thelibertydaily--2020-10-17--CONFIRMED: ‘The Big Guy’ in the Hunter Biden Chi-Com Scandal Email is Former Democrat Vice President

CONFIRMED: ‘The Big Guy’ in the Hunter Biden Chi-Com Scandal Email is Former Democrat Vice President Joe Biden

One of the people on an explosive email thread allegedly involving Hunter Biden has corroborated the veracity of the messages , which appear to outline a payout for former Vice President Joe Biden as part of a deal with a Chinese energy firm .
One email , dated May 13 , 2017 , and obtained by Fox News , includes a discussion of “ remuneration packages ” for six people in a business deal with a Chinese energy firm .
The email appeared to identify Hunter Biden as “ Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China Energy Co .
The email includes a note that “ Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate.
” A proposed equity split references “ 20 ” for “ H ” and “ 10 held by H for the big guy ?
” with no further details .
Fox News spoke to one of the people who was copied on the email , who confirmed its authenticity .
Sources told Fox News that `` the big guy '' is a reference to the former vice president .
The New York Post initially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Fox News has also obtained .
The Bidens ' relationship with Ukraine came under special attention last year as House Democrats pursued an impeachment inquiry surrounding President Trump 's now-infamous July 25 call with Ukraine 's president .
In it , Trump asked President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the former vice president , who was suspected of abusing his authority to pressure the government into firing its top prosecutor .
Another email from May of 2014 shows Vadym Pozharskyi , an adviser to Burisma 's board , allegedly shows him asking for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to stop `` politically motivated actions . ''
“ We urgently need your advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message / signal , etc .
to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions , '' it reads .
And less than a year later , a purported email from Pozharskyi shows him thanking Hunter Biden for an invitation to meet his father .
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Biden 's campaign has denied wrongdoing and claimed that the former vice president 's schedule @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Politico later clarified that the campaign would n't rule out the possibility that the former vice president had an informal interaction with Pozharskyi .
The campaign also said it has released the former vice president ’ s tax documents and returns , which do not reflect any involvement with Chinese investments .
Politico later clarified that the campaign would n't rule out the possibility that the former vice president had an informal interaction with Pozharskyi .
Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates also said : `` Investigations by the press , during impeachment , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose work was decried as 'not legitimate ' and political by a GOP colleague have all reached the same conclusion : that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing .
Trump administration officials have attested to these facts under oath . ''
Fox News ' Brooke Singman and Thomas Barrabi contributed to this report .

One of the people on an explosive email thread allegedly involving Hunter Biden has corroborated the veracity of the messages, which appear to outline a payout for former Vice President Joe Biden as part of a deal with a Chinese energy firm.
One email, dated May 13, 2017, and obtained by Fox News, includes a discussion of “remuneration packages” for six people in a business deal with a Chinese energy firm. The email appeared to identify Hunter Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC,” in an apparent reference to now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co.
The email includes a note that “Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate.” A proposed equity split references “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the big guy?” with no further details. Fox News spoke to one of the people who was copied on the email, who confirmed its authenticity.
Sources told Fox News that "the big guy" is a reference to the former vice president. The New York Post initially published the emails and other controversial messages that Fox News has also obtained.
HUNTER BIDEN EMAILS, TEXTS REVEAL WILD LIFE, PAINED SOUL
The Bidens' relationship with Ukraine came under special attention last year as House Democrats pursued an impeachment inquiry surrounding President Trump's now-infamous July 25 call with Ukraine's president. In it, Trump asked President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the former vice president, who was suspected of abusing his authority to pressure the government into firing its top prosecutor.
Another email from May of 2014 shows Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to Burisma's board, allegedly shows him asking for the younger Biden's advice on how to stop "politically motivated actions."
“We urgently need your advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message / signal, etc. to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions," it reads. And less than a year later, a purported email from Pozharskyi shows him thanking Hunter Biden for an invitation to meet his father.
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Biden's campaign has denied wrongdoing and claimed that the former vice president's schedule showed no meeting taking place, though Politico later clarified that the campaign wouldn't rule out the possibility that the former vice president had an informal interaction with Pozharskyi. The campaign also said it has released the former vice president’s tax documents and returns, which do not reflect any involvement with Chinese investments.
Politico later clarified that the campaign wouldn't rule out the possibility that the former vice president had an informal interaction with Pozharskyi.
Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates also said: "Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as 'not legitimate' and political by a GOP colleague have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing. Trump administration officials have attested to these facts under oath."
Fox News' Brooke Singman and Thomas Barrabi contributed to this report.


thelibertydaily--2020-10-17--Leftist Bill Maher Warns Amy Coney Barrett Like the ‘Terminator’ Sent to Overturn Roe v. Wade Democr

Leftist Bill Maher Warns Amy Coney Barrett Like the ‘Terminator’ Sent to Overturn Roe v. Wade Democrat Baby Killing

`` Real Time '' host Bill Maher closed Friday night 's show by sounding the alarm on the pending Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett .
Maher began by deriding Democrats for threatening to pack the Supreme Court , saying it 's `` already packed -- with Catholics . ''
`` Roberts , Thomas , Alito , Kavanaugh , Sotomayor and Gorsuch -- who I count as Catholic because he was raised Catholic and is now an Episcopalian , which is just a Catholic who flunked Latin , '' Maher quipped .
`` And once when Mitch McConnell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Barrett to the bench , seven of the nine justices will be Catholics . ''
The HBO star noted that Roman Catholics were only `` 20 percent '' of the U.S. population , suggesting there should be a `` healthier balance on our highest court '' that represents the people and stressing atheists were `` the fasting growing denomination '' in the country .
`` We are 26 percent of the country ... where 's our voice on the Supreme Court ? ''
Maher , an outspoken atheist , asked .
`` And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do n't have to work to separate church and state .
We 're not torn between rational decision-making and what it says in the old book of Jewish fairytales . ''
Maher then knocked Barrett for a remark she told a graduating class of law students in 2016 , when she said , `` Keep in mind that your legal career is but a means to an end ... That end is building the kingdom of God . ''
`` No , it 's not , '' Maher fired back .
`` That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ career and you pundits earnestly debating whether she will vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade ?
Of course , she will !
She 's been groomed since birth to overturn Roe vs. Wade .
She 's like the Terminator , a robot programmed to fulfill one task except she was n't sent from the future , she was sent from the past . ''
Maher then divided Catholics into two categories -- `` scary '' and `` not scary . ''
And while he said the vast majority of them `` are n't @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` uber-conservative Catholics who have an agenda '' want to `` return to the Middle Ages , '' citing Attorney General William Barr and The Federalist Society as examples .
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP '' These old-school Catholics , they play the long game .
Amy Barrett has been on their radar since forever because she was raised in an extremist Catholic community called People of Praise , where husbands ' responsibilities include 'correcting ' his wife should she stray from the proper path and where women were called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` It 's not wrong to call out nuts when s -- - is nuts ! ''
`` Chuck Schumer said Democrats wo n't make Barrett 's religion an issue , '' he concluded , `` but they should because being nuts is relevant . ''

"Real Time" host Bill Maher closed Friday night's show by sounding the alarm on the pending Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Maher began by deriding Democrats for threatening to pack the Supreme Court, saying it's "already packed -- with Catholics."
"Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Sotomayor and Gorsuch -- who I count as Catholic because he was raised Catholic and is now an Episcopalian, which is just a Catholic who flunked Latin," Maher quipped.
"And once when Mitch McConnell and company are done FedExing Amy Coney Barrett to the bench, seven of the nine justices will be Catholics."
The HBO star noted that Roman Catholics were only "20 percent" of the U.S. population, suggesting there should be a "healthier balance on our highest court" that represents the people and stressing atheists were "the fasting growing denomination" in the country.
BILL MAHER RIPS AMY CONEY BARRETT: 'SHE'S A F---ING NUT'
"We are 26 percent of the country ... where's our voice on the Supreme Court?" Maher, an outspoken atheist, asked. "And atheists actually make better judges because we don't have to work to separate church and state. We're not torn between rational decision-making and what it says in the old book of Jewish fairytales."
Maher then knocked Barrett for a remark she told a graduating class of law students in 2016, when she said, "Keep in mind that your legal career is but a means to an end ... That end is building the kingdom of God."
"No, it's not," Maher fired back. "That's not the point of a legal career and you pundits earnestly debating whether she will vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade? Of course, she will! She's been groomed since birth to overturn Roe vs. Wade. She's like the Terminator, a robot programmed to fulfill one task except she wasn't sent from the future, she was sent from the past."
Maher then divided Catholics into two categories -- "scary" and "not scary." And while he said the vast majority of them "aren't scary," he warned that the "uber-conservative Catholics who have an agenda" want to "return to the Middle Ages," citing Attorney General William Barr and The Federalist Society as examples.
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"These old-school Catholics, they play the long game. Amy Barrett has been on their radar since forever because she was raised in an extremist Catholic community called People of Praise, where husbands' responsibilities include 'correcting' his wife should she stray from the proper path and where women were called 'handmaids,'" Maher explained. "It's not wrong to call out nuts when s--- is nuts!"
"Chuck Schumer said Democrats won't make Barrett's religion an issue," he concluded, "but they should because being nuts is relevant."


thelibertydaily--2020-10-17--Police Officer and High School Coach are Shot; Suspected Democrat in Custody

A Kansas police officer was in critical condition and a 56-year-old high school basketball coach was also hospitalized with gunshot wounds Friday after a dispute broke out in a small city northwest of Wichita .
A 40-year-old suspect was taken into custody more than three hours after the shooting after he barricaded himself in a nearby home , according to reports .
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation identified the suspect as Adam Hrabik , reports said .
Neither of the injured men was identified .
The incident in Lyons , Kan. , started around 3:40 p.m. local time when a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a home was approached by another man wielding a gun , the Wichita Eagle reported .
ONE ARRESTED IN THREAT TO KIDNAP AND KILL WICHITA MAYOR OVER COVID-19 MASK MANDATE At some point the suspect shot the coach and the police officer and then went inside his home .
The officer had fired some shots in return , according to the paper .
The police officer was taken to a local hospital in a private vehicle by two private citizens who witnessed the shooting , and was later transported to a Wichita hospital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more police arrived at the scene – including officers in tactical gear who arrived in at least one armored vehicle -- they found the coach and took him to a local hospital , then he too was transported to a Wichita hospital , the Eagle report said .
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Police convinced the suspect to surrender around 7:10 p.m. Lyons , with about 3,700 residents , is the seat of Rice County , and is about 87 miles from Wichita .

A Kansas police officer was in critical condition and a 56-year-old high school basketball coach was also hospitalized with gunshot wounds Friday after a dispute broke out in a small city northwest of Wichita.
A 40-year-old suspect was taken into custody more than three hours after the shooting after he barricaded himself in a nearby home, according to reports. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation identified the suspect as Adam Hrabik, reports said.
Neither of the injured men was identified.
The incident in Lyons, Kan., started around 3:40 p.m. local time when a man who was mowing a lawn outside a home was approached by another man wielding a gun, the Wichita Eagle reported.
ONE ARRESTED IN THREAT TO KIDNAP AND KILL WICHITA MAYOR OVER COVID-19 MASK MANDATE
At some point the suspect shot the coach and the police officer and then went inside his home. The officer had fired some shots in return, according to the paper.
The police officer was taken to a local hospital in a private vehicle by two private citizens who witnessed the shooting, and was later transported to a Wichita hospital, KWCH-TV of Wichita reported.
When more police arrived at the scene – including officers in tactical gear who arrived in at least one armored vehicle -- they found the coach and took him to a local hospital, then he too was transported to a Wichita hospital, the Eagle report said.
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Police convinced the suspect to surrender around 7:10 p.m.
Lyons, with about 3,700 residents, is the seat of Rice County, and is about 87 miles from Wichita.


thelibertydaily--2020-10-17--Late Stage Prostate Cancer Cases Soar

Late Stage Prostate Cancer Cases Soar

While men can take solace in a new government report that shows prostate cancer cases have been declining overall in the past two decades , the same analysis finds that the opposite is true for advanced prostate cancer cases .
In fact , the number of cases of cancer that had already spread from the prostate to other parts of the body doubled between 2003 and 2017 , going from 4 % to 8 % , according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
`` Understanding who gets prostate cancer and what the survival numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ making prostate cancer screening decisions , providers discussing these decisions with their patients , and for informing recommendations for prostate cancer screening , '' said lead researcher Dr. David Siegel , from CDC 's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control .
Why the spike in advanced prostate cancers ?
Dr. Anthony D'Amico , a professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School in Boston , said the increase was an inevitable consequence of a 2012 recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force against the routine use of prostate cancer screening with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
`` We realized in 2012 , when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said to stop PSA screening , we would expect that somewhere around 2018 to 2019 that cancer death rates would start to go up , and that about two to three years prior to that , around 2015 to 2016 , we would expect to see distant metastases [ cancer that has spread ] go up because they preceded death by a couple of years , '' he explained .
That 's exactly what this report found , D'Amico @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because the reversal of the recommendation against PSA screening did n't happen until [ 2018 ] , so it 's going to be a couple of years from now before we start to see a plateauing and eventually a decrease in distant disease , '' he said .
`` We should have PSA brought back . ''
While D'Amico said he believes that men should have their PSA level tested , whether an elevated PSA leads to further diagnosis or treatment should be based on a conversation between a man and his urologist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases now , but there 's no problem from my perspective in bringing the PSA back , so that the patients with low-risk cancer can have the discussion whether they want treatment or not , knowing what the side effects are , and the patients who need to be cured can be cured , '' D'Amico said .
Men are getting more metastatic disease and dying , he said .
`` But because of the reversal of PSA screening , it should come back to where it was , and the only difference @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to treat and who not to treat , '' D'Amico said .
The CDC study also delved into racial differences for prostate cancer survival .
The researchers found that five-year survival was highest among Asian/Pacific Islanders at 42 % , followed by Hispanics at 37 % , American Indian/Alaska Natives at 32 % , Black men at 32 % and White men at 29 % .
Understanding prostate cancer rates and survival can help guide treatment and survivor care planning , Siegel said .
This study did not look at PSA testing trends @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use of PSA testing , Siegel acknowledged .
`` There are a lot of factors , including decreases in PSA testing , that might contribute to the incidence trends we reported in this study . ''
The findings were published Oct. 16 in the CDC 's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report .
For more on PSA tests , see the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

While men can take solace in a new government report that shows prostate cancer cases have been declining overall in the past two decades, the same analysis finds that the opposite is true for advanced prostate cancer cases.
In fact, the number of cases of cancer that had already spread from the prostate to other parts of the body doubled between 2003 and 2017, going from 4% to 8%, according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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"Understanding who gets prostate cancer and what the survival numbers are like could be important for men making prostate cancer screening decisions, providers discussing these decisions with their patients, and for informing recommendations for prostate cancer screening," said lead researcher Dr. David Siegel, from CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
Why the spike in advanced prostate cancers? Dr. Anthony D'Amico, a professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said the increase was an inevitable consequence of a 2012 recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force against the routine use of prostate cancer screening with the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test.
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"We realized in 2012, when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said to stop PSA screening, we would expect that somewhere around 2018 to 2019 that cancer death rates would start to go up, and that about two to three years prior to that, around 2015 to 2016, we would expect to see distant metastases [cancer that has spread] go up because they preceded death by a couple of years," he explained.
That's exactly what this report found, D'Amico noted.
"That trend will continue because the reversal of the recommendation against PSA screening didn't happen until [2018], so it's going to be a couple of years from now before we start to see a plateauing and eventually a decrease in distant disease," he said. "We should have PSA brought back."
While D'Amico said he believes that men should have their PSA level tested, whether an elevated PSA leads to further diagnosis or treatment should be based on a conversation between a man and his urologist.
"We're diagnosing less low-risk cases now, but there's no problem from my perspective in bringing the PSA back, so that the patients with low-risk cancer can have the discussion whether they want treatment or not, knowing what the side effects are, and the patients who need to be cured can be cured," D'Amico said.
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Men are getting more metastatic disease and dying, he said. "But because of the reversal of PSA screening, it should come back to where it was, and the only difference is now we're smarter about who to treat and who not to treat," D'Amico said.
The CDC study also delved into racial differences for prostate cancer survival. The researchers found that five-year survival was highest among Asian/Pacific Islanders at 42%, followed by Hispanics at 37%, American Indian/Alaska Natives at 32%, Black men at 32% and White men at 29%.
Understanding prostate cancer rates and survival can help guide treatment and survivor care planning, Siegel said.
This study did not look at PSA testing trends, but past studies have noted decreasing use of PSA testing, Siegel acknowledged. "There are a lot of factors, including decreases in PSA testing, that might contribute to the incidence trends we reported in this study."
The findings were published Oct. 16 in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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thelibertydaily--2020-10-17--Global Warming Hoax Update: Snow Lovers Hope La Niña Delivers Cooler, Wetter Winter

Western Washington is likely to experience a cooler , wetter winter this year because of a La Niña weather pattern , according to new long-term projections from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .
While more precipitation and cooler temperatures are the perfect conditions for snow , NOAA says it can ’ t project seasonal snowfall accumulations that far in advance .
Snow forecasts are usually not predictable more than a week out , it explains in the new data .
That doesn ’ t mean we can ’ t dream about it , or cross our fingers and hope instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Weather Service issued a poll on Twitter on Thursday asking Pacific Northwesterners how they feel about snow this winter .
Just over 2,000 people voted and 56.5 % said they want a ton of snow , with another 25.4 % voting for just a bit of snow .
That leaves 18 % hoping for the more typical clouds and rain , and maybe some sun breaks this season .
For now , if you ’ re a snow lover , you ’ re likely already paying close attention to what ’ s happening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ falling in earnest at Stevens Pass last weekend , with another hit on Wednesday .
Stevens Pass plans to open on Dec. 4 this season , with some safety precautions .
CEO of Vail Resorts , Rob Katz , outlined those precautions here .
They include mandatory face coverings and reservations , in order to maintain the proper capacity to ensure good physical distancing .
Snoqualmie Pass is also resuming operations this season , but it ’ s unclear when .
It had to pause its seasons pass sales in September to re-evaluate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those sales sometime in October .
Meanwhile , it has also published a list of COVID-19 precautions here , which also includes mandatory face coverings .
NOAA ’ s next winter outlook will post on November 19 , 2020 .
For a full explanation of the entire United States ’ climate outlook , NOAA has posted this handy video :

Western Washington is likely to experience a cooler, wetter winter this year because of a La Niña weather pattern, according to new long-term projections from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
While more precipitation and cooler temperatures are the perfect conditions for snow, NOAA says it can’t project seasonal snowfall accumulations that far in advance. Snow forecasts are usually not predictable more than a week out, it explains in the new data.
That doesn’t mean we can’t dream about it, or cross our fingers and hope instead for a heat wave. The National Weather Service issued a poll on Twitter on Thursday asking Pacific Northwesterners how they feel about snow this winter.
Just over 2,000 people voted and 56.5% said they want a ton of snow, with another 25.4% voting for just a bit of snow. That leaves 18% hoping for the more typical clouds and rain, and maybe some sun breaks this season.
But we might as well take a poll: How much snow are you rooting for this winter? #wawx — NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) October 16, 2020
For now, if you’re a snow lover, you’re likely already paying close attention to what’s happening in the Cascade Mountains. Snow began falling in earnest at Stevens Pass last weekend, with another hit on Wednesday.
Stevens Pass plans to open on Dec. 4 this season, with some safety precautions. CEO of Vail Resorts, Rob Katz, outlined those precautions here. They include mandatory face coverings and reservations, in order to maintain the proper capacity to ensure good physical distancing.
Snoqualmie Pass is also resuming operations this season, but it’s unclear when. It had to pause its seasons pass sales in September to re-evaluate volume. The resorts plans to resume those sales sometime in October. Meanwhile, it has also published a list of COVID-19 precautions here, which also includes mandatory face coverings.
NOAA’s next winter outlook will post on November 19, 2020. For a full explanation of the entire United States’ climate outlook, NOAA has posted this handy video:
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thelibertydaily--2020-10-17--Uniquely Bad—But Not Uniquely American

Uniquely Bad—But Not Uniquely American

The virus has had disproportionate effects on certain demographic groups , even in countries with the most generous welfare provisions @

The 1619 Project has not been having an easy time of it. Ever since the Pulitzer Prize-winning essays first appeared in the New York Times in August 2019, historians have been chipping away at some of the central claims. No, they’ve shown, protecting slavery was not the primary motive of the American revolutionaries when they broke away from Britain in 1776. No, the arrival of 20 African slaves at Jamestown was not when the country “began.”
The project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, was at first boldly dismissive of the attacks, but she has more recently been going through contortions to insist that she didn’t say what she demonstrably said; she has even erased her Twitter feed. The New York Times has likewise done some stealth editing of its own, altering some of the more controversial assertions in the online edition. A few weeks ago, President Trump himself went on the attack.
I’d like to propose adding another reason to close the book on the 1619 Project: it is based on a twisted notion of American exceptionalism. America’s “brutal system of slavery [was] unlike anything that had existed in the world before,” Hannah-Jones writes. “Enslaved people were not recognized as human beings but as property that could be mortgaged, traded, bought, sold, used as collateral, given as a gift and disposed of violently.” Brutal? Yes. Unlike anything that existed in the world before? Seeing how far this is from the truth is the only way to make sense of the contradictions and perplexing compromises of the American Founding that trouble us so much today.
In fact, slavery was a mundane fact in most human civilizations, neither questioned nor much thought about. It appeared in the earliest settlements of Sumer, Babylonia, China, and Egypt, and it continues in many parts of the world to this day. Far from grappling with whether slavery should be legal, the code of Hammurabi, civilization’s first known legal text, simply defines appropriate punishments for recalcitrant slaves (cutting off their ears) or those who help them escape (death). Both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament take for granted the existence of slaves. Slavery was so firmly established in ancient Greece that Plato could not imagine his ideal Republic without them, though he rejected the idea of individual ownership in favor of state control. As for Rome, well, Spartacus, anyone?
In the ancient world, slaves were almost always captives from the era’s endless wars of conquest. They were forced to do all the heavy labor required for building and sustaining cities and towns: clearing forests; building roads, temples, and palaces; digging and transporting stone; hoeing fields; rowing galley ships; and marching to almost-certain death in the front line of battle. Women (and often enough boy) slaves had the task of servicing the sexual appetites of their masters. None of that changed with the arrival of a new millennium. Gaelic tribes took advantage of the fall of the Roman Empire to raid the west coast of England and Wales for strong bodies; one belonged to a 16-year-old later anointed St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. “In the slavery business, no tribe was fiercer or more feared than the Irish,” writes Thomas Cahill in How the Irish Saved Civilization.
Today, of course, the immorality of slave-owning is as clear as day. But in the premodern world, no neat division existed between evil slaveowners and their innocent victims. Once the Vikings arrived in their longboats in the 700s, the Irish enslavers found themselves the enslaved. Slavery became the commanding height of the Viking economy; Norsemen raided coastal villages across Europe and brought their captives to Dublin, which became one of the largest slave markets of the time. The Vikings thought of their slaves as more like cattle than people; the unlucky victims had to sleep alongside the domestic animals, according to the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. Norsemen rounded up captured Irish men and women to settle the desolate landscape of Iceland; scientists have found Irish DNA in present-day Icelanders, a legacy of that time. The Slavic tribes in Eastern Europe were an especially fertile supplier for Viking slave traders as well as for Muslim dealers from Spain: their Latin name gave us the word slave. Slavs were evidently not deterred by the misery they must have suffered; when Viking power waned by the twelfth century, the Slavs turned around and enslaved Vikings as well as Greeks.
Slavery was a normal state of affairs well beyond the territory we now call Europe. The Mayans had slaves; the Aztecs harnessed the labor of captives to build their temples and then serve as human sacrifices at the altars they had helped construct. The ancient Near East and Asia Minor were chockfull of slaves, mostly from East Africa. According to eminent slavery scholar Orlando Patterson, East Africa was plundered for human chattel as far back as 1580 BC. Muhammad called for compassion for the enslaved, but that didn’t stop his followers from expanding their search for chattel beyond the east coast into the interior of Africa, where the trade flourished for many centuries before those first West Africans arrived in Jamestown. Throughout that time, African kings and merchants grew rich from capturing and selling the millions of African slaves sent through the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean to Persians and Ottomans.
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the North African Barbary coast was a hub for “white slavery.” This episode was relatively short-lived in the global history of slavery, but one with overlooked impact on Western culture. Around 1619, just as the first Africans were being sailed from the African coast to Jamestown, Algerian and Tunisian pirates, or “corsairs” as they were known, were using their boats to raid seaside villages on the Mediterranean and Atlantic for slaves who happened in this case to be white. In 1631, Ottoman pirates sacked Baltimore on the southern coast of Ireland, capturing and enslaving the villagers. Around the same time, Iceland was raided by Barbary corsairs who took hundreds of prisoners, selling them into lifetime bondage.
Large stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts were emptied as those inhabitants who hadn’t been sent to slave markets fled to safety. Miguel Cervantes was one of those captured; enslaved by Algerians for five years, he returned repeatedly to the trauma in his writings, including his masterpiece Don Quixote. In Robinson Crusoe, the fictional hero is captured by pirates and enslaved in Morocco for two years, before escaping and, with no apparent hesitation, deciding to become a slave trader himself. One 1640 investigation estimated that more than 5,000 English citizens were being held as slaves in North Africa. Amazingly, ten American ships were seized and their passengers enslaved after the nation was founded. The American abolitionist senator Charles Sumner wrote a remarkable short treatise about the white Christians enslaved along the Barbary coast, speculating that outrage over the practice inspired some Americans to notice the evil that they were perpetrating on Africans in their own country.
Some of the few who have noticed this history protest that American slavery was more vicious than other forms. It’s true that some of the ancients and the Barbary Coast masters had a kind of slavery lite for a fortunate few: house slaves could sometimes marry freeborn women and work as skilled artisans or tutors for the children of their owners. Manumission was fairly common among the Greeks and Romans, though that was a minor decision for them; there was always more territory to seize for their empires, and they could quickly repopulate their slave quarters.
Make no mistake, though: slaves were always considered property to be traded, bought, and sold. For millennia, wherever people were buying and selling things, slave markets existed. “Slaves were the closest thing to a universal currency in trading centers,” observes Steven Johnson in his recent book about piracy, The Enemy of All Mankind. Joseph Pitts, an English boy seized by Barbary pirates in the seventeenth century, wrote of a Cairo market: “The slaves are examined much like animals; buyers are allowed to check their teeth, muscles, and stature to get an idea of the overall health of a slave.” David Brion Davis explains: “While African slaves did grueling labor on sugar and cotton plantations in the Americas, European Christian slaves were often worked just as hard and as lethally—in quarries, in heavy construction, and above all rowing the corsair galleys themselves.”
Slavery’s long, cosmopolitan history is ignored by the architects of the 1619 Project. That oversight matters, but not because it would ameliorate the horror of the practice in the United States. No one can erase slavery’s lasting impact on our politics and identity or ease contemporary racial inequalities, entwined, however distantly, with the country’s slave past.
But slavery’s history does suggest two facts that can bring more clarity to how America, the land of the free, tolerated bondage: first, slavery, brutal and repulsive as we rightly believe it to be, was as much a part of ancient and early modern history as farming. And second: widespread revulsion against slavery came relatively late in the human story.
When the first African slaves were stepping off the boat onto American soil in 1619, and as Europeans were being steered into the slave markets of Algiers, there had been only scattered, regional, and temporary gestures toward abolishing the global practice of human bondage: a Greek philosopher here, an Indian emperor there; prohibition against trading in one area, edicts against owning a co-religionist in another. Slavery had been gradually disappearing from France and England by the twelfth century, but less because those civilizations were developing a modern conception of universal human rights than because tribes were coalescing into cities and nations that were finding less appalling ways to harness cheap labor. The spread of Christianity may have played a role in some areas. Urged on by his archbishop, the otherwise ruthless William the Conqueror freed Saxon and Welsh slaves. Still, the early Church’s record on slavery was erratic at best. And centuries later, the English and French, like other Europeans, had little compunction about putting West Africans in chains and transporting them to their colonies in the Americas.
It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that anti-slavery sentiment became enough of a moral force to exorcise the practice on a large scale in the West. Historians generally trace the origins of this revolution to two forces: first, secular, Enlightenment notions about the natural rights of man; and second, religious fervor among Quakers and later on, evangelical Christians. Quakers, the earliest abolitionists in both England and the American colonies, introduced the “Gradual Abolition Act of 1780,” the first such legislation in the West. Though it took more than a century and a horrific civil war to emancipate slaves in the United States, the abolitionist movement was a white Western invention. Other parts of the world remained wedded to slavery well into the twentieth century: slavery was legal in Ethiopia until 1942, in Saudi Arabia until 1963, and Mauritania until 1980. Today, one reads reports of slavery in Mauritania, Sudan, and in Islamist quasi-states in Iraq and Nigeria. As much as 15 percent of the population of Mauritania may be enslaved, according to the BBC. Estimates of those in bondage today run as high as 1 million people, mostly women and children.
What set America apart from other slaveholding societies, and what continues to curse the country to this day, was not slavery per se but its racialization. Slaves had always been inferior “others” in some way meaningful to each society: Greeks only used foreigners, or “barbarians,” as slaves; Christians justified enslaving pagans; Muslims did the same with infidels, even as they spared fellow Muslims; the Chinese enslaved Koreans, Turks, Persians, and Indonesians—and now the Uyghurs—but not ethnic Chinese. But after a brief, unsuccessful attempt to use smallpox-prone Indians as slave labor, Americans turned to a different “other”: Africans, who, thanks to the growing transatlantic slave trade, would now be available in huge numbers.
The advantage for slaveowners—but the affliction for both blacks and the country as a whole—is that race is a highly visible and tenacious dividing line between peoples. Escaped and freed slaves could not simply blend into the local population as they could in other parts of the world. Only 4 percent of the Africans who suffered through the middle passage across the Atlantic ended up in what would become the United States. The rest were sold in the Caribbean and Latin America, where, with the area’s large indigenous and Mestizo population, race was less binary than in the U.S. and the divisions between groups more flexible. Hereditary slavery was not unique to the U.S.—children were born slaves in the Roman empire and early on in the Caribbean and Latin America—but once color became the defining distinction between bonded and free, hereditary slavery made a certain awful sense.
So what should be our stance toward the immorality of our past? After a trip to Dublin in 2007, Danish culture minister Brian Mikkelsen scoffed at the idea of apologizing to the Irish people for the Vikings’ savagery in the Dark Ages, saying “we don’t apologize for what the Vikings did 1,000 years ago. That was the way you acted back then.” That position may make sense for an older civilization whose founding sins are hidden in the mists of ancient tribal history. In the relatively young, racially divided United States, it is inadequate.
But the minister hints at the reality that history presents us with a numbing array of opportunities for indignant judgement: wars of conquest, tortures, massacres, infanticide, beheadings, rapes, kidnappings, coercive and brutalizing labor, gulags, death camps, and so on. While we can and should condemn it all, that judgment has to be tempered by a certain knowing detachment, even humility, especially when we think about the more distant past. Consider that as the American Founders pondered the design of their new country in the 1770s, they were caught between two worlds—a past where human servitude was an unremarkable fact and a future, just taking shape, that condemned the idea as grossly immoral. James Madison grasped the contradictions of the moment: “We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man,” he wrote. Deeply in debt, Madison couldn’t see his way to freeing his own slaves upon his death. It’s a decision deserving our censure. But it is hubris for any person today to assume that they themselves would have had the foresight, the freedom of mind and heart, or even the moral vocabulary, to side with the angels. Remember: even freed black slaves were known to purchase and own slaves.
In an excerpt in The Atlantic from his new book Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs describes Frederick Douglass’s struggle to come to grips with the achievement of the American Founding. No one knew better than this former slave the boundaries of that achievement. No one better understood the limits of the virtue of these men. But the self-taught Douglass understood the omnipresence of human cruelty and the rarity of freedom. Painful as it must have been for him to do so, he conceded about the men who had compromised away his freedom, that they “were great in their day and generation.”
To understand the truth of that qualified praise is to understand the complexities of our history—and of any history. And it is another level on which the 1619 Project fails utterly.
Photo: Circa 1910: Three Abyssinian slaves in iron collars and chains. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


thelibertydaily--2020-10-18--Mob of Democrat Biden Supporters Attack NY Republican Party Office, Injuries Reported

Republicans in Ithaca , New York were violently attacked by self-avowed socialists outside the local Republican Party office .
At least two women were injured , including a 60-year-old lady who suffered dislocated shoulder .
“ They began pushing , shoving , kicking , punching , stealing peoples signs and flags , taking people ’ s hats , and attempting to physically intimidate the crowd into surrender , ” the Tompkins County Republican Party wrote on its Facebook page .
“ It got to the point where the mob was attacking anyone who still had Trump gear on .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know what was happening , but they didn ’ t show up for a half hour and merely directed traffic away from the riot once they did show up.
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Video posted below shows dozens of rioters brutally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their flags and defacing the building with anti-Trump messages .
“ I just got trampled , assaulted hit in the ribs by some guy who wanted to steal my flag , ” one female Trump supporter said in a Facebook video .
Rep. Tom Reed condemned the attacks and called on Democrats to stand together with Republicans and denounce the violence .
“ We are appalled by reports of physical violence , verbal abuse , and property destruction by extremists in Ithaca this weekend simply because they disagreed with peaceful conservative rallygoers , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ We must all , regardless of political affiliation , stand together in unison to condemn this extremism and violence in the strongest of terms.
” The Tompkins County GOP said the only appropriate response to the violence is to hold another rally next Saturday and that ’ s exactly what they plan to do .
“ If the mob learns that they can intimidate people into silence , it ’ s over , ” the GOP wrote on Facebook .
“ At that point , we no longer have freedom of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The ONLY way to show them that this doesn ’ t work is to show them that this will cause us to show up.We hope to see you at the Back The Blue rally on Saturday .
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Republicans in Ithaca, New York were violently attacked by self-avowed socialists outside the local Republican Party office. At least two women were injured, including a 60-year-old lady who suffered dislocated shoulder.
“They began pushing, shoving, kicking, punching, stealing peoples signs and flags, taking people’s hats, and attempting to physically intimidate the crowd into surrender,” the Tompkins County Republican Party wrote on its Facebook page. “It got to the point where the mob was attacking anyone who still had Trump gear on. We called Ithaca Police Department to let them know what was happening, but they didn’t show up for a half hour and merely directed traffic away from the riot once they did show up.”
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Video posted below shows dozens of rioters brutally attacking Trump supporters – trying to steal their flags and defacing the building with anti-Trump messages.
“I just got trampled, assaulted hit in the ribs by some guy who wanted to steal my flag,” one female Trump supporter said in a Facebook video.
Rep. Tom Reed condemned the attacks and called on Democrats to stand together with Republicans and denounce the violence.
“We are appalled by reports of physical violence, verbal abuse, and property destruction by extremists in Ithaca this weekend simply because they disagreed with peaceful conservative rallygoers,” he said in a Facebook statement. “We must all, regardless of political affiliation, stand together in unison to condemn this extremism and violence in the strongest of terms.”
The Tompkins County GOP said the only appropriate response to the violence is to hold another rally next Saturday and that’s exactly what they plan to do.
“If the mob learns that they can intimidate people into silence, it’s over,” the GOP wrote on Facebook. “At that point, we no longer have freedom of expression in the place where we live. The ONLY way to show them that this doesn’t work is to show them that this will cause us to show up.We hope to see you at the Back The Blue rally on Saturday.”
This teenager was screaming in people’s faces. He kept asking where our masks were as he was screaming so uncontrollably that his kept slipping down. Posted by Tompkins County Republicans on Saturday, October 17, 2020
This woman was assaulted by authoritarians to the point where she had to be pulled into the GOP office shoulders first…. Posted by Tompkins County Republicans on Saturday, October 17, 2020


thelibertydaily--2020-10-18--CORRUPT: Facebook’s Public Policy Manager for Global Elections a Former Joe Biden Senior Policy Advi

CORRUPT: Facebook’s Public Policy Manager for Global Elections a Former Joe Biden Senior Policy Adviser . . . A George Soros Fellowship Recipient

The debacle that Big Tech created this week when they decided to censor an article critical of Joe Biden and his son , Hunter , has put a spotlight on people who were otherwise hidden in the shadows .
Of particular interest are those who are involved with ensuring “ election integrity ” at companies like Facebook , Twitter , and Google .
That ’ s why it ’ s no surprise to find out Anna Makanju , Facebook ’ s Public Policy Manager for Global Elections , has a history that should spark interest .
First and foremost , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Union .
That fact alone is not disqualifying ; there are many patriotic Americans born in the USSR who are now wonderful citizens .
But when we look at the rest of her history , the Soviet connection becomes a bigger issue .
Here are some of the other areas of concern , especially when we consider the role she plays at Facebook should be filled by someone who is politically unbiased : • Director for Russia at the National Security Council • Chief of Staff for the Office of European and NATO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America in Wisconsin • Worked for the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia She has put together one of the most prolific resumes possible for a radical progressive attorney with credits that would make any budding Democratic-Socialist envious .
But in light of the actions by Facebook to quash a series of stories that reveal the unambiguous corruption of the Biden family and the candidate himself , the most glaring part of her resume is that she was the Special Policy Advisor for Europe and Eurasia to Vice President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was his senior policy adviser on Ukraine .
And now she ’ s making decisions about whether a story about Joe Biden and Ukraine should be allowed on the platform .
It ’ s ironic that her current role includes making decisions to ensure election integrity .
The person Facebook hired to ensure election integrity has connections to a Soros fellowship , Samantha Power , and the Obama campaign .
Oh , and she was Joe Biden ’ s senior adviser on Ukraine .
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The debacle that Big Tech created this week when they decided to censor an article critical of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, has put a spotlight on people who were otherwise hidden in the shadows. Of particular interest are those who are involved with ensuring “election integrity” at companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google. That’s why it’s no surprise to find out Anna Makanju, Facebook’s Public Policy Manager for Global Elections, has a history that should spark interest.
First and foremost, she was born in the former Soviet Union. That fact alone is not disqualifying; there are many patriotic Americans born in the USSR who are now wonderful citizens. But when we look at the rest of her history, the Soviet connection becomes a bigger issue. Here are some of the other areas of concern, especially when we consider the role she plays at Facebook should be filled by someone who is politically unbiased:
Senior Policy Advisor to Ambassador Samantha Power
Director for Russia at the National Security Council
Chief of Staff for the Office of European and NATO Policy
Professor at Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University
Field organizer for Obama for America in Wisconsin
in Wisconsin Worked for the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Distinguished Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship recipient
She has put together one of the most prolific resumes possible for a radical progressive attorney with credits that would make any budding Democratic-Socialist envious. But in light of the actions by Facebook to quash a series of stories that reveal the unambiguous corruption of the Biden family and the candidate himself, the most glaring part of her resume is that she was the Special Policy Advisor for Europe and Eurasia to Vice President Biden. In other words, she was his senior policy adviser on Ukraine.
And now she’s making decisions about whether a story about Joe Biden and Ukraine should be allowed on the platform. It’s ironic that her current role includes making decisions to ensure election integrity.
The person Facebook hired to ensure election integrity has connections to a Soros fellowship, Samantha Power, and the Obama campaign. Oh, and she was Joe Biden’s senior adviser on Ukraine. You can’t make this stuff up.
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thelibertydaily--2020-10-18--Steve Bannon: ‘Joe Biden is a Liar, a Fraud, and Compromised by Chinese Cash — A National Security C

Steve Bannon: ‘Joe Biden is a Liar, a Fraud, and Compromised by Chinese Cash — A National Security Crisis’

ATTENTION NEWS JUNKIES : We are the new Drudge , be sure to check our news feed by CLICKING HERE Last week the NY Post took the political world by storm with its release of shocking material from Hunter Biden ’ s hard drive indicating corruption , sexual depravity and more .
The Post reported that a lawyer for former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani obtained the hard drive from a computer repairman , and that former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon had alerted the Post to the existence of the hard drive in July .
But before turning over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani ’ s lawyer , Robert Costello .
Steve Bannon , former adviser to President Trump , told The Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday .
[ NY Post ] Steve Bannon has since clarified to Revolver News that he was brought into the project based on familiarity with corruption in corporate America , on Wall Street , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s political class .
Mr. Bannon revealed that he “ worked up and executed the roll out plan ” of the information contained in the Hunter hard drives .
Given his close knowledge and familiarity with an issue of such explosive importance to the election , Revolver asked Mr. Bannon a few questions pertaining to the contents of Hunter ’ s hard drive and the political implications of their release .
Revolver : What is the most incriminating thing on the hard drive ?
Rudy has suggested illegal things , and as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the hard drive is associated with the child pornography division .
Could you give more insight into how bad it is we ’ re talking about ?
Mr. Bannon : Joe Biden is a liar , a fraud , and compromised by Chinese cash .
In short , he is a national security crisis .
The hard drive combines emails and text messages that show a massive involvement with companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party .
Also , there are 25,000 images that show a drug-addled , depraved lifestyle — one that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the White House .
Revolver : The FBI has been holding onto the hard drive for almost a year ?
Any sense of why ?
Was there any indication that they were seriously interested in criminal case , assuming that there is , in fact , illegal material on there ?
If not , why would the FBI simply hold onto information like that ?
Mr. Bannon : The President must confront the director of the FBI on why the information housed on this hard drive was not moved on immediately .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been released when received in November 2019 , there would have been no impeachment of Trump , and Bernie Sanders would be the Democratic Party nominee .
This confrontation should take place this weekend in the Oval Office .
If Wray doesn ’ t have a bulletproof reason he should be fired in the room .
Revolver : What are your best estimates on how many foreign entities may have obtained possession of the hard drive ?
Chinese intel ?
Mr. Bannon : It ’ s the actions represented on the hard drive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enemies know about .
The cash and equity given for access to Biden , the favors done for that cash , the drugs , the depravity .
The CCP , Russian Intel , the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Intel Services — they know the Bidens are for sale .
Revolver : Is there any reason to expect that the contents of the hard drive will be revealed before the election ?
If yes , will people actually care enough for it to substantially effect the outcome ?
Mr. Bannon : The Bidens are about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ multiple media sources based off evidence beyond the hard drive .
Fox and Peter Schweitzer have already started but bigger more mainstream companies are going to weigh in .
We already have set in motion the various apparatuses that will release everything .
Revolver : What are your thoughts on the efforts to discredit the hard drive as “ Russian disinformation ?
” Is there any evidence this is Russian disinformation at all ?
At any rate , what matters is not whether Biden-supporting media calls it “ disinformation ” — what matters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Has the Biden camp explicitly denied the factual accusations pertaining to the hard drives ?
Mr. Bannon : Rupert Murdoch ’ s team at the NY Post is as sophisticated and tough as there is in all media .
They had the metadata and they signed off to go forward .
The Russia excuse — and it is an excuse — collapsed when Fox verified the information with someone on the email chain .
The Biden campaign has yet to say these emails or photos are not real .
The reason ?
Hunter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recover the hard drive .
These are real — the Bidens know they are real — and they are going to have to deal with that reality .
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Last week the NY Post took the political world by storm with its release of shocking material from Hunter Biden’s hard drive indicating corruption, sexual depravity, and more. The Post reported that a lawyer for former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani obtained the hard drive from a computer repairman and that former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon had alerted the Post to the existence of the hard drive in July.
But before turning over the gear, the shop owner says, he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello. Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday. [NY Post]
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Steve Bannon has since clarified to Revolver News that he was brought into the project based on familiarity with corruption in corporate America, on Wall Street, and within the Chinese Communist Party and America’s political class. Mr. Bannon revealed that he “worked up and executed the roll out plan” of the information contained in the Hunter hard drives. Given his close knowledge and familiarity with an issue of such explosive importance to the election, Revolver asked Mr. Bannon a few questions pertaining to the contents of Hunter’s hard drive and the political implications of their release.
Revolver: What is the most incriminating thing on the hard drive? Rudy has suggested illegal things, and as Revolver reported, the FBI person tasked with the hard drive is associated with the child pornography division. Could you give more insight into how bad it is we’re talking about?
Mr. Bannon: Joe Biden is a liar, a fraud, and compromised by Chinese cash. In short, he is a national security crisis. The hard drive combines emails and text messages that show a massive involvement with companies controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Also, there are 25,000 images that show a drug-addled, depraved lifestyle — one that decent hardworking Americans will not want near the White House.
Revolver: The FBI has been holding onto the hard drive for almost a year? Any sense of why? Was there any indication that they were seriously interested in a criminal case, assuming that there is, in fact, illegal material on there? If not, why would the FBI simply hold onto information like that?
Mr. Bannon: The President must confront the director of the FBI on why the information housed on this hard drive was not moved on immediately. If the content of the hard drive had been released when received in November 2019, there would have been no impeachment of Trump, and Bernie Sanders would be the Democratic Party nominee. This confrontation should take place this weekend in the Oval Office. If Wray doesn’t have a bulletproof reason he should be fired in the room.
Revolver: What are your best estimates on how many foreign entities may have obtained possession of the hard drive? Chinese intel?
Mr. Bannon: It’s the actions represented on the hard drive that the American people must understand our enemies know about. The cash and equity given for access to Biden, the favors done for that cash, the drugs, the depravity. The CCP, Russian Intel, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Intel Services — they know the Bidens are for sale.
Revolver: Is there any reason to expect that the contents of the hard drive will be revealed before the election? If yes, will people actually care enough for it to substantially affect the outcome?
Mr. Bannon: The Bidens are about to be hit with multiple stories from multiple media sources based off evidence beyond the hard drive. Fox and Peter Schweitzer have already started but bigger more mainstream companies are going to weigh in. We already have set in motion the various apparatuses that will release everything.
Revolver: What are your thoughts on the efforts to discredit the hard drive as “Russian disinformation?” Is there any evidence this is Russian disinformation at all? At any rate, what matters is not whether Biden-supporting media calls it “disinformation” — what matters is whether it’s true. Has the Biden camp explicitly denied the factual accusations pertaining to the hard drives?
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Mr. Bannon: Rupert Murdoch’s team at the NY Post is as sophisticated and tough as there is in all media. They had the metadata and they signed off to go forward. The Russia excuse — and it is an excuse — collapsed when Fox verified the information with someone on the email chain. The Biden campaign has yet to say these emails or photos are not real. The reason? Hunter’s lawyer sent emails trying to recover the hard drive. These are real — the Bidens know they are real — and they are going to have to deal with that reality.
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thelibertydaily--2020-10-18--Marxist Democrat Biden Supporters Violently Attack Pro-Trump Peaceful Protesters at Free Speech Rall

Marxist Democrat Biden Supporters Violently Attack Pro-Trump Peaceful Protesters at Free Speech Rally in San Francisco

A rally called to promote free speech and denounce big tech censorship turned ugly Saturday in San Francisco , when hundreds of alleged Antifa counterprotesters showed up and berated and attacked demonstrators , leaving one missing a tooth .
The conservative group Team Save America organized the event to protest Twitter , which it argues censors free speech .
They planned to rally at United Nations Plaza before moving the protest to Twitter 's headquarters a few blocks away .
But the event quickly devolved into a shouting match and violence as hundreds of counterprotesters stormed the scene .
FAMILY @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SEEKS ANSWER , LAWYER SAYS Video shows one counterprotester punching Philip Anderson , an organizer of the event , knocking one of his teeth out .
Anderson posted a picture of the aftermath on social media and said he was attacked by Antifa .
`` This is what happens when you lose free speech , '' Anderson said over boos as the crowd threw objects at him .
`` This is what happens , America .
This is what our country is turning into . ''
The event was canceled before it ever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was wearing a Trump 2020 shirt was attacked at some point by a counterprotester .
The San Francisco Police Department did not respond to a request for comment Saturday .
Social media companies have come under fire for alleged censorship recently .
Last week , for instance , Twitter put a warning on a tweet from the President that compared coronavirus to the flu , while Facebook removed the post altogether .
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP As of Saturday evening , Twitter had still locked out the New York @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporting on Joe Biden 's son , Hunter Biden .
Facebook , meanwhile , said it is reducing distribution of the Post 's reporting on its platform .
The Associated Press contributed to this report .

A rally called to promote free speech and denounce big tech censorship turned ugly Saturday in San Francisco, when hundreds of alleged Antifa counterprotesters showed up and berated and attacked demonstrators, leaving one missing a tooth.
The conservative group Team Save America organized the event to protest Twitter, which it argues censors free speech. They planned to rally at United Nations Plaza before moving the protest to Twitter's headquarters a few blocks away. But the event quickly devolved into a shouting match and violence as hundreds of counterprotesters stormed the scene.
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Video shows one counterprotester punching Philip Anderson, an organizer of the event, knocking one of his teeth out.
Anderson posted a picture of the aftermath on social media and said he was attacked by Antifa.
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"This is what happens when you lose free speech," Anderson said over boos as the crowd threw objects at him. "This is what happens, America. This is what our country is turning into."
The event was canceled before it ever really got started.
Another protester who was wearing a Trump 2020 shirt was attacked at some point by a counterprotester.
The San Francisco Police Department did not respond to a request for comment Saturday.
Social media companies have come under fire for alleged censorship recently. Last week, for instance, Twitter put a warning on a tweet from the President that compared coronavirus to the flu, while Facebook removed the post altogether.
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As of Saturday evening, Twitter had still locked out the New York Post's account for tweeting about their reporting on Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
Facebook, meanwhile, said it is reducing distribution of the Post's reporting on its platform.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


thelibertydaily--2020-10-18--The Left Needs Us All To Believe The United States Is Racist Forever

As leftists believe racism is constant throughout American history , they take the absence of racist sentiments to mean racism is hiding deep in our minds .
That America is a racist country is the great self-evident truth of the left and of the ruling class whose moral opinions are shaped by it .
This truth is self-evident in the sense of being readily apparent to them , as evidenced by the countless disparities in life outcomes between blacks and whites .
No explanation for these disparities is ever required .
Their mere existence is proof of racism .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indians and whites , and between Nigerian immigrants and whites all go studiously ignored since these groups generally outperform whites in income and educational attainment .
Also ignored is the role that the pathologies of inner-city black culture — fatherlessness , crime , nihilistic alienation , and the exaltation of thuggery — play in producing and sustaining disparities .
America ’ s racist nature is also self-evident in the philosophical sense .
It is an axiomatic truth : the predicate ( racism ) is contained in the subject ( America ) .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by definition , single , so is America , by definition , racist .
Formulated as such , the self-evident truth of American racism can not be refuted .
It is impervious to counterarguments , data , and historical developments .
Believers in American racism don ’ t care about your facts .
In 1991 , Derrick Bell , one of the founders of critical race theory , declared that blacks had made no progress in America since 1865 .
He made this claim with a straight face at Harvard University , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for two decades .
In 1865 , Harvard did not admit black students .
In 2020 , the claim that America is fundamentally racist is a lie .
But it is a lie tenaciously defended by those on the left who most benefit from it : the Democratic Party , its progressive allies in the academy , the intelligentsia and the media , and black political leadership .
As the ultimate arbiters of all racial controversies , the left have positioned themselves to occupy the moral high ground in America — the most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The accusation of racism is their most powerful political weapon .
Playing the race card allows them to detract attention from their own corruption and the radical ideas they espouse .
Whatever faults they have , at least they ’ re not racists like Donald Trump , the Republicans , and their base of deplorables .
The right is thus constrained to fight the enemy on the enemy ’ s own terms .
Republican claims that “ Democrats are the real racists ” inevitably fall flat .
The national obsession with racism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work in the diversity and grievance industries .
It is perhaps most useful for corporate and financial elites , who use it to distract Americans and direct their ire away from urban oligarchs like themselves toward the nebulous forces of racism .
Corporate America is afraid of socialism , not of Black Lives Matter .
The anti-capitalists hate the rich and corporations .
The anti-racists do not ; they can readily be bought off with performative wokeness and a sprinkling of diversity hires in the C-Suite .
Well-intentioned Americans of all races must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vested interest in keeping America “ racist ” forever .
No set of attainable conditions would ever lead them to admit that America is no longer racist .
No sooner would the reparations checks be issued than new demands would arise .
None of this is to deny that America was racist for centuries , that the legacy of racism is still with us , and that some racism endures to this day .
But the Constitution of the United States is colorblind , and America ’ s Declaration of Independence proclaims that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There are no racist laws or regulations on the books anywhere in America — not at the federal level , not in any of the 50 states , and not in any of the 19,502 incorporated cities , towns , and villages .
Since 1964 , America has also had a Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in both the public and private sectors .
In explicit violation of the legislative history and text of the law , the act has been interpreted by the highest court of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ action , ” i.e .
racial preferences to benefit blacks ( and to a lesser extent , Hispanics ) .
America thus finds itself in the paradoxical position of being a purportedly white supremacist nation that officially sanctions and practices discrimination against whites .
Well , a critic might say , the laws may not be racist , but don ’ t police enforce them in a racist way ?
The overpublicized deaths of George Floyd , Rayshard Brooks , James Blake , and others before them supposedly prove that a “ legalized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place .
Yet none of the major studies of lethal shootings by police officers find evidence of racial bias .
In fact , controlling for the very high black crime rate — African-Americans make up 13 percent of the population but commit more than 50 percent of homicides and about 60 percent of robberies — and the higher rate at which black suspects resist arrest , the share of blacks killed by cops is lower than one would expect .
Somehow , America remains a racist country even as elected officials in both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blacks in particular , while paying no attention to whites as a group .
The Republican Party studiously ignores whites , busy as it is courting the “ naturally conservative ” Hispanic vote , while the Democratic Party increasingly adopts the anti-white animus of Black Lives Matter and the rest of the woke left .
Because the demand for racism so completely outstrips the actual supply , we are left with unfalsifiable accusations of “ dog-whistling ” — non-racist statements that supposedly send covert racist messages .
Once every few years , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his foot in his mouth and speak indelicately about race .
Whenever this happens , the offender is universally condemned , with the loudest denunciations coming from the Republican Party and the conservative establishment , and the offender promptly apologizes .
Such is the odd nature of “ systemic ” American racism , that racists are immediately denounced and eager to repent .
African-Americans occupy a larger place in the country ’ s collective imagination than any other group .
They exert enormous cultural influence not just in America , but across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is more honored for its accomplishments , real or fake ( no , a black man did not invent the lightbulb ) .
The closest thing America has to a secular saint is Martin Luther King , Jr .
Even the recent allegations that he may have been a serial philanderer who laughed as a woman was raped in front of him did not dent his reputation .
In the public square , at school , and at work , Americans are also increasingly compelled to profess devotion to the creed of Anti-Racism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No one gets canceled for abandoning their children , betraying the country , or committing any number of immoral , indecent , or criminal acts .
There is only one unforgivable sin : to deviate from the accepted script when speaking of African-Americans — and to a lesser extent , any of the other protected identity groups .
Amid widespread sympathy for blacks , affirmative action policies , and the absence of racist laws , we are told that racism is nonetheless institutionalized — though there are no institutions of any significance in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to white supremacy .
The Southern Poverty Law Center , an alarmist fundraising machine for its now disgraced founder Morris Dees , keeps track of about 940 hate groups operating within our borders ( more than a quarter of which are black separatists ) .
By focusing on the number of groups , the SPLC can ignore their insignificant size , lack of funds , and complete marginalization in American life .
By the SPLC ’ s count , there are 47 Ku Klux Klan groups in America — but their total membership @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anti-Defamation League puts the total at 3,000 ) .
At its peak in the mid-1920s , the Klan had 6 million members ( in a country with a third of our current population ) .
So much for the institutions of hate .
Meanwhile , corporate America , the media , Hollywood , professional sports , philanthropic foundations , nonprofits , churches , the academy , the arts , and the military all vociferously denounce racism .
All eagerly embrace the diversity agenda .
All are obsessed with hiring and promoting people of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Frontier And this brings us to perhaps the strangest feature of America ’ s purportedly racist society : the growing phenomenon of whites passing as nonwhites .
Elizabeth Warren claims to be Cherokee , BLM ’ s Shaun King claims to be biracial , and a Jewish professor of African history at George Washington University is the new Rachel Dolezal .
Needless to say , no Afrikaner ever pretended to be “ colored ” under apartheid .
Where , then , is racism to be found in America , if it is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and its institutions ?
Polls make it hard to find , too .
Eighty-seven percent of Americans approve of black-white marriage , up from 4 percent in 1954 .
Gallup calls it “ one of the largest shifts of public opinion in Gallup history.
” When researchers asked teenagers to name the most famous Americans in history ( excluding presidents ) , their top three picks were MLK , Rosa Parks , and Harriet Tubman .
The last frontier is now the subconscious .
Because the quantity of racism is held to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absence of racist sentiments in people can only mean that racism is hiding deep in the recesses of their minds .
With the help of Harvard University ’ s widely touted Implicit Association Test , everyone ’ s latent racism can now be brought to the fore .
The test , of course , reveals no such thing .
A peer-reviewed study found “ little evidence to support [ its ] more provocative claim : that people possess unconscious racist attitudes.
” Even Vox had to admit that “ it might not work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all we are left with as the definitive proof of American racism today is “ systemic racism , ” the meaning of which boils down to : America is racist because , well , it just is .
Racism somehow suffuses the whole even though it is not visible in any of its major parts .
Whereas all other racist regimes in history openly proclaimed their racism , America has pulled off the amazing feat of purging its laws , institutions , and culture of racism — all in the interest , of @ @ @ @ @ @

That America is a racist country is the great self-evident truth of the left and of the ruling class whose moral opinions are shaped by it. This truth is self-evident in the sense of being readily apparent to them, as evidenced by the countless disparities in life outcomes between blacks and whites. No explanation for these disparities is ever required. Their mere existence is proof of racism.
The disparities between Asians and whites, between Indians and whites, and between Nigerian immigrants and whites all go studiously ignored since these groups generally outperform whites in income and educational attainment. Also ignored is the role that the pathologies of inner-city black culture — fatherlessness, crime, nihilistic alienation, and the exaltation of thuggery — play in producing and sustaining disparities.
America’s racist nature is also self-evident in the philosophical sense. It is an axiomatic truth: the predicate (racism) is contained in the subject (America). In the same way that all bachelors are, by definition, single, so is America, by definition, racist.
Formulated as such, the self-evident truth of American racism cannot be refuted. It is impervious to counterarguments, data, and historical developments. Believers in American racism don’t care about your facts. In 1991, Derrick Bell, one of the founders of critical race theory, declared that blacks had made no progress in America since 1865. He made this claim with a straight face at Harvard University, where he had been a tenured professor for two decades. In 1865, Harvard did not admit black students.
In 2020, the claim that America is fundamentally racist is a lie. But it is a lie tenaciously defended by those on the left who most benefit from it: the Democratic Party, its progressive allies in the academy, the intelligentsia and the media, and black political leadership. As the ultimate arbiters of all racial controversies, the left have positioned themselves to occupy the moral high ground in America — the most important strategic position in any political conflict.
Using Racism as a Smokescreen
The accusation of racism is their most powerful political weapon. Playing the race card allows them to detract attention from their own corruption and the radical ideas they espouse. Whatever faults they have, at least they’re not racists like Donald Trump, the Republicans, and their base of deplorables. The right is thus constrained to fight the enemy on the enemy’s own terms. Republican claims that “Democrats are the real racists” inevitably fall flat.
The national obsession with racism is also obviously beneficial to those who work in the diversity and grievance industries. It is perhaps most useful for corporate and financial elites, who use it to distract Americans and direct their ire away from urban oligarchs like themselves toward the nebulous forces of racism. Corporate America is afraid of socialism, not of Black Lives Matter. The anti-capitalists hate the rich and corporations. The anti-racists do not; they can readily be bought off with performative wokeness and a sprinkling of diversity hires in the C-Suite.
Well-intentioned Americans of all races must understand that these powerful constituencies have a vested interest in keeping America “racist” forever. No set of attainable conditions would ever lead them to admit that America is no longer racist. No sooner would the reparations checks be issued than new demands would arise.
None of this is to deny that America was racist for centuries, that the legacy of racism is still with us, and that some racism endures to this day. But the Constitution of the United States is colorblind, and America’s Declaration of Independence proclaims that “all men are created equal.” There are no racist laws or regulations on the books anywhere in America — not at the federal level, not in any of the 50 states, and not in any of the 19,502 incorporated cities, towns, and villages.
The Actual Reality of ‘Racist’ Police
Since 1964, America has also had a Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in both the public and private sectors. In explicit violation of the legislative history and text of the law, the act has been interpreted by the highest court of the land to countenance so-called “affirmative action,” i.e. racial preferences to benefit blacks (and to a lesser extent, Hispanics). America thus finds itself in the paradoxical position of being a purportedly white supremacist nation that officially sanctions and practices discrimination against whites.
Well, a critic might say, the laws may not be racist, but don’t police enforce them in a racist way? The overpublicized deaths of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, James Blake, and others before them supposedly prove that a “legalized genocide of colored people” is taking place.
Yet none of the major studies of lethal shootings by police officers find evidence of racial bias. In fact, controlling for the very high black crime rate — African-Americans make up 13 percent of the population but commit more than 50 percent of homicides and about 60 percent of robberies — and the higher rate at which black suspects resist arrest, the share of blacks killed by cops is lower than one would expect.
Somehow, America remains a racist country even as elected officials in both parties openly pander to racial minorities, blacks in particular, while paying no attention to whites as a group. The Republican Party studiously ignores whites, busy as it is courting the “naturally conservative” Hispanic vote, while the Democratic Party increasingly adopts the anti-white animus of Black Lives Matter and the rest of the woke left. Because the demand for racism so completely outstrips the actual supply, we are left with unfalsifiable accusations of “dog-whistling” — non-racist statements that supposedly send covert racist messages.
Once every few years, it is true, a Republican will put his foot in his mouth and speak indelicately about race. Whenever this happens, the offender is universally condemned, with the loudest denunciations coming from the Republican Party and the conservative establishment, and the offender promptly apologizes. Such is the odd nature of “systemic” American racism, that racists are immediately denounced and eager to repent.
The New Unforgivable Sin
African-Americans occupy a larger place in the country’s collective imagination than any other group. They exert enormous cultural influence not just in America, but across the globe. At home, no group is more honored for its accomplishments, real or fake (no, a black man did not invent the lightbulb). The closest thing America has to a secular saint is Martin Luther King, Jr. Even the recent allegations that he may have been a serial philanderer who laughed as a woman was raped in front of him did not dent his reputation.
In the public square, at school, and at work, Americans are also increasingly compelled to profess devotion to the creed of Anti-Racism. The thought police are everywhere. No one gets canceled for abandoning their children, betraying the country, or committing any number of immoral, indecent, or criminal acts. There is only one unforgivable sin: to deviate from the accepted script when speaking of African-Americans — and to a lesser extent, any of the other protected identity groups.
Amid widespread sympathy for blacks, affirmative action policies, and the absence of racist laws, we are told that racism is nonetheless institutionalized — though there are no institutions of any significance in America committed to racism, let alone to white supremacy.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an alarmist fundraising machine for its now disgraced founder Morris Dees, keeps track of about 940 hate groups operating within our borders (more than a quarter of which are black separatists). By focusing on the number of groups, the SPLC can ignore their insignificant size, lack of funds, and complete marginalization in American life.
By the SPLC’s count, there are 47 Ku Klux Klan groups in America — but their total membership is between 5,000 and 8,000 (the Anti-Defamation League puts the total at 3,000). At its peak in the mid-1920s, the Klan had 6 million members (in a country with a third of our current population).
So much for the institutions of hate. Meanwhile, corporate America, the media, Hollywood, professional sports, philanthropic foundations, nonprofits, churches, the academy, the arts, and the military all vociferously denounce racism. All eagerly embrace the diversity agenda. All are obsessed with hiring and promoting people of color.
The Mind is the Last Frontier
And this brings us to perhaps the strangest feature of America’s purportedly racist society: the growing phenomenon of whites passing as nonwhites. Elizabeth Warren claims to be Cherokee, BLM’s Shaun King claims to be biracial, and a Jewish professor of African history at George Washington University is the new Rachel Dolezal. Needless to say, no Afrikaner ever pretended to be “colored” under apartheid.
Where, then, is racism to be found in America, if it is not in its law, its public rhetoric, and its institutions? Polls make it hard to find, too. Eighty-seven percent of Americans approve of black-white marriage, up from 4 percent in 1954. Gallup calls it “one of the largest shifts of public opinion in Gallup history.” When researchers asked teenagers to name the most famous Americans in history (excluding presidents), their top three picks were MLK, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman.
The last frontier is now the subconscious. Because the quantity of racism is held to be constant throughout American history, the absence of racist sentiments in people can only mean that racism is hiding deep in the recesses of their minds.
With the help of Harvard University’s widely touted Implicit Association Test, everyone’s latent racism can now be brought to the fore. The test, of course, reveals no such thing. A peer-reviewed study found “little evidence to support [its] more provocative claim: that people possess unconscious racist attitudes.” Even Vox had to admit that “it might not work at all.”
In the end, all we are left with as the definitive proof of American racism today is “systemic racism,” the meaning of which boils down to: America is racist because, well, it just is. Racism somehow suffuses the whole even though it is not visible in any of its major parts. Whereas all other racist regimes in history openly proclaimed their racism, America has pulled off the amazing feat of purging its laws, institutions, and culture of racism — all in the interest, of course, of perpetuating racism.
Republished from RealClearPublicAffairs, with permission.
David Azerrad is an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government in Washington, D.C. He previously worked at The Heritage Foundation and as a foreign correspondent in Asia.