Which makes perfect sense.
Guns for me and not for thee (so it’s easier to kill thee), that’s the liberal Democratic way.
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Year Zero: Communication Breakdown
In Episode 58 Tommy addresses the latest mass shootings. In Ep Paso Texas a 21 year old walked into a Wal-Mart with an AK-47 killing 20 and injuring several more. After reading his manifesto Tommy directs what he believes is the reasoning behind the uptick in violence around politics. Whether left or right committing violence, those involved seem to be acting as the useful idiots for the elites to grab more power as they divide and conquer the country.
Listen to Year Zero Here
Misfud’s Lawyer, Roh: He Was Sent By FBI to Entrap Papadopoulos
I mean, pretty much. (Sorry I missed this last week.) The Hill:
Mifsud was a “longtime cooperator of western intel” who was asked specifically by his contacts at Link University in Rome and the London Center of International Law Practice (LCILP) — two academic groups with ties to Western diplomacy and intelligence — to meet with Papadopoulos at a dinner in Rome in mid-March 2016, Roh told me.
A May 2019 letter from Nunes to U.S. intelligence officials corroborates some of Roh’s account, revealing photos showing that the FBI conducted training at Link in fall 2016 and that Mifsud and other Link officials met regularly with world leaders, including Boris Johnson, elected today as Britain’s new prime minister.
A few days after the March dinner, Roh added, Mifsud received instructions from Link superiors to “put Papadopoulos in contact with Russians,” including a think tank figure named Ivan Timofeev and a woman he was instructed to identify to Papadopoulos as Vladimir Putin’s niece.
Mifsud knew the woman was not the Russian president’s niece but, rather, a student who was involved with both the Link and LCILP campuses, and the professor believed there was an effort underway to determine whether Papadopoulos was an “agent provocateur” seeking foreign contacts, Roh said.
The evidence, he told me, “clearly indicates that this was not only a surveillance op but a more sophisticated intel operation” in which Mifsud became involved.
Soloman goes on to make it clear that the FBI and Mueller had every opportunity to talk toe Misfud many times that they for some reason neglected to take advantage of.
Here Are 5 Big Holes in Mueller’s Work
Robert Mueller’s two-year, $25.2 million investigation was supposed to provide the definitive account of Donald Trump, Russia and the 2016 election. Yet even after he issued a 448-page report and testified for five hours before Congress, critical aspects remain unexplained, calling into question the basis for the probe and the decisions of those who conducted it.
Time and again in his report and his testimony, Mueller refused to address a wide range of fundamental issues, claiming they were beyond his purview. Some of the issues Mueller and his team did not clarify include whether the FBI had a sound predicate for opening a counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign; whether the FBI knowingly relied on false material; and the links between U.S. government agencies and key figures who fueled the most explosive claims of an illicit Trump-Russia relationship. Mueller claimed that he was prevented from answering critical questions due to ongoing Justice Department reviews, one by Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham and the other by Inspector General Michael Horowitz. In the meantime, here are some of the biggest mysteries that Mueller’s team left hanging in the air.
Mitchie Brusco Nails 1260
Yeah.
American @Mitchiebrusco84 just landed the first 1260 in skateboard history at #XGames! pic.twitter.com/aHpeT3mGYq
— X Games (@XGames) August 3, 2019
About That Innocent Man Kamala Harris Worked to Keep on Death Row
Or, you know, at least one of them.
When she was the attorney general of California, this obviously innocent and framed man tried to get some new DNA tests done on the murder weapon and she fought him.
That makes her an accessory to murder if his execution ever goes through.
Oh, but now she tells the NYT that she hopes things work out.
Sow->Reap
Rand Paul’s Efforts at Real Diplomacy With Iran Sabotaged by Iran Hawks
According to Robin Wright at The New Yorker, Rand Paul had met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and offered a meeting at the White House with President Trump.
Paul proposed that the Iranian diplomat lay out the same ideas to Trump in person. The President, Paul said, had authorized him to extend an invitation to meet in the Oval Office as early as that week, the U.S., Iranian, and diplomatic sources told me.
Zarif had offered a number of suggestions on how to end the tensions between the two countries and address Trump’s concerns but that was unacceptable for the war party.
On July 31st, with no breakthrough on the horizon, the Trump Administration sanctioned Zarif for “reprehensible” behavior, for having links to the Revolutionary Guard (which, in April, was designated as a foreign terrorist organization), and for functioning “as a propaganda minister, not a foreign minister.”
Who made the decision to sanction Zarif when it looked like there might be a diplomatic breakthrough? It is unknown, but I would place the blame at Treasury. According to The Atlantic, at the Center of U.S. Iran policies is an Israel-born and hard-core Zionist Treasury official named Sigal Mandelker.
In the exchange of provocations and bellicose rhetoric between the United States and Iran, two hawkish top officials, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, may be the public faces of Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against the Islamic Republic. But it’s Mandelker, and the office she oversees as the undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, doing much of the actual execution.
More on Mandelker at If Americans Knew Blog.
Robin Wright also reports that Lindsey Graham is involved in negotiations.
Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, is reportedly also working with the Administration on Iran, albeit on a different track. He was part of the group that played golf—and discussed Iran—with Trump on July 14th. Graham, who is more hawkish than Paul, has been consulting with allies on the framework of a wider deal, according to the Daily Beast. It would call on Tehran to accept the so-called 123 Agreement, which was outlined in legislation passed in 1954. It imposes nine safeguards on the use of nuclear material—to insure that it is not diverted to make a bomb—in exchange for U.S. coöperation on nuclear technology. The United States has 123 Agreements with forty-nine countries and Taiwan.
This is Graham’s view of diplomacy.
“I told the president: Put the 123 on the table with the Iranians. Make them say ‘no,’ Graham told the Daily Beast. “I think the Iranians will say no. And I think that will force the Europeans’ hands.”
The Iranians should call Graham’s bluff and say we are open to discuss this.
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