Where John Durham’s Investigation Is Heading

 Andrew C. McCarthy

"Reading the tea leaves, it appears the special counsel’s end game is something other than a sweeping indictment."

"Last week's indictment of Igor Danchenko has the commentaria buzzing. If special counsel John Durham has cracked the core of the Russiagate case, if he has established that the Steele dossier on which the FBI substantially based its spy warrants was fraudulent, does that mean he is nearing a sweeping conspiracy indictment? Will there be criminal charges that target the real 2016 collusion — not between the Trump campaign and Russia, but between the Clinton campaign and U.S. officials who abused government investigative powers for political purposes?

"Almost certainly not.

"All signs are that Durham will end his investigation with a narrative report. It has looked that way for a long time. There are reasons why then-attorney general Bill Barr appointed then-Connecticut U.S. attorney Durham as a special counsel shortly before the Trump administration ended.

"Unlike ordinary federal prosecutors, who either file charges or close investigations without comment, special counsels are required by regulation to write a report for the attorney general. As we saw with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in 2019, there is typically great outside pressure on the AG to make such reports public (though doing so is not required). Barr obviously knew enough about Durham’s investigation to grasp that there was unlikely to be a grand, overarching criminal-conspiracy case; there had, however, been rampant malfeasance and abuse of power that might never come to light absent a comprehensive investigative report". . . 

Granholm’s ‘Shock’ Aside, US Energy Dominance Is Exactly Where Biden Wants It — Weakened

Daily Caller

"When U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was asked a direct question about skyrocketing gas prices, her response was as telling as it was disappointing. Instead of offering middle-class Americans an explanation or an apology or a sliver of hope, she let out a hearty laugh.

“ 'Oh my…that is hilarious! As you know, oil is a global market. It is controlled by a cartel, that cartel is called OPEC, and they made a decision yesterday that they were not going to increase [production] beyond what they were already planning.”

"How did America fall so far, so fast on the topic of energy? How, in less than a calendar year, did we go from energy independence to begging foreign cartels like OPEC for more supply? We went from net-exporting our oil to hoping that someone will help fill gaps in our energy supply.

"If Secretary Granholm and President Biden want to find those responsible for putting us at the mercy of a cartel, they need to look in the mirror.

"Of course, it didn’t have to be this way.  The greatest country in the world shouldn’t have to rely on the “generosity” of countries who – for the most part – hate everything we stand for." . . .

Vaccine Mandates – What’s the End Game?

 

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.  "Once upon a time, President Joe Biden was against vaccine mandates. As president-elect in December 2020, he was asked, "Do you want vaccines to be mandatory?" His answer at the time seemed clear, "No I don't think it should be mandatory, I wouldn't demand it be mandatory." But that was then, and this is now.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed.

"Last April, when asked about vaccine mandates, she made her position clear, "So—so here is the thing. We are—we cannot require someone to be vaccinated. That's just not what we can do. It is a matter of privacy to know who is or who isn't."

"Yet here we are, with Big Brother issuing this new edict,

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace. The ETS establishes binding requirements to protect unvaccinated employees of large employers (100 or more employees from the risk of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace.

"Their rationale is to protect workers from themselves, “Unvaccinated workers are much more likely to contract and transmit COVID-19 in the workplace than vaccinated workers.' ”. . . 

Biden’s vaccine order is about power, not health

Vax mandates are an unhealthy thing for our democracy and represent a willful effort by government to exert additional control over an already cowed population. There is a direct line between the Patriot Act, mass surveillance, and vax mandates that claims “it is all for our own good” when it is more broadly for our own bad. This is about politics, not medicine.

The ever-eloquent Senator Kennedy* comments on the vaccine mandate  (Video)

*The admired Senator Kennedy, that is.

Protecting Pravda; Media censorship is really monopoly protectionism—and the “unfair competition” is you.

..."The Pravda media then creates the duplicitously monikered “fact checkers” and other internal mechanisms to brand your speech as disinformation that is unsafe for public consumption." ...

American Greatness    "It is bitterly ironic how America’s current corporate media embrace censorship—for others, of course. After all, the First Amendment’s recognition and protection of the unalienable right to free speech and the freedom of the press have long been rightly and ardently defended by those making a living in the industry. Their rationale was elementary: an attack on the free speech of one citizen was an attack on the free speech of all citizens.

"Today, however, many of the most strident voices for censorship and self-censorship—including calls for the First Amendment to be radically curtailed—come from the left-wing, spoon-fed, regime-succored Pravda media.

"What changed? Some, rather charitably, believe the Pravda media are enraptured with their regressive leftist ideology—which must be proselytized and protected at all costs, including the adoption of “accountability” (read “biased”) reporting—which impels journalists to ditch objectivity. This in turn spurs demands for both censorship and self-censorship to dispense with ideological inconveniences, such as facts and truth.

"But in actuality, it is best to recall the cardinal rule of politics: follow the money. When one does, the Pravda media’s ignoble motive manifests: censorship is their protectionism.

"Protectionism is usually implemented to preserve manufacturing industries, like automobiles and steel. The industries claim to be economically pressed by what they declare is unfair foreign competition, and demand the government provide subsidies, tax breaks, and/or barriers to market entry for their unfair competitors through tariffs and other policies to protect their jobs and profits. The politicians who support these policies are rewarded with endorsements, contributions, votes, etc." . . .

Remy: This is CNN!

Still searching for an honest news media; MSNBC fails to make the cut

Townhall

"On Brian Stelter's Sunday Show "Reliable Sources," an interview with author and editor Batya Ungar-Sargon went in a direction Stelter definitely should have seen coming — but apparently was not prepared for — when discussing last Tuesday's election in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ". . . 

As the mainstream media continues to have a difficult time coming to terms with Republican Glenn Youngkin's win over Clinton lackey and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, CNN's media critic-turned PR flack Stelter apparently thought talking with the author of the book "Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy" would not lead to criticism of the breathless depiction of McAuliffe's loss as a result of voters' racism." . . .

. . . ""You saw host, after host, after host on MSNBC saying 'Oh this is a victory for white supremacy, white supremacy wins again, racism wins again," Ungar-Sargon pointed out. "The Lieutenant Governor that Youngkin won with will be the first black woman to hold that job, when Glenn Youngkin managed to flip majority black districts, when he managed to get between 40 and 50 percent of Latino voters — are all of those people white supremacists?" she asked rhetorically."

. . ."Again, Stelter seemingly didn't see the smackdown coming when he asked Ungar-Sargon "who or what is the 'woke media?'"

"I don't know, you tell me Brian, are we on woke media right now?" she responded". . . 

Tony Branco/

Ugly Racism on MSNBC: Gun-Owning Whites Want to Turn 'Their Guns' on Blacks

. . . "And now, Mystal takes it a grotesque step further, depicting them as nothing less than bloodthirsty, racist killers.

"Of course, the real crime of these people—in the eyes of liberals— is their tendency to vote Republican." 

Remy: This is CNN!

Pfizer sponsors the “news,” which is why you rarely hear anything bad about its covid “vaccine"  . . ." It turns out that Pfizer, one of the biggest covid vaccine pushers to come out of “Operation Warp Speed,” is a sponsor for nearly every major media network that delivers most people their “news.”

"It begins with a clip from “Good Morning America” stating that the program was “brought to you by Pfizer.” From there, it goes to “CBS Health Watch,” “Anderson Cooper 360,” “ABC News Nightline,” “Making a Difference,” “CNN Tonight,” and many other such shows, all of which are “brought to you by Pfizer.”...

"Other mentioned networks and shows that are “brought to you by Pfizer” include:"

• “Early Start”
• “Friday Night” on Erin Burnett’s “Out Front”
• “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”
• “Today’s Countdown to the Royal Wedding”
• “CBS Sports Update”
• “Meet the Press”
• “CBS This Morning”
• “60 Minutes Overtime”

"Covid vaccines also brought to you by Donald Trump"

Gloomy landscape for Democrats in midterms as Biden's approval drops to 38% in USA TODAY/Suffolk poll

USA Today  . . . "Biden and his party are poised for a rebound, advocates argue, after the House passed a $1.2 trillion "hard" infrastructure bill late Friday, sending the signature measure to Biden's desk for his signature. An encouraging economic report released Friday morning showed stronger-than-expected job growth.

"Kamala Harris:Liberals saw Harris as a unique champion. Lately, they're disappointed.

What Americans want Biden to do:What's the one thing Americans want Biden to do in 2022? We asked them.

"That said, the survey illuminates the size of the hole Democrats need to dig out of as they look toward the elections in one year – on Nov. 8, 2022 – that will determine control of Congress and shape the second two years of Biden's term."... 

Nearly half of those surveyed, 46%, say Biden has done a worse job as president than they expected, including 16% of those who voted for him. Independents, by 7-1 (44%-6%), say he's done worse, not better, than they expected.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans, 64%, say they don't want Biden to run for a second term in 2024. That includes 28% of Democrats. Opposition to Trump running for another term in 2024 stands  at 58%, including 24% of Republicans.

Vice President Kamala Harris' approval rating is 28% – even worse than Biden's. The poll shows that 51% disapprove of the job she's doing. One in 5, 21%, are undecided.

Americans overwhelmingly support the infrastructure bill Biden is about to sign, but they are split on the more expensive and further-reaching "Build Back Better" act being debated in Congress. Only 1 in 4 say the bill's provisions would help them and their families. 

The return of ABBA

Youtube.. "Nearly four decades after taking a "break," the Swedish pop group ABBA is back with a new album, "Voyage." Correspondent Seth Doane talks to group members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus about the music that first drew them together – and brought them back to the recording studio (and soon, in a live concert performance featuring digital   avatars).'

This president, his political party, and our nation all show signs of mental and moral decline

 Joe's mental decline casts doubt on his ability to lead; his election and media support of him casts doubt on America as a stable force in this dangerous world with the ability to lead nations and stand up to oppressors. ISIS was destroyed by Trump but would have prospered with Democrat Biden. TD

Biden Wants to Reduce Emissions, but Camilla Parker Bowles Can't Stop Talking About His Fart  . . . "Biden had multiple embarrassing moments during the climate summit. He read part of his script and then read it again without seeming to realize he’d just read it, in a bit of a scary moment. He also appeared to fall asleep right in the middle of a speech from a disability rights activist who was warning that global warming threatened our ability “to grow food and even to survive.” He was even caught checking his watch as U.K. Prime Minster Boris Johnson was talking during the summit. 

"Biden also played the Barack Obama 2.0 apology game, apologizing for the United States over President Donald Trump pulling us out of the Paris Accord. After he made such a weak-kneed apology, China — who had skipped out on the G20 and the climate summit — mocked him.. . ."

Joe Biden is just a few days away from turning 79, which is a respectable age for anyone, especially someone who seems to be decomposing while still alive.

"What We’re Reading: Biden’s Mental Dullness, Church Vandalism, Critical Race Theory … And More"

‘Not a joke’: Insiders tell Bongino Biden’s cognitive decline rapidly worsening, getting harder to mask  This is from August 2020!   ..."Given Biden’s inability to actually run the country if elected, FNC’s Tucker Carlson has observed, Biden’s VP pick will be the most consequential in history because that person could become president sooner rather than later. That person could also likely function as the de facto president because of Biden’s limitations."...  Below is a comment to this post:

Anyone allowing Biden to put himself out there is committing elder abuse. My Mom recently passed from Alzheimer’s and I know the signs of dementia all too well. It’s hard to watch him speak and falter, get confused, etc. Shame on his family!! ...

opindia.com: ‘Who is running the country?’: Series of bizarre comments by US President Joe Biden sparks further concerns about his deteriorating mental health..."While the US media continues to fawn over him and pamper him with soft questions, a series of incongruous comments have only served to fuel suspicions about Joe Biden’s deteriorating mental health. As a consequence, numerous political commentators, journalists and analysts have raised doubts whether the President is mentally fit enough to lead."...

Stinchfield: "Hunter [Biden] is at it again as 'Slow Joe' shows more signs of dementia and a man in decline." @Stinchfield1776. pic.twitter.com/tlPhRvBfTW

— Newsmax (@newsmax) July 23, 2021

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Joe Biden Gets Admonished by His ACLU Bosses

 The American Spectator

"The left-wing activist group corrects the president on cash payouts to illegal immigrants."

Angry Joe Flip-Flops And Now Vigorously DEFENDS Payouts

"On Wednesday, after referencing reports that the Biden administration is in talks to pay $450,000 to members of families separated at the border, Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked President Joe Biden whether the plan would incentivize more illegal immigration.

"Biden’s answer is noteworthy for multiple reasons — not least being that it constitutes an admission that such a harebrained scheme would indeed serve as an incentive for more illegal immigration.

" 'If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah,” Biden responded, adding, “but it’s not true.”

"When Doocy followed up, saying, “So this is a garbage report?” the president doubled down, replying, “Yeah.”

"At some point during the brief colloquy, the president, who often seems enveloped in a mental fog, appeared to sense that there might be something to the story, querying, “$450,000 per person, is that what you’re saying?” After Doocy confirmed, Biden insisted: “That’s not going to happen.”

"Hours after Biden’s comments, the ACLU, which represents many of the separated families, issued a statement explaining that Biden “may not have been fully briefed” on his Justice Department’s settlement deliberations. (RELATED: Debunking the ACLU’s Racist Anti-Gun Narrative)". . .

Everyone Should Watch Tucker Carlson’s ‘Patriot Purge’

Tucker makes a strong case that half the country and most all of D.C. have gone mad. This ties in with Tucker’s earlier historical listing of hysterias throughout the ages—witch trials, heretic trials, pogroms, and so forth.

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 Christopher Garbacz  "I saw Tucker Carlson’s Patriot Purge (all three parts) for free on RoxyTube yesterday along with 175 others. (That’s right only 175 people were watching it then.) There is a lot to recommend. Indeed, everyone should see it and determine for themselves if Tucker has raised relevant issues as to whether there was an “insurrection” on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol or not.

"Most of you who read American Thinker know that Tucker set out to tell the truth. For reasons discussed below, he may not yet have the complete truth, but there are numerous markers he reveals that suggest what may have happened.

"Tucker has lots of video footage of the events of January 6. After the Trump rally, thousands walked down the Mall to the Capitol. They thought they were exercising their Constitutional right to demonstrate in favor of Trump. Many thought that Mike Pence had the power to invalidate electoral votes from questionable states as a result of fraudulent voting and throw the Presidential contest into the House Of Representatives to be resolved. They thought that, by being near the Capitol, they could stiffen Pence’s backbone. There was no plan to enter the Capitol.

"When the crowd arrived at the Capitol there were people with bullhorns urging the crowd to enter the Capitol and express their views. It is highly unlikely that these were Trump supporters. If not, who were they representing? Could they have been FBI, BLM. or ANTIFA, or any of a host of other organizations that wanted to frame Trump?

"It is interesting to view the videos that Tucker puts up. On the one hand, a few very strong people were scaling the walls as though there was an assault in progress ala Pont du Hoc in Normandy. At the same time, everybody else was being ushered into the Capitol by merely walking up the steps, where the Capitol Police ushered them in." . . .

Christopher Garbacz is a former economics professor.

Where Might Hillary Clinton Have Learned the Political Dark Arts?

 NY Sun  "Special counsel John Durham’s indictment of Igor Danchenko for lying to the FBI details how the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative was developed and fed into the American political ecosystem. The arrest, as it is summarized in a New York Post headline, “illustrates how the Steele dossier was a political dirty trick orchestrated by Hillary Clinton.”

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"So where could the former First Lady have learned these dark arts?

"It’s starting to look like the roots of Hillary Clinton’s approach to information warfare go back at least to the 1990s. That’s when a lawyer and scandal-monger in the Clinton White House, Chris Lehane, wrote an internal memo entitled “Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce.” It’s what led, eventually to the phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy.”

"The memo is an eerie, even prophetic read now that Mr. Durham is starting to hand up indictments. It sketches a technique the Clintons felt was being used against them in a stream of “conspiracy commerce” that was way to transmogrify “fringe stories into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media.”. . . 

Jonathan Turley; "To my good friend ... A Great Democrat"   "Those words written to a Russian figure in Moscow, inside a copy of a Hillary Clinton autobiography, may be the defining line of special counsel John Durham’s investigation. The message reportedly was written by Charles Dolan, a close Clinton adviser and campaign regular whom news reports identify as the mysterious “PR-Executive 1” in the latest Durham indictment, this time of Igor Danchenko.

Danchenko, 43, was a key figure in the compilation of the infamous Steele dossier that led to the now discredited investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 presidential race. But Danchenko, a Russian emigre living in the U.S., seems unlikely to be the Durham investigation’s apex defendant. In fact, Durham describes him at points more like a shill than a spy, an “investigator” who was fed what to report by Clinton operatives such as Dolan.". . .

Durham's latest indictment: More lines drawn to Clinton's campaign  Durham is known as a methodical, apolitical and unrelenting prosecutor. Thus far, his work seems to betray a belief that the FBI got played by the Clinton campaign to investigate the Trump team. 

 

The Bidens, first the computer and now this diary. Then there's daddy, the Big Guy

We can expect the left to deny the diary is real and perhaps even suggest it’s “Russian disinformation,” which is what they said about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Twitter even went so far as to boot the NY Post off their platform for running that story. The laptop, which contained incriminating pictures of Hunter Biden smoking crack and having sex with prostitutes, was eventually determined to belong to him.

  Diary Allegedly Belonging to Ashley Biden Reveals Disturbing Personal Details . . ."An entry in the diary mentions the author’s father and how worried he was about an upcoming debate. And there are two entries where the author mentions her own name—Ashley Blazer Biden.

"Ashley Biden herself reported the diary was stolen, though a whistleblower who obtained it claims she left it in a room at a drug rehab center where she stayed." . . .

"In a video, James O’Keefe claims a “tipster” contacted Project Veritas and offered to sell him the diary. When Project Veritas couldn’t authenticate who owned the diary or the information in it, they attempted to return it to Ashley Biden through her lawyers, but they would not accept it."      If they had it would have proven the diary to be hers. TD

(Raid on Project Veritas journalists once again shows the different standards in the application of law)

"The diary discusses the author’s sexual addiction, drug abuse, and other traumatic life events.

“Was I molested. I think so — I can’t remember specifics but I do remember trauma,” the author wrote at one point. She also mentions taking “probably not appropriate” showers with her father when she was a child." . . .  I have to feel a connection between that and this:

Claim: Joe Biden Likes To Swim Nude in Front of Female Secret Service Agents

"You know, they signed up to take a bullet for the President as you said but they didn't sign up to...they certainly didn't sign up to see Biden naked. It is offensive, it's abusive." 

 Not just hugs: Biden swam naked in front of female Secret Service agents, walked around residence without a stitch   . . . "He demeaned himself at the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991 where he revealed his inner cruel nature.  How he was ever elected again after that does not speak well for his constituents.   He is a lifelong prevaricator, plagiarist and groper of female children.  He has apparently sexually assaulted an adult woman as well.  And we’ve all heard the stories of how he liked to swim nude in the presence of female secret security agents when he was VP.  In short, the guy is a jerk, a poseur.  He is also, and has always been a racist of the worst kind, the type who believes it is justified. " . . . 

And on a lighter note: President Joe Biden let out a long, loud fart while speaking with the Duchess of Cornwall at the COP26 summit.  ..."The pair were making small talk at the global climate change gathering in Scotland last week when the president broke wind, according to an informed source that spoke to The Mail on Sunday.

 “It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,” the source told the outlet.

“Camilla hasn’t stopped talking about it.”