The record shows that the DOJ is adept at using the Espionage Act as a cudgel to punish its political enemies.
Barely two weeks ago, the lawfare cabal at Just Security, led by Andrew Weissmann, the former senior prosecutor for the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation, released the second edition of their “model prosecution memorandum” to (presumably) help out his former colleagues at the Department of Justice (DOJ). The document seeks to offer up nearly any theory of law to “get Trump.”
Just Security bills itself as “an online forum for the rigorous analysis of security, democracy, foreign policy, and rights,” but in practice, the organization, funded in part by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, is the legal beachhead of the Trump resistance. Their model document provides 186 pages of “throw the book at him” musings along with 222 separate footnotes and has largely telegraphed the DOJ’s legal strategy. The document is supported by a variety of public and nonpublic allegations (surely a mixture of leaked information and fabricated information if history is any guide). The fact that their roadmap nearly parallels the now-public indictment of former President Donald Trump is surely a coincidence.
Prosecuting Leaks and Foreign Spies
The “document retention” portion of the Espionage Act states:
§793. Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it… (emphasis added)
Prominently in their model prosecution memorandum related to the Espionage Act is the acknowledgment that the statute is typically used for “leaking cases and foreign government spies.” Dismissing the DOJ’s historical circumspection regarding its applicability, the document proceeds to weave together a basis to charge Trump under the statute. It is unclear if the fan fiction roadmap was needed, as the record shows that the DOJ is in fact quite adept at using 18 U.S.C. 793 (e) as a cudgel to punish its political enemies. Take for instance the case of Thomas A. Drake.
Government Cudgels a Political Enemy
Drake Joined the National Security Agency (NSA) as an executive on Sept. 11, 2001. He quickly became concerned about illegal activities, waste, and mismanagement within the agency. Accordingly, he attempted to raise concerns through standard channels and even elevated his concerns to Congress as a whistleblower.
Eventually, after getting nowhere trying to blow the lid off both financial waste and abuse of Americans’ fundamental civil rights via certain NSA surveillance programs, he decided to leak certain controlled information to a media contact. The resulting stories about the Trailblazer program published in The Baltimore Sun in 2006 and 2007 embarrassed Michael Hayden’s NSA.
Our government rewarded his efforts in November 2007 with a raid on his home, initially suspecting him of being the source of the leaks that disclosed the agency’s warrantless wiretapping in a 2005 New York Times expose. He denied having anything to do with those leaks but acknowledged providing unclassified information to The Baltimore Sun.
After the raid of his home, which caused him to lose his job, the government sat on the case for nearly three years before indicting him in April 2010. The indictment levied five counts of willful retention of National Defense Information (the Espionage Act charges), one charge of obstruction of justice, and four counts of false statements, but the case was eventually pleaded to a misdemeanor. At sentencing, the judge excoriated the government, first for wasting the court’s time only to settle the case on the eve of trial for a misdemeanor, and second for jerking around the defendant for as long as they did.
THE COURT: What message is sent by the government, Mr. Welch … when the government dismisses a ten-count indictment a year after indictment, on the eve of trial, after days and days of hearings under the Classified Information and Procedures Act, and in what I find to be an extraordinary position taken by the government, probably unprecedented in this courthouse, for a case of this profile, literally on a Thursday afternoon before a Monday trial, subject to the government to be prepared as you will in a moment to dismiss the entire ten-count indictment and allow the defendant to plead guilty to a misdemeanor?
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THE COURT: And as I tell you, as I say to you, Mr. Welch, I find it extraordinary. I even talked to one of my colleagues about it, his career background is similar to mine, I find it extraordinary in this case for an individual’s home to be searched in November of 2007, for the government to have no explanation for a two year delay, not a two and a half year delay, for him to then be indicted in April of 2010, and then over a year later, on the eve of trial, in June of 2011, the government says, whoops, we dropped the whole case. . . .
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Montana Gov. Gianforte Signs Law Prohibiting Federal Ban on Gun Ownership
Montana passed a new law on April 23 that will prevent the federal government from placing prohibitions on gun ownership in the state, whether by new federal law, executive order, rules, regulation, or any new interpretations of existing law. “Today, I proudly signed Rep. [Jedediah] Hinkle’s law prohibiting federal overreach into our Second Amendment-protected rights, including any federal ban on firearms,” Gov. Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.) wrote on Twitter on April 24. “I will always protect our [Second Amendement] right to keep and bear arms.” House Bill No. 258 (pdf) titled “Montana Federal Firearm, Magazine, and Ammunition Ban Enforcement Prohibition Act” was passed under the authority of the second and tenth amendments of the U.S. constitution, as well as the Montana constitution, and Montana’s compact with the United States. The new law, which passed 30–20, means that no subnational government agency or official may cooperate in the enforcement of any federal ban on …
Smithsonian museums, National Zoo announce reopening dates
The Smithsonian Institution announced Friday that about half of its museums, along with the National Zoo, will reopen in May after shuttering in November because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Eight of the Smithsonian’s 19 locations in the Washington, D.C., area will open to the public next month but with COVID-19 restrictions in place. Guests will need to reserve a timed-entry pass, wear face mask and practice social distancing, Smithsonian officials said.
“We have a lot of signage keeping people moving in the right direction,” said Smithsonian COVID Response Coordinator Doug Hall. “All of the things are primarily geared toward social distancing, keeping people separate and of course cleaning at the end.”
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: FBI Finally Releases Records on Murdered DNC Analyst Seth Rich – Via Attorney Ty Clevenger
The FBI on Friday finally released the requested documents on murdered DNC operative Seth Rich.
For years the FBI denied there were any documents on Seth Rich’s unsolved murder.
We caught them in this lie.
And now they release the documents but they are highly redacted.
The FBI cannot be trusted.
Today they finally released the documents to Attorney Ty Clevenger.
We posted the documents here at The Gateway Pundit after Clevenger’s website crashed.
As you can see, the FBI redacted most of the documents.
FBI Releases Records About … by Jim Hoft
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Outrage after professor displays ‘juicy’ bones of black child killed in 1985 police bomb at lecture
‘They are juicy’: Princeton professor is slammed for disrespecting the bones of a 14-year-old black girl killed by a bomb dropped by Philadelphia police in 1985 after members of her commune fired at cops
- Janet Monge, a visiting professor at Princeton University, led a highly-rated free course on forensic anthropology for the prestigious school
- In one video lecture, she is seen holding the bones of a child killed during a 1985 police bombing of a black liberation group and calling them ‘juicy’
- The teen and 10 other people – including five children – died after Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a home being used by the liberation group MOVE
- The video lectures for the course were filmed in 2019 and posted onto the learning platform Coursera – but have since sparked outrage from current members of MOVE
So Many Americans Look Around and Know | We Are Still At War With The Greatest Enemies of Freedom | Video: 2 Minutes 51 Seconds
“Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom exists not to do what you like, but having the right to do what you ought. And that is the freedom that I wish for you. Set yourselves apart from this corrupt generation. Be saints. You weren’t made to fit in. You were born to stand out. God bless you.” ~ Actor and speaker, Jim Cavaziel
New York posts major increases in rape cases, sharply up from last year’s lockdown lows
olice in New York City over the past month have been responding to vastly larger numbers of rape complaints than they were at the same time last year, reporting complaints that in many cases are numbering triple-digit increases over the same period last year.
The spike appears to be a unique artifact of last year’s once-in-a-century lockdowns, which decreased many crime rates across the board but appear to have had a uniquely depressive effect on sexual assault in the city.
From Mar. 15 through Mar. 21 of this year, the New York City Police Department recorded a 94% increase in rape complaints relative to the same time period in 2020. Significantly, that weeklong period in 2020 was one of rapidly growing concern over the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. The week culminated in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s shutdown of the entire state, suggesting that last year’s sexual assault numbers were likely at least partly lowered by reduced public activity in the leadup to that lockdown.
MLB Survey Asks Fans if They’re Republicans or Democrats
MLB is under new scrutiny as a new survey shows fans are being about political affiliation in a ballpark experience in a post-game survey. In a report from National Review, MLB claims the questions asked regarding political affiliations are “part of the extensive fan surveys MLB is conducting this year around the ballpark experience.”
The league claims the surveys are for are to try trying to “gain knowledge about fan perceptions, preferences, and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Of course, according to a recent poll done by Morning Consult, it was found, their favorability levels have completely collapsed within the Republican base.
Bannon’s War Room |Saturday Edition Hour 1 | Recorded April 24, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 45 Seconds
The Den Mother of Disinformation … (w/ Dr. Peter Navarro). “What Rachel was doing was inoculating the left against the reality the high probability that they’re going to find of those 2.1 million ballots massive and different types of fraud,” he said. Guest is: Dr. Peter Navarro.
Bannon’s War Room |Saturday Edition Hour 2 | Recorded April 24, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 45 Seconds
Broken Window Election … Election Interference and How to Confront the CCP. Dr. Navarro says John Kerry is a “useful idiot on steroids.” And explains what the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy is to weaken the U.S. and why we must decouple from China. Our guests are: Dr. Peter Navarro, Ben Bergquam.
Ghislaine Maxwell pleads NOT GUILTY to two more counts of sex trafficking
- Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, pleaded not guilty Friday to new sex trafficking charges added to an indictment three weeks ago
- Maxwell, who has been jailed in what she calls ‘hell hole’ conditions in a Brooklyn prison, appeared frail with graying hair
- There was no sign of the hair loss her lawyers claimed she experienced in prison
- Today was the first time she appeared in person after nine months in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center
- Maxwell was wearing a white mask and a blue prison-issue top and trousers
- A padlocked black sedan believed to be carrying Maxwell was seen driving to the Brooklyn prison
- Her sister Isabel was there for support, but Maxwell’s husband Scott Borgerson was a no show
(READ) Trump statement on Arizona election recount
– April 23, 2021 – Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America So many people would like to thank the brave and patriotic Republican State Senators from Arizona for the incredible job they are doing in exposing the large scale Voter Fraud which took place in the 2020 Presidential […]
Feds Charge Southern Illinois U. Prof with Grant Fraud over Secret Ties to China
A mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, was indicted this week by a federal grand jury for grant fraud, after allegedly failing to disclose secret support he had received from the Chinese Communist Party and a Chinese university.
Rumble CEO says alternative video platform has huge growth, as users ‘fed up’ with big tech
CEO Chris Pavlovski says the Canadian-based online video platform is experiencing strong growth because uses are “fed up” with larger platform.
“That exodus has been happening in the last year at a pace that I think will set in stone for the long term,” Pavlovski told Fox Business on Tuesday. “Small creators are fed up with the larger platforms and are looking for an alternative solution. And I think they found it in Rumble.”
Pavlovski said Rumble, which has branded itself as an alternative to video-sharing behemoth YouTube, had about 1.6 million monthly users at about the time of 2020 election and reached 31.9 million by the end of the 2021’s first quarter.
‘What Are They Hiding?’: Democrats Try Last Attempt to Block AZ Election Audit & Cave In When Judge Asks For Million Dollar Bond
Democrats are in full panic mode.
“A pause on the Arizona Senate’s recount of Maricopa County’s general election ballots appears off.
A judge ordered the delay Friday morning amid mounting concerns about security and procedures for the unprecedented undertaking, but the order was conditioned on the Arizona Democratic Party posting a $1 million bond to cover any potential costs of the delay. The party had asked the court for the halt.”
They refused to post the bond indicating they did not have a valid reason to pause the audit.
US drop in vaccine demand has some places turning down doses
“It is kind of stalling. Some people just don’t want it,” said Stacey Hileman, a nurse with the health department in rural Kansas’ Decatur County, where less than a third of the county’s 2,900 residents have received at least one vaccine d
JACKSON, Miss. — Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned down new shipments of the vaccine at least once over the past month. And in Mississippi, officials asked the federal government to ship vials in smaller packages so they don’t go to waste.
As the supply of coronavirus vaccine doses in the U.S. outpaces demand, some places around the country are finding there’s such little interest in the shots, they need to turn down shipments.
“It is kind of stalling. Some people just don’t want it,” said Stacey Hileman, a nurse with the health department in rural Kansas’ Decatur County, where less than a third of the county’s 2,900 residents have received at least one vaccine dose.
Indian hospitals plead for oxygen as country sets daily coronavirus record
NEW DELHI — India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an oxygen-fed fire ripped through a coronavirus ward in a populous western state.
India’s underfunded health system is tattering as the world’s worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation, which set a global record in daily infections for a second straight day with 332,730.
India has confirmed 16 million cases so far, second only to the United States in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. India has recorded 2,263 deaths in the past 24 hours for a total of 186,920.
The fire in a hospital intensive care unit killed 13 COVID-19 patients in the Virar area on the outskirts of Mumbai early Friday.
The situation is worsening by the day with hospitals taking to social media to plead with the government to replenish their oxygen supplies and threatening to stop admissions of new patients.
A major private hospital chain in the capital, Max Hospital, tweeted that one of its facilities had one hour’s oxygen supply in its system and had been waiting for replenishment since early morning. Two days earlier, they had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court saying they were running out of oxygen, endangering the lives of 400 patients, of which 262 were being treated for COVID-19. . .
Soros Makes First Contributions of 2022 Cycle
George Soros‘s first disclosed political donations of the 2022 cycle are out, giving an early glimpse into the liberal megadonor’s spending priorities now that Democrats regained power in Washington, D.C.
Soros’s only disclosed donations during the first quarter of 2021 were to two of the party’s newest faces, first-term senators Maggie Hassan (D., N.H.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D., Nev.), as well as its oldest, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.). Soros gave the maximum allowed $5,600 to Hassan, $2,900 to Cortez Masto, and $7,900 total to Leahy’s campaign and PAC.
All three recipients are up for reelection next year. Hassan and Cortez Masto have both launched reelection campaigns and are top targets of Republicans, who need to gain one seat this cycle to regain control over the upper chamber. Leahy, on the other hand, is 81 years old and has yet to announce whether he will run for reelection. If he retires, it could put another state on the map for Republicans.
What Happened to $16 Million Georgia’s Secretary of State’s Office Received Before the 2020 Election?
Before the 2020 Election, some very strange moves took place within the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. Why were these made and what happened to the millions in grants the office received?
We know that Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has a propensity to not tell the truth:
We also know Raffensperger’s main man, Gabe Sterling, also has problems with the truth:
Of course, Raffensperger and Sterling were involved in giving the state of Georgia to Joe Biden by 11,000 votes when still to this day, over 350,000 ballots were counted where their legally required chain of custody documentation is still missing (which makes them invalid):
We don’t know why Raffenssperger and Sterling are not being honest about the results in Georgia. But we do know that the state received millions in grants before the 2020 Election and we don’t really know where it all went. For example, it was reported that the state received $11 million in COVID relief for the election through the Secretary of State’s office. . .
SpaceX Rocketship Launches 4 Astronauts on NASA Mission to Space Station
NASA and Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station on Friday. . .
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My, Oh, My. Some More Big Tech Pedophilia | “New Jersey man charged with sharing child porn through Facebook chat”
Ramos-Artigas allegedly requested and exchanged lewd videos showing children ranging in age from 4 to 13, authorities said.
“The investigation revealed that Mr. Ramos-Artigas utilized the social media platform Facebook to engage in a chat wherein he requested, received and sent videos of child pornography,” Valdes said.
Ron Johnson questions ‘big push’ to vaccinate ‘everybody’
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in a Thursday podcast interview cast doubt on the importance of vaccinating the nation for COVID-19, saying he’s getting “highly suspicious” of the “big push to make sure everybody gets the vaccine.”
“The science tells us that vaccines are 95 percent effective, so if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not?” Johnson said during an appearance on “The Vicki McKenna Show.” He also asked “what’s the point” of striving to get “everybody” the COVID-19 shot.
“Why is this big push to make sure everybody gets a vaccine, and it’s to the point where you better impose it, you’re gonna shame people, you’re gonna force them to carry a card to prove that they’ve been vaccinated so they can just be in society,” he added.
SURVEY: 85% Disbelieve Allegations Against Rep. Matt Gaetz.
A whopping 85 percent of National Pulse readers disbelieve the allegations of sex trafficking and impropriety leveled – without proof – against conservative firebrand Congressman Matt Gaetz. Following a survey…
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One Time FBI Informant, Al Sharpton, States: ‘We Are Seeing the Absolute Time that Policing Must Be Defined by the Federal Government’
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” network anchor Al Sharpton pushed for policing to be “defined by the federal government.” This call comes following the Derek Chauvin verdict and in the wake of the shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Ohio and Daunte Wright in Minnesota.
Norway’s Institute of Public Health Says, “Everyone in Norway will be at greater risk of disease and death by choosing the AstraZeneca vaccine than waiting for another”
Here’s how FHI calculates the risk of disease and death of AstraZeneca and COVID-19:
In Norway, five cases of serious incidents have been reported after vaccination.
Three of these have died.
Ale contracted the symptoms seven to 10 days after vaccination.
They were between 32 and 54 years old.
FHI has calculated the mortality rate (how many of the vaccinated people have died, red.amn.) in Norway of 2.3 people per 100,000 vaccinated.
In Norway today, there will generally be a greater risk of dying by being vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine than the risk of dying from the COVID-18 disease, according to FHI. . .
VIRGINIA: Attorney Who Helped Trump Fight 2020 Election In Court Announces Run For State Legislature
Wren Williams, an America First attorney who helped President Trump battle election fraud in court, is challenging incumbent Charles Poindexter for the GOP nomination to the House of Delegates in Virginia’s 9th District. In taking on Poindexter, Williams faces pushback from all ends of the local uni-party political establishment, which has come out in staunch support of his opponent. . .
Texas Sues Biden Administration for Allegedly Disregarding COVID-19 Rules at Border
The attorney general of Texas on Thursday sued President Joe Biden’s administration for allegedly flouting its own COVID-19 rules in handling the surge of illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico.
Administration officials “have abandoned the preexisting protections against the introduction into Texas and the United States of aliens infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus during a pandemic,” the 34-page lawsuit states.
The disregard for COVID-19 rules violates federal law, including the Public Health Service Act of 1944, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton charged. . .
8-Year-Old Saves Sister Choking on Chicken Nugget Using Tip From John Cena
An 8-year-old boy from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, is being hailed for saving his 20-month-old sister, Leila Dempsey, from choking. The young man had seen an episode of Nickelodeon’s “The Substitute” that featured wrestler and actor John Cena where he provided tips on how to save someone choking. The siblings were in a car with their dad going for a haircut when Leila started to choke on a chicken nugget. “I was just listening to music, I think. Then I heard her choking,” said Jaxson, Inside Edition reported. “I looked to my left and saw my sister’s face purple and red, so I patted her on the back, told my dad to pull over, then I started patting her on the back, and I dislodged a nugget.” Jaxson credits the TV show for teaching him how to save someone’s life. “It’s called The Substitutes on Nickelodeon, and in the very first episode, …
Behind Bitcoin’s Recent Slide: Imploding Bets, Forced Liquidations
Bitcoin’s rally appears to be running out of steam, at least for now.
The digital currency dropped again Friday, briefly falling below $50,000—a decline of more than 20% from its record of $64,829 on April 14.
Bitcoin’s high coincided with the stock-market debut of Coinbase Global Inc., the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. The two events marked the pinnacle of a heady rally for cryptocurrencies that began last year. Bitcoin’s price more than tripled in 2020 and doubled to start 2021 before slipping.
The rally cratered last Saturday when bitcoin suddenly fell as much as 17% to $52,149—with half the decline occurring in about 20 minutes. Although it recovered some of those losses by Monday, the price has steadily declined, sitting Friday afternoon at $50,620. . .
Judicial Watch Fights Hard Left “Critical Race Theory”
Not long ago, Critical Race Theory was the territory of far-left academics pushing the boundaries of Marxism and nihilistic counterparts such as radical feminism and post-structuralism. All the philosophies to one degree or another advanced the notion that objective truth and standards—in society, in institutions, in law—do not exist. All reality is contingent, all is in flux, all is a construct of language and illusion. One person’s truth is another person’s lies.
Critical Race Theory emerged from this philosophical train wreck in the 1980s to say that Western civilization—and the American experiment in particular—is suffused to its core by white supremacy, white privilege, and institutionalized racism, and must be dismantled. For a long time, CRT was dismissed as an esoteric academic fad. But ideas have consequences and today, in the mysterious alchemy of social upheaval, Critical Race Theory suddenly is everywhere, its poisonous agenda swiftly moving through universities and public schools, government, law, science, business, and the media.
Rooted in the Left doctrine of class struggle, CRT teaches that U.S. society—our culture, laws, beliefs, and modes of governance—are a racist system devoted to upholding the power of white people. CRT is closely linked the new cancel culture. Dissenters from this new orthodoxy are punished. Freedom of speech is dismissed, and open debate is canceled, as we’ll see below in the case of high school coach David Flynn.
The rhetoric of this radicalism is cloaked in the language of social justice, but if you “peel back the layers of ideology and you get to the core of this belief system,” notes writer Christopher Rufo, “they’re advocating for a kind of cultural revolution, steeped in Marxism, adjusted to identity politics, and now activated through Black Lives Matter, through Critical Race Theory, and absurdly through even corporate HR departments.” For more on CRT, see this Heritage Foundation special report.
Judicial Watch is fighting back. Three cases, in particular, illustrate the scope of the Critical Race problem. Tellingly, they all involve schools—a key battleground in this war of ideas. . .
Joe Biden Masks Up for Zoom Call with 16 Other World Leaders. He’s the Only One.
Please review the CDC mask guidelines at your convenience. It lays out when, where, and how we’re supposed to wear masks for totally unarguable sciencey reasons. At no point does it say you should mask up while on a conference call. Yet that’s what Joe Biden did on Thursday during a video conference with other world leaders, even after getting both his jabs. If you were wondering why Democrats are so uninformed about the ‘rona, wonder no more. It may very well be because this is their intellectual superior. Just a hunch.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. It has to be twice as many in the world leader group text they don’t let Biden on.
Russia: Activists detained under absurd “sanitary” charges for social media posts in support of public protest
On Saturday, 23 January 2021, protest rallies against the arbitrary arrest and unfounded, politically motivated prosecution of Aleksei Navalny, a prominent anti-corruption activist and Vladimir Putin’s critic, erupted across Russia and continued for 10 days. Authorities described the protests as “illegal”, citing the country’s unduly restrictive legislation on assemblies, and responded by prosecuting individuals they perceived responsible for encouraging the protests. The Investigative Committee arrested 12 prominent activists in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. The Committee claimed the activists had violated COVID-19 related sanitary rules simply for calling for the protests, which in their view amounted to a crime. Russian authorities must stop denying and violating the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression, and must not use COVID-19 related restrictions to jail and silence their critics. All those detained solely for calling for, organizing, or participating in peaceful protests must be immediately released.
President Macron vows to ‘never give up the fight against Islamist terorrism’ after knifeman screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ stabs woman to death before being shot dead by cops at French police station
- Stephanie, an administrative worker, 49, was killed as she walked into the lobby
- The knifeman is believed to be a Tunisian national who moved to France in 2009
- The savage attack took place in the leafy Paris commune of Rambouillet
- France’s counter-terrorism unit has taken over the investigation into the killing
‘I Am Nonviolent’: Maxine Waters Defends Call For Protesters To ‘Get More Confrontational’
Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters defended her call for protesters to “get more confrontational” if former police officer Derek Chauvin was not found guilty in the death of George Floyd.
“I have been an activist participating in the civil rights movement and I have dealt with the issue of police abuse for many decades,” Waters wrote Thursday in a Los Angeles Times op-ed. Waters survived a censure resolution introduced by Republican California Rep. Kevin McCarthy in a party-line vote.
African Activists: The Earth Is in Peril If Wealthy Nations Don’t Slash Emissions & Pay Climate Debt
As President Biden convenes a major climate summit, we speak with two leading climate activists from Africa about the “climate debt” rich countries owe the Global South and the major emissions cuts still needed in order to avert the worst effects of the planetary emergency. “Given the scale of the crisis right now, the only thing that is going to get us out of it is not going to be baby steps in the right direction,” says Kumi Naidoo, special adviser for the Green Economy Coalition’s Social Contract Initiative, as well as the former head of Greenpeace International. “It’s going to be big, bold, courageous, structural and systemic change to every aspect of society.” We also speak with Dipti Bhatnagar, international program coordinator for Climate Justice and Energy at Friends of the Earth International, who says that while new pledges by the U.S. to cut emissions are “going in the right direction,” it’s still not enough. “We’re calling on the U.S. to do its fair share of emissions reductions, and what that means is four times of what the U.S. has put on the table.”
Caitlyn Jenner files to run for governor, done with one-party rule: This is not Gavin Newsom’s California
Reality television star Caitlin Jenner announced Friday she is running for governor of California as a Republican challenger to Democratic Gov Gavin Newsom. In a statement posted […]
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April 23, 2021 | Nightly News Rebroadcast | Video: 51 Minutes 28 Seconds
Arizona’s audit of over 2 million ballots has been paused until Monday, 10 Republican attorneys general led by Louisiana have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s climate order, and every branch of government is called upon to address the unprecedented border surge.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 1 | Recorded April 23, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Build Back Bad … Biden’s Virtual Great Reset and the Border Crisis. “If you have something to hide you’re going to put up as much resistance as possible,” he said. “I believe they’re afraid of what we’re going to find.” Guests are: Sonny Borelli, Boris Epshteyn, Todd Bensman, Bianca Gracia, Liz Harrington.
Bannon’s War Room | Morning Edition Hour 2 | Recorded April 23, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 54 Seconds
They Finally Blinked … Democrat Panic in Maricopa to Block Election Audit. “These idiots think we’re so stupid to believe that no illegal aliens voted in Arizona,” Giuliani said. “That’s impossible in Arizona.” Guests are: Rudy Giuliani, Boris Epshteyn, Kane.
Bannon’s War Room | Evening Edition | Recorded April 23, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 30 Seconds
Ripping the Cover Off Rules for Radicals … (w/ Finchem, Harrington, Harrison). “I’m just there to keep the place from exploding,” he said. “It’s the readers. They’re the ones who are really really making the difference.” Guests are: Mark Finchem, Liz Harrington, Ken Harrison.
Bannon’s War Room |Evening Edition Hour 2 | Recorded April 23, 2021 | Video: 48 Minutes 58 Seconds
Showdown in Maricopa … Democrats Last Attempt to Cover Up Nov. 3. Boris Epshteyn reports the Democrats will not put up the $1 million bond to pause the election audit, meaning it will resume. Epshteyn said this is a sign Democrat lawyers “believe that the audit is inevitable.” Our guests are: Boris Epshteyn.