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Thursday, June 11. 2020

Thursday morning links

It's Time to End Qualified Immunity for College Administrators, Too. The doctrine lets courts allow public universities to get away with eroding their students’ speech rights.


 Harvard Chemistry Professor Indicted For Concealing Connection To China’s Thousand Talents Plan


Knee-Benders Cancel 'Gone With the Wind' & 'Cops' on Same Day to Appease Frothing Rage Mob


No more free speech 


 Homeless people reportedly ate all the food in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, situation dire


They want soy 


 Trump: Elderly Buffalo Protester May Be an 'Antifa Provocateur'


Even the protesters knew he was trouble 


Buffalo Officials Duped By Professional Antifa Provocateur – Arrest and Charge Two Police Officers – Righteous Police Team Stand Together and Walk Out…


 Begging the Mob’s Forgiveness Doesn’t Work


 LA City Council President Nury Martinez, Who Introduced Motion to Cut Police Funding, Caught Using Private LAPD Protection at Her Home


 Top De Blasio Aid Quits In Protest, Accuses NYC Mayor Of Being Too Kind To Police


 America Deserves a New FBI


 Better look at your social media — chances are you’re next to be canceled


 America is Not Racist


 AG Barr On Durham Investigation: ‘I’m Very Troubled By’ What ‘Has Been Called To My Attention So Far’


 CDC Expects 200k COVID-19 Deaths By October As Dreaded 'Second Wave' Arrives


 COVID-19: Straight Answers from Top Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic


 “You’re Not My Brother”: The Trainwreck Cornel West-Leo Terrell Segment You Can’t Miss


 For Journalists, The New York Times’ Social-Justice Meltdown Is a Sign of Things to Come


 WSJ Editorial: Cancel Culture And Identity Politics Now Dominates Journalism And American Culture


 France: Post-Pandemic Disaster?

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Re: Barr troubled

It's hard to drain a swamp when you're up to your ass in alligators.
#1 oolioo on 2020-06-11 08:20 (Reply)
From the piece about needing a New FBI;

"Since its founding in 1908, the Bureau has regularly infringed on Americans’ civil rights or just failed to do its job, to wit: the internment of Japanese-American citizens; the harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders; the shooting of innocent citizens at Ruby Ridge and Waco; the takeover of the Boston Field Office by organized crime boss Whitey Bulger; the betrayals by FBI agent Robert Hanssen; misunderstanding the significance that persons connected to Osama bin laden were enrolled in U.S. flight schools; pursuing and publicly naming the wrong suspect in the 2001 Anthrax attacks; ignoring a Russian warning about the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing; concocting fake terror plots; and ignoring an advance tip about the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting."

With that track record, I find the author's contention that we need anything "new" from this gang.

Do away with the FBI and the damn ATF while you're at it.

Gerry Spence long ago wrote that he, from experience, had learned that federal agents regularly, lie under oath, fabricate evidence, destroy evidence and withhold exculpable evidence.

We need to see a massive reduction in their ranks....and full on prosecution of their most recent fuckery.
#2 Kevin in PA on 2020-06-11 08:48 (Reply)
My late next-door-neighbor was a retired member of the FBI from the middle 40s to 60s. He told stories that made our skin crawl. The organization needs to be evaluated for its usefulness vs. its outright lawlessness. Hoover was a power hungry political animal, but it doesn't appear that his successors -- especially Bush -- have been any better. Communists have thrived and individual rights are merely words on parchment.
#2.1 jma on 2020-06-11 16:22 (Reply)
Downtown Seattle Autonomous Zone.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.
#3 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2020-06-11 10:14 (Reply)
Homeless people reportedly ate all the food in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, situation dire. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
not bummed about this.

America Deserves a New FBI: I keep saying, Mr. Trump need to don his Hercules outfit and divert the Potomac River thru the FBI building, and any other executive branch offices as he sees fit.

“You’re not my brother”: The trainwreck Cornel West-Leo Terrell segment you can’t miss. YEP. And BOY, HOWDY!!

For Journalists, The New York Times’ Social-Justice Meltdown Is a Sign of Things to Come: If only they'd go bat-shit crazy and have an auto-da-fe...
#3.1 Sam L. on 2020-06-11 11:25 (Reply)
Bird dog, how are you feeling?
#4 peter on 2020-06-11 10:21 (Reply)
What does that mean?

I am optimistic.
#4.1 BD on 2020-06-11 10:57 (Reply)
re: LA Mayor using private LAPD protection detail-- those guys should quit if they know what's good for them

re: de Blasio aide resigning in protest of excessive kindness to police-- you can't make this shit up

re: America Is Not Racist-- hear hear!
#5 jolizbish on 2020-06-11 10:27 (Reply)
Oh no! AG Barr is very troubled. “For the first time in American history, the police organizations and the national security organizations were used to spy on a campaign and there was no basis for it” I don't believe that. This is the first time they got caught. I'm sure he can drag his feet for a few more months, hoping Trump won't win the election. All the trouble can be swept under the rug. What happens if Trump wins, AG Barr? What are you going to do?
#6 B. Hammer on 2020-06-11 11:02 (Reply)
COVID-19: Straight Answers from Top Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic

SORRY, I'm not buying what this public health BUREAUCRAT is trying to sell and the interviewer (from "Blue Zones", no less) in this article, clearly has an agenda in his mix of questions, as well as in his attempt at creating the interviewee's supposed expertise and political neutrality!

Covid moving from >75 to #1 cause of death, yet, the overall number of deaths has remained constant, while seasonal flu has virtually disappeared as a COD?

SOMEONE IS OBVIOUSLY COOKING THE BOOKS here and the good "doctor" (PhD, NOT MD) doesn't even mention that? Ha! Goodbye any credibility for "Dr," Osterholm. You're FIRED!
#7 Old Codger on 2020-06-11 11:49 (Reply)
I'm with you, Codger. Something's rotten; nothing adds up. He should be fired along with Fauci and Scarf Lady.

MOST of all, I will never take a vaccine nor inflict any friend or relative to one knowing how they can be abused by the likes of Bill Gates and his buddies in the healthcare field.
#7.1 jma on 2020-06-11 16:29 (Reply)
FLASHBACK: Biden Touted ‘Slave State’ Delaware in Southern Strategy

Of course it's okay when crazy old Joe does it.

QUOTE:
In a 2006 appearance on Fox News Sunday, anchor Chris Wallace asked Biden about how he could win in places like South Carolina when hailing from a blue state.

"What kind of a chance would a northeastern liberal like Joe Biden stand in the south if you were running in Democratic primaries against southerners like Mark Warner and John Edwards?" Wallace asked.

"Better than anybody else," Biden replied. "And you don't know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state.

. . . Biden also invoked Delaware's "slave state" past while speaking in South Carolina to the Columbia Rotary Club that year, joking Delaware would have fought in the Confederacy if not for its geographic location.

Delaware "was a slave state that fought beside the North," he said. "That's only because we couldn't figure out how to get to the South. There were a couple of states in the way."

Yeah. Joe was just pandering, but imagine if a Republican candidate had said as much?

https://freebeacon.com/politics/flashback-biden-touted-delaware-being-a-slave-state-as-part-of-his-southern-strategy/
#8 feeblemind on 2020-06-11 13:42 (Reply)
Re: The China Thousand Talents Plan

"It is alleged that Lieber falsely stated that he was never asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program."

This is a ridiculous story, because it completely fails to mention that thousands of American companies have opened manufacturing branches in China; contingent upon the release of trade secrets to the Chinese. Tesla has a new factory in China, and you can bet that any new technology will belong to the Chinese, even though Americans are supposed to buy the cars.

So here's the question: Is not telling anyone about selling American trade secrets as part of a trade deal a crime? After all, the President of an American company can do whatever he wants. So if he thinks that giving away information in exchange for access to the Chinese market is a good idea, who can stop him? Right now, nobody. And those American executives will make a fortune as their stock options go through the roof; while their American employees go bankrupt. It's a bad situation. Upper-class corporate America is selling America to the Chinese. For personal gain.
#9 Ron Liebermann on 2020-06-12 00:55 (Reply)
"It's Time to End Qualified Immunity. FULL STOP."

FTFY.
#10 Bikerdad (Link) on 2020-06-12 03:02 (Reply)

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