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Common Sense Is Now The Free Press

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To me the most unremarked issue of the Greiner-Viktor Bout prisoner swap was that it was so one-sided.... the world's most notorious arms dealer for somebody on a ttrumped-up pot charge while we leave other Americans behind. That is the best our"best and brightest" can do? I mean Homer Simpson is a better negotiator than Joe Biden https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Npr9Svl47q8

Not that I'm calling Greiner a delicious old door stop

#1 Anonymous Mike on 2022-12-10 09:21 (Reply)

It is just a Beau Bergdahl replay. It reminds me of the Obummer administration. Good times. Good times.

#1.1 mudbug on 2022-12-10 10:02 (Reply)

Amazing, right? They set an known arms dealer lose upon the world, and the same day they tell Americans that they should abandon their second amendment rights.

#1.2 B. Hammer on 2022-12-10 11:07 (Reply)

Its the BLM endgame; black entitled (she was warned) lesbian has more trade value than ex-marine. But I don't know anything about the ex-marine, Walen, won't even spell his name. Certainly he doesn't rise the the height of Herr Bergdahl, he is one of us Bergdahl.

#1.3 sf j on 2022-12-10 22:52 (Reply)

The official party line on energy storage is like the official party line on so many other problems we face.

1. Identify a problem

2. Establish a blue ribbon committee to study the problem and propose solutions

3. Establish an expensive government program to institute the proposed solutions

4. A miracle happens

5. Problem solved

#2 Jerryskids on 2022-12-10 09:25 (Reply)

Wait a minute, they don’t believe in miracles so we are going to be shivering in the cold.

I worked with a man once and his wife worked at NREL. He once brought to work a paper she had published on the dirtiest of dirties: coal. Yes, NREL, our taxpayer funded scientist employment center, has long been undermining the electrical grid.

Atop the southern table top mountain, in Golden, sits a giant set of mirrors. The scientists use the mirrors to focus the sun into a beam of light that will cut through a piece of three inch thick plate steel. They have other fun pieces of junk that they have cut through, hidden in plain sight. Unauthorized experiments. Their supposed to be conducting experiments for better solar panels. I don’t condemn them for the fun. I only know about it because I re-designed the positioning table. That was 10 years ago. I am not aware of any great leaps in solar energy. They’re still diligently looking for the miracle.

The miracle, as the Manhattan Contrarian points out, will be price-responsive demand response. In Colorado, they came through this past summer and replaced the electrical meters with smart meters. We are now on a variable rate schedule. XCEL reads the meter via satellite. It doesn’t take much imagination to believe they can just turn the power off with these meters; when demand exceeds capacity.

#2.1 B. Hammer on 2022-12-10 11:42 (Reply)

NREL. Since inception, has been working on Hydrogen power...it is always 20 years out. Some smart people there but "toe the line for funding" is the mantra. Most of their publications are unreadable.

#2.1.1 rocdoctom on 2022-12-10 16:51 (Reply)

In case you are not aware our pharmacies are running out of antibiotics. People will likely die as a result. Pharmacies are sending patients back to their doctor to ask for a different medication. This crisis was predicted and warned about but now it is serious. Our government is incompetent. Our politicians have become millionaires offshoring our factories and industries and this is the result. It is likely that this situation will be the new normal for decades. This is just the beginning, many of the same causes for shortages in medicines are happening in the food industry right now. What's next?

#3 OneGuy on 2022-12-10 09:37 (Reply)

My sister and I are calling each other to see if one of us can come up with a needed food item that is missing from our local stores. Even across county lines there are discrepancies in stocked items. f I see something I use I buy it when I can.

#3.1 JC on 2022-12-10 09:41 (Reply)

It isn't Desantis, it's you Mark Liberalbitch

#4 nunya on 2022-12-10 10:00 (Reply)

I missed the part where the President has the authority to bail out private pension plans using taxpayer funds. Where / when was the purse power and spending authority transferred from the Legislative branch, I wonder?

#5 Aggie on 2022-12-10 10:43 (Reply)

Sadly there is a legislative authorization for it.....in that _1.9 trillion "American Rescue Plan". I cannot believe it either. Apparently in the language there is all sorts of goodies like free super sizing of coffee at Circle K for people named Mike

#5.1 Anonymous Mike (Link) on 2022-12-10 10:54 (Reply)

Aggie: I missed the part where the President has the authority to bail out private pension plans using taxpayer funds. Where / when was the purse power and spending authority transferred from the Legislative branch, I wonder?

It's authorized by Congress under the Employee Retirement Income Security Program Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. 18. See specifically Subtitle A, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (§§ 1301 – 1311); and Subtitle B, Employer Plan Benefits Guaranteed (§ 1321 - 1323).

You're welcome.

#5.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-10 11:41 (Reply)

Americans dumbed down on Russia...because Shiff and media and note the MICIMATT.

https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/12/04/americans-dumbed-down-on-russia/

#6 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 13:34 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere (from link): Five years ago today, Congress learned from sworn, horse’s-mouth testimony that there is no technical evidence that Russia (or anyone else) hacked the DNC emails

QUOTE:

The Horse's Mouth Testimony: Everything in my experience, sir, having done this for many, many years, both in the government and in the private sector, says that it was the Russian Government. . . We stand on our analysis, and we stand on our assessment -- that the Russian Government hacked the DNC.

#6.1 Zachriel on 2022-12-10 14:26 (Reply)

Put Schiff on the stand. Put Mueller on the stand. Put Baker on the stand.

#6.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 15:09 (Reply)

That is only the crowdstrike testimony made public. Present that which was not made public and held out of sight.
And crowdstrike never had physical custody of the server. See the crowdstrike website. And the FBI never seized the server as evidence.

#6.1.2 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 15:29 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: That is only the crowdstrike testimony made public.

Gee whiz. It was your link. We merely read it.

We know the Russian origin of the URL that was used to phish and hack the chair of the Clinton campaign. The hackers even had a problem with their VPN and exposed their location at GRU headquarters on Grizodubovoy St in Moscow.

#6.1.3 Zachriel on 2022-12-10 15:41 (Reply)

You didn't read all of it. Go to the comments and you can get on the crowdstrike site. There you will find they never had physical custody of the server. What you get from crowdstrike is what they decided to release. It is not what Schiff had in his custody. Require their sworn testimony.

The Hillary testimony was always unsworn testimony and her counselors present. And no recorded testimony, only notes. Must be nice to have the FBI on your team. Put them ALL on the stand with sworn testimony.

#6.1.3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 15:50 (Reply)

Even John McAfee said the URL links and any location links can all be faked by anyone with knowledge. Surely the FBI would have the knowledge, or their friends at the CIA. Desperation drives the need for the "Russia" hack. Without that the entire spying gets unraveled and Seth Rich is exposed to more investigation for the thumb drive.

#6.1.3.2 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 15:56 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: There you will find they never had physical custody of the server.

The server isn't just a single computer, but an array of computers that were needed by the campaign. They had a mirror of the server, which is all that is required for forensic investigation. None of that has anything to do with the phishing or the VPN fail of Russian intelligence.

indyjonesouthere: Even John McAfee said the URL links and any location links can all be faked by anyone with knowledge.

Keep in mind that Russia has a pattern of cyber warfare against open societies, hoping to weaken democratic countries. Conspiracy-minded people amplify the effect of such efforts. But, gee whiz. Russia openly invaded Ukraine. There's no doubt who the villain is.

#6.1.3.3 Zachriel on 2022-12-10 16:07 (Reply)

And gee whiz, here another one you can explain away: Clinton to Perkins Coie Fusion GPS to Steele to Russian intelligence assets to FBI to FISA court.

#6.1.3.3.1 SK on 2022-12-10 16:19 (Reply)

Don't forget Jim Baker..

#6.1.3.3.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-12-10 22:53 (Reply)

Keep in mind that the FBI has created a pattern of supporting the uniparty, undermining Trump, and being employed by Twitter to control the flow of information.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600316966182715393.html

#6.1.3.3.2 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 16:22 (Reply)

It's amazing, really. One of the few virtues of the left was that they had a healthy skepticism of too powerful government law enforcement and intelligence agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA) and the co-called "military-industrial complex". They've shown that this was only a pose--once those agencies and organizations started doing things they like, they were willing to ignore even the most blatant and brazen abuses of power.

#6.1.3.3.2.1 SK on 2022-12-10 16:44 (Reply)

Re. One of the few virtues of the left

That was before all those agencies joined their team.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.1 B. Hammer on 2022-12-10 17:01 (Reply)

SK: One of the few virtues of the left was that they had a healthy skepticism of too powerful government law enforcement and intelligence agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA) and the co-called "military-industrial complex".

Healthy skepticism is good. Making sh!t up as a substitute for evidence is not healthy skepticism.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 08:38 (Reply)

The FBI, CIA, and DOJ make shit up to create a narrative. You are always happy to repeat that narrative as are the media. Even they get quiet when the narratives collapse and pretend to not notice what now becomes OLD news and move on to newly constructed narratives. Pretending is hard.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 13:30 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: You are always happy to repeat that narrative as are the media.

Actually, we pointed to evidence, including the URL used to phish the chair of the Clinton campaign's email and the momentary revealing of the hackers location in the GRU, evidence you ignored then sidestepped by diverting to other topics.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 14:10 (Reply)

That "evidence" is only the narrative of the FBI/CIA passed along to the DOJ. That "evidence" is easily created just as McAfee pointed out. And the media sure as hell won't question the narrative. Like Yahoo and other media, they themselves become part of the narrative dissemination.

The admin state and media collude in pushing the narratives and their collusion is evident in the Twitter files. Lying is second nature to the colluders.

Seth Rich and thumb drives are dangerous ground for the colluders.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 14:56 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: That "evidence" is only the narrative of the FBI/CIA passed along to the DOJ.

No. The evidence is from various security experts from public data. The evidence of the source of the hackers in the GRU can only come from servers in the GRU. Russian intelligence screwed up their VPN, but they probably laughed it off because your ilk will believe and amplify the Russian denials regardless of the evidence.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 15:05 (Reply)

Your security experts are as "purchased" as your 17 intelligence agencies and 51 intelligence experts that hang out at the media cartels.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 15:10 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Your security experts are as "purchased"

Hand waving. The hackers forgot to anonymize their bitly URL, leaving their identity publicly exposed. Later, when the hacker's VPN failed, their location was publicly exposed.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 15:17 (Reply)

You're handwaving. The FBI/CIA simply inserted data to satisfy the marginal curiosity of the media and anyone else asking questions. It is all very doable.

Then they buried the Seth Rich connection and now want 60 years to reveal the data they collected surrounding Rich's death. They must have gotten that idea from the CDC/FDA clowns.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 15:25 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: The FBI/CIA simply inserted data to satisfy the marginal curiosity of the media and anyone else asking questions.

Only someone with access to servers at the GRU in Moscow could create the data.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 15:38 (Reply)

The FBI/CIA has been hacking servers for decades. They have even been hacking computers of media and political opponents.
Its their specialty as they essentially lost on the ground assets in China and other countries due to their own malfeasance in handling and controlling data from politicians.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 15:49 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: The FBI/CIA has been hacking servers for decades.

Sure. The FBI/CIA hacked into the GRU, cut off the electricity in Kiev, and then committed cyberattacks against U.S. allies, all using GRU's servers. Then they phished the Clinton campaign, and for some reason, the Russians couldn't figure out how to pull the plug. It's probably the FBI/CIA that invaded Ukraine last year to make it look like Russia.

This relates back to SK's point about healthy skepticism. You are engaging in special pleading.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 16:21 (Reply)

You simply choose to believe the admin state and the media. I find them to be a conniving, colluding clownworld. They have traded their souls for money, power, and control. Being called "lying weasels" hurts their feelings. They have no more ethics than Fauci and Brady and a maddening desire to go all Diva in stolen garments and assumed identities. But you're free to hug and emulate them all.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 16:39 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: You simply choose to believe the admin state and the media.

There are multiple lines of evidence that point to the conclusion that Russia has engaged in widespread cyber attacks against democratic nations. Your argument is of the form, "Is not!" It doesn't matter how many independent lines of evidence are presented, even if the evidence is publicly available; for you, they are all wrong or lying. It's called special pleading.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 16:54 (Reply)

Replace "Russia" with the United States and you have the new reality. You are pretending that the US hasn't changed since the 90's and Russia hasn't changed since the 90's.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 17:10 (Reply)

Evermore eruptions of the FBI narrative from the Epoch times.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-reveals-it-has-more-information-on-dnc-staffer-seth-rich_4916113.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=whatfinger

Are the FBI whistleblowers outing the data?

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.2.2.2.2 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 17:45 (Reply)

Extended reading for your enjoyment.

https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/Entryld/4552/Clevenger-FBI-Lied-Cheated-for-5-Years-Still-Fighting-to-Hide-Seth-Richs-Laptop-from-Public.aspx

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.2.2.2.2.2.2.3 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 17:55 (Reply)

I don't have to make anything up--it's all in the IG reports and documentary evidence.

It's absolutely delicious watching the left remove the mask and reveal themselves to be the people they've always claimed to be fighting against. But please, keep defending high level interference in elections, it's beautiful to watch. The more you do it the more people will see what's behind the facade.

Until you reckon with with what anyone paying attention knows happened you'll not only look like a damned fool, but a credulous, gullible fool.

It's really not hard, try it--"Yeah, they shouldn't have done that and someone needs to be held to account, because I wouldn't like it if the other side did it". Go ahead, it'll be liberating.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.3 SK on 2022-12-11 15:38 (Reply)

SK: I don't have to make anything up--it's all in the IG reports and documentary evidence.

What is? You didn't make a specific claim. You replied to a thread about whether there was evidence that Russia hacked the Democrats, including the chair of the Clinton campaign. There is and they did.

#6.1.3.3.2.1.2.3.1 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 15:41 (Reply)

Also keep in mind that the state dept. and CIA are in the business of undermining countries and driving out legitimately elected presidents and having them replaced by "fuck the Eu" Victoria Nuland.

And they also interfere in other countries elections and in censoring voices in US elections. See Twitter for details.

#6.1.3.3.3 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 16:28 (Reply)

And the real world just keeps reveling itself on Twitter. Under oath they always have another story. And the progs just can't stop themselves from interfering in other countries affairs.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/10/twitter-file-evidence-former-egyptian-president-hosni-mubarak-and-donald-trump-have-something-in-common/

#6.1.3.3.4 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 18:23 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Clinton to . . . Keep in mind . . . Twitter

None of that addresses whether the Russians hacked the chair of the Clinton campaign or not.

#6.1.3.3.5 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 08:35 (Reply)

Well then let us get Hillary on the stand, that has always been avoided by the FBI and DOJ. And let us get Hillary's server. She should have NEVER had that server as it was NOT government controlled. Why was she never brought up on charges for having the private server.

She did it to hide data and keep it away from any other eyes. No FOIA problems with the private server.

#6.1.3.3.5.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 13:20 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: Well then let us get Hillary on the stand, that has always been avoided by the FBI and DOJ.

Clinton testified under oath for eleven hours before Congress, including about her emails. Nor was using a private server against the law. But that doesn't address the evidence for Russian involvement in the phishing attack on the chair of the Clinton campaign.

#6.1.3.3.5.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 14:07 (Reply)

"I don't recall" is scarcely testimony that enlightens a subject. A private server, without government control and protection, is illegal and the excuse of bleaching 33,000 "personal" emails without government oversight is also illegal. It requires more collusion to prevent prosecution. But the FBI/DOJ and media craftsmanship kept her out of jail.

#6.1.3.3.5.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 15:04 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: A private server, without government control and protection, is illegal

Please name the statute.

#6.1.3.3.5.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 15:11 (Reply)

The data must be secured and it wasn't. Try 18 USC 798.

#6.1.3.3.5.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 15:19 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: The data must be secured and it wasn't. Try 18 USC 798.

You are conflating unsecure email with secure communications. 18 USC 798 does not cover workaday emails, so you were wrong on the fact.

With regards to classified information, by policy, classified information is not to be transmitted by email, not even on state.gov emails. However, some classified information typically leaks into emails. Clinton used the secure intranet system extensively, and none of the classified information found in Clinton's emails was properly marked classified. The evidence indicated that it was typical leakage, so would not be covered under 18 USC 798, which requires a finding of "scienter and bad faith." (See Gorin v. United States.)

#6.1.3.3.5.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 15:36 (Reply)

And who determines it was typical leakage. Yep, the same FBI/DOJ that consistently lies to the FISA courts and lies about suppressing data on Twitter. Try again, you need better references than Comey, Mueller and company.

#6.1.3.3.5.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 15:57 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: And who determines it was typical leakage.

The evidence.

#6.1.3.3.5.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 16:22 (Reply)

It is always the evidence interpreter... and who is in charge of that. The usual suspects.

#6.1.3.3.5.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 16:40 (Reply)

indyjonesouthere: It is always the evidence interpreter...

The evidence doesn't go away because it doesn't conform to your preset conclusions.

#6.1.3.3.5.2.2.2.2.2 Zachriel on 2022-12-11 16:55 (Reply)

And the investigators and evidence interpreters don't go away and they do their best to hide what suits them and claim national security. The FBI and DOJ are confirmed liars.

#6.1.3.3.5.2.2.2.2.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-11 17:15 (Reply)

Swimming with the sharks at WRSA. Hopkins on the Covid gaslighting being ignored on the NEW Twitter.

https://chhopkins.substack.com/p/swimming-with-sharks

#7 indyjonesouthere on 2022-12-10 13:48 (Reply)

I had to giggle a little at the tiny pup in the manger. I make polymer clay sculptures, and I might have to make a Christmas manger scene using dogs. You've sparked an idea.

As for Ron DeSantis, I don't want a convivial dude. I want an attack dog, nemesis to the left.

#8 RebeccaH on 2022-12-10 16:38 (Reply)

Up till now, I’ve missed my chance to say how much I REALLY love that picture! Now I’ve said it!

#9 mudbug on 2022-12-10 22:17 (Reply)

We need more prisoner swaps. We need to swap those thugs in NY City for those innocent J6 protestors who were railroaded by Garland's crooked DOJ.

#10 OneGuy on 2022-12-11 20:59 (Reply)

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