veteranstoday--2020-09-11--Abe the Fox: Trump bad for America and bad for the Jews (Introduction by Gordon Duff)

VT : Foxman built the organization , the MEGA billionaires led by gambling boss Shelly Adelson and the Kosher Nostra oligarch/mobsters that rigged the 2000 election , the 2004 election and put Trump in office though he lost the popular vote by not 4 million but closer to 15 million votes .
Now he wants to join with VT to damn his own stepchild .
OK , this is his chance and we thus give him the space to make his point .
Abe could apologize to VT but all we can say is ‘ too little/too late.
’ For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America , like he is asking others to do now , “ anti-Semitism.
” Now that Jews around the world face the gas chambers again… ( for holocaust denialists , for the first time ) … Foxman addresses American Jews , not like they are children , but as though they are “ lesser peoples.
” He praises Trump for all the horrific things he did on behalf of Israel that caused so much suffering for others , assuming Jews are so stupid they don ’ t know right from wrong .
Our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hope is yes , though Foxman makes it clear that he believes Jews have no moral center .
Could he be an anti-Semite ?
He certainly sounds like one .
Read on… …by Abe Foxman , former head of the ADL and longtime blood enemy of VT Times of Israel : Nothing pains me more than to speak up with anguish in the face of this presidential election .
But silence is not an option .
American Jewry confronts a fateful choice .
Another four years of Donald Trump will be nothing less @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and our community .
I must acknowledge the unexpected nature of this statement .
For more than half a century , I avoided public positions on electoral politics .
When I chose a career working for the Jewish people , I took on a sacred obligation , like so many other professionals , to avoid taking sides in partisan contests — an obligation I carried into retirement .
When our democracy is weakened , and when nativism is stoked , the rights of Jews and other minorities will be diminished too .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will happen , and Jews know this well from bitter experience .
I respect any American , and any Jewish American , who continues to identify with and support the Republican party , which has made significant and lasting contributions to the Jewish community .
And I understand why some of these voters are struggling with their decision .
In my mind , the case is closed .
His leadership endangers our democracy , and therefore our community .
My reasoning is simple and stark : Trump ’ s presidency — in spirit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to bigots , supremacists , and those seeking to divide our society .
He and his administration dehumanize immigrants , demonize the most vulnerable , and undermine the civility and enlightened political culture that have allowed Jews to achieve what no Diaspora community outside Israel can claim in two millennia .
What ’ s more , American Jews look beyond our own parochial interests , for we know that our future is inextricably tied to the welfare of others .
Promoting tolerance , inclusion , and equality is non-negotiable .
Defending immigrants and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collective story — and my own , as a Holocaust survivor and a refugee .
We must ask ourselves : Is America stronger , more stable and more caring , than it was before Trump entered office ?
For me , the answer is clear .
No .
I know I am not alone .
Talk to Jewish community leaders in private and read surveys of the Jewish public .
After decades of progress , following successive generations of rising metrics of safety and security , Jews are filled with fear and anxiety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the blame .
Is the president of the United States an anti-Semite ?
No .
But that ’ s not the right question .
Has his leadership lifted America ?
Has it made Jews feel more secure ?
Is he our best hope for healing our nation and addressing the twin crises of a pandemic and a reckoning with racism ?
If anyone needs another reason , look beyond our borders .
A stable , credible , influential , revered — and sometimes feared — America has been a force multiplier for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ways that are most clearly visible to those of us working behind the scenes on behalf of global Jewish causes .
Remember freedom for Soviet , Ethiopian , and Syrian Jewry .
Here , too , there is no doubt in my mind that Trump ’ s failings of character and America ’ s dismal global standing have hurt Jewish interests .
It is true that Trump has made decisions that many in our community have waited for , including his decision on Jerusalem , which I support .
But these decisions have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s frontal assault on bipartisan support for Israel , and some have been clothed in deeply offensive stereotypes about Jews and their ties to the Jewish state .
Our community has an enormous stake in bipartisanship .
It is the only way to combat anti-Semitism and bigotry .
It is how we built a strong US-Israel alliance .
Indeed , I grew up in an America where Jews were not fully integrated and Washington ’ s support for Israel was wafer thin .
Yet the reality is different now , in large part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sustained the broadest possible base of support for this agenda .
Trump has damaged that necessary consensus , and we can not permit Jews and Israel to be weaponized for anyone ’ s narrow political interests .
We do have reason for hope .
I have known Joe Biden for many years , and I have confidence he will restore the equilibrium that has been lost .
He has been an ally , and he has repeatedly pledged to aggressively fight anti-Semitism .
I am confident he and Kamala Harris will not back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and detractors , even if they emerge within their own party .
I am old enough to remember a world where illiberalism ran amok and dictators held vast numbers of our brothers and sisters hostage , behind Iron Curtains and worse .
And I am old enough to recall a style of Jewish American politics that was more quietist , more hesitant , a politics of a minority too accustomed to keeping its head down .
But thankfully , American Jews left this behind — yet another reason I can not be silent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nor can any of us , for the sake of our nation , our people and our world .
Abraham H. Foxman is director emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League .
These views are his own .

Foxman built the organization, the MEGA billionaires led by gambling boss Shelly Adelson and the Kosher Nostra oligarch/mobsters that rigged the 2000 election, the 2004 election and put Trump in the office though he lost the popular vote by not 4 million but closer to 15 million votes.
Now he wants to join VT to damn his own stepchild. OK, this is his chance and we thus give him the space to make his point.
Abe could apologize to VT but all we can say is ‘too little/too late.’
For decades, Abe called standing up for America, like he is asking others to do now, “anti-Semitism.” Now that Jews around the world face the gas chambers again.
Foxman addresses American Jews, not like they are children, but as though they are “lesser peoples.” He praises Trump for all the horrific things he did on behalf of Israel that caused so much suffering for others, assuming Jews are so stupid they don’t know right from wrong.
Our question is whether they care. Our hope is yes, though Foxman makes it clear that he believes Jews have no moral center. Could he be an anti-Semite? He certainly sounds like one – Gordon Duff
by Abe Foxman, former head of the ADL and longtime blood enemy of VT
Times of Israel: Nothing pains me more than to speak up with anguish in the face of this presidential election. But silence is not an option. American Jewry confronts a fateful choice. Another four years of Donald Trump will be nothing less than a body blow for our country and our community.
I must acknowledge the unexpected nature of this statement. For more than half a century, I avoided public positions on electoral politics. When I chose a career working for the Jewish people, I took on a sacred obligation, like so many other professionals, to avoid taking sides in partisan contests — an obligation I carried into retirement.
But there is more than enough evidence Trump is a demagogue and his presidency threatens American democracy.
When our democracy is weakened, and when nativism is stoked, the rights of Jews and other minorities will be diminished too. It may not happen overnight, but it will happen, and Jews know this well from bitter experiences.
I respect any American, and any Jewish American, who continues to identify with and support the Republican party, which has made significant and lasting contributions to the Jewish community. And I understand why some of these voters are struggling with their decision.
In my mind, the case is closed. His leadership endangers our democracy, and therefore our community.
My reasoning is simple and stark: Trump’s presidency — in spirit and in deed — has given succor to bigots, supremacists, and those seeking to divide our society. He and his administration dehumanize immigrants, demonize the most vulnerable, and undermine the civility and enlightened political culture that has allowed Jews to achieve what no Diaspora community outside Israel can claim in two millennia.
What’s more, American Jews look beyond our own parochial interests, for we know that our future is inextricably tied to the welfare of others. Promoting tolerance, inclusion, and equality is non-negotiable. Defending immigrants and refugees is an inseparable part of our collective story — and my own, as a Holocaust survivor and a refugee.
We must ask ourselves: Is America stronger, more stable, and more caring than it was before Trump entered office?
For me, the answer is clear. No. I know I am not alone.
Talk to Jewish community leaders in private and read surveys of the Jewish public. After decades of progress, following successive generations of rising metrics of safety and security, Jews are filled with fear and anxiety. President Trump shoulders a good measure of the blame.
Is the president of the United States an anti-Semite?
No. But that’s not the right question.
Has his leadership lifted America? Has it made Jews feel more secure? Is he our best hope for healing our nation and addressing the twin crises of a pandemic and a reckoning with racism?
If anyone needs another reason, look beyond our borders. A stable, credible, influential, revered — and sometimes feared — America has been a force multiplier for world Jewry for decades, often in ways that are most clearly visible to those of us working behind the scenes on behalf of global Jewish causes. Remember freedom for Soviet, Ethiopian, and Syrian Jewry.
Here, too, there is no doubt in my mind that Trump’s failings of character and America’s dismal global standing have hurt Jewish interests.
It is true that Trump has made decisions that many in our community have waited for, including his decision on Jerusalem, which I support. But these decisions have come at the cost of Trump’s frontal assault on bipartisan support for Israel, and some have been clothed in deeply offensive stereotypes about Jews and their ties to the Jewish state.
Our community has an enormous stake in bipartisanship. It is the only way to combat anti-Semitism and bigotry. It is how we built a strong US-Israel alliance.
Indeed, I grew up in an America where Jews were not fully integrated and Washington’s support for Israel was wafer thin. Yet the reality is different now, in large part because leaders of conscience have cultivated and sustained the broadest possible base of support for this agenda.
Trump has damaged that necessary consensus, and we cannot permit Jews and Israel to be weaponized for anyone’s narrow political interests.
We do have a reason for hope. I have known Joe Biden for many years, and I have confidence he will restore the equilibrium that has been lost. He has been an ally, and he has repeatedly pledged to aggressively fight anti-Semitism. I am confident he and Kamala Harris will not back down from confronting Israel’s enemies and detractors, even if they emerge within their own party.
I am old enough to remember a world where illiberalism ran amok and dictators held vast numbers of our brothers and sisters hostage, behind Iron Curtains and worse.
And I am old enough to recall a style of Jewish American politics that was more quietist, more hesitant, a politics of a minority too accustomed to keeping its head down.
But thankfully, American Jews left this behind — yet another reason I cannot be silent at this inflection point in history.
Nor can any of us, for the sake of our nation, our people, and our world.
Abraham H. Foxman is director emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League. These views are his own.


veteranstoday--2020-09-12--Trump: ‘I was at ground zero…moving rubble…no, Donald Trump was stealing funds from firefighters

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There has been a tradition where political ads are pulled down on 9/11.
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veteranstoday--2020-09-11--Teachers In Three States Have Died From COVID-19

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veteranstoday--2020-09-11--Stanford Medical School Doctors/Researchers Call Out Scott Atlas for Lying About Science

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veteranstoday--2020-09-11--Exclusive: Senator John McCain: The ‘Charlie Wilson’ of Syria War (vital)

In an editorial [ 1 ] last week , Jeffrey Goldberg , the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic , lambasted Donald Trump for canceling a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 due to rain , and accused him of disparagingly mentioning military veterans as “ losers ” and “ suckers.
” But in order to substantiate his allegations , Goldberg came up with a rather bizarre example .
While noting Donald Trump wasn ’ t invited to the funeral of Republican Senator John McCain , who died battling cancer in 2018 , Goldberg observed : “ Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patriotism , service , and sacrifice has interested me since he expressed contempt for the war record of the late Senator John McCain , who spent more than five years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese .
‘ He ’ s not a war hero , ’ Trump said in 2015 while running for the Republican nomination for president .
‘ I like people who weren ’ t captured.
’ ” ( Ed : This is the actual quote from Jeffrey Goldberg ’ s article which , in actuality , didn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John McCain , not until later in the article : “ Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain , and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead , according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day .
In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit , Trump said , “ Why should I go to that cemetery ?
It ’ s filled with losers.
” In a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “ suckers ” for getting killed.
” ) Alluding to the Goldberg ’ s article , Trump said during a Labor Day press conference on September 7 held at the White House : “ I ’ m not saying the military ’ s in love with me , the soldiers are , the top people in the Pentagon probably aren ’ t because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the planes and make everything else stay happy.
” Though a decorated Vietnam War veteran , McCain was a highly polarizing figure as a senator and was regarded by many leftists as an inveterate neocon hawk , who vociferously exhorted Western military interventions in Libya and Syria .
McCain was a vocal supporter of the 2011 military intervention in Libya .
In April 2011 , he visited the anti-Gaddafi forces and National Transitional Council in Benghazi , the highest-ranking American to do so , and said that the rebel forces were “ my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war that began in 2011 , McCain repeatedly argued for the US intervening militarily in the conflict on the side of the anti-government forces .
He staged a visit to rebel forces inside Syria in May 2013 , the first senator to do so , and called for arming the Free Syrian Army with heavy weapons and for the establishment of a no-fly zone over Syria .
Following reports that two of the people he posed for pictures with had been responsible for the kidnapping of eleven Lebanese Shia pilgrims the year before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and said he had not met directly with the other .
In the aftermath of the alleged chemical weapons attack in Ghouta in 2013 , McCain vehemently argued for strong American military action against the government of Bashar al-Assad , and in September 2013 , cast a Foreign Relations committee vote in favor of Obama ’ s request to Congress that it authorize a military response .
Charlie Wilson was a Democratic Congressman representing Texas in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1996 .
He was a vocal supporter of training and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the 1980s , and on one occasion , he praised the leader of fearsome Haqqani Network Jalal-ud-Din Haqqani as “ goodness personified.
” He was a subject of a Hollywood feature film “ Charlie Wilson ’ s War , ” in which Tom Hanks played the role of Charlie Wilson .
In more than one ways , Senator John McCain was the hawkish equivalent of Charlie Wilson and Syria ’ s proxy war was the re-enactment of the Soviet-Afghan War .
If we were to draw parallels between the Soviet-Afghan jihad during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war 2011-onward , the Western powers used the training camps located in the Af-Pak border regions to train and arm Afghan jihadists battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan .
Similarly , the training camps located in the border regions of Turkey and Jordan were used by the CIA and Pentagon to provide money , training and weapons to militants battling the Syrian government with the collaboration of Turkish , Jordanian and Saudi intelligence agencies .
During the Soviet-Afghan jihad , it is a known historical fact that the bulk of the so-called “ freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including the militant factions of Jalaluddin Haqqani , Gulbuddin Hekmatyar , Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf and scores of other militant outfits , some of which later coalesced together to form the Taliban militant group .
Similarly , in Syria , the majority of purported “ moderate rebels ” was comprised of Islamic jihadists , such as Jaysh al-Islam , Ahrar al-Sham , al-Nusra Front , the Islamic State and myriads of other militant groups , including a minuscule fraction of defected Syrian soldiers which went by the name of Free Syria Army @ @ @ @ @ @ @ militants , various factions of the Northern Alliance of Tajiks and Uzbeks constituted the relatively “ moderate ” segment of the Afghan rebellion , though those “ moderate ” warlords , like Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abul Rashid Dostum , were more ethnic and tribal in character than secular or nationalist , as such .
Similarly , the Kurds of the so-called “ Syrian Democratic Forces ” can be compared to the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan .
During the last few years , the Islamic State ’ s purported “ terror franchises ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spate of bombings against the Shia and Barelvi Muslims who are regarded as heretics by Takfiri jihadists .
But to contend that the Islamic State is responsible for suicide blasts in Pakistan and Afghanistan is to assert that the Taliban are responsible for the internecine conflict in Syria and Iraq .
Both are localized militant outfits and the Islamic State without its Baathist command structure and superior weaponry bankrolled by Western powers and oil-rich Gulf States is just another ragtag , regional militant outfit .
The distinction between the Taliban and the Islamic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Taliban follow Deobandi sect of Sunni Islam which is a sect native to South Asia , whereas the jihadists of the Islamic State mostly belong to Saudi Arabia ’ s Wahhabi-Salafi denomination .
Secondly , and more importantly , the insurgency in Afghanistan and the border regions of Pakistan is an indigenous Pashtun uprising which is an ethnic group native to Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan , whereas the bulk of the Islamic State ’ s jihadists in Syria and Iraq was comprised of Arab militants and included foreign fighters from the neighboring Middle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Central Asian states , Russia , China and even radicalized Muslims from as far away as Europe and the United States .
The so-called “ Khorasan Province ” of the Islamic State in the Af-Pak region is nothing more than a coalition of several breakaway factions of the Taliban and a few other inconsequential local militant outfits that have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in order to enhance their prestige , and draw funds and followers , but which doesn ’ t have any organizational and operational association with the Islamic State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ total strength of the Islamic State-Khorasan is estimated to be between 3,000 to 5,000 fighters .
In comparison , the strength of the Taliban is estimated to be between 60,000 to 80,000 militants .
The Islamic State-Khorasan was formed as a merger between several breakaway factions of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban in early 2015 .
Later , the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( IMU ) , a Pakistani terrorist group Jundullah and Chinese Uyghur militants pledged allegiance to it .
In 2017 , the Islamic State-Khorasan split into two factions .
One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eastern Nangarhar province , is led by a Pakistani militant commander Aslam Farooqi , who was reportedly arrested in May , and the other faction , based in the northern provinces of Afghanistan , is led by a former Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( IMU ) commander Moawiya .
The latter faction also includes Uzbek , Tajik , Uyghur and Baloch militants .
In Pakistan , there are three distinct categories of militants : the Afghanistan-focused Pashtun militants ; the Kashmir-focused Punjabi militants ; and foreign transnational terrorists , including the Arab militants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( IMU ) and the Chinese Uyghur jihadists of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement ( ETIM ) .
Compared to tens of thousands of native Pashtun and Punjabi militants , the foreign transnational terrorists number only in a few hundreds and are hence inconsequential .
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan ( TTP ) , which is mainly comprised of Pashtun militants , carries out bombings against Pakistan ’ s security apparatus .
The ethnic factor is critical here .
Although the Pakistani Taliban ( TTP ) like to couch their rhetoric in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of ethnicity and language that enables them to recruit Pashtun tribesmen who are willing to carry out subversive activities against the Punjabi-dominated state apparatus , while the Kashmir-focused Punjabi militants have by and large remained loyal to their patrons in the security agencies of Pakistan .
Although Pakistan ’ s security establishment has been willing to conduct military operations against the Pakistani Taliban ( TTP ) , which are regarded as a security threat to Pakistan ’ s security apparatus , as far as the Kashmir-focused Punjabi militants , including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Taliban , including the Haqqani network , are concerned , they are still enjoying impunity because such militant groups are regarded as “ strategic assets ” by Pakistan ’ s security agencies .
Therefore , recent allegations by regional power-brokers that Washington provided material support to splinter groups of Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban ( TTP ) as a tit-for-tat response to Pakistan ’ s security agencies double game of providing support to the Afghan Taliban to mount attacks against the Afghan security forces and their American backers can not be ruled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report in July [ 2 ] estimated that more than 6,000 Pakistani militants had sought refuge in Afghanistan following Pakistan ’ s military operations in tribal areas in 2014 .
In November 2018 , for instance , infighting between the main faction of the Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada and a breakaway faction led by Mullah Mohammad Rasul left scores of fighters dead in Afghanistan ’ s western Herat province .
Mullah Rasul was close to Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar , and served as the governor of southwestern Nimroz province @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 .
After the news of the death of Mullah Omar was made public by the Afghan intelligence in 2015 , Mullah Rasul broke ranks with the Taliban and formed his own faction .
Mullah Rasul ’ s group is active in the provinces of Herat , Farah , Nimroz and Helmand , and is known to have received arms and support from the Afghan intelligence , as he has expressed willingness to recognize the Washington-backed Kabul government .
Regarding Washington ’ s motives for providing covert support to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Pakistani militants , the US invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 , in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack , and toppled the Taliban regime with the help of the Northern Alliance comprised of ethnic Tajik and Uzbek warlords .
The leadership and fighters of the Pashtun-majority Taliban resistance movement found sanctuary in Pakistan ’ s lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan , and mounted an insurgency against the Washington-backed Kabul government .
Throughout the occupation years , Washington kept pressuring Islamabad to mount military operations in the lawless tribal areas in order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
However , Islamabad was reluctant to conduct military operations , which is a euphemism for all-out war , for the fear of alienating the Pashtun population of the tribal areas .
After Pakistan ’ s military ’ s raid in July 2007 on a mosque ( Lal Masjid ) in the heart of Islamabad , which also contained a religious seminary , scores of civilians , including students of the seminary , died .
The Pakistani Taliban made the incident a rallying call for waging a jihad against Pakistan ’ s military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bombings against Pakistan ’ s state apparatus peaked after the July 2007 Lal Masjid incident .
Eventually , under pressure from the Obama administration , Pakistan ’ s military decided in 2009 to conduct military operations against militants based in Pakistan ’ s tribal areas .
The first military operation was mounted in the Swat valley in April 2009 , the second in South Waziristan tribal agency in October the same year , and the third military operation was launched in North Waziristan and Khyber tribal agencies in June 2014 .
In the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ civilians , security personnel and militants lost their lives .
Although Pakistani political commentators often point fingers at the Washington-backed Kabul government in Afghanistan and Pakistan ’ s arch-foe India for providing money and arms to the Pakistani militants for waging a guerrilla war against Pakistan ’ s state establishment , reportedly Washington has provided covert support to the Pakistani Taliban in order to force Pakistan ’ s military to conduct military operations against militants based in Pakistan ’ s tribal areas .
Keeping this background of Washington ’ s covert support to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have waged an insurgency against the US-backed Kabul government and to the Pakistani Taliban that have mounted a guerrilla war against Pakistan ’ s state establishment in mind , the allegations that Washington has provided material support to militant groups in the Af-Pak region in order to divide and weaken the Taliban resistance against American occupation of Afghanistan are not entirely unfounded .
[ 1 ] Trump : Americans Who Died in War Are ‘ Losers ’ and ‘ Suckers ’ : [ 2 ] UN says thousands of anti-Pakistan militants in Afghanistan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , columnist and geopolitical analyst focused on the politics of Af-Pak and Middle East regions , neocolonialism and petro-imperialism .

By Nauman Sadiq for VT Islamabad
In an editorial [1] last week, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, lambasted Donald Trump for canceling a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 due to rain, and accused him of disparagingly mentioning military veterans as “losers” and “suckers.”
Some wow reporting from @JeffreyGoldberg —> Trump called dead Marines buried at Belleau Wood “losers” and “suckers” for getting killed, and asked aides who the “good guys” were in World War I https://t.co/PgHeEq6HDV
But in order to substantiate his allegations, Goldberg came up with a rather bizarre example. While noting Donald Trump wasn’t invited to the funeral of Republican Senator John McCain, who died battling cancer in 2018, Goldberg observed: “Trump’s understanding of concepts such as patriotism, service, and sacrifice has interested me since he expressed contempt for the war record of the late Senator John McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. ‘He’s not a war hero,’ Trump said in 2015 while running for the Republican nomination for president. ‘I like people who weren’t captured.’”
(Ed: This is the actual quote from Jeffrey Goldberg’s article which, in actuality, didn’t rely at all on anything involving John McCain, not until later in the article:
“Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.”)
Alluding to the Goldberg’s article, Trump said during a Labor Day press conference on September 7 held at the White House: “I’m not saying the military’s in love with me, the soldiers are, the top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.”
Though a decorated Vietnam War veteran, McCain was a highly polarizing figure as a senator and was regarded by many leftists as an inveterate neocon hawk, who vociferously exhorted Western military interventions in Libya and Syria.
McCain was a vocal supporter of the 2011 military intervention in Libya. In April 2011, he visited the anti-Gaddafi forces and National Transitional Council in Benghazi, the highest-ranking American to do so, and said that the rebel forces were “my heroes.”
Regarding Syria’s proxy war that began in 2011, McCain repeatedly argued for the US intervening militarily in the conflict on the side of the anti-government forces. He staged a visit to rebel forces inside Syria in May 2013, the first senator to do so, and called for arming the Free Syrian Army with heavy weapons and for the establishment of a no-fly zone over Syria.
Following reports that two of the people he posed for pictures with had been responsible for the kidnapping of eleven Lebanese Shia pilgrims the year before, McCain disputed one of the identifications and said he had not met directly with the other.
In the aftermath of the alleged chemical weapons attack in Ghouta in 2013, McCain vehemently argued for strong American military action against the government of Bashar al-Assad, and in September 2013, cast a Foreign Relations committee vote in favor of Obama’s request to Congress that it authorize a military response.
Charlie Wilson was a Democratic Congressman representing Texas in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1996. He was a vocal supporter of training and arming Afghan jihadists during the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s, and on one occasion, he praised the leader of fearsome Haqqani Network Jalal-ud-Din Haqqani as “goodness personified.” He was a subject of a Hollywood feature film “Charlie Wilson’s War,” in which Tom Hanks played the role of Charlie Wilson.
In more than one ways, Senator John McCain was the hawkish equivalent of Charlie Wilson and Syria’s proxy war was the re-enactment of the Soviet-Afghan War.
If we were to draw parallels between the Soviet-Afghan jihad during the 1980s and Syria’s proxy war 2011-onward, the Western powers used the training camps located in the Af-Pak border regions to train and arm Afghan jihadists battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
Similarly, the training camps located in the border regions of Turkey and Jordan were used by the CIA and Pentagon to provide money, training and weapons to militants battling the Syrian government with the collaboration of Turkish, Jordanian and Saudi intelligence agencies.
During the Soviet-Afghan jihad, it is a known historical fact that the bulk of the so-called “freedom fighters” was comprised of Pashtun jihadists, including the militant factions of Jalaluddin Haqqani, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf and scores of other militant outfits, some of which later coalesced together to form the Taliban militant group.
Similarly, in Syria, the majority of purported “moderate rebels” was comprised of Islamic jihadists, such as Jaysh al-Islam, Ahrar al-Sham, al-Nusra Front, the Islamic State and myriads of other militant groups, including a minuscule fraction of defected Syrian soldiers which went by the name of Free Syria Army (FSA).
Apart from Pashtun militants, various factions of the Northern Alliance of Tajiks and Uzbeks constituted the relatively “moderate” segment of the Afghan rebellion, though those “moderate” warlords, like Ahmad Shah Massoud and Abul Rashid Dostum, were more ethnic and tribal in character than secular or nationalist, as such. Similarly, the Kurds of the so-called “Syrian Democratic Forces” can be compared to the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan.
During the last few years, the Islamic State’s purported “terror franchises” in Afghanistan and Pakistan have claimed a spate of bombings against the Shia and Barelvi Muslims who are regarded as heretics by Takfiri jihadists. But to contend that the Islamic State is responsible for suicide blasts in Pakistan and Afghanistan is to assert that the Taliban are responsible for the internecine conflict in Syria and Iraq.
Both are localized militant outfits and the Islamic State without its Baathist command structure and superior weaponry bankrolled by Western powers and oil-rich Gulf States is just another ragtag, regional militant outfit. The distinction between the Taliban and the Islamic State lies in the fact that the Taliban follow Deobandi sect of Sunni Islam which is a sect native to South Asia, whereas the jihadists of the Islamic State mostly belong to Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi-Salafi denomination.
Secondly, and more importantly, the insurgency in Afghanistan and the border regions of Pakistan is an indigenous Pashtun uprising which is an ethnic group native to Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan, whereas the bulk of the Islamic State’s jihadists in Syria and Iraq was comprised of Arab militants and included foreign fighters from the neighboring Middle Eastern countries, North Africa, the Central Asian states, Russia, China and even radicalized Muslims from as far away as Europe and the United States.
The so-called “Khorasan Province” of the Islamic State in the Af-Pak region is nothing more than a coalition of several breakaway factions of the Taliban and a few other inconsequential local militant outfits that have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in order to enhance their prestige, and draw funds and followers, but which doesn’t have any organizational and operational association with the Islamic State proper in Syria and Iraq.
The total strength of the Islamic State-Khorasan is estimated to be between 3,000 to 5,000 fighters. In comparison, the strength of the Taliban is estimated to be between 60,000 to 80,000 militants. The Islamic State-Khorasan was formed as a merger between several breakaway factions of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban in early 2015. Later, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Pakistani terrorist group Jundullah and Chinese Uyghur militants pledged allegiance to it.
In 2017, the Islamic State-Khorasan split into two factions. One faction, based in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, is led by a Pakistani militant commander Aslam Farooqi, who was reportedly arrested in May, and the other faction, based in the northern provinces of Afghanistan, is led by a former Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) commander Moawiya. The latter faction also includes Uzbek, Tajik, Uyghur and Baloch militants.
In Pakistan, there are three distinct categories of militants: the Afghanistan-focused Pashtun militants; the Kashmir-focused Punjabi militants; and foreign transnational terrorists, including the Arab militants of al-Qaeda, the Uzbek insurgents of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the Chinese Uyghur jihadists of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). Compared to tens of thousands of native Pashtun and Punjabi militants, the foreign transnational terrorists number only in a few hundreds and are hence inconsequential.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is mainly comprised of Pashtun militants, carries out bombings against Pakistan’s security apparatus. The ethnic factor is critical here. Although the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) like to couch their rhetoric in religious terms, it is the difference of ethnicity and language that enables them to recruit Pashtun tribesmen who are willing to carry out subversive activities against the Punjabi-dominated state apparatus, while the Kashmir-focused Punjabi militants have by and large remained loyal to their patrons in the security agencies of Pakistan.
Although Pakistan’s security establishment has been willing to conduct military operations against the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), which are regarded as a security threat to Pakistan’s security apparatus, as far as the Kashmir-focused Punjabi militants, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, and the Afghanistan-focused Quetta Shura Taliban, including the Haqqani network, are concerned, they are still enjoying impunity because such militant groups are regarded as “strategic assets” by Pakistan’s security agencies.
Therefore, recent allegations by regional power-brokers that Washington provided material support to splinter groups of Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) as a tit-for-tat response to Pakistan’s security agencies double game of providing support to the Afghan Taliban to mount attacks against the Afghan security forces and their American backers cannot be ruled out. In fact, a UN report in July [2] estimated that more than 6,000 Pakistani militants had sought refuge in Afghanistan following Pakistan’s military operations in tribal areas in 2014.
In November 2018, for instance, infighting between the main faction of the Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada and a breakaway faction led by Mullah Mohammad Rasul left scores of fighters dead in Afghanistan’s western Herat province.
Mullah Rasul was close to Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, and served as the governor of southwestern Nimroz province during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. After the news of the death of Mullah Omar was made public by the Afghan intelligence in 2015, Mullah Rasul broke ranks with the Taliban and formed his own faction.
Mullah Rasul’s group is active in the provinces of Herat, Farah, Nimroz and Helmand, and is known to have received arms and support from the Afghan intelligence, as he has expressed willingness to recognize the Washington-backed Kabul government.
Regarding Washington’s motives for providing covert support to breakaway factions of the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani militants, the US invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attack, and toppled the Taliban regime with the help of the Northern Alliance comprised of ethnic Tajik and Uzbek warlords.
The leadership and fighters of the Pashtun-majority Taliban resistance movement found sanctuary in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, and mounted an insurgency against the Washington-backed Kabul government. Throughout the occupation years, Washington kept pressuring Islamabad to mount military operations in the lawless tribal areas in order to deny safe havens to the Taliban.
However, Islamabad was reluctant to conduct military operations, which is a euphemism for all-out war, for the fear of alienating the Pashtun population of the tribal areas. After Pakistan’s military’s raid in July 2007 on a mosque (Lal Masjid) in the heart of Islamabad, which also contained a religious seminary, scores of civilians, including students of the seminary, died.
The Pakistani Taliban made the incident a rallying call for waging a jihad against Pakistan’s military. Thereafter, terror attacks and suicide bombings against Pakistan’s state apparatus peaked after the July 2007 Lal Masjid incident. Eventually, under pressure from the Obama administration, Pakistan’s military decided in 2009 to conduct military operations against militants based in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
The first military operation was mounted in the Swat valley in April 2009, the second in South Waziristan tribal agency in October the same year, and the third military operation was launched in North Waziristan and Khyber tribal agencies in June 2014. In the ensuing violence, tens of thousands of civilians, security personnel and militants lost their lives.
Although Pakistani political commentators often point fingers at the Washington-backed Kabul government in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s arch-foe India for providing money and arms to the Pakistani militants for waging a guerrilla war against Pakistan’s state establishment, reportedly Washington has provided covert support to the Pakistani Taliban in order to force Pakistan’s military to conduct military operations against militants based in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Keeping this background of Washington’s covert support to breakaway factions of the Afghan Taliban that have waged an insurgency against the US-backed Kabul government and to the Pakistani Taliban that have mounted a guerrilla war against Pakistan’s state establishment in mind, the allegations that Washington has provided material support to militant groups in the Af-Pak region in order to divide and weaken the Taliban resistance against American occupation of Afghanistan are not entirely unfounded.
Citations:
[1] Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
[2] UN says thousands of anti-Pakistan militants in Afghanistan:
https://apnews.com/ab3668337f310b4be8e1ed2442470992
About the author:
Nauman Sadiq is an Islamabad-based attorney, columnist and geopolitical analyst focused on the politics of Af-Pak and Middle East regions, neocolonialism and petro-imperialism.


veteranstoday--2020-09-11--Zombie Fires in Arctic Spew Carbon Dioxide Into Atmosphere

Health Editor ’ s Note : Wildfires in the Arctic have produced one third more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than that region emitted in all of 2019 .
When it gets cold snow can insulate the smoking mat from the cold and allows it to continue to use peat and pockets of flammable methane gas to stay lit .
This leads to zombie fires which continue to burn and when the snow melts the zombie fire can ignite above-ground vegetation .
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veteranstoday--2020-09-11--200,000 Murdered by ‘Liar in Chief’…dead but saved from ‘panic’ (video)

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1304211237765488641?s=20
McConnell knew in January.
But a month later he told the American people we were not facing an immediate crisis.
190K dead. Millions of jobs lost. Children left behind. No plan in sight.@senatemajldr: What did you know and when?
And why didn't you ACT? pic.twitter.com/1iGAmdeMK6
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) September 10, 2020


veteranstoday--2020-09-12--A Gay Relationship Between Roy Cohn and Donald Trump? Read on

Roger Stone believes and has stated that Roy Cohn wasn ’ t really a homosexual , though few or none agree with Stone on this or much else .
Stone claimed he simply liked having sex with young men like Donald Trump .
You see , as a young man , from the photo above , onward , until his death from AIDS , Roy Cohn was the constant companion of Donald Trump .
Our sources say Trump hired publicists to spread rumors of his sexual conquests , women in this case , and that he often , in public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in crowded New York clubs .
I have direct access to an insider here who had spent many an hour with Trump and Epstein , the accused pedophile who we believe was murdered to protect Donald Trump .
We have evidence that Epstein was in a 20 year plus homosexual relationship with a fashion billionaire who gave Epstein a private plane , a home with over 70 million dollars , another home as well , and the money that made Epstein seem wealthy .
Behind this , it is alleged , was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stories are now all coming out .
What is less known is that Roy Cohn was accused of starting it all while he and “ the Donald ” were the “ gay blades ” of the New York club scene .
Sometimes , finding a title is the hardest thing about making a film .
For Matt Tyrnauer , on this occasion , it was the easiest .
“ Never before has a sitting president delivered a film title for me , ” he told me .
During the first month of Robert @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s alleged corruption , in a moment of frustration with the legal and public-relations walls that seemed to be closing in on him , the president blurted something out to his White House advisers : “ Where ’ s my Roy Cohn ?
!
” Watching Tyrnauer ’ s new documentary about Cohn , which premieres in competition at Sundance today , it ’ s easy to pinpoint what a young Donald Trump was yearning for back in January 2018 : a ruthlessness that somehow came off as charming , a toughness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a jab at detractors , a commitment to getting one ’ s way no matter what .
And what did Roy Cohn , the notoriously malicious lawyer most infamous for helping Senator Joseph McCarthy carry out the Red Scare , see in Trump ?
“ I think he saw an up-and-comer , a tall , blond , handsome rich kid , to whom he was always attracted as a short and unattractive , albeit brilliant , frustrated person , ” explained Tyrnauer .
“ And he had a long track record of befriending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the world that he inhabited.
” For Tyrnauer , a Vanity Fair contributing editor whose previous documentaries include Valentino : The Last Emperor , Studio 54 , and Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood , Where ’ s My Roy Cohn ?
was born in two parts .

Introduction
What’s a bisexual? Is it dating people like Epstein or Roy Cohn and then having sex with children as the New York courts imply?
Do you hire models to accompany you around New York when you and Cohn or Epstein hit clubs or, as the photo below depicts, leave the girls behind when you don’t need them?
VT interviewed a top New York model (now a Trump appointee to a key position in government) that accompanied Trump and Epstein until Melania came along. It was $10k, not to sleep with Trump but to sign a non-disclosure and provide cover.
Along with models, there was a publicist that peddled stories about Trump ‘grabbing pussies’ and about being a ‘man’s man,’ but we now know what that really means.
The Epstein/Trump lawsuit says Trump made children wear rubber gloves when giving him a “HJ” but then why would Trump supposedly have unprotected sex with a porn star while married to Melania who thought it was all a joke? VT has more on Wexner as well, part of the same group and a VT staffer took the call when Epstein called Wexner, crying that Wexner had married a woman. Wexner gave huge amounts, may be billions, to Epstein. All were part of the same club, Trump, Epstein, Wexner and the MAGA, not “MEGA” types, whose only common bond was love of Israel and a double or even triple lifestyle. Roger Stone believes and has stated that Roy Cohn wasn’t really a homosexual, though few or none agree with Stone on this or much else. Stone claimed he simply liked having sex with young men like Donald Trump. You see, as a young man, from the photo above, onward, until his death from AIDS, Roy Cohn was the constant companion of Donald Trump. Our sources say Trump hired publicists to spread rumors of his sexual conquests, women in this case, and that he often, in public, would sexually assault women, often in crowded New York clubs. I have direct access to an insider here who had spent many an hour with Trump and Epstein, the accused pedophile who we believe was murdered to protect Donald Trump. We have evidence that Epstein was in a 20 year plus homosexual relationship with a fashion billionaire who gave Epstein a private plane, a home worth over 70 million dollars, another home as well, and the money that made Epstein seem wealthy. Behind this, it is alleged, was a CIA/Mossad homosexual blackmail ring; and those stories are now all coming out. What is less known is that Roy Cohn was accused of starting it all while he and “the Donald” were the “gay blades” of the New York club scene. …from Vanity Fair Sometimes, finding a title is the hardest thing about making a film. For Matt Tyrnauer, on this occasion, it was the easiest. “Never before has a sitting president delivered a film title for me,” he told me. During the first month of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged corruption, in a moment of frustration with the legal and public-relations walls that seemed to be closing in on him, the president blurted something out to his White House advisers: “Where’s my Roy Cohn?!” Watching Tyrnauer’s new documentary about Cohn, which premieres in competition at Sundance today, it’s easy to pinpoint what a young Donald Trump was yearning for back in January 2018: a ruthlessness that somehow came off as charming, a toughness punctuated with a wink at supporters and a jab at detractors, a commitment to getting one’s way no matter what. And what did Roy Cohn, the notoriously malicious lawyer most infamous for helping Senator Joseph McCarthy carry out the Red Scare, see in Trump? “I think he saw an up-and-comer, a tall, blond, handsome rich kid, to whom he was always attracted as a short and unattractive, albeit brilliant, frustrated person,” explained Tyrnauer. “And he had a long track record of befriending the handsome scions of certain privileged families in the world that he inhabited.” For Tyrnauer, a Vanity Fair contributing editor whose previous documentaries include Valentino: The Last Emperor, Studio 54, and Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Where’s My Roy Cohn? was born in two parts. Read more at Vanity Fair


veteranstoday--2020-09-12--Kate Winslet: Woody Allen and Roman Polanski “f—ing disgraceful”

Titanic and The Reader star Kate Winslet has recently come out and declared that both Woody Allen and Roman Polanski were “ fucking disgraceful ” to work with .
Winslet declared : “ It ’ s like , what the fuck was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski ?
It ’ s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard , so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were .
It ’ s fucking disgraceful .
“ And I have to take responsibility for the fact that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can ’ t turn back the clock .
I ’ m grappling with those regrets but what do we have if we aren ’ t able to just be fucking truthful about all of it ?
” [ 1 ] Is Winslet really sorry for working with people like Allen and Polanski ?
Hardly .
She is apologizing now because virtually everyone is pointing fingers at those people , that they are pedophiles and that they have been involved in preying on the young and restless .
As E. Michael Jones once put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hollywood ’ s willing executioners , ” largely because they sold themselves for money , power , and fame at the expense of sexualizing much of the culture .
[ 2 ] People like Winslet were more than willing to be objectified in movies and even on sex tapes .
Keep in mind that it was Winslet who said unequivocally : “ I like exposing myself .
There ’ s not an awful lot that embarrasses me .
I ’ m the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
” [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all places , reported that Winslet was sexually boundless in movies : “ This is an actress who has made a virtue out of fearlessness .
She appeared in her underwear in her first movie , Heavenly Creatures , at the age of 19 , in which she also had her first onscreen kiss – with another girl ; she enacted a shockingly graphic birth scene in Jude two years later .
“ She stripped and peed on camera in Holy Smoke .
In Romance and Cigarettes , released last year but made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of her son , Joe , she squeezed her ample breastsinto Agent Provocateur underwear to seduce James Gandolfini.
” [ 4 ] Winslet is condemning Allen and Polanski for having sex with minors in real life , but Winslet could never tell her audience why she decided to have sex with a minor in The Reader , which the Huffington Post itself called “ child pornography.
” [ 5 ] Whenever actresses like Kate Winslet overstep their bound and transgress the moral law in movies like The Reader , other celebrities and much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of sexualization of the culture “ art.
” To them , producing movies which seek to overthrow the moral order is just about artistic expression .
We are now facing an obvious contradiction : Winslet is calling out Allen and Polanski for treading on the same sexual epistemology that Winslet has been professionally advancing for years !
Did not 36-year-old Hanna Schmitz ( Kate Winslet ) teach 15-year-old Michael Berg ( Ralph Fiennes ) how to have sex ?
Did not the Washington Post declare that Winslet had a “ bravura performance ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Didn ’ t Hollywood Reporter claim that Winslet ought to be praised for her “ gutsy , intense performances ” ?
[ 7 ] Having a license to produce pornography to young and impressionable children everywhere and even on the Internet is freedom .
But using that very principle to act on it is an unpardonable sin .
Winslet and others can not have it both ways .
This is not a defense of what Allen and Polanski have done .
In fact , we have written in the past about both men @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bars for the rest of their natural lives .
What we are saying here is that Winslet was essentially covering her ass .
She wants to bring in the moral pendulum whenever it is in her favor .
But she constantly disregards the same principle whenever she walks on the set of any of her films .
Winslet claims : “ I don ’ t know a single girl , actually , who hasn ’ t experienced some level of harassment on that level [ in Hollywood ] .
Even if they ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so powerful .
It ’ s like bullying.
” [ 8 ] So does Winslet think that she is really representing women by prostituting in movies ?
If that is the case , then women everywhere ought to revolt against what Winslet and other prostitutes and whores in Hollywood are doing .
• [ 5 ] “ Reading Between the Lines in The Reader : When is Abuse Not Abuse ?
, ” Huffington Post , May 25 , 2011 .

Titanic and The Reader star Kate Winslet has recently come out and declared that both Woody Allen and Roman Polanski were “fucking disgraceful” to work with. Winslet declared:
“It’s like, what the fuck was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski? It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It’s fucking disgraceful.
“And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can’t turn back the clock. I’m grappling with those regrets but what do we have if we aren’t able to just be fucking truthful about all of it?”[1]
Is Winslet really sorry for working with people like Allen and Polanski? Hardly. She is apologizing now because virtually everyone is pointing fingers at those people, that they are pedophiles and that they have been involved in preying on the young and restless.
As E. Michael Jones once put it, people like Winslet were “Hollywood’s willing executioners,” largely because they sold themselves for money, power, and fame at the expense of sexualizing much of the culture.[2] People like Winslet were more than willing to be objectified in movies and even on sex tapes. Keep in mind that it was Winslet who said unequivocally:
“I like exposing myself. There’s not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I’m the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.”[3]
Even The Independent, of all places, reported that Winslet was sexually boundless in movies:
“This is an actress who has made a virtue out of fearlessness. She appeared in her underwear in her first movie, Heavenly Creatures, at the age of 19, in which she also had her first onscreen kiss – with another girl; she enacted a shockingly graphic birth scene in Jude two years later.
“She stripped and peed on camera in Holy Smoke. In Romance and Cigarettes, released last year but made a mere eight weeks after the birth of her son, Joe, she squeezed her ample breastsinto Agent Provocateur underwear to seduce James Gandolfini.”[4]
Winslet is condemning Allen and Polanski for having sex with minors in real life, but Winslet could never tell her audience why she decided to have sex with a minor in The Reader, which the Huffington Post itself called “child pornography.”[5]
Whenever actresses like Kate Winslet overstep their bound and transgress the moral law in movies like The Reader, other celebrities and much of the Hollywood industry call this form of sexualization of the culture “art.” To them, producing movies which seek to overthrow the moral order is just about artistic expression.
We are now facing an obvious contradiction: Winslet is calling out Allen and Polanski for treading on the same sexual epistemology that Winslet has been professionally advancing for years! Did not 36-year-old Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet) teach 15-year-old Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) how to have sex? Did not the Washington Post declare that Winslet had a “bravura performance” in The Reader?[6] Didn’t Hollywood Reporter claim that Winslet ought to be praised for her “gutsy, intense performances”?[7]
Having a license to produce pornography to young and impressionable children everywhere and even on the Internet is freedom. But using that very principle to act on it is an unpardonable sin. Winslet and others cannot have it both ways.
This is not a defense of what Allen and Polanski have done. In fact, we have written in the past about both men, that they ought to be behind bars for the rest of their natural lives. What we are saying here is that Winslet was essentially covering her ass. She wants to bring in the moral pendulum whenever it is in her favor. But she constantly disregards the same principle whenever she walks on the set of any of her films.
Winslet claims: “I don’t know a single girl, actually, who hasn’t experienced some level of harassment on that level [in Hollywood]. Even if they’re just words, they’re so powerful. It’s like bullying.”[8] So does Winslet think that she is really representing women by prostituting in movies? If that is the case, then women everywhere ought to revolt against what Winslet and other prostitutes and whores in Hollywood are doing.


veteranstoday--2020-09-12--COVIDGate: Trump’s Russian Spy Appointee to Choke off bad news from CDC has Imploded

Those who were throwing around the conspiracy theory that Trump was put in office to destroy the United States are now being taken seriously…finally VT : What we know : • With recent revelations from Bob Woodward , we know that Trump actually turned over “ managing ” all COVID information to Roger Stone and Michael Caputo , the people the FBI says ran RussiaGate .
• “ Leading from behind , ” Caputo choked off all needed data from state governments and media and threatened scientists ( blackmail ? )
• We are told foreign intelligence services , Turkey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineering the COVID disaster that has killed 197,421 as of this writing , using surveillance , cash and hit squads deployed throughout the US like the one that butchered Adnan Khashoggi .
• What we are asking is whether Roger Stone , Caputo or “ others ” took advantage of Trump ’ s infamously poor attention span to take charge and assure economic collapse and social upheaval on behalf of an organization seeking to profit on the weakening and destruction of the United States .
Daily Beast : Communications aides appointed by President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and changing them to better align with the Commander in Chief ’ s sunny message that the United States is beating the coronavirus pandemic , Politico reports .
All of this being done by someone the FBI insists is a Russian spy , picked for his role by convicted felon Roger Stone .
Michael Caputo , a former Trump campaign officer and now the appointed assistant secretary for public affairs of the Department of Health and Human Services , and his deputies have repeatedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports and reportedly altered them in several cases since April to lessen the seeming severity of COVID-19 .
Michael Raymon Caputo ( born March 24 , 1962 ) [ 2 ] is a Republican political strategist , and media consultant .
In April 2020 , Caputo was appointed as assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for public affairs .
[ 1 ] [ 3 ] He worked for the Reagan Administration with Oliver North , and later as director of media services on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bush in the 1992 United States presidential election .
Caputo moved to Russia in 1994 , after the fall of the Soviet Union , and was an adviser to Boris Yeltsin .
He worked for Gazprom Media in 2000 where he worked on improving the image of Vladimir Putin in the U.S .
He moved back to the U.S. and founded a public relations company , and then moved to Ukraine to work on a candidate ’ s campaign for parliament .
After returning to the U.S. , Caputo was called by his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him to move to Miami Beach , Florida , and then Caputo founded his media advising company Michael Caputo Public Relations .
[ 4 ] Caputo moved back to Europe in 2007 while advising a politician ’ s campaign for parliament in 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election .
[ 4 ] ( A Candidate chosen by Russia ) Caputo was investigated by the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election .
CDC scientists have fought Caputo and company but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sway over the reports , according to Politico .
Caputo and his aides have also attempted to delay and even halt the release of other reports entirely .
Dr. Paul Alexander , an adviser to Caputo , wrote in an August 8 email , “ CDC to me appears to be writing hit pieces on the administration.
” Trump has asserted multiple times that the new coronavirus will “ disappear ” and that the U.S. is “ rounding the corner ” on the pandemic despite nearly 200,000 American deaths from the virus and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world .

We are told foreign intelligence services, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, aided Caputo into engineering the COVID disaster that has killed 197,421 as of this writing, using surveillance, cash and hit squads deployed throughout the US like the one that butchered Adnan Khashoggi.
What we are asking is whether Roger Stone, Caputo or “others” took advantage of Trump’s infamously poor attention span to take charge and assure economic collapse and social upheaval on behalf of an organization seeking to profit on the weakening and destruction of the United States.
Michael Caputo was on Putin’s payroll. That’s literally all you have to know about the man to know he is utter garbage. But also: https://t.co/RuHc3c8ccC — K. Louise Neufeld (@ninaandtito) September 12, 2020
Daily Beast: Communications aides appointed by President Donald Trump have been reviewing reports from scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and changing them to better align with the Commander in Chief’s sunny message that the United States is beating the coronavirus pandemic, Politico reports.
All of this being done by someone the FBI insists is a Russian spy, picked for his role by convicted felon Roger Stone.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump appointees interfered with CDC’s weekly reports on Covid-19 — and even tried to halt the reports altogether. https://t.co/Qau7yYZH0c — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) September 12, 2020
🔥STONE🔥 Another day, yet another story about **yet another** member of Team🇷🇺Trump meeting w/#Russia.🙄 In May’16, Roger Stone (via Michael Caputo’s intro) met w/a #Russian🇷🇺who offered **damaging info about Hillary Clinton**‼#TrumpRussiahttps://t.co/gdZ5JaJuTw — Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) June 17, 2018
Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign officer and now the appointed assistant secretary for public affairs of the Department of Health and Human Services, and his deputies have repeatedly requested pre-publication access to the CDC’s weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports and reportedly altered them in several cases since April to lessen the seeming severity of COVID-19.
From Caputo’s Wikipedia:
Michael Raymon Caputo (born March 24, 1962)[2] is a Republican political strategist, and media consultant. In April 2020, Caputo was appointed as assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for public affairs.[1][3]
He worked for the Reagan Administration with Oliver North, and later as director of media services on the campaign for President George H.W. Bush in the 1992 United States presidential election.
Caputo moved to Russia in 1994, after the fall of the Soviet Union, and was an adviser to Boris Yeltsin. He worked for Gazprom Media in 2000 where he worked on improving the image of Vladimir Putin in the U.S. He moved back to the U.S. and founded a public relations company, and then moved to Ukraine to work on a candidate’s campaign for parliament.
After returning to the U.S., Caputo was called by his former mentor Roger Stone, who convinced him to move to Miami Beach, Florida, and then Caputo founded his media advising company Michael Caputo Public Relations.[4] Caputo moved back to Europe in 2007 while advising a politician’s campaign for parliament in 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[4] (A Candidate chosen by Russia)
Caputo was investigated by the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
Michael Caputo – Trump loyalist who once worked for Boris Yeltsin and did PR for a subsidiary of Russia's Gazprom, and is a longtime friend of Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, and who has never held a senior health care position is the new HHS spokespersonhttps://t.co/YOl3LY6yaO — Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) April 15, 2020
CDC scientists have fought Caputo and company but in recent weeks have allowed them increasing sway over the reports, according to Politico. Caputo and his aides have also attempted to delay and even halt the release of other reports entirely.
Caputo denied any collusion saying "We didn’t speak to Russians. We didn’t use Russian dressing" – Caputo lived Russia in the '90s and worked for an energy company with ties to Putin & has known Roger Stone since the 80's when Caputo was Stone's driverhttps://t.co/GYD6GbKjYW pic.twitter.com/e14nmoR7rP — Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) May 1, 2018
Dr. Paul Alexander, an adviser to Caputo, wrote in an August 8 email, “CDC to me appears to be writing hit pieces on the administration.” Trump has asserted multiple times that the new coronavirus will “disappear” and that the U.S. is “rounding the corner” on the pandemic despite nearly 200,000 American deaths from the virus and the highest number of cases in the world.


veteranstoday--2020-09-11--AstraZeneca Vaccine Trials stopped for Mysterious Illness: May Lead Paralysis (update)

The COVID-19 vaccine participant whose mysterious illness stopped the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trials is reported to be an inflammatory syndrome known as transverse myelitis which may lead to paralysis .
According to agreements with governments , the vaccine manufacturer can not be legally held responsible for the side-effects of the coronavirus vaccine , for the ongonign pandemic emergency .
The vaccine candidate , known as AZD1222 and developed with researchers at Oxford University Jenner Institue , was considered one of the promising .
In April and May , researchers performed a combined Phase I and II trial that showed that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unusual side-effects , and generated a robust immune response .
But on monday drug giant AstraZeneca , already known for many serious crime lawsuit , has stopped global trials of its coronavirus vaccine after it caused a mysterious illness in one of the volunteers .
The company said it is investigating the cause of the unexplained illness but did not say who had stopped the trial .
The individual had been involved in the U.K. trials when they came down with the condition , which affects the spinal cord and is often sparked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The New York Times .
What is Transverse Myelitis ?
According to GreatGameIndia , Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord .
This neurological disorder often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers ( myelin ) .
Transverse myelitis interrupts the messages that the spinal cord nerves send throughout the body .
This can cause pain , muscle weakness , paralysis , sensory problems , or bladder and bowel dysfunction according to Mayo Clinic .
This terrible news had a significant impact on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had in the meantime reached a joint commitment on safety and compliance with the standards to be applied to the Coronavirus vaccine by the large pharmaceutical companies competing with each other .
As anticipated by the Wall Street Journal , giants such as Pfizer , Moderna , Johnson & Johnson , GlaxoScmithKline and Sanofi are about to release an agreement that publicly commits them not to ask for the approval of vaccines from governments until there are the necessary certainties on the safety of their products .
In a draft of the press @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the companies explain that their joint commitment aims to “ help and ensure public confidence in Covid-19 vaccines , which will eventually be approved and on compliance with the regulatory process by which they are evaluated ” .
The requests for approval , explain the big names in pharmaceuticals , will start only on the basis of “ substantial evidence of safety and efficacy ” .
This breaks the eggs in the basket of American President Donald Trump who , with his usual precipitation and exuberance , had announced the availability of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for that period it was in fact foreseen as probably also available by the European Commission .
One could embroider for a long time on the coincidence of a pact between Big Pharma that have been largely funded by Bill Gates , the main donors of the Democratic Party in the USA including GSK ( which is developing a vaccine with Sanofi ) , Moderna and Johnson & Johnson , as we have amply demonstrated in the WuhanGates reportages .
A twist on the front of the Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine developed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unforeseen induced the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company ( owned by the American investment funds of the Weapons Lobby as demonstrated in a previous report ) to stop the trial process after a mysterious and inexplicable illness .
To give the preview of the news is the NBC network of the USA ( full post below ) where the most important tests of the vaccine developed in the United Kingdom by the famous big pharma Astra Zeneca are taking place , which in the past ended up at the center of several scandals such as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rely on the same investors and has had even more trouble with justice both in North America and in Europe , with which it should distribute the vaccine in Italy through the company Advent srl , owned by ReiThera srl acquired in 2013 by GSK and today controlled by the limited company Keires AG , whose shareholders are secretive under Swiss law .
This is tremendous news for Europe and for the Italian government of the Democratic Party as AstraZeneca had reached an agreement with the European Inclusive Vaccines Alliance , led by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Netherlands , for a supply that will reach up to 400 million doses of the vaccine for COVID-19 from the University of Oxford and whose distribution will begin at the end of 2020 .
The company had announced , confirming the announcement of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza .
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio © COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS no reproduction without authorization – Versione Originale in Italiano The pharmaceutical company leading one of the world ’ s most advanced COVID-19 vaccine trials announced Tuesday that it had put the trial on hold after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was reviewing safety data before continuing the trial .
“ This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials , while it is investigated , ensuring we maintain the integrity of the trials , ” the company said in a statement .
“ We are committed to the safety of our participants and the highest standards of conduct in our trials.
” Clinical trials for Oxford ’ s COVID-19 vaccine have been put on hold , drug maker AstraZeneca said Tuesday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ triggered and we voluntarily paused vaccination to allow review of safety data by an independent committee , ” the company said in a statement .
“ This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials , while it is investigated , ensuring we maintain the integrity of the trials.
” The statement continued : “ In large trials illnesses will happen by chance but must be independently reviewed to check this carefully .
We are working to expedite the review of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impact on the trial timeline .
We are committed to the safety of our participants and the highest standards of conduct in our trials .
“ Large trials for anticipated Oxford COVID-19 vaccine begin in the U.S. AstraZeneca , which is working with the U.K. ’ s University of Oxford on a coronavirus vaccine , began its phase 3 clinical trials in the U.S. last week .
NBC News has confirmed that trial sites in the U.S. have been impacted by the pause .
The Oxford trial was the third phase 3 trial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Moderna began their phase 3 trials in late July and have already enrolled about 30,000 volunteers .
By Sara G. Miller and Erika Edwards on NBC News

UPDATE ON SEPTEMBER, 11
The COVID-19 vaccine participant whose mysterious illness stopped the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trials is reported to be an inflammatory syndrome known as transverse myelitis which may lead to paralysis. According to agreements with governments, the vaccine manufacturer cannot be legally held responsible for the side-effects of the coronavirus vaccine, for the ongonign pandemic emergency.
The vaccine candidate, known as AZD1222 and developed with researchers at Oxford University Jenner Institue, was considered one of the promising. In April and May, researchers performed a combined Phase I and II trial that showed that the vaccine was safe, produced no unusual side-effects, and generated a robust immune response.
But on monday drug giant AstraZeneca, already known for many serious crime lawsuit, has stopped global trials of its coronavirus vaccine after it caused a mysterious illness in one of the volunteers. The company said it is investigating the cause of the unexplained illness but did not say who had stopped the trial.
The individual had been involved in the U.K. trials when they came down with the condition, which affects the spinal cord and is often sparked by viral infections, a source told The New York Times. What is Transverse Myelitis?
According to GreatGameIndia, Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord. This neurological disorder often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers (myelin). Transverse myelitis interrupts the messages that the spinal cord nerves send throughout the body. This can cause pain, muscle weakness, paralysis, sensory problems, or bladder and bowel dysfunction according to Mayo Clinic.
This terrible news had a significant impact on the political level because the major Big Pharmas had in the meantime reached a joint commitment on safety and compliance with the standards to be applied to the Coronavirus vaccine by the large pharmaceutical companies competing with each other.
As anticipated by the Wall Street Journal, giants such as Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoScmithKline and Sanofi are about to release an agreement that publicly commits them not to ask for the approval of vaccines from governments until there are the necessary certainties on the safety of their products.
In a draft of the press release published in the economic daily, the companies explain that their joint commitment aims to “help and ensure public confidence in Covid-19 vaccines, which will eventually be approved and on compliance with the regulatory process by which they are evaluated”. The requests for approval, explain the big names in pharmaceuticals, will start only on the basis of “substantial evidence of safety and efficacy”.
This breaks the eggs in the basket of American President Donald Trump who, with his usual precipitation and exuberance, had announced the availability of the vaccine before the presidential elections in November, for that period it was in fact foreseen as probably also available by the European Commission.
One could embroider for a long time on the coincidence of a pact between Big Pharma that have been largely funded by Bill Gates, the main donors of the Democratic Party in the USA including GSK (which is developing a vaccine with Sanofi), Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, as we have amply demonstrated in the WuhanGates reportages.
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER, 8
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy
A twist on the front of the Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Jenner Institute. A serious unforeseen induced the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company (owned by the American investment funds of the Weapons Lobby as demonstrated in a previous report) to stop the trial process after a mysterious and inexplicable illness.
To give the preview of the news is the NBC network of the USA (full post below) where the most important tests of the vaccine developed in the United Kingdom by the famous big pharma Astra Zeneca are taking place, which in the past ended up at the center of several scandals such as GlaxoSmithKline, the London multinational that can rely on the same investors and has had even more trouble with justice both in North America and in Europe, with which it should distribute the vaccine in Italy through the company Advent srl, owned by ReiThera srl acquired in 2013 by GSK and today controlled by the limited company Keires AG, whose shareholders are secretive under Swiss law.
This is tremendous news for Europe and for the Italian government of the Democratic Party as AstraZeneca had reached an agreement with the European Inclusive Vaccines Alliance, led by Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, for a supply that will reach up to 400 million doses of the vaccine for COVID-19 from the University of Oxford and whose distribution will begin at the end of 2020. The company had announced, confirming the announcement of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
© COPYRIGHT GOSPA NEWS
no reproduction without authorization – Versione Originale in Italiano
MAIN SOURCES
GOSPA NEWS – WUHAN.GATES REPORTS
GOSPA NEWS – CORONA VIRUS DOSSIER
GOSPA NEWS – WEAPONS’ LOBBY INVESTIGATIONS
Posted by NBC News
The pharmaceutical company leading one of the world’s most advanced COVID-19 vaccine trials announced Tuesday that it had put the trial on hold after an illness was reported and that it was reviewing safety data before continuing the trial.
“This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials, while it is investigated, ensuring we maintain the integrity of the trials,” the company said in a statement. “We are committed to the safety of our participants and the highest standards of conduct in our trials.”
Clinical trials for Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine have been put on hold, drug maker AstraZeneca said Tuesday.
“Our standard review process was triggered and we voluntarily paused vaccination to allow review of safety data by an independent committee,” the company said in a statement. “This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials, while it is investigated, ensuring we maintain the integrity of the trials.”
The statement continued: “In large trials illnesses will happen by chance but must be independently reviewed to check this carefully. We are working to expedite the review of the single event to minimize any potential impact on the trial timeline. We are committed to the safety of our participants and the highest standards of conduct in our trials.
“Large trials for anticipated Oxford COVID-19 vaccine begin in the U.S.
AstraZeneca, which is working with the U.K.’s University of Oxford on a coronavirus vaccine, began its phase 3 clinical trials in the U.S. last week. NBC News has confirmed that trial sites in the U.S. have been impacted by the pause.
The Oxford trial was the third phase 3 trial to begin in the U.S. Pfizer and Moderna began their phase 3 trials in late July and have already enrolled about 30,000 volunteers.
By Sara G. Miller and Erika Edwards on NBC News
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veteranstoday--2020-09-13--Flynn case “Prosecutor” Judge John Gleeson slams Barr’s position

[ Editor ’ s Note : Glenn gives us another timey major case court action report .
Judge Sullivan picked a the DA that busted John Gotti and became a judge for 20 years with a sterling reputation .
Gleeson ’ s brief that he filed eviscerates the DoJ effort to spring Flynn from serving any time as overtly an act of political corruption as a favor to Trump , and a huge miscarriage of Justice .
Kirschner lays out that if Trump loses and a new Justice Department comes in , that it could use the earlier trial record @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves during the sentencing process , opening themselve up to charges for those acts .
And as Flynn was pleading on only one count for a six month sentence , he can be recharged on the others that had been dropped , due to the pejury stumble .
This open politicization of the Justice Department has a large part of that community wanting to show that it can punish such actions to prevent them from happening again .
We will cross our fingers that we get a new Justice Department… Jim W. Dean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are solely crowdfunded via PayPal Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
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Click to donate > > Bill Bar has been locked in a battle with Judge Emmet Sullivan .
Barr corruptly tried to dismiss Flynn ’ s case but Sullivan appointed an outside “ prosecutor ” , retired Judge John Gleeson , to argue the case for the people once Barr began siding with defendant Flynn .
Gleeson just filed his pleading , blaming Barr as acting corruptly to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who is a friend of the president .
Here are the highlights of the Gleeson filing .

Gleeson urges Judge Sullivan to sentence Flynn
…from Glenn Kirschner, at Justice Matters – Video
Update: Here is the full case link. It is worth printing out and going over with a yellow highlighter as it is devastating, literally the DoJ presenting positions it has pulled out of its butt, with the apparant goal to delay a decision before the election, and if reelected delay a Supreme court case until Trump can get another appointment in place.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/court-appointed-amicus-files-reply-brief-flynn-case
[ Editor’s Note: Glenn gives us another timely major case court action report. Judge Sullivan picked a DA who busted John Gotti and became a judge for 20 years with a sterling reputation.
Gleeson’s brief that he filed eviscerates the DoJ effort to spring Flynn from serving any time, calling it an act of political corruption that was a favor to Trump, and a huge miscarriage of justice. Kirschner lays out that if Trump loses and a new Justice Department comes in, it could use the earlier trial record to show Flynn and his lawyers perjured themselves during the sentencing process, opening themselves to charges for those acts. As Flynn was pleading on only one count for a six month sentence, he can be recharged on the others that had been dropped, due to the perjury stumble. This open politicization of the Justice Department has a large part of that community wanting to show that it can punish such actions to prevent them from happening again. We will cross our fingers that we get a new Justice Department… Jim W. Dean ] Jim's Editor’s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal
Jim's work includes research, field trips, Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more. Thanks for helping. Click to donate >> – First aired on September 12, 2020 – Bill Bar has been locked in a battle with Judge Emmet Sullivan. Barr corruptly tried to dismiss Flynn’s case but Sullivan appointed an outside “prosecutor”, retired Judge John Gleeson, to argue the case for the people once Barr began siding with defendant Flynn. Gleeson just filed his pleading, blaming Barr as acting corruptly to do a favor for a criminal defendant who is a friend of the president. Here are the highlights of the Gleeson filing.
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