
It is one of only a handful of merged white dwarfs to be identified so far, and the only one via its composition.
Dr. Hollands adds: “There aren’t that many white dwarfs this massive, although there are more than you would expect to see which implies that some of them were probably formed by mergers.
“In the future we may be able to use a technique called asteroseismology to learn about the white dwarf’s core composition from its stellar pulsations, which would be an independent method confirming this star formed from a merger.
“Maybe the most exciting aspect of this star is that it must have just about failed to explode as a supernova—these gargantuan explosions are really important in mapping the structure of the Universe, as they can be detected out to very large distances. However, there remains much uncertainty about what kind of stellar systems make it to the supernova stage. Strange as it may sound, measuring the properties of this ‘failed’ supernova, and future look-alikes, is telling us a lot about the pathways to thermonuclear self-annihilation.”


newswars--2020-03-02--Gabbard Urges Trump: Don’t Drag Us Into War At Bidding Of Islamist Dictator Of Turkey

Tulsi Gabbard has once again gone on the offensive , skewering Washington mainstream foreign policy and the Trump administration ’ s refusal to stand up to “ dictator ” Recep Tayyip Erdogan .
Trump reportedly told Erdogan in a phone call last week as the Idlib crisis escalates , now in an open state of war between the Turkish and Syrian armies , and with Russia supporting the latter , that the US “ reaffirmed ” its support for Turkey in Idlib .
Ankara is now demanding greater support from NATO as well , after Russian jets were widely believed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strike which killed 33 Turkish soldiers .
Congresswoman and Democratic presidential hopeful Gabbard attacked this stance in a weekend video statement , urging Trump instead to make clear that “ the United States will not be dragged into a war with Russia by the aggressive Islamist expansionist dictator of Turkey via NATO.
” She also slammed the mainstream media ’ s efforts to renew holding up al-Qaeda terrorists on the ground in Idlib as mere “ rebels ” and “ freedom fighters ” — saying it ’ s a disgrace to men and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fight terrorists in the wake of 9/11 .
“ Turkey ’ s been supporting ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists from behind the scenes for years , ” she pointed out .
“ Turkey ’ s Erdogan wants to create an Islamist caliphate in Syria , reestablish the Islamist Ottoman Empire , and is working with al-Qaeda and other terrorists to achieve his goal.
” “ He wants to be the caliph , ” she added , explaining further he ’ s not a “ friend ” of America , but remains one of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ She ended by urging the American people to get behind passage of her Stop Arming Terrorists Act , which seeks to remove all support to terrorist factions in Syria as well as aid to those state actors like Turkey which back them .
Notably , she also called out President Trump for contradicting past accurate statements which highlighted the terrorist links of Syria ’ s so-called “ moderate rebels ” .
And in what could be a first , Syrian state media has reportedly translated Gabbard ’ s speech and broadcast it all @ @ @

Tulsi Gabbard has once again gone on the offensive, skewering Washington mainstream foreign policy and the Trump administration’s refusal to stand up to “dictator” Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Trump reportedly told Erdogan in a phone call last week as the Idlib crisis escalates, now in an open state of war between the Turkish and Syrian armies, and with Russia supporting the latter, that the US “reaffirmed” its support for Turkey in Idlib. Ankara is now demanding greater support from NATO as well, after Russian jets were widely believed behind last Thursday’s massive air strike which killed 33 Turkish soldiers.
Congresswoman and Democratic presidential hopeful Gabbard attacked this stance in a weekend video statement, urging Trump instead to make clear that “the United States will not be dragged into a war with Russia by the aggressive Islamist expansionist dictator of Turkey via NATO.”
.@realDonaldTrump needs to make it clear to NATO and Erdogan that the United States will not be dragged into a war with Russia by the aggressive, Islamist, expansionist dictator of Turkey, a so-called “NATO” ally. #StandWithTulsi pic.twitter.com/Fbjv7m3jcm — Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) February 29, 2020
She also slammed the mainstream media’s efforts to renew holding up al-Qaeda terrorists on the ground in Idlib as mere “rebels” and “freedom fighters” — saying it’s a disgrace to men and women in uniform who signed up to fight terrorists in the wake of 9/11.
“Turkey’s been supporting ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists from behind the scenes for years,” she pointed out.
“Turkey’s Erdogan wants to create an Islamist caliphate in Syria, reestablish the Islamist Ottoman Empire, and is working with al-Qaeda and other terrorists to achieve his goal.”
“He wants to be the caliph,” she added, explaining further he’s not a “friend” of America, but remains one of the most dangerous dictators in the world.
She ended by urging the American people to get behind passage of her Stop Arming Terrorists Act, which seeks to remove all support to terrorist factions in Syria as well as aid to those state actors like Turkey which back them.
Notably, she also called out President Trump for contradicting past accurate statements which highlighted the terrorist links of Syria’s so-called “moderate rebels”.
And in what could be a first, Syrian state media has reportedly translated Gabbard’s speech and broadcast it all over Syria.


newswars--2020-03-02--#OperationWin2020 Launches At CPAC

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newswars--2020-03-02--Russia seeks to ‘create conditions so that NOBODY wants to fight us’ – Putin

Vladimir Putin has confided that US President Donald Trump privately lamented the “ insane ” US military budget .
He also says Russia protects itself by making the costs of attacking the country too high for anyone to contemplate .
“ The US has outstripped us ” in terms of annual defense expenditure , the Russian president said in a new episode of news agency TASS ’ s ‘ 20 Questions to Vladimir Putin ’ series .
But being the world ’ s largest military spender doesn ’ t really make Donald Trump particularly happy , Putin said .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an insane [ military ] budget for the next year , $ 738 billion.
” The US commander-in-chief , who likes to talk up his country ’ s military hardware during overseas trips while bragging about the armed forces , tends to be more reserved in private , according to Putin .
“ He told me that the costs were too high , but he had to do it , ” he said , describing his counterpart as “ an advocate of disarmament , as he says.
” In terms of military spending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arabia , the UK , France , and Japan , with a defense budget worth $ 48 billion , although its lower cost base gives it more purchasing power than most western states .
“ Moreover , our annual expenditures are falling .
In contrast , other countries ’ spending has been rising , ” Putin stated .
“ We are not going to fight against anyone .
We are going to create conditions so that nobody wants to fight against us.
” Putin also explained why Trump – who already dismantled the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ signed with the old Soviet Union – is reluctant to talk non-proliferation and arms control .
“ That is another question , this is a question which relates to the understanding of security and how to ensure it… We can discuss this topic , ” the Russian president replied without going into details .
Another crucial treaty which now hangs in the balance is the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) , which dramatically reduced the number of nuclear warheads and the means of delivery .
The current edition of the pact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ signed by former US President Barack Obama and his then-Russian counterpart , Dmitry Medvedev in 2010 .
It is set to expire in February next year .
While Moscow has signaled its readiness to prolong the treaty immediately , the US has kept silent on the matter .

Vladimir Putin has confided that US President Donald Trump privately lamented the “insane” US military budget. He also says Russia protects itself by making the costs of attacking the country too high for anyone to contemplate.
“The US has outstripped us” in terms of annual defense expenditure, the Russian president said in a new episode of news agency TASS’s ‘20 Questions to Vladimir Putin’ series. But being the world’s largest military spender doesn’t really make Donald Trump particularly happy, Putin said.
“Donald told me that they have adopted an insane [military] budget for the next year, $738 billion.”
The US commander-in-chief, who likes to talk up his country’s military hardware during overseas trips while bragging about the armed forces, tends to be more reserved in private, according to Putin. “He told me that the costs were too high, but he had to do it,” he said, describing his counterpart as “an advocate of disarmament, as he says.”
In terms of military spending, Russia trails behind China, Saudi Arabia, the UK, France, and Japan, with a defense budget worth $48 billion, although its lower cost base gives it more purchasing power than most western states. “Moreover, our annual expenditures are falling. In contrast, other countries’ spending has been rising,” Putin stated.
“We are not going to fight against anyone. We are going to create conditions so that nobody wants to fight against us.”
Putin also explained why Trump – who already dismantled the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty the US signed with the old Soviet Union – is reluctant to talk non-proliferation and arms control.
“That is another question, this is a question which relates to the understanding of security and how to ensure it… We can discuss this topic,” the Russian president replied without going into details.
Another crucial treaty which now hangs in the balance is the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which dramatically reduced the number of nuclear warheads and the means of delivery.
The current edition of the pact, known as New START, was signed by former US President Barack Obama and his then-Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev in 2010. It is set to expire in February next year.
While Moscow has signaled its readiness to prolong the treaty immediately, the US has kept silent on the matter.


newswars--2020-03-02--Klobuchar Drops Out Of Dem Race, Will Endorse Biden

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has become the latest Democratic primary candidate to end her campaign following Joe Biden ’ s win in South Carolina Saturday .
This comes after Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer dropped out after the South Carolina primary .
She also closed a campaign event after Black Lives Matter protesters overran it on Sunday .
Klobuchar , who billed herself as a moderate candidate , will endorse Biden at his campaign rally in Dallas , Texas , on Monday night .
From The New York Times : Ms. Klobuchar , despite a strong third-place finish in New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every other state and was often seen as a candidate siphoning support .
Though she had varying levels of support across the Super Tuesday map , polling within reach of leading candidates in some predominantly Republican states with open primaries , but it is unclear how much of a boost any of her rivals will see in the wake of Ms. Klobuchar ’ s exit , or where she may direct her 7 delegates .
The timing of her and Buttigieg ’ s exit from the race just before Super Tuesday is notable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s chances of picking up more delegates against frontrunner Bernie Sanders , a self-described socialist , which may diminish the chances of a brokered convention this summer .
One of the most cringeworthy moments of 2020 so far , Klobuchar tries and fails miserably to bluff her way through a question about Mexico ’ s President .
She has no idea who he is but she thinks Mexico is of paramount importance & we should get rid of English in the US

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has become the latest Democratic primary candidate to end her campaign following Joe Biden’s win in South Carolina Saturday.
This comes after Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer dropped out after the South Carolina primary.
She also closed a campaign event after Black Lives Matter protesters overran it on Sunday.
Klobuchar, who billed herself as a moderate candidate, will endorse Biden at his campaign rally in Dallas, Texas, on Monday night.
From The New York Times:
Ms. Klobuchar, despite a strong third-place finish in New Hampshire, lagged her moderate rivals in every other state and was often seen as a candidate siphoning support. Though she had varying levels of support across the Super Tuesday map, polling within reach of leading candidates in some predominantly Republican states with open primaries, but it is unclear how much of a boost any of her rivals will see in the wake of Ms. Klobuchar’s exit, or where she may direct her 7 delegates.
The timing of her and Buttigieg’s exit from the race just before Super Tuesday is notable.
It will likely ease Biden’s chances of picking up more delegates against frontrunner Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist, which may diminish the chances of a brokered convention this summer.
One of the most cringeworthy moments of 2020 so far, Klobuchar tries and fails miserably to bluff her way through a question about Mexico’s President. She has no idea who he is but she thinks Mexico is of paramount importance & we should get rid of English in the US


newswars--2020-03-02--Vegan Demands Neighbors Shut Windows While Cooking Meat, Only BBQ Veggies

A vegan in California was slammed for asking their carnivorous neighbors to close their windows while cooking meat indoors .
Posting in the Nextdoor app , a social media platform where residents can anonymously sound off on happenings in their neighborhood , the “ vegan runner ” claimed nighttime runs had become problematic due to the “ smells of folks cooking meat.
” “ Several nights a week I ’ m out running around dinnertime and when people have their windows open I can smell what they are cooking , ” ranted the scent-observant herbivore in the app .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recently in smells of folks cooking meat and it can be quite overpowering , ” the vegan admitted .
Noting this time of year is “ always hard for me , ” the “ plant-based ” runner offered solutions for their “ animal-cooking ” neighbors , including shutting their windows so as to trap the delicious aroma , and only barbecuing veggies outdoors .
“ Quite honestly the odor is offensive and I ’ m hoping our community can have some empathy for its # plantbased neighbors by closing their windows if they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on their bbq , ” the nagging runner stated .
The post was slammed on Twitter , where people criticized the entitled runner for attempting to force their lifestyle on everyone else .
As a carnivore bbq chef , it ’ s always hard for me this time of year when the weather starts warming up and vegan runners start running by my windows .
Can you imagine the world under domination by these types ?
must be tough to smell all that deluscious meat that other people get to enjoy Vegan runner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are cooking “ I don ’ t want to be a stereotype ” at the end of a multi paragraph whine about how hard it is being vegan .
This is performance art German state broadcaster WDR2 faced protests after it broadcast a video in which a group of children were taught to sing about how their grandmas were “ environmental pigs ” for driving non-electric vehicles and eating meat .

A vegan in California was slammed for asking their carnivorous neighbors to close their windows while cooking meat indoors.
Posting in the Nextdoor app, a social media platform where residents can anonymously sound off on happenings in their neighborhood, the “vegan runner” claimed nighttime runs had become problematic due to the “smells of folks cooking meat.”
“Several nights a week I’m out running around dinnertime and when people have their windows open I can smell what they are cooking,” ranted the scent-observant herbivore in the app.
“I’ve noticed a sharp uptick recently in smells of folks cooking meat and it can be quite overpowering,” the vegan admitted.
Noting this time of year is “always hard for me,” the “plant-based” runner offered solutions for their “animal-cooking” neighbors, including shutting their windows so as to trap the delicious aroma, and only barbecuing veggies outdoors.
“Quite honestly the odor is offensive and I’m hoping our community can have some empathy for its #plantbased neighbors by closing their windows if they are cooking meat and only putting vegetables on their bbq,” the nagging runner stated.
The post was slammed on Twitter, where people criticized the entitled runner for attempting to force their lifestyle on everyone else.
As a carnivore bbq chef, it’s always hard for me this time of year when the weather starts warming up and vegan runners start running by my windows. — Matt Field (@mattfield) February 29, 2020 Can you imagine the world under domination by these types? — PARTYofTRUMP (@grapenutpudding) February 29, 2020 must be tough to smell all that deluscious meat that other people get to enjoy — (@TheGiftOfMayhem) February 29, 2020 So… plant based meats don’t smell like meat? Vegan runner can’t know what these people are cooking — Lean wit it, Smock wit it (@MoreOrLessAMess) February 29, 2020 “I don’t want to be a stereotype” at the end of a multi paragraph whine about how hard it is being vegan. This is performance art — Josh McLean (@RadioMcLean) February 29, 2020 Vegetarian here. This guy sucks — Jon Uleis (@MovingToTheSun) February 29, 2020
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German state broadcaster WDR2 faced protests after it broadcast a video in which a group of children were taught to sing about how their grandmas were “environmental pigs” for driving non-electric vehicles and eating meat.


newswars--2020-03-02--Hate Hoax: Man Who Reported Racist Pro-Trump Graffiti on His Vehicles Arrested for Insurance Fraud

A black Mississippi man reported in early February that vandals had spray-painted racist and pro-Trump graffiti on his vehicles .
The man , Trumaine Foster , said vandals had spray-painted “ Leave N*****s ” and “ Trump ” on one car and “ N*****s ” written on another .
The incident prompted an investigation by the Southaven Police and the FBI .
“ This had to be unnerving for a quiet family to come out to their cars and see what they saw there , ” neighbor Pastor Vincent McCaskil told local news .
“ It ’ s time for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and speak out against it , ” he said .
“ We can not remain silent against this.
” However , the investigation found that Foster had vandalized his own vehicles in an insurance fraud scheme .
Foster owned a body shop and specialized in painting cars .
Foster was taken into custody last week and charged with insurance fraud and tampering with evidence .
“ That it was a hoax just kind of made us look silly .
To make something up , that just does not make sense to me , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Jussie Smollett , it makes perfect sense when you realize that there are leftists out there determined to prove that Trump supporters are racists — even if it means staging hate crime hoaxes against themselves to do it .
Meanwhile , them mainstream media ignores actual racist attacks against Trump supporters which occur on a regular basis .
Jussie Smollett has been indicted for a second time after evidence came out that he allegedly staged his own hate crime .
As the police , the original prosecutor that dropped his charges and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will justice finally be served toward the man who tried to frame Trump supporters ?

A black Mississippi man reported in early February that vandals had spray-painted racist and pro-Trump graffiti on his vehicles.
The man, Trumaine Foster, said vandals had spray-painted “Leave N*****s” and “Trump” on one car and “N*****s” written on another.
The incident prompted an investigation by the Southaven Police and the FBI.
“This had to be unnerving for a quiet family to come out to their cars and see what they saw there,” neighbor Pastor Vincent McCaskil told local news.
“It’s time for us as believers to truly speak up and speak out against it,” he said. “We cannot remain silent against this.”
However, the investigation found that Foster had vandalized his own vehicles in an insurance fraud scheme. Foster owned a body shop and specialized in painting cars.
Foster was taken into custody last week and charged with insurance fraud and tampering with evidence.
“That’s just embarrassing. That’s absolutely embarrassing,” Foster’s neighbor Shelby Littleton said.
“That it was a hoax just kind of made us look silly. To make something up, that just does not make sense to me,” Littleton added.
In the age of Jussie Smollett, it makes perfect sense when you realize that there are leftists out there determined to prove that Trump supporters are racists — even if it means staging hate crime hoaxes against themselves to do it.
Meanwhile, them mainstream media ignores actual racist attacks against Trump supporters which occur on a regular basis.
Jussie Smollett has been indicted for a second time after evidence came out that he allegedly staged his own hate crime. As the police, the original prosecutor that dropped his charges and his own friends turning against him, will justice finally be served toward the man who tried to frame Trump supporters?


newswars--2020-03-02--Loomer 2020 Leads The Way For Conservative Women

Millie Weaver caught up with congressional candidate Laura Loomer to discuss her campaign to take back the House of Representatives @ @ @ @ @ in President Trump ’ s home district , Florida ’ s 21st district .
Millie @ @ @ @ @ , who is running for Congress in Virginia ’ s 11th district .
These two @ @ @ @ @ the swamp and take on the squad .

Millie Weaver caught up with congressional candidate Laura Loomer to discuss her campaign to take back the House of Representatives as she runs for Congress in President Trump’s home district, Florida’s 21st district.
Millie also talked with Manga Anantatmula, who is running for Congress in Virginia’s 11th district.
These two strong women promise to challenge the swamp and take on the squad.
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newswars--2020-03-02--Progressive Democrats Endangering Taxpayers

Austin , Texas , once a thriving small town Mecca of genuine Americana has become a victim of its own success .
After high rent and property taxes ran all of the musicians that made Austin the “ Live Music Capital of the World ” out of town , Austin is now preyed on by a left-wing real estate millionaire whose zoning decisions apparently still don ’ t merit a conflict of interest .
Steve Adler ’ s real estate empire of $ 320 Million worth of properties includes a luxury condo in the ivory tower of the W Hotel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Adler and the City Council ’ s waste of taxpayer dollars is an 85 thousand dollar storage room that was never used , three solar toilets for $ 450,000 , $ 6 million for a rundown hotel valued at $ 2.6 million to house homeless people in , roughly 370 million in taxpayer dollars for a power plant that has been abandoned , dumping millions into a Convention Center that lost $ 40 Million last year alone , ruined Austin ’ s credit rating and oversees $ 1.2 Billion in City debt .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Texas residents is the increasing pandering to a growing and aggressive homeless population that is now accounting for an increase in random crime , rapes and fatal stabbings around Austin , putting residents on edge .
Progressive Democrats like Mayor Adler are destroying private property ownership and endangering the lives of taxpaying residents all over the United States .
Austin residents can make a difference locally by signing the Recall Mayor Adler petition which requires 70,000 signatures and take back Austin before it ’ s too late .

Austin, Texas, once a thriving small town Mecca of genuine Americana has become a victim of its own success.
After high rent and property taxes ran all of the musicians that made Austin the “Live Music Capital of the World” out of town, Austin is now preyed on by a left-wing real estate millionaire whose zoning decisions apparently still don’t merit a conflict of interest.
Steve Adler’s real estate empire of $320 Million worth of properties includes a luxury condo in the ivory tower of the W Hotel directly behind Austin City Hall.
Among Adler and the City Council’s waste of taxpayer dollars is an 85 thousand dollar storage room that was never used, three solar toilets for $450,000, $6 million for a rundown hotel valued at $2.6 million to house homeless people in, roughly 370 million in taxpayer dollars for a power plant that has been abandoned, dumping millions into a Convention Center that lost $40 Million last year alone, ruined Austin’s credit rating and oversees $1.2 Billion in City debt.
But the real sore spot among Austin, Texas residents is the increasing pandering to a growing and aggressive homeless population that is now accounting for an increase in random crime, rapes and fatal stabbings around Austin, putting residents on edge.
Progressive Democrats like Mayor Adler are destroying private property ownership and endangering the lives of taxpaying residents all over the United States.
Austin residents can make a difference locally by signing the Recall Mayor Adler petition which requires 70,000 signatures and take back Austin before it’s too late.


newswars--2020-03-02--Pentagon: US Won’t Provide Air Support to Turkey in Syria’s Idlib

On Saturday , President Trump said the US had been speaking with President Erdogan of Turkey “ a lot ” over the situation in Idlib , and confirmed that the two countries were discussing Ankara ’ s request for the temporary deployment of US Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems .
The United States will not provide air support to Turkey in the wartorn Syrian province of Idlib , Pentagon Chief Mark Esper has said , speaking to reporters in Washington on Monday .
Asked directly if US assistance would include air support , Esper responded bluntly “ No.
” “ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ looking at providing increased humanitarian aid for the persons in Syria .
That ’ s one thing I had a conversation with [ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ] about that , ” Esper said .
The secretary of defense also confirmed that he has spoken to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the situation in Syria , and that NATO was prepared for anything that might happen .
Commenting on Ankara ’ s move to open its borders with the European Union , Esper said that this was Turkey ’ s decision @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his Turkish counterpart Sule Akar during their recent phone call , Esper said the message was that “ Russians aren ’ t always good partners.
” Also Monday , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said there was “ no clear , unambiguous intelligence on who was flying which planes ” in the deadly attack on Turkish troops in Idlib last week .
Earlier , Moscow stressed that the Russian air force was not involved in the strikes in the area of Behun , Idlib where the troops were killed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syrian Reconciliation clarified that the Turkish forces were hit by Syria as it retaliated to a Nusra* offensive , with the troops operating outside of their observation posts and in the same area as Nusra militants for some reason .
On Saturday , President Trump confirmed that he had discussed Turkey ’ s request for the temporary deployment of US Patriot missiles in southern Turkey with President Erdogan , adding that the talks were ongoing .
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu urged Turkey ’ s NATO allies to assist the country with air @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Idlib situation .
Idlib tensions exploded in February after the deaths of Turkish military personnel in the course of a Syrian military offensive against Ankara ’ s militant proxies .
Damascus began an operation in the wayward province in December , after repeated attacks on Syrian troops by jihadist militants .
Alex Jones breaks down why and how America ’ s economic infrastructure will be put to the ultimate test by the panic created by the coronavirus outbreak .

On Saturday, President Trump said the US had been speaking with President Erdogan of Turkey “a lot” over the situation in Idlib, and confirmed that the two countries were discussing Ankara’s request for the temporary deployment of US Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems.
The United States will not provide air support to Turkey in the wartorn Syrian province of Idlib, Pentagon Chief Mark Esper has said, speaking to reporters in Washington on Monday.
Asked directly if US assistance would include air support, Esper responded bluntly “No.”
“I should add that the United States is looking at providing increased humanitarian aid for the persons in Syria. That’s one thing I had a conversation with [Secretary of State Mike Pompeo] about that,” Esper said.
The secretary of defense also confirmed that he has spoken to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about the situation in Syria, and that NATO was prepared for anything that might happen.
Commenting on Ankara’s move to open its borders with the European Union, Esper said that this was Turkey’s decision to make.
Asked what he told his Turkish counterpart Sule Akar during their recent phone call, Esper said the message was that “Russians aren’t always good partners.”
Also Monday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said there was “no clear, unambiguous intelligence on who was flying which planes” in the deadly attack on Turkish troops in Idlib last week. Earlier, Moscow stressed that the Russian air force was not involved in the strikes in the area of Behun, Idlib where the troops were killed. Later, the MoD-affilliated Center for Syrian Reconciliation clarified that the Turkish forces were hit by Syria as it retaliated to a Nusra* offensive, with the troops operating outside of their observation posts and in the same area as Nusra militants for some reason.
On Saturday, President Trump confirmed that he had discussed Turkey’s request for the temporary deployment of US Patriot missiles in southern Turkey with President Erdogan, adding that the talks were ongoing.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu urged Turkey’s NATO allies to assist the country with air defense and intelligence cooperation in relation to the Idlib situation.
Idlib tensions exploded in February after the deaths of Turkish military personnel in the course of a Syrian military offensive against Ankara’s militant proxies. Damascus began an operation in the wayward province in December, after repeated attacks on Syrian troops by jihadist militants.
Alex Jones breaks down why and how America’s economic infrastructure will be put to the ultimate test by the panic created by the coronavirus outbreak.