90 Miles From Tyranny

Friday, April 17, 2020

Democrats defend China despite bombshell Taiwan letter pointing to COVID-19 cover-up by Beijing & WHO

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Bet That Hurt...

New York Times published false claim on America's founding. This history professor called its bluff.

A Northwestern University professor criticized the New York Times for an inaccuracy in its 1619 project.
The professor says she informed the newspaper of the inaccuracy before it was pubished.
However, she says, the Times published the false claim anyway.

Northwestern University History Professor Leslie Harris wrote an opinion editorial about her experience fact-checking an essay for New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones.

In August 2019, Hannah-Jones published her 1619 Project essay, a feature by the New York Times that focuses on the year in which the first Africans arrived in the modern-day U.S. Weeks before publication, Hannah-Jones contacted Harris to help fact-check her essay.

When Harris conducted this fact check, she noticed an inaccuracy in Hannah-Jones' essay, specifically, where she stated that America became independent of British rule because “they wanted to protect the institution of slavery in the colonies.” In other words, the Revolutionary War occurred because patriots wanted to keep slavery in North America.

In her op-ed, Harris explicitly states that she refuted this claim. While slavery may have been an issue in why the colonists fought the war against Great Britain, she said, it was not the driving cause of the war.

Hannah-Jones responded to Harris, with questions about the condition of slavery, such as if slaves were allowed to read or get married, during the colonial time period. Harris answered the reporter with specific examples. However, Hannah-Jones did not reach out to Harris again, and the Times published the article with the incorrect claim.

Although the 1619 project was widely touted by the New York Times, Hannah-Jones’ incorrect claim prompted criticism from many historians, who demanded the New York Times correct the essay, but the newspaper refused to do so.

“The New York Times 1619 Project wasn’t about history, it was about rewriting history. Journalism doesn’t really deliver news now; it delivers narrative. To the Left elite like The Times, there’s no narrative they want to destroy more than...

The Government Is Destroying Our Cities, But Trump Might Be Onto A Cure

There are a lot of people on Wall Street and in Washington who see no problem with an America defined by big box stores and chain restaurants.

California released a plan Tuesday to reopen businesses. One thing conspicuously missing from the governor’s slideshow was any sort of timeline, replaced instead by a six-point plan to remake society around fear of the coronavirus. Could be June, he said in a press conference, or even July or August. One thing conspicuously included was the observation that “things will look different,” including restaurants having to open “with fewer tables.”

California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom is right that “things will look different”: When our front doors finally swing open and we come out blinking in the sunshine, our cities and towns will be mere husks of what they were just a month ago. Empty storefronts, boarded-up shops, terrible “local art” installations in windows that once showed friends and families laughing over their favorite dish and bottle of wine.

Nine states have issued similar “plans.” Washington, D.C. chimed in Wednesday, extending the shutdown another month. Meanwhile, the House and Senate are fighting when they’re talking at all. The ideas batting about Capitol Hill are more money for leftist projects, more for employees, and more for that last plan that isn’t working. There is, however, a major resource to stop this nightmare that has not been tapped yet — one the president, who has spent far more years as a businessman than politician, teased on Friday.
The Problem

The Senate’s phase III Paycheck Protection Plan funds are “going fast” and set to run out “this week,” one small bank president told The Federalist; not that it mattered much to a lot of restaurants anyway. Politicians’ plan to give small businesses funds on the condition they either pay it back on an impossible deadline or disperse it to their employees wasn’t in their interest for actually surviving this crisis.

As one restaurateur told The Federalist, “My employees are already on unemployment. What am I going to do, hire them all when there’s no work to do, only to have to let them go again in June when the money runs out and we’re still not able to open? Back into the unemployment line, which could be longer by then? That’s not good for any of us.”

The reality is many of the small businesses we love might never open up again. Because even when bars, restaurants, and event spaces, for example, can legally open their doors, how many will be able to? For most of those, profit margins aren’t big.

Do leaders like California’s governor actually, really, honestly think that telling a steakhouse they can only have half as many customers will keep them in business? That the owner of a diner that needs to put six feet between each customer will still get up for work at 3 a.m. every morning? That a man will build a 50-foot bar so he can seat eight patrons? How about the neighborhood Italian or Chinese or Mexican spot that stacked table on table but you didn’t mind because you loved the food and the staff? Or you and your spouse’s favorite cozy little date spot? Gone, shuttered. It isn’t worth it for them to...

FBI collected improper cell phone pictures while spying on Carter Page in Russia probe

This Photo Was Not Found In Carter Page's Cell Phone, I Photo-shopped It From A Painting Of Bill Clinton In Jeffrey Epstein's Mansion...

Page says multiple FBI misconduct issues in Russia case make it worse than Watergate.

The list of FBI misdeeds in the Russia investigation keeps piling higher.

In addition to filing inaccurate Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, hiding evidence of innocence from the courts and falsifying a government document, the bureau collected inappropriate cell phone photos during two secret premises searches in summer 2017 while spying on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The revelations surfaced belatedly this week when the government declassified once-redacted footnotes from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigative report on the bungled Russia case.

Footnote 379 revealed that in 2019, nearly two years after the inappropriate pictures were gathered, the Justice Department’s National Security Division (NSD) self-reported two violations notifying the FISA court that FBI personnel conducting two premises searches violated rules designed to protect Americans from unnecessary privacy invasions.

The rules are known as Standard Minimization Procedures (SMPs) and require FBI agents not to collect, gather or store privacy information about an American target that isn’t germane to the investigation, according to current and former FBI officials familiar with the procedures.

The footnote lays out in detail the concerns disclosed to the court, saying the improper actions occurred after the fourth and final FISA warrant against Page was issued in summer 2019 and FBI employees conducted two secret premises searches.

“On May 10, 2019, NSD sent a second letter to the FISC concerning the Carter Page FISA applications, advising the court of two indicants in which the FBI failed to comply with the SMPs applicable to physical searches conducted pursuant to the final FISA orders issued by the court on June 29, 2017,” the footnote said.

“According to the letter, the FBI took and retained on an FBI‐issued cell phone photographs of certain property taken in connection with a FISA‐authorized physical search on July 13, 2017, which NSD assessed did not comport with the SMPs,” the footnote from Horowitz added.

“In addition in a separate incident on July 29, 2017, the FBI took photographs in connection with another FISA‐authorized physical search and transferred the photographs to...

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Friday, April 17, 2020